Chapter 42 The Secret Chamber of the Eldest Son

In a small side room on the third floor of the old third house, Ye Baoling showed Ye Yongqi the photos she had taken at the art exhibition center some time ago.

As Ye Yongqi watched, she praised, "Sister Ling, with your skills, you could open a photography studio."

Ye Baoling smiled and said, "I'm glad you're satisfied."

"I'm absolutely satisfied. Teach me how to do it, and I'll take pictures for you next time." With that, Ye Yongqi stood up and massaged Ye Baoling's shoulders. "As a thank you, I'll give you a massage."

Despite her seemingly delicate appearance, Ye Yongqi's massage skills are quite strong and professional.

"Have you studied this?"

"I learned it from my mom. She often massages my grandma's and dad's shoulders when she has free time. She doesn't need to use much force; she just uses a little skill to make it feel very comfortable." Ye Yongqi added, "My brother can do it too. You can ask him to massage you."

Ye Baoling ate grapes and joked, "Forget it, this technician is too expensive, I can't afford her."

Ye Yongqi suggested, "Make him pay for it!"

She had barely finished speaking when she heard footsteps behind her. Turning around, she saw her older brother had returned.

"Brother, come and give Sister Ling a massage."

Ye Huaizhang couldn't bring himself to massage his wife in public.

He ignored Ye Yongqi, only glancing at the photos on the table. Looking at the strange and unusual poses, he frowned and asked, "What kind of photos are these?!"

"What great photos! You don't even know how to appreciate this? Get out of here!" Ye Yongqi complained to her sister-in-law. "My brother is getting old, and his aesthetic sense can't keep up with the times."

Ye Baoling smiled and nodded, "Indeed."

Ye Huaizhang: "..."

"Sister Ling, when you have time, could you help my brother improve his aesthetic sense?"

"It's a bit difficult."

Ye Huaizhang, who was being attacked and ridiculed by the two sisters-in-law, launched a verbal offensive: "With your aesthetic sense, which is only able to say 'very good' and 'not bad' at Grandpa Gong's calligraphy and painting exhibition? You two can only stick together and cherish your own shortcomings."

Ye Yongqi rolled her eyes at her brother, momentarily at a loss for words. She regretted not telling her family about her experience at the art exhibition.

"Brother, you have everything, except for gentlemanly manners!" After thinking for a long time, Ye Yongqi finally squeezed out a sentence.

Ye Huaizhang nodded with a smile: "You just said I have no taste, and now you say I have everything. Sigh, sort out your logic before you argue with me, little Ye Yongqi."

After saying that, Ye Huaizhang turned and walked towards the study.

When mocked as a child, Ye Yongqi could only swing her fists and kicks, striking her brother from a distance.

"You have neither gentlemanly manners nor good taste! Sister Ling, a man like Ye Huaizhang is not a good match."

Ye Baoling, who had been eating grapes, smiled and nodded, coaxing her, "You really can't have that."

During the conversation, Yang Pinxian arrived, holding two shopping cards from the mall, one for her daughter and one for her daughter-in-law, treating them equally.

"You guys can go shopping together whenever you have free time. Buy whatever you want."

Ye Baoling smiled and accepted the gift: "Thank you, Mom."

Yang Pinxian knew that Ye Baoling was moving back to the old eldest house tomorrow, and she was very reluctant to let her go.

"If you don't like living there, come back here more often."

The possibility is low.

But Ye Baoling still smiled and nodded, "Okay."

Ye Yongqi also said, "Sister Ling, you should come back more often. Although I can't have my brother, I can."

Yang Pinxian quickly told her daughter, "What do you mean your brother can't be with you? You're talking nonsense again!"

The three women sat together and chatted for a while before Ye Baoling went back to her room after she had eaten her fill of grapes.

Back in her room, she replaced the Buddha statue with fresh grapes.

"Great Bodhisattva Guanyin, we won't be able to change your offerings every day anymore. How about you take a short walk and come to the eldest son's house to eat? Okay?"

Regardless of whether Guanyin Bodhisattva agreed or not, she made the decision for the Bodhisattva, "It's settled then."

Then she started packing her clothes. She didn't have much to take back to the old eldest son's house; one suitcase should be enough.

Ye Huaizhang came over from the study and saw her humming a song while packing her luggage. She seemed quite happy, so he couldn't help but ask, "Where will you stay when you get back? Did the eldest son's family give you a room?"

