The Ming Dynasty took an unconventional approach

Chapter 420 Secret Room
This was the limit of her and Pan Xiaohei's range. Pan Jun put it on the ground, took a quick look, found a teahouse, and went straight to the second floor.

This place is a very long distance away from Wang Zhen’s residence, and it is not even in the same city area.

Pan Xiaohei quickly climbed onto the roof, found the right direction, and ran along the roof ridge, jumping over one adjacent house after another.

Pan Jun didn't dare to walk around randomly, after all, she was unsure of her luck.

So she decided it was better to stay still than to move.

Pan Jun sat down by the window on the second floor, ordered tea and dessert, then rested his chin on his hand to look at the rooftops outside the window, waiting for Pan Xiaohei to come back.

Pan Xiaohei leaped swiftly, stretched his body in the air, and landed lightly on the wall of Wang Zhen's house with all four legs. He stepped on the top of the wall and slid over quickly.

As it walked across the roof, it could hear wailing and crying coming from below.

The little black cat Pan gently moved the tiles with his claws, and took a look. Seeing that the servants were being interrogated, he ran towards the room where the treasure was hidden before without interest.

Pan Xiaohei could sense that there were quite a few people in the room, so he slowed down his pace, waited until he reached the middle, then crouched down and gently moved the tiles away...

In the room, Wang Zhen was listening to his subordinates' reports, and the more he listened, the uglier his expression became.

"Master, in my humble opinion, they don't seem to be lying. They even admitted to the crime of withholding gift money and embezzling treasures, but they also refused to admit that they colluded with outsiders to steal."

Wang Zhen checked their confessions and laughed angrily, "I know that fish cannot survive in clear water, and I usually turned a blind eye to you. But you took advantage of my kindness and took advantage of me. In less than a year, you embezzled so much money!"

Several people bowed their heads.

Wang Zhen said coldly, "Even if they didn't collude with anyone to do this, they should be severely punished for the crime of embezzlement. Take people to search their house, pour cold water on them and make them kneel in the yard for a night. If they can survive this, I will forgive them for what happened."

Several people felt a chill in their hearts, lowered their heads tightly, and responded with trembling voices.

But these few days are the time of late spring cold, and the nights are colder than in winter. If you pour cold water on them overnight, even if you survive, you will die later.

It would be better to die quickly.

Several people felt cold all over, and it was not until they walked out of the study that their feet went soft, as if they were stepping on cotton.

Pan Xiaohei put one eye into the opening and looked down, and saw Wang Zhen standing there for a while, then began to turn around in circles. He didn't know what he was thinking, but he would look up at one place from time to time.

Pan Xiaohei was very curious, so he gently moved his body so that he could bend lower and look in the direction he was looking.

It was a shelf against the wall, and it was very familiar with it because many of the things it took away were taken from there.

He jumped on it, and as soon as the cat's paw touched it, the thing was received into its jade space with a thought.

It collected all the things on it, one by one. Now the shelf was empty, with nothing on it.

In fact, it thinks that the wooden shelf is also very good. Isn’t there value of wood in the information input into the spiritual realm?

In later generations, various kinds of yellow pear wood and golden sandalwood were priceless. It thought the wooden shelf was very beautiful, so it wanted to collect the entire wooden shelf along with the things on it.

If Pan Yun didn't want to sell those things and wanted to display them herself, she could save the trouble of making wooden shelves and could just take them out and use them.

But it couldn't get it in at that time. The wooden shelf seemed to be stuck to the ground and the wall by something and couldn't move.

If something cannot be moved, it naturally cannot be put away.

Perhaps Wang Zhen was tired of walking around, so he finally stopped, walked out of the room, stood outside the door for a while, looked around, then turned around and closed the door and the window.

Pan Xiaohei's eyes lit up, and he moved closer, watching quietly.

Wang Zhen walked to a wall, reached out and pressed a brick into it, and the empty shelf began to move, revealing a hole.

Pan Xiaohei: ...

Pan Yun actually guessed it right, there is a secret room!

Wang Zhen withdrew his hand and walked towards the cave entrance. Pan Xiaohei was also fast. He stood up and pushed the tile back with a light push of his cat's claws. Then he slid down the wall and reached the upper window. He retracted his bones and squeezed the whole cat in through the gap.

Wang Zhen's figure disappeared in front of the wall. He turned the mechanism casually, and the shelf door began to close slowly.

Pan Xiaohei jumped lightly and landed on the ground silently. He then quickly moved forward and rushed in before the shelf door was completely closed.

As soon as he entered, Pan Xiaohei hid in the corner, not moving.

Wang Zhengang lit the candle and stirred it. The flame grew bigger and illuminated a circle two meters in front of him.

Pan Xiaohei was completely black, hiding silently in the shadows.

