Thinking it was a servant who got up early to do some work, Shangguan Ruoli accidentally glanced out the window and saw that it was Chuntao coming out. He looked around furtively and then left the Meixiang Garden.

Shangguan Ruoli's eyes were slightly cold, the corner of his mouth curled up slightly, and he lifted up his skirt and went out of the window.

I looked around and confirmed that no one was there. There was no need to run for the three-meter-high courtyard wall. I jumped up lightly, stepped on the wall, walked a few steps sideways, stretched my arms to just touch the top of the wall, and exerted force on my waist, making no sound.

It turned out!

Just outside the courtyard wall is a magnolia tree with lush foliage. It is already past the blooming season of magnolias. The lush crown of the tree is like a canopy, providing shade under the tree.

After she landed, she stepped lightly on the soft grass and hid behind a tree. Looking around, she saw Chuntao's pale pink back.

She took advantage of the cover of flowers and big trees to follow Chuntao from a distance.

Chuntao looked around, looking sneaky, and hurriedly came to the door of a large and respectable courtyard. The wooden plaque above was engraved with "Wutong Courtyard".

Shangguan Ruoli knew that it was the courtyard where Xiao Yunqing lived, so he climbed into the courtyard before Chuntao knocked on the door. Clusters of winter jasmine were planted against the wall in the courtyard. Of course, the flowers had faded now, and they were lush and fluffy.

He blocked Shangguan Ruoli's figure.

So she hid in a hidden place and would not be discovered by the people in the yard if she was careful. However, Chuntao's knock on the door alerted the people in the yard, and it was not easy to get close to the house.

Shangguan Ruoli took advantage of the fact that only one servant came out to open the door, and quickly identified the nearby flowers and trees that could be used. He ducked and hid in the shadow of a rockery.

The original owner's hearing was very good. She vaguely heard Xiao Yunqing scolding Chuntao, and then vaguely heard the words Ranxianglou, men, things, etc.

Shangguan Ruoli was sensitive and felt that their plot was related to him, so he wanted to change his position to hear it more clearly.

However, suddenly his feet were empty and his whole body fell.

She was startled and instinctively reached out to grab something. She only grabbed the slippery floor in the cave and fell down.

When she landed, she squatted down and rolled to remove most of the force of her fall from a high place.

Even so, the fall was not light due to gravel underfoot.

"I'll choke you! It hurts me to death!" He cursed in a low voice, raised his head, and felt as if he had fallen from the roof of the underground darkroom.

When I saw the glimmer of light above, I visually estimated that it was three feet above the ground.

Someone pushed open the door and walked towards the rockery, seemingly checking it out.

"What's going on?" A maid's voice sounded searching.

Another maid said: "It should be a wild cat that gets up early to hunt for food."

The two of them stopped by the rockery and looked around cautiously, but the place where Shangguan Ruoli fell was very secret and the entrance of the cave was blocked by rocks, so they didn't find anything.

"Get out of here quickly, there are ghosts screaming around here!"

"What the hell, don't talk nonsense so early in the morning!"

The two maids who were investigating the situation left in a hurry with fear in their voices.

Shangguan Ruoli guessed based on the gravel under his feet that the darkroom was built under a rockery and weathered into a hole due to rainwater leakage over time.

But she was so unlucky that she missed the mark and fell down.

It was so high and the entrance of the cave was in the middle of the dark room, so it was impossible for her to go back the way she came.

Looking around, it was a closed darkroom with solid and smooth stone walls, and a stone bed in the corner of the darkroom.

This is a secret prison, there must be an exit.

Shangguan Ruoli rubbed his back against the pain from the stone, picked up a stone, groped on the stone wall, and tapped it lightly from time to time.

Suddenly, her tapping movement stopped.

There is nothing behind the stone wall here, and there are faint sounds coming from it.

Shangguan Ruoli put his ear against the stone wall and listened carefully, it seemed like the sound of iron chains rattling.

There's someone locked up next door!

Since the next door was also a secret prison, the exit must not be on this stone wall. Shangguan Ruoli excluded this stone wall and searched carefully on the other three stone walls.

Finally I found a different stone brick and pressed it hard.

Immediately, there was a "click" sound from the hinge that opened the mechanism. The sound was very dry, which showed that this darkroom had not been opened for many years.

Shangguan Ruoli stayed behind the stone door, listened for a while, and then left the darkroom after confirming that there was no danger outside.

It was pitch dark outside. Shangguan Ruoli took a while to adapt, and then he could see clearly what was going on outside through the dim light coming from the hole on the top of the darkroom.

Outside is a one-meter-wide corridor with stone walls on both sides. It is dark and damp, and mice scurry through it from time to time.

Shangguan Ruoli walked up to the stone door next door, listened to the movement inside, and frowned slightly.

There was no sound inside. Could it be that she heard it wrong just now?

Based on the grievance she felt from the Shimen mechanism just now, she quickly touched the mechanism, pressed it, turned around and pressed her body against the stone wall to prevent danger.

There was a faint, dim light coming from the stone door, and it slowly widened as the stone door slowly opened.

There is indeed someone inside!

A foul smell combined with a damp musty smell rushed out from the door, making Shangguan Ruoli frown and hold his breath.

"Little girl, come here and talk to me!" An old, dry voice came from the room. It was rough and unpleasant, as if it was coming from hell, and it made people's scalp numb.

Presumably the ghostly screams coming from the mouths of those two maids must be this sound,

How did he know she was a little girl?

Shangguan Ruoli first stretched out his legs to test, and then slightly poked his head out.

I saw an inconspicuous old man standing in the middle of the dark room. His wrists and ankles were tied with iron chains as thick as a child's arms, and the ends of the iron chains were fixed on the stone wall.

The reason why he is said to be an old man is that, apart from his voice, his beard and hair are messy and messy, and they are so dirty that no color can be seen, but they are not black.

Seeing that there was no danger, Shangguan Ruoli walked out from behind the stone door, walked into the dark room and stood where he could not reach, and asked calmly: "Who are you? Why are you here?"

The old man saw her appearance clearly, and stood there blankly, his mouth opened in disbelief. After a while, he tentatively called out: "Ah... Luo?"

Ah Luo? Ruo Li frowned, the original owner’s mother Xiao Yun Luo?

Before Shangguan Ruoli could say anything, the old man shook his head and denied, "No, no! That bitch Xiao Yunqing is already old. How come my A Luo is so young?"

He raised his hand and pushed away the broken hair hanging in front of his forehead, revealing a pair of clear and sharp eyes. He looked Shangguan Ruoli up and down carefully and said, "Aren't you A Luo, are you Li'er? No, Li'er has grown so big.

?"

The old man looked at Shangguan Ruoli warily, "Li'er is blind, but your eyes are fine."

The old man seemed to have been isolated from the world for a long time and had no idea that Xiao Yunluo had passed away.

Shangguan Ruoli heard some clues from his words and said calmly: "Xiao Yunluo has been dead for more than fifteen years."
Chapter completed!