"Maybe so."
Zhao Yixuan was not very good at this kind of thing.
Lin Mengya thought to herself, "That's right. If Elder Zhao is really a master of romance, he wouldn't have wasted so many years with Aunt Fang."
Tonight was the best time for them to explore the secret room.
Coincidentally, after catching up with Elder Zhao, Madam Duan mentioned that she had received a letter from her brother, saying that one of her nieces wanted to visit her.
At that time, Elder Zhao didn't think there was anything wrong with it, so he agreed.
Today, the nieces finally arrived. Madam Duan was so happy that she brought Zhao Zifei to pick them up.
She and Elder Zhao had also obtained an excellent opportunity.
They opened the door of the secret room with ease.
After that day, Elder Zhao intentionally or unintentionally increased the time he spent in the study.
According to Lin Mengya's observation, Xu 'er tried to sneak in a few times, but never found the best opportunity.
So no one had entered the secret room.
Each of them was carrying a light lantern.
Under the dim light, the tunnel was long and silent.
Both of them were on high alert, fearing that there might be some kind of trap.
Fortunately, there was no other danger, although it was inexplicably depressing inside.
Lin Mengya was more used to the darkness than Elder Zhao.
Not long after, she saw what seemed to be a stone door not far away.
According to the signal they had agreed on, Lin Mengya gently shook her lantern.
Elder Zhao turned around and asked, "What's wrong?"
Lin Mengya lifted the lantern and shone it above.
Only then did Elder Zhao see that there was a stone door not far from him.
The door was open, but it was darker inside than outside, so he couldn't see what was inside.
He stopped Lin Mengya behind him and drew out the long sword at his waist.
"I'll go in to explore. Be careful."
With that, he took the lead and walked in.
The smell of dust inside was even stronger.
She had to cover her mouth and nose with a handkerchief, but even so, she still felt a little uncomfortable.
About a few minutes later, there was no other movement except for Elder Zhao's footsteps.
She also walked in, but saw that Elder Zhao, who was a step ahead of her, was actually quietly standing in front of a wall.
Cough, cough!
The air inside was too turbid, and she couldn't help coughing.
Even so, Elder Zhao still did not move.
Lin Mengya could not help but suspect that he might have fallen into a trap.
Thinking of this, she couldn't help but be more vigilant.
But when she reached behind Elder Zhao, he suddenly turned around, giving her a fright.
Oh my god!
She cried out in her heart and patted her chest lightly with her small hand.
She rolled her eyes at the other party. Even if the other party's seniority was higher than hers, you can't scare me like that, can you?
However, Zhao Yixuan did not realize that his actions were inappropriate.
Instead, he asked her anxiously.
"Am I still alive?"
In the gloomy secret chamber, the person in front of him seemed to be possessed, asking himself if he was still alive.
If not for her hoarse throat, she would have screamed out loud.
Then, she reflexively kicked the other person's foot and hurriedly took two steps back.
"Hiss —"
Her kick was not light, and Elder Zhao felt that the toe of his right foot was about to be broken.
"It hurts. It seems that I'm still alive, but you don't have to use so much force, right? No matter what, I'm still your uncle's generation. Girl, why don't you know how to respect your elders? "
Zhao Yixuan had long been resentful.
Recently, Madam had been talking about Miss Su, and seemed to like her very much.
But he vaguely felt that she did not respect him as an elder.
Now it seemed that she really did not.
Lin Mengya glared at him angrily.
Scaring people, scaring people to death!
Stepping on him was already considered a light punishment. Luckily, she did not have a heart disease, or she would have a heart attack because of him!
Zhao Yixuan also touched the back of his head guiltily.
But when his eyes met the situation on the other side of the wall, he immediately became serious.
"Then come and take a look, what is this?"
Lin Mengya was about a step away from him warily, and then she looked at the direction he was pointing at.
The situation in front of her also surprised her.
She saw a "person" lying on a stone bed in front of them!
No, it was not a living person.
It was just a corpse with only a complete layer of skin wrapped around the bones.
But what was more strange was that although the face of the corpse was dry and dehydrated, the facial features were clearly visible. She could tell that it was a man who looked familiar, and he was about 20 years old.
There was an iron chain in the middle of the waist of the corpse, and the other end was inserted into the wall.
An ordinary person would definitely not be able to twist this chain by force. Could it be that the cause of this corpse's death was related to this iron chain?
"Do you know him?" Lin Mengya pointed at the corpse and asked with her eyes.
Elder Zhao's expression was complicated, and he said faintly, "If I'm not hallucinating, this corpse looks very similar to me when I was young."
Oh ho! Lin Mengya's eyes turned into a look of disdain.
Could it be that he was another illegitimate child?
And he died in the secret room of his study.
