mtl008 Chapter 580 House Arrest
Chapter 580 House Arrest
Sure enough, we are not a family, we don’t enter the same family.
Since the incident in the mountains, Du Mingxian could clearly feel that her third aunt was watching her more and more closely. Before, she could go out and walk around on her own, but now she couldn't even walk around.
Every time she went out, her third aunt would follow her, or she would have Da Hua follow her, or sometimes it would be Da Ya.
A month passed in this tense atmosphere, and her pregnant belly was eight months along. The seemingly peaceful days made her increasingly anxious. She had come to go undercover, but she hadn't found any information, which was very frustrating.
Just as she was worrying about something, something else happened in the village.
Auntie San and Da Hua sat in the yard, both looking unhappy, their faces filled with disappointment.
"What's wrong?" Seeing that these two people were unhappy made her happy.
Third Aunt rolled her eyes at her without saying anything, but Da Hua explained, "My husband and father-in-law haven't been able to come back for the past few months, and I miss my husband."
Du Mingxian narrowed her eyes slightly. Could something have happened outside that prevented the men of the Qi family from returning?
"When a man is out there building his career, his career is definitely more important."
"But I miss my husband."
"Everything you eat and wear now was earned by your husband working hard outside. He must be thinking about you."
Da Hua was delighted to hear this. "Definitely."
Du Mingxian had a gut feeling that something must have happened outside since the men of the Qi family hadn't returned. It was very likely that the Crown Prince and the others couldn't see her, so they took action.
That night, she couldn't sleep. She quietly got up, her pregnant belly protruding, and went to Aunt Bai's house.
This was her fortieth night raid. Every time she came before, she couldn't find anything, just an empty courtyard.
Aunt Bai wasn't there, nor was the sickly child that Aunt Bai had been raising. She didn't have much hope and, as usual, went to the courtyard again.
As soon as she entered the courtyard, she sensed something was wrong. She immediately slipped into her spatial dimension and saw two men walking out of the woodshed in the courtyard.
Dressed in black, the two walked straight out without even looking around.
Du Mingxian felt her heart racing and didn't dare to go out. After a while, two more men in black outfits walked in. They were different from the two men who had left before, and their heights were different.
After the two went inside, she soon lost all sense of presence in the courtyard.
Quietly emerging from her spatial dimension, she cautiously made her way to the woodshed. Sure enough, there was nothing there. She took out a flashlight from her spatial dimension and shone it around. The ground had already been covered with some straw, so even if someone had stepped on it, no trace would be visible.
The person disappeared shortly after entering, indicating that the entrance to the secret passage was not on the ground. So she began to examine it carefully, and finally she saw something amiss.
Half of Aunt Bai's woodshed was piled with firewood, and it was piled up very neatly. However, there was one spot that was very smooth, and you could not see it unless you looked closely.
She reached out and gently pressed it, but it didn't move. She then twisted it, and a door immediately appeared in front of her. The dimly lit passage looked very oppressive, only wide enough for one person to pass through at a time.
She walked forward quietly, and the door behind her closed as soon as she entered. She continued walking gently, and the corridor seemed to echo loudly with each step she took, making her heart beat faster and faster.
After walking about two hundred meters, she came to a fork in the road with four different paths to choose from, leaving her unsure which one to take.
In the end, she could only follow one direction of the passage. If she sensed something was wrong, she would immediately enter the space and only come out to continue walking if there was no further movement.
The environment was extremely oppressive and poorly ventilated. Sweat soaked her clothes, her hair clung to her face, and she felt sticky and uncomfortable. But what made her even more uncomfortable was... the baby in her womb, perhaps sensing a lack of oxygen, was making a lot of noise inside.
She slipped into her spatial dimension and searched around, finding a small bottle of oxygen she could inhale. She took it out and inhaled it as she walked, which helped her feel a little better.
Having finally found this passage, she didn't want to give up so easily. She walked through it again and again, and at each end, she would return to the fork in the road to search again.
She didn't stop all night. When she got tired, she would go into her space to drink some spiritual water and eat something, and then come out to continue walking.
Finally, she found a way out, but she didn't dare to go out because... it was almost dawn, and if she didn't go back, the village would find out and alert them.
As dawn broke, she returned to the Qi family's woodshed. Lying in bed, she found it difficult to fall asleep, her mind preoccupied with the path she had walked that night.
The more she thought about it, the more it seemed to be the entrance and exit of each household. So she got up and went into the space, and drew a simple map, one above ground and one underground. She couldn't be sure which household it was. Last night she was so busy checking that she didn't pay attention to the distance.
After breakfast, she said she wasn't feeling well and went to sleep in her room.
Her staying in the room and not going out was something her third aunt was happy to see.
After a good morning's sleep in the space, Du Mingxian felt a bit better. In the afternoon, she started wandering around the village, noting the distance between each house and who lived in each one.
That evening, she went to Aunt Bai's house again and went to the passageway again, and drew a new map.
Having learned from last night's experience, she moved extremely fast today, finishing her investigation by midnight. She compared the records she had made during the day with the passageway from the night before and discovered...
Those whose homes had tunnel entrances were all people who worked for Uncle Qi; those who were abandoned didn't have any tunnels in their homes.
For example... there is no passageway in my third aunt's house.
There aren't many households with access roads, only about a dozen.
After doing all this, she quietly walked out through the passage she hadn't used the night before.
The entrance to the passage was a large cave. She walked very carefully, afraid that someone might be outside. But when she went out, she didn't see anyone. She felt relieved and quietly walked forward a little further, only to find... a grove of trees. Further ahead, she found herself on an official road.
Moreover, once they left the village and escaped the encirclement, it was very...
Perhaps those people were too confident in their passage, so no one was left to guard it.
Back with Aunt Bai, even while in the carriage, she would occasionally glance at the outside. Now, seeing the main road, she relied on her memory to slowly walk back.
Before dawn, she went to the village entrance, but the village guards were nowhere to be seen.
Something must have happened.
Du Mingxian went back, found a conspicuous spot, wrote a letter in her spatial dimension, along with her analysis, put it in the box, then dug a hole under that conspicuous spot and put the box in.
At the same time, a carrier pigeon is released from the space.
She hadn't contacted Ling Silang for so long because she was afraid there were experts guarding the outside, and that would be a waste of a carrier pigeon.