Traveling through farming with the system, I cooked delicious food in ancient times

Inside Qiongtai Temple.

The Imperial City Secretary surrounded the Taoist temple. Mu Zhiyuan and the Imperial City Secretary led a group of people to surround the statue of Tianzun.

The flower arrangement beside the statue is nine steps high.

Mu Zhiyuan pulled up one of the flower pots and found that there was indeed half a pot of gunpowder in it.

The commander of the Imperial City Department immediately ordered a team of people to gather all the decorative flowers in the Taoist temple and transport them outside the city overnight for storage.

Mu Zhiyuan circled around the Tianzun statue and checked it again. The statue was carved in stone and had a solid interior. It was impossible to fill it with any more black powder.

The Imperial City Division left another team to take Mu Zhiyuan to the flower garden where the gardener was.

When everyone arrived at the flower garden, the place was already deserted. Except for some flowers that were planted in the ground and had not yet been transplanted, the house had long been cleared away, leaving no trace of life.

"As expected, it's the gardener. It seems they were well prepared this time."

It was getting dark, and Mu Zhiyuan held a torch and walked around the house, trying to find the traces left by Mao Xi.

"Prince Mu, there is only one flower garden that supplies flowers to the palace. The leader of the garden is Lao Luo. He is a hunchbacked old man in his seventies. He has always been humble and honest." The Imperial City Secretary reported to Mu Zhiyuan.

"Maybe that's just what I saw on the surface. Back to the Imperial City Department, I want to check all the news about this gardener."

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Miao Xi's limbs were tightly tied with ropes, and she was awakened by a basin of cold water.

She looked around, it was dark and cold, and there was a big stove in front of her, which was burning brightly.

Behind the stove is an old man, wearing a black robe and half stooped, kowtow to the tablets on the altar.

Mao Xi remembered that she was knocked unconscious, held hostage in a room filled with gunpowder, and then fainted again...

Two masked men escorted Mao Xi to the old man: "Kneel down!"

"Who are you? From the Black Orchid Society?" Mao Xi's voice was weak, "Can you give me a bowl of water?"

"Little girl, Mu Zhiyuan ruined my revenge plan, do you still want to drink water?"

"Revenge plan? Your gunpowder... Why do you want to hunt down Brother Mu so many times?"

The old man in black robe turned around and stared directly at Miao Xi with a pair of sinister eyes.

"If it weren't for him, the political situation of Da Huai Kingdom would have developed in the direction I expected. He first destroyed King Liang's struggle for the throne, and now he found all the black powder I arranged. I would have been able to take revenge right away. , blew up the entire royal family...except King Ji."

Mao Xi looked up and saw the tablet on the altar.

The late king of Da Liao Kingdom...

It turns out that this person is a citizen of the previous dynasty who lost his country.

Seeing the devil in front of me, I realized that everything was just for revenge.

"What kind of hatred do you have between you and the Huai Kingdom? Do you think that for the person who bombed the royal family, the throne will be yours?"

The black-robed old man's eyes were bloodshot: "Bah, who cares about this throne? If the plan had not been ruined by Mu Zhiyuan, there would naturally be another person for the position of prince, either the greedy King Liang who only had sex with women, or the weak and sick one who had no choice but to calligraphy and painting. King Ji…

When my Xiaoyaosan sells well in the north and south, the Great Huai Kingdom will be corrupted both internally and externally. The king will not be like the king, and the people will have no choice but to enjoy themselves. By then, there will be iron cavalry that will flatten every inch of the land in the Great Huai Kingdom... That Mu Zhiyuan ruined my plan! "

Xiao Debao, the ghost-faced man, grabbed Mao Xi's neck and moved her head closer to the fire.

"Uncle, are you going to sacrifice this girl to heaven, or use her to lure out Namu Zhiyuan?"

The old man in black robe came to Mao Xi's side holding a long knife.

"Girl, you and I have no enmity at all. It's my fault that you got associated with that royal person!"

After finishing speaking, he raised the knife and was about to slash towards Miao Xi's throat.

At this critical moment, there was a muffled sound, and the hidden altar was exploded.

Immediately after, several sharp arrows flew into the altar, and Mu Zhiyuan led the people from the Imperial City Division to attack.

