After a while, a shout came from inside: "Something has been discovered!"

Everyone held torches and entered the back hall, and immediately let out a cry of admiration. They saw a huge and exquisite lacquer painting painted on the main wall of the back hall. About a quarter of the upper right corner of the picture was a colorful phoenix.

Dancing in the sun. Below is a gorgeous painting boat. A man wearing a crown is pushing open the porthole and calling for help. His eyes are full of panic. The background of the entire painting is a turbulent river.

A strange feeling came over my heart.

"Isn't this the Han River?" Ji Hu shouted. People felt a chill in their hearts, wasn't it? Isn't this the scene when King Zhao of Zhou died in the Han River due to his boat capsizing during his southern expedition? Who could be like this?

Be bold and dare to draw satire?

Ji Hu was furious: "Traitor! How dare you paint a painting to slander the late king? He should be cut into pieces by a thousand swords!"

Zhao Bohu was silent for a long time before he came to the conclusion: "This must have been left by the Chu people. The Chu people took the phoenix bird as their totem, and they were the only ones who were proud of King Zhao's southern expedition and left paintings to commemorate it. This house, I'm afraid

It’s not that simple.”

His eyes scanned the whole room, and finally stopped on the couch under the window. He saw a bloody arrow quietly placed on the couch, next to a bowl of plaster for treating wounds and a ball soaked in blood.

The white cloth strip. He handed the arrow to Ji Duoyou: "Your arrow!"

Ji Duoyou was surprised. Sure enough, he saw the word "Friend" engraved on the arrow. He was astonished: "It's really my arrow! Why is it here?"

"I understand!" Ji Hu slapped his forehead: "This belongs to the fake ship boss!"

"Hey, it turned out to be him!" Ji Duoyou regretted: "If the boat hadn't rocked too much, I would have shot him in the heart with an arrow. How could he be allowed to be so rampant here? This man looks like a leader.

I wonder if he died here?"

"The matter is very clear." Zhao Bohu paced slowly in the room: "This man failed in his assassination attempt at Tonglu Mountain, escaped with several mining slaves, and planned a second assassination attempt with the original group of dead men.

Perhaps there was some chance that they got the support of the King of Chu and came to this house to prepare. Today's assassination failed. This man was changing dressing in the room, but he was called to lie down in the front hall by the dead soldiers who had already had two ambitions.

Kill. I just took a look and there are no arrow wounds on the shoulders of the men in black and the mine slaves. This person must have escaped from here."

After some analysis, Ji Duoyou was impressed: "Okay! Brother Zimu, you are worthy of being the general manager of King Haojing City! Then where did this person escape from?"

"Of course it is here." Zhao Bohu pointed to the window: "There are drops of blood under the window sill and on the outer wall. Let's just follow this direction to search."

Outside the window is a small garden, and along the tree-lined path, you reach a small pond. Along the way, there are four more corpses, one of a man in black, and the other three are mine slaves. When you reach the small pond

, everyone found it even more strange. It had been raining this afternoon. The water level in the pond should have risen, but its water level was very low. It seemed that it had been drained long ago. It was only because of today's rain that it barely reached the bottom.

"Look!" Ji Hu pointed to the other side of the pond: "There is a hole there!"

Zhao Bohu raised his eyes and saw that, sure enough, there was a semicircular culvert opening exposed. He was very confused: Why would such a small pond need to go to such trouble to build such a culvert to divert water? It must be weird.

Two sergeants were ordered to check the entrance of the cave. As soon as they approached, they shouted: "Oh!"

"What's wrong?" Ji Duoyou shouted.

"I think I stepped on a corpse. Some people are here to help!"

Everyone scrambled to pull out two entangled corpses from the mud under the culvert entrance. One seemed to be going up with a knife, and the other was dragging his legs. He was stabbed several times and refused to let go. Finally,

The one holding the knife was shot in the head by an arrow, and the two of them rolled down together. The one holding the knife was a man in black, and the broken hair and tattoo dragging his leg made him undoubtedly a foreigner.

