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When Xiaoyu brought the pile of things back, the two of them were sitting huddled together, studying the piece of white silk.

I looked, listened, asked and felt deeply, and I wished I could try them all.

However, after further observation and manipulation, they discovered that the middle part of the white silk was slightly rougher than the surrounding areas.

Aside from a slight smell, there wasn't much to notice.

"It smells like rotten rice soup." Yunniang smelled it carefully several times and was a little unsure.

Then he saw Xiaoyu come in and handed it to her so that she could try to smell it.

They happened to be making snacks for Xiaomidou these days, and rice soup was one of them, so the two of them were very familiar with the taste.

"It really does sound like rotten rice soup." Xiaoyu nodded affirmatively.

Then he piled the things in his arms on the table.

He then tactfully avoided the situation and closed the door behind him.

She didn't know what her young lady and the general were doing, but it was obviously related to the general's errand.

"Let's try it first." Su Qinchao took out a fire starter and lit the lamp on the table.

Then he took the piece of white silk and carefully warmed it over the candlelight.

There were not many ways to encrypt letters in this era. Rice soup was one of them. The next one he knew was alum.

The former is usually baked with fire to make the text appear.

The latter needs to be soaked in water.

Most of the costume TV dramas shot in modern times use the latter.

Getting back to the point, Su Qinchao originally thought that this matter could be solved so easily, and that the stuff Xiaoyu brought would not be of any use.

But after baking for a while, the words did appear, but only the five and a half words in the middle.

It was not at all the densely packed area they had imagined.

Something is not right. The two looked at each other. Is it still double encryption?

However, the two of them then focused their attention on the five and a half words that had already appeared on the white silk.

"There is a 礻 in the Taoist temple on Xishan Mountain?" Su Qinchao stared at the five words and pondered half of them, thinking about the remaining half of the word.

But there are so many characters with the 礻 radical that he couldn't think of a suitable one for a while.

However, judging from the previous five words, it should be referring to the Taoist temple in Xishan.

I don’t know what extraordinary thing Yuan Ji discovered in Xishan that required the use of double encryption.

Su Qinchao had been to Xishan before when he was investigating a missing child case. There were more than a dozen Taoist temples there.

Each place occupies an independent mountain. If you want to know what Yuan Ji means, you have to solve another level.

"Husband." Yunniang looked at the white silk against the candlelight again and again, and then her eyes lit up, as if she had discovered something.

"What?" Su Qin looked over, but didn't see anything special.

"Look at this!" Yunniang slightly bent a corner of the white silk and gestured to her husband.

"There is fuzz on it, what's wrong?" Su Qinchao still didn't find anything. Most fabrics have fuzz on them if you look closely. This is normal.

"The hair in these places is slightly darker than that at the edges." Yunniang pointed out the subtle differences to her husband one by one.

In particular, the meridians in two places were punctured.

If she didn't deal with these fabrics so often, she wouldn't have noticed it at all.

When this happens, it is usually caused by picking with a needle.

"That's true." Su Qinchao finally understood it, and took the white silk to examine it bit by bit.

It turned out that the rough area I touched before was not only because it was stained with rice soup, but also because someone had used a needle instead of a pen to poke it.

But is there any way to make these words formed by the fluff appear smoothly?

Su Qinchao stroked the white silk, and then his eyes fell on the tip of his index finger.

There were still some traces of pine soot ink on it, which had been accidentally stained when I was cleaning the desk in the classroom.

I was in a hurry when I received the news, so I didn't go to wash it.

At this time, due to the traces of pine soot ink, circles of deep and shallow swirls appeared on it.

Isn't it the same with white silk? Deep and shallow, Su Qin had a flash of inspiration.

Then, from the pile of messy things, he dug out a gray brocade bag that was extremely soft to the touch.

"That's it!" Su Qin said to Yunniang who was still a little confused.

This was the natural light blue colored stone powder that he had accidentally bought from a merchant from the Kingdom of the Arabs when he was outside the Great Wall.

This powder is ground very finely and looks several times finer than ordinary flour.

At that time, he just thought that the color of this colored stone powder was unexpectedly elegant and beautiful.

I bought it thinking that I could maybe bring it back and make it into paint for painting or something.

I didn't expect it would come in handy right now.

"Husband, do you have a solution?" Yunniang stepped aside and watched her husband busying himself.

At this time, Su Qinchao had turned over the chessboard where the couple usually spent their time, and spread the white silk neatly in the middle.

Then carefully sprinkle the light blue powder evenly on it layer by layer.

When the spray was almost finished, he carefully leaned over and blew gently.

"Qingqiong Temple on Xishan Mountain, Zhenren Temple on Yushan Mountain, Ji Yun..." Yunniang recited softly, the words slowly appearing because the powder was blocked by the fluff.

What was written above roughly was that a few days ago, Yuan Ji and four other colleagues from the Jinwu Guard were temporarily seconded to the Chang'an County Government.

When he and a group of 12 people including Li Bi, the county lieutenant of Chang'an, were tracking a group of bandits who suddenly appeared in the Western Hills.

Unexpectedly, I found out from these bandits' elusive whereabouts.

It was discovered that three Taoist temples, which had long been famous for sacrifices, had their interior of the mountain hollowed out by humans at some unknown time.

A difficult-to-detect mechanism was also installed.

Although they only had time to explore one of the mountains in depth, they also saw the shocking secrets in the belly of the mountain.

It turned out that within the hollow mountain belly that was several hundred feet high, there were armor and weapons several stories high, as well as countless gold, silver and jewels...

The letter also ended by saying that they were originally planning to continue exploring the other two and report back once they had obtained accurate information.

But while they were searching, they were unexpectedly targeted by another group of masked men.

The masked men were very powerful and their eyes were filled with murderous intent.

If they had not been interrupted by the previous gang of bandits when they were about to take action, they would have never been able to escape.

Therefore, Li Bi, who escaped the disaster, took great pains to come up with this method, bypassing the Chang'an County Government and letting Yuan Ji deliver the message to Su Qinchao.

As for what they did afterwards, it was not written on the white silk, but judging from the current situation, it was probably not good.

"I must go to Princess Yucheng's Mansion right away." Su Qinchao glanced at the sky outside the window, immediately stood up and hurried out.

Although he met Xingxian in the courtyard, who had just come out of the west wing, he only nodded slightly when they passed each other.

This time, he might break his promise to Xingxian again because of an unexpected mission.