Shen Yuan's statement, Bai Qiurui nodded in agreement.

She looked at Shen Yuan and said, "This back mountain is so big, where are we going next?" ”

"The inquirers have left a mark, and by following the mark they will enter a secret cave, and they say, "There is a secret passage in the cave."

"Secret Passage?!"

Bai Qiurui was surprised, what is the secret of a temple, and it needs to dig a secret passage in the back mountain?

Immediately after, Shen Yuan took the lead, and Bai Qiurui followed behind him for half a step.

The guards who were investigated by the Criminal Department should have a special tracking mark, and I saw that Shen Yuan had already found the mark after looking for it nearby for a while.

Bai Qiurui followed his pace, and the two of them walked through layers of dense grass and turned into an extremely hidden path in the forest.

As soon as she stepped on the narrow and cramped path, Bai Qiurui inexplicably remembered the last time she and Xiao Mingyu were pushed and shoved by those two evil monks.

After several days, she couldn't remember whether she was walking this road or not, looking at the greenery around her, as if the road in her eyes was the same.

After another cup of tea, Bai Qiurui couldn't remember the way she came at all.

She looked at Shen Yuan's firm steps beside her, and couldn't help but ask, "Lord Shen, do you remember the way you came?" ”

Shen Yuan didn't stop when he heard this, and said in a kind voice: "Remember." ”

These two words are like a shot in the arm, and Bai Qiurui is extremely down-to-earth: "That's good, so that I don't worry that I will get lost." ”

The tone was laid-back, as if they were not delving into a strange temple, but rather on the streets.

Shen Yuan's eyes flashed, and out of the corner of his eye, he saw the little woman beside him, compared to the panic before, she was much calmer now.

The two walked to a corner of the path, and Shen Yuan saw the mark on the tree, and his expression began to become serious.

"That's the hole up ahead, be careful."

Shen Yuan reminded softly, and Bai Qiurui was immediately on guard when she heard this.

She followed behind Shen Yuan and quietly looked at the cave at the end of the trail around the corner.

From a distance, I saw that there was not even a single monk guarding the entrance of the cave.

The black yo cave at the end is like a bottomless abyss, opening its jaws, ready to devour everyone who comes near it.

At this moment, there was no guarantee that there would be an ambush around, and Shen Yuan did not rush forward.

"What do we do now?"

Bai Qiurui looked around, and in the dense mountain forest, she was faintly worried.

"It's almost noon, and maybe there's something going on later."

Shen Yuan looked up at the sunlight looming in the dense forest, and hid in the forest with Bai Qiurui.

The midday sun shone in the dense forest, passing through the layers of leaves, and the two people in the forest did not feel hot.

After a while, I saw a squirming movement not far away, and Bai Qiurui immediately held her breath and quietly hid behind the dense bushes.

Unexpectedly, Shen Yuan guessed correctly, just at noon, there was really movement.

Bai Qiurui listened carefully and found that in addition to the sound of conversation from time to time at the beginning, there was also a sound similar to the wheel running over the ground.

"Do you hear the sound of wheels that look like wheels?"

Bai Qiurui said what she heard, and Shen Yuan nodded slowly: "I heard, they are transporting something to the cave." ”

I just heard the sound of carriages on this side, and there was movement in the cave on the other side.

Bai Qiurui quietly looked over, and saw two monks in white robes walking out of the cave at the end of the path.

Shen Yuan's ear power surpassed that of ordinary people, and he naturally noticed the movement in the cave.

"Act on the opportunist."

Shen Yuan whispered, and Bai Qiurui nodded in understanding.

The two of them hid quietly, watching the wheels in the distance move more and more, and the last team of about ten people gradually appeared in the field of vision.

Bai Qiurui looked intently, and saw that this group of people were all dressed in gray robes, and their movements were neat and orderly.

The dozen or so men stood in two teams, escorted by two wagons covered with black cloths.

Bai Qiurui's expression moved slightly when she saw the thing covered with black cloth, and she thought that this was the secret discovered by the investigators of the Criminal Department.

"Did the people who inquired before say what the black cloth covered?" Bai Qiurui asked quietly.

Shen Yuan was silent for a moment, and then said in a low voice: "It looks like it's a coffin." ”

Bai Qiurui was stunned: "Coffin? ”

Shen Yuan's words made her unable to come back to her senses for a while, looking at the carriage that was getting closer and closer, Bai Qiurui's eyes were fixed on the square outline of the carriage covered with black cloth.

"What are they going to do with so many coffins, is it empty, or is it in content?"

