Zhuge Sanyuan suddenly asked: "Have they asked you to build this stone monument this year?"
Li Si nodded, then shook his head.
Zhuge Sanyuan frowned and said, "Is that so?"
"They asked us to build a stone monument, but we didn't just build this one." Li Si explained hurriedly.
"Then how many have you built?" Wu Chengsi asked hurriedly.
"Two seats!"
Wu Chengsi understood, pointed to a few wooden frames to the east, and said, "There was also a stone monument there, right?"
"Yes."
"Where did that stone monument go?"
"Dragged away." Li Si answered honestly.
Zhugenan raised his head and glanced around the hall, wondering: "This is an underground palace, where else can it be dragged?"
Li Si replied: "We sometimes hear the sound of some stone doors turning, and we want to find some mechanisms here."
Wu Chengsi was silent in thought.
Although I don't know what the Huofeng Society is doing, but behind them are the King of Pei and the King of Yue, and they may be planning something detrimental to the Wu family.
He immediately asked: "Do you know where the agency is?"
Li Si shook his head and suddenly said: "By the way, Mr. Hua is proficient in the art of traps. If you ask him, you might be able to find out where the trap is."
Hua Lao is an old man in his sixties, his name is Hua Ershu, and he has been a stonemason for more than forty years.
This old man is very old and was a bit confused to begin with. After being locked up here for a year, he became even more demented.
"Old man, do you know where the mechanisms of this underground palace are controlled?"
"What did you say?"
After hearing Wu Chengsi's question, Hua Lao turned sideways, made a circle with his hands, and put them to his ears as an amplifier.
Zhugenan leaned close to his ear and said loudly: "Do you know where the mechanism of this underground palace is?"
"What? Cockscomb?" Hua Lao Si glanced at it and said, "There are no chickens here!"
Li Si leaned close to Hua Lao's other ear and shouted: "It's not a cockscomb, it's a trap."
Hua Lao said "Oh" and finally said: "You said the mechanism is there, isn't it?"
He stretched out his withered yellow hand and pointed to the east wall.
Li Si shouted again: "How can I open the wall!"
Hua Lao staggered to the wall, fumbled under a lamp holder for a while, his eyes lit up, and he said: "Yes."
There was only a slight clicking sound, and a door-shaped stone on the stone wall suddenly slowly rose upwards.
Not long after, a stone path more than two feet wide appeared in front of us.
This stone path is more than three feet wide, enough to accommodate the passage of the stone tablet.
Wu Chengsi and others walked along the passage and found that the passage actually led to the coast. Looking up to the west, they could see the pier on the south bank.
After returning to the Stone Palace and meditating for a moment, Wu Chengsi decided to send all the stonemasons back to Hangzhou.
There are so many masons that only building boats can accommodate them.
Wu Chengsi had no choice but to recruit a building ship, carrying more than 300 stonemasons, plus hundreds of Qianniu guards and Zhechongfu soldiers, and headed for Hangzhou by sea.
When leaving, he passed an order to mobilize the troops of the three nearby Zhechongfus to guard Changye Island to prevent the people from Huofeng Society from retaking Changye Island.
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In the vast sea, a huge building boat moves forward through the waves.
Although the boat is big, it is just like a grain of sand in this vast sea.
This afternoon, the sun was shining brightly and the wind was gentle.
After Li Duozuo patrolled the warship both front and rear, he looked up at the sky.
Judging from the height of the sun, it should be lunch time, so I went to the aft cabin kitchen.
This warship headed for Hangzhou carried a total of 600 officers and soldiers, 400 of whom were Qianniu Guards, and the other 200 were soldiers of Linhai Zhechong Prefecture.
Since the Qianniu Guards could not control warships, Wu Chengsi recruited 200 Chongfu sergeants and asked them to accompany them to Yangzhou.
The fire-headed soldier in the kitchen was also a soldier of Zhechong Mansion. When he saw Li Duozuo coming to prepare the meal, the leading soldier in charge of preparing the meal greeted him warmly.
"General Li, are you going to give the prisoner food first?"
Li Duozuo nodded.
Although the leader was extremely curious, he did not dare to ask any more questions, because it was not Li Duozuo's meal, so he did not eat more meat dishes.
After Li Duozuo prepared the meal, he put it into a wooden box and went down to the bottom of the bilge until he came out of a cabin.
The two sergeants guarding outside immediately bowed to him and saluted.
