Rudonghai

Chapter 184 Search
"What nonsense, my aunt, I saw someone coming from next door, so I asked a few more words, becoming a master spoiled our good deeds." Ji Keran thought that Zhuangzi's surface had been turned over by Ji Jiaqian, what's the point? Place is missing?

"Have you searched for the rockery and cellar? What about the kitchen and woodshed?"

"I had people remove the rockery, and opened the cellar, but I haven't found the last two places." Ji Jiaqian was worried that someone would hide it, so she went to see every place with her own eyes.

Forget about the rockery and the cellar, the kitchen is full of oil and it will stain her skirt, and the woodshed is dirty and messy, she doesn't want to step in.

Ji Keran stood up with a serious expression on his face: "Time is running out, we must find the treasure house as soon as possible, otherwise we will be in trouble if others become suspicious."

After listening, Ji Jiaqian muttered: "I listen to Ran Lang, I'll go to the kitchen to have a look later."

"No, let me go there in person. My sister has worked hard these days. Shall I give her shoulders tonight?" Ji Keran said softly, telling her to nod happily.

"Ran Lang said it, but it doesn't count. I just waited for you to pinch my shoulders at night and get rid of the tassels."

"It's natural. I must keep my promise when I say it. Just wait for me." Ji Keran sent Ji Jiaqian away, took her confidant to the kitchen, and ordered the cook and the fire maid to be driven out. .

He checked everything carefully, but found nothing.

The boy was brave enough to lift up the huge pot, looked inside one by one, and said "Hey" quickly: "My lord, there is something different under this big pot."

Ji Keran went over to take a look, and sure enough, the stove under the cauldron was different from others. Most of it was covered by grass ash, and a dark round lid one person wide could be vaguely seen.

The cauldron was very heavy, and the cook would not move it easily. Even if it was moved, the bottom would be covered by ashes. If you didn't look carefully, you wouldn't find the entrance.

He praised without hesitation: "Very good, thanks to you. It's just that this matter is very difficult, and you need to go down and have a look."

The servant readily agreed, thinking that after completing the job, a little benefit from Ji Keran's fingers would be enough for him to spend half his life.

Ji Keran watched the servant slip in again, and waited patiently for a full quarter of an hour before he saw him come up with two palm-sized brocade boxes with difficulty.

After taking it and opening it, Ji Keran raised his eyebrows.

In a brocade box were twelve luminous pearls the size of a baby's fist, of excellent color, with a thin layer of blue shimmer on the surface, apparently from the South China Sea.

There are many night pearls in the East China Sea, but those in the South China Sea are covered with a layer of blue scales, which are extremely rare. They are sent to the Qing Kingdom every year to pay tribute, and there are only a few of them. The emperor only cares about rewarding concubines and princes, and it is difficult for others to see them. .

There are twelve of them here, which are comparable to gold. If you sell them, you may get a lot of good things in exchange.

He was so happy that he couldn't help but opened another brocade box.Inside were thin silver bills, and Ji Keran counted them at random, there were dozens of them, all of which were 1000 taels.

Below is the seal of Dayun Bank, the money is enough to buy dozens of boxes of swords and hundreds of horses.

Ji Keran's eyes were burning immediately, but the two brocade boxes he took up randomly were worth thousands of gold. When the other things in the treasury were added up, he wanted to overthrow the current emperor, and it was just around the corner: "What else is there below, can you take them one by one? "

The boy shook his head, showing hesitation: "My lord, there is a secret room about the size of a kitchen underneath. It is full of brocade boxes and small boxes, very messy. The villain only took the two lightest ones, and the rest It’s not easy to bring them up together. It’s just that the villain is thinking, there are many brocade boxes in the secret room that are empty, and I’m afraid someone has already entered in advance.”

Hearing this, Ji Keran was taken aback, but he didn't fully believe the boy's words: "You mean, many brocade boxes inside have been opened, and all of them are empty?"

"Yes, the villain originally planned to bring up several brocade boxes at his feet, but he held them lightly in his hand. He opened it in surprise, but he didn't expect the inside to be empty." He was cautious, and opened it first if he felt something was wrong.Otherwise, when Ji Keran found that there was nothing in the brocade box, he might suspect that he had secretly taken it away.

"My lord, I also found a small door in the corner of the secret room, but I can't push it open no matter what. There is no lock on the door, but I don't know why it is closed tightly, but there is a small depression in the middle." He gestured. After checking the size of the depression, Ji Keran suddenly thought about it.

"Okay, you've done a good job. Watch out for me outside the kitchen. I'll go down and have a look myself."

The boy responded, turned around and walked out the door, who knew that suddenly his back hurt, and he turned his head in horror, only to find that someone had stabbed a dagger into his back and it was completely submerged.

