Chapter Thirty-Eight: Buns and Traitors
Ye Feng looked at Tang Yu, who was meaningful, and also smiled, and said, "Fourteen young man, are you still unwilling to tell the whole truth?"
Tang Yu shrugged his shoulders and said a little helplessly: "You can see it, where is there anything to hide the truth? I just made some small discoveries when I picked up the bun to check it just now." ”
Speaking of this, he suddenly stopped and looked at Ye Feng with a sly eye.
Ye Feng knew that he wanted to test himself, shook his head slightly, and said, "When you picked up the buns, you had actually tested them with a silver needle, and the buns were indeed poisonous. ”
Tang Yu smiled and nodded: "Yes, what else?"
Ye Feng replied almost without thinking: "What's more, you found that this bun turned out to be stuffed with mutton!"
Tang Yu didn't speak, and there was already a smile in his eyes.
Ye Feng continued: "Jiangnan is located in the south, and the goats are raised, the meat is rough and has a strong smell, and a lot of spices need to be used to season it when cooking, which is not suitable for bun stuffing at all. ”
The mutton in the north is mainly sheep, the meat is delicate and fat, and the taste is small, and the mutton bun itself is also a traditional delicacy in Shaanxi and Gansu, which is quite famous. ”
"Since this mutton bun is poisonous now, then its origin has become a question. Ye Feng suddenly blinked, looked at Tang Yu and said, "Tang Yu and Tang Jiuye, who were present at the time, are from Xi'an. ”
Tang Yu also looked at Ye Feng, the smile on his face gradually disappeared, and said, "Yes, what else?"
Ye Feng didn't hesitate at all, and continued: "Originally, Tang Yu knew that Tang Ying liked to eat steamed buns, which was no secret. He brought it to the south from Shaanxi and Gansu, which is famous for his mutton buns, and brought some new tastes to Tang Ying, which was originally human nature. ”
"Tang Ying has been by Lei Potian's side for many years, and he is naturally extremely cautious and cautious, and he can eat this mutton bun without checking it in advance, which is very strange in itself. ”
"But if this bun was given by Tang Yu, it makes sense. Tang Yu was one of the three hall masters of the Tang Sect in Shuzhong, and the things he brought were naturally reassuring. Therefore, it is reasonable for Tang Ying to be poisoned by eating buns by mistake without precautions. ”
He looked at Tang Yu and said, "So at this time, your heart first began to be suspicious of Tang Yu. ”
Tang Yu still nodded, but his face gradually became solemn, and he still said, "Yes, what else?"
Ye Feng sighed, and said with a twist: "However, the clues of this bun are too obvious. If it was really sent by Tang Yu, there would be countless opportunities to destroy this evidence in such a long time now, as long as someone took the buns away, we would have no evidence. ”
But until now, this bun is still placed on the table in Tang Ying's room, which is simply a clear point of suspicion to Tang Yu, which is very unreasonable. Perhaps, this is exactly what our opponents want us to discover. ”
"Moreover, Tang Yu set off with us in Xi'an City, and just arrived in Hangzhou City, if he had been in private before, Tang Li, who was in charge of monitoring Perak Hall in Hangzhou City, and his subordinates all over the city could not be unaware, and this was originally Tang Li's territory, so it was naturally very convenient for him to do anything, so at this time, your suspicions began to turn to Tang Li again. ”
He shrugged his shoulders at Tang Yu and said, "Two of the three hall masters of the Tang Gate in Shuzhong who were present at that time actually all had suspicious points, so you were not here
Tell what you find at that time. ”
Tang Yu let out a long sigh, it seems that this time he really convinced Ye Feng: "Ye Gongzi is not bad, he really deserves to be a real smart person." ”
Ye Feng smiled and said, "It's over." ”
Tang Yu said in a deep voice: "Actually, my suspicion of these two people is not just because of this mutton bun. Before that, we found out that someone had been secretly leaking some secrets of our Tang Sect, and these secrets were extremely confidential information in the Tang Sect, and only a person with a high position like the hall master could know about it. Unfortunately, we never had a clue to find this person. ”
And this time Tang Da disappeared bizarrely, before he disappeared, he was actually intercepted and killed by unknown killers all the way. And these killers are so clear about his itinerary, there must be someone inside who leaked the news. ”
After Tang Da came out of the Northwest Desert, only two people knew his itinerary, one was Tang Yu in Xi'an City, who he first went to meet, and the other was Tang Li, whom he had seen when he passed through Jiangnan. ”
"Therefore, before we set out from Tangjiabao this time, the old lady specially warned me separately that I must be careful of these two people, and one of them must be a traitor. ”
Ye Feng suddenly realized: "No wonder the fourteenth young man came out of Shu this time, did not go straight to Hangzhou, but first went to Xi'an City to see Tang Yu, and then brought him to Hangzhou with him, in fact, it was to investigate him." ”
Tang Yu nodded and said, "Yes, that's right." ”
Ye Feng opened his mouth again and asked, "Now there is one more thing I can't figure out?"
Tang Yu asked, "What's the matter?"
