Zhao Lingshu, who turned to leave, took the first step back to the Weiguo Mansion. However, she did not return to the Lingshu Pavilion, but was sure that Zhao Susu would come back through the back door. So she hid in a corner of the back door and waited for her.

After a while, Zhao Susu came back. She pushed open the back door, quickly entered the house, and then closed the door with her backhand. Zhao Susu cautiously looked around to make sure that no one was following her before turning around and walking towards her room.

Zhao Lingshu wanted to follow immediately, but he didn't expect that as soon as he took the first step, there was a sound of dead branches stepping on his feet.

"Not good!" Zhao Lingshu stopped, panicking in his heart.

Hearing the sound, Zhao Susu immediately walked towards the hidden corner where Zhao Lingshu was hiding.

"Who is it? Come out quickly, or you're welcome. Zhao Susu clenched the knife hidden in his sleeve and walked towards the place where the voice came from step by step.

At the critical moment, Zhao Lingshu had an idea. She simply came out of the hidden corner, closed her eyes and shouted, "Don't come here! I'm not afraid of you! ”

"Mother, save me!"

"Mother, hurry up, this monster is here again! Help me! ”

"Mother! Don't leave me."

Zhao Lingshu pretended to be sleepwalking, his hands were dancing around, and he was still saying foolish words that others couldn't understand.

Seeing Zhao Lingshu's posture, Zhao Susu, who was originally cautious, was also taken aback, although he was still suspicious of Zhao Lingshu in his heart, but the hand holding the knife slowly loosened.

Zhao Lingshu's series of big movements not only shocked Zhao Susu, but also woke up all the people in the house.

When they heard the commotion, they all lit their lanterns and walked towards the back door. After a while, the entire Zhao Mansion came to the courtyard and formed a circle.

Zhao Hong arrived, looked at his daughter who was dancing and talking nonsense, and stepped forward to hold her worriedly: "Lingshu, wake up quickly, it's Dad!" ”

Zhao Lingshu woke up slowly, and as soon as he opened his eyes, he saw Zhao Hong's face, and then threw himself into Zhao Hong's arms: "Dad! There's a monster chasing me! Mother is gone! ”

Zhao Lingshu said as he shed tears of panic.

"Don't cry, don't cry, Daddy is here." Zhao Hong comforted Zhao Lingshu while patting her back with his hand.

"Take the young lady back and have a good rest." Zhao Hong called Zhao Lingshu's maid and instructed them.

After the maid brought Zhao Lingshu back to the room, Zhao Hong saw that the neatly dressed Zhao Susu was also standing at the back door, and there was a gap in the back door, and he suddenly had doubts in his heart.

"Susu, it's so late, why don't you stay in the mansion, what are you going out for?" Zhao Hong asked.

"Su Su slept a lot during the day today, and I couldn't sleep at night, so I thought about going to the alley at the back door." Zhao Susu immediately found an excuse.

After listening to this, Zhao Hong didn't believe Zhao Susu's words, but there was no other evidence.

"In that case, it's not too early, so let's go back to bed quickly." Zhao Hong no longer pursued and let the people around the house disperse.

After Zhao Susu returned to the room without danger, he did not sleep immediately, but went straight to a corner of the room, stretched out his hand and twisted it, a switch in the room was turned on, the cabinet was automatically moved, and a staircase leading to the underground appeared in front of Zhao Susu.

Zhao Susu took a candle and walked down the stairs to the basement below the room.

The basement was pitch black, and the light of the candles could only shine a little bit, making the atmosphere terrifying.

But Zhao Susu was not afraid. She walked many corners with the candle unhurriedly, and slowly she could hear the murmuring of the water, and it turned out that Zhao Susu finally came to a water dungeon in the basement.

In the dim light of the candles, a person could be seen imprisoned in the water prison. The man had been tortured and looked like a man, and he couldn't see his face clearly with his head down.

"Why, are you still reluctant to tell me where the treasure is?" Zhao Susu stepped forward, pinched the prisoner's chin, and forced him to look up.

The man slowly opened his eyes, his face was full of vanity after being tortured, but he didn't answer Zhao Susu's question, and there was even no fear in his eyes.

Infuriated by his calm expression, Zhao Susu let go of the man's chin and walked to the side of the shelf, on which were all kinds of weapons and torture tools.

Zhao Susu picked a long whip from above, then walked up to the prisoner, and with a wave of his hand, the whip was ruthlessly whipped on the man's body.

