Ai Qiaoqiao leaned her body against the inside of the secret door, so nervous that she was about to stop breathing.

She listened motionlessly to the sound on the other side of the secret door.

In fact, even if she made a noise on one side of the cave, she couldn't hear anything in the main house on the other side.

This secret door was repaired by people after leaving the night, and even the sound of the wind could not be heard.

The temperature in the cave was extremely low, and she shivered from the cold not long after she entered.

She stayed at the door for a long time, but she didn't hear anything on the other side.

I think those people have already found out that she is missing, but they don't know where she is hiding, so they should still be looking around the old mansion at this time.

The cave was dark, but she had been in the cave for a long time, and her eyes had gradually adapted to the darkness and she could see clearly.

She groped her way into the hole.

She knew it so well that it was like her private kitchen, so she quickly found the oil lamp she had left here.

After taking the flint and steel and lighting the lamp, she carried the lamp forward again.

She had hidden everything in the old mansion in the cave in advance, so there were not only piles of ingredients but also furniture and bedding here.

She pulled a blanket and draped it over her.

Then he sat down and began to examine the wound on his arm.

There was a sword cut on his upper arm, and there was a wound two fingers long.

It's not deep, though, and the blood has already coagulated.

She found the furniture in the East Room and dug through one of the cabinets a few bottles of medicine left behind by the night.

After treating the wound, she pulled two more quilts, climbed onto the rosewood carved wooden bed, and wrapped herself deeply in the quilt.

She tried to keep herself from thinking of anything and let her body warm up under the covers.

Because she knew that there were rebels everywhere outside now, and they couldn't find it to be her good luck, so she had to take all the time to rest.

Even though my arm was drugged, it still hurt faintly.

She rolled over and dreamed in a daze.

In the dream, Ye Liyan sat on the edge of the bed and looked at her, the expression on his face was like frost, bloodless.

"Qiaoqiao ......"

She seemed to hear his whisper.

Brother Night!

She reached out to hug him, but was awakened from her dream.

Lying under the quilt, she couldn't help but think of the first time she met the Night.

She was lying in a ditch by the side of the road, death looming over her, and her only hope was the oncoming carriage.

She fought with her life to stop the carriage.

Since then, the famous night god doctor in Yanguo has picked up a piece of Qiao Niang.

This is her luck, and at the same time, his luck.

Night Away...... Will you come to my rescue this time too?

Definitely!

There was no outside in the cave, and she could only guess the time outside.

She didn't know how long she had been asleep, and she couldn't hear outside, the only thing she could hear in the cave was the gurgling of water.

On the side of the cave, there is an undercurrent that flows through it to the depths of the cave.

My stomach growled.

She then got out of the quilt, lit the oil lamp, went to find an air-dried sausage, took the dagger from her waist and carefully sliced it, and sent it directly to her mouth.

The sausages she makes can be eaten directly even if they are cold, and they taste good and fragrant.

But this thing was too cold, and after eating too much, she felt that her body was also cold.

There wasn't much oil left in the oil lamp, and she didn't dare to keep it on, so she turned it out while she was eating.

Turning her head unintentionally, she suddenly saw a faint glimmer of light in the depths of the cave.

Is there light?

It was something she hadn't noticed before.

So she got up with a blanket and walked along the light.

The closer you get to the light, the narrower the wall becomes, and when you get to the light, the wall comes to an end.

The light comes out of the water.

Ai Qiaoqiao squatted down and carefully studied the water.

The water in the cave was so cold that it looked like ice water to the touch.

She leaned over and almost fell to the ground, looking underwater.

The water here is fast, and it is obvious that there is an exit to the outside not far ahead, but it is underwater.

If there is light outside, it is a sign that it is already light.

She stood there thinking.

Now she had two options, one was to stay here until Nightbreak sent someone to find her.

The second is that she ventured out of here, escaped back to Huai'an City by herself, or sent a message to the night of death.

The second option seemed the most dangerous, and she should have chosen the first.

But there was one thing that made her extremely uneasy.

The rebels who captured her fought with Ye Bing, and she saw with her own eyes that those people were on a par with Ye Bing.

If it were ordinary rebels, would they be so powerful?

She didn't believe it.

In the past, before Brother Xiao Wu was going to join the army, she specially inquired that the soldiers in the army were just from ordinary families, and they could not have such good martial arts, let alone be compared with those masters of the rivers and lakes.

Besides, what "master" those people had mentioned, it seems that they came prepared, specifically to catch her.

She's just a little girl who knows a little cooking, and she can't think of anyone she's offended, and they can go to great lengths to get her out.

If she insists on thinking about offending people, she can only think of one person.

Nalan Mingyi of Tianxiang Building!

On the day she married Ye Li, Nalan Mingyi had threatened them in person.

This matter is definitely about him!

She tugged at the blanket she was wrapping around her.

If Nalan Ming wanted to arrest her in order to hold Ye Lixian hostage, and now that she is missing, will Ye Liyan compromise with Nalan Ming because of this?

She wasn't sure.

Although she knew that Ye Li's temperament would definitely not bow to anyone, but if Nalan clearly lied to him that he was dead, what would happen to Ye Li?

At this time, it would be absolutely no good to tear his face with Nalan Mingyi.

So she can't stay hiding here.

She had to find a way to let the people who had left the night know that she was alive and sound.

Even if she figured everything out, she still didn't dare to act rashly.

She hid in the cave for another night, and it was not until the next morning, when the sky was slightly bright, and the first glimmer of light appeared from the bottom of the water, that she mustered up the courage to go to the water's edge.

She wasn't sure where the water would lead, she could only roughly determine the direction.

If she's lucky, she'll swim out of here.

If you're unlucky...... The bottom of the water leading to the outside was too narrow, and she was in high danger of getting stuck.

The water was so strong that if she got stuck at the bottom of the hole, she could have drowned.

She didn't venture into the water, but first found some planks about the width of her body and threw them into the water.

The water swirled and rolled the planks down, and soon disappeared without a trace.

It looks like it should be passable.

She took a deep breath and jumped into the water......

The icy water immediately enveloped her.

It's cold!

She held her breath, tried to keep her eyes open, and swung her hands and feet, trying to keep herself steady in the whirlpool of the current, and swam with the great force of the current to a gap at the bottom of the cave.