Ye Wangyou's story was obviously not finished yet. He stretched out a finger and pointed around, "I studied the model of the Yuan Theater Building with Fang Mu and found that as the position of the lotus changes, the position of the windows changes.

It also moves."

Everyone didn't understand - what kind of mechanism is this?

The fifth master seemed to have thought of this, and raised his head and looked around.

Ye Wangyou guessed that he had guessed it.

Sure enough, Bai Yutang had a rare look of surprise on his face, and he asked, "Didn't you build this house?"

Ye Wangyou smiled, "At that time, Fang Mu and I brought the model of the Yuan Theater Building to the Yuanqi Building, and found that although the small building and the model were exactly the same, the orientation of the windows was different. There are windows on the Yuan Theater Building, Yuanxi Building.

But the roof of the living building was walled and had no windows. We looked in the distance in the direction of the open window of the Yuan Theater Building, and saw what seemed to be a house on the cliff, so we looked for it."

Zhao Zhen felt a little confused, so he asked Nangong Ji, "Is it based on Yuan Theater Tower and not Yuan Qi Tower?"

Nangong nodded, that’s what Wangyou said!

Zhao Pu understood what he understood and explained to Zhao Zhen, "For example, the windows of Yuan Theater Tower open to the south, but the windows of Yuan Qi Tower face north. The two buildings are exactly the same, and this house is located next to Yuan Qi Tower.

South side.”

"So this house was built to secretly monitor Yuanqi Tower?" Zhao Zhen asked.

Zhao Pu spread his hands - probably.

"This house is an empty house. There are basically no furniture or utensils in the house. Moreover, the vegetation is arranged, and it looks like it has been abandoned for a long time. Especially the courtyard wall has almost collapsed." Ye Wangyou told everyone, "Let's go into the house to look for it.

After walking around, I found an ancestral hall with something in it, but nothing else."

"Ancestral hall?" Zhan Zhao asked, "Is it the one we want to clean later?"

Others looked at him silently - do you want to be so self-conscious?

Ye Wangyou nodded, "In the whole house, there are many tablets in the ancestral hall. There are no words on them, but the tablets and the urns are placed together, and they are placed very neatly."

"Are you sure there are ashes in the jar?" Gongsun suddenly asked.

Everyone nodded—it was indeed a question Gongsun would ask.

Ye Wangyou shook his head honestly, "I didn't touch anything in the ancestral hall. I just swept the dust and kept everything as it was."

"So the jar has never been opened?"

"Yeah." Ye Wangyou smiled, "It's not that I have any taboos, but I think it might not be good to open it and look at it."

"Then you repaired this house and then moved in?" Zhan Zhao felt that this behavior was a bit outrageous. It was amazing that this unknown abandoned house could be lived in.

Ye Wangyou said, "I asked around, but there is no owner of the land in Wulian Mountain, and there is no relevant record of this house in the Yamen's head book. I didn't want to live there at first, but after I left,

When I got to the study, I discovered the mystery of this house."

Everyone looked at it and forgot about their worries - did they discover that it was a house where Yuan Qi Tower was being monitored?

"Fang Mu studied the two houses and said that they should be built in the same era, probably during the Qiande period. This manor is located in a hidden place, and its only purpose may be to look at the periphery of Yuanqi Tower."

"Periphery?" Mr. Wu thought for a while, and it seemed that he could only see the woods, the side facing Yuanqi Building, the windowless side of Yuanqi Building, so that he would not be discovered by people inside the building, but At the same time, no one inside the building can be observed...

"The other places under surveillance are Yuhua Academy, Eastern Suburbs, Baiji Garden and the Pier area." Ye Wangyou continued, "But except for Yuanqi Tower, if the buildings in those three places are from the Qiande period, If we count, we should have gone through a lot of changes by now."

"That's true." Everyone was wondering what the relationship was between these places within the study window.

"I was looking for a house at the time. After all, Caiqin and I were getting married. She definitely wanted to stay in Kaifeng, but living in the city would inevitably lead to being bumped into. This place is really good. There is no owner's land in Kaifeng. They all belong to the royal family, so I ran to the late emperor and asked him if he could give me this land."

Everyone looked at them in surprise and forgot about their worries - is this okay?

Ye Wangyou nodded, "Well, the late emperor granted me all the land in Wulian Mountain."

Everyone gasped.

Zhao Zhen touched his chin, wondering if he had any clues about his father? Is he so generous?

"Fang Mu was quite opposed to me living here at the time." Ye Wangyou could see that everyone was confused about his decision. After all, there was an unknown house with a complete ancestral hall under surveillance. Yuanqi Building is a haunted government building, and Yuan Ji in the building has disappeared again... Why should such an unlucky house be used as a wedding room?

Ye Wangyou smiled slightly and said, "Because of the flowers."

"flower?"

"Although the house is abandoned, I did not renovate it. Instead, with the help of Fang Mu, I restored the house as much as possible. This is what the house looked like originally. What it looks like now is what it looked like when it was first built. What! There are so many flowers, even more, and I can’t find some varieties even though I’ve searched everywhere!”

After thinking about it, everyone felt that something was wrong - if the purpose of building this manor was to monitor Yuanqi Tower, why was it built so beautifully?

"Maybe it's not for surveillance, but to protect that building?" Nangong Ji suddenly expressed his thoughts while holding the wine glass.

Everyone looked at him - protection?

