The man in black said in a sullen voice, "Your Royal Highness Princess, why are you bothering me?"

Peony looked at the man in black with interest: "I wasn't sure who it was just now, but now I'm sure of you, right, Grandpa Jing?"

Lu Tao was stunned for a moment, and looked up and down at the person who was completely wrapped in black, and he knew only one Gonggong Jing.

The tightly wrapped man in black paused for a moment, and he didn't know if he was remorseful, but the next moment, he removed the black cover that even covered his face, and showed a somewhat angry face from behind: "What if the miscellaneous family is recognized? I don't believe that the princess will run to the emperor to complain!"

Sure enough, it was Gonggong Jing! Lu Tao saw it so clearly, this person was obviously the little eunuch who had been following the emperor of the Great Qin Empire before, and later ran to Yunxi.

"Hehe, of course I won't sue, it's just ......" Peony shook his head: "I just want to get a piece of the pie." ”

"A piece of the pie?" Father-in-law Jing, who had regained his original voice, had a slightly sharp voice: "This cup of soup is not a good share!"

"That's what you say, how do you know if you don't try it?"

As he spoke, Peony turned his head to look at the darkness behind the door of the main hall and asked, "Isn't it?"

"Hahahaha!" A burst of laughter came from behind the door, and then, the second prince Hongxi, dressed in a gorgeous costume, walked out from behind the door: "Peony is right, how can you know if you don't try it!"

As he spoke, the second prince glanced at Lu Tao thoughtfully, and asked Peony: "It seems that the other half of the jade seal is there with you?"

Peony glanced at the second prince Hongxi noncommittally, and then looked at Father-in-law Jing.

"Heh, Gonggong Jing is of great use to us, no one can open another secret passage without him, so it can't be done without him, how can I Peony? After I hold the supreme power, I will give you the part you deserve, what do you want? The power above ten thousand people under one person? Or the inexhaustible amount of money?"

Peony shook his head: "Although I want both, it's too early to say this, Second Emperor Brother, let's find something first." ”

"Well, it's a peony, you're right, now is not the time to say this. The second prince put his hands behind his back, his expression was covered by the torches burning behind him, and he couldn't see clearly at all, he continued: "Then, tomorrow night, we will go to explore the secret road, Peony, you will bring the other half of the jade seal of the country, Gonggong Jing, tomorrow you will lead the way, how about it?"

Gonggong Jing nodded: "Of course, we originally said it, but since the other half of the jade seal is so easy to find, and we have a lot less trouble, I am only worried about ......"

As he spoke, Gonggong Jing glanced up at Peony, and seemed to be quite distrustful of Peony.

"Hahaha, don't worry, don't worry, Grandpa Jing, you just need to do your own thing, by the way, do you know how long the secret passage is?"

The laughter of the second prince can be transmitted far away in the quiet night, and the laughter that echoes in the air ripples, but here, no one seems to care and no one can hear it, so there is only an echo in the air, and nothing else.

Listening to the second prince's question, of course Gonggong Jing didn't have to answer, he paused, and said: "I only saw the entrance with the emperor, and the road after that must be opened by passing the jade seal of the country, I don't know how long the secret passage behind is, I only know where the entrance to the secret passage in front is, His Royal Highness the second prince, you asked this question is the wrong person." ”

"Hehe, anyway, I'll know tomorrow, by the way, each of us is only allowed to bring one person with me tomorrow, I think, you don't want to watch me bring a lot of them, right? ”

Seeing that Gonggong Jing and Peony nodded and agreed, the second prince laughed again, and went back to his palace without saying anything.

Gonggong Jing also just glanced at Peony and Lu Tao, turned around and left the open space in front of the palace, leaving Peony Lu Tao and the torches hanging at the gate of the palace that were burning fiercely.

......

By the time Lu Tao returned to the small courtyard where Yunxi was located, half of the dark clouds had dispersed, revealing half a moon, illuminating the patio transparently.

The big tree in the middle of the patio, under the illumination of the moonlight, cast a dense layer of shadows, swaying with the wind, making the same dense friction sound, but the wind at this time was much dimmer than before, Lu Tao thought: Tomorrow should be a sunny day.

Cautiously returning to the house, there was a slight and quiet sound of breathing from the back room, and it seemed that Yunxi and Xiaorou should have slept soundly.

