Reborn as the favorite of the cold-faced general

Ye Huaiyun pricked up his ears again to listen carefully to the surroundings, but there was no sound in his ears, only the leaves rustling in the quiet place at night, it was really as weird as the shadow guard said.

And Chu Tingyun had already let go of Ye Huaiyun when Ye Huaiyun uttered his voice just now, and walked around the courtyard silently. Finally, he pulled Ye Huaiyun's wrist and walked to a corner, saying, "Below this."

"Dry well?" Ye Huaiyun looked at the corner of the well which was half covered by dead leaves, less than the width of two people.

"Well." Chu Tingyun said: "The sound sometimes disappears, most likely someone is under our feet."

And the only thing that can lead to the ground in this yard is this dry well.

Chu Tingyun was lucky enough to lift the dead leaves from the mouth of the well with the palm of his hand, and then polished the fire. The wall of the well was rough, covered with mud, and had a vaguely unpleasant smell.

Ye Huaiyun couldn't help frowning, "Are you sure it's here?" No matter how you look at this kind of place, it doesn't look like you can leave.

"...not sure." Chu Tingyun said truthfully, but he suddenly changed his voice and smiled at Ye Huaiyun, "If you get scared later, come here and hug me tightly." He hugged him and jumped down from the mouth of the well.

During the fall, Ye Huaiyun was always covered by Chu Tingyun's outer covering, and she was not scratched by the well wall at all.

The dry well was very deep, and he always felt that it took a long time for his feet to step on the ground.And what followed was a disgusting stench.Ye Huaiyun felt that his breathing was not smooth, and retched twice uncontrollably, and Chu Tingyun immediately stuffed a pill into his mouth.

The sweet and sour taste instantly melted on his tongue, and Ye Huaiyun asked, "What did you eat for me?"

"Qiao Ganmo." Chu Tingyun said: "A medicine that can temporarily hide the sense of smell, to make you feel better."

Hearing what he said, Ye Huaiyun breathed again, and really felt a lot more comfortable.

There was obviously a dark passage on the left hand side of the two, the starlight could not enter the bottom of the well, and the field of vision was full of thick and indissoluble blackness.

As they kept walking in, Ye Huaiyun gradually felt more and more shady.The night clothes were already thin, and the chill penetrated into the joints of the bones as if sticking to the skin. Only the wrist held by Chu Tingyun still had a clear sense of touch.The body temperature, which was originally slightly cold, also gave birth to some thin warmth in this gloomy environment.

The two didn't dare to be distracted, and they didn't know how many turns they had turned until there was a little light in front of them, and the voices they heard on the ground gradually became clearer.

Ye Huaiyun held his breath even more, but he couldn't understand what the people inside were saying after listening for a long time. He could only vaguely judge that it was definitely not Central Plains Chinese.

Chu Tingyun whispered to him: "It's a dialect in the southwest."

Ye Huaiyun was slightly startled, "Can you understand?"

"It's not possible." Chu Tingyun shook his head, "But it can be roughly judged from the southwest by the accent."

Ye Huaiyun said: "Follow the past to see what's so tricky."

Chu Tingyun has the habit of carrying smoke with him, and Ye Huaiyun knows about it, so he euphemistically called it: Soldiers never tire of cheating.It was the same this morning, Chu Tingyun covered the mouth and nose of the person beside him intimately, lit the misty smoke with a torch, and immediately put down several men who were talking in the secret passage.

After turning another corner, the two realized that the light they saw just now was not the light of fire, but the bright and quiet light emitted by piles of jade stones piled up at the end of the dark passage.Most of these jade stones have not been carved, and there are still a few seal knives beside the hands of the fascinated foreigners.

Ye Huaiyun casually picked up a piece and looked at it, "Shuiyin jade?"

Chu Tingyun sneered: "What kind of water singing jade is this? It's nothing more than a piece of white jade with better material."

Ye Huaiyun held the white jade in his palm, and it really only had the warmth of jade, but didn't feel the slightest feeling of coldness, it seemed that he hadn't entered a gu yet.

