Chapter 80: Secrets of the Underground
Under Leng Manyan's expectation, the people of the Shenduan Mansion dug from morning to noon, digging down to a depth of four or five meters, and still found nothing.
Just when Leng Manyan was about to be disappointed, Qian Lao's hoe instantly lifted everyone's spirits.
"Dig ...... Looks like you've dug up something? Qian Lao went down with this hoe, only to hear a dang sound, and then, the tip of the whole hoe seemed to be stuck on something, and he couldn't pull it out if he wanted to.
Leng Manyan and the others hurriedly jumped down the pit to investigate.
After all the soil covered on it was cut open, an amazing scene appeared in the eyes of everyone.
I saw that there were layers of planks underneath the ground, and Qian Lao's hoe was stuck in the gaps of these planks, so he couldn't pull it out.
Leng Manyan called everyone up to rest, and called down Yidao and Long Xiaofeng, after the four of them came down, Leng Manyan and Song Shiyu together, and the four of them worked together to warp a heavy wooden board under their feet, and as soon as the wooden board was warped, a pitch-black hole actually appeared underneath.
Leng Manyan looked down, and she realized that the sky! Under this wooden plank, there is actually a secret passage hidden, "Unbelievable, in such a deep underground, there is such a secret passage, no wonder millions of taels of silver will appear in the underground of the Ji family for no reason, so it is." ”
"My lord, do you want to go down and have a look?" Song Shiyu asked cautiously.
Leng Manyan nodded, and immediately asked his subordinates to light six torches, each of the six people held a torch and jumped down from the upturned hole, Wang Xie stood on it to hold the wind for them, and absolutely did not allow anyone to approach here.
After Leng Manyan descended to the secret passage, she was surprised.
This secret passage is actually more than two meters high, more than three meters wide, people walk in it, as if walking in a small tunnel, not to mention how wide, and on the walls of the cave around the tunnel, there are also small lampstands, and there is lamp oil in the lampstand, as if it was added recently.
The six of them picked up the torches and lit the lampstand beside them, and in an instant, the wide tunnel was illuminated.
Leng Manyan turned her head to look around, and she exclaimed in surprise, "Mom! It's not easy! This tunnel is so good, who can build such a tunnel under here? ”
"My lord, this tunnel seems to be very long, and it is open at both ends, should we go to both ends separately and see where the tunnel exit is?" Song Shiyu took the torch and shone at both ends of the tunnel, mentioned it to Leng Manyan and the others, and went to check it separately.
Leng Manyan nodded, "Okay! Hongyi, Jin Ke, the two of you accompany Song Shiyu to go forward, and I and Yidao accompany the prince to go back, and when we get to the end, we will turn back and meet here. ”
"Okay, then be careful." Hongyi looked at Leng Manyan and reminded him with concern.
Leng Manyan didn't say much, just pulled Long Xiaofeng and a knife, separated from the three of them, and turned around and walked towards the tunnel behind him.
The three of them walked side by side for a long time, and I don't know how long it took, anyway, the torches in the hands of the three of them were about to be extinguished, and the tunnel still couldn't see the end, but fortunately, when the three of them came all the way, they lit up the oil lamps on the cave wall, otherwise when they went back, the whole tunnel was pitch black, wouldn't it scare people to death?
After the torch in Leng Manyan's hand was extinguished, Long Xiaofeng stopped, "Do you still want to go forward?" The torches are all extinguished, and if you go again, I'm afraid it will be dangerous. ”
"Go a little further! I still don't believe it, and I can't get to the end. Leng Manyan's stubbornness came up again.
"I can't help you, a knife, be careful to protect her." Long Xiaofeng shook his head with a wry smile and shouted at Yidao.
A knife walked in front of Leng Manyan and opened the way for the two of them.
Touching the darkness and walking forward for about a pillar of incense, the three of them stopped, at this time, above the heads of the three people, there happened to be a mouth, and from the mouth, there was still a faint trace of light.
Leng Manyan stood below, looked up and looked up for a long time, she smiled, "It seems that there is a small exit here, why don't we go up and have a look!" See where this little hole leads? ”
"One knife goes up first." Long Xiaofeng ordered a knife.
Without saying a word, one jumped up, jumped into the small opening, and shouted down with a knife, "Master, my lord, there is an escalator in this small hole, and it seems that it is artificially out of the hole." ”
"Okay, you climb up first, this hole is too narrow, only one person can pass at a time, we follow you, you have to be careful." When Leng Manyan heard the words, she couldn't wait to climb up to see what was going on.
After the knife went up, Leng Manyan and Long Xiaofeng jumped up one after the other.
The three of them slowly climbed up, carefully climbed up, and after climbing a distance of four or five meters, the three of them came up to the ground from a rockery.
