But Mrs. Qu looked like she didn't know anything, as if no one was more confused than her at this moment.
"This is strange," Mrs. Qu said, looking at the golden coffin. "Lanting Pavilion was built not long ago, and the last renovation was only half a year ago. Nothing strange has been found. And these things have been mobilized just by taking them out now."
At least thirty strong grown men."
"You mean, these are not yours?" Xia Zhaoyi said.
"Ah Li, this is a coffin. Even if it is made of gold, it is still a coffin. Who would bury the coffin properly in the house?" Mrs. Qu said.
Xia Zhaoyi looked at her and then towards the coffin.
Under the sun, the coffin and the screen reflected a smooth and clean shining golden light. In some places, the gold was covered with too much sand, making the surface dim.
Seeing that she didn't speak, Mrs. Qu continued: "I don't know when they were buried. The secret passage of Lanting Pavilion is at the other end. This side was not touched when it was originally dug. It is very likely that they were there before the mansion was built.
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"What a coincidence that it happened to be discovered today?" said Fan Zhuyi, who was standing behind them.
Mrs. Qu glanced at him and explained the whole story to Xia Zhaoyi.
Goudan was squatting next to Zhao Yu. He probably noticed that someone was talking to him, so he turned his head and looked around, huffing and sticking out his tongue.
Zhao Xun stood in the crowd, looking down at the golden coffin on the ground. Because of the sight of his beloved dog, he also looked up.
Seeing Xia Zhaoyi looking at his dog, he grabbed the dog eggs and waved his paw at Xia Zhaoyi.
"This Prince Zhao is worse than his dog." Mrs. Qu said.
"So, it's really a surprise," Xia Zhaoyi said, "Then this golden coffin... Mrs. Qu, do you want to open it now?"
"Open here?" Mrs. Qu was stunned, "Ali, is that okay?"
"If you want to find out why it is here, it is necessary to open it. As for whether it is appropriate to open it here, it depends on you."
Mrs. Qu frowned and turned to look at the several stone statues enshrined in the lobby of Lanting Pavilion.
"Would it be blasphemy? If there is something in the coffin... wouldn't it be..." Mrs. Qu murmured.
Xia Zhaoyi smiled lightly and looked back at the golden coffin: "Then take it away and find another place to open it."
Fan Zhuyi sneered: "Obviously this is the most suitable place to open the coffin. The so-called worship of gods, you worship and respect them, all you want is to ask them to protect your health, otherwise why do you need to offer sacrifices? Now it should be this god
It’s time to contribute, and you should see if all these years of offerings have allowed them to eat and drink for free.”
Xia Zhaoyi raised her eyebrows and looked at him.
"Did I make a mistake?" Fan Zhuyi asked.
Xia Zhaoyi smiled: "Mr. Fan is indeed an expert in tomb robbing, and he has great insights."
Fan Zhuyi snorted coldly and didn't bother to discuss it with her anymore.
"Then, let's do it here?" Mrs. Qu said.
"It's up to you." Xia Zhaoyi still said.
Mrs. Qu thought for a while and said: "If you want to open it, just drive this old man back to the dark room."
"You are busy with your business, I still have something to ask him," Xia Zhaoyi said, looking at the soldiers beside him, "Take Fan Zhuyi back."
Shi Guoxin and others responded and stepped forward to block Fan Zhuyi's sight.
"Fan Zhuyi, please." Shi Guoxin said coldly.
Fan Zhuyi took a deep look at the golden coffin in the courtyard, and turned back to the lobby with some reluctance.
Xia Zhaoyi did not stay outside for long. Before returning, he scolded the soldier who had just knocked on the door.
The sound was very low, but Fan Zhuyi could still hear it clearly through the door and window.
The girl scolding the soldier was making a fuss out of a molehill. This was Qu's family's business and there was no need to fuss.
As soon as she entered, Mrs. Qu in the courtyard began to disperse the crowd.
Fan Zhuyi smiled and said: "Even in front of people as wealthy as Mrs. Qu and Zhao Ning, the gold coffin is not an ordinary thing. Aren't you curious about a coffin made of so much gold? Can it be built on such a scale? There are not many people in the world who have the golden coffin, and even if you look through the history books, there will be few."
Xia Zhaoyi glanced at him and returned to the back of the guqin: "The front foot only praised me for being able to hold my breath, but now I forgot about it."
"It seems that you are indeed not interested," Fan Zhuyi said, "Then, what else do you want to ask? You said that if I answer you, you will set me free immediately."
"I will give you your freedom," Xia Zhaoyi said calmly, then turned to look north, "Zhan Ning."
Fan Zhuyi frowned and turned around to look.
As the stone door opened, Zhan Ning pushed Shen Xu slowly up the slope.
When Fan Zhuyi saw Shen Xu, his originally evil expression completely darkened.
"Have they been listening to us inside?" Fan Zhuyi looked at Xia Zhaoyi.
Xia Zhaoyi's face was calm and he had no intention of answering.
Shen Shu gently raised the corners of her lips and said in a slightly hoarse voice: "Ah Li."
His eyes were still under the silk cloth, which made his high nose and thin lips look even more handsome.
Xia Zhaoyi looked at Zhan Ning.
Zhan Ning nodded lightly and said to Shen Shu: "I will remove the cloth from your eyes. You should close your eyes first, otherwise it will sting."
