There is a Huayang County town dozens of miles east of Jinling City, which is an important transportation fortress in the south of the Yangtze River. There is a very inconspicuous wooden building in the west of Huayang County.

The two-story wooden building is old. Within a circle of more than one meter high red painted walls, there is a weed-grown courtyard. When you open a broken wooden door, the entire first floor is a hall, and the furnishings in the hall are simple.

On the middle wall of the hall, there is a picture of Guanyin giving birth to children, a desk table, a chair on each side, and a porcelain flower pot with missing holes and cracks on the window on the right wall. In the pot is a rose that withered at some point.

There is a row of items display cabinets on the entire left wall, but there is already nothing on it.

After going up the second floor, I pushed open the double-fan carved wooden door. It was even simpler. It was just a wooden bed, and the mattress on the bed was also ragged.

It seems that the wooden building has been unattended for many days, and there is a thick layer of dust everywhere.

The entire wooden building was empty, with only the red-lacquered gate in the wall, and an old beggar in rags and dirty all over the body lying all day long.

But he never went out to beg for three hundred and sixty days a year. It seemed to be in the broken bowl in front of him. As long as he was hungry, food would automatically pop up.

If you think this is an abandoned wooden building, it is wrong.

Because somewhere in the wooden building, there is a mechanism that is not easy to observe. Open the mechanism and pass through a long passage under the wooden building, you will enter a place that makes you dumbfounded. Of course, there are also mechanisms in the long passage.

The first thing that catches your eye is a magnificent palace covering an area of ​​5,000 square meters. When you pass through the palace, you will find rockery, small bridges, flowing water, pavilions, and a large garden that is arranged in a scattered manner. I don’t know what method the owner used here, but it is actually in the darkness and tens of meters underground. It can still make all kinds of flowers that you spoiled on weekdays bloom.

Of course, the most surprising thing is that the people here are men and women, old and young, most of them are Han people, and some Qing Manchus. When they look at their dresses, most of them are imitated by eunuchs, guards, palace maids, etc. In the palace, they can occasionally see women dressed in concubines, and some people dressed in ordinary clothes.

Seeing them busy and walking continuously, they were orderly and silent.

Farke no longer kept it a secret. This is a news base built by the Qing Dynasty in the heart of the Ming Dynasty for more than ten years and spent a lot of money.

And it is not someone else who is in charge here, but English.

And he obviously regarded this place as his underground palace and became addicted to the underground emperor.

The various news received by Yingzaji and all the people he bribed were summarized here, and then classified, identified, screened, and passed on to the Qing Dynasty.

At this time, in a spacious study in the palace, Yingzhaji, who looked helpless, sat on a large and comfortable chair, facing the purple curtain, and Yingting, who was standing opposite him, was talking about something.

“…”

"You just need to tell me if you did the Xuanwuzhuang family extermination case." Yingtingai's tone was cold and she asked with reproach, without any respect from her daughter to her father.

"No, this is just a fight between people in the Ming Dynasty." Yingzhaji spoke in a decisive tone.

Yingting Ai stared at her father for a long time, and naturally she couldn't tell whether what Yingzaji was saying was true or not. She opened her mouth and was about to speak, but Yingzaji guessed what she was going to say and said, "The reason why I have that Xuanwu Sword for my father is obtained from other channels."

"So, this sword is the dart you hold? Is it the dart you said that concerns your mother's happiness?" Yingting asked disdainfully.

Yingzaji was stared at by his daughter's eyes and was also a little uncomfortable: "Ahem... You are still weak and don't understand some things. This... This Xuanwu Sword is naturally related to your mother's future happiness..."

"Hmph, I don't understand, I don't understand. Do you think you gave your mother the Xuanwu Sword and then told her that Ximen Xiaotian is dead. If she has no thoughts in her heart, she will be happy in the future and will love you in the future?"

Since our little love boots fell in love with Ximending, we have grown up a lot. Many things that we didn’t understand about our mothers before have suddenly become enlightened: Falling in love with someone, no matter how fierce the curse is, sometimes even the teeth of hatred are itchy, but I always think of him and his mind.

