Chapter 104: The Tunnel
What's going on? Where does this tunnel lead? Did Chef Sun dig it himself? Or is there at all? Would you like to go down and have a look? What if you get caught? …… Ling'er had a long list of questions in her mind, full of curiosity but a little scared!
She hesitated for a while, and for the sake of safety, she decided not to go down for the time being. She returned to the bed, groped around the edge of the bed next to the flower pot for a long time, finally found an inconspicuous groove, pressed it down, and there was a click behind the curtain, and when the sound dissipated, she went in to see, there was only one gong bucket inside, and there was a bit of a stinky smell, and there was no tunnel underneath!
Then Ling'er carefully covered the psychedelic grass with a black cloth in the same way as before, and lightly touched the door, looking for something that made a sound when the door was pushed just now. Looking around, it turned out to be a long spatula, according to its length and the marks on the door, the spatula should be hung behind the door, one end stuck on a nearby wooden box.
She hung the spatula back and tried to reposition it so that she could get it back to shape when she went out. When she stuck the spatula on the edge of the wooden box, she unexpectedly found that the wooden box was particularly familiar?
Ling'er stared at it for a long time, and was suddenly shocked, this box was exactly the same size, shape, and color as the big wooden boxes in the storage room! Before I came back, I saw those wooden boxes in the storage room intact, why did I come here? She circled around the wooden box a few times, and specially checked the lock, it was really exactly the same! What's going on?
When she was wondering, there seemed to be a noise in the courtyard outside, and there was a sharp knock on the door after a sound of knocking footsteps: "Little stone, little stone, get up quickly, Master Sun asked you to come over and help!" Small stones! ……”
Ling'er was startled, and secretly peeked out through the crack in the door, it was Steward Liu's subordinates, who occasionally came to send a message to Chef Sun, I don't know what his name was, but he was a short-tempered person who was not easy to get along with!
There was a loud bang, and the people in Ling'er's room were kicked away by the guy, and he rushed in shouting: "Hey, little stone, I called you, did you hear that?" Don't go again...... Hey, why is there no one? I just saw him coming this way! ”
The man came out of the house, looked around in the courtyard, shouted twice, and knocked on the door again, Ling'er hid behind the door and did not dare to come out, so he could only wait for the man to leave.
Sure enough, the guy didn't find anyone, and scolded a few words angrily, then strode out of the yard, slammed the courtyard door and walked away! Ling'er patted her chest and exhaled gently, it seems that she is really not suitable for this thing of rooster and dog thief, the slightest sound can scare her heart out of her heart!
She calmed down for a while, and suddenly found that she was in a rather bad situation, and the guy just came over for a walk, but he didn't find him, and he must have gone to Chef Sun to recover his life. If you go out now, if you are seen, how can you explain it? If you don't go out, when Chef Sun comes back, won't you catch yourself? Also, how to explain the psychedelic grass in this house, the tunnel, and this big wooden box?
Ling'er hesitated again and again, and her intuition felt that if she went out now, she probably wouldn't have a chance to come back, so it was better to... While there is no one now, go to the tunnel to explore, and maybe you can find a way out of the restaurant! As for how to teach the Yan family a lesson, let's save my life first!
So she uncovered the black cloth that covered the psychedelic grass, looked for the oil lamp by the faint green light, then opened the tunnel, lit the oil lamp, and walked down cautiously. After twenty or thirty steps down the stone staircase, there is a flat ground, and there is a pull ring on the wall on the right hand side, and the chain of the pull ring extends to the direction of the entrance, it should be the mechanism for closing the door, right?
She pulled the pull ring twice and pulled it hard, and after a click on it, the entrance was closed! Ling'er walked forward for more than ten meters with an oil lamp, and found that there was a fork in the road ahead. She thought about it, chose the fork on the left, and marked the bottom of the passage in the direction before moving slowly, and walked about twenty meters to a ladder going up.
Above is the exit? Where? So close? She held the oil lamp and stared in the direction of the exit for a while, which seemed to be very similar to the place where she had just entered, and the exit was also a square meter in size.
She thought about it, stepped back ten meters, put the oil lamp on the ground, and then took advantage of that little light to hold on to the wall and slowly walked up the ladder until she stopped near the box, and squatted down and sat on the ladder to listen to the movement above.
Twitter, ping-pong, dongdong...... There are all kinds of sounds and it seems noisy outside? That chirp seems to be the sound of an animal? Ping Pong is like chopping bones? Knock knock like the sound of walking? Such a mess! Could it be that the above is a big kitchen?
She listened carefully for a while, and suddenly there was a creak in and out, then a rustling of deliberately light footsteps, and a moment later there was a creak, and one said, "Brother Sun, the brothers are ready, how is it?" When to get your hands on? ”
"Shh~~~" There was silence for a while before someone said: "Brother Sun, it's all our brothers outside, what are you afraid of?" ”
"Be quiet, beware of the ears on the wall!"
