There was a familiar sound of a machine starting from behind the iron wall, a rattling sound of iron chains twisting, and a small door moved away from the iron wall in front of them. Both of them were excited.
In order to prevent traps, Cai Zhao hung a silver chain at the door for a long time, and then the two of them cautiously entered.
They originally thought that behind the door was the passage leaving the underground palace, but after stepping into the iron door, their surroundings suddenly became clear.
There is soft soil under the feet, and there is a bright crystal wall above the head. I don't know how to set up the crystal mirror, but it actually refracts the sunlight on the ground to the ground. The breath is smooth, and the slightest breeze blows on the face, making people feel like they are on the ground. In the wild.
"This...is this a vegetable garden?" Cai Zhao looked at the field ridges surrounded by small fences in astonishment, and there were traces of vegetation that had dried up and turned to dust.
Mu Qingyan twitched the corner of his mouth, "The vegetables should be planted in rows. These plants are scattered in an orderly manner. They should be regarded as gardens."
Going around the large gardens, the two passed by three or five pavilions and pavilions. Under these pavilions, there was actually a winding stream. The stream dries up, revealing colorful stream rocks at the bottom.
Cai Zhao leaned over and picked up two colored stones. When playing with them, he was surprised to find that what he held in his hands were actually priceless gems.
They saw a small zoo on the west side, three or four peacock cages gilded with twisted wire, seven or eight silver rabbit cages inlaid with agate, placer gold bird cages inlaid with emeralds, and even a dozen jade cages. The chicken and duck cage woven with bamboo silk...it's a pity that all the birds and animals inside have turned into bones.
"Now that I believe in Master Mu Donglie, this is the time when your demonic sect's manpower and material resources are at its peak." Cai Zhao was dazzled by these cages, "Even if there are ten thousand rabbits, this rabbit cage is not worth as much!"
Mu Qingyan was surprised and confused, "Pavilions, streams and rockeries, gardens and animal gardens... this seems to be the backyard of a mansion."
Cai Zhao was confused: "Who would live underground?"
The two continued to walk forward, and an elegant and exquisite small palace appeared in front of them.
White jade walls, gold tile roofs, carved beams and painted buildings... Under the refraction of light from the top of the crystal wall, more than a hundred years have not been able to erase the splendor and splendor of this small palace.
Because they entered through the back door of the palace, the two of them arrived at the dormitory first.
If Nie Zhe's bedroom is gorgeous and full of luxury, the bedroom here is full of dazzling pearls and greenery, which makes people forget the vulgarity.
There were two pillows placed side by side on the huge and exquisite gold-patterned seastone bed, and two pairs of soft-soled silk shoes, one large and one small, were placed under the bed.
There are also two dressing tables carved from jasper and coral side by side. One is tall and the other is short. The silver mirrors are tall and the other is short. The short dressing table is scattered with hairpins, earrings and other women's accessories. The tall dressing table is placed with Several white jade boxes were opened and revealed to be jade hairpins and dragon and phoenix rings of various colors used by men.
In addition, tables, chairs, couches, cups and even toiletries in the clean room on the side are all in pairs.
The only strange thing is that there is a palm-sized gold ring embedded near the ground on the four walls of this inner bedroom. The four gold rings are all engraved with exquisite pomegranate blossom patterns.
"Is there a couple living here?" Mu Qingyan looked confused, "But the historical records don't say that the leader Mu Donglie married a wife? If he had a family, why did he pass the position of leader to his nephew instead of his own son? ?”
Cai Zhao is very transparent about this matter: "Who said that you will definitely have children when you get married? Let me tell you, the doctor with the most prosperous business in Luoying Town neither treats bruises nor treats difficult and complicated diseases, but helps The ones who make difficult little couples!”
The handsome young man rarely looked confused. In his mind, if you can conceive a child even without getting married, why would any couple still need to seek medical advice to have a child?
The two of them looked around from room to room, from the sleeping room to the banquet hall, from the study room to the piano room, and became increasingly certain that the owners of this palace were a couple. I don’t know how the male host is, but the female host should be a gentle and weak person but strong inside.
