Shen Biyao did so, and the stone wall door closed smoothly, and then she turned again, and the stone wall door opened smoothly. The two hid in the secret room, and Shen Biyao inserted the fire fold on the stone wall to illuminate the small room. "It's a shame for your wit."

Zhang Wen drooped his shoulders and smiled bitterly, seeing that there were bookshelves in the secret room, the desk was equipped with pen, ink, paper and inkstones, and there were several treasure chests open on the other side, which were full of silver ingots and overflowed outside. My heart was cold, could it be that this was the place where the Shen family left a suicide note when they were in trouble? Fortunately, Shen Biyao didn't mean to use pen and ink, but began to rummage on the stone wall again. After a while, another stone wall opened, leading to a secret passage in a north-south direction. Zhang Wen took off the fire fold under the stone wall and continued to follow.

"Those boxes full of life money, it seems that you don't have to worry about walking here."

"Haven't you seen it clearly in officialdom? Insatiable. Gold and silver, when fleeing for their lives, they just want to be able to fight for time. ”

Zhang Wen was thinking about how much silver taels, labor and time were spent on the intricacies of the Shen family's underground secret passage, "If you want to move the Li family, it is not enough for me to rely on you alone." I have to go back to Shizi. I told him what the immortal pearl was in the Li family. ”

"Changshengzhu, I heard that it is what the palace is looking for everywhere, and if you find it, it must be the Li family, and if you can't find it, it's not angry with you?"

Zhang asked, "No, what you're saying is if the prince really wants to find the Immortal Pearl." But according to my several contacts with the son, I privately thought that the son of the world didn't believe in any celestial phenomena at all. The First Emperor was looking for the elixir of immortality everywhere, and it was not an ancient thing. The prince came to Zhejiang to make a while, I think, first, he doesn't have a good impression of Donglin, and second, he wants to get some silver to go back to make the emperor happy. The treasury is empty, and people in the Forbidden City are panicking. ”

"Oh, my lord wants the prince to understand that the immortal pearl was once in the hands of the salt merchants, and later it was dedicated to Li Ruzi. The prince will definitely be able to find out the relationship between the salt merchant and Li Ruzi. And then what? ”

Then, he will find out that the arrested Zheng Min is Li Ruzi's son-in-law. Since Li Ruzi's sons-in-law have been buried in the hands of the son, the son naturally wants to cut the grass and eradicate the roots to prevent future troubles. ”

"I hope so."

I walked around for a while.

"This is it." Zhang Wen looked online with Shen Biyao's eyes, and saw a hemp rope hanging from the top of the cave, connected to the wooden board, presumably that was the exit.

Zhang Wen saw Shen Biyao struggling to tiptoe to reach the rope, and hurriedly stopped it. "Do you still remember Xuanyue's words? Wait for the code. ”

"That's not the exit she said."

"What?" Dare to love her, even her own people are guarded.

"The more people who know, the more danger there is." Shen Biyao couldn't reach the rope, and looked at Zhang Wen for help, and Zhang Wen had to jump up. "Stay away, sir!" Shen Biyao said that it was late, Zhang Wen felt a silver light when he reached his body, and he was full of excitement, and he was poured a large basin of water on his heart, looking back at Shen Biyao, hiding in the faint firelight, and he didn't know whether to apologize or smile with a flash in his eyes. The veil on her face fell off, but she didn't seem to feel it, Zhang Wen finally saw the legendary shocking face, and all the chill and pain on her body disappeared for a while. She looked far younger and childish than the "eldest lady of the Shen family" who hid behind the beaded curtains, veils and heavy city mansions, and her scars could not be seen from the front at all, at least in such firelight, there might only be faint marks on her neck. Zhang Wen tried to remind himself to turn his head, so as not to let Shen Biyao notice.

The rope ladder hung down with a hanging bucket, Zhang Wen smiled bitterly and spit out a mouthful of cold water, heard that there was no movement outside, climbed up first, and called Shen Baguio up again after making sure it was safe.

