The reason for making these two guesses is that the things in the Taoist temple were neatly arranged, without any signs of breakage or disorder, which shows that Master Zhang did not resist or fight before leaving.

The second reason is that although the little boy is a cute and clear-minded kid immersed in his own world, he is not blind or deaf. If someone really wants to take Zhang Zhenren away by force, the little boy living with him will definitely find out more or less.

Once the little boy finds out, he will definitely not look as ignorant as he does now.

Zhao Ji and the little boy looked at each other, and the boy did not avoid his gaze.

"When was the last time you saw your master? Which room did your master go to at that time?"

When Zhao Ji went to ask the boy, the boy didn't know that the adults in his family had disappeared.

"Isn't my master in the alchemy room making medicine? If you want to find him, just go there and look for him. There's no need to ask me!"

Zhao Ji did not say anything, but pulled the boy to the alchemy room and stretched out his hand to push the door open. As a result, the boy was very resistant and shouted: "Master never allows anyone to disturb him when he is making the alchemy. Don't go in! If you go in and anger Master, he will punish me too!"

Zhao Ji grabbed the boy and kicked open the door of the alchemy room.

The little boy looked at the door in shock and saw that there was no one behind it.

"That's impossible. The master has been making medicine in here. How come he is gone now? Could he have gone to another room?"

The little boy looked at everything in front of him in dumbfoundedness.

Zhao Ji asked the little boy with a gloomy face: "Are you sure that the last time you saw your master, he went in and didn't come out?"

Even if the boy was naive, he understood what Zhao Ji meant at this time: "I really meant it. I saw Master go in and never come out. And generally speaking, whenever Master enters the alchemy room and succeeds in refining an elixir, he will definitely tell me first and ask me to prepare the exquisite black box."

"If the alchemy fails, Master is a very clean person and can't stand the black medicine residue in the furnace, so he will definitely let me clean it up. But this time, he didn't let me find the black box or clean it up."

As the little boy was talking, he realized that something was wrong.

No one saw where Master Zhang went, so how did he disappear?

It seemed that the little boy had no useful information, so Zhao Ji didn't say anything. He just stretched out his hand to call a few secret guards, who followed him into the alchemy room.

I had previously simply searched for the alchemy room. This entire Taoist temple was actually a palace where a concubine once lived, and it was transformed into a Taoist temple on this basis.

The people who know this palace best are probably the people inside the palace, or the Ministry of Works who built this palace.

However, Zhao Ji privately found the Minister of Works, but the Minister of Works refused to admit that there was any secret layer in the palace.

Anyway, he was very decisive in his words and the answer was no. However, the more the Minister of Works spoke like this, the more Zhao Ji felt that there was something fishy.

In fact, any palace built in the harem may have a small secret compartment or a secret door.

This actually also makes it convenient for the concubines to put away some of their personal belongings.

On the other hand, various secret doors and compartments are actually mechanisms passed down from the royal family.

Now the Minister of Works was bullying Zhao Ji, as he had never known about these things before, and he simply fooled Zhao Ji by saying that there were no such things in the palace.

Unfortunately, Zhao Ji was no pushover. After just putting his hand on the Minister of Works for a few breaths, he roughly figured out what the Minister of Works was thinking.

In addition, Zhao Ji kept asking questions about the same place, so the Minister of Works couldn't help but think of things related to this issue.

As long as the Minister of Works had something in mind, Zhao Ji would be able to immediately understand his thoughts.

"They say a daughter who's married is like water spilled, why are you meddling in everything now?"

Too lazy to flatter someone like the Minister of Works, Zhao Ji took the little boy and returned to the Taoist temple again.

This time, Zhao Ji suddenly seemed to remember something, covered his eyes, and then groped around the room little by little with his hands.

After an unknown amount of time, Zhao Ji suddenly felt something strange and quickly took off his blindfold.

To the naked eye, this place looks like an ordinary place to place vases. If you look at it from the perspective of an ordinary mechanism, it cannot be pulled out after a small turn. It can basically be determined that this is the switch of a secret compartment or a secret door.

Zhao Ji walked up and stretched out his hand, carefully studying the mechanism. He turned it to the left three times, and then to the right three times. Finally, he heard the sound of the mechanism turning. He turned around and saw that the floor suddenly sank.

A pitch-black hole was revealed.

"Could this be the royal escape route?" Zhao Ji thought to himself but did not say it out loud.

Zhao Ji was seen holding a candle in his hand and shining it towards the bottom of the black hole. When the light illuminated what was underneath the hole, Zhao Ji's hand trembled slightly and the wax spilled underneath.

The space below was not a passage as previously thought, but a space similar to a cellar.

Now, lying on the floor of this space is Master Zhang.

Zhang Zhenren's forehead was covered in blood, which looked like it had healed and dried.

There was a dagger on Zhang Zhenren's side, and there was no blood on it.

But it happened to be held in the hand of Master Zhang.

Zhao Ji ignored others' dissuasion and went down to the cellar himself, and reached out to feel Master Zhang's pulse.

The silver lining is that this real person is still alive.

But his breath was very weak. If Zhao Ji had found him later, Master Zhang would probably have died here.

When the little boy saw Master Zhang’s miserable appearance, his face was filled with shock and panic.

He looked at the people coming and going for a long time, then grabbed Zhao Ji's clothes.

"What happened to my master? Is someone trying to harm my master? My master is still alive?"

The little boy was in a panic. Zhao Ji thought for a moment and said, "It seems that the problem is not serious now. Your master must still be alive. It may take him a little longer to wake up..."

Taking advantage of the boy's panic, Zhao Ji deliberately asked, "It's obvious that your master was harmed by someone. If you really care about your master, can you tell us who your master has had grudges with, or who your master always contacts?"

Although it was a cliché, the little boy did not notice it and was still there with his head down, wondering what he was thinking about the people who were suspected to be the murderer.

"Take your time to think about it. If you come up with something, come find me. I'll take your master's body away first!"