Bai Qiurui asked Shen Yuan while hiding her breath.

"Naturally, it won't be empty, as for what is inside, the spies didn't dare to follow too closely, it's not clear for the time being."

As soon as Shen Yuan's words fell, the carriage had already arrived at the place where the two of them were hiding, Bai Qiurui and Shen Yuan lowered their heads in tacit understanding, held their breath, and only heard the sound of the wheels crushing on the ground slowly changing from loud to small.

It wasn't until the voice turned into the path of the cave that Bai Qiurui dared to raise her head.

"Why are you so late today?"

A man's voice sounded, Bai Qiurui and Shen Yuan glanced at each other, and the two looked towards the entrance of the cave.

I saw that the black cloth on the two carriages was blown by the wind from time to time, revealing the reddish-brown coffins underneath.

Bai Qiurui took a breath of cool air, it was really a coffin in the carriage!

At this time, the dozen or so people stood at the entrance of the cave and talked to the two white-robed monks, only to see the monk led by one of the dozen people step forward.

"There are a lot of pilgrims in the courtyard today, so it's a little more troublesome to transport things."

As soon as the gray-robed man finished speaking, he saw a white-robed monk at the door: "Pay attention next time, you guys should come in first." ”

"But these things ......"

"If you don't look at this wilderness, whoever will come will come in, just go in for a while and get out of the way."

The white-robed monk let all the gray-robed monks into the cave, and there was a bit of impatience in his tone.

Looking at the overall situation, the white-robed monks should have higher rights than those gray-robed monks, and just after the white-robed monks spoke, all the gray-robed monks obediently followed the two into the cave.

Until the group all entered the cave, Shen Yuan and Bai Qiurui both understood that this was an opportunity.

The two of them glanced at each other, then quickly stepped out of the bushes around the corner, and used the carriage as a cover, sticking directly to the back of the carriage.

Shen Yuan didn't hesitate in front of the carriage, he directly pulled the black cloth on the carriage, and sure enough, he saw a coffin on the carriage.

He listened carefully to the movement in the coffin, found that there was nothing unusual, and finally pushed the coffin lid open.

The moment she pushed the coffin open, Bai Qiurui only felt a pungent smell emanating from it.

She only saw the pitch black inside, and before she could tell what it was, she heard Shen Yuan beside her take a deep breath of cold air.

At this time, there was some slight movement in the cave, and Shen Yuan's eyes lit up.

He didn't have time to say more, so he directly let Bai Qiurui go in first.

Fortunately, the coffin on this carriage was wider than usual, and Shen Yuan also turned over into the coffin after Bai Qiurui entered, and at the same time, he quickly tore off the black cloth that was exposed and covered it, and closed the coffin lid again.

"I think I heard something just now."

A close male voice sounded in her ears, Bai Qiurui and Shen Yuan were lying in the coffin together, the two were close together, she didn't dare to breathe at this time, and her heart was listening to the movement outside.

In order to have oxygen in the coffin, Shen Yuan deliberately left a gap when he covered the coffin.

Bai Qiurui was now listening intently to the conversation outside in the light that shone into the coffin.

Only to hear the first male voice finish speaking, and another man spoke again.

"Don't be surprised, we've been here for years, and we've never had anything to do, so let's get inside."

Bai Qiurui's voice was the white-clothed monk from before when she heard it, and she paid attention to the movement as she listened.

She and Shen Yuan would really be discovered if they were not careful when they were hiding here, as long as they lifted the black cloth and took a closer look, they would definitely be able to see them.

Just as Bai Qiurui was thinking, what she was most worried about had already happened.

A shadow fell through the crack in the coffin, and it seemed to be the man who had suspected movement in the carriage at first.

He listened to the white-robed monk's words, but for the sake of safety, he still wanted to reach out and open the black cloth to take a look.

Seeing that the hand was already holding the black cloth and was about to untie it, Bai Qiurui's heart hung up, and she couldn't help leaning towards Shen Yuan's side.

In the cramped and cramped coffin, Shen Yuan held Bai Qiurui's hand to comfort her and motioned her not to worry.

He looked up at the hand that was close at hand, and in the nick of time, the white-robed monk spoke again.

"What are you doing? Hurry up and get the goods in. ”

The words of the white-robed monk outside came out again, and the hand that shrouded the coffin was still not revealed.

Shen Yuan and Bai Qiurui in the coffin only heard one 'yes', and then the two of them felt a shock in their bodies, and the carriage under the coffin had begun to roll.

