Following Qin Feng and the two of them out of the wing, there was also Rhubarb warming himself by the stove! As soon as Qin Feng moved, it followed him out and cradled Qin Feng's legs with its big head affectionately.
"Master Qin, there is a horse porch in the backyard. It used to be a place where servants lived. If there is a secret room, it will not be built here, right?"
Miao Liuzhi followed Qin Feng. As he walked through the corridor, he reached out and turned on the light in the backyard. However, the light bulb probably didn't even have 40 watts, and the whole yard seemed dim.
"Dahuang, go back, it's too cold outside."
Qin Feng did not answer Miao Liuzhi's words, but touched the head of Dahuang next to him and drove it back to the front yard. If the current Dahuang was converted into human age, he would probably be older than Miao Liuzhi. Qin Feng didn't want to
Let it freeze.
Seeing Dahuang return to the front yard, Qin Feng curled his lips and said: "Since it is a secret room, of course it must be kept secret. The less likely others are to think of a place, the more likely it is to exist."
As Qin Feng spoke, his eyes kept looking around the backyard, but the corner of his gaze swept across Miao Liuzhi's face. When he found that Miao Liuzhi's eyes were looking in one direction, a smile suddenly appeared at the corner of his mouth.
Qin Feng strode to the edge of the horse gallery and said, "Old Miao, if I guess correctly, the secret room is under the horse gallery, right?"
"Master Qin, you can see this... can you see this?"
After hearing Qin Feng's words, Miao Liuzhi's expression froze. He shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Master Qin, I'm convinced. You are right. The secret room is under the horse gallery."
"Old Miao, you actually told me."
Qin Feng chuckled and said: "Ever since you entered the backyard, your eyes have been glancing towards the horse corridor from time to time. Doesn't this mean that there is no three hundred taels of silver in this place?"
This quadrangle covers an area of thousands of square meters. Qin Feng is not a god. How could he guess the location of the secret room? What he did just now was just deceiving Miao Liuzhi. If Miao Liuzhi did not change his expression, Qin Feng would run away immediately.
Go to the front yard.
Miao Liuzhi is not usually the kind of person who can't hold his breath, but today he was a little drunk. In addition, his most proud stunt just failed at the hands of Qin Feng.
Feng saw the clues.
"Oh, after living for seventy or eighty years, why not be as good as a young boy like you?"
Miao Liuzhi sighed. He had experienced countless storms and waves in his life. He originally thought that he had no desires and desires, but he didn't expect that the slightest hint of unwillingness in his heart would be grasped by Qin Feng.
Qin Feng had already walked into the horse gallery and said, "Old Miao, don't tell me where you are. I'll take a look."
The statement about horse carriages actually happened seventy or eighty years ago. After liberation, who would still dare to use carriages? They would be immediately overthrown as bourgeois.
Therefore, this horse porch has been converted into a utility room, which is filled with briquette stoves and firewood for winter heating, as well as some shabby furniture, all left by the previous owner.
The only place where you can still tell that this is a horse gallery is the manger about 1.5 meters long and 80 centimeters wide placed on the blue stone in front, which can accommodate three or four batches of horses at the same time.
Eat.
Qin Feng casually picked up a piece of firewood from the ground and beat it on the ground of the horse gallery. However, the sound that reached his ears did not have that hollow echo. Qin Feng's brows could not help but frown.
"The green bricks on the ground are from the manger at the back. It should have been a dirt floor before. It is unlikely that there is a secret room underneath." After knocking for a while to no avail, Qin Feng turned his eyes to the manger.
, and immediately realized something was wrong.
Mangers made from a single piece of stone are very common, but the width of this manger is a bit too much.
The width of 80 centimeters plus the supporting stones below is more than one meter, which is more than enough for two people to stand in the middle.
"Well, it's actually sealed with a whole piece of stone, and the middle is empty!"
Qin Feng used firewood to knock hard on the stone under the manger. The echo was still thick, but it was still slightly different from the sound on the ground. Qin Feng heard it immediately.
After beating the stones one by one along the manger, Qin Feng quickly determined that the stone about 60 centimeters long and 40 centimeters high directly below the manger was all empty.
However, this discovery also made Qin Feng scratch his head, because when he pushed the stone with his hands, the stone did not move at all. It was obviously not something that could be pushed away by human power. There must be some mechanism involved.
"Master Qin, this is an institution."
Seeing Qin Feng frowning, Miao Liuzhi seemed to have found some balance, took out a pipe from his pocket, struck a match to light the tobacco on the surface of the cigarette, and took a nice puff.
"Old Miao, are you kidding me?" Qin Feng smiled and shook his head. He is already 70 or 80 years old, how can he still have such a strong desire to win?
However, Qin Feng still admired Miao Liuzhi for being able to find this secret room, because if he hadn't been careful, no one would have thought that there was still space under this stone manger weighing hundreds of kilograms.
