If Su Cheng hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he would never have believed that there was such a large basement under this inconspicuous courtyard.
There was a dry well in the yard. There was a secret passage at the bottom of the well that was large enough for an adult to pass through. There was an oil lamp lit in the secret passage, and there was another oil lamp burning not far away.
After walking for a long way, they came to three forks in the road. They took the middle one and then walked through the secret passage in the middle. The space began to expand until it became as big as an ordinary guest room. Three doors appeared in front of them. There were no marks on the doors, nor on the ground.
They still took the middle path, and after passing through countless such doors, they came to an open space.
It is not entirely an open space. It is divided into two parts. One side is a dark cell, and each cell contains a ferocious beast. The beast is too big to enter through the dry well. This means that the beast was brought in from other passages. There is more than one entrance here.
On the other side is a pond, which is so deep that you can't see the bottom. I don't know what the situation is like at the bottom of the water.
In fact, there are more here, but Wu Fang only brought Ji Xingzhi and Su Cheng here.
Ji Xingzhi had never been here since this basement was built, and today was her first time here. It did not disappoint her expectations, and there was no need to go deeper. She was the one who drew the blueprint, so she naturally knew what would happen next. Besides, Su Cheng was here, and she was afraid of scaring the child away.
"Jian Yao, what are these used for?" Looking at the beasts in the cell with pupils that were glowing with deep light, Su Cheng swallowed and asked timidly.
Ji Xingzhi touched his chin and said, "Su Cheng, from now on, you will train here with me. During the day, you will study with the group of children outside, and someone will bring you in at night."
Just as Su Cheng finished speaking, before he could say anything, Wu Fang spoke first: "You want to stay here too?"
Ji Xingzhi nodded and said, "Not bad."
"No, this is too dangerous." Wu Fang's face was serious and his brows were tightly furrowed.
Upon hearing this, Ji Xingzhi smiled faintly and said, "Don't worry, I cherish my life more than anyone else."
Although Ji Xingzhi was smiling, her tone was more serious than ever, which made Wu Fang know Ji Xingzhi's determination.
Knowing that persuasion was useless, Wu Fang could only secretly decide to protect Ji Xingzhi in secret to prevent Ji Xingzhi from having any accidents during training.
Su Cheng stayed here, and Ji Xingzhi came back that night to train here, day after day, year after year.
This year, Ji Xingzhi was nine years old and encountered the first assassination attempt in her life.
The assassin was A Tao, the maidservant beside Luo Bai.
Ji Xingzhi was not surprised by this. She had sent people to investigate A Tao in her early years. In fact, the real A Tao had been killed before Luo Bai entered the palace, and was replaced by the current killer A Tao.
Ji Xingzhi hadn't caught A Tao. First, he wanted to use A Tao to pass on false information to the southwest. Second, he was afraid that Luo Bai would be sad, so he deliberately gave A Tao a chance to live.
Luo Bai was surprisingly kind to her maid, and really treated her as his own sister. It was obvious that A Tao did not care about Luo Bai.
What a pity.
In the huge Shaohua Palace, Ji Xingzhi sat at the table unharmed, wearing a thin outer robe, drinking hot tea just poured by a palace maid, and glancing at A Tao who was kneeling on the ground with blood still flowing on her body.
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