My wife has a secret

Chapter 131 Samsung Gathering
The wooden ladder rolled forward, making a slight squeaking sound.

After passing through the noisy and bustling affair room, the mysterious central location of Chengxuanfang was also exposed to Xu Qing.

The main colors here are gold and black. In the middle is a huge seismograph, covered with eight giant dragons, plated with gold, and spitting golden beads from their mouths.

Against the thick walls all around are huge bookshelves one after another.

These bookshelves are easily identifiable with numbers printed on the sides.

"Master, this is the Internal Affairs Office. There are a total of 64 stewards working here. The intelligence coming into this place from outside will be collected and managed by the stewards and compiled on the shelves in the abbey."

Shan Yongpei explained: "The things on these shelves are the key to Chengxuanfang's survival. From astronomy and geography to local customs, and from ancient anecdotes to current events that happened yesterday, as long as Chengxuanfang considers the information useful, it will be included and properly kept."

"The thing in the middle, is that a seismograph?"

It was the first time that Xu Qing saw a real seismograph. Although this thing was recorded in books in previous lives, people often said that it was something compiled by the ancients and could not be restored at all.

"Not only that, its full name is Eight Dragons Spitting Pearl... In addition to the golden dragon on top vibrating to warn when there is an earthquake, this thing can also spit out information from the external affairs room from its mouth through internal and underground mechanical facilities. It has endless uses."

“It’s high-tech.”

Xu Qing marveled at the exquisiteness of this thing and couldn't help but applaud in praise.

I never thought that the skilled craftsmen in ancient times could use water power to develop mechanical saw teeth to such an extent.

"Master, what do you mean by high technology?"

"It's okay, it doesn't matter..."

Facing the confused Shan Yongpei, Xu Qing changed the subject and asked, "Besides here, is there any other place in Chengxuanfang?"

"Of course there are."

Shan Yongpei said seriously, "In addition to the Foreign Affairs Room and the Internal Affairs Pavilion, there is also a living area for the people in the main building of Chengxuanfang. In addition, there is also an Observatory and a Pavilion for Strange People."

Xu Qing was slightly stunned and asked, "Why is there an observatory here?"

"The predecessors of Chengxuanfang were the Imperial Secret Service and the Imperial Astronomical Observatory. The latter was inherited after being merged into Chengxuanfang. Every day, they needed to predict the weather for the next day and inform the palace in advance."

Shan Yongpei was obviously very familiar with the duties and rules of the Sitianjian, and explained in detail: "If the weather is wrong for three days in a month, someone will punish the officials of the Sitianjian."

The Imperial Observatory is quite famous. Even someone like Xu Qing who has only a vague knowledge of history has heard of the name of this mysterious organization.

In previous history, the Sitianjian was often responsible for observing astronomy and calculating the calendar.

But in this life, Sitianjian merged with Chengxuanfang and became its subordinate institution, which is enough to illustrate the status of Chengxuanfang in Da Qi.

"I heard that there is a secret room in Chengxuanfang, which is full of banned books... But I have never seen this place. I heard from the elder who taught me that only the masters of the past generations can enter the secret room."

Just as Shan Yongpei finished introducing the last place in Chengxuanfang, the wooden ladder just happened to carry the two of them down.

The environment and atmosphere of the Internal Affairs Room are obviously different from that of the External Affairs Room outside. The people working here do not have young faces, most of them are middle-aged.

After seeing Xu Qing coming, they stopped where they were respectfully and bowed to Xu Qing in a standard manner.

Then, these people lowered their heads and went back to their own business.

"Are there any records of the military movements a few days ago?"

After Xu Qing finished speaking, a man wearing a futou stopped what he was doing and said, "The abbot is asking about the important news in the capital, the recent defense map and personnel allocation of the capital?"

Xu Qing nodded, "I want to know whether the thunder and fire that occurred in the temple on the outskirts of the capital two days ago was the work of the Qifeng Palace."

The man bowed and left, then rummaged through the huge bookcase with the word "Three" written on it, took out a thin file, and handed it to Xu Qing.

Seeing Xu Qing looking up, the man introduced: "It was raining heavily that day, and no one from the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry or the palace went out. In addition, as soon as the thunder and fire appeared, Lord Lianhua came here to get the files."

"It seems... Auntie is still unclear about the cause of the thunder and fire."

Xu Qing frowned and finished reading the defense map of the capital camp.

