8 The "Stone Gate" Secret

Let's go back a little bit......

When it was almost noon, Ryan suddenly wanted to make lunch for everyone, so he called his brother to go with him to catch broiler chickens, but Albert was careless and let a chicken run out, and he was too lazy to chase it. Ryan had to chase after her, running all the way to the shed of the dew collector, and it happened that Para was fetching water, and Ryan crashed into her quickly, even though Palla was nearly ten years older than Ryan, but the former was a woman after all, not as strong as the latter, and fell on the dew collector, and was slammed on the waist. Para was currently resting in her bed, and since she was the only woman here, the others couldn't help much, but luckily Umi and Dynny were back.

"It's all right," Umi said as he came out of Para's room, "just rest for a few days, don't worry." People in our country are still very conservative, and I know that everyone cares about her, but don't go in to visit, that will only cause her trouble. The crowd dispersed, and Albert left as if he had nothing to do with himself, but after a while he helped to make everyone's lunch. Ryan wanted to go to Para to apologize, but when Umi said that, he couldn't go. Umi comforted him, "If you want to do something for her, help her get her work done." ”

"Well, I'll do it."

"I'm here to help, too!" Daniel said enthusiastically. In this way, the two divided the work of Parra, with Ryan in charge of the daily collection and cooking, and Daniel in charge of fetching water and cleaning the room.

Para's injuries make everyone very unmotivated (except for Albert), she always takes care of them like an older sister or even an aunt, and she also learns a lot from her teacher, and she surpasses Umi and Daniel in magic, and many times people even forget that she is a woman.

In order to refresh everyone's spirits as well, Ryan worked hard to make dinner good and make the atmosphere warm up a lot. After everyone went back to their rooms to rest, Daniel began to do the final cleaning. He first cleaned the corridor on the second floor, which was actually very clean, and everyone usually took care of the hygiene here. Daniel carefully inspected every nook and crann, and then looked up at the locked door at the end of the corridor on the second floor—it was also a wooden door, the same as the other rooms, but it couldn't be opened, it was locked, and everyone usually obeyed the teacher's rule "don't try to enter the locked room", so no one cared about it.

Daniel also stayed away from the door, and went down to the first floor to continue cleaning. On the first floor, Daniel saw the peculiar "stone door" again—it was a door, yes, although he couldn't find the crack in the door, and he didn't even know how it was supposed to open, but it gave everyone the feeling that there must be something inside. The room where the "stone door" is located is just below the locked room on the second floor, across from the teacher's room. When Daniel finished cleaning and passed by the "stone gate", he glanced at a diamond-shaped groove on the stone door, which he only thought was a meaningless pattern.

"What else is there to do...... Oh yes, the teacher's room. Daniel took the rag and went to the teacher's room with a sense of awe, he lit the oil lamp, and began to carefully wipe down the tables, chairs, and cabinets, and in a short time the furniture was spotless. After wiping the furniture, he wanted to sweep the floor again, so he swept the floor neat and new. He was also getting more and more energetic, and he was not tired at all, so he wanted to clean the bed as well, but he couldn't clean it directly with a broom, and there was nothing under the bed anyway, so Daniel wanted to remove the wooden bed to clean it. But as hard as he tried, he found that he couldn't move the wooden bed at all.

Daniel thought to himself, "Huh? This is obviously a wooden bed, why is it so heavy? He pushed harder, but it didn't work. He thought that it was usually Pala who cleaned the teacher's room, and this bed could not be moved. Daniel's stubbornness came up, blew his hand, patted it again, and pulled it up! The wooden bed finally moved a short distance.

"Hey, it's only a little distance, this isn't a wooden bed at all!" Daniel complained, but he noticed that there seemed to be a small dark compartment on the wall where the wooden bed was originally clinging. "What is that......" He feared that he had seen it wrong, and carefully approached the oil lamp—yes, it was a dark compartment, which had been blocked by a wooden bed. Curiosity drove Daniel to reach into the dark compartment, he felt something, and took it out: it turned out to be a wooden ornament, with a diamond-shaped border, wrapped in an inscribed circle, like a human eye, but without pupils.

"What is this? Why hide? Daniel carefully examined the ornament by the light of the fire, except for the shape of the first time, there was nothing special, and it was this extremely ordinary feeling that he still did not realize that this was an object that the teacher had specially hidden.

