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Chapter 136 The Secret Passage of Ji Mansion
The Crown Prince nodded towards Prince Duan and walked in first.After a while, he returned to the entrance of the cave, and Haitang and King Duan followed him in.When closing the cave door, King Duan saw that the willow tree actually grew in a huge iron barrel. Pressing down on the trunk of the tree, the iron barrel would be lifted up, and the door would open if the mechanism of the stone door was touched.

King Duan pushed aside the mechanism holding the iron barrel, the barrel slowly fell to the ground, and the door was closed again.King Duan lit a fire pocket, and the faint light of the fire lit up the cave. The prince saw a pile of torches piled up at the foot of the stone wall at a glance. He went to pick up two and lit them, and the cave was brightly lit.

Only then did King Duan hold Haitang in his arms, kissed her forehead and said, "No wonder I have been restless, thinking only of coming to Ji Mansion to find Xie Yuanfang. It turns out that you are also being imprisoned here! We were originally in Ji Mansion I was waiting for dark in the trees outside the mansion, and I heard the noise in Ji's mansion, and I didn't know if Xie Yuanzhu was really locked up inside. When I came in, I saw you guys standing on the corridor."

"I was knocked unconscious and brought here. I didn't know anything, so I was locked up with the prince." Haitang asked again: "How is the Cheng family now? Is my brother back?"

King Duan shook his head and said: "Your brother hasn't come back yet. The chaos at the door was probably caused to kidnap you, so he didn't really break in. An Qi found out that you were gone, so he went to notify me. And we were at the racecourse. The evidence found pointed to Qingmu Cliff, so I decided to go in and investigate."

"Evidence?" The prince was a little interested.

"The water for the medicinal bath was added with a kind of soft muscle powder unique to the Tang sect. Tang Yu thinks it was done by Tang Qi who defected to Jichuan. I just don't understand what the purpose of Jichuan's kidnapping you is."

King Duan still wanted to discuss, but the Crown Prince interrupted him and said: "As we walked, we didn't know where this tunnel leads. It seems to be quite long inside." As he said that, he walked forward holding a torch.King Duan also followed behind with Haitang in hand, and the three of them groped forward.

After entering from the rockery, there were only a few steps wide before starting to go down the stairs. Haitang counted in her mind that there were eighteen steps in total.The stairs leading down to the secret passage are not too narrow, and three people can walk side by side. A tall person like Xie Ruitang will not feel too depressed.But the secret passage was really long, and a kind of fear of an uncertain future enveloped their hearts. No one was in the mood to talk and concentrated on moving forward.

Unexpectedly, one or two iron fences began to appear sporadically on both sides of the secret passage. The fences were flat against the wall of the secret passage, and dungeons were recessed inward.Could it be that this is the dungeon of Ji Mansion?

Nowadays, it is an open secret that private dungeons and basements are built in the palaces of princes and princes. Even the styles of the dungeons are similar, but this one has never been seen before.

They passed the first three rooms staggered from left to right, and there was no one in the front of the fourth room. There was a recessed room with no door and no fence. There was no sound, but there was a faint fire.The prince stopped, and King Duan handed the torch to Haitang's hand.He pulled up the mask hanging around his neck, picked up his sword, and touched the wall toward the firelight.

Prince Duan's night clothes were indeed much more concealable than the Crown Prince's white middle coat.I saw him take a leap, and the tip of the sword had already reached the neck of a jailer. The jailer was sitting with one leg crossed, sitting at the table and drinking wine with fried broad beans. When the assassin came, he was scared out of his wits .

Duan Wang glanced at the table and groaned inwardly. There was a pair of bowls and chopsticks opposite the cell leader, and there was obviously another cell leader.He hit the back of the prison head's neck with his elbow, and heard two "dong" and "dong" sounds, and the two prison heads fell to the ground at the same time.It turned out that another cell leader came back from urinating, and as soon as he came out and saw Prince Duan, the crown prince over there shot Pebbles, an arrow without feathers.

The two tied up the two cell heads and walked out to see Haitang staring at the fourth cell.There was someone inside, a man dressed very strangely.

"Who are you? Why are you locked up in there?" King Duan asked, holding a torch and looking inside. He saw the man sitting cross-legged on the straw mat, with his eyes closed and not paying attention to them.Haitang saw that his two hands hanging on his thighs each formed a different mudra.This way of forming hand seals is very special. Once Haitang sees it once, she will never forget it. "I know who you are, you are the corvee king!" Haitang said with certainty.The master has a friend who is a protector of the corvee king. Although he is a protector, he never returns to the corvee village all day long and likes to travel around the world.He had lived in Yueling for a few days, and he explained to Haitang the similarities and differences between corvee poison and miao poison, which was much more detailed than what was explained in the Poison Classic.

Nowadays, the people in prison have patterns embroidered on the chests of their clothes that are unique to corvee kings. They are similar to the patterns on the protector's clothes, but they are also different. The difference lies in the palindrome in the middle of the cross pattern!

The man slowly opened his eyes, nodded and said, "I heard you have a southern accent, girl. Could it be that you once lived in Lingnan? You are quite knowledgeable. Tell me, you are a Han girl, how do you know that I Is he a corvee king?"

"I know a Jho man named Lei Muding."

"Leimuding?" The corvee king laughed: "The Han people laughed at him because he was illiterate and gave him this name. Unexpectedly, he accepted it happily? He is a Sanren and he actually befriended a girl like you. You are the corvee. The Han people of the Celestial Dynasty gave us the name Sheng'an, saying that we are people of corvee service. We are the descendants of Jiuli and Sanmiao, and we are Youren.

I have a clansman named Jiudian, and it was this traitor who tricked me here. Ji Chuan locked me in the dungeon, just to use me to blackmail my clansmen and let them be Ji's lackeys and accomplices.Jiudian is not the only one who knows how to use snake poison! "

The prince slashed with a short knife, and the lock that locked the door was cut in half.The prince secretly praised: What a great knife!I wonder if it's Himekawa's neck that's hard, or the iron lock that's hard?

King Duan pushed the door open and went in, saying: "The enemy of my enemy is my friend. You can't stay here for a long time. You can go out with us first. If you have anything to say, go out and say it slowly." He had already discovered that the reason why the corvee king did not move was because he His hands and feet were chained.The prince went over, swung the knife a few times, and the chain fell to the ground.

The prince went over to help the corvee king up, but he did not resist and followed the prince out of the cell.When they reached the door of the cell, King Duan looked at the corvee king up and down, pulled off a decorated jade stone from his hat, threw it in the direction they came from, and tore off a piece of cloth from the corner of his clothes and hung it on the prison cell. Beside the door.

The corvee king knew that it was to tell Jichuan that a corvee might come in and save him.

Strange to say, this dungeon was locked up by only one person, and only the two cell bosses were guarding it.Where is the need to dig such a long tunnel?However, it seems that after reaching these dungeons, the road ahead will come to an end.King Duan looked at it and said, "This tunnel was definitely not built for these dungeons. Don't look back. Let's go forward and see if there is any way." After that, he led Haitang to the front.

After walking for about twenty steps, you are faced with a wall. But if you insist on walking to the wall, you will see an inconspicuous transfer door on the left. It has no mechanism, but it is just disguised as a wall.King Duan pushed it, the door swung inward, and several people got in.As we walked, gradually, the light from the torch began to flicker.

windy!

(End of this chapter)