Wade across an underground river and walk up a staircase.

Everyone was overjoyed to look at the large boxes piled up under the wall, and Hu Dahai asked someone to bring a tool to open the lock.

Boxes of silver ingots were scattered all over the place.

Continue to unlock, silver ingots again.

Ye Chen suddenly felt that there was something else on this step, and turned his face to Hu Dahai and ordered, "Let the brothers lock these boxes and move them first." ”

The men did so and cleared a passage.

Ye Chen walked into a cave, Hu Dahai took a flashlight and shone it, "Brother Chen, there are at least dozens of boxes here, do you want to go up and call a few more people down to help." ”

"Not for now. Let's go ahead and see. ”

Through the large boxes piled up in the cave, Ye Chen and his party came to a slope.

Two brave men took the lead in going down to explore the way, and sure enough, they found something strange on a stone wall.

"There's a keychain-like spot on it, and it's hard to open the stone door without a key."

Ye Chen took a closer look, and was stunned, "I seem to have seen this keychain somewhere." ”

The man who can open the lock went down and tried it, "I can't open it." ”

Seeing this, Ye Chen made a difficult decision.

"If we can't open it, let's withdraw first."

Returning to the entrance where they had come in earlier, the crowd reluctantly blocked the entrance to the cave.

Hu Dahai lit a cigarette for Ye Chen, "Brother Chen, why don't I call the excavator and drilling rig of the engineering team to drive up and go through the situation below." ”

"It's better not to. The lower passage structure is intact, and if the excavator is used rashly, the underground passage pattern may be damaged. ”

"Those treasures are right in front of me, and I feel itchy to see them."

Ye Chen knocked Hu Dahai's little brain, "This is the ancestral property of the old Ye family, give me a tight mouth." ”

"Got it, Brother Chen. So what's next? ”

"I made an appointment with your sister-in-law to meet at the ancestral hall at noon, and you will drive the excavator and drilling rig for later use. By the way, I will drive two more box trucks on standby, and if the earth is excavated, the contents will be preserved for me. ”

"Understood."

The crowd went their separate ways.

Ye Chen changed back into the clothes he wore when he went out and came to the ancestral hall.

It just so happened that Ye Jianguo was going to come to the ancestral hall to offer incense, so he came with Shen Jiahui.

"Jiahui said you were there just now, I don't believe it yet. What, can't you wait to bring your daughter-in-law in now? ”

Ye Chen smiled: "I came here with Jiahui last time. It's just that this time I wanted to confirm some things, and I decided to find out more. ”

After Ye Jianguo finished the incense, he asked curiously: "What is it that makes you can't figure it out, you can ask me." ”

The three of them entered the ancestral hall, and Shen Jiahui took out the map she found at her second uncle's house and showed it to Ye Jianguo.

"Well, this diagram is very detailed. I remember that when your grandfather was alive, he painted such a picture by hand.

At that time, our house had high-walled courtyards and watchtowers, but there was everything.

The city wall of the urn city in the north is connected to the military fortifications on the old mine in the back mountain. ”

Ye Chen asked Ye Jianguo: "Dad, do you know what's under that flower market street?" ”

"There is a secret passage below that is the back garden of the courtyard, and your grandfather led me into it when I was a child."

"And do you remember where that secret passage is?"

Ye Jianguo took the drawings, covered his hands behind his back and led the way, and came to a rockery in the back garden.

"This is it, but I don't know how to open this secret passage."

Ye Chen stepped forward and looked at it for a long time but didn't find the mystery, Shen Jiahui found clues on a stone brick on the ground, "Brother Chen, look at this." ”

Looking down at the pictures on the floor tiles, Ye Chen looked up at the rockery again.

With a push, a stone gate appeared in the middle of the rockery.

"It turns out that the mechanism is the same as the pattern drawn on this stone brick."

Ye Jianguo looked at the stone door in front of him in shock, stepped forward and knocked on the stone door, and heard the sound behind the stone door.

Shen Jiahui looked at the words on the stone door seriously, and there were some pits in a square position.

took the drawings in Ye Jianguo's hand and attached them, and with the shadow of the sun, the overlapping lines seemed to be the distribution map of the secret passage.

"Look at these points."

Ye Chen instantly burst out laughing, "I didn't expect that the secret of our old Ye family was revealed by you."

Dad, the inheritance of our ancestors may be hidden behind this stone gate, and if you see any rare treasures, don't be shocked. ”

Ye Jianguo said indifferently: "If this ancestor really left any treasures, our family would not have been poor for so long." ”

In order to confirm his thoughts, Ye Chen wanted to try to open the stone door.

The hole in the trap is a key shaped like a tiger talisman.

Shen Jiahui thought about it carefully, and woke Ye Chen up with a word: "Could this be the Jade Tiger Talisman I showed you last night?" ”

Ye Chen measured the size and frowned, "Look at the size of the hole." I'll go back and get the Jade Tiger Talisman now, and you'll wait for me here." ”

With that, Ye Chen trotted back to get the Jade Tiger Talisman.

When he came back, Ye Chen was already sweating profusely.

"Jiahui, you come."

Shen Jiahui looked at the Jade Tiger Talisman, filled in the hole, and the stone door opened slowly immediately.

Torches on the walls instantly ignite and light up the passages.

Ye Jianguo found stones and put them at the entrance of the cave, and the three of them bravely entered the secret passage.

"Dad, the painting on this wall seems to be the scene of the Eight Banners when they entered the customs during the Manchu Dynasty."

Ye Jianguo looked at it fixedly, and continued to explore the way forward.

Shen Jiahui saw a bronze lock hanging on a stone door, Ye Chen took out the buckle of the car key in his coat pocket, and skillfully untied the bronze lock.

"Xiao Chen, you are very skillful in this technique, who did you learn it from?"

Ye Chen smiled lightly: "I learned it from an old gentleman in the county." ”

Ye Jianguo stopped Ye Chen and Shen Jiahui behind him, and pushed open the stone door by himself.

After the stone door opened, the scene that came into view made Shen Jiahui almost slip under her feet, but fortunately, Ye Chen's eyes were quick to hold on.

Eight pairs of armor of the Manchu Eight Banners Army stood majestically at the entrance of the cave.

Supporting Shen Jiahui, Ye Chen followed his father's footsteps step by step to the secret room.

A four-clawed python throne was placed in the center, and the screen behind it was covered with a thick layer of dust.

But the text on it is clearly legible, 'Protect the country and the country, and defend one side.' ’

The bookshelves behind it are full of rare stones, and a document on the bookcase subverts Ye Jianguo's anecdote about his ancestors.

It turned out that the ancestor of the Ye family was a descendant of the Manchu Aixin Jueluo Yebushu.

This person is the grandson of Nurhachi, the fourth son of Emperor Taiji of the Qing Dynasty, and the fourth brother of Emperor Fulin of Shunzhi.

In the first year of Tiancong (1627), Ding Mao was born on October 18.

The mother concubine Yan Zha, the daughter of Buyan.

The first general of Zhenguo.

In the eighth year of Kangxi (1669), he was promoted to the title of Auxiliary Guogong.

Kangxi died in September of the twenty-ninth year of Kangxi (1690) at the age of 64.

After several generations, he merged with the local residents of Taohua Village, and revised the ancestral documents in order to hide people's eyes.

Since then, the descendants of the Ye family have passed it on orally, only knowing the fact that their ancestors are running quarries, but they don't know the secret of the identity of the banner people.