It's November. On this day, Shui Ci and Chan'er watered the flower garden as usual, burned the millet stalks in front of the tomb, and then said goodbye to Qu Han.

"In the past two days, I heard that the fourth brother has taken control of the overall situation of the night capital, and the eldest brother can rest assured about the future." Shui Ci poured a glass of wine for Qu Hanyan and said.

"The place where Brother Qu was born is quiet and quiet, and I have lived for a long time, and I miss my family a little, so I want to go back to Nanguo to see my master and uncle, and I really want to see Brother Zhe and his children. We'll come back next year to have a drink with you, okay? Chan'er said, took the wine glass, and poured the wine in front of the tomb.

"Go back to Moge or Dadu first, do you want to send a message to Tuoba Yabu?" Shui Ci turned to Chan'er and asked.

"After the junction of the night, let's ask Brother Tuoba to answer it, and it's easier to go back to Dadu first." Chan'er said.

"I know what you're worried about." Shui Ci looked at Chan'er's expression and said, "There is a sixth sister to take care of King Fu, and the third sister has been adjusting medicine according to my prescription, which will definitely make King Fu sober up." ”

"Thank you." Chan'er smiled at Shui Ci.

"It's nice to see you smiling like that. Let's get going. ”

"Hmm."

The two of them traveled in a northwesterly direction to the valley in the northern part of the Night Country.

"With the temperature and humid environment here, there must be warm and nourishing medicinal herbs growing on the mountain, so let's pick a few of them. You're just recovering from a new injury, and you're in need of good medicine. Shui Ci observed as he walked forward.

"The vow to stop practicing medicine and saving lives is invalid, is it?" Chan'er looked at Shui Ci and said with a light smile.

At that time, I felt that medical skills could save the world, but I couldn't save dozens of lives of the Shui family, so I was very disheartened, so I sealed my heart for a while. However, the country of Yi is destroyed, and so many things have happened in the country of night, because of you, my heart knot has also been untied. Shui Ci said.

"You are here, the medical skills are there, and the Shui family will never die."

"That's right."

Shui Ci led Chan'er through several steep mountain walls, and the precious plants that are rarely seen on weekdays grow proudly in such an environment. Looking around, there was a branch of flowers and grass growing on the ground.

"It's strange, the vulture grass has always grown on the mid-empty rock wall, how can it be in a place where it is within reach." Shui Ci muttered to himself, and took a few steps forward.

Shui Ci leaned forward, his feet struggled, and the place where he stood suddenly tilted, and the ground cracked. Seeing this, Chan'er hurriedly stepped forward, grabbed the unbalanced Shui Ci, and at the same time spun a few times under her feet, and Shui Ci retreated to the side of the rock wall. As the two retreated, the previously cracked ground suddenly closed again, and the terrain was as smooth as ever.

"There are a lot fewer leaves, and it seems to have fallen into a crack." Shui Ci said.

"It's not a crack, it's a trap." Chan'er recalled, "I read it in my father's collection, and it was called ...... like this."

"You're talking about 'flip traps.'" That is to say, the ground is actually made of several planks, and there are axles under the planks, and once someone steps on the planks, the planks will be flipped over, and the person will fall into them. ”

"That's why you see the Eagle Grass here, because it's in mid-air." Chan'er thought for a while, and then said, "It seems that the surrounding area of this place was once the territory of the Heng Kingdom, which was taken advantage of by the Night Kingdom to incorporate it, but because the terrain is not suitable for farming, there are very few people living in this area, who would bother to set such a trap?" ”

"Traps are not set up on this hill to catch prey. Well, I don't want people to know what's under the trap. ”

"Maybe it's the Yi people who live here to escape the world?"

"The sphere of influence of Xiuyao, the fourth son of Emperor Jing, is in the south, but the second son Xiuyuan has been disappearing, could it be him?"

"Do you have a relationship with these two?"

"Shu Taifu's son, Shu You, has a very personal relationship with the eldest prince, and our Shui family does not have such a family education." Shui Ci obviously has no good impression of the original Yi Kingdom royal family and the Shu family who cling to the royal family, but when it comes to the eldest prince, Shui Ci seems to remember something, and suddenly said, "I saw your friend of Yi Guo before, he is a little familiar, he will not be ......"

"Yes, it's Xiuxi's son." Chan'er nodded to confirm Shui Ci's conjecture.

"There are no surprises in this world." Shui Ci was a little surprised, and then said, "But you, Xiu Yuan, and Xiu Yao, I'm afraid there is no affection at all." ”

"Hmm. Jing Hu and Luo Dong helped Moge repel Xiuyuan's army, and then joined forces with Guan Shu to expand his brother, and fought with the Shu family's father and son. On the side of Hengguo, the two armies of Captain Qi Fan and Xiuyao fought against each other at the border for nearly a year, and with the cooperation of the Demon Palace, they waved their troops north day by day, causing Xiuyao to suffer a fiasco. In this way, Xiuyuan, Xiuyao, Shujia, and Chang Huan, no matter which one they meet, they can't bear it. ”

"Since it's so dangerous, it's better not to be curious. Let's get out as soon as possible. ”

"Okay."

The "flip trap" in front of him is indeed as speculated, it is from Xiuyuan's hand, in order to cover up the entrance to the treasure of Prince Su that was accidentally discovered. Since the death of the Lord of the Star Altar and the fall of the Star Altar, Xiu Yuan, who was thirsty for talent, personally came forward to search for the whereabouts of Fu Huan and You Wanqing, and recruited the two to join the camp of Kuang Fu Yi Guo's revival. If Shui Ci and Chan'er learn of this news, the number of "friends and foes" will increase by two.

