176 CHAPTER XXII
This is an anti-theft stamp
Lu Yingyi didn't have such extravagant equipment around him, he looked at "Li Yanyan", "Li Yanyan" smiled regretfully and said, "I usually don't bring that when I go out to work." Lu Yingyi knew that she didn't want to reveal every useful phone number she had.
Zhuo Yang took out a mobile phone from his pocket, Lu Ying glanced at it, and immediately laughed out loud. What age is it, there are still people who use non-smart small LCD screen mobile phones, and this mobile phone looks very old, the outer paint shell has fallen off, mottled with the vicissitudes of life left by the years.
Granny Luo seemed to want to reach out and take it, but her fingers were trembling, and after a while, she had to give up and say, "Please dial a number for me." β
Lu Yingyi's eyes were a little complicated when he looked at Granny Luo, at this moment, he felt that Granny Luo might not have completely lied to them, her previous stroke recurrence should be true, but she woke up with her own perseverance, Is she worried about something important that has not been done? Zhuo Yang dialed a number as instructed, and then put the mobile phone to Granny Luo's ear, After a while, the phone was connected.
Granny Luo said: "Hey, please pick up Liu Wenjun for me, who am I? You can say that I am Luo Wanling, the widow of Hu Yingqi, the former owner of Qiangwei Villa, that is, Qiangwei Dart Bureau." β
Lu Ying looked at Granny Luo, and the Rose Villa had turned into a powerful dart game, which completely confirmed the last guess in his heart.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, with the abdication of the last emperor, many of the old systems collapsed, and many of the old industries also disappeared, one of the most striking of which was the dart game. Receiving people's money, protecting people's safety, upholding the spirit of martial arts, benevolence, integrity, and helping the weak, for hundreds of years, countless dart masters have relied on a good kung fu and also relied on the intricate relationship between black and white, walking in the gray danger zone. Entrusting people, trusting things, trusting letters, trusting silver, avoiding not showing the flag, not stepping on the plate, not to spring points, not respecting "ghosts and gods", three rules and four laws, five elements, six precepts and seven stops, and receiving darts such as handing over life...... Countless inheritances, countless glories, and many heroes, but they were all wiped out in the sound of the Eight-Nation Alliance's bombardment of the country.
The unique doorway design at the entrance of Rose Villa is unique to the building of the dart bureau, Lu Yingyi once stood on the narrow doorway and thought about the strong dart bureau back then, from the scale of the building, now it is only a backyard, and it is not too big, but in its heyday, it may not have been a city. He can even imagine that countless years ago, when the two blue-limestone brick walls were still brightly colored, the left and right walls must have been engraved with gold-lettered plaques, or "De Rong Reform"*4, or "Righteousness and Liberation"*5, and every gilded character was the pride and glory of those heroes who walked on the road all year round! Lu Yingyi didn't have that much ability to lay many traps in the village in just one morning, he just followed the will of the powerful dart bureau itself and woke it up from a long slumber!
Granny Luo put down the phone, but the ten or so minutes of the call seemed to consume her strength, she sat in the wheelchair and rested for a while, and then said, "Now, let's go back and go back to Qiangwei Villa." β
When several people returned to the gate of Qiangwei Villa, three cars had been parked in the alleyway, and a man with a small but burly figure and a gloomy face was already standing outside the door, followed by a group of younger brothers in black suits and a cowering Hu Bowen. Seeing Granny Luo's wheelchair coming, the man actually took the initiative to step forward, and then followed the example of the ancients, with his feet wrong, clenched his fists and bent over: "Hewu, I've seen Mrs. Hu." β
Granny Luo also bowed slightly: "Hewu, I've seen Liu Da in charge." β
Hu Bowen was inexplicably beside him, looking at Liu Wenjun and then at his grandmother, he didn't understand why they met and could talk like this, he didn't even understand what they were talking about.
Liu Wenjun said: "Mrs. Hu, since you asked me to come, you must have something to explain?"
Granny Luo smiled, she was in her old age, but this smile was a peerless smile, she made a gesture to the "Li Yanyan" behind her, and "Li Yanyan" pushed up the wheelchair and said to Liu Wenjun: "Master Liu, please come with us." β
The wheelchair walked all the way through the courtyard of Qiangwei Villa, entered the building, and finally stopped in the living room.
Granny Luo said: "Liu Da's heart wants to buy my dilapidated house, I guess most of them also listened to the rumors of the rivers and lakes, what does that rumor say, does it mean that before the death of my predecessor of the Qiangwei Dart Bureau, he once stored 300,000 taels of gold in the underground vault, and no one has found this money so far?"
In the past, there was a need for a temporary storage point after the dart game was received and before the dart was taken, which is the origin of the underground vault. Where and how to open the underground vault of each dart board is a secret that only the bearer and the head of the dart know know, and even the family members of the dart board do not know all of them.
Liu Wenjun was broken by Granny Luo's words, and his face couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed, and he said softly: "Mrs. Hu......"
Granny Luo said: "Needless to say, I taught Sun Wufang, and the Qiangwei Villa is probably going to die in my hands." When she said this, her voice was low, and her voice was full of helplessness and pain, but after a while, she raised her head and looked at Lu Yingyi, "Fortunately, before it really 'died', I still let the old woman and me see a little hope." "Since all you want is something from the underground vault of Qiangwei Villa, and now that I have taken it from you, can you please let me go of this dilapidated house?"