"Well... you can see Yuanqi Tower from here but not the windows." Nangong said, "Yuanqi Tower looks like a boudoir, and the women must live in it. If you can see the windows here, If so, it would be a bit disrespectful to the people living inside. The woods outside the building occupy a large area, and there are also traps. If someone breaks into the woods, they will be found here as soon as the trap is activated in the woods. And... There is a main road in the pier and the eastern suburbs that leads to Yuanqi Tower. Yuanqi Tower is located in a remote place, and there are only two or three necessary roads to choose from."

Everyone stared at Nangong for a while and all agreed. This statement seemed to make sense!

Zhao Pu also nodded - he is indeed a professional, thinking about things from a different perspective.

Zhao Zhen was leaning aside to drink. After listening to Nangong's words, he suddenly remembered the time when his father chose his bodyguards for him when he was a child...

Nangong Ji was chosen by the late emperor for him. In Zhao Zhen's opinion, his father had left him a mess, and the only good thing was probably Nangong.

Zhao Zhen still remembers that there were several groups of guards selected at that time. They were all children about the same age as him. They came in one after another, changing a few from time to time. As a result, his father fell in love with Nangong at a glance, and for no other reason.

Yes, it was because every time he raised his head, Nangong's back was turned to him.

Zhao Zhen still remembered that the late emperor also asked him which guard he thought was better, and he also pointed to Nangong. Looking back now, his first impression of Nangong was very good because when he was by his side,

It's not awkward, and I don't feel like I'm being watched.

Zhao Zhen now wants to understand that the guards were still young at that time. The difference between Nangong and them might be that those children were more like watching, while Nangong only protected his safety and tried not to disturb him.

"If this house is built for the purpose of protection, then it shouldn't be a bad thing." Ye Wangyou said, "And I also know a little about Feng Shui. Whether it is Yuanqi Building or this house, Feng Shui

They are all good. The other thing is... those lotus flowers!"

"lotus?"

Ye Wangyou smiled slightly, "I also have a lotus pond in front of Yuanqi Tower, and there is also a lotus pond sculpture on the roof."

Everyone was a little puzzled - is there anything special about these lotus flowers?

"It's a chessboard." Ye Wangyou became more energetic when he mentioned this, and everyone looked at him - Ganqing is a chess player.

There are many people here who love to play chess, and there are also many who are good at chess. Everyone looked at each other and wondered, "What chess board?"

"Lotus Chess."

Zhan Zhao looked at Bai Yutang, Gongsun looked at Zhao Pu - what kind of chess? I've never heard of it!

Surprisingly, the fifth master and the fourth son, who like all kinds of chess games, shook their heads and said they had never heard of it.

Zhao Pu frowned, but he remembered something, "Is it a kind of sandboard chess played in the military camp before?"

"That's right!" Ye Wangyou clapped his hands, "The most authentic way to play is in the sand!"

"Playing chess in the sand?" The fourth boy couldn't imagine it.

Ye Wangyou said, "Lotus chess is very interesting. There are two types of chess pieces, flower chess and leaf chess. They are made in the shape of lotus and lotus leaves, and the bottoms of the lotus and lotus leaves are connected with a rope.

"

"Rope?" This was the first time everyone had heard of it.

"Insert all the chess pieces in the sand, and move the chess pieces on the sand table with the ropes buried in the sand, pulling up several chess pieces. It is possible that you only capture one of the opponent's pieces, but bring up several of your own pieces... In short, this is the case.

A very complex but interesting way to play." Ye Wangyou briefly introduced it, and everyone felt that it was a bit complicated, and would they really not be angry when playing this chess? It's possible that the sand player obviously won, but the sand player

, maybe the sand table will be overturned.

I always feel that the person who came up with this gameplay is not doing it for fun but to make people angry.

Gongsun asked Zhao Pu, "Is this kind of chess played in the military camp?"

Zhao Pu smiled and shook his head, "It's not like it's a pot of porridge. I've heard of it too..."

After speaking, Zhao Pu asked Zhan Zhao, "Didn't you play it when you were a child? I heard that Youlian invented it, so it's called Lotus Chess."

Zhan Zhao touched his chin, "Sure enough, it's Uncle Fu's style... I definitely won't play in the Magic Palace. Two hundred and ninety-nine of the three hundred grandparents have bad tempers. Usually, even pushing Pai Gow would blow up the nest.

If this kind of chess is played, the Demon Palace might be demolished."

At this point, Zhan Zhao suddenly felt that the rabbit meat in his hand was no longer fragrant, so he leaned on the table to look at the Fifth Master - thinking about the Demon Palace!

Bai Yutang gestured to Zhao Zhen who was standing beside him, and winked at Zhan Zhao - otherwise you can take this opportunity to beat him up, and your family can return to the Demon Palace.

Zhan Zhao made a "poof" sound, and the two of them suppressed smiles at each other. Zhao Zhen and Nangong both turned to look at them - what are you doing? Are you so happy to have a meal?

The fourth son asked Yi Wangyou, did Yuan Ji find her later?

Ye Wangyou shook his head, "until the Qilin family fled to other places, there was no news about Yuan Ji. Besides, Yuan Ji had no relatives except Ruiyang Gong. No one went to report to the official, and no one came to find her.

.”

"Didn't you say that Duke Ruiyang was looking for her everywhere?" Zhan Zhao was puzzled, "Jinggong came to you also to find her..."

Ye Wangyou nodded, "But after I asked, I continued... I just can't find the feeling of being put down."

Everyone looked at each other in shock - right? What if the wife and children are lost and cannot be found?
To be continued...