"What kind of person? Is it worth protecting so many people to the death?" Zhao Bohu shook his head slightly, pointed at the entrance of the culvert and said: "The assassin must have escaped through the entrance of the hole, and this hole must be connected to the river outside! Let Shen Hou

Please come."

Marquis Shen hurriedly came from the front yard. Without even wiping the sweat off his forehead, he bowed deeply to Ji Hu and said, "What are your orders, Your Highness?"

"Where is the nearest Waihe River from here?" Ji Hu had already understood what Zhao Bohu meant and asked directly.

"It's the Han River. The nearest bank is less than two miles away from this house."

As expected, Zhao Bohu asked again: "Which is higher or lower between the terrain of this house and the Han River?"

Marquis Shen made some predictions in his mind: "The house should be located on a high ground, otherwise it would be flooded during the high season of the Han River."

Zhao Bohu pointed at the entrance of the culvert and said, "Please, Marquis Shen, select two people from your army who are proficient in water properties and dive along the entrance of the cave to see if it can lead directly to the Han River?"

"promise!"

The two soldiers brought by Marquis Shen were locals. Before they came to serve in the army, they were fishing for pearls in the Great Lakes. They could dive underwater for half a stick of incense without taking a breath. Zhao Bohu's eyes lit up after hearing this, and he murmured to himself

He said: "Pearl divers------" He remembered that the coastal areas of Qi State also produced large pearls.

The two sergeants went down the long entrance of the cave, and the group waited anxiously by the pond. At this moment, only Zhao Bohu was still in the mood to chat with Marquis Shen: "Has the Marquis counted all the corpses?"

"After counting, there are five bodies of men in black and six bodies of mine slaves."

"Do any of them have fresh arrow wounds on their shoulders?"

"No."

Zhao Bohu nodded and asked Ji Duoyou: "Ziliang, do you remember the underground dens where the mining slaves lived in Tonglu Mountain?"

"I remember." Ji Duoyou nodded, and Ji Hu also said, "I also remember that there are about seven or eight people living in a den."

"The number of slaves in the mine is about right. The assassin should have escaped. But is the number of men in black too small? There should be some who have escaped!"

While he was counting, the diving sergeants from the two armies had come back and pulled out the body of a mining slave from the depths of the culvert: "This one should have been drowned in it. We have been walking for almost a mile.

We just saw water in the cave. After diving for a while, it turned out to be the Han River. The entrance to the cave is less than half a mile away from the landing point where we will cross the river in the morning."

Marquis Shen looked in disbelief: "So, these people have been lurking in this house, deliberately pretending to be boatmen to lure me across the river. How vicious!"

"Marquis Shen! Instead of pretending to be a boatman, he dived in the reeds on the shore. When the prince's big ship reached the middle of the river, he sneaked into the bottom of the boat and cut through the deck. They are deliberately planning to kill the prince, and of course I, the royal envoy, are included.

They will put us to death. They have been planning for a long time, and their intentions are worthy of death!"

Zhao Bohu pointed at the entrance of the culvert: "The terrain of this cave is higher than the Han River, which is to prevent the water level from pouring into the house. If my prediction is correct, there must be a mechanism at the entrance of the cave to seal the entrance on weekdays to keep the pond water in its original state. When it is necessary to activate it urgently, the cave entrance will be opened, the pond water will be drained, and then people will be sent to dive into the Hanshui River."

"I'll go look for it!" Ji Duoyou waded through the water and searched hard, and finally found a stone plate the size of a stone mill next to the entrance of the cave, and a stone shaft connected to the entrance of the cave. Although it was extremely heavy, at least they were very powerful. Men can also join forces to push.

Ji Hu was extremely frightened: "They--they are so thoughtful in order to harm me?"

"Your Highness, I'm afraid they set up this agency not just for you, but for King Xian Zhao!" Zhao Bohu said coldly, and everyone was shocked.
Chapter completed!