Zhang Da was very touched. He immediately packed his things and planned to move there that night.

Mu Xiyue stopped him, "Uncle Zhang, there's no need to be so anxious. After all, no one has lived there for a while. Go over there tomorrow and find a room you like. You can move in after a couple of days."

Seeing the vegetable seedlings that seemed to have just sprouted in a field not far away, Mu Xiyue suddenly realized that the rapeseed should also be planted first. She had never planted rapeseed before, but she had planted edible vegetables and cabbages, and it seemed that they were all planted in the fall. Then she thought about the rapeseed flowers blooming in the spring, so they must be planted in the fall.

Mu Xiyue was glad she had thought of it, otherwise she would have been delayed. However, she did not dare to be careless. She had finally collected two bowls of seeds and planted half first. If the seeds did not grow well, she would still have the other half.

Returning to the front yard, Mu Xiyue went into the house and took out the rapeseed from the space. She gave half of it to Old Man Tian and told him to plant it separately from other edible vegetables.

"This isn't for eating. We'll expand the planting next spring after we harvest the seeds."

Old Man Tian didn't ask any more questions. They just did whatever the boss said. Mu Xiyue treated them well, so they worked more diligently.

After returning from the manor, Mu Xiyue asked the housekeeper to buy people. Li Decheng was capable, so Mu Xiyue asked Xiaotao to follow Li Decheng to do such a small matter as buying people, and also asked Xiaotao to learn how to judge people.

After dinner, Xiao Yibai came to find Mu Xiyue and said, "This is the layout of Duke Chen's Mansion. Are we going there tonight?"

Mu Xiyue suddenly became excited and scanned the layout map to take a closer look.

"Our main targets are here, here, and here." Mu Xiyue pointed to the locations on the map and said, "Looking at the defenses of their palace soldiers, let's go here first. This location is uninhabited, but it's unusual for the night watchmen to pass by so many times. They shouldn't be patrolling so far away. I guess it's similar to the secret room in Prince Rui's Palace being located in a remote location."

Xiao Yibai smiled when he heard it, "Well, you and I have the same idea, let's do this..."

According to the information obtained by Xiao Yibai's secret guards, the courtyards of Duke Chen and Minister Chen were guarded the most strictly, while there were not many guards in the warehouse.

The Duke of Chen's Mansion was no smaller than the prince's palace, and there must be many palace soldiers and secret guards inside. The palace soldiers patrolling at night alone were found to be in groups of twenty, with two groups patrolling in a cross-patrol pattern.

The two of them discussed a plan of action after entering the mansion. After all, it would be much more difficult to enter again after entering once.

At night, at the hour of midnight, two figures quietly sneaked into the mansion of Duke Chen.

In that remote, uninhabited courtyard, Mu Xiyue and Xiao Yibai avoided the patrolling palace soldiers and climbed over the courtyard wall. There were no secret guards inside the courtyard. Mu Xiyue was puzzled, wondering if their analysis was wrong.

The yard was very small, and there were no rockeries or anything like that. Xiao Yibai looked around the yard carefully in the moonlight, and there was no place in the yard that could be used as a secret room to hide the entrance.

He pulled Mu Xiyue and gestured for her to go inside to look for him.

There are five rooms in the courtyard. Xiao Yibai went into the main house to check, and Mu Xiyue went into another room.

This house looks like a small kitchen, with a water tank and an earthen stove. Judging from the stove and iron pot, they have not been used for a long time. But Mu Xiyue found something very strange. It seemed that no one had lived here for a long time. There were no signs of use in this small kitchen, but there was half a tank of water in the water tank.

Mu Xiyue moved all the iron pots away and looked, but there was nothing unusual.

After leaving the small kitchen and going to the next room, there was nothing in the room except a set of tables and chairs. Mu Xiyue was not good at finding secret rooms with mechanisms, so she followed Xiao Yibai to see how he would do it.

Xiao Yibai was still checking the other rooms, and he didn't find anything. Mu Xiyue went in and followed him, whispering to him what she saw in the small kitchen.

After hearing this, Xiao Yibai didn't think much about it. He took Mu Xiyue's hand and walked into the small kitchen.

He shone the flashlight around and asked Mu Xiyue to help move the water tank.

As soon as the water tank was moved away, a hole suddenly appeared on the ground inside the earthen stove. The two were delighted, thinking that they had found the right place.

Xiao Yibai, holding a flashlight, walked down the cave entrance. Inside was a long tunnel. After walking for about a minute, the tunnel had two forks.

The two of them first took the fork on the left, and not far away there was an iron gate.

After a careful inspection, Xiao Yibai said softly, "This door should have a mechanism connected to it. When the lower door is opened, there will be movement from above."

No wonder there are no secret guards guarding this yard. If I'm not mistaken, there must be someone guarding the place connected to the mechanism on this door. This ancient mechanical technology is really amazing.

Mu Xiyue gently knocked on the wall near the door. The wall was made of rocks. "Xiao Yibai, do you think there is a secret room on the other side of this wall?"

Xiao Yibai nodded, "Maybe. This door is difficult to open. I can't find a way to open it without alerting those above."

Mu Xiyue asked Xiao Yibai to shine a light for her. She took out a short knife from the space, used the wind power to insert it into the gap between the stones in the wall, and then slowly enlarged the gap.

Xiao Yibai saw Mu Xiyue's movements and understood her intention. "I'll dig, and you light the way."

Mu Xiyue didn't give in. "No, I have the power of wind. The blade will be harder and sharper, and I can dig faster."

After digging for about five minutes, they finally dug out cracks on all four sides of a wall stone. Mu Xiyue used wind speed to tie the stone and slowly moved it out of the wall. The stone was half a meter square, enough for Mu Xiyue's small body to crawl in.

Xiao Yibai poked his head in and shone his flashlight around. It was indeed a hidden treasure room, and it looked like it contained just as much as the treasures in King Rui's chamber. He fished out a few small coins and threw them around the room, making sure there were no traps before letting Mu Xiyue crawl in.

After Mu Xiyue entered, she took a quick look and began to pack her things. This secret room was indeed bigger than the one in which King Rui lived, and there were more things inside.

Mu Xiyue put the two rows of wooden shelves for placing things into the space. Unexpectedly, there was an unexpected surprise after putting the wooden shelves away. Four secret compartments were revealed on the wall that were originally blocked by the wooden shelves. There were wooden boxes in the secret compartments. She didn't look closely at what they were. She put them into the space first and looked at them slowly after she returned.

After looking at the completely looted secret room, Mu Xiyue finally crawled out with satisfaction. After coming out, she even kindly put the stones on the ground back into the blockage.

I came back and took the fork on the right. The road on the right was very long. After walking for a quarter of an hour, there were stairs leading upwards in front of me.

The two of them looked at each other and walked up the stairs slowly with light steps in tacit understanding. There was a wooden board above their heads, and mixed voices of men and women came from above the board. The sound was a bit explosive.

Mu Xiyue looked at Xiao Yibai, and Xiao Yibai reached out and covered Mu Xiyue's ears.

Damn, these two are standing under someone's bed! The point is, it's already the 11:00 PM, which is around 10 PM. Didn't the ancients go to bed early? They're still having sex at this hour.

Mu Xiyue looked at Xiao Yibai with a blaming look. "Why are you covering my ears? I can't hear what you hear. It's such a quiet tunnel. Even if I cover my ears, I can still hear a little bit!"

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