Chapter 296: False Wall Secret Passage

Chapter 296: False Wall Secret Passage

Chapter 296: False Wall Secret Passage
"This is the atrium. There are five rooms in the front, including the main hall and two guest rooms. There is also a living room and dining room. The small courtyard next to it is the study."

Xiao Xia introduced them enthusiastically in front, while Cui Yu walked slowly and gracefully with her hands behind her back, pursing her lips slightly, with a smile on her lips and eyebrows.

Housekeeper Liu and a few maids stood in the distance. They all knew in their hearts that this person was most likely the future mistress.

“This date tree is great!”

Cui Yu looked up at the jujube tree. She is from the north and has a special feeling for red dates.

"You are right. This jujube tree was transplanted from Weiyang Palace. It is at least a hundred years old. It is the eye of this house. Everyone who comes here will praise this jujube tree. The jujubes are especially good. They are big and delicious."

"It's not enough to just praise you, where are the dates?" Cui Yu asked with a smile.

"Yes! I saved quite a few for this purpose."

Cui Yu was not very interested in the courtyard. She was more concerned about the backyard. After passing through the round gate, a long alley appeared in front of her. At the end was a white wall. In front of the wall was a wintersweet. The wintersweet was in full bloom at this time, and Cui Yu could smell a faint fragrance.

"Do you see anything special about that wall?"

Cui Yu looked at it for a while and shook his head. "It's a very normal wall!"

"Let me tell you, this wall was built just a month ago. Behind this wall there is another wall, which is the wall surrounding the metropolitan city. I separated it into a small patio six feet wide."

"What does this small patio mean?" Cui Yu asked puzzledly.

"You come with me!"

Xiao Xia smiled mysteriously, "I'll show you a secret."

Cui Yu was immediately intrigued and followed Xiao Xia into the inner house. The inner house garden was still a lawn, and what to do specifically would be decided by the hostess.

But there was an extra large Taihu stone, which was more than ten feet high and huge in size. It stood next to the end of the alley and was placed in the corner. Behind it was the extra small space.

Xiao Xia took Cui Yu's hand and came to the Taihu stone. The Taihu stone itself had many holes, but this piece of Taihu stone was very large, so the hole was also big, and one could get in by bending over.

"Ah! It's empty."

Cui Yu crawled into the Taihu stone, looked around and said with a smile: "Children may like to play hide-and-seek here. Xia Lang, where is the secret you are talking about?"

"The secret is behind you!"

Cui Yu turned around and saw a wall behind her, nothing there!
Xiao Xia smiled, walked forward and slowly pushed the wall. Suddenly a crack appeared on the wall. Slowly, the crack became bigger and turned into a passage.

“There is a small patio behind us!” Cui Yu suddenly reacted.

Xiao Xia smiled and nodded, "Come and take a look!"

Cui Yu took Xiao Xia's hand and followed him through the gap.

It was indeed a small patio six feet square, with the wall behind the wintersweet on one side and the high wall of the city on the other.

Cui Yu's eyes suddenly widened. There was actually a door on the high wall of the city.

Xiao Xia took out the key, opened the door, and said with a smile: "Go out and you will be in the city!"

Cui Yu was very smart. She covered her mouth immediately. The fake wall, the secret door inside the Taihu stone, and the small patio, this was a secret escape route!
Xiao Xia pulled her into the house, which was a long stone house made of bluestone. Although the light was dim, an iron door could still be clearly seen on the opposite side.

"I know. There's a cloth shop outside. Go out through the iron gate and you'll be in the cloth shop. Then run into the metropolitan city and no ghost will be able to find you!"

Xiao Xia laughed, "You're right. In fact, everyone would think so, including the pursuers behind us!"

"Isn't it?" Cui Yu heard the hidden meaning in his words.

Xiao Xia smiled, took a few steps, and pushed gently. Suddenly, a secret door appeared on the left wall. Cui Yu was stunned for a moment.

Back in the courtyard, Cui Yu still hadn't figured out that going to the Metropolitan City was fake, a bait to make everyone think that they had escaped into the Metropolitan City.

But in fact, the secret door next to it was the real one. After passing through a long secret passage, one actually came out of a private house in Xuanyangfang next door.

This long secret passage is actually a part of the warehouse. A false wall was rebuilt in the warehouse and pushed forward to leave a three-foot space for the secret passage. Broken tables and chairs and other sundries were piled in front of the false wall so that no one could tell that it was the same as the false wall in front of the small patio.

