Before dawn, I sat down at the table with a sad face, my elbow propped my head, and I looked at the pile of things on the table without speaking.

There was a knock on the door, and Yun Chu walked in.

To my surprise, he easily carried a package in his hand, which didn't seem to contain much.

I was having a headache for storage, and I saw him walk in, and my eyes lit up and said, "Come on, staff officer." ”

I walked over to the door, grabbed him by the arm, and began to count the large pile of items on the table.

It included: a set of night clothes, two sets of change of clothes, a pile of dry food, three medicine bottles, a dagger, a bottle of dye, a rope and a bunch of other miscellaneous things.

The originally small table was piled up with these objects, and there was no spare space.

Yun Chu smiled and said, "This is the rhythm of putting the whole belongings on your back." ”

Because I love to talk about rhythm, Yun Chu actually heard this sentence, and blurted it out at this moment.

I stayed for a few seconds, swept away my previous depression, and couldn't help but laugh.

I stood up, looked at him proudly, and secretly said in my heart: "Little one, you have also been assimilated by me." ”

Yun Chu glanced at me inexplicably, stood on the edge of the table with his hands in his hands, and removed most of the items in it.

"That's enough?"

I ordered the rest and looked at him suspiciously.

The expression on his face was dark.

"You mean travel light, easier? Sometimes you don't have to carry so many things in life? I made a very meaningful concluding argument.

Yun Chu shook his head: "I mean you can't carry it so much, and I'm too lazy to carry it for you." “

One sentence choked me again! "Besides," Yun Chu grouped the bunch of things together, "You're not a hamster, you can't take all the things in the room." “

I thought about it, what he said was very reasonable, one is not clear whether this trip is successful or not, and the other is that it is indeed cumbersome to bring too much.

All right. I rearranged it, and I wasn't particularly worried about anything else, except that the pills must be kept away from water, otherwise they would be in the soup.

The combination of the jade bottle and the cork stopper is a little unreliable.

I poured out all the pills in the bottle, then filled most of the usual powder in a random bottle, closed the stopper, and dipped the whole bottle into a copper basin filled with clean water.

After a long while, I took it out and wiped the water off the jade bottle.

Unplug it. Pour the powder onto the paper. I twisted the small pile of powder with my hands. Finding that the drying process was no different from before, I nodded with satisfaction.

Yun Chu watched me from the sidelines, and he should have known the purpose of the pill I cared about the most, so he didn't say a word. He just smiled and watched me move.

Even though I've done a successful water avoidance test, I'm still not at ease.

From the pile of things that were placed next to Yun Chu, he picked out a box again, this box was made of yellow rosewood, although the wall of the box was very thin, but it was a good material for storing these medicine bottles.

I put the jade bottles in one after the other and lined them up, closed the lids, and lit candles in the gaps and sealed them with wax and oil.

With such a two-way process, I can be regarded as completely relieved.

The process is tedious to describe, but in fact, the preparation stage is only a short period of time.

Do what needs to be done. Confirming that the good letter had been sent yesterday, I glanced at Yun Chu.

With my baggage on my back, I went out on the road for the first time in a very light and simple suit.

At this hour, the movement in the courtyards of the Shao family has not yet begun.

The most important thing is that the courtyard where Yun Chu and I live is actually not far from our destination. In addition, we have already figured out the way to the inner courtyard of the Shao family in these days, so we picked a shortcut that can reach the lake as quickly as possible, and hurriedly flashed by.

Out of an abundance of caution, the two of us ambushed the courtyard near the lake and checked it for a while in the grove not far away.

Make sure there is no one, and then come out

I tightened the burden on my body, and smiled at Yun Chu: "Follow you up the mountain and cross the river, and you will have to dive into the cave this time, in case I hang, you must also remember me." ”

Yun Chu frowned and said, "This waterway is not long, for the sake of safety, I'll go down and explore first, and you just keep watch by the side." ”

I wanted to fight him for this opportunity, but then I thought about the map he said that I had never seen before, and I still listened to him.

Yun Chu turned around the lake slightly, judged the position according to the direction of the sunrise, and after making a decision, he untied the burden he was carrying and handed it to me

I waited anxiously by the lake, but it was only a short moment, and it felt like a century had passed, until the sound of water sounded, and Yun Chu poked his head out of the lake, and reached out to touch the water droplets on his face.

In the morning light, he smiled and said, "There is no hindrance, you can come along." ”

I tightened my burden and took a deep breath, the lake was a little cold, and in an instant it overflowed my whole body.

