Chapter 7: The Empty Mound

[The book continues from the above, and the last book said that the dragon lockers pretended to find the scene of the murder and chased the blood-colored butterfly that was a spirit into the park. I never thought that under the guidance of butterflies, under a rockery in the garden, I found a secret passage, and the gatekeeper of the garden, Father Zeng, immediately became nervous and rushed to the dark passage to block everyone's way. Father Zeng explained that he and Father Liu were not in the same group, but refused to explain his true identity, and did not allow Mu Qingming and them to enter the secret passage. When the two sides were confronting each other, suddenly a bloody stench slowly poured out from the dark passage, and Daddy Zeng smelled this smell and his face changed greatly, and he couldn't help but turn around and rush into the dark passage. Mu Qingming and the others followed, and when they came to the end of the dark passage, they saw an empty mound. 】

Father Zeng suddenly rushed out and blocked the secret passage, which surprised Mu Qingming, Zhao Liang and Liu Yang.

"How did you hack the mechanism?" Without waiting for them to ask, Father Zeng, who had raised his eyebrows, burst into a hostile gaze in his eyes and walked towards Mu Qingming.

"It's very simple, it's not difficult to find that this mechanism adopts the Eight Doors principle in Qimen Dunjia. In this case, it is that the eight small Taihu Lake stones can be rotated. Mu Qingming smiled indifferently and said eloquently: "Since it is the Eight Gates, there must be good and evil." So seven of them will trigger traps, and only one can open a dark tunnel. And located in the northwest Qiangong, the five elements belong to the golden open door, in the Qimen Dunjia has the meaning of the beginning of all things, for the door of great luck. So I took a gamble and turned the Taihu Stone on the open door. ”。

The horror on Daddy Zeng's face became a little heavier after hearing the words, and then a faint suspicion appeared in his eyes.

"But why do you know that it can be opened three times clockwise?" After a moment of silence, Father Zeng put away his suspicion and asked Mu Qingming, "Who are you?" ”。

As soon as the words came out, he realized that he was speechless in horror, and after pouring out that this was a double-safe mechanism, his face was even more shocked when he immediately shut up.

Mu Qingming's face did not decrease, and after slowly getting up, he said to Father Zeng lightly: "Since it is the organ of Qimen Dunjia, the predecessors who set up this mechanism must be Taoist masters. The younger brother is not talented, has studied a lot of Taoist classics, in the Taoist view of the number three is an infinite number, as the so-called life two two give birth to three, three give birth to all things; So I took a bet and tried three laps, right? ”。

While speaking, although Mu Qingming saw the anger and suspicion in the eyes of Father Zeng's face, he also found that this person was unusually calm, which was not difficult to see from the fact that he could answer fluently; Contrary to the nervousness of being asked yes before.

Could it be that his performance before was all faked? Mu Qingming thought like this, so he stepped forward.

"Don't come here, you can't go in!" As soon as he took a step, Father Zeng yelled angrily.

"Daddy Zeng, what are you afraid of?" Zhao Liang also took a step forward, stared at Father Zeng and asked in a deep voice, "You won't be in the same group as Father Liu, right?" ”。

As soon as these words came out, Father Zeng was even more stunned, and exclaimed urgently: "We are not in a group; But you can't enter into this secret way? ”。

The morning breeze blows, and the Luohan bamboo planted on the edge of the Taihu Lake rocks swaying a few times in the wind, shaking off a few slightly yellowish bamboo leaves. The two sides were in a cool morning breeze, and the swords were rattling.

The atmosphere around him also became solemn with Zhao Liang's action of pressing his hand on the handle of the gun.

"Ahh At the critical moment, Mu Qingming almost blurted out, and then he scratched his hair with both hands.

Zhao Liang, who was already tense, was even more nervous by his shouting, and without hesitation, he took out his pistol and opened the insurance neatly.