Liu Wenjun's eyes showed ecstasy for a moment, but he was immediately suppressed by him, and he said: "Since Mrs. Hu said so, then Liu is better than obeying his fate." β
Granny Luo said, "Wait." Jianghu people have always been trustworthy, but now it is the era of the legal system, and I asked Liu Da to set up a note for me, so that the old woman will not be disturbed by metrics. β
Liu Wenjun thought for a while and said, "Naturally, as long as Mrs. Hu is willing to open the underground vault, I confirm that the property in the vault belongs to me, this is not a problem. β
Granny Luo said: "Or ask Liu Da to make a note first, since the death of the first husband, the underground vault has not been opened, Liu Da has no need to worry about the old woman will play the trick of stealing the day, if you are not at ease, it is better to write the sentence just now." β
Liu Wenjun hesitated slightly, but the desire for money still trumped everything after all, he called the little brother next to him to get a pen and paper, and wrote down a promise that as long as he took the treasury property, he would not provoke anyone in Rose Villa in the future, and would not harass anyone in the nearby construction, and then signed, and cut his finger with a knife, and pressed his handprint on the document with blood.
Zhuo Yang looked at his set of Jianghu actions, and couldn't help frowning slightly, but when he turned his head to look at Lu Yingyi, he saw that he was neither panicked nor surprised, as if he was familiar with this set of rules. He looked at Lu Yingyi's gaze and couldn't help but become deeper and deeper.
Granny Luo said, "Lu Housheng, please bring the contract to me for me." β
Lu Ying was coldly named, and said, "Ah, me?" In front of everyone, he had to step forward and take the bloody letter of commitment to show Granny Luo.
After reading it, Granny Luo said, "Please keep it for me." He added, "The vault is under the counter, Zhuoyang, please move the counter for me." β
Zhuo Yang has been working in this store for more than a year, and it is the first time that he knows that there is a secret hidden under the counter. He pushed the dark brown wooden furniture aside and didn't stop until Granny Luo shouted "yes". I saw a carpet exposed under the counter, and after the carpet was removed, a rectangular bluestone brick floor was revealed underneath.
Granny Luo beckoned, Zhuo Yang walked over suspiciously, but Granny Luo said, "It's not you, Lu Housheng, you come here." β
As soon as Lu Ying heard Granny Luo shouting at him now, he always felt that something was wrong with his body, so he rubbed it for a while, and then heard Liu Wenjun cough coldly, obviously extremely impatient, so he had to walk over. Then at the signal of Granny Luo, she bent down. Granny Luo said, "Open the vault, it's up to you." β
Lu Ying was stunned for a moment, and when she straightened up, her expression had become calm, but she was a little helpless in her composure and self-disturbance. He walked to the brick floor and squatted down, first carefully looked at them one by one, gently pressed with his fingers as he watched, and occasionally tapped the ground with his knuckles, and soon he circled a range about sixty centimeters long and fifty centimeters wide.
Hu Bowen said: "What are you doing, don't you hurry up and ......"
Liu Wenjun waved his hand to stop Hu Bowen's shouting, and he could see that Lu Yingyi was looking for an organ. Why didn't Luo Wanling tell him the correct way to open and close? Could it be that even Luo Wanling herself didn't know how to open the underground vault? Liu Wenjun thought of this, and his heart was happy, but he couldn't help but step back a little, and let his little brother and bodyguards stop around him, so as to guard against the hidden arrows that might be shot from a corner.
Zhuo Yang's expression also changed, obviously he also saw Lu Yingyi's current situation, he couldn't help but look at Granny Luo, but Granny Luo just leaned quietly on the wheelchair, staring at Lu Ying for a moment, with an indescribable look rolling in her eyes.
Lu Ying stood up suddenly, glanced at the entire living room, stretched out his arms, and compared them in eight directions: east, south, west, north, northeast, southwest, southeast, and northwest, and then walked north first. After removing the debris piled up in the corner of the north wall, he bent down and reached out to gently brush off the floating soil on the bricks underneath.
A, B, C, D, ζhex, Xin, Ren, Zi Chouyin, Mao Chen, Si Wu Wei Shen You, the heavenly stem plus the earthly branch, constitute the year, month, day and hour. Lu Ying walked back and said softly, "Combination lock." Then he stroked his thumb and forefinger back and forth on the square ground at a certain length, and finally stopped on one of the stone bricks.
Zhuo Yang looked around, but saw that Liu Wenjun was also observing Lu Yingyi, and his expression changed slightly at this time, as if he was a little surprised and a little ...... Alert. Zhuo Yang struck a sudden moment in his heart, and his body moved forward half a step without a trace, which happened to block the line where Liu Wenjun could attack Lu Yingyi, Liu Wenjun found out, glanced at him, and didn't make a sound.
Lu Yingyi gently tapped the square brick again, as if confirmed, and stretched out his hand: "Crowbar." β
"Li Yanyan" went to the tool table under the counter and found it handed to him, he took it, inserted one end into the masonry, took a breath, and then gently pried it. I only heard a slight "click" sound, like some mechanism was touched, and after a while, the wall baffle above the living room actually made a "bang bang bang" sound one after another, and it was broken one by one, and the crossbow machine, blow arrow, flying spear and other hidden weapons were launched in turn. These mechanisms are very ancient, but they still retain their sharp spirit, and in an instant, Zhuo Yang keenly blocked in front of Lu Ying, and at the same time pulled Granny Luo's wheelchair to his body with one hand, and Liu Wenjun also hid in the crowd backwards, but after a while, nothing danger happened. Even so, none of them relaxed, because they all knew that as long as Lu Ying and his party made a wrong step at this time, these mechanisms would be activated in unison, roaring with the killing intent of a hundred years ago.