Wan Xi saw the figure pounce on Zhou Kao, and she rushed behind Zhou Kao without thinking. Fortunately, Zhou Kao reacted quickly, he turned around, found that the enemy was coming, and saw Wan Xi blocking in front of him, so he couldn't care about anything, hurriedly threw away the torch, hugged Wan Xi and jumped to the side, and the two fell to the ground together.

Although the torch was not extinguished at this time, the light of the fire was dim after falling to the ground, and nothing could be seen clearly in the tomb. Zhou Kao hurriedly asked, "Cousin, are you okay?" Wan Xi's faint voice was almost inaudible: "I'm fine." When Zhou Kao heard Wan Xi's answer, he felt a little relieved, but he immediately smelled a burst of aroma, which made his heart sway and his mind dizzy. It turned out that he was holding Wan Xi in his arms, and what he smelled was Wan Xi's daughter's body fragrance. The aroma made his whole body soothe, and he just wanted to lie down like this, never get up.

But at this time, there were bursts of cries for help in the darkness, and Zhou Kao suddenly woke up and said secretly: Damn! Damn it! At this moment, you are in danger, why are you still thinking nonsense? He hurriedly picked up Wan Xi, picked up the torch again, and looked around, but he didn't see the person who attacked him.

He wondered: Why did this person disappear in an instant? Do you hide behind the coffin? While he was thinking, he heard someone shouting from below: "Help, help—"

Zhou Kao shone the torch downward, and only then did he see a half-cut figure on the ground, with his back to him. Zhou Kao was startled and thought: What kind of monster is this? He didn't dare to approach, but he just pulled Wan Xi and carefully walked around to the front of the man, only to find that he was not allowed.

I saw that the whole body was covered with sand, and the waist down had sunk in, and only the upper body was still exposed. He also held a copper knife in his hand, which showed that he was the one who attacked Zhou Kao just now. Wan Xi was shocked and angry, and shouted: "I spared your life just now, why did you take revenge and attack us instead?" ”

It is not allowed to say with a crying voice: "The villain should die, the villain overheard you just now, and knew that he was in charge of the eldest lady, and he was angry in his heart; And when I saw that you had found the treasure, I thought, "Just ...... Just ......"

It turned out that he was not allowed to rob tombs for a living, but because of this, he developed a special skill, and his eyes could see in the dark, just like in the daytime. He was confident that he could hide in the dark and not be discovered, so he quietly followed Zhou Kao and the two into the tomb and eavesdropped on their conversation. Until he saw that the two of them had discovered the mechanism in the tomb, he thought in his heart that his subordinates would listen to Wan Xi, mainly because they were afraid of Zhou Kao, as long as they could kill him, those people would naturally have to obey his orders. In this way, you can not only get the treasure, but also occupy the beautiful girl in front of you.

Wan Xi could guess a few points about the dirty thoughts in his heart, but she couldn't understand why she might not fall into the ground, so she asked, "What kind of trick are you playing?" ”

Don't say with a wry smile: "Miss, what tricks can I play, I can't control the momentum, and I rush straight into this quicksand trap." ”

Wan Xi was a little unconvinced, and said, "Just now, my cousin and I walked around the coffin, and we were all safe, why did you fall in?" ”

"That's probably because you opened the trap of the hidden treasure, so the trap was triggered." ”

Only then did Wan Xi understand that if she hadn't attacked Zhou Kao just now, then it might be her and Zhou Kao who fell into this quicksand trap at this moment. She thought to herself: In this way, this may not be the substitute ghost for me and my cousin, but it is also his own fault, but he can't blame others.

It is not allowed to look at Wan Xi's face is cloudy, knowing that it is useless to beg her, so he turned to Zhou Kao and said: "Zhou Gongzi, Zhou Gongzi, please save the villain's life, the villain must know how to repay you for his kindness, and repay you as a cow and a horse in the next life." ”

Zhou Kao couldn't bear to see death and not save him, so he said to Wan Ji: "Let's pull him up." ”

Wan Xi secretly thought: This must not be a repeated villain, I am afraid that there will be endless troubles in the future. But if he dies in this quicksand trap, his cousin will inevitably feel guilty in the future. When she was in distress, she couldn't hear the scolding: "My gang of men are all ungrateful, and none of them came in to save me!" ”

Wan Xi smiled contemptuously: "How can you ever be kind to them? How can a person like you have the face to mention the word kindness and righteousness? ”

