The tyrant is changing the plot madly because of the fake princess's voice

The four of them still traveled together.

The cold palace was filled with people from all over the world trying to find places to hide. Some of them brightened up when they saw Jiang Yingcheng, but after seeing the entire team clearly, they retreated with embarrassment.

Today's hide-and-seek game has a prize. The person who hides till the end will get the prize set by the little princess herself -

Hiding with so many people would be easy to be exposed.

Forget it.

The atmosphere in Jiang Yingcheng's team was also very strange.

As a native who often jumped around in the palace, Jiang Xingran naturally took on the task of leading the way. Jiang Yingcheng and Luo Fuying walked in the middle hand in hand, and Sheng Shixu walked at the end at Jiang Xingran's signal to prevent the little guy from running away.

Jiang Xingran seemed to be looking for a place to hide, but in fact his mind was all on the little guy.

【well……】

[Originally, Chengcheng could have taken Luo Fuying directly to the direction of the secret room, but Brother Qi and Brother Shixu insisted on following them...]

Although the little guy didn't say it explicitly, the implication of "burden" was particularly obvious, which made him feel a little amused and helpless for a moment.

Jiang Xingran led a few people to a fork in the road and took a step to the left.

[Oops! Wrong! Wrong! The secret room is not in that direction! ]

Jiang Xingran paused.

There was a three-way intersection ahead. The winding and narrow road wound around several dilapidated houses and spread out in three completely different directions.

He gritted his teeth and took a few steps forward.

Seeing that her seventh brother was still walking along the path he had chosen earlier, Jiang Yingcheng was extremely sad: [Wow, why did her seventh brother have to do this with Chengcheng? Why did he have to do this with Chengcheng…]

Jiang Xingran continued to walk forward a few steps with an expressionless face, and then, taking advantage of the others' unpreparedness, he randomly found a stone on the ground, exerted force suddenly, and kicked the wooden door in front of him.

A small exclamation soon came from inside the door—

"Wow——We're about to be discovered!"

“Wuwuwu, please don’t—”

Jiang Xingran turned around and walked back: "There are people hiding in front, let's take another route."

Jiang Yingcheng's eyes lit up: "Okay!"

Then walk into the second path.

【well……】

Jiang Xingran: “…”

Jiang Xingran aimed his eyes at a stone on the ground, quietly raised his foot, and kicked forward——

[Finally found the right direction, alas...]

Jiang Xingran suddenly raised his right foot, and the tip of his shoe passed low over the selected stone. The movement was so big that he almost sprained his waist.

The overly strange action quickly attracted the attention of several people. Jiang Yingcheng looked up blankly: "Seventh Brother?"

【Seventh Brother, what’s wrong? 】

Jiang Xingran was distressed: "I didn't stand firmly."

He couldn't say that he was distracted by the little guy's startled voice and that's why he almost couldn't stop kicking and hitting, and made such a mistake, right? !

"Oh oh oh," Jiang Yingcheng nodded, "Then Brother Qi, please be careful~"

【Hehehe, Brother Qi is so stupid! 】

Jiang Xingran: “…”

So keep moving forward.

At the end of the path is a simple maid's room, which looks more carefully maintained than the one in front of the main courtyard from the outside.

When Concubine Ning lived here before, she was acting crazy and stupid, so the palace servants didn't serve her attentively. They even only cared about taking care of their own rooms and didn't care about Concubine Ning's life or death at all.

It seemed that this was the only choice left at the moment. Jiang Xingran raised his legs and walked towards the palace maids' room at the end of the path.

【well……】

Jiang Yingcheng sighed again.

[Seventh Brother is really so stupid——]

Jiang Xingran looked around hesitantly, but couldn't find anywhere suitable to hide.

[Alas, such a big door knocker was exposed on the ground, but Brother Qi couldn't even see it! ] The little guy was heartbroken, [This family can't do without Cheng Cheng! ]

Jiang Xingran: “…”

His sight quickly moved downwards, and he patrolled the ground for half a circle, and finally found something that looked like a door bolt in an unusually hidden corner.

The door bolt was buried in a patch of dead grass. If it had not been winter, it would have taken the palace servants a whole day to find it even if they searched step by step.

Jiang Xingran’s silence was so long, as if it would never end.

It was not until the little guy behind him could no longer wait and was ready to run over him and pretend to fall nearby that Jiang Xingran finally came to his senses and raised his hand to signal the people behind him to wait a moment.

"There seems to be something over there. I'll go take a look first."

After saying that, he walked straight towards the direction of the door bolt.

There was a thick layer of sand on the wooden door. After pushing it away, I could finally get a glimpse of the entire door panel.

The door lock on the door panel was very ingeniously designed, but perhaps because it was too old, it was already covered with spots of rust. Jiang Xingran found a huge stone in the corner, and after smashing it a few times, the door lock shattered.

Jiang Xingran turned around and opened his mouth to call a few people over -

"Wow——" The little girl's face appeared behind him only two steps away. Jiang Xingran moved back a distance before he could see the surprise on her face. "Seventh Brother, what's in it?"

Jiang Xingran: “…”

What is it? Don’t you have any idea?

There was obvious tension on Luo Fuying's face, but she bit her lower lip and said nothing.

Sheng Shixu was the most concise: "Go down and take a look."

His father once said that even if the little guy was in the palace, he would always be followed by secret guards. He had also learned Kung Fu from a master instructor for several years. Under this premise, there was no need to worry about the safety of today's trip.

Upon hearing this, Jiang Xingran "asked" the two girls for their opinions with his eyes.

Jiang Yingcheng nodded firmly, and everyone passed the decision with a high vote of three to one.

Jiang Xingran turned around, placed his hand on the door knocker, and exerted force suddenly——

The dust in the sky swept towards the few people along with the sound of "creaking". When everything finally returned to calm, the dark and narrow stone path was finally able to see the daylight.

"Wow, cough, cough—Wow!" Jiang Yingcheng uttered a strong "Wow" with his eyes shining, "It's a secret passage!"

It’s a mysterious secret passage!

Jiang Xingran nodded, took out the tinderbox he carried with him, and held the little guy's hand: "Let's go down and take a look."

Since the little guy still decided to go there after getting the information about the secret room, there shouldn't be much danger in there.

There are twenty-two stone steps in total. The lower you go, the more limited the light provided by the fire stick becomes.

The three of them held hands and groped their way down, while Sheng Shixu followed at the end of the team with his skill and courage.

After walking down the stone steps and forward a dozen meters, the door of the secret room seemed like a long-sleeping underground beast, waking up with its fangs and claws bared.