Yao Qi looked at the boy he had just discovered carefully, and said with a worried brow: "My lord, the hot spring water is drawn from the ground, and the underground water extends in all directions, if there is indeed a problem with the water in that hot spring village, then the people on the entire Yuhua Mountain are in danger." She paused slightly, a little panicked: "What about today's banquet......

Han Changdui chuckled in his heart, and shook his head again: "The water used in the banquet has been tested for poison. Ah, you," he hesitated for a moment, and raised his eyes to stare at Yao Qi, "You go and order ten internal guards, and come with me to the hot spring Zhuangzi to check."

Yao Qi did not hesitate to claim yes.

Han Changdui called He Zhenfu, arranged the affairs in the palace, and looked at Yao Ji to stop talking.

Yao said abruptly, "Your Excellency doesn't have to worry about being humble."

Han Changdui moved his lips and condensed a smile, "Okay."

When Han Changdui arrived, the hot spring Zhuangzi had already been surrounded by the internal guard regiment that had rushed first.

"Your Excellency." One of the guards came out of the hot spring pool: "My lord, there is no one in it, and there is no water in the pool."

Han Changdui nodded, walked around the screen to the soup pool, and looked at the empty pool without the slightest surprise, only to see that the water stains at the bottom of the pool had not completely dried up.

He reached out and picked up a little water stain, put it under his nose and sniffed it carefully, smelling a sweet and greasy smell, and couldn't help but show a hint of understanding.

These bloodstain-like water marks, as Yao Qi said, have nothing to do with blood.

"My lord, these are definitely not blood, and I can't see what these things are." Yao Qi said in a low voice.

Han Changdui frowned slightly: "Like, some kind of medicine soaked in water."

Yao Qi was frightened: "My lord, what kind of medicine is this, this is going to harm the people on Yuhua Mountain."

Han Changwan looked at the white marble pool where every brick was tightly fitted, and squinted: "If you want to harm people along the underground water basin, the leaking place must be in the pool."

Hearing this, Yao Qi took the lead in jumping into the pool, carefully tapping inch by inch on the wall and bottom of the pool.

In the middle of the night, she knocked on the two white marble masonry at the bottom of the pool and exclaimed, "My lord, it's empty down here!"

"Is it empty?" Han Changwan hurriedly jumped off the pool, and together with Yao Qi, he groped in the pool, and soon felt an obvious bulge on the wall of the pool.

"Ah, you go up first." Han Changdui said in a low voice.

Yao Qi let out a "hitch" and jumped out of the pool.

Han Changdui patted lightly on the raised stone.

There was a soft "squeak" sound at the bottom of the pool.

The two pieces of white marble fell in unison, revealing a deep black cavern that could only be passed through by one person.

Han Changdui held a lamp and candle and shone it at the entrance of the cave.

A downward stone staircase was polished and glowed with a cold glow in the light of the lamplight.

"My lord, how's it going?" Yao Qi jumped back to the soup spring pool and leaned over to the entrance of the cave to take a closer look.

Han Changdui said thoughtfully: "It's very deep, I can't see the situation below, I still have to go in and have a look."

"Go down first." Yao Qi took the candle flame and took the lead to walk down the cave.

The stone steps are at the bottom of the dark and damp hot spring pond all year round, and every stone is soaked and slippery.

Yao Qi walked step by step, extra carefully.

There were only a dozen stone steps, and Yao Qi quickly came to the end, and his eyes became extremely spacious.

The light of the lamp and candle in Yao Qi's hand was like a bean, and it could only illuminate the square inch in front of him, but there was a faint golden glimmer flickering in the darkness.

The underground cave under this hot spring pond was dug out by hand, and the surrounding stone walls are full of unmodified traces of slashing with knives and axes.

A narrow ditch was built close to the uneven surrounding corners, and the ditch dried up without water.

In the center of the cave is an intricately ornamented bronze bell.

Yao Qi was extremely surprised, and hurriedly walked to the chime, holding the lamp and candle, and looked at each other carefully.

It's in

At this time, there was a sudden sound of footsteps behind her, and she turned around to see Han Changdui also walking down, and hurriedly pointed to the bronze bell and said, "Look, my lord, here, how can there be such a thing?"

Han Changdui narrowed his eyes and raised his hand to light the wall lamp on the wall.

The underground caverns suddenly became as bright as day, and the surrounding situation became extremely clear.

At the same time, there were a few short and terrible screams outside, which sounded particularly intimidating.

Han Changwan and Yao Qi glanced at each other in astonishment, both of them noticed the ominousness, and rushed to the entrance of the cave together.

Unexpectedly, with a loud "bang" at this time, the two stones that fell down were reunited again, leaving no gaps.

The two looked at each other in amazement.

"My lord, this," Yao Qi stopped talking in horror.

"Shhhh

The quiet cave suddenly sounded the crisp sound of gurgling water, faintly mixed with the ethereal music of the bell chime.

