Chapter 726 Discovery of a Large Quantity of Weapons
I slept soundly until dawn.
Cheng Wanwan woke up first, put away her mink cloak, and then woke up the little girl.
“It’s dawn…” Ruan Mingzhu rubbed her eyes. “My parents didn’t come looking for me last night. They must have been worried sick because they couldn’t find me.”
She reached the cave entrance and sighed deeply, "The snow still hasn't stopped, what are we going to do?"
Cheng Wanwan said, "This place is in a different direction from the military camp. It's normal that General Ruan and Madam Ruan haven't found this place yet. Let's wait patiently a little longer."
"How could I forget something so important?" Ruan Mingzhu's eyes lit up. She reached into her pocket and pulled out a cylindrical object. "This is a unique firework signal from our Ruan family. I'll set off a signal, and my father will know I'm in Linxi. He'll send someone over in less than half a day."
She ran into the cave, lit a small fire, quickly took it out, and released it. Immediately, fireworks shot out and soared into the sky hundreds of meters high.
only--
After waiting for a long time, the fireworks didn't explode and there was no reaction at all.
“This…” Ruan Mingzhu’s face turned ashen. “It must have gotten wet yesterday, so it won’t light. Sui Shuren’s tinderbox is fine, how could I have gotten such an important thing wet? I’m so clumsy…”
Cheng Wanwan interrupted her self-blame: "What color are the signal fireworks of your Ruan family?"
Nguyen Minh Chu replied, "The three colors, red, yellow, and blue, will bloom along with a sharp sound."
"Isn't this a coincidence?" Cheng Wanwan smiled and took something out of her sleeve. "Last year during the Spring Festival, I bought a few signal fireworks on the street because my kids like to play with them and I always carry a few with me. Try them out and see if there's any difference between them and the ones from your Ruan family?"
Nguyen Minh Chu immediately lit three signal fireworks. The fireworks soared into the sky and exploded with a bang, displaying red, yellow, and blue colors, along with a sharp sound.
"It's almost the same as the fireworks signal from our Ruan family, only the sound is slightly different." She was full of surprise. "But that's enough. My father will definitely send someone over. We'll be saved in two hours at most."
"Don't be so optimistic," Cheng Wanwan said. "If the men in black haven't left yet, they'll arrive here before your father, so we need to find a place to hide."
Ruan Mingzhu nodded vigorously: "Where to hide?"
Cheng Wanwan pointed into the cave: "I just saw something that looks like a button on the stone wall. I don't know if it's a mechanism. You've been exposed to these things since you were little, so you know more than me. Go and take a look."
Nguyen Minh Chau had a strong interest in weapons and mechanisms, and upon hearing this, she turned and ran into the cave.
She saw the button on the stone wall and exclaimed in surprise, "This is so inconspicuous! The cave is so dark, how did you find this thing? My intuition tells me there's something fishy about this cave. I'll try to see if I can activate some mechanism..."
She pressed hard, but couldn't budge it.
She had no choice but to pick up a large rock from the ground and smash it, trying to get the button to respond.
Cheng Wanwan: "..."
Did she place too high hopes on this girl?
She walked over, coughed, and said, "Don't smash it. Try turning this button."
Nguyen Minh Chu obediently threw away the stone and turned the button forcefully.
After the button loosened slightly, her eyes lit up: "Sui Shuren is so smart! I've decided, Sui Shuren will be my role model from now on!"
She pressed harder again, turning the button all the way to the bottom, and the stone wall next to her slowly opened a crack.
"There really is another story behind it all!"
Ruan Mingzhu was the first to go in, followed closely by Cheng Wanwan. Then, she turned a button on the stone wall after entering, and the stone door slowly closed. She took out a tinderbox from her sleeve, blew on it, and immediately a light appeared.
“Wow, there’s an inner room here! If only we had discovered it last night, we could have slept here,” Nguyen Minh Chau exclaimed. “It’s so clean, it looks like someone has been living here all along. How could anyone live so deep in the mountains…”
The reason Cheng Wanwan didn't "discover" the mechanism last night was firstly because the place was too enclosed, and burning firewood could easily lead to poisoning; secondly, the inner room was full of weapons, and if the girl had discovered so many weapons, how could she have slept last night...
Nguyen Minh Chu glanced here and there, and finally reached the back of the inner room.
Hundreds of large boxes were piled up to the top of the cave. The scene was truly spectacular, and she was completely stunned.
After a while, she remembered to check what was in the boxes. She opened the nearest box and was immediately stunned: "Why are there so many swords and knives in here?"
She took out one, brandished it, and nodded, saying, "The blade has a murderous aura. This weapon is quite good, much better than the weapons of those soldiers in the garrison territory... I wonder who left so many weapons here. I wish I could sell them to them... How about this, I'll leave some silver here for the master, and later I'll have my father take all these weapons away!"
Cheng Wanwan: "..."
This girl's thought process is truly extraordinary!
She took the knife from Ruan Mingzhu's hand, examined it carefully, and said with a serious expression, "There's a mark here that looks like the character 'He'. Do you think it is?"
"It really is!" Ruan Mingzhu exclaimed in surprise. "The big families in the capital all have their own totems. When they order something, they will engrave a unique pattern on it. I've seen this mark on the weapons of the He family's group of assassins... Those hundred assassins have already been exiled to the frontier. The He family isn't a military family, so why would they prepare so many weapons?"
As the two were talking, they suddenly heard footsteps outside the cave.
Ruan Mingzhu was overjoyed: "My parents have come!"
"Shh!" Cheng Wanwan made a shushing gesture and lowered her voice, "It might not be your father. Let's listen to what's going on first."
The two tiptoed to the entrance of the inner room and leaned against the stone wall to listen to the sounds outside.
"There's a campfire here; those two were indeed here last night!"
"That ten-mile plum garden is a maze, especially on a snowy day, it's impossible to tell which way is which. How did they get here?"
"If we mess up what the princess ordered, we'll all be in deep trouble. Let's go after her right now!"
The footsteps outside disappeared instantly.
Nguyen Minh Chu breathed a sigh of relief: "If there hadn't been a secret room here, we would have been dead for sure..."
Cheng Wanwan's expression was equally uneasy.
It wasn't because of the men in black outside, but because of Princess Rongqing, who lived deep within the palace.
After this incident, she must retaliate, but how to retaliate requires careful consideration; this matter is truly a headache.
The only saving grace is that this time, the daughter of the Ruan family was implicated, and Princess Rongqing has also offended the Ruan family. General Ruan holds a large army, and Madam Ruan is no pushover. Princess Rongqing will be in for a lot of trouble.
The two remained silent and waited quietly in the inner room.
About an hour later, footsteps sounded outside again, the sound of many people's footsteps and voices.
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