At the door of the Taiwei's bedroom, four adults surrounded Cao Kui's body. After taking a look at it, they all felt a little sad. How could it end up like this?

At this time, Zhan Zhao poked his head out of the room, saw Bai Yutang, and waved to him.

The fifth master hugged the fourth son and wanted to go over. The fourth son suddenly grabbed him and pointed to the prosthetic hand on the stone table in the courtyard.

When Xiaoliangzi saw that Xiaosizi asked for the hand, he ran over, took it and handed it to him.

This is a hand carved from wood. The workmanship is still relatively rough, but it can be seen that it is a woman's hand.

"Jin'er, what's wrong with this hand?" Xiao Liang asked.

The fourth child touched his chin and thought.

Fifth Master put him next to Xiao Liang, let the shadow guards watch, and ran to find Zhan Zhao.

At this moment, in the Taiwei's bedroom, Gongsun and Zhao Pu were standing in the middle of the room, and Zou Liang was lying on the ground, knocking on the stone slab.

Zhan Zhao asked Bai Yutang to look at the gaps in the stone slabs.

The floor of the Taiwei's bedroom was paved with square gray slates. The slate that Zhan Zhao showed Bai Yutang was very clean, but the one next to it had blood stains. It should have been caused by the dragging of the Taiwei's body. The blood had penetrated into the slate.

in the gap between.

Master Wu saw the clue and asked, "Can this stone slab be moved?"

"It should be, but it can't be pried open." Zou Liang shook his head and pointed at the ground, "I really want to hear the sound below."

Zhao Pu signaled everyone around him to be silent, and the room became quiet. Zhan Zhao knocked on the stone slab with a giant hammer a few times.

Gongsun still looked confused, but several experts in the room listened attentively.

"There was indeed a sound." Lin Yehuo said, "It seemed like someone was calling for help."

"Is there someone down there?!" Mr. Bao looked at the Grand Master.

The grand master sighed - it's just like what he heard before, there is a cellar under Cao Kui's bedroom.

Zhao Pu asked someone to call the housekeeper.

The housekeeper said that there was indeed a cellar under the Taiwei's room, but only the Taiwei knew how to get down there. No one was allowed to enter the Taiwei's room, and the butlers of the Taiwei's mansion were changed once a year.

"Butlers change every year?" Fifth Master asked, "What about the maids and guards?"

"It also changes every year. The lieutenant doesn't like people asking about his affairs, and he has nothing to say to his servants. He always keeps to himself." The housekeeper was helpless.

Zhan Zhao pulled Bai Yutang, "There should be a mechanism to open the cellar. It's important to save people first."

Fifth Master nodded, "Look at the furnishings in the room that cannot be picked up."

Everyone started looking for them separately. They picked up all the vases, potted plants, books and pen holders and looked at them.

Gongsun looked at the experts working together to find a trap, and shook his head helplessly. These people were very honest at critical moments.

After thinking about it, Mr. Gongsun walked to the door and waved to Xiao Sizi who was playing with Xiao Liangzi in the distance.

The fourth son ran to the door, holding his hands behind his back and acting coquettishly with Gongsun, "Dad, who said just now that it's not good for children to run around and look at corpses."

Gongsun reached out and pinched his nose - you are getting more and more involved with the Demon King!

The little fourth son took Gongsun's hand and crossed the threshold. The little Liangzi also followed in, still holding the prosthetic hand in his hand.

Xiao Sizi asked Xiao Liangzi for the prosthetic hand and handed it to Bai Yutang.

The Eight Kings asked Li Yue, "Where did you get that hand?"

Li Yue pointed to a wooden cabinet beside the bed, "It's next to the candlestick."

The Eighth Prince looked at him with disgust, "How can things in this room be moved?"

Li Yue scratched his head. He had originally picked it up to take a look, but he happened to see the Eight Kings coming, so he took it out to scare him.

Master Wu walked over and took the candlestick off the wooden cabinet, then groped for the table and lifted it up...

I bet the top of this wooden cabinet can be opened.

Below is the drawer, and there is an octagonal iron nail standing upright in the middle. Master Wu saw that there was a hole at the bottom of the wooden hand, so he put the wooden hand on the nail, pressed it, and then turned...

Immediately, there was a "click" sound from the ground, and the stone slab lowered.

The stone slab was lowered to half a person's height, and there were stone steps below. There was also a long blood stain on the steps. Faintly, a woman's faint cry for help was heard from below.

Zhan Zhao jumped down quickly, and Lin Yehuo wanted to go down too. Gongsun carried the medicine box, "Someone may be injured, I'll go too!"

Huofeng helped him, and the two of them avoided the blood and followed Zhan Zhao down to the cellar.

