Zou Youheng knocked on his head hard.

He was really scared stupid, he hadn't experienced this situation once, as long as he found the stone slab with strange patterns carved on the ground, and then dripped blood on it, the stone door hidden in the dark would open, then he might be able to get out......

But now for him, it is extremely difficult to find such a carved stone slab in the stone room.

But life-threatening things, no matter how painful they are, have to hold on.

So he propped himself up and moved slowly in the stone chamber. Because of the force, the wound on the thigh that had stopped bleeding opened again and began to bleed outward.

Drowsy, and I don't know how long it took, his hand finally touched a stone slab carved with strange patterns, and he didn't have the strength to rejoice, so he quickly took away the cotton wool wrapped around the wound, gritted his teeth and squeezed the wound hard, so that the blood dripped on the stone slab.

One drop, two drops, three drops......

Blood gathered on the stone slab in front of him, and along the carved patterns on it, it was bright and dripping, like a blooming red peony.

But there was still no movement in the stone chamber.

The blood on the wound was still dripping, and by the faint light, Zou Youheng suddenly saw that there was much more to this corner than this carved stone slab, and reached out to sweep the dust off it, he was surprised to find that there were five of them, and the patterns on each one were different, and the blood had flowed down one stone slab to another stone slab at this time.

There was no movement around, thinking that he had guessed wrong, Zou Youheng planned to stop the bleeding on the wound, and the moment he lowered his head to stop the bleeding, he found that those stone slabs seemed to be alive. Desperately sucking blood, the wound opened bigger and bigger, and the blood kept flowing out, and it couldn't be stopped at all.

The unexpected discovery made him full of horror, and he hurriedly tore off a large ball of cotton wool from his body and blocked it on the wound, except for the snow-white cotton wool dyed red instantly, it was useless, and the blood on his arm was still desperately flowing out.

And so it goes. You don't need black bugs to attack. He would have died of excessive blood loss.

His eyelids began to droop, and Zou Youheng suddenly felt a little sleepy, too, from the moment he entered the cave. He didn't get a good night's sleep. The blood from the wound was still dripping on the stone slab. Around him have already "bloomed" four red peonies. Bright, more lovely than his father's favorite cluster in the garden of Zou Mansion.

The chill began to spread to the whole body from the inside out, and Zou Youheng leaned his body against the stone wall. In the moment of dying, he couldn't think of a person who could make him miss, and he couldn't think of a thing that could make him nostalgic......

Blood finally filled the surrounding stone slabs, and at the moment when the middle stone slab was filled, the original four red peonies were instantly connected into a strange pattern, like a monster with a human head and eight legs.

The surrounding sky was spinning, and the stone wall that Zou Youheng was leaning on seemed to be split in an instant, and a stone gate appeared out of thin air, slowly moving to the side, losing its support, and Zou Youheng, who was already unconscious, fell in the middle of the stone gate.

*

"What's wrong?"

In the pastry shop on West Street, Ye Xiaoyu couldn't help but ask when she saw the guy with a sad face coming back from outside.

Tomorrow is the day she gets married, and it stands to reason that she shouldn't be in the shop today, but after staying upstairs all day, she is bored and almost wants to beat someone.

"Xiaoyu, I just went out to deliver the goods, Zou Fu ......"

The guy stopped talking.

Glancing at the several boxes of cakes that the guy put in the basket next to him, Ye Xiaoyu frowned, these customers who delivered to the door were all booked in advance, how could there be so many left?

"Is there someone who isn't home?"

Ye Xiaoyu asked.

In fact, this reason, there is no zài in the big family, the owner is not there, and the next person always has it, but why is there so much cake left that has not been given away?

"Xiaoyu, here's the situation—"

The guy shook his head, a look of grievance.

Ye Xiaoyu's cake shop has to go out to deliver twice a day, once in the morning and once in the evening. The reason for this time is that some of these large families who are scheduled to have it delivered to their homes want to eat cake during the day, but some people like to eat cake as a dessert after supper or dinner. According to Tian Yuping's request, the cakes in Zou Mansion were delivered in the early morning at the beginning, and then they were delivered at dusk in the evening.

The guy just came back from delivering the cake outside.

"It was all fine before, but when I went to Zou Mansion just now, there was a little girl who drove me out as soon as she saw me. I said it was Ye Kee Pastry Shop who came to deliver the cake......"

As soon as he thought of the fierce maid, the man was terrified.

"Girl, that girl? Did you say that you gave a cake to the second lady? ”

was said like this, Ye Xiaoyu also began to feel strange.

