Although the Jiang Mansion still has a plaque of the General's Mansion, in fact, after Jiang Shu's brother died in battle, the General's Mansion has no successor, and the military power has been handed over to the imperial court for many years.

The General's Mansion can't see anything from the outside, and there are also guards at the door on weekdays, but because there are only Jiang Shu and his nephew Jiang Haoxuan in the mansion now, one big and one small, Jiang Shu has lived in a simple house over the years, and rarely deals with outsiders, and the house has always been clean.

At night, the General's Mansion seemed even quieter, the lights in the outer courtyard had long been extinguished, and there was silence and darkness all around, as if it had really fallen into a deep sleep.

But only those who are in it know that there are countless pairs of eyes hidden in the darkness.

Ning Shuang and Xiaoru were hidden in the dark, and after experiencing the inexplicable false alarm just now, they didn't dare to take it lightly, but when they sneaked in, they still found that they underestimated the defense in the General's Mansion too much.

Such a master lives in a simple general's mansion all the year round, but the defense is so tight, no matter how you look at it, it is unusual.

In addition to the patrolling guards in the mansion, there are countless secret guards hidden in all corners, although they are very well hidden, it seems that they can't even breathe, but after all, they can't escape Xiaoru's detection.

After quietly observing, Xiaoru gestured to Ning Shuang to be careful, and then chose a direction, and the two quietly avoided the patrolling guards and the secret sentry in the house.

The further she went, the more cautious and cautious she became, and the more surprised she became, she had guessed that there might be a secret in the General's Mansion, but now it seemed that this secret was not small.

When the two of them finally entered the inner courtyard, it was easy to enter.

Gesturing quietly to Xiaoru, the two of them quietly swept towards a room with orange lights flashing.

Xiaoru probed carefully and found that in addition to the two guards guarding the door, there were several secret guards hidden in the courtyard.

The two crept into the roof of the lighted room in the middle of the courtyard and lay motionless on it. Even his breathing was so constricted that he couldn't hear it, and the red tile in front of Ning Shuang was quietly moved away from a small gap.

In the room, a thin little boy about six or seven years old was squatting on the ground, and there were all kinds of children's toys scattered on the ground, the toys looked relatively delicate, most of them were very rare on the market, and the little boy was playing with his head down, and he couldn't see his face clearly.

In addition to the little boy, there were two little maids in the room who were waiting carefully.

A short time later, the door of the room was opened from the outside, and a woman of about twenty-six or seventeen years of age entered, followed by two little maids.

A little maid holds a tray with a celadon bowl full of medicinal juice on it.

Another little maid brought a copper basin filled with water.

The clouds, which had been brewing and gathering since the afternoon, finally moved, and the sky began to rain lightly, first with one or two droplets of water falling on the face, which was cool and cool, and then gradually getting bigger.

The rain soon drenched the frost and Xiaoru lying on the roof, and the sound of the rain was mixed with the faint sound of beating in the distance!

"Little boy, it's time to drink medicine!" The woman motioned for the maid behind her to put the medicine bowl on the table that had been moved against the wall, walked over to the little boy and crouched down, and whispered.

"Can you wait a while before drinking?" The little boy glanced up at the table by the wall and pouted.

"Little boy, be good! If you miss the time, the effect of the medicine will not be good, and my aunt will be angry when she comes back! The woman took the boy by the hand, took the toy he was still holding, and handed it to the little maid who was waiting, and motioned for them to put away all the toys on the floor.

The woman took the little boy up and took him to the side of the washstand, carefully washed the boy's bony hands, took a clean white towel from the shelf and helped him wipe the water off his hands, and then led him to the table and sat down.

Although the little boy was reluctant, he also cooperated obediently.

Under the light of the candle flame, the little boy's skin showed an unusually transparent white, so close that even the deep black veins under his skin could be seen clearly.

His eyes were also dark purple and bloodshot, and the color of his lips was also dark purple, and at first glance, the little boy's face actually looked a little hideous and terrifying.

The little boy sat down at the table, and when he lifted his face, the angle of the frost was just right to his face, and although the view from the roof was not very good, it also surprised her.

I saw the woman smile and pick up the medicine on the table, and the spoon was gently stirred a few times before she began to feed the little boy with a face that looked like death.

Frost sniffed, and a trace of bloody breath poured into his nose with the thick smell of medicine.

After the woman had finished feeding the boy and drinking the medicine, she had put the boy to sleep before she went out with the two maids who had come with her.

Ning Shuang glanced at Xiaoru in the dark, arguing about the less obvious footsteps in the rain, and cautiously followed.

The woman walked slowly along the cloister, asked the little maid to bring her an umbrella, and sent them all away.

The woman walked to the end of the corridor, slowly opened the umbrella in her hand, looked up slightly at the distant sky, stood still for a long time, and then disappeared into a dark and rainy night.

The rain was already getting heavier and heavier, and the sound of the rain and darkness hid the frost and Xiaoru's whereabouts well.

The woman walked through the main courtyard and went all the way to the west, and at last the woman went around a mossy rockery and into a small inconspicuous courtyard hidden behind a dense forest and weeds.

The small courtyard looks ordinary, even dilapidated, like an uninhabited and unvisited deserted courtyard that has been forgotten for many years.

The path in and out of the small yard is also hidden in the weeds behind such a rockery, and if someone leads the way, I am afraid that it will be difficult for ordinary people to find this place.

There are only three rooms in the courtyard, but the guards in the courtyard are no less than those in the main courtyard.

The woman put away her umbrella, laid it away against the pillar, and entered the middle room, which seemed to be dilapidated, covered with dust and cobwebs.

The woman didn't care, she walked around the worn-out furniture, walked behind an equally shabby and dusty bed, and bent down to press a button at the foot of the bed.

Then the floor under the bed silently cracked a crack more than a person wide.

The woman listened intently to the movement, and then the cat fell into the cracks in the ground.

After a while, the edge of the ground closed silently, and there was no abnormality to be seen from the outside.

Ning Shuang and Xiaoru were still lying on the roof, because the mechanism and the crack in the ground were hidden under the bed, and they couldn't see it, but the woman disappeared from the side of the bed, and she didn't need to look at it, so she naturally knew where the mechanism was hidden.

The two lay on their stomachs on a rainy night for almost an hour, and the woman finally reappeared in the house.

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