Chapter 665 - Chapter 665: Chapter 665: Unexpected Gains (Part 2) (1/2)
Chapter 665: Chapter 665: Unexpected Gains (Part 2)
Zhang Yun finally raised her head: “Auntie, I won’t go home! Even if I go back, I won’t be able to sleep. It’s better to stay here and look for YingEr. Auntie, you go ahead, I will look around some more.” As she spoke, Zhang Yun turned and wanted to leave.
“Wait a minute, you child!”
Liu Sisi finally understood what Zhang Peng meant by ‘troubling you’.
“Everyone is really hungry and thirsty, and they’re so tired they can’t even straighten their waists. How can they accompany you to continue the frantic search? How about this! You first lead everyone outside the cave to eat, and then continue searching after they’re full. As the saying goes, ‘Sharpening the blade won’t delay the work of chopping wood’! What do you think?”
Zhang Yun looked back at the crowd and reluctantly agreed.
Watching Zhang Yun finally leave, Liu Sisi found a place to sit down and quietly waited for news from below.
Soon, someone brought food. Even if she couldn’t eat, Liu Sisi forced herself to take a few bites.
It was unclear whether it was due to a mistake during delivery or something else, but after eating several mouthfuls, there were grains of sand in the cooked dishes. She quickly called for a torch to illuminate them. Sure enough, there was a thick layer of sand and mud on the surface of the food, probably from accidentally falling into the bowl during the delivery.
Now in this critical time, she couldn’t afford to be willful.
She picked up her chopsticks and squatted in the corner, intending to scrape off the muddy food from the surface. As she looked up, she was attracted by something that sparkled slightly in the corner.
The lighting here was very dim. If she hadn’t eaten the sandy food and called for a torch, she wouldn’t have discovered this sparkling item.
“Quick! Hand me the torch.”
She couldn’t care about eating anymore, waved for the torch, and carefully illuminated the object. She indeed saw it clearly.
Her hands were trembling, almost unable to believe her eyes! She carefully picked up the small silk flower from the ground. In the center of the flower was a tiny pearl, embellished on the edge with silk by Liu Sisi, made especially for YingEr, unique and exclusive!
“It’s the silk flower from YingEr’s head! It’s the silk flower from YingEr’s head! YingEr has been here before, it’s YingEr!”
She couldn’t hold back her ecstasy and shouted out, immediately attracting a crowd. Everyone hurriedly searched around carefully.
Liu Sisi also squatted on the ground and searched carefully. Under the torchlight, the surface of the ground kept flashing with faint light. Liu Sisi stared for a while, reached out and groped on the ground, then couldn’t help but take out her handkerchief and wrap the dirt from the ground into it.
“Madam, there are traces here!”
Soon, Xiaoliang, her adept subordinate at finding clues, discovered another clue nearby, instantly delighting Liu Sisi!
“Madam, look, there are shallow footprints here. They should have been left by the young miss. It seems that she walked in this direction. Let’s continue to follow the trail.”
This was the second time they had found clues about YingEr. At the moment, everyone had already eaten and rested, and with the new clue, they felt a surge of strength, and hurriedly followed the trail to search.
However, the clue eventually ended at the edge of the waterhole.
Everyone stood by the waterhole and looked at Liu Sisi all at once.
Liu Sisi also looked at Xiaoliang: “Xiaoliang, you have always been following Constable Zuo, so according to your many years of experience in investigating cases, what are the chances that YingEr fell down the waterhole?”
Xiaoliang hesitated, then sighed: “Madam, based on my experience, the young miss… has probably a 70-80% chance.”
He didn’t dare to say it was a 100% certainty for fear that Liu Sisi couldn’t handle such a blow.