"This shape ......" Daniel searched his mind hard, and suddenly it occurred to him that the stone door in the teacher's room seemed to have a groove of the same shape! An inexplicable sense of accomplishment and joy instantly filled his heart, "Will I be the first to discover this thing?" He hadn't realized the seriousness of the matter, and even thought it was a puzzle left to them by the teacher. Is he himself so ignorant? Or does excitement make him stupid? Or is it that you are a sailor so you are fearless...... At this moment, maybe even he didn't know what was going on, how the rest happened...... Finally, he made a move that changed the fate of countless people - he came to the "stone gate" and stuffed the wooden ornaments into the diamond-shaped groove!

The "stone gate", which was originally motionless, slid to the side with only a slight rumbling sound......

The locked room was finally opened.

"So it's the key!" Daniel completely forgot the teacher's warning "don't try to enter the locked room", and was overcome by his strong curiosity and desire to learn, and walked into the room......

A new day began, and breakfast was made by Ryan and the servants, and it was not particularly tasty if he had to say anything. But everyone didn't care, but Daniel's state worried everyone - he looked like he was out of his mind, and even the servants noticed his abnormality.

"Didn't sleep well last night?" Umi asked tentatively.

"No, no." Daniel was quick to deny it, but it was still not relieved in the slightest, and his expression was not right.

"Not feeling well?" House swallowed a mouthful of food and said, his eyes stared at Daniel and asked, the two are usually not close, and the relationship is average. Daniel shook his head, but still looked nervous.

"It can't be worrying about Para, is it?" Umi then asked, "I've just seen her, and she's recovered quite a bit. He had always thought Daniel was interesting to Parra, and the conversation between the two yesterday reflected that.

Daniel still did not speak, and everyone was even more puzzled, but the four princes still saw some clues, and successively asked the servants to go about their own work, and only the five of them were left in the room.

"Do you have something to say to us?" Albert casually asked how Daniel had also been a crew member of his fleet, and he had to care about it.

In silence, the crowd waited for a moment, and Daniel at last, as if he had made up his mind, raised his head, and said in a loud voice: "Princes, I—I have found something amazing! ”

The four of them didn't expect him to react so much, and they all put down their utensils and food, ready to listen to him. Just as Daniel was about to say what had left him devastated, a voice came from outside the room—

"My friends, I'm back!"

Ryan, House, and Umi stood up at the same time and walked out - "The teacher is back!" ”

In the room, only Albert was still calm and ready to listen to Daniel, but when the latter heard the teacher's voice, he looked even more surprised—more frightened, and then shook his head vigorously, and got up in a panic and went out, which made Albert even more suspicious.

"Teacher, you're back!" "Did the trip go well?" "Tell us anything you have for it." Everyone greeted me word by word, and the teacher couldn't answer. When Daniel and Albert arrived one after another, everyone Umi and House remembered that Daniel still had something to say just now, and they asked directly: "Daniel, you just wanted to say that you found something amazing, and now the teacher is here, just say it!" ”

As soon as this question was asked, everyone's eyes looked at Daniel, and the teacher looked at him with a smile, which made him even more panicked, and his eyes were full of despair and despair-

"Daniel just told me that he dreamed the day before yesterday that Para was injured, and yesterday Para was really injured; And then he dreamed last night that the teacher was back, and it turned out -" Albert, who was behind Daniel, said loudly.

"Oh-oh-" "You're dreaming so accurately! "Isn't it just a dream? Nervous about what? The three princes, who had just been confused by Daniel, also began to taunt him, but more to understand his voice. At this time, everyone's eyes returned to the teacher, and no one noticed that Daniel thanked Albert with a grateful gaze.

The teacher noticed Albert's words just now, "Para is injured?" He asked everyone.

"Oh, some flesh wounds, just a few days of rest." Umi replied.

"In this desert, if there is an injury, it is better to heal it quickly, after all, this place is different from your hometown environment." As he spoke, the teacher took out a "small stone" and handed it to Umi.

"It's ...... Spell Stone? Umi said, and the people around him gathered around to look around—a small, small, regular-shaped stone with ancient characters carved on the surface that no one else could read.

"Yes, this spell stone will speed up the recovery from injuries, you can just put it next to Para and read it as it is written."

"Great! Thank you, teacher. After thanking him, Umi quickly returned to Para's room. The others continued to want to talk to the teacher, but the teacher said that he would have a good rest today and continue to lecture tomorrow, and the crowd dispersed, and of course no one paid attention to Daniel, who had just worried everyone—except for Albert.

Daniel returned to his room with his eyes blank and soulless, and on the way, a hand patted him on the shoulder, which really startled him!

"Don't be afraid, it's me." Albert said, "Tell me about that." Daniel glanced around, nodded, and the two of them went to Albert's room.

Closing the door, Daniel told everything he had seen and heard last night......