He had heard that this quicksand trap was so powerful that he knew that if he was trapped in it for too long, even if he was rescued in the end, his legs would have to be destroyed. He was extremely frightened in his heart, and cried and begged: "Miss, I swear in the name of my ancestors that from now on, I will be willing to be the slave of Miss Miss, and I will be sent at will, and I will have no dissent." If you break this oath, call me...... Let me be punished by the grave! ”

This punishment was to chop people into meat sauce, which was a very cruel punishment at that time. Wan Xi smiled slightly when she heard this, and said to Zhou Kao, "Cousin, help him up." ”

Zhou Kao was about to step forward to pull Missile's arm, but Nick hurriedly stopped him and said, "Don't come here!" It's all sand, and if you get close, you'll get stuck in it! ”

Zhou Kao was stunned: "Then how can I save you?" ”

"You'll have to find a big plank and let me lie on it." When I slowly lift my legs out of the sand, you can pull me out, otherwise it would be useless to break my hand. ”

Zhou Kao thought, where to find a big plank in this tomb? He looked around, and finally his eyes fell on Emperor Shun's wooden coffin, thinking that this coffin cover was not just right for use? He was about to move the coffin cover, but he heard Wan Ji say, "Don't you see the hole next to you?" You reach in and see what's inside? ”

He was so overjoyed that he forgot that he was still in a trap, and pulled out a stone box from the hole with a smile on his face.

At this time, Wan Xi beckoned to him, and the smile on his face suddenly froze, he swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and obediently threw the stone box at Wan Xi. Wan Ji said to Zhou Kao with a smile: "Okay, cousin, you go and call all the subordinates who are not allowed to come and save him together." ”

So the forbidden men came in one after another, and it took a lot of effort for this group of people to finally rescue the forbidden from the trap, and they were not allowed to lie on the ground so tired that they could not move. He still said to himself: "The waist pit, it turned out to be in the waist pit, why didn't I think of it earlier?" ”

Wan Xi didn't bother to pay attention to him, opened the stone box to see, and saw two jade plates inside. Wan Xi picked up the jade plate and looked at it carefully, only to see that there were many red symbols on one plate, a bit like words, but Wan Xi didn't recognize any of them; The other piece is painted with various graphics, and Wan Xi looked at it for a long time, but she didn't know what it meant. Hey, what kind of treasure is this? She couldn't help but be a little excited, and held up the jade plate and the stone box and said, "Are these the treasures you have worked so hard to find?" ”

He was not allowed to look at the two jade plates, and then looked at the stone box that was already empty, and said with a sad face: "The villain didn't expect this Emperor Shun to be so shabby in the mausoleum. In addition to the clay pots and clay pots in this room, there are stone axes and stone spears. These two jade plates are ordinary, and they are not valuable things, and they actually have to dig a quicksand trap next to them. ”

After hearing this, Wan Xi "sneered" and laughed, and said: "Emperor Shun is not shabby. My father once said that in ancient times, people traded goods for pottery, which is equivalent to today's seashells. This clay pot full of clay pots can be regarded as a lot of wealth. It's just that now that there are more pottery, it is not as precious as before. ”

After not being allowed to listen, he didn't catch his breath and fainted.

Now that Wan Xi had found the treasure, she remembered the corpses in the tomb and never wanted to stay in it again. She and Zhou Kao returned to the stone room, and the two sat down against the wall to rest. Wan Ji asked, "Cousin, how did you find me?" ”

Zhou Kao told him how he had followed the footprints all the way, he took out the jade pendant from his arms and handed it to Wan Xi, and said: "Fortunately, I saw this jade pendant hanging on the branches, otherwise I would definitely not be able to find the entrance to the tunnel." ”

Wan Xi smiled: "At that time, they were not allowed to enter the cave, but I saw that the entrance was very hidden, and I was afraid that you would not find it, so I thought about leaving a mark." But I have nothing on me but this jade pendant, so I ......" She said halfway through when her face suddenly turned red, and she immediately stopped talking.

But when she peeked at Zhou Kao with her eyes, she saw that Zhou Kao didn't realize it at all. Wan Xi suddenly felt angry in her heart, and said secretly: Cousin, this elm head, really doesn't know anything.

