Rebirth: The flatterer prince I raised couldn't be so clingy

Gu Qingzhi carried the old man on his back again, and only then did he have time to look up.

There was a constant flash of light at the entrance of the hole where they fell, as if the guards were still considering the possibility of catching up with them through this hole.

She quickly took a few steps back, avoiding areas where the light could reach, and hid herself in darkness.

"Don't worry, they won't be coming down for a while."

The old man lay on her back, squinted at the projected light, and smiled weakly.

"I dug that secret passage a few years ago before my arms were sealed in the wall, hoping to use it to escape from here one day. But who would have thought that fifteen years have passed in a flash."

Looking around, it seemed that the place where they fell was a huge sand mound.

There was no light or sound around here. Gu Qingzhi could only judge the possible exit based on the direction of the wind blowing by her ears and walked in the direction of the wind.

Not far away, she suddenly turned her head and hid behind a mound that was just big enough to cover the two of them.

The old man was left alone by her and felt strange. There was nothing around him, so why was this person suddenly so alert? So he asked in a low voice:

"what happened?"

Gu Qingzhi just gave him a gesture to keep quiet.

If you calm down, you can hear faint rustling sounds coming from the front.

There were voices and the sound of wheels, and it seemed like they were approaching where they were.

I saw two shirtless men dressed as laborers, holding torches and each pushing a sand cart, walking towards here.

"The deadline for the construction has been really tight lately. Even after working for such a long time, the Left Prime Minister has not come to take a look in person. I don't know when I can get paid. My wife at home is still waiting for money to take care of the children."

"Don't mention it. My 80-year-old mother is also waiting for treatment. The work was almost finished, but the foreman added a few more rooms and they all need to be separated one by one. I don't know when it will be completed."

While chatting, the two shoveled sand and gravel and loaded them into the sand truck.

"You said that this foreman is too bold. We only told him to build a cellar to store those jars. Seeing that he was greedy for money, he dug more and more. Now the scale of this cellar is almost as big as the cellar. Whose cellar is so ridiculously large?"

"Do you think he really has the guts to do this? This is right under the Prime Minister's residence. If it weren't for the Left Prime Minister's instructions, no one would be willing to do this just because he has delayed the construction period for such a long time, right?"

From their casual conversation, Gu Qingzhi got some fragmented information:

This is a cellar that Zuo Fuhong was building under the Prime Minister's Mansion to store something, but for some reason it was built unusually large.

However, Zuo Fuhong had never been here before and didn't seem to take it very seriously.

This was good news for them. Without the obstruction of the father and son, their escape would be smoother.

"Let's hurry up. If we delay too long, the foreman will take it out on you and me."

The two men did not say any more useful information, but filled the sand truck separately and pushed the truck away together.

After the two figures and the firelight disappeared in the darkness, Gu Qingzhi slowly poked half of his body out from behind the mound.

After making sure that there was no one around, he spoke.

"Old man, do you know what this place is used for?"

The old man thought for a moment and sighed solemnly: "I'm afraid this place was built for the Black Snake Chief."

Gu Qingzhi frowned and listened to the old man continue talking.

"The 'jar' they call is actually a kind of poison. Once you are poisoned, you will naturally form a black snake head pattern like mine."