Of course Cao Xiwan didn't know that Liu Ruhai was going to join the palace as a eunuch, because Songbi didn't report any news about it.
She and Qin Meng walked along the river to go to Nanhe Baihu Station.
The wind is blowing in the Qinhuai River, and in spring, the boats are moving like shuttles and the sails are like flowers.
Halfway through, we turned into an alleyway and headed towards Shunyifang.
But she was not used to riding a horse, so she could only shout: "Qin Baihu, please slow down."
Qin Meng looked at her speechlessly. She secretly handed over the message and asked someone to ask Su Jintian to meet at the palace wall. She also urged them to hurry up and not to miss anything. As a result, she was dragging her feet here.
He advised her to ride a horse. But after she hired a horse, she insisted on riding sideways and murmured, fearing that the silk of her skirt would be caught. The skirt was newly made, and the wife gave her the fabric, and the snow plain silk skirt was covered with a layer of green gauze.
, swaying like green willows and mist in the spring breeze.
"In a few days, I'll have to wear it when I go to the temple to offer incense. My wife will scold me if I don't wear it."
Madam, dare to scold you now? I'm afraid the Marquis will have a few more concubines soon.
Qin Meng didn't believe her at all.
But she really didn't care about the Marquis, and Qin Meng could see it. Otherwise, she wouldn't have accepted the benefits of the musician. In fact, when Jin was alone with the Marquis, she begged him to send a message to Cao Xiwan.
Qin Meng believed that Duan Jin was a prostitute rather than a prostitute.
So she gulped slowly along the way.
In this way, when they arrived at the intersection of Shunyifang Street, Qin Meng saw the familiar Qingweizi cart with the sound of a wheelbarrow.
It's Liu Ruhai's car.
Qin Meng couldn't help but glance at Qing Luo, was he waiting for his car?
As expected, she laughed: "Quick, let's go home. My mother is here. Let's go down after dinner."
"..." Qin Meng didn't say anything. Is there a tunnel underneath her house that leads to the palace wall?
This is unlikely.
Huang Laodang also lives in Shunyifang.
The Qingwei car passed by the door of Cao's house. Liu Ruhai looked sideways in the window.
He saw two horses tied in front of Cao's house. One was Qin Baihu's horse with black hooves on the snow. The other was a green horse with a red leather saddle and silver bells. From this look, it seemed that the woman was riding it.
Sure enough, she came too. He couldn't help but smile. Yang Pingcui watched coldly from the side. It wasn't that he suspected anything else. He couldn't tell whether Mr. Liu was a eunuch or not by looking at him horizontally and vertically.
Huangzhai.
Doctor Gu came out early and continued at the door: "Brother Liu Shi——"
When he was about to get off the bus, Huang Laodang came out and asked him not to get off. The group of people rode horses to a residence near Chengtianmen.
The little eunuch knocked on the door.
The old man's coughing sound was heard, and Liu Ruhai saw the old willows hanging down in the dilapidated yard, with strips as thick as silk. There was a retired old eunuch living in the yard, and when he heard the noise, he came out to open the door.
This was not a big deal at all. Everyone in the neighborhood knew that the old eunuch also had several godsons who were father-in-law in the palace. They would come over to see him from time to time.
Liu Ruhai could tell that he might not have a godson, but the old eunuch who looked half-dead was a master.
No wonder Cao Xiwan didn't want to come.
Cao Xiwan did not prepare food for Qin Meng. After her mother was frightened last time, she felt uncomfortable and reported illness.
It turns out that Chen Ming lives here, and now he is spending time and drinking with the Marquis in the Marquis Mansion, which is just right. Cao Xiwan invited Sister Hong and Sister Huo to take care of her mother.
She entered the room and looked at her mother. Her mother was sleeping and looked better.
She went to the kitchen to get two large meatloaf, and came back and gave one to Qin Meng. After the two of them finished eating, she packed three more pancakes in oil paper and tied them around her waist with a wrapping cloth.
"..." Qin Meng was dumbfounded, not knowing what she was doing.
"It's very dangerous down there. Don't worry, with three loaves, the three of us can last three days." She thought for a while, "There is underground water."
"..." He didn't plan to go out this time and have to live on a piece of cake for three days. Didn't she patrol every day before?
She made a gesture and entered the courtyard with Qin Meng. She pushed open a large bungalow in the west wing.
