The living room of the Zhou family in Beijing was peaceful and warm, and Zhou Jiao felt peaceful too. Well, overall, Zhou Jiao felt good at the moment. The air was fresh after the rain, and crucially, she saw the stone temple.

I don’t know if it was struck by lightning or due to lack of maintenance, but under the flashlight, the roof and corners have collapsed, and the gate is missing.

Zhou Jiao didn't know what was going on inside.

Facing the ancient temple from a distance, she knelt on the ground and kowtowed three times respectfully, if for no other reason than the fact that the secret room was nearby, and her great-grandfather might have been there, made donations, or even made a wish.

She also made a vow: when the world is peaceful and her family can survive the crisis, she, Zhou Jiao, will come again to renovate the ancient temple and rebuild the Buddha statue.

When she stood up again, a crescent moon began to appear in the sky, and the dim stars began to shine. Looking at the vaguely visible surroundings, Zhou Jiao bowed to the ancient temple again.

After calming herself down, Zhou Jiao began to follow the instructions left by her grandmother and walked towards the mountain stream. Standing under the crooked tree, she gently touched the ancient and weathered trunk.

I didn't expect it to still exist after the Great Steelmaking Campaign that year. If the ancient tree has spirits, it should be happy too, right?

Following the instructions, she walked forward a hundred meters, turned right a hundred meters, and then walked forward another two hundred meters - there was a mountain in front of her, there was no way to go any further, and she had arrived at the destination her grandmother had mentioned.

Zhou Jiao took out the powder and sprinkled it on the weeds. After a moment, seeing no reaction, she used her machete to cut away the thick vines hanging from the rocks in front. Worried that her true intentions would be discovered later, she could only cautiously protrude from the side door and slowly begin to clear the obstacles to the left.

Not long after, Zhou Jiao saw the familiar raised, round stone and breathed a sigh of relief. She realized how late it was since she left town. Although she had told the guesthouse she might stay with her elders, she still planned to return to the guesthouse if she could.

Taking the familiar steps, Zhou Jiao stood on one foot for the last step, and used all her strength to press down on the bulge with both hands. It was no wonder she was doing this, as she remembered the last time they had a misunderstanding.

Who knew if her ancestors had planned to determine the weight of the person who would open the secret room? What if it turned out to be a man? What would she do?

Fortunately, her ancestors did not favor boys over girls. The door split open from the ground like the old house of the Gu family and slowly opened to her.

Seeing this, Zhou Jiao's heart tightened. This scene was too much like the Gu family's ancestors' methods. Would she disappoint her father again? She would rather the door be cracked from the front than enter from the ground.

Zhou Jiao sighed inwardly, calmed down her emotions, and walked down the stairs again with her familiar steps. Looking at the simple oil lamps and smooth stones on both sides, she squinted her eyes. The nouveau riche of the Gu family was doing something different from this. Something seemed amiss!

What does the position of Governor-General of Guangdong and Guangxi mean? If one is ruthless, it means that he can squeeze out all the wealth of the people of Guangdong and Guangxi and become a wealthy man in the blink of an eye.

Zhou Jiao shook her head. No! The Zhou family has always been upright.

The stairs weren't very long, and at the end were three passages. Zhou Jiao followed her grandmother's instructions and chose the one on the left.

Of course, if you think you can find the secret room right now, you will probably die miserably!

There is a deadly trap every fifty meters. There are no poisonous snakes, spiders, or bats like in novels, but they have set up a tight net with poisonous arrows everywhere. If you get stuck, there is no hope of getting out alive.

Otherwise, why did Gu Mingzhu repeatedly tell her son to be careful in her suicide note, and even stated that this was a crucial secret room?

Thinking of this, Zhou Jiao was filled with energy. After turning off the mechanism, she was still worried that her grandmother might have made some mistakes, so she rolled a large stone forward out of fear.

In this way, after passing through three gates and killing six generals, she locked up four traps in the short passage of a few hundred meters. When she arrived in front of the stone gate, Zhou Jiao couldn't help shedding tears when she looked at the seal script.

She could finally tell her father that she had found the Zhou family's secret room! After the fire, their Zhou family had left behind a legacy. Her grandfather really had left something for her father!

Zhou Jiao fiercely wiped the tears from her face and stood excitedly in front of the fifth mechanism. If she only had to take the right step and turn off the last mechanism, the world behind the door would open up to them.

Maybe some of the Zhou family’s past events can be solved, and at worst we can even see the treasures left by our ancestors!

Following the steps in the suicide note, Zhou Jiao carefully and attentively traced the seal characters. After a while, the two white marble doors retreated quickly towards the stone wall with a "click".

Looking at this secret room, which was even more spacious than the Gu family's old house, Zhou Jiao didn't bother to look at the jade and gold ornaments on the shelves. She quickly ran to the pile of wooden boxes in front of the bookshelf and opened the lid...

The boxes were truly filled with ancient books, calligraphy and paintings, and the four treasures of the study. Even the paper itself was tightly wrapped with oiled paper, not to mention the scrolls of calligraphy and paintings.

Zhou Jiao didn't open it. She could tell the difference by the red and green ribbons on the outside. Looking at the colorful ribbons, even without the royal yellow, she could tell how valuable some of them were.

The Zhou family's ancestors must have been obsessed with calligraphy and painting, storing just a few scrolls in a large box, surrounded by thick mats of various silks. If their descendants were illiterate, they would think that their ancestors had collected a large collection of silks for the family, but some of them had become weathered, and they would curse them.

I wonder if our ancestors would laugh wildly if they saw this?

Zhou Jiao smiled and rushed to each box. After opening it, her smile became even brighter. There was no gold or silver, but only calligraphy and paintings, four treasures of the study, porcelain, and books.

Very good, very good! From this point, she could also suggest to herself that the Zhou family's great-grandfather had robbed the people of their wealth. As for those rich and unkind people, they just took it.

Holding a wooden box taken out of a large box, Zhou Jiao's hands trembled with excitement as she looked at the seal-shaped "Zhou" engraved on it. This must be what they had been looking for!

Resisting the urge to open it, Zhou Jiao carefully put it into the space. The only person who could open it first was her father, Zhou Xiaozheng.

She looked at the secret room again. Compared to the secret room in the Gu family's old house, which was so crowded and filled with wooden boxes that it was difficult to squeeze a foot in, there were undoubtedly not many things here, but for the Zhou family, it was too important.

Perhaps her grandfather Zhou Jinyu was reluctant to go abroad in the first place, and the things inside also played a big role. Ancestral property, this is the ancestral property! How can he take it abroad when he is being watched?

Zhou Jiao's joy seemed to have been dashed, as if she had found the answer. She shook her head, scraped the dirt clean, and then, using a large broom, she walked backwards to remove the footprints, unlocked the mechanism, and exited the cave.

Zhou Jiao didn't plan to destroy the secret room this time. She wanted to leave some of the Zhou family's relics. When the situation eased in the future, she planned to have her father come in person to pay tribute to the ancestors.