The pain came suddenly, and the servant looked at Ji Keran blankly, as if he didn't understand why his master suddenly attacked him.

Ji Keran sneered and said, "It's enough for me alone to know the secret of the treasure house. For the rest of you, only the dead can shut you up."

Only the dead would not tell the secret, and he had no choice but to do so.

The boy fell to the ground, Ji Keran withdrew his dagger, and threw him directly through the entrance. He listened carefully, but there was no movement. It seemed that there was no trap underneath.

He knew that he had ordered that no one would come into the kitchen at will, so he carefully went down through the entrance.

As the boy said, there is a spacious secret room underneath, full of brocade boxes in a mess.When I opened it, it was indeed quite empty.

But the servant may have only looked at the brocade boxes at his feet, so Ji Keran simply opened a few in each place, and found that there were more empty boxes than expected.

Pile the empty brocade boxes on one side, and the rest on the other side, and it turns out that there is a full half of it!
Ji Keran frowned, who on earth discovered this treasure house earlier than him?

He looked up and saw the hidden door that the boy said, with a sunken place on it.He took out the wooden sign from his arms and made a gesture. Just as Ji Keran expected, this wooden sign is the key to open the secret door.

Ji Keran was overjoyed. He put the wooden sign on the secret door, and only heard a "click", and the secret door slowly opened.

He was cautious and hid outside for a while, then grabbed an empty brocade box and threw it in. There was no sound, which meant that there was no secret mechanism.

Ji Keran just stepped in and was stunned.

There is no mountain of gold and silver as imagined, and no treasures such as the luminous pearl that I saw before. Behind the secret door is actually a room, with layers of gauze, red sandalwood bed, yellow beam wooden tables and chairs, arranged like a woman's boudoir.

If it hadn't been covered with a layer of dust, it seemed that no one had lived in it for a long time, and he would have suspected that some girl lived here.

There is a set of white jade tea set on the table, and there is a sapphire pillow on Ba Bu's bed, and a thin Lingsha quilt.Opening the cabinet, there are hundreds of dresses inside, from small to large.

Ji Keran was puzzled, these clothes ranged from children aged three or four to girls in their teens, as if more than ten years had been condensed in these dresses.

He couldn't guess for a while, was the person who lived here originally a young child, or a big girl after reaching the age?

After finally finding a box in the corner, it contained some small items from the girl's house.For example, handkerchiefs, sachets, belts, and glass beads, all of which are so exquisite that they seem to be made by hand.

Ji Keran couldn't understand more and more. The only thing he knew was that he worked so hard to find the treasure house, coaxed Ji Jiaqian for so many years, and finally got the key, and then half of the contents of the treasure house were emptied. Behind the secret door is such a girl's boudoir, but there are not many things from before?

He had the feeling of being played all over, and he paced back and forth irritably.

Knowing that this place is not a place to stay for a long time, as for the boy's body, Ji Keran simply dragged it under Babu's bed and closed the secret door again.

The only thing is, he found another entrance from the corner of the boudoir.Pushing away the wall, it was the room in the main courtyard where I lived.The entrance is just under the bed, and you can open the entrance and enter by gently pulling the mechanism on the wall.

This is much safer than entering the treasury from the kitchen where people come and go. After all, the cook has a lot of people, who knows if she will inadvertently spread her strange behavior?
The brocade box in Ji Keran's arms was full of luminous pearls and silver notes, and he only got two valuable things, which at least calmed his mood a bit.

There must be other mechanisms in that strange room, maybe it is to cover up the secrets, otherwise what is such a boudoir built in the treasure house?
He went back to the room, and made up his mind to go into the room to search again tonight when there was no one there.

Ji Keran returned to the kitchen from the secret passage and opened the door. Shi Shiran made an excuse: "A thief broke in and stole my jade pendant. It took only half a day to go to Zhuangzi for this to happen. It's really heartbreaking."

He told the boy to go after the thieves who were avoiding him, and comforted the cook that the kitchen was no longer in danger, but he had to be careful not to let anyone with a bad face come in.

The cook obediently agreed, at least Ji Keran didn't blame them, and was greatly relieved to have escaped.

Ji Keran originally planned to seal up the kitchen, but if he did too much, he would be suspected.Simply return to the original state, with the help of the cook to watch, he doesn't need to send someone here to guard, and those who want to investigate have no way to do it, why not do it?
When he returned to the yard, Ji Jiaqian had been waiting there for a long time, and she said coquettishly, "Ran Lang has been in the kitchen for so long, but he found something good and couldn't bear to come out?"

"What are you talking about? The kitchen is not small, and I don't dare to bring too many people there, lest there are too many people who know. I finally searched around, but I didn't find anything, but now I'm covered in a smell. The smell of cooking fumes is really unpleasant." Ji Keran shook his head, looking disgusted.

(End of this chapter)