Chapter 520
Zhao Bing originally wanted to free up his hands to deal with him, but now he is not honestly hiding away from disaster, but he has to challenge his patience. Then he can only take some time to get rid of him first, otherwise he will become a cage bird, and he is held in this small space every day and can't even go out of the door. So after waking up the next day, he saw Wen Tianxiang go to the prison and Ying Jieyan go to the east gate to inspect, shouting that the opportunity has come. Zhao Bing in Quanzhou was only afraid of three people, one was Wen Tianxiang, the other was Ying Jieyan, and the other was monk Yuanmiao.
Yuan Miao was confident of persuading the two of them when they went out. Although he had been a monk for half his life, he had not become a monk. He was still very sulky and competitive. In addition, Yuan Miao had a special status, not only a child of the royal family, but also an elder in Shaolin, Quanzhou. He lost relatives and many disciples in the bloody night in Quanzhou. If he hated the Pu family, he was afraid that he would rank second and no one dared to be the first. With these two fatal weaknesses, he would have to follow Zhao Bing's baton.
Sure enough, just as Zhao Bing was about to go out, he saw Yuan Miao sitting cross-legged at the door meditating and chanting scriptures. He had been caught in the gate of his life. He only muttered a few words in his ear. Yuan Miao immediately stood up and followed His Majesty. Ni Liang naturally followed his orders, immediately lit up a team of guards and summoned two groups of guards to protect him. Although the mansion had long returned to peace, he was still under strict guards. Apart from the guards and the clerks who walked along the way, they knew that His Majesty had entered the mansion and stopped to salute.
"Did Shi Si escape from the mansion at that time?" The group came to a small house in the corner of the backyard, next to it was a sealed corner door. This house should be the gatehouse used by the servants to rest when they were on duty. From the outside, it looked very old. I thought that after the corner door was blocked, few people came here, so that the wall on the shade was covered with moss. Zhao Bing asked someone to open the door and a moldy smell came to his face. He flashed back and asked.
"Your Majesty, that's right, but a section of the road inside has been blocked!" a sergeant from the Operations Team of the Bureau of Affairs said.
"Let's go in and take a look!" Zhao Bing nodded and was about to enter the house.
"Your Majesty, I'll go down and take a look first!" Although Yuan Miao was moved by His Majesty, he also knew that if the little emperor had made mistakes, he would just hit him to death. Therefore, he took the torch and snatched in first to check it out to avoid ambushing it.
"You follow the master and don't make a rash move!" Zhao Bing hurriedly ordered two guards and asked them to follow him.
"Beware, get close to you without permission and kill you without mercy!" Ni Liang looked around and ordered the guards to set up a guard circle, but pulled His Majesty away from the door to protect him behind him in case an assassin popped up from inside.
The person who investigated could not come back for a while. Zhao Bing looked at the small courtyard and buckled the cracks on the wall with his hands. The lime inside was already very soft. It had been a long time since it was built, and it had even existed before the Pu Mansion was first built. Then this tunnel was probably built by the previous owner. After the Pu family appeared, it did not block it, but isolated the courtyard. The people of the Pu Mansion did not know the existence of this secret passage. After that, a house was built around the surrounding area to completely bury the tunnel. No one would have thought that there was a secret existence in this dilapidated courtyard.
"Your Majesty, there is no one in the tunnel, and there is no mechanism to be established. After walking three hundred steps forward, it was blocked by rocks. It should be prepared in advance to block the pursuers. It is impossible to move forward and it is difficult to find out where it leads!" After the guard who entered the tunnel came back, he immediately reported to the emperor who was squatting by the wall and not knowing what he was looking at.
"Well, how big is the stone, can it be moved?" Zhao Bing asked with his fingers on the wall.
"Report to Your Majesty, the stones are as big as basins, and the small ones are also big. They should be able to move them. Because they are worried that they will collapse, they dare to move them out of the way!" The guard said unsurely.
"Okay, it's done well. Is there any water accumulation in the tunnel?" Zhao Bing stood up and patted the dust on his hand.
"When I first entered the secret passage, I could not exceed my knees, but I could not walk forward for more than a hundred steps!" The guard thought for a while and replied.
"Can you tell how long the seal is?" Zhao Bing lowered his head and looked at his pants and asked again.
"Your Majesty, it should be very long, and the torch cannot be seen opposite!" The guard thought for a while.
"Well, let's go in and take a look! Oh, bring a short crossbow and a rocket." Zhao Bing didn't ask any further after hearing this, and walked towards the cave.
"Your Majesty, you'd better not go in?" Ni Liang stood in front of him and said.
"Amitabha, I'm here, don't be too troublesome!" Yuan Miao saw this and chanted the Buddha's name. Ni Liang turned his head and glared at Yuan Miao, took a torch and walked forward first. Zhao Bing closed his hands together and bowed to Yuan Miao and followed him with a smile. Yuan Miao did not follow him again this time, but he just gave Fa Zheng and Fa Qiao a wink and asked them to follow him, but he guarded the door.
