Chapter 61 Put your things down and run

When Qin Yi and Su Shixia rushed to the ruins of the Taoist temple on the top of the mountain, it was already approaching midnight.

There is no moon tonight, it is dark and there is almost no light.

Before entering the ruins, Su Shixia had been vigilant. After entering the ruins, she was surprised to find that not only the guards who guarded the ruins during the day were missing, but also the rubble and charred wood inside the ruins.

They had obviously been cleaned up.

Especially the ruins of the central tower, the pile of rubble that was two people high had been completely removed, and now there is only the charred ground left after the fire.

"I see that you have been observing here for a long time during the day, and you should feel that there is something fishy under this tower."

Qin Yi said: "Before I brought you here, I ordered them to clean up the ruins. Now it seems that their skills are quite nimble."

"It helped a lot."

Su Shixia gave Qin Yi a rare smile.

"I really forgot to explain this matter before, but fortunately you have thought carefully, otherwise I would have wasted a lot of time tonight."

Qin Yi stared at the faint smile on Su Shixia's lips, his eyes moved slightly, but he didn't say much.

The guard who happened to be guarding here rushed over from the side. Qin Yi took the lantern handed over by the guard and walked with Su Shixia towards the clearing of the tall tower in the center of the ruins.

"Are you sure there are no outsiders here?"

Su Shixia watched her surroundings vigilantly as she walked.

"We barged in so openly with a lantern, and some people even moved the ruins away. We made such a big noise, but no one cared about it?"

"It doesn't matter."

Qin Yi said: "After we left this morning, I heard that the Imperial Master also came to check it in person, and then said that there were no other valuable clues here, and it was not worth spending manpower to guard here. Before dark

, all the guards nearby have evacuated."

"My people only acted after those people left."

Qin Yi explained, "Don't worry, they move very carefully. There are no outsiders in this mountain on weekdays. Plus it's night, so they won't be noticed by others."

"The Imperial Master took the initiative to evacuate all those guards?"

Su Shixia frowned slightly, feeling that something was not right about this matter.

Before she could think about it, she suddenly heard a deliberately lowered voice from in front of her.

"Your Majesty, Princess! Please come here and have a look!"

Su Shixia followed the sound and saw two guards standing on the ruins of the tower. One of the guards was holding a lantern in his hand and waving to them.

"When we were cleaning up the ruins before, we found a secret compartment here!"

The guard's tone couldn't hide his excitement. As he spoke, he stomped hard on a square floor tile next to him that had been burned to the point where the original appearance was completely unrecognizable.

There was a creaking sound, and a moment later, the floor tile was pushed up by something, and then moved to the side, revealing an underground secret compartment about half a meter square.

"Those Taoist priests usually wear coarse linen clothes and look poor, but they make a lot of money from the sesame oil donated by pilgrims!"

The guard took out a package from the secret compartment. When he opened the package, he found a pile of gold, silver and gems inside, which was even dazzling under the light.

"Prince and concubine, please take a look! This is their private property!"

Seeing that Su Shixia didn't look surprised at all, Qin Yi couldn't help but raise his eyebrows and asked: "Did you expect that something was buried here? During the day, you thought there was something fishy here. Is that because of this?"

The two guards next to him looked at Su Shixia with admiration.

They had been responsible for leading people to clean up the ruins before, and they knew exactly how much rubble had been piled on top of this institution.

The princess just came here and walked around casually during the day, and she was able to conclude that there was a treasure under the ruins. In their eyes, this princess was simply a god!

"I know there must be something buried underground."

Su Shixia said: "I also know that there is property here, but these properties are just a cover-up they set up. This is not what I am really looking for."

Under the suspicious gazes of Qin Yi and others, Su Shixia slowly walked around the ruins of the high tower. Then she seemed to confirm something, and walked slowly to a position about two steps away from the dark grid and stopped.

Come down.

"right here."

Seeing Qin Yi approaching, Su Shixia casually took out the long sword from his waist and drew a rough area on the ground with the tip of the sword.

"The stuff should be down there, dig it up and take a look."

The two guards habitually looked at Qin Yi first. Seeing Qin Yi nodded, they immediately called people over and started digging with shovels and hoes.

"Is it the same last night?"

Qin Yi's sudden question made Su Shixia a little confused.

She turned to look at Qin Yi in confusion, and heard Qin Yi ask: "Last night, you also directly confirmed the location of the buried body, and then asked Shi Jun to dig out the body?"

"Don't make it sound like it's easy."

Su Shixia hummed: "One minute on stage and ten years off stage, do you understand? In your opinion, I seem to have locked the position easily, but in fact, in order to determine the position, I have to learn something in private

There are plenty of them.”

"Then who did you learn these things from?"

Qin Yi asked casually, "I've never heard of you knowing this kind of Feng Shui technique before."

"I……"

Su Shixia's words were the beginning, and she seemed to be naturally ready to answer his questions.

But soon she stopped dead.

"how?"

Su Shixia raised her eyes and looked at Qin Yi with a half-smile, "Are you trying to trick me?"

"I am just curious."

Qin Yi responded calmly.

Su Shixia only sneered when he heard this, "This is my business, you don't have to worry about it."

"You should be happy now. Fortunately, I know these things. Otherwise...you, including your Qin family, may die in the end without even knowing how you died."

"You asked Shi Jun to bring me a message last night, saying that there was definitely more than one corpse in the Qin family's house, but now only that one was found, and the others..."

Qin Yi wanted to ask more questions, but before Su Shixia could respond, the guards gathered around digging in the ground suddenly exclaimed.

"There really is something!"

"Quick! Be careful, take out the things and show them to the prince and princess!"

When Su Shixia and Qin Yi heard this, they both cheered up and immediately stepped forward to inspect the excavated objects.

What was unearthed this time was not a body or a package, but a dark wooden box, which didn't look particularly big and was square.

But just because it was painted with a layer of black paint and surrounded by yellow talisman paper painted with red cinnabar, it looked eerie and particularly terrifying.

"Your Majesty, you guys just hit hard."

The guard who brought the box over said with an anxious look, "It seems that the talisman sealed on this box was damaged by us."

As the guard spoke, he stretched out his hand to point to a damaged talisman paper.

Before his fingertips could touch the talisman, Su Shixia suddenly shouted loudly: "Don't move! Put this box down immediately and run!"
Chapter completed!