Ye Feng said: "Everyone in the rivers and lakes knows that in addition to the secret weapon, the Tang Sect in Shuzhong is also quite proficient in the art of building mechanisms, since the fourteenth young man can see at a glance that there is a secret passage in this room, can it be that Tang Yu and Tang Li can't see it?"
Tang Yu said: "It's not surprising that Uncle Tang Yujiu can't see it, he was not originally a direct descendant, but was given a name by the old lady to become a direct family because of his merits. And the art of this mechanism has always been learned by the direct children of the Tang Sect since childhood, and he has not learned it, so it is not surprising that he can't see it. ”
"I see," Ye Feng nodded, and asked again, "What about Tang Li?"
Tang Yu's brows furrowed: "Speaking of Tang Li's sixteenth uncle, it's quite strange. He was originally a direct son of the Tang family, and since he was a child, he was raised by the old lady because of his strange dress and behavior, and he should never be inferior to me in the art of the mechanism, and he will never fail to see the mystery in this. ”
But since he saw it, he didn't say a word about it, which is a little intriguing. Could it be that this person could really be him?"
Seeing that Tang Yu fell into a deep groan, Ye Feng smiled and said, "Whether it is him or not, we will naturally see in the future, our immediate priority should be to see where the secret passage in this room leads, where did this Tang Ying and Lei Zhuoyun flee to?"
Tang Yu nodded and said, "That's right, that's exactly how it should be." ”
He turned around and walked to a wall in the room, and began to grope around and knock, Ye Feng knew that he was looking for a mechanism to open the secret passage.
A moment later, Tang Yu found a small incense burner on the bookshelf against the wall, and reached out to take it, but it didn't move, as if it had taken root.
He immediately changed to rotate left and right, and with a click, the incense burner was turned.
With a click, the bookshelf suddenly moved to the side, revealing the deep entrance of a black hole.
Tang Yu turned
He and Ye Feng glanced at each other, reached out and took out the fire fold from his arms, lit it up, and cautiously walked into the entrance.
The inside of the secret passage is made of neat ashlar stones, and it looks quite old. However, it was very clean, there were not too many dust cobwebs, and people must have walked through it from time to time.
It is a straight road with no branches, and after walking a short time, you have already reached the exit at the other end.
Tang Yu fumbled for the mechanism and opened the exit.
Stepping out of the exit, what appeared in front of the two of them was a somewhat deserted and desolate courtyard.
The houses in this courtyard are very old, surrounded by barren grass, and it looks like no one has lived in it for a long time.
The two of them looked around and saw that the courtyard was located behind the main hall of Perak Hall, and the two courtyards were facing away from each other, separated by a high wall and an alley.
The two courtyards open to each other facing north and south, and the door is a different block, although it is next to each other, but the two gates are very far away, and I really can't find that the two courtyards are so close to each other if I don't pay attention.
Of course, no one would have thought that there would be a secret passage connecting the two courtyards.
It seems that Tang Ying and Lei Zhuoyun should have followed this secret passage to this courtyard at that time, and then escaped from here without a trace.
Ye Feng looked at this courtyard curiously, and asked Tang Yu, "Who chose the location of the main hall of the Perak Hall in the first place?"
Tang Yu thought for a while and replied, "It should be the fourth elder of the Lei family." ”
Ye Feng remembered the four extremely majestic old men led by the fourth uncle of the Lei family in the courtyard where Lei Potian detonated explosives and died on the outskirts of the capital.
Behind those four old men represent all the side forces of the Lei family, and they have been suppressed by the direct children led by Lei Potian in the Great Thunder Gate during class.
It was their support that allowed Lei Zhuoyun to overthrow the Great Thunder Gate and sit in the position of the head of the Perak Hall.
It is also reasonable for them to decide the location of the main hall of Perak Hall.
Ye Feng nodded and said, "It turned out to be them." ”
Tang Yu continued: "According to them, the house of the main hall of the Perak Hall is the old house handed down by the ancestors of the Lei family, and it is the industry of the original establishment of the Perak Hall in the south of the Yangtze River, so it has special significance. ”
He turned his head to look at the desolate courtyard around him: "It's just that they never mentioned it, since there is a secret passage leading to the courtyard behind here." ”
Ye Feng pointed to the central lobby in the courtyard and said, "There is candlelight here, there is the smell of incense and candles in the air here, if you guess correctly, this may be the ancestral hall of the Lei family." ”
Tang Yu was stunned: "The Lei family ancestral hall, how can it be so dilapidated?"
Ye Feng shook his head and sighed: "Lei Potian is ruthless, and the Great Lei Sect has many enemies, in order to avoid being destroyed by the opponent, it is also reasonable for Lei Potian to hide the Lei Family Ancestral Hall in such a dilapidated courtyard." ”
Tang Yu nodded in agreement.
The two of them walked into the lobby.
Ye Feng was right, as soon as you enter the hall, there are rows of shrines, densely packed with the spirit cards of the ancestors of the Lei family, and there are ever-bright lamps lit on the top, and the fragrance is permeated.
The door of the lobby was pushed open by them, and the wind outside poured in, and the light of the ever-bright lamp flickered, and there seemed to be a few shadows shaking.
Ye Feng and Tang Yu looked up and couldn't help but be taken aback.
Around the roof lanterns, four corpses hung high, swaying back and forth with the wind!