Stepping onto the wide street and asking the way along the way, Shi Wei led Jian Xin to the place Lei Mai had mentioned. It was a single-compound courtyard facing south, containing three rooms in total—one on the eastern side, one on the western side, and one on the northern side. There was a kitchen, a small room, and a combined toilet and bathroom in the back. The courtyard also featured a small pavilion, not very big, roughly the size of the one at Jian Xin's home.
The courtyard was very simple and clean. Viewed from above, its layout formed the Chinese character for "return". Right in the center of this "return" layout, inside the pavilion, sat a large ceramic vat containing a few lotus flowers... at least, that was how it used to be. At this moment, only mud remained in the vat, along with a few withered lotus roots. Some had toppled over, while others still stood rigidly, rising above the surface of the water until Jian Xin pushed them down.
"What are we doing now?"
Chapter 218