At this time, Zhou Kao said: "Cousin, what do you say are painted on these two jade plates?" What is the origin of the masked man who let him not come to steal the treasure? ”

Wan Ji replied absentmindedly: "I don't know, I can only go back and ask my father." ”

Zhou Kao said again: "The masked man said that colored jade is the key to treasure hunting, and we did use those two colored jade to find the jade version." But since he knew the clues to the treasure, why didn't he come to find it himself, but he had to entrust him not to come? Wouldn't that be even more troublesome? ”

Wan Xi didn't answer, but said, "Cousin, why did you come to me alone?" Aren't you afraid of danger? ”

Zhou Kao said in a snort: "I couldn't see you, so I was in a hurry, so I immediately chased after you." I was afraid that I would not be able to find the footprints on the ground, so I didn't have time to ask my father, so I went into the mountains and forests......" He said this incoherently, and Wan Xi smiled when she heard it, and secretly thought: This stuffy gourd was supposed to be poured a few more times before I knew what was inside. She interrupted Zhou Kao and said to him, "Cousin, did you often disobey your uncle and make your own decisions?" ”

Zhou Kao said: "No, no, like today, it is the first time in my life that I have acted alone without my father's permission. It was only then that he thought of what kind of punishment he would receive when he saw his father, and his heart suddenly felt a little uneasy.

Wan Xi looked at his face, and immediately guessed Zhou Kao's thoughts, and comforted him: "Cousin, you saved me, my uncle will definitely not punish you, even if you want to be punished, my father will definitely intercede for you." ”

Zhou Kao nodded and said, "As long as I can save you, it doesn't matter if I am punished by my father." ”

Wan Xi lowered her head after hearing this, and was silent for a long time. Zhou Kao asked, "Cousin, what's wrong with you?" Wan Ji raised her head and said, "It's nothing, it's just a little sleepy." ”

Zhou Kao saw that her eyes were a little red, so he said, "Since you are sleepy, then you can sleep." ”

Wan Xi said: "What if we are not allowed to sneak attack again while we are asleep?" ”

Zhou Kao said: "I don't sleep, I only sit next to you." With that, he gathered the thatch on the ground and spread it into a thick stack so that Wan Xi could lie on it. But Wan Xi pouted and said, "I don't want to sleep on the ground like a slave." ”

Zhou Kao didn't expect her to make the young lady temperament at this time, so he said helplessly: "What can I do then?" There are no couches here. ”

Wan Ji said: "Then I have to just take a moment and sleep on my cousin's shoulder." After that, without waiting for Zhou Kao's consent, Wan Xi had already pillowed her head on his shoulder. Zhou Kao didn't dare to brush her mind, so he sat cross-legged motionless.

At this moment, Zhou Kao not only smelled the faint fragrance from Wan Xi's body, heard her slight breathing, and the warm and soft touch of her body, all these feelings that he had never experienced made him extremely comfortable, but at the same time made him unsettled. After a while, Zhou Kao felt burning in his body, his face was hot, and he even wanted to open his arms to hold Wan Xi in his arms several times.

In the end, Zhou Kao remembered the method of exhaling and convincing qi taught by the bear, and hurriedly forcibly collected his mind, looked at his nose and nose, and guided the heat flow in his body into the dantian with his breathing, which slowly calmed down. Zhou Kao thought to himself: Fortunately, Master Huoshi taught me this fetal breathing skill, otherwise I don't know what to do just now.

When the next week's test calmed his mind and calmed down, guiding the breath in the dantian to flow through the five internal organs, limbs and hundreds of remains, and only felt that the whole body could not say Shu Tai, and gradually entered the realm of forgetting things and me. I don't know how long it took, Zhou Kao heard footsteps in his ears, and then the breath that filled his body was withdrawn into the dantian.

Zhou Kao opened his eyes only to find that the torch in his hand was only a little ember, but his eyes had adapted to the darkness, so he could see that one of his subordinates was walking towards him. Zhou Kao was still a little wary of these people, so he wanted to stand up, but he was afraid of alarming Wan Xi, so he sat back in a blink of an eye.

Although Zhou Kao only shook slightly, Wan Ji woke up immediately. When she saw Zhou Kao, she immediately said, "Oh, cousin, I didn't want to sleep, but you are so warm, I fell asleep in a daze." ”

Zhou Kao said to her, "It's okay", and then helped Wan Xi up. He said to his men, "Did you come to us for something?" The man did not dare to approach, but stood far away, and said, "Childe, miss, it should be dawn outside." The villain came to ask the two nobles, when do they plan to leave? ”

Wan Ji said: "Of course, the sooner the better, where are you not allowed?" You called him to me. ”

The man "Weiwei" continued to speak and retreated. After a short time, I saw that I was holding a torch again and came to the two of them. Wan Ji said to him: "No, you obediently lead us down the mountain, and I will intercede with my father and spare you from death; If you play tricks again, I will take your life!" "Not allowed: "Miss, I swore to my ancestors that I would like to serve Miss as a slave and a servant in this life, how dare I have a different heart?" I have an exit from this secret passage at the peach blossom stream on the north slope of Shouyang Mountain, and from there, go down the mountain, and walk another thirty miles to Yucheng. ”

