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"What's your nonsense? When I saw someone coming next door, I asked a few more questions. It's too bad for us." Ji Keran thinks that all the places on the surface of Chuang Tzu have been turned over by Ji Jiaqian. What is missing?

"The rockery and the cellar? What about the kitchen and the barn? "

"I've had people remove the rockery, and the cellar has been opened, but I haven't found the two places behind." Ji Jiaqian was worried that someone would hide everything. She saw everything with her own eyes.

She didn't want to step into the rockery and cellar. The kitchen was full of grease, and her skirt would be dirty. The wood room was dirty and messy.

Ji Keran got up with a dignified face: "time is running out. We need to find the treasure house as soon as possible, otherwise others will be in trouble if they are suspicious."

After listening, Ji Jiaqian yelled: "listen to ran Lang, I'll go to the kitchen later."

"No, I'd better go there myself. I've been working hard these days. I'll pinch my shoulder tonight?" Ji Keran said gently, and asked her to nod her head in high spirits.

"Ran Lang said it, but it didn't count. I'll wait for you to pinch my shoulder and send the tassels away at night. "

"It's natural. I'll keep my promise when I say it. I'll just wait for me." Ji Keran sees Ji Jiaqian off, takes his sweetheart to the kitchen, and orders someone to drive the cook and the fire maid out.

He looked at everything carefully and found nothing.

The little boy was brave enough to lift up the big pot and look inside one by one. He soon said, "my Lord, there are some differences under the big pot."

Ji Keran went over and saw that the stove under the big pot was different from the others. The ashes covered most of it, and he could see a dark round cover one person wide.

The big pot is very heavy. The cook won't move it easily. Even if she moves away, the bottom is covered by ashes. If you don't look carefully, you won't find the entrance.

He praised without stint: "very good, more than you. But it's very difficult to do. You need to go down and have a look. "

The young man readily agreed, thinking that he had done the job well, and that a little benefit from Ji Keran's fingers would be enough for him to spend the rest of his life.

Ji Keran watched the boy go in again and waited patiently for a quarter of an hour before he came up with two big brocade boxes.

Then he opened it, and Ji Keran raised his eyebrows.

In one brocade box are twelve baby fist sized night pearls of excellent quality, 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 the surface of the South China Sea is covered with a layer of blue scales, which is extremely rare. Every year, they are sent to the state of Qing to pay tribute, only a few of them. It's hard for other people to see the Emperor's reward to his concubines and princes.

Here are twelve, which are comparable to gold. If you sell them, I'm afraid you can get a lot of good things.

He was overjoyed and could not help opening another brocade box. There were thin silver bills, which Ji Keran counted at random. There were dozens of them, all of which were one thousand Liang.

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

Ji Keran's eyes were burning, but the two brocade boxes he picked up at random were worth thousands of gold. All the other things in the treasure house added up. If he wanted to overthrow the present emperor, it was just around the corner: "what else are you going to take up one by one?"

The boy shook his head and hesitated: "my Lord, there is a secret room as big as the kitchen below. It was full of brocade boxes and small boxes. They were very messy. Villain only took the lightest two, the others are not easy to take together. It's just that the villain thinks that many brocade boxes in the secret room are empty. I'm afraid someone has come in ahead of time. "

Hearing this, Ji Keran was surprised, but he didn't completely believe what he said: "you mean, there are many brocade boxes inside that have been opened, and they are all empty?"

"Yes, the villain originally planned to take up several brocade boxes at his feet, but he held them lightly in his hand. He was surprised and opened them. He didn't expect that they were empty." The boy was also very afraid. Fortunately, he was cautious and felt something was wrong, so he opened it first to have a look. Otherwise, Ji Keran finds that there is nothing in the brocade box. He may suspect that he took it secretly.

"My Lord, I also found a small door in the corner of the secret room, but I couldn't open it anyway. There's no lock on the door, but I don't know why it's closed tightly. There's only a small depression in the middle. " He described the size of the depression, and kirran thought about it.

"Well, you've done a good job. Keep it outside the kitchen for me. I'll go down and have a look myself."

The boy answered, turned around and went out the door. But suddenly his back hurt. He turned his head in horror and found that a dagger had been stabbed into his back, which had completely disappeared.

The pain came suddenly, and the boy looked at Ji Keran blankly, as if he didn't understand why his master suddenly did something to himself.

