After traveling through time, I thrived in ancient times

Chapter 361: Searching for a Place to Store Food

After Song Shixu walked away, Shen Chenli's brows were still furrowed, and he looked at the boxes of things with an unpleasant expression.

"Ajin?"

Seeing him suddenly like this, Yu Tingwan looked at the box in confusion. Was there something else?

"what happened?"

Hearing Yu Tingwan calling him, Shen Chenli's expression eased slightly, and he waved at General An Yuan and said, "Be gentle. Also, ask the butler to take us to the mountain where the things are hidden tomorrow."

General An Yuan responded and went to prepare. At this time, Shen Chenli looked at Yu Tingwan and said thoughtfully:

"Like you said, it's very strange that this thing we saw appeared in this place. I originally thought that someone bribed him, but when I took it in my hand and saw those Dongzhu, I realized something was wrong."

As he spoke, Shen Chenli took out a headdress from inside, which had a flying bird holding a jeweled phoenix hairpin, and then handed it to Yu Tingwan to look at.

"This Dongzhu is only produced in the southern coastal areas, and most of it is in the hands of the Nanliang people. The ones produced by Dasheng are basically tributed to the royal family. So, it is really suspicious that he has so many in his hands!"

Yu Tingwan reached out to take the phoenix hairpin, and immediately understood what Shen Chenli was worried about.

"So, you suspect he made a deal with the Nanliang people?"

"We need to check whether there is any transaction!"

Early the next morning, Shen Chenli and Yu Tingwan got up and went to the county magistrate's mansion, where they saw a group of people standing at the door, each of them holding stones, branches, and some feces-like substances and throwing them into the mansion.

The two looked at each other in confusion, and went forward to check, and saw the former steward of the county magistrate's office standing at the door of the county magistrate's office, tied up with shackles and shackles by the soldiers.

Now the steward was wearing prisoner clothes, which were covered in dirt and had some scratches from stones and branches, making him look very disheveled.

"What's going on here?"

Yu Tingwan asked a middle-aged man standing next to him, and he looked at them and said indignantly:

"You two must have come from somewhere else, right? You don't know that this man is the steward of the former county governor here. That county governor has done many evil things and he is not a good guy. This time he said that he would send our daughters to the county governor for selection, and he must have instigated it!"

Now Yu Tingwan understood what was going on.

Snakes and rats flock together, it's true.

The soldiers outside the county magistrate's mansion saw the two of them and hurried over to invite them over.

"Your Highness, Princess, this guy confessed everything. He said the things were in the mountains thirty miles outside the city, and..."

Yu Tingwan and the others turned to look at him, and saw that he said with a serious expression: "It seems that there is more than just food and fodder."

The two looked at each other and thought of their speculations yesterday.

Shen Chenli looked at the shifty man and said coldly:

"Walk."

Upon hearing this, the surrounding soldiers immediately lined up and left, led by General An Yuan, heading out of the city.

After they walked away, the crowd that had suddenly become silent became lively again.

Everyone looked at the direction they left with burning eyes.

"Prince and Princess? Is it Prince and Princess?"

"Hehe, the princess spoke to me, hahahaha, the princess spoke to me!"

The man who was asked questions by Yu Tingwan just now was very excited. He didn't expect that he could talk to the princess!

Suddenly, the man's face changed, and he immediately began to think about whether there was anything wrong with his words just now, which made the prince and princess have a bad impression of him!

He breathed a sigh of relief when he didn't notice any problems, and then rushed home under everyone's envious gazes.

He had to go home quickly to tell his child's mother that he had spoken to the princess. He had an extraordinary mouth!

Here, after leaving the city gate, everyone headed in the direction the steward pointed.

Because of winter, the mountains became bare and snow covered most of the mountain roads, making their way up the mountain extremely difficult.

By the time we finally arrived at the place, the sun was already at its highest point.

Yu Tingwan glanced at the sun above his head. Although the sun was quite comfortable, the mountain road here was indeed difficult to walk on. How long would they have to walk?

"Are you there?"

“It’s almost there!”

Hearing Yu Tingwan's question, the butler responded quickly, fearing that he would be killed by them if he was a second late.

After turning another road, a patch of tall bushes appeared in front of them. The butler fumbled on the ground for a while, and suddenly he disappeared.

Everyone was startled and rushed over to check. A soldier suddenly looked up and shouted to Yu Tingwan and the other two:

"My Lord and Princess, there is a hole here and he fell in."

Yu Tingwan and the other person walked forward and found that, as expected, there was a secret circular entrance hidden in the bushes. There was a slope leading down and they didn't know how deep it was inside.

"Go down."

The soldiers jumped down one after another, and after Yu Tingwan and Shen Chenli went down, they found that there was a very deep tunnel inside.

The group of soldiers in front had already pinned the person in charge to the ground.

"My Lord and Princess, he just tried to run away."

Yu Tingwan walked to the side of the steward, looked up at the walls around him, and narrowed his eyes slightly.

“Is this a mausoleum?”

After hearing this, everyone looked around and found that it was indeed the case. It looked so neatly built and did not look like a place to store grain.

General An Yuan glared at the steward who was pinned to the ground and said:

"Tell me, what on earth is this place?"

The steward begged for mercy with a timid look in his eyes: "Your Majesty, Princess, and all the generals, this is really where Liu Mian stored his food and grass. However, this is also a mausoleum, which looks like the tomb of a great man in the previous dynasty. Liu Mian thought that this place would be a good place to prevent thieves from coveting his food and grass, so he placed the food and grass here."

After saying this, Yu Tingwan raised the corners of his lips and said faintly:

"So, you are planning to use the mechanism in the tomb passage to kill us?"

"No, no, I absolutely don't dare to have such an idea!"

As soon as Yu Tingwan said this, the manager immediately began to deny her statement, but no matter how he explained, no one believed him.

Everyone observed the situation in the tomb passage. There seemed to be no information at the moment, and everyone couldn't help but look at the manager again.

The manager instantly understood what Yu Tingwan and others meant and started shouting immediately.

"I really have never been in there. Liu Mian only asked me to guard there every time. I really have never been in there!"

"You're lying. If you've never been in there, how do you know where the mechanism is?"

Yu Tingwan pointed to the wall in front of him on the left. There was an oil lamp there, but it was out and the light was dim, so it was not very clear.

"Since we came down here, you've looked at that place more than once. So, is this a mechanism? Or something else?"

In an instant, the person in charge just wanted to dig out his own eyeballs. Why was he shaking around for no reason?