It raised its cat head and opened its round eyes to look at the world.

This secret room is about 20 square meters, which is not small. I don’t know how the people in this house can ignore such a large space.

Didn’t they notice that the inside and outside of the house were not the same size?

Pan Xiaohei despised the intelligence of the servants in Wang's house while looking at the things placed in the secret room.

There were a lot of boxes, piled up on top of each other, and no one knew what was inside.

There are also some large ornaments placed on the ground.

The most eye-catching ones are two coral trees that are half a person's height.

Wang Zhen walked forward holding the candle until he reached a place where Pan Xiaohei could not see him.

It quietly stood up and ran over the edge of the box...

Wang Zhen turned around suddenly.

Pan Xiaohei hid in the gap between the boxes, and the flesh on his belly tightened.

Wang Zhen walked over with a candle in his hand and stopped beside the box.

Pan Xiaohei's breathing became non-existent, and Pan Jun, who was far away in the teahouse, also held his breath and clenched the teacup in his hand.

Wang Zhen held up a candle and carefully examined the door of the secret room, then looked left and right. Not finding any problems, he turned around with a frown.

Strange, why did he feel someone was looking at him just now?
Wang Zhen walked to the innermost part, where there was a table with a box on it.

He opened the box and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the banknotes were still there.

"Nothing is missing from the secret room. It seems that the thieves didn't find this place." Wang Zhen looked around and frowned. "But the study has been robbed once. It's not safe to leave the things here."

Wang Zhen planned in his mind that he had to find another confidential and safe place to hide these things.

He pursed his lips, very unhappy, "It's a pity that Yue Niang is blind and stubborn, and refuses to bring the child to Beijing. Otherwise, why would I worry about no one to take care of my property?"

Wang Zhen closed the money box, held the candle and was about to leave, but after taking two steps, he turned back and picked up the money box, intending to take it back to the palace.

While Pan Xiaohei was talking to himself, he had already found another safer place to stay.

Wang Zhen lowered the wick of the candle, walked to the door and turned the lamp post on the wall outward. The door of the secret room opened and he walked out.

The moment Pan Xiaohei walked out, he put the two boxes under him and the two boxes that his cat claws touched into the jade space. Then he jumped again and ran towards the door, putting all the boxes he touched along the way into the jade space.

It landed lightly at the door, waiting for the last crack to get out. Just when the door was about to shrink to a size that its body could fit in and out, Pan Yun said through the air: [Don't go out!]

The sound shocked its mind, and it looked intently, and saw a faint reflection falling on the corner of the door. Perhaps it noticed that a little reflection was exposed, and the shadow swayed and disappeared backwards. Pan Xiaohei: ...

Wang Zhen stood in front of the wooden rack, watching it return to its original position. After making sure that no one came out, he frowned and sat back in his chair.

Pan Yun said: [Put the box back. You are a spiritual being with photographic memory. You must be able to remember the location of the box and restore everything.]

Pan Xiaohei cursed in his heart, but still did it.

It can only adjust the position and direction of the box in the jade space, otherwise once it comes out, it will not be able to move the box.

If you put it in the wrong place, you can only continue to take back the space and move it again.

Pan Xiaohei struggled for a long time before he finally restored all the boxes to their original positions.

Pan Yun said: [Find a shaded place to hide.]

Pan Xiaohei thought she was overthinking, and replied in his heart: [Are you overthinking too much? ]

Pan Yun: [I am a human, and Wang Zhen is also a human. Believe me, humans understand humans better. He is very suspicious, and he will definitely open the secret room and take another look before leaving.]

Pan Xiaohei: [If you open the secret room repeatedly, won't the probability of being exposed increase? ]

[If it was before, he might not have taken this risk, but he noticed our gaze just now. Since he has doubts, he will definitely come in again.]

Pan Yun said: [He will not use this secret room again. If he does not have anyone he trusts around him, he would definitely move the things immediately.]

Pan Xiaohei searched various boxes and corners, and even crawled under the table, but Pan Jun said it was not possible.

Pan Xiaohei got angry, so he simply climbed up the wall and crawled all over the secret room. Finally, he found some bulges in the corner, near the top of the wall.

It's probably because the ground was not leveled during construction, and the craftsmen took advantage of the owner's inattention and cut corners.

It stepped on the protrusions with its limbs and tilted its head downward. Just as it was lying down steadily, the wall shook slightly, the door of the secret room opened, and Wang Zhen walked in with a sword and a candle in his hand.

Pan Xiaohei: ...

[You humans are so cunning.]

Pan Yun: [Shame on you, humans are really not good people. ]

Wang Zhen held the lantern and the sword and searched inch by inch. Even though there was an invisible gap between the boxes, he stabbed his sword into it even though he knew there was no one hiding there.

