Chapter 53: The City Lord and the Calamity

Suddenly, with a "whoosh", a cold arrow steadily shot into the load-bearing pillar in the room, and the arrow feathers seemed to be still trembling slightly, bringing a chill that people couldn't help but be a little afraid of.

"This ......" Liu Qianwen's heart couldn't help but feel a little cold, if it was a little more off, this arrow would have been shot into her or Nan Wuyang's head.

Nan Wuyang got up, walked unhurriedly towards the wooden pillar where the arrow hit, and easily pulled the arrow down with a raised hand.

At this time, Liu Qianwen saw this white strip of cloth tied to the arrow, and she also got up and stepped forward.

The two opened the strip of cloth and looked at it, but found that there was no handwriting on it, just a blank strip of cloth.

"What does that mean?"

Liu Qianwen frowned, she really couldn't think of the point of doing this, it couldn't be that this person tied the wrong strip of cloth, right?

"Maybe it's the wrong idiot." Nan Wuyang put away the white cloth a little indifferently.

One sentence almost didn't make Liu Qianwen choke to death on the spot, and then she became even more annoyed, "Don't take me for a fool, murdering the prince is a big crime!" Who would risk that? ”

"Maybe it's just a mistake."

"How is this possible, you ......"

"Whoosh!"

Nan Wuyang directly handed over the transfer to Liu Qianwen, and Liu Qianyu opened it and saw that it was empty again.

"Whoosh!" Another arrow shot steadily into the pillar,

Liu Qianwen didn't want to pay attention to it anymore, this situation continued twenty times, and they already had twenty strips of cloth in their hands.

Liu Qianwen and Nan Wuyang glanced at each other, and both of them saw doubts in each other's eyes.

When there was no movement outside, Liu Qianwen suddenly whispered in Nan Wuyang's ear, "Wuyang, do you think these strips of cloth are related to the Licheng flood?" ”

Nan Wuyang shook her head, but reached out to cover her lips, and the soft touch made the two of them suddenly stunned as if they were electrocuted.

"It's getting late, and it's time for Qianwen to rest." Saying that, Nan Wuyang took her hand down, and the landlord walked quickly towards the bed.

"Well, go to sleep." Nan Wuyang's voice was particularly warm in the dark, and in desperation, Liu Qianyu had to lie down obediently.

What happened today is truly incredible, whether it is the discovery that the calamity may be man-made or the twenty strips of cloth tonight.

For some reason, Liu Qianwen always felt that he seemed to know something, but since he didn't say it, she didn't want to ask much.

Liu Qianwen has been entangled in the things of the past few days in her heart, but she feels extremely bored in her heart, lying on the bed and tossing and turning, but she can't sleep.

Nan Wuyang naturally felt it, even though it was in the dark, he also hugged her constantly turning body accurately.

"Can't sleep?"

"Hmm!" Liu Qianwen had wanted to speak for a long time, but she thought that Nan Wuyang might be sleeping, so she didn't make a sound, "Wuyang, don't you can't sleep either?" ”

"Indeed, I can't sleep either," Nan Wuyang replied very honestly, "After all, you toss and turn like this, how does this king sleep." ”

"Oh." Liu Qianwen listened to his words and responded a little helplessly, "Okay, I'll lie down obediently, you can sleep." ”

But as soon as his body turned to the side, Nan Wuyang tightened his arms, forcing Liu Qianyu to turn around, clinging to his body tightly, and her voice suddenly became a little serious.

"Don't move." The voice landed, and then suddenly there was a sound of pressing the mechanism out of nowhere, and the bed suddenly leaked a big hole, and the two fell down in an instant.

"Ah...... Hmm...... "Liu Qianwen was frightened by this sudden feeling of weightlessness, and was about to scream, but Nan Wuyang directly blocked her lip flap with her lips, blocking her words.

Liu Qianyu looked at Nan Wuyang in a daze, and she couldn't even care that they were still falling. In the end, the sense of weightlessness disappeared, but Liu Qianwen still hugged Nan Wuyang tightly and didn't let go.

"Qianwen, if you don't let go, this king will be strangled to death by you." Nan Wuyang's joking voice came from his ears.

Liu Qianwen's face turned red, and she immediately stepped back, needless to say that she also knew that her face must be as red as a monkey's ass.

She looked around absentmindedly, wanting to hide her embarrassment, but at this glance, she was attracted.

Here, it seems to be a secret passage, which stretches down all the way, and I don't know where it leads.

There are torches lit by the wall, and it is obvious that there are often people coming here to replace the torches, so that it will never be extinguished.

At this time, Nan Wuyang also explained in a timely manner, "This is a secret passage that this king accidentally discovered, come with me." ”

As he spoke, he took Liu Qianwen's somewhat cold little hand and walked along the secret passage inside.

Liu Qianwen watched his big slender hand covering her hand, and her heart beat even more violently.

The secret passage is not too long, and at the end is a stone room with a layout that looks like a simple study.

There is a bed on the side, and on the inside, there is a large bookshelf.

Liu swept over the bookshelf and caught her attention in a small corner that was slightly gray.

The corner was a little dark and inconspicuous, but when I walked in, I found that there was a rusty knife lying in the corner, which looked useless for a long time.

This can't be some kind of sword, right?

"That knife is poisonous!" Nan Wuyang stretched out his hand to grab Liu Qianyu and forcefully took her into his arms.

"I'm sorry." Liu Qianyu's face was pale, and she was a little afraid at the moment, if it wasn't for Nan Wuyang's reminder just now, would she be dead. 398

"Why put a poisonous knife here?" Liu Qianwen muttered.

Nan Wuyang smiled and kissed her lightly on the forehead.