After realizing that the strange vision in Falun Temple was caused by other forces, he vaguely sensed a conspiracy.

I always feel that things here are not that simple. Why was there an artificial lightning strike in Falun Temple? Why did the other party pretend to be a ghost and do such a thankless task? What is their purpose?
"By the way, where did the slogan of Falun Temple, 'The True Buddha Appears', come from?"

Another steward searched briefly on bookshelf No. 3, then came over with a booklet tied with a red rope.

Xu Qing originally thought that this was a book recording rumors and gossips, but he did not expect it to be a simple file summary.

After untying the rope and reading two pages, the origin of the True Buddha's appearance became even more confusing.

"Initially, only rumors of thunder and fire were spread about Falun Temple. Later, a woman named Liu intentionally spread the slogans of thunder and fire and the manifestation of the true Buddha, which became more and more prominent and immediately became the representative words of the Vajrayana."

The steward who answered continued, "The Dali Temple felt that this case was unusual, so they sent Shaoqing Su to investigate. They later discovered that a woman who was unhappy in life had secretly colluded with others, hiding it from her husband's family and getting seeded outside. She went back and lied that she was blessed by the Buddha Mother."

"what?"

Even though Xu Qing was knowledgeable and had heard many absurd things, he was still shocked by the source of the true Buddha's manifestation.

"Master, most of these women are concubines of wealthy merchants. Whether they can give birth to children is related to their status in the mansion, so many concubines are willing to take risks and try to get pregnant."

Shan Yongpei knew that Chengxuanfang needed to cooperate with Xu Qing to investigate the matter of Tianlei Gunhuo thoroughly.

Seeing Xu Qing lost in thought, he took the initiative to analyze: "Master, the True Buddha Appearance is a name used by some people to take advantage of this matter, but the power of heavenly thunder is not something that mortals can control. The matter of Falun Temple..."

"and many more."

Xu Qing's eyes suddenly widened, and he found inspiration from Shan Yongpei's words just now.

People who have not received nine years of compulsory education and have studied physics and chemistry may think that humans cannot control the forces of nature.

But he is different. The phenomenon of conductivity is the most basic physics topic.

Moreover, it is not that Da Qi is free from such rumors.

"Pull out the case files of the White Lotus Sect and Envoy Chunsheng... Also, I want any recent information about the White Lotus Sect, whether it's true or false, as long as it's related to the White Lotus Sect, send it to me."

Legend has it that there is an extraordinary person who can drive thunder and lightning, and the White Lotus Sect happens to have one such person.

……

The imperial road in the capital. The convoy back to the palace moved slowly forward. The imperial guards protecting the carriages were wearing armor and horse harnesses that looked majestic, like gods descending from heaven.

As the snow fell, the ground was covered with snow. The convoy, which had left long footprints on the ground, was winding forward like a long snake.

Qin Shuying raised her slender white wrist like a crane's neck, leaned against the car window, closed her eyes and supported her chin.

The thin gauze on the sleeves slid down, revealing the arms inside, which were more delicate and white than the snow.

Compared with the falling snow against the window, Qin Shuying's soft, shiny and smooth skin looks even more seductive and captivating.

The imperial guards on both sides looked straight ahead, not daring to even glance at the lady in the convoy.

Although I heard that the young master's woman was extremely beautiful, a colleague who had secretly glanced at her had already been punished and beaten by the commander so badly that he has been unable to get out of bed ever since.

Qin Shuying yawned, glanced outside nonchalantly, and asked casually, "It's strange. Although it's the Spring Festival and it's snowing...how can the official road near the capital be so peaceful?"

Just as the female official driving the carriage was about to answer, the two imperial knights walking in front were suddenly thrown to the ground.

The snow on the ground exploded. The sudden change shocked the entire convoy, causing everyone in the convoy to change color, except Qin Shuying who looked at them coldly.

The other knights in front tried to pull the reins to control the frightened horses beneath them, but they immediately realized that something was wrong.

The thing that just knocked over the two people in the front was actually a hemp rope as thick as a wrist. The thing was suddenly stretched across to block the horses' legs, which naturally frightened the horses.

Now, the hemp rope was sweeping towards the people and cars behind at a very fast speed. The people standing at the back had no time to react and were hit by this thing and knocked to the ground.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"

As soon as the imperial guard who had climbed up shouted, the previous step collapsed downwards.

He didn't have time to react as his feet and thighs that stepped into the trap were pierced by sharp bamboo thorns, leaving him unable to move.

