Before Yu Changyuan and Zhuang Hengyun grabbed the clay statue, they searched carefully in front and back, left and right, and Yu Changyuan even stretched out his hand to play or touch the clay statue, but did not find the location of the mechanism.

Yan Dufei stood in the center of the room, carefully identifying the source of the cold wind, which was indeed blowing from the direction of the Xuanwu Emperor mud statue. It's just that seeing Yu Changchang and Zhuang Hengyun working together, Wu Zi has no results, and he is quite surprised. I inadvertently turned my head to look, but saw Li Qiufeng with his hands behind his back, looking at the mural on the wall on the left.

Yan Dufei thought to himself: "When is this, do you still have the heart to enjoy the mural here?" So he walked to Li Qiufeng's side and whispered, "Brother Li, what have you found?"

Li Qiufeng shook his head and said, "I always feel that something is wrong with this painting, but I can't find anything." ”

Yan Dufei took out the fire fold from his arms, shook it and held it up, and the mural on the left wall became clear. I saw that this mural depicts a picture of ascending immortals, and the bottom left of the picture is a forest, depicting many people's livestock, and then there is a person who is flying into the sky with auspicious clouds. The air is filled with clouds, and after passing through this cloud, you will reach the upper right side of the mural, but the four gods of Fuxi, Nuwa, and the sun and moon are being painted, and they are making a greeting gesture. There are also many fairy ladies, arranged in the air, with different expressions, and they are vivid.

The painting is very vividly painted, and the characters are quite expressive. At that time, the folk were popular in the ascension chart, and every New Year in the market, many people took the ascension chart for sale. Some wealthy families build new mansions, and they often have to paint a picture of ascending immortals on the wall to ask for a fortune. The content is much the same, nothing more than Prince Qiao, Yuren, Queen Mother of the West, Fuxi, Nuwa, Sun and Moon Four Gods and other characters. As soon as Li Qiufeng and others saw this mural, they immediately guessed what story it was painting and who the characters in the painting were.

Yan Dufei said: "This picture of ascending to immortals is well drawn, but I don't see anything strange. ”

Li Qiufeng didn't answer, and with the light of the fire fold in Yan Dufei's hand, he carefully searched for it in the painting. Suddenly, he whispered, "So it's here?!"

Yan Dufei was shocked, and hurriedly leaned over and said, "What did Brother Li find?"

Li Qiufeng pointed to the lower left corner of the mural with his left hand, and said to Yan Dufei: "Brother Yan, come and see, what is this?"

I saw that the lower left corner of this mural was painted with a cave, and on the left side sat a long-bearded old man sitting cross-legged, holding the dust in his arms, as if he was in a state of meditation. On the right side is a very short figure, half-kneeling and half-prostrate, facing the old man, but pointing behind him with his left hand. There were five or six people around him, who seemed to be listening to what he was talking to the old man.

Yan Dufei said: "This picture seems to be a Taoist priest talking to the disciples, thinking about what secret method this old Taoist priest taught, and this little Taoist priest was finally able to soar." ”

Li Qiufeng said: "Brother Yan has lived in the northwest for a long time, I'm afraid I don't know this story. There is a miscellaneous book in the Central Plains, called "Journey to the West Commentary", which tells the story of the Sanzang master in the early years of the Tang Dynasty. As mentioned in the book, this Sanzang Master has a great apprentice, who is born with a stone monkey and divine powers. After this monkey was born, he worshiped under the Bodhi ancestor in the three-star cave of the slanting moon in Lingtai Fangcun Mountain, and cultivated a skill. This is the story depicted in this picture. Li is on an errand in the capital, and he often wanders around Chaoqian City when he has nothing to do, and he likes to listen to people talk about this book. ”

Yan Dufei was surprised and delighted, and pointed to the half-kneeling and half-kneeling person: "Brother Li said that this person is the stone monkey?"

Li Qiufeng said: "Not bad. He is worshipping Bodhi Ancestor as his teacher. Where do you see his left finger going?"

Yan Dufei brought the fire fold in his hand a little closer, and looked in the direction of the stone monkey's left hand in the painting, and the direction he pointed obliquely was the clay statue of the Emperor Xuanwu.

Yan Dufei smiled bitterly and said, "It's still that clay statue." It's just that the owner of Yu Zhuang searched for a long time, but they didn't find any organs. ”

Li Qiufeng said: "It's not just a clay statue, you look at the height of his finger, it's not as tall as a clay statue." ”

Yan Dufei re-examined it, and finally his eyes fell on the offering table, and his heart sank, and said, "This offering table is weird!"

