Jiapingguan Chronicle

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Along the steps, a group of people walked to the bottom. Several people looked up and couldn't help being a little surprised.

"This secret room is quite deep, and..." Shen Cha looked at the others and asked, "Do you feel a little damp?"

"It's not damp. There used to be a lake here, but it was drained and filled up." Xue Ruitian looked at Shen Cha and Jin Miaomiao with blank faces, and explained, "I don't blame you all. I don’t know, I’ve never seen this lake before, and it was my father who mentioned it. You all know that my mother can’t live in a particularly humid place, and she’s prone to rashes, right?”

"Yes, I know." Jin Miaomiao nodded, "Master showed me to my aunt, and said it was damp."

"The lake is already leveled, but it still feels damp. If the lake is not filled, my mother will suffer a lot." Xue Ruitian raised his head to look at the stone top, "Shall we move forward?"

"Okay!" Shen Cha nodded, and gestured towards Ying Wu, "Go slowly, pay attention to your feet, the ground is slippery."

"I'll pull you." Jin Miaomiao took Shen Cha's arm, followed Ying Wu, and walked slowly inside, the fire pocket in his hand lit up the whole secret passage bit by bit, "Don't you feel that?" Think it's weird here?"

"En!" Shen Cha nodded, "The pattern just now has disappeared, and the bottom floor of the steps is gone, and further inside is the rough stone, without any markings." She looked at Xue Ruitian behind her, "Probably not good carved?"

"Maybe it's because I'm not free, or maybe it's unnecessary." Xue Ruitian had never been down before, and he didn't know there was such a space under the gazebo. He looked here and then there out of curiosity, "Xiao Wu, we want How long are you going?"

"Master Hou, it seems unprofessional when you ask this question." Ying Wu chuckled, "We never knew that there was an authentic tunnel in the Hou Mansion, let alone how long it would be, so how could we tell you? How long can you go?"

"That's not what I meant." Xue Ruitian looked at the stone walls on the left and right, "I thought the secret room could be seen after descending such a long step, but it doesn't seem to be the case now. After we get down, we still have to walk It is only through such a long passage that it is possible to reach the secret room. But whether there is really a room here is not necessarily certain, right?"

"Hou Ye is right, that's what happened." Ying Wu nodded, "Maybe this is a cover, or a passage, and the real secret room is still in the backyard of the Hou Mansion." He felt the direction, "Visual inspection of the way we are going The direction is to go to the backyard."

"Backyard?" Shen Cha looked at Xue Ruitian, "Haven't you and Brother Xiaojing already checked it? Isn't there no secret room or something?"

"Our search doesn't count for anything. It's just a random look, and we didn't go deep into the investigation. Moreover, we are not very good at this, so we are not surprised that we can't find anything." Xue Ruitian laughed at himself. He smiled, "However, my father spent a lot of time building such a detour to the secret room, and the things to be hidden are very important to my father."

"It's not accurate, Lord Hou!" Jin Miaomiao said with a smile, "It should be the top priority. After all, these secrets involve the past of Xue's family. Xin Mi many years ago, if one is not careful, someone with ulterior motives will If you see it, if it leaks, it will be a disaster."

"This is natural. I understand why my father should be cautious. This is not only a matter of the Xue family, but the Xia family is also involved. However, even so, I still don't quite understand."

"Brother Xiaotian doesn't understand why the Xue family is still implicated in what happened more than a hundred years ago, right?"

"That's right." Xue Ruitian nodded, "I have a question that I have never figured out. How can the people from the Southwest, the people from the Liu family, and the empress dowager who tried their best to entrap Xue's family prove that they were mixed together? The Xue family who joined the Qinglian sect is the Xue family of our Marquis of Wuding?"

"I have to say, Lord Hou!" Jin Miaomiao raised his eyebrows lightly, "Your speculative angle is very tricky!"

"To tell you the truth, that's what I think. How can they be sure that the Xue family is the Xue family, just because our family has worshiped incense? It used to be a bit crazy? If this word spreads, I'm afraid it won't convince the public. ?”

"Genealogy." Shen Cha didn't pay attention to his feet and staggered a little. Fortunately, Jin Miaomiao supported him so he didn't fall down.

"Be careful!" Jin Miaomiao blinked, and took a picture of the ground with the torch in his hand, looked at the cobblestone ground, and sighed softly, "This is the disadvantage of using local materials, slippery and slippery. Not fair."

"After all, we want to avoid people's eyes and ears, so we must use local materials. This kind of movement will be less." Shen Cha looked around, and carefully stepped over a protruding stone block. Therefore, it is very likely that the filling of the lake and the excavation of the secret passage were completed at the same time." She smiled at Xue Ruitian, "It's no wonder Brother Xiaotian didn't know, at that time, we hadn't come here yet !"

"If you say that, it's true, and we can't say that the elders are hiding it from us. We don't need to know." Jin Miaomiao smiled, "However, we haven't thought about the problem that Lord Hou just mentioned. Thinking about it now, it's a direction where we can get rid of the relationship." She looked at Shen Cha, "What do you think?"

"It's a way." Shen Cha looked at Xue Ruitian, "However, just after we learned about the Xue family's mother, Uncle Wang proposed this idea, and we also discussed it seriously."

"What was the result of the discussion?"

"This is our trump card. We can come back and reverse the situation by relying on this." Shen Cha raised an eyebrow at Xue Ruitian who was looking over, "What do you think, Brother Xiaotian? Is this decision very wise?"

"Indeed." Xue Ruitian rolled his eyes, "You have all discussed it, but you still keep it from me, it's not loyal enough."

"It's not that we are not loyal enough. We just found out at that time, and we were still very shocked. Besides, most of them were our guesses. There was no conclusive evidence to prove that the Qinglian Sect was behind the trick, and we didn't know that the Xue family and Qinglian Sect is deeply involved, so speaking out will only increase troubles. Besides, if there is no Liu family and no people from the Southwest, Brother Xiaotian will not believe what we say, right?" Seeing Xue Ruitian touching Nodding her head, Shen Cha shrugged her shoulders, "So, why should we tell you in advance, right?" She lowered her head slightly, avoided a stone pillar above, and then turned to the right, "Xiao Wu, What direction is this?"

"It's still in the Hou Mansion, but it's not very clear where it went."

(End of this chapter)