Chapter 32: The Statue
Zhu Tian combed his hair, put the brown messy hair behind his back, and made it for half an hour, and finally cleaned the messy hair on his head a little, and then he took the razor again, carefully repaired his beard, and with his movements, his chin slowly became smooth.
Looking in the mirror, he squinted his eyes and admired it.
Perfect!
At this time, it was not yet dawn, and Ryder didn't sleep all night in order to complete his mission (watching Zhu Tian), he was so tired that he sat next to Zhu Tian and fell asleep......
Zhu Tian cautiously crossed over to Ryder, trying not to wake up the annoying guy, and he slowly opened the door.
"Don't go!"
Zhu Tian rolled his eyes, but when he turned around, he saw that Ryder was still with his eyes closed, and it turned out that he was talking in a dream.
He took off the clothes hanging on the wall, then took out the tail of the golden snake from under the table and walked out the door.
It's the early hours of the morning, and the air at night is still dry, and this year's midsummer has been unusually going on for three months, and it will take another month or two to usher in autumn.
He hadn't slept all night, but he still felt refreshed, he had slept for too long before, and the last time he woke up was a month ago, and he slept for a month, and in this town, there was absolutely no one more energetic than him.
In the darkness of the night, a little unable to see the way, he widened his eyes and walked out of the yard.
Big Blackfoot rolled over in the donkey barn, got up from the ground, and watched silently as he walked out of the gate......
The moon reflected the earth, Zhu Tian looked up, looking at the bright white moon that had faded the blood red of the previous two days, but there were still a few faint red threads, although he didn't know what it meant, but he couldn't help but have a throbbing in his heart.
Weaving through the town's laneways, turning left and right, and by the time he reappeared, he was already in front of a huge door.
The door in front of you is magnificent and huge, showing a dark red color throughout the body, and there is a unicorn that only exists in legends, which has a dragon head, antlers, lion eyes, tiger back, bear waist, snake scales, and horse hooves, which are carved on the dark red gate, and are full of three-dimensional effect.
Aside from reading it in Ryder's grandfather's collection as a child, this was the first time he had seen this amazing species.
In the small town, the family status can only be worthy of this kind of unicorn gate, and the only one is the mayor's family.
"What are you doing here?" a voice sounded in Zhu Tian's mind.
"Oh, are you awake, Pique? Isn't the first thing you do when you wake up and snatch my body and put me to sleep?"
"For the sake of you not snatching your body for a long time, I allowed you to take over your body for a day, are you here to help me find out the cause of my father's death?"
"No, I'm here to do something else. ”
"What's the matter?" said Pique's puzzled voice in Zhu Tian's mind.
"Wait until you know, don't rush to take control of your body, give me a little more time. ”
Silently, Zhu Tian stepped on the corner of the wall twice, then rose into the air and climbed into the wall.
"You're more skilled with this body than I am. Pique's voice looked a little taken aback.
"You're in good health, but it's a waste of time for you to chop wood every day. ”
Inside the courtyard wall, the first thing that catches your eye is a long corridor, and six huge white jade columns support the entire corridor.
Circling the corridor, Zhu Tian walked into a bridge hole in the nature of a bell tower.
Passing through the bridge hole, there is a huge square with a radius of about 50 meters.
Not good!
Zhu Tian saw a person standing in the middle of the square, looking straight here!
He was horrified in his heart, and wondered in his heart, why is there still someone standing guard at this time?
I saw that the figure was very tall, estimated to be two meters tall from a distance!
Zhu Tian hurriedly lowered his head, there can be no panic now, once he panics, he may attract the attention of that person, and now that he walks with his head down, that person may still be able to treat him as a servant at home.
He moved slowly towards the white stone buildings on both sides, not daring to make a strange noise.
"That's the statue. A voice in his heart prompted him.
Sculpture?
Zhu Tian raised his head, put down his heart, and said in his heart: I'm scared to death!
"It's pitch black, how do you know it's a statue. ”
"Because I carved it. Peake replied.
Zhu Tian glanced at the man again, and after confirming that it was really a sculpture, he put his mind at ease.
He approached the statue, looked at it carefully, and said to himself, "This is the one you carved last year?"
"Yes, this statue is a nobleman, signed Baron Hajvi Yakel, who is supposed to be the lord of our town, and the one who commissioned the carving was the dumb butler of the mayor's house, and he gave me a portrait at that time, and the portrait is still in my house, and I remember that it took me three weeks to carve and polish a huge copper block like this, and when it was finished, my grandfather gave me ten copper coins as a reward, so I remember it so clearly. ”
"This sculpture can't be bought without a few thousand copper coins, and your grandfather can at least earn a few hundred copper coins from it, and you are still very happy that old thing exploits you every day. ”
"There's someone on the left. Peake interrupted his grumbling and said, "Watch the stairs. ”
Zhu Tian looked to the left in response, and a person who looked like a servant was walking down the second floor of the small building.
"There are people on the right, too. ”
Zhu Tian looked to the right again, on the second floor of the White Stone Building, there was a faint candle light, and a servant-like person opened the door and came out, walked to the stairs, and was about to come down. ”
It seemed that the two-story white stone building on both sides was where the servants lived, and at this time he was standing in the middle of the square, and there was no way to retreat left and right, so he could only walk forward quickly.
Luckily, they walked out of the square before the two went downstairs!
"How can you sense that someone is coming out?" asked Zhu Tian.
"Haven't you ever been in this state, as long as you don't snatch the body, your consciousness will be in a relaxed state, and in this state, the various sensory abilities should be magnified, and if you don't always think about how to snatch the body, you may be able to find this. ”
"You don't know how to be kind, except when I robbed my body before you were ten years old and when you were in danger. Zhu Tian sneered.
"That's because I've grown up and become more conscious, and you find that you can't rob me......"
"I don't want to argue with you, the body will return to you after dawn. ”
After passing through the square, we came to a place that resembled a garden.
In the dark, it is difficult to see the colors of the various flowers, but you can also tell by the pleasant aroma, and there are at least five or six varieties of flowers planted here.
This garden was huge, and Zhu Tian walked for two minutes before he came out.
What caught my eye was another high wall, which was even about a meter higher than the wall that Zhu Tian had climbed over before, and the buildings inside were more than ten meters high, like a church in a small town, built of boulders, or more precisely, it was a castle.
"Let me tell you Pique, our mayor of Grace can't build such a big castle without embezzling tens of thousands of copper coins in taxes a year, can you imagine a town mayor owning a castle in a small town? besides, he was an ordinary farmer ten years ago!"
"You may have overlooked a detail, the noble lords of our territory have been exempted from taxes in the town for three years, but what do you want to say?"
"Oh, yes, I want to say that your father's death has absolutely nothing to do with Grace, and don't forget, Grace, as a good friend of your father, often went up to the mountains with your father to cut wood, and just a year after your father died, Grace became the mayor of the town, and owned the gold mines of the Doron Mountains. Although I don't have any evidence now, the facts are already obvious. ”
"You're saying that my father and he discovered gold at the same time, and he wanted to keep it for himself...... But you didn't say you came here to check on it. ”
"Of course not. Zhu Tian smiled evilly, narrowed his eyes and said, "What I'm going to do next, I hope it won't surprise you too much!"