The authentic hole opened directly on the floor of the inner room. Ni Liang was in front of the torch, and Zhao Bing walked down the steps made of blue bricks. Before the bottom of the hole could see the reflection of the accumulated water. Fa Zheng, who was following behind, picked him up and walked forward. But he was not idle either. He was holding a stone in his hand and knocked on the wall, echoing dull echoes in the long dark alleyway.
The further he walked, Zhao Bing felt that the sound of water gradually decreased. The man was walking upwards, and the narrower it became. Ni Liang's head could only pass through with a punch above his head. When he was held by Fa Zheng, he could only shrink his neck so that he would not touch his head. Water drops continued to drip down on his body. The brightness of the torch seemed to have decreased in the dark hole, and he felt like he was walking in the bottom cabin.
"Let me go!" The sound of water disappeared, and Zhao Bing knew that he had arrived on the dry ground and said. As soon as Fa Zheng put him down, Zhao Bing squatted on the ground and groped.
"It's true that's not what I expected!" Just when everyone was surprised, Zhao Bing stood up and put it under the torch to watch, but he just grabbed a handful of sand in his hand, but he was very excited, which made the other three people very puzzled.
However, regardless of whether they knew whether they had taken a torch or not, he was fat, but he was still able to come and go freely in the narrow alleyway. He actually arrived at the blocked place first and took photos from up and down. As expected, as the guards who were surveying said, all of this place was blocked by stones. Of course, he did not dare to reach out to touch it rashly. If it collapsed, there would be no place to hide in such a narrow place.
'call……'
"There are really gaps, it's a waste of trouble!" When the torch was raised, the flames suddenly jumped up and floated away beforewards. Zhao Bing was overjoyed when he saw it.
"Your Majesty, what's wrong?" Ni Liang asked hurriedly when he saw His Majesty shouting.
"Look at how big the gap is at the top? Be careful and don't touch it randomly!" Zhao Bing turned his body and said, letting Ni Liang lean in front.
"Your Majesty, the gap above the top can accommodate my fists, but it's hard to see how far it is!" Ni Liang checked and replied.
"Give him a crossbow arrow and shoot an arrow along the gap!" Zhao Bing ordered Fa Qiao again.
"Shoot again!" Ni Liang took the short crossbow as instructed, took the rocket, ignited it, and then shot a blind arrow along the gap. Because he couldn't see clearly, the rocket rang far and fell down the top of the cave. Zhao Bing ordered to shoot again.
"Your Majesty, the rocket has landed!" Ni Liang shot two arrows in a row. The rockets falling in front illuminated the gap, allowing him to see the target clearly and shoot farther and farther, but the third arrow fell to the ground.
"How far is it?" Zhao Bing asked.
"Your Majesty, it's about ten feet!" Ni Liang raised his feet and looked at it again and replied.
"Okay, go back!" Zhao Bing said after hearing this.
"Oh..." The other three people thought His Majesty would talk about how to pass this blocked road, but they didn't expect to go back like this. They were all very surprised and stunned and answered...
The four of them returned the same way. Zhao Bing didn't say much and immediately ordered someone to call Zhao Mengjin over. At the same time, they asked someone to find something flammable to smoke to send it here, and began to tear the small house. He then breathed a sigh of relief. Ni Liangzao asked someone to smash the door next to the house, but it was found that there was dust inside, so he had to move a chair clean and let His Majesty sit down and rest.
After waiting for the hard work of others, Zhao Bing also sorted out his thoughts and improved his plan. His initial idea was to find out the direction of the secret passage, and then determine the general location with the blocked place, then dismantle it, dig it, find the secret passage and follow the map. Although this is labor-intensive, it is better than a large-scale "demolition".
After arriving at the place, Zhao Bing had a new idea after on-site investigation. He now built the yard early and the terrain was much lower than other places. In theory, water would definitely accumulate here when it rained heavily. Seeing the water traces left on the wall further confirmed his judgment. He thought that if the situation was really the case, the secret passage would inevitably be lower and would have been filled with water. How could Shi Si escape from here? Unless there was a culvert drainage in the tunnel, or if there was sand here, the water flowing into the tunnel would soon seep into the underground, which indicated that the ground was very soft and easy to dig.
If so, then the tunnel is likely to be built with bricks and stone walls and the ground is not hardened. Then, you can use on-site excavation to transport the newly dug out soil and fill the stones that block the tunnel into the pit to open the tunnel. This method can involve multiple people in the work, which is fast, has little movement and is not easy to alarm the teacher.
In order to verify whether his idea was correct, Zhao Bing decided to go in and take a look, and wonder if he could make some simple improvements and excavation equipment to improve efficiency. This entry was good, not only to prove that his judgment was correct, but also according to the changes in the flames, the secret passage was not completely blocked. As for the short crossbow and the rocket, he was worried that there would be a secret door hidden in the secret passage. If an assassin suddenly emerged, how to fight in such a narrow place, while the short crossbow could shoot the enemy from a distance, and the rocket could determine the enemy's position.
Chapter completed!