"Where's the jade seal? Is the jade seal still there?!"

Hearing Peony's question, Lu Tao took it out in his arms, fortunately, although the two of them seemed to be thrown into the drum washing machine, the things on their bodies were not lost, Lu Tao took out the square object he picked up when he fled before from his arms and handed it to Peony.

"Here's it. ”

Peony took the Quartet object handed over by Lu Tao: "Only half?!"

"You forgot?" Lu Tao shrugged: "After the box fell, the contents were divided into two halves, and I only had time to bring out this half......"

Peony put down his hand holding half of the square object a little weakly, and the square object knocked on the stone on his side, making a soft "ding" sound.

Sighing, Peony stood up and pulled the clothes that were wrapped in water and became slimy: "Half is half, at least I have the qualifications to enter, and when I figure out who the other half is, the next important moment will be." ”

Lu Tao: "???"

What is this guy talking about?

Shaking his head, Lu Tao tried to drive the spiritual power in his body again, but the result was still no response, this time, not only did the spiritual power not react, but even the spiritual power stored in his body seemed to be blocked by shadows from nowhere, so that Lu Tao's inner vision also lost its effect.

"Let's go, let's get out of here first. Peony looked left and right, and there seemed to be some indelible doubts in his eyes.

Lu Tao looked around, especially the reeds and weeds growing wantonly by the river, and couldn't help asking, "What kind of place is this?"

“...... I don't know. Peony looked up at the sky, and then looked twice at the center of the lake: "I have never seen such a place in the palace...... But I've not been anywhere in the palace. ”

"Maybe this isn't the palace at all......," Lu Tao muttered, brushing aside the lush reeds growing by the lake, and came to a higher place on the other side.

Without the shelter of the reeds, and to a higher terrain, the lake became wider, and the stars and moon shining in the sky made the lake cover the lake with a layer of diffuse gauze, and with the breeze blowing, the ripples brought up made this layer of gauze become dense, rippling into a fine golden sea.

Looking to the other side, everything seemed to sink into darkness, not only did there not have any fire, but even the black shadows that were once very familiar in the palace could not be seen - those black shadows were palaces with different areas, and even at night, there were many places where flames burned all night, and those buildings were illuminated by the flames behind them, leaving flickering shadows, sometimes like a door about to open, making people feel small.

"Here...... It doesn't seem to be the palace?" Peony looked at it for a long time, and finally came to the same conclusion as Lu Tao's guess: "That waterway directly let us out of the palace?"

Lu Tao's eyesight was much better, he looked around the shadows around the lake, and pointed to the opposite side that was separated by a lake: "There is a fire there, we should go over and take a look." ”

Peony looked in the direction of Lu Tao's finger, and it took a long time to see the fire in Lu Tao's mouth, she hesitated: "Dressed like this, I'm afraid it will take a little bit of speech." ”

The two of them were still wearing eunuch clothes in the palace, hanging wet on their bodies, no matter who they met, the other party was afraid that the doubts in their hearts were indispensable, and how to explain it became a difficult problem.

"It depends. Lu Tao didn't have a good way: "We're just asking for directions, of course, it's best to figure out what kind of place this is." ”

"I don't think it's too far from the palace...... I guess I've guessed where it is, but I'd better make sure it's safer. Peony squinted, as if he had confirmed what kind of place this was, but Lu Tao didn't have a clue, it was better to say that he didn't remember any other place with such a big lake except for Jinyang Lake next to the palace.

Unfortunately, this is obviously not Jinyang Lake next to the Imperial Palace, there are no reeds around Jinyang Lake, and it is more like a huge pond surrounded by stones.

Walking around the reeds by the lake, Lu Tao and Peony finally approached the firelight on the other side of the lake, the ignited firelight, so that the people around the firelight basically couldn't see things in the distance, in a sense, lighting a fire in the wild can only be equivalent to setting a target for others, of course, maybe these people who lit the flame are not guards who are wary of someone approaching at all.

Lu Tao and Peony hid behind a bush of reeds, in the position of the flame, you can see a horizontal lying wood, there is only one person sitting on it, I don't know if it is too sleepy, the head of the person sitting next to the flame keeps pointing downward, looking at his posture and the distance between him and the fire, Lu Tao is very worried about whether he will be planted into the fire pit.