The Imperial Guards armor that was once so majestic and used to protect his life has now become a burden to him. The weight and pain make him unable to move his body, and he has become a living target for crossbow arrows to shoot at in the surrounding woods.

After a hail of crossbow arrows, the front-ranked imperial guards were already half dead. They still had a breath left because of the powerful protective ability of their armor, but the momentum of the crossbow arrows could not be resolved, which shook their hearts and lungs and they lay there motionless.

"Escort the lady away first! Contact reinforcements!"

The captain of the imperial guards in charge of the escort operation had just made a decision to lead the convoy to retreat, but he did not expect that his convoy had fallen into a trap prepared in advance by the enemy.

The knight at the end just moved when he was blocked by the same rope.

Fortunately, they saw the miserable plight of their fellow soldiers in front of them and quickly rolled off their horses to the ground.

Although he was hit hard, he didn't have to run wildly with the frightened horse and fall into those inconspicuous traps.

Upon seeing this, the team leader realized that it would be difficult for them to escape, so he ordered the imperial guards who were still able to move to form a military formation, protect the carriage in the center, and carefully observe the surroundings.

However, what was somewhat unexpected to them was that although there were obviously many enemies lying in ambush, after a while, only three vague figures appeared.

The three men formed a three-way formation, surrounding the convoy escorted by the Imperial Guards, and all of them wore extremely strange masks on their faces.

"Bah, this is the Kyoto Imperial Guard, the Imperial Guard, there's really no interest in it..."

The person standing in the southwest corner of the convoy was a petite man with his clothes whistling in the wind. He complained about the fighting power of the imperial guards in a strange childish voice.

Why is it strange? It is because although the voice of this short man is that of a child, it sounds like the voice of a smoker, with a hoarseness.

"Who are you? How dare you intercept the palace carriage? Aren't you afraid of being killed along with your entire clan?"

The team leader had realized that this group of bandits had extraordinary origins and superb martial arts skills, but he had to say these words to delay time.

After all, this place is very close to the capital. As long as any news reaches the city, or if they fail to return to the palace at the scheduled time, other imperial guards will definitely go out of the city to pick them up and search for them.

So what we need to do now is to delay the time as much as possible.

"The palace carriage? Hehe... you are the ones who are stopping it."

The short, weird-looking man took a step forward, bent over, and put his hands behind his back.

He looked at the captain of the imperial guards and gave his name.

"Grandpa is Kaiyang Star Lord. Even though he is the weakest among the seven Star Lords, he is powerful enough to torture you to death and make you feel unbearable pain. Hahahahahaha..."

The team leader was already frightened by the three people wearing strange masks. Now, when he heard this person's voice that sounded neither male nor female, and his laughter that sounded very much like a crying baby, he was so frightened that he almost got goosebumps.

But before he could open his mouth, another masked man spoke for him.

"Shut your stinky mouth, Kaiyang."

Kaiyang Star Lord raised his head in dissatisfaction and glanced sideways at the direction where the voice came from.

Standing there was a man wearing a black mask. He was tall and strong, forming a sharp and strong contrast with the thin body of Kaiyang Star Lord.

Moreover, this person's voice is much better than his, and is close to that of a normal person.

But one can still detect from subtle details that his voice is different from that of ordinary people.

"Tianquan, what does it have to do with you? We are all equal. Are you going to plead for these dying people?"

The agile Tianquan Xingjun obviously had a smarter mind. He saw through the captain's attempt to delay time and refuted him calmly, "Kaiyang, can't you see through such a simple delaying tactic? The Saint Church has spent so much effort to cultivate you for so many years."

"Nonsense, would I make such a low-level mistake?"

Kaiyang Xingjun's voice became louder, and he complained, "These people should have been given hope of being rescued before they were extinguished with their own hands... But you, who have been following Yuheng's ass for so long every day, have not learned the Saint's way of doing things."

Tianquan Star Lord sneered at this, snorted coldly and said nothing more.

When the team leader heard the two people blaming each other, he realized that they had become fish on the chopping board, ready to be slaughtered at any time.

"Don't worry, no one is coming on this road, because the Holy Church has placed incense in the front and back sections of the road in advance."

"Incense? Are you kidding me?"

The team leader subconsciously retorted: "The incense can only work in a room without ventilation. The area outside is so large, once the wind blows..."

"Who told you that we used ordinary incense?"

(End of this chapter)