After Di Xue finished speaking, everyone also concentrated, and Zhou Huai took the lead to open the door.

Li Heng hurriedly stopped him, shook his head at him, and then took out the jade pen and held it in his hand, ready to deal with the sudden situation.

Di Xue and Di Qing drew their long swords and blocked them in front of their chests, while Zhou Huai held the spear behind the palace.

Seeing everyone's posture, Chu Ran had no choice but to adjust the medicine box on his back, and then stared at the door tightly.

"I'll go over the wall from the side first, and if it's okay, I'll give you a signal, and you guys will come in."

After Di Xue finished speaking, Di Qing wanted to replace her, but then she thought that her little sister had been stubborn since she was a child, and what she decided could not be changed, so Di Qing said softly:

"Don't be reckless, if you have a problem, ask for help immediately, we are all here!"

After Di Qing finished speaking, the others nodded, and Chu Ran took a small jade bottle and stuffed it into Di Xue's hand:

"This medicine is a jade pill developed by me, it can delay the spread of poison, if you are caught off guard, you must take it, put away only this one!"

Di Xue looked at Chu Ran's firm eyes, withdrew her polite words, and then jumped up the slightly higher mansion wall without delay.

Looking down, although the precincts are dilapidated, you can still see from the layout that the scenery in the precincts is elegant.

Di Xue found a clearing and jumped down, looking around, she was a little puzzled.

It is rumored that the Yan family is very generous, but judging from the courtyard, the stones on the ground and the houses in the house are not luxurious.

It seems that the rumors are false, and the knock on the door is still ringing at this time, Di Xue walked towards the door, and suddenly the wind entered her ears, and a white shadow flew towards her.

Di Xue leaned sideways and slashed down with a sword, and the white shadow immediately split into two, the second half fell lightly, and the first half hit the ground.

After picking up the first half, Di Xue saw that it was a crossbow without an arrow and a white cloth on it.

It seems that someone deliberately arranged it here, and Fang Cai himself stepped on the mechanism.

The bolt severed the attached rope, and the bolt came loose and shot out with a white cloth.

If Di Xue didn't interfere with the white cloth, she would fly into the dense bamboo forest next to her, and the light was dim at night, looking very much like a ghost!

Di Xue walked along the main road to the gate, and saw the source of the knocking sound on the gate through the faint light of the fire fold.

It turned out to be a flow mechanism, and the water from the pond in the courtyard drove the waterwheel, and the planks protruding from the waterwheel would slap the log every time it turned.

The end of the log would hit the wooden door as soon as the cloth-wrapped end of the log moved, and it sounded like someone was knocking on the door.

These devices are covered by weeds in the yard, and they can't really be distinguished without looking closely.

Di Xue cautiously walked over and saw that there was still a baffle on the ground next to the log.

As long as the log is blocked with a baffle, the planks of the waterwheel will not touch the log.

It seems that this device needs to be artificially controlled during the day, could it be that this person has been doing such things for many years? What is the purpose?

At this time, a bird cry sounded outside the door, and Di Xue knew that this was Sister A's worry about her again, so Di Xue replied and rushed to the door.

After removing the baffle inside the gate, Di Xue pushed open the heavy wooden door with folding fans.

Although the door is very old, it is not difficult to push it unexpectedly.

Everyone outside was relieved to see that Di Xue was safe and sound, and walked into the courtyard one after another.

Di Xue looked at the gate of the two mountains thoughtfully, and after opening the gate, she saw two deep knife marks engraved on the left side of the gate.

Could it be that there were really robbers and robbers when the daughter of the Yan family died?

No, after getting closer, Di Xue noticed that these two knife marks did not look like traces left by the fight, but rather like they were specially carved.

Could it be a message that someone left on purpose? After thinking about this, Di Xue couldn't help but recall the first two sentences of the nursery rhyme:

The daughter of the Yan family does not guard herself.

Open the door and make people reasonable.

Di Xue recalled what Amin said, the Yan family's daughter loves anagrams, could it be that this is also an anagram?

When the door was opened, two knife marks were seen.

It's a criminal word!

Chu Ran saw Di Xue looking at the gate and asked, "But what's wrong?" ”

Di Xue shook her head: "I guess that nursery rhyme is an anagram, maybe the mystery is in this mansion." ”

Di Xue looked into the room after speaking, and repeated the third sentence of the nursery rhyme in her mind:

The treasures of gold and silver are placed under the bed.

Could it be that you are referring to the bottom of the bed in the Yan family's girl's room?

So Di Xue proposed that everyone walk towards the backyard, the Yan family girl has not yet left the pavilion, and she should live in the backyard, so everyone bypassed the front hall and walked to the backyard.

The backyard landscape has changed slightly, and although it is dilapidated, it is more refined and restrained.

There is also a swing under the big tree, which seems to be a woman's boudoir.

Di Xue cautiously walked to the door of the backyard and opened the door with a long sword, and the moonlight hit the ground through the door.

Everyone looked into the house and saw that the items in the room were neatly arranged, and a thick layer of ash fell on the tables and stools.

Di Xue looked at the ground, as expected, the ground was very clean, there was no dust, it seemed that the people who were laid out in the Yan Mansion deliberately left dust on the items, making people mistakenly think that no one had come here for a long time.

And the ground he had to walk for maintenance, so he had to clean it all up.

Di Xue was the first to walk into the house, and the curtains and curtains were all things that ordinary women liked.

There is also a bird screen behind the bed, and a few little sparrows are round and very childlike.

Could it be that the owner of this boudoir was a child twenty years ago?

Thinking of this, Di Xue no longer hesitated, lifted the curtain on the bed, tested the bottom of the bed with a long sword, and after confirming that there was no abnormality, she poked in with a fire fold.

There was no treasure of gold or silver under the bed, but a character was engraved on it.

Criminal Department? Could this Yan Mansion be the mansion of Yan Tingzhong, the secretary of the Criminal Department?

Di Xue came out from under the bed and immediately walked to the dresser and looked in the mirror.

The dim environment and the faint light made Di Xue's face very strange in the mirror, and what was even more weird was that there were many black shadows painted in the mirror!

What does this mean?

After Di Xue checked, there were a total of eighteen shadows, which was the same as the number of officials executed in the theft case of the Criminal Department that year.

When this case occurred that year, I also heard a little about it, and the first emperor was angry and executed the left and right servants of the criminal department, and all the Langzhong, Wailang, and the chief of the department on duty, a total of 18 people.

For a period of time, no one was available in the Criminal Department, and everyone in the court was in danger.

It seems that the emperor let himself and Chu Ran come here with the intention of re-investigating the theft case of the Criminal Department back then!

It is very likely that everything in the Yan Mansion was arranged by the people who survived back then.

Di Xue thought about it, sorted it out and read out the mystery:

"Eighteen people in the criminal department are wronged!"

Everyone was shocked when they heard it, and when Chu Ran was about to speak, suddenly a cry came from behind the screen in the room.

"Who?" As soon as the words fell, Di Xue pushed the screen open with a long sword.

The white shadow behind the screen hurriedly fled, and Di Xuefei stepped forward, grabbed his wrist, and restrained him with his backhand.

When the white shadow was raised and stolen, Di Qing was surprised:

"Is that you?"