Long Dailan lived in the palace for eighteen years, but never entered the sewers. It was as dark, damp, and dirty as she had imagined, and the air smelled faintly fishy, and she could hear rats running by as she walked down the corridor. If it weren't for the fire fold in her hand, she might not be able to help but scream.

"It's amazing, big sister. The third sister looked at her happily, "When I heard you speak, I knew it was you." And, as soon as I get down, I can't see you at all, I can't see the shadow, if it weren't for a fire fold, hey, where is my sister, I can't see it!"

Long Dailan couldn't help but hold her sister's hand and hugged her tightly in her arms. She didn't know how many words she wanted to say to her sister, but she didn't know how to say it. She spent more than ten days in prison, feeling like she had been there for years. No one had ever treated her like this, and she had never suffered like this.

"Sister, I miss you so much, I don't look forward to seeing you again all the time, let you hug me!" Six-Fingered Sister hugged her waist tightly. Qinglian is so miserable and pitiful, there are only a handful of people in the palace who really care about her sister, but Qinglian has a withdrawn and weird personality, does not like to interact with people, and lives alone in her own world. Her world is dark, and like this underworld, she needs light and happiness, and the dragon god brings her darkness and loneliness.

Me too. I even let my sister risk her life for me, she was desperate for her life to save me.

In the darkness, Long Dailan's tears gushed out uncontrollably.

"You're crying, sister. Qinglian reached out and touched her face. It took a lot of effort for her sister to wipe away her tears. "Don't cry, if you cry, I want to cry too!"

Long Dailan remembered that her sister had night vision, and her face was very close to the fire fold, so her sister could see her. And the hood was lifted to the back of her head when she came down, which made her feel too stuffy. "My sister is just so happy, how can I not be happy to be able to regain my freedom after so many days in prison, and to have my sister by my side. ”

Qinglian's hand around her waist let go, "Eldest sister, there are torches on this wall, find one to light it." The light of the fire fold is so small that you can't even see it. ”

Long Dailan held the fire fold and looked around, there were many iron frames on the walls of the corridor, but most of them were empty, but she finally found one, and it was still usable, so she lit it at once.

She held the torch and gained a larger view, which she could see more clearly, the huge rat running in the distance, the slippery walls covered with blackened moss, and some slugs and the like wriggling on them, making her empty stomach feel the urge to vomit. Qinglian took her other hand, "Let's go, hurry up, I'm going to send my sister out of the palace quickly." ”

"By the way, Qinglian, you have to tell me what the hell is going on. I want to know how dangerous you are, and I don't want you to happen to me. ”

When Qinglian told her everything, she knew that Prince Zaima had such a great determination, and it turned out that he had planned all this. For her sake, the prince risked his life. "What if they find out I'm leaving, what will the prince do?

"After we go up, take my sedan chair, and Komatsu will take us outside the palace. The prince will be waiting for us outside, and he will need this cloak from you when the time comes, and then ......" Qinglian suddenly stopped.

"And then?"

He didn't say, but I guess he'd go back to the prison in his cloak. ”

Qinglian's words startled her, "What does he want to do?"

"In your place. He's very good at putting on makeup, who can tell you when he's lying in bed? The jailers don't bother to pay any attention to you except for the regular delivery of meals, the routine rounds every night, and the change of the night pot in the morning. No one wants to say a word or two to you. ”

He thought...... "She seemed to understand Zaima's plan.

"He just wants to delay a little time, so that you can stay away from the royal capital. If someone on patrol at night finds out that you are not there, you are afraid that you will be caught after not walking far. Tomorrow, I see that he will sneak out and return home with King Tanyuko. His Royal Highness seems to be omnipotent, he can make makeup, he can make holes, he can pick locks, I see, the locks in the prison can't bother him. ”

It seems that Qinglian has a good impression of His Royal Highness the prince, she is usually mean to the living, and rarely praises them so much. "He's infatuated with your sister, even I can see it. Qinglian laughed eatingly. "Some people are just desperate for the sake of their beloved. Love is such a dangerous thing. ”

I hope that one day you will also taste the taste of love. It would be cruel. Qinglian may fall in love with a certain man, but what man will fall in love with Qinglian? She originally wanted to say, "Yes, dangerous and sweet," but what she said was: "You are also desperate for me." ”

"If it's worth it, do it. Qinglian took her hand and quickened her pace, "I'm sure the prince thinks so too." ”

She didn't want to talk about Prince Zaima anymore, she was grateful to him and willing to treat him as her best friend, but that's about it. "How did you find out about this secret passage?"

"Thanks to my grandfather. It's just that the bottom of this prison is different from other places, the exit of the sewer has a stone slab, but the prison does not, I can hear the sound from below, I can feel the temperature of the fireplace, but I can't get out, otherwise I would have rescued you a long time ago. ”

She secretly breathed a sigh of relief in her heart. There is no slate to save Qinglian, if there is a slate...... There are layers of guards in the prison, and she is afraid that she will have more than one cellmate at that time. "Is there any news of Biyue?"

"I think she's been in the Temple of Peace all along, just like you, eldest sister, and can't go anywhere. Without special permission, no one can enter the Peace Temple. I'll figure it out, though. ”

"Can the sewers lead to the Temple of Peace?"

