She thought to herself, it seems that this incense ash was put in later, and it was only used to hide people's eyes and ears.

I was very reluctant to hold the incense ash with my hands, but there were no other objects available, and I was worried that Yanran outside would have three long and two short after a long time. Secretly sighed, I had to put my hand in and hold all the incense ashes on the tablecloth.

After the tripod is cleaned out, there are also pattern protrusions at the bottom. Mu Qingyan looked at the dim candle flame inch by inch, and reached out to touch it. It took two passes before a barely visible slit was found in the pattern. She knew that it was a secret door, and that it was empty.

If there is a dark grid, then there must be a switch. Mu Qingyan is the most familiar with this kind of thing, her eyes and hands are there, and she only finds the slightly different Ding wall once, and with a touch of her fingertips, the secret door at the bottom of the Ding slowly opens with a friction sound.

The moment the secret door opened, the desperate brocade on Mu Qingyan's right wrist shook open at the same time, and the internal force was covered with an umbrella mask on the secret door, even if there was a hidden weapon or something, there was no need to make a move, but his mind was really cautious.

There was no mechanism in the ding, and when she took the desperate brocade and looked closely, there was only a delicate wooden box at the bottom of the ding, no more than a foot long and no more than three inches thick, with a lock.

She didn't use the Xiaoyun Sword that cut gold and jade, and threw her hand back into the sheath behind her back. He pulled a thin stick from the bottom of his hair and stabbed it through the keyhole. With a twist and turn, the lock opened.

Some smug pursed his lips, thinking secretly: Sanjiu is afraid that he will be angry when he sees her hand.

This was originally what Sanjiu was best at, and she looked at it fun, so she learned from him.

There are several booklets in the box, the top one says 'Lock Throat Gun', and the other yellowed booklet is the secret of Qingshan Gate, and only one person in each generation has learned the 'Heavenly Remnant Hand!' There is also a bronze plaque the size of a palm: the head order. Underneath is a thick silk silk and a book of accounts of the sect's industry.

Mu Qingyan packed up a few things with satisfaction, pulled off half of the tablecloth and wrapped it and stuffed it into his arms. Turn around and buckle the box and lock it; The dark grid was restored, and the incense ash was poured back into the ding, the tablecloth was shaken clean and spread it back, and the tablets were moved back to their original positions one by one, and then they stood far away and looked at it for a while, and then dusted off the incense dust on their bodies and prepared to leave.

Shake off the secret weapon that will be triggered as soon as the door is opened, and only after flashing out of the door did he pull back the desperate brocade from the crack in the door, and he used his strength to throw it at several Xuansi who blocked the way, and easily walked out of the East Cross Courtyard and landed beside Yan Ran.

Yan Ran nervously circled around Mu Qingyan, and after making sure that she was well, the two of them bypassed the main hall and evacuated to the west.

Before he reached the small door, he saw someone walking towards the doorkeeper, shouting as he walked, "Qi Xiaoliu, can't you hear the shouting?" Don't think that if you have Senior Brother Fang's support, others won't dare to touch you, today Lao Tzu doesn't believe in evil. ”

Mu Qingyan casually picked up a stone and threw it in the opposite direction, and the sound of landing was extremely loud.

The man stopped and looked at the place where the stone had fallen, and after a long time he heard no more movement. He shouted, "Whoever is there, get out of here!" The Great Elder has an order not to move around! ”

No one replied.

The man waited for a while and saw no one, and when he turned around and wanted to go to the door to find trouble, Mu Qingyan shook his hand and another stone, which landed in the same place just now with the sound of the howling wind.

"Shout, Lao Tzu shouted that you don't come out, who?" The man ran away in a rage.

Mu Qingyan looked at the distance and flew over silently, and pointed at a hole for the man.

Yanran strode forward, opened the door halfway, and dodged out.

Mu Qingyan was behind, and he struck twice on the two of them, and the ruthless brocade wrapped around the door bolt, and closed the corner door while dodging out, pulling and pulling the bolt on. Retracted the ruthless brocade into his sleeves, and disappeared into the night out of nowhere.

On the way down the mountain, the two did their best, and before it was dark, they crossed the wall through the north gate and entered the city.

The two of them didn't go back to Qingqi Winery, and they really rushed all the way to the City Lord's Mansion.

Cang Xiuwen didn't follow him to Liufeng Pass, and this ostensible kung fu was probably done for Qin Yan to see. One is bright and one is dark, and neither side will suffer a loss.

This time, Yan Ran crossed the ridge through the room and landed on the patio of a courtyard.

After Mu Qingyan closed his eyes and listened carefully, he shook his head: "Cang Xiuwen is probably in the back house, so let's start from this study!" ”

Yanran nodded, and pushed the door in the moment Mu Qingyan opened the lock.

