Yan Niang followed a girl into the backyard through the side door of Qifeng Building, and then followed her to a remote room. The girl brought a few plates of snacks and said to her with a smile: "My aunt has gone out to do some business today, and she has not come back yet, she told her that if the girl comes, she will sit here first, and she will be there in less than an hour." ”

Yan Niang picked up a piece of mung bean cake, put it in her mouth and sipped it gently, and then said with a smile, "Hua Gu's things are really high-quality, this snack seems ordinary, but it is actually made with good butter, and it is not greasy to eat, which is really rare." ”

The girl was a little proud, but she said, "The girl said that she laughed, but you should have heard that our aunt is very well-connected, and even knows a lot of people in the court, so it is natural that she has high requirements for food." ”

"Of course," Yan Niang echoed casually, "I'll just stay by myself, Qifenglou has a lot of things, so the girl is busy." ”

The little girl leaned over, then turned and walked out the door, and disappeared in a moment into the winding pavilions.

Yan Niang stood up and looked at this room, it is not big, but it is gorgeously furnished, the whole room is hung with brocade decorated with gold flowers, the wall is set off with golden brilliance, and the furnishings are also extremely luxurious, the finely carved jade-inlaid wood table is set up next to a large Ru kiln porcelain vase, inserted with a dense cluster of spring flowers, with the breeze that breaks into the window to stretch the figure. Outside the window, the powder wall is encircled, the green willows hang around, the whole courtyard is magnificent, graceful and luxurious, clear and exquisite.

Yan Niang seemed to be attracted by the beautiful scenery in the courtyard, slowly walked out of the room, towards the depths of the courtyard, she passed through a hanging flower door, and found that there was a huge rockery in front of her, and wild vines drilled out of the stone cave, winding the whole mountain, and sticking out of dark green leaves to the outside. The rockery group rises one after another, the dangerous peaks stand upright, and the strange rocks are craggy, as if they may fall down at any time.

"It takes a lot of effort just to transport these boulders in, not to mention the fact that you have to build a mountain piece by piece, this birch girl is really powerful, and even the backyard where she lives is repaired so luxuriously." Yan Niang muttered in her heart, but her eyes were attracted by a cave in the southwest corner of the rockery. The hole was more than two feet high, and only a child could barely get in, and if it were an adult, it would probably have to crawl to get through. The rattan in the cave stretched outward, like the tentacles of a monster.

A breeze blew, bringing with it an ominous smell, Yan Niang's nose fluttered, and the corners of her mouth immediately flashed with that elusive smile. She walked to the entrance of the cave and bent down to look inside. Her fingers touched the vapory wall of the hole, and a cat slipped into it.

The inside of the cave is very dark, and from time to time sharp stone points pop up, and if you are not careful, you will cut your head. But Yan Niang walked quickly, as if she had long since adapted to this thorough darkness. She made her way down the winding cavern, her body moving like a snake.

After walking about 100 steps, the cave gradually became spacious, and the water on the roof of the cave fell to the ground, splashing a small splash. Yan Niang stopped moving, she raised her head, and found that there was something faintly squirming on the stone wall above, her eyes shrunk into a thin slit, and finally saw these things hidden in the shadows clearly, they were one by one, soft and elastic, and the sticky body was covered with bulges. Their heads are pointed, covered with a shiny black shell. The eyes should have deteriorated, like two lumps of white mucus, clinging to the top of the head.

The smell that had been faintly present at the entrance of the cave reached its peak here, it was the stench of rotting flesh, the smell of a dead man's stomach.

"Disgusting monster." Yan Niang said expressionlessly, she suddenly had a boxy handkerchief in her hand, the silver light flashed from the handkerchief suddenly illuminated the hole as bright as day, she was just about to throw the handkerchief to the top of her head, but suddenly heard a faint breathing sound next to her, she squinted her eyes and swept towards the source of the sound, just about to walk over, but heard several consecutive shouts from outside the rockery, "Don't let people run, hurry, catch him." ”

Yan Niang put away her handkerchief and ran out of the cave with a smoke, she saw a team of people running from a distance, so she turned around and prepared to return to the room just now, but she just took two steps, and suddenly her whole body jumped upward, grabbing a figure hidden in the rockery.

"Master Cheng," after seeing clearly the figure dressed in a small girl's clothes and covering half of his face with a hat, Yan Niang took her hand back from his collar, "How could it be you?" ”

Cheng Muyou was also stunned for a moment, and then made a "shhh" gesture at her, and then pointed to the path in front of her, Yan Niang turned her head, and she saw that Hua Gu's huge body was bypassing the layers of flower branches, and a group of people were hurrying in their direction.

Yan Niang glanced at Cheng Muyou, motioned for him to hide on the rockery, and then jumped down lightly, her face resurfaced with the usual coldness, and then straightened her sweaty hair and walked over to Aunt Hua.

"Aunt Hua, you're back, I've been waiting for a long time to enjoy all the scenery in this courtyard."

"Miss Yan," the Hua Gu couldn't help but be taken aback when she saw Yan Niang appear in front of her coldly, but she quickly changed to an old-fashioned smile, "Wait a long time, I won't tell you, I have already arrived, but I actually ran into a thief in the garden, and there was more than one," she said as she looked behind Yan Niang, "Did the girl see two people in blue clothes passing by just now?" ”

"No," Yan Niang blurted out without thinking about it, "What kind of thief is so bear-hearted and leopard-guts, the blue sky and the white day, stole your Qifeng Tower." ”

Hua Gu didn't seem to be at ease, she looked at the rockery behind Yan Niang again, and found that she couldn't find half of the ghost shadow, so she told the people behind her, "Let them search carefully, I obviously saw two people just now, remember, turn the whole garden over, and you have to find out those two people for me, do you hear?" ”

The group nodded like chickens pecking rice, and left in a hurry.

Yan Niang looked at Aunt Hua's crumpled fat face, and said softly with a smile, "I don't have to be a thief, it may be a few half-old children, who are at the age of blood and strength, and have already heard of the girls in Qifenglou, so I came over to take a peek." ”

She saw that Aunt Hua's expression softened a little, and then continued, "If you really want to catch them, you must quickly lock the door leading to the main building, otherwise these people will take advantage of the chaos to escape from there, and it will not be easy to chase them with great fanfare." ”