Because the wardrobe is so close to the foot of the wooden bed, that the kitten can easily get in, but people need to turn sideways to get in.

However, Poplar jumped lightly and skillfully, and jumped directly into the small useless vacancy.

The length of that piece of land is slightly larger than the width of the wooden bed, so it must have been more than one and a half meters.

The width is slightly more than the thickness of the wardrobe, and it is also seventy or eighty centimeters.

When the kitten saw Poplar coming in, he stopped scratching at the wooden feet of the wooden hanger and meowed around at Poplar's feet.

Poplar moved the wooden hanger first, but did not notice anything unusual underneath the wooden hanger.

He handed the wooden hanger to Ding Lingling and moved it out, only then did he squat down and carefully inspect the ground.

The ground is made of green bricks, and there is nothing unusual about it.

However, Bai Yang had already studied Ouyang Qi's "Secret Technique of Organs" very thoroughly, and now he can be said to be a master of organs.

So he quickly saw the clue, sat sideways at the end of the bed, and then stretched out one leg as much as he could, and stepped the joint of the few green bricks that had just been placed on the wooden hanger with his toes.

Just listening to the "squeak" sound, there are two rows of a total of more than a dozen green bricks suddenly collapsed downward, revealing a square hole about 60 long and 50 cm wide.

At the same time, a strange smell gushed out of the hole, causing Poplar to hold his breath and jump from the end of the bed to the ground outside with a rollover.

"It smells so bad, why does it smell so bad!" Ding Lingling looked at Poplar, but before Poplar answered, she continued, "Quickly open the windows and front and back doors, let's stand in the courtyard, be careful of this smell!"

As she spoke, she had already walked over and pushed the two windows open completely.

Poplar walked to the outer guest hall, first opened the two front doors to the maximum, and then walked through the guest hall to pull the back door latch out and pull the back door open.

A gust of wind blew through the hall, and immediately cleared the filthy air of Fang Cai.

However, Poplar did not turn around to go to the front yard, but went out directly through the back door to check the situation behind him.

But I found that there is also a small courtyard at the back, but the area of the small courtyard is narrower than the front yard, only about ten square meters, and the small courtyard is also surrounded by a courtyard wall, but the outside of the courtyard wall is next to someone else's house.

There is a small latrine built against the courtyard wall on the right, and the backyard door is open on the left wall.

The gate of the courtyard was also on the latch, and the poplar opened the door of the backyard and went out, and found that outside the gate was an extremely narrow passage, the width of which was less than 50 centimeters, and its length was only about ten meters.

There was also a small door at the end of the passage, and Poplar walked out along the passage, and found that the small door was also fastened with an iron latch.

Poplar pulled out the latch and pushed open the small door and went out, and suddenly found that he was actually in the front yard.

In other words, the backyard gate can only lead to the front yard. Moreover, the small door at the entrance of the passage can only be opened from the passage, and if the small door is closed, it cannot be transferred directly from the front yard to the back yard.

Poplar wondered what was the use of this family leaving such a passage. Ding Lingling also walked out of the passage at this time, and said: "It seems that this family can only enter and exit through the small alley outside the front yard door, and the only use of leaving this narrow passage is to clean the latrine!"

Poplar suddenly realized, opened his mouth and wanted to say why not build the latrine directly in the front yard, and thought that no one would build the latrine at the gate of his house, so he closed his mouth again and said: "I always feel that this family is mysterious!"

"It must be mysterious, otherwise I wouldn't have dug a hole in the ground with a trap. Ding Lingling said.

"What do you say that bad smell just now?" asked Poplar again.

"I don't know!" Ding Lingling shook her head, "It is said that if the owner of this family did not go out, but died in the cave by accident, it should be the smell of rotting corpses, but the smell just now is not very similar!"

Poplar also felt that the smell did not look like the smell of rotting corpses, although he was not a senior archaeologist, but Poplar could still distinguish this clearly.

"It's a pity that your two jade hummingbirds didn't bring them, so you have to find a candle or an oil lamp to see if the smell is poisonous!" said Poplar.

"If the smell is methane or gas, it will be a big problem if you light a candle! In the past, these gases were rarely found in ancient tombs, but now people know how to use gas and biogas. Besides, what kind of accident will happen to the owner of this house? Could it be some kind of gas poisoning?" Ding Lingling said.

"So what are we going to do? Go back and bring your jade hummingbird?"

Ding Lingling didn't answer, turned her face to look around, and said, "Where is the kitten?

Poplar was right when he thought about it, and said: "The cat's perception ability is far beyond that of humans, if the smell is really poisonous, it should be able to run away!"

As he spoke, he saw that Ding Lingling had already walked in from the front door of the room, so he followed in.

But listening to the sound of "meow" coming into their ears, the two walked into the bedroom together and found that the cry was actually coming from the mouth of the hole.

