At the entrance of the supermarket, I saw a familiar back.

"Is it really you?" Wu Yue turned to look at me.

"It's me, Barrister Wu, you follow me all the way, is there anything wrong?" I deliberately pretended not to care and looked at him.

In the corner café, we sat in a very inconspicuous corner, the aroma of coffee overflowing, and we were silent for nearly ten minutes.

"Are you not surprised to see me?" He asked.

"Yes, but your Young Master Wu has great powers, not to mention appearing in this capital, even if you appear on the moon, it's nothing."

"When did it become so harsh?" He smiled, "I'm here for you." ”

"Looking for me?"

"Yes, by the entrust!"

"Who?" My hands were clasped together unnaturally.

"Jiang Yuan."

I was in a trance, I heard clearly, but I still couldn't believe it, "Who are you talking about?" ”

Wu Yue took out a card from his cigarette case, on which was a group account number and password.

"Log in to your mailbox, there is a document with a password in it, you can read it, and then talk about it after reading it."

After he finished speaking, he threw a few red tickets, which can be regarded as paying.

I didn't stop him, because I knew he wasn't going far, and he had to wait until I read the email to find him.

I bought some food and drink in the supermarket, and went to a nearby pharmacy to buy some anti-inflammatory drugs and gauze and other necessities, but I didn't dare to go to the hospital because it was a gunshot wound, so I asked the grasshopper to bandage me briefly at home.

After dinner, I found an Internet café with the grasshopper, and the more dangerous the place, the safer. No one would have thought that I would watch something so important in a place as crowded as an internet café.

When the email opens, it contains an encrypted document. After entering the account number and password, there is another set of accounts and passwords. Not only that, but there is also an address.

Lingjing Hutong.

This widest hutong in the southeast of Xicheng District is very famous in old Beijing, and I have been there before, but I didn't pay much attention to it.

According to the address written in the email, we found a very dilapidated little bungalow, and the neighbor's aunt immediately came out of her house when she saw someone coming, and looked at us very vigilantly. "What do you guys do?"

I quickly explained: "Auntie, we are tourists, we have never seen the courtyard, and we want to come in and have a look." ”

"What's there to see, get out of here!"

"Okay, let's take two pictures."

My aunt squinted at us, humming and chirping, not knowing what to say, and turned around and went back to her house.

After she left, the grasshopper and I carefully walked around the range of vision she could see. As described in the sealed email, a room was quickly locked.

Although this room is in tatters, if you look closely, you will find that it has carved beams and painted columns. The weeping verandah, the landscape floating, looming between the mottled areas. The surface of the wooden door has dried and cracked, and the carved window lattices show the luxury of the past.

"This is it!" I whispered.

The grasshopper nodded at me. He looked up at the sky, and I understood what he meant. So he stood up and pretended to finish filming, and deliberately said loudly: "This old Beijing courtyard house is really worthy of its name!" ”

When the aunt heard the voice, she rushed out angrily, "What are you shouting, go quickly." ”

I immediately smiled, nodded and said I would leave immediately.

On the way home, we passed a restaurant, in the private room, we ordered some home-cooked food, while waiting for the food, I told the grasshopper to act tonight, the grasshopper agreed, but how to hide from Xiao Yuan, has become my biggest headache now.

At night, I took the grasshopper, followed by Xiao Yuan, a group of three, sneaked to Lingjing Hutong, with the experience of the day, we felt that it was safer to climb over the wall after research, but because there were no dogs in this yard.

The grasshopper and Xiao Yuan jumped over the wall as light as a swallow, leaving me to stand guard under the root of the wall, they waited for a while after they turned into the courtyard, and there was no accident, the grasshopper jumped on the wall and beckoned to me, but although I was not fat, but my skills were too poor, with the help of the two masters, I finally landed safely.

According to the memories of the day, we found the house very smoothly, the door lock was in disrepair, and it opened with a light pull.

The dampness in the house is very heavy, which is contrary to the dry phenomenon in the house in the northern weather, under the light of the flashlight, I can clearly see that the walls are full of blue-black mold, not only that, but the wooden pillars and tables and chairs in the house have grown mushrooms, which can be seen in the dampness.

"Are you sure there's something in here?"

I whispered, "Of course, what else am I doing here?" ”

"Xiao Yuan, I said that you are really, you have to come with you to stay at home, this is our Xiao family's business, what are you doing with an outsider?"

Xiao Yuan snorted very unhappily, "Who said that I am not from the Xiao family, don't forget what my surname is?" ”

I said, "The surname doesn't mean anything, I also said that my surname is Qin, or a descendant of Qin Shi Huang, who believes it." “

Xiao Yuan didn't want to pay attention to me, and quietly walked to the other side, I hurriedly called out to her and told her not to move, there must be a secret passage here, be careful when going.

The grasshopper tugged at my sleeve and gestured that he had found it again in the corner.

I called Xiao Yuan, and then followed the grasshopper to the corner of the wall he just pointed to, where there was a very old bookcase, which looked like and material, as well as the knocker of the cabinet door, it is estimated that it is at least an object from the Shunzhi period, and there is still some market for this in the market.

The gnats crouched down, like a cheetah, staring keenly at the base of the bookcase, and suddenly, he reached over, only to hear a slight sound of metal falling, and then saw the bookcase slowly sink downward, knowing that at last it all sank to the ground, revealing a space for a downward staircase.

The bookcase was completely sunk to the ground, revealing a multi-person staircase, and one person barely squeezed into it sideways, and then slowly walked down the stairs with a cat's waist.

It was even wetter down there, and my feet were slippery, and I almost fell down a few times.

This secret passage extends downwards, but the further down this secret passage goes, the larger the space, and finally we can stand up straight, and at the same time, we also come to the end of this secret passage, a secret room of less than ten square meters. "I really didn't expect that there would be such a secret room in the capital at the foot of the Son of Heaven, looking like this, this place should have been built for hundreds of years, or even thousands of years." Xiao Yuan made such an exclamation, mainly because she saw the wooden decoration and some utensils left behind. "Thousands of years are not enough, there are still hundreds of years, you see here." I pulled out a few oracle bones from the mud on the ground and handed them them. "Ming." Xiao Yuan said suspiciously. "This secret room was built so secretly, and the so-called big hidden in the city shows that the anti-Qing restoration of the Ming Dynasty at that time was not groundless." I say.

As I spoke, I saw something different from the atmosphere here in the mud, silver material, refracted metallic texture, which looked like a modern lockbox.

I dug out the lockbox, put it on the side of the steps, cleaned up the mud on it, and used the account number and password shown in the email to spell it out, and after a few experiments, I opened the lockbox. (To be continued.) )