Chapter 30: Underground Treasure Hunting
Thin footsteps sounded outside the 'door', and someone tentatively knocked on the 'door'. , the latest chapter access: Π¨Π¨Π¨.79xs.Π‘ΠΎΠ .
I glanced at Madstone and opened it, and it was Uncle He standing outside the 'door', who didn't speak, but gestured to us to eat.
"What's the matter, Uncle He, why don't you speak?" Mad Stone asked, "Is your throat uncomfortable?" β
He Bo poked his head into the room and whispered, "I'm worried that the loud voice will scare Miss Qinglian again." β
I glanced back at Qing Lian, who was grabbing a pen and scribbling on the paper, and when she heard Uncle He speak, she didn't respond.
"It's okay, Uncle He, Qing Lian's condition has recurred, just occasionally."
He Bo hesitated for a moment, glanced at Qing Lian cautiously, and then relieved himself and raised his voice: "Dinner is ready, Miss Shizi, is it for you to bring to the room, or to the dining room?" β
"Don't bother, Uncle He, let's just go over, Qing Lian's condition has stabilized a lot." I turned back to Qing Lian, who was still bowing her head and scribbling: "Let's go eat." β
Qing Lian happily threw down the 'hair' pen in her hand, stood up, and smiled sweetly at us, she was not afraid of Uncle He, and looked exceptionally well-behaved.
Crazy Stone casually asked Uncle He, "What about Young Master Qingming?" Can you go and please? β
There was a sharp scream behind him, the tables and chairs overturned, and the cups fell to the ground, and Qing Lian staggered back, looking at the wild stone with a look of horror. The insect hurried forward to pull it, but she shook it off, and then curled up at the foot of the bed, trembling and his eyes full of fear.
Madstone looked at me in surprise, a little inexplicable, unclear.
"Qing Lian?" I called softly, "Did you remember something?" β
Qing Lian pulled over the 'bed' tent, 'covered' her head, and whispered: "Bad guy, bad guy!" β
"Who's the bad guy? You tell your sister, and she helps you clean him up. β
Qing Lian 'exposed' her eyes from the tent of the bed, raised her hand tremblingly, and pointed at the wild stone in fear.
Crazy Stone and I are a little inexplicable, when the Su family had an accident, we were both far away in the capital, how could we go to Yangzhou City?
"Does that man look like you?" The bug circled around the boulder twice, guessing uncertainly.
"! I am crazy and handsome, unique in the world, who can have my bearing? Madstone glanced at the bug with disdain.
"That's right, it's not that it looks alike, it's that it sounds alike?" The bug muttered.
Almost at the same time as the Crazy Stone, I suddenly asked in unison, "What did Uncle He say in the last sentence last time?" β
"Huh? What's wrong, miss? "Uncle He heard me and Mad Stone outside the 'door' and asked aloud.
"Uncle Ho, please come in." Crazy Stone stepped out of the 'door', invited Uncle He into the house, and closed the 'door' of the house: "What did you say last time Qing Lian suddenly fell ill?" β
Uncle He said without thinking: "I just said that 'Young Master Qingming' handed over to 'generation, you can't treat Miss and Shizi slowly', Miss Qinglian was frightened, and the old slave went back to review it for a long time. β
I saw it sharply, and Qing Lian couldn't help but shrink again, and became more and more frightened.
"It's him!" Crazy Stone and I said in unison.
"Who the hell is it?" The insect asked suspiciously, "Why am I confused?" β
I was ruthless, walked up to Qing Lian, held Qing Lian's shoulder, and asked word by word: "Qing Lian, you tell my sister, is it Su Qingming who killed your aunt?!" β
"Ahh Don't, don't kill my aunt! Qing Lian suddenly screamed, and struggled hysterically.
Crazy Stone stepped forward, Ma Li nodded to Qing Lian's sleeping 'acupoint', helped her to the 'bed' to lie down, and then turned around and asked Uncle He: "On the night of the Su family's accident, where was Young Master Qing Ming?" β
He Bo was still a little stunned, and he couldn't react for a long time, and said in a proper manner: "Several young masters have not lived in the mansion since they were twelve years old. A while ago, the old man set off for Beijing, worried that the family would let the eldest young master move back to the house to live. Young Master Qingming has been living in his own courtyard, and he rushed back after the accident. β
"So, when did Qingchou leave Yangzhou City?" I couldn't help but ask.
"After the sixth aunt finished the fifth period, Miss Qingchou has been depressed. A while ago, Young Master Qing Ming proposed to let Qing Chou go out to relax and walk around at his grandmother's house in Sichuan. After He Bo finished speaking, he was already a little skeptical: "Is it really...."
"Yes, Uncle Ho." I nodded: "This time something happened to the Su family, I think you should also have suspicions, my Su family must have an internal 'traitor', otherwise the thieves would not have been so smooth." β
He Bo suddenly realized: "After the thief broke the 'door' that night, it seemed that there was no delay, and he went straight to the silver treasury of the house, and it was effortless to open the seven-fold 'door' lock, and he was quite familiar with the terrain of the house. However, Young Master Qingming, as the young master of the Su family, how could he do such a thing? β
"If, I expected it to be good, that day Young Master Qingming should have been 'mixed' among the bandits, and was recognized by Aunt Ten when he committed the murder, so he killed people. The reason why Qing Lian was so frightened every time she heard the word 'Qing Ming', and when she saw Qing Ming herself, she didn't react and was not afraid, because Qing Lian was hiding in the distance at that time, and she didn't see Qing Ming's appearance clearly in the middle of the night, but before Aunt Ten died, she called out Qing Ming's name in horror.
