Chen Yixin suddenly turned her eyes and discovered the golden needle on the ground, and asked puzzledly: "Father, what is that?" Chen Xiaotian looked back, his expression became solemn again, and said to Chen Yixin: "This was left by the perpetrator. hidden weapon."
Chen Yixin's eyebrows slightly furrowed after hearing this. She stepped forward to pick up the golden needle and put it in her hand to examine it. After a while, she turned around and said to Chen Xiaotian: "Father, I seem to have seen this hidden weapon before?"
When Chen Xiaotian heard this, he asked in surprise: "Seriously? Where have you seen it before?!" Chen Yixin lowered her head and thought for a while and said, "I'm not sure. I've seen this style of embroidery needle at Chaiji Cloth Shop outside the west gate. But the only difference is that it was an iron needle and this is a gold needle."
"Chai Ji Buzhuang?!" Chen Xiaotian whispered. Pan Suxuan also thought to himself: "Chaiji Buzhuang? Isn't that the place where Niantong and I followed Wang Rong and Shuang'er? Could it be that the perpetrators came from there?"
Chen Xiaotian pondered for a moment and shouted: "Here comes someone!" Hearing the sound outside the door, a guard came in, bowed and said: "Master, what are your orders?"
Chen Xiaotian said: "Go and ask the guard, Chang Ma De Sheng, to come over." The guard nodded in agreement, turned and left. It was not long before Ma Desheng came to the hall. After saluting, he said, "I wonder if you want to ask me again?"
Chen Xiaotian said: "Desheng, let me ask you, where is Xu San's body now?" Ma Desheng was stunned. He did not expect Chen Xiaotian to ask this question. After thinking about it for a while, he said: "It should be in the woodshed behind the courtyard. , I wanted to take him out of the house last night and bury him in the back mountain, but you asked to tighten the defense in the house last night, so I sent all my men to patrol, and the body was left there untouched. "
Chen Xiaotian said: "That's very good. Send someone to carry Xu San's body to the secret room on the rockery in the backyard! Remember, don't let others notice!"
Ma Desheng asked in confusion: "Master, why... is this!?" Chen Xiaotian said seriously: "No need to ask more, just go and do it quickly."
Ma Desheng received the order, turned around and walked out of the hall. Chen Xiaotian said to Pan Suxuan: "Pan Shaoxia, let's go to the secret room."
Pan Suxuan was confused and didn't know what Chen Xiaotian meant by this move, so he could only nod in agreement. Chen Xiaotian looked at Zhao Niantong's injuries again. She fell asleep again at some point. Seeing that his breathing was steady and his pulse was gentle, and that he was no longer seriously injured, he arranged for people to carry Zhao Niantong's soft bed to the back room of Xuanzhengtang and put it in the lobby. Security was stepped up before and after to protect Zhao Niantong's safety. Seeing that everything was arranged properly, Chen Xiaotian and others left the Xuanzang Hall and walked towards the backyard.
Although they have been in the General's Mansion for two days, this huge mansion is still like a maze to Pan Suxuan. Fortunately, Chen Xiaotian led the way. After walking for about half a stick of incense, the three of them arrived at a garden in a side courtyard. middle. The garden looks very ordinary, with a stone bridge, two small pavilions, and a rockery in the pond. The rockery is surrounded by trees and flowers from the south. It is not comparable to the forest gardens in the courtyards of other wealthy families in the south of the Yangtze River. any difference.
When the three of them arrived, Ma Desheng was already waiting at the pavilion. There was a long object wrapped in black cloth at his feet. No need to ask, this must be Xu San's body. Seeing Chen Xiaotian approaching, Ma Desheng stepped forward and said, "Master, I'm afraid that others may not be safe, so I brought the body here by myself. Don't worry, no one will notice."
Chen Xiaotian nodded and looked around. Seeing that there was no one else around, he walked to the pillar on the northwest side of the pavilion. He stretched out his right hand and pushed the pillar slightly to the left. He only heard a clicking sound and walked from the garden. Dozens of stone piers slowly rise from the pond inside.
Chen Xiaotian turned to Pan Suxuan and said: "Pan Shaoxia, please follow me closely. Don't step on these stone piers incorrectly, otherwise your life will be in danger."
Pan Suxuan nodded in agreement, knowing in his heart that there were hidden mechanisms and ambushes under these stone pillars. If he took a wrong step, triggering the mechanism would be disastrous, so he did not dare to be careless and watched Chen Xiaotian's actions with all his attention.
