Monument of Life and Death

   Chapter 955 Dancing Shoes

   "Look here."

   The Taoist priest pointed to the family photo.

   "This is... Lu Jieyi's mother," Qin Yin said, "what happened to her?"

   "Look at her hand," the Taoist priest continued. "She has a ring on her hand."

   Speaking of...

   "Indeed," Baomu twisted his neck, his eyes almost popping out, "It looks like a very simple ring."

   "It shouldn't be very expensive," Qin Yin said, "I remember Lu Shoucai said that when Lu Jieyi's mother was alive, their family was still very poor."

   "What's wrong with this ring?" asked the fool.

   "I'm thinking... if we can find this ring, can we see what happened to Lu Jieyi's mother through Xiaolan's dream?"

   When Xiaolan heard it, inspiration came.

   "Is there anything else on her body? It should be fine." Xiaolan said.

   "There are no other jewelry," said the Taoist priest. "Clothes and the like... It should be difficult to keep them until now, but there is still a glimmer of hope for rings."

   "Then are we going to go back again?" Qin Yin asked.

   "Where to go back?"

   "Lu Jieyi's old house," Qin Yin said, "if the ring is still there, the most likely place is there."

   This time, Qin Yin had the fastest reaction.

   Taoist head nodded and said, "Xiaoyin, it seems that you got a lot of training in the courtroom."

   "I'm very talented, I can practice it anywhere," Qin Yin raised his right hand to the air, "Go? If you go now, I'll open the passage."

   "Now? Is it too early?" Baomu glanced at his watch.

   "It's not early, while the people living nearby are still sleeping, let's go now, just in time," said the Taoist priest, "Xiaoyin, open the door."

"okay."

   When everyone returned to the living room of Lu Jieyi's house, the sky outside the window had not yet fully cleared, and the dim skylight vaguely outlined everything in the room, and what greeted them was only the dust particles flying in the air.

   The door to Lu Shoucai's bedroom was still open, and the footprints they left not long ago were still printed on the ground.

   Not so anxious this time, and then everyone carefully looked at the furnishings in the room.

  Xiaolan looked around, his eyes stopped on a closed door.

   "That's Lu Jieyi's room," Qin Yin said behind Xiaolan. "Speaking of which, I'm a little embarrassed. After all, I lived in this room for a few days."

   Wenling also nodded, followed by a sigh.

   "By the way, Wenling, do you have that kind of skill... That is, you can see where the ring is hidden by looking at it? Or smell it..."

   asked Lingdu to be too lazy to speak, thinking to yourself, are you treating me like a dog again?

  Xiaolan turned her head and saw that the Taoist priest had brought Baomu and the fool into Lu Shoucai's room, and pointed to the door of Lu Jieyi's room, "Sister Xiaoyin, Wenling, let's go there and have a look."

   "Well... that's okay," Qin Yin said, "but Xiaolan, don't be sad."

   "What am I sad about?" Xiaolan felt inexplicable.

   Qin Yin glanced at her lightly, then raised her feet and walked towards the door, "It seems that I know you better than you... let's go."

   The three walked to the door, Qin Yin tried to twist the door handle, there was a creaking sound from the keyhole, it seemed that the door had not been opened for a long time.

   "Should we...knock on the door or something?" Xiaolan suddenly became superstitious, "I heard that people would knock on the door when they entered a dead house."

   Qin Yin was amused, and then she put away her smile and said, "We've never knocked on the door before... Forget it, no need, Lu Jieyi is gone, and she can't hear the knock."

With a squeak, the door opened with a narrow slit, and the dust immediately swirled in front of the three of them like the steam that escaped when the lid of the pot was opened.

   "Bah ah ah..." Qin Yin waved hard in front of him, "It hasn't been a few years, why is there such a big ash..."

  Xiaolan hid behind Qin Yin, using her body to avoid the dust, and looked towards Lu Jieyi's room along the crack of the slowly opening door.

  Xiao Lan sucked in a breath of cold air and then spit it out.

   "What's wrong?" Qin Yin coughed and asked, "What did you see?"

   "It's nothing," Xiaolan said, "I thought there was someone inside, and I was shocked."

   The furnishings in the room really seem like there are still people living here.

  The three of them walked in slowly.

   "Ah... I still miss it a bit," Qin Yin said, pointing to the open space in the corner of the wall with great interest, "Wen Ling and I still slept there for two days, but it killed me."

  Xiaolan stared at the big bed in the center of the room and the table beside the bed.

  Qin Yin followed Xiaolan's gaze and said, "Then you can go there and look, and Wenling and I will go inside and have a look."

  Xiaolan reached out and picked up the photo frame on the table.

   Inside is a photo. In the photo, Lu Shoucai is much fatter and older than in the family photo. The girl standing next to him... should be Lu Jieyi when he grows up.

   Lu Jieyi in the photo has a bright smile. As Qin Yin said, she is a very beautiful girl.

   She has hot eyes.

   Xiaolan thought secretly, no wonder Brother Fool likes her.

   Putting down the photo frame, Xiaolan opened the first drawer.

  There are not many things in the drawer. For a high school girl, it is very little. There are only a few simple stationery. Xiaolan took out the book and flipped through it, all of which were study notes.

   In the second drawer are some girls' gadgets, but there is no shadow of the ring.

  Xiaolan squatted down and started to check the small cabinet under the drawer.

  There is an exquisite tin gift box in the cabinet. It looks like it was carefully kept here by the owner. It must contain some precious items.

  Maybe this is...

  Xiaolan gently took out the box. The box was not heavy, swaying, and there was no sound of metal colliding.

what is it then?

   Xiaolan grabbed the edge of the box and opened it.

   She was stunned.

   Inside is a box of... shoes.

   A box of worn dancing shoes, to be exact.

One, two, three, four... There are at least ten pairs of shoes in it, and those dancing shoes either have a lot of holes hanging on them, or they are broken at the place where they are connected. On a few pairs of smaller shoes, they can still Spot some blood.

  Xiaolan stared at those shoes with her mouth open.

   Those are not broken shoes.

   is a broken dream.

   Sweat and blood from childhood to adulthood, a girl's persistence and dreams...

   Xiaolan's nose suddenly became sour, and then, she remembered Qin Yin's words.

   "Xiaolan, don't be sad..."

Hate.

   Xiaolan wiped his face.

   I hate it, Miss Xiaoyin, she really knows herself better than I do.

   "Did Xiaolan find out?" Qin Yin walked over with his hips on his shoulders, "I'm exhausted. Wenling and I were flipping through the bathroom, but there was nothing."

  Xiaolan immediately put away the sad expression on her face, raised her head and smiled.

   "Really, why is there in the bathroom?"

   (end of this chapter)