Not long after Xie Lingzhen left, Yan Xining went out of the door, Ah Qiu was cleaning in the yard, seeing that she was going out, she stopped her movements and wondered: "The girl still wants to go out at this time?" ”

Yan Xining nodded and said, "I've eaten too much for dinner, I'll go to the garden for a walk and eliminate my food." Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"Then I'll go with the girl." Ah Qiu was about to put down the broom in her hand, but Yan Xining stopped her and said: "You are busy with you, I will walk around the garden of this palace, and I will come back in a while, you don't have to follow me, there are guards everywhere in this palace, and it will be fine." ”

Ah Qiu thought that she had a point, so she didn't insist on following her.

Yan Xining walked into the garden casually, slowly approached the side of the rockery, and looked around, but did not see Dan Li's figure.

"Miss Xue." Yan Xining was still looking for Dan Li, and heard a low call from the rockery, it was Dan Li who was hiding in the rockery and beckoning to her, she carefully drilled into the rockery, Dan Li breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I thought the girl wouldn't come." ”

"If I promised you, why didn't I come?" Yan Xining said in a low voice, looking around at the environment here, there were rockery stones as far as her eyes could see, and she couldn't help but wonder: "Is the secret passage here?" ”

Danli nodded and said in a low voice, "The girl comes with me." ”

After speaking, she walked a few steps into the rockery, and in a crack in the overgrown mountain, she reached in and pulled gently, and with a bang, a rockery stone in front of them moved away, revealing a hole in the ground.

"Miss Xue, let's go." Dan Li smiled at her, and Yan Xi Ning looked at the black and steep cave entrance, a little hesitant.

Dan Li looked at her hesitant appearance, and said a little anxiously: "Girl, it's too late if you don't leave." ”

Yan Xi came back to her senses, took a breath, and walked towards the secret passage, Dan Li followed her and hurriedly entered the secret passage, and she didn't know where she pressed, the rockery stone sealed the entrance again, Dan Li blew off the fire fold, lit the wall lamp on the cave wall, and the narrow tunnel lit up, extending into the distance.

"Miss Xue, let's go quickly, so as not to be discovered." Danli urged her.

"Okay." Yan Xining nodded, and followed her towards the depths of the tunnel.

The two walked in the dimly lit tunnel for almost half an hour, but still did not reach the exit, Yan Xining looked at the tunnel in the distance that did not know where the end was, and slowly stopped.

Dan Li walked in front of her, didn't hear the footsteps of her followers, looked back at her and said, "Why did Miss Xue stop?" ”

Yan Xi Ning looked at the road ahead, with some doubts in his expression: "Miss Danli, are you sure that the exit of this tunnel is in Qin City?" "She has been out of the palace today, the palace in Qincheng is not big, this tunnel is compared to the road on the ground, and now it should have been out of the palace, but I don't know where the exit of this tunnel is.

Dan Li's expression changed, and she said with a smile: "I also found this secret passage in Zhang Shanren's study, and the exit marked on it is in a private house in the southwest of Qincheng, I think there should be no mistake." ”

Yan Xi thought for a while, shook his head and said, "No, let's go back first, since you haven't walked through, then you should find a safe person to find out this secret passage first, and then think about it in the long run." After Yan Xining finished speaking, he turned around and wanted to go back.

Dan Li caught up and said anxiously: "Miss Xue, we have been gone for so long, how can we give up halfway." ”

Yan Xining had already made up her mind, she said in a low voice: "Don't worry, I will help you find a way to drag Liang Xu, you and I have not walked through this secret passage, no one is sure what the end is, it is too dangerous for us to go out like this." ”

"But ......" Dan Li still wanted to say something, Yan Xining had already said in a deep voice: "If you want me to help you, then listen to me." ”

Dan Li couldn't persuade her, so she had to whisper: "Then listen to Miss Xue." ”

Yan Xining nodded, turned around and walked back, she walked in front of Dan Li, she didn't expect Dan Li to suddenly step forward, a hand knife slashed at the back of her neck, Yan Xining felt a pain in the back of her neck, and the person fell straight down, at the moment of falling, she heard Dan Li say faintly: "Since Miss Xue refuses to cooperate, I can only be polite." ”

At that moment, she was shocked, and only then did she realize that Dan Li wanted to escape was fake, and it was true that she was leading her out, and she had been tricked.

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"Your Highness, I want to see Your Highness."

Xie Ronghua was looking at the topographic map of the mountains and rivers of West Qin handed over by Zong Zhengming in the study, Zong Zhengming stood aside, occasionally mentioning him a few words, and suddenly heard someone making noise outside the house, Xie Ronghua frowned slightly, and shouted outside the door: "Who is yelling outside?" ”

The guard said respectfully outside the door: "Your Highness, it is a maidservant girl named Ah Qiu. ”

Chewie? Xie Ronghua put down the drawings in his hand, quickly opened the door, looked at Ah Qiu who was kneeling outside the door, and said, "You are not waiting next to Miss Xue, what are you doing here?" ”

Ah Qiu's expression was flustered, she kowtowed and said: "Your Highness, Miss Xue said that she was going to the garden for a walk and eat this evening, and then the person disappeared, I searched the whole garden, and I didn't see Miss Xue's figure." ”

Xie Ronghua's expression changed greatly, he stepped forward quickly, pulled her by the collar, grabbed her, and said sharply: "Haven't you been following her all the time?" How could people be gone? ”

"It's the girl who won't let me follow, she said that she will go back when she goes, and it's in the garden of the palace, I don't care too much, who ......knows" Before she finished speaking, she was thrown out by Xie Ronghua, his eyes were full of storm, and he shouted to the guards standing aside: "Send all the people in the palace out to search for me, and turn the palace over to find out for me." ”

"Wait." Zong Zhengming, who was following him, heard their conversation and called the guards, he glanced at Ah Qiu, who was struggling to get up from the ground, and asked, "Miss Xue disappeared in the garden?" ”

"I don't know, the girl said she was going to go for a walk in the garden, and then she was gone." Ah Qiu replied with a crying voice, shaking his body.

Zong Zhengming turned to Xie Ronghua and said, "Your Highness, there is a secret passage in the garden, Miss Xue may have discovered the secret passage, or someone brought it into the secret passage." ”

Xie Ronghua's expression froze when he heard his words, and he said in a deep voice: "Take me to the secret path you said." ”

Zong Zhengming led Xie Ronghua into the secret passage in the garden, the secret passage was burning with fire, and Zong Zhengming said: "It seems that someone really entered the secret passage not long ago." ”

Xie Ronghua didn't answer him, he walked forward quickly, the two walked for a while, Xie Ronghua suddenly stopped, picked up a hairpin on the ground, Zong Zhengming looked at him with a not very good look, and asked, "Your Highness has found something." ”

Xie Ronghua raised the hairpin and said in a deep voice: "This is the hairpin on the head of Xi Ning, she has indeed been here, and what else happened." His eyes sank and he said, "Let's hurry up and catch up." ”

When they came out of the secret passage, the sky was already dark, the snow outside was boundless, under the illumination of the moonlight, reflecting the white light, the heavy snow fell one after another, covering all the traces in the snow, Zong Zhengming looked around, and found that a letter was inserted by a feather arrow in the gap of the exit of the secret passage, he took down the letter, handed it to Xie Ronghua and said: "Your Highness, look, they left a letter." ”

(To be continued.) )