Poplar jumped from the foot of the bed into the empty seat again, and stood at the mouth of the hole and looked into the hole.

The "meow" meow continues, but the kitten is nowhere to be seen.

Poplar felt that the strange and unpleasant smell was still coming to his nose, so he could only hold his breath and jump into the ground to see.

The cave was about two meters two or three meters high, and it was full of things in the dark, and it was impossible to see how big the area was for a while.

However, in a flash, Poplar saw a light switch installed in the hole in the ground. Reaching out and pulling the switch drawstring, a light bulb lit up, illuminating the cavern – the cellar to be precise.

The bulb hung in the middle of the cellar, and beneath it sat an old man with white hair and beard, who looked not a hundred years old, but eighty years old.

The tanuki cat was circling around the old man's feet, meowing incessantly, and it was clear that the old man was its owner.

But what attracted Poplar's attention the most in the cellar was not only the old man's body, but also countless sparkling brilliance, which made Poplar can't help but cry out.

"Lingling, come down and take a look, there are antiques and artifacts in the cellar here!"

Ding Lingling let out an "ah", and soon her figure appeared on the cellar door.

"What's going on? Is this owner down there?"

"Down there, but this owner is also strange, obviously dead for many days, but not much rot! Come down, this smell should be non-toxic, otherwise the kitten wouldn't be so alive!"

Ding Lingling agreed, jumped into the cellar lightly and skillfully, opened her eyes, and couldn't help but exclaim again.

"This, this, this...... What kind of family is it, how can there be so many gold and jade treasures hidden?"

No wonder she and Poplar exclaimed, there were indeed countless treasures in the cellar.

Just to the left of the entrance to the cellar is a wooden shelf about 1.56 meters high and about 4 to 5 meters long.

The wooden shelves are divided into four layers, and the lower one is relatively wide, with bronze objects, antique vases, etc.

On the upper floor, there are all kinds of fine porcelain, which looks very old.

The upper two layers are smaller objects, gold, jade, silver, and so on.

On the ground on both sides of the wooden shelves, there are several large utensils, a bronze tripod, and an extremely exquisite wood carved Buddha statue.

Ding Lingling opened her mouth and stammered for a long time before she exclaimed again: "Oh my God, these antique artifacts, even compared to those treasures in the fairy cave, are not much worse!"

"Yes, I don't know what the identity of the owner of this little cat is, how can he have so many antique treasures in the house!"

Poplar said, turning his head to take a closer look at the white-haired and white-bearded old man.

Ding Lingling also turned around and approached the old man to take a look.

Naturally, it was an old man who had been dead for a long time, and as soon as he got close to the old man, he felt that the unpleasant smell was even stronger, and it was obvious that the smell was coming from the old man.

But the strange thing is that the old man has a dark complexion, and it is obvious that he has been dead for a long time, but his body has not decayed.

"This old man must be the owner of the kitten! If the kitten has been dead for at least a week since he started going out to ask me for food, why hasn't his body decomposed?" Ding Lingling said.

"I think it's strange too!" said Poplar, holding out two fingers and pressing lightly on the old man's cheek, "how can he not be decomposed, could it have something to do with this unpleasant smell on his body?"

"What do you mean...... This old man has the secret recipe that the corpse does not decay, so when he felt that he was about to die, he prepared this secret recipe into a medicinal soup and took it, and then died in the cellar?" Ding Lingling said while thinking.

"I do think so, what do you think?" asked Poplar rhetorically.

"It's really possible!" Ding Lingling nodded, "But since there are dead bodies, we have to call the police immediately!"

"I think we should report it to your dad first, after all, there are so many antiques here, it should be within the scope of your dad's authority!" Bai Yang said.

"That's okay!" Ding Lingling nodded, "If you stay here, I'll go back and ask my dad what to do!"

Poplar Fang wanted to agree, but between his faces, he said a soft "huh".

"What's wrong?" Ding Lingling immediately asked again.

"Look over there, there's a little door!" Poplar gestured.

Ding Lingling squinted her eyes and took a closer look, but saw that the top of the cellar was leaning against the left corner, and there was indeed a small door.

It's just that the color of the small door is gray and abrupt, and it is obscured by a wooden frame full of antiques, so that people will not see it as soon as they walk in.

"Let's see what's in that little door, and it's not too late to report back to your dad!" said Poplar.

Ding Lingling nodded, followed Bai Yang carefully through the cellar full of antiques, and walked to the small door.

For the sake of prudence, Bai Yang Xianzai carefully looked at the perimeter of the small door and made sure that there were no mechanisms set up, so he protected Ding Lingling behind him with one hand, and gently pushed the small door forward with the other.

The inside of the small door was not latched, and with a gentle push from the poplar, the small door opened inward.

(See Chapter 484 "An Alchemy Furnace")