"Qingqing?" The person behind her gently smelled the fragrance in her hair and spoke in a low voice.
In the darkness, the man was so cold that he supported Yunqing and his body trembled slightly.
Qi Chengyi sheathed his sword: "I didn't know it was you."
"It doesn't matter." Fu Yunqing touched the tip of her nose and suppressed the embarrassment in her heart.
She couldn't imagine how terrifying Qi Chengyi's strength was. As soon as she stepped through the door, before she could react, the other party put the blade against her neck.
If Qi Chengyi wanted to hurt her, she would be a cold corpse by now.
She once thought that Qi Chengyi put Lin Yuezhou next to her, but never hurt her, and instead cured Ziheng's leg disease.
Although there is no sincere relationship between the two, they can be regarded as good cooperative allies.
"There is a mechanism in the study, give me your hand." In the darkness, Qi Chengyi reached out to her.
Fu Yunqing was silent for a moment, and Qi Chengyi took the initiative to hold her hand.
Her fingertips were cold from the cold. Holding it in Qi Chengyi's slightly calloused but warm palm, it felt warm all the way from her fingertips to her heart.
In fact, the hand held by him felt very solid.
Qi Chengyi was insincere in his treatment of her, but he would not hurt her.
When Li Quan is not in the study, there is a mechanism inside. If someone breaks in without authorization, the hidden weapon will be triggered. Although Fu Yunqing has the key, if he accidentally touches the mechanism, he may not be able to escape intact.
So, the third aunt led her to the study...
Do you want her to find out something?
She always felt that her third aunt knew something when she asked her to come to the study today, but she didn't dare to tell her directly.
"Your third aunt wants to use your hand to eradicate Li Quan and avoid future troubles forever." Qi Chengyi glanced at the key in her palm and said calmly, "She wants to kill Li Quan. She has been patiently enduring these years. To this day, Finally she couldn't bear it any longer. As the person next to her, she couldn't possibly be unaware of it, but she couldn't expose Li Quan herself."
"Firstly, if she doesn't have the strength, and secondly, if she wants to kill her relatives, she will not be tolerated by the Li family. She will no longer be able to go back to support the family. If she reaches forty and is kicked out by the Li family, her old age will be miserable. She can't afford to gamble, and she can't lose. rise."
During the conversation, Qi Chengyi held a luminous pearl the size of a wine cup in his hand and illuminated the study. After observing the layout, he walked straight to an ink painting of mountains and rivers.
Qi Chengyi opened the landscape painting——
Revealing an ordinary white wall.
Qi Chengyi calculated in his mind for a moment and looked at a white porcelain bottle placed on the opposite wall.
Inside the porcelain vase was third aunt's favorite orchid.
Youlan is related to the third aunt...
Fu Yunqing frowned slightly.
Qi Chengyi gently turned the vase, and the white wall where the painting was originally hung slowly rotated, revealing a narrow tunnel for one person to pass through.
Qi Chengyi threw a stone out of his sleeve.
The stone hit the wall, bounced to the opposite wall, rolled down the steps, triggered the mechanism, and arrows were fired at each other!
A piece of sharp knife net fell from the top of the wall!
After testing out all the mechanisms, Qi Chengyi led Fu Yunqing down the stone steps step by step.
As soon as the two entered the underground secret room, the white wall immediately closed behind them.
The secret room contains daily food, bookcases, coffee tables, small beds, and locked red boxes.
Qi Chengyi took off the long hairpin that held Yunqing's hair, inserted the tip of the hairpin into the lock core and fiddled with it a few times, and the iron lock fell off.
Fu Yunqing's three thousand green silk hair hangs down on her lower back, and her black hair is as smooth as satin, which makes her face look like jade. Her delicate eyebrows are slightly frowned, as if she is a little puzzled: "Your Highness, you can even do this?"
In the narrow secret room, the fragrance of the woman's hair floated around, making people feel on fire like a seductress. Qi Chengyi turned his face away and swallowed slightly: "I learned this when I was locked in an iron cage."
Fu Yunqing's heart trembled when he heard this, and asked: "His Highness has been locked in an iron cage since he was a child?"