The secret passage here is hidden. According to common sense, Jin Xing has no reason to divide the place where the water singing jade is made into multiple places, so Ye Huaiyun guessed that most of those harmful Gu insects are also in this secret passage. Search around.

But they opened every container that could hold things and searched, but they still found nothing.

"Is it really not here?" Ye Huaiyun began to doubt.

He was just about to turn around and look for it again, but he accidentally kicked a round white jade in the corner of the wall. The jade ball spontaneously rolled towards the way the two came, and didn't stop until it disappeared from sight. .

The two stood still, counting the seconds in their hearts, until they counted to more than 200 times, and finally heard the crisp echo of a jade hitting a wall.

Ye Huaiyun narrowed his eyes suddenly, "We just walked uphill."

It's just that I haven't noticed this detail because the slope is too small and I can't see the road under my feet.

So the position they are standing at is the closest to the ground, and it is very likely that there is an exit leading directly to the outside!

Chu Tingyun let out a "hmm", and then searched for mechanisms on the surrounding stone walls.

After all, he is a person sent by Jianghu sect, and he has a certain understanding of Taoist design.Not long after, Ye Huaiyun heard a bang above his head and opened a secret door, but there was still no light.

Ye Huaiyun cautiously stopped Chu Tingyun from making a gesture to take him up, and said, "You have to figure out where the top leads first."

"If I'm not wrong..." Chu Tingyun paused, "It's the kitchen."

Ye Huaiyun wondered, "How do you know?" It's so dark, how can you tell?

Chu Tingyun asked back: "Didn't you smell the vegetables?"

Ye Huaiyun sucked her nose twice, but she didn't...

Chu Tingyun said: "I forgot to eat Qiao Ganmo for you just now, you shouldn't smell it for an hour."

"..." Ye Huaiyun pouted, "Go up."

Ye Huaiyun was still hugged by Chu Tingyun and went out from the dark and damp tunnel, but when he got to the top, he saw that the place where he was at this time was actually the kitchen, and there were still some pastries warming in the steamer.

Instinctively, Chu Tingyun grabbed a piece of pastry.

He tasted it a few mouthfuls and found it to be delicious, then raised his hand to put the food on Ye Huaiyun's lips, and asked, "Do you want to eat?"

"Eat whatever you want without even knowing what it is." Ye Huaiyun blocked his hand and said helplessly, "You are really not afraid of getting sick."

Chu Tingyun smiled, "What are you afraid of? It's nothing more than..."

"Wait!" Before he finished speaking, Ye Huaiyun suddenly spoke seriously.

Chu Tingyun looked at him suspiciously, "What's wrong?"

"Something's wrong." Ye Huaiyun looked around sullenly, and said, "Today is Si Bai's wedding day, and the Jin Mansion held a big banquet for the friends who came to congratulate me. How could there be no busy servants in the kitchen, and these The boiler stove doesn't look like it just cooked a big dish."

Hearing this, Chu Tingyun also reacted and opened the window.

Ye Huaiyun walked up to him, looked at the swaying lanterns in the corridor outside, and he suddenly recognized where it was.

"It's Jin Shuzhu's yard." Chu Tingyun gave him the answer.

Therefore, this small kitchen belongs to Jin Shuzhu personally, not Jinfu.

Taking advantage of the starlight pouring in from the window, Chu Tingyun directly lifted the lid of the water tank in the kitchen.

Small white ovals filled half of the water tank. At first glance, they looked like ordinary rice grains, but the two of them recognized at a glance that they were insect eggs in Shuiyinyu.

Chu Tingyun immediately frowned in disgust, "How can he eat the food made in this kind of place?"

Ye Huaiyun took a deep look at him, and reminded: "You ate it just now." And she was quite relishing it.

"Cough—" Chu Tingyun threw away the remaining half of the pastry with a wave of his hand. He really lost his appetite, so he took out a fire pocket from his arms and lit it.

Ye Huaiyun quickly grabbed his wrist, "What do you want to do?"

