Gong Jue stood up and stepped lightly as he walked around the room, holding the wine bottle in his hand and pouring the wine inside to the ground, just as Gong Jue said, the wine splashed on the ground slowly drew some regular gaps in the room.

Gong Jue was proficient in the mechanism, and when he saw the lines of these gaps, he immediately came to his senses, and carefully probed around the room, groping his way to the side of the bed in the inner room, his hand stopped on a carved crested crested at the head of the bed, and with a slight twist, there was a bang, and the stone slabs on the ground opened with a sound, revealing a passage leading to the darkness of the ground.

I subconsciously looked at Zhao Yan and the general, they all shook their heads blankly, and said I didn't know that there was a dark room in Ye Jiuqing's room, I have lived here for more than ten years, this house is Ye Jiuqing's thunder pool in my heart, even Ye Zhiqiu does not dare to trespass.

The last time he drank with Ye Jiuqing in this room, he thought that he had his memories and debts to Ling Xi here, and he locked all the good things in this room, so that even he didn't dare to come back to face it, and only dared to come back to mourn his deceased wife when Ling Xi died.

Now it seems that in addition to memories, there are also secrets that Ye Jiuqing does not know.

Tian Ji walked down first, found a switch next to the passage, turned on the light and we saw clearly that it was a basement built underground and promised to be three meters deep, my first reaction was that this should be the place where Ye Jiuqing hid gold and silver, after all, he has been running a Sifang pawnshop for decades, and no one knows how many treasures he has explored in his life, anyway, I have never seen it, and it is estimated that they are all hidden in this underground dark room.

When we walked down, we found that there were no gold and silver jewels as I imagined, and the large dark room was empty, and there was a platform shining with royal blue under the light, and then ......

Tian Ji's body at the front took a step back, and even the general, who was not afraid of life and death, was now dumbfounded and shocked.

There was a man lying on the platform that glowed with royal blue light!

We looked at each other face to face, and no one dared to step forward for a while, I was worried that Ye Zhiqiu was afraid, and I kept grabbing her hand, and suddenly felt her fingers shaking in my palm, I thought she was afraid of holding it tighter, but Ye Zhiqiu broke free from my palm, and walked towards the platform with a flustered and confused expression.

I saw the corners of her mouth squirming, but I couldn't see the look of fear on her face, I was worried that something would happen to her, so I followed her, and when I got to the table, I saw clearly that there was a sleeping woman lying on it.

At that moment, my eyes widened, and I couldn't help but open my mouth, and in a trance, I seemed to see two Ye Zhiqiu.

"Mom......" Ye Zhiqiu shouted, and tears suddenly burst out of his eyes.

This is Ling Xi!

All of us were shocked, this is the woman who has been torturing Ye Jiuqing for decades, I always thought that Ye Jiuqing kept the woman here in his heart and never stayed away from him, and now I realize that Ye Jiuqing really did not let this woman leave him.

But Ye Zhiqiu said that Ling Xi had been dead for more than ten years, she saw Ling Xi buried with her own eyes, and every year she would go to Ling Xi Cemetery to pay respects, Ye Zhiqiu had always been indignant against Ye Jiuqing, one of the reasons was that Ye Jiuqing had never gone to sweep Ling Xi's grave.

I think Ye Zhiqiu should have found the reason now, maybe in Ye Jiuqing's eyes, Ling Xi has never died, in fact, Ling Xi in front of us doesn't look like a person who has been dead for more than ten years, she seems to be asleep with her eyes closed, her appearance is lifelike, her skin is still bloody, her hair seems to have just been combed, her hands are crossed in front of her, and she looks peaceful and sweet.

For a moment I even believed that this woman was just sleeping, until I timidly put my finger to the tip of her nose, and there was no snort, I buckled on Ling Xi's pulse and did not beat at all, this is clearly a person who has lost her life, but her body is so well preserved.

When I touched Ling Xi's wrist, I didn't feel the coldness of the dead person, her body even had a faint temperature, I retracted my hand and suddenly felt that this dark room was too weird, it seems that my initial conjecture was not wrong.

I thought that Ye Jiuqing would hide his wealth here for the rest of his life, although I didn't see the gold, silver and jewelry, but I believe that for Ye Jiuqing, Ling Xi is the most precious treasure in his life.

"Even the most advanced preservation technology is impossible to do to preserve a person who has been dead for more than ten years in such a good condition." The general has been digging graves all his life, and he has seen countless dead people, and I am afraid that this is the most shocking corpse he has ever seen. "Palm...... How does the shopkeeper do it? ”

"It is said that the thousand-year-old ice jade bed can retain the face, and even the dead can maintain their appearance for a long time, but ......" Zhao Yan's gaze fell on the platform that shone with a royal blue light under Ling Xi. But this thing is neither ice nor jade, I have never seen anything like it. ”

I touched it with my hands, the platform has the feel of jade, and it is cold and cold, Zhao Yan's eyes are known as the eyes of the king of Hades, not only can distinguish the real from the false but also distinguish the material, even he can't see what this is, I am even more at a loss.