Qi Chengyi paused slightly as he opened the box. Thinking of the past, an inexplicable sarcasm flashed across his eyes:
"You should have seen the dog cages used to lock hounds in the palace. When I was a child, the cage I was locked in was smaller than the dog cage."
"Every time I huddled inside, I wanted to escape, so I gradually figured out how to unlock it. After she found that she couldn't lock me, she always changed to weird new locks. Who knew that in the end, there was no lock in the world? Can trap me."
As if realizing that he had talked too much, Qi Chengyi was silent for a moment and stopped speaking.
Fu Yunqing's childhood was warm, sunny, happy and loving, and she grew up under the care of her parents.
When Qi Chengyi was young, it seemed dark, difficult, wasted and torturous.
But soon, Fu Yunqing realized something.
It is said that Qi Chengyi's mother loved him very much. Even if mother and son were in the cold palace, the late empress would do everything she could to give Qi Chengyi the best protection. So who was she in his mouth?
But Fuyunqing didn't ask.
Qi Chengyi is such a deep-thinking person. It is extremely difficult for him to be willing to confide some past events with him.
Why should she ask?
There are some things he will never say, so it's better not to ask.
Helping Yunqing go, he saw a bunch of secret letters in the box.
The first unsigned letter was opened and it read:
Chen Xi has been ordered to go to the south of the Yangtze River to find Chu Jinhuai who forged a secret letter of rebellion. You need to be prepared to personally testify against the Minister of War.
Second letter:
Eight thousand weapons seized from bandits have been moved into the caves of Xuan'an City.
The third letter:
The time has come and the Chu family has been wiped out.
The more Fu Yunqing looked down, the more frightened he became and his hands trembled. He couldn't help but look up at Qi Chengyi:
“Shouldn’t these things have been destroyed long ago?
Qi Chengyi said: "It is supposed to be burned after reading, but Li Quan has a deceitful mind. He saw Chen Xi massacre the whole Chu family with his own eyes, and saw Chen Xi silenced by Chen Yushi. Naturally, he was worried that the cunning rabbit would die and be cooked by the lackeys."
"After all, Chen Xi is Chen Yushi's nephew. Even his nephew can be killed. So, why can't he, Li Quan?"
"Li Quan naturally wants to keep a secret until Chen Yushi gets rid of him, and uses this ironclad evidence to threaten him. Either we live together, or we die together."
"It's so scheming, but I didn't expect to make wedding clothes for us." Fu Yunqing folded all the secret letters and put them in his sleeves. At this moment, footsteps came from outside the secret passage.
Qi Chengyi pulled Fu Yunqing and hid under the bed.
The environment under the small bed was cramped, and Fu Yunqing and Qi Chengyi could only huddle together.
Fu Yunqing was inside and Qi Chengyi was outside, blocking the danger for her with his strong back.
There were footsteps at the entrance to the secret room.
Fu Yunqing saw that Qi Chengyi's back was only a few feet away from being exposed under the bed, so he didn't care so much. Fu Yunqing hugged Qi Chengyi's waist and pulled him closer.
Qi Chengyi stiffened and looked at Fu Yunqing blankly.
Their bodies were so close together that they were completely hidden in the darkness under the bed.
The space was too small, and Fu Yunqing had nowhere to put his hands. As the footsteps got closer and closer, Fu Yunqing could only hold Qi Chengyi's hands.
For some reason, she felt that Qi Chengyi was nervous.
His body was stretched straight into a straight line, and he did not dare to move. His breathing was rapid and extremely low.
In the darkness, Qi Chengyi's hot breath sprayed on Fu Yunqing's neck, like a feather tickling her. She seemed to have guessed why Qi Chengyi was embarrassed, and her heartbeat also accelerated a little.
She held him too close.
But if he doesn't hold her tighter, Qi Chengyi will be exposed under the bed.
Just listen to the man in black rummaging around. After finding that there was nothing in the secret box, he quickly rummaged through the bookshelf, teapot, bench... and then bent down to poke his head under the bed——
I saw Qi Chengyi and Fu Yunqing hugging each other!
