A strong man walked down the secret room with an oil lamp, glanced at the situation inside, then approached the poor man hanging in the air, pushed him twice, heard the other person's painful groan, smiled with satisfaction, and then began to inspect Come to each cell.
Hearing the footsteps fading away, Ming Na cautiously poked her head out from under the stairs and breathed a sigh of relief.
Damn it! How could she ignore it? Such an important place must be guarded! Didn't she just see one during the day? She didn't meet him when she came in just now, probably because the guard just happened to leave. You must not let him discover you!
She hid her body again in the shadows at the bottom of the stairs. It was dimly lit in the secret room, and the guard passed before her eyes twice without noticing her in the darkness. She just hoped that the person who was hung up would not make a sound, otherwise she would be in danger. Ming Na noticed that when she hid under the stairs just now, the man seemed to wake up and glanced at her.
She waited anxiously for the guards to finish their work. She vaguely heard a woman's voice coming from deep in the corridor, seeming to beg the guards for some water. Mingna's eyes widened immediately.
That was exactly the voice of mother Dora! She's here!
Minna suppressed the excitement in her heart and listened carefully. She found that Dora did not ask for water for herself, but wanted to give some to her husband, saying that he had not had a sip of water all day. Ming Na felt sour in her heart and was about to shed tears. But thinking of her current situation, she barely suppressed her tears.
The guard ignored Dora's pleas and coldly refused. After completing the tour, he walked out and climbed up the steps again. But after going out, he seemed to have spoken a few words with someone, and planned to keep vigil at the entrance of the cave. Ming Na gritted her teeth and felt a little panicked. If those people were guarding the exit, how could she leave
There must be a way! She took a few deep breaths and remembered that Etta had entered the secret room from the greenhouse and then emerged from the mansion. In other words, there must be an entrance and exit to the flower room! Visually measuring the length of the passage that the guard just walked through, she made a mental estimate and felt that the end of these cells was almost where the greenhouse was. It seemed that she had a chance to find a safer way to sneak in.
It was quiet in the nearby prison. No one should notice her. Ming Na carefully got out from under the stairs and walked in the direction of Dora's voice. When she passed the hanging man, she turned her head and took a look.
She found that the man was blinking at her and saying a few words in an extremely low voice. As soon as she understood what the other person said, she stood up suddenly and opened her eyes wide.
this person. It's the undercover agent who was originally assigned to Heda's house by the Security Agency, and he's actually here!
Ming Na quickly approached the man and asked in a low voice: "Are you from the Security Agency?" The man nodded slightly: "You are in... cell number 15 on the right..." As soon as he finished speaking, he stopped talking. Stopped for breath. Ming Na was excited and saw that he was seriously injured, so she quickly took out a small packet of medicine from her pocket, but the other party shook her head slightly: "Don't... you will find out..."
Ming Na also knew not to leave any obvious traces to make the Heda family suspicious. So she picked out a small pill from the medicine bag. Put it into the man's mouth. The man struggled a little at first, but as soon as he tasted the medicine. He swallowed it obediently.
This is a pill secretly developed by the Security Agency. According to Mallory, it can "enhance people's resistance and improve physical strength." Mingna has privately analyzed the ingredients inside and it can indeed help people regain their physical strength in a short time. However, it cannot be taken in large amounts, otherwise it will cause serious damage to the human body. She only fed him one pill, which was enough to keep the man going for two more days, but not enough to significantly improve his condition, so it shouldn't arouse suspicion.
She whispered: "I will notify the outside as soon as possible and ask someone to rescue you." The man nodded slightly, closed his eyes and stopped talking.
Ming Na no longer hesitated, raised her legs and walked to the right passage. The light was dim along the way, and she could vaguely see that eight of the ten prison cells were inhabited. Most were men, but there were also two or three women. Almost all of them were asleep or in a coma. Even if there were some who were awake, He only regarded her shadow as a night guard, without even raising his head. Halfway through, the two sides of the passage were no longer prisons, but cells made of stone. The iron doors were tightly closed, and there were two big locks on each door. Only a small window as big as a palm could be seen on the door. The situation inside.
Ming Na moved her steps carefully, using the dim firelight to identify the number plate, and finally found Cell No. 15. She put her ear against the iron door and listened carefully. She heard a woman's low sobbing coming from inside. It turned out to be her mother. She quickly opened the small window and looked inside.
In the dark cell, there was only a bed, a table and a chair. The oil lamp on the table was dim. There was a woman sitting by the bed, using a cloth to wipe the cold sweat of the person lying on the bed. Her face was haggard and pale. , hair was messy, and the clothes on her body were still neat except for a few strips of cloth torn off at the hem of the skirt to use as bandaging materials, but when she looked at the naked person, she couldn't help but cry. But the woman lying on the ground was a bloody man. He looked no better than the one hanging outside. He seemed to have a fever, his cheeks were red, and his lips were chapped.
