Merchants were still picking up lost items, not to mention Jiangning, which was not wealthy to begin with.
If you take out this "White Picture at Night", it will sell for several hundred taels of silver no matter how bad it is.
Jiang Ning had already squandered most of the money Zhang Qingshan had asked someone to send him, and he didn't have much left. Besides, he was already in his prime, and he couldn't let his uncle take care of him all the time.
When I return to the hospital this time, it's time to cash in the IOU written by Huo Butterfly and the others... Jiang Ning thought to himself.
Last time, Zhao Yuan and Wang Jin conspired to lock Jiang Ning in the dungeon and deliberately set fire to kill him. Jiang Ning had no choice but to call Chen Da and Dao Gui, and they were able to escape. The other imprisoned students did not want to die, and as a result,
Jiang Ning knocked on the bamboo poles one by one and wrote down a bunch of IOUs.
I still haven’t cashed in on them yet!
Jiang Ning, who was distracted, followed the old woman into the secret room. The steps in the secret room were long and narrow, and there were torches on both sides. The shadows of the two of them were flickering, making it look like living ghosts dancing on the wall.
"Where does this lead?" The coldness coming from the deep corridor made Jiang Ning wary.
The old woman tightened her shabby top and said, "I am just a mortal. I am not as well-informed as you cultivators. I just see Jin'er coming in mysteriously every time, thinking that this place must be very important."
Jiang Ning suddenly realized, "So you want to trade this place for me to spare Wang Jin's life?"
The old woman nodded.
This made Jiang Ning look forward to the world at the end of the corridor even more.
As the cold atmosphere became stronger and stronger, the end gradually became wider. There were faint lights connecting end to end from the gaps, appearing vertically and horizontally at the end of the dim corridor. It was not difficult to tell that it was a door.
After completely walking up the steps, the old woman groped for the wall next to her, and then she heard a click, and the sound of countless chains and gears turning came from the walls on both sides.
Then, in front of Jiang Ning, the stone door slowly opened, revealing the hidden truth.
This is a secret room.
The floor and surroundings of the secret room are made of blue bricks and stones, which are indestructible. The top is semicircular and inlaid with luminous pearls of different sizes. The largest one is about the size of a fist and the small ones are only about the size of an egg. They are well-proportioned and dye the underground secret room.
Like daytime.
In the center of the secret room is a square pool that is more than ten feet long and wide. The pool is filled with unknown red slurry, and occasionally a few bubbles will pop out of it, as if something is being cooked.
Jiang Ning frowned, stared at the red pool for a long time, and said, "Is this blood?"
It's not that he is ignorant, but that the red liquid in the pool is not identifiable at all except that it is very similar to blood in color.
Not fishy, not smelly, colored and tasteless!
The old woman shook her head and said, "I'm not sure. I guess so. Since Jin'er came back last time, he has developed a habit that scares me."
"What?"
"Bloodthirsty like crazy." The old woman said with a gloomy look: "I have seen him kill people and drink blood several times. At first it was just secretly, but then County Duke Chen discovered it, and then he didn't know what happened.
County Duke Chen is like a changed person."
"Kowtow three times and bow nine times to Jin'er." When the old woman talked about the good fortune that her son could make the county magistrate kneel down and worship her, which was enough to make the ancestral graves smoke, there was no trace of pride in her expression, but instead there was a strong sense of sadness.
Jiang Ning's heart skipped a beat when he heard this.
According to the old woman, Wang Jin should have been targeted by the blood pool, one of the restricted areas for living beings, when he went out. In that case... Jiang Ning thought of a possibility, and suddenly felt a chill running down his spine, and he couldn't help it.
I have the urge to turn around and run away.
If Jiang Ning's guess is correct, doesn't it mean that the place where the blood pool, one of the restricted areas for living beings, last appeared is near Chen County!
You know, when he was in Qianjia, Jiang Ning gave the master of the restricted area a good beating.
If the blood pool was really nearby, he might not be able to escape even if he had eight legs!
Turning his eyes to the bubbly red pool in front of him again, Jiang Ning's face suddenly turned pale, his throat was surging up and down, and heavy cold sweat could not stop pouring out of his hair.
This...could this damn blood pool be the restricted area, right?
The old woman didn't notice Jiang Ning's look, and said to herself: "Since then, people will disappear every night. At first, it was just the servants in the mansion, and then it was the people of Chen County. One night, I saw with my own eyes
I saw the guards grabbing people and bringing them to this house."
Jiang Ning swallowed and couldn't help but tremble.
If it needs to be fed by living people, then isn't it just a pool of blood?
How could he be so unlucky that he could meet this Sangmen Xing wherever he went... He moved back slowly without leaving a trace, for fear of attracting the attention of the terrifying being in the blood pool.
"Then do you know where Wang Jin went out last time?" Jiang Ning asked in a deep voice, trying his best to restrain his trembling in order not to arouse suspicion.
He still held a trace of luck in his heart, praying that the red pool in front of him was not a pool of blood.
The old woman was silent for a moment and recalled: "It seems to be Zi County."
Grass!
Jiang Ning cursed loudly in his heart.
Zi County, isn’t it Qianjia’s territory!
At this moment, Jiang Ning just wanted to kick the woman in front of him into the pool.
You don't want to exchange your secret for me to spare your son's life. You clearly want to eliminate a serious problem for your son!
The human heart is just as sinister as this...
Jiang Ning took a deep breath, then suddenly activated his Thunder Escape and fled towards the back steps.
But the door was slammed shut the moment he started!
He guessed right.
The old woman said so much, but her purpose was to deceive Jiang Ning, and then take him to death together!
Seeing that the stone door was tightly closed, Jiang Ning couldn't care less, so he urged Lei Gang to wrap his fists and hit it hard.
Under the dark blue lightning, the stone door was shaken by the blows and was covered with dust, but in fact, not even a crack appeared on the stone door.
"How could this happen?" Jiang Ning was in disbelief.
I am currently in the early stage of foundation building. How could I not even break a stone door?
The old woman calmly looked at Jiang Ning, who kept banging on the stone door like a madman, and said calmly: "Son, I can't help you. If there is an afterlife, I will be grateful to you."
Jiang Ning's eyes were about to burst.
He knew that people in Kyushu were sinister, but he didn't expect that they were so sinister.
Old women who seem harmless to humans and animals have such scheming methods.
Seeing that the struggle was fruitless, Jiang Ning seemed to have given up the struggle, turned around and stared at her sinisterly and said: "Just for your son?"
The old woman nodded bitterly.
"No matter how much Jin'er hates my mother-in-law, in the final analysis, he is just a piece of flesh that has fallen off my body. Even if he does many evil things and kills countless people, he is still my son."
Jiang Ning was trembling with anger.
At this moment, he finally realized how Chang Yunping felt when he was facing him above.
Now that I think about it, what I did just now is indeed hateful!
"It was my fault, I shouldn't have let Wang Jin leave." The regret in Jiang Ning's eyes was like the turbulent sea water drowning him.