"Oh, where did the wall come from? I've already found out all around, and it's okay! ”
"You kid, I warned you a long time ago, it's not a big mistake to be careful! Brothers have been preparing for this ticket for months, don't have a problem at this juncture! ”
"Okay, okay, I know, Brother Sun, can I obey you? I listen to you! By the way, Brother Sun, the batch of porcelain from the former dynasty has been changed in the morning, and I am afraid that it will be too conspicuous to carry it out in broad daylight, so I will temporarily put it in the house where you live! I'm going to get out of town in the dead of night tonight, do you think that's an arrangement? ”
"In my house?! Can you be seen? ”
"How is that possible? Brother Sun, I directed the kid into the courtyard, and there were people watching him all the time, and the box was taken through the tunnel. Alas, I originally wanted to put it in the tunnel and find a chance to transport it away, but the tunnel was too narrow, and the box was blocked, so I had to move your house! ”
"Hmm~~ That's fine! By the way, these boxes of porcelain came in later, some of them are still relatively valuable, I have already picked them out, you go to find some fakes to replace them, and transport those that are picked out! ”
"I'm still looking for it! Brother Sun, anyway, we have to do it tonight, what are you going to do? According to me, this Yan family doesn't have a few good things, just put it under a few big bags of sweat medicine, let them sleep for a few days and nights, and when they wake up, we will already go back to the mountain, what do you need to do with him? ”
"Confused, directly drugged, what if there is a fish that slips through the net?"
"That's easy to do, just give him a few knives and let him see Hades!"
Ling'er was startled, she had already heard the voices of the two above, obviously it was Chef Sun and Steward Liu! Listening to Steward Liu's tone, it seems that giving people a few knives is just commonplace! What is this guy doing?
After a moment of silence above, Chef Sun sighed: "You, you!" You kid, you can only be a thief for the rest of your life! ”
Steward Li smiled and said: "Brother Sun, don't talk about me, you are not like me, we are all bandits, what's wrong with being a bandit?" What do you want to do, no one cares, you don't have to pay rent, you don't have to be angry, go back and eat meat and drink a lot, if you don't have money, you will have everything if you go down the mountain! ”
"Well, look at your little bit of interest! What else do you know besides eating and drinking? ”
"Hehe, Brother Sun, don't hurt me, you see that I have been pretending to be my grandson in Yan's house for a few months, isn't it just as good, and I didn't stab Lou Zi! By the way, Brother Sun, how can we spend so much time just taking a few pieces of porcelain? Or... Wouldn't it be clean if we simply destroyed this house and moved all the valuable things up the mountain? ”
Chef Sun didn't answer for a while, and said after a while: "This Yan family is not a rich family, but I heard that in the past two years, they have occupied a lot of land and real estate, and the silver they have looted has also been dug and buried!" Brother Liu, can you find the buried place I asked you to check? ”
"This ...... Brother Sun, the old lady Yan is very powerful, we sent a few maids who didn't have a problem, and we found all the places we could find, but we didn't find a place! Brother Sun, do you think Old Lady Yan will deposit the silver in the silver village? ”
"Impossible, I have already checked this point clearly, except for the third husband and wife of Yan who often deposit silver money in the bank, the rest of the Yan family never steps into the door of the bank! That silver must be in the Yan family's ancestral house! ”
"That's... So what to do? Or... Otherwise, we will go into the Yan family's ancestral house tonight, and all of them will be destroyed, and if we dig three feet into the ground, I won't believe that we won't be able to find it! ”
"Reckless! Forget it, let's put this matter aside for now! It doesn't matter if I can't find a place, I have my own way to make the Yan family honestly spit out all the swallowed ones. Say hello to your brothers, only carry things tonight, don't disturb others, and don't hurt people as a last resort; For the rest, I will make my own arrangements after the banquet tomorrow! ”
"Got an arrangement? Brother Sun, what are you going to ...... By the way, did you feed the potted weeds? ”
"What weeds? That's the divine grass I got with a lot of effort, and if Ming'er can achieve it, it won't work! ”
"Whatever, you have a lot of reason, I can't talk about you! Brother Sun, I'll explain it to my brothers? ”
"Go ahead! …… Wait, you put things in my room, did you lock the door? ”
"Don't worry, Brother Sun, do you think I'm really that confused? I've made a little trap on your door, and if someone gets in, it's sure to leave a mark! ”
"No, I always feel unsure, let's go, go back with me!"
"Huh? Isn't it? Why don't we go down the tunnel? ”
Ling'er was startled when she heard this, and quickly touched the ladder under the wall, then walked over quickly and ran into the depths of the tunnel with the oil lamp, regardless of whether the two came in or not. She returned to the fork in the road with the oil lamp, chose the side and did not walk the road, and trotted forward in a hurry, fortunately there was no fork in the road here, and walked more than a mile around the corner, and finally saw the stone staircase at the exit!
Just in case, she put the oil lamp down as she had done before, and then lightly touched the ladder to go up, listening for a moment to make sure there was no sound outside, and then pushed the exit plank hard.
As the wooden planks clicked away, the situation outside gradually became clear, and she stretched out her head to watch for a while, and was overjoyed, great, this exit was actually in a dilapidated and abandoned courtyard on the edge of the town, and it was less feasible to go out from here and meet people.
She thought about it, and went back to the tunnel to blow out the oil lamp and put it in her arms. Then I removed the exit through a crack, drilled it out, and covered the entrance again. Whew~~~ It's finally out! Ling'er let out a long breath, stood up and patted his clothes and was about to leave, when he suddenly heard a crackling sound nearby, and there was a faint sound of someone talking?
She looked around, but there was no one to see! Looking at the exit cover on the ground again, she was stunned for a moment, then posted it to listen, "Quick, chase quickly, don't let that kid run!" ”
Ling'er was shocked, suffered, and was discovered! (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point (qidian.com) to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support, is my biggest motivation. )