Lord Prime Minister

According to the prince, he hid the treasure in the city, but the river that Mu Zihuai and the others visited before was outside the city, but fortunately, the imperial court dug a canal in the west of the city to bring the water from the river into the city.What Mu Zihuai and the others are going to is this artificially dug canal.

The banks of the two-meter-wide canal are made of huge flat stones, and the clear river flows in slowly. A row of small trees have been planted on both sides of the canal, and none of them have sprouted yet. This place is a bit desolate far from the city center.

The canal was old, and the stones on both sides were slippery and covered with moss.Mu Zihuai bent down and lowered his head to pick up a pebble, with a thin layer of water vapor and green moss, it was exactly the same as the stone in his purse.

"It should be here." Looking up and squinting into the distance, the long canal leads to the palace, hoping that the place where the prince hides things is far away from the guards guarding the canal.

The sun has risen to the highest point, and the sunlight with a weak temperature spreads down. Just looking at it makes people feel comfortable physically and mentally.Now that the general direction has been found, Mu Zihuai and Long Xiu are responsible for one side, and slowly searched along the canal.

But it is said that he has found the general direction, but Mu Zihuai doesn't even know what the treasure looks like, and the canal is long, if he really depends on him, he doesn't know when he will find it.Now that there is one more labor force, it is much easier.But Mu Zihuai still hopes to find the treasure before the sun goes down, if the time is later, it will be even more difficult to find the treasure before the sun goes down.

For Mu Zihuai, it was really difficult to find things. His high degree of myopia made his search extremely difficult. After a while, his eyes became dry and painful, but when he looked up, Long Xiu still looked down. Long Lei was also working hard, but he could only bear to blink and moisten his eyes with tears, and continue searching after the discomfort eased.

The sun began to slowly move towards the west, and he searched all the hiding places on both sides of the canal, but found nothing. This result was beyond Mu Zihuai's expectation. He became more and more irritable, frowned, and began to wonder if it was his own speculation. wrong.

When the sunset was completely swallowed by the earth, the three of them sat on the rocks by the river empty-handed, feeling depressed.

"Am I thinking wrong? It doesn't make sense? This kind of stone is indeed from the riverside. The range the prince said is within the city, so it should be here, why not?"

Long Xiu pondered for a moment, then asked: "Is there any clue that has been missed?"

Mu Zihuai thought about it carefully and shook his head. "That's all. It's just that I don't know what the prince's treasure looks like. It's also possible that we saw it but didn't know it, and it was missed."

"Then let's look for it again, there is still some time now."

Mu Zihuai could only nod his head.

The two stood up from the stone. Long Lei was too young and was already drowsy from exhaustion. Sitting on the stone, his eyes were slightly closed, and he was drowsy.

"Let Xiaolei rest, let's look for it again." Mu Zihuai felt a little guilty. He said so swearingly at the beginning, but in the end...

Long Xiu nodded, returned to the starting point without saying a word, bent down deeply and began to search the vicinity more carefully.

After the sun went down, the sky quickly darkened, making the search more difficult.Just now I heard the beeping sound, and it is getting closer and closer to Haishi.

Mu Zihuai sat on the ground with his ass slumped, bending over for a long time made his back sore and painful, and every movement involved stretching the stiff muscles, causing him to grin his teeth.The eyes are dry and sore, and most importantly, so far, they still have nothing.

The time of Hai is approaching, and Mu Zihuai feels bad. Is he thinking things too simply?The previous guarantees and confidence were shattered and lost as time went by bit by bit.

Long Xiu was still on the other side, looking for it by the hazy moonlight.After waking up, Long Lei ran around, looking down from time to time, but all he saw was disappointment.

Guilt, shame, regret, complex emotions welled up in my heart.Mu Zihuai even felt a little afraid to face Long Xiu and Long Lei.

"Be careful, be careful, they're all rolling down, slow down." A low voice came from the night, accompanied by the dull sound of things falling.

"Brother, this is an official canal built by the imperial court. Will we be discovered if we do this?" Another lower voice replied, and the sound of the wheels stopped for a while and then started again.

