Chapter 139: Collapse
"Another one? Okay, Madame said to change, then let's change. β
"Master, madam, my subordinates know it's wrong, let's not change it?" Gu Yunfei pleaded with a bitter face.
"No, it has to be changed." Yan Su glanced at Gu Yunfei in question, and then stuck it into Gu Changfeng's arms.
"Alas, sure enough, it is the lady of the iron beating, the subordinate of the flowing water. Master, your subordinates retire, you cherish it. Gu Yunfei shook his head, took a step back, and was about to turn around, when he suddenly felt that the sky was spinning, and then looking at the eyes of him, the lights and candles in the side hall were shaking, and the statue was shaking, and the entire hall seemed to be shaking violently.
"Oh no, this side hall looks like it's going to collapse. Master, madam, let's get out quickly. β
"Let's go!" Gu Yunfei grabbed Yan Su and asked, and took her to the outside of the side hall.
Yan Suwen was a little dizzy when he was shaken, and his whole body subconsciously clinged to Gu Changfeng's body. She didn't remember how she got out of the side hall, but when she opened her eyes, the originally good side hall had collapsed, and several small halls next to it were destroyed.
"Are you alright?" Gu Changfeng asked tightly.
Yan Suwen patted his head, and after his consciousness was completely awake, he stood firm and shook his head at Gu Changfeng: "I'm fine, it's just that I suddenly shook and felt dizzy." β
"Madame, medicine box." Gu Yunfei wiped the ashes on his face and sent over the small medicine box that Yan Suwen had dropped when he was dizzy.
"For the sake of you helping me save the little medicine box, I won't let Yan Qing replace you."
"Thank you, ma'am." Although Gu Yunfei was still hippie and smiling, when he got up, his eyes had already swept towards the collapsed Buddha halls: "Master, this side hall is a little strange." β
"This is a royal temple, built by the Ministry of Works, the stone and wood used are also the best, and the temple has only been built for a hundred years, this collapse is indeed very strange." Yan Suwen glanced around: "The other halls are all good, but only the Guanyin Hall where Concubine Jing's coffin is placed has collapsed, this god really knows how to choose a place." β
"Yunfei, check around."
"Yes!" Gu Yunfei received the order and took the guards who had just arrived to inspect the collapse site.
Yan Suwen lifted the corner of her skirt and wanted to step forward, but was stopped by Gu Changfeng.
"Let Yunfei and them check first."
"What about Concubine Jing's coffin? The pillars and stone statues of such a big root were smashed down, and I was afraid that the entire coffin would be smashed. β
"I will uphold the emperor's truth."
"There is no corpse dead, Concubine Jing, she must never have imagined that she would end up like this when she was alive."
"In this world, I'm afraid no one can know their end."
"yes." Just like Yan Su asked himself, in his last life, he didn't expect to be calculated by the person he believed in the most, and in the end, he ended up dead.
"Master, madam, find out again!" Gu Yunfei waved his hand in the corner of the collapsed Guanyin Temple.
"What discovery?" Yan Suwen asked, while lifting the corner of her skirt and stepping on the rubble. As soon as he took two steps, he felt a pause under his feet, and his body immediately tilted to the side. A pair of hands reached over in time, and then took her into his arms.
"I can walk through it myself."
"But I can't watch my wife get hurt. Stay by and I'll carry you over. β
Not far away, Gu Yunfei, who was forcibly fed a mouthful of dog food, squatted down depressedly, and told the people next to him not to look too much, it was easy to hurt his eyes if he saw it.
"What did you find?"
"A secret door, if it weren't for the collapse of this Guanyin statue, this thing wouldn't be exposed." Gu Yunfei pointed to a trapboard wooden door.
"Open!"
"Don't you ask the presiding officer of the temple?"
"Is your grandfather a big official, or is the presiding officer in this temple a big one?"
"Naturally, our grandfather is the eldest official."
"That's it, open it quickly, there may be some shady secrets hidden down here."
"Secret? Madame is not afraid that there is a corpse hidden inside? β
"Go, crow's mouth, it can't be gold, silver, jewelry, or anything." Yan Suwen squatted down and looked at the trapwood door. A high platform was built around the wooden gate, which was connected to the stone seat where the statue of Kannon was placed. This shows that the dark room existed first, and the statue of Guanyin was only to cover up the existence of this dark room.
"You say, if this is really the treasure of the previous dynasty or the gold, silver and jewelry privately hidden by some people, and we find out, can we all pull it back to the Prime Minister's Mansion?" Yan Suwen gently touched Gu Changfeng.
"I can't, but I can pull forty percent back."
"Forty percent? Who does the remaining sixty percent go? β
"Your Majesty!"
"Your Majesty? Okay, okay, who called someone the emperor. Yan Suwen rubbed his hands and said to Gu Yunfei: "Hurry up, let's open it and take a look." β
"Madame, stand back, let's just do this kind of rough work." Gu Yunfei beckoned another person to come over, bent down, reached out and grabbed the brass handle on the right side of the plank, and pulled it away forcefullyβa rectangular hole of a black hole appeared under his feet.
