After passing through the stone gate, there was just a seemingly ordinary stone room. In addition to a stone couch and a stone platform, there were only two large iron boxes.
In front of the stone platform, a figure dressed in black cloth faced the two of them. He was holding a book with wrinkled and yellowed paper in his hand and was reading it attentively. He had two dark sticks on his wrists and ankles. Chains.
"Who are you? Have you ever seen a burly man and a man in black coming here?" Tong Bo looked around, fully prepared for the unexpected situation.
"It's been a while since I heard a stranger's voice." The reader sighed, placed the book in his hand on the stone table, and slowly turned around, his bracelets and anklets still making "ding" sounds from time to time. Ding" collision sound.
"Father? Is it really you?" When Liu Ningshi saw the face of the reader, she was shocked. This person was Liu Yuanzhi, who had been missing for many days and was a first-rank scholar in the current dynasty.
"Ning Shi, how did you find this place?" Liu Yuanzhi's eyes flashed with surprise when he saw Liu Ningshi, and then returned to normal.
"We tracked the two thieves to the secret room here, but they were nowhere to be found. Unexpectedly, we saw our father." Liu Ningshi looked at Liu Yuanzhi wearing the bracelet and anklet and couldn't help feeling sad: "I'll break this open first." chain."
Liu Ningshi pulled out the dragon-shaped dagger and swung it towards the iron chain. With two "clang" sounds, she cut two holes in the iron chain, and the two iron chains fell off from Liu Yuanzhi's hands and feet.
"Tong Bo, a guard of the Imperial Guard, is here to meet Mr. Liu." Tong Bo made a compilation to Liu Yuanzhi and thought to himself: "Although this Liu Yuanzhi is imprisoned, his face remains as usual and he has not lost his bearing. He is worthy of being the official secretary of the imperial court."
"Guard Tong doesn't need to be polite." Liu Yuanzhi smiled and held Tong Bo's hands: "My little girl deserves your care these days. I hope her unruly and willful temper has not caused you any trouble."
"Father, what are you talking about? Am I so bad?" Liu Ningshi coquettishly shook Liu Yuanzhi's arm.
"Miss Liu has always been very sensible. Lord Zhongshu is so humble." Tong Bo smiled: "I wonder how you got here?"
"Father, Ning Shi also wants to know?" Liu Ningshi had tears in her eyes: "That night, the house was attacked by a gang of killers, and Sister Qingyao has become delirious now."
"On the day I became a father, I was reading in the study. I looked a little confused. After I woke up, I was sent here." Liu Yuanzhi gently patted Liu Ningshi's wrist: "If I am not wrong, all of this It’s all what Han Xun said.”
"How did your Excellency know this?" Tong Bo looked around: "This stone chamber seems to be sealed, and there is no other way out."
"Ever since I met Han Xun in the Royal Garden, I suspected that he was a descendant of the Han family who slipped through the net twenty years ago, so I secretly investigated the matter." Liu Yuanzhi breathed a sigh of relief: "Unexpectedly, he has been locked up in this stone room until now. If you hadn’t broken in, I don’t know how long I would have stayed here.”
"Father! Han Xun's matter has been found out, and he has been sentenced to death by His Majesty." Liu Ningshi whispered what happened to Liu Yuanzhi.
"Hey! I didn't expect that your grandfather and Zhang Sinong actually conspired to do this, so it's right for me to downgrade to three levels to atone for his sins." Liu Yuanzhi said sternly: "If I can still go out, I will definitely go to His Majesty to express his gratitude."
"Father, do you think there is a secret passage to get out of this stone room?" Liu Ningshi looked around and asked, "What is in these two boxes?"
"This box has been locked here since two masked men in black recently carried it here. No one has ever opened it." Liu Yuanzhi moved his wrist and said with an unnatural smile.
"This is easy, I can split the lock." Liu Ningshi stepped forward and waved the dragon-shaped dagger in her hand twice, and the two copper locks fell off.
"This box actually contains so much silver?" The moment Liu Ningshi pushed open the lid of the box, she stuck out her tongue in shock.
"Huh? In this box are some uniforms with the word 'tax' embroidered on them, and a lot of tax tags?" Tong Bo also stepped forward and pushed open a box lid.
"Tax tag? Let me see it." Liu Ningshi picked up one of the tax tags and stroked the back: "There are no wavy patterns on the back, this is a fake tax tag!"
"Brother Xiangyun, how many tax clothes and tax tags are there in this box?" Liu Ningshi asked Tong Bo as she began to count the silver coins in the box.
"Huh? One piece, two pieces..." Tong Bo also began to count the duty uniforms and tax tags: "There are thirty pieces of duty uniforms and twenty-nine tax tags in total."
"Twenty-nine yuan?" Liu Ningshi took out the tax tag she picked up in the household department and handed it to Tong Bo: "Brother Xiangyun, see if this one is exactly the same as the twenty-nine yuan. "
"It's exactly the same." Tong Bo carefully compared the tax tag in Liu Ningshi's hand with the tax tag in the box: "Is this the one you told me you picked up during the fight with that burly man?"
"That's right!" Liu Ningshi frowned and thought: "But where did the burly man and the man in black escape to? Did they disappear out of thin air?"
"Ning Shi, what are you talking about? My father is almost confused." Liu Yuanzhi, who was standing aside, saw that they opened the box, and his expression became calmer than before.
"Father, someone in the city has been pretending to be a court tax collector recently to cheat on taxes?" Liu Ningshi pointed towards the box: "These silver and tax tags are stolen goods."
"Miss Liu is right. When these stolen goods appeared in this stone room, the fake tax collector must have something to do with the Su family." Tong Bo said while observing Liu Yuanzhi's reaction.
