Hei Heizi was walking alone in front, with no expression on his face, his eyes were not squinting, and his steps were neither hasty nor slow. After passing through several corridors and gardens full of exotic flowers and plants, a man wearing a lower body came towards him.
Old man in clothing.
Although this old man was dressed in ordinary clothes and looked old, his steps were steady and his eyes were bright. He was obviously not an ordinary person.
"Second Village Master, where are you going?" When the old man saw Hei Baizi approaching, he immediately smiled, the wrinkles on his face suddenly squeezed together, and he bowed and smiled.
Hei Heizi nodded with a smile, a smile on his stiff face, and said: "I was about to go to my fourth brother to ask for a few drinks. Ding Jian, is the eldest brother back now?"
It turns out that this old man is Ding Jian, the "one-word electric sword" who slashed the four tyrants with a single palm and subdued two heroes with one sword at the foot of the Qilian Mountains.
"The second owner of the village is not unclear. Today is the first day of the lunar month, and the owner of the first village went out early in the morning. How could he come back to the village before the sun sets?" Ding Jian said with a smile.
"Yes." Hei Baizi responded in a low voice, and the corner of his left eye twitched slightly, and then said: "Then I will go to the fourth brother's place first. When the eldest brother comes back, remember to let us know."
Ding Jian's status in Meizhuang is quite special. Although he and the "Four Friends of Jiangnan" are called master and servant, in fact, the four brothers are relatively polite to him and the other "Five-Way God" and do not take advantage of them.
They were treated as ordinary people. Ding Jian was also loyal to these four people. He and Shi Lingwei handled all the affairs of the government in an orderly manner.
"Yes, then the second owner of the village is well on his way." Ding Jian bowed slightly and watched Hei Baizi leave.
Heibaizi walked past Ding Jian, passed through the cloister, and passed several round halls. The residence of the painter was indeed in the East Garden of Meizhuang, so he just casually said to Ding Jian that he would not make any sense.
Life is doubtful.
But after a while, Hei Baizi suddenly turned north again and walked deeper into Meizhuang.
Not far away, Hei Heizi walked through a corridor and came to the door of the Moon Cave. On the forehead of the Moon Cave door was written the word "Qin Xin", which was made of blue glazed with vigorous brushwork. It must have been written by a famous artist.
Hei Heizi arrived here. He paused slightly and glanced subconsciously to the left and right. He didn't seem to find anything unusual. He lowered his body slightly and got into the moon cave door.
Ling Jing and the others followed Hei Baizi from a distance, and when they saw Hei Baizi's figure disappearing behind the slightly arched door, the three of them couldn't help but frown.
"Brother Ling, it seems that this place should be the residence of Huang Zhonggong, the owner of the village you mentioned before." Qin Baichuan looked at the direction in which Hei Baizi disappeared and said in a low voice.
The place where Huang Zhonggong lives can be regarded as the back courtyard of Meizhuang, and it is much cleaner than the front courtyard. There are many rockeries, flowers, plants, pavilions and pavilions nearby, but there are almost no people. It is very quiet.
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"Well, I can't be wrong." Ling Jing turned to look at Qin Baichuan, his eyes stayed on his face for a moment, then turned away and said lightly.
"Brother Ling, what are we waiting for? If Hei Baizi enters the dungeon and closes the door, we won't be able to get out." Qin Baichuan's voice seemed to have a hint of urgency.
Ling Jing glanced at Qin Baichuan meaningfully, nodded, and said, "Okay. Let's go then."
After finishing speaking, he smiled at Lianyi, and Lianyi blinked. The three of them immediately turned around, crossed the front courtyard wall, and landed lightly in the courtyard.
Behind the Moon Cave Gate, there is a quiet flower path with bamboos growing on both sides. The cobblestones on the flower path are covered with moss. It looks like it is rarely used by people.
The flower path leads to the three stone houses. Seven or eight tall pines in front of and behind the houses cover the surrounding area in a gloomy atmosphere.
The three of them came to a few feet in front of the stone house and hid behind a rockery. Black and White was no longer in front of them.
Suddenly, there was an extremely slight "creak" sound coming from the stone house in the middle. Although the sound was low, it sounded quite harsh, like the sound of rusty iron blocks squeezing and rubbing against each other.
The three of them were silent for a while, and no one made any move, for fear that the black and white inside would notice that there was someone outside.
The "creeping" sound disappeared for a moment, and then there seemed to be the sound of slight "kick-knock-knock" footsteps. The rhythm of the sound was very slow and became lower and lower.
After a while, no sound was heard from the room. Ling Jing and the other three looked at each other, walked to the stone house in the middle, and gently opened the door.
Pushing open the door, a faint scent of sandalwood suddenly came from the room. The entrance was a small piano room. There were several landscape paintings hanging on the wall on the left, and a square table made of sandalwood on the right.
There is a Yao Qin and a silver incense burner placed on it. Behind the table, there are two wooden bookshelves side by side, which are neatly filled with books.