She loves misty poems, and likes to write down her experiences in planting flowers and grass. She wears a three-finger tortoise shell finger cot when playing the piano. When embroidering, she can split a silk thread into nine strands, and patiently embroider the heaven, earth, and mountains.
Cai Zhao stood in front of the embroidery stand and tried to distinguish the patterns on the embroidery. Although the silk would not decay for a hundred years, the color had turned black. Instead, Mu Qingyan took a look at it and concluded, "They are two crooked-neck podocarpus trees."
Cai Zhao also saw it: "What a crooked-necked podocarpus? This is a welcoming pine! It is a mutation of the podocarpus. From now on, I will take you to Changchun Temple to see the largest welcoming pine in the world!"
Then she was confused again, "Could this lady be from Changchun Temple? But Changchun Temple doesn't accept nuns either."
Mu Qingyan frowned, as if he thought of something.
It wasn't until the two of them had seen the entire palace that they discovered a secret inner room behind the study.
It is said to be secretive, but in fact it is only slightly covered with bookshelves and bead curtains.
A tall shrine was placed inside, and the faint smell of burning cigarettes was still there. What is enshrined in the shrine is neither the Taoist founder nor the gods and demons of heaven and earth, but an elderly immortal jade statue more than one foot tall.
The jade statue is like a Taoist immortal, with the dust floating slightly, it looks very familiar, Mu and Cai have just met it.
Cai Zhao was startled: "It turns out that this couple worshiped Ancestor Beichen."
At this time, Mu Qingyan suddenly reached out to the jade statue of the ancestor of the north. Cai Zhao was frightened and quickly pulled him. The heroic spirit of our ancestors.”
Mu Qingyan said amusedly: "Look at what's under the ancestor's jade statue?"
Cai Zhao looked around and discovered that there were two thin pieces of jade paper pressed under the jade statue. Because the jade statue is white and the jade paper is also white, ordinary people would not be able to spot it if not for Mu Qingyan's sharp eyes.
Mu Qingyan carefully lifted up the jade statue and took out the jade paper. Cai Zhao on the side was also very excited. He pressed it so solemnly under the statue of the ancestor. Even if it was not a treasure map, it must be some kind of secret book of peerless martial arts.
Unexpectedly, Mu Qingyan opened it and said, "It turns out to be a marriage certificate."
"Marriage certificate?" Cai Zhao was stunned for a moment.
Mu Qingyan spread the jade-paper wedding book on the table. The two of them looked at it together. What was engraved on it was——
'I'm glad that today the ceremony has just begun, and the good relationship has been established. The poems sing about Guan Ju, and the songs of songs are about Lin Zhi. Love is strong, white heads are in one heart, this ambition is unswerving. We solemnly make this agreement and vow to never betray each other.'
Under it are the names of the newlyweds. First, the three characters "Mu Donglie" are written on the back of the paper with an iron painting and silver hook, and then the female name "Luo Shiyun" is written in a graceful and elegant female stroke.
Mu Qingyan said to himself: "It turns out that Master Mu Donglie is really married. I wonder where this Mrs. Luo came from..." Before he finished the words, he saw the little girl next to him with a strange and uneasy look on his face.
"What's wrong?" He narrowed his eyes slightly, "Do you, do you know who this Luo Shiyun is? Where did you hear about it?"
Cai Zhao was speechless, "I, I, I haven't heard of this, this... but I may know who she is."
These words were confusing, but Mu Qingyan's heart moved, "The founder of Luoying Valley was first named Niu, then Gu, and then Luo. Is she from your Luoying Valley?"
Cai Zhao struggled for a long time before slowly nodding, "Probably so. But it's a long story. How about we go out and talk about it?"
When he heard that Mu Donglie was marrying a woman from Luoying Valley, Mu Qingyan felt happy.
He pulled the girl to sit down with a smile, "The leader of the Demon Cult married your ancestor, do you really want to talk about it outside? It's better to talk about it here, come on, talk slowly, don't rush this moment."
Cai Zhao sighed: "Actually, there's nothing to say."
