"What is that?"
Su Xian's expression changed slightly and he walked over.
The Thousand-faced Fox and the old eunuch looked at each other and followed behind. The two of them looked strange, and the old eunuch said: "This kind of thing has appeared again!"
Su Xian ordered the Jinwu Guards patrolling the ruins to clean the ruins and take out the object completely.
Although the surface of this object was covered with a thick layer of dust, Su Xian recognized what it was at a glance.
The old eunuch's words made him feel strange. After thinking for a while, he asked:
"You don't recognize this thing?"
"I don't recognize it. I've never seen it before." The old eunuch shook his head.
"Where's the second arrester?" Su Xian looked at the Thousand-faced Fox with an increasingly weird look on his face.
"I haven't seen it before, so I don't know what its use is." The Thousand-faced Fox also shook his head, then his face moved slightly, he looked at Su Xian and asked, "Could it be that Brother Su knows this thing?"
Su Xian ordered people to bring clean water and wash away the dust on the surface of the object. He looked carefully and found that the object was made of metal and was a cylinder with sunken grooves around it.
The overall workmanship is rough and there are obvious signs of use on the surface.
After observing for a moment, Su Xian nodded slowly and said:
"Of course I recognize it. This thing has a name, it's called - a pulley!"
"Pulley!?" Thousand-faced Fox and the old eunuch looked at each other.
"Not bad." Su Xian looked at the old eunuch and asked, "Just now you said that this kind of thing has appeared again. What do you mean?"
The old eunuch said:
"The Marquis doesn't know that since the fire, the entire Hanjiacang City has been reduced to ruins... This pulley can often be found among the first ruins."
"Later, I don't know exactly when, there were fewer and fewer pulleys in the ruins... None of our family noticed this problem until the Marquis discovered this... pulley just now."
"..."
The Thousand-faced Fox thought about it carefully, nodded and said, "It is true...Brother Su, what are the clues about this object? Why does Brother Su know this object again?"
Su Xian did not answer Thousand Faced Fox's question, but held the heavy rough pulley with his hand, frowning in thought, and kept muttering the word "pulley" in his mouth.
Seeing this, the Thousand-faced Fox and the old eunuch did not dare to make any sound, so as not to disturb Su Xian's thoughts.
After a long time.
Su Xian dropped the pulley. Unknowingly, his wrist felt a little tired after holding it for so long.
"Brother Su, have you thought of anything?" Thousand-faced Fox asked immediately. He had just started brainstorming and thought hard for a long time, but he didn't have any ideas.
Su Xian shook his head and said:
"I can't tell clearly. I seem to have grasped something vaguely, but there is a layer of membrane in the middle. I can't pierce or penetrate it. I can't always grasp it."
"correct."
Then he turned to look at the old eunuch and asked:
"My father-in-law was once the warehouse governor of Hanjiacang City. He must know the history of this warehouse very well. I am very interested in it and would like to trouble my father-in-law to tell you a little bit about it."
Naturally, the old eunuch would not refuse. The look of memories appeared on his wrinkled old face and he said slowly:
"Hanjiacang City was built together with the Imperial City and the Divine Capital City. It was ordered by the second emperor of the previous dynasty and supervised by Yu Wenkai, the great craftsman of the Ministry of Works at the time..."
"This great master craftsman Yu Wenkai is an extraordinary person. He has learned a lot from ancient times to the present, and he has had the opportunity to learn many long-lost construction methods..."
"But it is a pity that with the fall of the previous dynasty, many classics passed down from past generations were destroyed and permanently lost."
"Including the cultivation methods that Yu Wenkai learned by chance, all have been lost... What a pity!"
"..."
The old eunuch kept shaking his head and sighed. He was once the warehouse governor of Hanjiacang City, and one of his duties was to repair old and damaged granaries. Therefore, he was particularly familiar with Yu Wenkai, the great craftsman of the former dynasty.
After Su Xian heard this, he couldn't help but frown, and the feeling that he had vaguely grasped something, but was not even close to making sense, emerged again.
He waved his hand, signaling the old eunuch to pause his story.
Then he pinched his chin and fell into thought.
Thousand-faced Fox was also racking his brains. He always boasted that he was good at investigating cases, but now he had no clue. However, Su Xian clearly noticed something...
He really wanted to ask Su Xian, what exactly was he aware of?
But he was afraid of interrupting Su Xian's train of thought.
Su Xian thought for a long time and suddenly stared down at the rough pulley that was thrown on the ground. A bright light suddenly flashed in his eyes. He turned to look at the old eunuch and asked:
"My father-in-law just said that Yu Wenkai, a great craftsman in the previous dynasty, had learned many ancient building techniques by chance?"
"Not bad." The old eunuch nodded.
"Is that possible..." Su Xian considered it carefully, and the hazy thought in his heart gradually emerged, and then said:
"Is it possible... that Yu Wenkai... left some kind of mechanism in Hanjiacang City?"
"hiss……"
The old eunuch took a breath of cold air, slapped his thigh hard with his wrinkled hand, and said in shock: "Hearing what the Marquis said, our family actually remembered a legend we heard when we were children."
Su Xian and Thousand-faced Fox immediately approached and asked at the same time:
"What legend?"
"When our family was very young and we had just entered the palace... we once heard an older father-in-law say after drinking that this Hanjiacang City... is far from what we saw!"
"More than what we saw?"
Su Xian and Qianmian Hu suddenly became excited and asked what else was there?
The old eunuch's wrinkled face was full of earnestness and solemnity, and he said slowly: "There are countless demons and monsters buried underground in Hanjiacang City!"
"..."
Countless monsters and monsters?
The excitement and anticipation on the faces of Su Xian and Qianmianhu solidified on the spot.
Just talk nonsense!
This is definitely a "ghost story" that the old eunuch heard when he was a child. The key is that his wrinkled old face still has a serious and serious look on his face, making it seem like it is true.
Su Xian and Qianmianhu both felt speechless.
"Has the construction method learned by Yu Wenkai, the great craftsman of the former dynasty, really been lost?" Su Xian was a little reluctant, and he vaguely felt that this was a clue.
Unfortunately, this thread was broken decades ago.
Although Qianmianhu didn't know why Su Xian wanted to figure out this problem, as the second arrester of the Prison Department, he had extremely strong "business ability".
Seeing Su Xian frowning, he turned his eyes and thought of another direction. He immediately looked at the old eunuch and asked:
"Did Yu Wenkai, a great craftsman in the former dynasty, leave any heirs? Does your father-in-law know where his heirs are now?"
"..."
When Su Xian heard this, his thoughts suddenly opened up. He cast an approving look at the Thousand-faced Fox, and then looked at the old eunuch and waited for his answer.
The old eunuch frowned, lost in thought, and said slowly: "When the previous dynasty was overthrown, our family was still young, and many things were forgotten..."
Can not remember?
Su Xian and Thousand-faced Fox don't look very good-looking, but it's understandable if you think about it. After all, who can remember things so clearly when they were young?
The old eunuch said again:
"However, there is a very old father-in-law in the palace. He has personally experienced the great event of the collapse of the previous dynasty. Our family can go to him and ask, maybe it can solve the Marquis's confusion."
"Then it's my father-in-law."
Su Xian was immediately overjoyed. This was really another bright spot.
