Lan Ruoxin beside her was stunned, she was only frightened just now, but she didn't pay attention to any special smell, she calmed down and sniffed carefully, and indeed smelled a particularly pungent smell.

This smell Lan Ruoxin didn't feel familiar, it could only be said to be a peculiar fragrance, but it was different from the fragrance of the spices that she usually came into contact with, and there was some burnt smell during the period.

If this smell appears in the daytime, then you can guess that I don't know who is cooking, and I use a less common spice to enhance the flavor of the dish, but this point is in the middle of the night, and no one can eat at this point, and the appearance of this taste is a bit abrupt.

Lan Ruoxin asked, "Tianba, can you smell what it smells like?" ”

Brother Tianba replied a little guiltily, "I haven't smelled this before, but ...... Maybe I'm used to it, Brother Ren used to cook, I always squatted outside the kitchen and waited to eat delicious food, so I was a little sensitive to the smell wafting out of the kitchen.

For some reason, I couldn't smell what it was, but when I saw it, I was a little hungry, alas...... I'm damned, Brother Ren doesn't know where it is, I just think about eating, it's such a bastard. ”

Lan Ruoxin seemed to sense something from Brother Tianba's words, and immediately gestured to him not to blame himself, "Don't be busy feeling guilty first, maybe the smell you smell is a key discovery."

Think about it, who will cook in the middle of the night? If you look around, although the sky is dark, the view is very good, and there is no house where the smoke rises, but you can smell the smell of cooking, why is this? ”

"Ah, yes."

Brother Tianba suddenly became energetic, "You mean, this taste has something to do with Brother Ren'er?" ”

The more Lan Ruoxin thought about it, the more likely it was that this was the case, so he nodded heavily, "Maybe he's still in the secret passage, maybe he's been locked up."

But since it is a secret passage underground, there must be a vent, maybe Brother Ren found a vent, and used everything he could find at hand to release the smell, and it was these smells that reminded us of where he was locked up. ”

Brother Tianba also figured out the reason and became excited, "Yes, yes, this trick can only be thought of by Brother Ren, this taste is actually a clue and a signal!" ”

Lan Ruoxin hurriedly told the people around him about this discovery, and asked them to rule over several nearby search teams with this clue, so that everyone could follow the smell to find the entrance to the underground secret passage.

Although the leaders of the search teams felt that this search method was a bit strange, they also realized that such a strange smell appeared at this point in time, which was indeed suspicious, so they asked everyone to split up to find the source of this smell.

There happened to be a foodie in Xiangguofu's guard, and his sense of smell seemed to be more sensitive than ordinary people, so he sniffed and suddenly said, "This...... Could it be the smell of burnt fish herbs? ”

As soon as he said this, several of his companions around him seemed to smell it too, "Yes, if you smell it carefully, it does look like fish herbs, but it is burnt." ”

Gao Shengtai's nose is not so easy to use, but after listening to the words of the guards, I also feel that there is something strange here, fish herbs are only used as a more common spice in Dali and some surrounding tribes, and in the Great Song Dynasty, it is used as a Chinese herbal medicine, so the Song people are relatively unfamiliar.

But the fish herbs are burned, it is more strange, fish herbs are generally used as raw ingredients for mixed vegetables, or to add some to the soup and boiled vegetables, and will never be burned to use, so the taste of the burned fish herbs is particularly doubtful.

Under the leadership of a few guards with a good sense of smell, everyone came to a big mansion, and the captain of the search team did not dare to rush in, but notified Gao Xiangguo and asked several other search teams to gather and surround the mansion first.

From almost all the people who searched it, it was learned that the mansion was built by a merchant as a storehouse, and that the city was expensive, and the cost of a warehouse that could store goods was too high.

Therefore, many merchants who did business in the city bought a place to build a warehouse in the east of the city, and even if they had to go out at night, they did not have to worry whether the city gate was closed.

It's just that the owner of this mansion, which is a warehouse, has no one in the surrounding residents who knows him, and he can't even say who is here.

What's even more surprising is that they said that they also saw the carts pulling goods in and out of this mansion in the previous paragraph, but it seems to be very deserted recently, and it is even more unclear what goods are stored in the mansion.

There are more and more suspicions, which makes this mansion more and more suspicious. Lan Ruoxin seemed to see some hope, but she was also getting more and more anxious, the mansion had been surrounded by the guards of the Xiangguo Mansion, but Gao Shengtai had not ordered to attack it directly, but was thinking about something.

Gao Shengtai's consideration is actually very simple, although he has not yet established himself as the lord of the country, he has long been in power, but there are still several powerful big families in the court of Dali, if there is no opposition, it is impossible.

If the owner of this mansion is a powerful person in Dali and boldly breaks in, if he does not find any trace of Yang Huairen, he will face the voices of opponents in the court in the future.

If Yang Huairen is really locked up here, then those who have the courage to do this will definitely jump over the wall in a hurry, what if this is a trick to divert the tiger from the mountain?

Even if someone deliberately lured him out of the city to come here, there might be an ambush in the house. The most terrible situation is that the purpose of this force is the power of Dali, and sometimes a rebellion is enough for an hour.

Gao Shengtai is still scheming, and he will not act recklessly until he is fully prepared.

He first assigned a few of his henchmen to return to the city with his token, and went to the Dali Soldiers and Horses Division to order the whole city to enter a state of martial law, so that the officers and soldiers of the City Gate Division first guarded the four gates of the city and the palace gate, and after being ready to deal with emergencies, he could do things with confidence.

When everything was ready, Gao Shengtai ordered to break into the mansion, but after a kind of guard rushed in, he found that things were even stranger, the mansion was lifeless, as if there was no sign of any sign of life.

Gao Shengtai ordered a quick search of the courtyard and all the rooms of the mansion, but the guards quickly searched it, but only found that all the rooms in the mansion were empty, not to mention people, and none of the goods were found.

Gao Shengtai felt that it was not surprising that they had just conducted a large-scale search in the settlement and alarmed the people in this mansion, and it was not surprising that they had fled.

It's just that such a big house, there is no one and no goods, doesn't it show its weirdness even more? The person is gone, does it mean that the people in the original house are hiding in the underground secret room?