"I actually forgot that I had to go to work today, Zhao Liang actually pulled me to this kind of place, what should I do with my salary?" Then Mu Qingming walked quickly to Zhao Liang angrily, and asked in a deep voice about things that had nothing to do with the case.

After Liu Yang was slightly stunned, he sighed lightly after breathing a sigh of relief, looked at Mu Qingming, who was still questioning Zhao Liang, and shook his head helplessly: "I really envy Young Master Mu, when are you still in the mood to worry about forgetting to go to work." ”。

Zhao Liang also breathed a sigh of relief, but then he was even more angry; When is it, Mu Qingming is still struggling with his salary today.

He raised his eyebrows, and also glared at Mu Qingming and retorted unwillingly: "This human life is a matter of heaven, can you be serious?" ”。

Mu Qingming, who glared at him angrily, immediately scolded: "Stinky boy, that's my food money to feed my family, how can a policeman like you who eats imperial food understand the happiness of our people?" You say, how are you going to accompany me today's salary? ”。

Liu Yang and Father Zeng, who were watching on the side, were stunned in place, not knowing what they were going to make trouble for a while? And their posture of arguing like children, staring at each other, and never giving in to each other's words, is like a farce.

Liu Yang didn't expect that when it came to money, Young Master Mu, who was polite and polite in the past, would also make trouble unreasonably. The helpless look on his face was a little heavier under the shaking of his head again and again.

"I'll accompany you, and I'll go back to help you explain to Shopkeeper Zhang in a while." Zhao Liang, who couldn't annoy him, snorted angrily, didn't bother to deal with Mu Qingming, simply put away the pistol, raised his hand and pointed at Daddy Zeng who was not far away, and scolded in a deep voice: "Now you should solve this daddy's matter first, right?" ”。

"He's a caretaker, can't you see that?". Mu Qingming snorted coldly, and said angrily: "If he was with Daddy Liu, he would have taken the opportunity to sneak away when we were so obsessed with the quarrel just now." ”。

When he finished speaking, the anger on his face immediately vanished.

Liu Yang was stunned again, and only after he reacted did he realize that Mu Qingming had been acting before, the purpose was as he said, to see if Father Zeng would run away?

thus proving that the other party is the one who guards the secret of the secret path and the secret behind the secret path. This point proves that Mu Qingming is right from the fact that Father Zeng, who was a little overwhelmed because of the quarrel between Mu Qingming and Zhao Liang, once again became shocked with Mu Qingming's words.

The other party is indeed a guardian, and there is no doubt about it.

But for Mu Qingming's alternative way of handling the case, it was still enough to surprise Liu Yang.

Zhao Liang, who also realized that Mu Qingming didn't really want to find fault with himself, immediately stopped worrying about the dispute with the other party, and asked Mu Qingming in a much softened tone: "Do you want to protect the secret way?" What's behind that? ”。

"Usually there are guardians, it should be the tomb." Combined with the previous conjecture that there might be a Yin Mansion in this place, Mu Qingming returned thoughtfully.

As soon as the dark path was opened, Mu Qingming felt a steady stream of corpse qi flowing out of it. It was a dead corpse that only found in the tomb.

And there is also the blood and qi mixed in it, which makes Mu Qingming very concerned, and wants to see what is behind the dark passage.

As soon as these words came out, the consternation in the eyes of Father Zeng's face became a little heavier.

Then he saw Mu Qingming take another step towards him, and immediately shook his head and calmed down, and said categorically: "You can't go in; If you want to go in, you have to step on my corpse to get in! ”。

"You won't let us in to understand, but someone may have gone in before us." Mu Qingming stopped moving forward, sniffing the faint blood in the corpse qi that floated out of the dark passage.

In a normal tomb, there is no blood.

After thinking about it, Mu Qingming immediately thought of Daddy Liu and their group of murderers, could it be that they would commit murder again? That's why he said what he just said.

Just as he finished speaking, a yin wind suddenly gushed out of the dark passage, and thick blood was sandwiched in it. When they just poured out of the tunnel, Zhao Liang and Father Zeng both felt nauseous and almost gagged.

