Chapter 66: Inspiration from the Trick
"We have been looking for other exits from the guillotine for a long time, but we haven't found them at all, so we rule them out. Next is the hidden space where you can hide people. The first thing that came to my mind was Ding Chuanzong's coffin, but after a closer look, I found that the coffin was indeed as written in the dossier, it was specially made, and it could not be Tibetan at all. Also excluded. So I thought, there must be room for hiding. But the burial chamber is so big, where can I find a hidden space? ”
Xia Feitao swallowed his saliva, his eyes dodging.
Yu Qingfeng suddenly put away her frightened and cowardly demeanor, her waist straightened, her eyes sharpened, and she looked directly at Xia Feitao.
"Thanks to the guillotine trick I just watched a while ago, I was inspired."
"Decapitation?" Xia Feitao had obviously never heard or seen the so-called decapitation trick.
Yu Qingfeng briefly described the performance and revelation of the guillotine trick between the mage and the female goblin.
"I thought of this trick when I saw the animal heads all over the wall in the cave, and wondered if it would be like the head of a leprechaun, which on the surface appeared to be a bull-headed pig's head, but in fact, the body was hidden in the background of the wall?"
Xia Feitao didn't seem to have come out of the mage female goblin's guillotine trick, and was still tilting his head to think, constructing a picture in his mind.
"So I guess the hidden space of the severed head is located behind the dozens of animal heads. Wu Xinyou's theory of revenge was actually to dig out dozens of hidden spaces in the tomb in order to digg up dozens of hidden spaces in the tomb and then cover them with animal heads. And the function of these hidden spaces is to hide stolen money! ”
Xia Feitao squinted his eyes and stared at Yu Qingfeng in disbelief, as if he was looking at a monster.
Yu Qingfeng read the subtext in this look: Xia Feitao has never seen a smart woman like her in his life.
"That's right, everything is Xia Weifeng's blame, there is no thief cousin, there are no letters, these perjuries can not only blame the blame, but also make the government believe that the five thousand taels of silver were taken by the thieves and swallowed for themselves without knowing where they were taken.
In fact, it was Master Xia Weifeng who bought off a group of outlaws and stole five thousand taels. How to hide such a large sum of money has become a problem, hiding it at home? Take it to work in other places and continue to be a master? Naturally, it won't work, and it's easy to be discovered.
"Just dig a hole in the mountains and bury it? No, if you don't know it, you will be accidentally discovered by wild beasts or someone. Since you think of digging a hole in the mountains, you might as well dig a tomb that no one will dig - a tomb!
"Of course, tomb robbers will also dig up graves, but what if it is the tomb of the famous Qing official Ding Chuanzong? First, the local people knew that he had a clean sleeve and that there would not be a little burial goods in the tomb; Second, as soon as the foreign tomb robbers enter the Jeju territory and inquire, they will also know what the owner of the tomb is, and there will be no burial goods in the tomb. Wouldn't that be perfect?
"The people of Pyongcheon and even Jeju, no one would have thought that the master who framed Ding Chuanzong, the enemy who would not let Ding Chuanzong go as a ghost, would hide the stolen official silver in Ding Chuanzong's tomb.
After thinking of this idea, Xia Weifeng had to find another helper - Yunyou Taoist, to be precise, he was a charlatan. So Wu Xinyou happened to appear after Ding Chuanzong's beheading, after Xia Weifeng stole Ding Chuanzong's head, answering questions and giving advice to the people.
"Xia Weifeng, as the master of Ding Chuanzong, knows best the trust and love of the people of Pingchuan for Ding Chuanzong. He knew that as long as Wu Xinyou proposed, the simple and kind people would do it, even if there was a drought at that time.
"In a word, the existence of those hidden spaces is the physical evidence that your father Xia Weifeng stole official silver and planted blame! So after the tomb robbers dug up the robbery hole, the gamblers used the severed head ghost mound as a place to bet, and turned it into a murder scene, you moved the idea of blowing it up in order to completely annihilate the evidence of your father's guilt. ”
Xia Feitao suddenly raised his head and smiled bitterly, "It's a pity, I still couldn't blow it up, I can only temporarily fill in the thief hole, could it be that this is the will of heaven?" Before it was destroyed by Zhou Lang's murderer, I still let you in and discovered the mystery. ”
"If you want to talk about flaws, Wu Xinyou's self-reliant sect is, as the son of a master without an official rank, you are young but you have been promoted all the way to become a criminal officer from the third grade, too."
"What do you mean?" Xia Feitao's eyes suddenly became fierce.
"I guess that you bought this official with the official money you stole at the beginning. Twenty years ago, Xia Weifeng took out a small part of the spoils, and he hid the rest in the guillotine mound, thinking that when the wind passed, he would open the entrance to the thief cave that had been left when the tomb was built, and take out these official silvers little by little.
Xia Weifeng must not dare to take out too much at once, put it at home or spend it, it will inevitably make people suspicious. So before he died fifteen years ago, he passed on his evil secret to you, so that you could succeed him, and whenever he needed to bribe an official with money, he secretly went to the entrance of the secret robbery cave at night to enter the guillotine mound, and used the wooden ladder he had left in it to take out the official silver hidden in the space behind the head of the animal in the high place.
"That's right, the cave on the high ground wasn't dug by the tomb robbers, it existed twenty years ago. Xia Weifeng originally designed it this way, which was to give the guillotine ghost mound a second insurance: even if someone found out that they had broken into the guillotine mound, they would think that this kind of tricky hole was made by tomb robbers, not designed as it did from the beginning, so the wooden ladder must have been prepared by tomb robbers as a tool to go down to the ground of the tomb.
"In other words, the reason why the thief hole is to hit a high place is to give the ladder a reason to exist, and it will not make people think that the ladder that can be moved is actually prepared for people to easily access the silver taels hidden behind the animal's head."
Yu Qingfeng said so much in one breath, Xia Feitao's face had completely changed color.
"Yu Qingfeng, Yu Qingfeng, who are you? Could it be that your father was an outlaw who was bribed by my father to steal official money? Or, is it the craftsman who was bought by Wu Xinyou to build the tomb? ”
Yu Qingfeng had no consciousness of being threatened with her life at all, and she was heartlessly amused when she heard this.
"What are you kidding? Of course not. You forgot? As I said, I am the one who wants to be the first female official of Dali Temple, of course, with the real skills here. ”
Yu Qingfeng pointed proudly at her head.
"Hmph, when death is on the verge of death, are you still so rampant?" Xia Weifeng raised the dagger again, and the tip was about to touch Yu Qingfeng's throat.
Yu Qingfeng shrank her neck and hurriedly spoke, diverting Xia Feitao's attention.
"Lord Xia, I just said so much, haven't you noticed that something is wrong?"