8,08 cellar(1/2)
At the entrance of the bedroom of the Taiwei Mansion, four adults surrounded Cao Kui's body. After taking a look, they were a little sad. How could they end up like this?
At this time, Zhan Zhao poked his head out of the room and waved to him after seeing Bai Yutang.
The fifth master hugged Xiao Sizi and wanted to go over. Xiao Sizi suddenly grabbed him and pointed to the fake hand on the stone table in the yard.
Seeing that Xiao Liangzi wanted that hand, he ran over and took it over and handed it to him.
This is a wood carving hand, and the workmanship is relatively rough, but it can be seen that it is a woman's hand.
"Jin'er, what's wrong with this hand?" Xiao Liang asked.
The little fourth son touched his chin and thought about his thoughts.
The fifth master put him next to Xiao Liang and asked the shadow guards to watch him, so he ran to find Zhan Zhao.
At this moment, in the bedroom of Taiwei, Gongsun and Zhao Pu were standing in the middle of the room, and Zou Liang was lying on the ground, knocking on the stone slabs.
Zhan Zhao asked Bai Yutang to see the gaps in the stone slabs.
The floor of the bedroom of the Taiwei Mansion was covered with square gray stone slabs. Zhan Zhao made the stone slab that Bai Yutang looked at was very clean, and the one next to it was blood. It should have been caused by the drag of the Taiwei's body, and the blood penetrated into the gap between the stone slabs.
The fifth master saw the clue and asked, "Can this stone slab move?"
"It should be, but I can't pry it open." Zou Liang shook his head, and pointed to the ground, "I really want to hear a sound below."
Zhao Pu signaled everyone around him to make a sound. The room became quiet. Zhan Zhao used the Juque to knock on the stone slab a few times.
Gongsun was still confused, but several masters in the room were all tilted.
"There is indeed a voice." Lin Yehuo said, "It seems that someone calls for help."
"There are people below?" Lord Bao looked at the Grand Master.
The Grand Master slapped his mouth - just like what I found out before, there was a cellar under Cao Kui's bedroom.
Zhao Pu asked someone to call the housekeeper.
The butler said that there was indeed a cellar underground in the Taiwei's room, but only the Taiwei knew how to go down. Usually, no one was allowed to enter the Taiwei's room, and the butler of the Taiwei Mansion changed every year.
"The housekeeper changes every year?" asked the fifth master, "Where are the maids and guards?"
"It's also a year when the Grand Marshal doesn't like others asking about him, and he doesn't have much to say to his servants, and he always goes alone." The housekeeper was helpless.
Zhan Zhao pulled Bai Yutang, "There should be a mechanism to open the cellar, and it is important to save people first."
The fifth master nodded, "Look at what decorations are in the room that you can't pick up."
Everyone looked for it separately, picking up all vases, potted books, and pen holders.
Gongsun saw the masters joining forces to find the agency, and shook his head helplessly. These people were very honest at critical moments.
After thinking about it, Mr. Gongsun walked to the door and waved to the little fourth son who was playing with Xiao Liangzi in the distance.
The little Sizi ran to the door and acted coquettishly with Gongsun with his hands on his back. "Who said just now, it's hard for children to run around and look at the corpses."
Gongsun reached out to pinch his nose - you are getting more and more naughty with the Demon King!
Xiao Sizi took Gongsun's hand and crossed the threshold. Xiao Liangzi also followed in, holding the fake hand in his hand.
Xiao Sizi asked Xiao Liangzi for a fake hand and handed it to Bai Yutang.
The Eight King asked Li Yue, "Where did you take that hand from?"
Li Yue pointed to a wooden cabinet at the head of the bed, "just beside the candlestick."
The Eighth Prince looked at him with disgust, "How can the things in this room move around!"
Li Yue scratched his head, and he picked it up and saw that the Eight Kings were coming, so he took it out to scare him.
The fifth master walked over, took away the candlestick on the wooden cabinet, then fumbled the platen and lifted it up...
It turns out that the roof of this wooden cabinet can be opened.
There was a drawer below, and there was a erected octagonal iron nail in the middle. Wu Ye looked at the bottom of the wooden hand and put the wooden hand on the nail, pressed it, and then turned it...
Then, a "scratch" sound came from the ground and the stone slab descended.
The stone slabs fell half a person high, and there was a stone stairs below, and there was also a long blood stain on the stairs. I could faintly hear the woman's faint cry for help from below.
Zhan Zhao jumped down quickly, Lin Yehuo also wanted to go down, Gongsun carried the medicine box, "Someone may be injured, I'll go too!"
Huo Feng helped him, and the two of them avoided the blood and followed Zhan Zhao to the cellar.
Zhao Pu also wanted to jump in. As soon as he stretched out his legs, he was grabbed by several hands behind him at the same time.
