Jiu Zhang Ji: The Daily Life of the Reborn Daughter

Chapter 231 The Middle-Aged Man with a White Face and No Beard

Chapter 231: The Middle-Aged Man with a White Face and No Beard

Qiao Peng and Xiao Wenchu ​​rushed forward with knives in hand. Before they could get close, Huiming, who was closest to the sound, threw a handful of powder. The man fell headfirst with a thud. Huiming took out a rope and quickly tied him up.

Within half an hour, the team kept repeating this action until all the Chinese medicine killers were tied up and locked up in the dungeon.

Yes, dungeons. There are quite a few dungeons in the Extinguishing Flame Pavilion. They knew they had many people, so they prepared so many rooms for themselves. Eight people were evenly distributed in one room, and the conditions were good. Each person was rewarded with one pill of Feng Shenyi's elixir. From then on, their strength was only enough to sustain going to the toilet.

Oh, by the way, the person who was shouting had just returned from the secret passage after a mission and hadn’t eaten or drunk anything yet.

The interrogation and search lasted for most of the night. We did get some information, but it was extremely limited.

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Qiao Lili and Yu Jingyan followed the two men in black into Panhu Man. As both were vassal states of the Western Turks, the two countries were still considered two countries only because of language habits. The national gate was just a sign and there was no guarding force, so people were free to come and go.

However, the architecture of the Panhu barbarians is significantly different from that of its neighboring countries. Most of them are bamboo houses, which are far apart and unconnected.

The man in black walked past this building and left the border town, coming to a stone building. It looked like the building was many years old, with moss growing all over the stone. The thick stone door could not be distinguished from the entire stone wall unless you looked carefully, let alone at night.

A man in black lowered his head and pressed something, probably a signal or a bell. After a while, the stone door slowly opened, and then slowly closed. Qiao Lili looked at Yu Jingyan and mouthed, "Mechanism."

The two of them circled the stone building and found a place where a tree was sticking out from a high wall. They jumped over the stone wall with a few jumps, tapped the top of the wall with their toes, and quickly jumped onto the branches again.

Looking down at the courtyard from the tree, the whole courtyard was pitch black. It was the darkest time before dawn. Only one room had the light on. The two men exchanged glances, restrained their breath, and gently jumped up and down, from one tree to another, slowly hiding their figures and approaching the room with the light on.

There were no guards, not a single guard at all. This was not normal. Yu Jingyan took out a small stone and threw it towards the gate. The sound of the stone falling to the ground was barely audible, but four black shadows shot over one after another. There was also the sound of a sword being drawn, and the flashing cold light was the weapon reflecting the moonlight.

Taking advantage of this gap, Qiao Lili and Yu Jingyan landed gently under the lighted window, one on the left and one on the right. They quickly looked into the room through the window gap.

Two men in black stood in front of a middle-aged man with a white face and no beard. The middle-aged man had a kind face and there was no hostility in his words: "It's not a lot today, you didn't slack off, did you?"

But this ordinary sentence made the two of them tremble, and they fell to their knees with a thud. Qiao Lili felt pain in her knees when she heard it.

"Little one, even if I had ten lives I would not dare to be lazy, I wouldn't, I wouldn't." The two men kowtowed repeatedly.

The middle-aged man just watched them knock their heads again and again until they bled without any expression, "Fifty-three, your tongue seems a little redundant." Then he raised his hand.

The man in black who had been complaining all the time suddenly collapsed to the ground, whimpering, unable to utter a single sound.

“Just kneel here.” The middle-aged man stood up, turned behind the screen, and disappeared. Only the sound of a door opening could be heard.

Qiao Lili heard the footsteps of the men in black who went to the door to look at the small stone getting closer. As they walked, they checked the surrounding grass and trees. Qiao Lili and Yu Jingyan silently gathered strength in their hands, slowly pushed open the window, and jumped into the room. Without waiting for the two kneeling men to turn around, Qiao Lili sprinkled a handful of medicine powder over them, and the two men in black fainted.

The two of them turned silently behind the screen. Yu Jingyan leaned against the door and listened carefully. There was no sound of anyone breathing. He mouthed, "No one is inside." At the same time, they thought of the mechanism at the door. If there was no one inside, there must be a mechanism or a secret passage, and they left from there.

I carefully pushed open the door, and inside was a bedroom with a bed, a table, a bookshelf, and a desk. Everything was clear at a glance, and the furnishings were very simple.

Yu Jingyan and Qiao Lili walked around the room, checked under the bed, and found nothing suspicious, then looked at the bookshelf together.

"Brother Ajing, you check the bookshelf and I'll check the desk." Qiao Lili divided the work between the two.

"Okay." Yu Jingyan had already taken away the books on the bookshelf one by one for inspection. Qiao Lili walked around the desk and found nothing suspicious on the sides or on the ground. There were several books, pens, ink, paper and inkstone on the desk. There was turbid water in the pen washer and there was still unused ink in the inkstone.

Qiao Lili confidently reached out to the inkstone and used a lot of force. As a result, the inkstone was picked up lightly, but a few drops of ink inside spilled out because of the excessive force.

Qiao Lili quickly took out her silk handkerchief to wipe it, but there were some traces left that couldn't be wiped clean. She wanted to dip some water from the pen washer, but when she put the silk handkerchief into the pen washer, her finger was bumped. No water?

Qiao Lili took out the hand holding the silk handkerchief and stretched her head to look. There was clearly something there. She slowly put in a finger and touched it. It was not water, but stone that looked like water.

This is it, "Brother Ajing, here." Qiao Lili called Yu Jingyan softly.

Yu Jingyan walked over and observed for a while, then reached into the pen washer and pressed hard. The stone in the pen washer, which looked like water used to wash pens, lowered down. A soft creaking sound came from behind. Qiao Lili and Yu Jingyan hurriedly turned around and saw that the bookshelf was split apart from the middle, revealing a gap big enough for a person to enter.

Qiao Lili raised her leg and walked inside. Yu Jingyan pulled her behind him. He was the first to enter the secret passage through the gap, and the bookshelf slowly closed behind him.

The secret passage is surrounded by uneven stone walls. No, not walls. This secret passage should have been carved out of the mountain. Qiao Lili thought of the stone building that seemed to blend in with the outside and surrounding scenery. Perhaps, the building was not built on the ground, but carved out of the mountain.

Carving a large building and a secret passage on a stone mountain is truly a huge project.

The stone walls of the secret passage were illuminated by night pearls of varying sizes, so I could barely see the road ahead. Now that I had come in, I had to see where the secret passage led to. However, this secret passage was unobstructed, so if I met someone, I wouldn't even have a place to hide.

If you can't hide, just fight. Who's afraid of who?

At this moment, the two heard the sound of footsteps coming from the other side of the secret passage. This is really like thinking about Cao Cao and he will appear. What kind of physique is this? Can he be in sync with the bad guys?

The two men flew forward quickly, hoping to catch the newcomer by surprise.

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