The two carriages left the city smoothly, and after half an hour, they arrived at the deserted courtyard in the suburbs of Beijing.
Ye Chang and Su Fengnuan got out of the carriage, looked at the deserted courtyard in the suburbs of Beijing, Su Fengnuan glanced around, frowned and said, "After we left yesterday, someone came here."
"Huh?" Ye Chang raised his eyebrows.
Su Fengnuan pointed to a wall and said, "There are traces there."
Ye Chang took a careful look, narrowed his eyes and said, "There are indeed finger marks."
Su Feng said warmly, "Go, go and have a look."
Ye Chang nodded.
After Xu Yunchu got off the carriage, he heard the words and followed the two of them.
When the three of them came to the wall, they saw a tiny fingerprint on the wall. Because the wall was blown by wind and snow, a layer of dust fell on the wall, and the fingerprint fell on it. It was not very clear, but it was visible. Only the imprint of two fingers.
Su Fengnuan stretched out his fingers, compared them slightly, and said with certainty, "It's the woman's finger print." After finishing the sentence, he took Ye Chang's hand and compared the stickers. When it grew by an inch, she turned her head and motioned to Xu Yunchu, "You can also compare."
Xu Yunchu raised his hand, compared the posters, nodded, "That's right, it's indeed a woman's handprint."
Su Fengnuan said, "The hands of the two of you are slender and smooth among men, but they are also much larger than women's knuckles. These two fingers have slender phalanges, which are almost the same as my hands. It can be seen It's definitely a woman."
Ye Chang asked, "Does it mean that this place is where the agency is located?"
Su Fengnuan said, "Yesterday, when we left, it was already dark. I always felt that something was wrong here, but I couldn't tell what was wrong. If the two fingers are where the mechanism is, it can be seen that the mechanism here is really very sophisticated."
Ye Chang said, "Without these two fingerprints, it looks like a stone wall. I really can't tell that this is where the mechanism is. The texture of the stone is very natural, and there are no traces of carving."
Xu Yunchu said, "See if it's really a mechanism? Can it be opened?"
Su Fengnuan nodded, and pressed her two fingers on those two fingers. She exerted a little force, and that place collapsed. After a while, only a "click" sound was heard, and the wall sank downward, from the bottom of the wall to the ground. There is a hole for one person to go down in the gap between the bluestone bricks.
"Sure enough, it's the entrance of the agency." Su Fengnuan said.
Xu Yunchu looked at the entrance of the cave and said, "Although these two fingerprints are not obvious, they are very clear for you to discover. If you go down easily, if it is a trap, it will be bad."
Ye Chang shook his head and said, "The reason why we were able to find out quickly is because we have a photographic memory. When we came yesterday, we remembered everything here. If ordinary people came, such two faint fingerprints would unlikely to be found.”
Xu Yunchu said, "But now that someone has been here, it's better to be careful."
Su Fengnuan said to Ye Chang, "You and Uncle Xiaoguo are waiting for me up there, I'll go down and have a look."
Ye Chang said, "No, how can I let you go down by yourself? I will go down with you."
Su Fengnuan said, "I'll go down to check. You are up there. If there is anything wrong, you can save me in time. We have tracked down this kind of mechanism. I also think it must not be easy here, especially after we left yesterday. Later, someone came."
Ye Chang insisted, "That's not okay, I'll be with you."
Su Fengnuan looked helplessly at Xu Yunchu.
Xu Yunchu said, "I am also with you, every time I am the one waiting outside, I am really anxious."
Su Fengnuan said, "You'd better wait outside, what if you all go down? If something happens, there's no one outside to take care of you." After she finished speaking, she glanced at the sky and said, "It's almost noon now. There is a limit of two hours, if we don't come out after two hours, something has happened."
Ye Chang also said, "Not bad."
Xu Yunchu could only nod his head, "Okay, two hours is the limit, you should be careful." After finishing speaking, he said, "I will order Fu Ying to check if any women came here yesterday? Then look around and see if there are any Someone left any traces."
Ye Chang nodded.
Su Fengnuan stepped down from the entrance of the cave first, followed by Ye Chang, who also jumped down.
After the two went down, Xu Yunchu called Fuying and ordered him to go on, and then he looked around the deserted courtyard.
After Su Fengnuan jumped off the entrance of the cave, the entrance of the cave was several feet long. Fortunately, she had martial arts skills, and she landed on the ground without incident. It's pitch black below, and you can't see your fingers. Unlike the secret passages investigated earlier, there are no luminous pearls or the like to illuminate the stone walls. From her bosom, she took out the night pearl she had picked off from the stone wall when she was exploring the secret passage earlier, and used it for lighting.
Ye Chang then jumped down, and with the light on, the two looked at the place.
What I saw was a very large underground stone chamber, as big as a house, with smooth walls and nothing.