Ye Baoling sensed the sourness in his words. "I am the eldest daughter of the Ye family's eldest branch. I can live wherever I want. When I said I wanted to live in Ye Baoshun's future marital home, Ye Baoshun practically offered me the room as a gift."

Ye Huaizhang looked at his wife and asked, "You're blackmailing him?"

It wasn't a threat.

But that's the meaning.

Ye Baoling shook her head, denying it: "It was their own choice. We're the Ye family, loving and close-knit together."

If the eldest son's family had a WeChat group, the group name would probably be this.

Ye Huaizhang knew her quite well; the room Ye Baoling had managed to snatch from Ye Baoshun must have some hidden secrets.

He asked, "Which room is Ye Baoshun's bridal chamber?"

"you guess."

"Next to the study on the second floor of Xihetang?"

Big toys and the back of the knee: the starting point of love.

Ye Baoling raised his eyebrows to indicate that he had guessed correctly.

really!

Ye Huaizhang was slightly worried: "If you go back and go in and out of the secret room, won't your grandfather find out?"

Unless her grandfather installed a camera in the study, it wouldn't be easy to find out, but no one would install that in their home these days.

Ye Baoling shook her head slightly: "Although I'm not a professional thief, I shouldn't be caught."

Ye Huaizhang reminded him: "Be careful, and call me if you need my assistance."

"Know."

Ye Baoling tidied up her clothes, then took out her lock-picking tool from the wardrobe—a row of pins. She rolled up the pins and put them into a small cloth bag.

Ye Huaizhang went out and brought back a mobile phone, handing it to her: "If you call me from the landline over there, it'll be easy to be discovered. In the future, if anything happens, just use this to contact me."

Ye Baoling disliked this brick-like mobile phone, but there was really no better choice in this era, so she could only take it and examine it carefully: "How do I mute it?"

"Mute?"

"Can't I mute it?"

The concept of silence may not exist yet.

Ye Huaizhang taught her, "You can adjust the volume here."

You can also turn the ringer volume down to the lowest setting.

Ye Baoling didn't want the eldest son's family to know she had a mobile phone, so she reminded them, "Don't call me unless it's important. Otherwise, people will find out."

Ye Huaizhang: "..."

Did you hear me?

Ye Huaizhang said helplessly, "I won't call you. Call me if you need anything."

Before going to bed, he asked her, "When will you come back to stay next time?"

"Who knows?" Ye Baoling said idly, flipping through TV channels. "Anyway, you've already used up your two weekly passes this week."

She had barely finished speaking when Ye Huaizhang pulled her into the blanket. "There was another one last week."

Ye Baoling couldn't help but laugh, "No, it won't be available after the deadline."

"Will your period come earlier next time?"

He even took advantage of her twice during the week she had her period. Ye Baoling teased, "You're like a skinflint."

"What Zhou Bapi?" He hadn't learned that. "The number of times my period is adjusted during the week, once before and once after, I'm doing this for your own good."

Judging by the time, her period should have started long ago, no wonder she was so eager to have sex with him. Touching his chest muscles, she felt even more aroused.

He squeezed in shortly afterward.

Three more of these tiny squares have been ruined.

Eat your fill once, and you won't be hungry for a week.

*

Ye Baoling returned to the old eldest son's mansion around 11 a.m.

When I got back, the old man called me up to the third floor.

When Ye Qizu saw his granddaughter come in, he closed the documents in his hand and asked her, "Why don't you live with your parents at Shengyue Building?"

Ye Baoling had prepared her explanation in advance: "Isn't Aunt Jun about to give birth? My grandmother said that the spirit of the fetus is most vindictive at this time, and my moving around might disturb the spirit of the fetus."

That seems to make sense.

The old man paused slightly, "There are plenty of rooms on the second and third floors of Xihetang, why did you choose to stay in Baoshun's wedding room?"

“Baoshun asked me to stay here. I didn’t even know it was his marital home at first. My second aunt told me.” Ye Baoling muttered, then immediately added, “Judging from your tone, Grandpa, Baoshun can stay in that house, but I can’t? Fine, I’ll go move all my things out and have my second aunt find me any room. I don’t deserve to stay in a good room anyway. If all else fails, I’ll go back to my maternal grandmother’s house.”

If we continue, people will say he's sexist.

Ye Qizu glared at his granddaughter: "Alright, alright, I didn't say you couldn't stay. I say one thing, and you complain a whole bunch."

The grandfather and granddaughter had nothing else to say, and Ye Baoling quickly slipped away after succeeding.

