C14 (2/2)

Actually, the smell of alcohol on his clothes wasn't that bad after an entire night had passed. At least, it was much stronger than last night. Luo Yi even suspected that she fell asleep beside the drunkard. However, this wasn't the priority right now …

The tea on the table had cooled down after a night of rest. Although the taste was not good, it could still be used to refresh the mind. Seeing Xu Heng pour himself a cup of cold tea, Luo Yi also laughed and walked over.

”Can we discuss something?” Luo Yi said politely.

Xu Heng did not say anything, but waved the teacup in his hand, gesturing for her to continue.

”Then I won't hold back,” Luo Yi coughed twice after obtaining permission, and tried to create a serious atmosphere, ”Since you can't drink, then don't force yourself!”

She said, ”Every time I can't win against others, I also lose a lot of face!”

”…”

Xu Heng suddenly choked on the cold tea in his mouth.

His alcohol tolerance was obviously not as shallow as he showed, but it was not the time for him to tell the truth yet. However, the Luo Yi opposite of him thought that he was feeling guilty just because of her silence. After clearing her throat, she tried even harder to persuade him to give up drinking with other people, especially with the doctor.

”You really talk too much when you're drunk. Our old man Lao Lao Da can't even compare to you with our town's eighty odd words, so you …”

Seeing that this person got more and more agitated as he spoke, making it impossible for him to stop on his own accord, Xu Heng could only pour her a cup of tea and pass it to her. After that, he quickly changed the topic: ”Oh right, you almost fell down yesterday, didn't you?

”Nope.” Luo Yi received the teacup and took a small sip. As expected, when she put it down, someone took his mind off it and leisurely said, ”I'm not a clay doll, how can I easily break my limbs like you said?”

She slightly raised her eyes, seeing that Xu Heng was not convinced, she curled her lips and was about to bicker with him to the end when a message suddenly flashed past her mind: ”Um …”

She called Xu Heng hesitantly: ”I seem to have forgotten to tell you something.”

”Hmm?” Xu Heng patiently turned his face to her and waited for her to continue.

”There seems to be a trap in the garden of the medical stand …” Luo Yi said. However, she was not very sure, so her words were a bit hesitant, which greatly decreased the credibility of her words. But Xu Heng did not have an expression of impatience. Instead, she raised her eyebrows and became more serious than usual: ”What do you mean?”

Luo Yi briefly recalled her memories.

Yesterday in the garden, although she did not actually fall down due to the speed of the Lianzhou Medical Chair, but before that, one of her feet had indeed stepped into the mud on the side of the cobblestone path. The moment her foot touched the mud, she could clearly feel the feeling of the stone under her feet loosening.

”What if you step on a pebble?” Xu Heng had a reasonable doubt.

”It doesn't feel that way.”

The words were interrupted so abruptly that Luo Yi angrily glared at Xu Heng, and after receiving the other party's compromise, she continued: ”It's just like those buildings that have been in disrepair for a long time, with the roof tiles almost falling off.”

Coincidentally, in such a large garden, only the small piece of land she had fallen into had no flower seeds on it, and it happened to be the top of the dungeon at the bottom of that small piece, showing signs of slightly loosening up.

Luo Yi said: ”Although I am not sure what it is, but there is definitely something underneath this garden.”

Xu Heng looked at her from head to toe in shock: ”You know all this?”

”Actually, it can't be called understanding …”

Luo Yi explained. Before she moved back from Lin Ting's house to the rundown temple, because she was afraid of being attacked by wild beasts, Lin Ting flipped through a lot of books on mechanisms and secret rooms. Luo Yi was bored, so she followed and read a few of them.

However, when connected to reality, she could always recall some minor details. For example, when she was in Drunk Dream Pavilion, she could not figure out where the mechanism of Liu Yin's secret room was at the start, and when she was the only one left in the room, she could easily see through it.

So...

”Other than the prison that the Liefeng Priest showed us, there's a high possibility that the General's Estate has a secret prison as well?” Xu Heng thought about it and concluded.

”Yes.” Luo Yi nodded.

Yesterday, when the doctor had shown the three of them around the general's residence, he had led them to a row of rooms. Although they were called rooms, in reality, they were more like a prison, with all sorts of torture tools inside, and the soldiers guarding the gates were much more brutal than the others. The doctor said that this place was overcast and was not a good place, so he had no intention of bringing them there. However, the other path to the garden was in the process of being repaired, so he had to pass through here. As he spoke, he bowed in apology, ”I am truly sorry.”

Xu Heng and Luo Yi politely returned the greeting, and when they lowered their heads, they secretly met each other's eyes — What do they have to do, it was obvious that they had intentionally lured the both of them over.

This prison was definitely not small, but it was not that big either. When Luo Yi followed the few of them to the next location, he pretended to inadvertently take a peek inside, just in time to see a maidservant carrying a few empty bowls out of one of the rooms. Borrowing the narrow gap that she opened, Luo Yi's sharp eyes were able to see that the furnishings inside the house were much more exquisite than the other rooms.

It didn't even look like a cell.

Xu Heng dipped his fingertip into the water in the teacup and wrote on the table, ”Although His Majesty has become a prisoner of war, this prisoner is still the ruler of a nation. If the two nations were to fight again in the future, his role would not be to be underestimated.”

He laughed and continued, ”The Emperor of the Northern Tribes is not stupid. Of course, we have to support him well.”

When he said those words, his expression was no different from normal. His expression was also normal, but for some reason, it was an inexplicable violation of the rules.

Luo Yi was startled, and the words that she wanted to say were like a blocked spring, he could not think of a single word. After a while, he could only stutter out her name: ”Xu Heng?”

”Hmm?” Xu Heng turned his head and saw Luo Yi's expression suddenly recall her excessive actions just now. A look of regret flashed across his face at the same time, but quickly disappeared: ”Are you still not going back?”

He smiled and winked at Luo Yi: ”If you had waited any longer, everyone in the general's estate would have known that you ran out of my room early in the morning with your clothes all messed up.”