This time, I slept until dawn.
Cheng Wanwan woke up first, put away the mink fur cloak, and then woke up the little girl.
"It's dawn..." Ruan Mingzhu rubbed her eyes, "My parents didn't look for me last night. They couldn't find me. They must be worried to death."
She walked to the entrance of the cave and sighed, "The snow still hasn't stopped, what should I do?"
Cheng Wanwan said: "This place is in two directions from the military camp. It's normal that General Ruan and Mrs. Ruan didn't find this place for a while. Let's wait patiently."
"How could I forget such an important thing?" Ruan Mingzhu's eyes lit up. She touched her arms and found a cylindrical object. "This is our Ruan family's unique fireworks signal. I'll set it off." Signal, my father will know that I am here in Linxi, and he will send someone over in less than half a day."
She ran into the cave and lit a weak flame. She quickly took it out and let go. Fireworks immediately shot out and went up to a hundred meters high in the sky.
only--
After waiting for a long time, the fireworks did not explode, and there was no reaction.
"This..." Ruan Mingzhu's face was ashen, "It must have been wet yesterday and I can't light it up. Suishu people's fire sticks are fine. How could I get such an important thing wet? I'm too careless. Already..."
Cheng Wanwan interrupted her self-blame: "What color are your Ruan family's signal fireworks?"
Ruan Mingzhu replied: "There are three colors of red, yellow and blue. When they bloom, there will be a sharp sound."
"Isn't this a coincidence?" Cheng Wanwan smiled and took out something from his sleeve, "During the Chinese New Year last year, I also bought a few signal fireworks on the street because the children at home like to play and always carry them with me. I have made a few, try it and see if there is any difference between them and those from your Ruan family?"
Ruan Mingzhu immediately lit three signal fireworks. The fireworks soared into the sky and exploded with a loud bang. They were red, yellow and blue in color, and there was a sharp sound.
"It's almost the same as our Ruan family's fireworks signal, but the sound is slightly different." She was surprised. "But this is enough. My father will definitely send someone here, and we will be saved in two hours at most."
"Don't be so optimistic yet." Cheng Wanwan said, "If the man in black hasn't left yet, he will come here earlier than your father, so we have to find a place to hide."
Ruan Mingzhu nodded vigorously: "Where to hide?"
Cheng Wanwan pointed to the cave: "I just saw something like a button on the stone wall. I don't know if it is a mechanism. You have been exposed to these since you were a child and know more than me. Go over and have a look."
Ruan Mingzhu was very interested in weapons and mechanisms. After hearing this, she turned around and ran towards the cave.
When she saw the button on the stone wall, she was filled with surprise: "This is too inconspicuous. The light in the cave is so dark. How on earth did you discover this thing, Suishu? My intuition told me that there is something fishy in this cave. I Try to see if you can activate some mechanism..."
She pressed hard, but couldn't move it.
She had no choice but to pick up a big stone from the ground and hit it, trying to make the button react.
Cheng Wanwan: "..."
Did she place too high hopes on this girl?
She walked over, coughed and said, "Don't smash it, try to see if you can turn this button."
Ruan Mingzhu threw away the stone obediently and turned the button hard.
After the button was slightly loosened, her eyes brightened: "Sui Shu is so smart, I have decided that Su Shu will be my role model from now on!"
She exerted force again, and the button was twisted all the way, and a crack opened slowly in the stone wall on the side.
"There really is something else going on!"
Ruan Mingzhu was the first to walk in, followed closely by Cheng Wanwan, and then she twisted the button on the stone wall after entering. The stone door slowly closed. She took out the fire fold in her sleeve, blew it, and it lit up immediately. One light.
"Wow, there is an inner room here. If only we had discovered it last night, we could sleep here." Ruan Mingzhu exclaimed, "This place is clean and looks like someone has always lived there. How could someone live in the deep mountains and old forests? …”
The reason why Cheng Wanwan didn't "discover" the mechanism last night was, first of all, because this place was too closed and burning wood would easily lead to poisoning. Secondly, the back of the inner room was full of weapons. If this girl had discovered so many weapons, how could she have slept last night? Sleep……
Ruan Mingzhu glanced here and there, and finally walked to the back of the inner room.
Hundreds of large boxes were stacked on the top of the cave. This scene was so spectacular that she was stunned to the spot.
After a while, she remembered to take a look at what was in the box. When she opened a nearby box, she was instantly shocked: "Why are there all swords in here?"
She took out one, danced it, and nodded, "The blade has a murderous edge. This weapon is very good. It is much stronger than the weapons of the soldiers in the garrison territory... I don't know who put so many weapons here. It would be great if you could sell it to me... How about this, I'll leave some money here for the owner, and let my father take all these weapons away later!"
Cheng Wanwan: "..."
This girl's brain circuit is really different from ordinary people!
She took the knife from Ruan Mingzhu's hand, looked at it carefully, and said solemnly, "There is a mark here, it looks like a congratulatory word. Can you see if it is right?"
"It's true!" Ruan Mingzhu exclaimed, "The big families in the capital have their own totems. When they specially order something, they will engrave their own patterns on it. I have this mark on the weapons of the dead soldiers of the He family. I’ve seen it... those hundred dead soldiers have been exiled to the frontier, and the He family is not a military general, so why prepare so many weapons? "
While the two were talking, they suddenly heard footsteps coming from outside the cave.
Ruan Mingzhu was overjoyed: "My parents are here!"
"Shh!" Cheng Wanwan made a silencing gesture and lowered his voice, "It doesn't have to be your father. Let's listen first."
The two walked quietly to the entrance of the inner room, lying on the stone wall and listening to the noise outside.
"There is a fire here. The two of them were indeed here last night!"
"The Shili Plum Garden is an ecstasy, especially on a snowy day. It's impossible to tell the direction. How did they get here?"
"If what the princess ordered goes wrong, we will have to walk around without food. Hurry up and chase!"
The footsteps outside disappeared instantly.
Ruan Mingzhu breathed a sigh of relief: "If there was no secret room here, we would be dead..."
Cheng Wanwan's face was also not relaxed.
Not because of the men in black outside, but because of Princess Rongqing who lives deep inside the palace.
After this incident, she had to fight back, but she had to think carefully about how to fight back. This matter was really a headache.
The only good thing is that the daughter of the Ruan family was implicated this time, and Princess Rongqing has offended the Ruan family. General Ruan has a heavy army, and Mrs. Ruan is not a good person, enough to make Princess Rongqing drink a pot.
The two of them didn't speak anymore, sitting in the inner room and waiting quietly.
About an hour later, footsteps sounded again outside, the footsteps of many people, and the voices of many people talking.