There is a small square door on the upper left side of the piano room, which can lead to the inner room.
Ling Jing looked around for a moment, his eyes flashed, and then he whispered: "Well, Hei Baizi disappeared in this piano room and the inner room in front of it just now, so the entrance to the dungeon must be in
Here, we will search carefully. However, we must seize the time."
After finishing speaking, he glanced at Qin Baichuan, walked to the bookshelf with a smile, took down a few books, and looked behind him through the gap in the bookshelf.
Rianyi went to the left side of the piano room, opened the landscape scrolls, and looked at them.
Qin Baichuan glanced at the entrance to the inner room, then frowned and glanced at Ling Jing and Lianyi who were busy separately, walked to the opposite wall, stretched out his hand and patted the wall a few times.
After a while, all three of them found nothing. Qin Baichuan turned around and whispered: "Brother Ling, why don't I go to the inner room to take a look first? I'll leave this place to you first."
Ling Jing was playing with the sandalwood square table and said without raising his head: "Okay, if Brother Qin discovers anything, you must inform us immediately."
Qin Baichuan responded in a low voice, turned around and walked to the small square door. After a pause, he got up and went inside.
Qin Baichuan's figure disappeared inside the door. Ling Jing immediately let go of the silver incense burner in his hand, raised his head, and looked at the small door with a faint smile on his face.
In the inner room, the sound of Qin Baichuan turning things could be heard from time to time. Ling Jing lowered his head and looked at the Yao Qin on the table. The five fingers of his right hand were fluttering, as if he was playing in the air, but there was no trace of worry on his face.
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"Brother Ling, come quickly!" A moment later, Qin Baichuan suddenly called out in a low voice from the inner room, his words full of surprise.
Lian Yi glanced at Ling Jing and saw him smiling and nodding. The two of them immediately turned and entered the inner room. They saw only a bed and a few chairs in the room, with simple furnishings and gauze hanging on the bed. It was very old.
It has turned yellow. There is another short piano placed on the table. It is completely dark and seems to be made of iron.
Qin Baichuan had already lifted off the quilt on the bed and opened the bed board, revealing a blue-black iron plate underneath. There were two copper rings two or three inches in diameter in the center of the iron plate.
"Eh!" A look of surprise appeared on Ling Jing's face, he said "Eh" in surprise, and blurted out: "How did Brother Qin find out that the entrance to the dungeon is under the bed?"
Qin Baichuan smiled slightly and said, "It was just a mistake." After a pause, he said seriously: "Brother Ling, it's not too late, let's go down quickly and talk about it."
"Brother Qin is right." Ling Jing nodded with a serious look on his face and took a few steps forward with Lianyi.
Qin Baichuan clasped the copper ring with both hands and pulled hard. He heard a few "stab" sounds, and an iron plate about four feet wide and five feet long rose up, revealing a long square hole.
Qin Baichuan held the iron plate with one hand and glanced down a few times. He saw only a dark mass, and there seemed to be vaguely irregular stairs on the ground.
"Brother Ling, you and Lianyi go down first. I'll support the iron plate first." The iron plate tilted slightly, and all the weight was concentrated on Qin Baichuan's right hand.
"Then Brother Lao Qin is here." Ling Jing saw that the cave was dark and couldn't see anything clearly, so he immediately took out a fire stick, lit it, jumped in and entered.
Lian Yi followed closely behind.
After Ling Jing and Lian Yi jumped into the hole one after another, Qin Baichuan looked at the hole with a flash of eyes, stepped into the hole with his legs first, then lowered his body, and the iron plate finally slowly fell back to its original position, and the iron plate above
The bed planks and bedding also fell down.
At this time, at first glance, I thought that the bed was just a little messy with the bedding, and everything else seemed to be unchanged. Even the gauze curtains on both sides had fallen down again.
After Ling Jing lit the fire seal and entered the cave entrance, he didn't go far when he saw an oil lamp lit on the wall below, emitting a pale yellow light. The place he was in seemed to be an tunnel.
Although the light of the oil lamp was weak, it was still stronger than the fire stick in his hand. He immediately extinguished the fire stick and looked at the tunnel through the dim light.
This tunnel is narrow, no more than five feet wide and no more than one foot high. The walls on both sides are full of potholes and uneven, and apart from the entrance, there seems to be an oil lamp fixed at regular intervals in the back tunnel.
on the walls on both sides.
Lian Yi and Qin Baichuan came up behind him one after another and took a look at the tunnel ahead. Qin Baichuan whispered: "Brother Ling, we have been wasting a lot of time just now trying to find this entrance, so we should hurry up and take a look in front.
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Ling Jing nodded, and after the three of them walked forward for more than ten feet, they saw that a huge stone door had been pushed open. The stone door was almost a foot thick, and there was a keyhole on the right edge of the stone door.
The three of them looked at the stone gate and were a little surprised. The stone gate was so huge that it probably weighed more than a thousand kilograms. It might be possible to push it with internal force, but it would be absolutely impossible to destroy it with brute force.
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