"Master Qin, I thought about it for three days before I found out where the mechanism was. Do you want me to tell you?" Miao Liuzhi smoked his pipe and simply sat down on the pile of firewood behind him.
I have no intention of helping.
Qin Feng squatted down and hit each stone while saying: "Old Miao, you are unyielding, so you identified that this horse heart is related to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's treasure?"
In Qin Feng's view, the so-called treasures of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom may have fallen into the hands of Zeng Guofan long ago. Otherwise, how could the Hunan Army have such great combat effectiveness? Why was Cixi so afraid of him?
"Master Qin, there are no bases. Some rumors are still credible." Miao Liuzhi exhaled a puff of smoke, covering his face in the smoke, which gave him a somewhat noble demeanor.
"Even if there is a secret room, it may not be related to the hidden treasure."
Qin Feng shook his head and said angrily: "It is common for wealthy families to build a secret room. I don't understand why you insist on getting involved in that matter..."
But Qin Feng didn't know that Miao Liuzhi was born at the beginning of the century. In his time, only a few decades had passed since the Taiping Rebellion took over half of China.
In that society, news about the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's treasures would cause a bloody storm from time to time.
Miao Liuzhi also learned by chance that Ma Xinyi was probably related to the treasure hidden in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. When he assassinated Yanzi Li San in the capital, Miao Liuzhi had actually visited the Ma family's old house.
It's just that although Ma Xinyi had died long ago, the Ma family also had several figures. It was still a powerful family at that time and had many people who looked after the family and the home. Miao Liuzhi couldn't even enter the gate.
go.
Miao Liuzhi had been thinking about this idea for more than half a century, so after inciting Qin Feng to buy this courtyard, Miao Liuzhi, while inviting people to decorate it, spent the whole day knocking around the courtyard.
Especially in the master bedrooms, he even demolished the pit heads and replaced them with the current beds. However, after making such a big noise, Miao Liuzhi was still indifferent and did not find any clues about Ma Xinyi's legacy.
Originally, Miao Liuzhi had given up, but just over a week ago, when he was moving briquettes from the manor in the backyard one night, he accidentally discovered that the place under the heavy stone manger was actually empty.
This discovery made Miao Liuzhi ecstatic. He immediately paid all the construction workers and drove them out the next day. It took him three full days to figure out the mechanism to enter the tomb.
Although Miao Liuzhi is convinced by Qin Feng now, he is still happy to give Qin Feng a hard time, otherwise Miao Liuzhi will always feel like he has lived his age like a dog.
"If you use a stone to make the entrance and exit of the secret room, you must have grooves inside..."
Qin Feng walked around the manger a few times and suddenly stopped, looked at Miao Liuzhi and said: "Old Miao, although the stone was empty when tested, the entrance has nothing to do with it, right?
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With Qin Feng's eyesight, even under the dim light, he could see that there was no way the moss-covered stone could be taken out unless it was cracked with force.
But then, it was left behind. Not to mention that if it spread out, it would make the people in the world laugh. I am afraid that Miao Liuzhi would not let go of this opportunity to ridicule Qin Feng.
You know, in the early years, door thieves in the world were divided into two groups in terms of the skill of unlocking.
Unlocking a lock is like solving a problem, so one group uses skills and tools to unlock the lock without damaging the lock cylinder itself, and the lock can still be used. This group is called Wenjie.
Where there is literature, there must be martial arts. As the name suggests, martial arts means using external coercive force to break open the lock. It is civilized to destroy the lock core, and even worse, directly use a hammer to break the lock open.
As the sect leader of the Eight Outer Sects, Qin Feng would make people laugh out loud if he used this method to break open the master's door and enter the secret room. I'm afraid the serials would jump out of their graves to punish him.
After walking around the manger a few more times, Qin Feng stopped at one end of the manger, took a look at the ground, and a look of understanding suddenly appeared on his face.
"Master Qin, can you tell?" Seeing the expression on Qin Feng's face, Miao Liuzhi said: "Master Qin, if there are no traces on the ground, can you find them?"
"Old Miao, even without those traces, I can see almost exactly what he is.
Qin Feng shook his head and said: "Although there are exquisite and small machine doors, there are also large and ingenious designs. This manger weighs nearly a thousand kilograms. No one would have thought that there is a secret room underneath."
"Lao Miao, you were using a crowbar to move this little bit of strength, right? As long as you have this little strength, I believe even you can push this stone manger..."
As Qin Feng spoke, he rolled up the sleeves of his hands, stood firm on his feet, and put his hands on the huge manger.
"Open it for me!"
Qin Feng let out a deep roar and used all his strength on his arms. This explosive force actually made the manger move forward by almost a centimeter.
But just this centimeter makes the groove under the manger correspond to the convex groove in the stone.
Pushing forward further, Qin Feng didn't use much force at all, and the manger moved forward by more than half a meter, revealing a dark hole.
