The sound outside the door was gone.

Xue Jinyi and Pu Yangxuan laughed a few more words, then ran to the house with a giggle, making sure that from the outside it sounded like they were fooling around in the house, and then tiptoed back to the first bluestone slab behind the courtyard gate.

Pu Yangxuan quickly swept away the floating soil, and the stones below were re-exposed.

He felt carefully around the edge of the stone, then dug his fingers into the dirt, fumbling for something.

Xue Jinyi waited patiently.

Pu Yangxuan groped slowly, the soft mud and sand brushed his fingers, and from time to time there would be sharp and rough pebbles, and he touched them carefully to make sure that nothing was missed.

There was silence in all directions, Xue Jinyi slowed down her breathing and quietly watched Pu Yangxuan's movements.

Seeing that he was about to circle around the stone, Pu Yangxuan frowned, and his palm suddenly plunged into the mud and sand for three points.

In the light night breeze, there was the faint sound of stones rubbing.

Pu Yangxuan slowed down, and gradually, Xue Jinyi noticed that the stones were moving, revealing the dark cave behind him!

Her heart jumped, and she lifted the lantern to shine it, but the light of the fire was mostly obscured, so she couldn't see what was under the dark cavern, and only the faint smell of musty and dirt and grass came to her face.

After a while, the stone was moved away by Pu Yangxuan, and the entrance of the cave was large enough for an adult man to jump into, and the stone turned out to be just a two-wide stone slab, but it was disguised as if there was a whole rough boulder buried under the soil.

Xue Jinyi and Pu Yangxuan glanced at each other, a little nervous.

"Is this the secret passage?" Xue Jinyi said softly.

Puyang Xuan pondered for a while, if he went alone to explore the secret passage and left Ah Jin in the courtyard, in case someone went and returned, and saw that the secret passage was discovered, leaving only Princess Chu alone, Uncle Tang would be furious, so he gave Chang Li the opportunity to kill them.

But what is the situation of this secret passage, none of them knows, with Uncle Tang's interest in arranging mechanisms everywhere in the huge mansion, maybe there will also be hidden mechanisms in the secret passage, and they will be traced.

Pu Yangxuan took a deep breath and said to Xue Jinyi, "Let's go." ”

He was in the mood to protect Ah Jin.

Xue Jinyi nodded, "Okay!" However, do we have to do something first to prevent them from opening the courtyard door easily and seeing the secret passage that has been opened at a glance? ”

After they entered the dark tunnel, it was impossible to restore the appearance to the original state.

Pu Yangxuan grabbed both sides of the bluestone slab, gritted his teeth, lifted the bluestone slab, and took a step forward with difficulty, feeling his calves trembling slightly.

Before he couldn't hold it anymore, he pressed the bluestone slab against the door panel, so that tomorrow the guard would not be able to push the door open, and he might forget to go directly over the wall in a hurry.

"How?" Pu Yangxuan asked silently.

Xue Jinyi gave him a thumbs up.

Pu Yangxuan took the lantern from her hand and said in a low voice, "I'll go down first, you wait." ”

"Okay." Xue Jinyi said: "Be careful. ”

"Hmm."

Puyang Xuan clutched the lantern and took a photo at the entrance of the cave, which was for King Feng and his family to escape, so there was an iron staircase at the entrance to prevent the wooden staircase from being moth-eaten and rotting for a long time.

He cautiously stretched out his foot and stepped on the stairs, but did not hear any strange sound, and then walked slowly down to the flat ground at the other end of the stairs, and then raised the lantern and looked into the depths of the dark passage.

The long dark passage, the firelight can only illuminate a few steps away, and there are faint traces of water and moss on the stone walls on both sides, and he listens carefully for a moment, there is a thin sound of wind and water droplets, and this dark passage is obviously colder than the ground.

He looked at the ground again, and there was moss everywhere, and there was no sign of anyone walking on it.

After Pu Yangxuan made sure that there was no problem for the time being, he walked up the stairs and beckoned to Xue Jinyi, who was waiting at the entrance of the cave.

Xue Jinyi smiled and held his hand, beyond the wall were the guards who strictly guarded them, as well as King Feng and Chang Li, who had ulterior motives for them, they all thought that they were under strict house arrest here, but they didn't expect that they were quietly escaping from danger.

"Is there an illusion of elopement?" When Xue Jinyi's feet stepped steadily in the dark passage, she asked with a smile.

Pu Yangxuan returned to the steps and moved the stone slab back to its original place, the moonlight was blocked, and the source of the light in the dark passage was only a lantern in Pu Yangxuan's hand.

"Ah Jin, maybe the road ahead is not what you and I think." Pu Yangxuan said in a calm tone, "Maybe before we retreated and returned to our original state, Uncle Tang discovered that we had fled, and the consequences may be unpredictable." ”

"I'm not afraid, Xuan." Xue Jinyi straightened her chest, took the lantern from Pu Yangxuan's hand, and stretched out her arm to illuminate the way to it, "If you hesitate, you will put people in a desperate situation." ”

"You're right." Pu Yangxuan held Xue Jinyi's hand and walked forward side by side.

The road to the dark passage is quite spacious, and it is more than enough for the two of them to walk side by side.

"Be careful, the moss on the ground is slippery." Pu Yangxuan reminded.

"Okay." Xue Jinyi felt Pu Yangxuan gently pull herself to his side, and she didn't have to worry too much about slipping by leaning on him, so she couldn't help but hook the corners of her lips and smile sweetly.

After taking a few steps, Xue Jinyi glanced back.

The iron staircase is no longer recognizable.

They have to move forward.

There was a cold wind blowing from the front, blowing through the cheeks with a slight pain, and the smell of damp and moldy in the air was getting stronger and stronger, obviously because the secret passage had not been used since it was built, and the cold was getting heavier and heavier, invading the skin through the thick clothes.

Pu Yangxuan simply hugged Xue Jinyi's shoulders so that she could warm up.

Xue Jinyi obediently shrunk in his arms and did not move.

The dark passage twists and turns, there will be bent steps on the road, and there will also be vertical corners that look like a dead end from the original place, but fortunately there are no traps.

Until two paths appeared before their eyes.

The two dark roads are like a pair of devil's eyes watching them faintly, and they seem to be able to devour everything silently.

Xue Jinyi blinked, this represents one path to life and the other to death in many movies!

Pu Yangxuan took out the candle from the lantern and held it up in front of one of the holes.

The candle flame flickered a few times, causing their figures to twist a few times.

Then he lifted the candle to another hole, and this time the flame flickered so hard that it went out a few times and almost went out.

Pu Yangxuan pulled it back into the lantern.

Xue Jinyi asked, "So, should you go through this windy hole?" ”

"Nope." Pu Yangxuan shook his head and pointed to the hole next to him, "You should go here." ”