Lying on the bed in the outer room, Lu Tao silently waited for the arrival of the next day.

recalled what happened tonight, Lu Tao found out that the more he usually showed that he didn't care about power, the more he actually liked power, Lu Tao remembered that Yunxi said that the second prince was the person who disliked power the most in the palace, and he was also the most upright person in the palace.

Now Lu Tao can be sure that the word "righteous gentleman" is probably really a derogatory term, no matter who it is, as long as the name of the righteous gentleman is installed, it must not be a righteous gentleman.

The complete heirloom jade seal should be the key to opening some secret passage...... Isn't there too much secret passage under the palace?

Hawkers, the secret passage opened by this key should be a secret passage that can allow the second prince to ascend to the throne, although Lu Tao is very curious about what can make a person suddenly become the emperor of the Great Qin Empire, and he is also very curious that since there is such a thing that threatens the throne under the palace, why does His Majesty the current emperor not directly destroy such a thing, but also let an inconsequential eunuch know the entrance to this passage, and finally there is one thing worth Lu Tao to understand, who released this news?

Oh, the last question shouldn't be a problem, there are too many possibilities, even if it is a tough battle tomorrow, Lu Tao estimates that the threat will not be too great, because of these problems Lu Tao asked Peony on the way back, Peony smiled and said nothing, but there was no worried expression at all, so that Lu Tao could confirm that tomorrow's things should not be so simple.

Although there is no magic to use, Lu Tao still has to go to the secret passage below with Peony, the only thing he is worried about is the object under the secret passage, he is very worried, what if the hidden thing below is the crown he is looking for? Although Peony swore to Lu Tao that it was definitely not a crown below, the worry in Lu Tao's heart never diminished.

Thinking about it, Lu Tao fell asleep.

......

Faintly, Lu Tao felt that his ears were a little itchy, as if a bug was persistently licking his earlobes.

Thinking about it like this, Lu Tao woke up, he was most afraid of insects when he was a child, and he was so scared that he couldn't do it.

This is not that Lu Tao was born like this, but from the psychological shadow of his childhood.

The apartment where I lived with my grandmother was very old from the beginning, and it looked completely different from what it is now. At that time, from top to bottom, except for the main part of the house, which was made of concrete and steel bars, almost all the other parts were wood, and it was wood that had rotted for a long time and had not been repaired.

This is also reasonable, after all, before Lu Tao's parents died, no one knew that there was an apartment building belonging to Lu Tao and his grandmother.

Every night, Lu Tao can always hear tens of millions of insects the size of his little thumb gnawing on the wood in the beams above his bedroom, gnawing "clicking" and not stopping for a moment.

Even if the apartment building doesn't have any beams at all.

Lu Tao has listened to such a voice for many years, whether it is in a dream or outside a dream, Lu Tao always feels that the insects in the wood above his head will suddenly break through the shell of the wood, and then fall from the sky, drowning himself like a tide.

It wasn't until Lu Tao's grandmother made the decision to renovate the apartment and rent it out that the nightmare stopped.

During the renovation days, Lu Tao and his grandmother lived in the house of a friend of his grandmother in the countryside, although it was still a wooden house, but there was no longer the sound of insects eating wood, which was the only good sleep Lu Tao had for so many years.

Since having this psychological shadow, Lu Tao has been particularly afraid of insects.

When she opened her eyes, Lu Tao saw Xiao Rou's face, she was holding a dog tail grass in her hand, and she was using the one with a lot of hair to tease Lu Tao's earlobe, and when she saw that Lu Tao was awake, Xiao Rou threw away the dog tail grass in her hand and said, "Hmph! You finally woke up! A eunuch actually got up later than the master's family!"

"Okay Xiaorou, since Xiao Taozi is up, let him wash up first, you too, you can lie there and play for so long, you don't know what to do!"

Yunxi's voice came from the back room, and when she heard Yunxi's words, Xiaorou's face turned red as if she were the butt of some kind of animal.

Oh...... It's really not good to describe a girl's home like this, Lu Tao thought about it, and changed his words.

Xiao Rou's red face at this time was like a ripe red apple.

"Of course he washes himself! I won't help him wash it!"

As she spoke, Xiao Rou opened the curtain outside, and slipped out of the patio and didn't know where to go.

Lu Tao: "......"

Did this girl mishear something?

Yunxi chuckled twice and walked out of the room, she glanced at Lu Tao: "After you went out last night, Xiaorou found out, she waited for half the night and didn't wait for you to come back, I originally wanted to come to question you early this morning, it seems that there is no need to worry." ”