"Okay," Shen Shu smiled and said gently, "Thank you."
The gauze slipped off, and under his closed eyes, his long eyelashes trembled slightly.
"Why blindfold me and then untie me?" Shen Xu said.
"In order for you to hear more clearly." Xia Zhaoyi said.
Shen Xu chuckled and slowly opened his eyes, which still stung. With a frown, his eyes met the young girl sitting behind the guqin.
The girl's right leg is crossed on her left leg, one hand gently rests on her knee, the other hand supports her chin, and her elbow rests on the long table with the guqin on it.
This sitting posture is not the formal manner of a traditional lady, because her body center of gravity is not on the long square table, and she does not have the charm and enchantment of a woman with fireworks. Her slender long arms and legs make her appear light in elegance, and also have a girlish look. Unique beauty.
"I heard you clearly." Shen Shu smiled.
"Okay," Xia Zhaoyi put down the hand holding his jaw and looked at Zhan Ning, "send him back."
Shen Xu's smile froze, but Kuai Ya couldn't hold it in anymore. After a pause, he continued to laugh: "Why, let me come out and just say these few words?"
"Then, do you say goodbye to your master?"
Shen Xu was sure that this girl was playing a trick on him!
"He is not my disciple!" Fan Zhuyi said angrily.
Xia Zhaoyi ignored him and looked at Shen Shu: "If you don't want to say goodbye, then you can go back."
Shen Xu felt that the roots of her big teeth were aching, so she gritted her teeth and said with a smile: "Ah Li."
He considers himself a calm person, but after coming to Hengxiang, he was often made fuming with anger by these women.
It's not "these", there are only three in total, and these three are all somewhat "crazy".
Shen Xu snatched the satin cloth from Zhan Ning's hand, tied it casually on her face, and said coldly: "Send me back!"
Zhan Ning did not respond and waited for Xia Zhaoyi's order.
"Those thousand-character papers." Xia Zhaoyi said to Zhan Ning.
"Yes." Zhan Ning took it out of his sleeve, stepped forward and handed it over respectfully.
They were some classmates of the student who fell from Bade Pavilion and died in Dongping Academy. They were detained by Xia Zhaoyi in the yamen and wrote these thousand-character essays. After writing, Zhan Ning asked the yamen servants to go to Lianfeng. The academy found a few students who wanted to make some money to copy it, and a total of five copies were made.
"To be honest," Xia Zhaoyi looked at Fan Zhuyi, "I have used you before. Shen Shu used Bian Yuanfeng's beads to lure Lin Qingfeng into being captured by those people. I also used you as bait to put you in prison. He was also targeted."
Fan Zhuyi paused and said solemnly: "Those men in black who came to prison?!"
At first he couldn't tell whether those people were here to save him or to kill him, but now that he thought about it carefully, I'm afraid they were there to kill him.
Xia Zhaoyi glanced at Zhan Ning and motioned for him to send Shen Xu back.
After they left, she said to Fan Zhuyi: "A few months ago, I ordered people to release bait to tie you to Yuexia Shao, and then ordered people to leave some traces of your master's sect in Nantang County. If they If you bite the thread I put out and check it bit by bit, you will inevitably deduce that your surname is Qiao."
"You!" Fan Zhuyi was furious.
"Who asked your good disciple to go to Qianqiu Palace? They should not doubt the relationship between your master's sect and the Qiao family. After all, His Highness Qianqiu is full of corpses of the Qiao family."
Fan Zhuyi was so angry that he couldn't speak. Something seemed to surge up in his chest. He suspected that he would spit out a mouthful of blood.
"This," Xia Zhaoyi put the thousand-character essay in his hand on the table outside the guqin and said, "Not long ago, a student named Zhuo Changzong from Dongping Academy fell to his death. These were his classmates. Take a look at the article I wrote and see if you can figure out anything weird from it."
"I don't want to see it!" Fan Zhuyi said.
"These articles may be related to Mr. Youjian," Xia Zhaoyi said, "If I remember correctly, this person's original name was Guo Guan."
Fan Zhuyi looked at the stack of papers coldly.
Xia Zhaoyi stood up from his position and said calmly: "Over there at Nianhua Zhai, you must not be suitable to go back, otherwise you will be killed, so I will send someone to take you to Ning'an Building later. Where are you? Stay here for a few days, decide where to go from now on, and send someone to look for me."
After saying that, she walked towards the door.
There were not many people left in the courtyard. Except for the soldiers of the Xia Family Army who were still holding on, there were only about a dozen people from the Qu Mansion left.
The tiles on the ground were pried to pieces, and the huge pit in the middle looked extremely weird and scary.
Mrs. Qu stood far away, looking anxiously at a few men who were moving the lid of the golden coffin.
Zhao Xun and his pet dog are still there, hiding further than Mrs. Qu.
"We really want to open the coffin here." Xia Zhaoyi said in a low voice.
Fan Zhuyi turned around after hearing this and saw the girl stepping out of the threshold and down the stone steps.
Fan Zhuyi thought for a moment and raised his heels.
Before he could leave the door, he was stopped by Shi Guoxin outside: "Stop."
"Maybe I can help," Fan Zhuyi said solemnly, "Didn't you hear her say that I'm good at robbing tombs?"
