Hurriedly took out the key given by Liu Ruyan, inserted it and turned it gently, with a slight click, the whole mountain table was slightly moved out of a position of about a foot. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info Immediately, a hole that could only be drilled into by one person appeared in front of Wu Zheng's eyes.

After hesitating for a moment between entering or not, Wu Zheng casually pulled out the Lingyun Sword that was covered in the robe and pinned to his waist, and got into it as soon as he lowered his head.

In the pitch-black secret room, Wu Zheng could only input his true qi into the Lingyun Sword, and quickly observed it with the help of the faint light emitted by the sword body.

The secret room is not large, only one zhang long and half a zhang wide. Moreover, there was nothing in the room except for the four futons on the ground.

"Oh no, is it another trick?"

Secretly frightened, Wu Zheng raised his foot and was about to get out of the entrance, but when most of his body had already emerged, there was no abnormality. Even in the ancestral hall outside, there was no movement, only the old man muttering to himself in the courtyard.

Wu Zheng, who was somewhat unwilling, shrank back again, no matter what Liu Ruyan's intentions were, it was impossible for him to come to this empty secret room, because it didn't make sense at all. Since it's not a pre-arranged trap, there must be something hidden in it.

Judging this in his heart, Wu Zheng began to carefully observe every inch of the ground and walls in the secret room. Sure enough, on the wall on the right, Wu Zheng found an anomaly. A bulge that was only the size of a thumb and a finger, and seemed to be integrated with the wall and slightly smooth, immediately attracted Wu Zheng's attention. Take a half step back, turn sideways, and stretch out your left thumb and press lightly on the bulge.

With a bang, a boxy, barely foot-long hole suddenly appeared in the wall. With the help of the light emitted by the Lingyun Sword in his hand, he saw that there was a wooden box about the size of the cave in the cave. First, he picked it with the tip of the Lingyun Sword, and after finding that there was no abnormality, he took out the wooden box entirely.

Seeing that there was also a copper lock hanging on it, Wu Zheng just subconsciously inserted the key in his hand and tried it, but he didn't expect the copper lock to open in response. When Wu Zheng opened the wooden box, he was stunned.

No wonder when I reached out and moved the wooden box, I didn't feel any weight, it turned out that there was a large stack of silver tickets. After all, the light on the Lingyun Sword was too dim, and Wu Zheng could only vaguely recognize the word "Huitong", so he no longer paid attention to the amount on it, and simply took it out and stuffed it into his arms.

Under the silver ticket, there was a booklet, Wu Zheng didn't look at the contents of it, and after putting it away with the silver ticket, he found that there was nothing else in the secret room, so he re-locked the wooden box, put it back in the hole, and after restoring it to its original state, he quickly left the secret room and returned to the ancestral hall.

It's just that this time it is not so easy for Wu Zheng to leave the ancestral hall, after all, the old man is sitting under the eaves of the east wing outside. As long as there is a slight movement in the ancestral hall, it will definitely wake up the other party. And in the ancestral hall, except for the secret room behind him, there is no other place to hide.

"What should I do?"

Wu Zheng asked himself secretly, and he didn't even dare to try to restore the position of the mountain. It's not that I'm afraid of being discovered by the people of the Zhou Mansion, but I'm worried that I will leave Liu Ruyan with a disaster.

When Wu Zheng found that there were only these silver tickets and the booklet that he didn't know the contents of the secret room, he had already forgiven Liu Ruyan for some of his past actions in his heart. Moreover, Wu Zheng guessed that Liu Ruyan should also want to make up for some of her mistakes in Tie Ning and what she had done.

You must know that whether it is recruiting troops or buying horses, marching and fighting, it is all a money-burning business. For the 30,000 troops in Sanbao County alone, I am afraid that more than 100,000 taels of silver are needed for food and grass every month. This is not yet the beginning of the war, and once it does, the need will be even more amazing.

Since discussing the world's major affairs in Taibai Peak, although no one took the initiative to mention the matter of silver money, everyone knew in their hearts that nothing could be done without silver money. Since everyone has pushed themselves to the front, it is natural that these things must be solved by themselves. Therefore, the problem of solving the military salary of 30,000 horses in Sanbao County, as well as the money needed to continue to expand the army in the future, has always been on Wu Zheng's heart.

Now Liu Ruyan's painstaking efforts are tantamount to sending charcoal in the snow, and from this, Wu Zheng also thought that Liu Ruyan should be very aware of his every move, otherwise he would never take the risk of making such a risky move.

The reason why it is said to be a risky move, first of all, this is the ancestral hall of Zhoufu, that is, the ancestral hall of Liu Ruyan's grandfather's family. In other words, there is a secret room here, and it is impossible for Liu Ruyan not to know about it. Moreover, she is also responsible for protecting the key that opens the secret room. So, once the contents are lost, the first person to be suspected is her. Not only him, but I'm afraid that the entire Zhou Mansion will suffer.

"Zhou Mansion, Zhou Mansion, why would the forces of the Third Prince, Gu Yes, build a secret room in the ancestral hall of the Zhou Mansion?

When this question suddenly popped up in Wu Zheng's mind, a cold sweat broke out inexplicably. Wu Zheng is completely sure that Tie Ning definitely doesn't know about this, but what about Tie Rulin?

Thinking of the news I heard from the silent Li Cungan of the Iron Sword in the Iron Sword Gate, Liu Rushuang is in a group with the three mountains and forests of the town, and the three mountains and forests of the town are the people of the three princes, so, with the relationship between Liu Ruyan and the Iron Mansion, can Tie Rulin clear himself?

If Tie Rulin is also the person of the Third Prince, then what about the evergreen sword, what about the people in the Zhou Mansion of Tie Ning's foreign family here?

Since I have been thinking about it, I naturally thought of the scene when I caught Liu Ruyan in Jinling City and let her go unscathed.

"Is it true that Tie Rulin let Liu Ruyan go only because he was afraid of the power of the third prince Gu Yes?"

This is not the thing that scares Wu Zheng the most.

Tie Rulin took the risk of offending the Zhang family, one of the four major families, and openly ruined the marriage contract between Tie Ning and the Zhang family, although there was no lack of Tie Ning and his own efforts, but the section that easily agreed to his marriage with Tie Ning still made the current Wu Zheng feel the abnormality.

If Tie Rulin is also the person of the Third Prince, then the experience of Tie Ning falling into the hands of Liu Shiqing is difficult to completely rule out the possibility that Tie Rulin was not even aware of it in advance.

Especially Tie Ning is here, in his grandfather Zhou's house fell into the hands of Liu Shiqing. And the Zhou family is very likely to be the person of the third prince, so in this way, will Tie Ning fall into the hands of Liu Shiqing be a big conspiracy in itself?

After all, Shuntian Mansion is Liu Shiqing's territory, and the third prince Gu wants to drive away Liu Shiqing and seize control of Shuntian Mansion, so it is not possible to create a reason or excuse for openly crusading against Liu Shiqing.

The more Wu Zheng thought about it, the more he felt that in the matter of falling into the hands of Liu Shiqing, Tie Ning was very likely to have been reduced to a chess piece.

Moreover, their marriage contract with Tie Ning cannot be ruled out as a means they use to envelop themselves. In this way, Tie Ning is still a chess piece in their hands. (To be continued.) )