First Chapter 36: Is the address book here?
I looked at Qin Yiheng, and suddenly an idea popped up in my mind. Did he bring me here because he already knew that Wan Jinrong's ancestral hall was here? In that case, did he bring me here to find Wan Jinrong's "address book"? If my guess was right, then why did Qin Yiheng keep hiding the truth from me? And what kind of information was in that "address book" that made him want to find it? And if my guess was wrong, it would be even more unreasonable. This is not a business that makes money, so why did he have to bring me here?
There were too many questions in my head, so I paused for a moment, trying to organize my words to ask Qin Yiheng what was going on. Before I could open my mouth, he said, "I know you are full of questions now, but I can't tell you here now." After that, he pointed with a flashlight and said, "I noticed just now that there are rooms inside. We should at least check them all before making any plans."
After saying that, he led the way to the room inside. The room we are in now should be the center of the entire ancestral hall, because judging from its size, it should have occupied a large part of the entire building. I shone the flashlight and found that there was indeed a door by the wall. I thought about it and realized that there were not many places left to explore. I decided to listen to Qin Yiheng for now. It was not the right time for me to ask questions, so I followed him.
Qin Yiheng was still very careful when opening the door this time. I also learned my lesson and paid special attention to my feet. The two of us entered the room and looked around with a flashlight. We found that it was a long and narrow room. There was nothing in the room. At first glance, it looked like a corridor. However, when the light was shone far away, we found that there were only walls and three small round windows. Qin Yiheng looked around and didn't seem to find anything. I became bolder and walked straight to the farthest wall, thinking about what it looked like outside the window. Because of the line of sight, I didn't notice it from a distance. When I got closer, I found that the three windows were opened a little strangely. First of all, the windows were opened very low, only to my waist. If you want to look outside, you have to squat down; secondly, you can only see from a close look that there is no glass on the windows. I don't know if it was not installed in time or it was designed like this. Anyway, I am too lazy to study architectural aesthetics. I squatted down and looked out curiously after thinking about it. The result was very disappointing. It was darker outside than inside the house. I shone my flashlight outside and could just barely see the tree trunks in the woods. This wall was already the exterior wall of the entire building.
I stood up and thought, "What the hell is going on? There are three holes here, and they are so low that water will flow in when it rains." I used my body to indicate the location. Is this for people to urinate? Pee directly from the house to the outside? But is it so troublesome to build a toilet? Everyone in this family likes performance art? The more I thought about it, the more curious I became. I turned around and saw Qin Yiheng still holding a flashlight and looking at the wall. I thought about it for a while, then squatted down and tried to stick my head out to take a look.
The size of the hole was big enough for a person to climb out, so I squatted down and leaned against the wall and stuck my head out. It was still pitch black outside, so I turned my head to see if there was anything special outside the wall. But as soon as I turned my head, I saw someone lying at the foot of the wall, looking up and staring at me. When our eyes met, I was almost scared to death. I screamed "Ah" and immediately tried to pull my head back. The my panic, my head hit the edge of the hole, which made my eyes go black. Fortunately, Qin Yiheng heard my screams, grabbed my clothes from behind, and pulled me back. When I returned to the house, I collapsed on the ground, gasping for breath. I wanted to tell him that there was someone outside the wall, but I shivered for a long time but couldn't squeeze out any words, so I could only use my fingers to show him.
Seeing that I couldn't explain myself clearly, Qin Yiheng probably thought I was possessed by evil spirits, and quickly told me to take out the stick and prick myself. I waved my hands and finally spoke, there is someone outside! He was also shocked after hearing this, and pulled me up with both hands, retreated to the door, and asked me, did you see clearly what kind of person it was?
I was so scared at the time that I couldn't remember who he was. I could only shake my head and ask Qin Yiheng what he was doing lying there in the middle of the night. As soon as I asked the question, I realized that this person had broken the house-guarding system. He came in first, and then when he heard us, he went out of the hole and hid outside the wall. If that was the case, I was really lucky. I just stuck my head out and waited for others to kill me. However, the man didn't attack me. Could it be that he didn't intend to harm us, or he didn't expect me to stick my head out, so he wasn't prepared, so he didn't have time to attack me?
Anyway, no matter what, the fact that this person can appear here at such a time is already a big problem.
Qin Yiheng shook his head after hearing what I said, made a "hush" gesture with his hand, and told me to try not to talk and turn off the flashlight, otherwise it would be too easy for the people outside to attack us. I had no choice but to do as he said, and the room suddenly fell into darkness again. Qin Yiheng tugged at the corner of my clothes a few times, apparently signaling me to follow him. But it was too dark, and I was afraid of getting separated from him, so I had to hold his backpack strap with my hand, slowly moved out of the door with him, and returned to the ancestral hall.
