Because of Yan Ling’s intervention, their “quarrel” is pressed down. Yan Ling thinks they should go to Hong’ye room to see if they could find any other clue, so they say goodbye to Mu Qingqiu.
It turned out that they shouldn’t have blamed Liang He’s men to be incompetent. They have predicted that there must be a secret passage in her room, which is the reason why Hong’ye could have escaped. But they themselves found nothing after exploring the room for a long time.
“Could she, such a huge living person, have flown away with wings?” Yan Ling murmurs to herself.
Witnessing such an occasion, Liang He could not help frowning, too. Of course, Yan Ling was just joking, but the fact is that they have found nothing after searching around the room.
Liang He has scrutinized all the furnishing in the room. He also touched and examined all the movable vases and porcelain, but he still didn’t find out where the tunnel is.
After a while, Liang He stops searching blindly. Instead, he begins to think whether he has neglected something. There is nothing wrong with the idea, but he still can’t figure out what has been missed in a hurry.
Yan Ling’s body is weak and she has just recovered from typhoid fever. In addition, the banquet on the previous day is tiring for both her mind and body, coupled with today’s several travels, Yan Ling is exhausted now and almost falls onto the floor.
While watching Liang He searching the room, Yan Ling puts her hand on the bed railing to catch her breath. After a while, seeing that he still discovers nothing, she sighs helplessly and sits on Hong’ye bed heavily.
Maybe just because Yan Ling throws herself on the bed, she makes a loud noise. Liang He immediately looks over, which makes Yan Ling feel quite embarrassed. Just when she is about to say something, she finds Liang He looking at her rather seriously.
Yan Ling is confused and feels a little creepy. Liang He slowly walks over, but doesn’t say a word.
“What’s the matter?” Yan Ling asks wonderingly and her body twists uneasily.
Liang He now realizes that his facial expressions have frightened Yan Ling.
“Nothing. Stand up and let me have a look.” Seeing Yan Ling, though rather nervous, still trying to stay calm, Liang He cannot help curling up the corners of his mouth.
“Well, OK…” Yan Ling stands up obediently. Liang He’s contrasting reactions do make her even more bewildered.
After Yan Ling stands up, Liang He doesn’t say much, but approaches Hong’ye bed and knocks at it, which emits the same light noise.
Yan Ling suddenly understands that there seems to be a tunnel here. Then, Yan Ling vaguely remembers that she has seen this tunnel in her previous life.
After a brief flashback, Yan Ling looks up again and observes the furnishing in the room carefully as well as the location of this room in Imperial Censor Bai’s Mansion. Then Yan Ling finally confirms that this tunnel is the one she has been to in her previous life.
Back then, she needed to send messages about Liang He to Liang Yi, but Yan Ling couldn’t go directly to Liang Yi because of her identity. In addition, the Bai family supported the Third Prince, so the Bai Mansion became a message transfer station. If Yan Ling had some important information, she would come directly to the Bai Mansion.
Even then when Yan Ling came to the Bai Mansion, she was carefully dressed as an ordinary maid, therefore for a long time, quite few people knew about it. Even Yan Ling herself didn’t know who she was in contact with.
Every time Yan Ling came, someone would take her to a room where a person with a black veiled hat, which blurred the face behind it, was waiting for her. Yan Ling usually wrote the information down on paper and gave it to that person directly when she got into the room. Even if there were a few conversations, that person would deliberately lower the voice so that Yan Ling couldn’t tell whether it was a man or a woman.
But Yan Ling noticed the furnishing in the room, which looked like a woman’s room
Yan Ling had the chance to enter the tunnel only because of an accident. Once when she was handing over the information, someone knocked at the door. In a hurry, the person opened the tunnel on the bed and let Yan Ling leave through it.
Was the person who transmitted information with her in the previous life Hong’ye? As soon as Yan Ling has such an idea in her mind, she denies herself because their figures don’t look similar.
Because Yan Ling had ever left from the tunnel, she knows that the exit to the tunnel is in a common residential house with nothing special.
Yan Ling can vaguely remember this tunnel after so long entirely because of her curiosity. There were many things about this secret tunnel that Yan Ling didn’t understand.
