The day after returning from the forbidden area, the life of Shi Cheng and his party temporarily returned to the usual rhythm, early in the morning, Tie Mian walked into Wu Neng's room with a blank face as usual, picked up Wu Neng from the bed in his sleep, and went out for "morning exercise".

Shi Cheng also got up early as usual, he did not practice meditation or prepare medicine today, but spread out the map he had drawn yesterday in front of his eyes, and gently tapped his knees with the fingers of his left hand, while contemplating and contemplating, while constantly enriching the details on the simple sketches.

"Strange...... Why bother to put the outlet in a place where there is a water source...... This is unreasonable......" This confusion has been lingering in Shi Cheng's heart for a long time, and yesterday he simply took out this problem and discussed it with his two companions, but Wu Neng and Tie Mian couldn't think of a reason.

Wu Neng put forward a number of hypotheses from the professional perspective of a mechanism magician, although there is no substantial evidence to support it at present, but in Shi Cheng's opinion, the most valuable idea is that the builder of the secret passage set up some kind of mechanism that needs to be driven by water at the entrance and exit of the secret passage.

An hour later, Tie Mian came back with the half-dead Wu Neng, threw Wu Neng into the wooden barrel prepared in advance on the second floor, and clapped his hands and walked down.

"Still thinking about the secret passage?" Seeing Shi Cheng's gaze staring at the blue lines on the drawings that symbolized the general direction of the underground secret passage, Tie Mian opened his mouth to ask.

"yes, have you ever seen a secret passage exit set up in the water?" Shi Cheng finally straightened up from the desk.

"Now you can't think of any reason for this, it's better to think more about the specific plan for entering the forbidden area next time, I have a hunch that the next time we enter the forbidden area, we will face a fierce battle, regardless of whether the forces responsible for designing and building the secret passage of the forbidden area are the Lu clan or not."

Shi Cheng sighed and stood up, "What you said makes sense. ”

As he spoke, he rolled up the paper in his hand, and when Shi Cheng was about to put it away, there was a knock on the door at the entrance.

When he opened the door, it was Alido standing outside the door, and although the little girl had a smile on her face, she had only been seen for two days, and the little one seemed to be very tired.

When she saw the door open, Alido, who had been wilting like a small dried vegetable, shook her spirits and squeezed a smile on her face, although the little one was not very old, but she didn't want the kind people who had treated her with kindness to see her languishing.

I don't know what's going on in the last two days.,The owner suddenly handed over a part of the laundry work that didn't belong to Alido.,The small body was forced to put on a bigger burden.,The only thing that makes Alido's heart a little comforted.,The dinner that belongs to you every day has become more abundant.,Not only a small bowl of sweet bean paste.,There's also an extra piece of roast chicken.。

Shi Cheng accepted the lunch with a smile as usual, and then called little Alido into the living room and gave her a bowl of cool juice and two sweet milk cakes as a thank you gift.

The two chatted as usual, Tie Mian sat quietly on the side and listened, and Wu Neng was still slumped in the wooden barrel upstairs.

Looking at Alido's rather weak face, Shi Cheng, who was smiling gently, couldn't help frowning in his heart, he hadn't seen him for two days, and Alido, who had a better face, looked very tired today.

Shi Cheng also wanted to ask Alido what was going on while chatting, but the little girl didn't want Shi Cheng to feel worried, so she made an excuse that the store had been busier recently, and there were more customers who needed to visit her than before, so she needed to follow the uncles and aunts who worked in the fruit and vegetable shop all the time to run around.

Shi Cheng could feel that the little girl was not telling the truth, after a few days of contact, Shi Cheng found that Alido was a child who rarely hid in the face of people she trusted, but today Alido didn't want to say more, so what she didn't want to tell herself must be something very important to her, in this case, Shi Cheng had no intention of inquiring into the little girl's own private affairs.

While Seok Cheng and Alido were chatting, Iron Mask walked over to the cupboard, took out a wooden plate, and then took some water to wash it clean.

Iron Mask was going to take out some food from the basket brought by Alido and send it to Wu Neng, who was paralyzed in the wooden barrel, and the amount of training today was increased compared to before, so after the "morning exercise", not only did he have to drink the potion prepared by Shi Cheng, but he also had to eat something as soon as possible.

After pulling back the thick cloth covering the basket, Iron Mask was stunned for a moment.

Today's breakfast is two roast chickens, three pancakes sprinkled with spices, a packet of washed and cut vegetables, a small box of sweet dipping sauce and fruit, next to the fruit, there is actually a hat made of flowers, next to the hat there is a thin wooden board, on which is carved a smiling face, next to a simple line drawn a little girl and three adults, the little girl stretched out her hand, gave a flower to the three people opposite.

Iron Mask looked at the wooden plank and the "little flower hat", and soon figured out the origin of the two things in his heart, he picked up the little flower hat, showed a rare gentle smile on his face, looked at Alido, made a surprised look, and asked, "Alido, this is ......"

Alido said a little shyly: "Uncle Mask, when grandma was still alive, she told Alido, if someone gives you a bowl of water to drink, you have to give someone a bowl of fragrant tea in return, Alido's injuries were healed by the three uncles, and the three uncles gave Alido ointment, and Alido must also send a gift to you in return, but Alido has no money in his pocket, so I can only make this little flower hat, I hope you like it." ”

"I'll see." Shi Cheng got up and took the flower hat from Tie Mian's hand with a smile, "It's beautiful, I like it very much." ”

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After a rare break from this busy day, Alido left the Lin manor with some reluctance.

The people at the mushroom shop were busy until mid-afternoon, and after delivering the last order before the afternoon, the guys at the fruit and vegetable shop picked a shady place to rest and have lunch.

Alido held a cake in both hands, quietly curled up on a large rock, and after eating a few bites of dry bread, she picked up her own shabby little water bag and took a sip of water, she had always been unable to interject in the chats of the guys who were much older than her, and the elders and peers who could talk to her did different work in the shop than Alido, so every time it was time for lunch, Alido spent most of the time quietly solving lunch by herself.

Just when Alido thought that this ordinary noon was going to pass like this, a rush of running suddenly sounded in everyone's ears, and then a somewhat panting male voice sounded at the mouth of the alley directly opposite the big tree.

"Where's Alido, Vadu? Where's Alido, who came out with you? The young owner is in a hurry to find her. ”

Alido was a little surprised, she quickly stood up, tilted her head on tiptoe and looked through the cracks in the person to see where the voice came from, and soon recognized the owner of the voice, which was a close friend of the Shaodong family, named Keketo.

The man of the famous Wadu hurriedly stood up, "Alido? Eating over there, what's wrong, why did the young owner suddenly look for her, is this baby in trouble? ”

Kekoto gasped, walked quickly in front of Alido, looked up and down, then turned to Vadu and said, "No, it's just that the young owner has something urgent to find some clever children to do." ”

At this point, Kecoto turned back and said to Alido, "Alido, come back with me first." ”