Liu Yingyi has always thought that his senior brother is a person who dares to love and hate, and it is impossible to cry because of any small things.

"Senior brother, what's wrong with you?" Liu Yingyi stepped forward and asked.

Ning Wuze was in tears, his tears were wetting his clothes, and he didn't know how long this thing had been crying here.

Ning Wu glanced at Liu Yingyi and let go of the thing he was holding in his arms.

Liu Yingyi glanced at the thing, it was a stubby root.

The roots of the tree seemed to have been carefully carved, the bark was polished smooth, and the shape of a man was carved on it, but the knife was relatively immature, and the appearance of the man was not pretty, but it was almost obvious that he had eyes, nose, and mouth.

Ning Wuze held this tree carving, with infinite sadness and grief in his eyes, "This is the first birthday gift I gave to my master when I was ten years old. He laughed at my knife skills and poor craftsmanship, I thought he turned around and threw away my gifts, but I didn't expect that he had kept them for so many years, and I misunderstood the master! ”

He said to Liu Yingyi with remorse: "It's all my fault, if I receive the letter and rush to Yuan's mansion directly, maybe...... Maybe the master won't die! ”

"Senior brother, people can't be resurrected after death. The dead are gone, and the most important thing at present is to find the real culprit who poisoned the master. ”

Liu Yingyi's words seemed to make Ning Wuze regain his courage, he put the small piece of wood carving into his arms, wiped the tears on his face again, and then glared at everyone with red eyes.

Ning Wuze's appearance was a little fierce, staring at a pair of big red eyes like rabbits, as if he was glaring angrily, and the people in the county government who were busy watching the excitement just now immediately withdrew their gaze with interest.

Ning Wu said to Liu Yingyi: "You are right, I must help the master find the real culprit who killed him." ”

After a little farce, everyone began to take a closer look at the secret room.

This secret room is only half the size of the study above, and judging by the length of the secret passage outside, this secret room is about the underground of the study near the garden, and it may not have been long before it was built, because the secret passage soil that she just passed through is still very new.

There was nothing in a secret room except for two rows of Bogu shelves.

On the Bogu shelf, there are items neatly placed.

A book, a clay sculpture, a porcelain, an inkstone, a bouquet of dried flowers or a wrench......

What is strange is that the items placed on this Bogu shelf are not precious antiques and jade like other big families, but ordinary items.

Shui Qingxiang estimated that the most valuable thing on these Bogu shelves was the wrench, which was carved by Hetian jade, but unfortunately the color of this jade was not good, it was not emerald green, and it was worth five taels of silver at most when it was taken to the pawnshop outside.

Shui Qingxiang felt strange, Yuan Lao kept such a secret room, just to put these ordinary things, isn't it a bit too wasteful?

When Shui Qingxiang saw Liu Yingyi standing in front of the Bogu shelf, stretched out her hand to pick up a book on it and flipped through it, her eyes slowly dimmed.

Shui Qingxiang walked over and noticed that there was no writing on the cover of the book, and it seemed to be a transcription of a line of poetry.

Liu Yingyi looked at the poems inside, and said with feeling: "This is the poem I once wrote when the master enlightened me, and the master was very strict with me at that time, and if I couldn't hand in my homework every day, he would hit my palm with a bamboo branch." At that time, I wrote a lot of poems, most of them so as not to be punished, and I thought that the master had forgotten all these things, but I didn't expect to record them specifically. ”

When Shui Qingxiang saw Liu Yingyi say this, her eyes flashed with tears, and it seemed that the simple and beautiful years in the past flashed in front of her again.

Shui Qingxiang didn't expect that Yuan Gong was such a nostalgic person.

People who miss the old value feelings, and it is very likely that they know who the murderer is, but they refuse to say it clearly, so they wrote such a letter to Ning Wuze.

"I didn't expect that Lord Liu was also a prodigy when he was a child." Shui Qingxiang quipped.

"It's not a prodigy, it's just that the homework taught by the master will be studied seriously, unlike my senior brother, who is always disobedient and makes the master angry." Liu Yingyi was teased by Shui Qingxiang like this, and also joked humorously.

Ning Wuze snorted when he heard this.

Liu Yingyi immediately put the book in his arms, as a memorial to his master.

However, the Yancheng County Order was a little frustrated, and thought that there would be clues to the murderer when he entered the secret room, but he didn't expect that all the ordinary things were placed here.

"Bring these things back to the county government and investigate slowly." Yancheng County ordered the two catchers beside him.

"Hey, isn't there something missing here?" Ning Wuzezai, who seemed to be careless, carefully looked at the two rows of Bogu shelves and found that there was something missing from the top Bogu shelf lattice on the left.

According to the usual practice, there should be one thing on the shelf of each Gebo ancient shelf, except for the root carving that Ning Wuze took away, and the book that Ning Wuze put in his arms, it stands to reason that there should be one more thing.

But at the moment, in that grid, there was nothing.

"Could it be that the murderer had already infiltrated here before they found the secret room?" Yancheng County Ling had a nervous look on his face.

However, Shui Qingxiang said with great certainty: "Before us, the murderer did not come. Before I went in, I found that the dust at the entrance of the secret passage was very thick, at least as if it had not been cleaned for more than a month. So, I'm sure no one has come in before us. ”

"What about the lack of something on the grid?" Ning Wu raised the bar.

Shui Qingxiang didn't say anything, she looked at the empty space on the Bogu shelf, and carefully searched the room.

Suddenly, Shui Qingxiang found a small piece of emerald green jade in the corner.

"What is this?" Shui Qingxiang picked up the jade piece.

Everyone gathered around, staring intently at the jade piece.

The sharp eyes of the Yancheng County Commander, after seeing the jade piece, couldn't help but say, "This...... Isn't this a jade unicorn? ”

"Jade Qilin? How can the county magistrate conclude that it is a jade unicorn based on a jade piece? Shui Qingxiang asked curiously.

The county commander paused, and said with infinite sighs: "That's because I have the fate to see this jade unicorn twice." The first time was that I hadn't yet gained fame, and I was fortunate enough to accompany my teacher to visit Yuan Lao, and I saw this jade unicorn in the house. The second time was when I became the commander of Yancheng County, I visited Yuan Lao and saw this jade unicorn again in Yuan Lao's study. ”

"This jade unicorn is a gift from the first emperor, it is a ghostly workmanship, the only treasure in the world, I looked a little more carefully, the jade is warm and natural, it is made of a whole piece of jade. According to Yuan Gong, when this piece of jade is quarried from the mother stone, it is like a unicorn, and the craftsman just slightly modifies it along the lines, as if it is a jade unicorn dug out of the jade. So, I'm sure, this is the fragment of the jade unicorn. ”

Liu Yingyi took the jade piece from Shui Qingxiang's hand, also observed it carefully, and then frowned slightly: "Yes, this is indeed a jade unicorn, a piece close to the lower abdomen." ”

When he was a teenager, Liu Yingyi also saw this jade unicorn, and thought that this jade unicorn had an unpleasant quarrel with his master, but now that he thinks about it, it was all reckless things he did when he was a teenager.

"It's just, why did this jade unicorn break?"