The dungeon is thirty meters underground, and I don’t know how it was designed. The water from the moat can’t even penetrate even half of it. There are many lakes in Yancheng, so wells are generally not drilled.
Some people are particular about digging a well and water will be available within five meters. However, if you are close to a natural river, water will not be available for thirty meters. This project is time-consuming and labor-intensive.
The area of the dungeon is also the area of the entire Xi Mansion.
A large object is placed in the center, like an ancient sundial - a sundial is used to keep time and has scales on it.
The hands of this huge dial have reached the last few grids.
There was a thin layer of blood pouring in from a thin channel, as if it was attracted by the sundial.
Following the line of sight, at the end of the channel, inside a small vertical coffin, a young man's eyes were closed tightly, his cheeks were gray, as if he had been dead for a long time. However, he still had a weak breath.
Xi Lanting watched this scene, waved his finger lightly, and the pointer of the sundial moved back two spaces.
"More than four thousand characters." He muttered, "Have I lived for more than four thousand years?"
I thought it was only a few hundred years ago.
His days are numbered.
I'm afraid the stolen years will be returned soon, right? Xi Lanting counted backwards, and adding the two backward squares, there were still five squares on the dial.
"Five years."
He closed his eyes slightly.
Putting his hand gently on the dial, he was extremely tired: "You stay with me for five years. Don't wake up, don't blame me. After five years, you will be free, and you will have worldly wealth and power."
Yun Qiao, Qiao Er...
Want to marry you.
I want you to be my wife and live a decent life as husband and wife.
I can't bear to trap you.
After five years, who will you spend the next fifty years with? It would be better to have no status, as there would be less trouble in the worldly life of the past.
He thought slowly and walked out of the dungeon. And his nephew Xi Wencheng, the Sixth Master, was like an oil lamp, replenishing his life for two years.
Mr. Xi's blood will be sucked away bit by bit by the sundial.
After walking out of the dungeon, Xi Lanting felt a lot lighter and her life was rejuvenating.
He takes a shower and changes clothes.
The stitches on Yun Qiao's arm were removed in two days. The inside of the wound has healed and the scars are slowly fading. She can take a shower freely and seems to be fine.
After washing, she returned to Xi Lanting's courtyard.
Xi Lanting changed into a milky white gown, elegant and noble, with a temperament like orchid.
The entourage prepared meals in the courtyard.
"Uncle Qi, are you clear about the Yancheng University killer?" Yun Qiao asked.
After saying that, she lightly slapped her mouth.
Xi Lanting took her hand and kissed her palm gently: "Don't hit yourself. Change it slowly. If you really can't change it, forget it."
Yun Qiao: "..."
Uncle Qi, are you so gentle when it comes to love? You haven't scolded me for several days, and I feel bad.
Xi Lanting had already let go of her hand, leaving only a light scent of wood and the coolness in his palm.
Yun Qiao retracted his hand angrily.
Xi Lanting served her a bowl of milky white fish soup: "Drink the soup."
Yun Qiao took it.
"Do you know the Zhou family in Nanjing? It's the one that opens Zhou's Baicao Hall." Xi Lanting asked her.
Yun Qiao shook his head: "I don't know."
"The Zhou family's medicine halls have opened all over East China, and there are several in every big city. They have been making medicine since the Kangxi period, and they are very famous. They are still making money in recent years.
It’s just that the opening of the Western Medicine Department will naturally have a huge impact on traditional Chinese medicine halls, which will cut off people’s financial opportunities,” Xi Lanting said.
Yun Qiao didn't expect this and was shocked: "So, they sent someone to murder you?"
"That's not true. They just sent people to force a girl who was in debt to death and deliberately left various clues to encourage students to cause trouble.
If we make a fuss today and again tomorrow, I'm afraid the medical department won't be able to continue operating.
Xi Wencheng suffered a little loss, but his brain is flexible and he has gained some skills in the past few years. He avoided the Qinggang and Yanmen and found a killer from Shandong." Xi Lanting said calmly.
Yun Qiao was very angry after hearing this: "He actually paid to kill you!"