The two of them found a dark room from behind the bookcase, a thin silver thread that led to nowhere, and would break if they pushed open the bookshelves. Mu Qingyan searched carefully between the bookshelves for a long time, and then cracked the mechanism. opened the door lock in the previous way, and waited for a long time without seeing any more mechanisms, so she let Yanran in, and she stood at the door of the study and stared at it herself.

Yanran is a master of art and bold, without dragging his feet. Look at the rough place, look carefully where you should be looking, and in a moment, a box of silver tickets, land deeds and city lord tokens were all won by her.

Mu Qingyan looked at the things she brought out, and said in a low voice: "Cang Xiuwen is a person from Qingshan Gate, except for these, there will be no other valuable things here, let's withdraw!" ”

Yan Ran nodded, closed the door of the dark room, pushed back the bookshelf, and restored the mechanism according to the technique of Mu Qingyan earlier.

The sky was white, and there was a cough outside the hospital.

The two of them went out of the study, closed the door, crossed the corner, and left the city lord's mansion under the cover of the darkness of the last moment before dawn.

When I returned to Qingqi Winery, the sky was still gray, and the shopkeeper was waiting in the courtyard.

"Master, Lord Xin has come back with the news, and the Liufeng Pass has become a dead end!" After the shopkeeper Yan finished speaking, he stood aside with his hands down and waited for orders.

Mu Qingyan nodded, "Let him come back to the city and say that I have something important to find him!" ”

"Obey!" The shopkeeper Yan took two steps back, and then went to tell the men to prepare tea and food.

Yan Ran went upstairs first, threw the big burden on her back to the table in the inner room, and went to clean her hands first.

When Mu Qingyan came up, Yanran was preparing a change of clothes for her, "Master, I'll go and prepare bathing water for you, you can take a look at this pile of things first!" ”

Mu Qingyan took out the things in his arms and threw them on the table, without looking at them. As soon as he untied the Xiaoyun Sword, the shopkeeper Yan personally came upstairs with the tea, gently placed it on the table in the outer hall, turned around and left.

He put down his sword, moved to the outer hall and sat down, poured himself a cup of tea and drank it slowly.

Half a quarter of an hour later, Yanran came up with a bucket of hot water in each hand, poured it into the bath bucket behind the screen in the inner room, turned around and went down to lift it again, filled the bucket half full, dropped the bucket and sat down at the table, took the tea handed by Mu Qingyan and drank it.

After a cup of tea, Mu Qingyan got up and went to take a bath.

In the hot air, she stretched her slender body freely, and she was almost asleep.

When Yanran came in again, she had already freshened up, she walked behind the screen in a few steps, shook off the cloth towel and called: "Master, the water is a little cold, you should get up and come out!" ”

Mu Qingyan opened her eyes and let her wrap her hair in a cloth towel, then took her arm out of the bath bucket, and pulled a cloth towel to wipe the water droplets on her body, "You don't need to serve this, you can just rest after tossing all night!" ”

"I'm fine, it doesn't matter if it's in the middle of the night." Yanran wrapped her hair in a cloth towel and twisted it a few times, put on a close-fitting silk undershirt, covered her outer robe, and buttoned it one by one. "Shopkeeper Yan has prepared food, you can sleep for a while with some, Lord Xin didn't come back so soon."

The two of them came to the hall one after the other, ate some things briefly, and drank a cup of tea before asking the shopkeeper Yan to remove all the things. Returning to the table in the inner room and standing still, Mu Qingyan picked out one from the pile of things on the table, which was the thicker silk silk.

Yan Ran hurriedly moved the things on the table to the side, grabbed one end and slowly opened the silk silk. She half-opened her mouth in surprise: "This is the general map of Qingshan?" ”

"Hmm!" Mu Qingyan raised his hand and pointed to a place and said, "This is different from the one given by Cang Xiuwen!" ”

Yan Ran knew that her master had the ability to never forget, and she was busy looking at the difference. "Is this a little Zhuangzi? What is on the one given by the Lord of Cangcheng? ”

"Nothing, it seems that this is an industry in Qingshanmen!" Mu Qingyan looked at the map slowly, and casually pointed out five or six differences, "These places are not on the map for Qin Yan, wait a while and check the accounts of the Qingshanmen industry to see what these places are for." ”

"Good!" Yanran agreed, and secretly wrote down the names of those differences.

It took a long time for the two of them to finish reading the map, and Mu Qingyan found a total of eleven mistakes, or Zhuangzi or barriers, and pointed them out to Yan Ran one by one.

After folding the map, Mu Qingyan swept back the things on the table, picked up the bronze Qingshan Gate Master Token, and sneered, "This thing is estimated to not be rare even in Cangxin!" She threw her hand on the table and never looked at it again.

Yan Ran left the account alone, and packed the rest into a bag and threw it under the table casually. "Master, just sleep for a while!" After saying that, he went out with only the book.

