When the battle was just over, the women and children who could not help had already started cooking. At this time, the women and children carried baskets onto the city walls and delivered food to the young and strong people who had just finished vomiting. There were some food, but there were not many people who really ate. Everyone could not sway the blood that happened before, and they held the steamed bun in a daze in their expressions, staring at the sky in a daze.

Li Mu and Li Siwen didn't eat either, and they really had no appetite. Li Siwen leaned against the arrows and looked at the Turks outside the area with an arrow, and saw them cooking. Suddenly he felt a lot of emotion and said, "Brother, look at these Turks. They knew that when reinforcements arrived, they had no chance of winning. Why are these people still siege the city without fear of death? If they win, they are not the ones who enjoy the glory. If they lose, they will die... I really can't figure it out."

"What do you think of these useless things?" Li Mu took a sip of water and said, "At the war, everything cannot be followed by common sense. Maybe they have received the great grace of Princess Yicheng? Or maybe their relatives lost their lives in the war in the Tang Dynasty. All kinds of reasons are possible, and nothing strange."

Li Siwen sighed and said, "Actually these people are all warriors."

Li Mu laughed silently and said, "Now is not the time to praise his opponent. Let's think about how to deal with the next wave of siege. I see that they should continue after they have finished their meal, because there is not much time left for them."

Li Siwen suddenly said, "Brother, I don't understand one thing. Why do you say she wants to pass on the imperial seal? Isn't that just a piece of jade? The Supreme Emperor and His Majesty have not had that piece of jade, and have also built up this huge country. If she can really support the previous dynasty, she can do it without this thing. For such a dead thing, hundreds of lives will be spent here. Is it really worth it?"

"If our Majesty chooses, he might have to take a thousand lives, and he would be willing." Li Mu said, stood up with the city wall, and said, "But you just reminded me that if we can find the imperial seal, we might use this as a threat to make her throw a rat and avoid it."

Li Siwen nodded, then frowned again and said, "This city is so big, where can I find it?"

Li Mu thought for a while and said, "It is absolutely impossible to hide such an important thing casually. Seeing Princess Yicheng's attitude, things should not be in him, so they can only be in Queen Xiao's hands. But when you searched, you didn't find it... where can she hide things?" Li Mu thought for a moment, and suddenly a light flashed in his mind, and said, "Hey? Have you searched for the house where they were placed?"

"No," Li Siwen suddenly frowned and said, "I remembered that when you said that, it seems that there is no name on the refugee book."

"There is no refugee book?" Li Mu quickly asked, "No registration? Are you sure? Who arranged them when they were not registered?"

"This..." Li Siwen thought about it hard, and after thinking for a long time, he still didn't remember it, saying, "It should have been that I had not registered. The refugee book was personally recorded. Every name was written by me. I don't remember the situation where the grandparents and grandchildren came to register together. Besides, Queen Xiao's temperament is different from that of a mortal. If I had seen her before, when she had a dispute with the cooking woman that day, I wouldn't be surprised to see her. Well, I didn't register, I'm sure."

"It's better to go to the yamen to read the booklet!" Li Mu suddenly thought of a possibility and urgently needed confirmation.

The two returned to the yamen and found the refugee book. They looked through the beginning and saw that there was no name of Empress Xiao and Yang Zhengdao. Because each name was written by Li Siwen, he could correspond to each name. After reading it from the beginning, no one could match the number, which means that it was not a false name. In this way, it was confirmed that Empress Xiao and Yang Zhengdao had not registered.

Li Mu confirmed what he thought, closed the refugee book and said, "There is no registration, and the person appeared in the city, which means that there is also a way to enter the city besides the city gate. Queen Xiao and Yang Zhengdao had not appeared on the street before, so there is only one possibility. That is, there is another secret room in the city. When Duke Wei destroyed Dingxiang City, Queen Xiao and Yang Zhengdao hid in and hid in it for more than two months until we found out that they had no food and had to come out of the place where they were hiding." The more Li Mu thought about it, the more likely he felt, and said, "Does anyone know where they live?"

Li Siwen frowned and thought carefully, then slapped his forehead and said, "The cooking woman, she said that she followed Yang Zhengdao and saw Yang Zhengdao give the steamed buns to Queen Xiao, she must know where they live!"

"Go and find him!"

The two hurried back to the city wall, looked for two doors, and finally found the cooking woman at the south gate. After asking carefully, they learned that Empress Xiao and Yang Zhengdao lived near the north of Dongfang, very close to the gathering place of Turkic nobles on the North Street. Li Siwen recalled that when the Tang army camp was stationed here, the place where Empress Xiao and Yang Zhengdao lived was used to resettle the wounded soldiers. Later, the wounded soldiers left, and they were used to resettle refugees. They must have come out of the hiding place at that time. The yamen runners responsible for resettle refugees saw someone in the house and thought it had been arranged early, so they changed the next one, so they were counted as refugees but did not register their names on the refugees' book.

The two brought people to the place the cooking woman said. After looking inside and outside, they didn't see anything abnormal. But Li Mu was sure that there was a problem here and said, "There must be a secret room. Look for it, dig three feet into the ground, and even if the house is demolished, you have to find it!"

Everyone responded, using the knife in their hands as a shovel and tentatively. Li Mu and Li Siwen also searched everywhere, and suddenly heard a young man shouting, "There is a cellar here!" The two of them hurried over and saw an open cellar beside the stove. The entrance was a square wooden board, which had been opened to one side. The entrance of the cellar could only be passed by one person. Li Mu took the torch of the person next to him and went in directly.

Entering from the entrance was a space of about two meters square. Li Mu looked around and saw a lot of rotten vegetables. The truth was a cellar for storing vegetables. But he didn't believe that Queen Xiao and Yang Zhengdao could live in such a closed environment for two months. Li Mu raised his hand to touch the wall of the cellar, and suddenly touched a place with different textures. The cellar was made of bricks and stones, but here it felt cold and looked like iron. Li Mu approached the torch, dusted off the dust, and found it was an iron ring.

Li Mu grabbed the iron ring and tried to pull it, but it didn't pull it. He tried to twist it again, and did not move clockwise, and then used force counterclockwise. This time the iron ring moved.
Chapter completed!