Chapter 114: Custody and Custody
"Lord Wang, please look!" Su Baotong held a handful of smoking wormwood in his hand and gently stretched it towards the floor of the central hall.
The next moment, the smoke from wormwood actually penetrated into the floor, which was very strange.
"It seems that there must be some underground secret passage here, and the scale is definitely not small." Li Xuan looked up at the entire guest hall, and his eyes quickly swept over the bottom of the table, on the wall, on the calligraphy and painting porcelain vases and other objects.
"The brothers have searched for it, but they haven't found the mechanism for the entrance to the secret passage." Su Baotong stood aside, his solemn face full of apprehension and uneasiness.
"It's okay, no matter what your business is, if the secret path mechanism here is really so easy to find, then when the Dragon Scale Palace was renovated back then, all the things that should have been found should have been found!" Li Xuan shook his head and didn't blame Su Baotong.
Whether it is in the palace or in the Shendu Garden, the secret passages that exist here are much more secret and deeper than those found in Yunshao Courtyard before, and the previous method of listening is useless.
Qiu Zhenmu took a step forward and said in a deep voice, "Lord Wang, if you really can't do it, just come hard."
"Can't rush." Li Xuan waved his hand, looked at Qiu Zhenmu with a smile and said, "No one knows if there is anything hidden in the mechanism here, if you accidentally destroy the entrance to the secret passage, it will be troublesome, so the best way is to go to the Ministry of Industry or the person who will be the prisoner."
"Ministry of Works? Will he be a prisoner?" Li Xu suddenly looked at Li Xuan in some surprise, raised his eyebrows and said, "If Brother Wei remembers correctly, Brother Twenty-Seven is a construction master himself, right?"
"The master can't talk about it, it's just getting started." Li Xuan suddenly slapped his hand on the ground, and the next moment, his whole person had jumped up.
Li Xuan's toes kicked on the pillar of the corridor next to him in mid-air, and at the same time that his figure jumped up again, a cold light suddenly flew out of his waist, and then nailed it to the beam above.
The wood used in the Dragon Scale Palace is a giant tree that fell from the North Mountain, and the outside is painted with a thick layer of red paint.
Li Xuan pulled his hand, and the person had been nailed to a certain position at the lower end of the beam, and a fingerprint could be vaguely seen reflected on it.
If it weren't for his good eyesight, if he hadn't opened it more than once recently, I'm afraid Li Xuan would never have found this place.
The index finger of his right hand flicked hard against the place where the fingerprint was, and the next moment, a two-centimeter-square piece of wood flicked in.
At the same time, the floor below suddenly bounced upward, and fell to the side with a "pop", revealing the stone slab below, as well as the black ring on the stone, which was the real entrance to the secret tunnel.
Li Xu on the side couldn't help but step forward and pull at the black ring, but he used all his strength, and the black ring was still motionless.
"Brother, it still takes a little skill." Li Xuanren fell lightly on the ground, and Li Xu hurriedly moved out of the way: "Twenty-seventh brother, please!"
Li Xuan's face was solemn, and his right hand pressed on the black ring, but he didn't pull it up directly, but pressed it down a little harder, followed by three turns to the left and three times to the right, and then suddenly there was a clicking sound under the stone slab, as if something had been bounced off. ….
At this time, Li Xuan took a deep breath and lifted it up hard.
Immediately, a stone slab half a meter square and a foot thick had been lifted up by him.
A dark cave that could not see how deep it was and went straight down was exposed, and through the light of the opening, it was possible to see that shallow chisel marks seemed to be carved out of the four walls of the cave, like a stone staircase, all the way downward.
"Lord, let's get started!" Qiu Zhenmu couldn't hide her excitement, this time she found the underground secret passage hidden in the Dragon Scale Palace, even if they couldn't catch the Thousand-Faced Buddha, they could deal with the emperor.
Li Xuan looked up at Qiu Zhenmu, and said with a smile: "Brother Qiu, you still need to be cautious, I don't know how much the tunnels here have been used by the Tianyin Sect, if they secretly ambushed the mechanism, wouldn't they let the brothers take their lives to fill it?"
When Li Xuan said this, Qiu Zhenmu's face couldn't help but change slightly, he had personally participated in the search for the underground secret passage of Yunshao Courtyard before.
The entire tunnel of Yunshao Courtyard has long been densely connected, and there is even an underground labyrinth that presides over everything.
Now it is very likely that there is a similar underground secret network in Shendu Yuan, and there may also be such an underground labyrinth, and the consequences of rash entry are unpredictable.
"It's still the old way, bring the water in, and after half an hour, we'll go in again." Li Xuan looked at the door of the Huainan Palace, and the dragon scale canal in front of the door slowly flowed through.