Her suitcase had already been moved into the second-floor bedroom by the maid.

There is also a secret room between this bedroom and the study.

Last time, she and Ye Huaizhang accidentally found the entrance to the secret room through the recess in the study curtains.

Is there also an entrance in the bedroom?

This apartment is larger than Ye Huaizhang's room. Upon entering, there is a sitting room first, then a dressing room on one side and a bathroom on the other, and finally the bedroom.

Therefore, if there is a secret room entrance here, it should be located in the bedroom inside.

The renovated suite still uses the old Brazilian blackwood wall panels, but these wall panels are newly customized, so the whole suite looks newer.

After looking around and finding nothing, she first dragged her suitcase into the walk-in closet.

Pingjie brought in a small plate of fruit and snacks. Seeing Ye Baoling packing her clothes, she said, "Miss, you can leave them here and I'll pack them up."

Ye Baoling said, "No need, I don't have many clothes. I can pack them myself."

Ping was very happy that she was able to come back with Ye Baoling this time.

After all, she was familiar with this place, and many of her old servants and colleagues were still there. She was well-informed about anything that happened here.

Ping whispered to Ye Baoling, "You're coming back to stay at Xihetang. I heard that woman from Shengyuelou was so angry she cried!"

"ha?"

Is the play really that good?

Sister Ping was indignant: "That shameless old hag, she's old enough to be a grandmother, and she's still thinking about getting pregnant and having a son. People say she's carrying a boy. Heaven is really blind. If she really does give birth to a healthy baby boy... I'd want to go and curse her!"

Ye Baoling quickly reminded her, "Sister Ping, don't say anything carelessly outside."

"I know, I'm not stupid."

*

Ye Baoxin usually ate at Shengyuelou with her mother and younger brother.

But today's lunch was Ye Baoling's first meal back, so her second aunt made a big deal of it and sent someone to call them in advance, so Ye Baoxin couldn't very well not be there.

The eldest son's family has many rules, and the seating arrangement for meals is very particular.

Typically, Ye Qizu sits in the main seat, with his two sons on either side, followed by his two daughters-in-law, and then his eldest grandson and granddaughter, and so on.

Logically, Ye Baoling should sit next to Zheng Junni, but in the past, the original owner was not very willing to sit next to Zheng Junni. Every time Ye Baoxin took the seat that should have been hers, she would happily step back.

So when Ye Baoxin came in, she naturally went to pull out the chair she usually sat in.

Unexpectedly, Sister Ping calmly and forcefully pressed down on the back of the chair, "Miss Bao Xin, this is the eldest young lady's seat."

Ping pointed to the chair on the right: "Sit here."

Ye Baoxin blushed instantly.

When Zheng Junni came in later, she knew that Sister Ping was an old maid employed by her mother-in-law. She had heard that Sister Ping was difficult to deal with. Zheng Junni was used to being a "virtuous wife and loving mother". Although she felt bad, she immediately smiled and smoothed things over: "Baoxin pulled the wrong chair."

Ye Baoxin smiled awkwardly, said nothing, and silently pulled out the chair next to her and sat down.

Seeing the mother and daughter's discomfiture, Liang Meiyun, sitting opposite them, couldn't suppress her smile. "Sister Ping is an old lady who has served the old lady before, and she is very particular about etiquette."

Just then, Ye Baoling came downstairs. Unlike the original owner, she wouldn't avoid Zheng Junni.

She sat wherever she was supposed to, but she insisted on sitting between the mother and daughter, preventing them from eating properly.

Ye Baoshun yawned and sat down at the table after Ye Qizu came down in the elevator.

"You're only getting up now, it's already lunchtime?" Ye Qizu couldn't help but question, "Baoshun, what have you been busy with lately?"

Ye Baoshun made an excuse: "I wasn't feeling well last night, so I went to bed very late."

Ye Qizu didn't believe it, but he didn't expose it in front of everyone. He just said, "You should take advantage of the summer vacation to go to the company with your Uncle Shen to get some training."

Ye Kaisi also said, "Baoshun, you have to listen to your grandfather. You are the only person I can count on in your generation. You should go to the company as soon as possible, learn more, and get more training."

Liang Meiyun deliberately said sarcastically, "How can we only rely on Baoshun? Doesn't Baoxin also work at Suman Jewelry? I heard she even got an excellent performance rating, right?"

Ye Baoxin smiled modestly and said, "Everyone in our group is A++, I'm just average."

