After eating several pieces of sweet-scented osmanthus cake one bite at a time, Lu Qi burped and wanted more, but Su Mumu flatly refused.

Seeing Lu Qi's disappointed expression, Ji Ying couldn't bear it and discussed it.

"Queen, please give me another piece."

Holding the sweet-scented osmanthus cake in her hand, Su Mumu hesitated and did not move, fearing that Lu Qi would hurt her spleen and stomach.

"Thank you, ma'am!"

Lu Qi, who was so hungry that she finally managed to eat, felt like her stomach dropped to the bottom. Even after eating a few pieces of cake, she was still so hungry that her chest pressed against her back. Seeing Su Mumu's hesitation, she quickly took the cake from Su Mumu's hand and started to put it in her mouth.

Rise.

Unexpectedly, Ji Ying next to him understood Su Mumu's worries. When he saw Lu Qi taking the cake and stuffing it into his mouth, he reached out anxiously, grabbed the cake and stuffed it into his mouth.

Lu Qi looked at Ji Ying in despair. With his mouth like a pulverizer, he chewed up a whole piece of pastry and swallowed it in one go. There was no room for maneuver at all, and the sweet pastry just disappeared.

Lu Qi, who was so angry that she had no strength, had to turn around and ask Su Mumu for help. Unfortunately, Su Mumu, who had learned a lesson, saw Lu Qi turning to ask for help, and hurriedly tightened her backpack and refused to take out another piece of dry food.

"Jiying, you've gone too far!"

Lu Qi, who had eaten rat meat for several days, had a grimace on her face and protested to Ji Ying, who kept mumbling about how delicious it was.

"Lu Qi, your Majesty and I are all doing this for your own good. Don't be ignorant of what is good and what is evil."

After taking off the water bag from his waist and taking a few sips, Ji Ying felt full and raised his eyebrows at Lu Qi, who was glaring at him.

Seeing that Lu Qi had gained some energy, Su Mumu asked Lu Qi to sit down first and asked seriously.

"Lu Qi, I have a few things to ask you..."

Knowing that Su Mumu had something serious to say, Lu Qi also calmed down and just waited for Su Mumu to ask questions.

Ji Ying on the side stopped arguing with Lu Qi and sat down quietly.

"Lu Qi, let me ask you. Where did you and the emperor discover that I was going to Lake Liao?"

She gained strength and her mind became clearer. Lu Qi tilted her head and thought about it.

"I just walked out of the Yamen, not far from the teahouse, probably near the rouge shop at Sanchakou."

Su Mumu didn't care about the rouge shop at that time, but she remembered that there was indeed a three-way intersection.

"Do you remember how I left the funeral procession?"

When Su Mumu asked this question, Lu Qi was stunned for a moment. In Lu Qi's memory, it was not so much seeing Su Mumu leaving, but rather the impression that Su Mumu left.

"I do not remember……"

It seems that the problem lies here. After thinking about it, Su Mumu asked again.

"Before I left, did you see any strange people, touch anything special, or smell any strange smell?"

Lu Qi listened and denied each item one by one.

"nothing……"

Glancing at Nan Muchen sleeping in the crystal, Su Mumu was a little puzzled. How could Nan Muchen be so stupid as to be fooled? In fact, how could Su Mumu know that as long as it involved her, Su Mumu, Nan Muchen would be obsessed with it.

Extricate yourself.

"Since there are none, this is strange."

While the three of them were contemplating, the shadow guards who were looking around came back to report. Except for the stone sculpture found in the north corner of the hall to ward off evil spirits, there was a strange bulge on it; and a hidden groove on the front wall.

Nothing found.

When he heard the shadow guard reporting the stone carvings found in the north of the hall to ward off evil spirits, Lu Qi, who was deep in thought, waved his hands repeatedly.

"Don't mention that evil-resisting thing. It's really evil. The day before yesterday, I accidentally discovered the bulge on the evil-resisting body. I just twisted it a few times. Unexpectedly, the crystal where the emperor was sitting suddenly grew and drilled out.

When I reached the main hall, I didn’t know where I was going. I was so frightened that I twisted around again and then fell down again.”

After Lu Qi finished speaking, he looked up at the dome of the hall with some fear.

"Oh, I heard that a large crystal pillar rising from Lake Liao is actually your masterpiece."

Being a little embarrassed by what Su Mumu said, Lu Qi laughed twice.

"It's better not to mention this matter. However, I have never discovered the hidden grooves on the front wall. Otherwise, we should go over and have a look."

The shadow guard who discovered the groove heard this and immediately led everyone closer.

With the light emitted by the crystal, it was much easier for everyone to see things. But when they got closer to the wall, they found nothing.

"Where's the groove?"

Su Mumu looked closer and saw that the wall was only slightly uneven, with no grooves to speak of.

It was difficult for the shadow guard to explain, so he could only demonstrate. He put his head against the wall, closed one eye and pointed at a brick in front of him.

"Look at a large area and find the groove in the middle."

Following the example, when the shadow guard left the wall, Su Mumu stuck to it and looked according to the shadow guard's method. Indeed, there was a groove as big as a fist on the wall.

"really have!"

Ji Ying and Lu Qi also followed up to take a look, and stood together to start studying.

"I think it doesn't matter whether this groove is a mechanism or not, it's better not to move it. Last time, Guard Lu just raised the crystal where the emperor was, which was lucky. But if the mechanism is touched this time, in case of injury,

Your Majesty, it will be too late to regret it."

Lu Qi, who strongly agreed with Ji Ying, nodded heavily.

"That's true. Fortunately, the crystal fell back safely at that time. Otherwise, I would have committed suicide on the spot to apologize."

After Lu Qi finished speaking, he turned to look at Nan Muchen in the crystal, with both guilt and happiness in his eyes.

"Look, does this groove look like a mark?" Su Mumu also realized that she didn't speak very clearly, and hurriedly gestured with her hands. "If this wall is a dough, I press my fist on the dough, and then

When I picked it up, there were fist marks on it. Do you think it looks like it?"

After Su Mumu made gestures and explanations, everyone came up to look at it, and they all commented that it looked like it.

Based on the shape of the groove, everyone inferred that it should be something like a shield, except that there was a fist-sized protrusion in the middle.

Ji Ying ordered, "Go find him immediately."

The shadow guards were ordered to disperse, and a carpet-like search began throughout the city.

The search was extremely detailed this time. Su Mumu was so hungry that she couldn't hold on any longer. She found some dry food from her backpack to eat. Remembering that Lu Qi had not eaten for a long time, she also took a portion and handed it to him.

Lu Qi and Ji Ying still insisted on not eating, but Su Mumu couldn't hold on. When she was about to put the dry food back into her backpack, Lu Qi, who had already finished eating, took it away.

"Queen, if he doesn't eat, I will."

Before Ji Ying came over to grab them, Lu Qi took the dry food and took a bite one by one.
Chapter completed!