Out of the young marshal's mansion, Mo Shaoying walked all the way, at this moment, the wind and the moon were bright, the sky was clear, and the pedestrians in the four streets and eight alleys were very scarce. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

He picked these trails because his true identity had not yet been exposed, and it was inevitable that he would be bumped into by the night guards on the main road.

Although it was easy to avoid them in terms of skill, he was so troubled at the moment that he didn't even want to spend any of his thoughts on these people.

Mo Shaoying just took advantage of the moonlight, stepped on the slippery and reflective green bricks, and walked aimlessly.

In a trance, he caught a glimpse of an old man selling flat noodles on the side of the road, and there was a small table and stool and a wooden bucket filled with clean water beside it.

Mo Shaoying recalled the scene when he was a child and his senior brother, junior sister and junior brother competed for three bowls of noodles in Jiangling, and couldn't help but smile, and felt hungry when he touched his belly...... Then I was in a bad mood, but this can't be eaten.

Now that you have done it, you can't help but regret it.

Mo Shaoying couldn't help touching her nose when she thought of this, and smiled, and said loudly: "Uncle, come to a bowl of wonton noodles, I want a large portion!"

"Okay, this son, you sit, your face will be fine immediately!"

The old man's craftsmanship is good, Mo Shaoying patted his belly with three bowls of belly, and felt out one or two pieces of silver: "Oh, don't look for it, the craftsmanship is good." ”

The old man usually sells a bowl of noodles for only five yuan, but when he saw Mo Shaoying take out one or two pieces of silver, he immediately smiled and said, "Son, how can you make this." ”

"The old man is not welcome, there must be some difficulties at home when he is still doing business late at night, this two pieces of silver are nothing to me, so I have the right to make money tonight, hurry up and pack up and go back to rest." ”

The old man didn't shirk after hearing this, took the broken silver and sighed and said: "Thank you son, but this noodle still has to be sold, if you don't sell the noodle while the water is still fresh, the water will be dirty in a few days, but you can't use it anymore." ”

Mo Shaoying wanted to leave, but when he heard the old man say this, he stopped and said: "Tianshui? You say that this bucket of water is rainwater, why do you use rainwater to cook noodles? Could it be that this is the beauty of wonton noodles?"

The old man smiled and said, "That's not true, if this noodle itself is made of well water, the taste is not much different, but recently, several wells in the southwest suddenly dried up overnight." Alas, not to mention the water used to sell noodles, even the water for eating must be retrieved from the deep well in the east. I'm old, and it's too late to walk back and forth for so many times, so I have to take advantage of the rain to sell noodles. ”

Mo Shaoying nodded a little understandingly, then frowned again, as if thinking of something, and asked, "How long has the water in this dry well been dry?"

The old man pondered for a moment, shook his head and said, "The water in the well dried up about half a month ago, and the water can be clear or sweet." ”

When Mo Shaoying heard this, he took out a whole silver ingot from his sleeve.

Seeing that the old man was already the first to wave his hand, he said: "This, this, this son should not give the silver to the old man, even if the old man sells a thousand bowls of noodles, it is not worth the price of this ingot of silver." And although the silver is good, but too much, it is also a scourge of the body. ”

Mo Shaoying smiled, took the old man's hand and said: "Don't be afraid, old man, I don't have any bad intentions, boy, this silver comes from the right way, if you don't want to go, the kid will ask a question with this ingot of silver, how about it?"

The old man thought about it and didn't take the silver, but said directly: "The son is kind-hearted, if you have anything to say, don't say a word, as long as the old man knows, he will tell you!"

Mo Shaoying smiled and said: "It's simple, dare to ask where this dry well is now, and bother the old man to show the way?"

The old man looked Mo Shaoying up and down, hesitated for a moment and said, "What kind of road is the son going to show me, the old man will walk with you." ”

Mo Shaoying bowed down and thanked him, but when he turned around, he secretly flicked the ingot of silver into the wooden barrel containing Tianshui.

Before long, these two people, one old and one young, walked through a few alleys, and suddenly saw a stone well more than three feet wide standing in the corner of the wall.

This is already on the western edge of Wancheng City, and further west is the city wall, and under the city wall is the moat.

After Mo Shaoying thanked the old man, he casually glanced at him and pretended to leave, and when the old man walked away alone, he quietly turned around before he carefully looked at the dry well.

