"Palm Lamp!"

Xu Rui gave a faint order, and then walked through the cave and walked into the secret room.

Zhengyu was called by Xu Rui, so he woke up, and hurriedly took out the fire fold and lit the oil lamp at the head of the bed, and then followed Xu Rui's footsteps with the oil lamp.

Although the entrance to the chamber is open on the wall, if you take a step forward, you will find a hole in the ground, and the real chamber is actually underground.

The two of them burrowed into the ground by the faint light of the oil lamp, and their eyes suddenly opened up.

This secret room is not very large, it is only seven or eight square meters, and there is no extra stuff in it except for a table and a few cabinets.

It is not easy to build a secret room in a place where there are many rules in the palace and everyone is in plain sight, Hu Miao can hide people's eyes and ears, and secretly making such a small cave here is already a means to reach the sky.

Xu Rui gently opened the nearest cabinet, which was full of priceless gold and silver artifacts, and even ingot of official silver, as well as stacks of silver tickets, and the contents of this cabinet alone were worth at least more than 100,000 taels.

"I said why this thing is suddenly gone, it turned out to be here."

At this moment, a sudden voice suddenly came from behind Xu Rui.

Xu Rui turned his head and saw Zhengyu holding a golden horse and said with a smile.

Seeing Xu Rui's view, Zhengyu said embarrassedly: "Master Hou, this thing has been placed at the head of Godfather's bed before, and it is his beloved object, but it suddenly disappeared a few days ago."

At that time, I asked my godfather if he had been stolen, but my godfather just sighed and said that it was going to rain and my mother was going to get married, so let him go.

I didn't expect it to be put away by my godfather himself. ”

Xu Rui felt a little strange in his heart when he heard this, and always felt that Hu Miao's sentence "It's going to rain, and my mother is going to get married" was a little strange, and he frowned and asked, "Is there anything unusual in these days before your godfather returns?" ”

"Unusual?"

"What's the difference between it and usual? Or what is his mental state? ”

Zhengyu thought for a while and said, "It's not any different to say anything, but I think of one thing when you say that." ”

"What's the matter?"

With the basis for discovering this secret room, Xu Rui attached great importance to Zhengyu's clues at the moment, and hurriedly asked when he saw that he seemed to have thought of something again.

Zhengyu muttered: "Godfather rarely drinks on weekdays, and he hasn't drunk a drop since he hit the prince's rebellion, but a few days ago, his godfather seemed to have encountered something troublesome, and he hid in the house alone and drank wine for most of the night.

Later, when I saw that he was drunk, I went to serve him to sleep, and he looked a little depressed, and told me that those who were soldiers did not want him to have a good time, and he would not let those who were soldiers have a good time or anything.

By the way, it was after that night that the little golden horse was gone. ”

Xu Rui was stunned when he heard this.

What does it mean that those who serve as soldiers don't let him have a good time? And what does the little golden horse have to do with this?

Xu Rui thought as he walked up to Zhengyu and said, "Show me this thing." ”

Zhengyu did not hesitate at all, and immediately handed over the golden horse in his hand to Xu Rui.

Xu Rui looked closely for a moment and found that the golden horse's abdomen could be opened, but it was empty inside, and there was nothing inside.

"Where was this golden horse originally placed?"

Xu Rui asked.

Zhengyu said: "Put it on the windowsill at the head of the bed." ”

Xu Rui frowned, and remembered an unreasonable thing, this world is different from Xu Rui's world, ordinary beds will be against the wall, but Hu Miao's bed is against the window.

If this little golden horse was placed on the windowsill, then Hu Miao could see this horse as soon as he opened his eyes.

But what does this mean?

Xu Rui thought for a moment, but still couldn't find any useful clues, so he handed over the golden horse to Zhengyu and began to search for other places in this secret room.

To say that this place can indeed be called a treasure for ordinary people, Hu Miao alone has embezzled and accepted a large amount of stolen money over the years, not to mention as much as three or four hundred thousand taels.

In addition, there are also correspondence between him and the ministers of the DPRK and the central government, and the border generals.

Some of these letters are just ordinary greetings, while others are already related to the party struggle between the DPRK and China.

Xu Rui only took a cursory look at it, and found that Hu Miao had actually participated in many court battles, using the power of the celebrant to secretly help all forces.

It's just that there are both princelings and Liaowang factions in these letters, and it can be seen that Hu Miao has made a lot of money on these people, but there are no other valuable clues.

Xu Rui carefully put the letter away, and then continued to search for other places, but his good fortune seemed to end there.

The desk that should have the most clues is empty, except for the four treasures of the study, it is as clean as if it has been licked by a cat, but the ink in the ink cartridge is obviously not dry yet, indicating that Hu Miao wrote something here not long ago.

What's even more regrettable is that Xu Rui found that there was a drawer under the desk that was empty, which was the only empty drawer in the entire secret room, and Xu Rui deduced that this drawer would not be empty in the first place, and the contents had been taken away nine times out of ten.

Since the combination lock of the secret room has been tampered with, it proves that someone has been here before, and it is not surprising that it has taken the truly valuable things first.

Intuition told Xu Rui that those secrets may be related to the overall situation at hand, and nine times out of ten they are still the reason why Hu Miao lost his life.

In addition to regretting, Xu Rui suddenly thought of one thing, this secret room is so secret, and it is related to Hu Miao's future and fate, I am afraid that there will never be a second person in this existence besides Hu Miao himself.

There is no trace of being forced to ask Hu Miao's body, which means that the person who took the clue first must have known about the existence of this secret room for a long time, so there is a chance that he was secretly discovered by the most trusted person around Hu Miao.

Xu Rui's gaze fell on Zhengyu again.

Judging from his words and conversations, he should be a confidant who was trained by Hu Miao, and Hu Miao actually used his birthday as the password for the secret room, just for this reason, Hu Miao's feelings for Zhengyu should be beyond the degree of love.

If anyone is most likely to know the secret of this secret room, then it must be Zhengyu, plus Xu Rui previously deduced that if the murderer came from outside the palace, there would be a guide who was quite familiar with the environment.

In this way, Zhengyu's suspicion is really great.

But Xu Rui can find that this secret room is all dependent on Zhengyu, and Zhengyu's consternation when he opened the door doesn't seem to be pretended, if he is really the murderer who killed Hu Miao and took away the clues, why did he let Xu Rui discover this secret room?

After thinking about it, Xu Rui was still not sure about the identity of the child in front of him, and his brows gradually furrowed.

At this moment, Xu Rui suddenly noticed that a qi machine appeared around him, this qi machine was looming and very secretive, like a latent tentacle that was secretly reaching into the secret room and spying on the two people inside.

"Who is it?!"

Xu Rui immediately realized that there was a master lurking nearby, and suddenly turned around and let out a sigh.

That qi machine seemed to be surprised that it would be discovered by Xu Rui, and immediately retracted after a slight pause.

How could Xu Rui let him escape?

"You stay here, don't go anywhere!"

Xu Rui frowned, gave an order to the unknown Zhengyu, and then the figure shot out like lightning, chasing towards the source of the qi engine.

When he got out of the secret room, Xu Rui secretly said in his heart: "This person's way of invoking the qi machine is extremely exquisite, and he is obviously an extremely powerful master, could it be that the murderer of Hu Miao is still lurking nearby?" ”

Thinking of this, Xu Rui sneered in his heart, and his steps were three points faster, vowing to seize this rare flaw and stop the master.