Chu Yunxi, who returned home, was very annoyed, although she admired Shangguan Xueyu's outstanding talent and admired her noble upbringing, but she should not easily lower her defensive heart because of this. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoWhether she is intentional or unintentional today, she has to be vigilant.

There is also that Shen Jun, she really can't figure out whether he is unruly or has other intentions, in short, she decided to stay away from Shen Jun and keep a distance from Shangguan Xueyu, fortunately, she has already drawn the orientation map of the Xiangfu and the sample map of the study in the early stage, and in the future, she will reduce the frequency of entering and leaving the Xiangfu Mu Yatang, so as not to arouse suspicion and show the horse's feet.

Thinking of this, she suddenly realized that since she was sick, she hadn't studied the mystery of the secret path of the Xiangfu for four or five days. She patted her head, almost delaying her own big business for these chores. She took out the picture of the prime minister's study she drew and compared it with one place after another, and she made a mark on each place, and the serious and focused energy was the same as when Shi Jiaheng studied the war maps of the past dynasties.

She looked all the way down the bookshelf on the picture, her arm moved with it, and she pulled out the picture with the jade carving and compared it, and with a slight movement, she bumped into a pile of books stacked on the corner of the table. She put down the painting in her hand, squatted on the ground to pick it up, the book fell on the ground and folded the pages, she folded the pages together, and stacked them on her knees. She always glances at the contents of the book while reading it, which is her unique habit, and sometimes she will stop and turn a few pages when she sees a book that she hasn't read for a long time.

The last one is the sixth volume of "Tao Yuanming's Collection" compiled by Xiao Tong of the Southern Dynasty that she only looked at a few days ago, and the page she opened was Tao Yuanming's most famous literary work "Peach Blossom Springs and Poems". Chu Yunxi flattened the corners of that page, and glanced at it as usual, and he had already memorized the famous chapter of the ages: "In the Jin Taiyuan, the people of Wuling fished for their business. Walk around the river, forget the distance of the road. Suddenly, the peach blossom forest, hundreds of steps between the shore, there are no miscellaneous trees in it, the fragrant grass is delicious, and the fallen flowers are colorful. The fisherman is very different. Moving forward again, I want to exhaust the forest.

When the forest runs out of water, there will be a mountain, and the mountain has a small mouth, as if there is light. Drop off the boat and enter from the mouth. At the beginning, it is extremely narrow, and only then can it be passed. After dozens of steps, it suddenly became clear. The land is flat, the houses are like that, and there are good fields and beautiful ponds and mulberry bamboos. Qianmo traffic, chickens and dogs smell each other. Among them, the men and women are dressed like outsiders. Yellow hair hangs down and is happy.

When he saw the fisherman, he was shocked, and asked where he had come from, and he answered. Then he had to return home, and set up wine to kill chickens for food. When the village heard about this person, Xian came to inquire. Since Yun Xianshi avoided the chaos of the Qin Dynasty, he led his wife and people to come to this desperate situation, and did not come back, so he separated himself from outsiders ......"

Before she could finish reading, she suddenly felt a thunderbolt in her heart. She clutched the book in both hands and got up suddenly, the book on her lap snapped to the ground again. She read it several times more quickly, staring at the hundreds of words with her eyes as excited as if she wanted to burn a hole in the thin page. The beautiful words swirled in her mind repeatedly, and gradually merged with the jade carvings on the wall of the Xiangfu study.

She threw away the book excitedly, picked up the copy of the Hetian jade carving painting from the table, and read it over and over again: there were streams, fishing boats, fishermen, and peach blossom forests that were burning red. Yes, if it weren't for the interference of the lotus flower and the fishing child, she would have recognized this as Tao Yuanming's "The Story of the Peach Blossom Spring". But the next problem made her difficult: even if she understood the contents of the painting, it still couldn't help her open the secret room of the Prime Minister's Mansion. Her enthusiasm cooled instantly, and the secret was still not revealed.

She continued to study with some discouragement, from the afternoon until the evening.

The candle flame in the room poured out of the window like water, Lu Yan brought out the boiled red date and peanut porridge from the kitchen, and the greedy Bi Yinxin stepped forward with her hands in a hurry, she instinctively ducked back and asked, "Where is the master?" ”

From the time Lu Yan informed that dinner was ready to now, Bi Yin had knocked on the door three times, and each time the master promised: "Okay, okay, I'll come right away." But the body just didn't move, she looked at Chu Yunxi's bedroom Nunu, Lu Yan understood, and put the porridge on the table.

