"My dear wife, don't get angry over a few worthless dogs. Come on, let's go play a treasure hunt."

Shang Xiye whispered these words almost into Ji Fengyao's ear.

His breath was warm and deep, his voice mellow and soothing that Ji Fengyao felt weak all over and could barely stand. She had no strength left to be angry: "A treasure hunt?"

"These people arrived suddenly, but they failed to kill Liu Yunzhao, which means that Liu Yunzhao must have been hidden by Consort Xiao in some secret place," Shang Xiye analyzed softly.

Ji Fengyao nodded, then raised her small face again, slightly sour: "So the treasure Your Highness was referring to is Liu Yunzhao."

Shang Xiye: "!"

I silently slapped myself in the face. Serves you right for using such a ridiculous analogy!

"How could that be? Even if she were the only woman left in the whole world, it wouldn't be possible! The treasure I'm talking about is the secret she carries." Shang Xiye's survival instinct was off the charts.

He had finally managed to coax his wife into being a little more affectionate with him recently, and he dared not do anything reckless that would harm his own happiness.

Furthermore, he is surrounded by his wife's relatives and friends; if he offends his wife, he won't even have anyone to speak up for him or plead for him, and the consequences would be too severe!

In a dark room.

Liu Yunzhao sat on the ground for a moment, then quickly got up and looked for a way out.

She was not a weak person by nature. Having lived alone in the palace all her life, she had long since developed a strong heart.

Her mother sacrificed her own life to give her a chance to live;

She can't just sit here crying and dawdling, waiting to die.

The darkroom wasn't very big.

She groped her way forward for a little while and found a wooden table, on which she also found a tinderbox and an oil lamp.

He blew on a tinderbox to light the oil lamp.

Liu Yunzhao saw that the dark room was extremely simple and empty, except for a magnificent gold-plated trunk on an old wooden shelf in the corner, which seemed out of place in the simple dark room.

It seems that the things that Consort Xiao mentioned preparing for her are right here.

Liu Yunzhao quickly stepped forward.

Sure enough, there were several sets of clothes in the trunk: some simple, some luxurious, and some tattered but very clean—one set of each of the three types.

Clearly, Consort Xiao had considered various escape environments and factors for her, which is why she prepared three sets of clothes for her in different situations.

A mother worries when her son travels a thousand miles; her mother has gone to great lengths for her!

Liu Yunzhao's eyes welled up with tears again.

Fearing that those above would come after her, Liu Yunzhao quickly changed into a simple blue floral dress.

She quickly packed the remaining two sets of clothes into a bundle in the trunk, then took the thick stacks of silver notes from the bottom of the trunk and put them away. With the bundle on her back, she hurriedly fled towards the exit.

Shang Xiye ordered his guards to search every corner of Ningxi Hall, and he and Ji Fengyao also searched Consort Xiao's bedroom, but they found no trace of Liu Yunzhao.

“A living person can’t just disappear into thin air. It seems that Consort Xiao has been quite busy all these years living in the mansion. She must have set up secret compartments or dug tunnels or something,” Ji Fengyao thought for a moment and guessed.

The words had barely left his mouth.

Ji Fengyao saw Hu Huang coming in from outside to report, waved her hand, and said in a very childish tone, "Young man, it's time for you to show off your real skills again."

Hu Huang looked bewildered: "Your Highness, Your Highness, I have searched the entire courtyard outside, but I have not found anything."