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The two of them came out of the inner room and went straight to the bookshelf. Shi Jiaheng always carefully took out the books in the order in which they were placed, and then returned to the original place after checking them to prevent the order from being messed up. Chu Yunxi drew a gourd in the same way and followed, and the two quickly converged from both sides of the bookshelf.

There are not many books on the shelves, scattered history books of various dynasties, one volume in the east and one volume in the west, there are no Confucian classics that the prime minister likes to read in the past, but some Taoist books such as "I Ching", "Lingbao", "Shangqing", "Three Emperors Sutra" are full of them, and there are some miscellaneous books such as asking for immortals and asking for medicine, feng shui fortune-telling, etc., and Chu Yunxi frowned. They are all ordinary books, and there are no books or papers mixed in them. The two of them gave up the bookshelf, rummaged through the treasure cabinet again, moved the porcelain bottle, shook the plates, and the study remained in place, without a trace of change in it.

The two looked at each other in a slightly lost light, and turned to look at the desk behind them.

Chu Yunxi flipped through the tabletop, while Shi Jiaheng squatted down to open the drawer in the table.

The books on the table are still disorganized, there are poetry collections, Buddhist scriptures, miscellaneous notes, and there is nothing peculiar about the rice paper under the book, and the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone are not very special. Unwillingly, she put the things on the table back in their place, and looked all the way along the corner of the wall with a fire fold in her hand.

"Two ledgers found." Shi Jiaheng's excited voice sounded in a low voice, Chu Yunxi was startled, the fire fold fell to the ground, and the fire dimmed.

She picked up the fire fold and did not stand up immediately, but squatted on the east wall of the room and looked at it for a while.

Shi Jiaheng looked down and felt that she hadn't come for a long time, so he looked sideways at where she was; "Did you find anything?" So saying, he closed the account book and walked towards her.

Chu Yunxi's face was strange, he hurriedly stood up, stepped forward, blocked his sight and said, "Oh." No, no, nothing, I was dazzled. ”

Fortunately, the fire was dim and the situation was tense, Shi Jiaheng did not doubt it, just nodded with a "hmm", picked up the account book and flipped through it again.

She took two steps and walked over to him to help look through it. The result of the search was a big disappointment, these two books are indeed fake account books, but what is recorded is the daily expenses of the prime minister's house, family expenses, and the handwriting is very ugly, and at a glance it is clear that it is not recorded by the prime minister. Although the above silver money records have far exceeded the prime minister's official wealth, but the Chu family has been an official for three generations, and the Lu family is a Luoyang family, so there are still some furniture that cannot be used, which cannot be regarded as evidence at all.

Locked the drawer, the two faced such a fruitless ending, but neither of them was depressed. Shi Jiaheng secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and his face became more relaxed; And Chu Yunxi seemed to have realized it earlier, and he was not surprised. The drum outside the window has been beaten four times, and the two are not in love, nor are they sorry, they just want to leave here quickly.

Knowing their route, leaving was smoother than entering, and they hid all the way to Tibet, avoiding everyone's eyes and ears, and managed to jump off the backyard wall, and then walked hand in hand.

Such a scene couldn't help but remind Shi Jiaheng of the days when he accompanied Chu Yunxi to Beijing two years ago. Although life is full of countless unknown sufferings, being able to fight hand in hand and fight side by side all the way makes such days no longer only fear and sorrow, but more warmth and courage.

As they got closer and closer to home, the pace of the two gradually slowed down, and there was more leisure and leisure for night strolls. The bright moon in the sky understands people's will, dispelling the black clouds in the sky and the evil wind in the sky, revealing half of the clear face, like the plump and graceful jaw of a girl.

The stone pavement is washed by moonlight, and the shiny spots of light float on the road, giving the illusion of walking on the water. On the side of the road, bursts of cicadas sounded in the dark green bushes, like the faint snoring of a sleeping person. Such a quiet night, like a faint soothing and sad moan, the intense pain will be half soothed and half called, and will become a lingering small wound, which is bleeding but not fatal, painful but bearable.