Zhao Pu also wanted to jump in, but as soon as he stretched out his legs, he was grabbed by several hands from behind.

When the Ninth Prince turned around, the Eighth Prince, Li Yue, Bao Zheng, and Grand Master Pang all grabbed the hem of his clothes, and they were able to catch him accurately.

Zhao Pu looked unhappy. He had already arrived at Kaifeng Mansion and was still under supervision?!

At this moment, the floor rose back up again.

Everyone turned around.

Bai Yutang looked at the wooden cabinet top that automatically closed in front of him, "It will close automatically. The workmanship is very exquisite."

After saying that, he opened the top panel again, turned the wooden hand, and the stone panel opened again.

The grand master whispered to Mr. Bao, "Even if what is hidden underneath is the body of his wife, there is no need to make it as exaggerated as the ancient tomb mechanism."

Master Bao nodded in agreement.

Li Yue was confused and asked curiously, "What is his wife's body?"

The Eighth Prince asked him, "Didn't you and Duo Qi know Cao Kui a long time ago? Don't you know that he kept the body of his wife?"

Li Yue turned around, stared at the Eight Kings for a while, then shook his head, "Cao Kui's wife was cremated."

Everyone was stunned, Lord Bao turned his face and looked at the Grand Master - Fatty, the information is not accurate, you!

The Grand Master touched this chubby chin - but it was not accurate?!

"Isn't it said that the Taiwei loved his wife as much as her life and missed her deceased wife..."

Li Yue nodded, "It is true that he refused to renew his wife's relationship after her death. Every time someone offered to kiss him, he refused. He said he missed his deceased wife until she died, but his wife had been cremated long ago."

"Master Hou, are you sure?" Bao Zheng asked.

Li Yue nodded, "His wife passed away many years ago. At that time, he had just entered Kaifeng to take the imperial examination. When Duo Qi and I were drinking with him, he mentioned that he had no worries and only one person.

Mrs. Tan’s ashes.”

Bao Zheng looks after the housekeeper.

The butler spread his hands and told him that he had only worked for less than a year, and the lieutenant said nothing to him.

At this moment, Lin Yehuo ran up and waved to everyone, "Wow! It's so scary down there. Come and see, that captain is perverted."

After saying that, Huofeng ran down again.

Zhao Pu saw a flash of white shadow in front of his eyes. Bai Yutang had already gone down. He left a message, "If you don't want to go down, please help watch the mechanism."

Zhao Pu looked dissatisfied at the people dragging him.

"Ahem." Mr. Bao let go, "It's important to investigate the case." After saying that, he followed Bai Yutang down, "Bai Shaoxia, wait for me."

Li Yue also went down. The grand master visually inspected the hole and it was quite big. He stretched out his hand and said, "Master Marquis, give me a hand."

Finally, Zhao Pu looked at the Eighth Prince.

The prince gritted his teeth and said, "I want to go down too!"

Zhao Pu looked at the sky and stretched out his hand to help the eight kings go downstairs.

In the end, Long Qiaoguang stood helplessly by the bed and looked at the wooden cabinet. General You curled his lips, "Why on earth should I come to investigate the case? Isn't it better to stay at home and have a baby with my wife?"

Xiao Liangzi and Xiao Sizi ran hand in hand towards the cellar. Before they could take a step, they heard Gongsun's voice coming from below, "Children are not allowed to come down!"

The fourth son flat-mouthed, and he and Xiao Liang went to the cabinet to wait with Long Qiaoguang.

Long Qiaoguang touched the heads of the two little ones with both hands and muttered, "Oh, their heads are so round."

Little Liangzi folded his arms and was shaken by the rubbing. Just as he was about to jump up to resist, he saw the little fourth son next to him suddenly stopped moving.

The little fourth child stood still for a while, then a confused look appeared on his face, and he poked his chin with his little hand.

Xiao Liang blinked - did Jin'er see something again?

…

The cellar is quite deep, the stairs are divided into two sections, and the bottom is very empty. The size of the cellar surprised everyone who came down.

"Who did Lao Cao hire?" Li Yue felt incredible.

"It's not going to take more than ten or twenty years to dig? It's such a massive construction project, but it's not discovered?" The Grand Master stroked his beard and looked up at the dome above.

When I walked down the steps, the first thing I saw was a huge black sarcophagus in the middle.

Beside the sarcophagus, Gongsun was treating a woman.

Looking around, everyone felt a chill and panicked inexplicably.

A circle of shelves was placed around the cellar, and the layers were filled with red candles. Obviously these candles were always burning and were refilled after they were burned out, so there was a thick layer of wax piled up on the ground like a mountain.
To be continued...