Regardless of how dissatisfied Long Miaomiao was, Ye Tiancheng maintained the same attitude.
Ye Tiancheng held this thought and never regretted it.
This night, overall, apart from the unexpected events that occurred in his sleep with the sudden appearance of Long Miaomiao, nothing else truly happened. The night remained very peaceful.
In short, they encountered no crises.
The next morning, after the little fox and Ye Wuji woke up, Ye Tiancheng mentioned the matter.
Ye Wuji did not recognize Long Miaomiao at all. After all, by the time Ye Wuji appeared, Long Miaomiao had already been gone for a long time. He had never seen nor heard of such a person as Long Miaomiao.
As for the little fox, who knew of Long Miaomiao's existence.
The little fox had no opinion on the choice Ye Tiancheng made.
Nor did she feel Ye Tiancheng was heartless.
Seeing the attitudes of Ye Tiancheng and the little fox, Ye Wuji, despite not knowing who Long Miaomiao was, from his own standpoint, would naturally lean towards whatever attitude Ye Tiancheng and the little fox displayed.
Therefore, Ye Wuji made a mental note.
Ye Tiancheng and the others knew a woman named Long Miaomiao, and their relationship was complicated, but generally leaning towards distrust, rejection, and not a very good relationship.
This would also determine Ye Wuji's attitude if he had the opportunity to meet Long Miaomiao in the future.
Afterward, their focus shifted to the matter at hand.
The clues were in Ye Wuji's home. Before Ye Wuji's biological father returned, Ye Tiancheng and the others could essentially do nothing. At least, that was the case on the surface; they couldn't trespass into Ye Wuji's home.
After all, they were all grown men.
And in Ye Wuji's home, only Ye Wuji's mother was there.
It was truly difficult to explain the situation, with the implication of impropriety.
Therefore, on the surface, Ye Tiancheng and the others could only wait and see.
But in reality, Ye Tiancheng and the others couldn't just do nothing and stay put.
They had already tasted the bitter consequences of inaction. This had led to many unresolved matters concerning Lin Yanqin, and everything was forced to conclude prematurely.
Ye Tiancheng and the others had no time to investigate many clues and pieces of information.
So now, Ye Tiancheng and the others definitely had to find a way to do something.
Speaking of these matters, the little fox had something to say.
The little fox said to Ye Tiancheng and Ye Wuji, "Right, yesterday was a bit chaotic, so there was one thing I didn't get a chance to mention. Later, when things got hectic, I temporarily forgot about it."
"But now, as we're discussing it, I remember it again."
Hearing the little fox say this, Ye Tiancheng asked, "What is it?"
The little fox explained, "Yesterday, at Wuji's home, I discovered that there seemed to be quite a few mechanisms and arrangements in Wuji's house, which was quite strange. Most people's homes wouldn't have so many mechanisms and such things."
"This feeling of mechanism arrangements even made me think that Wuji's former home felt very similar to the tomb where Wuji was previously trapped."
Ye Wuji listened, dumbfounded.
He frowned deeply and said with disbelief, "How could that be? I have no memory of it... Could it be that it was after I left, or perhaps, I was too young back then, so I didn't notice many things?"
These possibilities were indeed all plausible.
However, these were not the only two possibilities.
Ye Tiancheng said to Ye Wuji, "The guesses you've made are indeed not impossible, but it's also very possible that this is not a normal place, and this situation only occurs in Xiao Jing City. Under normal circumstances, one wouldn't encounter such a thing."
"So, Wuji, don't be too nervous. We need to verify everything before we know what the situation truly is."
Ye Wuji suddenly remembered.
That's right, this wasn't his real home from the past, nor was it even within the timeline he had experienced. Therefore, it was normal for abnormal things to happen in this situation.
Ye Wuji felt that thinking this way would at least make him feel a little better.
Therefore, Ye Wuji nodded slightly at Ye Tiancheng and said, "You're right, things might not be as bad as they seem. There are other possibilities."
However, Ye Wuji knew in his heart.
If these things had originally been in his home, then from Ye Wuji's perspective, he might have to suspect that his parents were not as he remembered them, and might even have an inseparable and close relationship with those who trapped and harmed him for so many years.
This was clearly the most unacceptable possibility for Ye Wuji.
It was the thing Ye Wuji least wanted to see.
Ye Tiancheng and the little fox clearly understood this, but they wouldn't voice it.
They weren't people without tact.
Afterward, the three of them discussed what to do next. They thought that perhaps they should find a suitable opportunity to explore Ye Wuji's former home and look for clues.
This point was not too difficult to achieve.