"You're dead now. Promise me not to do such a dangerous thing again. From now on, you have to stay away from the Prime Minister's Mansion, and you must preserve your strength and make long-term plans. Shi Jiaheng's voice has a gentleness similar to that of a woman, but it also has the firmness and masculinity of a man. The two personalities, which could not coexist, were presented in an elegant and tactful way under his harmony.

Chu Yunxi, who was walking behind him, was noncommittal, so he mistakenly took her silence as a tacit, and his tone rose slightly, showing the joy in his heart: "You have to calm down and wait slowly, this matter is in a hurry, and you can't eat hot tofu in a hurry." ”

Linked to the previous sentence, these two short sentences revealed his true thoughts, in fact, he knew that it was futile to visit the Prime Minister's Mansion at night. The reason why he took the risk to accompany her was nothing more than to reassure her heart, and besides, he could feel at ease by his company.

He suddenly stopped and turned to face her, his tone changing from brisk to solemn: "Moreover, I found ......"

At this time, Chu Yunxi was like a puppet, walking with him, stopping with him, she lowered her head, and her face showed a confused look. He thought that she was secretly sad because of the failure of the night detective, so he gently grabbed her shoulders and forced her to raise her head: "These days, I have carefully investigated several major court cases related to the prime minister over the years, and I think the relationship is complicated, as well as the emperor...... And the emperor, the emperor ......"

He stopped his mouth, because he found that although the person in front of him was looking at him, his gaze was empty, and she was not listening at all, but wandering away.

"Forget it." His hand slipped off her shoulder, rewarming the remaining warmth in her palm, and whispered to himself, "I'll tell you more about it when I figure out what's going on." ”

Chu Yunxi returned home with him in such a chaotic manner, and at the door, he instructed a lot more as usual, Biyin and Qingxu welcomed her in, and Lu Yan thanked Shi Jiaheng repeatedly. After sending him off, she swallowed a few sips of hot tea in the kitchen and reflexively entered the house.

The bedroom was locked, and Lu Yan couldn't push it open, so she asked softly at the door: "The master is hungry, do you want to get some supper?" ”

She refused, and told them to sleep early.

The lights in the big room and kitchen gradually went out, but the lights in her bedroom kept on. The three of them were lying side by side on the big bed in the main hall, and there was a slight snoring in Lu Yan's ears, but her eyes were always staring worriedly at the light in her room.

The intimate Qing Chun had insight into Chu Yunxi's quiet personality and knew that she needed an independent space for thinking and working, so she quietly moved out of her room, and connected another wooden board outside the big bed, and the three of them made do with the same bed.

At this moment, her eyes were closed, as if she was asleep, but her heart was very clear, she was always paying attention to every move around her, and quietly listening to the various sounds coming from her room. In fact, Chu Yunxi didn't know that every day Qingxu almost heard her blow out the candles, take off her shoes and socks, and lie down on the bed before she could really fall asleep peacefully. Every night, there was a person on the other side of the room who was silently waiting for her.

Chu Yunxi took out another candle from the cabinet, lit it on the other end of the table, and then lit the burning candle flame and prepared to fight all night. She took off her coat and soft armor, put on the coat that she paints at home on the bed, put on an apron that covers the paint, and then takes out a large stack of rice paper, lays the paper, sharpens the ink, dips the pen, then closes her eyes and meditates, and finally traces it with a fine brush.

First the house, beams, walls, and then the soft couch, bookshelf, desk, a house drawing of the prime minister's study was gradually enriched and complete from the skeleton to the content under her pen, and she once again restored the prime minister's study with her strong memory. When she finally put her pen to paper, she did not forget to draw a half-body cockroach at the joint between the right wall and the ground. She used a red pen to make a big circle around the cockroach's body, yes, cockroaches! It was this cockroach that made her sure of one thing - the right wall of the prime minister's study could be opened, and there must be an inner room and a secret passage inside!

She stumbled upon it while crouching on the ground to inspect the walls and corners, while Shi Jiaheng was flipping through the ledgers. She saw a black cockroach, half of its body was pressed out of the wall, which happened to be at the junction of the wall and the ground, it was too coincidental, if it weren't for this coincidence, she might have really obeyed Shi Jiaheng's words and gave up.

