It is called a secret room, but it is not the previous secret room.

The shopkeeper added something to Xing'er's medicine and moved her to another place while she was unconscious.

Yuan Zhilin and Zhuzi followed Manager Lu to the backyard. They passed several warehouses along the way. There were indeed many medicinal herbs drying in the open space in front of the warehouses, so they had to be careful to avoid them when walking.

"Please see, we are indeed taking inventory today. I am not deliberately blocking you from entering."

"No, no, it's us who have caused you trouble." Yuan Zhilin is good at speaking and is usually polite.

Shen Li and Xiao Chenze followed in the air, and seeing this, they couldn't help but say, "Yuan Zhilin requested to be trained in the army, and was arranged by Guan Yonghou to be in the Southern Xinjiang military camp. I didn't expect that this was just a cover for him to go out to the outside world. His real purpose is actually in Mizhou. I didn't expect that he has really made progress."

"I guess he came here with Second Master Yao that time, and Second Master Yao lost his life, but he didn't do anything and even returned to the capital sick. He felt ashamed, so he came here out of spite to get to the bottom of it."

Xiao Chenze turned around and glanced at her with a playful smile in his eyes, "Who said he didn't do anything? Didn't he come to the manor specifically to ask you to break off the engagement?"

If Yuan Zhilin had not broken off the engagement, he would not have had the opportunity to ask his father to grant him and Shen Li a marriage.

Speaking of this, Shen Li herself laughed.

Thinking of how she had made Yuan Zhilin incontinent, and how no matter how much he was served, he could not avoid the stench from the urine and feces. This was a blow to the proud young master of the Duke's Mansion who had lived a life of luxury and was praised by others. She couldn't help laughing.

This smile was like sunlight shining on a cold snow lotus, blooming with brilliance. Xiao Chenze was stunned for a moment, his heart pounding.

The look was too hot. Shen Li raised her eyes and met his gaze. Her heart beat faster for some reason and her cheeks flushed.

A different atmosphere flowed in the space. The wolf-blue and the big black mastiff lazily raised their eyelids to look at the two people, and curled their lips in disdain.

On top of them, the little Min'er, who was not even big enough to be swallowed in one bite, was nestled comfortably between the two dogs, sleeping soundly. From time to time, he would hum and laugh in his dreams, and kick his four short legs a few times. He was really so carefree that he just ate and slept.

When Zhuzi saw Xing'er, he burst into tears, ignoring his tears and snot. He wiped his tears with his sleeves and tried to pull Xing'er while crying, "Sister, what happened to you? Wuuuuu, you are alive, wuuuuuuuu, your brother was scared to death, wuuuuuuu."

"Woo, woo, woo, I'm fine, brother, I knew you would come to me, woo, woo, woo, brother."

"Looking at the way they look, they must be real siblings," Shen Li said, "They can't act that way."

Xiao Chenze turned around and looked at her again. He didn't expect that she believed everything in front of Xing'er. She was silently suspicious.

Shen Li looked at the brother and sister meeting outside and asked Xiao Chenze behind him, "Should we wait a little longer to find out more about Yuan Zhilin and the others before setting off?"

"No," Xiao Chenze said flatly, "There's no need for us to investigate this kind of thing ourselves. I'll arrange for someone else to do it. But your cousin's situation really can't be delayed any longer, so let's get going."

"Okay," Shen Li was not one to drag her feet. She turned around and said to Xiao Chenze, "Have you put away all the evidence you copied about Wu Yongguang?"

"It's well placed. With the most appropriate personnel, it should be delivered to the general in no time."

"I was just about to ask you, why didn't you send such an important thing directly to the palace, but instead sent it to my uncle?"

Xiao Chenze just stood there, picked up a book casually, and didn't look back.

After hearing Shen Li's question, he said after a while, "The palace is the most unsafe place. Everyone is wearing a ghost mask. What if the person who delivered the letter cannot see the emperor and is stopped by others? Should the evidence be produced? According to the law, the person who stopped the letter is allowed to read and filter it before handing it over to the emperor."

"Is that person reliable? Will he help pass it on to Father after reading it? If he's unreliable, then if that important evidence gets leaked, alerting the enemy, wouldn't all our hard work for so many days be wasted?"

"It will be different if we hand it over to the General. His letters are confidential. No one dares to intercept them, and no one dares to open them without permission, unless they are spies. And the people I sent are my most reliable men. The General will not be surrounded by such strict guards as my father is, and no one can get close to him. Don't worry, the evidence will definitely be delivered to the General safely."

After hearing what he said, Shen Li also thought that this was the case, so she stopped asking questions and started to think about the gifts to bring to the farm.

Such a big thing happened in the prefectural government, but not only the people outside, but even the secret guards under the madam were unaware of it.

Everything in the entire city of Mizhou remains the same.

Because of the iron mines in this place, the tax revenue was generous and the imperial court paid attention to it, so the people lived a pretty good life.

The streets are lined with shops, bustling teahouses and restaurants, bustling crowds of people, and vendors loudly greeting customers. It is so prosperous and so full of vitality.

Shen Li bought a lot of jewelry, clothes, snacks, game, and so on. Xiao Chenze laughed at her and asked, "Are you planning to move the market back home?"

Shen Li ignored him and just kept buying. She specially hired a carriage and asked the driver to load all the things into the carriage and take them to a road outside the city.

After the driver unloaded the things and went back, Shen Li looked at the carriages and horses on both sides, and when no one was paying attention, he took the things into the space bit by bit.

Xiao Chenze couldn't help much, so he just stayed beside the pile of things for her, watching her busy as an ant moving house.

Occasionally, he would tease her and ask, "Should we go to a place in town where no one will notice us, unload the things from the 'cage', and then find a carriage to take them up to the farm?"

Shen Li stopped what he was doing, deliberately showed an admiring expression, and said, "I didn't expect our eldest prince to be so smart. I admire him."

Xiao Chenze was also amused by her and imitated her, bowing and saying, "Thank you for the compliment, Miss Shen, you are so polite."

The two men laughed.

Then, Xiao Chenze watched her suddenly disappear, suddenly appear, suddenly disappear again, and suddenly appear again.

Every time it disappeared, something on the ground disappeared, until all of it was gone.

Finally, she suddenly appeared again, pulled Xiao Chenze's sleeve, and instantly brought him into the space.

On the ground in the space was the pile of things that had just been outside.

"Shen Li," Xiao Chenze's tone suddenly became serious. "Am I being too suspicious? Just now, I saw you moving something. You didn't even need to move it. You just placed your hand on it, and it disappeared with you. I actually had a thought: This isn't some kind of instantaneous teleportation skill. You're more like that princess of Beidi that Miergan mentioned who suddenly disappeared."

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