After eating, Xiaoqin cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, and then squeezed her hands and walked towards Ye Qing.

"Young Master, there is something I have to report to you after thinking about it. ”

"Didn't I tell you, in the future we will be called brother and sister. Ye Qing said with a serious face, "What's the matter?" you look like you're nervous. ”

"That's right. Xiaoqin sorted out her words and said, "A few days ago, a group of thieves came to the house, and they stole something from Madame's room. ”

"Thief?" Ye Qing frowned, although this Wu'an Hou Mansion is still a Hou Mansion in name, but there are not many things before, most of them were sold by Ye Qing to dismiss the family, and now the most valuable thing is this house, now the entire Hou Mansion is empty, what will others come to steal at this time, and it is still in his mother's room?

"Yes, I noticed movement in Madame's room at that time and went to take a look, but as soon as I entered the room, they knocked me unconscious, and when I woke up, they were gone, but the traces they made were still there, and there was a secret room at the head of Madame's bed. ”

"Secret room?" Ye Qing felt more and more confused, how could there be a secret room in his mother's room, and his mother's room was originally just a guest room, and his mother moved in after Ye Feng had narcolepsy, and it would add up to more than three months at most......

"Take me to see it. ”

......

Ye Qing followed Xiaoqin to her mother's room, although Ye Qing's mother had been gone for more than a month, the room was still very tidy, and Xiaoqin was cleaning it every day.

Xiaoqin took Ye Qing to the bedside of the bedroom, where there was a painting hanging, the painting was a winged tiger standing on the top of the mountain, which was painted by Ye Qing's father Ye Feng and given to Ye Qing's mother by himself. Could it be that there is some mystery in this painting?

I saw Xiaoqin go up and lift up the painting, and the wall covered by the painting had a square depression, and there was a knob under the depression.

"What is this?"

Xiaoqin didn't answer, and after she reached out and twisted the knob half a circle, the bed was quietly removed, revealing a downward passage.

This passage surprised Ye Qing, he didn't understand why there was such a thing in his mother's room. It was dark in the passage, Xiaoqin lit a pull and walked in front but was pulled back by Ye Qing, Ye Qing took it and grabbed it and walked into the passage first.

Although the passage was dark, but the air was relatively dry, Ye Qing walked down the stairs, and after a while, he came to a secret room, in which no one had been here for a long time, the table was covered with dust, Ye Qing only saw the whole picture of this secret room when he lit all the lamps with candles.

The secret room is not too big, but there are a lot of things, and there are a lot of books on the table, which are basically very old things. Most people in this world don't like to read, and most of the books in circulation now are books written in the past 80 years or so, and it is not easy to collect so many ancient books.

Ye Qing walked over and flipped through a few books casually, most of these books were recorded in ancient history and legends.

In one of the corners of the secret room, there was a huge tripod that was one person high, and the bottom of the tripod had deep traces of charcoal fire, which should have been used to refine something. Ye Qing grabbed the edge of the giant tripod and stood on tiptoe to look at the inside of the tripod, but there was nothing inside.

"Since this giant tripod is placed in the corner, it means that it will not be used often, but the traces at the bottom of it show that this is not the case......" Ye Qing muttered.

"Young Master, could it be that this tripod was not originally in the corner, but was moved to the corner after it no longer needed to be used?" Xiaoqin said.

"It's also possible. ”

Ye Qing had been groping in this small secret room for a long time, in addition to the ancient books on the table, what puzzled him the most was the intricate patterns painted on the ground one after another, these patterns always gave Ye Qing a sense of déjà vu.

"Xiaoqin, you go and get me some pen and paper. Ye Qing said to Xiaoqin, he decided to transcribe all these patterns first.

When Xiaoqin went to get the pen and paper, Ye Qing also surveyed all the situations in this secret room, and found a dark glass bead-like thing in the corner of the secret room. Ye Qing put it on the side of his nose and smelled it, there was a very strange smell, I can't say it, but it made people feel relaxed and happy.

Although it looked like it was just an ordinary glass ball, Ye Qing picked it up with a cautious attitude. After a while, Xiaoqin took all the paper and pen, Ye Qing copied all the patterns one by one, checked them several times, and then put the paper away.

However, when Ye Qing put away the papers, suddenly a memory fragment flashed in his brain.

He picked up those paper boys again and looked at them carefully, and one of them was exactly the same as the pattern on the ground next to the coffin when Ling Pingdi was on the ground!

What's going on, could it be that my mother is also related to these things?

There were a total of eight books on the table next to him, and Ye Qing took out these eight books and the pattern he had just copied out of the secret room.

......

These eight books are all compiled in the same language, but Ye Qing doesn't know it, could it be that it is the language of other countries?

However, although he did not know the words, all the patterns he copied could be found in these eight books, and there were eight patterns in total, which were in eight books. There is no pattern in these patterns, and Ye Qing doesn't know what is on the pattern. But compared to this, Ye Qing was even more curious about what the people Xiaoqin said took from the secret room.

Just when Ye Qing was puzzled, there was a sudden knock on the door outside.

Ye Qing and Xiaoqin glanced at each other, who would come to this Hou Mansion at this time?

