Subconsciously wanted to move his body, but found that his whole body was sore, except for his eyes, he couldn't move at all, it seemed that he was really not dead, but he was seriously injured and was rescued by the guards.

"Grass people, grass people, thank you for the life-saving grace of the queen and all the adults......"

Zou Youheng said, and he was about to get up from the wooden board where he was lying, although he still didn't know the specific situation, but if this was really a big hall, it was always not wrong to be humble with his attitude.

But the body was too weak, and with the strength of breastfeeding, it only supported it for a while and then lay on the board again.

"You're seriously injured, just lie down like this, don't move."

Empress Tao Wan said lightly.

"What state capital are you from?"

Ling Xi, who was sitting on the right, asked.

According to the rules they have set in advance, which state capital belongs to is a very crucial point.

“？”

Zou Youheng was stunned for a moment.

Although his body couldn't move because of serious injuries, his brain was still very clear, why is this person's problem so strange? Which state capital does it belong to? Where's the point?

"I'm from Rongzhou, and I'm from Smoky Mountain Academy."

Although full of doubts, he answered truthfully.

"Rongzhou?"

Not only Ling Xi, who was sitting on the top, but also everyone in the main hall, all of them were in a commotion because of this sentence.

Zou Youheng didn't understand what these people were stirring up at all.

"How did you get out?"

Ling Xi asked again.

He had to confirm it.

"I ...... I don't know. ”

Zou Youheng was even more confused, if he knew how he came out. It won't lie here like a dead fish.

"You're such a big person, don't you even know how you came out?!!

Seeing Zou Youheng's indifferent look, Ling Xi's tone suddenly became urgent.

"Hui, Hui, Chitose-sama, I really don't know."

Zou Youheng was confused, the person above was estimated to be the prince, but he couldn't find a suitable title in a hurry.

"You-!"

"What's your name?"

Empress Tao Wan stopped Ling Xi's gaffe in time.

She knew that her son was nervous now, but it was not a good idea to completely reveal his inner feelings in front of the minister. Although she hates to admit it, comparatively. The one sitting on the left is much more indifferent.

"Back to my mother. The grass people's surname is Zou, and his name is Youheng. Rongzhou people's clan. ”

Zou Youheng replied truthfully.

He suddenly noticed that there was no one else in this hall who had come to take the examination except him. None of those people have come out yet? Still is. Those people have already come out?

"Tell us about it. What happened to you in the cave. ”

Empress Tao Wan looked at Zou Youheng and said.

"Hui Niangniang, here's the thing. Because I was walking slowly, I didn't keep up with everyone after entering the cave, and I fell behind after a while......"

Zou Youheng said slowly, most of the time he would answer truthfully, but about the earliest part, when he wanted to retreat and wanted to give up trying to go home, he automatically chose to omit, anyway, it was not important information.

A dull pain began to feel in his chest, Zou Youheng didn't know what these people had taken to wake him up, maybe he just wanted to get the situation in the cave, but he was like this now, he didn't have the slightest ability to resist, and he could only be reduced to fish and meat slaughtered on the chopping board.

"Stone room? What do you see in there?! ”

As soon as Zou Youheng mentioned the stone room, he was interrupted impatiently by Ling Xi.

"Uh......"

Things seem to be getting more and more complicated, maybe this is not a simple meeting, the emperor has died, and the crown prince has not been established. There is definitely some hidden secret in the cave.

And the second stone chamber contained a lot of gold, silver and jewelry, and he was struggling whether to say it.

"The stone chamber was empty, there was nothing."

After thinking about it for a while, Zou Youheng decided to say something tentatively first.

"What? How can it be?! ”

Ling Xi was furious again.

"Deception is a capital offense!"

Hearing him say this, Zou Youheng finally put his mind at ease. It seems that none of these people have ever been in the cave, let alone know what is hidden inside. really regards human life as a mustard, knowing that it is full of dangers, but still in the name of the triennial examination of the Great Cause Country, let those innocent scholars who are full of hearts to serve the country complete this matter for them.

The scene of everyone fighting each other for their lives in the cave is still vivid, and for a reason that he still doesn't know, how many people died in that cave.

"Chitose-sama, I'm telling the truth. The stone chamber looks empty, but there are a lot of hidden mechanisms that can be killed by it if you are not careful. ”

After straightening out his thoughts, Zou Youheng became unusually calm.

"And how did you escape?"

Ling Xi asked again.

"I didn't escape, I remember I fell in the cave."

"I'm asking how you got out of the stone chamber?"

Ling Xi was impatient, but when he saw Empress Tao Wan, he suppressed his anger.