After Qing Lian was frightened, she became stupid, but she firmly remembered these two words. So, every time I hear us mention it, I get terrified. "Crazy Stone is carefully analyzed and methodical.
"Oh my God, it's so vicious, it's not as good as a beast!" The insect said indignantly: "Thanks to Qing Lian who is not afraid of him, and no one in the house directly calls Qing Ming by his name, otherwise he is so ruthless, I am afraid that he would have killed people a long time ago." β
"Brute! The old slave has always respected him like this, and now I will send him to the government and let the prefect punish him according to the law. He Bo said indignantly.
"There's no hurry, Uncle Ho." Crazy Stone turned to me and said, "Didn't you always say that there is a lack of someone who can hide from the people outside the 'door' and can give information to the robbers?" β
I thought for a moment and nodded heavily at the rocks, "Then we'll do it." β
"Uncle He, I may have to grieve you for the time being."
He Bo looked righteous and awe-inspiring: "What is a grievance? The old slave has the favor of the master, and he does not hesitate to go to the soup and fire, what do you need for the eldest lady and the prince, but please command. β
The mad stone called Uncle He over, and gave two whispered orders like this, and Uncle He bowed his head again and again, and led the order away.
Without further ado, Mad Shi immediately repaired a letter and sent someone to take his token and quickly rode to the military camp stationed near Yancheng. He said that there were thieves in the nearby state capitals, and they were gullible and could not be trusted, and the Yancheng garrison was the old department of his father-in-law, who governed the army very strictly, and was loyal and reliable. So he went to Yancheng.
Crazy Stone and I reworked our plans, thinking about the details in every possible way, lest anything go wrong and fall short, and we could act when the time came.
After waiting for about half an hour, Uncle He came back to report that he had taken advantage of the unpreparedness of the people, mixed all the ** 'medicine' I gave him into the evening meal, and personally served Qingming for dinner.
The "medicine" and "sex" exert themselves very slowly, and it was not until the night was deep that the "sweat" and "medicine" took effect, and the people in the entire house also fell into a coma.
To be on the safe side, I left three 'squires' to guard carefully, and took the others to Wisteria Lodge.
The 'attendant' who left the mansion today reported to me that he had found that there was an eyeliner laid by the Bodhi Sect near the Su Mansion, and it was not easy to get rid of it, and it should not be underestimated. I just remembered this underground passage of Wisteria Kozuki. When this secret passage was discovered, my father did not block it, but only closed the two exits in case of emergency use in the future, but I didn't expect it to come in handy today.
Uncle He took a few 'squires' to stay behind to open the secret passage, and then I went to my father's study with Crazy Stone, Shui Lin, and Tu Lin.
I once asked Uncle He in detail about the robbery's ransacking of Su Mansion that night, but Uncle He did not mention the underground treasure house in his father's study, and it should not have been discovered by the thieves. Or rather, even Qing Ming didn't know about this treasure trove of his father.
Naturally, my father's study was inevitably destroyed, and all the famous calligraphy and paintings. All the antique treasures were gone, and even the gems and night pearls embedded in the Duobao Pavilion had all been dug up with sharp objects, leaving a mottled and carved mark of a knife and axe. Although the study has been cleaned up briefly, it is still a mess and unrecognizable.
Tulin guarded the 'door' of the study, I closed all the 'doors' and windows of the study, 'covered' the curtains, and then returned to the front of the Duobao Pavilion, carefully looking for the position where my father had pressed.
It is precisely because the night pearl embedded in the Duobao Pavilion was forcibly dug up in a hurry, and it is full of cut marks, so the mystery hidden under the night pearl has not been discovered, which can be regarded as a blessing.
I held the candle and searched carefully among the mottled notches, and finally found a concave 'hole' with neat and extremely fine cracks, and I was overjoyed to remember that the place my father pressed that day was a pattern of the Big Dipper. If you find the first one, the location of the other six will be easily determined.
I took a deep breath and pressed the first one from the handle of the spoon in order, but it didn't move! After repeated trials, I felt a little panicked, could it be that my father had destroyed the mechanism, or that all the treasures had been removed?
Seeing that my expression was wrong, Mad Stone approached me and asked, "What's wrong?" β
I said with a sad face: "It seems that the mechanism is broken, I obviously saw my father press it like this that day, and the seven night pearls are arranged into the Big Dipper, how can it not work?" β
Crazy Stone approached, looked at it carefully, and smiled: "It turned out to be a seven-star chain lock, and your father put a lot of effort into it." β
"Seven-star chain lock? What do you mean? I asked, confused.
"If it's as simple as what you see, I'm afraid that Su Qingming is locked up here every day, and he will already find out that he is tired of it. There is also a North Star in the direction corresponding to the handle of the Big Dipper, which is the main switch of the mechanism. Your father is cautious, he should have turned off the North Star when he left Beijing, so this mechanism will fail. β
After the mad stone finished speaking, he measured it with his fingers, and soon found the position of the main switch three feet away. Jumping up to the Duobao Pavilion and pressing down on that position, I tried again, and I heard a "zaza" sound, and the desk sank, and the floor was 'exposed' in and out.