"Isn't it obvious?" Chu Tingyun said, "Burn it clean."

"No." Ye Huaiyun blew out the fire in his hand.

Chu Tingyun asked: "Why not?"

"Insect eggs are flammable. If the contents of this big vat burn, it is inevitable that this yard will flood." Ye Huaiyun said: "And tonight is Si Bai's wedding day. If the Jin's mansion leaks water, there will definitely be people who don't know what is right or wrong. People gave him an ominous name."

Chu Tingyun snorted coldly with disdain, "It's all nonsense."

Ye Huaiyun said: "I know you don't believe in ghosts and gods, but not everyone can see it so well."

Chu Tingyun finally listened to him and took back the fire folder, "Then what do you think should be done now?"

"Leave a few hidden guards nearby to watch." Ye Huaiyun said, "We've already found the Gu worms around, so we can't keep them there, but it won't be too late to burn them again in two days."

For the sake of safety, the two left two secret guards in the side courtyard in the northwest corner and Jin Shuzhu's courtyard respectively.

It can be said that luck was really good. In the middle of the night, there was a regular sound of shoes stepping on dead leaves in the courtyard, and the two hidden guards squatting on the tree immediately opened their eyes like eagles.I saw a figure sneaking over the wall into the courtyard, searching for something.

Dark Guard A bumped Dark Guard B with his elbow, "Who is this person?"

After seeing the person, the dark guard B said, "Zhao Chuyang."

"Who?" The Dark Guard was shocked.

"Zhao Chuyang..." Dark Guard B repeated it firmly.

"Hiss—" Dark Guard Jia took a deep breath, "Didn't you come here to meet your lover in the middle of the night?!"

On the wedding night, instead of enjoying the springtime in the bridal chamber, it would be too scumbag to come to the side courtyard of the mother-in-law's natal family for a tryst.

Dark Guard B said: "Go back and report to the Young Palace Master and Your Highness."

"What's the report?" The dark guard was still engrossed in his imagination, "We also need to take care of the cheating?"

"What are you stealing..." Dark Guard Yi gave him a chestnut in his pocket, "I told you not to hang out with Master Jiang Shao all day long, what kind of messy things are you thinking in your head?!"

The dark guard rubbed his painful head, "So what do you want to report?"

The dark guard Yi pointed out that Zhao Chuyang was jumping in from the mouth of the well, obviously knowing something.

Tonight, the two grandest mansions in Luxia City were full of lights, as bright as day, although Jin Sibai married to the Zhao family, but dozens of tables were also set up at the Jin family's table, and countless people came to congratulate them.Jiang Linxu brought two jugs of misty wine from the banquet to Chu Tingyun's room, insisting that they should also be happy.

Although it was late at night, Ye Huaiyun and Chu Tingyun didn't fall asleep because of the endless laughter and laughter from outside the courtyard, and they were slightly tipsy after drinking some wine.

After listening to Anwei Yi's reply, Chu Tingyun shook the wine cup thoughtfully, "Zhao Chuyang... as a member of the Zhao family, he knows the secrets of the Jin family..."

Ye Huaiyun remembered that Zhao Chuyang went to Qin Sebi on the eve of his last wedding, and felt more and more suspicious about this person.

The dark guard B listened to the conversation between the two for a while, and guessed: "Could it be that Young Master Jin told him?"

"Heh—" Chu Tingyun asked with a low laugh, "Do you think that little boy Jin Sibai will know about Shuiyinyu?"

After thinking for a while, Dark Guard B nodded slowly.

Chu Tingyun didn't express his opinion on his thoughts, but turned his head and looked at each other with Ye Huaiyun at the same moment, and they both saw some deep meaning in each other's eyes.

"Go and check the whereabouts of Zhao Chuyang a few days ago when he went out to look for Qin Sebi." Ye Huaiyun called in a few shadow guards of the Eastern Palace, and ordered: "Including where he went, where he went, and which servants he brought with him." , When you encounter bandits, find out everything in every detail."