Chapter 618
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Seven or eight lanterns lit up the messy house. Hui Mo buried his head in the storeroom, Zi Gui leaned against the wall and touched every brick. Ning Shu focused on the living room. The three of them did their jobs and turned the dilapidated house upside down again.
Ten years ago, twenty taels of silver disappeared overnight and no one noticed it. Today, little fatty Qian Dongbao disappeared in front of them. If there was no connection, then Ning Shu had been eating and investigating the case for nothing all these years. But where was the answer to the last problem that Yuan Wanting had set for them?
Ning Shu frowned. She squatted on the ground and touched the corners of the bed countless times, but found nothing again. Out of the corner of her eye, she inadvertently caught sight of a biography scattered under the bed. She suddenly thought of something, got up and said to Hui Mo, "Hui Mo, I remember you said that Yuan Wanting said something strange when he was caught."
Hui Mo's head just popped out from under a broken pot. His face was covered in ashes. He turned back and said, "Yes, he said that the prison food in the Dali Temple was good. But even if he ate prison food, he wouldn't be able to eat here."
Ning Shu shook her head. "It's not this sentence. Think about it again."
"It's not this sentence …" Hui Mo thought for a while and said, "Oh, then it's that sentence. 'Since you're here, you don't have to use the knife. I'll go with you. But although my house is poor, the pile of books is still worth a few copper coins. Don't mess them up. I still have to sell them to exchange for wine when I come back.' That's what he said. What's wrong? Do you suspect that there's something wrong with these books? But I've flipped through them and even compared the handwriting on them with Yuan Wanting's. There's no mark or trace. And these books have been lying here. If there's something wrong with them, Xiao Yunyi's subordinate Yongchengwei would have taken them away long ago. "
Under the warm orange light, Ning Shu's face was covered in sweat, as if she had just been fished out of the water. However, her eyes were increasingly calm, like two crystals that had been polished and shone brighter. Her gaze fell on the three extremely shabby bookshelves and she said in a low voice, "What if he's not talking about the books on the bookshelves, but the bookshelves where these books are placed?"
Hui Mo blinked and asked Zi Gui to come forward to check. When they pushed the second bookshelf, they found something strange. "Wait! Why can't this bookshelf be pushed? There must be a mechanism inside! "
When they pulled out a wooden plank from the bottom of the bookshelf, they finally found an unusual protrusion in a hidden corner. With a gentle press of their fingers, only a faint muffled sound was heard. The brick wall that originally separated the living room and the utility room actually slid to the left, along with the door that led to the utility room. It overlapped with the wall and slowly separated until the dust settled, revealing half of a brand-new doorway. And through this mysterious half of the doorway, they actually saw another incomparably dark and narrow space.
It was less than a foot wide and could only allow an adult to enter sideways. But this narrow space was enough to hide the biggest secret in the world!
"That's the slingshot on Little Fatty." Hui Mo took a closer look and hurriedly ran over to pick up the wooden slingshot on the ground. "He was hiding here just now! How can this Yuan Wanting be so capable? It's, it's … "
Who would have guessed that this shabby yard, which even beggars wouldn't look at more than a few times, actually hid such an uncanny workmanship! Hui Mo was stunned and couldn't close his mouth. "I'm afraid that even the best craftsmen in the Ministry of Works can't make such a mechanism! It's flawless! "
Ning Shu shook her head and said, "Don't forget, his ancestors were extremely famous craftsmen. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been chosen to repair the Imperial Mausoleum based on his ancestor's reputation. This person, he's really a rare genius."
However, he was a rare genius, and in the end, God was jealous of him. Today, after enduring humiliation for ten years, he finally ushered in the underworld.
So far, all the big mysteries had been solved, but the people who were hiding still didn't want to come out of the darkness. The air was so stuffy that it made people panic. The rainstorm accumulated in the clouds seemed to be about to hit them together with the unreachable thing above their heads at any time. But it didn't come down. It was like a sharp sword hanging in the sky, ready to pierce the illusion of the world at any time.
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