In other words, when Mu Qingyan returned to Qingqi Winery, Cang Xiuwen sent the people who went to Tianyi Pavilion to keep an eye on Qin Yan, because he had only seen him once yesterday morning, and even Jiang Tao beside him was not seen when he got up early today, so he hurriedly returned to the house to report.

"City Lord, could the Tiger King have gone to the Liufeng Pass?" The cronie asked.

Cang Xiuwen knew about the actions of Qingshan Gate, although Xia Mu soldiers had 200,000 soldiers, and they were taking the dark road of Qingshan Gate, as long as the Liufeng Pass was silent, it would be difficult for Qin Yan to detect even if he had the ability to reach the sky.

But since yesterday, it has been a day and a night, could it be that he has the ability to predict the future, and he will personally go to block the passage of the wind? Cang Xiuwen denied this possibility in his heart, "Although others are in Chuzhou City, they only bring a long-term entourage and a very amorous woman, and they don't see a single soldier in addition, what can they do to stop the robbery at the Liufeng Pass?" ”

"The city lord is right, as long as you pass through the Liufeng Pass, it will be like a bamboo, and the capital is just around the corner!" Hearing his analysis, his cronies were immediately reassured.

Cang Xiuwen was still not at ease, "Let Yulin go and take a look, and say that you will invite the Tiger King to come over to eat and drink!" ”

The cronie went to find Cang Yulin and didn't need to say in detail, but after the two of them knocked on the door when they arrived at Tianyi Pavilion, a very beautiful woman opened half of the door with a tired face, and her voice was like a broken jade but with all kinds of impatience, "Whose dog paws, don't want it?" ”

When Cang Yulin saw her, he immediately hugged his fists and politely saluted: "Grandfather asked Yulin to invite the Tiger King to come over to drink, please give a ......" He was still unfinished, but the door slammed shut.

"Another day, this king is very tired today!" After the woman closed the door, a man's lazy and frosty voice floated out of the crack in the door.

The staccato sound of conversation outside the door faded away.

Mu Qingyan yawned, "You are really a thief, and you even used this trick." That deity played with you once, but don't regret it! ”

Yanran turned over on the couch, muttered something, and fell asleep with peace of mind.

At noon, Natsume's 200,000 soldiers will rest outside the Liufeng Pass.

The second prince, Chu Jue, was dressed in armor, surrounded by a group of martial arts masters, riding majestically on a horse, and entered the Liufeng Pass first. His full ambition to clench his fists all the way is still a noble habit above the royal family.

Although he and Chu Li were not born to the same mother, they received a lot of favors from Chu Li. He has a weak temperament and has not been liked by Emperor Ming Yu since he was a child, and even the throne he received was begged for by Chu Li. Yes, Chu Li imprisoned Prince Yue as the emperor, and he was the most effective helper. In the fifth year of Natsume, Chu Li sneaked back to Eastern Chu first, leaving Chu Jue alone to personally bring the 200,000 reinforcements that could help him restore the country.

Behind Chu Jue, there are An Jingran and Jieyuan in Songlin Temple, as well as some heirs of the family at sunset, and even the nobles of the front hall who were cut off their titles after Chu Jue ascended the throne.

Qin Yan stood at the bow of the boat in a low-key manner and went down the water.

Xinglong County is now full of devastation, and Natsume's barbarian soldiers have marched, and they can't avoid disaster when they close their doors. The Chuli people who walked with the Natsume soldiers have long been tired of being incognito in the past few years, and now they have entered the town, which is not much better than the barbaric Natsume soldiers.

This is the chaos of the world's strife, and the epidemic of World War I always has to be raised for more than ten years before it can return to heaven. There was a faint sadness in Qin Yan's eyes, and he didn't have time to restrain himself, and he all went away with the twilight rain.

Just half an hour after all the Natsume soldiers entered the Liufeng Pass, Bai Yanfeng personally arrived with 20,000 horses from the pioneer battalion. After some arrangement, Liufeng's dumb mouth was like the mouth of a gourd, blocked by Qin Yan's people, and it was difficult to pour out a person.

Cang Xin intercepted An Jingran's carrier pigeon on the cliff, replaced the pre-approved news into a small bamboo tube on the pigeon's leg, and then released it.

Within three days, the capital will be in chaos.

At that time, the corpses were all over the wilderness in the canyon of Yangui Mountain, even if they could break through the exit of Longquan Town, they could not cross the Beiding Bridge, and they would all die.

After a night of rapid marching, the troops stopped after dawn to rest.

Even though Chu Jue had 200,000 Natsume barbarians in hand, he was still uneasy, especially in the valley where both sides were cliffs. He had already received the news that Qin Yan was personally guarding Chuzhou City, and although he took the secret passage of Qingshan Gate's century-old operation, he still did not dare to let the soldiers rest at night, for fear that they would be attacked by the dark wind at night.

With Qin Yan's strategy, if he is ambushed, there is almost no chance of victory.

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