The village chief and Meng Qingwu were both shocked, but Meng Qingwu was really frightened by Lin Chen's words, and the village chief looked like a ghost.

"Don't deny it, since I dare to say it, I already know it. Do you think the prince can really cover the sky with one hand?" Lin Chen stepped forward and said angrily.

The village chief seemed to have no strength in his body at this time, and collapsed on the chair.

"I said, I said...... That man's name was Qi Hua, and he was indeed the prince's man. ”

Next, the village chief babbled and told those old stories as they were.

The prince's people did find the village chief three years ago, not long before they discovered Hu Ling's identity. Other things had already been said before, but the village chief omitted some things, and what the village chief said also made Lin Chen know more about the secrets of Gujing Village.

The ancient well was built in the fiftieth year of the Holy Emperor, that is, one hundred and twelve years ago. After it was completed, a village was formed here, and the role of this village is twofold, one is to guard this well, to guard the secrets of this well, and the other is to be the eyes of this Nanshan. But these were known only to the village chief, who at that time could be said to be semi-militarized, and all the villagers obeyed the instructions of the village chief.

Originally, according to the plan, it didn't seem that these secrets needed to be kept for too long, but I didn't know what went wrong in the middle, and the secrets here have been preserved to this day.

In the first year of Emperor Yongdi, Ding Li, the head of this village, left Gujing Village with some of his family members and handed over the post of village head to Zhang Fengnian's grandfather. But when he left, he only said that the existence of the village was to protect the mountain and the well, and said that it was meaningless to keep it any longer, but he never said why he wanted to protect the mountain and the well.

Since then, the Ding family has been gone for several generations, until three years ago, the Ding family suddenly moved back and recognized their ancestors.

The Ding family will not talk about it for the time being, but only that three years ago, Qi Hua found the village chief and said that he would buy the well and let all the villagers move. The village chief naturally refused, and the people in the village had grown up in this village since they were born, so who was willing to move? So the village chief refused Qi Hua without thinking about it.

Later, there was the matter of Hu Ling, Qi Hua used this to blackmail the village chief, and took the village chief to secretly go down the well once, but at that time, the two only checked it slightly and did nothing. And the big clip in the secret room was actually put by Qi Hua at that time, in order to prevent the village chief from secretly returning to steal the gold, but the village chief only found out after entering again tonight.

After coming up from the well, Qi Hua told the village chief his identity, and said that his own people sent Hu Ling back to the mountain, and if he didn't cooperate with him, he asked the fox demon grandmother on the mountain to release Hu Ling back.

The village chief believed it and kept an eye on the ancient well for them, waiting for the need. Later, a few days ago, the village chief threw some water from the river into this well according to Qi Hua's instructions, and then there was a later incident.

"Since Qi Hua has such a good relationship with the fox demon, and can give away people to the fox demon, and can let the fox demon release people, why don't you let Qi Hua help you save your son?" Lin Chen said puzzled.

"I said it, but he told me that it doesn't matter if you are loyal to your son, it will not be a problem to hold on for seven or eight days, and I will take this opportunity to lead you to the mountains, and then I will treat my son. ”

Lin Chen smiled, this Qi Hua couldn't even see that Zhang Zhong was okay at all, and dared to say that he was curing the disease, it seemed that he was just fooling the village chief, it seemed that Zhang Zhong had no intention of leaving a living mouth for the village chief at all, or maybe it was so, Zhang Zhong dared to tell the village chief his identity.

Lin Chen told the village chief about his inference, and the village chief's face turned even whiter.

"I don't have any interest in knowing what was right and wrong before. Because the urgent thing at the moment is whether the fox demon will really chase after him, and whether the prince's people will advance the plan and send someone to slaughter the village after this matter. How much do you know about the prince's plans. ”

"My lord, that's all I know, and I really don't know what they're planning and why they're killing all the people in our village. The village chief said helplessly.