For example, Yan Ling could not understand why the Bais secretly built this secret passage. Because the tunnel is so narrow in most places that it allows only one person to go through and it is definitely not for transporting things.
But it was too troublesome to build a tunnel if it was aimed just for people to get out of the Bai Mansion through it. Moreover, Yan Ling also wondered when and who built this tunnel and how many people knew about it.
Things that she didn’t figure out in her previous life still perplex her, which indeed makes her feel uncomfortable, so Yan Ling cannot help frowning.
“Are you OK? What are you thinking about?” seeing that Yan Ling seems to think of something and frowns, Liang He asks curiously.
“No, nothing…” Yan Ling suddenly realizes that she has been distracted for a long time and can’t help feeling nervous. Even if she is so intimate to Liang He, she still feels that there is something that she shouldn’t tell him.
“It sounds strange. Isn’t it…?” Yan Ling pretends to be surprised.
No wonder he didn’t find the tunnel after searching for so long. It’s under Hong’ye’s bed. As an adult man, Liang He couldn’t have searched a girl’s bed when he first got here. Therefore, he missed the chance to find out the truth.
If it was not for Yan Ling’s accidental discovery, Liang He might still need a longer time to locate it. Yan Ling did hit the mark by a fluke.
“Here it is!” While Yan Ling says, she tries to remove the bedding, but is stopped by Liang He.
“What’s wrong?” Yan Ling looks at Liang He questioningly and wonders if her speculation is wrong.
Liang He sighs helplessly and says dotingly, “It’s still unknown now. Hong’ye is good at medicine. Don’t be so close to it. Step back.”
Liang He let Yan Ling hide behind him, and then plans to do the same thing as Yan Ling wanted to do. However, coincidentally, Yan Ling also stops Liang He.
Liang He is afraid that Yan Ling may be hurt. With the same consideration, how can Yan Ling let Liang He take the risk when she knows that there might be some danger?
“Don’t worry. I’m OK. She doesn’t know Kongfu and must have been away for a long time. I won’t be hurt by her little tricks.” Seeing Yan Ling’s worried face, Liang He knows what she is thinking of and quickly comforts her.
Well then. Take care…” Although Yan Ling is still hesitant, she chooses to believe in Liang He.
Yan Ling knows that she can’t help here now. If something happens to her and worries Liang He, she will cause him additional trouble.
So Yan Ling obediently takes a few steps back, but stares at Liang He without blinking. Anyway, it’s impossible for her not to worry.
Seeing Yan Ling step back, Liang He has no worries and removes the bedding directly. A small secret door comes into view as expected.
Liang He’s actions seem to be casual, but he is extra careful. Until finally the passage entrance is opened and nothing happens, Yan Ling slowly lets out a sigh of relief.
Yan Ling steps forward to have a look. It’s dark in the tunnel and she cannot see anything in there. But this is the only one passage in this room that they can find.
Of course a living person cannot disappear in thin air. So this is must be the only way out.
“Ling’er, you stand here and wait. I’ll get down to light the candle and see what’s like down there.” Liang He looks at it and says decisively.
Seeing that nothing needs to worry about, Yan Ling nods her head obediently and tells him, “Be extra careful. Don’t touch the things down there. You know, Hong’ye is good at medicine. ”
When they first arrived at the Imperial Censor Bai’s Mansion, Yan Ling had asked someone and it turned out that Hong’ye knows about medicine as they expected. But they were not clear how good she was at it.
“I know. Don’t worry.” Liang He nods and then turns to get down the tunnel.
Maybe this tunnel was built specially for women. The entrance is very narrow. If it was not Liang He who is very slender, he might get stuck at the entrance.
“Are you OK inside?” Yan Ling doesn’t know why, but she feels a little uneasy in her heart and asks subconsciously.
“I’m OK. It’s just dark. Here’s the flint. I’ll light the candle.” Liang He’s voice comes out of the tunnel, which sounds muffled and unclear.
Usually if Liang He says he’s OK, Yan Ling will feel settled. But this time, Yan Ling can’t feel so. She only feels upset and a complex but unclear feeling fills her heart.
Liang He has been moving with great care since he entered the tunnel. Although he is sure that Hong’ye did not have Kongfu, it will never be too careful down in such a place.