"Bang."

The lid of the box slammed shut, and a cloud of dust was splashed.

Zhao Zimai slumped back, leaned against the stone wall, held his knees with both hands, and gasped for breath.

"Childe, you can't see something again, do you?" Mu Xiaowu was startled by his appearance, and hurriedly came over to help him, and inadvertently touched the back of his hand, only to find that he was trembling all over, and his body temperature was frighteningly low.

"Bazi is so weak, let's not come to this kind of place in the future," she said as she took out a yellow talisman made of cinnabar, stuffed it into Zhao Zimai's palm, and continued, "If I were a son, I would simply change my errand and take charge of the criminal case in Shuntianfu, and you will not be able to avoid coming into contact with these things in the future." To be honest, with your son's life experience, you can't do any good errand, why do you have to be this general judgment? ”

Huang Fu was a little hot, and the heat emitted flowed everywhere along the meridians on Zhao Zimai's wrist, warming up his cold body. However, there is a piece of his heart that is still cold and hard, and he can't warm it through, especially when he hears Mu Xiaowu's consolation.

"Thank you for the kindness of the girl, but in life, there are always many people who can't help themselves, no matter who they are."

After answering a sentence without being salty, he walked towards the outside of the tomb, leaving Mu Xiaowu rolling his eyes behind him, "Here it is again, always say something inexplicable, dealing with people who read a lot is trouble." ”

***

There are six small burial chambers, and the height of the tomb door is only about half of the height of the large burial chamber, and it is covered with yellow-green moss.

Baotian heard Zhao Zimai say that there were bones buried here, so he stopped him from entering, and he took the lead in walking in the front. But after he got in, it didn't take long for him to retreat, and he said to Zhao Zimai, "Childe, this tomb is very narrow, it can be completed in a few steps, and there is nothing in it." ”

Zhao Zimai's eyebrows frowned slightly, "No...... Bones? ”

Baotian shook his head, "No, if Gongzi doesn't believe it, let's open the other tombs and take a look." ”

The tomb door was opened in turn, and this time, Zhao Zimai took a torch to go in to check it in person, but all the tombs were empty, and there was nothing. Except for the occasional drop of water on the top of the head, which would startle people into a cold sweat, nothing was found.

"But I obviously saw ......" Walking out of the tomb, Zhao Zimai straightened up, handed the torch to Baotian, and then turned around and looked at the small tombs, his brows tightly locked.

Suddenly, his eyes lit up, he turned his head to Baotian and stared at him without blinking.

"Childe, you...... What happened to you? Baotian was stared at by him and felt numb in his back, and asked.

"Baotian, you just said that when you followed here, Yuan Changli suddenly disappeared, right?"

"That's right, it's the blink of an eye, and I won't be able to see him, or I'll say he turned into a wooden harrier and flew away." Baotian replied, grabbing his head.

The corners of Zhao Zimai's mouth lifted lightly, and he sneered, "It's impossible to fly, but it's possible to escape." After speaking, in the surprised eyes of everyone, he once again grabbed the torch in Baotian's hand and walked into the tomb, while rushing to the back and ordered, "Search again, if my guess is correct, there should be a secret passage here." ”

***

The secret passage was the first to be discovered by Mu Xiaowu, at first, she just felt that the sound of water droplets on the stone wall hitting a brick surface was louder than elsewhere, and then a flash of inspiration flashed in her mind, and she squatted down and groped to pick the brick joints. Sure enough, the brick got up as soon as it was picked, and after taking away a few pieces around it, it revealed the hole below that could only be penetrated by one person.

"This hole looks like it was newly dug," Zhao Zimai shook the torch towards the entrance of the cave, "The soil at the entrance to the hole is very loose, so it can be seen that there are still people coming in and out of this place recently." ”

"Did Yuan Changli do it?" Mu Xiaowu asked on the side.

"Just go in and see."

After speaking, Zhao Zimai was the first to get into the cave and crawled forward along the cave that could only accommodate one person. After climbing about half a foot in this way, his eyes suddenly opened up, and a wide secret room appeared.

Zhao Zimai stood up, slashed the torch in his hand through the uneven shadows in the corner of the secret room, moved his nose lightly a few times, and then his shoulders trembled and he laughed.

"Childe, how are you, Childe?" Baotian hadn't climbed out yet, but he had been worried about Zhao Zimai, so now when he heard him laugh a few weirdly, his heart was pinched, and he hurriedly asked behind.

"Baotian, the thing we have been looking for for so long has finally appeared." His voice was now so low that it was impossible to tell whether he was happy or worried.

The others came out one after another, and the light of the torches illuminated the room, so that the uneven shadows in the corners of the walls showed their true faces: they were wooden crates, stacked in a heap, huddled in the corners.

Cao Min, like Zhao Zimai, shrugged his nose and sniffed vigorously, his eyes suddenly widened, and he didn't speak so neatly, "Found it, sir...... This taste...... We've finally found it. ”

There was an old smell of urine in the air, but Mu Xiaowu knew that this was definitely not the smell of urine, although she had never smelled it, but from the expressions on the faces of Zhao Zimai and Cao Min, she already knew that these boxes contained the Fushou paste that they had been looking for for a long time.

"Quick, let's see how much is in the box."

Cao Min hurriedly ordered his subordinates to go up to check, and he himself hurriedly walked to Zhao Zimai's side, rubbed his hands and said, "My lord, it turns out that these goods are hidden here, no wonder we haven't found them." In this way, this case can be regarded as solved, and you can also give an account to Lord Tan in Shuntianfu. ”

Zhao Zimai had calmed down now, but there was a trace of doubt on his face, he gently flicked the jade wrench on his index finger, frowned, and said, "Don't be too happy too early, since Yuan Changli disappeared here, then he must have come to this secret room, why don't you see him now?" ”

Cao Min touched his chin and looked down at the upper of his shoes, "That's right, Yuan Changli is gone, which proves that there must be a door leading to the outside in this secret room, but that door is ......."

"The door is here." Mu Xiaowu, who had been standing next to them and listening to them, suddenly accosted, she pointed to the wall on the left side of the secret room, the color of that wall seemed to be a little darker than the other walls, if it weren't for a dozen torches, it wouldn't be visible at all.

Zhao Zimai nodded approvingly at Mu Xiaowu, walked over quickly and groped on the wall a few times, and then pushed forward hard.

A wooden door slowly opened outward, and at the same time, Yuan Changli's body, which was leaning against the back of the wooden door, fell on its back and smashed heavily into a pile of thick fallen leaves.