"You think I don't know!" The voice suddenly rose, and after a loud slap, he lowered his voice and said: "The wall is only strong if you build it with stones. Where can I find stones nearby? Only here are there. Hurry up!"

"Brother, don't hit me, it's over if someone overhears you."

"Know and talk, hurry up!"

It turned out that they came to steal the stones by the canal at night. These stones are round and smooth, and if they are mixed into the wall, they must be very strong.

Mu Zihuai listened carefully to the rustling movements of the two people. After moving for a while, he heard them say: "Okay, let's go quickly. Come and move some more tomorrow, so that no one will find you." Then came the wheels. The sound of rolling.

These two people are also smart, knowing that too many stones at a time will attract attention, so they steal a little every day.There are a lot of stones used to build the wall. If everyone comes here to get stones, I'm afraid...

and many more!

Take stones...treasures...

I see!

"Long Xiu!"

Having figured this out, Mu Zihuai stood up quickly, and shouted to the other side with a high voice: "I know where the things are, the time is almost up, I'll go get them, you go home first."

He ran while talking, and after a while, he had already run a certain distance.

The time is running out, and we must hurry up and try again.

Frightened by Mu Zihuai's voice, the brother who stole the stone was stunned. The younger brother who was holding the cart shook and sat on the ground.

"Brother...Brother, he...he...we...we were caught and raped!!"

Snapped!The elder brother with rough facial features slapped the stunned younger brother with his backhand, "What nonsense are you talking about!"

Long Xiu, who heard Mu Zihuai's voice, felt a little puzzled. Although he was worried, he came from the other side of the canal, glanced at the two people, and led Long Lei away.

The timid younger brother jumped up and jumped on his elder brother.

"Brother! There are two more here!"

He rushed to the prince's mansion in a hurry, and as soon as he entered the door, he ran into the old housekeeper who was wandering around the front yard with a lantern.

"Housekeeper, what time is it?"

"It's only a quarter to Haishi. Mr. Mu, have you found the prince's treasure?" The old butler looked at Mu Zihuai with a smile on his anxious face, and handed him the lantern in his hand.

Mu Zihuai nodded, and said again: "If I'm not wrong, it should be here. Old housekeeper, do you know where the ponds, water cellars, and water tanks in the mansion are?"

"I know. It's just that the prince has just given me an order, and the villain may not be able to leave now." The old housekeeper stroked his beard, "But I can ask the servant to take the husband there."

"That's really great." Mu Zihuai clapped his hands together and said happily: "Then please assign someone to me from the steward, and take me there as soon as possible."

The old butler nodded and summoned a young servant wearing a gray hat. "Take this gentleman to the pond and water cellar in the mansion."

"Yes."

After bidding farewell to the old housekeeper, Mu Zihuai urged the young servant to trot all the way. The first place he arrived was the Yangxin Pond in the backyard of the Prince's Mansion. Lanterns were placed on the bank of the rather large pond, illuminating the path, but far away from the shore. The center of the edge was still pitch black.

There are more than one or two places with water in the mansion. In less than a moment, Mu Zihuai couldn't check it no matter what.

"Do you know where stones from the river outside the city are used in the mansion?" Before starting to search, Mu Zihuai tried to narrow down the area.

"Sir, are you talking about the round pebbles by the river?"

"Yes, that's the kind, you know?" He seemed to know where that kind of stone was used from what the man said.

"Sir, please come with me."

Following the servant to the water tank used to store water in the backyard garden, the servant said: "The prince ordered people to transport a lot of pebbles and soil to plant flowers, and they are all here."

When Mu Zihuai heard it, his eyes almost lit up when he looked at the flowers. "Thank you."

As soon as he finished speaking, he plunged into the flowers, took the lantern given by the old housekeeper, and carefully searched for the hidden place under the flowers and leaves.

Opening a luxuriant mandala, beside its rhizome, a golden box was exposed, and the pattern embroidered on the box flashed a stream of light under the light of the fire.

found it!