"I didn't find out. Maybe it's the same as here in the prison, and maybe there's a secret passage. ”

Long Dailan said: "The secret passage here in the prison should have been specially excavated by the workers who built it back then. More than 100 years ago, there was a national craftsman who committed a serious crime and was sent to prison, but after more than ten days, he suddenly disappeared. No one knows where he went, the prison director at that time was given death by His Majesty Long Jun, but before he was executed, he kept saying that the disappearance of the national craftsman had nothing to do with him, and that he was wronged. ”

"There's another thing, I don't usually read much, and I really don't know a lot of things. Qinglian said, "Could it be that the national craftsman knew that he would enter the heavenly prison one day, so he dug a secret passage to escape in advance?"

"Maybe so. These projects in the palace are all in charge of the national craftsman, and they have quietly prepared a way back for themselves, and His Majesty does not know. ”

"Yes, there are many things in this palace. But if no one knows, he must not do it himself. Someday, it will all be known. Qinglian pulled her into one fork after another, she couldn't imagine that the sewer was so huge and complicated, it was like a labyrinth, I really don't know how Qinglian figured out the direction at that time. Qinglian is particularly adapted to the dark, she has rare night vision ability, and has a magical sense of direction. This may be the compensation given to her by the dragon god, it seems that the gains outweigh the losses, but today it came in handy.

"Sister, I'm not talking about it casually. Some people think that things are done very secretly, but they don't know that the dragon god is watching him. Just listening to Qinglian's words, Long Dailan suddenly felt something slip from her ankle, she stopped, looked through the torch, and found that it was actually a thin and long snake, this snake was black all over, she hadn't found it just now. The snake was probably startled by her footsteps, and slammed into her feet, which made her scream.

"Sister, don't be afraid. Qinglian also saw the snake, and saw her hunched over, holding a yellow thing in her hand, like a stone, towards the snake.

"Sister, be careful!"

"It's okay, look. Qinglian was not afraid at all, the yellow stone came to the position of the snake's head, the snake's head shrank suddenly, slid its body quickly, and left Long Dailan's ankle as if it had escaped, and in a flash, it disappeared into the darkness.

"This is an insect repellent wax, which is specially used against insects, and it is also useful for small snakes, which do not like the smell. I take it with me when I get down, but I don't usually need it. These insects can't scare me. Qinglian grinned, "Eldest sister, am I amazing?"

"Amazing, sister admires you so much!" Long Dailan suddenly felt that below this, she was her little sister, and Qinglian was the big sister who protected her.

Qinglian said a little proudly: "The most important thing Teacher Gu said to me is: God has brought us into the world because we are useful. You see, I'm still more or less useful!"

However, these words made Long Dailan feel sad for a while, and she didn't know what to say for a while. "Let's go. ”

The two of them continued on their way, their steps getting faster. But Qinglian was talking about it, and she hadn't finished her previous words yet, "I said earlier, some people have secretly done some shady things, and they think that others don't know." But he couldn't hide from the insects, rats, and snakes of the earth, they all knew it, but they couldn't speak. ”

Long Dailan was a little confused when she heard it, and she didn't know what her sister was going to say, so she didn't say anything. "Sister, some people look high-sounding on the outside, but in fact they are despicable and shameless, and they are not a thing at all. I stayed down there and learned his secret. ”

"Who is it?" Almost everyone in the palace has secrets, some of which may not hurt anyone, but some of which can kill people.

"Qi Shaoyu. Qinglian pronounced the name as if she were spitting out a fish bone.

Long Dailan was taken aback, he was a polite, extremely well-behaved swordsman, who had always acted and spoken in a measured manner, and she had always had a good impression of him. "What's wrong with him?"

"He killed Wan Cheng. There may also be Guo Xuan. Qinglian's words were unbelievable, "Tian Pan and Duan Zhenyue were thrown into the dungeon, Cheng Feng had already died, the teacher was sentenced to car cracking, except for Yan Ji, Qi Shaoyu is still alive now." I forgot to tell you that there are six new Saber Eight Guards, but Qi Shaoyu is still one of them. ”

"Sister, Qi Shaoyu killed Wan Cheng, did you see it with your own eyes?" she still couldn't believe it. I don't know how many times my father said that the eight guards of the sword were the most reliable people in the palace, and each of them was completely trusted by my father.

"I heard it underground in the guardhouse, Qi Shaoyu tricked Wan Cheng out, and then killed him. I think he's a traitor among the swordsmen. Now Yan Ji doesn't talk to him anymore, Yan Ji looks sullen all day long, I think he may not be able to be Longjun's guard. ”

If Long Chengtian still retains Yan Ji's position, it must be to control Long Jun's guards, and after these people are gradually replaced, Yan Ji will have no value. She knew that Long Chengtian was a cautious person, but only now did she know how big a game he had arranged. If there were also his people inside the Dragon Monarch Guard, then he had planned early on to take down all the Wangdu Wuwei and Dragon Monarch Guards. Xi Yuan's uncle was dismissed from prison for theft, and his successor Kou Hai was also beheaded, and now the head of the Wuwei Regiment is Zheng Fang, an old subordinate of Long Chengtian, who is more reliable than Kou Hai. Plus Qi Shaoyu, a traitor......

She connected the things she knew one by one, and the things became clearer and clearer, but her mind was in a mess, and her sister kept talking to her along the way, and she didn't listen very carefully, and responded perfunctorily. Qinglian seemed to sense that she was preoccupied, and then she stopped talking. The two walked silently through the corridor, the crisp sound of dripping water on the vault wall falling into the stagnant water and the daring running of rats accompanied them until they returned to the surface.