At this moment, although Shui Ci and Chan'er bypassed the trap set by Xiuyuan, on the way back to exit the valley, they relaxed their vigilance for a while, but accidentally slipped into another cave, where the exit set by Prince Su for the treasure was. Because this cave is connected to the treasure exit, there is no dangerous mechanism, but the cave is quite deep, and the rope ladder has aged for many years, and Shui Ci and Chan'er strayed into it, and they couldn't find a way to leave for a while.

"If you can't get up from here, you'll have to go inside and find another way out." Shui Ci said.

"Will it be connected to the trap just now?" Chan'er asked.

"Judging from the orientation of the two places, even if they are connected, they are not a short distance apart." Shui Ci turned around, looked at the dim alleyway in the cave (separator), and said, "But I'm waiting here, and I don't know which immortal will be waiting for you." ”

"The other party is in the dark, and if we don't understand the situation, we shouldn't show it in front of others." As Chan'er spoke, she was attracted by a pattern on the opposite stone wall, "That's ......"

"What's wrong?" Shui Ci looked at Chan'er's gaze, but he didn't know what it meant.

"I've seen such a picture in the Hengguo Palace." Chan'er stepped forward and unconsciously stretched out her hand to touch the stone wall, and then there was a sound of a mechanism ringing in the stone wall, and a stone slab depicting the nine-square grid pattern suddenly appeared.

Shui Ci and Chan'er took advantage of the faint light cast from above the cave to carefully observe the other patterns on the stone wall, but they couldn't think of any connection between the drawings and the nine-square grid.

"If it's a gossip array, I still know one or two, but what does nine mean?" Shui Zi muttered to himself.

"Could it be the Nine Palaces Bagua Array?" Chan'er said.

"Qian is in the northwest, Kun is in the southwest, Zhen is in the east, Xun is in the southeast, Kan is in the north, Li is in the south, Gen is in the northeast, and Dui is in the west." Shui Ci deduced the direction of the nine palace gossip in his mind, closed his eyes and said, "The middle palace is five, the east is three, the west is seven, the south is nine, the north is one, the southeast is four, the southwest is two, the northwest is six, and the northeast is eight." ”

"On the slate, the three rows are four, nine, two, three, five, seven, eight, one, and six." Chan'er followed the words of the water and determined the corresponding numbers of each house.

Shui Ci immediately opened his eyes and said:

"Now it's up to us what kind of numbers can open the door behind the stone wall."

"Brother Shui, could it be ...... here? Prince Speed's treasure. Chan'er said in an almost affirmative tone.

"So there is a picture of the royal family of Hengguo." Shui Ci nodded, agreeing with this speculation, and said, "The nine palaces on the stone slab seem to be able to be pressed, since it is a treasure, I don't know what kind of mechanism will be triggered if it is pressed wrong." ”

"Nine...... What would it mean? ”

"The respect of the ninety-five, the dragon gives birth to nine sons, and the nine sons take the heir." Shui Ci said all the words related to the royal family that he could think of, and asked Chan'er, "You have a deep relationship with Hengguo, do you have any clues?" ”

"Prince Su is the second prince, Qi ......" Chan'er remembered the secret of Qi Fan's life experience, and then changed her words, "Prince Ji is the seventh prince." There are also acting princes, unborn princes, five princes and six princes. ”

"Are these four brothers complicit in the struggle for the throne?"

"Hmm."

"Two, five, six, seven, that is, the middle palace and the column on the right." Shui Ci said against the nine-square grid slate.

"Is it okay to turn on the mechanism like this?" Chan'er hesitated.

"If you come here, you will be safe, and see if you can lead to other ways out."

"Then we'll each press two squares."

"Be careful."

Chan'er from the left side, put her hands on the five and six corresponding palaces, Shui Ci from the right side, hold down the two and seven corresponding palaces, the two palms at the same time, press the four palace grids to the end, only to hear another sound of mechanism, the secret door behind the stone wall opened.

Shui Ci and Chan'er glanced at each other, walked into the secret door, took down the torches and flints by the door, lit the torches, and illuminated the road behind the secret door. Five snaps of time passed, and the secret door slowly closed again.

At the same time, in a stone house deep in the cave, a mysterious woman who had overlooked Xiuyuan and his party suddenly opened her mouth and said in a quiet voice:

"Not only the people from all walks of life who broke in front, but also people from the rear broke in, and everyone who came had no intention of leaving, so they could only use the agency to say hello to everyone."

"There is a secret passage in front of you to welcome visitors, and it's not clear which side of the friend is in the back, so don't hurt someone by mistake." A somewhat familiar male voice rang out.

"Yes, auntie. I'll take a look at the situation first, and then we'll make an idea. The young man who spoke up later was actually the descendant of Prince Ji mentioned by Chan'er not long ago-Qi Fan.

"It's me who didn't think it through." The woman who was called "aunt" by Qi Fan smiled and said, "The mechanism that can crack the Nine Palace Grid should not be ordinary people. ”

Qi Fan immediately nodded to the woman and the man in the shadows, and then instructed the four people around him:

"You stay, whatever the two seniors command, just do it."

"Yes." These four people are Qi Fan's Qian, Kun, Zhen, and Xun.