Records of Strange People and Strange Events in the Old Mansion

Chapter 162 Smoke

Fatty Zhu was kicked into Taiping Pond by Huang Huacai, and as a result, a shocking secret was kicked out.

As Fat Zhu rolled into Taiping Pond, a "puff puff puff" sound was heard on the pond and a thick smoke rose up, turning the entire Taiping Pond into a big pot of boiling water.

It is said to be thick smoke, but in fact it is fog. It's just that the fog is so thick that it covers the sky and the sun, blocking the sunset on the top of the west mountain. It becomes a thick smoke, dark and gloomy, as if a monster has appeared.

The fearless day lily was so frightened that she broke out in a cold sweat and could not help but shouting loudly: "Fairy, fairy..."

The shouts echoed over Taiping Pond and were soon drowned out by the thick smoke. A pair of small hands tugged at the corner of Huang Huacai's clothes, and a soft voice sounded in her ears: "Come with me."

As soon as Huang Huacai left, Lan Yuliu brought Lu Huan and the fake Lu Bo to the Taiping Pond. Looking at the boiling water of the Taiping Pond, Lan Yuliu told the fake Lu Bo: "Open the big box and take out the yellow cloth bag."

"Yes." The fake Lu Bo agreed and took out a yellow cloth bag from the big box that Lu Huan dragged out from the second floor of the main house and handed it to Lan Yuliu.

Lan Yuliu took the cloth bag and held it in her hand, but did not open it immediately. Her eyes were fixed on the surface of Taiping Pond. All the way here, Lan Yuliu's eyes never left the tumbling water of Taiping Pond.

Lu Huan rescued Lan Yuliu from the main house of the old house, jumped out of the window and fled to the West Mountain, hiding in a cave.

Lan Yuliu expressed her gratitude to Lu Huan, and Lu Huan said, "You are Yuyu Lanlan's aunt, how can I watch you die without helping you?"

"Huanhuan, if you open the treasury, you can choose any treasure that Lan Yu hid in the old house." Lan Yuliu promised Lu Huan.

Lu Huan laughed and said, "What use do I have for those treasures? Besides, it's still unknown whether there are any batches of treasures. You can talk about it after you find them."

"Huanhuan, Lan Yu definitely hid the treasure in the old house. I can guarantee you that." Lan Yuliu was afraid that Lu Huan would not believe it.

Lu Huan laughed even more happily: "Absolutely? Guarantee? Is this the word you should use as the commander-in-chief of Jianliu Sect?"

"Huanhuan, do you know how much effort Yuyu Lanlan's great-grandfather and grandfather put in to find the treasures that Lanyu hid in the old house? But they died here, and not even their bodies are left." Lan Yuliu looked resentful.

Lu Huan stopped laughing and sighed, "Ah, this person, why does he get so excited when he hears about treasure? He always wants to possess it for himself? Isn't it good to live an ordinary life?"

"Huanhuan, you are still young, and there are some things you don't understand." Lan Yuliu patted the back of Lu Huan's hand.

Lu Huan asked Lan Yuliu: "Aunt Yuyu Lanlan, do you really think I am still young?"

"Huanhuan, don't be angry. I'm only talking about age. After all, I'm a dozen years older than you. I've experienced so many things since I was a child and felt too much of the vicissitudes of life." Lan Yuliu leaned against the wall of the cave, feeling infinitely sad.

Fake Lu Bo walked into the cave holding a handful of wild fruits, and said to Lan Yuliu with a smile: "Boss, you are a lucky person. Don't think too much, maybe a miracle will happen."

"Yes, yes, good things will happen to you. Aunt Yuyu Lanlan, as long as we are still alive, a miracle will happen sooner or later. Come, have some wild fruit, it's very sweet." Lu Huan grabbed a few wild fruits from the fake Lu Bo and handed them to Lan Yuliu.

Lan Yuliu took a wild fruit from Lu Huan's hand, took a bite, and said to Lu Huan with a smile: "You are really a carefree and happy person. I hope Yuyu Lanlan can be as carefree and happy as you, her mother, forever."

