I thought His Highness knew about it."

"I just speculated that there is such a thing..." At this point, Zhao Hongrun looked at Zhao Que in surprise and asked: "Quier, do you know?"

Zhao Que did not disappoint Zhao Hongrun. She nodded and said with a chuckle: "In the past, when my sister (Zhao Ying) and I went back and forth to visit my adoptive father, we would come in and out through this secret passage." After that, she led Zhao Hongrun and the others.

People came to Zhao Yuanli's study.

Seeing that there was no one else in the room, Zhao Que walked to the two bookcases in the room and pushed a book on top of the left bookcase inward. For a moment, he heard a few clicks. These two bookcases were taller than a person.

, actually slowly moved to both sides, revealing the wall behind it.

"?"

Zhao Hongrun looked at Zhao Que doubtfully.

Zhao Que smiled slightly and pushed the wall with both hands. Zhao Hongrun was shocked to see that the wall turned out to be a movable stone door. No, when Zhao Que pushed it, the green bricks on the stone door were in contact with the adjacent green bricks.

The bricks gradually separated.

Finally, a dark downward passage appeared in front of everyone.

Different from the "so awesome" expressions on other people's faces, Zhao Hongrun said in surprise: "The mechanism technique of Lu State?"

"It was not like this originally. This was changed later. For this reason, my adoptive father specially invited a good mechanical master from the Lu State to come and help." Zhao Que explained.

After a while, the Green Crows prepared torches for lighting, and the group carefully followed Zhao Que and entered the secret passage one by one.

After Zhao Que closed the stone door from inside the secret passage, he heard a faint clicking sound. After Zhao Que explained it, everyone realized that this was the sound of the two bookcases outside the secret passage reuniting.

Witnessing this incredible mechanism technique with his own eyes, Zhao Hongrun was amazed. If the timing hadn't been right, he would have really wanted to study this product of the Lu State's mechanism technique.

He had to admit that Wei State had gradually caught up with Lu State's craftsmanship in terms of military technology, but Wei State had almost no background in this magical mechanism technique.

This secret passage is very long, and the passage is made of blue bricks. Due to ventilation problems, the secret passage feels a bit stuffy, but it is bearable.

Under the leadership of Zhao Que, Zhao Hongrun and others walked in the secret passage for about half an hour, and finally arrived at the exit mentioned by Zhao Que.

When Zhao Hongrun stepped onto the steps leading to the ground and walked out of the secret passage, he realized that he was in a dilapidated debris warehouse. The dilapidated warehouse was filled with messy farm tools and wooden barrels.

According to Zhao Que's explanation, this warehouse is located among many farmlands outside Daliang City. There is a large area of ​​farmland around it, which is the family property of Sixth Uncle Zhao Yuanli. It is only rented out to nearby people for farming all year round. As for the rent, I can only remember it.

Go and collect it, Zhao Yuanli doesn’t care about the land rent anyway.

"Your Highness, what should we do now?" Wei Jiao, the chief of Zong Wei asked.

Zhao Hongrun glanced at his group of dozens of people, and after a moment of reflection, he said in a deep voice: "Go to Xiangfu Port and grab the boat back to Shangshui!"

"yes!"

About an hour later, Zhao Hongrun and his party quietly arrived at Xiangfu Port.

Xiangfu Port was once an extremely important Cao Canal port in the Daliang area, but now that the Bolangsha River Port has gradually grown in size, the status of this river port has inevitably been slightly affected, but no matter what, the household is still berthed here.

There were many ships used for transportation. As long as Zhao Hongrun and his team sneaked into them, grabbed a ship and sailed down the river, they could reach Shangshui in less than three days. This was much faster than traveling by land on horseback.

I don’t know if it was God’s help, but there were not many guards patrolling Xiangfu Port. After the Green Crows used Mijiang’s poison to knock down three teams of patrolling guards, the group of them arrived near the port smoothly.

However, looking at the many empty ships so close, Zhao Hongrun felt inexplicably uneasy.

He couldn't help but murmured: "Something's wrong...the defense here is too weak."

Indeed, even if Xiangfu Port was replaced by Bolangsha River Port, its significance to Daliang was greatly reduced, but it was still an important transit point for Wei State's water transportation. How could it be possible that there were only a few patrol guards?

Just when Zhao Hongrun was surprised, he suddenly saw countless figures holding torches gathered around him. With the light of those torches, Zhao Hongrun could vaguely see that these were not guards stationed at Xiangfu Port, but men wearing black armor.

The Daliang Imperial Guards.

"His Royal Highness Prince Su is so cheerful. Are you still out to relax so late at night?"