Li Duozuo had been coming every day in the past few days, so the guard sergeant opened the door and let him in without waiting for his instructions.
There was a person in the cabin squatting in the corner with chains on his hands and feet. It was He Lan Minzhi.
He was not surprised to see Li Duozuo coming to deliver food to him.
Ever since he was taken to the ship, the other party had brought him meals every day. At first, he didn't ask why, and Li Duozuo never explained much.
On the third day, he hadn't spoken for several days and couldn't hold it in any longer, so he finally asked:
"Li Duozuo, you are also a Qianniu Guardsman after all. I have no friendship with you before, so why do you want to personally deliver food to me?"
Li Duozuo was silent for a while and replied: "I did it to repay Mrs. Wei."
He Lan Minzhi asked again, but Li Duozuo refused to answer.
Li Duozuo would not leave every time, waiting quietly for He Lan Minzhi to finish eating before taking away the food box.
He Lan Minzhi would ask him about some outside situations every time. As long as it was not too secretive, Li Duozuo would usually answer.
After being locked up in this small cabin, the other party became his only connection with the outside world.
"Where are you?" He Lanminzhi asked casually while eating his meal.
"We are still in the waters of Mingzhou now. In two days, we will reach Hangzhou."
He Lanmin's eyebrows twitched, and he pretended to be nonchalant and asked, "Why are you going to Hangzhou?"
Li Duozuo didn't answer.
"How is Wu Chengsi going to deal with me? Why doesn't he let that boy Zhuge Nan torture me?" He Lan Minzhi asked again.
He actually asked this question once before, but Li Duozuo didn't answer it at that time.
Although Li Duozuo did not answer this time, he lowered his head.
He Lanmin's heart sank.
Could it be that Wu Chengsi was no longer interested in him and planned to kill him?
That's right, Tu Hong was just a pirate after all, and he didn't necessarily need to know why Tu Hong took him with him.
And he didn't let Zhuge Nan torture him, maybe he also guessed that he planned to frame Zhuge Nan.
He Lan Minzhi had already secretly decided that whenever Zhuge Nan came to interrogate him, he would tell him several shocking secrets.
The kind of secret that would kill you if you knew it.
One of them is the life experience of King Pei.
"Is he planning to attack me?" He Lan Minzhi asked in a low voice.
Li Duozuo lowered his head, this was his answer.
He Lan Minzhi gave a bitter smile and said: "Forget it, the moment I saw Wu Chengsi, I guessed that there would be such an end, and my aunt would not let me go."
Li Duozuo suddenly gritted his teeth and said, "Actually...actually, this is not what Her Royal Highness the Queen meant!"
He Lan Minzhi smiled bitterly and said, "You don't have to comfort me. I know too much and she won't keep me."
Li Duozuo said in a deep voice: "Last night, His Highness conspired with the pirate named Ouyang Chong and asked him to find some pirates to attack our ship and kill you in the chaos."
He Lanmin was shocked and thought: "If Wu Mei agreed to Wu Chengsi killing her, Wu Chengsi wouldn't have to go to such trouble."
Could it be that Wu Mei really still has affection for her?
This thought immediately gave him hope. He raised his head sharply and said solemnly: "General Li, although Helan is guilty, he only wants to die under the laws of the Tang Dynasty and does not want to die under Wu Chengsi's tricks."
"As a Qianniu Guard, you should uphold the laws of the imperial court. How can you sit back and watch this happen?"
Li Duozuo lowered his head and said nothing, silently packed his lunch box and walked out the door.
"Li Duozuo, don't forget your last name!" He Lan Minzhi growled.
Li Duozuo paused for a moment, then walked away.
Helan Minzhi was very angry and punched the small table where he had been eating.
He had already prepared for death, but Li Duozuo's words suddenly gave him a glimmer of life.
Hateful Lee Do-joo!
Although he was given a chance to survive but refused to rescue him, Helan Minzhi's mentality collapsed.
At dusk, two Qianniu Guards entered the cabin and said expressionlessly: "Come out."
The voice was cold, as if talking to a dead person.
Helan Minzhi sighed, understanding that his death day had come.
He had readjusted his mentality and was determined to die with dignity and never let Wu Chengsi laugh.
Led by the two Qianniu Guards, Helan Minzhi headed toward the stern of the ship.
Along the way, there are Qianniu Guards standing guard.
The setting sun shone on He Lanmin's face, seeming to be waving to him.