The old man in black robe held Ma Xi hostage and asked Mu Zhiyuan to retreat.

"You can't run away! Yeluluo, I'll capture you if you don't let me go!"

Xiao Debao rushed forward and blocked the black-robed old man behind him: "Uncle, you go first. I am here to protect you."

After saying that, he swings the stone mechanism beside the altar, and the stones behind the altar rise, revealing a secret escape tunnel.

When the old man in black robe took Shu Xi hostage and entered the secret passage, Xiao Debao put down the big mechanism stone and blocked the secret passage.

He raised the torch and threw it at the sacrificial table and the stone statue with gunpowder hidden under the altar.

"The brave warriors of the Great Burning Fire will live forever in the fire!"

Everyone in the Black Orchid Club put down their weapons and knelt down towards the altar.

"No! It's black powder! Retreat!"

Mu Zhiyuan hurriedly led the imperial city envoys back the same way.

The location of the main altar was discovered by Nalan Jue's spies and reported to the Imperial City Department, so they were able to find it in time.

Yeluluo led Mao Xi along the secret passage, and finally escaped from the trunk of a large hollow tree.

This is a dense forest and barren mountain, with wolves howling one after another. Mao Xi is walking in front with the tip of the knife pressed against him.

After not eating for several days, Mao Xi was so hungry that her legs were weak. She slumped on the spot: "Master, I haven't had anything to eat these days. I can't walk anymore. Please bring dry food!"

Mao Xi understood that if this person wanted to leave the city, he could only use himself as a hostage, and would not take her life for the time being.

Once she gets the food, she can enter the portable space and hide.

"Stand up and go, if you keep talking nonsense I'll cut off your hand."

Yeluluo stabbed the knife into Mao Xi's left shoulder, and a heartbreaking pain hit him.

The virtual mall interface popped up in front of me.

＜Three knives were purchased successfully＞A total of 30 shopping coins were consumed.

Three kitchen knives of different widths suddenly appeared in Mao Xi's hand.

Due to the system upgrade, she already has skilled knife skills, including self-defense skills.

He had been blindfolded before, his hands and feet were tied, and then he was held hostage with a knife, unable to trigger the mall.

As soon as Yeluluo saw three more knives in Mu Xi's hand, before he could react, Mu Xi waved and threw out two kitchen knives.

Inserted into Yeluluo's right leg and left chest respectively.

Mao Xi held the remaining kitchen knife tightly with both hands, her hands and feet were trembling, and she shouted to Yeluluo: "You, don't come over, my kitchen knife has chopped pig head meat, I am very strong~!"

In the distance of the dense forest, a red light gradually came.

Mu Zhiyuan held a torch and surrounded him with the imperial city envoys.

The familiar face got closer and closer, and Shui Xi recognized Mu Zhiyuan.

She threw away the kitchen knife in her hand and ran towards Mu Zhiyuan, and the two embraced each other in the wilderness and dense forest.

"Brother Mu, you are finally here..." Before she could finish her words, Shui Xi fainted from hunger.

Mu Zhiyuan hurriedly took out the water bag and fed her some water.

Mao Xi's consciousness gradually became clearer, and she pointed at the direction where Yelu Luo fell: "The uncle of the Black Orchid Society was over there. I chopped him with a kitchen knife..."

"It's okay, I'll take you home!" Mu Zhiyuan hugged Shui Xi into his arms.

The Imperial City envoys chased in the direction of Mao Xi's finger. Yeluluo was crawling and squirming on the ground with a kitchen knife stuck in each hand and foot.

Until the imperial city envoys put their knives on his neck.

"Haha, hahaha!"

Yeluluo turned over and smiled sinisterly. He quickly took out the fire stick on his body and ignited the black gunpowder he took from Mao Xi.

"Run!"

"Bang! Bang!"

With two loud explosions, Yeluluo was blown to pieces and his remaining limbs flew around.

Fortunately, everyone escaped in time and there were no other casualties.

Mu Zhiyuan put Mao Xi on the horse's back and hugged her into his arms: "It's all over. We'll go back to Lihua Town tomorrow!"

"Well! Brother Mu, I'm hungry. Please take me to eat first."