Because of Xia Mingming's sudden disappearance, and the two hexagrams that came out in the morning, Yu Shu was restless, and at night, after Yu Xiaoxiu and Jingchen fell asleep, she quietly got up, touched the living son on the table, and went out lightly.

There was a bamboo lantern hanging in the corridor on the second floor, and the dim light shone on the place where Yu Shu came out of the door, the room she chose was the middle one upstairs, and Xia Mingming's room was next door to her.

The corridor was very quiet, the guards who patrolled at night were downstairs, Yu Shu looked at no one outside, and then stepped out of her whole body, closed the door behind her, leaned against the wall and walked to the next door, stretched out her hand to push the door, "squeak" A soft sound, she flashed into the next door.

The room was dark, Yu Shu and Yu Xiaoxiu came in to find Jinbao a few days ago, so they still had a little impression of the furnishings in the room...... The room lit up in an instant.

She walked around the room with an oil lamp, trying to find some clues, but what disappointed her was that the room was very clean, it should be that after Bi Qing made sure that Xia Mingming left at night, she asked the boatman to clean up the room, the quilts on the bed were neatly folded, and the stools on the table were placed in a very regular manner, and there was nothing abnormal.

In disappointment, she snuffed out the oil lamp, put it back on the table, thoughtfully retreated to the door, opened it and closed it, and when she turned around, she hit a human wall, startling her to take a step back, and clutching the door frame so that she did not sit on the floor.

"What are you doing here?"

Yu Shu raised his head, looked at Qiu Biao who was not kind in front of him, his mind spun around quickly, and he smirked: "I came out at night to solve the problem and went to the wrong room." ”

As he spoke, he squeezed past him, stepped out of his door in three or two steps, glanced back at Qiu Biao, and before he could speak, he shrank into the room and closed the door with a "bang".

Qiu Biao frowned and saw that she had disappeared, raised his hand to close Xia Mingming's door, walked to the door of Yu Shu's room, stood for a while, his ears moved, and when he heard no movement in the house, he turned around and went downstairs.

On the bed, Yu Shu watched the figure outside the door disappear, then breathed a sigh of relief, put his hand in front of his nose, inhaled, recalled the smell he smelled when he bumped into Qiu Biao just now, and after thinking for a moment, a fine light flashed in his eyes-

Qiu Biao's clothes will have Xia Mingming's pink fragrance, these two people must have been in close contact today, how can Xia Mingming's family be close to a man, unless it is involuntary.

In this way, Xia Mingming's sudden disappearance makes sense, assuming that the boatman lied, Xia Mingming didn't say goodbye this morning, let alone fell into the river, then she would not see, and there was only one possibility left-

She was still on the boat, hiding somewhere.

Yu Shu is very sure that there is something wrong with Qiu Biao, if Xia Ming was hidden by Qiu Biao, then she must know what Lu said.

Lying on the bed on his back with his hands behind his head, Yu Shu frowned, Qiu Biao is the captain of the caravan's guard, if he has a crooked mind, then the people on the whole ship will be in danger, maybe the water disaster referred to in the hexagram is this matter.

Do you want to discuss it with Bi Qing?

It's not right, Bi Qing and Qiu Biao are not in harmony, and people are also a little impulsive, if you tell him now, if you accidentally make trouble, it will be a surprise, not to mention that all this is just her assumption, the probability is high, it does not mean that it will definitely happen.

It seems that it is better to find Xia Mingming first.

After thinking about it all night, Yu Shu woke up early the next day, woke up Yu Xiaoxiu, put Jinbao in a bamboo cage and stuffed it into him, and told him a few words before going out.

Yu Shu wanted to look for Xia Mingming on the boat, afraid that the movement would be too big and would arouse Qiu Biao's suspicions, so he used Jinbao as a disguise, searched upstairs and downstairs, and when asked, he claimed that it was her little pet and ran away.

She just touched the second floor to the first floor, and wandered around the deck again, and only found the bottom cabin after the last day.

Yu Shu met Qiu Biao in the bilge, Qiu Biao had heard from others that Yu Shu was looking for something, and when he saw her probing his brain, he didn't stop her to ask, but glanced at his subordinates on the side.

After a while, Yu Shu found that no matter where she went, there was someone behind her, she sneered in her heart, pretended not to see it on the surface, and searched the bilge by herself.

Sure enough, she found a suspicious place.

Just in the shadow of the corner of the bilge entrance, in an inconspicuous place, there were two round barrels, high to Yu Shu's chest, sealing the lid, and the space inside was enough for one person.

She was suspicious, not because of the barrel itself, but because as soon as she approached, she was stopped:

She was suspicious, not because of the barrel itself, but because as soon as she approached, she was stopped:

"It's filled with rancid water, and when the ship docks, it will be lifted down and thrown away, you don't have to touch it, it smells bad, and you can't wash it off."

Yu Shu's hand stopped half a foot away from the barrel, looked back at the guard who had been following her since just now, and then looked at the barrel, with a disgusted expression on his face, when he turned around, the back of his hand was behind his head, and at an angle that the guard couldn't see, his fingers knocked back and forth on the two barrels, and from the vibration of the fingers transmitted, he immediately noticed the difference.

Of the two buckets, one was empty.

This discovery immediately made Yu Shu excited, and at this time, the guard suggested that she go to the room to look for it, and she left the bilge, and before leaving, she did not forget to glance at the two wooden barrels in the corner of the wall and remember which one was empty.