Ji Keran sneered: "I'm the only one who knows the secret of the treasure house. The rest of you have to shut up. Only dead people can do it. "Only the dead can not tell the secret, and he has to do it.

When he fell to the ground, Ji Keran drew back his dagger and threw the man down from the entrance. After listening carefully, there was no movement. It seemed that there was no mechanism at the bottom.

He knew that he had told him that no one would run into the kitchen at will, so he carefully went down from the entrance.

If it's true, it's a spacious secret room under it, full of brocade boxes. When you open it, it's quite empty.

However, the boy may only look at the brocade box at his feet. Ji Keran opens a few at each place and finds that there are more empty boxes than he imagined.

Stack the empty brocade boxes on one side and the rest on the other side. It's half less!

Ji Keran frowned. Who discovered the treasure earlier than him?

He looked up and saw the secret door that he said. There was a hollow place on it. He took out the wooden card from his arms and made a gesture. As Ji Keran expected, this wooden card is the key to open the secret door.

Ji Keran was overjoyed. He pasted the wooden card on the secret door. He heard a "click" and the secret door opened slowly.

He was careful and hid outside for a long time. Then he grabbed an empty brocade box and threw it in. There was no sound, indicating that there was no secret organ.

Ji Keran just stepped in and was stunned.

There is no imagined golden mountain and silver mountain, nor the night pearl and other treasures we have seen before. Behind the secret door, there is a room, with layers of shark gauze, red sandalwood trampoline, and huangliangmu tables and chairs, which is just like a woman's boudoir.

If it wasn't covered with dust and it seemed that no one had lived here for a long time, he would have doubted which girl lived here.

There is a set of white jade tea set on the table. In the Babu bed is a blue jade pillow, and there is a light diamond yarn quilt. Open the cabinet, inside is full of clothes, from small to large, there are hundreds of pieces.

Ji Keran doubted that these clothes, from three or four-year-old children to teenage girls, seemed to condense in these dresses for more than ten years.

For a moment, he could not guess whether the people who originally lived here were young or the big girl after hairpin?

It was not easy to find a box in the corner, but there were some small things in the girl's house. For example, handkerchiefs, sachets, belts and glazed beads are very exquisite, and they seem to be made by hand.

Ji Keran doesn't understand it any more. What he knows is that he tries his best to find the treasure house, coaxes Ji Jiaqian for so many years, and finally gets the key. Then the things in the treasure house are half empty. Finally, behind the secret door, there is such a girl's boudoir, but there is not much before?

He had the feeling of being fooled all over, pacing back and forth impatiently.

Knowing that this is not the place to stay for a long time, Ji Ke ran dragged the body of the young man to the bottom of the Babu bed and closed the secret door again.

Only one thing, he found another entrance from the corner of the boudoir. Pushing aside the wall, it was in the main room where I lived. The entrance is just under the bed. Gently pull the mechanism on the wall to open the entrance.

This is much safer than going into the treasure house from the place where people come and go in the kitchen. After all, the cook has a lot of people. Who knows if she will accidentally report her strange behavior?

The brocade box in Ji Keran's arms was full of night pearls and banknotes. He had only two valuable things, which calmed his mood.

There must be another mechanism in that strange room. Maybe it's to cover up the secret. Otherwise, what would you do in such a boudoir built in the treasure house?

He went back to his room and made up his mind to go into the room again tonight while there was no one.

Ji Keran came back to the kitchen from the secret road and opened the door. Shi Shiran made an excuse: "a thief broke in and stole my jade pendant. It's really sad that such a thing happened in Chuang Tzu only a long time ago."

He went to chase after the thief and reassured the cook that there was no danger in the kitchen, but he had to be careful not to let the shameful people in.

The cook's submissive response, at least Ji Keran did not blame them, escaped a disaster, had greatly relieved.

Ji Keran had planned to seal the kitchen, but his action was too big to be doubted. He doesn't have to send someone here to keep watch when the cook helps. People who want to investigate can't start. Why not?

When he returned to the courtyard, Ji Jiaqian had been waiting there for a long time. She said, "ran Lang has been in the kitchen for so long, but what good thing do you find that you can't bear to come out?"

"What did you say? The kitchen is not small, and I dare not take too many people there, so that I don't know too many people. I finally turned around and didn't find anything. Now I have a smell of lampblack all over my body. It's really smelly. " Ji Keran shook his head in disgust.