Chapter 23: The Vault

Fang Jingrou climbed into the cave along the soil and stones at the entrance, and only two meters before touching the bluestone ground. It was dry and cold, Fang Jingrou straightened up, looking for another pepper on the ground that had closed the door, only to see this little beast crouching a foot in front of her.

Fang Jingrou stepped forward and stepped on the snail shell behind it with her foot, and a piercing hinge and sand grinding sound came, and the earth and rocks above fell down, and the light gradually became smaller, and finally only the halo of the flashlight remained.

In this pitch-black space, Fang Jingrou didn't have the sense of fear she imagined, but was at ease.

She found the niche in the cave wall, lit the candle inside, and turned off the flashlight. Take the candle and walk towards the depths of the secret room.

The further she went, the more familiar Fang Jingrou became with this secret room. In a trance, I recalled the scene when Feng Mingyue was here.

Passing through the bluestone road, the front suddenly opens up. This is a natural cave in the belly of the mountain, and Fang Jingrou lit up the five floor-to-ceiling candlesticks in the cave one by one.

The giant candle illuminated the cave as much as day, and objects that seemed familiar but were actually unfamiliar were displayed in front of her eyes.

It is an irregular space, about 100 square meters, and the floor is made of bluestone. The walls of the cave around it were also very smooth, and the cave was dry, and there were large cabinets made of iron birch wood with eight sides and a height of three or four meters wide, and the doors of the cabinets were beautifully carved and hung with huge copper locks.

There are more than a dozen large boxes stacked on the ground around the cabinet, and dozens of small boxes and small boxes of different sizes are scattered on the top of the boxes, filling the entire space.

Looking at these things, Fang Jingrou had slowly remembered what was inside, after more than 400 years, these boxes and cabinets had been full of dust, but Fang Jingrou's mind still remembered what they looked like back then.

Two of the eight-sided cabinets are jewelry, four cabinets are ornaments, and the remaining two cabinets are porcelain.

Most of the boxes stacked on the ground contained gold, silver, jade, calligraphy and paintings, etc., and those small boxes contained some unmounted gems, pearls, medicinal herbs, and things that were collected later but could no longer fit in the large cabinets.

There are so many things, and any one of them is an antique from the Ming Dynasty, but Fang Jingrou is not as excited as she imagined.

Because these were originally hers. Feng Mingyue's memories not only gave her information, but also gave her mentality.

She didn't rush to open the chests, but walked to the innermost corner of the stone room, and fiddled around in a hidden position in the shadow under the vertical candelabra, and the stone wall on the opposite side slowly opened a small door half a man high.

Fang Jingrou swooped in, and inside was a winding path. After a few turns, we reached another cave.

There is a hole in this cave. Different from the stone chamber just now, this is a natural karst cave that is twice as large as the front room, the top of the cave faintly penetrates a ray of heavenly light, and there is a circular pool with a diameter of five or six meters in the center of the cave, and the water in the pool is like red milk, warm and viscous.

There is a stout Danmu growing on the edge of the pool, which was planted by Feng Mingyue himself back then, and now it has grown so tall.

Danmu likes temperature, and cannot live in non-geothermal places. Mt. Shouyang is an extinct volcano with hot spring veins underneath. This is a pool formed by the fusion of hot spring veins and lazuli milk in the volcano. The four seasons are warm, which is suitable for the growth of this tree.

It's spring, and the trees are strong and dense, with branches as red as fire, and golden flowers blooming on them. The breeze blows, the petals fall into the water, and the golden petals float in the crimson pool, and the picture is extremely enchanting.

The temperature in this cavern was much warmer than in the Frontrooms, and the humidity was much higher.

Not far from the waterhole is a desk, a chair and a bookshelf. Fang Jingrou walked over lightly and saw that the books, brushes and other objects on the table and shelves had rotted due to the high humidity in the air, and they could no longer see their original appearance. Only one jade box and inkstones, pen washes, paperweights and other gold and stone objects are well preserved.

Desks and bookshelves and other furniture are made of iron birch, which is not damaged by water and fire and is still in good condition.

There is a jade carved screen at the back, and behind the screen is a carved bed.

The veils and brocade tents on the bed have also been corrupted, and they will turn into flying flakes with a light flick.

Looking at all this, thinking back to the scene of the year, Fang Jingrou felt that her heart seemed to be a hundred years old.

Put down your gear and go to the waterhole, which was creamy yellow more than 400 years ago, but now it has turned red.

The fruit of Danmu is red, and it fuses into the water every year, and this pool of water is no longer a simple hot spring, but a medicinal soup.

The water temperature is about 40 degrees, and the red gold and stone milk fused in the spring are things that many animals dare not approach, so there are no snakes, insects, rats and ants here, and the fruits of Danmu are all nourishing things that prolong life, and this is really a good place to relax and bathe.

Fang Jingrou simply cleaned up the cave and cleaned up the rotten brocade tent and books to the corner. Wipe down the furniture with a towel in your backpack dipped in water. After checking the surroundings, there were no other animals except for smaller birds, which flew in through the cracks in the roof of the cave.

It was already afternoon when she entered the secret room, and it was already past 4 p.m. when she looked at her watch, and she was going to live here tonight.

After eating some food, Fang Jingrou took off her clothes, stepped into the pool water, and slowly immersed herself in the water. The water in the pool is not deep only to the waist, and after finding a place to sit by the pool, Fang Jingrou closed her eyes comfortably, enjoying the effect of this beauty soup to eliminate fatigue.

It made her feel very safe and comfortable, just like the bright moon that lived here back then.

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And the taste outside the cave, at this time, the words "Spring and Autumn in the Realm" have been discovered.

He circled the ground that had fallen by the opening of the chamber and now looked like it had been turned upside down.

I stepped back and forth from above a few times, touched my clean-shaven chin, and grinded my teeth.

What I felt in the meditation was the trembling of the earth, not the sound of the earth's surface. It seems that there must be a secret door under the floating earth here, and someone has just gone down.

Judging from the font of the four small seals of "Spring and Autumn in the Realm", as well as the degree of weathering of the handwriting, it is at least a product of the same period as the goddess shrine.

According to his own research, the goddess shrine here should have existed in the Qin and Han dynasties, and was destroyed at the end of the Ming Dynasty and has not been rebuilt until today.

In fact, what he expected was good, there was originally a natural cave under this boulder, which could lead to the hot spring pool where Fang Jingrou was now soaking.

Feng Mingyue used the original terrain to build a secret room here, which became a private secret for her.

Knowing the taste, coming to the interest. It's been a long time since it's been so interesting.

He decided to wait for the rabbit, and since someone went in below, he would definitely come out. He just had to wait here, and he would be able to wait for the man and find out what was down there.

Otherwise, even if he struggled to find the switch to open the secret door now, he would not be able to enter suddenly. It's better to use the cheapest method.

What's more, there are still two guys outside the forest who don't know where they come from, so they can't act rashly.