Chapter 114 Scene Fourteen ? Caged Bird Pond Fish? Seven
Chapter 114 Scene Fourteen Caged Bird Pond Fish Seven
In the eleventh year of Yuan Sui, on the second day of the second lunar month, the sweet smell of glutinous rice cakes wafted through Jingshu City from the early morning. Spring was about to enter the busy farming season, and the people of Sizhou, like Wanzhou, also ate red rice cakes. The custom of making yellow and white spring cakes. While making the cakes, each household will sound gongs and drums, burn incense to worship the gods of heaven and earth, and pray for good weather and high food production in the new year.
However, at the moment, the aroma of delicious food and the hustle and bustle of the street have completely lost their appeal to Ning Yue. She is hiding in her house, putting a milky white slender object between her fingers and gently stroking it, frowning , looking sad.
This was a waist pendant that I got from a cripple who died from an arrow a few days ago. I don’t know if the cripple deliberately put it into his hand before he died, or if it happened to be touched by the girl by chance. The scene was chaotic at that time, until Kun Jie led the crowd to appear in front of Ning Yue. She just realized that she was holding an object with body temperature in her hand. In her desperation, she had no time to see clearly what it was. She only vaguely felt that it must be an important clue. , and secretly stuffed it into his arms.
After returning to the city, Ning Yue did not tell anyone about the waist pendant, not even mentioning it in front of Grandma Cen. It was not until the next day that she finally took it out and put it under the lamp for a closer look.
Unexpectedly, this look revealed a big problem to her - the waist pendant was all milky white, thick at the top and narrow at the bottom. It was obviously the teeth of a killer whale. The ring on the pendant was engraved with circles as fine as fish scales. The pattern, the white whale tooth hollow, is also embedded with a whole piece of mysterious rose, which is more precious than gold. The mysterious black crystal glows strangely under the candlelight, black and white, and is combined on the pendant to form one front and one back. The shape is complex, with strange patterns that are square and square like a seal.
In the eyes of ordinary people, this object is just a delicately carved handicraft. However, Ning Yue suddenly remembered that she had seen a similar object on Granny Cen. And the two seal-like patterns were exactly the same. It is a sacrificial text passed down from generation to generation among the girl clan from ancient times, and it actually says the word "law enforcement"!
The old woman once told the red-haired girl that each of the three elders had one of these pendants. It was like a token they carried with them. It was a token more important than life and could never be lost. But she had never thought about it. The lame man was actually the law enforcement elder who was one of the three elders with Granny Cen!
This discovery immediately drained the color from the girl's face. At first, she thought the other party was her father or a killer sent by Qi Shouyu. Who knew that the mole she had been searching for all these days was actually the cripple himself? !
While she was surprised, a more terrifying thought gradually emerged from the girl's mind: the three elders, Deacon, Law Enforcement, and Staff Holder, were the only people in the entire organization who could directly meet Kun Jie. If the lame man rebelled, secretly If he was ordered by the chief priest in Cangliu City to eradicate the remnants of the rebels on land, he would have had countless opportunities to assassinate Kun Jie. And if he had followed orders from Qi Shouyu, there would have been no reason for him to let himself live!
From this point of view, there is only one last possibility left in the whole matter, that is, the cripple has only been ordered by Kun Jie from beginning to end. And precisely because of this, as a law enforcement elder, he can easily know Ning Yue's true identity. What's more, you can easily grasp all the movements of all the members of the organization, including the other two elders!
And if the lame man, who is a law enforcement elder, has been acting as a killer for Kunjie for a long time, then the deacons who were beheaded and quartered like livestock by him in the farmhouse were also the traitors who were sanctimonious and full of benevolence and morality. Killed by the leader's personal order?!
Is this possible? Ning Yue couldn't come to a firm conclusion for a while. No matter what the relationship between Kun Jie and the cripple was, there was only one way to prove her guess, and that was to sneak into Kun Jie's study. If everything goes like this As she guessed, there would definitely be some clues left behind!
Thinking of this, the girl carefully put away the waist pendant in her hand, then stood up quietly and peeked out from the crack in the door. There happened to be no one on the road leading to the study, so she lifted up her skirt and ran away in one breath. past.
Ning Yue had visited Kun Jie several times in the study with Granny Cen before, and she had already memorized the furniture and furnishings there. As soon as she entered the door, she went straight to the row of bookshelves on the wall, which were not very large. It seemed to the girl that if it were a secret letter, it would definitely be hidden in a place like this. But she just took down a book from the shelf and quickly put it back.
