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Chapter 3 Finding the Secret Path

Cuiyang Palace is located in the harem. It is an exquisite and elegant single-chamber building with green tiles and green walls, brackets and eaves. The roof is decorated with simple and rough rogue kisses. It is surrounded by tall red walls. The courtyard is paved with green bricks and surrounded by flowers and trees. The scenery is very good.

After arriving in Cuiyang Palace, two eunuchs in green robes and two palace maids in green palace costumes were waiting here, looking expectant.

When they saw Zhang Lin coming, they happily pressed the latter on the main seat of the main hall, then knelt in the hall, gave Zhang Lin a big gift and introduced themselves.

"Showman, we are the slaves sent to serve you. My name is Xiaowuzi." A young eunuch with a slightly obese figure said first, with a happy expression on his face, which looked like Maitreya Buddha, and he would laugh whenever he met.

"My name is Xiao Liuzi." Another eunuch with a slightly thin figure said. He is not old and looks less than twenty years old. His facial expression is a bit stiff, as if he is serious.

"My name is Hong'er." This palace maid is in her early twenties, has a goose face, fair skin, beautiful facial features, and a kind and friendly face.

"My name is Cui'er." Another palace maid is a little younger, with a melon-shaped face, willow-leaf eyebrows, and peach-blue eyes. She is more handsome, smarter and cute than Hong'er, and has a hot figure. The places where it should be protruding are convex and concave are concave. It can be said to be exquisite in curves and can be regarded as a very beautiful beauty.

Zhang Lin didn't understand why Wu Zetian arranged such handsome palace maids to serve in front of him. What does this mean? Since my identity is a showman or a candidate, I should arrange a short and ugly palace maid to serve in order to serve in order to let the white and beautiful palace maids serve in person. Isn't this tempting me to make a mistake? Wu Zetian is such a shrewd person, how could he not even think of this level?

Is she aged and confused?

Otherwise, she made an intention to make this arrangement, with the purpose of testing Xiu'an's character. If Xiu'an can't resist the temptation, get involved in the palace maid, and does something extraordinary, she will immediately lose the qualification to be a face-to-face leader? In this way, she will be returned and even released from the palace?

If Wu Zetian's intention is really like this, Zhang Lin could sacrifice his lust and have some ambiguous actions with the palace maids, so that the first qualification will be invalid immediately.

But such speculation is too naive, absurd and unreliable. Ordinary women are jealous and want to occupy the men they like alone; and Wu Zetian is the emperor who controls the life and death of life, how could she allow her men to do a stubborn behavior? If she does this, the consequences may be not ordinary cruel. With Zhang Lin's ten courage, he dared not try this easily.

Thinking of the possible bad consequences, Zhang Lin lost interest in these two beautiful palace maids, because to some extent, these two women are equivalent to human-shaped poisons.

"Okay, okay." Zhang Lin waved his hand and said impatiently.

"Please take a shower, please." The two palace maids bent down at Zhang Lin, bent down, stretched out their hands and drew an arc, pointed to a door hanging from the bead curtain on the side, and spoke respectfully.

"Yeah." Zhang Lin was really tired and needed to wash and rest before he could make further plans. He stood up from the seat, and the two palace maids lifted the pearl curtain halfway, and he stepped into the room behind the pearl curtain.

This is an extremely exquisite room. Against the wall are the walls, there are several Tang Sancai vases with flowers, and various exquisite furnishings. The ceiling is decorated with colorful flying murals. There is a wooden barrel made of nanmu in the middle of the floor of the room. The size of two adults can accommodate bathing at the same time. Water has been put in it. The water is steaming and rose-red flowers are floating on the water.

"You are all waiting outside." Zhang Lin was startled when he saw the palace maids and eunuchs coming in, so he quickly waved his hand to stop him. He was watched while taking a shower and felt uncomfortable.

"The servants are the ones who serve the handsome men!" the eunuch and the palace maid giggled.

"I don't like this, you all go out." Zhang Lin forced the eunuch and the palace maid out.

They went out, but the two palace maids were still waiting at the bathroom door, holding exquisite clothes and accessories with their hands carefully, and occasionally glanced at the bathroom through the bead curtains, as if they didn't want to miss Zhang Lin's every move.

"I said, can you stay away? I'm not used to being watched while taking a shower." Zhang Lin waved to the palace maid through the pearl curtain and issued an expulsion order directly.

"Showman, we promise not to look at you." The two palace maids said with a smile, without any intention of moving the place away.

"If you don't go away, I won't wash it." Zhang Lin said with a dark face.

"This..." The two palace maids looked at each other, and in desperation, they had to move outward one foot away. Their eyes were separated by the door wall, and they could only see a small area behind the pearl curtain.

Zhang Lin knew in his heart that this was enough. These people were not only sent to serve them, but also were ordered to monitor them. If they wanted to keep them a little further away, it would probably not be possible. At present, they could only let things go.

Temporarily leaving the eunuchs and palace maids' sight, Zhang Lin took action and looked for another exit in the bathroom. But he thought too much. There was only one door in the bathroom, the door that was strictly held by two eunuchs and two palace maids.

This is the bathroom, and there should be a sewer, which often leads to the outside of the palace. If he finds the sewer, he can get in and walk along with the bath water, and sneak out of the palace without knowing it... In that case, everything will not be fine!

Zhang Lin thought of this, and a glimmer of hope arose in his heart and searched carefully under the wooden barrel. He found that there was a groove five inches wide and deep on the ground next to the wooden barrel. There were tiles on the grooves, extending all the way to the side of the wall, and a small hole was made at the base of the wall, which led to the outside of the wall.

Under the ditch! Zhang Lin's eyes lit up suddenly, as if he had seen a way out.

However, Zhang Lin was soon disappointed because the drain hole opened at the base of the wall was only seven inches in size, and even a puppy couldn't get out, let alone him, a man who was more than 100 pounds.

Zhang Lin was not discouraged and continued to find a new way out. He half-squatted and lay on the ground, and gently tapped the floor tiles with his knuckles, trying to see if there was an empty layer under the floor. He fantasized about finding the empty layer under the floor tiles. After moving the floor tiles, the entrance of the underground secret passage miraculously appeared, and the underground secret passage led to the palace.

The palaces in the TV series have secret passages, which lead directly from the palace to the outside of the palace and even outside the city. When a palace coup occurs, it is convenient for the emperor to escape quickly. According to this reasoning, the real palace must have built similar underground secret passages.

But he was disappointed again. He knocked almost all the floor of the bathroom without finding any holes.

However, the underground secret passage is a top-level secret. If there is any, most people will definitely not know it. Moreover, the entrance will be set up in extremely critical places such as Qianqing Palace or Kunning Palace, and will not be opened in insignificant places like Cuiyang Palace.

Zhang Lin understood that the possibility of discovering the entrance to the underground secret passage in Cuiyang Palace was slim, but in a desperate situation, he did not give up on his efforts to find the entrance to the underground secret passage as he would not give up any chance of escaping.

The palace maids waiting outside the bathroom heard the strange knocking sound coming from the bathroom in their ears. They couldn't help but look at each other, and saw suspicious expressions from each other's eyes.

"Xiangnu, what are you doing?" Hong'er couldn't help but ask.
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