The small room that Jin Jing mentioned for eavesdropping on the adults' conversation should be more accurately a small pavilion, but the small pavilion is ventilated from all sides. Only one side of this small room can see the outside, so the children hide. , as long as you hide well, you won't be discovered by adults.
The three people stood in front of the small house and looked at the small house up and down, feeling a little emotional.
"You tell me, when we were naughty, misbehaved, and acted like crazy, we didn't expect that one day in the future, we would be like this, right?"
"How do you say this?" Hongye curled his lips, "What have become of us now? What's wrong with being like this now? Isn't it good!"
"What I mean is, what happened to these people was something we didn't expect back then, right?"
"Yes, don't say that I didn't expect what happened now. When we happily eavesdropped on the adults' conversation, we didn't expect that in a few months, such a big change would happen in the two mansions." Hongye said gently Sighing, "I never thought that we would grow up overnight and never come here again. You said, Brother Tian and I live in the Hou Mansion, but we have never been here once."
"Who says it's not? We're not far away. It seems like we can't think of revisiting our old place, right?" Jin Jing raised her chin towards Shen Haolin, "It seems like she's hiding here on purpose. I didn't expect that. , this is what we should pay most attention to." He knelt down, looked carefully, and saw that a corner of the steps was missing. He chuckled twice, "Little Hongye, seeing this now, I feel embarrassed. Not embarrassed? Blushing or not?"
"Why should I feel embarrassed and blush?" Hongye rolled his eyes, squatted next to Jin Jing, stretched out his hand to touch the step that was damaged by her kick, "Don't you think it's strange? I did the same at the beginning. He is just a child of seven or eight years old. Even if he is strong, he is still a little bigger than other children of the same age, but he won't be able to break the steps, right? If I had such great ability, I would be able to conquer mountains. The world is so angry that, let alone attacking Liao and Jin, it is possible to demolish their houses and lairs, so there is no need for us to deal with this and that now, right?"
Shen Haolin nodded. At that time, he just felt that his friend had accidentally gotten into trouble. He only focused on protecting his friend and didn't think there was anything wrong. It was only when he returned to his hometown many years later that he felt something was wrong.
"What kind of stone steps can be broken by a seven or eight-year-old girl?"
Shen Haolin also squatted over, stretched out his hand and knocked here, then there, thought for a while, and snapped his fingers.
A shadow fell silently behind them and bowed respectfully.
"Get some sets of tools and come here."
The shadow responded, turned around and left. Not long after, he led the other two shadows and gently placed the tools in front of the three people. After bowing, he quietly disappeared again.
Jin Jing looked at the tools on the ground, chose a small hammer, weighed it in her hand, and was very satisfied with the weight in her hand.
"What, I'm going to knock, are you hiding?" He looked at Shen Haolin and Hongye, "Don't get hit by the pebbles."
"Okay!" Hongye stood up first, took two steps back, and looked at Shen Haolin, who was still squatting and studying the steps, "Master Guo?"
"Don't be anxious yet." Shen Haolin looked at the steps carefully and stretched out his hand towards Jin Jing, "Little hammer!"
Jin Jing nodded, handed the small hammer in Shen Haolin's hand, and watched as he gently tapped twice in the middle of the first step, and then a few times in the upper, lower, left, and right directions in the middle.
"Is this..." Jin Jing blinked, "Is it really related to the orifice?"
"Well!" Shen Haolin, who was on the other end of the intravenous drip, put down the small hammer in his hand, "Here, help me."
Jin Jing hurried over and helped Shen Haolin lift the first step. What surprised him was that it was not just this step that was lifted up, but the entire three steps were lifted up. Under the steps is a bottomless hole.
"Good guy! Good guy!" Jin Jing looked carefully at the steps they dragged down, and couldn't help but sigh, "Good guy, Xiao Hongye, look at what you kicked back then, no wonder you kicked down such a big thing piece."
Hongye also came over, poked his head out to take a look, and frowned slightly.
"This is half the thickness of the ordinary steps. This is really..." She curled her lips in disgust, "Jerry-making?"
"That's not true. After all, this place is relatively hidden. It's more suitable for hiding something than the front yard or the backyard." Shen Haolin stood up, patted the soil on his hands, and looked at the dark hole, "Go down. have a look?"
"Just..." Jin Jing felt guilty and touched her chin, "It's just the three of us? Isn't it good?"
"Let's go down and take a look first!" Shen Haolin touched the fire folds on his body, looked at Jin Jing, and then at the red leaves, "What are your expressions?"
"The Duke's rich body is not suitable for taking risks." Hongye folded his arms and stood there, refusing to move. "Besides, this is the Marquis's Mansion, not the Duke's Palace. Why don't you wait until the Marquis comes?"
"Yeah!" Shen Haolin nodded, "That makes sense, they should be here soon."
"You went to call them?" Jin Jing saw Shen Haolin's expression and raised her eyebrows slightly, "Then let's wait until Xiaotian and the others come." He looked at the entrance of the cave, "You guys said, here What will it be? Will there be something we want?"
"You can't say for sure." Hongye raised his eyebrows at Jin Jing, "You two, look at the size of the hole, look at the steps inside that are repaired stronger than the steps outside, and look at..." She He took out his own fire folder, lit it, and reached over to take a photo. "Although we haven't discovered it for many years and there are a lot of pictures here, the degree of wear and tear on this step proves that it has been used by many people." It's been used once, right? It's just..." She looked at Shen Haolin with a puzzled look on her face, "Do they have to work so hard every time they go down to put something in?"
She lowered her toes, jumped up and entered the small room, and carefully checked every nook and cranny, but could not find the mechanism she was looking for.
"Nothing?"
"Yes, there is nothing." Hongye sighed and leaned against the pillar of the small pavilion, "It seems that we have to wait for Xiaocha and the others to come over. This is their strength, not ours."
"What are you waiting for me to come to?"
Shen Cha's voice came from the air. The three people looked up and saw a shadow flying over their heads twice and landing steadily in front of them.