"If anyone finds out here, you have to believe it's a well." Shen Biyao explained apologetically.

Zhang Wen shivered in the night wind as he restored the exit. There were no lights around the ground, and the insects chirped as if they were outside the city.

Zhang Wen had already messed up the direction, guessing that this was another manor that the Shen family hid in a more secluded place, but looking at the grass and trees here, it seemed that no one cared about it for a while, and there was no courtyard here, the two walked a hundred steps, and Shen Biyao led him into a room, which was a bedroom, and when he lit the lamp, there were not only beds in it, but also a dining table, and a stove for cooking, like a residence, looking like a residence for ordinary people. Shen Biyao familiarly lit the oil lamp, took out a civilian shirt from the cabinet in the corner and handed it to Zhang Wen, and then pulled up the screen.

When Zhang Wen was changing clothes, he heard Shen Biyao explain, "This is my grandfather's residence before his career, and since my father traveled far away, no one has cared about it. ”

He changed his clothes and came out, and saw that there were wine jugs, a silk handkerchief, and a short sword pinned to his waist on the table, while Shen Biyao was standing facing the wall.

"Your hand hurts, so wrap it up."

"Miss Shen?" Zhang Wen saw a long scar on his palm.

"Why didn't you tell me?" She held her hand over the hem of her dress as she spoke, and lowered her head a little.

"I'm afraid you'll kill me." Zhang Wen looked at the short sword on the table, and remembered Zhang Ying's previous reminder that no one who had seen Shen Biyao's true face could leave the Shen Mansion alive, although it was cold here, it was also the territory of the Shen family.

"Adults drink some water and wine to warm up, my family's chariots and horses will pass by here at dawn, and then you can leave."

"Shall I leave, you are just facing the wall to the ground?" Just experienced all this together, although I don't know how far away the Li family's lackeys are from here, but it can be regarded as dangerous, Zhang Wen really can't stand Shen Biyao's estrangement, plus he has already seen Shen Biyao's true face in Lushan, he feels that she has no reason to be so inferior to her appearance.

Shen Biyao stood motionless, which could be regarded as a response to Zhang Wen.

Only then did Zhang Wen realize Shen Biyao's eldest lady's temper, there were no pavilions and pavilions, no maids around, and everything had to be carried out according to her wishes, regardless of the time. "Good, good. I'll go out now. I'm really afraid that it will be undignified, so change my clothes, otherwise it will not be good to wait for Xuanyue and them. ”

Seeing that Shen Biyao hadn't moved, Zhang Wen really opened the door.

Shen Biyao heard that there was no sound for half a night, and felt a cool breeze behind her, thinking that Zhang Wenzhen was gone. "My lord! It's not safe yet! ”

Shen Biyao chased to the door, but didn't want Zhang Wen to rush out from behind the door, in her exclamation, he pressed her on the door frame with one hand, and at the same time held a bronze mirror in front of her, ignoring her struggle, and said, "Look, you look at the person in the mirror!" ”

Miss Shen still twisted her head stubbornly.

"I Zhang Wen thinks that I have a little cultivation in Danqing, but I can't draw you."

Shen Biyao's eyes were filled with tears.

"Even if all the Danqing masters in the world are gathered, I am afraid that they will not be able to depict such a face, unless, all ordinary people can soberly remember the fairy who was only seen in their dreams." Zhang Wen smiled, he could now see the scar on Shen Biyao's neck, zigzag up to the root of her left ear, but it really didn't ruin her appearance. Although the scar was shocking, it did not detract from Zhang Wen's good impression of her, but only added pity to her, and felt sorry for the flesh and skin she had suffered at that time, his hand loosened a little, "You have such a countenance, and you have a breathtaking strategy, I can only believe that you insist on hiding behind the veil and beaded curtains, living an isolated life, in order not to let mortals be ashamed of themselves." Zhang Wen thought that such words would always move Shen Biyao, but he didn't expect Shen Biyao to just push him away angrily.

