Fengling blocked him at the door, grabbed the wine bottle, and impatiently tried to close the door, but was blocked by the man. Her eyes narrowed, and her body tensed, preparing to deal with the emergency.

The man did not let go, his strength was no less than that of an adult woman, "Master Jun, fine wine and side dishes, these are the frosty flowers given by the shop, do you want to taste them?"

Fengling's eyes widened slightly when she heard this, and she looked at him unexpectedly. He just looked back with a smile. Her thoughts only lasted for a moment. She reached out and picked up a frosty pacifier, tasted it, and commented: "It's crispy and sweet, but I don't like this candy.

Eat, you come in and remove the icing on top."

"Okay." The man stepped into the room holding a food plate, and the latter quickly closed and locked the door.

After doing this, Fengling immediately asked: "Is there anyone alive at Laofeng Inn? How did you recognize me?"

At this time, Si Zhu also quickly understood that the other party was one of his own, got off the bed and looked at the person Fengling let in.

The man's name is Xiao He, and he said that most of their people are still alive. The woman is living in hiding in the basement, and the man still stays in the inn to provide services to the Dongxu people. The reason why they know Fengling and others is because they have a fixed itinerary.

Pigeons, pigeons are used to convey news, and news about Yucheng and strangers is also spread by them.

At the same time, the people above knew that Fengling and the others were acting secretly, so they hurriedly sent a message to Laofeng Inn in Yucheng, instructing them to fully assist them.

But after saying this, Xiao He's face suddenly became solemn, and he told the two of them: "Don't take any action today. Dongxu Army has been moving since early in the morning. It seems that there are few soldiers in the city, but in fact, some of them were already there a few hours ago.

People quietly entered the city and hid everywhere."

Fengling and Si Zhu were shocked, "The operation to rescue the hostages was exposed?"

Xiao He nodded in acquiescence.

A few hours ago, even the two thousand soldiers who set out first did not arrive. How could the Dongxu Army react so quickly to mobilize troops? There is only one reason for this situation, and that is that there was a spy, and someone tipped them off as soon as they left.

Gave it to Dongxu.

Dongxu knew that the Fengyang Army was coming, so he did not strengthen the defense at the gate of the city. Instead, he sent troops into the city to hide, creating the illusion that there were not many soldiers in the city, in order to confuse people like them who had sneaked in. Once the others gathered,

They will definitely come to catch turtles in an urn and surround them in one fell swoop. But by then, they will really have no chance of escaping.

"Then the two of us are being targeted here?" she asked Xiaohe.

Xiao He said: "This is what I want to remind you. The Dongxu Army's hidden locations are all located at the South City Gate, where the government offices and other hostages gather, and there are also many Fengyang people in the Laofeng Inn, so don't look

People here are drinking and eating meat, but in fact most of them are pretending to keep a close eye on you. I have no doubt that you can’t stay in this room any longer, I’ll take you out of here.”

This news frightened the two of them again. If an informant had not warned them in time, several people might have foolishly thrown themselves into the trap without knowing it.

Fengling pulled Dongxu out from under the bed, took off her clothes and put her on, then pulled out a dagger to kill her. But before she could do anything, she noticed something was wrong with her. The person's arteries were not beating, and her skin had no temperature.

The lip color is a bit darker.

She frowned and was surprised after checking her pulses. She subconsciously looked at Si Zhu who was arranging his clothes. His expression was as usual, not at all like he had just killed someone.

A brief uncomfortable feeling passed by, and she no longer paid special attention to this small matter. She hid the body and hurriedly followed Xiao He out of the room.

Pretending to hold a Fengyang man

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When the teasing passed by, she deliberately looked downstairs and inadvertently looked downstairs. As Xiaohe described, when she observed these people again, she found that some of them had been sitting at the same table without moving, and they were not drunk even though they were drinking. So

She didn't notice the obvious details just now, and it was only in hindsight that she broke into a cold sweat.

Si Zhu wanted to look aside, but she pushed him back to his chest and reminded him in a low voice: "Cooperate."

The position where his face came into contact happened to be an inch above her breasts. After feeling the soft touch, he quietly blushed, his eyes seemed to be struggling, and then he did not resist and let her hold him in his arms.

These people's eyes glanced from them and then away, seemingly not noticing anything unusual, because she was not the only one hugging her.

Xiao He took the two of them to the kitchen, which was full of their people. One of them pressed a few buttons on the wall, and a short door appeared behind the cupboard, and a passage extended downward. It was dark without light.

.

Fengling and the two followed them into the passage, and the people outside immediately closed the door to block it. Then lamps were lit on both sides of the passage, making the space bright.

The passage is not straight, and has three twists and turns. The front line suddenly opens up, and a natural stone cave the size of a room appears. The other end leads to another direction, which cannot be clearly seen.

After some decoration, this cave was transformed from the original wine cellar into a shelter. It has beds, tables and food. Five or six women live here. They obviously knew that Fengling and the others were coming, and they greeted them as soon as they saw them.

, Fengling also responded one by one.

"You can just hide here for the time being. It won't be too late to discuss the plan when everyone is here." Xiao He said to the two of them.

