Chapter 8: The Mystery of the Four Gentlemen
"Is this place real or hallucination?" I began to doubt my eyes, pinched myself hard, felt the pain and immediately focused my attention on this magical place.
Baiyun stands on the edge of a bamboo forest carved with jade, although this bamboo forest is not large, but it is very meaningful.
He observed the shape and carving technique of the bamboo leaves by himself, and then looked around with a kind of awe and worship, and a little shocked and disbelieving, as if talking to himself, but as if talking to us, "It turns out that the foundation of the Huang family is here, no wonder the Qing court has been secretly searching for ten years and has not found it." ”
I was also shocked, but I was surprised that Jiang Yuan's familiarity was familiar, and his calm expression told me that he seemed to have known about this place for a long time, and this place should have a lot of connections with him.
Jiang Yuan walked up the stone steps to the pavilion seven or eight meters high, and then silently looked at the stone table in the pavilion, I knew that there was something on the table, so I pulled Baiyun to follow, in the pavilion, I saw a chess on the stone table, the chess pieces were made of white jade, and the words on it were inlaid with obsidian, the two sides of the Chu River and the Han realm fought fiercely, the red side only had a pawn and a handsome, and the black side was left with a general and an elephant, I have never seen such an endgame, the red pawn blocked the boss, and the black side was like an auxiliary general, Whoever goes first determines who wins.
I don't know much about chess, and Bai Yun seems to see some way, he winked at me, I shook my head at him, and then pointed at Jiang Yuan, meaning you might as well ask him,
Jiang Yuan pondered for a moment, then suddenly picked up the red side's pawn, took a step to the left, and Bai Yun immediately said, "If you do this, the red side will lose." “
I also said next to me: "You go like this, Hong Shuai has no protection from the pawn, and the veteran on the opposite side will go straight to the Yellow Dragon, silly boy,"
Jiang Yuan smiled confidently, looked at me and said: "This endgame is just like the predicament faced by the Huang family back then, if you hold on to the end, you will be eaten sooner or later.
As he spoke, he reached out to take the Hong Shuai, but the chess piece seemed to be stuck to the chessboard, Jiang Yuan hesitated, and his hand did not leave the chess piece, but rotated the chess piece three hundred and sixty degrees, and then we saw that the bottom of the lotus pond that had dried up began to sink slowly, and the rockery gravel used for decoration at the bottom of the pool began to automatically change its position, because we were standing relatively high, so the visual angle was very good.
The bottom of the pool sank about two meters, and as the bottom of the pool sank, a white jade door also appeared.
Except for this stone gate, the other places on the wall of the lotus pond are gray and white, and there seems to be some information hidden under this gray and white.
"This is fate, if we don't go down to find out, I'm afraid we won't be able to get out alive, in this case, Bai Yun, take that hairless beast and go."
I was the first to come out of the gazebo, the height was okay, I wasn't so disgraced as to use a rope, and we don't have it now.
I was the first to jump down, I thought that Bai Yun and Jiang Yuan would follow me down, but the two of them stood on the edge of the lotus pond and looked at me, Jiang Yuan twisted a fake flower pot on the edge of the lotus pond, and then I saw the steps, they came to look at me while walking with a little mockery, and Bai Yun came to my side and whispered: "There are mechanisms everywhere here, be careful." ”
I nodded, silently followed behind them to the stone gate, this door from the top is still like a normal, but now it seems a little discordant, this door is only one meter five, we are the shortest I am, but more than one meter eight, so, this stone door in our view, can only use drills.
There is a golden lock on the stone door, and the key of the golden lock is hanging on the edge of the lock, which makes us all a little confused, even Jiang Yuan seems to think it is incredible, he wants to go over to get it, but I stopped him, I told him that it may be poisonous, Bai Yun smiled, rushed over to take off the key, and then tried it on the keyhole, "No, this key is not compatible with this lock." ”
"What," I went over and pulled the golden lock, took the key and tried it myself, but it didn't work.
"That's weird, what is this key for? Messing around? "I checked it a few times and I didn't see anything unusual about the key.
Jiang Yuan took the key from me, looked at it on both sides, and said lightly: "If it wasn't the one who opened this lock, then why did the Huang family keep it and hang it here?" "Who knows." I looked around, and suddenly I saw that there seemed to be something different about this circle of gray walls, "White clouds." ”
Bai Yun looked at my eyes and acted, has occupied the opposite side of this stone door, because I have no tools in my hand, I am worried, Bai Yun Mou punched with enough strength, in an instant, the wall cracked a big gap, I widened my eyes and leaned over, first checked his hand, just a little red, the bones are fine, and then with a finger against the wall, I picked off a large piece of wall skin.
"Oh, I see, there's something in here."
Bai Yun and I began to pick the wall skin together, and at this time, we dragged the cool Jiang Hall Master online instantly, looked at the two of us coldly, and didn't say a word and didn't come over to help.
Still in this wall skin is not very strong, although our fingers are red, but there are still results, behind the wall is an iron door, and it is a rusty iron door, Bai Yun stretched out his finger on the door lightly, smelled the rust stained on his fingers, and said: "This iron door is from somewhere else." ”
I said, "And then?" Is there anything wrong with that? “
Bai Yun explained: "I don't know, this iron door is at least three hundred years old, and it was placed here directly with rust, just imagine, if you build a secret room, will you get a rusty iron door from somewhere else to install it, and also, you look at the lock, made of pure gold, then the key in our hands should be matched." “
I took the key and inserted it into the keyhole with a try-and-try attitude, and sure enough, the golden lock opened, and it didn't take much trouble at all.
I looked at the lock and the key, and I couldn't figure it out for a moment. "Come, let's both cut off the rest of the piece, I want to see what's behind this iron gate?" I said.
At this time, Jiang Yuan, who had not spoken, suddenly walked over from behind, reached out to take the lock and key in my hand, glanced at the iron door lightly, and then looked at me again, and said, "The reason why the Huang family disappeared out of thin air is probably also the reason." ”
After he finished speaking, he pointed to the iron gate with his eyes, and I said, "Protecting the tomb?" ”
Jiang Yuan nodded, and I thought it was incredible, it is said that the Huang family disappeared out of thin air overnight, and the other three families began to search in Beijing, Tianjin, and Yunnan, but to no avail, a century has passed, and this mystery has been unintentionally solved by us? Is this possible?
I looked at Jiang Yuan, and then at Bai Yun, who was staring at the iron gate, "Is it the truth, just go in and see." (To be continued.) )