Ling Xi's body has not been treated, and it must still be the same as before death, and the fact that his appearance can be maintained until now should be all due to the reason for the platform below.

"The shopkeeper is affectionate, and it's understandable to keep your mother here, but it's understandable that he didn't tell anyone else about this, why didn't he even say it to you?" I looked at Ye Zhiqiu and asked in surprise.

Ye Zhiqiu burst into tears, trembling and stretched out his hand to caress Ling Xi's face, his lips squirmed, and his voice was full of resentment: "He is selfish, his mother died for him, and he didn't let his mother go to the ground for more than ten years, just because he felt indebted, he left my mother here." ”

"Brother Ye has dug graves all his life, what is called being in the ground, he knows better than you, not to mention that Brother Ye has always done things for a reason, he has always had a deep affection for his sister-in-law, and he will never refuse to let his sister-in-law rest in peace with his own selfish desires, he must have other reasons." Zhao Yan said.

"The last time I accompanied the shopkeeper to drink in this house, I asked him why he didn't stop when he was old, and he told me that it was not the right time, and he still had something very important to do." I looked at Ling Xi, who was sleeping peacefully. "Now I believe that the most important thing for the shopkeeper should be her, what else has the shopkeeper not done? How many secrets he still hasn't told. ”

"I don't know how many secrets the shopkeeper Ye has, but I'm afraid he has a lot of things to hide from us......"

Gong Jue's voice came from the front, I saw him standing alone under a wall in the dark room, with a map pasted on it, Gong Jue turned his head to look at me, hesitated, and his voice was solemn: "Don't you want to know what the shopkeeper is hiding from you, you can come and see for yourself." ”

My heart tightened, and when I saw Ling, I knew what Ye Jiuqing was hiding from me, and I was eager to know the answer, but when I was really asked to face it, I suddenly didn't dare, not because I didn't want to face the truth, but I didn't think about how to face Ye Jiuqing, after all, it was a person who was as kind to me as a mountain.

After all, I walked over, and everyone else followed, there were traces of red pen sketches on the map, and there were annotated words, I could recognize at a glance that these were all written by Ye Jiuqing.

I saw a striking name in a place on the map that was circled with a red pen, a place that might not mean anything to the rest of the room, but was all too familiar to me.

I stepped forward, my trembling hand raised, and I touched the name of the place above in astonishment.

Jinluogou!

This is where I was born and where it all began.

And that's not what really shocked me, there were two names written in red pen next to the outlined ground.

Gu Yuanshan and Gu Chaoge.

Behind Gu Yuanshan is a striking question mark, and behind my name is Ye Jiuqing wrote three question marks in succession!

I took a deep breath, Ling Ran didn't say nonsense, my father's real name should be Gu Yuanshan, what I never expected was that Ye Jiuqing actually knew it all along.

More than 10 years! I have been talking to him for more than ten years, and he didn't even say a word in front of me.

Those question marks can see Ye Jiuqing's doubts, I really don't understand what my father has that makes Ye Jiuqing doubtful, and I ...... Obviously, I am the biggest doubt in Ye Jiuqing's heart.

"Lop Nur!" Tian Ji raised his hand and pointed to another place on the map that had been outlined with a red pen. "How does the shopkeeper know about this place?"

I followed the hand of Tian Ji and saw that the name of the place in the middle of the outlined place was Lop Nur, and there was a string of dates written on it.

May 14, 1965.

I'm too familiar with this date, and Gong Jue and Tian Ji should also know what this time represents, Xue Xinrou has already told them that on this day, the Red Dynasty carried out the second airdrop nuclear explosion test in Lop Nur.

The strange thing is that my father was in the bullseye of the nuclear explosion test that day!

Underneath this string of dates is another line of numbers that I am familiar with.

E41.43、N88.44

This is the coordinates of the bullseye of the nuclear explosion test, Ye Jiuqing knew very well what had happened in this place, and then I saw my father's name again next to me, the difference was that after the three words Gu Yuanshan was a bigger question mark.

I never told Ye Jiuqing the contents of the hardcover notebook that my father asked me to burn, and the secret we knew from Xue Xinrou was because I promised Xue Xinrou to keep her mouth shut, and I also never told Ye Jiuqing.

However, it seems that what we are hiding from him is not a secret in Ye Jiuqing's heart at all, you can tell from the color of the red pen on the map, these names and words have been written for a long time, and Ye Jiuqing has always known that something happened to Lop Nur.

I looked back at the general and Zhao Yan, their faces were full of confusion, it seemed that Ye Jiuqing was not the only one hiding from me, there were still many places on the map that were circled by red pens, and the more I looked down, the more I couldn't believe my eyes.

Suddenly remembered that day in this room with Ye Jiuqing to drink, in the end he had to toast me, he said that one day in the future, he has something to live with me, I hope I can forgive, I didn't care at the time, I thought it was Ye Jiuqing drunk joke.

Now I finally understand what he meant by saying this to me, not only did he hide it from me for more than ten years, but he also deliberately hid it, looking at this map on the wall, Ye Jiuqing, whom I had respected for more than ten years, suddenly became a familiar stranger.