"here it is?"
"I live."
"..." Qin Meng was slightly startled and stopped at the door, but after another scan of her boudoir, he calmed down.
Maybe she doesn't come back often, but this boudoir has not been taken care of. Neither the walls nor the floor have been changed, nor has there been an embroidered fragrant couch. The only difference is that this house was also carefully taken care of in the past. It really looks like a lady's boudoir. The floor.
The walls and walls are made of hibiscus red peach wood boards.
But the boards are old, the furniture is rudimentary, and green cloth is hung along the walls for decoration.
There is a bed, a cabinet, and a table in full view. There is not even a gauze curtain hanging on the canopy bed, so it is difficult to hide any mechanism.
What surprised him was how simple the mechanism was.
She stretched out her hand and pulled it, and there was a secret door to the inner room behind the green curtain. The bricks along the edge of the door were staggered, and the inside was dark and deep. It was unknown where it led inward.
Is this a newly demolished wall?
He was surprised: "Is there an underground tunnel?"
"No, we only go to the neighbor's house. The neighbor's house has it. This is the wall I demolished myself." She said modestly.
If it weren't for her, who would have known that there was an abandoned passage on the inner wall of the house, and that the abandoned passage was connected to the neighbor Wang's house?
She made an understatement and felt content in her heart. She bought this house after careful selection. Mrs. Lei and Mr. Wang were the owners of the house. But they didn't know it at all.
If Liu Ruhai didn't exchange the Jinling underground map with her, he would be at a disadvantage. He was really ignorant.
Qin Meng followed her into the abandoned passage on the inner wall, which was heading downwards.
His hands touched the bricks of the house, and he could tell the texture. After the brick wall was gone, he touched a section of hard earth wall, and then touched the damp bluestone wall. This was not a newly opened tunnel, but indeed an old tunnel.
She lowered her voice and her still clear voice sounded around her: "This is close to the Imperial City. The entire Imperial City was built by filling in the lake, but part of it was Lin'an Palace of the Song Dynasty, and Lin'an Palace was part of Prince Qian's Mansion of the Southern Dynasty. I checked, and there is a place in Shunyi Fang.
Half of it is the old site of Prince Qian's Mansion. Jinling was originally the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties. You know."
She walked without a lantern in the darkness, lifting her skirt from time to time to go around a dark puddle. Qin Meng looked at her light walking back in the dim light.
This is the Qingluo female ghost from the City Patrol Department.
The moon is in the middle of the sky, and hundreds of ghosts are walking at night.
He felt her hand reach out to hold him. Her fingers were soft and cold. Qin Meng was startled but did not resist. He hesitated whether he should hold her hand instead.
"This way." She pulled him and asked him to come closer to her. "Be sure to follow me closely."
He finally saw a huge pothole right at his feet. Qin Meng was shocked. After breaking into a cold sweat, her voice was as empty as the drizzle in the mountains:
"It should have been a pit before. You see, there is an underground spring at the bottom. People who are not familiar with it don't know. I almost fell down once." She seemed to be comforting him, lest he think she was criticizing Huai and saying that he was not as good as the world.
The first knife was Su Jintian.
Qin Meng held her slender hand tightly, just like the night before yesterday, when he caught her under the shadow of the osmanthus branch.
Tossing and turning in the past few days, he had been thinking wildly. It was true that she had no intention of seeing the Marquis. It was also true that she and Su Jintian quarreled over money.
He couldn't guess her plan.
She led Qin Meng forward and walked a dozen steps forward, looking up at the small skylight in the abandoned road. The red and golden glow was shining down.
This is under Wang Laodang's house.
Qin Meng also checked the secret files of Shunyifang. He looked up and recognized it. Because there was a pair of rare ginkgo trees in the Wang family, which could be seen through the skylight.
In spring, the leaves of ginkgo are green and the sunlight is shining in layers. This air outlet is hidden under the tree beside the stone table.
The sky is getting late and the sun is setting.
"Let's go." She smiled, holding hands with him, step by step.
Although in the darkness, Qin Meng couldn't help but remember that the first time he saw her was in the neighborhood market.
She and Su Jintian held hands, walking in the shadow of the summer trees, with sunlight and the chirping of cicadas.
There was also a sword flying across the sky, and blood splattered on the long street.