Su Yueming breathed a sigh of relief. Her heartbeat was so fast just now that she couldn't control it at all.
I don't know if it's because of the fear after escaping death, or because of this sudden approach.
Su Yueming's eyes flickered for a moment, and then she continued to search. This time she didn't wait long. After walking around, she suddenly pointed to a place in the corner and exclaimed -
"Look, there's a hole here."
After hearing this, the old lady hurriedly came over with a cane, and Mrs. Liu and Su Ying supported her tightly.
Everyone also followed the direction of Su Yueming's finger and walked over. When they stretched their heads and took a look, sure enough, there was a cave as big as a bowl on the ground.
Su Yueming said in confusion——
"This is the room that Third Yiniang prepared for me in Yiluo Garden. It was fine before and there was nothing unusual about it. There wasn't even a mouse hole. How could there be a hole now?"
Su Buqing thought for a moment and then ordered: "Come here, dig the hole bigger and see if there is anything inside."
"Yes." The two servants immediately brought iron catalpas and dug the hole they found even bigger.
"Go down and take a look." Su Buqing ordered again.
One of the servants, Ding Qiuhu, dropped the iron catalpa, jumped into the hole, stuck his head and looked down.
Everyone stood outside waiting with bated breath. Su Yueming glanced at the eldest lady. She always maintained that calm, calm and even expectant expression on her face.
Why can she be so calm?
"How?" Su Yueming asked loudly from above.
"Sir, Third Miss, this turns out to be a tunnel." Qiu Hu's voice came from under the tunnel.
"Tunnel?" After hearing this, the old lady said with a serious look on her face and her brows knitted together, "This Prime Minister's Mansion was awarded by the Emperor to the meritorious old Ling Gong. How can there be a tunnel underground in Yiluo Garden?"
Everyone approached the cave entrance with full of doubts, and sure enough, there was a feeling that there was no end to the cave entrance.
"Qiu Hu, come up." Su Yueming shouted again. After a while, Qiu Hu climbed up, his body covered with dirty yellow mud.
Su Buqing asked, "What are the details of the tunnel?"
"Sir, it can accommodate about one person." Qiu Hu replied, flicking the dirt off his body. "In addition, I also found a dead rat that had been burned by fire at the entrance of the cave. It had been scorched."
He placed a mouse that was burned into black coals in the palm of his hand and presented it in front of everyone.
Su Yueming came closer, smelled it with his nose, and said, "This mouse also smells of oil. It seems that oil was poured on this mouse before it died."
"Was oil poured on it?" Su Buqing also took a sniff, and sure enough, there was a choking smell of oil, which was similar to the smell in the flower pond just now.
There is oil in the pool and there is oil on the mice. This thing is becoming more and more clever, and it increasingly indicates that the fire in Yiluo Garden was deliberately caused by someone.
Murong Canghai twisted the dirt on Qiu Hu's clothes with his fingers and put it between his fingers——
"There is a tunnel under the Yiluo Garden for no apparent reason. I took a look and found that the mud on Qiu Hu's body was new mud. From this, we can conclude that this tunnel was not there when the house was built, but was dug not long ago. It is necessary to
If you want to know the truth, this tunnel is the key, and this rat is probably the direct murderer of the arson."
Su Yueming continued Murong Canghai's words and said——
"What King Beiyuan said makes sense. To find the real culprit, I'm afraid we have to see where the other end of the tunnel leads.