They just needed to find an excuse to make the villagers believe they had temporarily left the village. Then, Ye Tiancheng and the others could sneak back in the shadows and secretly search Ye Wuji's home for clues.
Moreover, they weren't worried about Ye Wuji's mother being at home.
Because she could neither hear nor speak, as long as they were careful, she wouldn't even discover that they had been there.
Naturally, the villagers wouldn't discover it either.
Ye Wuji could understand this plan.
After all, Ye Tiancheng and the others wouldn't do anything bad, and certainly not out of malice. As long as the person in this place, who held the identity of Ye Wuji's mother, didn't have any other issues, Ye Tiancheng and the others would never do anything to this woman.
Therefore, even Ye Wuji himself didn't think there was any problem with the plan itself.
Let alone in such a special situation and environment.
After agreeing on this, Ye Tiancheng and the others had breakfast. Ye Wuji also ate. Once everyone was full, had rested, and regained their strength, they prepared to go out and act.
However, this time, it was truly unexpected for Ye Tiancheng and the others.
After Ye Tiancheng and the others left the household that kindly lent them a room, they discovered on their way out that the family was not at home. Upon reaching the outside, they found that the villagers seemed to have no memory of their arrival in the village.
These people's memories were still at the point where Ye Tiancheng and the others had not yet arrived.
Ye Tiancheng and the others were extremely surprised. However, at this moment, they couldn't quite figure out the reason for this situation. Moreover, to verify it, they would need to wait until later, when it could be compared with yesterday's situation, before they could verify some things.
Therefore, despite their astonishment, Ye Tiancheng and the others did not rush. Instead, they simply avoided the trouble.
They directly concealed their figures and quietly went to Ye Wuji's former home.
Arriving at the doorstep of Ye Wuji's house, Ye Tiancheng remembered that when they knocked yesterday, they had discovered that the door to Ye Wuji's house was not properly closed. So, he knocked a little harder, and the door was directly knocked open.
Ye Tiancheng was a little curious and didn't know when the door to Ye Wuji's house had become unlatched.
He decided to try it at this moment.
Subsequently, Ye Tiancheng pushed the door to Ye Wuji's house with a bit more force.
Following that, the door to Ye Wuji's house was indeed pushed open by Ye Tiancheng. Ye Tiancheng didn't expect this outcome. After he, the little fox, and Ye Wuji, the two of them and one bird, entered Ye Wuji's house, he latched the door from the inside.
He was somewhat curious. If the situation outside truly matched his guess even slightly, then if he latched the door this time and came out to verify later, what kind of situation would it be?
Would this door still be unlatched when he returned to verify?
Since they had been there once before, Ye Tiancheng and the others were more familiar with the layout and proceeded to the main hall. However, the hall was slightly different from their impression yesterday.
Ye Wuji, knowing that under the disguise created by Ye Tiancheng, no one could see them and no one could hear their conversations, they could speak freely.
Therefore, Ye Wuji saw this situation and flew into the main hall, saying with some confusion, "Why is the house so messy? It looks like someone rummaged through it, like it was robbed..."
The little fox propped her chin on her hand, looked around, and after a moment, said, "It might not necessarily be a robbery. There might be other reasons. Let's check first."
Ye Tiancheng also nodded and said, "Let's look around first."
He said to the little fox, "In your previous impression, where were the mechanisms?"
The little fox directly pointed to a spot visible upon entering the main hall and said, "That cabinet, doesn't it have a mechanism?"
"A normal family's cabinet would at most have a lock. Why would it need such complex mechanisms?"
Ye Tiancheng saw that it was indeed so.
Normal families wouldn't go to such trouble to set up so many mechanisms.
Moreover, in a secluded village, this kind of furnishing in an ordinary villager's home was clearly extremely abnormal.
Ye Tiancheng and the others walked over and studied the mechanism.
Finally, Ye Wuji, who was also very familiar with mechanisms, said, "It seems like it can't be opened directly. We need to find some clues."
The little fox agreed with this assessment.
The cabinet they were observing was not entirely impossible to open. The cabinet had two small doors at the bottom that could be opened and closed. The little fox checked, and the right small door was stuck very tightly, completely unopenable, and had no mechanism.
As for the left small door, after opening it, the little fox saw a small magatama inside.
Ye Wuji leaned over to take a look. He was currently in the form of a black bird, and with his beady eyes looking at the magatama, he thought for a moment and said, "This looks like a magatama, also half of the yin and yang fish in the Tai Chi. But why would my home have something like this?"
The little fox said, "Let's put it away for now. It might be useful someday."
Ye Wuji also nodded.
Afterward, they also found quite a few useful things under other cabinets and in a certain spot on the ground.