Su Fengnuan walked around the stone wall and found that there was no way out. She explored for a while, but couldn't find the mechanism, so she said to Ye Chang, "This place doesn't seem to be a secret passage, but an underground secret room for storing things."
Ye Chang nodded, "There is a smell of ironware. There should be something like ironware stored here."
Su Fengnuan sniffed with his nose, but he didn't smell anything, only a deserted smell. But knowing that Ye Chang has a sharp nose and is blessed with the ability to smell things that others can't, she said, "Could it be that you have stored weapons?"
Ye Chang said, "Maybe."
Su Fengnuan asked, "Is there anything else?"
Ye Chang said, "There is still a scent, faint, like..." He frowned for a moment, smelled it carefully, and said, "It's like the smell of expensive gouache."
Su Fengnuan asked, "Are you sure?"
Ye Chang looked at her and said, "You don't use gouache, but you rub it rustlingly. I seem to have smelled this kind of gouache on her body before."
Su Fengnuan blinked, "Surse was in Rong'an Palace yesterday."
Ye Chang nodded, "That's right, of course it's not her. It's just that this gouache smell is very similar to me."
Su Fengnuan asked again, "Is there any more?"
Ye Chang shook his head, "No more."
Su Feng said warmly, "Go, let's go up."
Ye Chang nodded.
The two tapped their toes and left the underground secret room.
Xu Yunchu had just walked around the courtyard and found nothing. Hearing the commotion, he turned his head and saw that the two had come out so quickly. He was stunned for a moment and said, "Why so fast?"
Su Feng warmly said, "The following is not a secret tunnel, but an underground stone room. It is empty inside, but it seems to smell of iron and precious gouache."
Xu Yunchu looked at the two, "Then what did you find?"
Ye Chang said, "In the past, ironware or weapons should have been stored. Of course, swords and other weapons in the rivers and lakes are not ruled out. As for the precious gouache, after returning, ask Sese what kind of gouache she used in the past."
Su Feng said warmly, "That's right, but it's not like there's nothing to gain."
Xu Yunchu said, "I checked it carefully again, but found nothing. Otherwise, you should check it again?"
Su Fengnuan nodded, and walked around the ruined courtyard again, but still found nothing. Standing in the courtyard, she said to Ye Chang, "I always feel that something is still intact, but it's hard to think of it for a while."
Ye Chang thought for a moment, and said, "Yesterday, when you and I went out from here, it was completely dark, and there were no traces around here, but someone came. Then how did she find the mechanism of that stone wall accurately?" ?”
Su Feng said warmly, "Yes, this is the problem."
Ye Chang said, "It should be night when the girl came."
Su Fengnuan glanced at the sky and said, "Well, let's go back first, and you and I will come again at night."
Ye Chang nodded, "Okay."
Hearing what the two said, Xu Yunchu said, "Since that's the case, let's go. After I go back, I'll check the flower and candle show carefully. Over the years, I have never doubted my uncle. I never thought that such a thing would happen."
Su Fengnuan said, "Everyone does something for a reason. Maybe there is something about your uncle that you don't know about. You might as well go back and ask the abbot."
Xu Yunchu nodded.
The three got into the carriage and left the deserted courtyard.
The carriage returned to the city and passed several brothels on Ronghua Street. It happened that Ye Xi and Qi Shu came out of a brothel. Seeing them, Su Fengnuan raised the curtain and asked, "Brother, did you find anything?"
Ye Xi nodded, came to the front of the car, took out some rice paper from his sleeve and handed it to Su Fengnuan.
Su Fengnuan reached out to take it, and saw that each piece of rice paper had a portrait drawn on it, all of which were portraits of a person, and the person who drew it was Shen Qi. She looked carefully for a moment, then handed it to Ye Chang.
Ye Chang took it, flipped through it casually for a while, and asked Ye Xi who was outside the car, "Where do these portraits come from?"
Ye Xi said, "It was all drawn by the procuress of the brothel. They said that the man was indeed the third son Shen, and they all insisted on it. You know, although the brothel does wine and sex for a living, the girls in it are all masters of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. Excellent talent. As the procuress of the brothel, he is also proficient in these talents. So, I asked each of them to draw a portrait of Mr. Shen San for me."
At this moment, Qi Shu looked at Ye Chang and said, "I see that the person they painted is indeed Shen Qi. Could it be that he often visits brothels behind our backs? Or, is there really someone who looks exactly like him in this world? ? This is strange."
Ye Chang said, "All the old bustards of these brothels have painted portraits, and each portrait has their names written down. Although the painters have their own merits, it is true that none of them had any intentions. But why is the portrait painted by the old bustard in Hongfenlou missing? ?”
Ye Xi said, "Didn't Shen Qi often go to the Red Pink House with you? Isn't it necessary?"
Ye Chang said affirmatively, "If it's useful, you can go to Hongfenlou and ask her to draw a portrait of Shen Qi."