Chapter 25: Ghost Wood

Tan couldn't bear to be locked up in the dungeon for so many days, unable to see familiar people, unable to see the sunlight outside, which was simply torture mentally, just when she thought the world was gray, someone said that he could take her out of here.

She couldn't bear to stand up and walked closer, through the iron railing, she stared at the man, and had a bold idea in her heart, "How about you take me out?" ”

Before she could react, the stranger grabbed her wrist and spun around, and when she opened her eyes again, she found that she was no longer in prison, and not far from her there was a woman in Song Dynasty clothes meditating.

After maybe a quarter of an hour, the two guards woke up, and when they saw that the prisoner was gone, they were simply frightened. Immediately shouted outside: "The prisoner has run away, the prisoner has run away!" ”

It was a quiet and peaceful night, but this roar completely shredded the mask of hypocrisy.

Tan Shu was chatting with Feishuang, and was directly stunned by the news, and her first reaction was that Jun Zhiheng had robbed Tan Buyan. As the daughter of the long house, Tan Shu has the right to transfer the guards. Bustling, more than 30 people went to the small building where Jun Zhiheng was resting.

People from other families also came out to see the excitement, and surrounded the small building three floors inside and three floors outside.

"Jun Zhiheng, do you really not take our Tan family seriously in your eyes for this evil obstacle?"

The movement outside was so loud, Jun Zhiheng had already heard it, and knowing that he heard what Tan Shu said, he walked out slowly with Liu Muyun.

"Master Tan, are you crazy? With such a big battle, is it going to solve me on the spot? ”

"Don't divert the topic, quickly hand over Tan Bu Bear."

Jun Zhiheng showed an expression that seemed to be smiling, and took a few steps to the side, "Master Tan, I said that I would find evidence to prove the innocence of the unbearable, so I let you lock her up." Now, it is your Tan family's poor supervision that has been exploited, but you have come to me for trouble. I ask you to ask the guards, have I been around in the last few days? ”

The four guards were brought forward, and the answer was, of course, no, Jun Zhiheng and everyone in the Qing'er Pavilion not only never approached the dungeon, but they also did not even leave the place where they were temporarily staying. In front of everyone's eyes, Tan Shu had nothing to do with him.

"Okay, you Jun Zhiheng, I will definitely arrest Tan Bu Yan back, and I won't let her live again this time."

Tan Shu is almost about to explode, her plan will be seamless tomorrow, and she can kill Tan Bu to keep her position, and she can reveal the true identity of Yue Wanchen, and now the cooked duck flies.

This toss was in the middle of the night, and people were sleepy and tired, but Tan Shu still refused to give up, and took people to the back mountains to look for it.

The Tan family is really famous this time, and people outside are waiting to see how the Tan family will end. Tan Yonghe is also about to go crazy, in order to eliminate a hidden danger, the result is a series of incidents. Tan Shu is still looking for Tan Bu Couldn't bear it, but even if she finds it, what can she do? Jun Zhiheng will definitely prevent them from carrying out the execution.

It's just the beginning, and what makes Alan Tam collapse is still to come.

Yue Wanchen thought that the Tan family was in chaos today, and it was a good time to explore the secret room at night. At this moment, there was not a single guard near the main hall, and Jun Zhiheng met with her as promised.

Jun Zhiheng touched the location of the well according to the place he found last time, and found that there was a depression, and as soon as he tried his strength, he heard the sound of something gliding on the track. The whole mural moved out of the wall, and when I looked inside, I saw a large hole in the ground, and the light shone into it and found that it was a secret room with more than 100 steps.

After both men went inside, the mural slowly moved back to the wall.

Tan Yonghe is really smart, no wonder Jun Zhiheng knocked on every wall and didn't find it. First, the button to open the recess of the well was placed under the unobtrusive chair legs, and then the real entrance to the chamber was hidden under the thick fresco. Jun Zhiheng roughly estimated that the mural was nearly one meter thick, and there were no gaps after being inserted, so that no matter where it was knocked, there would be no hollow feeling.