Biyin smelled the strong fragrance of the porridge and rubbed her hands happily, she stirred it with a porridge spoon, and put a spoonful under her nose and sniffed it carefully, exclaiming with satisfaction. She happily picked up the bowl, but was opened by Lu Yan, she pushed the porridge away from Biyin, and shouted: "Qing Ulva is still in the kitchen, and the master has not come out yet." You just wait for it to be eaten, ask you to help cook, you push back and forth, this time it's time to eat, and you're upside down. Wait, when everyone arrives and when the meal will be opened, it will be difficult for you to marry into your mother-in-law's family in the future, and you will still be so greedy and lazy, see if your mother-in-law will not beat your mouth to pieces. ”

She said with a look in her eyes: "Why don't you go and help Qing Chun serve vegetables." ”

Biyin put the bowl down, squeezed a hideous grimace, pushed the chair away heavily, and made a screeching sound, she turned to the kitchen and deliberately stepped on it. Lu Yan ignored her and silently put the chair away. After a while, Qing Chun and Bi Yin put the meal together, and the three of them sat down and waited together.

It seemed that the sun and the moon had been reincarnated many times, and the sleepy Biyin suddenly heard Chu Yunxi shouting several times in a row: "I understand, I understand." ”

The corners of her mouth were dripping with saliva like cold water, and she woke up suddenly, shouting, "What's wrong, what's wrong?" She shook her head and looked left and right, but the other two were gone.

She rubbed her sleepy eyes and walked towards another brightly lit room. Seeing that the three of them were there: Lu Yan and Qing Chun stood side by side in a corner of the room, looking at Chu Yunxi worriedly. Chu Yunxi's face was red, his mouth was full of words, holding a painting in one hand and a book in the other, as if he had gone mad in practice.

Biyin quietly approached Lu Yan and asked in a low voice. The two of them also looked back at her with confused faces, they were only one step ahead of her, and the second monk was also confused.

Just as the three of them were discussing, Chu Yunxi, who was still crazy just now, suddenly regained her composure, she took a long breath, put away the books and drawing papers on the table that she had messed up with messy, and then smiled briskly at the three people in the corner as if something had happened: "Let's go, let's go eat." ”

The three of them watched Chu Yunxi walk out of the house indifferently, feeling as if they were dreaming just now.

Due to Chu Yunxi's delay, after dinner, it was already four o'clock. The four of them hurried to sleep without saying much.

Chu Yunxi was extremely emotional, so he couldn't sleep peacefully while lying on the bed. She savored the hard thoughts of the afternoon, checking her guesses over and over again in her mind, constantly reassuring and convincing herself that this was the answer. She couldn't help but grin her lips in the darkness, and after a long search, she finally approached the key that might unlock the Prime Minister's secret. Yes, if her idea is correct, the switch to turn on the secret room is hidden in the Hetian jade carving painting, and the mystery in the painting comes from Tao Yuanming's "The Story of the Peach Blossom Spring".

So she decided to break the agreement with Shi Jiaheng again, she must break into the Prime Minister's Mansion again, and go to the end with possible victories and defeats.

This decision was accompanied by another decision - to act alone. She still chose to hide it from Shi Jiaheng, not because she didn't trust him, but because she trusted him too much, once he knew her decision, she would accompany her to break through, or that sentence, she didn't want to implicate anyone, and this kind of dangerous thing had to be done by herself.

With the experience of the last time, she is already familiar with the preparation of this operation, which has reduced a lot of psychological pressure. In order not to attract Shi Jiaheng's attention, she still used the excuse that the saint's birthday was approaching and she was busy drawing in the academy and did not contact him for a long time.

The time was finalized on July 26, just over half a month after the last night visit to the Prime Minister's Mansion.

It was as if someone had buried a huge charcoal furnace in the depths of the earth, and the whole earth was roasted on it. The scorching sunlight of the night dissipated, and the surface of the ground that was about to be roasted continued to evaporate the heat of its body.

It was night, there was no wind or rain, it was hot and dry, and the heat was accumulating in the air and condensing, pressing on the ground like steam in a steamer.

It was really uncomfortable to put the sweaty clothes on his body and then wrap them in soft armor, and after putting them on, Chu Yunxi covered his mouth with the black cloth, took a deep breath, and felt that he was about to suffocate. She tugged at the collar of her fiefdom, and a stream of heat rose out, sweat pouring down her head. She wiped the beads of sweat from her head and face with the handkerchief in her arms, endured what was wrong on her body, and walked out of the courtyard gate.

Due to the unbearable hot weather, most of the soldiers patrolling the city made perfunctory inspections with the tacit approval of the commander and then hastily took care of the matter, some left the team early under the pretext of having something at home, and some hid in the wind or under the trees on the side of the road to chat and enjoy the coolness.