The sword shone with a cold light, causing Pan Xiaohei to tremble.

Pan Yun also trembled, [Thank me, if it weren't for me, you would have lost the cat body you cultivated with great difficulty. ]

Pan Xiaohei: [Who am I in this secret room for? ]

Pan Yun: [For us, for our common goal.]

Pan Xiaohei hummed in his heart, but dared not make any sound at the scene, and even his breathing had to be lighter.

Wang Zhen squatted down and looked under the table. After confirming that there was nothing unusual here, he turned around and looked back the way he came.

After thinking for a while, he placed the lamp on a box, stood sideways with the sword in hand, and opened the boxes one by one to look inside.

Of course, he only opened the top layer, and left the box underneath unopened. Although he was suspicious, he was not a fool.

I don't think anyone can hide themselves in a box and then put such a heavy box on top.

When the box was opened, Pan Xiaohei, the cat on the wall, and Pan Yun, the spirit possessed by the cat, were almost blinded by the light. It was the first time they saw so much gold and silver, and their hearts began to beat wildly.

Sitting in the teahouse, Pan Jun raised his head and drank a cup of tea, silently despising himself, thinking that he was so ignorant.

When Pan Xiaohei heard her inner voice, he came back to his senses instantly. He couldn't help but spit on himself in his heart, and then said to Pan Jun: [You are surprised by something you haven't seen before. It's just gold, silver and jewelry. I have seen mountains of gold and silver. ]

[You have lived for so many years, so it is not uncommon to have seen these things. But I am young, so isn’t it normal that I have not seen them?] Pan Yun said: [Besides, you were also surprised just now.]

Pan Xiaohei muttered in his heart, "That's because you're too poor. I've never had a good life with you. Even doing good deeds requires paying according to the rules..."

It’s just like doing good deeds by donating money in later generations, one cent at a time.

Pan Yun: [What's wrong with a penny? A penny is also my kindness, I have persisted...]

The man and the cat were chatting animatedly. Wang Zhen finally finished checking the box. He breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that everything was fine, thinking that he had been overthinking.

He closed the box, took the candle, opened the door of the secret room again and went out.

He stood outside the door, turned around and watched the door close slowly, suppressing the abnormal feeling in his heart, "He must have been irritated by these thieves, and he is a little paranoid."

Wang Zhen secretly vowed to catch these thieves and tear them into pieces.

The wooden frame closed completely, and footsteps were heard outside the door.

Wang Zhen immediately blew out the light and placed the candle on the desk beside him.

There was a knock on the door, and he said in a deep voice, "Come in."

"Seal Master, someone from the palace came and said that His Majesty has asked for the seal twice today."

Wang Zhen turned his head to look at the hourglass beside him and frowned, "It's past noon. Has Your Majesty had lunch yet?"

"The man who came said that when he left the palace, Eunuch Cao was serving His Majesty a meal. His Majesty asked about the seal for the second time. I'm afraid he will ask again when he wakes up from his nap."

Wang Zhen could not stay any longer. Although money was important, the emperor was more important to him.

If money is lost, it can be earned again. As long as the emperor trusts and respects him, money and power can be obtained at his fingertips.
But if you lose the emperor, all your wealth will be lost.

Wang Zhen's heart, which had been floating in the air, suddenly sank. He realized that he had acted out of line today and should not have rushed out of the palace when the emperor was meeting.

Wang Zhen quickly picked up the money box and said, "Prepare the horses and return to the palace."

The visitors agreed and walked out with Wang Zhen. When they were halfway there, a Jinyiwei came hurriedly, looking terrified.

Wang Zhen frowned, "What's wrong?"

The Jinyiwei clasped his fists and said, "Sir, the portraits of the five people they suspected have been drawn. Three of them... three of them..."

Wang Zhen was in a hurry to return to the palace. Seeing that he was still hesitating, he asked angrily, "What happened to the three of you?"

"The three look very familiar. They seem to be the Emperor, Eunuch Cao, and Yun Yan, the captain of the Northern Pacification Division."

Wang Zhen was stunned, and then his face turned pale.

He suddenly felt that the money box in his hands was extremely heavy, so heavy that his legs went weak and he almost couldn't stand.

However, he quickly came to his senses, and after thinking for a moment, he said, "Have someone guard this courtyard. No one is allowed to enter or leave this courtyard before my order comes out."

　Today I finally signed the title page of Little Lucky Girl and mailed it out. My handwriting is very ugly, and I silently said "I'm sorry" with every signature. So if friends who buy my book in the future feel that the book is heavy, it must be because of my apology.

　　Also, after this work is completed, I will try my best to adjust it and update it as soon as possible.

　　(End of this chapter)