Mo Shaoying's state of mind at the moment seemed to suddenly see a bright light in the dark, and he vaguely felt that the answer that he couldn't understand before was under this dry well, so he looked at the dark and swarthy dry well, but he didn't say a word, and he jumped down.

Coming to the bottom of the well and stepping on the soft and slightly wet soil, smelling the unique earthy smell in the well, and patting the three or two spring insects on his legs, Mo Shaoying felt more and more that he had come to the right place.

He shook the fire fold in his hand slightly, and then lit it, and saw through the fire at the bottom of the well.

According to the height of the moss and clemat fern in the well, it is not difficult to see that the water level of this dry well was about the top of his head, and such a high position could not be done overnight, there must have been something wrong underground!

Naturally, it is very likely that this change is just a coincidence, but if you think about it carefully, it is not difficult to find that there are too many coincidences.

If I remember correctly, half a month ago happened to be the time when he went out to lead the troops, and before that, the kid surnamed Tang dug a secret room under the military chamber in the young marshal's mansion, and now this well is dry Could it be the boy's masterpiece? Mo Shaoying is not sure, and he never stopped in his hand, but he knocked Liu Yuan against the wall of the well but still found nothing, is it really a coincidence?

Mo Shaoying frowned slightly, he didn't have direct evidence that the dry up of the well water was related to the secret room, but there was no better countermeasure for him now, so he slowly squatted down, and began to look at it inch by inch with his face against the wall of the well.

When the moon moved to the west, he found some clues.

He found a fly.

Yes, a wingless fly died in a crack in the green brick three inches next to his right foot!

Why are flies coming in and out of the dry well, and what attracts him here?

Food?

Mo Shaoying touched the green brick and found that its structure was a little loose, and without saying a word, he slapped it with enough internal strength, and the green brick was instantly shaken down, revealing a soil hole that only one person bent his knees and cat's waist to pass.

And along with the dirt road, there was a faint rancid smell.

Mo Shaoying, who has been on the battlefield for a long time, knows that this is not simply the smell of putre.

Smelling this disgusting smell, Mo Shaoying already had a bold guess in his heart, and then saw that he inserted the "Liuyuan" back into the black sheath, and after biting the fire fold, he ignored the rancid smell and went straight into the hole.

The cave is tortuous, narrow and slightly widened at first, and the rancid smell becomes more and more intense, like the smell of salted fish mixed with eggs in the sun.

This smell was fishy and pungent, but Mo Shaoying climbed faster and faster, and when he turned a high slope of the road and went down sharply, Mo Shaoying finally found a highly decomposed corpse near him by the light of the fire.

The corpse is in a posture of climbing outward, indicating that the person is about to crawl out from the inside, and there are large maggots wriggling on it, or sticking to the chest and squirming, or wriggling between the fingerbones, or going in and out of two pairs of hollow eye holes, so it is not lively.

No matter how bold Mo Shaoyingrao was at first sight, he was also frightened, and turned to take a closer look, but his stomach began to roll incessantly.

He tried his best to hold back the feeling of vomiting, and slowly crawled past the corpse, and as he crawled, he couldn't help but think: "This soil hole is very likely to have been dug by this person, could it be that he is Tang Yao? But why did he die in the middle of the road? Could it be that he had been poisoned or injured before?"

Thinking about it like this, Mo Shaoying was very similar to going back and carefully fiddling with the corpse, but when he thought of the surging maggots, he suddenly struck a sway, shook his head quickly and crawled forward.

The closed earth cave was both depressing and dull, but fortunately, the next section was downhill, and Mo Shaoying climbed out of the soil cave without much effort.

The air out of the earth cave suddenly became much fresher, and the surrounding area was dark and difficult to discern the direction.

Mo Shaoying just stood still, and walked around, at first he only thought that this was a secret room similar to Tang Yao's, but by the light of the fire fold, he walked halfway, only to find that this place was empty and deep, and after walking dozens of steps, he didn't see any obstruction, and when he finally touched the earth wall, he suddenly realized that there was such a large natural karst cave under the ground of Wancheng.

There are traces of man-made excavation on the soil wall in the cave, and it seems that many people are digging at the same time.

Mo Shaoying had reason to believe that Fang Cai's corpse was most likely one of the workers who excavated the cave, and he left himself a way back, apparently sensing the danger during the excavation process.

And who could order so many people to dig a karst cave at the same time? The answer was obvious, and Mo Shaoying would never believe that Kong He dug this place just to dry up half of the well water in the whole city!

Yes, Mo Shaoying seems to have smelled a hint of conspiracy in this empty cave!