Chapter 22 Mezzanine
When Jianru returned home, Yang Zhi did not go to the pig killing alley, but turned around and went to the grassland alley; although the Great Song Dynasty had the pain of Youyan, the degree of openness was far less than that of the Tang Dynasty, even the capital Bianliang did not have a curfew, but the city gate was closed for three hours every night, and the residents were allowed to move around in the city. Caochang Lane was originally the place where Guo Wei, Taizu of the Later Zhou Dynasty, hoarded grain and grass, and since the Song Dynasty, the granary barracks have gradually moved outside the city, and Caochang Lane has become a residential area, but at night, pedestrians are still scarce.
Yang Zhi came to the back of the Wang family's old house, and found that the courtyard door was tightly sealed, and threw two stones into it, but there was no movement inside; Yang Zhi secretly lucked, and with the strength of his toes, his body stepped lightly on the wall; Yang Zhi was overjoyed, but he didn't expect to use light power for the first time after crossing, and he used too much force, so he suddenly crossed the wall and fell directly into the garden. Thanks to Yang Zhi's own reaction, he turned around, slapped the wall with one palm, took the opportunity to balance his body, and landed in the courtyard.
The sound of Yang Zhi landing was still a little loud, but there was no one in the house, just the wild cat barked a few times; with the help of the moonlight, Yang Zhi looked around the house again, there were only three tiled houses and a kitchen, all the doors were open, and there was a dilapidated scene after the raid everywhere. The front yard is a large parking lot, and the back yard is small, with a ginkgo tree standing next to a half-collapsed utility room. The branches of the ginkgo tree were luxuriant, green and straight, Yang Zhi took out a short knife and quickly dug it up around the ginkgo tree.
After digging for more than half an hour, Yang Zhi's short knife touched a hard guy, Yang Zhi opened the surrounding soil and saw that it was really an iron box; after digging it out, Yang Zhi couldn't help but be surprised, the narrow iron box was actually made of iron, and a copper lock was locked. Yang Zhi directly knocked off the lock, opened it and saw that the cloth roll was wrapped in a copy of the "Taixuan Sutra" and a well-made human skin mask, Yang Zhi hesitated for a minute, wrapped the "Taixuan Sutra" and the human skin mask and stuffed it into his arms, filled the pit in the ground, put away the short knife, and turned out the old mansion of the Wang family with an empty iron box in his hand.
The iron box is a bit heavy, but it is nothing to a person like Yang Zhi with unique skills, no one cares on the road, and when he returned to the Pig Killing Alley again, he met Xin Pu who was patrolling by; Xin Pu drank some wine, and came over with the soldiers and asked: "Brother Yang, I heard that you have made a fortune by driving a horse shop, what good things are you in your hands?"
Yang Zhiyi lit the empty box and said: "On the road, I found an iron box from a broken hand, and the texture is good. Brother Xin, why don't you sit with me?"
Xin Pu shook his hands and said, "What are you sitting on, I still have patrols, let's do it another day." ”
Breaking up with Xin Pu, Yang Zhi returned home, closed the courtyard door, fetched a bucket of water from the well, raised the stove to boil the water, and by the way, took out the "Taixuan Sutra" from his arms. Yang Zhi secretly thought, I'm afraid that because of this, Songshan's mental method will be lost, not as magical as the legend, although the martial arts of Zhengzhou scholars are clever, but even if they are not injured, they are only between them and their previous selves.
But "Taixuan Jing" is a troublesome book, on the empty page behind the book also inexplicably drew a map of unknown places, Yang Zhi sighed, put the "Taixuan Jing" and silver two together; Yang Zhi felt as if he should think of something, his eyes swept at home, and after the boiling water was boiled, he walked upstairs and downstairs and still didn't find any clues.
Yang Zhi did not give up, according to the method of finding the secret room in the game, holding a candle to measure the ground meter by meter, and gently moving away every piece of furniture to check, on the one hand, to see if a clue could be found, and on the other hand, he hoped that an item could evoke the hidden memory. When Yang Zhi lifted the curtain under the offering table, he finally remembered the location of the mezzanine on the first floor, and the blind spot of the manipulating mechanism in the cellar.
Yang Zhi walked to the mouth of the half-meter-deep cellar, put his hand on the invisible side under the stone slab, groped for an iron handle, turned it four times, and then pushed it in, the stone slab under the table slid open, and a mezzanine appeared, Yang Zhi drilled under the table, watched by the candlelight, and was a little disappointed;
But the thoughts came one after another, so that Yang Zhi had to sit on the ground and use the breath to calm the chaos in his brain, in the state of sleep, the past was like flowing water, one after another appeared in Yang Zhi's mind. Yang Zhi remembered that the big hall, it was the Wulu Hall in Liupan Mountain, he had followed his father to that place when he was thirteen years old, and the slender old man who mixed into the prison was the incense Taoist of the Wulu Palace.
Maybe it's a code name, just like my father pretended to be a medicinal herb merchant, no one knew that it was Yang Menhou, but after returning from the Egret Palace, my father never went to Liupan Mountain;
The spitting naturally stopped, Yang Zhi woke up from his memories, Yang Zhi put the "Taixuan Sutra" and the silver into the mezzanine, and restored to their original state; the candles had been burned, only the candle oil spots fell to the ground, Yang Zhi heard that it was already three watches outside, put the furniture back to its original position, washed and went upstairs to sleep. Just slept for a while, the sun's rays shone indoors, Yang Zhishen stretched his waist and got up, and decided to go to Cai Fu Cai Qing to check the situation of this black heron, and later found out.
Yang Zhi thought about it, after trying the effect of the human skin mask in front of the mirror, he still carried the "Taixuan Sutra" and the human skin mask with him, money is something outside the body, but the "Taixuan Sutra" cannot be lost; Yang Zhi went to the gate of the palace front division prison and asked someone to report to find Cai Fu, and the jailer who guarded the door smiled and said: "Yang Ye, you are a celebrity now, take a walk with us, and go out is a blockbuster." ”
Yang Zhi handed over a tael of silver and said, "It's not that I was taken care of by everyone, and I didn't hurt my muscles and bones when I went out." ”
The jailer accepted the money and smiled even more: "Master Yang, you wait, Cai Jiejie is already here, I'll go in and report." ”
After a while, Cai Qing came out with a smile, pulled Yang Zhi to a remote place and said, "Boss Yang, my brother said that it is inconvenient to see you, if there is anything, you can just tell me." ”
Cai Fu must be afraid that he would affect him, Yang Zhi smiled and said, "Do you have time now, let's find a place to sit?"
Cai Qing had already asked Cai Fu for leave, and he came out to get some oil and water from Yang Zhi, and said with satisfaction: "Then it is better to be respectful than to obey your fate." ”