Mingna immediately covered her mouth, lowered her body to calm down, and then stood up again. It was impossible for her to save her parents by herself, so she could only inform the people from the security agency. However, how could she stand by and watch when she saw her parents suffering? What should she do now
By the way, water! Minna remembered that her mother had asked the guard to give her some water, but was refused. She could do this by herself!
She condensed several water balls and flew towards the bed through the small window. After thinking about it, she took out another pill and flicked it over.
Dora cried softly, but she also discovered those water balls and medicines floating strangely in the air. She looked up and looked around, only to find half of her face exposed through the small window of the iron door, but she couldn't recognize who it was, but It seemed like he was helping her. She quickly picked up an old wooden cup on the table to hold the water balloon, put away the pills, and was about to ask who was outside the door, but footsteps sounded again in the corridor.
Ming Na secretly thought that was bad, why did someone come again? There is no time to talk to mother now. She quickly closed the small window and ran to the end of the corridor.
Cell No. 15 is quite close to the end of the corridor. Soon she arrived at another torture room. It was similar to the one she had seen before, except that there were some more iron tools and chains. She didn't recognize what it was used for. She only saw a small space under the stairs. Hide inside.
But after hiding inside, she discovered it. The torture room here was different from the one before. There were several oil lamps hanging on the wall, and the charcoal fire in the big stone jar was burning brightly, illuminating the whole space very brightly. The place where she was hiding was illuminated by the fire. Once someone comes. You'll find her soon!
Hearing the sound of footsteps becoming more and more obvious, Mingna had already walked about halfway through the passage. Ming Na stretched her head out and looked at the stairs exposed to the light. She gritted her teeth and ran up the stairs as fast as she could. When the guards patrolled the torture chamber here again, she was already in the darkness above the stairs.
After the guards walked back, she planned to return to her parents' cell to see how they were doing. But as soon as she took a few steps, she heard the guard arguing with a certain prisoner, which made her anxious. Worried that if she went back too late, she would be discovered by the old gardener who had gone to bed early. After hesitating for a moment, she stamped her feet and turned around to walk up.
The key is to spread the information. No matter how much water or medicine she gets for her father, it can't help him and his mother leave this private prison as soon as possible.
It was dark at the exit. She reached out and touched it for a long time before she touched the switch. Turn gently. The doorway opened. The entrance to the cave was much shorter than the one in the mansion, and Minna was thin. You also have to lower your head to pass. When I went out and took a look, it turned out that the entrance and exit was built on the side of the stone platform in the corner of the flower room. This stone platform is usually used to place flower pots and other sundries. Ming Na never thought that the entrance and exit of the secret room would be built here.
The sky was beginning to light up, and she hurried back to her hut. As soon as she changed into her soft-soled shoes, she heard the old gardener knocking on the door and asking her to water the flowerbed. She yawned, finished all her work, and then returned to her cabin on the excuse that she had not slept well last night and needed to catch up on some sleep.
She pulled out a small cloth bag from under the bed. Inside was a small notebook and a pencil. There were four or five pages of crooked new words written in the notebook. It looked like a little girl learning to write. She picked up the "pencil", turned it to the left three times, and then turned it to the right four times, and pulled out another pen hidden in the pen. The refill was white. She used the white pen to write on the blank paper, recording all the details of the night visit to the private cell. There were also two entrances and exits, the location and direction, guards, internal structure, etc., all written clearly, and she also drew a picture. A simple floor plan.
When the white pen just started writing, there was a faint white reflection, which was not difficult to identify in the dim light. However, after a minute or two, the reflection would disappear completely, and the paper filled with information would become completely white. It was as if nothing had been written.
Minna folded the paper into thin strips and hid it in her braid. She returned to the garden and heard Dorothy cursing again from a distance. She listened for a while and found out that it was just that when delivering the vases in the morning, the old gardener gave the flowers to another maid to deliver to the mansion, which was regarded as stealing Dorothy's job, and that made the latter furious. Ming Na curled her lips and was about to avoid it, but suddenly she had a good idea.
She walked over with a cowardly look on her face, and when she saw the old gardener was sweating profusely, she helped explain: "You were not here this morning, and we were afraid that the lady would be angry if the delivery was late, so we asked Peggy to..."
"You mean Peggy is more capable than me? Are you implying that I'm lazy?!" Dorothy became even more angry, reaching out and pushing Minna, "Who do you think you are?! You dare to mock me?" ?!”