"But we are all trapped here now. It is difficult to get out and reach the sky." Liu Yuanzhi said and actually sat back in front of the stone platform to read a book.
"Your Excellency, you are calm in times of danger. You are really well-mannered. I admire you deeply." Tong Bo became more and more interested in Liu Yuanzhi and couldn't help but praise him.
"Yuanzhi has been imprisoned for many days, and he has long been used to it." Liu Yuanzhi held his slender mountain and said with a smile: "Guard Tong must have extraordinary abilities to find this place."
"Being able to break through this formation is all the work of Miss Liu, I cannot take the credit for it." Tong Bo stood behind Liu Yuanzhi and said to him again: "May I ask, sir, what time does your prisoner come to deliver meals every day? "
"Father, you see, Guard Tong said that it was his daughter's credit for finding you." Liu Ningshi looked at Liu Yuanzhi with a proud look on her face.
"That's because Guard Tong doesn't want to take credit." Liu Yuanzhi shook his head at Liu Ningshi and smiled: "Every day at Si and Xu, does Guard Tong want to take advantage of the meal delivery to break out?"
"We have this plan, but I wonder if it's feasible?" Tong Bo knew it was unlikely after listening to Liu Yuanzhi's words.
"It's absolutely impossible." Liu Yuanzhi pointed to the wall opposite the stone platform: "There is a small window over there, which can be opened by people outside by pressing the button. This is where the daily meals come in. I even I have never seen what the person delivering the meal looks like.”
Tong Bo and Liu Ningshi looked at each other and exchanged secretly: "This is troublesome. The entrance when we came was already blocked. Do we really want to hope that Su Ruhai will find us?"
In the gambling arena outside the secret room, all the gamblers were rushed to the center of the ring. They were bent over, holding their heads in their hands, with fear on their faces. Some of the timid gamblers could not help but tremble.
Su Ruhai was staring at Yun Shisan with an angry face: "Manager Yun, why did you call so many black-clothed guards here? Also, what's going on with this secret passage?"
"Third Young Master, Brother Ge, you two don't want to wade in this muddy water." Yun Shisan's always kind face turned cold and frosty at this moment: "To be honest, I don't know what's going on in this secret room. Everything We have to wait for the master to come and make a decision."
"Manager Yun, why are you deceiving a three-year-old child?" Su Ruhai refused to give in: "You are one of the four managers here. Do you know about this secret room? Also, why don't you send someone in to find someone?"
"No one is allowed to act rashly." A serious and upright voice came from Su Ruhai's ear, which made him shudder.
"Dad!" Su Ruhai looked at Su Xing coming towards him, and his heart sank: "My friend..."
"Go away, I'll settle the score with you later." Before Su Ruhai could finish speaking, Su Xing interrupted him with a sharp shout: "You two, take this evil obstacle away."
The two men in black behind Su Xing, one on the left and one on the right, held Su Ruhai's arms and dragged his fat body away.
"Wait a minute!" Su Ruhai used all his strength to get rid of the two men in black, and shouted extremely rudely: "Dad! My friends are still inside, what do you want to do to them?"
"Pah!" Su Xing saw that Su Ruhai actually resisted, and angrily slapped her hand away: "Don't take away the useless things."
"Dad! Dad! What do you want to do? My friend is still in the secret room." This time, the two men in black were on guard. Their four hands were like crab's pincers on Su Ruhai's arms and dragged him away. , leaving only the hysterical shouts echoing for a long time.
"Master, what should I do in this secret room?" Yun Shisan looked at Su Xing, whose face was as heavy as water, and asked with his fists clasped.
"You can't keep the secret room, seal it." Su Xing looked at the gamblers in the center of the ring and snorted coldly: "These people can't be killed, so give them a pill each."
"Yes!" Yun Shisan's eyes were cold.
Liu Yuanzhi still looked at the wrinkled and yellowed book in his hand calmly. Tong Bo carefully walked around the stone room and shook his head towards Liu Ningshi: "There is indeed no second way out here."
"Brother Xiangyun, Ningshi has just carefully counted it. This box contains some good scattered silver, but it only has five thousand taels." Liu Ningshi looked slightly disappointed.
"Miss Liu, you and Mr. Zhongshu haven't seen each other for a long time. You must have a lot to say." Tong Bo did not answer her words: "Bo went to wait outside. If anything happens, just call."
"Brother Xiangyun, you..." Before Liu Ningshi could speak, Tong Bo walked out of the stone room without looking back.
"Hmph! Brother Xiangyun, what's going on? I didn't even wait for him to finish what he said." Liu Ningshi stamped her feet and became angry.
"Hahaha, we are young people after all. We get upset when we hear bad news." Liu Yuanzhi laughed.
Although Tong Bo walked extremely slowly, his mind was racing: "This fake tax collector looks arrogant and reckless, but in fact he has a delicate mind. He deliberately left a black strip of cloth at the crossroads of the secret room to play a trick.
The trick of virtuality and reality brought Miss Liu and me into the battle. This kind of person will never show off for no reason. "
"First I went to a remote place like the west of Jinling City to defraud taxes, and then I broke into the household department, and then I came to this gambling arena. Could it be that I wanted to lure Miss Liu into the trap?" Tong Bo thought about it more and more, and his head grew bigger: "And this Liu Yuanzhi, he started to listen to us. Judging from the unnatural expression on the box, but then he calmed down again, is he related to any fake tax collector?"
"Guard Tong, what's wrong, the door to the secret room outside has been sealed by Su Xing." Just as Tong Bo was lost in thought, Ge Er also ran in in a panic.
