outside the imperial city

"It feels like there are a lot fewer people." While eating breakfast, Jing Shuo leaned into Yao Zanglan's ear and whispered.

Yao Fanglan didn't answer, just nodded slightly.

"Also, I didn't see Xu Haocheng."

Yao Fanglan glanced around, but there was really nothing: "It's best if you don't see him, so you don't have to help him."

"Don't say that." Jing Shuo seemed a little displeased.

Yao Fanglan bulged her cheeks: "Well, I was wrong."

"Good morning, everyone." Mrs. Wang was still sitting in the front seat. "I originally arranged a special program for everyone today, but because many people passed out drunk, today I changed it to a free activity. You can enjoy it in this building. There are exhibition areas on each floor, which are my private collections. If you like it, you can pick one and take it away.”

"Thank you, Mrs. Wang." Those who attended the breakfast banquet said in unison.

"It's troublesome." Yao Fanglan held her chin and walked back and forth in the room. "She said that because there are no secrets in this building?"

"Tell me," Jing Shuo said, "are those missing people arrested or killed?"

"It's possible, he was caught and killed." Yao Fanglan sat down opposite him, pressing his temples with both hands, "Let me think about the structure of this building."

When entering this building yesterday, Yao Fanglan deliberately took down the layout of the room.

"There must be a place to lock up the captured people." Yao Fanglan said to himself, "Besides, in order for the poisonous Gu to survive, they must continue to take the potion that raised them during the three days of hatching, so..."

"Let's go and see where we cook!"

The cooking area is located at the back of the deepest corridor on the first floor. Although it is also open to guests, no one else comes.After all, it is the kitchen of a wealthy family. It looks clean and tidy, and there is a plaque on the door that reads "Juzao Jun".

The kitchen was steaming with heat, and because it was late autumn, it didn't feel hot inside, but rather warm.

"What is this doing?" Yao Fanglan asked a cook curiously.

The cook added some water to the pot under the steamer: "Ah, this is steamer cake, and it will be delivered to guests' rooms as lunch."

"That's right." Yao Fanglan walked a few steps inside, pointed at this and asked that, and finally left the kitchen resentfully.

"No." Yao Fanglan kicked the pebbles on the side of the road, "Why not?"

Jing Lingshuo asked, "What do you want? The big one, or the small one?"

Yao Fanglan racked her brains: "I think about it, that thing should be packed in a bottle, or in a vat, it's colorful, it looks like it's glowing, and... but I haven't really seen it, and I don't know. "

"If it's something that's 'colorful and looks like it's glowing'," Jing Shuo paused, "is that right?"

Yao Zanglan looked in the direction of his finger, and all the color on his face instantly lost: "Is this self-confidence? It's placed in such a place without any insurance, and there are so many of them."

What unfolded in front of us were five huge water tanks that filled the entire courtyard.As Yao Fanglan said, the water surface is colorful, clear and bright, as if it is light from the bottom of the water.

Looking down from the surface of the water, Jing Lishuo saw several plants growing inside that he had never seen before, and each leaf showed a different color, and the brilliance of the lake surface was the reflection of these colors.

"Is this a drug gu?"

"No." Yao Fanglan reached into the water, picked a very small fruit, and put it in the palm of his hand to show Jing Lishuo, "This is the medicine Gu. Be careful not to eat it, and don't put your hand into the water."

"Medical Gu... is the fruit of a plant?" Jing Lingshuo took the small grain and looked at it, "And it's so small... just a little bigger than a sesame seed."

Yao Zanglan groped in his sleeve for a while, took out a bag of medicinal powder, and sprinkled a little in each of the five tanks: "I never said that the medicinal Gu is a bug? Although it is true that most of the Gu are bugs, but the Yao family's is not. Here Don't stay long, let's go."

"Who! Intruded into the forbidden area!" Three maids descended from the sky, blocking their way.

"Forbidden place?" Yao Fanglan said, "When did you say that this is a forbidden place?"

"I told you when we had breakfast." Mrs. Wang came out.She looked at the water tank behind the two of them, the colorful colors turned into monotonous gray, and the dignified face distorted.

"Sorry, I didn't hear that." Yao Fanglan took the opportunity to wink at Jing Shuo, and then drew out his bow and arrow.

Don't draw your sword, he said.Jing Lingshuo also knew that once Wuhen got out of the sheath, his identity would be exposed.Now that Yao Fanglan is likely to be recognized, if she exposes herself again, they will have no fall back.

"Although I lost a batch of medicinal Gu," Mrs. Wang said with a sinister smile, "but it's worth it to catch you, a hide-and-seek guy."

"Young Master Yao, I'm being polite here." Mrs. Wang shouted, "Give it to me and tear off his mask."

With an order, more than a dozen maids appeared and surrounded the two of them.

"Hey, beauty," Yao Fanglan said, "I'm throwing you in my arms, is this?"

Bows and arrows are weapons for long-range attacks, and are of little use in close combat.After a few arrows, although they didn't fail, they were still at the end of their strength.

Yao Zanglan retreated behind Jing Lishuo: "How is it?"