Wan Ji thought to herself: I don't know if my father will wait in the place where he was separated yesterday, even if he is not there, he will definitely send someone to guard there. If we go directly to Yucheng, we don't know where to look for him. So she said, "I want to go back to the place where I was separated from my father yesterday." ”

Not allowed: "This is also easy to do, there is an exit from the secret passage in Fengboyu, from there to go down the mountain, and you can walk a short distance to yesterday...... This is the place where I met the eldest lady. ”

Wan Xi couldn't help but ask, "How many exits do you have in this secret passage?" ”

Not allowed: "Miss Hui, the exits of Fengboyu and Peach Blossom Stream are all in Shanyin, and there is another exit in Shanyang, and after going out, it will be the ground of Rui Kingdom." ”

After hearing this, Wan Xi couldn't help but secretly admire: this dwarf's ability to dig holes is really good.

So Wan Xi was not allowed to lead the way in front, and he was not allowed to enter the tomb of Emperor Shun first. Wan Xi felt strange in her heart and asked, "No, what are you going to do in this tomb again?" ”

He was not allowed to answer: "Miss, the entrance to the secret passage is in this tomb." ”

Wan Xi remembered that she and Zhou Kao had searched carefully in the tomb last night, but they didn't see any secret passage entrances at all, and she couldn't help but be a little suspicious. When she entered the tomb and was not allowed to go straight to the secret door where the corpses were hidden, Wan Xi was even more frightened in her heart, and asked, "No, what are you doing?" ”

He was not allowed to open the secret door and said, "The entrance to the secret passage is here." After saying that, he walked to the secret door and pulled a few times on the wall of the cave, and a large hole immediately appeared in the wall of the cave. Not allowed to be a cat's waist, he got into the hole.

Wan Xi still didn't dare to go into the crypt, she thought: ordinary people must feel bad luck when they see the bones in this crypt, and they don't want to go in at all. That's why my cousin and I didn't find the entrance to this secret passage last night.

At this time, he was not allowed to see that the two did not follow up, so he turned around and beckoned to the two at the entrance of the cave. Wan Xi remembered something at this time and asked, "No, where did you put Emperor Shun's remains?" ”

I didn't want to listen to it, a confused look appeared on my face, and I said: "The villain doesn't know, when the villain opened Emperor Shun's coffin, he didn't see any corpses." So the villain also once wondered if someone had already taken the first step and took the treasure. Even if you found the stone box, it is not guaranteed that it is a useless thing that someone discarded after finding the treasure. ”

Wan Ji thought about it for a while, but she couldn't find any flaws in what she was not allowed to say. She had no choice but to say to Zhou Kao: "Cousin, you go and take down the two pieces of colored jade from Pixiu's mouth." Be careful, though, and don't fall into the trap. ”

Zhou Kao nodded, walked to the wooden coffin, and tried to remove the jade embedded in Pixiu's mouth. Who knew that he didn't make a few strokes, and then let out an exclamation of "oops". Wan Xi was worried about what else was around the wooden coffin, so she hurriedly ran over and asked, "Cousin, what's wrong?" ”

Zhou Kao spread out his palm, only to see that the piece of colored jade he took off had been broken in half. Wan Xi only said that Zhou Kao was careless and damaged the jade, so she walked to the other end of the wooden coffin to get another piece of jade. Unexpectedly, she just moved the jade a little, and then she heard a soft "click", and the piece of jade was also broken from the middle.

Wan Xi felt a burst of regret in her heart, and said to Zhou Kao: "It seems that this colored jade can only be used once, and then it can't be used again." Fortunately, the secret of this mechanism has not been discovered before, otherwise the contents of this stone box may be buried in the ground forever, unknown to the public. ”

Zhou Kao said: "It's just a pity that these two pieces of colored jade, cousin, can you give me these pieces of residual jade?" I'll see if I can find a skilled craftsman and restore them to their original state. ”

Wan Xi smiled slightly after hearing this, put the two halves of jade in her hand into Zhou Kao's palm, and said, "Then please ask my cousin to bother." ”

At this time, I couldn't hear what I said in the crypt: "Miss, there is still a long way to go from here to Fengboyu, so it's better for us to leave early." ”

Wan Xi looked at the bones behind the secret door, and was still a little hesitant in her heart. At this time, Zhou Kao took Wan Xi's hand and was not allowed to enter the secret passage.