Zhang Wen was caught off guard and let out a "hiss", seeing the blood stains left by his broken palm on Shen Biyao's shoulder.

Shen Biyao felt a little guilty, but she still stood stubbornly, still facing Zhang with her back.

Zhang Wen closed the door again, saying that he had seen soldiers returning from battle use scars as a capital to show off, which was obviously wrong, but Zhang Wen continued to talk about it, and went around to encourage Shen Biyao to regard the scars left by the enemy as a memorial to herself that she had survived the persecution of the enemy, and use it to motivate herself instead of self-deprecation. Of course, outsiders always say such things lightly, and Zhang Wen was afraid that Miss Shen would reply to him like this, but fortunately she didn't.

"I don't want to see, and I'm afraid to be seen, not a mutilated face. It's my own stupidity. ”

Zhang Wen approached.

"I'd rather all the scars were on my face sometimes. In this way, I always understand that everything is my own sin, and I have given the villain a chance. I'll never make the same mistake again in my life. When Shen Biyao said the last sentence, her eyes looked at Zhang Wen resolutely, and tears fell.

It turned out that Shen Biyao was injured by the seventh sister of the Li family back then, because the other party pretended to be the world's talent, and Ye Feng, who was like Pan An and married her, invited her to the Qixi Night Party.

"What did her men do to you? On the other day, I will give her back tenfold. Zhang Wen gritted his teeth unconsciously.

Shen Biyao shook her head, and gently put her hand on Zhang Wen's clenched fist, "Adults still focus on what needs to be done." Baguio's matter is Baguio's own fault. As long as I don't leave the house that night, nothing will happen without believing that letter. I had seen Ye Gongzi twice from afar at that time, how could I believe it? ”

"According to what you say, all adultery, adultery, plunder, burning, killing, and robbery have to be blamed on the sufferers?" The anger in Zhang Wen's heart included pity for Shen Biyao's suffering, hatred for the Li family, and incomprehension and anger at Shen Biyao still respectfully calling Ye Feng Ye Gongzi, but he knew that the Ye family had broken off the marriage contract with Shen Biyao after she was injured, not to mention love, even the word "morality" couldn't be beaten. Then, he remembered Xiao Wan, who was also persecuted by the Li family. He held Shen Biyao's face regardless of etiquette, "Shen Biyao, you remember, I asked unscrupulous means, and I have been breathing for a long time, in order to report this uncommon enmity with the Li family one day, and today there is another amount of blood debt in the book." for you. He thought of his humility, and because he felt humble, he didn't dare to rashly propose a marriage contract to Shen Biyao, remembered that he had married Zhang Ying in order to cling to the imperial family, and remembered that he often felt humble for his meanness and selfishness when facing his wholehearted wife. But at this moment, this high-ranking eldest lady is telling him about the inferiority complex in his heart. What are they missing? Everything? He closed his eyes and held back the tears that had been held back for a long time today. But he felt Shen Biyao approaching him, and he smelled the rouge on her.

Zhang asked. Promise me you'll forget about today. Zhang Wen felt Shen Biyao's fingers tremble and outline his outline.

"Forget everything I told you. Forget that you see the real me. Shen Biyao's hand pressed against Zhang Wen's lips. Zhang Wen opened his eyes, and the distance between Shen Biyao and himself was only that hand. Then, that distance was gone.

It was as if the secret passage had taken them away from their respective lives for a while, and at this moment they could finally forget that she was Miss Shen and he was Master Zhang. The cloth and brocade that fell to the ground did not have time to know if there would be less sorrow in this silent night, the humble house, the candle flames, and the obsession if two pairs of flesh mortals were exchanged. At least until the faint oil lamp burns out.

Shen Biyao's body, entangled in the scars of the iron whip, would turn into an ink landscape in Zhang Wen's dream. In the depths of the steep mountains lies a bay of beautiful water, which is pregnant with vitality in the solitude of the bones. But that night, he didn't dream.