The entire Dragon Scale Palace is on the north bank of the Ningbi Pond in the Shendu Garden, and the water of the Dragon Scale Canal is poured into the Ningbi Pond.
The sixteen courtyards are all built around the dragon scale canal, and the doors of each courtyard are near the canal.
"It's still the old way, find a coarse bamboo to erect from the front of the door to the middle hall, set up a few more, and then let the guards work hard, take water from the dragon scale canal, pour it into the bamboo frame, and divert the water into the secret passage, and after half an hour, we will start to enter." When Li Xuan said this, he looked at everyone and said with a little ease: "If my expectations are correct, there will basically be no one in the entire underground secret passage, there are basically some dead mechanisms, as long as these dead mechanisms are triggered, we can enter."
Hearing Li Xuan's explanation, Qiu Zhenmu, Li Xu and the others nodded knowingly.
Li Xuan looked at the entrance of the secret passage underground, his eyes narrowed slightly.
If it weren't for his current rush to rush to the palace through the secret passage and catch up with the big scene of Qiu Shenqi strangling the Thousand Faces Buddha, he could have spent a day to flood the entire tunnel with the water of the Dragon Scale Canal, and then investigate, but now he can only destroy the secret passage mechanism first, and then hope to pass through smoothly.
In this way, it saves more time.
"Let's go, we need to go out and have a look now, and listen to what Brother Huainan has to say, this is his residence after all." Li Xuan's voice cooled.
There is no doubt that Li Mao, the king of Huainan County, and Li Feng, the king of Zhuang, are implicated, so they are more or less connected with the Tianyin Sect.
Before, the Buddha of Thousand Faces pretended to be King Zhuang Changshi and hid on the side of King Zhuang Li Feng, but the strange thing is that King Zhuang didn't find out at all, and was poisoned in the end.
How stupid does King Zhuang Li Feng have to be to let the Thousand Faces Buddha get his hands on it so easily.
For these Tang Dynasty kings, you can say that they are greedy, that they are cruel, that they are violent, but you must not say that they are stupid. ….
The son of Tang Gaozu Li Yuan, the brother of Tang Taizong Li Shimin, there are several people who are stupid and stupid.
Yang Tai, as the long history of King Zhuang, does not know how many unknown secrets he holds.
If it is said that he replaced Yang Tai as a temporary plan, it is okay, but the Buddha of the Thousand Faces not only gives advice to King Zhuang, but also King Zhuang almost obeys his words, if King Zhuang does not know the identity of Yang Tai, then it can only be said that King Zhuang is controlled by Yang Tai.
Li Mao secretly met with King Zhuang many times during this period and plotted conspiracies, how much did he know about the Tianyin Sect, and how much connection did they have?
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Li Xuan didn't bring many people, just took Qiu Zhenmu alone, and Li Xu, the son of King Huo, and the three of them went out of the Dragon Scale Palace together.
In front of the Dragon Scale Palace, the flying bridge is crossed on the Dragon Scale Canal, looking around, the flowers and plants are strange, sparkling, and the scenery is pleasant.
As soon as Li Xuan and Li Xu, as well as Qiu Zhenmu came out of the Dragon Scale Palace, they immediately attracted all the attention.
Li Mao, the king of Huainan, looked at Li Xuan even more probely, lest he really find something.
"Uncle Wang, Uncle Wang, brothers Wang, I've been waiting for a long time!" Li Xuan's face was serious and he bowed his hand to Li Yuanjia, the king of Han, Li Yuanliang, the king of Huo, Li Yuanming, the king of Shu, and other kings and princes.
"Twenty-seven, I heard that you found the entrance to the secret passage?" Han King Li Yuanjia looked at Li Xuan calmly, and said in a cold voice, "Say, who is it for?"
Li Xuan raised his head and looked at the prince behind the kings, and Li Yuanjia immediately shouted coldly, "Except for the fourteenth brother, everyone else retreated to the third zhang."
"Whoa!" Many of the princes and princes present, as well as their sons, all agreed with a bang.
Especially the three of Cao Wang Li Ming, Ji Wang Li Shen, and Yue Wang Li Zhen retreated quickly.
As Gaozong Li Zhi's own younger brother, they know too well what kind of ruthless actions this brother will do once such a thing happens.
"Brother Huainan stays!" Li Xuan suddenly spoke, stopped Li Mao, the king of Huainan County, and at the same time turned his head to look at Qiu Zhenmu on the side: "Brother Qiu, please take care of the subordinates and servants under the Huainan County Palace, but if there is any change, kill immediately."
"Whoa!" Qiu Zhenmu respectfully hugged his fists and promised, and then did not look at the faces of the kings, and directly beckoned his subordinates and the forbidden troops around him to surround him under the command of the king of Huainan County.
All the kings of the clan present could hear it clearly, except for Li Mao, the king of Huainan County, none of them had a change in their faces.
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