Chapter 123,
The back of this floor tile was obviously hollow, but when Pei Yan lifted it up, he saw that there was nothing underneath, just a layer of soil. Only when the soil layer was separated from the brick would it make a "dong dong" sound when knocked.
Can………………
After knocking on several tiles, he heard the same sound all the time, so he moved away. When he knocked on the tiles again, there was no such sound.
Lin Zhao: "This... Your Excellency, do you think there is something underneath?"
Pei Yan: "Just dig it up and you'll know."
Two yamen runners came forward with shovels, dug up the soil, and continued to dig deeper. After digging about thirty centimeters, the shovels hit something hard with a "clang".
Lin Zhao's eyes widened immediately, staring straight ahead!
Under that layer of soil... there was actually... something similar to an underground palace?
Beneath the layers of soil are blue bricks. When the bricks are dug out, all you see is a hollow hole. The hole is pitch black and no one knows where it extends to.
Lin Zhao: "This looks like an underground palace?"
Pei Yan "asked someone to go down and take a look"
After receiving Pei Yan's order, Lin Zhao decisively waved his hand and called two yamen runners. Perhaps the two yamen runners were a little scared and were not very willing. When they walked to Lin Zhao's side reluctantly, they smiled ingratiatingly. Unfortunately, it was useless. Lin Zhao decisively tied the ropes for them and kicked them down.
He kept saying, "What are you dawdling for? Is there anything down there that could eat you?"
This was followed by the screams of two yamen runners. The sound quickly disappeared, and in just a moment the two men's feet touched the ground.
"Sir, it's only about one meter high. There's air inside, and there's a little light ahead!"
So Pei Yan personally led people in.
After entering, Lin Zhao held a torch beside them. Because there was no light in here, he could only use the torch to illuminate. The flickering light of the torch shone on the faces of several people, making the atmosphere particularly terrifying.
Plus that strange cry last night.
Some of the yamen runners' legs had already started to tremble.
Fortunately, they followed Pei Yan, so they were not so scared with Pei Yan and Lin Zhao leading the way.
"When was a plank road built here? And it was made of blue bricks?" Not only were they not afraid, they could actually chat in such a dark environment and such a quiet place.
Pei Yan led his men towards the light and said, "Looking at the moss on the blue bricks, it must have been built many years ago."
"I've read in a book that this secret passage on Changping Street leads to the imperial palace. It was built in the 13th year of the Jiaqing reign of the previous dynasty, but it was abandoned by the government after the change of dynasties."
Lin Zhao: "Oh~ So someone is using this place to cause trouble, right?"
But soon Lin Zhao thought of a question: "Will we alarm the other party by talking like this?"
Pei Yan: "No need, that person left a long time ago. Both ends of this secret passage have been sealed. If you want to leave, you can either go from where we just came down, or swim directly to the Bian River and leave by boat. With such a convenient way to survive, why would the thief stay here?"
Lin Zhao: "But I still don't understand why that man killed so many people?"
Pei Yan: "If you can understand, you will be the same as them."
This is the truth. If he could understand why the other party killed people, the case could have been solved by now.
So the group continued to move forward. After walking about three hundred meters, they saw the light. The light was an oil lamp. There was wind around, so the oil lamp flickered in the wind.
"There should be more than one oil lamp here. Go and light them all."
The yamen runners went forward with torches to light the lamp, while Pei Yan used the darkness to feel the environment here. This should be a small circular secret room, but he didn't know why the other party led him here?
Seeking revenge?
still……
There are seven oil lamps in the secret room. Only when all the oil lamps are lit can the secret room be bright.
The first thing Pei Yan noticed was that the other exit of the secret room had been sealed long ago. It was obvious that this sealing method was the work of this dynasty, and the bricks had not been damaged.
"Ah! Look! Look! There's blood on the wall! There's blood on the wall!"
“Ahhhhh!!!”
The timid yamen runners screamed.
The bloodstains were magical, flickering in the dim light, as if they had just been splashed!
Pei Yan then turned his head and looked over, and he could tell at a glance that it was not real blood.
It was just painted on the wall with tung oil mixed with red fuel. After it solidified, it looked like real blood under the light.
"What are you all talking about? Are you all so cowardly in the Dali Temple?" Lin Zhao had been annoyed with them for a long time.
The people called were all those left behind by the Dali Temple to guard the scene. This matter was not originally under the jurisdiction of their Imperial City Division, but the emperor felt that there was something fishy about it, so he asked Pei Yan to bring people to investigate.
Since there were not enough people, Lin Zhao pulled over a few constables and yamen runners from the Dali Temple.
But I didn't expect them to be so cowardly.
"We are grown men and have seen all kinds of bloody scenes, yet we are afraid of this?" Lin Zhao couldn't control his anger. If this happened in their Imperial City Division, he would be kicked out.
Just as I was about to tell the adults not to be angry, I turned around and saw Pei Yan holding his breath, glaring at the wall opposite.
Written on it were a few large, blood-soaked characters: "Those who follow Heaven will prosper, those who defy Heaven will perish. Zhao Mingde killed his brother and usurped the throne. Heaven cannot tolerate this!"
Everyone present showed a look of shock.
"Ah? This, this..." Did they know something big and important?
But they clearly knew that this wasn't a good thing. Experience tells us that sometimes knowing too much isn't necessarily a good thing. So...
He looked at Pei Yan and Lin Zhao in shock and fear.
It was also the first time that Lin Zhao had seen such a scene, so the shock on his face was no less than that of the yamen runners. His eyes were wide open and he couldn't speak for a long time.
Looking at Pei Yan, Pei Yan was still angry, but after a long silence, he immediately ordered: "Go find some coarse salt and burn these words..."
Several Dali Temple runners hurried out, not knowing whether they were escaping or leaving.
"Wait," Pei Yan continued, "Just a few of you guys handle this. No one else is allowed to interfere. Do you understand?"
Lin Zhao quickly asked his brother to step forward: "You go, watch them, clean them up and take them to the Imperial City Division first."
The words frightened the guards so much that their knees gave way and they knelt down: "Sir, sir, we have elderly parents and young children to support, we cannot enter the Imperial City Office!"
Who doesn’t know that entering that place means death?
"Sir, sir, please forgive us. We will pretend we know nothing. We really didn't see anything!"
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