The daughter of the emperor is reborn to be beautiful and cool, and the King of Zhenbei loves her wi

Shen Nanzhi never thought that Xiao Qian'an had such thoughts.

At this moment, she just wanted to get out quickly, leave this dark and damp place, and stay away from Xiao Qian'an.

Seeing that he didn't move, Shen Nanzhi didn't bother to talk nonsense with him. She grabbed the rope first and used the force to climb up.

When her feet once again stood firmly on the ground and she felt the gentle sunshine and the warm spring breeze, Shen Nanzhi felt that she was truly living in this world.

When she looked around, she discovered that the originally flat bottom of the hot spring pool had collapsed completely and was in a mess, except for the southern side that had been excavated by the previous craftsmen.

Before, Shen Nanzhi couldn’t understand why they ignored the location of the spring and insisted on digging in that cold and hard place where there seemed to be no water source.

After this experience, Shen Nanzhi couldn't help but suspect that they did this not for the purpose of repairing the hot spring, but to completely destroy it.

To be precise, it was to destroy the secret room under the hot spring pool, which was the secret channel leading to somewhere else.

The so-called collapse is just to cover up the truth.

Shen Nanzhi was unlucky. The bulge that he grabbed when he fell happened to be the mechanism to open the secret room below.

Perhaps their original plan was to chisel out a hole on the southern side of the hot spring pool. In this way, once the mechanism was activated, the entire bottom of the hot spring pool would collapse, and the huge impact force towards the center would just bury the secret room and the secret passage together.

Unexpectedly, due to Shen Nanzhi's incident, the rubble in the southern corner did not collapse, but collapsed in a deviation. Instead of being destroyed, the secret room was exposed to Shen Nanzhi.

In order to verify whether my guess is correct, I just need to check again later to see whether the secret room and the underground culvert have been destroyed.

After all, the construction of an underground culvert requires a lot of financial, material and human resources, and the layout of the culvert also has its own particularities. If there is nothing strange, it is impossible for a normal person to destroy the culvert.

Shen Nanzhi had some thoughts in mind, but didn't show it on his face.

She walked on the gravel to a safe place, and Xiao Qian followed her.

At this moment, both of them were covered in dust and looked dirty, but both of them had first-class temperament and were calm and elegant. Even so, they did not look embarrassed at all.

Shen Nanzhi lowered her eyes and said, "I'm very sorry for what happened today. For all the losses here today, Your Highness can send someone to deliver them to the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion later, and I will compensate you according to the price."

Putting aside other things, just talking about the facts, it was her slipping, falling and hitting the mechanism that caused the hot spring pool to collapse.

At least, that's what it seems on the surface.

Shen Nanzhi admitted the loss.

Although this amount of money is not small, it is nothing to her.

She grew up in the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion and might not have much else, but she definitely had enough money.

Although my fourth aunt was a person of few words, she was an expert in running the shop and managing the Shen family's assets. The Shen family's already rich assets increased several times under her leadership, and the dividends distributed to the several families were also very generous.

Moreover, whenever grandparents and mother had good things, they would give them to Shen Nanzhi first, so Shen Nanzhi's private treasury was very well stocked.

You don't even need all these. Just take the rewards that the Queen Mother gave yesterday as compensation, and it would be more than enough.

Someone had already brought hot water. Xiao Qian wiped his hands and face with a towel, then said to Shen Nanzhi, "This was originally a problem with the Yao family's hot spring pool. It also caused Miss Shen to suffer this disaster. How can you ask Miss Shen to pay compensation? Besides, I was the one who brought Miss Shen here. Even if compensation is required, it should be paid by me."

But Shen Nanzhi was not willing to accept his favor. She just shook her head and said calmly, "No need. Your Highness, don't worry. I can still afford this little money."

She had said so much, Xiao Qian'an naturally couldn't say anything more.

Everything that needed to be investigated had been investigated, and there was no need to stay here anymore. Shen Nanzhi bowed and said goodbye, then turned around and went back to the Liu family villa.

Shen Nanzhi saw Qiuyu looking out from afar.

So many things happened to her in the past half day, but Liu Jingya and Lin Lanyin were still soaking in the hot spring pool comfortably and had not come out yet. Naturally, they had no idea of ​​Shen Nanzhi's whereabouts.

"Miss……"

Seeing Shen Nanzhi looking so miserable as if he had been fished out of the mud, Qiu Yu was very anxious but did not dare to ask more questions.

Shen Nanzhi waved her hand: "Nothing, I accidentally slipped and fell into a pit when I went to catch the cat, so I went to wash myself."

After Shen Nanzhi turned around and went back to her own hot spring bath and quickly washed up, Liu Jingya also arrived.

She changed into a sky-blue double-breasted gauze dress, which made her look lively and graceful.