Zheng Junni was afraid that Liang Meiyun's words would displease Ye Qizu, so she smiled and said, "How can Baoxin compare to Baoshun? She's a girl, she can't possibly be as good as him."

She didn't mention that Bao Xin's original surname wasn't Ye; she said that Bao Xin was a girl, which was why she couldn't compare.

Ye Qizu wasn't that stingy. He picked up his chopsticks and said, "Let's eat."

Everyone started eating.

Ye Baoling looked at the celery and squid stir-fry in front of her, which she didn't like, and picked up a piece for Baoshun: "This is what you like to eat."

Ye Baoshun readily accepted, saying, "Thank you, elder sister."

Watching her son devour the squid and then eat a large mouthful of rice, Liang Meiyun was quite pleased: "Eat more, you're just too thin."

Ye Baoling nodded: "Eat more and exercise more, and you'll build muscle."

Ye Baoxin couldn't understand why Ye Baoshun, who was usually her shadow, was suddenly so close to Ye Baoling. She interjected, "Baoshun isn't thin, but he's not fat either. He's already in a very good shape."

Ye Baoshun didn't want to attract his family's attention; he just wanted to keep a low profile, so he buried his head in his food and didn't say a word.

Ye Baoxin's words fell to the ground, and she couldn't help but feel a little uncomfortable.

But with so many elders around, she couldn't say anything.

It was rare for everyone to be together, and Ye Qizu was in a good mood. He said to Ye Baoling, "I bought you the car you wanted. Have you test-driven it yet?"

"Go open it after you finish eating."

Yeh Chi-tsu then asked, "Did your dad say you're working outside?"

Everyone looked over, curious that Ye Baoling had actually gone out to work.

Ye Baoling said, "Yes, I work as a clerk in a foreign trade company."

Ye Qizu didn't criticize him, but only said, "It's good to go out and see the world. See how hard it is to earn a salary of three thousand yuan, and you'll know that the life you have now is something many people envy."

hehe.

The original owner never enjoyed a good life.

Ye Baoling suddenly asked, "Grandpa, you asked Baoshun to work at Ye Qingtang, why didn't you ask me to go to Ye Qingtang too?"

Ye Qizu was slightly stunned. The eldest daughter of the Ye family, who had graduated from Form Four, was going to Ye Qingtang to embarrass him?

Everyone knew the reason, but they only glanced at each other and neither dared to say it directly.

Only Ye Kaimin had to speak up: "You've graduated from Form Four, what can you do at Ye Qingtang? The thing you should be doing right now is getting married!"

He refrained from mentioning Gong Jiahua's name.

As it turned out, Cao Cao arrived on his own without anyone noticing.

Gong Jiahua arrived right after we finished lunch.

He heard that Ye Baoling had moved back today, so he came over to ask her to play badminton in the afternoon.

Ye Kaimin offered a bad suggestion: "Jiahua, your arrival is perfect for accompanying Baoling to test drive the car. Her grandfather bought her a new car, but she hasn't driven it yet. She's also a new driver who just got her license, and I'm a little worried about letting her drive alone. Your arrival is just in time."

Gong Jiahua laughed and said, "Sure, I'll go with Baoling."

At this moment, Ye Baoling didn't want to upset the old man, so she forced a smile and said, "Thank you for your trouble."

"It's no trouble at all."

Seeing this, Ye Baoxin looked embarrassed and just smiled without saying anything. She made an excuse to accompany her mother back to her room and went back to Shengyue Tower first.

When I got back, I took down the character "平" (ping, meaning peace/peace) that was hanging in the room. I wanted to tear it up, but I resisted the urge!

She couldn't understand what Gong Jiahua liked about Ye Baoling!

Aside from her face, she's a woman with nothing to offer. What right do you have to compete with her?

So, ultimately, it's because men only care about looks!

She was both unwilling and had no choice but to keep it to herself.

After thinking it over, I decided to go back to the company and work overtime. Men are unreliable; I'd rather rely on myself.

Zheng Junni knew her daughter was unhappy, but she didn't have the energy to care. She was only focused on protecting her pregnancy, believing that only by giving birth to a healthy baby boy could she completely change her fate.

*

Ye Baoling went upstairs to change her clothes and sneakers, then came downstairs to test drive the car.

Gong Jiahua stood in front of her new V8 car and asked, "Your V8 should cost around 70,000 pounds, right?"

Ye Baoling shrugged, indicating that she did not know.

"We should add £10,000 to upgrade the configuration, and then it will definitely be among the top three in Hong Kong."

