Chapter 171 Invisible
She just wanted to get Xie Chengyan's protection, but she didn't expect that she had another heart.
Just when she thought Xie Chengyan was about to take a step forward, he suddenly turned around and walked towards the backyard, leaving behind a cold sentence: "Follow me."
Ye Lanzhou was confused and still standing there in a daze. Xie Chengyan had already walked out for a while, so she hurriedly followed him.
He was walking in front and Ye Lanzhou was following behind, the two of them keeping a subtle distance.
After crossing the courtyard, he finally stopped at the side hall of the ancestral hall. Ye Lanzhou looked up and saw the walls filled with altars, none of which had names on them. The altars were already covered in dust, clearly not often visited.
"Those are the tombstones of the soldiers who died defending the city. Most of them were from Jinling. Their families were destroyed and there was no one to collect their bodies." Xie Chengyan said, "So they are enshrined here."
There was no one around, so he turned an inconspicuous bronze candlestick on the altar. There was a slight sound under his feet, and Xie Chengyan lightly stepped on the bluestone bricks beside his feet. The ground slid silently, revealing a dark staircase.
The stairs led to the underground. Xie Chengyan walked down the stairs, and Ye Lanzhou followed behind him silently without saying a word.
Walking down the stairs, there is a dark corridor. There are no lights on the road, and it is even darker because it is underground.
She stretched out her hand and found she couldn't see her fingers.
It's like being deprived of vision.
She couldn't tell the direction and just kept walking forward. However, she felt uneasy because of the darkness, and her pace unconsciously quickened, and finally she bumped into Xie Chengyan from behind.
Ye Lanzhou screamed, then remembered that he had bumped into Xie Chengyan, and forced himself to hold back the scream.
"Can't see?"
Xie Chengyan's voice sounded above her head, and it sounded like the two of them were very close, so close that she could hear each other's breathing.
Ye Lanzhou nodded, then thought that he might not be able to see that he was nodding, so he said "hmm" softly.
Xie Chengyan said nothing. He turned around, took Ye Lanzhou's wrist in his hand, and walked forward, saying, "This is the basement of the palace. When my father gave me this palace, there was no basement. I later had craftsmen from outside the city build it."
He didn't seem to be talking to Ye Lanzhou, but more like a soliloquy. He continued, "When I first arrived in Shangjing, I was isolated and helpless, and no one in the court cared about me. But I knew this day would come, so I took advantage of the fact that my mother hadn't yet sent servants to my house and had someone build this basement. I originally used it for training my troops."
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a sound that seemed to be caused by a mechanism, and then the dark lights in the corridor came on, and Ye Lanzhou could see the whole picture of the basement. It was surprisingly large, and was divided into different open spaces by pillars. It was indeed like a small training ground as he said, but it seemed that no one here all year round.
Where are the soldiers?
"This..." Ye Lanzhou was puzzled and said, "It seems like no one has been here for a long time."
Xie Chengyan said: "Yes, my soldiers are now in the royal mausoleum outside Beijing."
Royal Tombs in the Suburbs of Beijing!
Ye Lanzhou suddenly realized that it was no wonder that she could go wherever she wanted. Logically speaking, the whereabouts of the late emperor's widow were no joke. How could she go wherever she wanted?
But Xie Chengyan has this ability, so does that mean that Wang Ling in the suburbs of Beijing is his man?
In other words, his soldiers.
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