Outside the Regent's Palace.

As the night darkened, the sky was pitch black, with only the occasional speckling of starlight emerging from the clouds.

The faint moon was covered by dark clouds, and her face appeared from time to time.

There was a light footstep in his ears, and Rong So, wrapped in black, moved slightly.

He watched as his subordinates took advantage of the darkness of the night to pile up layers and stacks of objects at the back door of the Regent's Palace.

Although the regent is now in power, his foundation is not deep, the back door is not suitable and the front door is so well arranged, there is only one guard guarding the door.

After nightfall, the back alley was very empty, and the guard thought that no one dared to offend the current regent who was in power, so he inevitably slackened a little, and found a comfortable position at random, and then dozed off.

Just a wall away, the guard didn't even notice that the back alley had been piled up with a lot of things.

"Master." After everything was arranged one after another, Bai Zhi quickly landed in front of Rong Yu and said sullenly.

"It's settled."

Rong Gu raised his head slightly to look at the sky, but did not speak.

Bai Zhi also retreated to the side after all, remembering Bai Qi's warning, he didn't dare to make a sound.

After waiting here for a while, Bai Qi touched it at some point, and landed on Rong Yu's side, and in the dark, he felt something in his arms.

It's just that the night is dim, and Bai Zhi can't see what Bai Qi has delivered to Rong Gu's arms.

Bai Zhi could only faintly perceive that since he took over the things in Bai Qi's hand, the aura around Rong Qi's body seemed to be slightly manic.

Just as Bai Zhi was speculating in his heart, he listened to Bai Qi speak in a deep voice. "Master, a letter from home."

It's just that Bai Qi's words were interrupted by Rong Yu's raised hand, his figure was slightly lowered, and his eyes turned to the alley.

Bai Qidon stopped talking.

......

Yun Zhen was able to grope her way outside the imperial study between the heavy garrisons of the palace as a woman, and it was naturally with the help of Qian Qian.

Although Yun Zhen opened his mouth to find him and asked for tonight's garrison array, he was very surprised.

In the end, although Qian Qian did what Yun Zhen wanted, he still gave Yun Zhen a lot of tips and help.

Yun Zhen hid in the dark, and when the guards outside the imperial study were changed, she quietly slipped into the imperial study from the windowsill.

The study was very dim, only a candlestick was burning on the long table, flickering and dimming, and this faint light shrouded the entire study in it.

Yun Zhen squinted slightly, lowered the windowsill slightly, and then wandered around the room, first groping around the legs of the dark ironwood long table.

She also stayed in this imperial study for a short time, and she could easily find a mechanism somewhere.

Yun Zhen's fingers tapped slightly on the table.

However, because she was very familiar with this study, there were many mechanisms that she had turned over and over, and there were no mechanisms that she had not cracked.

Yun Zhen thought quickly in her mind, and between thoughts, her hands unconsciously stroked the golden hairpin hidden deep in her sideburns, revealing only a plum horn.

She reached out and took the golden hairpin into her hand, rubbing the hairpin foot with both hands.

Zhao Qinxiu risked her life to stay in Kyoto for one more day, just to give her this golden hairpin, which must be the key thing.

Maybe it's more important than the keys she gave her earlier.

Now, then, she had to think carefully about where there was such a hole in the imperial study, similar to a hole-like object.

Yun Zhen paced a few steps in the room with the golden hairpin in her hand, but there were no thoughts in her head.

When she stepped forward slowly, she couldn't bear the corner of her skirt being hooked by something, and Yun Zhen glanced down slightly.

But she didn't dare to make a move, she gritted her teeth, took out a small night pearl from her arms, and held it in her hand.

The Night Pearl is just the size of a thumb, and the light is very soft, so the study is a little brighter, and others don't care too much.

Yun Zhen squatted down with the Night Pearl and lifted the tablecloth, realizing that her robe was now hooked by the strange cloud patterns outlined on the legs of the iron spiral wooden desk.

Yun Zhen frowned slightly, feeling very strange in her heart, although there are some cloud patterns on this table leg, it is very smooth and flat in her hand, how to hook her robe?

Yun Zhen felt very strange in her heart, and couldn't help but tentatively reach out and rub it from top to bottom, and when she touched half of the table legs, there were some potholes under her fingers, but they were very regular.

A glimmer of something flew through Yun Zhen's mind, and she grasped it tightly in her hand.

With a crisp creak, the place that was no more than the size of Yun Zhen's palm was forcibly twisted by Yun Zhen.

Under the illumination of the night pearl, Yun Zhen could clearly see that the lines of the cup turned were combined with the various patterns of the table legs.

Unexpectedly, this table leg depicts a swimming dragon with missing eyes.

Yun Zhen was slightly shocked in her heart, and swept away.