After a cursory look around the room, Yu Shu hurried back upstairs, closed the door, and rushed to the window, ignoring Yu Xiaoxiu's inquiry, she opened the window and looked down.

The entrance to the bilge was below, and as soon as she looked down, she could see the staircase leading to the downstairs on the deck, and there was a guard standing nearby, as well as two boatmen, and a moment later, Qiu Biao led someone up from the bilge and walked east.

Yu Shu grabbed the window with his fingernails, and quickly thought about how to open only the people near the bilge so that he could go in and check the barrel.

The shoulder was gently patted, Yu Shu came back to his senses, turned his head and saw Jingchen standing behind her neatly dressed, looking at her with a slightly worried expression, raising his left hand and clenching his fist, and then stretched it out, shaking his palm twice.

After Jingchen lost his speech, he always relied on writing on Yu Shu's hand to communicate with her, and after a long time, Yu Shu felt troublesome, so he pondered a few simple gestures to teach him, acting as sign language, so that he could easily express some simple meanings.

Now, for example, he is asking her:

'What's wrong?' ”

Yu Shu shook her head, looking at the weak Jing Chen, she was depressed, if Jing Chen was not injured, then things would be much easier, she could swagger to get Xia Mingming out, Qiu Biao dared to turn his face, and let Jing Chen beat him down.

Thinking of this, her mind moved, and she suddenly remembered a question, and asked Jingchen hesitantly:

"Let me ask you, do you remember that you know martial arts?"

Jingchen tilted his head, his eyes were confused, Yu Shu understood this expression, lowered his face, and stretched out his hand to gesture without giving up: "Martial arts, that's it, used to fight, you used to be powerful, you can do light work, you can fly eaves and walk walls, and you can make swords, do you have two swords?" ”

Jing Chen looked at her expectant gaze, and knew if he would have "martial arts" that was important to her, and for some reason he didn't want to shake his head and tell her that he didn't remember, his lips moved, and he lowered his head, avoiding her gaze.

Seeing this, Yu Shu knew in his heart, so he was disappointed, but he didn't want to see him look like he had "done something wrong" and blamed himself, so he comforted him with a smile:

"If you don't remember it, don't remember it, you treasure those two swords, if you really think about losing them, you must feel distressed, it's better not to remember them."

Jing Chen raised his head at this time, and saw that there was no blame on her face, so he raised the corners of his mouth slightly, took down the hand she fell on his shoulder, and wrote in her palm:

I'll remember. ’

"Hmm."

Yu Xiaoxiu was beside him, and as soon as he saw Jingchen grabbing Yu Shu's hand, he couldn't stand still, walked over and squeezed between them, separated them, pretended to look out the window, and asked Yu Shudao:

"What did you just look at?"

Yu Shu shook his head, returned to the bed and sat down, thinking about it, there was really no way, so he decided to go to Bi Qing to discuss, Xia Mingming was really locked in that barrel, and there was a day and a night, no matter how long it was, she was afraid that her life would be at stake, and the top priority was to rescue people first.

"You said that Xia Gongzi was locked in a barrel in the bilge?" Bi Qing stood up in shock and was about to walk out, "Let's go, let's go." ”

Yu Shu hurriedly grabbed him, "Uncle Bi, wait, I haven't finished my words yet, you are so rash that you will not startle the snake." ”

"Surprise the snake?"

Yu Shu was afraid that he would be impulsive, so she simply told him her suspicion of Qiu Biao, "I saw Captain Qiu last night, and I smelled the smell of Xia Gongzi's sachet on him, so I suspected him, he locked Xia Gongzi up, there must be a reason, I don't know what he wants." ”

After hearing this, Bi Qing slapped the table angrily, "This Qiu Biao, what kind of heart is An, no, I'll go to him and ask him clearly!" ”

He said that he was about to go out again, but he was dragged by Yu Shu, so that he could say something and then asked him to sit down again.

"Uncle Bi, calm down and think about it, go to Qiu Biao now, what can you say, really turn your face, he has twenty guards under him, I'm afraid that it is still us who will suffer, it is better to rescue Xia Gongzi first, ask about the situation, she must know some inside information."

Bi Qing listened to her persuasion, thought about it with a calm face, and said: "In this way, after a while, I will gather all the people on the ship to the bow of the ship, you take the opportunity to go to the bottom cabin to rescue people, and when the people are rescued, they will be brought to your room first, and I will look for you when the time comes." ”

"Okay." Yu Shu took a sip.

Bi Qing got up and said, "I'll send someone to gather them, you go back to the room first, and then come out when you hear the movement." ”

The two of them went out one after the other, Yu Shu returned to the room to wait, and after about a meal, a boatman came to knock on the door, saying that Boss Bi asked everyone to go to the bow of the boat, and there was something to say.

After sending away the boatman, Yu Shu walked to the window and looked down, and saw that all the people near the bottom cabin were gone, so he led Yu Xiaoxiu downstairs quietly, from the back door to the stern, and then from the stern, to the bilge.

After finding something and priing open the empty wooden barrel hidden in the corner, despite the dim vision, Yu Shu still saw a figure curled up in a ball in the moldy barrel at a glance.

"Sister, why is Young Master Xia here!" Yu Xiaoxiu was pulled over by Yu Shu in a daze, and when he saw Xia Mingming who was unconscious in the bucket, he grabbed Yu Shu's arm and shouted in dismay.