Ye Baoling made no attempt to hide her awkward position within the eldest branch of the family: "It's already a great favor that my grandfather was willing to buy me this luxury car with the lowest configuration. You want to upgrade the configuration? How is that possible? If you upgrade it any further, the price will exceed one million."

Gong Jiahua regretted his rash suggestion and quickly said, "Actually, this is more than enough. You're not going to race."

The two got into the car, and Gong Jiahua sat in the passenger seat. He suddenly became a little worried and asked, "When did you get your driver's license?"

Ye Baoling tried to scare him: "Just got it."

Have you ever driven a car before?

"I've never driven anything other than a training vehicle."

Gong Jiahua's heart suddenly jumped into his throat. This was a life-or-death test drive!

His hand unconsciously tightened its grip on the handle above.

Seeing his fearful yet hesitant expression, Ye Baoling suppressed a laugh and reminded him, "If you're scared, you can still get off the bus now."

"No, no, no... Don't be afraid, I am..."

"I'm a little nervous," Gong Jiahua said with a smile. "I'm just quite excited."

As soon as she finished speaking, Ye Baoling accelerated and started moving, startling Gong Jiahua so much that she almost screamed.

With many pedestrians on the street, Ye Baoling suggested taking a stroll along the mountainside.

"To the mountainside?"

"Silver Snake Mountain".

"No, the mountain road is too narrow and not suitable for beginners."

"There's no one there, so it's perfect for beginners." With that, she turned around and drove towards the back of the mountain.

A large sign stands at the entrance to Silver Snake Mountain, warning passersby that venomous snakes frequent the mountain and that few people usually come here.

There is only one very narrow dirt road on the mountain, which is full of rocks and steep.

Ye Baoling wasn't driving slow either, and Gong Jiahua was so frightened that he lost half his courage, gripping the handrail tightly and repeatedly reminding her, "Baoling, slow down... slow down..."

"Don't worry, it's safe. I wasn't speeding."

He wouldn't be afraid if Ye Baoling were an experienced driver, but she's a novice, and he can't convince himself to relax.

All I could do was uncontrollably remind them: "Slow down...slow down...turn ahead..."

Gong Jiahua nervously accompanied Ye Baoling on her rounds the entire time.

When the car returned to the garage, his palms were sweating and his legs were shaking uncontrollably.

Ye Baoling asked him, "Would you dare ride in my car again next time?"

Gong Jiahua reluctantly gave a thumbs up, "Steady!"

Ye Baoling couldn't help but laugh, "Sigh. Honestly, we're not a good match. I have a boyfriend."

Gong Jiahua smiled and waved his finger. "You don't. I thought about it for a long time, and I even got accurate information through my connections. You don't even have a boyfriend, let alone a romantic relationship."

"..."

Gong Jiahua continued, "You were driving so fast just now, were you trying to test my courage and bravery? Don't worry, I can definitely withstand the test."

He had just gotten out of the car when he said this, and almost lost his balance.

Ye Baoling looked at him speechlessly. This person couldn't understand human language, which was both infuriating and funny.

No, she had to think of a way to make him back down.

Ye Baoling didn't go anywhere in the afternoon; she just searched in the bedroom to see if there was an entrance to the secret room next door.

The bedroom has a very simple layout: just a bed, two bedside tables, and a floor-to-ceiling bookcase by the window. Since no one had lived there before, there was no book in the bookcase, no small ornaments, and no suspicious devices.

There is a footstool at the foot of the bed, and next to the window is a chaise lounge.

After searching around, I found nothing.

In the evening, she wandered around the house, using the excuse of borrowing books from her second uncle. She went into the study next door and took two novels, and then stayed in the bedroom's sitting room.

Listen quietly to the sounds outside.

On the other side of the study is a small living room, past which are her second uncle and aunt's rooms, and beyond that is the gym.

At the other end, there is a billiards room, several guest rooms, and Ye Baoshun's room.

This floor is quite large, but usually only my second uncle and aunt, a family of three, live here. Now, with her, there are four people.

So when it's bedtime, the maids don't go upstairs, and it's so quiet outside that even the slightest sound in the hallway feels out of place.

On the first day, she refrained from taking action.

She wasn't in a hurry; she wanted to figure out the situation before taking any action.

The next day, she went to Lantingju to visit the Leqiong sisters. The girls went out shopping and didn't return until evening.

After dinner, Ye Baoling dozed off for a few hours. When she woke up, it was already 10 p.m.

