Standing in front of the closet door, Hei Lu'er and Ah Piao exchanged glances with each other and nodded slightly at each other.
The night that just passed, the two of them helped Ishibu and Wushudan set up a fortification around Qingxia Palace. If there are really people who are not afraid of death who come to break into the palace, then they will never come back. .
After a busy night, when the sky was dark, Ah Rou took a few people to the dining room to make breakfast for everyone. After everyone had eaten and drank and packed their bags, they gathered in front of the closet in the inner hall.
Ah Piao turned around and looked at the ten people standing behind her, preparing to follow them into the secret room, and raised her eyebrows at them.
"We are ready to go in now, are you all ready?"
"We are ready, sir, please rest assured!"
"It's time to start!" A Piao nodded towards Hei Lu'er, "Master Hei, please."
Ah Piao gave Hei Luer the space facing the closet door and watched him open the closet door and fumble for the mechanism. Then he heard a creaking sound and the wall behind creaked open. , revealing the dark and unknown space inside.
When the hole was revealed, Hei Lu'er and Ah Piao lit up the fire sticks in their hands at the same time and threw them inside.
"What are they doing?" Ishibu pulled the Wushu Pill and asked in a low voice, "The light of Huozhezi has been extinguished."
"Just to see if there is anything bad inside. Once some secret passages are opened, there may be poisonous gas or explosions."
Seeing the light of Huozhezi extinguished, Hei Lu'er and Ah Piao waited for a while. There was no sound in the secret passage, and they breathed a sigh of relief.
"I'll leave it to you two outside!" Hei Lu'er and A Piao cupped their hands towards Ishibu and Wu Shudan, and took the lead in walking in without looking back.
Ah Rou watched her sister enter the dark secret room. She looked calm on the surface, but her hands were clasped together tightly and her breathing became slightly faster.
"Don't be nervous, don't worry!" Wu Shudan looked at her and comforted, "Your sister is a measured person."
Ah Rou looked at Wu Shu Dan and nodded gently.
Previously, Hei Lu'er and her sister had won over a few people from Wu Shudan and Ishibu and followed them into the secret room, but they were not among these people. She understood what her sister was doing. One of the two sisters had to stay outside. Once something happened to someone inside, people outside could also contact General Shen and tell her the latest news about Yiqing Mansion, Jinwang Palace and Wanyanping. Condition.
But knowing that she is still very worried about her sister. If she can follow her sister, she will feel much more at ease than now.
"Believe them! Believe their ability and judgment!" Wu Shudan looked at Ah Rou's clenched hands and sighed softly, "They will definitely come back safely. Not only will they come back by themselves, but they will also bring His Highness with them. Coming back."
"I know!"
Ah Piao, who had already entered the secret passage, could more or less feel Ah Rou's uneasiness, and she sighed softly.
"What's wrong? Are you worried about Ah Rou?"
"On the contrary, Ah Rou is worried about me." Ah Piao turned her head and glanced at Hei Lu'er with the help of Huo Zhezi's light. Then she focused her attention on the surrounding environment. She took pictures up, down, left and right. , stretched out his hand to stop Hei Luer, "Wait a minute, there are footprints here."
Hei Luer also discovered a few sporadic and incomplete footprints scattered on the ground. He made a few gestures towards the back to ask the people behind to stop temporarily, while he himself squatted down and observed carefully. Those shoe marks.
"This..." Ah Piao used a fire stick to illuminate the marks and carefully observed the patterns on the soles, "This pattern looks familiar, as if I have seen it somewhere." She looked at Hei Lu'er, "What do you think, sir?" "
Hei Luer looked at the pattern on the sole of the shoe and frowned slightly. The pattern was exactly the same as the pattern on the sole of the person who assassinated their young master Chu Ran. It seemed that the one who kidnapped Wan Yanping this time was the one they had been staring at. That group of people.
However, it was really unexpected to see this pattern on the soles of shoes in Yiqing Prefecture, and I didn’t know which family had any connection with that group of people.
"This..." He shook his head towards A Piao, "I haven't noticed it, have you seen it?"
"I've seen it once or twice." Ah Piao nodded, and looked at the surrounding ground with the fire stick in his hand, and found that not only these footprints, but also some drag marks on the wall. "The owner of this shoe sole pattern belongs to the person who almost became His Highness's uncle. That person once went to the palace and met His Highness. I saw this shoe print when he was next to Your Highness the few times he came."
"When you said that, I remembered that he was a scholar. My aunt liked him very much. She once brought him into the palace two or three times, just to show His Highness. If His Highness has no objections, the two of them are going to get married. However, I don’t know why this marriage didn’t happen. Is it because the marriage was delayed or because it was completely obscene? No one said that my aunt never mentioned this person again. However, looking at it now, it shouldn’t be a delay or an affair. Instead, my aunt was controlled by that person. Perhaps the reason why His Highness was kidnapped this time was because that person used something to threaten his aunt and asked her to bring him in through the secret passage. He used the special means of his aunt's family to control His Highness. .”
"Your Majesty, what you mean is that my aunt has a handle, and a very serious handle fell into the hands of that person?"
"Well, my aunt has quite a lot of secrets!" Hei Lu'er carefully studied the drag marks, "Judging from these marks, His Highness should have been dragged away, and he was dragged away. At that time, she should be in an unconscious state."
"And there are traces of dragging on both sides. They were carried out at the same time, which means that His Highness was not the only one who was dragged away."
"And aunt." Hei Lu'er nodded, "Let's take a look further."
"The traces of dragging are getting heavier as they go forward." Ah Piao took a few steps forward and waved to Hei Lu'er, "Come, look here."
Hei Luer followed closely two steps, walked to Ah Piao's side, carefully observed the traces on both sides of the secret passage, and nodded lightly.
"There should be no problem with our speculation." He stretched out his hand to hold A'Piao's arm and pulled her behind him. "You are behind me. The further you go, the closer you are to danger. It’s getting closer.”
Ah Piao did not resist, nodded slightly, and gestured to the people behind.
"Also, try not to speak during the rest of the journey, so as not to let the other party notice our presence."
