"I just had a dream when I was a child when my father taught me to recite the Zhou family motto, 'Scratch your head and ask the sky, why is it forever?' How can we deal with it for a lifetime...... The lines appeared in front of my eyes, neatly arranged, and then I suddenly understood the meaning in my dreams. ”

Cai Wei said excitedly, she lifted the quilt, got out of bed and ran to the bookcase, and the pen began to write on a blank piece of paper.

Qin Fei frowned slightly, and quickly got up from the bed, and draped a cloak over her shoulders, "You don't slow down, this just crawled out of the hot quilt, beware of catching a cold."

Cai Wei turned a deaf ear, put down her pen like flying, finished writing the short thirty-two words of family motto, pushed it in front of Qin Fei, and pointed it out to him, "Ah Fei, look, it turns out that my father hid words in this motto. ”

She stretched out her index finger and drew a circle on the paper from left to right and top to bottom, "You see, string these eight words together in this order, and it is 'Tianyi Xiaoge, located here.'" ’”

Qin Fei's eyes lit up, "Isn't this hiding these words according to the direction of the gossip map?" ”

Cai Wei nodded, "I think so too, the bouldering is actually a small round courtyard, if you look at the direction of the gossip, the position where the word 'place' is located should be the dry position, then a small pavilion should be in the northwest of the bouldering on this day, let's go over and have a look." ”

This bouldering is a place to collect books built by Zhou Zhen, the father of Cai Wei, because it is all built with bluestone, so it is called bouldering Zhai, which is built in the north of the ancestral house of the Zhou family.

"This bouldering is a drawing drawn by my father himself, and it took three years to build it by inviting a famous craftsman in Shuzhong. I once asked my father why he didn't use wood, but he had to spend time and effort building the house out of the bluestone, which took so much more time to build. My father said that although it took a little more effort, the stone library had at least one benefit, it was not afraid of fire! Because there was a hill in the northernmost part of the house, my father built these stone houses at the foot of the mountain, and connected them with the mountain, and named them Bouldering. ”

As she spoke, Cai Wei had already pulled Qin Fei to the door of this bouldering house, pushed the door in, and walked straight to the northwest according to the direction of the gossip, but she was disappointed, it turned out that there was not even a room where this dry seat was located, but it was just a small flower garden, planted with a few plum trees, and there were already a few buds on the branches at this time.

Cai Wei looked confused and muttered, "Could it be that my previous speculations were all wrong, didn't I come according to the direction of the gossip......

But if it's not the direction of gossip, what would it be?

Gossip, gossip, wait, gossip?

"I see!"

The husband and wife shouted this sentence almost at the same time, clasped each other's hands and said, "We used to push the direction according to the gossip map of the day after tomorrow——"

"If it is pushed according to the innate gossip diagram, then this should be the Gen position."

"The position of the acquired gossip is in the northeast."

The two of them turned to the northeast corner to take a look, but this time they didn't see the flower garden again, but what they saw was the foot of the hill, and there was a bouldering house on the side.

Qin Fei thought for a while, pulled Cai Wei to the stone room next to the foot of the mountain, and checked it carefully, although he felt that if there was a secret room here, it could only be built in the belly of the mountain, but he couldn't find the location of the mechanism.

Cai Wei took out the piece of paper, and her fingers were still circled from left to right from bottom to top, "These other eight words, 'Why open the door, clear sound around it.'" "I think this is the way to open this secret room, the clear sound surrounds it, the clear sound surrounds it......"

She suddenly remembered a piece that her father had taught her, and her father had composed more than a dozen pieces, but he had never recorded this one on the score, but ordered her to remember it in his heart.

She rushed back to the room and hugged her Yaoqin, sat cross-legged, put the piano on her lap, adjusted the strings, adjusted her breathing, calmed her breath, and played a tune with a "zheng".

Qin Fei has never heard her play this song, and she has never heard anyone play it, and when she listens carefully, she only feels that the rhyme is simple and heavy, and there is some childishness, giving people the feeling of standing tall and dangerous, and a thousand rocks competing for show.

This piece is not short, it takes about half an hour of effort, but after Cai Wei played it again, there was no movement in the stone room.

She flicked it again, and the walls and floor tiles still didn't move.

Third, fourth, fifth......

Qin Fei couldn't stand it anymore, this song mostly uses fingering techniques such as plucking, pinching, splitting, and boiling, opening and closing, and it is extremely laborious to play. Cai Wei was fine when she first played, but now fine beads of sweat have oozed from her forehead.

By the end of the ninth play, Qin Fei saw that her complexion was already a little pale, and her arms had begun to tremble, and she was about to step forward and hold down the strings to prevent her from playing like this anymore, but at the same time that the last sound of the piano disappeared, another sound finally sounded in the stone room.

With the humming sound, the narrow bluestone wall built against the mountain slowly turned, and the gap about a foot long was opened, and it never moved again.

Fortunately, one of them was long, the other was slender, they were both slender people, if he was a fat man, even if the door finally opened, he would not be able to squeeze in.

Qin Fei was afraid that there would be any more mechanisms in this secret room, so he walked in first, lit the fire and saw that there was nothing strange about it, so he was relieved to let Cai Wei in.

Cai Wei came in and took a look, and saw that this secret room was only five feet square, and the four walls were all made of bluestone, and in the middle was a large turtle shell with a bed, and a bronze box was placed on it, and there was nothing else.

