Part 60 Recall Cao Ji

Cao Ji received a secret letter from Xiahou Di and an order to return to the underground palace almost at the same time.

Xiahou Yi did not explain his plan in the secret letter, but only said that he would borrow his corpse to save people, hoping that he would not be strange.

After listening to the person from the underground palace describe the general situation of that night, four words came to Cao Ji's mind: moths to the fire.

Originally, Cao Ji stayed in Chang'an, and he was ordered to supervise the king of Huainan and promote the Northern Hu kingdoms to raise troops to attack Jin, but each country had its own plans, and no one wanted to be the one who took the lead in raising troops. Now Elder Changyang was in a hurry to recall him, thinking that he felt that he had not made substantial progress after staying here for more than two months, and secondly, he wanted him to look for Xiahou Yi. The second reason should be the main one.

Cao Ji's lean face, which was already indistinguishable, twitched slightly. He knew very well that destroying the underground palace was Xiahou Yi's long-standing wish. But now the underground palace is still there, but it is just a burning of a small Wuji Palace, with Xiahou Yi's person, he will definitely not do it lightly to save people? Who can let him sacrifice his life to save him, Cao Ji can only think of Han Yue.

Cao Ji simply cleaned up, explained the reason for the incident to the king of Huainan, and returned to Chenliu from Chang'an on the same day.

Back in the underground palace, Cao Ji first went to check the corpses that were moved out of the Wuji Palace, although the corpses had been burned beyond recognition and charred like black charcoal, it could be seen from the height that there was no Xiahou Yi in it. It's good if you don't have it, Cao Ji said to himself secretly. As for that Wuji Elder, he has already been buried, so there is nothing to see.

Cao Ji walked into the Wuji Hall alone, which had become a ruin, and searched carefully, hoping to find some clues. Suddenly he noticed that one wall in the temple seemed to be burned much less lightly than the others, and he went over and knocked on the wall, the stone wall, solid. Not to mention that there is no secret room in the Wuji Palace, even the entire underground palace does not have a secret room, because the underground palace is the largest secret room, everyone knows this. Looking at the burning edge mark, there should have been an irregular round object blocking it here, what is it? It is said that he never came out after seeing Xiahou Yi rushing into the Wuji Palace, where did he go?

Out of the Wuji Palace, Cao Ji went to the Lingyuan Palace. The Lingyuan Hall without the master is also soulless, and the maids are too lazy to comb, sighing and listless, they have been crying for several days, and now they are tired of crying. Of the twenty capable attendants, only five or six remained, all of whom were wounded to some extent. When they saw Cao Ji, they were silent, and their eyes had already shown hatred. Cao Ji understood that he was not treated well on weekdays, not to mention that this unprovoked disaster was caused by his corpse, even if he was not in the underground palace, raising corpses itself was regarded as evil art. It seemed that he couldn't ask anything from their mouths, he looked around the main hall of Xiahou Yi, and wanted to leave, but he swept a few cases in the corner. There was a box there, the lid was open, and there was a astrolabe inside. Cao Ji's heart moved, and he walked over and saw that the pointer of the astrolabe pointed to the southwest corner. The southwest corner? Cao Ji pondered in his heart. Xiahou Yi generally doesn't let others mess with his things, although he can deduce, but rarely do. And now an open compass shows what deduction he had done not long ago.

Lin Cao Ji asked casually: "Where is Aru." The maid replied that Aru had not been seen since that day. Aru is also gone?

Cao Ji took a big turn before finally returning to his corpse. There are also some remnants of the corpses that have been captured. Cao Ji didn't teach Xiahou Yi how to manipulate these corpses, but he knew that corpses were bloodthirsty, especially human blood. Along the way, he could see that there were blood stains on the ground that had not been completely cleaned, and he picked a little with his fingers, put it under his nose and sniffed it, it was undoubtedly human blood. Could it be these bloodstained corpses? The county lord of Huainan was tied to the stone pillar with heavy iron chains, and from time to time he tugged at the chains. She didn't know what was going on outside, but when she opened her eyes, she found that Miko was gone, which made her very unhappy, and in order to prevent her from going crazy, she had to lock her up and wait for Cao Ji to come back.

Cao Ji inspected the corpse all the way to the prison while listening to the report of his subordinates. He already had a rough idea of Xiahou's intention to borrow the corpse in his secret letter. The corpse man is just a cover to create a large-scale chaos, and it is Xiahou Yi himself who really wants to save people. He thought that Xiahou was saving Han Yue, but when he heard that the county lord of Huainan had arrested two people before and broke in two more people, he was a little confused. Who else could make Xiahou Yi take such a big risk.

One wall in the Changyang Hall is engraved with the whole picture of the underground palace, which is very magnificent. However, people who have lived in the underground palace for a long time have long been familiar with it, and no one usually pays attention to it. Not to mention that every time I come to the temple, I am questioned by the elders, who dares to look around. But at this moment, Cao Ji had no intention of listening to what Elder Changyang said, and his eyes kept glancing at this wall.

Out of the Changyang Palace, he came to the Lingyuan Hall again, and asked someone to find a map of the underground palace. He held the compass in his left hand and looked at the map. The Changyang Hall is due north, the Weiyang Hall is in the southeast, the Lingyuan Hall is in the northeast, the corpse prison is in the northwest, and the southwest is the Wuji Palace! If the corpse is led out, the distance to the Wuji Hall is the shortest, and there is no need to disturb the Changyang Hall and the Weiyang Palace.

I heard that the person who was captured by the county lord of Huainan for the second time was very beautiful, so he was favored by Elder Wuji and sent to the Wuji Palace. Is it Han Yue? Han Yue, he has seen it, and he is indeed good-looking. But if it's to save people, you don't need a compass deduction at all, and you just go straight in. So what did he deduce? What did the pointer mean by pointing to the southwest corner? Is it just a coincidence?

Cao Ji is a little big-headed, and thinking and reasoning are not his strong points at all. Even if the people of Lingyuan Hall didn't like him anymore, he had to stay here and find out what Xiahou Di had been doing these days.

Cao Ji called the four maids over and said with a hideous face: "Whether you like it or not, I will be in the Lingyuan Hall during this time." In public and private, in order to find your young secretary, it is best to tell him what he has done and who he has met during this time. ”

The bodies of the four maids trembled slightly. Should they tell an outsider about the Lingyuan Temple, even though they knew that the master was very good with this terrible person.

"If you don't say it, it's useless to keep you in this empty Lingyuan Palace. Why don't you go back to the corpse with me? ”

The four maids glanced at each other, knelt on the ground, and kowtowed vigorously to beg for mercy. Without the protection of the young secretary, they are ants in the underground palace. Say, maybe I can get the young division back. Otherwise, they will live worse than die. So, the four of them told the same story about what had happened in the Lingyuan Hall these days.

Cao Ji didn't expect that during his absence, the Lingyuan Hall would be so lively. Xiahou Yi actually hid Han Yue here for so long. The maids and attendants had no idea about the plan to save people.