The two walked deeper along the cave, and there was no one along the way. But Wei Youqing was sure that he had indeed heard the sound of hitting stones coming from inside the cave just now.

The cave was not too long, and it took less than an hour for the two of them to reach the end of the cave. Li Taoyao touched the stone wall at the end a little unwillingly, and whispered to Wei Youqing: "Is that it?" ”

Wei Youqing was about to answer when there was a rustling of footsteps behind them. Then the light of the torch came, and the figure of a middle-aged man appeared in the tunnel of the stone cave.

"Who's there?"

The middle-aged man asked coldly, and behind him, he was followed by several big men, each with a torch, to illuminate the stone cave.

Li Taoyao recognized this person, he was a housekeeper in the mansion of the eldest princess of Weicheng, named Shi Yuan, who usually followed Zheng Bingde out of the house.

"Shi Yuan! Why are you here? ”

Shi Yuan stood still and didn't say anything, he also recognized Li Taoyao, and he was no stranger to Wei Youqing's neighbor.

Wei Youqing understood that Li Taoyao's question was unreasonable, this was the villa of the eldest princess of Weicheng, and Shi Yuan was the housekeeper of the eldest princess's mansion, so this question should be issued by someone else.

Therefore, he smiled and said to Shi Yuan: "Steward Shi, my cat ran in, did you see it?" How do you fix traps in the house? Nearly killed the princess. ”

Shi Yuan clenched his fists and said apologetically: "Is there such a thing? also asked the princess to pardon Shi's capital crime. This trap is only temporary and will be filled in later. ”

"What are you doing with this?" Li Taoyao saw Shi Yuan speaking humbly, and continued to bully each other and said, "Even if it is filled in later, there will always be people who repair houses here, right?" It doesn't matter who you poison to death, it's not a good thing. ”

Shi Yuan said with a smile: "The princess taught me that this trap was repaired after the snow stopped. The princess and Wei Gongzi are not outsiders, and there is no need for Shi to hide from each other. The grandfather allocated a huge amount of money to build a villa in Zaixia, but the work was stopped halfway, and the gold could not be transported back. Put it here......"

Shi Yuan smiled helplessly, "Now it's not peaceful outside, and there are too many outlaws, so Shi has no choice but to hide the money." Don't want to frighten the princess, damn it. ”

What Shi Yuan said was reasonable, but Li Taoyao pouted and said, "Where is there any gold here?" Hugh is going to lie to me. ”

Shi Yuan smiled helplessly: "If the princess doesn't believe it, Shi can take the princess to have a look." ”

So Shi Yuan really led the way in front, and the group returned along the way they came, and after walking a short distance, Shi Yuan took out a bunch of keys and opened the door hidden on the stone wall.

Sure enough, there were rows of neat cages inside, and Li Taoyao casually lifted a box, which was full of gold ingots.

"Youqing, did you say that Shi Yuan really dug a hole to hide gold?"

Wrapped in a blanket of silver, ran a carriage wrapped in thick fur. The destination of the carriage was the south gate of Luoyang City.

Inside the carriage, a blazing charcoal fire was burning in the small stove, Li Taoyao only wore a small jacket, and her white silk dress was covered with a felt carpet. While opening his mouth to ask Wei Youqing about the doubts in his heart, he carefully turned over the scones on the stove shelf.

The red charcoal fire roasted the tip of Li Taoyao's nose with beads of sweat, and the white fur ear protector lined her face even more white and red. It's not the fair-skinned little girl she used to be.

Wei Youqing laughed: "Since you doubt that he will dig a hole to hide gold, where is your gold hidden?" ”

Li Taoyao was stunned, looked at Wei Youqing and said, "I don't have gold...... I forgot about ...... again"

Wei Youqing couldn't help but laugh, he felt that he had been too suspicious before. Li Taoyao was just awakened to the memory of her previous life, and she was not reborn as a green fox, of course she was still the ignorant girl Li Taoyao.

Wei Youqing slipped down from her seat and sat on the carpet with Li Taoyao. The beauty was on the side, Wei Rong drove the car very slowly, the car was as warm as spring, and the aroma of scones made people drowsy.

"If you have any doubts, we might as well go to Wanquan Mountain." Wei Youqing whispered in Li Taoyao's ear, "There is a mysterious hole in the villa of Her Royal Highness the Eldest Princess of Weicheng, and her housekeeper said that it is used to hide gold......

But the outside of this villa, which needs to be carved out of the mountain and chiseled to be built, is coincidentally facing the garrison of the Holy Martial Army. If it weren't for my villain's heart, the purpose of the eldest princess of Weicheng to build this villa was to collude with the Shengwu Army inside and outside. ”

Wei Youqing looked at Li Taoyao, who was deep in thought, and sighed: "Taoyao, it seems that the emperor succeeded your third uncle's child as a son, and your aunt is against it." ”

Li Taoyao's body shook slightly, the corners of her mouth rose, she sneered, and said lightly: "Youqing, don't go to Wanquan Mountain, you said that you would come out to play." ”

After speaking, he used a bamboo tong to clip the scones, sandwiched the mutton, took it out and gave it to Wei Rong first, and when he came back, he saw that Wei Youqing had already done the rest, and the two poured wine, chewed and swallowed relatively loudly, and didn't care about the princess villa.

Out of Luoyang City, the carriage got on the official road to Yangzhou, the capital of Huainan. As the scenery gradually became desolate, they became farther and farther away from Luoyang.

Looking out of the carriage window, the snow outside became thinner and thinner as the carriage continued south. The sky was gray and dreary, and under the covered sky, it was gray.

The carriage had been on the road all day without any people, and there was nowhere to stay. Occasionally, they did not stop when they saw a dilapidated house, and it was better to sleep in a carriage than to stay in it.

Finally saw a neat-looking temple, the three of them got out of the car and knocked on the door, but no one knocked on the door for a long time. The three of them pushed the door into it by themselves, it was very clean, there were even radishes to eat in the kitchen, and there was a well in the yard with sweet water.

The temple is also very clean, this is a Guanyin temple, dignified and kind Guanyin monks make people have a natural sense of safety and warmth in their hearts.

It's just that there is no one in the temple that is so clean and has something to eat. It's a weird thing.

But it was getting late, and beyond that was still a gray land. The three artists were bold and decided to stay and sleep comfortably.

So they lit a bonfire, the three of them laid out a thick futon, and used a tent to separate a room for Li Taoyao, and Wei Youqing and Wei Rong took turns to keep vigil.

At night, the gray sky in the evening is full of stars for some reason, and there is even a moon drilling through the clouds.

Li Taoyao sat in the carriage all day, tired and soon fell asleep. Wei Youqing didn't feel sleepy, the clear sky and the clean temple were too incompatible with the dilapidated scenery along the way.

According to common sense, such a good place should have been occupied a long time ago. When things go wrong, there must be demons.

For a moment, Wei Youqing suspected that this was Hua Ciyang's ghost. But later I saw that even the sky was clear, which was not something that the half-demon and half-immortal Hua Ciyang could do.