When Nanbeibei heard this, they felt a chill down their spines. Why did they feel uneasy? Although they had not fallen behind in their studies, they didn't know what their mother was going to test them on.
The two of them looked towards Mu Yexiao unconsciously. Mu Yexiao had also woken up at this time, and was looking at the three people in front of him with his head tilted. A gentle smile was on his face, but he gave Nannanbeibei a helpless look.
Beibei smiled at Qian Jiujiu and said, "Mom, what do you want to test us on? Don't make it too difficult. We have been playing these days, and you didn't say you wanted to test us."
The lessons that Qian Jiujiu entrusted to Nannanbei and Beibei were different. In fact, they both had their own teachers and had classes for one hour every day, but this period of time was also considered a holiday for the two of them. Their teachers were also from Mingyue Island.
After thinking for a while, Qian Jiujiu looked at the two little guys and said, "How about this? I won't make it difficult for you. Just write an article about your feelings after the Chinese New Year. How about that? Not difficult, right?"
Nan Nan and Bei Bei looked at each other. This was indeed not difficult. "Mom, we are on the carriage now. How do you want us to write?"
Qian Jiujiu chuckled twice: "This carriage is quite stable. Okay, don't procrastinate, hurry up and get ready to write. Call me when you're done. If I'm not satisfied, just keep writing."
Well, the originally smooth journey began to become bumpy. Nan Nan and Bei Bei held the paper and said, "Brother, I don't want to write."
Nan Nan also had a worried look on her face: "I don't want to write either. But my mother asked me to write, what should I do?"
While Qian Jiujiu was asking the two children to do their homework, Xiaoman and Gu Xiangning also arrived at Xishan City, where the Wang family’s base was located.
Wang Ya sent someone to greet him, and when he saw Gu Xiangning, he bowed directly: "Greetings, Young Island Master, Young Madam."
Gu Xiangning nodded, asked someone to lead the way, and followed. They soon arrived at the place, Wang's House. A few big words came into Xiaoman's eyes: "So you robbed someone's house and are still living in their house now."
When the guide heard the young lady's words, he didn't know how to answer for a moment. He could only remain silent. Soon he saw Wang Ya, and there was a woman standing next to Wang Ya, who was Wan Xiangxiang.
Wan Xiangxiang knew Xiaoman, and she quickly rushed to Xiaoman and said, "Sister, why are you here too?"
Xiaoman saw Wan Xiangxiang, then glanced at Gu Xiangning, and realized that Wan Xiangxiang was the one who could help. So, Wan Xiangxiang and Xiaogu had the same abilities.
"Yeah, you're here to help too?"
Wan Xiangxiang nodded: "Yes, I have been down to this underground palace many times. I even drew some maps, but I didn't find anyone from the Wang family down there. I don't know if they are not in the underground palace down there? Or is this underground palace used to divert attention?"
Gu Xiangning suddenly spoke up, "Let's explore the underground palace first. As for the Wang family, their portraits have been posted outside and they are wanted nationwide. If you catch them or send us clues that prove to be useful, there will be a reward."
So now finding the Wang family is not the main thing, the main thing is the underground palace below. Xiaoman has seen underground palaces before. The collapsed imperial mausoleum of the previous dynasty was a huge underground palace, and she later drew a map of the underground palace.
Because she studied design in her previous life, she was particularly interested in these things. She had also been to the underground palace built by the Li family in the imperial city of Beijing. What was the difference between this underground palace
"Show me the map of the underground palace you drew. We can make some arrangements and go down there when the time comes."
Wan Xiangxiang quickly took out the blueprint of the underground palace and said, "I'm telling you, I wandered around inside and found that every room below was the same, but the strange thing is that every time I came out of the ground, the location was different."
Xiaoman was a little surprised. Looking at the floor plan, where each room corresponded to, she suddenly felt that this map was useless. No wonder she couldn't find anyone. "I've seen it, let's go take a look under the underground palace."
Gu Xiangning looked at Xiaoman and said, "Don't be so anxious. We have come a long way. Let's take a day off first and go down to the underground palace tomorrow. Wang Ya, go and prepare food and other things. Prepare for a month."
One month? Although Wang Ya was a little confused, she nodded: "Okay."
Xiaoman looked at Gu Xiangning: "One month? Isn't that a bit too much? Are we going to stay down there for a month?"
Gu Xiangning nodded: "This is the tentative plan for now. Okay, go to bed early. We'll go down and see what it's like tomorrow. And this map is probably useless. There's still a big gap between Xiangxiang and Xiaogu."