This was actually something Xiao Xia got inspiration from the underground warehouse of Zhentian Martial Arts School, and he built a fake wall as a means of deception.

The two-acre residential house in Xuanrenfang was also bought by Xiao Xia. It was actually Xiao Xia’s neighbor to the north.

Cui Yu suddenly thought of a question, "How many people know about this secret passage now?" Xiao Xia smiled and said, "Only three people know about it now, and you are the fourth one!"

Needless to say, Cui Yu also knew the second and third persons. She felt a little jealous and pouted her lips and said, "I should be the second one!"

Xiao Xia smiled and pinched her cheek, "The second and third ones are the craftsmen who built the secret passage. Of course they knew it before you?"

"Ah!" Cui Yu's pretty face flushed, and she asked in a low voice, "Don't they know?"

Xiao Xia shook her head. "I said during those days that I wanted to renovate the back door and install Taihu stones, so they went to stay in the East Courtyard for two days."

"So when should we tell them?"

"Later today! I must let you know first before I tell them."

Cui Yu was moved. She hugged her lover's neck and kissed him actively.

Cui Mei came running over. She found a very novel thing in Xiao Xia's study, a wooden tube about a foot long. Xiao Qing taught her how to use it once. The thing that was more than ten feet long was right in front of her. She felt like she had discovered a new world and danced with excitement.

What she discovered was called a clairvoyance, which Xiao Xia made using a convex lens and a concave lens, the lenses of which were ground from high-purity crystal.

But it was not Xiao Xia who found the lenses. He found them in a box of jewelry that Yang Lihua gave him. Convex lenses and concave lenses have existed as early as the Han Dynasty and have always been royal toys.

But it was the first time to assemble them into a telescope. Xiao Xia had never done it before, but he knew the principle and succeeded after a few tries.

Cui Mei ran to Xiao Xia and begged, "Good brother, good brother-in-law, please give me this clairvoyance!"

Cui Yu didn't know what to say and just rolled his eyes.

Xiao Xia touched her head and said with a smile: "You can play with me, but this thing will bring you fatal disaster, I can't give it to you."

"why?"

"Think about it, if we have this on the battlefield, wouldn't we know all the enemy's deployments?"

Cui Mei was stunned for a moment, "Yes!"

"So if this thing gets out and people know about it, someone will definitely come to arrest you, and they may even be the Hu people from the grassland. At that time, your life will be in danger."

Cui Mei also realized the seriousness of the problem, so she stopped asking for it, but she was still a little unwilling and said, "You have to give it to me to play with when we watch the lanterns on Lantern Festival night!"

"Sure!" Xiao Xia agreed happily.

At noon, Xiao Xia brought a few women to Baiyutang of Wencui Restaurant in Pingkangfang for lunch. Xiaoqing and Achu were also brought along. Their task was to accompany Cui Mei to visit the cosmetics shops in Pingkangfang after lunch, leaving Xiao Xia and Cui Yu with some private space.

"Xiaoqing, are your parents still in Prince Jin's Mansion?" Cui Yu found a chance and asked Xiaoqing with a smile.

Xiao Qing said respectfully, "They have been released as civilians. My father is now the shopkeeper of the cloth shop in the metropolitan city opposite the house. My brother is currently training in a martial arts hall and may go into freight in the future."

"How old is your brother?"

"Twenty years old!"

"Are you married?"

Xiaoqing didn't know why Miss Cui asked this question, but she still shook her head obediently.

"Then find a chance to talk to your son and ask him to stop working in freight transport. Working in freight transport means running around all day and he won't be able to start a family."

"what!"

Xiaoqing didn't expect Miss Cui to be so thoughtful. Come to think of it, it makes sense. Running a freight business really means she can't take care of her family. The most important thing for her brother is to get married and have children first.

"I'll find a chance to tell you about it, thanks for the reminder!"

"I'll give you a gift during the Lantern Festival."

Cui Yu still likes Xiaoqing very much. She is an honest person with no ulterior motives and most importantly, she has no ambitions and is a well-behaved concubine.

At this time, Cui Yu especially needs to win over Xiaoqing and ask her to keep an eye on Xia Lang for him, so that he will not be seduced away by Yuan Lin, He Ruoqing and the like again.

(End of this chapter)