Jing Lingshuo said: "As soon as you knock down a few people, they will come again. I have no advantage with my bare hands, and it's not a good idea to waste it."

"Well, then let them catch it."

"and many more!"

"Girls, if you want this mask so much, I'll give it to you?" Yao Fanglan pulled gently, tearing off the fake skin, revealing her real face.

"I'll go with you." Yao Zanglan pointed to Jing Shuo, "You let me release that man."

"What, I don't—"

"That can't be done." Mrs. Wang said, "The lord told me that you are with King Jinyuan now, if I let him go, and he is the number one King Jinyuan in the world, then I will what to do?"

"Is it 'that lord' again?" Yao Fanglan laughed twice, "I don't think it's an adult, but a bitch, right? Do you think the Holy One really likes her? Let me tell you, she is just a fake. The Holy Majesty I don't like her at all, no matter how much she tries to keep her face, it's useless!"

Mrs. Wang took off her bun and threw it at Yao Fanglan. Yao Fanglan slumped and avoided it.

More than a dozen maids descended from the sky, dropped a huge net, and tightly covered the two of them.Mrs. Wang walked up to Yao Fanglan and slapped him.

"Tie them up and throw them into the dungeon," Mrs. Wang said, "Especially this one, if he struggles, cut off his hands."

Then she walked up to Jing Lingshuo, and put her hand on his face through the mesh.

"My lord, I'm sorry."

Jing Lingshuo reached into his sleeve, intending to cut off her hand as soon as she pulled off the mask, but she tugged on it for a long time, but the mask didn't move.

"Woman, are you blind? Or can you have some brains?" Yao Zanglan wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, "This is not Jinyuan King. You can tell at a glance that your master gave you false information. Me and King Jinyuan has always been in the same situation, so how could he act together? Looking at your excited look, you probably want to do something to King Jinyuan, right? Also, there is no man who is old enough to want you."

"Come on," Mrs. Wang was furious, "cut off his hand right now."

Jing Lishuo was entangled in the net and couldn't reach Yao Zanglan's side, but his sword was three points out of its sheath, ready for a massacre at any time.

The maid approached Yao Fanglan with a knife, but the latter was unwavering, with an almost heartless smile.

"Ma'am," a man ran over, it was the housekeeper, "Mother Gu has gone berserk."

"Run away?" Mrs. Wang raised her hand to stop the maid.

"Mother Gu?" The easy smile on Yao Fanglan's face disappeared.

"Yao Fanglan," Mrs. Wang approached Yao Fanglan, and slapped her again, "you can use your words now. Keep your hands for a while, anyway, you don't have much time to live."

Then he said to the maid: "I'll go to see the Gu mother, you take them to the dungeon."

The two were thrown into the cell together.

Jing Lishuo quickly cut the rope with Wuhen's blade, and helped Yao Zanglan untie him.

Yao Fanglan wiped the corner of her mouth: "Smelly lady."

"Is it fun?" Jing Lingshuo's tone was surprisingly cold.

"Ah?" Yao Fanglan was stunned.

"Is it fun for me to ask you?" Jing Yanshuo grabbed his collar, emotionally, "Showing off your tongue for a while? Just slap you twice, what if you really cut off your hand?"

"Master, please be safe, don't be impatient, let me explain." Yao Zanglan looked at her feet that had left the ground in fear, "It's like this, I purposely aroused her anger to prevent her from thinking of taking me away. your coat."

It was indeed a great loss for the Yao family's white shirt to be taken away, Jing Lingshuo calmed down a little.

He put Yao Fanglan down and said, "Then what's the matter with letting me go alone? What's the matter with my face? What's the matter with being arrested on purpose?"

Yao Fanglan tore off her skirt and threw it on the ground.

"If you refuse to answer the first question, you will be scolded if you answer it anyway. The second question is that your face is made of a mask made of different materials, which cannot be removed by ordinary methods. Don't ask me why I didn't do it for myself. One, if you refuse to answer, you will be scolded if you answer anyway. As for the last question, I was not sure where I found the prisoner, so I was simply captured by them, so what is it called?"

"If you break through the iron shoes, there's nowhere to find it. It's easy to get here." Jing Lingshuo said helplessly.

"Yes, that's it." Yao Fanglan smiled, "Your Highness is really smart and well-informed."

"Laugh, you're still laughing at me!" Jing Yanshuo said angrily, "Are you calling it effortless? She really wanted to chop off your hand just now, and you didn't even know you were afraid?"

"If you don't enter the tiger's lair, you won't find tiger cubs." Yao Fanglan calmly said, "In short, we are here now."

"Oh, you." Jing Shuo reached out and touched Yao Fanglan's face, "Does it hurt?"

It's all swollen, can it hurt?But Yao Fanglan didn't dare to say that, instead she said: "My uncle has gone up the mountain of knives and down the sea of ​​fire, what is this little injury? It doesn't hurt."

"Brother Lu?" A call came from the opposite side, and the two turned their heads in unison.

"Brother Xu, are you here?"

"Ah, I wanted to find out the way for the night's action, but I was caught." Xu Haocheng smiled awkwardly, "I heard your voice, but I didn't see Mrs. Lu, so I didn't dare to call for a long time. Who is this?"