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Chapter 44 Treasures in the Ancestral Hall
"General Song, I'm sure you already know I'm not the real Tang Zhao. I wonder if you two, grandfather and grandson, have reunited in the other world." Tang Zhao thought of the poor girl who died of illness in the sedan chair and said silently, "I think so. Just like my arrival, it's so absurd and bizarre, yet it's blessed by heaven."

"Be it a dream, or a past life or present life, the moment I wake up as 'Tang Zhao', I will consider myself the real Tang Zhao."

"She is the daughter that Madam Song risked her life to protect, your most beloved granddaughter, and the last bloodline of the Song family left in this world."

"Tang Zhao is not talented enough to claim that he can continue to uphold the reputation of the Song family's loyalty, but he also doesn't dare to bring shame to the Song family."

"I also ask General Song, and the ancestors of the Song family to bless me. Please help me to avenge myself as soon as possible, seek justice for my late mother, and make all those who participated in the assassination of my mother and me pay the price!"

Tang Zhao kowtowed devoutly.

Gu Ci kowtowed nine times with her.

Tang Zhao looked around with a deep sense of apprehension, "Husband, is there anyone else nearby?"

"There are only you and me within a hundred meters," Gu Ci frowned and said, "How can you act like such a thief in front of our ancestors?"

Tang Zhao ignored him, stood up, took off his outer robe, and reached out to untie his belt.

Gu Ci stood up, took a few steps back as if avoiding a snake or scorpion, turned his head to look away, lowered his voice and shouted angrily, "Tang Zhao! How dare you be so rude?!"

"What did I do?" Tang Zhao asked innocently.

"You're taking off your clothes in front of our ancestors in this important place of the ancestral hall." Gu Ci felt deeply ashamed, but he didn't want to say anything unpleasant. "Put your coat on quickly!"

Tang Zhao threw the belt adorned with jade pendants onto the futon, then pulled out a plain belt from her sleeve to replace it. She teased, "I wonder if you've ever heard the saying, 'Wise men see wisdom, and lewd men see lewdness.'"

Put the blame on someone else! Gu Ci closed his eyes.

The man's serious look was very irritating. Tang Zhao wanted to continue teasing him, but he had to restrain himself in front of the Song family's memorial tablet.

Tang Zhao turned around, supported himself on the incense table with his arms, and used the momentum to leap onto the altar. He avoided the tablet and walked a few steps to the portrait of the Song family's ancestor and his wife hanging high on the wall, looking at it carefully.

Gu Ci turned his head when he heard the voice and saw the woman standing on the spiritual platform. He strode forward, closed the doors and windows, and said angrily in a low voice, "How disgraceful! Come down quickly."

Tang Zhao raised his hand to move the portrait away, and felt on the wall panel according to the position of the red sand between the eyebrows of the first generation Protector of the Country, and indeed found a small crack.

Gu Ci calmed down and stared at the woman on the platform's every move. He saw her pull out the hairpins from her hair, prick her fingertips, and press her index finger against the wall, letting the blood soak into the tiny crack.

Click! A light sound came from inside the wall. Tang Zhao put his ear close to the wall, and the sound of the mechanism turning continued to reach his ears.

Suddenly, Tang Zhao felt a shaking under her feet. She lost her balance and took a step back but missed a step, causing her whole body to fall backwards.

Tang Zhaosheng closed her eyes helplessly. She was afraid that all the ancestors of the Song family would line up to curse her in her dreams tonight.

Falling from such a high spiritual platform, breaking arms and legs would be the least of his worries. Gu Ci had no choice but to jump up to the spiritual platform.

Tang Zhao felt a tightness around his waist, and his body turned in the air, and his feet stepped on the solid ground.

The tablet on the altar remained motionless.

Tang Zhao breathed a sigh of relief and looked up to thank him, but the man pushed her away mercilessly.

Tang Zhao: Don’t act like I’m taking advantage of you!
"What exactly are you going to do?" At this moment, how could Gu Ci not understand that Tang Zhao had another purpose for this trip.

Click! The altar where the spirit tablet was placed shifted to the left, and the low door hidden behind it appeared before his eyes.

The two men looked at each other, walked to the low door and squatted down. Gu Ci asked, "How do we open it?" Tang Zhao spread out his left hand. The hairpin made of gold and jade sparkled in the light of the spiritual candle. The hairpin had intricate carvings on its body, and a night-shining pearl as big as a longan was inlaid on it. The sharpened head of the hairpin was still stained with fresh blood from the fingertips.

Gu Ci lowered his eyes. No wonder she was dressed so gorgeously today.

"This hairpin was pinned on my mother's hair by my grandmother herself on her wedding day," Tang Zhao said. "My mother later gave it to me, and I've always carried it with me."

The night pearl on the hairpin is unique in the world. An has coveted it for a long time. In the end, she took into account that too many people have seen this night pearl. If she snatched it by force, she would not be able to justify it with any excuses, so she let Tang Zhao take it away.

I was depressed about this for a long time.

Gu Ci raised his eyebrows. General Song's move was really unexpected. Who would have thought that the key to the secret hiding place was actually a woman's hairpin, and it was given to his already married daughter as a dowry.

Gu Ci helped look for the keyhole while thinking, and finally found it under the floor tiles three steps away.

The person who built this secret room was so cunning, Tang Zhao sighed. He inserted the hairpin into the keyhole, turned it three times to the left, five times to the right, and then turned it the other way around. He pushed the whole hairpin with all his strength, and with a click, the low door opened.

A wooden box lay there quietly.

Tang Zhao took out a wooden box. It was not locked. When he opened it, he saw only three books and a roll of sheepskin inside.

[Ding! Save the cannon fodder male supporting role system, the ultimate mission is to feed the three armies. The first sub-task: get the military manual and desert map. Completed! Rewards: farm tool blueprints and agricultural books. Already stored in the space. 100 health points have been received. The current total health points is 186.]

He really deserves to be the target of the system's strategy, the health points are so generous.

Tang Zhao felt sour as a plum blossom. He pretended to flip through the pages and pretended to be uninterested, saying, "Turns out they are military books and maps, boring." Then he threw the book and parchment into Gu Ci's arms.

Gu Ci took it, his eyes shining.

"Shenbing Ji" is a book on leading troops to fight written by the god of war of the previous dynasty. It records typical battles that took place over hundreds of years and provides detailed annotations and comments. It was regarded as a national treasure by the previous dynasty.

Later, General God of War was framed, and the previous emperor was foolish and incompetent, so he burned the book. Since then, no one has had this book.

Unexpectedly, there were some remaining books in the Protectorate General's Mansion. It seems that the rumors were wrong. The first generation Protectorate Duke and the former War God General were not mortal enemies, but rather they sympathized with each other.

"Are you really going to give me this book?" Gu Ci asked.

"Of course not," Tang Zhaoyi said righteously, "This is mine."

The light in Gu Ci's eyes dimmed.

"Give me the original copy after you finish copying it," Tang Zhao fantasized, "Maybe after I finish reading it, I can become a female general too."

Gu Ci had no right to pour cold water on the help, but he couldn't go against his conscience either, so he had to help restore the ancestral hall to its original state.

Tang Zhao changed his belt and put on his outer robe, then pinned the night-shining pearl back into his hair. "Is there anything wrong?"

Gu Ci said good-temperedly, "No."

Tang Zhao was satisfied. After Gu Ci hid the military book and the parchment scroll on his body, the two of them knelt down repeatedly and left the ancestral hall.

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