The two of them followed the prestige, only to see that there were countless tiny hollows in the uneven stone wall, and streams of thin clear spring water flowed out of the holes, and a thin layer of stagnant water was laid in the ditch that was still dry.

The strange thing is that after the crystal clear spring water falls into the ditch, it turns into four distinct colors.

A dead branch with more than one palm in the ditch rippled with the water, because the water in the ditch was still too shallow, the dead branch only swayed slightly, and did not flow forward.

Seeing this scene, the two couldn't help but be surprised and hurriedly walked over.

I saw that there were suddenly two more stone statues in the ditch, and the top of the stone statue's head was just level with the edge of the ditch.

"My lord, there are no two stone statues in this canal." Yao was dumbfounded.

Han Changdui looked at it carefully for a moment: "Looking at the appearance of these two women, how can they be a little familiar?"

Yao Qi's eyebrows jumped: "It looks like a stone statue of Lu Zhaoyi and Aunt Liu."

Hearing this, Han Changdui suddenly felt ominous.

Yao Ji didn't speak, ran up the stone steps in three steps and two steps, and pushed the tight stone slabs that were pushed hard: "My lord, these two stone slabs are closed and can't be pushed open."

Han Changwan pursed his lips and was about to speak, when a rough and ugly sneer suddenly came from above his head, which frightened Yao Qi and fell down the stone steps at once.

"Hahahaha, Han Shizi, let's meet again." The sound came from overhead, and it seemed to be very close to the underground cavern, and the buzzing sound spread through all corners of the cavern.

Han Changwan picked up Yao Qi and patted the dust on her body before raising his voice: "Fuxiang, it turns out that if you leave the Han Palace, you will only pretend to be a ghost and kill the innocent!"

The voice above her head was silent for a moment, and then Fu Xiang laughed wildly again: "The little woman's face has long been unrecognizable, and Han Shizi can still recognize it, but it's really, embarrassing for Shizi."

Han Changdui stood with his hands in his hands, and said unhurriedly, "Fuxiang, you didn't trap us here just to talk this nonsense, right?"

Fu Xiang didn't seem to expect Han Changdui to go straight into it so single-handedly, and was really stunned for a moment before chattering and laughing: "Naturally not, Han Shizi, have you seen the two stone statues in the ditch?" The water has submerged the stone statue, and the two of you, oh no, the people at the feast tonight, will be sacrifices, Han Shizi, there is not much time left for you."

"Sacrifice, what sacrifice?"

"Fuxiang, to whom do you want to present the people in the great hall tonight?"

"Fuxiang, what are you planning in a frenzy!"

A burst of arrogant laughter sounded, and no matter how much Han Changdui asked any more questions, Fu Xiang didn't say a word again.

After only a few moments, the water in the ditch became a little deeper.

Yao Qi stared at the tiny holes in the wall, and said at a loss, "My lord, there are so many water outlets, and they can't be blocked."

"You can't stop it." Han Changdui shook his head, and suddenly his gaze froze: "Why does this piece of dead wood seem to be different from Fang Cai?"

Yao Ji got there

When he looked closer, he exclaimed in surprise, "Here, hell, there are leaves growing on the dead wood."

There are a few more green leaves on the black dead wood, swaying without wind.

In just a blink of an eye, the green leaves grew from a tiny leaf tip to the size of half a palm, and the dense leaves were covered with a whole piece of dead wood.

The two stared intently at the dead wood, watching it flow from the turquoise water to the bright red water.

And among those few bright green leaves, a weak red flower grew out of thin air.

The branches are windless, and the safflowers grow more and more, but the green leaves gradually become sparse.

By the time the dead wood flowed into the middle of the red water, the red flowers that had grown out of thin air had already fully bloomed.

The unsightly dead wood soaked in the water became full of life and flowers.

"Dead wood in spring!" Han Changdui muttered in surprise.

"My lord, this water has become deeper again." Yao Qi said in a low voice, "My lord, looking at this situation, I am afraid that after another cup of tea, the water will completely submerge these two stone statues."

"It's too late, it's too late to think about what Fuxiang and they are planning, we need to stop the flow of water now." Han Changwan shook his head, listened to the sound of running water for a while, and suddenly his mind moved: "Ah Qi, apart from the sound of running water, did you hear any other sounds?"

Yao Qi listened quietly for a moment: "My lord, it is the joy of Zhong Qi."

Han Changdu's brows furrowed, puzzled: "Strange, here, how can there be the joy of Zhong Qi."

Just when the two of them were clueless, in the sound of rushing water, the dead wood had already flowed into the yellow-orange water.

The red flowers on the dead wood have withered, and the remaining green leaves have begun to turn yellow, and they are about to wither.

And the water in the ditch flooded the hem of the stone statue.

Han Changdui narrowed his eyes, at this rate, the dead wood flowed twice in the ditch, and the water in the ditch would flood the top of the stone statue's head.

The dead wood flowed along the water, and continued to flow, and the yellow-orange water had already flowed into the clear white water.

The green leaves and red flowers on the dead wood were all gone, and they were covered with a layer of snow.