There were no lights on either side of the steps, and the moon dust released a firefly to illuminate the road under his feet more clearly. The whole secret room is well ventilated, and there is no feeling of holding your breath after entering, but the further down you go, the colder it gets, not only because of the underground, but also because the temperature is artificially lowered, which makes it feel like an ice cellar.

After descending the steps, I thought there would be a treasure on the surface, but I didn't see anything. Jun Zhiheng thought about it, according to Tan Yonghe's style of doing things, he must have hidden things again, as long as he found the switch, he could find something.

Yue Wanchen released two more fireflies out, and the secret room was suddenly brightly lit.

Jun Zhiheng was very curious, "Que Xi, what kind of firefly are you, how can you emit a light brighter than a lamp?" ”

"This is the starry firefly that I have carefully cultivated, inject the power of the stars into its body, these little insects will be worth a hundred times, and it will not die immediately, but it is very troublesome to attract the power of the stars, and I only have these three, if you like it, you can take it."

Jun Zhiheng smiled, "That is, you have such an interest, I would never have thought of this." ”

The two of them talked and laughed while looking for the mechanism. At this time, the pattern on the ground attracted the attention of Moon Dust.

There is a large circle on the ground, which should be about four meters in diameter, and it is full of flower patterns. One after the other, although the flowers of different flowering periods are engraved together, the painter has excellent aesthetics, and it does not make people feel abrupt at all, but looks different from each other.

Yue Wanchen remembered that the Tan family had its own family emblem, and she had seen it on the gate of the Tan family, which was a branch of plum, symbolizing the arrogant character of the Tan family.

Yue Wanchen was puzzled in her heart, "I once remembered that the Tan family's family emblem Lamei has a flower branch facing to the right, Ah Yin, look here, why is this branch facing left?" ”

This family emblem is really small, and it is painted on the edges, mixed in with a lot of lines, if it weren't for Yue Wanchen's reminder, he wouldn't have noticed it at all.

"Maybe that's what makes the difference."

Jun Zhiheng stepped down with all his might, and found that the circle with the clan emblem was slowly rising, probably rising to a place more than one person tall and stopped.

At this time, the cobblestone is the top, and there are four stone pillars under the cobblestone, like a small pavilion built in the secret room. And it was in this pavilion that they saw something unexpected.

It was a coffin, and Yue Wanchen stepped forward and touched it, "This wood is a ghost wood from the tomb." Using ghost wood to make a coffin is a punishable heart. ”

Jun Zhiheng saw Yue Wanchen's frowning brows instantly, and knew that something was wrong, "......What do you mean?"

The ghost tree is a tree that grows in the tomb, and when it is a young sapling, it is transplanted into the tomb, and it is not the soil, water, and sunlight that nourishes it, but the corpse, blood, and human sacrifices.

Plant the sapling in the carcass, and water it with blood regularly, and let the blood go for several days, but only freshly drawn from the body. Trees that grow in this environment for hundreds of years and occasionally use human sacrifices as fertilizer, are called ghost trees.

Under normal circumstances, willow trees, peach trees are acceptable, locust trees are the best, use ghost wood to make coffins, and the person lying in it is covered with the breath of death, which will make the ghost cha think that this person is a person who has committed a great crime before his death, and he can't enter reincarnation with a thousand lives in his hand, so he banishes this person to the realm of the underworld to suffer for hundreds or even thousands of years.

After listening to Yue Wanchen's words, Jun Zhiheng hurriedly looked at the person lying in the coffin, and sure enough, it was the old head of the Tan family, who was also Tan Buyan's grandfather.

Jun Zhiheng didn't expect that Tan Yong and the appearance of a decent gentleman would not be human. Yue Wanchen couldn't understand how his father, who was his own father, could be so reckless and harmful.

Yue Wanchen looked around the pavilion and found that the four stone pillars still hid mysteries. In the center of each pillar there is a plum branch to the left, which indicates that there is something in each pillar. She pressed it three times in a row, and when she opened it, it was empty, and only the last one remained, and inside was an extremely delicate, slender silver box.

Jun Zhiheng immediately took the box, "I'll open it, you step back a little, so as not to have a hidden weapon." ”

He cautiously opened the box, and there were no hidden weapons, no poison, only a piece of paper lying in it. Unfolded the paper, looked up, and realized that this was a letter.

