The deflated cultivator refused to give up and vowed to turn the tables.

Su Zinong was also confused, and Huang Chenghe, seeing his furrowed brow, also looked troubled. Only Chaoxia remained calm, appearing to trust Su Zinong completely.

Huang Chenghe suddenly felt a sense of envy.

After considering it for a quarter of an hour, Su Zinong had a direction.

He recalled how the servant had led the four of them into the stake area, making a thumping sound as he walked. So he said, "Master Bai, I have two ideas, but I haven't decided yet. Let's try the first one. I would appreciate it if you could provide two items: a large stick of sandalwood or mosquito coil, and a pair of shoes. Please lend me the hard-soled shoes that the servant who led us in had."

Master Bai was puzzled and frowned, finding it strange. Even the servants beside him frowned, thinking: Who is this person Huang Chenghe brought? He wants mosquito coils and borrows shoes. This has nothing to do with Young Master Bai's disappearance.

But since he brought it with him, it was inconvenient to object. Fortunately, these two items were not hard to find, so we had no choice but to bring them.

At this moment, Huang Chenghe was also uneasy.

Su Zinong's feet were too big to fit in the shoes, so Huang Chenghe wore them. He walked back and forth in the room, going back and forth in every place repeatedly, with a strange smile on his face, looking ridiculous. Chaoxia and Danfeng couldn't help but cover their mouths and laugh.

Huang Chenghe walked for a full quarter of an hour, while Su Zinong stood in different positions in the room to listen to the thumping sound of his shoes.

Then Su Zinong lit a large stick of sandalwood incense and slowly walked around the room, occasionally squatting down to examine it closely. He would wait quietly at each spot before moving on to the next to observe the smoke rising from the sandalwood incense.

Su Zinong nodded confidently, seemingly having made a discovery. He waved his hand and said, "We don't need to consider a second idea. Please come over, Master Bai."

Bai Xiangshan walked over, half believing and half doubting. Su Zinong drew his Thunder Sword with a clang, muttering, "Today's case depends entirely on you." He then found a crack in the wooden floor, plunged the sword down, and sliced ​​horizontally along the crack. The wooden floor opened with a sound.

Su Zinong used his internal energy to pull and lift the three-foot square wooden floorboard upwards, revealing a hole more than two feet wide.

Bai Xiangshan was greatly surprised and quickly called for someone to bring an oil lamp.

Su Zinong had already taken out the luminous pearl and jumped into the cave. Huang Chenghe followed closely behind. Bai Xiangshan couldn't wait for the lamp, so he jumped up from the porch, tore off a lantern, lit it, and jumped in as well, quickly catching up with Su Zinong and Huang Chenghe.

The opening is small, only big enough for one person to squeeze through.

The three of them crawled forward in the tunnel for a full quarter of an hour before they felt the tunnel rising. After crawling for another quarter of an hour, they finally reached the surface.

Su Zinong pushed up with his left hand, knocking aside a wooden plank and the soil on it. He raised his sword in defense with his right hand and leaped out. The two behind him followed closely out of the cave. It was a grassy area, still within the walls of Baiyangzhuang, but they were already next to the walls. This place was remote and rarely visited by people.

"Ah! Could it be that my son has been kidnapped by someone digging a tunnel?" Bai Xiangshan looked at Su Zinong with extreme worry. He now trusted Su Zinong and wanted to hear what he had to say.

"How is Young Master Bai's cultivation level?" Su Zinong asked while wiping the dirt off his head and face.

"I reached the peak of the fourth star a while ago," Bai Xiangshan said with a hint of pride, ignoring the mud all over his hair and face, which he didn't bother to wipe off.

“Don’t worry, he won’t be kidnapped. Although digging a tunnel isn’t very loud, it will still make some noise. Young Master Bai, at the peak of the fourth star, would definitely be able to detect someone digging a tunnel. The fact that he didn’t make a sound and there were no signs of a struggle inside the house means that he voluntarily followed the people who came through the tunnel.” Su Zinong spoke confidently, and Bai Xiangshan nodded repeatedly, finally putting his mind at ease.

"Sigh, it's good to know he's alright. I'll never force him to marry someone he doesn't like again," Bai Xiangshan sighed, a relieved smile on his face. He hadn't slept a wink for the past day and night, constantly worried. Now, relieved, a smile naturally bloomed on his face.

