Xie Xuanye ate a few bites casually, then put down his chopsticks, got up, took his sword, and walked out the door.

Ruda didn't understand what was wrong with the commander who was still good just now, he hurriedly chased after him, "Commander, where are you going, the meal hasn't finished yet!" ”

It's a pity that only Xie Xuanye's back is left in his sight.

After Qin Shuhuang's lunch break, he found that Xie Xuanye was guarding the door of her room again.

She also took it upon herself to send away the housekeeper sent by Luo Chu to invite her.

Qin Shuhuang smiled helplessly, didn't go out again in the afternoon, and only rested in the room to read a book.

Early the next morning, as soon as Qin Shuhuang got up, Xie Xuanye quickly stepped into the room.

He glanced around, and Qin Shuhuang waved his hand to let the four mute maids waiting beside him retreat.

When only Qin Shuhuang and Xie Xuanye were left in the flower hall, Xie Xuanye stepped forward and handed a thin bamboo tube to Qin Shuhuang.

"Your Highness, the news just arrived."

Qin Shuhuang quickly opened the bamboo tube, and then took out a rolled up piece of paper inside and unfolded it.

After reading it, Qin Shuhuang's brows furrowed instantly, and she handed the note to Xie Xuanye next to her.

The note recorded the results of the investigation of the guards in the past few days.

The whereabouts of the four Liu family elders that Luo Chu asked her to help investigate were indeed very strange.

Three of the four people would inevitably leave the Liu family's mansion every three days.

The three of them left Quang Nam City with their escorts, not on the same path, after leaving the city, they went to the nearby villages, and then they would disappear into the villages, never to be found again, and after three days, the carriages of the three elders of the Liu family would return to the city from the village.

The three elders never showed up in the carriage back to the city, and the carriage drove directly into the Liu family's mansion through the side door of the Liu family's mansion.

Strangely, when the three elders left the Liu family's mansion, some people claimed to have seen several elders in the inner courtyard of the Liu family's mansion.

How can a person disappear out of thin air and appear somewhere else in an instant, there is only one possibility!

Xie Xuanye said with a cold face: "Is there a secret passage in the village they went to?" And then returned to the Liu family's mansion through a secret passage? ”

Xie Xuanye looked at Qin Shuhuang's eyes and said this, obviously this was also Qin Shuhuang's guess in his heart.

Qin Shuhuang frowned, "Since there is a secret way, why do they still have to act in such a play." ”

"To cover people's eyes! I don't want others to know what they did or what they transported through the secret tunnel! This thing must be very important to the Liu family! ”

Xie Xuanye was right, otherwise the Liu family would not have been so careful.

What is so important?

Qin Shuhuang sent someone to the front courtyard to call Luo Chu over to discuss.

When Luo Chu finished reading the note and listened to Qin Shuhuang's analysis, his face also became serious.

Qin Shuhuang said: "Mr. Luo, can you arrange for us to find out?" ”

Luo Chu faintly had a feeling that these were the truths about the Liu family that he wanted to excavate, his eyes sank, and he responded, "Tomorrow, three of them will leave the Liu family's mansion and go to the village outside the city, I will let people arrange it tonight, and we will go together tomorrow to find out." ”

Qin Shuhuang raised his eyebrows, he didn't expect Luo Chu to go in person.

"Good!"

A few people had a good rest that night.

Early the next morning, Qin Shuhuang was changed into the costume of an ordinary young woman by the maid, covering her appearance, and went to the front yard of the Liu family's mansion with Luo Chu, Xie Xuanye, and Luda, who also changed their outfits.

Qin Shuhuang was taken by the maid into a carriage ridden by the Liu family, and Xie Xuanye and others pretended to be ordinary family guards to follow the carriage.

After two teas, the seventh elder of the Liu family took Chang to the front carriage.

The Seven Elders asked Chang to greet him, and the team of three carriages and more than ten family guards set off and left the Liu family's mansion.

In the carriage that Qin Shuhuang was riding, she was not the only woman.

In addition, she had a total of seven women, and the seven of them were crammed into a carriage, which was really suffocating and crowded.

These women who were in a carriage were about the same age as her, and they were all dressed as subordinates of the Liu family's mansion.

Inside the carriage, a woman said worriedly, "I don't know who we will be assigned to......"

It took a lot of effort for Qin Shuhuang to find out the purpose of the Seventh Elder and this group of women.

Some of them are old maids in the Liu family's mansion who are not yet married, and some are little widows who have married and killed their husbands.

The Liu family wanted to take them to the village where the tribesmen gathered, and bemarried them to male clansmen who had not yet married their wives.

The carriage traveled for less than half an hour before leaving the city gates, and then ran all the way to the outskirts.

After another half an hour, we arrived at a village.

This village was different from those that Qin Shuhuang had seen before.

The entire village is surrounded by a stone wall, and there is a huge bamboo gate made of bamboo at the entrance of the village, which is more like a well-defended fortress than a village.

The entrance of the village is guarded by strong men from the village, and they must be checked when entering and leaving the village.

At the beginning of the procession, a guard showed his badge, and the group was released into the village.

When they entered the village, the large bamboo gate of the village was closed again.

The village is built on a hill with the majestic Quang Nam mountains in the background.

After entering the village, the procession went straight to the end of the village, where there were very few villagers on the road, a few children, and from time to time there were strong men with weapons, but they did not see a single woman, old or young!

Qin Shuhuang quietly lowered the curtain of the carriage, and suddenly felt even more strange.

The convoy walked to the end of the village and turned into a farmhouse.

The house was large, surrounded by earthen walls, and the houses in the courtyard were taller and neater than those of ordinary villagers.

As soon as he knocked on the courtyard door of the house, a young man ran out of the house.

He quickly opened the door and ushered the entire convoy into the courtyard.

When everyone and the carriage had entered the courtyard, the young man closed the courtyard door again.

After the carriage stopped, the curtain of Qin Shuhuang's carriage was lifted from the outside, and the guards of the Liu family's mansion asked them to get off the carriage and enter the hall in this courtyard.

After Qin Shuhuang and the women of the Liu family entered the hall, the steward of the party gave each of these women a cloth towel and asked them to blindfold.

He said that he was going to take them to the house of the assigned clan.

The women thought it was strange, but they obediently covered their eyes with cloth towels.

Qin Shuhuang glanced at Xie Xuanye Luda, who was not far away, and also blindfolded his eyes according to the appearance of the women in his companionship.

However, she kept an eye on it, and the veil was not tight, and after a while, she could see the situation around her when she loosened it a little.

After blindfolding, Qin Shuhuang and the other women were taken by the elders of the Liu family and the guards to the room next to the hall.

The room was poorly furnished but clean, with quilts and pillows on the wooden bed in the corner, which were spotlessly clean, and it was obvious that people slept here every day.

Through the deliberately left gap, Qin Shuhuang saw that the stone slab in the middle of the room had been pried open, revealing a large hole that could be used by one person to enter and exit.

Subsequently, everyone entered the hole in turn.

Sure enough, the Liu family has a secret way!