There was a strange-shaped lock hanging on the box, Qin Fei had never seen it, so he joked: "This box is so strong and tight, isn't it that your father-in-law has hidden a lot of dowry treasures for you inside?" ”

Cai Wei knew that this was a Shen Gong lock after her father's transformation, and she often used it as a clever tool such as the Nine Rings when she was a child. So it was locked under her hand, but it took only half a cup of tea to untie it, and when she opened the box and looked at it, she cheered.

Qin Fei's eyes also lit up, it turned out that the box was full of books, and the top one was the book "Zhuyi Zhi on the Sea".

Cai Wei opened it and flipped through it slightly, "Yes, it's this one, and my father later added some things later." ”

She handed the book to Qin Fei, and looked at the other books in the box, the more she looked at it, the more ecstatic she became, some of the books there were she had read before, and some of them she had not read, except for a few rare ancient books, the most surprising thing for her was that there were dozens of books translated by her father from Sealand Middle School, as well as the three volumes of "Bouldering Notes" written by her father himself.

She took a cursory look and saw that it not only described her father's various reading experiences in detail, but also put forward a set of governing strategies based on the rise and fall of her country in the past dynasties, referring to the governance laws of many overseas countries.

Qin Fei was reluctant to close the book as soon as she opened it, considering that she had just spent too much effort to open this stone door, and didn't want her to continue to bother, it was cold in this stone room, and she didn't want her to stay here longer. But I wanted to close the book to her domineeringly, but I was afraid that she would be angry, so I deliberately □□ it.

He □□ several times before Cai Wei came back to his senses and hurriedly asked him, "What's wrong, but does the injury hurt again?" ”

Qin Fei pretended to nod his head, "It's a little cold here, lady, it's not too late for us to move this box of books to the study and look at it." ”

Cai Wei held out her hand to him, "Wait, give me the dagger you have with you." ”

Qin Fei handed the blade to her before asking, "What do you want it to do?" Don't you still want to open this bronze box and see what treasure is hidden inside? ”

"Of course, there is no box in this box, but there is one in this turtle shell." She pinpointed the position of a rib on the turtle shell, cut open the turtle shell, and sure enough, she took out an inch of pearl from it, and immediately illuminated the stone chamber with great light.

Qin Fei was surprised and delighted: "How do you know that there are such treasures in this turtle shell, such a good night pearl, I am afraid it can be worth as much as 50,000 taels." ”

Cai Wei smiled: "When I was young, I liked to pester my father to tell me stories, and when I got older, my father let me go to school by myself, and rarely told me stories anymore, but when he was seriously ill, he told me a story of 'transporting Han Yu Qiao Dongting Hong, and Persian beard fingers breaking the dragon shell'." ”*

"There is a dragon that has nine sons, and one of them is a dragon, whose skin can be used as a drum, and the sound is heard for hundreds of miles, so it is called a drum. Long live the dragon, and at the end of its life, it sheds this shell and becomes a dragon. This shell has 24 ribs, according to the 24 qi in the sky, there is a large bead in the middle of each rib, and its beads have luminous light, which is a priceless treasure. It's just that if you want to wait until its ribs are finished, it will really be an unattainable thing, and I can't imagine that my father could come across such treasures when he traveled overseas. ”

Qin Feiwan never imagined that the beads hidden in the shell of this turtle alone would be worth 1.2 million taels of silver.

"Although these night pearls are precious, they are also valuable treasures in the end, and they are priceless compared to the books left by my father-in-law. Especially his precious daughter, who is a unique and irreplaceable treasure in this world! ”

Cai Wei was tired for a long time, and after listening to his sweet words, she suddenly became tired, holding the beads, looking at him with bright eyes and saying: "Although these night pearls are not as precious as these books, but with them, we won't have to worry about not being able to pay military salaries." ”

Qin Fei kissed her fiercely on the face, "What the lady said is very true, let's leave for Yanjing City tomorrow." ”

"But your injuries?"

She looked at him with a slightly apologetic smile on his face and suddenly understood, his injury was probably healed a long time ago, so in order not to increase the pressure of finding books, she told a small lie.

She said helplessly: "What else are you hiding from me?" ”

"Well, the shape of Yanjing City is not very good, the latest news says that the Jurchens sent an envoy to send a letter, saying that they are willing to send troops to help us fight back the thieves, as long as they give them one million taels of silver, 500,000 horses of silk and satin cloth every year in the future, and the rest of the various grain and iron tools. My second uncle was a little tempted by his personal eunuch Ma Shiyuan, fortunately the Empress Dowager Sun was greedy for money, so she dispelled this idea under the persuasion of Cui Xiang, and his mother and son took the imperial relatives and relatives, civil and military ministers have abandoned the capital and fled to the south, and ordered Zhao Mingji, the secretary of the military department, and Lu Sheng, the squire of the military department, to stay and defend the city, and the Jurchens outside the Liaodong Pass also moved, captured Songshan and other cities, and captured Hong Chengshou, the governor of Jiliao, alive, and he had defected and surrendered to the Jurchens. ”

That Zhao Mingzhen is Cai Wei's nominal uncle, he has been on the big tree of Cui Xiang since his own ba, and his official fortune has been prosperous in recent years, and after Sun Shangshu, who took over Chen Shangshu of the Ministry of War, was framed and imprisoned, he sat on the position of Shangshu of the Ministry of War.

Cai Wei was clear about Master Zhao's talents, and as soon as she heard Emperor Linde's arrangement, she knew that this Yanjing City could not be defended.

Sure enough, half a month after they left Meizhou, they received an urgent report, saying that Yanjing had been lost, and Gao Zicheng's army had invaded Yanjing, built the Great Shun Kingdom, and established himself as the emperor.