"Say it! Where is the treasure? Zhao Susu asked while whipping.

The man just kept screaming, but didn't answer any of her questions.

Until Zhao Susu's strength was exhausted, she couldn't get the answer she wanted, and in the end she could only return in vain.

After Zhao Lingshu returned to the room, he was still confused, but after the maid closed the door and went out, he immediately became sober.

"Qing'er, from today onwards, you will go and watch your aunt, and she will report to me every move." Zhao Lingshu said to Qing'er beside him.

Qing'er looked at her young lady's serious expression and nodded seriously.

Ten days later, Zhao Lingshu was summoned by the palace again, but this time it was not Cui Guifei's summons, but Xiao Qiyun's invitation.

Zhao Lingshu followed the palace maid who led the way to the pear orchard behind the imperial garden.

As soon as he walked into the pear orchard, Zhao Lingshu found that there was already a little girl swinging under a pear tree in the pear orchard, with an innocent and romantic expression and a pure and moving smile.

Suddenly, a palace maid walked to the pillar on the side, pulled out a boy, and pushed him to the ground: "Where did the wild child come from, he still dares to come and peek!" Don't look at who you are! ”

It turned out that the little boy had been secretly watching the little girl not far away, and was discovered by the palace maid. When the palace maid saw that he was wearing the clothes of a scholar, she decided that he was a servant of some family, and hid here to spy on the young lady of the family.

The little boy was pushed to the ground and immediately sat down on the ground and began to cry.

The little girl who was swinging saw it, got off the swing, walked over and pulled the little boy up, and said to the palace maid, "Why are you pushing him?" ”

"Miss, this kind of peeking person can't just let it go." The palace maid looked right.

When the little girl saw this, she turned to the little boy and said, "Ignore her, get up from the ground quickly." As he spoke, he pulled the little boy up.

The girl took a red pendant from her neck and gave him a red pendant: "No, this is for you." If anyone bullies you again in the future, you let her watch this. However, you should stop peeking at people in the future. ”

This scene was too familiar, and Zhao Lingqi only felt that something was wrong.

When she saw the little girl take off the red pendant, Zhao Lingshu heard footsteps behind her, and she could only immediately adjust her emotions and turn around.

Xiao Qiyun behind him originally thought that Zhao Lingshu would be touched, but when she saw that she turned around, she didn't react, and the expression on her face was a little disappointed.

But he immediately changed his emotions and instructed the palace maid beside him: "Go to my palace and bring that white jade chessboard." It's good to go, I want your head to be broken. ”

The palace maid hurried to get it. When they came back, Xiao Qiyun and Zhao Lingshu were already sitting face to face on the stool next to the stone table.

The palace maid hurriedly stepped forward to open the box and set up the chessboard and chess pieces.

"Miss Zhao, please." Xiao Qiyun pointed to the chessboard on the table and said to Zhao Lingshu.

Xiao Qiyun and Zhao Lingshu each held black and white and played several games of chess.

The two of them go back and forth on the chessboard, there are losses and wins, the chess game is changing rapidly, and the expressions of the two are constantly changing, frowning tightly one second, and relaxing because they won one second.

After a few chess games, Xiao Qiyun was very surprised by Zhao Lingshu's chess skills, and had completely changed his previous prejudice against her, not only that, but also thought that she was a noble lady with excellent talents.

"Agreed, Fifth Highness." In Xiao Qiyun's eyes, Zhao Lingshu had already put down the last chess piece.

Xiao Qiyun came back to his senses, looked at the chess game that he had lost, and was surprised and admired: "Miss Zhao, admire and admire." ”

Zhao Lingshu just smiled slightly. After playing chess, Zhao Lingshu left the palace directly.

The carriage of the Zhao family had been waiting outside the palace for a long time, and Zhao Lingshu took the maid's hand to board the carriage.

Not long after walking, Zhao Lingshu heard a commotion outside the carriage.

Zhao Lingshu lifted the curtain of the car and looked out, only to see a man in black running on the road, and behind him were countless officers and soldiers chasing him.

Seeing Zhao Lingshu lifting the curtain, the man in black jumped forward, boarded the carriage, got into the car, picked up the knife and put it on Zhao Lingshu's neck, and said in a suppressed voice: "Don't move, the sword doesn't blink." ”

Seeing that Zhao Lingshu was not struggling, the man in black loosened his grip on the knife slightly: "I don't want to hurt you." It's just that the situation is compelling, and I ask the girl to forgive me. ”

Zhao Lingshu looked at this person and felt that he was not a murderous person, so he wanted to save him.

