Chapter 22 Someone else
Yuanxiao made a trembling move, "Damn, I got goosebumps all over the floor!"
"Go to your uncle!"
Yuanxiao slowly put away his smile, "Zhuoran, you know, my father's death is still unknown. I think since he wants to leave these things to me," as he said, Yuanxiao patted the information on the table, "I think there must be clues here so that I can find the cause of his death, so I will not miss every opportunity here, including this time. To be honest, you don't have to mind too much, I'm not just for helping you, but also for myself!"
I nodded, "Since that's the case, let's make the whole thing clear together!"
After leaving the restaurant, Yuanxiao and I went to prepare some equipment, but in this small county town, there were not many professional equipment available, so we had to try our best to make it. Yuanxiao and I felt that this time it was not going to some wilderness, so the equipment didn't require too much. We only bought flashlights, ropes and lighters.
The engineer shovel had no idea where to buy it, so he had to buy two short shovels at a local product store. The others bought some bandages and injuries at a pharmacy just in case. Finally, we bought some pieces of thoughts. However, what I couldn't understand was that Yuanxiao actually bought two pairs of rubber gloves and a pack of labor protection masks.
I looked at Yuanxiao holding gloves and wearing a mask, like a cleaning lady. I smiled and said, "Then are you planning to go underground to clean the tomb owner, right?"
Lantern Festival cut it and said, "What do you know? Buying masks is to protect yourself. The air quality in this ancient tomb is not good. Although it may not be fatal, it is not good for the body after being smelled for a long time. This glove is even more important. If you plan to open a coffin or something and need to turn over the body, do you have to do it directly? Isn't it disgusting?"
I nodded suddenly, "Open the coffin, open the coffin, you kid is still thinking about the underworld in your mind!"
Yuanxiao put the things in his bag and muttered: "If you really meet them, it's useless to take them if you don't take them!"
Lantern Festival and I were dumbfounded until dark, and felt that we had prepared almost the same thing, so we ate something quickly and returned to the village in my hometown.
Although it should be early spring now, the weather is still very cold, so when the sky is dark, there are basically no people on the streets of the village. Just in case, Yuanxiao and I hid in the woods outside the village until midnight.
It was not until the cold northwest wind blew the Lantern Festival and I to the heart that we hugged our shoulders and slipped into the village tremblingly.
At this time, the ancestral home had not yet completed the project, and it was usual to light an electric light at night. One was to prevent people from stealing various materials outside, and the other was to dig various trenches and troughs on the ground due to the construction, and there was a lamp to illuminate it to prevent people from accidentally falling in and getting injured.
Yuanxiao and I walked over carefully and found that there was no one on the construction site, and the workers on duty should rest in the wing room. Yuanxiao and I tiptoed in. When we passed by the door of the wing room, I listened specifically and heard it. There was a shout from the room. It seemed that this anti-theft measure on duty was also a decoration. If Yuanxiao and I were thieves, we had already succeeded now, but there was really nothing to steal on the construction site. Apart from sand, cement, bricks, and tiles, there were only a few shovels and a cart.
I gestured to Lanxiao and continued to move forward. We walked through the main room of the inner courtyard and went straight to the backyard, but found that the backyard was filled with things moved out of the main room.
Lantern Festival was behind me, and gently pulled me and said, "Hey! Where is the ancient tomb you mentioned?"
I signaled him to be quiet and asked him to follow me. I walked around the yard full of miscellaneous items and came to the utility room at a corner of the yard. After all, I had been here once, and this time I was familiar with the road and headed straight to the target. I pushed open the wooden door and walked straight to the flap at the corner of the house, but when I was about to reach, I suddenly found that the iron lock that had originally locked the flap was gone!
Sure enough, someone went in! I walked over quickly and squatted down to check. I immediately noticed that the lock on the flip board was not opened normally, but was forcibly pried open! The broken lock ring was thrown aside.
Seeing this scene, my heart suddenly sank. Seeing that my expression had changed, Yuanxiao came over and said, "What's wrong? Is there anything wrong?"
I pointed to the lock on the flip board, "This lock was locked when I came last time. This time I was forcibly pried open!"
Yuanxiao was slightly stunned, "You mean, the person who pried opens this lock is the person who destroyed the caucus?"
I nodded, "To be honest, I once thought that the person who destroyed the caucus was my second uncle."
"Why?" Yuanxiao was a little surprised, "Will your second uncle ruin his home for no reason?"
I shook my head, "Actually, I don't quite understand. This is just my intuition, because after my grandfather passed away, only my second uncle should know all the secrets in the family. Of course, it also includes this caucus. But now it seems that the person who entered the caucus this time must not be my second uncle. He has the key to this lock and will not pry it open! There must be someone else!" However, thinking of this, I became even more confused and uneasy. Who else would know the secrets of our Zhuo family except the second uncle!
After hearing what I said, Yuanxiao nodded. However, he thought for a while and said to me: "Actually, don't think too much. Maybe it was pried open by the construction team or by the others in your family. It's not clear that your ancestral home collapsed, and there must be a lot of people. At that time, there were too many people and mixed things. Maybe someone would do this."
I was shocked, "If that were the case, it would be even more troublesome! Last time I came up, I left in a hurry due to shock and left, and I forgot whether I had hidden the entrance to the caucus again! If I forgot that if someone else went down this time, then the secret that the Zhuo family had hidden for a hundred years would probably be exposed!"
Yuanxiao pushed me, "What's the point of not talking about it? Go down and take a look!"
I nodded, quickly pulled up the flip board, and walked down.
Yuanxiao and I came to the vegetable cellar below. Yuanxiao grew up in the city and had never seen such things before. She looked around curiously, "Damn it! It's a real battle! This is interesting!"
I ignored him and went straight to the front of the large cylinder covering the entrance of the tomb. I saw that the large cylinder that I cracked last time was even more severe at this time. Not only this one, but also several other large cylinders around were all cracked.
I asked Yuanxiao to move away the fragments of the large jar at the entrance of the tomb, and suddenly I found a dark entrance on the ground.
Yuanxiao held up the flashlight, leaned into it, illuminated it inside, and then lowered his body and got in.
I quickly followed him and got in, but I had just entered halfway, but I saw Yuanxiao retreating again, shook my head and said to me: "No! This passage is blocked after more than ten meters down! Unless it is dug up again, it is impossible to enter!"
Chapter completed!