Seeing Shen Nanzhi, Liu Jingya couldn't help but stretching: "It's so comfortable that I almost fell asleep inside. Sister Zhizhi, while the weather is good, can we come back in a few days?"

Shen Nanzhi said nothing: "Okay."

Liu Jingya smiled and pulled Shen Nanzhi's hand, complaining: "Next time, just the two of us sisters will come, without that annoying guy. We can use the same pool and have a private conversation for a while."

The annoying person is of course Lin Lanyin.

Because of Lin Lanyin's presence, Liu Jingya was not able to hang out with Shen Nanzhi today, and she was naturally very regretful about it.

"But why hasn't she come out yet?"

At this point, Liu Jingya couldn't help but turn around and call a little maid: "Go and urge Princess Jiahe to stop sleeping. If you don't hurry back, the city gate will be closed."

After hearing the order, the little maid quickly turned around and went to the hot spring where Lin Lanyin was to call for help.

Liu Jingya was about to talk to Shen Nanzhi when she saw the little maid running out in a hurry and said nervously, "Miss, the princess is not in the hot spring!"

Hearing this, Liu Jingya couldn't help but frown and turned to look at the two guards outside the hot spring.

The two men looked at each other, obviously also very surprised, but they said with certainty: "We have never left here, and the princess has indeed never walked out of the main gate."

This is strange.

Shen Nanzhi and Liu Jingya looked at each other, and immediately, in tacit understanding, they lifted their skirts and followed in.

But in this huge hot spring pool, there was no trace of Lin Lanyin, either inside or beside the pool.

The two maids who were previously arranged to serve Lin Lanyin also ran in at this time.

Lin Lanyin ran out quietly and did not bring any maids with her. It was Liu Jingya who called the two maids over from the other courtyard.

Seeing the two men kneeling down with panicked expressions, Liu Jingya asked, "Where is the person I asked you to serve?"

The two maids were shaking like sieves, crying and saying, "It was the princess who said that we were an eyesore if we stayed here. She didn't want us to serve her, and told us to go out and wait."

This sounds like something Lin Lanyin would say.

However, there is no other passage here, and the courtyard wall is three feet high. How can Lin Lanyin climb over it if she doesn't know kung fu?

Moreover, it is unlikely that she would run away quietly for no reason.

Shen Nanzhi couldn't help but think of the fire in Mingyue Tower.

But that was done by the Second Prince's men. But the Second Prince had just fallen into trouble this morning, and he was even under house arrest and couldn't take care of himself, so how could he send people to kidnap Lin Lanyin?

Moreover, the emperor was angry, and if he did this at this time, he would undoubtedly be digging his own grave.

The possibility that it is the second prince is low.

Who could that be?

It couldn't be that Lin Lanyin heard that Xiao Qian'an was in the Yao family villa and ran over on her own?

That's impossible too.

Because Xiao Qian'an's whereabouts should be secret, Shen Nanzhi only found out after she ran into him. After Shen Nanzhi came back, she found that even the people under Liu Jingya were still unaware of it.

Therefore, it is unlikely that Lin Lanyin will go to find Xiao Qian'an, and there is no need for her to avoid everyone and go quietly.

The more anxious he became, the calmer Shen Nanzhi became.

She thought that Lin Lanyin was acting abnormally today and wanted to follow them to the hot spring.

It was obvious that she didn't get along with Liu Jingya and didn't have a good relationship with Shen Nanzhi, but she still followed here, just to take a bath in the hot spring?

Or did she also notice something and use it as a cover-up so that she could follow and find out what was going on?

Before, Shen Nanzhi's mind was focused on the weirdness of the hot spring villa and he ignored Lin Lanyin.

Thinking of this, Shen Nanzhi quickly walked towards the wall, and there was indeed a shoe print there.

It doesn't look like he was abducted by force.

Liu Jingya, who was standing by, said anxiously, "Could it be that she climbed over the wall and ran away? But, what did she want to do by doing this?"

Although she didn't like Lin Lanyin, Liu Jingya didn't want anything to happen to Lin Lanyin, especially in her family's villa, so she was naturally anxious.

Shen Nanzhi actually had a guess in her mind, but it was not easy to say it out loud. She shook her head and said, "Maybe she just wants to go out for some fresh air. You take the others to look for her first. Don't make it public yet. I'll go and take a look."

Liu Jingya was a little worried, but she had seen Shen Nanzhi's ability, so she nodded and said, "Then you must be careful. I will arrange for someone to look for it first."

Shen Nanzhi nodded, flipped over and climbed onto the wall.

This may be an opportunity for her.

An opportunity to get close to the hot spring villa with a legitimate reason.

Be it the contradictory statements of the Queen Mother and the Princess, or the tragic death of Yao Zheng, or the strangeness of the Yao family's hot spring pool, these seem to have nothing to do with each other, but they all seem to point to the hot spring villa.

