Luo Lan turned around and saw that this person was the housekeeper of the Li Mansion. She was about to speak when the housekeeper turned his face cold and shouted in a low voice:

"You guys again? How dare you come here? You really don't know how to live or die. Someone, come here!"

His shouting made Luo Lan a little unhappy. Ah Cai and Ah Hong rolled up their sleeves and looked at him angrily. Ah Cai pointed at him and asked:

"What are you yelling about? Your family is having a wedding, can't we just come and drink in the wedding wine? If you dare to yell again, I will yell louder and make sure your marriage doesn't go through."

Her words made the butler frown. He waved his hand and several servants came over quickly. He whispered a few words to them, and the servants stood beside them, staring at them cautiously. Every time they moved, the servants followed suit.

Ah Hong whispered in Luo Lan's ear:

"Princess, what should we do?"

Luo Lan looked at the bride in the main hall without caring, "Wait..."

Now they came here just to watch the excitement, the results of Xiao Lingzi and the others' search were the most important.

Xiao Lingzi and others climbed over the wall and entered the backyard. It was indeed very deserted here. Perhaps the servants had all run to the front yard to watch the fun.

Xiao Lingzi waved his hand, signaling everyone to disperse and check.

After a while, a group of people came back and shook their heads at Xiao Lingzi, indicating that they had found nothing. Just as Xiao Lingzi was frowning, two maids came in from the main courtyard, and he hurriedly ordered people to hide.

The two girls were carrying two trays in their hands, muttering as they walked.

"It's really not suitable to be a clerk in the backyard. I can't eat good food or get rewards, and I can't even see the excitement today."

Another girl grumbled in agreement,

"Stop complaining. If we weren't old folks in the mansion, would we have been assigned to the backyard? We wouldn't have to wait on the master, and our monthly salary would be three times higher than in the front yard. As long as we keep our mouths shut and don't leave the house for three years, it would be fine. By the time we leave the mansion, we'll have saved a lot of money."

"Ah! If it weren't for the high monthly salary from the Li Mansion, I would have quit long ago. I can't talk much all day and I'm almost mute. And I have to worry so much, I'm almost suffocating myself to death."

"Okay, stop complaining! Don't let the masters hear us, or we'll get our butts beaten to a pulp."

As the two of them were talking, they slipped into a house. Xiao Lingzi and Zhang Yuan looked at each other and signaled the others to guard outside. They nodded seriously and slipped to the door that the two girls had just entered.

After Xiao Lingzi made a gesture to rush inside, the two of them broke open the door together.

But when they entered the house, they found that there was no one in it, including the two girls.

"Where are the people?"

Zhang Yuan looked around in surprise, touching here and there, but he couldn't see anything unusual.

Xiao Lingzi frowned and searched everywhere, but in the end found nothing.

This is a bit strange. How could two living people disappear out of thin air?

Xiao Lingzi said in a serious tone:

"There must be a secret compartment here. Look carefully."

Zhang Yuan's pupils suddenly shrank, and after nodding, he began to search around with Xiao Lingzi.

But they searched everything they could touch and feel in the room, but in the end they found nothing.

At this time, Xiao Lingzi said softly:

"Let's hide and wait for those two girls to come out and ask them, then we'll find out."

Zhang Yuan nodded in agreement, and then they each found a corner to hide in, waiting for the two girls to come out.

After a while, a wall in the middle of the house suddenly moved, and then the wall began to flip over, and the two girls came out from the flipped wall, talking and laughing.

Xiao Lingzi and Zhang Yuan exchanged glances before rushing out together, covering the two girls' mouths and holding knives to their necks, growling in a low voice:

“Don’t move…”

The two girls were obviously frightened. They trembled and nodded repeatedly in confusion.

"If we don't move, are you robbing us for money or for sex?"

Another girl also closed her eyes and echoed,

"Yes, I have money in my pocket, but rape... rape is not appropriate here, how about..."

"Shut up."

Seeing that the girl's words were getting more and more outrageous, Xiao Lingzi tightened the wrist around her neck and shouted:

"How do I open the secret compartment?"

Hearing this, the girl shook her head vigorously, "We...we don't know."

Seeing that the girl didn't want to speak, Xiao Lingzi moved the knife upwards, waved it in front of her eyes, and said hatefully:

"You don't want to tell me, right? Then don't blame me for being blind with my knife. It would be fun if it cut your delicate face and made you bleed."

As he spoke, he twisted his wrist vigorously, and the girl shouted directly:

"Don't do it... I'll tell you, I'll tell you..."

Which woman doesn't care about her appearance? Even a little girl doesn't want her face to be scratched.

Seeing that she had given up, Xiao Lingzi put the dagger on her neck again and shouted coldly:

"Tell me quickly, where is the mechanism?"

The little girl pointed at a picture with red eyes and said tremblingly:

"That painting, pull it three times and it will open."

Seeing this, the other girl bit her lip and shook her head.

"You can't tell me. If you tell me, you and I will surely die."

"But we can't survive if we don't tell it. We're all going to die anyway, so we might as well tell it."

Xiao Lingzi's eyes turned cold for a moment, and he frowned and said:

"Tell me what you think, and I'll save your lives. Don't worry, you won't die."

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