"Yes, and it's not the first time I've delivered it, they all know it. But when I said it this time, the little girl said that the second lady didn't eat the cake of our shop, and she shouldn't give it away in the future, and she was upset......"

Looking upset?

Ye Xiaoyu was stunned for a moment.

Since moving the center of her business to Huzhou, she hasn't had contact with the Zou family for a long time, and even Zou Youheng, the last time the two of them met was at the Smoky Mountain Academy last year. There are two people who have nothing to do with each other, and Ye Xiaoyu has nothing to hinder her, why does Tian Yuping think like this?

I chuckled in my heart.

Ye Xiaoyu seemed to have thought of something.

This is the last thing she wants to think about, and although she has always saved zài, she sometimes just wants to make a fool of herself.

She is going to marry Wang Huaiqing tomorrow, the person she met for the first time when she came to this time and space, the young man in white who had been thinking about him countless times in her dreams, no matter what happened to Tian Yuping with him before, but those are already in the past, Wang Huaiqing is going to marry her now. Subconsciously reached out and touched the jade pendant hanging on his chest, Ye Xiaoyu felt that he should be happy, after all, in life, it is difficult to be able to "dream into reality" like this a few times.

*

"The stone door is open......"

"Sure enough, it's the way here."

"Let's take a look, which state capital student can have such extraordinary ability......"

In the splendid side hall, in the middle of the head sits the Empress Tao Wan of the Great Cause Kingdom, because the current saint has been killed, and the prince has not been elected, the government is temporarily managed by her and several regents. To her left and to her right, sat a young prince, and the one on the right, who looked slightly older. On the main hall, they are ranked according to their ranks, and there are officials from all parts of the Great Cause Country standing neatly.

On the left side of the side hall, extending inward, there is a long and narrow stone path, and at the end of the stone path, there was originally a solid stone wall, but now there is a crack in it. At this time, hearing the roar of the stone gate moving, all the ministers standing in the main hall stretched their necks to look over there.

The roar gradually fell, and the stone door at the end of the stone road was wide open, and there was a black hole inside, connected to the brown stone wall, at first glance, it looked like a ghost with a bloody mouth open.

"Left Patrol, you lead a team of people to go in and have a look......"

Empress Tao Wan, who was sitting in the middle, spoke, not loudly, but it stopped the discussion in the hall.

But she didn't feel proud about this, those in the hall were all old foxes, and the reason why these people were able to be obedient now was entirely because of her son, Ling Xi.

Ling Xi, the eldest son of Ling Yan, the emperor of the Great Cause Kingdom, was born to Empress Tao Wan, and his identity can be described as above 10,000 people. But the only drawback is that such conditions are there, and Ling Yan still did not make him the crown prince.

The crux of all the problems is the one sitting on the other side. He is Ling Yan's concubine, compared to Ling Xi's orthodox and noble identity, this person is just born to a noble concubine in the palace, and even his identity as a prince was only known to everyone four years ago. Because before, Ling Yan didn't know what the purpose was, and he had been fostered in the home of Ling Dafu, the richest man in Yuejing.

Originally, with his birth status, it was a sure thing to be made the crown prince, but now such a wild child appeared halfway through, not only becoming the prince, but also competing with him for the crown prince, which made Ling Xi not angry. Or, this is no longer something that Wohuo can solve and describe.

The left patrol guard received the order and led a group of people into the stone gate.

Immediately, about half a pillar of incense passed, Zou Youheng was carried out by several guards.

Seeing someone being carried out, there was another commotion in the main hall.

"The Imperial Doctor—"

Empress Tao Wan ordered.

The face of the person who was lifted out was pale, his whole body was bright red, and the clothes on his body could no longer see their original faces, but only the cotton wool that was exposed made people realize that it was a cotton clothes.

"Left Patrolman, what did you find?"

After waiting for the imperial doctor to come up to treat Zou Youheng, Empress Tao Wan turned to the left patrol guard for questioning.

"Back to the queen, behind this stone door, it is still just an ordinary cave, there is nothing special, this person is lying in the open space between the cave and this stone door."

The Left Guard truthfully reported what he had seen behind the stone door.

"Just lying in a cave? Nothing else out of the ordinary? ”

Empress Tao Wan didn't believe it.

This cave was built by the emperor after his conquest with the Nanban to preserve a particularly important object. In order to build this place, many capable people and righteous people were invited, and a lot of financial and material resources were used, which almost plunged the treasury into a void. The cave was completed on time, but none of those who built it came out alive, no one knew what was going on inside, and no one knew what the emperor had hidden inside. Even he didn't take a step forward in the decades that followed. (To be continued......)