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Sun Niang blew out all the candles in the house, leaving only one on the table.

The three of them sat in a circle, the flickering candlelight flickering.

Shi An remained wary of her, "Madam Sun, do you want to help us?"

Sun Niang nodded: "I can see that you two are not simple. I didn't ask Miss Song about her identity because I was afraid that she would be exposed. Before I help you, I need to know your identities to make sure you can really succeed."

None of the people who were abducted here wanted to escape from the beginning.

In the end, I failed and had to accept my fate.

If the two people in front of me can really...

Song Jin was silent for a moment: "We came to Suizhou with Qu Linghou."

Sun Niang knew the title of Marquis Quling.

She smiled cheerfully.

"My name is Sun Wan, and I am the first wife of the governor of Suizhou..."

Song Jin and others were both shocked.

Before coming, they investigated Suizhou. Magistrate Lu's first wife died young and he had no wife. The people all praised his sincerity to his first wife.

*

Sun Wan comes from a scholarly family. Her father told her from a young age that her future husband must be from an equal family.

She met Magistrate Lu during a heavy rain.

She was attracted by the talent of Magistrate Lu, and their contacts gradually became more frequent. Her father found out about it and, like her, he was impressed by his talent. When he knew that he was going to Beijing to take the imperial examination, he strongly supported him.

Sun Wan thought that her marriage to Magistrate Lu would be a done deal.

Who knew that Magistrate Lu failed the imperial examination.

Her father's face changed drastically overnight, and he started to find a new marriage for her.

Sun Wan was anxious and crying, but she couldn't contact Magistrate Lu, and he locked her up in his pavilion, where she cried every day.

Her father said that she could not leave the house until the marriage was decided.

The maid couldn't bear to see her sad, so she secretly went to see Prefect Lu and delivered the message for the two of them.

When the truth came out, she begged her father to agree to their marriage.

My father flatly rejected it.

Sun Wan was so cruel that she carried out the elopement plot in the storybook.

She was betting on whether her father would be willing to let her go.

The days of elopement were hard, and she waited with all her might for her father to admit defeat.

In the end, the result was what Sun Wan wished for, and she married Magistrate Lu.

His father looked down on his incorruptibility and used his connections to send him to the government office. It was at that time that everything began to change.

The Sun family was investigated and suspected of corruption, and their property was confiscated by the previous prefect, and the Sun family was completely ruined.

The only person Sun Wan can rely on is Magistrate Lu.

He has an old mother. Knowing that her son had been insulted before, she was very critical of Sun Wan. Sun Wan's life in the Lu family was not easy.

Later, Lu's mother drugged her and locked her in the cellar, just to facilitate the marriage between her son and the prefect's daughter!

They concealed Sun Wan's existence.

He happily welcomed the prefect's daughter into the mansion.

Sun Wan didn't know how long she had been locked in the cellar. When she saw her maid again, she said that the prefect's daughter had died. Prefect Lu called her his first wife to others and refused to remarry.

Everyone praised him for his loyalty to his first wife.

Only Sun Wan was left in despair in the cellar.

She couldn't see her husband, and heard from others that he had become the governor of Suizhou.

At that moment, Sun Wan understood everything.

Prefect Lu rose to the top step by step by relying on the Sun family, and took advantage of his position as prefect to become the prefect of Suizhou.

The love they once had as husband and wife now seems like a joke.

Later, she was brought to this cave and taught embroidery to the embroiderers every day.

*

Song Jin and Shi An looked at each other.

Everyone sighed.

Under the name of loving wife, there is actually such a thing.

Sun Wan seemed very calm about this matter.

"I know a secret passage, but I don't know where it leads to." She turned to look at Song Jin, "I know you have memorized the way out, but I advise you not to do this. The exit is guarded every day, and you can't get out."

Shi An frowned: "Suddenly two people are missing, won't they track them down?"

Sun Wan shook her head: "He was mining secretly. If someone exposed it, it would be a disaster. How could we dare to tell him? People will die here too. Just say you are dead."

This plan is feasible.

It is safer to go through the secret passage than to leave through the exit.

Sun Wan added: "I can only tell you where the entrance is. I can't guarantee what will happen after you enter. However, the Magistrate Lu you mentioned has been there before."

I don't think it's a secret passage that could endanger one's life.

The three of them hit it off and immediately decided to take action tonight.

Sun Wan was surprised: "Leaving tonight? Isn't that a bit too hasty?"

Song Jin knew what she was thinking about: "Sheng An's reinforcements are on the way. We must find the Marquis. He can't handle so many people alone."

Sun Wan understood.

She believed that Qu Linghou's people would not go back on their word.

Everyone here deserves to be freed.

Thinking of this, Sun Wan stood up and took them to the entrance of the secret passage.

Shi An lit the smoke in advance.

The three of them arrived at the entrance of the secret passage. Sun Wan pressed a certain spot on the stone wall, and a door suddenly opened on the stone wall.

Sun Wan looked at her and said, "Miss Song, I'll wait for you to come back."

Song Jin looked at her seriously and showed her the highest courtesy.

After being imprisoned for several years, he still had a sincere heart.

"I will definitely rescue you."

*

The secret passage was so dark that one could not see one's hand in front of one's face.

Shi An blew a lighter to light the fire and continued to move forward with the faint light.

A quarter of an hour later, the two arrived in front of an iron door.

