A used smoke grenade!
Li Xiaochen excitedly picked it up and examined it carefully. The smoke bomb had been used, which meant that Xin Xin must have escaped.
I don't know where they're hiding right now.
Li Xiaochen searched for a while longer but found nothing else, so he came out. Just as he stepped out, the tiger rushed over and growled at the smoke bomb casing in his hand:
"roar!"
Li Xiaochen looked at it, and now he understood what it meant. He directly stretched the hand holding the smoke bomb towards the tiger's mouth. The tiger stretched its neck, sniffed with its nose, and then carefully sniffed around the area.
Finally, he let out a low growl at a poplar tree at the entrance of the cave.
Upon seeing this, Li Xiaochen's expression hardened, and he instructed Wang Yu:
"Dig up this tree for me?"
"yes!"
Wang Yu, who had just returned empty-handed, hurriedly responded to the prince's order.
They immediately led a few people to start digging. They dug so deep that the roots of the poplar tree were visible before they finally dug out a handkerchief.
However, there were words on it, so Wang Yu quickly handed it to Li Xiaochen, who was standing next to him.
Li Xiaochen took it in one swift motion. There were only three words written on it: Jipu Village!
Li Xiaochen immediately realized that Xin Xin must have discovered something, which is why she risked her life to go to Jipu Village!
He glanced at Ah Shui on the ground and asked:
Where is Jipu Village?
Upon hearing the name, Ah Shui trembled all over, but dared not utter a word.
Li Xiaochen narrowed his eyes and gave Wang Yu a wink. Wang Yu nodded and dragged Ah Shui away into the distance.
It wasn't long before he dragged Ah Shui back, his face bruised and swollen.
Wang Yu threw Ah Shui to the ground without caring whether he was hurt or not, and respectfully said to Li Xiaochen:
"Your Highness, we've found out. This Jipu Village is a bandit organization south of Bingcheng, run by Zhao Guohua. They also operate maritime robberies, so you could say they have a presence both on land and at sea."
"However, no one knows the exact location of this village, only that whenever a large ship goes out to sea or a large merchant caravan travels in the south, they will generally take action, and they will never return empty-handed."
"Whenever they encounter them, not only goods and money are lost, but people are also rarely spared. So the entire Zhao Kingdom is terrified whenever they hear the name Jipu Village, but no one dares to wipe them out."
"Because their whereabouts are extremely difficult to track. Before Qiu Qiyi ascended the throne, things were a little better; they weren't so blatant. But after Qiu Qiyi became emperor, they became even more rampant!"
"This Ah Shui said that there was an attack in the South China Sea a while ago. Ten ships went out, but none of them came back. I heard that it was Jipu Village's doing."
After Wang Yu finished speaking, he looked at Li Xiaochen, waiting for his instructions.
"If they have such abilities, why did they want to capture Xin Xin?"
Li Xiaochen frowned and murmured to himself. He hadn't expected that there would be such a rampant organization in the Zhao Kingdom.
However, since Xin Xin disappeared in the palace, does that mean there are people from Jipu Village in the palace? Or does it mean that Qiu Qiyi has connections with Jipu Village?
“Write a letter to Qiu Jingfan, tell him about Jipu Village, and tell him to thoroughly investigate his palace so that what he just got his hands on isn’t taken away by someone else.”
Li Xiaochen immediately gave instructions to Wang Yu.
"yes!"
Wang Yu nodded in agreement.
"Send a message to Bai Teng, asking him to send everyone from the city over. We might be planning something big!"
Li Xiaochen looked at the cave and pondered. Since we don't know their location, let's lure them out!
"yes!"
...
While Li Xiaochen found a breakthrough, Lin Yuxin leisurely rode her big black bear, followed by a group of men carrying large and small bags, walking through the mountains, panting heavily.
If anyone isn't paying attention or slacking off, the black bear will kick them to the ground and then chase them away with its foot, still not satisfied.
"Ah!! Spare me, heroine! Heroine!!"
The man lying on the ground was suffocating under the crushing weight of Mount Tai. For a moment, he thought he was going to see his great-grandmother! So he immediately cried and begged for mercy!
Lin Yuxin gently patted the black bear's head, and the black bear slowly lifted its foot, but did not leave, remaining standing beside the man.
The man dared not express any dissatisfaction.
"Don't be lazy! You said you'd show me your treasures, and I've shown you all mine. You can't go back on your word!"
Lin Yuxin then patted the black bear's head, as if to say, "She's so trustworthy, you can't bully her just because she's a girl!"
"Hehe! No, no! Since the lady is so generous, we certainly won't be stingy either. We'll make sure she's satisfied, hehehe!"
The man on the ground looked up with a wry smile and said with a fawning expression, "Even if you give them your treasure, they wouldn't dare to take it!"
Lin Yuxin nodded and said:
"Let's go then!"
She still needs to earn money for her son's milk.
To explain how she ended up here, we have to go back to when she entered the Cold Palace.
The Cold Palace seemed to have been deserted for a long time and was dilapidated, but to Lin Yuxin's surprise, she discovered a secret passage.
This is all thanks to Squeaky, who said there are many holes under the house, and they are all emitting golden light.
Lin Yuxin's eyes lit up when she heard "golden light." The "golden light" that Zhizhi was talking about must be silver and gold, right?
So, does that mean there's a lot of gold and silver jewelry hidden in this cold palace? Didn't she make a killing today?
So she stopped looking for Li Xiaochen and, together with Zhizhi, searched the Cold Palace thoroughly, finally finding a secret passage exit.
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