"I can't bear Jiao'er:

Seeing the words as faces, grandfather misses you very much.

Over the years in the Tan family, you have suffered, only blame me for not disciplining your father well, and let you taste all the pain when you babble.

Grandfather is now in a state of running out of oil, and he can no longer watch you grow up, get married, and have children, and grandfather has regrets......"

In this letter left to Tan Buyi, he expressed a dying old man's love for his granddaughter, and at the same time uncovered a past that had been sealed for many years.

The old master of the Tan family fell in love with a woman when he was young, the woman was gentle and virtuous, knowledgeable, and a well-known talented girl in the neighborhood, named Zhaozhu. At that time, there were many people in the towns and villages who proposed to the girl who called the pearl, and everyone thought that she would marry a family whose status matched her family. Unexpectedly, Zhaozhu made his own decisions and broke off relations with his family and married a poor Xiucai.

No one is optimistic about the couple, only saying that the poor couple is sad about everything, but they still live a prosperous life and don't pay attention to the voices of the outside world. It's a pity that the good times didn't last long, and when Xiucai was on his way home at night one night, he met a bandit and died on the street.

It was like a bolt from the blue, and there was nothing left overnight. What's even more worrying is that it didn't take long for her to find out that she was pregnant. A young widow with a child, how difficult it was to live.

Over the years, although Zhaozhu got married, the old head of the Tan family still did not forget her, and when he heard that she was in a big disaster, he deliberately went to help the poor man.

As soon as I entered the door, I saw that Zhaozhu was retching in front of the spittoon, and her lower abdomen was still slightly bulging. The old master of Tan immediately understood that she was pregnant. At this time, a blood rushed to his heart, and he told Zhaozhu that he was going to marry her into the door.

At first, Zhaozhu refused so thoroughly that he was not even allowed to enter the door. But the old master of Tan is a stubborn person, and if he refuses once, he will mention it again, and he will go to the door of Zhu's house for several days to beg her.

Maybe it was really moved by Zhuzhu, and she agreed. In this way, the old master of Tan was willing to risk the disapproval of the world and married Zhaozhu, who was already pregnant, into the door.

A few months later, Zhaozhu gave birth, and the old master of Tan bought off Wen Po and Langzhong, and insisted that Zhaozhu was born prematurely. In this way, she and Xiucai's child were born, and the old head of the Tan family named him - Tan Yonghe. He loved Wu and Wu, and never regarded this child as an outsider, only as his own son. Zhuzhu is very grateful to him, the husband and wife, Qin Se and Ming.

Later, Zhaozhu died of illness, and the old head of the Tan family was persecuted by the clan, and continued the strings, that is, the biological mother of Alice Tam and Alice Tam. Originally, the old head of the Tan family felt that his eldest son was kind and kind, and he could be the head of the family, but after a long time, he felt that he was pedantic and difficult to take on a big responsibility. So in the many years that Tan Yonghe became the head of the family, the power was still in the hands of the old family owner.

Tan couldn't bear to grow up, and the old family owner looked left and right and felt that his granddaughter would become a great talent in the future, so he moved the mind of the head of the family to transpose. He talked to Tan Yong and Chang once, explained his thoughts, and told him about the past. Tan Yonghe couldn't accept that he was not a child of the Tan family, and he couldn't accept his own rights but gave them away, he had always been cowardly, so he had a murderous intention, and made a chronic poisonous weed contract in the tea that the old family owner often drank.

By the time the old master found out by himself, it was too late, and there was no way to return to heaven. So the old family head wrote a letter, recorded the matter as it was, and asked the elders of the clan to preside over Tan Buyan's succession as the head of the family, and remove Tan Yonghe from the family tree. He hoped that after his death, he couldn't bear to take over the Tan family.

After reading this letter, Jun Zhiheng understood why Tan Yonghe was bent on killing him, I was afraid that their father and daughter had already passed the anger, Tan Yonghe was kicked out of the Tan family, and Tan Shu's position as the daughter of the long house was naturally gone, and then she was still the poor person whose parents died, and she had to watch her keep calling for wild seeds Tan Bu couldn't bear to stand in a high position. According to Tan Shu's character, this will never be allowed to happen.