Who has time to ridicule you? Who is the person who comes to the second young master’s room every night? The servants throughout the mansion had already been talking among themselves. It's obvious that you're the one who's being lazy, why don't you allow others to tell the truth
Ming Na cursed secretly, but she still had the dull look on her face. As expected, Dorothy was furious, and she overturned several pots of flowers on the ground and smashed several vases. The old gardener kept shouting "Stop" in pain, and asked Mingna to help stop him. Minna pretended to stop her, but in fact she deliberately led Dorothy in the direction of the flower fertilizer, and then secretly pushed Dorothy, causing her to knock over the bucket and get all the flower fertilizer wet.
The old gardener was furious: "This is my territory! You have to show off your authority back to the mansion!" and drove Dorothy out. Looking back at the mess on the ground, he frowned and didn't know what to do. If the truth was reported to the housekeeper, even if Dorothy would be punished, he would inevitably be blamed because he failed to protect the Hedda family's property.
Ming Na's mouth curved, then she quickly put on that silly expression, and whispered: "Uncle, I, I'll buy it for you... Just buy as much as usual."
The old gardener suddenly raised his head and smiled suddenly: "Yes, that's it! I'm going to fertilize this evening. Go buy it now. Remember not to tell the housekeeper what happened today, okay?" Minna nodded. , took the money he handed over, walked to the back door under his escort, and left Hedda's house at the expense of giving the gatekeeper a bouquet of flowers every day to coax her lover.
When she first went out, she could still walk at a normal speed, but when she was far away, she simply ran away, turned the corner, saw the flower seller, coughed heavily, and pretended to ask passers-by where she could buy flower fertilizer. , turned around after asking, and saw the mother-in-law putting away the flower basket, turning into the alley and disappearing.
Following the guidance of passers-by, she came to a gardening shop and saw the flower seller sitting at the door of the shop enjoying the shade. She was certain in her mind. When she walked into the store, she heard the clerk ask: "It's a good flower fertilizer from the East. It's ten gold coins in a bag. Would you like to buy some?"
Ming Na blinked, feeling that these words seemed familiar. Didn't the Security Department even change the password? She coughed lowly, pointed at a kind of flower fertilizer, then secretly took out the note from her braid, sandwiched it among the coins and handed it to the clerk.
The clerk quickly transferred the information to the store, and soon came back to convey Mallory's instructions, asking her to continue lurking back to Hedda's house to look for the best rescue opportunity, but not to enter the private cell easily to avoid being discovered. In addition, she also I gave her a few more pills. Minna did not refuse and returned to Heda's house.
Although it was inconvenient to enter the private cell again, she recalled the situation in the cell where her parents were, but she remembered that there was a small ventilation hole under the ceiling in a corner of the stone cell. The moonlight that night shone through it and the room was clearly connected to the outside world. of. Mingna estimated the location of the cell over and over again, and finally found a few holes in the grass of the rose garden. She then listened closely to the entrance of the holes, and sure enough she heard the sound of someone talking. Overjoyed, she carefully searched for which hole led to her parents' cell. Just when she found a suspicious hole, she heard someone shouting from behind: "What are you doing here?!"
Minna froze and slowly got up. When she turned around, she saw Esparo looking at her in surprise. Behind her was the second young master Akers and a man covered in a black cloak. She thought in a flash, She had already thought of an excuse: "Young Master, I found that the grass in some places here grows differently from other places. It seems to be particularly short, so I want to see what's going on..."
Esparo narrowed his eyes and asked in a long voice, "Really?"
Ming Na lowered her head and rubbed her hands uneasily: "I...did I make a mistake..."
"Brother, she's just a little girl. Why are you so suspicious? Let's go." Akers said impatiently. Esparo looked at Minna a few more times, then waved her down. He didn't know why, but he always felt like something was wrong.
But right now, he had more important things to do. He turned to look at the man in the black cloak: "Let's go. You will live in the guest room in front. Don't let the servants discover your true identity. Wait until the news passes. If you don't, we will send you away."
The man responded in a low voice and followed the Esparo brothers towards the mansion. He just turned around and looked at the surroundings out of habit. Suddenly he remembered his embarrassing status and hurriedly covered his face with his cloak and walked away quickly. Two steps to keep up.
As soon as Ming Na left the scene, she hid behind the wall and looked back. At first she was still wondering who the man in the black cloak was and why he entered the mansion from the garden. Is he a guest? Came through the back door
When the man looked around, his face was revealed. Mingna recognized him as Old Fox, whom she had met once before, and almost screamed.
Wasn't it because of those letters that he was imprisoned in the Justice Department Prison on suspicion of collaborating with the enemy? This was before she sneaked into Heda's house. The interrogation date was set for the day after tomorrow. Why did he suddenly appear at Heda's house now? !
Ming Na suddenly felt that she seemed to have caught something important.