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Chapter 44 Ancient and Treasure Hunting

Chen Yanfeng didn't pay attention to the fact that Li Yan looked straight at him, Zhou Rui turned his body sideways, blocking people for Li Yan, moving forward for a while, and leaning back for a while, trying his best to block idlers for her, but not to block Her gaze.Yushu followed Li Yan's gaze. She looked at whatever Li Yan looked at and frowned. It was too rough and vulgar.

However, there are only two or three such lively streets, and if you turn another corner, you will find a narrow alley in front of you. There are ordinary people living on both sides of the alley, so Li Yan has nothing to see. He quickened his pace and followed Chen Yanfeng. We arrived at a small temple that looked very simple and elegant although it was not big.

The door of the small temple was closed tightly. Chen Yanfeng walked half a circle around the small temple, went up the steps, and clicked the door knocker.

After a moment, the door opened a crack from the inside, and the face of a young novice monk emerged from the crack. "This benefactor, there are distinguished guests today. The master said that we will not accept pilgrims. Please come back tomorrow." As he said, Chen Yanfeng did not wait. He answered and closed the door.

Chen Yanfeng stepped back from the steps and waved his sleeves nonchalantly, "My relationship with this small temple is too shallow. I've been here ten times and at least eight times I couldn't get in. Forget it. Go outside the city. There is a garden outside the city. According to legend, The owner's surname is Li. It has been abandoned for many years. The garden is very impressive. Let's go and have a look." Chen Yanfeng looked at Li Yan and said it. Li Yan heard that he specifically said the owner's surname was Li. He knew that this Li must be Yu. Li Zhang nodded hurriedly. You must visit a place like this.

The four of them headed north from the east gate, and when they reached the north gate, they hailed a car. Li Yan and Yushu sat in the car and walked straight for more than an hour, passing through a somewhat desolate forest, and arrived in front of a ruin.

Li Yan got out of the car, took a few steps back, and looked up at the ruins in front of him.Compared with the ruins outside Yuzhang City, this place is even considered intact.

Where she stood, long walls that were completely covered with vines extended to both sides. The gate in the middle, the door and the head of the door were gone. The gate and the wall looked extremely ordinary, but they were very tall and long.

Chen Yanfeng had already strode into the gate of the courtyard, Zhou Rui stood at the gate, looked at Li Yan who was carefully looking at the gate and the wall, and Yushu followed behind Li Yan, frowning tightly.

Li Yan hugged the dog-skin robe, went up the steps, stood in the middle of the door, and stared blankly in front of him. This was not an abandoned house, but an abandoned botanical garden.As far as the eye can see, there are lush green trees and vines, and a few corners of the eaves and ridges are exposed in the gaps between the trees.

"The original owner is an elegant man." Zhou Rui looked at Li Yan's face like this, half sighing, half explaining, "It is also extremely rich, this garden must have been beautiful in those days."

Gardening, she understands.Li Yan walked down the steps and walked inside with Zhou Rui.

"These camphor trees must be hundreds of years old." Zhou Rui pointed to the tall and verdant camphor trees not far away, "It's really not easy for this golden camellia to grow so well in a place like Wancheng. That's Ziwei, Jingui..." Zhou Rui walked and talked to Li Yan about the trees and vines on both sides, almost every tree had its own name and surname.

Li Yan looked back at Yushu, Yushu frowned, and shook her head at Li Yan, she understood what the young lady meant when she saw her, but here, she couldn't think of anything, and had no impression at all.

It seemed that people often came to this barren garden. Although the surrounding area looked deserted and deserted, the path in the middle was clean and unobstructed, and was not invaded by weeds and vines.

After walking for a quarter of an hour, a winding river appeared in front of us. The water flow was not slow and it looked very clear.

Zhou Rui signaled Li Yan not to go forward. He walked to the river, squatted down and touched it again. He changed places, touched it again, stood up, walked along the river for a while, and came back with a few silk threads. With a shocked expression, "This river should be paved with bluestones. There should be other doorways. Otherwise, the river would have been blocked long ago. This family is too extravagant."

"Yeah." Li Yan responded casually. Yushu said that as a young lady, she has a three-story building, which is definitely luxurious. "That bridge can be walked on."

"Yes." Zhou Rui pointed to the pavilion on the opposite side of the river, in the pavilion, Chen Yanfeng was sitting comfortably and blowing the air.

The three people entered the pavilion. This pavilion was entangled by a huge wisteria. There were already vines in the pavilion, and there were pavilions in the vines. At this moment, the leaves of the wisteria were almost gone. When the wisteria blooms in spring, this pavilion must be so gorgeous.

"This can be regarded as a scene in Wancheng." Chen Yanfeng's fingers stretched from the pavilion to the surroundings.

"Which Li family's old house is this?" Li Yan asked as he sat next to Chen Yanfeng.

"Which Li family could it be? Look at this house. Any family can build it. A hundred years ago, the only one with the surname Li who could afford to build such a garden was Yuzhang, which is now the Li family in the capital. "Chen Yanfeng shook his feet,
"I've heard about it too." Zhou Rui looked at Li Yan with a bit of astonishment in his eyes, "In the notes collected by the predecessors at home, when talking about the old Xiangguo Li and the young Xiangguo Li, he once commented that when Without people’s understanding, the Li family has been completely defeated from Yuzhang to the capital.”

"Is it a defeat in the capital?" Li Yan was puzzled. From such a small and remote place in Yuzhang, moved to the capital. How long has the power been in the hands, and the family has two prime ministers. How can it be defeated?Could it be that the Li family used to be the emperor?

"Hush." ​​Chen Yanfeng stood up suddenly, motioning for everyone to be silent. Almost at the same time, Yushu stepped forward to protect Li Yan. Zhou Rui was stunned for a moment, and soon heard the movement. Rui, knowing that something happened, compared with them, she is almost deaf.

Not far away from them, Yu Shu was holding a compass in his hand. He was staring at the compass closely, with a focused and nervous look on his face. He weighed his feet, raised them slowly, lowered them carefully, and walked forward step by step. Xiong Keding followed closely. Behind Yu Shu, he craned his neck to look at the compass, occasionally pulling at Yu Shu who was about to trip. Behind Xiong Keding was his best brother and younger brother Fan Botao. Fan Botao was a few taller than Xiong Keding, and he was following him now. Behind Xiong Keding, Xiong Keding stared at the compass in Yu Shu's hand. He couldn't see the compass, so he stared at Yu Shu's legs. When Yu Shu raised his legs, he also raised his legs. When Yu Shu put his feet down, he also put his feet down.

"It's moving!" Xiong Keding exclaimed excitedly.

"Hush, calm down." Yu Shu hissed with a trembling voice, but he was much more excited than Xiong Keding, and his hands were shaking with excitement.

"Why are your hands shaking! Look, the shaking is gone!" Xiong Keding grabbed Yu Shu's hand.

"I didn't shake...just a little." Yu Shu argued strongly.

(End of this chapter)