Fengling felt something was wrong: "There are seven of us here, and five of our companions have not arrived. We originally made an appointment to meet at Laofeng Inn. If we don't show up, they will definitely come in and wait. I'm afraid that we will be tricked by then.

Xuren noticed."

Xiao He carefully thought about her concerns and said, "This way, you don't show your face. I will walk up there. Whenever a stranger appears, I will step forward to test it. Is there a secret code for contact between you?"

Fengling: ...There really isn't one. I will definitely get one when I go back.

While she was thinking hard about something that everyone could understand, there were some sounds from the other side of the sudden cave, like the sound of water and the sound of someone talking.

Everyone immediately went on alert, picked up their weapons and slowly approached the other side.

After following them closer, Fengling finally saw clearly what was connected to the other end. There was an underground river behind the passage that was about ten meters long. There was a small artificial hole above the underground river, and a few rays of sunlight shone from above.

Down.

She finally understood that this was the bottom of a well. She had also seen a well when she came from the backyard, so it should be here.

But what made her even more incredible was the several water ghosts that emerged from the water.

"How come there are still people in this ghost place when I go to this place!" The water ghost who spoke had a face like a Tang poem.

"Run, run!"

When the water ghost with a bleak face saw so many people and menacing weapons, he immediately thought that he had been caught by the Dongxu Army, and turned around suddenly to plunge into the water and run away. Mu Mingran grabbed her and ran towards her.

I was dragged on the shore, screaming and struggling but unable to do anything.

Finally, he was thrown in front of someone. When he looked up, he was stunned when he saw a familiar smiling face: "Chen, Chen Ling?"

Fengling looked at her with a smile: "Do you still want to run?"

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Now Tang Shi also noticed her, ran over to give her a bear hug, and wet her body, "Damn it, little Lingling, I finally saw you. I'm even afraid of swimming back to the south along the current."

Mu Mingran and others were pointed at weapons after they came ashore. Xiao He had seen the portraits of several people, so he said that he was the only one who let down his guard. Then they returned to the cave to light a fire to dry their clothes.

"How did you come ashore from here? Even if you enter the city, there is an open-air lake connected to it, right? It would be better for you to swim directly into someone's well."

The weather was getting cold, and the temperature of the underground river was very low. Several people's faces were blue from the cold when they came out of the water. They had to wrap themselves in several dry quilts to feel better.

Tang Shi trembled and said, "How did we know? As long as we can enter the city, it will be fine. Mu Mu said she had a good direction and asked her to lead the way. Who knew it would be such a ghost place?"

Fengling heard this and glanced at Mu Mingran. The road he was leading happened to be the well of Lao Feng Inn. Could it be that he knew there was such an underground hiding hole?

Sizhu gave Zhang Baoxuan a cold-repelling medicine and disagreed with Tang Shi's words: "This is lucky. If Mu Mingran hadn't brought you here, we would have had to go to find you. It's all stuffy outside now."

People in Xu are watching with eager eyes, and if you don't pay attention, you will be caught."

Mu Mingran reacted the fastest and immediately asked Fengling: "What happened?"

Fengling briefly explained what Xiao He said and what happened just now, and their faces became dark.

Tang Shi was angry: "It must be Qi Xinai again! Who else besides her?"

Zhang Tingyan said: "No matter who it is, now that the Dongxu people know that we are going to rescue the hostages, they will definitely keep a close eye on them and it will be very difficult to save them."

"Then what should I do? I've come here and come back empty-handed. I won't go back. It's too embarrassing." Tang Shi was ready to fight to the death with those barbarians.

"Have you ever wondered where the two thousand people led by General Dingyuan went? Xiaohe, did you hear anything in the past three hours?" Fengling asked.

Xiao He shook his head: "We can only move within the confines of the inn. We will be targeted as soon as we go out. We can only take advantage of the darkness to act. If there is any big movement, we should be able to hear the sound of no fighting."

Tang Shi didn't believe this evil: "Is it possible that they flew into the sky and escaped to the earth?"

Her words gave Fengling a sudden inspiration, and she remembered. The same situation had happened before. There had been banditry in Cangzhou before. The place where the bandits were stationed was easy to defend but difficult to attack. The local officials suffered many losses.

, it has been unable to calm down.

Later, the imperial court sent my eldest aunt to suppress the bandits. My cousin, who was already well-known by then, also went with him. I heard that the soldiers they brought with them suddenly disappeared in front of the mountain. The bandits thought that they were afraid and retreated from the battle.

, then relax your vigilance about what to eat and what to drink.

Who would have thought that in the early morning of the next day, Fengyang's army suddenly descended from the sky and appeared in the village, killing the bandits by surprise.

Later, she asked her cousin, who was disdainful and told the story. It turned out that there was an expert around her aunt who was very good at geomantic omen. He used to find cracks in naturally formed caves for nobles of aristocratic families, and then based on this

Build a tomb on top of it so that it is both secret and difficult to collapse.

So as long as she wanders around a mountain, she can find an underground crack that is closest to her destination, and with some manpower, she can dig out a walkable underground passage in one night. Just like where they are currently.

The underground space is average.

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