It tasted like you'd be on the edge of a slaughterhouse.

After Father Zeng retched, his heart suddenly tightened, and he secretly screamed: "It's not good." After that, they left Mu Qingming and turned around and hurried towards the dark passage.

Mu Qingming and Zhao Liang were stunned for a moment, and after looking at each other for a moment, they all walked quickly towards the dark passage.

After walking to the entrance of the secret passage, Zhao Liang immediately took off the flashlight pinned to his waist and turned it on. Mu Qingming hurriedly raised his hand to stop him, and took out a fire fold and a candle from his arms.

"It's best to use an open flame in the sealed tunnel, so that as long as the open flame is extinguished, it means that the inside is stuffy, and if it's not good for people, we have to quit immediately." As he spoke, he lit the candle in his hand with the lighted fire.

Liu Yang also nodded in agreement, and snorted.

The faint light of the fire flickered a few times, illuminating the two feet around Mu Qingming.

By the light of the fire, a staircase no more than five feet wide could be seen at their feet, slowly descending a foot below.

At the end of the staircase, a square tunnel with a diameter of half a zhang appeared. But due to the faint light of the fire, I can't see what is behind the dark passage?

But Mu Qingming saw the blood-colored butterfly composed of spirits again, dancing at the dark passage at the end of the stairs, as if to continue to guide Mu Qingming forward, and when Mu Qingming was not advancing, it kept flying up and down at the dark passage.

"Let's go." Mu Qingming said as he took the lead in opening his legs and walked forward.

Coming to the bottom of the stairs, the smell of blood grew stronger. The pungent blood made the three of them frown although they didn't cover their mouths and noses with their hands.

Mu Qingming stretched his hand forward, and saw a straight secret path slowly downward, each half a zhang or so distance, and the bluestone slabs on the left and right were engraved with a pair of circles and inner squares, which resembled the pattern of copper coins. In the inside, many delicate patterns are carved.

Mu Qingming and the others looked at it while walking, and soon found that these patterns were all stories of Chen Yuanyuan. There are stories of losing his mother in his early years and raising in his uncle's house in Taohuawu, Suzhou, and there are also stories of Chen Yuanyuan acting in Yiyang drama in Suzhou Liyuan. debuted on the stage to play the matchmaker pattern in "The Legend of the West Chamber". Those delicate carvings vividly express Chen Yuanyuan's beauty like a flower and a cloud out of Xiu.

Looking at these patterns, Mu Qingming's ears seemed to be filled with the sound of warblers.

In the future, it is the well-known story of being robbed into Beijing and rushing to the crown to be angry, followed by Yuanyuan entering the Pingxi Palace, once favoring the harem, and the pattern of the husband and wife raising their eyebrows.

Then Wu Sangui rebelled against the Qing Dynasty, Chen Yuanyuan fell out of favor due to old age and decay, and the last generation of red makeup has since fallen out of luxury and returned to loneliness. When the Qing soldiers conquered Kunming City, Yuanyuan walked to the lotus pond outside the park without hesitation and jumped into the pond without hesitation.

This is the end of the pattern, and it also narrates Chen Yuanyuan's voice for Mu Qingming. And the secret passage also came to an end here, and outside the dark passage, there was a square and domed stone room.

In the middle of the stone room, there was a long stone Sumeru seat, and the blood butterfly that led Mu Qingming and them to this place was perched on the Sumeru seat. And there is no coffin on the Sumeru seat, and there is nothing else in the stone chamber except these things.

And the rich smell of blood came from the blood stains that could be seen everywhere on the ground of this stone room. Father Zeng, who came here before them, was kneeling in front of the Sumeru seat.

"Is this an empty mound?" Mu Qingming looked around and was suspicious.

Is it really a short mound? What is Daddy Zeng protecting? Find out what happens next, and listen to the next breakdown.