"With blood. The walls of the stone chamber are carved with strange patterns, and with the use of blood, you can activate the mechanism and get out. However, there are so many mechanisms that no one will know which one is activated. Death or life, every time it is activated, there will be both kinds of consequences. Moreover, it takes a lot of blood to do it. ”

Zou Youheng said.

He deliberately ignored the terrifying black worm, blood can turn on the switch, and it can also attract black worms, but when he thinks of what these high-ranking people have done before, he doesn't want to tell them everything. Moreover, he still has a doubt, such a royal secret, in front of so many ministers, is not afraid of being leaked by people with ulterior motives?

"How did you get into the stone chamber?"

Empress Tao Wan asked.

"I accidentally fell down."

Zou Youheng said.

Anyway, he was now mindful that he didn't plan to tell the actual situation inside.

"Youheng-!"

Suddenly, a cry of joy was heard. Break the silence in the main hall.

Everyone turned their heads in surprise and found that on the original stone path that extended inward on the left side of the main hall, there were several people wearing short clothes of different colors, and there was a tendency for the number of people to increase.

Dozens of people walked towards the side hall in a mighty manner.

The astonishment can no longer describe the mood of everyone in the hall. Even the three people sitting on it couldn't react for a while.

Empress Tao Wan was even more panicked, she had read the letter, and it was clearly recorded that only after the object was taken. In order to activate the mechanism that opens the stone door in the stone chamber. The situation now is. Zou Youheng didn't have that price on him, and so many people suddenly appeared, could it be that the object was in the hands of this group of people?

"Be bold and don't kneel when you see your mother! ――”

The group had come to the side hall. It is estimated that there is no reaction. They all stood stiffly. The left guard saw this. He quickly rebuked angrily.

"Meet the mother, the mother is a thousand years old and a thousand years old......"

When everyone heard this, they reacted instantly. They knelt down on the main hall.

Some of them thought that they could actually enter the palace to see the queen mother and the two princes, and their pride could not help but arise.

Zhou Ming also knelt on the ground, together with Luo Yushu, who was dirty all over his body and looked like he had been fished up from a stinky ditch. His attention shifted back and forth between Zou Youheng and the three above, his head full of absent-mindedness.

"Get up......

Tao Wan said lightly.

The development of things was too unexpected for her, so many people came out at once, for the sake of today's plan, she could only ask slowly.

"How did you get out?"

Ling Xi was even more breathless than his queen mother, and immediately asked.

"Back to Your Highness, we ...... We don't know how it came out. ”

One of them said in a Huzhou accent. When he was in the stone chamber, he thought he would die inside, but the stone slab suddenly rose into the cave for no apparent reason.

"Oh? Then tell us, how do you not know the Fa? ”

Ling Xi said, his gaze passed over to Empress Tao Wan, who was sitting in the middle, and looked at the second brother who was sitting on the left, who had been silent.

The man remained impatient, neither impatient nor curious, but just watched quietly.

"Back to Your Highness, we were originally in a cave, but suddenly there was a shaking, and then a huge stone pit appeared in front of us, and we couldn't find the exit at that time, and when we saw a turnaround, we thought it was an exit, and we all jumped in. Then each of us was thrown into a separate sealed stone chamber......"

The Huzhou scholar continued.

Hearing this, Zou Youheng pursed his lips and tried his best to adjust his head to a relatively comfortable position.

He didn't know what the origin of this Huzhou man was, but judging from his brutal behavior in the cave, he was definitely not a good person, and he didn't even look like a scholar at all. How many innocent scholars died under the big knife of him and his accomplices, and now the tone of the reply is very well-behaved, since he answered truthfully, why not say how many people he killed in the cave just now?

"Stone room?"

Ling Xi grasped the point from that lengthy statement.

"How did you get out of the stone chamber?"

The object may have been among the dozens of people.

"Back to Your Highness, we didn't come out on our own. Strange as it may seem, we were all in despair in the stone chamber, but suddenly there was a violent shaking around us, and then the stone slab we were standing on began to rise, and by the time we came to consciousness, it was already on the ground. ”

Facing Ling Xi, the man gave it all out.

But after listening to his words, Ling Xi and the queen looked at each other, as if they were not happy at all.

"You guys, do you see anything? Or bring something back? ”

Ling Xi asked without giving up.

According to the letter, the stone gate could only be activated if the object was taken away, and now not only the stone gate was opened, but so many people were released. Letters do not deceive people, there is only one possibility, the object has been taken away, but the person who took it is not among these scholars. (To be continued......)