The Ninth Prince turned around, the Eight Kings, Li Yue, Bao Zheng, and Grand Master Pang grabbed the hem of his clothes together, and the one he grabbed was so accurate.
Zhao Pu looked unhappy. He still had to be taken care of when he arrived in Kaifeng Prefecture?!
At this moment, the floor rose back.
Everyone turned around.
Bai Yutang looked at the wooden cabinet roof that was automatically closed in front of him, "It will be automatically closed, and the workmanship is very exquisite."
After saying that, he lifted the roof again, turned the wooden hand, and the stone slab opened again.
The Master whispered to Master Bao, "Even if the body of his wife is hidden below, it doesn't need to be as exaggerated as the ancient tomb mechanism."
Lord Bao nodded with agreement.
Li Yue couldn't understand what was going on and asked curiously, "What's the body of his wife?"
The Eight King asked him, "Didn't you and Duoqi and Cao Kui know each other a long time ago? Don't you know that he was holding his wife's body?"
Li Yue turned his face, stared at the Eight King for a while, and shook his head, "Cao Kui's wife is cremated."
Everyone was stunned. Lord Bao turned his face to look at the Grand Master - Fatty, the news is not accurate!
The Grand Master touched this chubby chin - he was not sure?!
"It's not the legend that the Taiwei loves his wife as his life, and misses his deceased wife..."
Li Yue nodded, "He is indeed a wife who has refused to re-string after her death. Every time someone tells him to kiss her, he refuses, saying that he misses his deceased wife until death, but his wife has been cremated long ago."
"Marty is sure?" Bao Zheng asked.
Li Yue nodded, "It happened many years ago when his wife passed away. He had just entered Kaifeng to take the exam for his fame. When I was drinking with Duoqi, he said that he had no worries and only had a jar of the wife's ashes."
Bao Zheng takes care of the butler.
The butler spread his hands and said that he had only worked for less than a year, and the Grand Marshal had never told him anything.
Just then, Lin Yehuo ran up and waved to everyone, "Wow! It's so scary below. Come and see, that Taiwei is perverted."
After saying that, Huo Feng ran down again.
Zhao Pu saw a flash of white shadow in front of him. Bai Yutang had already gone down, leaving a sentence, "If you can't go down, help me look at the mechanism."
Zhao Pu looked at the few people who were dragging him in dissatisfaction.
"Ahem." Lord Bao gave up his hand, "It's important to investigate the case." After saying that, he followed Bai Yutang, "Young Master Bai, wait for this mansion."
Li Yue also went down. The Grand Master looked at the entrance of the cave and stretched out his hand, "Mr. Marquis, pull me."
Finally, Zhao Pu looked at the Eighth Prince.
The prince gritted his teeth, "I want to go down too!"
Zhao Pu looked at the sky and reached out to help the Eight Kings go downstairs.
Finally, Long Qiaoguang stood helplessly by the bed and looked at the wooden cabinet. General Right curled his lips, "Why should I come to investigate the case? Isn't it good to stay at home and have a baby with my wife?"
Xiao Liangzi and Xiao Sizi ran to the cellar hand in hand. Before they could take a step, Gongsun heard a voice coming from below, "Children are not allowed to come down!"
The little Sizi flattered her mouth and Xiao Liang and she went to the cabinet to wait with Long Qiaoguang.
Long Qiaoguang touched the heads of the two little kids with both hands and muttered, "Oh, it's so round, my head is so round."
Xiao Liangzi was rubbed and shook his arms. Just as he was about to jump up and resist, he saw that Xiao Sizi next to him suddenly stopped moving.
Xiao Sizi stood firmly for a while, then looked confused on her face, and her little hand poked her chin.
Xiao Liang blinked - Did Jin'er see something again?
...
The cellar is quite deep, the stairs are divided into two sections, and the bottom is very empty. The size of the cellar is amazing to everyone who comes down.
"Who did Lao Cao find to dig?" Li Yue felt incredible.
"Isn't it possible to dig for more than ten or twenty years? Such a large-scale construction has not been discovered?" The Grand Master touched his beard and looked up at the dome above.
After going down the steps, the first thing I saw was a huge black sarcophagus in the middle.
Gongsun beside the sarcophagus is treating a woman.
Looking around again, everyone felt a chill and inexplicably panic.
There were a circle of shelves around the cellar, layer by layer filled with red candles. Obviously, these candles were bright and continued after burning, so a thick layer of wax was piled up like a mountain.
On the top of the shelf, there was a circle of white porcelain jars. Everyone recognized this kind of porcelain jar... Isn't this an urn? Is this used as decoration?
The fifth master glanced at him and said, "Nine groups are in one, ninety-nine groups in total."
To be continued...