Under the black cloth is a small stone box. The stone is dark and looks ordinary. It is square and high without a top.
In the stone box, a key lies quietly inside.
Although the key is a bit old, it has no rust at all. The material is mainly stone, and there are some exquisite patterns carved on it. The main body is about ten centimeters long and four or five inches wide inside. It is considered a giant key.
Seeing it, Ningyue and others sighed that the key was exquisite, but they were also extremely confused.
What made the village chief and a group of elders change their minds when they talked about it was that it was just a key!
Thinking of this, everyone couldn't help but look at Wang Simin and the village chief and others strangely. They had no idea why.
The old village chief nodded slightly to Lei Gong and motioned for him to hand over the things. Lei Gong hesitated for a moment, but finally held the stone box in front of Wang Simin.
Wang Simin said no more, nodded, and took out the key.
"Since the key is already ours, logically, we should be taken to the lock, right?" Wang Simin said.
As soon as these words came out, the old village chief and a group of elders suddenly looked extremely ugly.
"Simin, that's enough. Sanqian's whereabouts are currently unknown. Our top priority is to find him quickly." Ningyue stood up quickly at this time.
Finding Han Sanqian was indeed the most important thing, but Ningyue also wanted to use this matter to temporarily resolve the embarrassment in the situation.
Wang Simin has already taken the things and can no longer indulge her temper. Otherwise, it will only make the villagers here more uncomfortable.
"If it could be found, Lu Yuan and the others should have found it long ago, instead of going out for a few hours and only bringing back Qin Shuang." Wang Simin replied softly: "Besides, I believe that Han Sanqian will come back safely.
Instead of waiting for him in boredom, why not do something?"
"Miss Wang, you..." Ningyue was a little helpless. Although Wang Simin's words were indeed correct, it was useless to look for Han Sanqian. The most important thing now was to wait for his return.
But even so, we shouldn't vent on the villagers.
"Miss Wang, since I can give you the key, I will definitely not be stingy about locking you up. However, I have something unclear." The old village chief frowned for a long time and said involuntarily.
"You ask." Wang Simin said.
"How did Miss Wang know that our village has this key??" the old village chief said seriously: "Could it be that Miss Wang has been to our village before?"
"Of course I have never been here. However, it was my grandfather who asked me to come here, and he gave me this piece of paper." Wang Simin said, gently glancing at the old village chief's arm.
The arms of the old village chief were ordinary. Ningyue and the others followed their gazes and saw that they were just the hands of an ordinary old man, but they really couldn't see anything unusual about them.
The old village chief, on the other hand, saw Wang Simin's sunshine and quickly shrank his hands slightly. Although his movements were unusually concealed, he still caught the eyes of a few people.
Intuition tells Ning Yue that looking at this matter now, it is obviously not as simple as Wang Simin making things difficult for the villagers.
"Your grandfather?" The old village chief regained his composure and asked slightly, "Whose name is it?"
"My surname is Wang, and naturally my grandfather is also surnamed Wang." Wang Simin said.
"Village chief, someone with the surname Wang?" Lei Gong frowned and said: "There have been few guests in the village for decades, and we know most of the names of the visitors. There are some with the surname of Li, some with the surname of Zhang, but none of them have this surname.
The king’s.”
"Could it be that his grandfather changed his name when he came to our place?" an old man asked.
"My grandfather is a very upright person. How could he change his name? Besides, my grandfather has rarely gone out for many years, not to mention hiking here." Wang Simin said.
"This is impossible." Lei Gong retorted.
"Okay." The old village chief waved his hand: "Stop arguing."
"But the village chief..." Lei Gong said anxiously.
"Even if his grandfather comes here, what does it mean? Only you, me and the elders know about things in the village." The old village chief said softly.
As soon as the old village chief finished speaking, Lei Gong and several elders looked at each other. This was not unreasonable.
Except for the successive village chiefs and a few elders in the village, not even the villagers know this key, let alone outsiders.
So how does Mr. Wang, who is thousands of miles away, know this? Even the shape of the key and the pattern it represents can be directly drawn?!
"Okay, since I gave you the key, I will also give you the lock." At this moment, the old village chief suddenly said decisively: "But I'm afraid you won't dare to go!"
