Chapter 218: Qiao's Mansion Secret Room 1
I walked over to check it out, only to find that the mirror was unusually heavy, although it was made of solid wood, it was actually inlaid with metal objects, and most importantly, there seemed to be a secret room behind it!
In the boudoir where Qiao Rumei lived before her death, there was such a secret room? Could this have anything to do with her so-called destiny back then?
I reached out and touched the surface of the dressing table, and I didn't know where I could touch it, so the dressing table slowly moved away by itself!
Behind it, a small door in the secret room was revealed, and it was only one and a half meters high and wide, so if I wanted to enter, I had to squat to get in. (.ziyouge.)
"What's that?" Just as I was hesitating to go in and take a look, Qiao Ruyun, who was standing outside the house and waiting for me, walked in and saw the secret room I had opened.
I asked in surprise, "Aunt Qiao, don't you know that your house has this secret room?" ”
She shook her head, more surprised than I was.
And when she got to the door of the secret room, she seemed to remember something. "When my sister died, she left something special, but after she was buried, we couldn't find it anymore, maybe those things were in it."
"What special thing did she leave behind?" Obviously, I'm very interested in this.
Qiao Ruyun replied: "When she was sick, not only would she recite some incantations that we couldn't understand, but she would also bite her fingers and keep writing some strange words on the paper!" ”
"Tianxuanyu...... "I was excited in my heart, if there really is such a thing, then this matter will be much simpler!"
The other party replied: "I don't know, but your grandmother has read those words." ”
"Could it be that my grandmother took it away?"
Qiao Ruyun shook his head affirmatively. "Impossible, because at that time she promised my mother not to take anything about Rumei away!"
I believe that my grandmother is a person who keeps her word, and if she says yes, she will definitely not go back.
"Let's go in and have a look!" Qiao Ruyun proposed.
I'm still wondering if to call Shu An first, but Qiao Ruyun has already gotten in!
I was worried about the danger inside, so I had to follow up.
Although the door of this chamber is small, the inside is much more wide.
As soon as you enter, there is a corridor of about two meters, and two kerosene lamps are hanging in the corridor, which are on at the moment.
It's really strange, who could have built this secret room? These kerosene lamps don't seem to last long, suggesting that someone or other creature lit them not long ago.
Seeing that it was dark inside, Qiao Ruyun and I took an oil lamp and held it in our hands.
As I walked inside, I found that the corridor was sloping downward, and it turned out that the chamber was leading to the ground, and the further I went inside, the more humid I felt, and the air smelled of old decay.
Anyway, I am also a wizard who has broken through the underworld and sealed the evil fire qilin, and I am hiding behind at this time, which is a bit too much to say, so I said to Qiao Ruyun: "Aunt Qiao, I don't know what is inside, you follow me!" ”
The other party nodded and instructed, "Then you be careful." ”
After walking a few meters further, I found that some murals appeared on the walls on both sides.
I illuminated it with a kerosene lamp, and the mural depicted an altar with a dense crowd of figures underneath, all draped in black cloaks, with their hands raised and kneeling on the ground.
On the stone steps of the altar, which was dozens of meters high, stood a man wearing a white cloak.
I don't know why, but I feel that this picture is very familiar, as if I have seen it somewhere.
Qiao Ruyun next to her also looked curiously, and she said, "That one wearing a white cloak seems to be a woman!" ”
"Women?" I looked at it again, and although the mural was a little blurry due to its age, the white-skinned segment did resemble a woman.
"Are you saying it's real? Why is there such a mural in the secret passage of our house? ”
I thought about it carefully and asked her, "Is this house where the Qiao family has lived for generations?" ”
Qiao Ruyun nodded and replied: "Yes, my mother's surname is Qiao, and my sister and I are both surnamed Qiao, the name of this house, since the end of the Qing Dynasty, the locals have called Qiao's courtyard." So count up, at least a hundred years! ”
Then this secret passage is likely to be built by an ancestor of the Qiao family, and these murals must have been painted at that time.
"Qiao's courtyard must have been renovated later, right? Haven't you all discovered this secret passage? I asked suspiciously.
"The last renovation was 10 years ago, when my mom and I were working on the renovation."
I remembered at this moment that Mrs. Qiao had woken up, maybe she knew about this secret room, twenty years ago, she hid what Qiao Rumei wrote in it?
It feels a bit far-fetched to speculate like this.
After a while, I asked her again; "Boqiang is your husband, right? You're divorced, aren't you? ”
Qiao Ruyun walked behind him, and only after a moment did he answer in a deep voice: "Hmm." ”
"Why did you get divorced? Where is he now? ”
Sister Li said that she had a relationship with this Boqiang back then, and after a few years, Boqiang also left, as if she had completely disappeared into the world of these two women.
After half a ring, Qiao Ruyun answered my question in silence: "A few years ago, my husband ran away from home......"
Running away from home? This is ruthless enough, a big man, leaving his wife and children, is gone forever!
I think this topic must make Qiao Ruyun very uncomfortable, although the man's opinion has been away for so many years, I still noticed that she has a wedding ring on her ring finger, and she only found out today that her husband had something like that with Sister Li.
Further ahead, we came to a slightly larger room, roughly 20 square meters, the walls of the room are cyan rock, there are some delicate stone carvings on the top, there is a stone cabinet in the middle of the room, except for this stone cabinet, there is no other thing!
I hung the kerosene lamp on the rock wall and said to Qiao Ruyun behind me: "If the words left by your sister back then were really hidden here, they could only be placed in that stone cabinet!" ”
With that, I walked towards the stone cabinet.
It's taller than my whole person, about 1.7 meters!
"Aunt Qiao, the door of this stone cabinet is also made of stone, you can help me open it!" After I finished shouting, my hand was still pushing hard against the stone cabinet door.
But there was no response behind me, I hurriedly looked back, Qiao Ruyun didn't know when he was gone!
At the same time, I pushed the door of the stone cabinet open, and a foul-smelling object fell directly down to me.
I screamed and found out that it was a corpse!