Chapter 32: The Underwater Grave
The two of them took their swords and went deeper into the flowers.
With just a cup of tea, the two of them flew through the large grass musk bushes, the pollen sticking to their shoes, and the heavy fragrance of flowers filled their bodies.
In addition to grass musk, there are large fields of hyacinths, orchids, irises, garland chrysanthemums, calendulas, sunflower chrysanthemums, evening primroses, lavender, poppies, and a pond of lotus ponds dug on the edge is planted with lotus flowers. Some of these flowers are budding and some are waiting to bloom.
Walking undulating among these flowers, Wen Xuan gave birth to a feeling of "only envy mandarin ducks and not immortals" in his heart, and unconsciously glanced at the young man.
The young man pursed his lips slightly, and his sparse eyebrows were very solemn, and there was no heroic spirit. The young man's slender fingers clenched tightly on the sword, and he was engrossed in the flower crown on his feet, carefully searching for the traces of the medicine snake.
Wen Xuan settled down and followed the young man.
The moonlight was hazy, and the two of them were one after the other, jumping up and down in the sea of flowers that they couldn't forget at a glance.
An hour later, all the flowers had been searched, and there was no trace of the medicine snake.
The young man and Wen Xuan sat side by side on the edge of the lotus pond to rest, both sweating slightly, Wen Xuan fanned the wind while holding his clothes, and said, "Childe, is Ah Fu lying to us?"
The boy shook his head, his forehead covered with dense fine sweat, shining like stars in the hazy moonlight and the faint light of the stars.
Wen Xuan's face suddenly became hot, and he turned red, and said in his heart: "I haven't drunk today, why did I fall on my head, is it too hot?"
The young man seemed to notice Wen Xuan's gaze, so he gently wiped away the slight sweat with his sleeve.
The boy shook his head.
"It's not that Ah Fu lied to us, we have all rummaged through the sea of flowers, and there is no medicine snake. ”
The young man looked around, Wen Xuan also looked at it, and said: "I think, the medicine snake is definitely not so easy to find, you think, the flowers here are so beautiful, people from ten miles and eight towns come here to enjoy the flowers, there are many people, if the medicine snake crawls around, it will soon be discovered......"
Suddenly, the young man's gaze stopped, Wen Xuan closed his mouth, and looked along the young man's gaze, and the young man was staring at the lotus pond.
The lotus pond is roughly ten acres square, the crescent moon and starlight in the sky are reflected on the water surface, and the small lotus leaves float gently on the water surface.
"Water!" Wen Xuan patted his head.
"There is no water source in this vicinity, and the water in the water prison and the water in the lotus pond must have been drawn from the river in the mountains!"
Wen Xuan took a deep breath and jumped into the air gently, more than ten zhang high, and he couldn't hide his secret look.
"Guess what I found?" Wen Xuan wanted to sell off.
The boy wrote one on the ground with the branch in his hand: wall.
Wen Xuan blinked, "Okay, the hero sees the same thing!"
"This lotus pond, it seems that in the deepest part of this sea of flowers, it takes a long time to walk in from the entrance, so few people come, but if you jump up and look at it, you will find that the lotus pond is actually only separated by a wall from the back garden of Cui's house,"
Wen Xuan said, looking at the young man's eyes, "The lotus pond and the water prison are connected!"
The boy nodded.
"Where will the medicine snake be?" Wen Xuan looked around.
The young man saw that Wen Xuan had fully recovered his strength at this moment, so he stood up and motioned for Wen Xuan to join him.
"What did you find?" Wen Xuan asked the young man curiously. The young man didn't answer, just kept going deeper, Wen Xuan followed all the way, and observed all the way.
Approaching the large lotus pond at the base of the wall of Cui's house, the young man's brows furrowed.
On this lotus pond, there are wisps of water mist floating, like smoke, a little weird.
Wen Xuan said: "It's like someone has set up a special obstacle. ”
The boy nodded.
The young man looked at the water, and then at Wen Xuan, who immediately understood and said, "I'll make a trick to avoid water." ”
The young man jumped slightly, and disappeared, Wen Xuan pinched the trick and followed quickly.
The two of them reached the bottom of the water, and it was pitch black. Only the dead branches on Wen Xuan's chest kept flashing with light.
Wen Xuan took out the dead branches, and a bright but not dazzling light condensed there.
Because they had broken the diamond chain with Linghua, the two were not surprised that the dead branches would react in the water prison.
In the light of the dead branches, the two of them dived to the bottom of the water, where the mud was more than a man deep and smelled rancid.
The two of them tapped the mud at the bottom of the water and dived in the direction of Cui's house.
Wen Xuan pinched the trick of avoiding water, and he had to carefully avoid the mud, but he found that the boy was diving in the water, not only did he not need to use spells, but he was also flexible and light, and he moved freely, and the water and mud seemed to be afraid of the boy and avoided him early.
Wen Xuan felt cold in his heart, and at the same time followed the young man closely, saving a lot of effort.
After diving for a while, the mud on the soles of their feet thinned, and the two were surprised to find that there was an underwater grave in the water and grass in front of them.
The shape of the tomb was rounded, and the smooth marble exterior was cold in the spiritual light.
The boy and Wen Xuan walked around the grave, but did not find the tombstone.
Wen Xuan tried to touch the outer wall of the underwater tomb with his hand, and was surprised to find that the entire tomb was well protected by the water.
At this time, the boy was already looking for the entrance.
He turned around the grave and knocked, watched, and pondered.
Wen Xuan watched from the sidelines, and said: "Isn't this ancestor of the Cui family practicing medicine, when did he switch to Luban's disciples, he loves to build secret rooms and secret pavilions so much, and he went directly to become a carpenter, and now, even the secret tomb has been built." ”
The young man looked at Wen Xuan, as if he was about to say something. At this time, the young man's hand had already triggered the mechanism on the outer wall, and a square opening opened in the ground on the side of the tomb, revealing the deep stone steps below.
The young man walked in front, Wen Xuan followed behind, and with the water avoidance trick of the grave, Wen Xuan went to the trick and looked around curiously.
The burial chamber is not large, and it is all wrapped in white jade, which is as clear and clean as crystal, and spotless. Walking on the ground, or looking up to see the top of the tomb, is like walking on a jade mirror, and you can see the figure of a person.
It's just that for some reason, the temperature in the tomb is extremely low, and Wen Xuan can't help but sneeze several times.
In the center of the burial chamber, there is a coffin.
The young man and Wen Xuan approached vigilantly and found that in the transparent crystal-like coffin was the corpse of a woman.
Wen Xuan only glanced at Xiao and recognized it.
"Childe, isn't this Mrs. Cui!"
The appearance is similar to Cui Yichen, but it has the peace and tranquility that Cui Yichen does not have.
The boy nodded.
"Mrs. Cui has already been buried in the ancestral tomb of the Cui family, how can she be here?" Wen Xuan asked.
The teenager did not respond.
The twists and turns in this are estimated to be unclear for a while.
The two looked elsewhere, and saw that there were also many small crystal chests on the ground around the tomb.
"Childe, medicine snake!!"
The boy had apparently discovered that the long and short snakes, alone or together, were stuffed into crystal chests, large and small. Because the temperature was so low, the snakes didn't move. But the young man walked around, and probed with his spiritual power, and he already knew in his heart that these were all highly poisonous snakes, and they were not ordinary poisonous snakes, but a new type of poisonous snake that had been fed to the essence life of people. The poison refined by this poisonous snake, yin and yang are staggered and fused, making it impossible for doctors to use medicine, if ordinary people are poisoned by such poison, there is no hope of survival at all.