"Where's my wine?"

Wu Qinghui asked with concern.

"Could it be that the old clock stole it?"

Liu Niangzi remembered the unusualness of the old bell and became suspicious.

Su Qinqin said

"Although we are not familiar with Lao Zhong, we also know that Lao Zhong is not a good drinker, how did he suddenly drink wine tonight, and he came to our door one by one to find Xiao Zhong, how much trouble did it take to find Xiao Zhong in the past, say hello, we will find it for him, then what is he doing when he is drunk at night, unless he wants to remind us of something, but he can't say it directly."

Several ladies nodded their heads

"Then let's go to Lao Zhong's shop and have a look."

At this time, the old clock has gone away, nowhere to be seen, several ladies came to the fireworks shop, and saw that the shop was brightly lit, and the door was also hidden.

"Sure enough, the old bell knew that we were coming, and he didn't even close the door."

Pushing the door into the shop, a strong smell of gunpowder came to the nostrils, and several ladies covered their mouths and noses with their sleeves.

"Ahem! This tastes ......."

A few people walked through the outer hall and entered the inner room through a small door, the inner room was not large, one large and one small bed occupied most of the space, and two work tables were forced into both sides, and various tools were placed on the tables, which seemed very crowded.

"Xiao Zhong gave birth to such a beautiful child, and it was really in vain to live with such a big old man as Old Man Zhong for so long."

Liu Niangzi said angrily.

Wu Qinghui only thought about his wine.

"Is there so much wine hidden in here?"

Su Qinqin looked around the room.

"Lao Zhong is indeed a good place to store wine, and the smell of gunpowder here is just enough to hide the pungent smell of wine."

"Where's the wine?"

"Come on!"

Mrs. Hu of the Rouge Workshop was already rummaging around, and when she turned to the head of Lao Zhong's bed, she found that there were some traces of water oozing out of the corner of the bed.

Su Qinqin dipped her fingertips in the water and sniffed it before putting it in her nose.

"Qing Hui!"

She put her finger in front of Wu Qinghui's nose, and Wu Qinghui knew that it was her wine when she smelled it.

"That's right, it's my wine!"

"Sisters, let's break this wall."

Su Qinqin said.

Several ladies ran back to their shops and brought tools to dig the walls.

It took them a full hour to carve a hole in the stone wall.

"Ahem!"

After a cloud of dust, Wu Qinghui covered his nose and coughed twice, then put his head into the hole.

The inside of the hole was pitch black, and the vision was poor, but you could still see a neat cart of wine placed in it.

"It's my wine!"

Wu Qinghui jumped up excitedly.

Su Qinqin wiped the sweat from her head and said

"Sisters, work hard."

After another half an hour, they finally carved the wall out to the size of a man.

Su Qinqin took a candle.

"You're behind me."

Several people lined up and walked slowly into the hole.

There was not much space in the hole, almost larger than the inner room, and the jars of wine were neatly laid out on the floor.

Wu Qinghui stepped forward to inspect it carefully, except for the two jars of wine, which were probably damaged during transportation, the rest of the wine was in good condition.

"No big deal."

Wu Qinghui breathed a sigh of relief, the problem that had plagued her for two or three days was finally solved today.

Just after a few people took a long time to move the wine jar out of the hole, Hu Niangzi seemed to have discovered something again.

"There's something here!"

After the last row of wine was removed, a square plank was revealed on the floor.

The square plank seemed to be embedded in the ground, and there was a wooden handle on one side of the plank.

"There's a secret door here."

Su Qinqin looked at the wooden door and said in surprise.

Then she grabbed the wooden handle and tried to lift the wooden door, but found that the wooden door was so heavy that she couldn't pull it at all.

"Come and help me."

When Wu Qinghui and others heard this, they stepped forward to help.

"Squeak, squeak."

Several people worked together, and finally slowly lifted the wooden door, revealing a square hole.

Dark, darker than the outside.

Several people looked at each other, a little hesitant, but Wu Qinghui was more courageous.

"What are you afraid of, it's all come to this point, since the old man Zhong hinted that we should come in, maybe he wants us to go in."

A few people thought about it, and it was the same reason.

Wu Qinghui rolled up his sleeves and took the candle flame from Su Qinqin's hand.

"Now you're following me."

There is a row of wooden ladders on one side of the cave, presumably specially prepared for the convenience of going up and down.

Wu Qinghui slowly climbed down the wooden ladder, and it didn't take long for him to disappear from the sight of several ladies.

"Qinghui?" "Qinghui?"

Several people shouted several times, but there was no response, and they were a little anxious.

"Why is there no candle flame?"

Liu Niangzi said hurriedly.

Su Qinqin was quite calm.

"There is no ventilation here all year round, probably because there is no air underneath, and it can't be burned with candles."

"Will Qinghui suffocate to death?"

"It's okay, the passage is open, and it won't be again."

As he spoke, Wu Qinghui's voice came from below.

"I'm fine, I just couldn't breathe, now it's okay, you guys come down quickly, this is a tunnel."

Several people were also relieved when they heard this, and were about to climb down, but Su Qinqin stopped them.

"I'll just go down, I don't know what is below, you guys stay on top, if something happens, there will be a response."

Several ladies glanced at each other, and the Liu lady was exquisite, and immediately saw their hesitation, so she went down the slope and got off the donkey.