Shi An asked her to step back and pushed the door open cautiously.

Nothing happened.

Shi An breathed a sigh of relief and continued walking forward with her.

This road might be the one leading to somewhere by Magistrate Lu. There were no government offices and it was unobstructed. When I reached the end, I suddenly found that the ground was covered with scattered arrow feathers.

Song Jin noticed a piece of clothing under the arrow feathers.

"Yes, Lord Hou."

Shi An recognized at a glance that it was the clothes Cui Huaiji was wearing.

Song Jin's heart tightened, worrying that Cui Huaiji might get hurt here, so he couldn't help but quicken his pace and walk inside.

The further we went inside, the more organs were triggered and the more blood was stained.

“Hiss.”

"What's that sound?!"

Song Jin's hair stood on end. After realizing what it was, he nervously grabbed Shi An's wrist.

Before coming in, Shi An took away all the hidden things.

He stuffed the dagger into Song Jin's hand and stared at the red snake that crawled out from the darkness.

This snake has extremely strong venom and a bite can be fatal within a few breaths.

Shi An was not sure he could escape safely with his men.

He whispered, "My lady, I just saw a bronze door over there. I'll hold them back here, you go open the door, don't look back!"

Song Jin nodded, exhaled slowly, and rushed back at his command.

The bronze door that Shi An mentioned, they had observed before, had no mechanism and could be pushed open directly, but it would take some effort.

She took a deep breath, and pushed the bronze door open amid the hissing breath of the red snake.

"Shi An, come in quickly!"

Shi An kicked the red snake away with his back foot and turned around to rush over.

When Song Jin saw the red snake chasing him relentlessly, he threw the fire stick on the wall without saying a word.

The red snake was afraid of fire and retreated quickly.

Shi An and she worked together to close the door.

"call--"

They both breathed a sigh of relief.

Song Jin asked worriedly, "Shi An, you weren't bitten, were you?"

Shi An shook his head.

There was no way back now, so we could only follow the Bronze Gate path.

This seems to be an underground palace, with traps set up everywhere to prevent anyone from sneaking in.

Such a large underground palace cannot be completed overnight.

Song Jin didn't believe that it was Prefect Lu who did it.

If it wasn't him, it could only be the rebels hiding in Suizhou!

Song Jin brushed off the dust on his hands and said, "Let's keep going."

Most of the mechanisms in the underground palace were destroyed by Cui Huaiji.

They could only search for people along the remaining organs on the ground.

Song Jin felt his heart tighten as he watched the mechanisms being triggered along the way.

[Cui Huaiji, you will definitely not die here! ]

She had never been away from Cui Huaiji for so long. Every time Cui Huaiji was in front of her, he was laughing and joking, as if everything was insignificant in his eyes.

This time, she couldn't hear his inner voice, and the unknown panic made her wonder if he died here.

Even if a person has great abilities, it is impossible to fight alone.

The more I think about it, the more scared I get.

Song Jin secretly wiped away his tears and thought viciously.

[When I find you, I will definitely give you a good beating! ]

[If I had known that your so-called confidence was so unreliable, I would definitely have stopped you! ]

As she was cursing, a faint voice floated into her ears.

She stopped immediately, staring wide-eyed to identify the direction of the sound.

[Am I hallucinating? Why do I seem to hear Meimei's voice?]

Shi An turned around and looked at her: "Madam, what's wrong?"

Song Jin was overjoyed: "Shi An, it's the Marquis! He's nearby!"

Nearby?

Shi An listened carefully to the movements around him.

"Madam, I didn't hear any sound."

Strange, could it be that Cui Huaiji’s thoughts are too far away from them?

Song Jin took a deep breath and said, "The Marquis must be ahead. Let's keep going."

[If the open approach doesn’t work, then the covert approach will do it. I never thought there would be someone more shameless than this Lord.]

[If Meimei saw me like this, she would probably laugh at me.]

['I never thought that the Lord would also fall down! ']

Song Jin burst into laughter.

It's already this time, and you still have the mood to imitate her.

Is she the kind of person who would kick someone when he's down?

Shi An didn't know why she was laughing.

While he was distracted, he suddenly sensed a chaotic atmosphere.

It’s Lord Hou!

"My lady, I can feel the Marquis's aura!"

Song Jin was overjoyed and hurried over with her skirt lifted up.

The two of them walked around the lion elephant and saw Cui Huaiji as expected.

All around was torn cloth, stained with blood.

"My Lord!"

Song Jin rushed over and nervously checked his injuries: "Are you seriously injured?"

Cui Huaiji's face was pale and he was clearly very weak, but he still teased her with a playful smile: "Don't worry, you won't die. Miss Song cares about me so much, I am so happy in my heart."

Song Jin glared at him and reached out to pull his collar.

"Miss Song, men and women should not touch each other." Cui Huaiji grabbed her hand.

Cui Huaiji was so weak now that even she could easily beat him.

[You are still telling me that sex is not allowed, even after all this, how come you didn't remember this when you broke into my room at night?]

Song Jin ripped open his collar with force.

The snow-white skin was covered with knife marks, and there was a thumb-sized scar closest to the heart.

Song Jin has no time to care about these.

She saw a deep cut on Cui Huaiji's waist and abdomen, where the bone was visible.

Song Jin's eyes turned red instantly.