The emperor always wants to promise himself

Chapter 227 The Secret in the Cave
The three of them walked to the westernmost part of the forest, and the trees were not so dense. The bulge seen just now was no longer concealed. When the torch was illuminated, it revealed its original shape, and it was indeed a part of the mountain.

Xiao Yu's eyes fell on it, and he condensed slightly, and let out a soft "Huh".

Tsing Yi and Lan Yi's attention immediately fell on her.

"What's the matter, master?"

"look--"

Holding the torch, Xiao Yu moved closer, and touched a corner of the rock with his other hand. Tsing Yi and Lan Yi leaned closer, and saw a dark red mark on that corner, which looked like blood at first glance.

"Is this... blood?"

Tsing Yi asked hesitantly, raised his head and looked up, the position was almost to his shoulder, it should not be left by an animal, could it be Nan Qingshan?
"It should be, you take me up to have a look."

"it is good."

Tsing Yi grasped Xiao Yu's waist with ease, took a step back and kicked hard on the stone, and the whole person took advantage of the momentum to fly up, and was immediately stunned by the scene in front of him: "There is really a cave here? Isn't this too secretive?"

The rock protruded from the middle, and people below couldn't see anything when they looked up, but when they came up, the whole rock was very flat, just enough for people to stand, and there was a cave as tall as a person in front of them.

Tsing Yi was stunned for a moment, then suddenly became excited: "They must have been hiding here before, master, let's go in and have a look."

Xiao Yu's expression was not as relaxed as expected, she slowly frowned as she looked at the cave.

"wrong."

"What's wrong?" Tsing Yi was puzzled.

Xiao Yu stared at the dark cave, feeling an inexplicable feeling in her heart. After pondering for a moment, she asked in a low voice: "Qing Yi, it's strange enough that those people came to save Nan Qingshan, how did they know that there is a cave where people can hide here by such a coincidence?"

"It's so hidden here. If we hadn't seen the little blood stains before, we would never have thought that the cave would be on it. How did they find it in such a short time?"

Tsing Yi was stunned, his heart skipped a beat, his lips moved before he could say anything, Xiao Yu said in a cold voice: "So - did they discover this place temporarily, or was it their old lair?"

Tsing Yi took a deep breath, "Master, are you saying that this might be a stronghold of Lianhua Palace?"

Xiao Yu didn't answer immediately, but walked in with a torch.

Tsing Yi hurriedly followed.

Unexpectedly, there was no peculiar smell in the cave, and it was even dry. Tsing Yi's complexion was even worse. This meant that there were other exits in the cave, and there was no other smell.
He took a step forward and snatched the torch from Xiao Yu's hand, "Master, you go to the back, I don't know if the front is safe, so let's lead the way."

Xiao Yu didn't refuse either. After all, Tsing Yi's martial arts are very high, and he has no power to restrain a chicken (I don't know what misunderstandings he has about himself). If he is really in danger, he is easy to be controlled by others in front of him, but it is easy to drag Tsing Yi down.

The two walked along the cave for a while, and it gradually opened up. Unexpectedly, the cave also turned around. When the two turned around, their eyes suddenly opened up.

"This...isn't this a stone chamber?"

Tsing Yi looked in amazement at the complete table, chairs, benches, stone bed brocade quilt, and even two large wooden boxes. Xiao Yu went over to open the wooden box and saw that there were several pieces of men's clothes in a mess.

She took them out to have a look, and found that they were the same size, and they must have been prepared for one person.

"It seems that when Nan Qingshan disappeared, he was recuperating here. Look, there is still unused gauze here. This is ointment."

There were medicine scissors and gauze under the clothes, Tsing Yi took out the medicine bottle, opened the lid and smelled it, and frowned for a while: "It smells like a wound treatment."

Xiao Yu nodded: "That's right. There may be other clues here, so look for it."

"it is good."

Tsing Yi put down the medicine bottle and saw an oil lamp in the corner, he went over and lit it with a torch, and immediately the cave was lit up a lot.

Xiao Yu lifted the brocade quilt and looked at it. The mattress was thick and soft to the touch. She stretched out her hand to grope it carefully, but there was nothing there. She turned it over again, knelt on the stone bed with one leg, and carefully looked around the stone bed.

Tsing Yi turned around and came back to see that she was almost lying on the stone bed, and asked in puzzlement: "Master, what are you looking for?"

Xiao Yu said without looking back: "I was wondering if someone as smart as Nan Qingshan would leave some clues."

She searched around and found nothing, she couldn't help being a little disappointed, when she got off the stone bed, her hands accidentally touched the soft pillow on one side, the soft pillow slid inside and rubbed against the stone wall, Xiao Yu subconsciously pulled the soft pillow back, but I saw a little dust rubbed off the stone wall.

Seeing this, Xiao Yu's heart skipped a beat, she hurriedly greeted Tsing Yi: "Come closer to the torch, there is something here."

Tsing Yi came over hurriedly, and swept the torch across the stone wall, Xiao Yu took a closer look, and there were faint scratches on the place where he rubbed just now.

She directly picked up the old clothes on one side and wiped them vigorously, the floating dust was wiped off, revealing the crooked words underneath.

I don't know what Nanqingshan was carved with. It shouldn't be a knife, but it seems to be scratched out repeatedly with some blunt instrument.

She blew lightly, and read out in a low voice by the light of the torch: "If anyone sees these words, I must be dead by this time. After I came back from the capital, I realized that something was wrong. Someone lied to my parents. Something happened, I hurried back, only to find that my parents were fine, the villagers were gathered that night, and I went..."

At this point, the handwriting became messy. It can be seen that Nan Qingshan's mood was very unstable at that time, but he still said clearly, "When the fire started, I suddenly understood that this was a trap. Maybe I fell into it from the very beginning. They came at me and wanted to kill people. My grades were really wrong. I turned around and ran, but there was fire everywhere, and there was nowhere to escape. I ran desperately from the middle of the wall, and was hit by a beam that suddenly broke and fell. On my back, I felt like I was going to die..."

Xiao Yu paused, adjusted her posture, and lay down on the stone bed. The last line of writing was too short for her to see while sitting.

"But a man in black came from somewhere. He fed me something, tapped me a few times, and carried me out. I don't remember clearly what happened after that. But I heard the sound of the river, I don't know what this person wants to do, is it an enemy or a friend? When I got to the river, another person's voice came. They vaguely mentioned some master, I don't feel very good Well, when they were crossing the river, they suddenly struggled, and that person was caught off guard by me and brought into the river."

"Ah? Is that so?"

Tsing Yi was surprised, "How could Nan Qingshan still think of these after suffering such a serious injury?"

Xiao Yu also sincerely admired: "I can be so vigilant at a critical moment, but I might not be able to do it."

"The token was also dropped by him—" Tsing Yi pointed to the last sentence.

　The second character who lives in people's memories——Nan Qingshan, do you still remember who was the last one?
　　Happy Lantern Festival~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)