Chapter 44: Treasure Hunting and Returning to the Deep Pool
Back in Kaifeng Mansion, Master Bao put the purple gold pot on the table.
Like Yuan Gui'er and the others, Master Bao turned the purple gold pot over and searched for a long time, but did not find anything suspicious.
At this time, Li Hui and Yan Xizheng of the Criminal Department had received the emperor's decree to continue to put Fei Yong under house arrest, and deal with it after Bao Zheng found his property.
The two smelled something unusual.
They felt that in this battle, Fei Yong had lost the chance to win, and there should be no possibility of a reversal, since this was the case, the pursuit of Lu Bu was relaxed.
This gave Lu Bu the opportunity to stay in Kaifeng Mansion.
At noon, Lord Bao called Zhan Zhao and Lu Bu to his room.
Master Bao's life has always been very simple, there is only one maid in his family, who serves his wife, but there is only one servant named Bao Cai.
"Can you help me find some clues?" Master Bao pointed to the purple gold pot on the table and said.
Lu Bu did not move.
Zhan Zhao picked up the treasure pot.
"My lord, the villain has also met some strange people when he was walking the rivers and lakes, and he roughly knows some ambushes, but this treasure pot doesn't see anything special on the surface, and the secret should be in the middle of the pot." Zhan Zhao said.
"Do you mean destroy this pot?" Master Bao asked.
Zhan Zhao nodded.
Master Bao hesitated.
He had such thoughts, but this pot must not be an ordinary pot, once the miscalculation and shattering this pot, I am afraid that it will be even more difficult to find the secret in it.
"Since Banzai has decreed that the Lord should track down the treasure, the intention is in the property and not in this pot." Zhan Zhao said.
Master Bao understood what he meant and laughed.
The purple gold pot was thrown to the ground, and the delicate body of the pot instantly split into more than a dozen pieces, and three pearls rolled on the ground, emitting a dazzling white light.
Master Bao carefully picked up the body of the pot and put it together.
The inside of the kettle is empty.
Dense beads of sweat rolled on Lord Bao's forehead in an instant.
Did you really miscalculate?
"Your Excellency, please take a look." Zhan Zhao suddenly screamed.
Lu Bu and Bao Zheng's eyes instantly fixed on the three beads.
After the beads had rolled far on the ground, a strange scene suddenly occurred, and they seemed to be manipulated by a mysterious force to converge together, and finally close together.
Three pillars of light shot straight up and hit the roof, where they formed a rectangular band of light.
"The quick-kill man blocked the window." Master Bao exclaimed excitedly.
It didn't take long for the room to be covered in darkness.
The three beams are more pronounced.
The rectangular ribbon of light resembles a piece of white paper pasted on the ceiling, on which thin insect-like lines are faintly visible.
Lu Bu's expression became cold.
He felt that this was a picture, and the place depicted in the picture was the waterhole in the cottage where Xie Ying was.
Master Bao also sensed something and looked at Lu Bu.
The two nodded to each other almost in unison.
Master Bao had to admire the wisdom of the general of the Western Xia Kingdom, who used three beads of different materials to draw this picture under the effect of mutual attraction.
It took so much effort, but it turned out that the treasure was hidden by the side of the mountain bandits.
Thinking that Xie Tianshun and Xie Ying brothers and sisters, intending to escape from the cottage with the purple gold pot, if they knew that the treasure was on the mountain, it was estimated that Xie Tianshun would be annoyed in hell.
Without further ado, Lord Bao decided to set off immediately.
A few capable officials were selected to accompany him, and Lord Bao wanted Zhanzhao to stay in the mansion, and made an exception to ask Lu Bu to follow him.
Lu Bu hesitated.
"Tang Zhuangshi dares to worry about Mrs. Zun?" Bao Zheng smiled, "This time I went into the mountain to look for treasures, and once I found it, Tang Zhuangshi can return to the capital with a meritorious body, and in the future, this official will definitely return your husband and wife to a free body." ”
"In this case, wait for Bu to go and say goodbye to Madame." Lu Bu said.
Several officers covered their mouths and snickered.
Lu Buquan didn't see it.
Unlike the last time the property was escorted, this one was swift.
It took only five days for Master Bao to lead everyone to the foot of the mountain.
Just in case, Bao Zheng specially selected 300 warriors from the garrison of Chuzhou Mansion to surround Shentan, and he took Lu Bu and several officials to look for it by the pond in person.
The waterhole was the same as last time, the water was clear, but it was bitterly cold.
The dense layers of reeds shivered in the cold wind, and the raft that had carried Miao Ling last time was still on the edge of the pool, but the goat on it had already rotted disgustingly.
A boulder not far away caught Bao Zheng's attention.
Half of the boulder was sunk in the mud at the edge of the pool, and green moss had grown underneath it, and it seemed as if the whole stone was shaking as the water rippled.
Master Bao leaned down and groped under the stone with his hand, when suddenly, a huge suction force almost pulled his entire arm into the water.
Underneath the stone, a circular hole appeared, and the pool of water was flowing down from it at an astonishing speed.
Mr. Bao immediately realized something.
At this rate, the water in this deep pool should have run out long ago, and it is clear that there is still an outlet here. After passing through this deep underground trench, the water flows back into the pool from another place.
Master Bao smiled, and immediately mobilized a dozen warriors, built an earthen dam around this place to prevent the pool from continuing to flow, and then, the pool was drained, and soon, an underground hole about a meter in diameter was exposed.
The entrance of the cave extends to the bottom of the pool.
"Would Tang Zhuangshi be willing to take someone down to find out?" Master Bao asked.
The corners of Lu Bu's mouth moved.
"Why do you need to bring people, one villain is enough."
Bao Zheng shook his head.
"I expect that there will be a secret passage here, and Tang Zhuangshi still has to bring a few people, so he can take care of it."
Lu Bu smiled faintly.
At the beginning, I only heard that when Cao Cao formed the Touching Jin Captain, he had encountered an ambush set up by his ancestors in the ancient tomb, and he had never experienced it himself, so he thought that there would be no danger here.
A group of four people entered the hole.
The soil under his feet has been washed away by the pool water for a long time, and has already turned into knee-deep silt. Every step you take, you need to put in a lot of strength.
The three men behind him each held a lit torch.
Lu Bu felt that he had really entered an ancient tomb.
I think that when Cao Cao formed the Touching Jin School Captain, he was scolded by the people for even eight generations of his ancestors, but he didn't want today's dignified little Wenhou to be reduced to such a field, and was pointed at behind his back by a dark-skinned guy.
The underground passage stretched along the bottom of the waterhole, and Lu Bu and the others didn't know how far they had walked, so they roughly calculated that they should have come to the middle of the waterhole at this time.
The chill in the cave was overwhelming.
"This hole is getting higher and higher, and it should soon reach the exit, so I must have gone in the wrong direction?" An errand officer behind him suddenly reminded.
Lu Bu stopped.
Suddenly stepped on something soft under his feet, and with a muffled sound, the silt suddenly parted to both sides, and an underground entrance appeared, and Lu Bu's body shook and fell headlong.