Shen Nanzhi had a strong intuition that she could find answers to all her questions there.

Perhaps, Lin Lanyin also noticed something, so she followed quietly to find out what was going on.

Whether it was true or not, this gave Shen Nanzhi a reason to go to the hot spring villa.

She sneaked over first, and even if she was discovered, she would only say that she was looking for Lin Lanyin's whereabouts, and no one could find fault with her.

Lin Lanyin's footprints disappeared at the base of the wall.

This place is not far from Lin Lanyin’s hot spring villa.

Following the topographic map of the area in his mind, Shen Nanzhi climbed over the wall and followed in.

Although Shen Nanzhi had visited the villas of the Yao family and the Liu family, the villas of those two families combined were far inferior to the hot spring villa built by the royal family.

It took Shen Nanzhi a quarter of an hour to walk around the outer wall before he finally reached the inner courtyard.

The entire inner courtyard seemed to be built on the hot springs, with dozens of rooms built on top of dozens of hot springs of varying sizes.

The further he went in, the hotter he felt, and the curling mist almost blocked Shen Nanzhi's vision.

She couldn't see the road ahead clearly, but that also gave her some shelter.

The outer perimeter of the hot spring villa was heavily guarded, and Shen Nanzhi took a lot of effort to avoid the layers of guards, but when she reached the inner courtyard, she found that the road was almost unobstructed.

Before coming here, Shen Nanzhi made countless assumptions and guesses about what he might see.

But there was nothing.

Shen Nanzhi searched dozens of rooms one by one, but found nothing.

Not only that, there was not a single person in the entire inner courtyard of the hot spring villa.

Even most of the hot springs have a thick layer of scale on the edges, and it is obvious that no one has come to clean them for a long time.

This made Shen Nanzhi couldn't help but start to doubt herself. Could it be that she was really overthinking?

But she always felt that it was not that simple.

With this in mind, Shen Nanzhi still didn't give up. She climbed onto the roof again and compared the several hot spring rooms she had just seen.

I found that the floor of one room was cleaner and tidier than others, and there was very little scale around the hot spring.

This was the only place where anyone had visited, and there was a large bed next to the hot spring in the room.

The soft, misty silk curtains on the bed were embroidered with the most fashionable patterns in Beijing at the time, and it didn't look like it had been in disrepair for a long time or had never been stepped on by anyone.

Shen Nanzhi saw that the outer window of the room was leaning against a rockery. She tiptoed, turned over, and hid herself behind the rockery neatly.

Shen Nanzhi felt that there was something weird everywhere here.

But she didn't dare to step in easily. To be safe, she originally planned to wait here for another quarter of an hour to make sure there was no danger before going in to investigate.

Unexpectedly, just as Shen Nanzhi hid himself, he heard the sound of the stone wall turning in the room. A stone door suddenly appeared under the bed, which had been motionless, and a secret passage appeared under the stone door.

Two auras suddenly emerged from the secret passage under the bed.

Not knowing the other party's background, Shen Nanzhi held his breath instantly, not even daring to look over there rashly.

As the sound of the stone wall stopped turning, a sweet female voice sounded in the house.

"There's no one there. I see you're being too cautious!"

Just as he finished speaking, he heard another person sneer, "Don't underestimate the mechanism I set up. Someone must have been here just now, but it seems that he has left. Wait for me to check it out. The master's mission must not go wrong, otherwise we will both die!"

Hearing this, Shen Nanzhi was shocked.

She had just come in to investigate the area and even though she didn't see anyone, she was already very cautious. Unexpectedly, she still triggered the mechanism and was discovered by this person!

Fortunately, she hid in time, otherwise, she would have been exposed!

Thinking of this, Shen Nanzhi became even more cautious. She felt that she was one step closer to the truth and must not expose it at this time.

But it turns out that God doesn't fulfill people's wishes.

At this moment, the man's footsteps suddenly came towards Shen Nanzhi's location.

Although she was hiding behind the rockery, if the man stood at the window and looked over, he would not be unable to see her.

Seeing that person approaching step by step, Shen Nanzhi's heart was in his throat.

But at this moment, the woman laughed sweetly: "Even if there was someone, he would have left long ago. I think you have lost favor with your master recently, so you are so worried! I see that the work of serving others under that person is much better than yours, you better take care of yourself!"

Just as he finished speaking, the man suddenly turned his ankle and seemed to hug the woman into his arms, saying with a smile, "Don't you know whether my job as a waiter is good or not?"

He seemed to pinch the woman somewhere, and she let out a moan. The sound was so delicate and charming that it seemed to make one's bones melt.

But the moment she heard this, Shen Nanzhi, who was hiding outside the window, felt her heart almost jump out of her chest.

What kind of lewd words are they saying!

This is not a big deal. When Shen Nanzhi listened carefully to the man's voice just now, he found it a little strange.

Even...seemingly familiar!