Following a joke, Zhang Qigong, the aide of Prince Hongyu, walked out from the countless imperial guards, looked at Zhao Hongrun who was protected by the Zongwei and the Blue Crows a few feet away, and said with a half-smile: "Zhang,

I’ve been waiting here for a long time!”

"Zhang Qigong..."

Zhao Hongrun looked at Zhang Qigong solemnly, feeling a little surprised in his heart.

You must know that when he was in Daliang City just now, he deliberately did not try to break through the city gate, just to make the imperial guards in the city become careless and mistakenly think that he was still in the city.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Qigong actually saw through his intentions and led the imperial guards to ambush in Xiangfu Port, waiting for Zhao Hongrun to fall into his trap.

In this regard, Zhao Hongrun had to admit that Zhang Qigong's scheming and wisdom were no less than that of Jie Zizi.

"Your Highness Prince Su, it's getting late, please follow me back to Daliang." Zhang Qigong said with a smile.

After hearing this, Zhao Hongrun frowned and remained silent.

Seeing that Zhao Hongrun had no reaction, Zhang Qigong ordered in a deep voice: "All imperial guards listen to the order and put their swords into their scabbards."

Immediately, the countless guards around them put their swords back into their scabbards.

At this time, Zhang Qigong raised his hand, pointed at Zhao Hongrun and others, and said in a deep voice: "Get them."

Seeing that the guards around them had put away their swords, Wei Jiao, Ya Wu and others secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but when they saw the number of guards around them, they couldn't help but secretly complain - it was really the number of the other side.

There are too many people. Even if the opponent is bare-handed and they are holding weapons, they cannot withstand so many people.

There are at least seven or eight hundred of these guards, right?

But the matter has come to this, and we must find a way to break through no matter what.

At the very least, His Royal Highness Prince Su must be sent on board!

Thinking of this, the Zongwei and the Green Crows took the initiative to come forward, determined to force their way out.

But at this moment, several soft whizzing sounds were heard, and an unknown number of arrows came out of thin air and shot towards Zhao Hongrun and his party.

For a moment, Zhao Hongrun only felt a pain in his left chest. When he took a closer look, he discovered that there was an arrow stuck in his left chest.

"Zhang Qigong!"

Seeing this scene, the Zongwei's eyes were wide open and they roared angrily at Zhang Qigong.

However, Zhang Qigong looked confused.

"King Su... was hit by an arrow? Who? Who dares to do that?"

He glanced around with a surprised look on his face.

At this moment, an even denser rain of arrows enveloped this side, and both the Imperial Guards and the Green Crows were attacked by arrows regardless of each other.

Immediately, there was a cry of killing from far away. In just a moment, a group of people of unknown origin came towards them with weapons in hand to kill them.

"These people are...could they be Xiao Ni?!"

For a moment, Zhang Qigong felt a chill running down his spine.

"Mr. Zhang, there are so many thieves that we can't resist them anymore..."

In the distance, the shouts of Cao Pu, the commander of the imperial guards, came.

After hearing this, Zhang Qigong looked at the chaotic situation and quickly made a decision: "The Imperial Guards, resist the invading thieves and buy time for His Royal Highness Prince Su to board the ship!"

Indeed, compared to the trouble caused by Prince Su Zhao Run's escape, the death of His Highness Prince Su here would be the real disaster.

Due to Zhang Qigong's temporary change of mind, Zhao Hongrun successfully boarded a ship under the protection of Zong Wei and the Green Crows.

Watching Zhao Hongrun and others take a boat and leave along the river, Zhang Qigong's expression was really complicated.

But there was nothing he could do. He felt that this group of thieves came with the obvious purpose of "killing Su Wang Zhao Run and setting the blame on Prince Hongyu."

No, after Su Wang Zhao Hongrun and his entourage boarded the boat and slowly left along the river, this group of thieves immediately abandoned the imperial guards and chased in the direction of the boat.

"Follow me!"

Zhang Qigong shouted in a deep voice: "The thieves have crossbows in their hands, so we must hold them back!"

After that, he caught a glimpse of the body of a thief not far away from the corner of his eye, walked forward quickly, then squatted down and picked up an arrow from the ground.

That is the arrowhead of the arrow. It is the secretive three-sided arrowhead of Wei State, and the arrowhead is still very new.

After letting out a long breath, Zhang Qigong stood up slowly while holding the arrowhead in his hand, looking at the many imperial guards who were chasing into the distance with a sinking face.

"Among these people, someone conveyed news to Xiao Ni..."

He said secretly in his heart.

"Crack!"

With a ferocious look on his face, Zhang Qigong angrily broke the arrow in his hand and threw it to the ground as if to vent his anger.

He had obviously blocked King Su Zhao Run, but it was because of a group of damn rebels that he had to personally order King Su to be let go.
Chapter completed!