Gu Yunfei stepped under his feet, stepped on the solid wooden stairs, and then pulled his feet back: "There are stairs, you should be able to go down." β
"Let's go down and have a look." Yan Su asked, his feet had already stepped on the wooden stairs below, and under Gu Changfeng's advice, he cautiously turned sideways. The wooden staircase is very long, and with each step, a light is lit up in the corridor. Those lamps, which are supposed to be the legendary lanterns, naturally ignited after coming into contact with the moving air.
"Isn't there really a treasure hidden here?" Gu Yunfei followed, jumped off the remaining two steps, and stood in the square room and swept around.
"I don't know, look for it." Yan Suwen also glanced at the corners with his eyes. This square room hidden under the statue of the god is about a dozen square meters, and the square room is empty, and it is clear at a glance.
"This monk has so many eyes that he actually made a fake one in front of the real secret room." Gu Yunfei took off an ever-bright lamp, walked to the northeast corner, and after wiping the wall a few times, an iron door appeared on the wall.
"There's a lock on the door."
"It's a little meaning, when I used to follow my grandfather to do things, I didn't open other people's locks." Gu Yunfei touched his body twice, took out a small piece of iron out of nowhere, and then adjusted the piece of iron slightly and aimed it at the keyhole. I heard a "click", the door lock opened, followed by a strange smell rushing to the face.
"This smell is somewhat familiar." Gu Yunfei held the ever-bright lamp, leaned into half of his body first, and only after confirming that the ever-bright lamp inside was also lit up, did he let it aside.
Behind the iron door was a square room of the same size. However, this square room seems to be used for living, and there are not only tables, chairs and benches, but also bookcases for writing, bookcases for books, and beds for sleeping.
"There seems to be another person next to the bed."
Gu Yunfei stretched out his hand and pointed, and Yan Suwen also saw the "person" leaning on the side of the bed.
The man was leaning on the edge of the bed, one hand resting on the edge of the bed, the other hanging at his side. The cloth on his body was almost completely rotten, and the yellowish-white leg bones were clearly visible.
"It's a dead man, and a man who has been dead for a long time."
"Of course it's a dead man, how long has this royal temple been built, even if he is a monster, he has been locked up here for decades, and he should starve to death if he doesn't eat or drink."
"Who is he and why is he locked up in the underground secret room of the Guanyin Hall of the Royal Temple." Yan Suwen took out an ever-bright lamp, walked over, and looked at it carefully: "This is the skeleton of an adult male, who should be about the same height as Yun Fei, sitting on his back and leaning on the edge of the bed." He sat here as if he had suddenly fallen ill. Also, his whole body has been white and ossified, and he should have died before the construction of the Guanyin Temple. The surface of the bones was also covered with a few relics that had not yet completely decayed, and it looked like official uniforms. Yan Qing, come and take a look, this official uniform is Da Wei's? β
"No, it should be from the previous dynasty."
"The official of the previous dynasty?" Yan Suwen took his eyes off the broken pieces of cloth and approached the corpse to observe it carefully: "At a glance, this corpse seems to have no obvious external injuries on the surface, but look here. Yan Suwen brushed the deceased's hair with his hand: "There are marks of being hit by a heavy object in the skull, and because the injury is severe, there is a piece of the forehead that collapses. The mandible fell to the side, the left eyebrow bone was almost shattered, and the two eye sockets seemed to open and close, as if they were grimacing at someone. This man's death is a little weird. β
"Spooky? What's weird? β
"Well, the wound on this head should be a fatal injury, even if he didn't die at the time, he would have died of intracranial hemorrhage due to serious damage to the skull. This state of death is very consistent with the deceased's current posture. But these injuries on the forehead and brow bones are not like injuries before death, but caused after death. Well, you can see the traces here, they are fresh, and they show that the time when these scars were formed is very close to the time when we found them. β
"But the secret door is hidden under the statue of Guanyin, and it doesn't look like you can enter casually." Gu Yunfei looked around: "Could it be that there is really a monster hidden here?" β
"What are the monsters, monsters, if there are really monsters in this world, can the world be as peaceful as it is now? Monsters and monsters, if there is really one, and it is still a woman, I will let Yan Qing catch it and be a lady for you. β
"Youkai lady, it's good. Thank you, ma'am! β
"Thanks, go and see the collapsed Buddha statue base, and see if there is a secret door hidden on the base."
Gu Yunfei took the order and went out, and only Gu Changfeng and Yan Suwen were left in the square room.
"Madam, do you know this thing?" Gu Changfeng broke the deceased's hand, took out something from the bone of his hand and handed it to Yan Suwen.
It was a small wooden sign with the word "Yan" written on it.
"This is the identity card of our Yan family, my father has one on him, and my eldest uncle and eldest brother also have it."
"Do you have it on you?"
"No, the ladies of the Yan family can't wear this kind of identity tag." Yan Suwen took the wooden card and looked at it carefully: "It is indeed my Yan family, this kind of wooden card, there are only five pieces, which are used to enter and exit a place in the Yan family." Where exactly that place is, my father and my mother don't know, they haven't been there. Oh, and this kind of wooden card can be passed on, but the inheritor must be the best of the younger generation of the Yan family, otherwise the patriarch has the right to take it back. β
"So-"
"You mean, this person is the ancestor of my Yan family?"