Chapter 158 Digging a Tunnel
Feng Yuanhan left only after they had dealt with the pile of dirt and went to sleep.
The same thing happened the next night, and the third night.
On the fourth day, he followed the three carriages into the city, memorized the characteristics of these carriages, and entered the Prince of Lu's Mansion at night.
The guards in the Prince of Lu's Mansion were even more strict. He didn't dare to get close to the main courtyard. He could only look at the periphery. There were several groups of patrol guards on the periphery, and a group passed by at short intervals. No
matter how good his Qinggong was, he was still a human being and didn't dare to act rashly.
After finally finding the three carriages, he immediately got into one of them when the patrol just passed by.
As a result, he almost fell out. There were baskets full of baskets inside, and there was no place for him to stand.
Steadying himself, he reached into the basket and felt: Soil?
He suddenly figured it out and immediately left the palace and went home.
As soon as he returned to the marquis's mansion, Feng Yuanhan couldn't wait to find Feng Zuwen.
"Dad, your son has found the problem. Those carts are not carrying food at all, but soil."
"What? Soil? Where did it come from?" Feng Zuwen was even more puzzled. "It
was pulled out from Prince Lu's palace."
"What is Prince Lu doing?" Feng Zuwen couldn't figure it out either. Where did so much soil come from in a palace?
It took more than a month to pull it all out, maybe it has been more than a month.
Feng Zuwen stood up from the chair and paced back and forth.
"Go, call your brother and let him think about it together. My brain is not enough." Feng Zuwen suddenly stopped and said.
Feng Yuanhan immediately went to call people.
Feng Yuanhao came soon.
"Dad."
"Yuanhan, tell him what you saw."
Feng Yuanhan told him what he had seen in the past few days again, looking at Feng Yuanhao, hoping that he would suddenly have an idea.
"Dad, show your son the information about Prince Lu's mansion that you asked the secret guards to inquire and investigate before."
Feng Zuwen took out a stack of papers from a secret compartment, which were all recorded.
Feng Yuanhao looked at it carefully, not missing any word.
"Dad, look at this sentence." Suddenly, Feng Yuanhao pointed to a few words and said.
Feng Zuwen and Feng Yuanhan immediately looked at those words.
"Well diggers, four." Feng Yuanhan read it out.
"Brother, what's so strange about this
?" He didn't see the problem.
Prince Lu likes to collect talents. There are all kinds of talents in his palace, and there are many retainers.
And he has many officials in the palace. These are all clear.
The emperor also knows.
"Dad, is it possible that the King of Lu is using well diggers to dig tunnels?"
"Digging tunnels?" Both father and son looked at Feng Yuanhao in surprise.
"Yes, Dad, we all heard what my sister was thinking. When we learned that the King of Lu would rebel, he couldn't just lead his troops to rebel, right? How could that be possible? There must be other plans. Then this tunnel could be one of his plans." Feng Yuanhao analyzed.
Feng Zuwen fell into deep thought after hearing this.
"I'll go and get my sister." Feng Yuanhan didn't think about it, why not just ask his sister directly.
"It's so late, my sister may have fallen asleep a long time ago." Feng Yuanhao held him back.
"I'll go and see, and if she's not asleep, I'll bring her here."
"I'd better go, and let your mother go and call her." Feng Zuwen responded.
Back in the inner courtyard, Feng Zuwen asked Song Shuqing to see if the lady was asleep.
Song Shuqing opened the side door and entered the lady's room, and pulled aside the bed curtain, but there was no one on the bed.
She was startled, but suddenly thought of something and calmed down.
"Tianxing, Tianxing." Song Shuqing called out twice in a low voice, because Cuixiang was sleeping in the outer room.
Suddenly Feng Tianxing appeared on the bed.
This was the first time that Song Shuqing called her so late at night.
It was obvious that the lady was in her secret base.
"Mother, what's the matter?" Feng Tianxing asked with a smile.
"Your father wants to see you."
Feng Tianxing was carried by Feng Zuwen to the study room in the outer courtyard.
The two brothers saw that their sister was still energetic, and they knew that she had not slept yet.
"My dear, your second brother discovered that soil was being transported out of Prince Lu's mansion every day. We suspect that he might be digging a tunnel. Have you seen it before?" Feng Zuwen asked directly in order not to disturb the lady's sleep.
"I spend most of my time in the Marquis's mansion and rarely pay attention to him. I don't know whether he dug a tunnel or not, but I saw his rebellion, which was a big deal. I watched it for a while longer.
During the Chinese New Year this year, he took advantage of the palace banquet to launch a coup, but unfortunately he died at the hands of the second prince.
Because of this, the second prince made great contributions, and the emperor favored him and made him the crown prince. But now because of my existence, I don't know whether this matter will develop as it did before."
Feng Tianxing briefly described what he saw in his previous life.
This is a lot of information.
Before, the father and his two sons only heard Feng Tianxing's inner voice saying that King Lu would rebel, but they didn't know the exact time. But today, they got the exact time.
This makes things easier.
"Dad, King Lu must be digging a tunnel, otherwise where would all the dirt come from? I don't know what the pond in the barracks looked like before, but it doesn't look big now, so it should have been filled up a lot." Feng Yuanhan said.
"This is easy. I'll let Xiao Hei go and see." Feng Tianxing summoned Xiao Hei as a matter of course.
In front of the father and his two sons, Xiao Hei suddenly came out of the space and flew away.
The four of them waited.
In less than two quarters of an hour, Xiao Hei flew back.
[Master, you guessed right, they are digging a tunnel, but I can't tell the direction after I fly in, and I don't know where it leads to. Four people are still digging now. Feng
Tianxing repeated Xiao Hei’s words.
After getting the confirmation, the question came.
Where does it lead to?
"Dad, it must lead to the palace." Feng Yuanhan thought without thinking.
"I think so too." Feng Yuanhao agreed.
Feng Zuwen also nodded in agreement.
But the palace is so big, where does it lead to?
"Dad, should we tell the emperor about this?" Feng Yuanhao asked.
"Let me think about it. Okay, let's stop here tonight. Yuanhan, we can't stop tracking and investigating Liao Yuqiong. There must be something wrong with this person." Feng Zuwen instructed.
"Well, the secret guards are watching him. I guess he won't be quiet for so long, and he should be able to take action soon. His martial arts are not weak, and it's not easy for King Lu to control him."
"Sister, after I complete this task, can I go to your place to practice martial arts? I think the air there is especially good." Feng Yuanhan asked Feng Tianxing again.
"No problem, while you haven't married yet, go there to practice more. It will be inconvenient after you get married. Dad can come every night." Feng Tianxing was very generous. It is convenient for a family to have no secrets.
More than a month has passed since Feng Yuanhao's provincial examination.
September 28th is the day when the results of the provincial examination are announced.
This is an especially important day for the students who participated in the provincial examination.
There are more than 400 candidates in the entire capital, and finally 20 people are selected. A large number of people are not taking the exam for the first time. After several years or even ten years, there are so many people taking the exam in the capital alone.
Yuan Yinan plans to announce the results in person today.
As the Jingzhao Yin of the capital, this is also one of his duties.
However, he did not participate in the reading of the papers. The papers
were posted outside the gate of the Imperial College.
Many of the candidates who took the exam are studying in the Imperial College.
Although Feng Yuanhao is very confident, there are so many talented people in the provincial examination, and he dare not guarantee that he can get the top few.
Early in the morning, he brought his wife and sister to a teahouse near the Imperial College to wait for news.