Chu Yunxi walked in a narrow and closed alley, and sure enough, he avoided all the people on the road. Smoothly came to the backyard of the Prime Minister's Mansion, she took off the flying claw pinned to her waist and threw it over the wall to tighten it, and flew over the wall with a rope in her hand. She hid behind an apricot tree in the courtyard while putting away the chains, while secretly observing the surrounding movements, several Chu Mansion guards guarding the courtyard gate closed the courtyard door, and were sitting around the door drinking and gambling money, making a lot of noise, attracting some slaves in the mansion to also watch and cheer. The guards at the gates had left for a change of guard, and she crept in without attracting anyone's attention. Satisfied, she moved on.

She skillfully entered the prime minister's study, blew up the fire, walked to the desk and picked up a wooden chair with one hand, and went straight to the bed in the inner room, and then found the ingenious Hetian jade carving, and gently put the wooden chair down. She slowly stepped on the wooden chair and stood up straight, holding the fire fold in one hand, and carefully touching the carvings on the jade with the other, her eyes followed her hand all the way up, and then she found the top of the jade painting, where was the source of the stream, a continuous stretch of mountains, she leaned over nervously, and in the middle of the third mountain, she saw the origin the size of a fingernail, and everything coincided with what she thought.

The small dot depicts a cave, because the jade painting is tall and the painting is so complex and exquisite, it is difficult for ordinary people to find such a small cave as small as a fingernail even if they have seen it several times. When Chu Yunxi restored this Taoyuan jade painting from memory, she really ignored this cave, and there was only a faint shadow in her mind, if she hadn't accidentally seen the "Peach Blossom Spring", she would have almost missed this clue.

She doesn't practice swords like ordinary girls in the boudoir Aimei with long nails, but she has to paint, and occasionally practice finger painting, so she only keeps her little finger on her nails. So she stuck her little fingernail into the groove of the carved cave and lifted it hard. With a few clicks, the mechanism activated, and the wall on the side of the desk outside the study slowly rose, revealing a pitch-black hole half the size of a door. This mechanism is extremely delicate and elegant, which just echoes the sentence in the text: "When the forest runs out of water, there will be a mountain, and the mountain has a small mouth, as if there is light." Drop off the boat and enter from the mouth. ”

Seeing that it was good, Chu Yunxi couldn't help jumping down from the chair and carrying the chair back to the same place. She forced her slightly agitated mood, with some apprehension, and cautiously stepped through the door.

After entering the door, she took three steps forward, and there was a staircase leading to the ground, and when she went down the stairs, she reached out and helped the stone wall on the right, and felt a round dark flower bulge, which should have been used to close the door.

She didn't take a step before she stopped to listen and observe, for fear of shooting a hidden weapon from below or between the walls. At the end of the day, nothing happened.

She relaxed slightly, then tensed again, and was greeted by a long, dark corridor with candlesticks at intervals on either side of the corridor, each separated by a thin candle, and a small incense burner underneath the candlestick. The tunnel is located underground, which is even more sultry, and there is a large amount of smoked fragrance that has not dissipated, and it is disgusting after steaming.

Chu Yunxi felt chest tightness and dizziness after walking a few steps, I don't know if the incense is poisonous, she held her breath slightly, and felt even more depressed, so she had to slow down and go straight inside.

The air in the corridor was thin, and the light of the fire fold was getting weaker and weaker, so she wanted to take off the candle along the way and use it, blow it out after walking for a while, put it on the side of the road, light another one, and put it back when she came back.

She went to a candlestick and tried to pull it up, but found that it was not in the candlestick, but resting in it, and that it was new and had never been lit. Upon closer inspection, she realized that there was an even bigger problem, the center of the candle was not a cotton thread, but a lead, and the lead came out from the bottom of the candle, and she looked along the lead, which was connected to the wall behind it.

The sweat on her head fell, and she quickly put the candle back in its place, not daring to move it again. The candles on both sides of the tunnel were so small that they were easy to burn out and ignite the gunpowder buried in the wall, and the heavy smell of smoke must have been used to cover up the smell of gunpowder. It seems that the prime minister should enter the corridor with a lantern on weekdays, once an outsider enters, before the light in his hand burns out, he lights the candle a little carelessly, and the prime minister's study will be buried with the secret of the secret room. And in case of an incident, the prime minister can also activate the gunpowder and destroy all the evidence of evil. The strange prime minister's study is located in a corner, so remote, it turns out that one is to cover people's ears and eyes, and the other is to prevent everyone in the house from being injured when it is blown up. This also explains why the prime minister used the prime minister's study as a forbidden place, and no one was allowed to approach it, nor did he send anyone to guard it, but only placed the guard at the iron gate between the front yard and the back yard.