Chapter 160 Qi Jing is really willing to spend a lot of money!
All kinds of clothes filled up half the room, including silk and satin, as well as coarse linen, and some of them could even be identified as those worn by palace maids and eunuchs...
Combined with the previous conversation between the three, it can be confirmed that they are using the blood of living people to practice Gu. This palace belongs to Qi Jing, so it is impossible for him not to know about it.
There is only one explanation, he is the mastermind!
They continued searching downwards and found that ten rooms were filled with handcuffs and leg irons, and the floor and walls were covered in bloodstains, which showed how many lives had been lost in these places.
Walking into the last room full of shackles, Ran Qingxuan's eyebrows jumped uncontrollably when he saw a person sitting in the corner.
Gu Yanchen also noticed the dark figure, and they both instinctively thought that it was the imprisoned Gu Yanzong.
"Brother? Is that you?"
The voice was trembling. In a hurry, Gu Yanchen stretched out his hand and pulled, and the rusty lock on the door was immediately broken.
Ran Qingxuan was afraid that he was too excited, so he pulled him back and went forward to check.
But after checking the results, her heart sank...
She couldn't bring herself to say the word "dead" no matter what. Seeing Ran Qingxuan getting up at a loss, Gu Yanchen rushed forward regardless and stretched out his hand with trembling hands to brush away the hair of the person in front of him.
The next second, Gu Yanchen covered his chest and quickly took a few steps back. When Ran Qingxuan was about to step forward to comfort him, he heard him speak as if he was deflated.
"No... not my eldest brother!"
The moment the tense mood relaxed, Gu Yanchen felt dizzy.
Reaching out his hand carefully to support him, Ran Qingxuan was afraid that he would faint in the next second due to the ups and downs of emotions.
"Let's go out first. Big brother must be held in solitary confinement somewhere else. We'll look for him and we'll definitely find him."
But when the two of them passed a room full of the smell of blood, Ran Qingxuan instantly became worried about Gu Yanzong's situation.
The floor of the room was covered with undried blood, and a bloodless corpse was placed on a stone table. Many black insects kept crawling in and out of it. Ran Qingxuan almost vomited at the first sight.
The sight of the densely packed insects made one's scalp tingle. Ran Qingxuan took out a bottle of alcohol and quickly poured it on the corpse. After the insects came into contact with the irritating alcohol, they began to drill out frantically.
As the fire was lit, a sharp squeaking sound filled the entire space, and Gu Yanchen immediately took Ran Qingxuan out of the secret room.
When passing by the bedroom, Ran Qingxuan noticed that there was a rest room that was different from the other rooms.
The furnishings in this room are obviously different from those in the other rooms. There are many valuable antique calligraphy and paintings among them, giving it the feeling of a finely decorated unfinished house.
The closet was filled with men's clothes, but Ran Qingxuan was not interested in them. After taking off the clothes, she saw a 30-centimeter-long wooden box underneath.
Gu Yanchen opened it carefully, and Ran Qingxuan was immediately surprised.
In addition to bottles and jars, there was also a thick stack of silver bills, all in denominations of one thousand taels.
After a rough count, the amount turned out to be more than three million taels!
"This money probably accounts for half of the national treasury. In order to bribe these Gu breeders, Qi Jing is really willing to spend a huge amount of money!"
Gu Yanchen's eyes were full of sarcasm. After Ran Qingxuan put away the banknotes in front of him, he mocked.
"If the information about the treasure on the parchment is true, then these three million taels are really nothing. What a pity..."
"What a pity?" Gu Yanchen looked at Ran Qingxuan with some confusion.
"Unfortunately, this parchment scroll has nothing to do with him and the Northern Qi royal family!"
After saying that, Ran Qingxuan suddenly pulled out a rolled-up object from his sleeve pocket and shook it in front of Gu Yanchen.
Ever since she learned that Gu Yanchen handed over the parchment scroll to Emperor Mingde, she had been searching for it in the pile of looted gold, silver and jewelry, fearing that she had not brought it out and it had been burned in a fire.
Because there were so many things, she didn't know where to start, so she simply closed her eyes and tentatively used her mind to search.
When she got it, several people were preparing to leave, and she didn't find a chance to take it out.
Now that the thing is in her hands, Gu Yanchen is very glad that she brought it out.
"In order to obtain this parchment scroll, Qi Jing imprisoned and tortured my elder brother for such a long time. Qi Jing will never be able to repay the harm he has done to my elder brother in this lifetime!"
Ran Qingxuan also despised people like Qi Jing. His eyes rolled and he started to have evil ideas as he looked at the parchment scroll in his hand.
"I have a plan, do you want to hear it?"
Gu Yanchen saw the brightness in her eyes and knew that she was planning something bad, so he simply nodded, wanting to hear what her plan was.
"Qi Jing not only hurt my brother but also tried to kill you for this unrealistic parchment scroll. Since he wants it so badly, why don't we give it to him..."
Gu Yanchen kept his composure and waited for Ran Qingxuan's next words.
"But before we give him this parchment scroll, we first need to find a place to take away everything inside. We spent so many years of time and energy, but ended up with nothing. Just thinking about it makes me feel relieved!"
After listening to this, Gu Yanchen looked at Ran Qingxuan lovingly. Although it was not easy to find the place on the parchment scroll, he felt very happy when he thought of the scene where Qi Jing found the long-awaited place but got nothing.
"Okay, I'll do as you wish."
With the intention of taking revenge on Qi Jing, the two men went on to search other rooms. Apart from where the three people lived, they saw that many other people used this place as their residence.
After searching the bedrooms, big and small, they found hundreds of thousands of taels of silver notes and a large number of bottles and jars. Needless to say, they were all poisonous insects raised by the owner of the room.
Although she was a little afraid of these harmful things, if she didn't take them away, they might be used to harm others, so she simply waved her hand and put them into the space.
Of course, she kept these things together separately. If one of them ran out while she was not paying attention, she would be in trouble when she went in.
Gu Yanchen looked at the box that disappeared on the spot without asking any questions. When he returned to the study room where he started, Ran Qingxuan looked at the books placed against three walls and flipped through them casually.
I thought I could find some banknotes or a map of an underground secret room, but it turned out that half of the books on the shelf were about making poisons, and half were about making poisons, neither of which were good stuff.
Ran Qingxuan also knew that these books were actually of little use to her, but the fact that they were related to Gu showed that Qi Jing was in contact with Blue Feather people.
The Lanyu people are good at using poisons and witchcraft. If these things are left behind and spread outside, they might harm more people.
Thinking of this, Ran Qingxuan waved his hand without hesitation, intending to put the bookshelf and the books into the space.
But unexpectedly, the next second, only one of the shelves on the three walls disappeared. One of the bookshelves disappeared, but the shelf was still leaning against the wall motionlessly.
Ran Qingxuan let out a light exclamation, and Gu Yanchen walked forward to check with some confusion.
He saw it clearly that Ran Qingxuan clearly wanted to take the bookshelf away, but the books were gone and only the shelf was left.
If her ability hadn't failed, then the problem must be with this bookshelf!
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