Although the entire bookshelf is now filled with books and classics, there is a thick layer of dust everywhere, and it is obvious that no one has touched it for a long time. The red-haired girl moved a little, and brought up a small cloud of dust. She choked and sneezed several times in succession. The girl hurriedly covered her mouth and nose with her sleeves and took two steps away, then turned her eyes to the somewhat messy desk beside her.
"Kun Jie can't be so careless and blatantly put the evidence against himself here?"
Ning Yue suddenly suspected that she had guessed wrong from the beginning, but she still hesitated and walked to the desk. In addition to pens, inks, paper and inkstones, there were also a large number of files piled randomly on the desk. And among the messy papers Inside, there was also a letter that seemed to have just been delivered but had not yet been opened.
The letter instantly caught the girl's attention. She held her breath and reached out tremblingly to tear it open. The moment she flattened the letter, she was so nervous that she could only hear her own breathing and heartbeat——
There was only a brief sentence on the paper, which read "The Archpriest's daughter has been frightened, please be more careful in the future". It did not mention any identity-related information. However, this discovery is enough to prove that, The red-haired girl's previous bold guess was definitely not wishful thinking.
Now, everything makes sense. From the first time Ning Yue noticed the cripple in the city, Kun Jie tried his best to prevent her from launching an investigation. And because of the girl's special identity, the cripple only found out that he was being followed by her. He didn't kill him, but just used the death of his clan members to scare them away!
The red-haired girl couldn't help feeling that the hairs all over her body were standing on end. She hurriedly folded up the letter in her hand and stuffed it into her arms. She quickly turned her head to look at the closed door and window behind her, fearing that something would suddenly appear through the thin paper. , and saw a pair of eyes staring at him!
Fortunately, there was no one outside the house, only white spots reflected in the warm spring light. But the extreme nervousness still caused Ning Yue to bump into something on the desk. With a crisp "clang" sound in the study, she My heart suddenly rose to my throat!
However, what the girl knocked over was not the sapphire pen washer on the table, nor did she break anything. Her cuffs only knocked over the pen holder on the desk. And the pen holder actually stood at a weird angle. On the desk in front of him, he neither continued to fall down nor returned to his original position.
At the same time, a series of creaking sounds of mechanical rotation were heard from the ground in front of the bookshelf on the wall. Then the floor paved with bluestone slowly sank, revealing a stone staircase leading underground behind the girl.
"This is - a secret room!"
The fear in Ning Yue's heart was gradually defeated by the urge to find out. Originally planning to right the penholder and escape, she returned to the bookshelf like a man possessed and peered down at the dark entrance.
She calmed down, turned around and took out a candlestick from the desk, lit it and walked down cautiously.
Along the way, the red-haired girl pressed her back against the cold stone wall on one side of the stone steps, as if once she relaxed, she would be dragged into endless darkness by some hidden force in front of her, from which she would never be able to escape. However, she didn't know at this time that although there was no monster lurking in the secret room, the truth she was about to see next was enough to overturn everything she had thought was certain about Cangliu City, her father, and the rebel party. .
Gradually, the road under Ning Yue's feet turned into slippery dirt, and the space in front of her became suddenly clearer. She accidentally fell forward and fell heavily to the ground, and the candlestick in her hand flew out. The girl used her hands to prop up her body again, but suddenly she felt a hard object hurting her palm. At first, she thought it was an ordinary stone, but when she raised her wrist, she found that there was something pressing under her palm. , turned out to be a black crystal the size of a pigeon egg.
"How can there be mysterious gems underground here!"
The red-haired girl couldn't help but exclaimed in a low voice, and her eyes couldn't help but move towards the candle that fell on the ground. In the darkness in front of her, a huge shadow vaguely appeared. As the firelight danced, in the shadow It also gradually reflects light as bright as stars——
What appeared in front of her was a hill made of roses that was taller than a house!
These seemingly mysterious black crystals have been an incurable problem for the Cangyu clan for thousands of years. However, no one can imagine that what these clansmen dream of obtaining is related to the entire Cangliu City. The important crystal of life and death is now buried deep under this mansion built by land people like garbage!
After being stunned for a long time, the girl finally recovered from her shock. She picked up the candle on the ground again, held it to her mouth and blew a few breaths. After the fire became more stable, she took the courage to She continued to explore. However, the number of mysterious roses in front of her far exceeded her imagination. She could not understand at all where such a large number of pure mysterious roses were found, how they were mined, and how they were mined. Transported to Jingshu City?
