If you can't open the padlock, you can't enter Shen Kuo's treasure room. Song Yingxing, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, is an expert in lockpicking. His skills are better than the lockpicking instructor of Jinyiwei. In addition, Song Yingxing also has in-depth research on mechanism ambush and is good at designing mechanisms. , is also good at cracking mechanisms.
Mou Rongtian asked Shi Yi to stay at the inn, and he returned to the capital alone. A few days later, he invited Song Yingxing.
At midnight that night, the three of them sneaked into Shen's Mansion. Song Yingxing did not know martial arts and could not fly over eaves and walls, so he was carried by Shi Yi. They avoided the martial arts guard and arrived at the gate of the treasure room.
Song Yingxing poked the padlock with a small wire, three times and two times. With a "click" sound, the padlock opened.
Mou Rongtian smiled and said: "Brother Song, it's better you do it."
Song Yingxing said: "It's nothing." He reached out to push the door open, but was stopped by Mou Rongtian.
Mou Rongtian said: "Brother Song, please let me do it. If there is an ambush, don't hurt you. You and Yanzi stay back."
Shi and Song retreated a dozen steps away, and Mou Rongtian pushed the two doors inwards. There was no mechanism on the doors.
Song Yingxing said: "Brother Mou, see if the door can be opened outward."
Mou Rongtian grabbed the door knocker and pulled it outward. He found that the two doors could be pushed inward or outward. He said, "How come this door is designed like this? It's really strange."
Song Yingxing said: "The mechanism gate is probably on the courtyard gate. Try pushing the left door in and pulling the right door out to see if there is any sound. If not, try pulling the left door out again. Push through the door on the right."
At this time, the two doors were open outwards. Mou Rongtian pushed the left door inward. Halfway through, resistance appeared. He continued to push in, and a "click..." sound sounded. When the left door was fully pushed open, The sound just stopped.
Song Yingxing said: "As expected, the mechanism gate is on the courtyard gate. The main gate should have been closed now. Brother Mou, can you try the mechanism in the courtyard and still trigger it?"
Mou Rongtian walked in and walked to the door of the treasure room. Neither the secret board nor the hidden arrows were triggered, and said: "The trap door is indeed closed. Come in."
The two men also came to the door of the treasure room. Song Yingxing used a small wire to poke the padlock. This lock had the same structure as the one on the courtyard door. Song Yingxing opened the padlock without any trouble.
There was only one iron door in the treasure room. Mou Rongtian was afraid that there would be a mechanism on the door, so he asked Shi and Song to retreat outside the courtyard. He opened the iron door, but there was no mechanism on the door, and invited the two men to go in together.
The room was pitch dark. The three of them took out the candlesticks for lighting. They saw candlesticks hanging on the wall and lit them with the candlesticks. After all the dozens of candlesticks were ignited, the room became as bright as day.
I saw that this room was about ten meters square and very spacious. Ten display cabinets were arranged neatly and symmetrically from north to south, two horizontally and five vertically. The cabinets had ten floors, and there were a number of antiques such as bronze tripods, Tang Sancai, luminous pearls, calligraphy and painting scrolls.
Dozens of large wooden boxes were placed along the wall. There were no padlocks on the boxes. Out of curiosity, Shi Yi opened the lid of one box and saw that it was filled with fifty taels of gold ingots. He opened ten of them in succession. When he saw a few boxes containing either gold or silver ingots, he said, "Oh my God, this old guy Shen Kuo is really rich."
Mou Rongtian said: "Yanzi, come quickly and help find the tortoise shell."
Shi Yi said: "Come on, come on." He walked to a display cabinet and asked: "Brother Tian, has this cabinet been checked?"
Mou Rongtian said: "We've checked the ones in the south, go and look for them in the north." Shi Yi ran to the north, walked from west to east, and checked two display cabinets, but found no tortoise shells.
Then he walked from east to west and checked a row. There was still nothing on the east display cabinet. On the west display cabinet, Shi Yi found a dagger with seven gems inlaid on the scabbard. It was very beautiful. You can tell at first glance that it's not an ordinary thing.
He picked up the dagger, unsheathed it, took out a free-hand dart from the dart bag, and used the dagger to cut the dart shaft. With a "choking" sound, the dart shaft was cut effortlessly, just like Cut tofu normally.
Shi Yi thought to himself: "It is indeed a treasured sword." He wanted to keep it for himself, but he couldn't just keep it in his arms without mentioning it. He had to discuss it with Mou Rongtian and get Mou Rongtian's permission.
Shi Yi took the dagger and walked behind Mou Rongtian with a smile and said: "Brother Tian, I found a precious sword and I want to keep it. Do you think it's okay?"
Mou Rongtian glanced at the display cabinet, without looking back, and said, "What do you think?" This means it won't work.
Shi Yi pretended not to understand and said with a smile: "I think it works, so I'll keep it."
Mou Rongtian said: "Put it back."
Shi Yi sighed and said: "Shen Kuo doesn't know martial arts. If such a good knife falls into his hands, it will be a waste."
Song Yingxing glanced over here and saw the seven gems on the scabbard shining brightly, and said, "This scabbard is really good."
Shi Yi said: "This knife can cut iron as well as mud, it's a treasure." After a pause, he then said: "Brother Tian, just let me keep it. Old Shen has a whole house full of treasures, and they are not short of this." one."
Mou Rongtian turned around and said, "Put it back quickly."
Shi Yi sighed and said, "Hey, that's fine."
