flstandardbreds Chapter 114: Silkworm and Yellow Bird
Chapter 114: Silkworm and Yellow Bird
After being scolded by the coachman along with the Feng sisters, their clothes looked even more worn and torn, and their straw sandals were frayed at the edges. They really looked like street beggars.
Wu Mei took a deep breath and tried again. She walked back into the dark alley and found her small package was safely tucked into the corner.
Wu Mei felt lucky not to be discovered. The guy didn't find her package. Otherwise, if the clothes were found in the package she hid, it would be obvious that she was a maid, and that would be bad.
This might implicate the Wang family and the young lady. Needless to say, people will immediately guess that I am a spy!
Now that I think about it, this Cao family’s oil mill is indeed weird!
Wu Mei endured the pain in her body and made plans. She couldn't let them go. Since she couldn't come again, and Feng Mei was injured, she let Feng Mei look after the oil mill for her.
His business must be investigated thoroughly!
Not to mention that the two jars of oil were not found, even if I was beaten up by his family for nothing, I still have to get to the bottom of the matter.
While thinking about it, Wu Mei endured the pain, changed her clothes, and tied a black scarf around her face. It was already dark.
Wu Mei walked along the wall towards the agreed intersection, and from a distance she saw Feng Jie standing in the night at the intersection, completely exposed to the sight of passers-by.
Wu Mei sighed inwardly, fearing that she would have to take better care of him in the future, otherwise he would hold her back.
Sister Feng felt Wu Mei approaching, and pretended to see Wu Mei while looking around, then walked into the shadows under the wall on the street, and asked in surprise:
"You are injured, let me help you go back to my house and sit down!"
"No, no, no, we have things to do. It's getting dark. We have to leave quickly."
At Wu Mei's insistence, Feng Jie supported Wu Mei through several alleys and went around to the wall of Cao's house.
Wu Mei was in a dilemma. It was a bit difficult for her to climb over the wall today. Feng Jie suggested that
"Sister Wu, tell me what you want to do and I'll do it for you. You just wait here for me."
Wu Mei covered her stomach which was hurt by the kick and gasped.
I thought to myself: Thanks to me for helping the two sisters of the Feng family today, otherwise I wouldn’t be able to do the task that the young lady asked me to do!
Wu Mei held her breath and was determined to get to the bottom of the matter of Cao's oil mill, otherwise she would feel sorry for having received this beating in vain!
The more I think about it, the more I feel I can't bear this.
"Help me, I want to go in."
Sister Feng did not stop them, but helped Sister Wu, pulling and dragging her several times, but they were just a little bit short of getting over the wall.
Sister Feng was out of strength, and Sister Wu simply gave up.
So, the two girls sat in the shadows at the foot of the wall. Wu Mei took out the steamed buns from her pocket and gave them to Feng Jie. Feng Jie hesitated, then finally put them in her arms:
"Eat first, so you can work better after eating..."
Afterwards, Wu Mei told her story of how she heard the old lady who bought oil discovered that the Cao family wasted oil, and then discovered that the two large urns of Cao's family were missing. Then she kept staring at Feng Jie,
"You still don't understand, right? There's something wrong with the Cao family's oil mill, but I don't know where all the tung oil has gone."
Seeing Sister Feng listening silently without saying a word, he said directly: "Just check his family, what did they use so much tung oil for?!"
Sister Feng nodded heavily and put the baby in her arms again.
"Sister Wu, we are just going to go in and find where the tung oil is, right? I'll go then, and you don't wander around. I'll come out in a while and we can go home together."
"Remember to come out before dawn. We have to leave here."
Sister Feng nodded silently, took a few steps, stomped on the wall a few times, and jumped over the wall into Cao's house.
Wu Mei looked at her and nodded. Seeing that Feng Jie's kung fu was about the same as hers, there shouldn't be any problem.
Wu Mei hid under the wall, eating steamed buns and munching on pickles, feeling thankful.
After Sister Feng struggled to climb over the wall, she only paused for a moment under the wall, then flew up to a big tree in the yard, ducked down, adjusted her breathing, and waited quietly.
As the sky darkened, three figures floated into the yard. Sister Feng flew down from a tree lightly, and the four of them informed each other of the situation using gestures.
The four of them dispersed. Sister Feng followed what Sister Wu said and searched almost all of the Cao family's courtyards, but they couldn't find the two jars of tung oil, so they went straight to the main courtyard.
Standing outside the main courtyard wall, I could hear the regular footsteps of the patrol team in the courtyard. There were at least 10 people. There were two teams, walking in opposite directions, patrolling back and forth in the courtyard.
No wonder Wu Mei didn't dare to go to the upper courtyard to look for it. It seemed that her judgment was correct. Regardless of whether there was tung oil in the main courtyard of the Cao family, the formation of facing a great enemy was definitely not a pretense, but was actually protecting something.
Sister Feng walked around the courtyard wall. The backyard wall suddenly became higher and it became eerily quiet.
Sister Feng returned to the courtyard wall where she first heard the patrol, took a deep breath and raised her legs, silently leaping onto the wall, leaning down, there were wooden spikes on the top of the wall, Sister Feng landed steadily between the spikes like a cat, and floated into the courtyard during the patrol break.
After following the patrol team around the yard twice, I saw two patrol teams walking through the backyard.
They would deliberately avoid the wasteland under the high wall.
Then, we crossed the backyard bridge and went back around. They seemed to have set up a mechanism under the courtyard wall, so we didn't go there.
The scope of protection is a bit strange. It actually includes the rockery and lake in the back garden.
Sister Feng got close to the rockery, which is a very easy place to hide her body, so she hid her body against the rockery stones. In order to hide her own shadow as well, she slowly walked around the rockery to find the best hiding place.
At this moment, I could faintly smell a pungent smell of burning copper oil in the air. The smell was very faint, but it was definitely there.
Sister Feng sniffed around for a long time and confirmed that the smell of tung oil was coming from the rockery.
There is a grass slope next to the rockery, and there is a waterscape in the front.
There was a pool of water, a small lake of about 10 meters in diameter. The surface of the water was calm. I lay on the grass and tested the depth of the water. A small stone fell gently into the water, but no sound of the stone falling to the ground could be heard.
Unable to determine the depth of the water, it was not easy to go into the water to explore. As a result, they missed the patrol again and returned to the foot of the wind-eroded rockery.
The rockery was a landscape made of wind-eroded Taihu stones. Sister Feng took advantage of the gap between the two patrol teams and stood up and walked around the rockery twice more, making sure that the pungent smell she had just smelled came from here.
So, I simply took a deep breath and jumped to the top of the rockery. Looking down from above, I could see that this was a rockery made of three independent Taihu stones stacked together, and the pungent smell was coming from the cracks in the stones.
Sister Feng pulled out a dagger, groped to find the place where the smell came from, and tried to pry open the stone. As a result, a piece of the wind-eroded stone fell off with a slight pry. Sister Feng put it in the small pocket on her waist and continued to grope...