We walked to the corner, and Qin Yiheng said to me in a low voice that we couldn't turn on the flashlight yet, and we should try not to expose our position. I just thought about it, and those three holes should be the eyes of Feng Shui, which are used to release the evil spirits of disaster, year, and robbery. As for that person, no matter who he is, we have to be careful. I saw many numbers written on the wall of that room with a pen. The handwriting was very fresh, and it was very likely left by that person. It looked like he was calculating some values, and I didn't understand what it meant. There are too many strange places in this house. I will go to see other side houses. But I can't take you there under the current circumstances. You wait here, and I will come back to find you after I have seen it.
After saying that, he turned and left. At first I could still feel him moving on tiptoe, but after a while, I could no longer feel his presence. I leaned against the wall and suddenly began to feel inexplicably scared. After all, there were so many spirit tablets in this room, and Qin Yiheng was not around, so the atmosphere was indeed a bit scary. I tried to calm down and comforted myself that all the storms had passed and it was no big deal, but my heart was still beating fast. I wanted to smoke a cigarette, but I was afraid of exposing my position, so I had to endure it. After a while, I couldn't tell exactly how long , I heard a faint sound that sounded like metal friction coming from somewhere in the house. Upon closer listening, it sounded like the sound of an iron chain being dragged on the ground.
I pricked up my ears to try to distinguish what was going on, but I couldn't hear it clearly. However, although the noise was very small, it still scared me enough and made my back cold. Fortunately, after a while, the sound disappeared, and then I felt Qin Yiheng tiptoeing back, slowly approaching me, and gently patting me.
Although I couldn't see, I could still feel that after he took the photo of me, he turned around and continued to tiptoe out. I knew he was asking me to follow him, so I followed him carefully. There were no windows in this house, and it was too dark. I was afraid that I would accidentally bump into the spirit tablet while walking, so I reached out to grab his backpack strap. However, after I reached out my hand, my scalp immediately went numb, because I didn't touch the backpack strap as I imagined, but directly touched the back of this person - this person was not Qin Yiheng!
I was completely panicked and instinctively took two steps back, not caring whether my movements would make any noise. I wanted to grab the flashlight to protect myself. The flashlight we bought was more than 30 centimeters long and quite heavy in my hand. Although it was not very comfortable, it was still useful. I stepped back again, trying to keep a relatively safe distance between myself and the other party. Then, I turned on the flashlight and shone it towards the man, thinking: "Fuck, I have to show you who you are even if I have to fight you. However, when the light came on, I was stunned. It was obviously Qin Yiheng! But where was his bag? "
When Qin Yiheng saw me turn on the flashlight, he immediately became nervous and quickly gestured to me to turn off the flashlight, saying that he had just found a room and had to take me to see it. His voice was very soft, and I was a little dazed and didn't react. Seeing this, he snatched the flashlight from my hand and turned it off, then pulled my arm and told me to follow him and continue walking.
We walked out of the ancestral hall and went straight back to the yard. The moonlight outside had been blocked, and visibility was not good, but it was still much better than the dark room. Qin Yiheng took me to the left side of the yard, and I saw that there was a small iron door here, with three iron chains as thick as fingers tied to it, fastened by a metal lock. Could it be that the noise I heard just now came from here? I immediately respected Qin Yiheng. I didn't expect that he had the ability to pick locks. Who knew that he would jump over in two steps and told me not to be stunned and to follow him quickly. It turned out that I overestimated him, so I took off my bag, threw it over first, and then followed him to jump over.
After going through this door, there should be a very small corridor here, but it is not transparent. The corridor is sandwiched by a wall more than one person high. Walking inside it is very similar to walking indoors. Qin Yiheng and I walked for a while and almost went around the back of the house. Qin Yiheng stopped. At this time, another door appeared in front of us.
There is another room here? It seems that it is not connected to the room inside. Qin Yiheng rummaged through his pocket for a while, stuffed something into my hand, told me to hold it in my mouth, and then reminded me to hold the wooden stick well, and walked in first. I opened my hand and took a look, and I couldn't help but vomit. This damn, it was actually a sheep dung ball. To be honest, the smell was really unbearable, but Qin Yiheng was doing it for my own good, so I had to endure the nausea and hold it in my mouth and followed him in.
I thought the room was still dark, but Qin Yiheng had already lit three white candles on the ground when he came in. The visibility in the room was OK, but when we came in, the candle wicks flickered a few times due to the air flow, which made people feel a little uneasy. I put my bag down and looked around. This room was not big, at least much smaller than the room we were in before. It was only about 30 square meters. There was a large stone mill in the middle of the room, which looked quite old. There was a long bamboo conduit under the stone mill for water diversion, and I didn't know what was piled on the wall inside, all covered with rainproof cloth, which looked like some large objects.