After the three of them came up, they looked at this rockery, and Leng Manyan found that the design of this cave entrance was extremely secret, almost imperceptible, and this rockery also happened to play a role in hiding people's ears and eyes, it is hard to imagine that in this rockery that looks solid on the outside, there is such a secret.
After looking in the rockery for a while, Leng Manyan looked out of the rockery along the gap of the rockery, "Where is this?" ”
"Strange, master, why does this place look so familiar?" As soon as Leng Manyan finished speaking, he screamed out in confusion.
Long Xiaofeng took a closer look, and he was also dumbfounded.
Isn't this the back garden of his prince's mansion? When I have leisure on weekdays, I will come here for a walk, and the flowers and plants here are still planted slowly by myself, so it is strange that I am not familiar with them.
Swaggering out of the rockery, Long Xiaofeng looked at the grass and trees he was familiar with, and he scolded, "Damn, I have cultivated the tunnel to my Long Xiaofeng's house, this person is really fat!" ”
"Huh? This is the Prince's Mansion? Leng Manyan exclaimed.
followed out of the rockery, the three of you, you look at me, I look at you, all look at each other.
After being silent for a long time, Leng Manyan lowered his head, "It's not easy!" The tunnel is still so long and unfinished, it seems that this exit will not only be one in the back garden of the prince's mansion, but also in the palaces of some other important ministers or princes. ”
"Do you mean that this tunnel simply runs through the entire Qidu underground and connects the major mansions?" Long Xiaofeng's incredulous guess.
"It's not impossible, and now I can basically figure out why Zhao Tingde's family can come back from the dead, it has something to do with this tunnel." Leng Manyan suddenly brightened up, and his mood was happy.
What she had been unable to figure out before, now that she could finally figure it out, the problem that had been bothering Leng Manyan had finally been solved, which made Leng Manyan's mood lighter.
After standing in the back garden of the Prince's Mansion for a while, the three of them left and went back to the Shenduan Mansion.
When the three of them returned to the Divine Broken Mansion, they found that Song Shiyu and the three of them, who were against them, had not come back yet, which made Leng Manyan and the three of them very anxious.
After instructing Wang Xie to properly handle the entrance of this tunnel, and after covering it up, Leng Manyan and the three of them went down to the tunnel again, and followed the direction of the room where Song Shiyu and the three of them went, looking for the three of them.
After walking in the tunnel for about three or four hours, the three of them finally saw a small hole above their heads, and under this hole, there happened to be a burned torch falling there, and the three of them were sure that Song Shiyu and they climbed up from here.
Immediately, the three of them didn't think much about it, and jumped up one after another.
After the three of them went out, they found that they were actually in a dense bamboo forest, and the exit of this tunnel was located under a rock in this bamboo forest, and the location was extremely hidden.
When the three of them came out, it was already dark.
Leng Manyan squatted behind Long Xiaofeng and whispered in his ear, "You go to more mansions, do you know which palace or minister's mansion has a dense bamboo forest?" ”
"Only in the palace of the protector of the country there is a bamboo forest, he loves bamboo, so he planted a large piece of bamboo in the back garden, covering an area of dozens of zhang, is a large bamboo forest." Long Xiaofeng replied in a low voice.
"Protector?" Leng Manyan asked questions.
For this protector, Leng Manyan is unfamiliar and tight.
Long Xiao explained to her without looking back, "The full name of the Protector is Xiao Zhan, he is a famous general of Qi Tianguo, he killed countless enemies on the battlefield when he was young, and after he was old, because of his great military exploits, his father named him a Protector of the Kingdom, and gave him the Mansion of the Protector of the Kingdom, so that he could raise his days in the Qi Capital. ”
"It turns out that there is an entrance to this tunnel leading to the Guogong Mansion, so our guess is correct, there must be other exits in this tunnel, leading to the mansions of other ministers or princes......"
"Don't say it, someone is coming, quiet." Before Leng Man's words were finished, Long Xiaofeng hurriedly reached out and blocked her mouth.
The three of them hid in the dark of the bamboo forest and took a look, and sure enough, they saw Song Shiyu and the three of them walking outside the bamboo forest, but what made the three of them dumbfounded was that at this moment, the three of them were being escorted by a team of officers and soldiers, and their expressions were very impatient to move forward.
Leng Manyan scolded secretly in his heart, these three people are too careless, right?
But at this moment, the barking of dogs suddenly exploded in their ears, and Leng Manyan and the three of them were startled, and now they know that Song Shiyu and the three of them were arrested, not that they were careless, but that it was really this dog raised by the protector of the country, the nose was too bad, and it was a strange thing not to be caught!