Like all sects with a long history, Luoying Valley also has family trees that record the achievements and anecdotes of ancestors in the past generations. However, some are detailed and some are brief, some are meticulous and some are vague and brief. In some cases, they are noble, so as to prevent ignorant younger generations from imitating evil deeds. I was considerate and said that the scandal of the family should not be made public.
For example, a 'witch' like Gu Qingkong.
Over the past two hundred years, the descendants of Luoying Valley have continued to grow, and the number of people who have written down the ancestral genealogy is between 200 and 150. It is naturally impossible for Cai Zhao to write down all of them, not to mention that most of the people who make a living in the world are men.
However, among the numerous ancestors, there are still a few women who stand out. Apart from the heroic Cai Pingshu, the second most famous one is Luo Shiqiao.
"What achievements does this Luo Shiqiao have?" Mu Qingyan frowned.
Cai Zhao sighed: "It is said that she is the most dignified, virtuous and thoughtful girl in our Luoying Valley in the past two hundred years. She is also the best girl to marry - my mother always uses her to criticize me."
Coincidentally, Luo Shiqiao also grew up in Peiqiong Villa and made a marriage contract with the young owner of the Villa. However, compared with Cai Pingshu, who was struggling in the inner house, Luo Shiqiao was like a duck in water.
Her future mother-in-law, Mrs. Zhou, really treated her as her own daughter and taught her future daughter-in-law step by step. She passed away a few years later, so when Luo Shiqiao came in, there were no common mother-in-law and daughter-in-law disputes in secular stories.
When the old owner and his wife of Luoying Valley passed away, their only son was still young, so Luo Shiqiao had to take care of half of the family for his young brother.
Because her biological mother died young, her young sister-in-law is more attached to Luo Shiqiao than her mother.
This sister-in-law later married Guangtianmen.
According to the ancestral genealogy, for almost ten years, three of the six Beichen sects were in the hands of Luo Shiqiao——
First of all, the husband-in-law of Luo Shiqiao's childhood sweetheart is well-known in the world as a bad ear, and he obeys his wife's words.
Next is the young master of Luo Ying Valley who is still changing his teeth. He is like an elder sister and a mother. Luo Shiqiao said nothing.
Finally, there is the young Guangtian Clan leader who succeeded to the throne. Although he is highly skilled in martial arts, he has a gentle temperament and has no independent opinions. He is sometimes looked down upon and suppressed by his elders. He is alone in the house and feels miserable when his wife sees him. The wife cries and sends a letter back to her parents' home. Sister-in-law Luo Shiqiao came to the house aggressively and asked for help.
The old leader of the Qingque Sect at that time once joked that Luo Shiqiao could almost have the final say in every six-sect conference held in those ten years, and that he, the first leader of the sect, was purely for show.
This period of history is quite uncomfortable for a group of men who consider themselves to be a man. However, Luo Shiqiao is fair in dealing with things, strict in rewards and punishments, and her words and actions are amazing.
Although she scolded all the men of the Song family, except her brother-in-law, as dogs, and even beat up one faction after another to point fingers in Guangtianmen, she did heal the serious rift left by the previous generation of the Song family and avoided the impending disaster caused by Xiao Qiang.
Although she vigorously reformed the shortcomings of Luoying Valley and offended countless elders of the Luo family, she did give her younger brother a well-organized and prosperous family business more than ten years later.
Although she devoured her husband to death, the owner of Villa Zhou was very happy with it, and everyone in the Zhou family was obedient. Peiqiong Villa has become famous in the world in the past twenty years, and no one in the world dares to disobey her.
——Luo Shiqiao is a strange existence in the ancestral records of various families. They want to praise this strange woman, but they also praise her awkwardly and are unwilling to do so.
Mu Qingyan laughed after hearing this and said, "Did the Yin family father and daughter be inspired by Mrs. Luo, and they planned to follow the same example, but unfortunately they failed and died halfway, ugh."
"My mother said so too!" Cai Zhao also laughed.
Mu Qingyan: "Her name is Luo Shiqiao, so does she have a sister named Luo Shiyun?"
"I don't know." Cai Zhao sighed, "I only know that Mrs. Luo's brother is named Luo Shi'an. There is no record at all whether they have another sister."