The moment the whole person entered the water, the world suddenly fell silent, and no sound could be heard around him.

Yun Chu held me with one hand, and slowly swam down the rocks near the water's edge with the other.

This is the world below the water's surface, and since the final decision is made during the day, you can still see the light above your head even if you are in the water.

Yun Chu led me to the mouth of a cave.

This hole is about more than one meter high, and it is covered with heavy aquatic weeds in a place three or four zhang deep underwater, and it is indeed not easy for Yun Chu to find!

A thought crossed my mind, I had to find a chance to show me the map he had told me.

As soon as you enter the hole, the light suddenly turns black!

I panicked in my heart, and with the little light at the entrance of the cave, Yun Chu still held me in the water with one hand, and with the other hand, he re-touched the aquatic plants in the place where he came in to the gap at the entrance of the cave.

He was covering up, and I realized right away!

After Yun Chu finished this action, he easily turned around in the water and continued to swim forward with me.

Although this passage is not small, it is pitch black, especially after the light of the cave entrance is covered by aquatic plants, it is even more difficult to distinguish the way forward.

Fortunately, the distance of swimming is not long, and I am almost unable to hold my breath, and there is a bright light above my head, and I can see the hole on that side!

Oddly enough. At the junction between the underwater passage and the entrance to the cave, there is a row of stone steps from the bottom up.

Yun Chu floated me out of the water, and I clung to the stone steps at the entrance of the cave, gulping in on the air, coughing incessantly.

He patted me on the back, and the two of them looked at each other, and the ones who had just come up from the water were all **.

My breathing calmed down before I had time to look at where we were.

The place connected by the underwater passage turned out to be a stone chamber.

Traces of excavation are evident from the stone walls, and there is an entrance to a passage on one side of the stone chamber.

Look around. On the other side of the stone chamber. A place away from underwater passages. Stacked with some clutter.

When I came up now, I realized that the light I noticed earlier was not because there were torches or lanterns shining in the stone chamber here, but because there was a night pearl inlay on the top of the inside of the stone chamber.

How is this scene so familiar?

I looked around suspiciously, and Yun Chu opened the ** package. Use a dagger to pry open the wax I sealed.

He walked over and picked up the dusty pile

Sitting by the fire, and looking at the passage that swam past, it seemed to be a waterhole in this stone room.

I started to dry my clothes on the fire, and I looked at Yun Chu with an inquiring gaze waiting for him to speak.

"On the stone wall under Qingcang Rock, do you remember Xiao Ling'er?" Yun Chu's deep eyes glanced at me and said calmly.

"Well," I said, looking at the firelight, "I remember." ”

The southwest is close to southern Xinjiang. From the time when Yun Chu first confessed to me that he was looking for something, I clearly realized that this trip to the Shao family was very likely to be related to our underground trip.

This feeling was especially strong when I realized that I had nothing to do with this strange lake.

At this moment, he told me, and it only confirmed my previous speculation.

"Yun Chu. Is the ancestor of the Shao family related to Nanling Miaojiang? ”

He smiled: "It is impossible to build a house on this lake, and I want to say that it has nothing to do with it." ”

When I thought of those scenes in the underground of Qingcang Rock, corpses, magma, and poisonous insects, I began to feel cold in my back when I thought about it at this moment!

It's one thing for people to experience it at the time, but it's another thing to think about it now!

"Yun Chu," my voice trembled a little, "I won't do it again." "The ones that happened before, but"

My voice suddenly choked up, and I didn't have the confidence to say, "This time there are only two of us." "Theoretically, it's possible, but my estimate should be better than that time, otherwise I wouldn't have brought you alone." Yun Chu said with a smile. "Theoretically," I glared at him, "actually, I regret it now, I jumped into the lake with you on the spur of the moment, which is terrible to think about." “

I hung my head and said, "Sure enough, people in love are blind." ”

At dawn, in Yizhou City, the temporary residence of the city lord in the southwest.

Snow Eagle was always the first to get up, but this day was a little late, because of the successive days of attack, so that the southwest of the big people finally relented and began to support his plan.

However, his mood was not relaxed, one goal was far lower than his estimate, and the other was more difficult than he imagined.

There is worse news.

Tracked in, separated by a distance, inserted into the Shao family, and the guards of the City Lord's Mansion pretending to be a small servant would pass on the movements inside from time to time.

Ever since the princess and that person left the City Lord's Mansion one after another to go to the camp of the Difficult Homestay, things have become unimaginable!

The news he received this morning was even more shocking.

That person, who actually took the princess without saying goodbye, where did he go?!