"Alright, we'll be waiting for you up there, be careful."

Su Qinqin answered, and also went down the ladder.

The ladder seemed to be a little long, and it took Su Qinqin a while to climb to the bottom.

Wu Qinghui had been waiting for her below for a while, helped her down the ladder, looked at the top, and asked

"What about them?"

Su Qinqin said

"I told them to wait up there."

Wu Qinghui nodded and looked around.

"I've observed, and this isn't the starting point of the tunnel, you see."

She motioned to Su Qinqin to look behind, this place was connected back and forth, and it was only one of the nodes of the tunnel.

"According to where we are now, the 12th Street of the capital is in the north-south direction, and this secret passage is in the east-west direction...... Let's head east first. ”

Su Qinqin said.

The tunnel was pitch black, and the mud walls on both sides were dripping with wet water, dark and damp, and after walking for a long time, the air became thinner and thinner, and both of them were a little out of breath.

"No, we'll be suffocated if we continue like this."

Wu Qinghui was a little out of breath, and his voice was far less breathless than before.

Su Qinqin frowned

"Let's go up first, this secret passage has not been ventilated for too long, let's wait a few days and come back."

Wu Qinghui nodded

"Okay."

After a stick of incense, the two returned to the ground.

"How's that, what's down there?"

Liu Niangzi asked.

"It's a secret passage with no end in sight, but we haven't gone far before we can catch our breath, and we will open this wooden door first, and then we will explore it after a few days when the air is cleared inside."

Su Qinqin said.

Liu Niangzi nodded

"Then let's help Qinghui move the wine back first."

After a few people finished moving the wine, they found that the sky was already dark.

"Let's go back and wash up, take a rest, and we've been busy all night."

Liu Niangzi said.

A few people said goodbye and went back to their shops.

After Xiao Zhong, Lao Zhong and Chang Sheng disappeared one after another, in addition to the city lord's mansion sending people to the whole city every day to inquire about the news, and the ladies on the handmade street looking for Xiao Zhong's whereabouts, the capital was as calm as before.

Until June 18, Taiyang Mansion.

Someone in front of the door complained.

Early in the morning, "Knock! Boom! Boom! ”

Wu Qinghui and Su Qinqin sounded the drum of grievances in front of the Taiyang Mansion.

"L! Hall! ”

Pei Wei looked upright and upright, sat upright in the lobby, and said in a deep voice.

Several officials held killing sticks and lined up on both sides.

After a rapid and terrifying low roar, Su Qinqin and Wu Qinghui were brought to the hall.

"Who is in the hall, and what is the complaint?"

"Folk woman Su Qinqin, Wu Qinghui."

"Report a missing person."

When Pei Wei heard this, a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"Who's missing?"

Su Qinqin said

"Your Excellency, the little bell of the fireworks shop on Handmade Street suddenly disappeared five days ago and has not returned."

Pei Wei pretended to be surprised

"Oh? Is there such a thing? Do you know where you are missing? ”

Su Qinqin replied

"Our sisters have been looking for a few days, and according to the people who saw it, Xiao Zhong disappeared in Refreshment Street."

Pei Wei asked again

"Whoever sees it, call him to come, and the officer will inquire carefully."

As he spoke, a man dressed plainly knelt in front of the hall.

"Who are you?"

Pei Wei stared straight at the man, and the man also raised his head.

The two met their eyes and immediately understood.

The man replied

"The villain's name is Wang Qi, usually everyone loves to call me Brother Wang, is a frequent customer of the Lu's steamed bun shop, because that Xiao Zhong is also a frequent customer of the steamed bun shop, so I know him, I happened to meet him in the refreshment street that day, chatted a few words, he said that he also wanted to buy breakfast, and he never saw him again."

Su Qinqin looked at the eyes of the two, and a bad premonition suddenly flashed in her heart.

saw Pei Wei angrily slapping the startled wood in his hand, which startled Su Qinqin and Wu Qinghui.

"How can this be true? In broad daylight, Lang Lang Qiankun, that steamed bun shop dared to rob the people, it was really a decoration in my Taiyang Mansion! ”

As soon as these words came out, it was really majestic, and on both sides, the sound of killing the mighty club and the pestle was deafening.

"Where are the soldiers!"

"Here!"

The earth-shattering shouts suddenly came from outside the lobby, startling Su Qinqin and Wu Qinghui in the lobby.

In the courtyard outside the lobby, in an instant, hundreds of government soldiers were ready to go, as if they had been prepared for a long time.

"Follow me to arrest the robbers and return the people of the capital to a bright future!"

Su Qinqin secretly said that it was not right, how could a small disappearance case on weekdays cause such a big move in the Taiyang Mansion, not to mention that it was to the point of dispatching a hundred government soldiers, and besides, those government soldiers and Master Pei in front of them seemed to have expected them to come, so they prepared everything and waited for them to get people.

But Pei Wei doesn't care what she thinks, things fall into place, just waiting to knock on the door of the bun shop.

There was not a single stick of incense before and after, and the originally lively Taiyang Mansion suddenly everyone left, leaving only Su Qinqin and Wu Qinghui looking at each other, kneeling alone in the lobby.

"That's, it's over?"

Wu Qinghui looked at Su Qinghui blankly, she couldn't believe everything in front of her, she hadn't said a word yet, this case was actually over?

"Why do I think that Master Pei is more anxious than us?"