Her eyes dimmed, "Then in the records of the following generations, it was clearly written that 'forty years after Gu Qingkong's chaos subsided, the Luoying Valley was unfortunate, and another evil girl appeared'."
Mu Qingyan blurted out, "Gu Qingkong disappeared one hundred and sixty years ago. Forty years later, it happened to be one hundred and twenty years ago, when the leader Mu Donglie gave up his throne and retired. So. ,so……"
"So I'm afraid this is another witch from Luoying Valley." Cai Zhao looked at the jade-paper wedding letter and sighed repeatedly, "Senior Gu Qingkong just has a bad temper and likes to go against everyone in the Six Sects, and beats the elders from time to time. This one is good. , directly married the leader of the Demon Cult, and I don’t know if her parents who died young were mad at her.”
Mu Qingyan's eyelids twitched and he said hurriedly: "Don't talk nonsense, anyone with a certain level of cultivation will never get angry so easily." He changed the subject, "Let's look through this shrine again. If there is nothing strange, Let’s continue to find a way out.”
Cai Zhao glanced at him and began to search the shrine without saying a word. Because of an unknown fire, she raised her hand and knocked over a white jade box. After the box lid shook open, a large handful of golden objects scattered out.
The two of them looked at it and saw that it was a large bundle of slender gold chains rolled into a ball, with a lock on one end and a large round circle on the other.
"What is this? It doesn't look like something hanging around the neck..." Cai Zhaozheng smiled, and suddenly caught a glimpse of the familiar pattern on the gold chain, and his expression changed drastically.
Mu Qingyan was quick-thinking and reacted immediately, but before he could open his mouth, Cai Zhao was already furious.
"Bastard! You Mu people are all bastards!" She slashed the white jade box towards Mu Qingyan, and at the same time, using her palm as a knife, she slashed at him with great vigor.
Chapter 84
Although Cai Zhao is smart, he is still young and lacks experience when he first enters the world. Under normal circumstances, she would not have so quickly connected the gold chain in front of her with the gold ring on the wall of her dormitory just now.
However, she had seen the exact same device not long ago - in a mansion in Qingque Town used to house Qian Xueshen, she saw with her own eyes an exquisite iron shackle locked on Qian Xueshen's ankle, followed by a slender The chain was embedded in the wall.
It was because of this iron chain that she tried to take Qian Xueshen away but failed.
After throwing the white jade box and the contents of the shrine onto Mu Qingyan's head, she silently picked up the gold chain and rushed back to the dormitory - as a strict and righteous heroine, she did not want to wrong someone in vain. . She squatted in front of the gold ring on the wall, and carefully put it close. There was a soft metal click, and the lock at one end of the gold chain fit tightly with the gold ring.
Cai Zhaoke was furious: This gold chain and ring are clearly used to lock people!
At this time, Mu Qingyan arrived and saw the gold chain and ring perfectly matched. The angry little girl was already trying her best to attack.
The five fingers of her left palm were slightly spread out, shaped like an orchid, while her right palm was as straight as a blade. She turned sideways and covered several large acupoints on half of Mu Qingyan's body under the attack. Mu Qingyan avoided the blow. hand, turn around and bump into Cai Zhao's sword hand on the other side. This move is exactly the first move of the Dragon Capturing Hand, 'Special Shape and Wonderful Shape'.
Cai Zhao's cultivation level is not weak, and the dragon-capturing hand is Cai Pingshu's favorite move. Mu Qingyan does not dare to underestimate him. If he were facing an enemy normally, he would use the Nine Nether Soul-Breaking Hands to strike at the opponent's wrist, which would break the muscles and bones of the opponent's hand and lose one of his hands, or the Nether Soul Qi could directly invade the opponent's Dantian - but against Cai How could he really use such cruel tactics?
Mu Qingyan wanted to turn over and leap backwards, but then changed his mind and hit Cai Zhao with a hammer.
Cai Zhao was startled, and reflexively touched her waist with her right hand. Once she drew out the Yang Yang knife and slashed through the air, she could cut the figure that was rushing towards her in two - but she didn't want Mu Qingyan to really be broken into two pieces. .
What Mu Qingyan was waiting for was the little girl's hesitation.
