Chapter 252: I Was Bitten by a Snake
Xie Zijin looked back suspiciously, "What's wrong?" ”
The man shoved a package into her hand, "This was left for you by a child." ”
Xie Zijin took it with doubts, and was about to open it, when Xiao Er suddenly pressed her hand, "That son has explained, let you go to no man's land and open it again." ”
He glanced around, and said with a smile, "There are many people here, and the things in this burden should be very valuable, so it will be dangerous for those who have a heart to look at it." ”
Xie Zijin had no choice but to grab the package, hold it in his hand, and was about to ask the shopkeeper if he knew the whereabouts of Shen Huaijin and Lin Hanzhang, but when he thought that he was both a court official, how could he reveal his whereabouts to a shopkeeper, he dispelled his thoughts.
After Xie Zijin brought the package back to the Lin Mansion, he closed the door according to the instructions of the shopkeeper and dared to open the baggage.
She guessed that it was money.
It's just that, in addition to the gold and silver treasures, there is also a handwritten letter.
At first glance, the handwriting is Shen Huaijin's.
Xie Zijin originally thought that in this letter, Shen Huaijin would apologize for his sudden indifference, but this was not the case.
In the letter, there is a diagram that completely draws the internal structure of the Lin Mansion, and a circle is placed somewhere, and a cross is drawn with a red pen on it.
Xie Zijin didn't understand what it meant, so he read the letter carefully, and then realized that Shen Huaijin had arranged a task for himself.
This task made Xie Zijin a little puzzled, how could Shen Huaijin know how the Lin Mansion was structured? In addition, what kind of place is the cellar that Shen Huaijin asked her to go to?
What made her even more unbelievable was that Shen Huaijin actually asked her to see if there was a salt well here......
Salt has always come from the land of Bashu, how can there be salt wells in this capital, and ...... Is it the Lin family?
Xie Zijin pinched the thin letter paper and fell into a trance.
Xie Zijin looked at the marked location for a long time, superimposed it with the impression in his mind, and then realized that this was not the bridge near the Huxin Pavilion?
It's just that...... The location of this cave does not seem to be on the bridge.
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As the night gradually darkened, Xie Zijin memorized the location on the paper in his mind, and then ran in the direction of the Huxin Pavilion.
Walking to the vicinity of the Huxin Pavilion, compared with the location in her memory, she noticed that the bridge was unique.
I complained that the bridge was about to extend to the level of the lake, and it turned out that there was a small hole on the bank.
Since it's a cellar, I guess I entered it through this hole.
At the beginning, it was extremely narrow, and only then did it pass people, and it was dozens of steps back, and it suddenly became clear.
Xie Zijin bent his waist and burrowed into the hole. Afraid of being discovered, she stumbled into the depths before she found out the fire fold and lit it, and then relied on her memory to walk in the direction given in Shen Huaijin's letter.
There is a natural cold air in the cave, slowly seeping through the stones into the pores. Xie Zijin hugged his arms tightly, carefully looked at the structure in the cave, and was amazed to see the delicate stone carvings on the rock wall.
The Lin family is really a scholarly family, and the cellar has spent such exquisite thoughts, supplemented by cultural factors, which is really amazing.
Thinking that there was something more important at hand, Xie Zijin continued to walk forward. At the fork in the road, Xie Zijin turned left in the direction drawn on the drawings in the letter.
Approaching the final location, Xie Zijin was actually a little nervous. Although Shen Huaijin only asked her to take a look at whether there was a salt cellar there, Xie Zijin felt that there was something waiting for him after this.
She was about to move, when suddenly there was a sound of rustling in the darkness, Xie Zijin stiffened, and slowly moved the fire fold in the direction of the wriggling object.
She couldn't be more familiar with the creature......
The dragon slaying village is a mountainous area, and the creature of snakes is not unusual. Therefore, when the hanging eyes of the green snake attacked her, Xie Zijin jumped to the side nimbly.
The snake flickered in front of him, and found that the person was missing, so he turned his head to look around, and after aiming at Xie Zijin, he attacked her.
When Shen Huaijin and Lin Guifei entered the ice cellar together, they noticed that there was another switch near the switch, and it was related to the complexity of the cellar, so it was not difficult to deduce that the other switch was the switch of the salt cellar that was some distance away from the ice cellar.
While the snake didn't notice her, Xie Zijin jumped out again and entered the salt cellar with a smoke.
The fire fold will make this square hole illuminate.
Xie Zijin looked at the empty place, frowned, closed her eyes and recalled the picture on the letter in her mind, just as she fell into deep thought, suddenly there was a sharp pain in her calf.
Xie Zijin turned to look at the sharp pain, only to see the long snake coiled around his ankle.
She laughed to herself, but she didn't expect that she was thinking too much, and she didn't even notice that the snake was approaching her, which made the beast take advantage of the loophole.
I saw the slender fingers pinching the seven inches and throwing the snake aside, and the snake seemed to be frightened and ran away in a gray way.
At the wound, a small patch of bruise spread on the skin that looked like congealed cream.
This snake venom was very fast, Xie Zijin didn't know how poisonous it was, so he could only grit his teeth, tear a piece of cotton cloth from his cuff, bandage it indiscriminately, and began to concentrate on thinking about where the salt well was.
She once read "Notes on the Book of Water", which said that most of the well salt is processed by using the caisson method to absorb shallow surface or underground natural brine. Li Bing once served as the county guard of Shudu, and ordered the people of Shu to dig "salt wells through Guangdu" and "salt irrigation", which belonged to the prototype of large shallow wells.
However, Kyoto is not a Shu land, and this place is a large family, so naturally there is no salt irrigation, only a small amount of groundwater.
But here are the strange rocks around, the terrain is uneven, gloomy and dark, and the groundwater is buried very deeply, where to find the wellhead?
When Xie Zijin was irritable, he inadvertently rubbed his hand against his clothes, but found that there was a sticky grit feeling from the palm of his hand, but it was smaller than the gravel.
Xie Zijin raised his hand and put it in front of the fire fold to take a closer look, his eyes shining.
In the flash of light, a ghostly shadow crossed her mind.
It's the snake just now.
At this point, she didn't seem to have thought about why a snake guarded this place if it was really a salt cellar.
And why is the snake body still attached to the salt grains after all the salt has been removed?
A series of questions passed through Xie Zijin's mind, and his mind was twisted and turned, and he could only sort out part of his thoughts.
She had no other flawless care, and could only follow her memory and walk in the direction where the snake had left.
This search is indeed an earth-shattering discovery.
It wasn't until he came to the end that Xie Zijin found that there was a statue of a majestic god on the stone wall, looking down at the ground with kind eyebrows.