Yu Changyuan and Zhuang Hengyun were still circling around the clay statue, and the clay statue had been stained with a lot of handprints of the two of them, but they didn't notice it at all, and they were anxious, and suddenly heard Yan Dufei say that the offering table was strange, and the two suddenly stopped, glanced at each other, and ran to the offering table in unison.

Xu Yingyang had been standing in front of the palace gate, coldly watching Yu Changyuan and Zhuang Hengyun knocking and beating in front of the clay statue of Emperor Xuanwu. At this time, before the two of them grabbed the offering table, he also walked a few steps quickly to the front of the offering table.

Yan Dufei and Yu Changchang held the fire fold and looked carefully up and down the offering table. The table is all black, the top is very heavy, and the four legs are almost the thickness of the bowl mouth. The table top was cleanly wiped and there were several empty dishes stacked on top of it.

Zhuang Hengyun is proficient in the art of organs, and at this time, he gently pressed his hands on the four corners of the table, but the table was not unusual. Then he put his hands on the two corners of the offering table, and lifted it slightly, but the table was very heavy, but it was raised by an inch, and it could not be raised again. Zhuang Hengyun was overjoyed and said, "This table is really weird!"

Yu Changchang and the others saw that Zhuang Hengyun had found the mechanism, and they were extremely happy in their hearts. I only heard Zhuang Hengyun say: "Everyone take a few steps back, I will raise this table and see what is wrong." ”

Everyone took a few steps back according to the words, Zhuang Hengyun used his arms to lift the table upward, only to hear a sharp and piercing sound of friction, under the light of the fire fold, the ground under the table slowly cracked a hole, and a cold air came out of the hole.

Zhuang Hengyun was surprised and delighted, and said: "There must be a steel wire under this table, and the mechanism below will be activated as soon as it is lifted. ”

After he finished speaking, he slowly put the offering table back in its place, but the hole did not close. Zhuang Hengyun squatted down, searched carefully on the table legs, and gently lifted the table legs, and sure enough, there were steel wires under the two table legs near the end of the clay statue. As long as the table is lifted with force, these two wires will pull the mechanism underground.

Zhuang Hengyun carefully lowered the offering table to the side of the clay statue, completely exposing the hole.

Yu Changchang looked at the dark entrance of the cave, and said with a smile: "Finally, we have lived up to our hard work over the years, and there are more than a dozen lives." Hahaha. ”

Zhuang Hengyun was startled, and hurriedly said to Yu Chang: "Big brother, we are in danger, be careful!"

Yu Changchang snorted and said, "The treasure is in front of you, be careful of your fart." Tell the third child to bring someone in, let's get ready to go down to the cave!"

Zhuang Hengyun called He Yi and the others in, this room was originally very small, and there were nearly forty people crowded at this time, and it was immediately crowded, and Zhuang Ding in the back barely had a place to stay, but half of his body was outside the hall. Yu Changchang ordered to leave two clever Zhuang Ding to guard this Xuanwu Palace, and the rest of Zhuang Ding went down the cave with everyone.

Yu Changchang finished arranging, and checked the blades brought by each person, the important thing was the gunpowder, water and dry food that Zhuang Ding carried respectively, after everything was correct, he said to Zhuang Hengyun: "Second child, now that the fourth child is no longer there, among our people, only you are the most proficient in organs." You have to work hard to go down first, and we'll follow. ”

Zhuang Hengyun was a famous tomb robber in the rivers and lakes in the past, and he had robbed countless tombs in his life. He took a torch from one of the villagers, lit it with the fire breaker in his hand, and threw it into the hole.

The people gathered around the entrance of the cave and looked into the cave by the light of the torches. But I saw that there was a sloping stone staircase at the entrance of the cave that stretched into the cave. The torch tumbled on the stone steps, and after a while it disappeared into the cave.

Zhuang Hengyun said: "Big brother, I am in front, and you follow behind." Remember not to touch anything in the cave after entering the cave, not even the walls, so as not to trigger the mechanism message. ”

Yu Changchang nodded yes, Zhuang Hengyun lit another torch, held it in his left hand, and took a wooden stick more than one person high from a Zhuang Ding with his right hand, and lightly tapped it a few times on the top stone steps, waited for a while, and saw that there was nothing abnormal, he took a deep breath, and then walked slowly.

Yu Changchang said to the two Zhuang Ding who stayed behind: "After we go down, you will put the offering table back in its original place." If the hole is closed, every other hour you will hold the offering table and open the hole. If anyone passes by outside this temple, do not do anything with them unless they find you. ”

Those two Zhuang Ding are the two most clever in the Five Tiger Villa, but their martial arts are not weak, and they nodded their heads again and again after listening to Yu Chang's orders. Yu Changchang turned his head, lit another torch, and said to He Yi: "Third brother, you follow last, and the rest of the brothers go in with me!"