"Isn't it said that the world's mysterious gems are about to be exhausted? Where did Kun Jie get so many of them! Could it be that these mysterious gems were originally supposed to be stored in Cangliu City-"
The red-haired girl suddenly remembered that when Granny Cen found her in Mulu City, she had said that all the mysterious roses in Cangliu City had been exhausted. But now such a huge amount of mysterious roses were only within the range of sight, and they could easily be Let it last for decades! Two unrelated things came together surprisingly well at this moment!
She was really scared this time. Coupled with the turbid air in the secret room, she suddenly felt as if someone was strangling her neck. She couldn't breathe, could no longer think, and even her body gradually became stiff. Ning Yue Not daring to explore further into the secret room, he immediately rushed to the ground without looking back.
As the pen holder returned to its position, the bluestone rubbed gently, restoring the entrance to the secret room to its original state. But just as the girl cleaned up the mud brought out by her feet and prepared to remove the traces she left in the study, But suddenly she heard someone push the door open behind her and come in. She wanted to find a place to hide, but it was too late!
"Miss Yue'er, you are typing too much! Why did you come here without permission? When I passed the door, I heard rustling noises in the study. I thought it was a rat. The mud on your body is all there. Where did you get it?"
Fortunately, the person who came was not Kun Jie, but Ning Yue, who was tense all over, did not relax. She immediately dodged behind the desk, used it to separate herself from Granny Cen opposite her, and asked angrily:
"Mother-in-law, could it be that you already knew Kunjie's secret?"
But the old woman was full of doubts: "What secrets can Mr. Kunjie have?"
"That lame man is actually the law enforcer among the three elders! He killed people in the city, and even led me to the farmhouse that night to intimidate and threaten. It was all secretly ordered by Kun Jie! And that day Kun Jie shot the opponent with one arrow. , just to silence——"
"Miss, what are you talking about? Sir, how could he do such a self-defeating thing!" Before the girl could finish speaking, the old woman interrupted her sharply.
"I didn't believe it at first. But before he died, the lame man secretly gave me a law enforcement pendant, which was exactly the same as the one you wore, mother-in-law. Moreover, I also found a letter written by him to Kun Jie in the study. letter!"
As Ning Yue spoke, she took out all the collected evidence from her arms. The surprised expression on Granny Cen's face was obviously not fake, but she still had doubts about what the girl said:
"How could Miss be so suspicious of Master Kunjie! These two so-called physical evidences may be just the method used by the lame man to frame him!"
"So, my mother-in-law doesn't know anything about the things hidden in this underground secret room?"
"I personally bought this house from a mainlander for you, so how could there be any secret room?"
"Mother-in-law! There really is a secret room under this study, and there are a lot of mysterious gems hidden in it! When you first met me in Jiayunzhai, didn't you tell me that all the mysterious gems used to protect Cangliu City had been exhausted? Are you saying that my father is actually lying to me? But now, a large number of mysterious gems that can be used by the clan for decades are hidden under this house! But tell me about these mysterious gems, what is Kun Jie doing? Where did it come from?”
The red-haired girl pointed at the bluestones under the bookshelf that covered the entrance to the secret room, and couldn't help but raise her voice. She fully thought that the evidence she had found so far was enough to prove that Kun Jie was an out-and-out hypocrite. However, Unexpectedly, the old lady opposite still didn’t believe it after hearing this. Instead, she stared at her eyes and yelled:
"Miss, please stop it!"
"The evidence is solid, mother-in-law, why don't you still refuse to believe me?"
"I believe it. These things are clearly placed in front of me, how can I not believe it? It's just-"
The old lady just kept shaking her head, "It's just that Mr. Kunjie naturally has his own reasons for doing things. There is no need to tell me these reasons, and there is no need to tell you, Miss. Even if there are a large number of mysterious gems hidden under this house , it must have an important role, and there is no need to doubt its origin. After all, your Excellency saved so many lives from the Archpriest back then, including Lao Shen’s. Now that Lao Shen has decided to follow him, he will never waver easily. Trust him!"
"But--"
Ning Yue wanted to continue arguing, but was abruptly interrupted by her grandmother:
"It's nothing. Mr. Kunjie will be back soon. Miss, follow me and leave here immediately, and don't make any more trouble! Otherwise, if you are caught on the spot, I will never be able to intercede for you again!"
As Grandma Cen spoke, she stepped forward and grabbed the girl's wrist firmly, dragging her out of the door without saying anything, but she went straight to her room.
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