Liu Qianwen's face turned red and she broke free from his embrace, but thinking of the poisonous knife just now, she was afraid and didn't dare to go too far from Nan Wuyang.

"Lord Wang, I am suddenly very curious, what is Liu Zhanxiao's identity, although we are in the post station, but this is still the territory of Licheng, and the natural disasters in Licheng have nothing to do with him."

At this time, there was a sudden sound of footsteps outside the stone room, interrupting the conversation between the two. "Someone!"

Nan Wuyang was the first to react, and immediately decisively pulled Liu Qianwen to turn around and hide behind the bookshelf, holding Liu Qianyu tightly in her arms with both hands, and her eyes signaled her not to speak.

Liu Qianwen naturally understood what he meant, and just nodded slowly at the moment, cooperating with his movements, shrinking her body into his arms, trying to hide her body as much as possible.

Soon, a figure walked out of another secret passage, it was Liu Zhanxiao!

He paced back and forth in the stone chamber irritably, as if bothered by something.

Liu Qianwen couldn't help but wonder a little, why did Liu Zhanxiao look so distressed.

Suddenly, Liu Zhanxiao stopped, turned around and walked towards the bookshelf where the two were hiding.

He wouldn't have found them! Liu Qianwen was so nervous that her heart was about to jump out of her chest.

If Liu Zhanxiao finds out that the two of them are here, there will definitely be more inconveniences in the future, and things will become much more troublesome.

Liu Qianwen raised her eyes to look at Nan Wuyang a little nervously, but found that he was also solemn at the moment, and there was already a faint murderous aura in his deep black eyes.

But just when the two thought they had been exposed, Liu Zhanxiao suddenly stopped in front of the bookshelf.

I saw him tap lightly on the bookshelf a few times, and with a snap, a square protrusion appeared not far from his feet, and he opened it and picked up a book from it.

Then, he quickly turned and left.

Seeing him leave, Liu Qianwen breathed a sigh of relief, and even raised her hand and patted her chest with some fear, "Fortunately, he didn't find out, it really scared me to death." ”

"He shouldn't be killed." Nan Wuyang said coldly.

Liu Qianwen was taken aback, Nan Wuyang was murderous towards Liu Zhanxiao.

But this is not the time to discuss this in a hurry, Liu Qianwen stabilized her mind, "Let's go back quickly, I always think this place is weird." ”

"Okay." Nan Wuyang also agreed when he heard this, and then left the stone room with Liu Qianyu from the secret passage that he had just come.

"Lord Wang, when did you start suspecting Liu Zhanxiao?" This is the most curious place for Liu Qianwen.

If it weren't for the suspicion of Liu Zhanxiao, when they came back from watching the scenery before, Nan Wuyang would not have said something like that.

"The first day from this king to Licheng." Nan Wuyang's brows furrowed slightly, recalling that day, he found that Liu Zhanxiao was wrong.

"First day?" Liu Qianwen was obviously a little surprised, "How come, did he reveal any flaws?" ”

Nan Wuyang sighed and said, "After this king lived in the post station, he carefully inspected the room and found that secret passage for this king. ”

The corners of Nan Wuyang's mouth raised a sneer, "Thinking about it, Liu Zhanxiao didn't know that there was such a secret passage, otherwise, he wouldn't have arranged this king in." ”

"So, the prince sneaked into the secret passage, and then found the secret room?" Liu Qianwen took Nan Wuyang's words and spoke.

"After coming out of the secret passage, this king analyzed the terrain and found that the stone room was actually built under the city lord's mansion, and at that time he suspected that Liu Zhanxiao might have a problem, and then found that there might be a problem with the natural disaster in Licheng on that mountain, and this king began to investigate that Liu Zhanxiao."

What Nan Wuyang didn't say was that he found that there was a problem with the natural disaster, and it was just an accident.

That day, he wanted to test Liu Zhanxiao, and wanted to know about natural disasters from Liu Zhanxiao, but his answer was not leaky, after all, he had not really encountered natural disasters.

In addition, compared to the natural disaster, the layout here is really like that.

The disaster relief has also encountered a bottleneck, and the relief materials and funds of the imperial court have not been implemented, so I thought of which mountain top to go to relax.

But he didn't want to, so he discovered the secret of the natural disaster.

"After this king found out that the natural disaster in Licheng was suspicious that day, he wanted to explore Liu Zhanxiao's tone, but that guy's performance was always leaky, so people couldn't see any flaws, so this king directly told him the suspicion of the natural disaster."

"Then he won't be suspicious?" Liu Qianwen didn't understand Nan Wuyang's behavior of directly telling Liu Zhanxiao about the natural disaster.

After all, it's not good to startle a snake.

Suddenly, Nan Wuyang got up and handed the white cloth that was placed aside to Liu Qianwen, which was the white cloth that had just been shot from the window with the arrow, twenty.

"This fabric is clearly from the capital, or the disaster relief cloth personally escorted by the emperor's uncle." Liu Qianyu gasped and looked at Nan Wuyang in disbelief.

If natural disasters are man-made disasters, what about disaster relief materials? Where did Liu Zhanxiao go?

"Are you trying to say ......?"

Nan Wuyang nodded, "Because the disaster situation has improved, the newly arrived materials have not yet been distributed, so this king guesses that the mastermind behind this scene must have nothing to do with Liu Zhanxiao." ”

"Lord Wang, I want to call Du Zhen back." On the day King Jin Yu left, Du Zhen was sent by her to protect King Jin Yu, and she had a very bold guess in her heart......

Nan Wuyang nodded, "Wu Ding is also going to call back." ”

Wu Ding was sent by Liu Qianwen to investigate the situation in other towns.