Bai Qiurui breathed a sigh of relief, and at the same time, she also felt that Shen Yuan's body beside her was slowly relaxing from a tense state.

And at this moment, after the crisis was resolved, she was in a small space and suddenly smelled the pungent smell when the coffin was opened earlier.

I was too nervous, but my heart would be discovered, and I couldn't care about the strange smell in this coffin for a while.

Now as soon as she relaxed, Bai Qiurui was in the dark coffin, and couldn't help but reach out to cover her snort.

The pungent smell is so choking.

And it smells, why does it seem that the taste is still somewhat familiar......

Thinking like this, Bai Qiurui suddenly came to her senses.

Her body froze, and the thing that corresponded to the smell in her mind was gunpowder!

The smell was so recognizable that she hadn't thought about it at first, but now that she suddenly came back to her senses, didn't it taste exactly the same?

The coffin lying on his body had been pushed forward by the monks outside, and he didn't know where it was going to go.

Shen Yuan lay beside Bai Qiurui and didn't speak, and Bai Qiurui, who had been maintaining a stiff posture and didn't dare to move, soon found that her body was a little numb.

She endured it for a while, and finally moved her foot unbearably.

It was only with this lift that she realized that she had something pressed under her heels, and it felt like something tightly wrapped in layers.

"Don't move."

Shen Yuan's voice sounded in her ears, and Bai Qiurui was stunned for a moment.

She lifted her ankle and put it back again, feeling the pungent smell in the small space getting heavier and heavier, and she quietly approached Shen Yuan and asked him.

"Is this coffin filled with gunpowder?"

I don't know if it's an illusion, just after she quietly asked this sentence, Bai Qiurui keenly heard Shen Yuan's breathing seem to be a little heavier.

If she could see clearly in the coffin at this moment, she would find that the position she and Shen Yuan were in at the moment was too ambiguous.

They were eager to enter the coffin, and now Bai Qiurui was lying on her side and clinging to Shen Yuan's arms.

And when she opened her mouth to speak, she deliberately got close, and she directly leaned against Shen Yuan's neck and rubbed his ears and temples.

With such a close distance, he has always been upright and self-controlled, and Lord Shen, who is not close to women, is a little uncontrollable.

In her arms was the gentle and soft body of the little woman, and her hot and humid breath came from her ears, even if Shen Yuan's concentration was strong, it was useless.

He began to think about all kinds of things in his mind, and without exception, all of them were about Bai Qiurui.

The first time I saw her, the first time I talked to her, the first time I saw her cry......

At that moment, infinite emotions surged in Shen Yuan's heart, and a thought in his heart was already about to come out.

"Shen Yuan?"

Bai Qiurui in the dark didn't know what Shen Yuan was thinking at this time, she only felt that she couldn't answer a question for a long time.

Just after she waited for a while and still didn't move, she couldn't help but call him again.

This was the first time Shen Yuan had heard Bai Qiurui call his full name, and he could still feel that the little woman was still holding his hand and shaking it in the dark.

This brought him back to his senses, and it took him half a beat to remember what the little woman had asked him.

"Hmm."

Hearing Shen Yuan's response, Bai Qiurui, who was worried about him at first, relaxed.

"I said, is there gunpowder in there?"

The rumbling of wheels and footsteps outside perfectly concealed the whispers of the two people in the coffin.

The little woman's warm breath hit her neck, and Shen Yuan felt more and more that his body was a little hot, and he replied vaguely again 'um', which was counted as the answer.

After receiving the answer, Bai Qiurui was stunned.

Is this really gunpowder?

It's just that in this era, gunpowder is a thing that is quite strictly controlled.

The people of Nanyue Temple, what do you want this gunpowder for? Where did you get so much gunpowder?

She was thinking about the use of gunpowder, and she didn't notice the difference in Shen Yuan's tone when she replied, she just thought that it was too stuffy in the coffin.

After thinking about it, Bai Qiurui didn't think of a good idea, and just when she was thinking about whether to ask Shen Yuan again, something happened abruptly.

I saw that the wheels of the carriage carrying the coffin outside seemed to have walked on a rather bumpy road, and the next second, the carriage shook violently.

Bai Qiurui only felt that her whole body rose upside down, and then fell again.

Immediately after a violent shake, she was caught off guard, and was directly thrown up and hit Shen Yuan.

Bai Qiurui: ...... It's embarrassing.

Shen Yuan: ......

Bai Qiurui subconsciously wanted to get up, but her wrist was grabbed by a big palm.

I only heard Shen Yuan whisper in his ear: "Don't move." ”