"The reason why Young Master Bai doesn't like the marriage you arranged is probably because he has someone else in mind. If he can escape now, he might go to that person. Moreover, the people who came to dig the tunnel to help him escape are likely from that side as well, so they shouldn't be hard to find," Su Zinong comforted Bai Xiangshan.

“You’re right! Young Master Su, I’ve thought of that too. He’s been getting quite close to a young lady from a minor noble family lately. I just disliked that she came from such a family. That family’s cultivation techniques and strength weren’t strong, but they were very wealthy. Besides cultivating immortality, they were also involved in civil engineering. I thought they had elite people in the family who could dig tunnels, which is why they could easily dig a tunnel to help my son escape. Now that I think about it, that family isn’t so bad after all, and that young lady is very cute and well-behaved. I shouldn’t have objected in the first place,” Bai Xiangshan said.

"Let's find Young Master Bai first and have a good talk with him," Huang Chenghe said, patting the mud off his backside.

Huang Chenghe and the other three settled down at Baiyangzhuang. Bai Xiangshan personally went to the small family to look for someone and indeed found Bai Shaoyi.

Bai Xiangshan didn't scold him, but only said that Young Master Huang Chenghe had come to see him, and that he should go back to the manor to see the guest first.

Bai Shaoyi felt a chill run down his spine when he suddenly saw his father arrive. However, seeing his father's polite and courteous manner towards the members of this prominent family, he breathed a slight sigh of relief and followed his father back to Baiyangzhuang.

"You little rascal, what's so fun about disappearing? You made your father and the entire manor worry for a whole day and night, you definitely deserve to be punished!" Huang Chenghe rushed to punish Bai Shaoyi on behalf of Manor Lord Bai, placing a large basin of water on his head for him to hold. If even a single drop of water fell, he would have to walk barefoot on the cobblestone path—that feeling would be absolutely excruciating!

“He deserves to be punished,” Bai Xiangshan chimed in, but he hadn’t expected Huang Chenghe to come up with such a cunning way of punishing him, and couldn’t help but smile.

"I know I was wrong," Bai Shaoyi said with a bitter face.

Madam Bai, standing to the side, shed a few tears. As a mother, she shed tears when she lost her son, and then she was moved to tears again when he returned.

"Quickly thank Young Master Su Zinong and Young Master Huang!" Madam Bai said softly.

"Thank you both. I thought it was foolproof, but I didn't expect you to be able to find it. You are truly remarkable. Is this young master Su Zinong, who has solved two locked-room mysteries in a row? I have heard so much about you! The legend of Young Master Su has spread throughout the martial arts world and is widely known. This is the third case, isn't it?" Bai Shaoyi continued, holding the water basin on his head.

"Young Master Bai, you flatter me. It was just a lucky coincidence that I discovered it," Su Zinong said modestly.

"Don't play hide-and-seek, kid. Talk to your parents properly, you hear? I've watched you grow up since you were a kid, I know what kind of person you are!" As soon as Huang Chenghe spoke, the tone changed drastically, and he started acting like an older brother scolding his younger brother.

"Understood, thank you, Young Master Su Zinong, thank you, Young Master Huang Chenghe, and thank you both, fairies in red. I am truly grateful to you all! It is all thanks to you that my parents did not force me to marry that young lady from the powerful family, and instead agreed to my marriage with my beloved," Bai Shaoyi said.

“Young Master Bai, please don’t mind. Huang Chenghe has disappeared before. His entire Huanghe Manor searched for him for more than four months. You must have heard about it,” Su Zinong said.

"This is my real brother! Even when we're missing, we're in such good sync, hahaha..." Bai Shaoyi was about to put his arm around Huang Chenghe and call him brother, but he suddenly remembered that he had a water basin on his head. He swayed and almost spilled water, so he could only grin awkwardly, looking quite comical.

"Of course!" Huang Chenghe said nonchalantly, "Perfect understanding!"

Bai Shaoyi suddenly looked up as if he had remembered something, his eyes darting around as he said, "Speaking of Young Master Huang Chenghe, more than a year ago I saw two strangely dressed people on the bustling main street of Changshou City, one of whom was you! What happened? Why were you naked..."