She strolled around outside with a melon seed in her hand, getting a general idea of ​​what was going on with her family on the second floor. Then, she sat in the sitting room, reading a book while listening to the sounds outside.

Around 11 o'clock, Ye Baoshun went out.

My second uncle returned to his room at 11:30.

As for my second aunt, she stayed in her bedroom watching TV after dinner and didn't come out at all.

Ye Baoling waited until 12:30 before putting on her sneakers, putting a flashlight, a knife, and a lock pick in her pocket, and quietly leaving the house.

She had carefully examined the lock on the door to the study next door when she came in yesterday. It was a regular lock, and she could quickly open it with a No. 3 pin.

She unlocked the door and entered the house. The familiar environment in the darkness was one she and Ye Huaizhang had experienced before.

She walked around the sofa, to the corner by the window, and squatted down in the recessed area of ​​the curtains. She pressed the switch, opened the door to the secret room, and bent down to go inside.

As she entered the long, narrow room, memories of the pain in her popliteal fossa rushed back to her.

She cleared her mind of the jumbled images and shone her flashlight on the wooden shelves on either side.

The wooden frame reached the ceiling and was covered with many small ornaments. She tried them one by one, but none of them worked.

The wainscoting on this side is the same as the outside, unlike the steel plate with black and white piano keys in the secret room of the third room. She can be pretty sure that there is no safe in this secret room.

The current search is to see if there is a downward staircase under the floor.

She tried to pry open the partitions between the wooden frames. If the structure of the eldest and third houses was similar, then the switches should be similar as well.

She shook the barriers one by one from the entrance, and when she was almost in the middle, she suddenly pried one of the barriers open.

Crack...

A familiar sound came from below.

Ye Baoling suppressed her overwhelming joy and shone her flashlight into the corner of the wall, where she indeed spotted a crack.

Pull up a half-square-meter section of floorboards, and you'll find a pitch-black staircase.

She had suspected that she might find something today, but when she actually found the stairwell, she still clenched her fists in excitement and gave it a small celebration.

It has a basically the same layout as Ye Huaizhang's bedroom.

Last time she found the entrance to the underground staircase, she was mostly afraid, but today was completely different; she was excited.

Holding a flashlight, I walked down the stairs. The stairs here were relatively wide, so it wasn't as cramped. And this was the second floor; one more floor down was the basement.

If the structures on both sides are indeed the same, then there should also be a large iron gate on the third basement level.

The stairs became wider and wider as you went up, and just as you reached the third basement level, a spacious cellar came into view.

The cellar here has no door.

No need to unlock it!!

That actually saves us some trouble.

Shining a flashlight down from above, you can see a large, dark mass of towering wooden frames below.

The small circles on the wooden frame looked like eyes, staring at her.

Ye Baoling shivered and silently murmured, "Amitabha..."

Ye Huaizhang once said that it is dark and without light down here, whether it is day or night.

Actually, they are different.

Coming in during the day makes me feel much more at ease.

Because deep down there's a belief that there are no ghosts during the day.

Now it's nighttime, and she's all alone, so she's a little scared.

Holding a flashlight, I walked to the wine cellar floor and took a careful look. It was exactly the same wine rack as the one in the third branch of the family, except that the wines on the rack were different.

These hundreds of bottles of red wine are all produced by Chateau Ausone in France in 1946.

Wines from the same vintage, but from different wineries.

After walking around the wine cellar twice, she was pretty sure that none of the red wines on the shelves were missing, unlike the other side where two bottles were missing.

After careful counting, there are twelve wine racks here. Could this also be a way to decipher the Fuxi Bagua diagram?

With the experience from there, she can now find the key floor tiles without having to move the wine rack.

I tried to decrypt it using the password from the third room, but after three attempts, nothing happened.

Isn't this switch a Fuxi Bagua diagram?

Seeing that it was almost 2 o'clock and she had to go to work the next day, Ye Baoling didn't linger any longer.

Back in her bedroom, lying on the bed, she wanted to call Ye Huaizhang, but it was too late, so she ultimately refrained from doing so.

I dialed his number the very next morning after I woke up.

The phone rang three times before it was answered.

She deliberately spoke in a high-pitched voice, "Honey, good morning! Get up."

Ye Huaizhang, who had just finished brushing his teeth and was changing his clothes, had been waiting for his wife's call for two days.

Hearing Ye Baoling's voice, the corners of his mouth unconsciously turned up. "I've been up for half an hour. What, did you discover something new?"