Xiaoman was a little curious, so Gu Xiangning explained, "In addition to being able to move freely in the soil, Xiaogu can also sense the situation in the space. Xiangxiang can only move in the soil and rely on her eyes, so under normal circumstances, she will not be found."
"This time there really was no one around. I thought Wang Ya was quite capable and could handle it. But I didn't expect that there would be something else to gain from this."
After a night's rest with Xiaoman, the group went down to the underground palace with their equipment and food. Wan Xiangxiang also followed Xiaoman happily. After Wang Ya sent them down, he still stayed up there to take charge.
After entering the underground palace, it was obvious that the first few rooms had been explored, and torches were placed on them. After entering, you can just light them. Wan Xiangxiang came down this time to act as a guide.
"Every time I enter a room, I will carve a number on the wall. The first room I enter is 1, and the second time is 2. So the room we are going to now is the fifth room I entered, so there should be a five in it."
Wan Xiangxiang happily went to look for the number five, but after searching the entire room, she still couldn't find it: "That shouldn't be the case. How could it be gone? I remember there is a number five in this room, and the room next to it is a number six. I have to go check it out."
When they walked into the next room, they found that there was nothing inside, and Liu was missing. Wan Xiangxiang searched all five rooms in the row without giving up: "Nothing is there, how is it possible?"
If there is none, then it may be forgotten, but now there is none here, what's going on? Xiaoman patted Wan Xiangxiang's shoulder: "Don't worry, didn't you say that every room here is the same?"
"Maybe we are not on the floor you arrived at first? So actually, we have never been to any of the rooms here."
Gu Xiangning shook his head: "It's unlikely. I checked the passage before I came down, and there didn't seem to be any traps in it. So unless the entire underground palace is floating, the number of floors is fixed and won't change."
Floating? How is this possible? With current technology, it is impossible to achieve this condition. Could it be that the walls here have an automatic repair function? Now the situation is not very clear, Xiaoman looked at Gu Xiangning: "It is better for us not to separate, and continue to move forward."
The road ahead was obviously very dark. Someone took down the torches, and the rest planned to follow suit. Xiaoman frowned and said, "Don't have too many torches. Just enough to see clearly. Otherwise, the air in the underground palace will run out and everyone will be unable to breathe."
Although everyone didn't know what air was, they still had to listen to Xiaoman's words. So, ten people stood one torch apart and continued to explore forward.
Soon they entered a corridor, and there was another row of rooms on this side of the corridor. Wan Xiangxiang was dumbfounded: "I have never been to this place before. I always thought that the underground palace only had one floor, but I have never been to this floor."
Xiaoman looked at Wan Xiangxiang: "Xiangxiang, go to the ground now and then come back. Tell me, how long did it take you to get to the ground? Is it the same as before?"
After Wan Xiangxiang nodded, she went up to the roof and prepared to leave, but after she crossed the roof, she quickly came back.
Xiaoman looked at her in surprise: "Why are you back so soon?"
Wan Xiangxiang took a deep breath and said, "There is another layer on top of this. I was on the upper layer and saw the traces of our exploration, the torch, and the number eighteen that I carved on it."
This means that this room corresponds to Room 18 upstairs. Xiaoman understood: "So if we enter through the same entrance, and you were on the first floor before, then we are on the second floor now? Look up, how many floors are there in total?"
Wan Xiangxiang set out again and came back soon: "Sister Xiaoman, you guessed right, there really is only one floor upstairs, there is no more upstairs. We have been exploring for a month, and we have only explored one floor? How could I be so stupid? I didn't think about going downstairs?"
"Should I check down now to see if there are more floors below? This building is really huge. I wonder who designed it?"
Xiaoman was also very curious: "You go down and take a look first. If it's dangerous, remember to retreat immediately. We'll rest here and wait for you to come up."
He turned his head and looked at Gu Xiangning: "I have an idea, but according to current technology, it is impossible to appear here, but I doubt it."
Gu Xiangning looked at Xiaoman and said, "Just do whatever you want to do."
Xiaoman smiled and said, "It's nothing to do. It's just a guess. We still need to investigate more to find out. But it seems that the Wang family may be hiding in there! Maybe the Wang family knows the origin of this underground palace?"
Gu Xiangning frowned: "The Wang family is not capable of building such a large underground palace, otherwise, we would not have been able to find it."
Xiaoman grinned. Gu Xiangning was too confident about Mingyue Island. But Mingyue Island was built a thousand years ago. Who dares to say that there has been no negligence in this thousand years? Only the Wang family knows what happened to the Wang family.