In an instant, countless melodramatic scenes from TV dramas flashed through her mind.
Things like "a poisonous father killed an innocent illegitimate child for the sake of his reputation", and so on. Her expression became more and more complicated.
Elder Zhao suddenly had an idea, and he pointed at the corpse and shouted at her exasperatedly, "Look clearly! The style of the clothes he was wearing was something that had only been available for more than ten years! I had just returned to the Zhao Family at that time, and I hadn't even built this house yet. How could I kill him? "
Was it really like this?
Lin Mengya touched her chin, and thought that she quietly walked away from Elder Zhao with the little rags.
Elder Zhao, who felt that there was no hope of clearing his name, wanted to strangle her to death.
This wicked girl! She must be sent by God to anger him to death!
In fact, Lin Mengya was not completely suspicious of Elder Zhao.
She turned around, picked up the lantern, and carefully observed the wall of the secret room.
From the traces, it was indeed a little long ago, but she was not a professional, so she could not tell the specific date of the existence of the traces for the time being.
It was just that she accidentally found a plant that had died in the corner of another wall.
"Master, it's the branches and leaves of the Leaf Milk Fruit!" Xiaoyao reminded her in the system, and also directly sent her the information she found.
The Leaf Milk Fruit was a plant that grew in dark places without light.
It was characterized by a small bunch of grapes at the top of the slender leaves.
The black fruits were like grapes, but the grains were only the size of soybeans.
They tasted sweet and were rich in nutrition.
Under suitable conditions, they could bear fruit continuously throughout the year.
The information of the music score for the green stringed instrument also showed that the branches of the Leaf Milk Fruit would grow a section every year, and there would be traces like bamboo joints on the branches.
She reached out to touch the branches, and found that there were as many as 15 sections above the branches except the ones underground.
But now the branches of the Leaf Milk Fruit had completely withered.
She carefully looked at the distance between the branches and the direction of the dead body.
Under the situation that the dead body was bound by the iron chain, he could still pick the fruits of the Leaf Milk Fruit to satisfy his hunger when he was alive.
In order to confirm her guess, Lin Mengya walked in front of the corpse, which looked quite peaceful.
"Stay away from him, it might be a trap!" Zhao Yixuan immediately stopped her.
But he was not as fast as her hands.
Through the handkerchief, she pinched open the mouth of the corpse.
Compared with the other parts of the body, the teeth of the corpse were already incomplete, and there was a lot of black powdery substance in the mouth.
Lin Mengya reached out her hand to pinch it, and then confirmed her guess.
When she looked up again, she saw that Elder Zhao was looking at her with a look of disbelief.
Lin Mengya suddenly grinned at him, and her eyes were full of excitement.
Elder Zhao was instantly startled by her, and hurriedly took a few steps back before he calmed down.
Oh, you deserve it!
Now you know the feeling of being frightened by others is not good!
Elder Zhao was obviously unable to accept what happened tonight.
"Why don't we go up now? Anyway, there are no other clues here except this corpse."
After being frightened by that perverted smile of hers, Elder Zhao felt a chill run down his spine.
But Lin Mengya still slowly checked the condition of the corpse, and then nodded reluctantly.
Elder Zhao, whose scalp was numb, hurriedly walked out as if he had received an amnesty.
Lin Mengya followed him closely.
Soon, they got out of the tunnel.
When the mechanism was completely sealed, Elder Zhao breathed a sigh of relief, but when he saw the thing in Lin Mengya's hand, he took a deep breath.
"You, what are you doing with this thing?"
In Lin Mengya's hand, there was a broken hand.
Under Elder Zhao's horrified gaze, she placed the things in her hands on Elder Zhao's study table with a loud clatter.
"This is a prosthetic arm, not a real hand. If you don't believe me, you can come over and take a look. "She wrote casually.
Elder Zhao could not be as calm as her.
Suppressing his pounding heart, Elder Zhao came over and carefully examined it under the bright candlelight.
It was indeed a prosthetic arm made of wood.
And the workmanship was very realistic. At first glance, he really thought it was a human arm.
But he still did not dare to touch it, and could only ask her.
"What are you doing with this thing?"
However, Lin Mengya wrote, "The prosthesis of this right hand is very delicate. It shouldn't be used for decoration. Look at it, it's hollow in the middle. Only two of the five fingers are solid. Although I can't understand it, there seems to be a mechanism here that can be manipulated. "
After being reminded by her, Elder Zhao then carefully examined it again.
After a closer look, he realized that the prosthetic arm was really delicate.
There were simple and delicate mechanisms installed on the arm and palm, and the two solid fingers could be controlled by the other three hollow fingers.
This was a prosthetic arm specially made for the right hand of the corpse!
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