"Okay, I believe you, I guess he won't tell you such an important thing. In this way, you will act as if nothing happened, and if Qi Hua looks for you again, you will say that you have made excuses to prevaricate in the past. As for our side, we told him that he really met a fox demon and that he had a secret treasure to escape, so he escaped back, and didn't say anything else. ”

After the order, Lin Chen asked the village chief to go back to the house and go to sleep. Only Lin Chen and Dream Qingwu were left in the room.

"How do you know that the prince is going to slaughter the village?"

"It's not hard to guess, you've ever seen a high-ranking person leave such a big handle to someone else, and that's the gold of Shangguo's treasury. ”

"What if the prince's people come to Tu Village in the next few days?" said Meng Qingwu anxiously.

"That's why I asked the village chief to tell the man that we had a secret treasure to escape, and that as long as we were still there, they wouldn't dare to do anything, and they would try to lure us away first, or get rid of us altogether. ”

"Oh, is there another fight to fight?" Dream Qingwu rubbed his hands, obviously being chased and beaten by the fox demon during the day, and his heart was very suffocated.

"Let's not talk about this for a while, how do you know where the stone gate mechanism in the secret room is?" Lin Chen had wanted to ask for a long time, but he never had a chance.

"Well, this is exactly the same as the mechanism in our dreamer's house, and I thought of it at the time, so I gave it a try. ”

Lin Chen was even more puzzled, but he thought that he and Meng Qingwu couldn't answer why it was such a coincidence, so he didn't study this question anymore.

The two of them just said that, and I discussed how to deal with the fox demon on the mountain, as well as the possible actions of the prince's side.

By the time Dream fell asleep, it was already the second half of the night. But Lin Chen didn't feel sleepy, although he walked the mountain road for most of the day today, a lot of information had been circling in Lin Chen's mind, making it difficult for him to sleep.

In the fiftieth year of the Holy Emperor, Gujing Village was completed, and the cave passage on the mountain and Nanxian Mountain should have been discovered earlier, otherwise the village chief of Gujing Village looked at Nanshan and the duty of guarding Gujing would not make sense. The Holy Emperor reigned for only fifty years, and then succeeded by his grandson, Emperor Ling, that is, Meng Siqing's father. Emperor Ling reigned for twenty-two years, and was then succeeded by his son, Emperor Yong.

The style of the sword armor in the belly of this mountain obviously has the shadow of Lin Jiajun's era, and where is the gold in this treasury that ordinary people can access?

Therefore, a bold conjecture was formed in Lin Chen's mind, could it be that the sword armor and gold in this mountain were all hidden here by Meng Siqing's Lao Tzu Ling Emperor, and he planned to use them to force the palace?

Lin Chen knew that if he wanted to confirm his conjecture, he had to find someone who was familiar with that period of history and asked if there was a branch of the army with the word "Fei" in it during that period, and he strongly supported Emperor Ling's ascension. If there really is, then your own conjecture may not be far from ten.

But this conjecture can explain why Ding Li, the former head of Gujing Village, said those words, and it can also explain why Ding Li ran away. The Spirit Emperor is gone, and there is no need to keep these things at all.

The Ling Emperor guarded before he ascended the throne in order to use it to rebel, and after the Ling Emperor ascended the throne, he guarded it in order not to be discovered; after the death of the Ling Emperor, he naturally did not need to keep it anymore, and if the new emperor knew about it, the result would be difficult to say. Inflict a treason on yourself, and then collect all your belongings, and if you die, you will die in vain, and you will still be stinking for 10,000 years.

But these are just speculations, and Lin Chen is just thinking about it. And these old things have nothing to do with me, it's best when I don't find that channel.

But whether the current Ding family is the descendants of Ding Li, and how much do they know about what happened back then?

However, these are not the things that bother Lin Chen the most, the thing that bothers Lin Chen the most is that if Hu Ling is really taken away by Qi Hua's people, I am afraid that it will be difficult to find the bones now, how can I tell Xiao Li?

In the midst of these complicated thoughts, Lin Chen almost fell asleep until almost dawn.

Lin Chen felt that he had just closed his eyes, and was woken up by the noisy sound outside the house, Lin Chen rubbed his sleepy eyes, got up and dressed, and opened the door of the house, only to see that the courtyard was already full of villagers.