There are two possibilities for cockroaches to be pressed there, one is that when the house was built, it was built in the wall, and this possibility is easy to rule out, because the Xiangfu was built five or six years ago, how can a cockroach be as fresh as ever after five or six years of death, not to mention, the study is so neat and tidy that someone must often come to clean it, so that a cockroach will be pressed under the wall will no one clean it?

Only the second possibility is that the right wall of the study can be opened, so when the cockroach climbed there when the wall was opened, it was pressed into the gap the moment the wall closed, leaving only half of its body outside.

It had only been four days since the prime minister left Chang'an, and the cockroach must have been crushed there shortly before he left, and the people who cleaned it did not see it or no one entered the study at all.

It must be so! Chu Yunxi stood up excitedly, so she was so flustered when she heard Shi Jiaheng's call, she subconsciously lied to cover up, first, she hadn't reacted at the time, second, there was not enough time, and the third reason was also the most important reason, and it was the purpose of her actions: she wanted to minimize the impact on others. Although Shi Jiaheng always showed no hesitation when she started to help her, she could not let him sink into the warmth of his care and ignore the threat of death anytime and anywhere.

She drew the house drawings of the Prime Minister's study in order to find the mechanism to open the walls. She thought about it for a while, since she wanted to find a mechanism, she couldn't just go past any of the items in the house, but fortunately, there were not many things in the study, and they were placed in an orderly manner. She took a closer look, looking at the jade carving painting briefly sketched on the right side of the soft couch, she was not very satisfied, took another piece of paper, and began to add the patterns on the jade carving.

After she finished drawing, she took the picture and sat under the lamp to reminisce little by little, recalling the scene that the two of them were looking for in the study, where there were loopholes, where there were suspicious, and where was the mystery of the wall opening hidden? She thought desperately, and finally collapsed to her desk tiredly.

She fell asleep on the table as the hour approached, but the next day it was her turn to rest.

In the morning, Lu Yan came to knock on the door, no one answered for a long time, she was so frightened that her face turned white, she called Qing Ying, and the two of them worked together to pry open the door and take a look at the door. The candles on the table had burned out, and wisps of green smoke were emitting, Chu Yunxi was lying on the table, her head and face were buried deep between her arms, Lu Yan called her name in her mouth, and gently pushed her elbow, she didn't react. Qing Chun hurriedly helped her up, bent her fingers slightly, and pinched her middle.

Chu Yunxi, who was unconscious, only felt a stinging pain in his body, and his eyelids seemed to be hung with a jack hammer, and it took a long time to open his eyes.

After waking up, I felt a splitting headache and held my forehead. Seeing that she was okay, Lu Yan cried with joy and prayed with her hands. Seeing that she looked dazed and her cheeks were red, Qing Chun pulled down her hand, reached out to probe her forehead, and then touched her forehead and said, "It turned out to be a fever, but fortunately it is not a serious illness." Although the weather is hot in July, but the master you are thinly dressed, sleepless all night, overworked, I want to attack the heart, I will go and grab you a few pieces of medicine to clear the heat and remove the fire. ”

She called Lu Yan to help the groggy Chu Yunxi to the bed, helped her remove her shoes and socks, and pulled a thin quilt to cover her. Turning his head, he instructed Lu Yan: "You go and boil some rice porridge for the master, and when the master wakes up, give her some to drink and fill her stomach." ”

Chu Yunxi was really tired, and just lay down on the bed and fell asleep again. But she rarely slept steadily, and even in her dreams, she was thinking about the camellia picture that she promised to give to Shangguan Xueyu, which could not be delayed any longer, and must be completed within a few days.

She slept until the end of the day, during which she only drank medicine at noon, ate a little porridge, and then fell asleep again.

At this time, I woke up just in time for dinner, and the high fever subsided, and people suddenly felt light and refreshed. She stretched in contentment, dressed and got out of bed. Lu Yan pushed the door in with a tray in her hand, and put a plate of steamed dumplings with tofu skin and bamboo shoots and a bowl of red bean and lotus seed porridge on the table with a smile, she accepted the plate, helped her sit over, and said with a smile: "The master is finally well." I will boil the medicine, drink another dose before going to bed, and after a sleep, I think it will be fine. ”

Chu Yunxi's stomach was already empty, and when he smelled the aroma of the food, he couldn't bear the roundworms in his stomach for a long time, and his index finger moved.