Ye Qing put away all the things on the table, got up and went to open the door.

......

The door of the Hou Mansion was pulled and there was a creaking sound. And as soon as the door opened a crack, a thickly haired head came in through the crack in the door, startling Xiaoqin behind Ye Qing.

Ye Qing looked down and saw that a lot of the man's hair had turned gray, and there was still a small braid on the back of his head. Such an obvious feature also made Ye Qing recognize people in an instant.

"Uncle Lin, why are you here?"

That's right, this person is Ye Feng's previous friend, and he also single-handedly brought Gao Lie to the battlefield, and later promoted him to become the commander of the Imperial Forest Army, Gao Lie's master, Zhang Lin.

"Huh?" Zhang Lin hummed after hearing Ye Qing's voice, turned his head around, and faced Ye Qing with his face up, and this twist of his face, the smell of wine on his face was also exposed: "Isn't this Ah Qing." ”

After speaking, Zhang Lin fell face up, but fortunately, Ye Qing was quick and helped the person up.

......

Ye Qing helped the person to the courtyard and asked Xiaoqin to boil some sobering soup for Zhang Lin to pour down, and it took a while before he finally came to his senses.

"I said Uncle Lin, you are not too young, don't soak in the tavern all day long and get drunk. Seeing that Zhang Lin was completely awake, Ye Qing spoke.

"Cut~" Zhang Lin glanced at Ye Qing, took the wine gourd from his waist and poured it into his mouth, but the wine gourd was erected and there was no sweet wine in his throat, "Are you done drinking again......"

Zhang Lin threw the wine gourd aside and said, "Don't you know that women like that kind of unruly and suave son." ”

Saying that, Zhang Lin also deliberately glanced at Xiaoqin, which scared people a lot.

"Okay, Uncle Lin, are you here today for something. Ye Qing said with a tense face.

Seeing Ye Qing's serious appearance, Zhang Lin couldn't go down any longer, he looked at Ye Qing for a few seconds and suddenly sighed.

"I used to be a lively and lovely child, but now I am forced to look like this. Zhang Lin sighed in his heart and then said, "Three months ago, your father once found me. ”

Ye Qing didn't speak, so Zhang Lin continued, "At that time, the Hou Ye was haunted by a dream for a long time, in which he led an army to fight with another army, but these two armies were something he had never seen. ”

Hearing this, Ye Qing suddenly recalled something. That's which of their dreams, and it's also that two armies are at war...... Let's listen to Zhang Lin continue.

Immediately afterwards, Zhang Lin took out two pieces of paper from his chest and spread them out on the stone table, and on the two pieces of paper were drawn two patterns that Ye Qing had never seen.

"At that time, Ye Hou told me that this is the mark on the armor of the two armies, let me check it. It just so happened that I also had the idea of resigning at that time, so I agreed to him. Zhang Lin said.

Ye Qing looked at the two pieces of paper on the stone table, one of them had a small character in the center of the pattern, Ye Qing felt familiar at a glance, and when he thought about it, it turned out to be exactly the same word on the cover of one of the books he had just searched out of the secret room. It is also thanks to the fact that there are very few strokes of that word, otherwise Ye Qing would not be able to remember it.

"Uncle Lin, is this a word?" Ye Qing asked, pointing to that word.

"It's still A-Qing who is smart. Zhang Lin smiled and said, "At first, I didn't think about it at all, because if it was a word, I couldn't not know it." ”

Saying that, Zhang Lin saw that Ye Qing's expression was a little suspicious, so he opened his mouth to explain: "You were born late, so I don't know the situation on this continent, before the establishment of our Jiuzhou Empire, there was no force similar to the state on this continent, everyone spoke the same language, used the same word, the first emperor led us to fight everywhere, and there were no people who did not understand the language all over the continent." ”

"Uncle Lin, how are you sure this is a word?" Ye Qing asked.

After Ye Qing finished asking, he saw Zhang Lin take out a folded piece of paper from his arms and spread it out, with many small characters densely written on it, all of which Ye Qing didn't recognize.

"I found it in a cave in Lingdong, and it was carved into the wall, so I copied it, and strange to say, as soon as I finished copying it, the cave collapsed.

However, the transcript wanted to bring it back for the old guys in the palace to see, but after coming back, I realized that so many things had happened to the Hou Mansion, so I thought that these things might be of some use to you, so I sent it to you. Zhang Lin said. "Although what Ye Hou entrusted has not been completed, it seems that there is no need for me to do anything more now, he should have found the answer himself. ”

Ye Qing glanced at the three pieces of paper on the table and asked, "Then next, where is Uncle Lin going?"

"I'm ......" Zhang Lin stood up, picked up the wine gourd on the ground and hung it on his waist again, and said: "Of course, I'm going to fill my baby gourd, and then I'm going to teach my unproductive apprentice a lesson, haha!"

With that, Zhang Lin laughed and walked out of the Hou Mansion.

Looking at Zhang Lin's appearance, Ye Qing shook his head. Fortunately, his apprentice is Gao Lie, otherwise any person would have been driven away by Zhang Lin's strange temper.