"Then you leave here, and we'll go to the provincial capital together, and live a peaceful life as a family." Lu Huan said casually, but Lan Yuliu was moved, tears welled up in her eyes, and she choked up and said to Lu Huan: "Huanhuan, just for what you said, I must get those treasures that Lan Yu hid in the old house, so that you, Yuyu and Lanlan can live a carefree life."

"The key is that you can't find the so-called treasure house at all. Maybe it doesn't exist at all. It's just a legend, spread by word of mouth." Lu Huan still said casually.

Lan Yuliu glanced at the fake Luber, who understood and walked out of the cave. Lan Yuliu waited for the fake Luber to walk deep into the woods, and then she pulled Lu Huan closer and whispered in her ear, "I've actually found the treasure house, but I can't open it for the time being."

"Is this true? No way? Since it has been found, as the commander-in-chief of Jianliu Sect, you can't be unable to open it, right?" Lu Huan asked carelessly.

Lan Yuliu made a gesture to silence Lu Huan: "Shh, be quiet. That treasure house is not an ordinary treasure house. It is more complicated than some emperors' tombs."

"Mechanism? My father is an expert at uncovering mechanisms, and so is that old man Liu. As long as the two of them work together, there will be no mechanism or ambush in the world that they cannot uncover. So quickly call my father in." Lu Huan stood up excitedly and walked out of the cave.

Lan Yuliu held Lu Huan tightly, hesitated for a while and said to Lu Huan: "Huanhuan, I'm sorry, this Lu Bo is fake."

"Fake? No way? Are you telling me a suspenseful mystery story?" Lu Huan didn't believe it.

Lan Yuliu said seriously: "Huanhuan, do I still have the heart to joke with you at this time? I can't joke with you. This fake Lu Bo was arranged by Zhu Shanzi and I. The purpose is to alienate the Eight Badger Immortals and steal the secrets of the main house of the old house."

"Hey, hey, hey, I still don't understand, what do you mean this fake Lu Bo was arranged by you and Zhu Shanzi? He is obviously my dad, how can he be fake?" Lu Huan still didn't believe it.

Lan Yuliu sneered, "This shows that Zhu Shanzi's disguise and nightmare skills have reached perfection, and he can even fool you. Humph, Zhu Shanzi, just wait, I will make you pay with blood."

"Why do I feel more confused the more I listen? Aren't you in cahoots with Zhu Shanzi? Why do you want him to pay for his blood debt with blood?" Lu Huan looked innocent.

Lan Yuliu gnashed her teeth and said, "That's right, I used to regard him as a comrade-in-arms, but I didn't expect that he had ulterior motives and was plotting against me. He almost took my life."

"Aunt Yuyulanlan, it was you who almost took Zhu Shanzi's life, right? You almost killed him in that cave." Lu Huan widened his eyes.

Lan Yuliu said bitterly: "I regret so much that I didn't make up my mind to kill him."

"Do you really want to kill him? Then why didn't you kill him?" Lu Huan still looked innocent.

Lan Yuliu sighed and said, "Alas, it's all my fault for placing too much hope in him. I thought he really knew the location of the treasure house and that he would help me open it."

"You must be wrong about this. If there really is a treasure house, and if Zhu Shanzi really knows where the treasure house is, he must want to keep it for himself. How could he possibly tell you? Zhu Shanzi looks kind on the surface, but in fact, he is more poisonous than a snake and more evil than a wolf. He is extremely bad." Lu Huan complained.

Lan Yuliu nodded: "Yes, he is more poisonous than a venomous snake and more evil than a wolf. You and I almost died at his hands. If you were not smart and quick to react, we would probably be in hell now."

"Aunt Yuyu Lanlan, you'd better be more careful in the future. The cave you took us into yesterday was so dangerous. Of course, I have to thank you for letting me retreat in advance, otherwise I might have died in there because I can't swim." Lu Huan looked frightened. Lan Yuliu held Lu Huan's hands and said, "Don't be afraid. Even if Zhu Shanzi has three heads and six arms, he can't kill me easily. At the beginning, I was indeed deceived by him and fell into his trap, but I immediately found out that there was a trick, so I asked you to retreat in time."