It's a rare good appetite today, and the best reward for those who cook is to watch the food they make be eaten. Look at the way she gulped. Lu Yan felt extremely relieved. Before she went out, she used her maternal instinct to nag again, and made an extremely full argument on the topic of staying up late and hurting her body, and Chu Yunxi, who only cared about eating and had no mouth to answer, nodded desperately.

Enough to eat, belly slightly supportive. She sat quietly for a while, still feeling unwell, so she packed up the dishes and chopsticks and took them to the kitchen to be washed. Lu Yan took the dishes and chopsticks and hurriedly asked her to go back to the house to rest. She passed by the main house, only to see Biyin sitting alone at the table eating pickled cucumbers and sucking up hot noodle soup, so she asked, "Why are you the only one, Ulva?" ”

Biyin sucked a noodle into her mouth and said as she chewed, "She seems to have gone out to buy something, right?" ”

Lu Yan came out of the kitchen, lifted the apron on her waist and wiped the water on her hands: "She went to buy mung beans and cassia seeds, saying that she was making porridge for you to drink." ”

She walked to the door and looked at the sky, and said suspiciously: "I've been walking for a while, and I guess it's time to come back now." ”

Biyin bit the cucumber crunchy, and said casually: "What is there to worry about, I see, she may not be able to go to anyone." ”

Lu Yan knew that she was going to talk nonsense again, so she made a look of eyes and told her to shut up. She opened her mouth slightly unconvinced, squeezed her nose at her, and rolled her eyes halfway.

At this moment, it is more than half of the unitary, and the sky is gradually turning from blue to blue. The evening breeze in the courtyard blew the leaves of the acacia trees like applause.

Chu Yunxi entered the house and changed into a black men's robe, tied his belt, took off the gauze hat from the wall, and put it on as he walked. She passed by Lu Yan and said, "In this case, I will go to look for her, and take a walk to eat." ”

Lu Yan disagreed: "Master, you just happened to be not resting at home, and you went out to do something." Look for Ulva ”

She pointed forward and said, "Biyin can go for you." ”

Biyin pushed the noodle bowl in front of her, glared and said vaguely, "I haven't finished eating yet." ”

Lu Yan's sentence: "Eat, eat, eat, you know how to eat." It became the fuse for a new round of quarrels between the two.

Chu Yunxi covered one ear and fled out, shouting: "I'm leaving, you guys are arguing slowly." ”

Only the unreasonable quarrels that the two of them would stage almost every day could make her smile. In her opinion, the quarrels between relatives are not a trace of resentment and hatred, but full of warmth and love, after all, noisy and noisy have the appearance of home, and she actually enjoys it very much.

She chuckled softly as she greeted the moon that had been left in mid-air as she prepared to set sail for the moon high in the sky. Most of the neighbors on both sides of the alley have been emptied, and the streets and alleys here in Chang'an City belong to the middle and lower classes, and some residents with slightly stronger backgrounds have moved to more favorable places in the city, and there are fewer and fewer people living here, which is a good thing for her, she can come and go more freely day and night, without fear of being bumped into.

She strolled leisurely through the alleys, admiring the coolness and comfort of the summer evenings. The alley was dark and quiet, but with a faint moonlight leading the way, she was quite at ease.

Because of the silence here, she had not yet stepped out of the alley when she heard the faint footsteps of two people at the entrance of the alley, one with a slightly heavier footstep and the other with a slight footstep, obviously a man and a woman. Then the sound of speech replaced the sound of footsteps. She slowed down, leaning against the wall, slowly moving toward the sound until she could hear what was being said.

"You're really here, so I'll find it." The man followed two steps, and his stiff voice was filled with a hint of joy, perhaps not good at expressing his mood, and he looked a little embarrassed.

The woman stepped back in a bit of a panic, and said in a hurried voice: "You, you, why are you here?" Hearing this, Chu Yunxi's eyes suddenly widened, it was Qing Chun!