"You can't get out like that." Zhao Lingshu said to the man in black who was constantly checking the situation outside the car.

"So what?" The man in black didn't really want to deal with Zhao Lingshu, he was thinking repeatedly about how to solve the situation in front of him.

"I can help you." Zhao Lingshu said.

"Oh?" The man in black finally became interested in Zhao Lingshu's words, and turned his head to look at her with a smile.

"I'm the concubine of the Patriotic Family. You can take me hostage. When you can escape, let me go. Zhao Lingshu said seriously.

"Then the girl is wronged." The black-clothed man weighed for a moment, but still approved Zhao Lingshu's proposal.

The man in black pushed Zhao Lingshu out of the carriage, and the knife was on Zhao Lingshu's neck: "Look clearly, this is the concubine of the Weiguo family." If you don't want her to die, lay down your weapons and don't keep catching up. ”

The head of the officers and soldiers looked at the kidnapped Zhao Lingshu and said to the officers and soldiers behind him: "Put down your weapons." ”

Someone behind him wanted to refute, but the officer and soldier swept over with a cold eye: "I said, put down your weapons." ”

That Zhao Lingshu is the daughter of the Weiguo family, the eldest lady of the family in the capital, and her identity is so noble. Which prince marries her, it is half a dragon chair. If he injured her this time, although he caught the assassin and made meritorious contributions, who would let him go? There are still old and young in his family, but he doesn't want to lose his job and life because of this.

Seeing that the officers and soldiers did not continue to catch up, the man in black took Zhao Lingshu and slowly walked towards the direction of the city gate.

Out of the city gate, the man in black took out a free hand, took out something from his body, and gave it to Zhao Lingshu: "I was able to escape this time thanks to Miss Zhao." It's just that I don't want to owe everyone a favor, so I gave this thing to Miss Zhao, and it was taken as a thank you gift from me to Miss Zhao. The man in black said, handing Zhao Lingshu a token. After that, he pushed Zhao Lingshu away, turned around and ran quickly out of the city.

After the man in black left, Zhao Lingshu looked down at the token handed to her by the man in black, and only the two big words "Yaolou" were written on the token.

"It's really hard to find a place to break through the iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get it." Zhao Lingshu happily weighed the token in his hand, "Now I can go into the medicine building to find the landlord." ”

That night, Zhao Lingshu went to the Flower Pavilion again.

The man in red was still sitting in the curtain, and when he saw Zhao Lingshu, he thought that she was going to ask to go in with a dead face, so he said with a cold face: "This young lady, the pharmacy has the rules of the pharmacy. If you don't have a token, I won't let you in. Miss, please go back. ”

"Who said I don't have a token?" Zhao Lingshu smiled proudly, directly showed the token, and put it in front of the man in red.

The man in red saw the token in Zhao Lingshu's hand, and his expression became very surprised. He thought that this token was imitated by Zhao Lingshu in order to enter the medicine building to find someone, but after careful inspection, the token had a unique logo belonging to the medicine building, which must be true.

"Take Miss Zhao in." Now that Zhao Lingshu has a token, the man in red can't refuse, otherwise he will break the rules. He could only let one of the guards take Zhao Lingshu in.

"Go find out what's going on with this token, and don't miss the clues." After Zhao Lingshu and the guards left, the man in red immediately ordered his men.

After Zhao Lingshu entered the medicine building, he had a smug expression of "the token is in hand, I have it in the world".

The guard took Zhao Lingshu to the entrance of the medicine building, Zhao Lingshu showed the token to the guard guarding the medicine building, the guard who led the way also nodded, and the guard guarding the medicine building opened the door and let Zhao Lingshu enter the first floor of the medicine building.

The first floor of the medicine building is full of the lowest grade herbs in the medicine building, but for ordinary people in the world, these are rare treasures with a lot of price, and getting the same is the treasure of the town.

Zhao Lingshu paced, reading all the herbs in the first layer one by one, and finally stopped in front of a recipe placed in the corner.

"I have a crush on this. I'm going to buy it, how much silver? Zhao Lingshu looked like he was wealthy.

The guard just smiled slightly: "Miss Zhao, although you have a token, you can see and buy all the herbs on the first floor, but only this recipe, you can only watch, we don't do this business." ”