"Aunt Yuyu Lanlan, thank you. Can you tell me in detail what happened?" Lu Huan gave Lan Yuliu a grateful glance.

Lan Yuliu smiled and said to Lu Huan: "You are my sister-in-law, Yuyu Lanlan's mother, I must protect you no matter what. Besides, didn't you save me just now? We are a family, there is no need to thank each other endlessly. As the old saying goes, brothers are united in purpose, and their strength is invincible. As long as we are of one mind, we will definitely defeat Zhu Shanzi, find the treasure house, and open the treasure house."

"Well, we can definitely defeat Zhu Shanzi. Can you tell me about the cave? How did it end up hanging over Taiping Pond? I was scared to death." Lu Huan held Lan Yuliu's hands tightly.

Lan Yuliu held Lu Huan's hands tightly, pondered for a while, and said, "Zhu Shanzi and I dug a tunnel leading to the treasure house in Zhu Hu's house, but I don't know when Zhu Shanzi did something wrong? The tunnel I took you into yesterday was not the tunnel leading to the treasure house, but an ambush designed by Zhu Shanzi. He wanted to kill me."

"Kill you? If he wanted to kill you, wouldn't he have plenty of opportunities to do it directly? Is it necessary to go to so much trouble?" Lu Huan asked.

Lan Yuliu replied: "Yes, he had plenty of opportunities to kill me, but he wanted to get the key back and to determine where the treasure was. So he took great pains to design a fake hole in the ground to test me and to kill me."

"I still don't understand." Lu Huan shook his head.

Lan Yuliu explained: "To be honest, until now, no one has been able to truly determine where in the old house the treasure house where Lan Yu hid the treasures is located. It's all just guesswork. I thought Zhu Shanzi had determined it, and Zhu Shanzi thought I had determined it, so we tested each other in the hope of determining the true location of the treasure house through each other."

"Oh, I understand a little, but I still don't quite understand." Lu Huan nodded and shook his head.

Lan Yuliu released Lu Huan's hands, raised her hand and touched Lu Huan's forehead, smiled and said: "You are so cute, Yu Yulanlan must be even cuter. Do you know? In order to test me and determine the location of the treasure house, Zhu Shanzi designed a fake tunnel, which is exactly the same as the tunnel leading to the treasure house that my grandfather and father found, so I was deceived by him at the beginning..."

"Hey, hey, hey, you are contradicting yourself again. You just said that no one can determine the true location of the treasure house, so now you are talking about the tunnel leading to the treasure house that your grandfather and father found?" Lu Huan interrupted Lan Yuliu.

Lan Yuliu smiled and said, "Don't worry. The tunnel leading to the treasure house that grandpa and father found may not be real. They just think it is. I also thought it was at first because they died there."

"Ah? Yu Yulanlan's great-grandfather and grandfather died there?" Lu Huan shuddered.

Lan Yuliu embraced Lu Huan and said softly, "Those who left have gone, we just need to fulfill their wishes. Zhu Shanzi originally had no way of knowing the tunnel that my grandfather and father had discovered, but I used all the power of Jianliu Sect and still could not solve the mystery of my grandfather and father's death, so I had to ask him for help."

"Oh, I understand. In the end, Zhu Shanzi had no way to unlock it, but he wanted to take the treasure house for himself, so he built an identical fake tunnel. He wanted to use the power of you and Jianliumen to determine the location of the treasure house and open it." Lu Huan looked as if he had suddenly realized something.

Lan Yuliu praised Lu Huan: "You are really smart, you understand things at once."

"However, I still don't understand how the tunnel later turned into a big box and rose to the surface of Taiping Pond?" Lu Huan asked.

Lan Yuliu replied: "It was because Zhu Shanzi's nightmare technique was not perfect, and the fake tunnel malfunctioned."

"The fake tunnel has broken down? I don't understand it even more." Lu Huan shook his head.

Lan Yuliu explained: "In order to ensure that he could pry the location of the treasure house out of my mouth, Zhu Shanzi specially designed his fake tunnel into a box. That way, if I refused to speak, he could trap me inside without affecting the use of the real tunnel."

