Chapter 229 This family cannot do without Chengcheng!
The four of them still went together.
The cold palace was filled with people from various countries trying to find places to hide. Some of them brightened up when they saw Jiang Yingcheng, but after seeing the entire team clearly, they retreated with embarrassment.
Today's hide-and-seek game has a prize. The person who hides till the end will receive the prize set by the little princess herself -
Hiding with so many people, it would be easy to be exposed at a glance.
Forget it.
The atmosphere in Jiang Yingcheng's team was also very strange.
As a native who often jumped around in the palace, Jiang Xingran naturally took on the task of leading the way. Jiang Yingcheng and Luo Fuying walked in the middle arm in arm. At Jiang Xingran's signal, Sheng Shixu walked at the end to prevent the young man from running away halfway.
Jiang Xingran seemed to be looking for a hiding place, but in fact his mind was completely focused on the young guy.
【well……】
[Originally, Chengcheng could have taken Luo Fuying directly to the direction of the secret room, but Brother Qi and Brother Shixu insisted on following them...]
Although the young man did not say it explicitly, the implication of "burden" was particularly obvious, making him feel a little amused and helpless for a moment.
Jiang Xingran led a few people to a fork in the road and took a step to the left.
[Oops! Wrong! Wrong! The secret room is not in that direction! ]
Jiang Xingran paused.
There was a three-way intersection ahead. The winding path wound between several dilapidated houses and extended in three completely different directions.
He took a few steps forward.
Seeing that her seventh brother was still walking along the path they had chosen earlier, Jiang Yingcheng was extremely sad: [Wuwuwu, why does seventh brother have to go with Chengcheng, why does he have to go with Chengcheng...]
Jiang Xingran continued to walk forward a few steps with an expressionless face, and then, taking advantage of the people's inattention, he randomly found a stone on the ground, exerted force suddenly, and kicked the wooden door in front of him.
Soon, a small cry of surprise was heard from inside the door.
"Ouch! We're going to be discovered!"
“Mmmmmm, no—”
Jiang Xingran turned around and walked back: "There are people hiding in front of us, let's change the way."
Jiang Yingcheng's eyes lit up: "Okay!"
Then walk into the second path.
【well……】
Jiang Xingran: “…”
Jiang Xingran fixed his eyes on a stone on the ground, quietly raised his foot, and kicked forward——
[Finally found the right direction, ah...]
Jiang Xingran suddenly raised his right foot, and the tip of his shoe passed low over the selected stone. The movement was so big that he almost sprained his waist.
The overly strange action quickly attracted the attention of several people. Jiang Yingcheng looked up blankly: "Seventh Brother?"
【Seventh Brother, what’s wrong? 】
Jiang Xingran was inconsolable: "I didn't stand firmly."
He couldn't say that he was disturbed by the kid's startled voice and that's why he almost couldn't stop kicking and hitting, and made such a mistake, right? !
"Oh oh oh," Jiang Yingcheng nodded, "Then Brother Qi, please be careful~"
【Hehehe, Brother Qi is so stupid! 】
Jiang Xingran: “…”
So keep moving forward.
At the end of the path is a simple maid's room, which looks more carefully maintained than the one in front of the main courtyard from the outside.
When Concubine Ning lived here before, she was acting crazy and stupid, so the palace servants didn't serve her very attentively. They even only took care of their own rooms and didn't care about Concubine Ning's life or death at all.
It seemed that this was the only choice left. Jiang Xingran raised his legs and walked towards the maidens' room at the end of the path.
【well……】
Jiang Yingcheng sighed again.
[Seventh Brother is really so stupid——]
Jiang Xingran looked around hesitantly, but couldn't find any suitable hiding place.
[Alas, such a big door ring was exposed on the ground, but Brother Qi couldn't even see it! ] The young man was heartbroken, [This family cannot do without Cheng Cheng! ]
Jiang Xingran: “…”
His sight quickly moved downwards, and he scanned the ground for half a circle, and finally found something that looked like a door bolt in an unusually hidden corner.
The door bolt was buried in a patch of dead grass. If it had not been the dead of winter, even if the palace servants searched for it step by step, it would have taken a whole day to find it.
Jiang Xingran's silence was so long, as if it would never end.
It was not until the guy behind him could no longer wait and was ready to run over him and pretend to fall that Jiang Xingran finally came to his senses and raised his hand to signal the person behind him to wait a moment.
"There seems to be something over there. I'll go take a look first."
Having said that, he walked straight towards the direction where the door bolt was.
There was a thick layer of sand on the wooden door. After it was opened, I could finally catch a glimpse of the entire door panel.
The door lock on the door panel was very delicately designed, but perhaps because it was too long ago, it was already covered with spots of rust. Jiang Xingran found a large stone in the corner, smashed it a few times, and the door lock shattered.
Jiang Xingran turned around and opened his mouth to call a few people over——
"Wow——" The little girl's face appeared only two steps away from him. Jiang Xingran moved back a distance before he could see the surprise on her face. "Seventh Brother, what's in here?"
Jiang Xingran: “…”
What is it? Don’t you have any idea in your mind?
Luo Fuying's face was obviously tense, but she bit her lower lip and said nothing.
Sheng Shixu was the most concise: "Go down and take a look."
His father once said that even if the young man was in the palace, he would always have secret guards following him. He had also learned Kung Fu for several years from a master instructor. Under this premise, there was no need to worry about the safety of today's trip.
Upon hearing this, Jiang Xingran "asked" the two girls for their opinions with his eyes.
Jiang Yingcheng nodded firmly, and everyone passed the decision with a high vote of three to one.
Jiang Xingran turned around, placed his hand on the door ring, and exerted force suddenly——
The sky full of dust swept towards the few people along with the sound of "creaking". When everything finally returned to calm, the dark and narrow stone staircase was finally able to see the daylight.
"Wow, cough, cough--Wow!" Jiang Yingcheng uttered a strong "Wow" with his eyes sparkling, "It's a secret passage!"
It’s a mysterious secret passage!
Jiang Xingran nodded, took out the tinderbox he had brought with him, and held the boy's hand with one hand: "Let's go down and take a look."
Since the young man decided to go there after getting the information about the secret room, there shouldn't be much danger in there.
There are twenty-two stone steps in total. The lower you go, the more limited the brightness that the fire can provide.
The three of them held hands and groped their way down, while Sheng Shixu, with his great skill and courage, followed at the end of the team.
After walking down the stone steps and forward a dozen meters, the door of the secret room seemed like a long-sleeping underground beast, waking up with its fangs and claws bared.