Chen Xiaotian jumped from the pavilion to the leftmost stone pier in the row closest to the pavilion, then stepped on two stone piers to the right and stopped, then jumped again and crossed the three stone piers in the middle. He stepped on the fourth stone pier to the right, stepped on two stone piers to the right, and stopped at the rightmost stone pier.
Only then did Pan Suxuan notice that these stone piers seemed to be distributed in a disorderly manner, but in fact they were arranged strictly according to the innate Bagua. The stone pier that Chen Xiaotian stepped on just now happened to be a Yin Yao in the Bagua.
Sure enough, after Chen Xiaotian stopped at the rightmost stone pier in the first row, he flew over the stone piers in the front row and stopped at the stone piers in the third row from the pavilion. Chen Xiaotian did not fall down on any of the stone piers in this row. He stepped on a Yang Yao with his feet. Now there is one yin and one yang. In the last row, Chen Xiaotian stepped out another yang line, forming a hexagram with one yin first and two yang. Pan Suxuan knew that this was the Xun hexagram in the Bagua.
Just when Chen Xiaotian stepped on the last stone pier, the rockery in the lake suddenly made a creaking sound. Looking around, he saw a secret door appearing in the middle of the rockery. Chen Xiaotian jumped up, jumped in front of the door, and said to the three people on the pavilion: "Everyone, follow my method and come here step by step. Be sure not to step on the wrong stone pier."
The three agreed, and Pan Suxuan was the first to step onto the stone pier. The raised height of the stone pier happened to be just above the water. If Chen Xiaotian had not demonstrated before, it would not have been easy to identify the stone pier in the pool from a certain distance.
Although Pan Suxuan's Qinggong was not as good as Chen Mo's, he could be regarded as a talented person among his peers. With a tap of his toes and an elegant step, Pan Suxuan arrived at the secret door at the rockery in a matter of seconds. When Chen Xiaotian saw this, he couldn't help but nodded slightly.
As soon as Pan Suxuan stood firm, he felt a scent of fragrance approaching behind him. When he looked back, it turned out that Chen Yixin had completed the Yin and Yang dance and had stepped on most of the last row of stone piers. Pan Suxuan secretly said: "I didn't expect that the eldest lady of the Chen family looks so delicate and delicate, but her Qinggong is so good. I didn't even notice when she set off behind me."
Just as he was thinking about it, Chen Yixin was already in front of him. At this time, only Ma Desheng was left at the pavilion. He picked up Xu San's body on the ground, put it on his shoulders, and walked to the pavilion unsteadily.
Seeing this, Chen Xiaotian raised his voice slightly and said to Ma DeSheng: "DeSheng, don't be anxious, watch your feet and take your time!"
Ma Desheng responded, stood by the fence, took a long look, and spotted the first stone pier. He jumped hard, and heard only a splash and water splashing everywhere. Look at Ma Desheng again. Although he stood on the stone pier, his own weight was too heavy. Plus Xu San, he didn’t know how to lift Qi easily. He used all his strength to jump, so even though he stepped on the He landed on the stone pier, but the water splashing around him had also soaked his lower body, which was no different from falling into the water.
Seeing this, Chen Yixin smiled slightly and said to Chen Xiaotian: "Father, let me help him." Then she jumped into the air with a slight movement, like a fairy in a painting, light and graceful, and landed on the horse a few times. Victory is near.
Ma Desheng said to Chen Yixin with a slight embarrassment: "Miss, please help me." Chen Yixin smiled sweetly and said: "General Ma, you're welcome, just jump to the back edge of the stone pier ahead."
Ma Desheng nodded, picked up Xu San's body again and jumped forward with all his strength. His body was still very clumsy. Just when he was about to land, Chen Yixin suddenly took out a long silk ribbon from her sleeve and gave a slight bow to Ma Desheng's waist. The force of his fall was relieved by the blow, and Ma Desheng's feet landed firmly in the middle of the stone pier, with no more water splashing.
When Pan Suxuan saw it, he admired in his heart: "It seems that Chen Yixin not only has extraordinary light skills, but also masters the control of internal strength. If the blow is too strong, it will push Ma Desheng off the stone pier. If the blow is too weak, it will not be able to remove him." The power of descent, such just the right amount of force, is definitely not something that can be mastered overnight.”
In this way, Ma Desheng, with the help of Chen Yixin, carried Xu San's body to the secret door at the rockery. When Chen Xiaotian saw that everyone had arrived, he gently pushed open the secret door with his hand. He only heard a creaking sound. Pan Suxuan looked in and was shocked!