"Oh, it's because there was a malfunction in the box, and a stream of air broke through the soil and rushed to the surface of Taiping Pond." Lu Huan looked as if he had suddenly realized something.

Lan Yuliu nodded: "That's it. When the box rushed onto Taiping Pond, I was also confused at first. I thought it was all over and I would be at the mercy of Zhu Shanzi. But I didn't expect that Zhu Shanzi would reveal the truth in order to get his key back, and we were able to escape death."

"Zhu Shanzi revealed something? What did she reveal?" Lu Huan couldn't help but licking his lips.

Lan Yuliu patted Lu Huan on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Everyone says you are a little foodie, it seems true, when I mentioned the filling, I thought of eating. Let me tell you, it's not leek filling or pork filling, it's Zhu Shanzi's favorite filling."

"Zhu Shanzi's proudest thing? What does it mean?" Lu Huan couldn't help licking his lips again.

Lan Yuliu explained to Lu Huan: "Zhu Shanzi forced me to return the key to him, but I said I was trapped in a big box and had no way to return it. He told me to just throw the key out and he would catch it. Wasn't it because he was too proud and thought he had won, and he gave himself away?"

"You are really proud of yourself. He can catch the key when you throw it hard. Doesn't this mean that there is no lid on the big box? You should have been able to think of this yourself. You are not that stupid." Lu Huan ridiculed Lan Yuliu in a veiled way.

Lan Yuliu didn't care, but asked Lu Huan: "How did you know that the one under my command had betrayed me?"

"Isn't this simple? I knew there was something wrong with him when he reported to you in the tunnel that the water temperature of Taiping Pond had changed abnormally." Lu Huan replied calmly.

Lan Yuliu frowned and asked, "Why didn't I notice it at the time? How did he report it?"

"He reported to you that the water in Taiping Pond has remained at a constant temperature since he brought his brothers in. But for some reason? Half an hour ago, the water in Taiping Pond began to cool down and once reached the freezing point. But now it is starting to heat up again and was close to boiling point just now." Lu Huan repeated what the man in the swimsuit said at that time.

Lan Yuliu stared at Lu Huan and said, "There is nothing wrong with his report."

"There is nothing wrong with this statement alone, but there is a problem when it is connected with what he reported next. You asked him how many times he had gone out today? He replied that he went out every half hour as per your request. The water temperature was what he noticed when he went out half an hour ago, and when he came back and looked at the monitor, he saw that it had indeed changed drastically." Lu Huan repeated what the man in the swimsuit said later.

Lan Yuliu pondered for a while, then suddenly realized, "Yes, I just called them over before I went down the tunnel. Why did he say he would go out every half an hour? Also, how did he go out? Where did he go out from? Oh my, why didn't I think about it more at the time?"

"Now you know how stupid you are, right? Didn't I scold you at that time, saying you were so stupid, hehe." Lu Huan laughed.

Lan Yuliu blushed and said, "Yes, I am indeed too stupid, we are indeed too stupid. However, with you by my side in the future, I will not be that stupid again."

"That's not necessarily true. You're already so stupid. What's the point of relying on me? Besides, how can I always be by your side? I have Yuyu and Lanlan, and I have to take care of them. They will go to school in a few years, and I have to pick them up and drop them off. I will be very busy." Lu Huan looked happy.

Lan Yuliu heard Lu Huan calling her stupid, and she felt uncomfortable and embarrassed. She wanted to fight back, but when she heard Lu Huan talking about Yuyu and Lanlan, her heart was immediately relieved. She smiled and said, "I will follow you in the future, take care of Yuyu and Lanlan with you, and pick them up from school with you. That would be such a wonderful thing."

"Aren't you going to steal treasures anymore?" Seeing Lan Yuliu immersed in the good times with Yu Yu Lanlan, Lu Huan couldn't help but ask her in a bad mood.

Lan Yuliu looked at a small tree full of red wild fruits outside the cave and said firmly: "I must get the treasure that Lan Yu hid in the old house, and I will definitely get it."