Mou Rongtian saw that the seven gems on the scabbard were arranged in the shape of a spoon of the Big Dipper. The positions of the Fluctuating Stars were rubies, the Kaiyang Star, the Yuheng Star, the Tianquan Star, the Tianji Star, the Tianxuan Star, and the Tianshu Star in that order. Inlaid are orange sapphires, yellow sapphires, emeralds, sapphires, sapphires, and purple sapphires.
I thought to myself: "Isn't this the Seven-Star Sword? After General Li was killed, the Seven-Star Sword was taken away by Gao Jianzhen. How did it fall into the hands of Shen Kuo? After the matter is completed, I have to find Shen Kuo to find out."
Although he has never seen the Seven-Star Sword, he heard from Luo Sigong that the scabbard of the Seven-Star Sword is inlaid with seven gems, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, blue and purple, arranged in the shape of a Big Dipper spoon.
He called Shi Yi, brought the knife over, took it out of its sheath, pulled out a hair, put it on the blade, blew it gently, and the hair broke off, and said: "Blow the hair sharply, it is indeed a good knife. This knife is most likely the Seven-Star Knife, and it is an important piece of evidence. I have to take it back and give it to Mr. Luo." After saying that, he put it in his arms.
Shi Yi asked: "What case evidence are they?"
Mou Rongtian said: "This is not the place to talk. Find the tortoise shell quickly. I will tell you later."
Shi Yi walked back and checked the third horizontal row to the north. He didn't find the tortoise shell, but saw a pair of sleeve arrow spray tubes. He said to himself: "Old Shen still has this thing." He picked up a spray tube and saw lightning engraved on it. I said the word "squirt" and thought: "It's really interesting to return the fucking lightning spray. I want to see how fast you can spray."
He pulled out a sleeve arrow from the quiver, put it into the spray canister, pressed the spring, raised his head and shot toward the ceiling. With a "swish" sound, the sleeve arrow was nailed to the ceiling so fast that Shi Yi was amazed. .
Although Shi Yi is good at using hidden weapons, he does not carry sleeve arrows, and the arrows in his sleeves are not as fast as his darts. He feels that the arrows in his sleeves are useless.
But the speed of the lightning spray was much faster than that of his dart. He couldn't put it down, and thought to himself: "If I ask Brother Tim for permission, he will definitely not allow it. Forget it, it's better not to ask him."
Without looking at Mou Rongtian, he secretly put two sleeve arrow nozzles and a dozen arrows into his arms. He said in his heart: "This treasure belongs to me!"
After a while, Song Yingxing said: "Master Mou, come and see, we have found the tortoise shells." Mou Rongtian and Shi Yi walked over and saw a row of tortoise shells on the bottom floor of the display cabinet, with more than a dozen of them.
Shi Yi said: "This old guy Shen Kuo is really nothing. He has so many tortoise shells, but he is not willing to give us one. He dares to lie to us and say he doesn't have any. Brother Tian, you have to take care of this old guy later."
Mou Rongtian picked up a tortoise shell and looked at it. From the lines, he saw that it was the shell of a 120-year-old turtle. He looked at all the tortoise shells one by one, picked out three turtle shells that were 150 years old, wrapped them in cloth, and said: "It's done, let's go!"
The three of them left the treasure room, locked the iron door, and then left the courtyard. Mou Rongtian deliberately left the courtyard door open.
About half an hour after they left the Shen Mansion, the night martial arts patrol came here. Seeing the courtyard door open, they knew something was wrong. They hurriedly ran to the back house, stood outside the bedroom of Shen Kuo's nineteenth wife, and shouted: "Master, Wake up quickly, something big happened!"
Shen Kuo woke up from his sleep and asked: "You are yelling, is the sky falling?"
The martial artist said: "The sky has not fallen, but the courtyard door of the treasure room has been opened. I don't know who opened it."
Shen Kuo was shocked. He hurriedly put on his cotton clothes and shoes, left the house, and hurried over. When he saw that the courtyard door was indeed opened, it was opened in the same way as closing the gate. He thought to himself: "Mu Rongtian must be here again."
He leaned over and picked up the padlock from the ground, thinking to himself: "Since he can open this lock, he must also be able to open the lock on the door." Thinking of this, cold sweat broke out on his back.
Shen Kuo was afraid of offending Dongchang, so he lied to Mou Rongtian. Mou Rongtian failed to steal the tortoise shell. Shen Kuo expected that he would come again, so he deliberately moved the tortoise shell, but he felt that there was no safe treasure room anywhere. He thought that the tortoise shell was placed in The treasure room is foolproof, Mou Rongtian has no ability to open the door of the treasure room, and it will be in vain to try again.
Shen Kuo said to himself with a grimace: "I'm careless, I'm careless!" He took the key, ordered the martial arts masters to wait outside the courtyard, opened the door of the treasure room alone, walked in, lit the candlestick, and went straight to He went to the place where the tortoise shells were placed, counted them, and found that three were missing. He said to himself: "It is indeed Mou Rongtian who did it. Alas! If you offend Jin Yiwei, it will be difficult to do business in the future."
He checked other items and found that the dagger inlaid with seven gems and the lightning spray were gone. He was overjoyed and thought to himself: "They all say that Mou Rongtian is an upright official with a breeze on his sleeves and an upright official who can emerge from the mud without stains. It seems that Mou Rongtian is an upright official. It’s hard to live up to its reputation.
"There are many things here that are more valuable than the dagger and sleeve arrows. He didn't take the others, but only took these two. It seems that he doesn't love money, but likes precious weapons. In this case, I will do what he likes and take these two. Things are settled."