After listening to Jun Zhiheng's analysis, Yue Wanchen had a doubt, "Since he found this letter, as long as he hides or destroys it, won't it be fine?" Why do you need to do anything more?"

"What if he can't destroy it?"

"Then hide it, you see his secret room, it can be protected against violent explosives. Isn't there a child named Ruan Chu, can you figure out the mystery? ”

"Also, Ruan Chu's child heard their conversation, and I learned that they drugged Tan Yongqiu and put an object related to their lives in the secret room. Then let's take this letter first, at least let the two fathers and daughters worry for a while. ”

"Huh? Why aren't you worried about Tan's unbearable disappearance at all? ”

Jun Zhiheng sneered, "So, my Demon Emperor Your Majesty, can you tell me where Tan Bu couldn't bear to go?" ”

Yue Wanchen understood that Jun Zhiheng was teasing her, it seemed that he had already known about it.

Tan Shu hadn't slept much in two days, and she didn't understand how Tan Buyi had disappeared under her nose. At this time, she was very irritable, and his father was furious because he had lost someone.

Originally, the people from the family who came to see the excitement found that they had nothing to talk about after waiting for a few days, so they came to Tan Shu in twos and threes to say goodbye. Such a good opportunity to get rid of the moon dust, how can you miss it. Tan Shu was clever and made up a lie that Tan Bu Ren had found it, and the Qing'e Pavilion did not find evidence to prove Tan Bu Yan's innocence, so she let everyone stay.

Somehow, the plan is drifting further and further off course. Tan Shu has no intention of thinking about Tan Bu's whereabouts, as long as the letter is still hidden, as long as the opportunity is not there, no one will know this secret.

Even in such a situation, Tan Shu still has a glimmer of fantasy about Jun Zhiheng, as long as Yue Wanchen dies and leaves, even if he is tied up, he must keep him by his side.

Tan Shu has completely fallen into the net she weaved, whether it is love or obsession, I am afraid that she has long been unable to tell the difference.

……

Early this morning, a maid came to inform you, saying that the head of the Tan family invited you to go to the ancestral hall to watch the ceremony, and Tan's unbearable sins must be judged in front of everyone before they can be convinced.

Soon, everyone gathered at the ancestral hall. However, I didn't see Tan Bu who was about to be judged, but only saw Tan Shu standing in front of the door of the ancestral hall.

The Tan family has rules, if you want to punish the Tan family, you must execute in front of the ancestors, one is to tell the ancestors that the Tan family does not protect the sinful people, and the other is to pray for the ancestors to bless the Tan family without wind and waves. This is the case today, and all disputes are settled in front of the ancestral hall.

A young man from the Qu family finally couldn't help it, and asked loudly: "Master Tan, which play are you singing?" ”

Tan Yonghe walked out of the crowd, signaled everyone to be calm, walked to Tan Shu's side, and whispered to her: "Don't you think it's messy enough now?" ”

Tan Shu's expression was very calm, and she didn't seem to pay attention to her father at all.

"Thank you for your hard work to come here, if our Tan family has neglected you in the past few days, please bear with me, after all, we are all a family. Here today, I announce the removal of Tan Bu Ren from the Tan family tree......"

"Tan Shu, your hand can be stretched long enough."

A voice suddenly came from the back of the crowd, and everyone turned around, only to see a person who had disappeared for several days appeared in front of everyone, she was Tan couldn't bear it.

As soon as Tan Shu saw Tan Buyi appear, she immediately ordered the guards to arrest her, "What are you still doing in a daze, don't bring this sinner to the front for me." ”

The surrounding guards did not move, and Tan Yonghe hurriedly gave another order, but still no one moved.

Tan Bu couldn't bear to walk towards Tan Shu slowly, the crowd was naturally divided into two sides, at this moment it was obviously Tan Shu standing above, but the momentum was tilted towards Tan Bu Shu's side, she was not in a hurry, looking at Tan Shu's father and daughter like a fool.