Seeing that his father was bowed down and fell into deep thoughts when he said that, Yingting Ai was merciless and continued to sarcastically said: "No wonder you rarely go back. It turns out that you became an emperor here and live a happy life. How could you think of your mother..."

Yingzaji, who was criticized by his beloved daughter, had no choice but to be vicious. He raised his head and interrupted with an awkward expression: "Xiao Ai, I love your mother only in this life, and you only have one daughter, here... This is related to the national affairs, so you naturally cannot understand, and you cannot reveal more for your father, you will understand in the future."

"I don't bother paying attention to the so-called national affairs of you..." Yingtingai pondered for a moment, and suddenly said, "Tell me where the Xuanwu Sword comes from."

"Uh... this... it's inconvenient to reveal it..." Yingzaji saw Yingting's love expression and said, "This time, the Xuanwu Sword is just one of them. There is another more important thing in the iron box. I hope you can help me get the iron box back."

Yingtingai blinked her eyes, turned her mind and asked, "What is it? Will Yu Wenlong and the others not see it?"

"It's a map that is extremely useful to me in the Qing Dynasty." Yingzaji hesitated for a moment and told the truth to her daughter, "There is a mezzanine inside the iron box. If you didn't know, you would never find it. When they discovered the Xuanwu Sword, they must have thought that this is the only thing in the iron box. I think you don't care about the iron box anymore. During this period, you happened to know Ximen Xiaotian's son. Xuanwu Sword is a thing of Xuanwu Village. This sword Yu Culture Dragon will definitely be returned to him. You can use him to help me get the iron box back from the Yu Culture Dragon..." Speaking of this, Yingzaji laughed dryly and said, "Now in the world, I must think that the Xuanwu Village family extermination case was done by my father. Although I am not afraid of being a father, there are many talented people in the world, and I can't be guarded against it. I'm still showing fewer appearances recently. For this matter, I can only rely on you for my father."

"Yes." Ying Tingai nodded very simply, but changed the subject: "But I have a condition."

He actually threatened to be a father?

Yingzaji looked at Yingtingai and said, "Do you have to know where the Xuanwu Sword comes from?"

Yingting Ai looked at Yingzaji and nodded firmly.

Yingzaji was very surprised when her daughter insisted on inquiring about this, and she said in surprise: "Is it because of Ximen Xiaotian and your mother that you want to avenge the Xuanwuzhuang family destruction case?"

Of course, Yingting loves it is not because of this, she didn't think so deeply, but Yingzaji's words reminded her.

She pretended to be hesitant for a moment and said, "Yes, Xuanwuzhuang was destroyed and Ximen Xiaotian was killed. I think my mother would not be happy in the future. If I could do something for my mother to destroy the Xuanwuzhuang case and do something for Ximen Xiaotian's death, my mother would definitely agree."

After Yingting Ai finished speaking, she saw her father staring at her blankly. After all, she had never lie. She felt a little fever on her face, so she coughed lightly: "If you do this, maybe my mother will gradually give you her heart to you in the future and fall in love with you wholeheartedly..."

Yingzaji couldn't bear to listen and said to himself: I am also one of the murderers. I will avenge Xuanwuzhuang. Will I kill myself?

He smiled bitterly and said, "Xiao Ai, for your mother, for your father, and for the happiness of our family of three, I really want to do this. But..." As he said that, he put on a helpless expression again, "This matter is related to my fate after the Qing Dynasty, to be a father, and to the lives of our family. I really cannot disclose it."

Seeing that Yingting's eyes were getting colder and Yingzaji, who knew her daughter very well, threatened her daughter and said, "However, if you can get the iron box and make great contributions for the Qing Dynasty, then I will report this matter to Huang Taiji. I think he should agree to reveal some clues about the Xuanwuzhuang family destruction case to you for your father." Haha, if you help me get the iron box, of course I still can't disclose it. Huang Taiji doesn't agree, and there is nothing I can do for your father.

Being sensible, Yingting Ai is naturally far from his father's opponent.

After hearing Yingzaji's words, she thought seriously for a moment and finally nodded to make a deal.
Chapter completed!