"Very well, it seems that there is only one person, so it is much easier. Peony whispered to Lu Tao: "You just wait here, let me solve him!"

Lu Tao looked at the person who was still rushing towards the fire, and the person who was little by little: "You won't kill ......"

"How is it possible, I still have to ask something. Peony glanced at Lu Tao: "What else do I ask if I kill him?"

Lu Tao nodded, and Peony dived along the reeds, just from her movements, there was a slight "rustling" sound, as if those reeds were blown by the wind.

This level of proficiency, including the resistance that was rejected when he met Peony for the first time before, Lu Tao didn't quite understand why she was more like an assassin when she was a princess in the palace, but thanks to Peony's possession of such skills, otherwise if Lu Tao was allowed to come, Lu Tao didn't know what to do, without stealth skills, Lu Tao could probably only rely on speed to go directly to this road.

Lu Tao looked in the direction of the bonfire in the darkness again, although the light of the bonfire made the guards around the bonfire become a live target, but it also covered up the things behind the bonfire, Lu Tao could only faintly see from the jumping firelight that there were some huge shadows behind, but he didn't know whether it was a building or something else.

Just thinking about it, Peony's figure had jumped out of the reeds, and the people around the bonfire had not recovered from their sleepy eyes, when Peony slashed at the back of the neck with a knife and fell forward, so that he didn't fall into the fire, if Peony hadn't pulled him.

Peony lightly carried the man on his shoulder, submerged in the reeds, and soon returned to Lu Tao's side, throwing the man on the ground, and the unconscious man also made a "hum", it seems that Peony lost this very heavy.

Lu Tao: "......"

He suddenly remembered that Peony had also carried a little girl like this, and at that time she swore that it was not because of her strength, but because the little girl was light enough to carry it, and now it seems that it was really a complete lie.

Of course, that's not something you should be concerned about right now.

Lying on the ground is a middle-aged man, reminding that he is not strong, from the clothes on his body, it can be seen that the middle-aged man is not a rich man, which is of course, if it is a rich man, he will definitely not watch the bonfire there in the middle of the night.

Peony took a handful of cold lake water from the lake, and splashed it on the face of the middle-aged man lying motionless on the ground, and the middle-aged man "hummed" again and slowly woke up.

"Who are you?!" Peony asked first.

It is conceivable that this was originally the question that the stunned middle-aged man wanted to ask, but he was asked by Peony first, how confused the middle-aged man would be, but whether he was very confused or not, the next moment he understood what he should do.

Peony took out a long needle from his arms that Lu Tao had seen many times, and placed the sharp end horizontally near the throat of the middle-aged man: "Tell me quickly, who are you?!"

The fear in the middle-aged man's eyes brightened, and he opened his mouth: "I'm from Furong Fang......"

"Furong Fang?" Peony showed an expression that was really like this: "This is Fanning Lake?"

“...... This is, of course, Fanning Lake. The middle-aged man who listened to Peony's question was a little inexplicable, but under the threat of Peony, he still answered her question honestly.

"Okay, now that we've confirmed that this is Fanning Lake, I don't need you. ”

"What do you say......"

The middle-aged man's eyes widened with fear, but before he could finish his words, he was cut and fainted by the peony again, and then began to pick up the clothes on the middle-aged man's body.

Lu Tao: "......"

"Why are you still stunned?" Peony glanced at Lu Tao: "Come and help!"

Lu Tao pursed his lips, of course he knew what Peony was going to do with this middle-aged man's clothes, but it seemed that one piece was not enough at all.

The two of them ripped off the middle-aged man's clothes three times and two times, and the peony gestured on himself, and finally threw it to Lu Tao: "This one is too big, we have to find a smaller one." ”

Lu Tao took the clothes that Peony threw over, and asked, "Where is Fanning Lake? We are now in Wuyang?"

"How is that possible!" Peony pulled the things in the middle-aged man's pocket again, and only replied after finding that it was just some useless things: "This is the largest lake outside Wuyang City, you don't know?"

Lu Tao recalled, and suddenly remembered some memories that had been thrown into the corner by himself, and it seemed that Li Deyou, who had taken him into the city, once said the name of Fanning Lake, and also persuaded him to take advantage of the current season of cruise ships to take a good walk on Fanning Lake.