The dragon's body hovered over the foot of the table, and its body was covered with dense moire, and because the most important piece was missing before, it only felt that the lines of the table leg were very delicate and beautiful, and there was no other thought.

The memories in Yun Zhen's mind were rapidly connected.

finally understood what her father meant when he called her to the bedside and kept repeating the words before he died.

Finishing touch.

After Yun Zhen stretched out her hand and twisted it, putting the dragon's head back in place.

Vera could distinctly feel the creaking of the long table beneath her hand, and then a dull crumbling sound came from the center of the long table.

If it weren't for Yun Zhen's excellent ear power, I am afraid that she would have almost missed it.

Yun Zhen lifted the tablecloth and climbed in, and saw that a small drawer-like object was exposed in the middle of the long table, and the object stood out very abruptly, and after Yun Zhen fumbled around, she only found a small hole around it.

Yun Zhen looked at it carefully for a long time, gestured, and then sent the golden hairpin in his hand.

Then the box snapped open, and if it weren't for Yun Zhen's preparation, she hugged the box in her arms.

The slender wooden box, which was about the size of two palms, probably fell directly to the ground.

After taking this object, Yun Zhen finally breathed a sigh of relief, and was about to lift the tablecloth and bow out.

But I only heard the door outside, as if someone suddenly reached out and pushed it open.

Yun Zhen's heart sank, holding the long and narrow wooden box and not daring to move, listening intently to the movement outside.

"Your Highness will come to the room to read at night later, and you have to prepare one or two." The faint voice should have been the man who had just entered.

"Your Highness seems to have been working very hard lately."

There should be two people coming in, and Yun Zhen squatted motionless under the long table.

The two should be talking to the eunuch who was waiting for Hua Zijing to read at night, and was lighting the lamp in the room at this moment.

After a while, the study was brightly lit.

"This study was originally gloomy, some time ago, His Royal Highness didn't dare to stay alone in this imperial study during the day, and I don't know what happened these days, even at night, I want to stay in this imperial study, it's really unreasonable."

"Be careful!"

"If it is heard by the manager Bi next to His Highness, is it good for you?"

"Pack up and go out with me!"

One of the eunuchs, whose voice was slightly mature, lowered his voice a little, and after reprimanding the man in a low voice, he was ready to withdraw.

Fortunately, Yun Zhen didn't wait long, and the two retreated one after another.

After waiting for a moment, Yun Zhen came down from the foot of the table, thought carefully for a moment, and then reached out to put the place back in place, and when she was done with all this, she was about to bow out.

Unexpectedly, a dark passage appeared behind the table and chair at some point, because the opening was not big, and a gap was tightly exposed, if it wasn't for facing Yun Zhen, Yun Zhen was afraid that he would not be able to detect it for a while.

The wind that blew from the dark passages swept the sideburns that fell from the corners of her forehead.

Yun Zhen was slightly stunned, and her eyes subconsciously fell on the candlestick on the long table, only to see that the candlestick was pouring slightly, which should have been inadvertently touched by the two of them before.

There was a mechanism under the candlestick, and she knew it all too well.

But this mechanism is by no means so simple, it still needs to open the things next to it, and this candlestick is only the last step.

Since it was so simple and easily opened, it means that this secret passage should have been opened recently.

Able to open the secret passage in this imperial study.

Yun Zhen's breath stagnated slightly, and her heart skipped a beat when she thought of what the two had said before that Hua Zijing would come in tonight.

For some reason, Yun Hao faintly felt that there was something in the secret passage calling to her.

The ghost sent the gods, Yun Zhen stretched out her hand, twisted the candlestick, and watched the dark passage open silently.

This secret passage was only used to store some books and valuables next to it, Yun Zhen knew very well in her heart, but it was during her lifetime.

After her, what did Hua Zijing put in it?

If it was the things she originally placed, Hua Zijing would never have entered this dark room night and night.

Yun Zhen's eyebrows raised slightly, and for some reason, she pinched the hand of the night pearl, trembling slightly.

She had some hunch that what she saw tonight was not what she wanted to see.

It's just that the shouts that keep popping up in her heart are constantly urging her, step by step, and take a closer look at what Hua Zijing is doing in this dark room.

The dark room is very deep, divided into two floors, and the upper floor still houses the books she used to put up, and there are no major changes.

But the more Yun Zhen walked down the floor, the more he could faintly feel the dampness of the lower layer, and the chill that penetrated into the bones.

An indescribable smell of herbs poured into the tip of her nose.

The farther down she went, she could hear her heartbeat rising from between her chest.

In fact, after smelling the indescribable smell, Yun Zhen's brain buzzed, as if something was about to float out of her body.

She was getting more and more miserable.

It's just her feet, and she finally stepped on the last layer.

The place where some rare treasures should have been placed has been emptied.

There are two bodies side by side.

Coffin.