Under his repeated comfort, Lin Ruoyan calmed down and returned to his previous state.
Zhang Qiling lowered his head and looked at the shapeless lotus flower on the ground that she had stepped on. After all, he still couldn't bear to part with this gift that she had given him for the first time.
Although the process was not very good, he still picked up the broken flower.
"Godmother, I think the patriarch and the woman are crazy, and their moods are unpredictable. Will she hurt the patriarch?"
Zhang Haiyan whispered in Zhang Haiqi's ear. said.
"Let's take a look again." Zhang Haiqi stared at the figures of the two people in front of him with deep eyes.
Zhang Qiling led them up the road, and finally stopped in front of a very inconspicuous cave.
At first glance, the cave looks like a wide crack in the mountain.
It can accommodate two people walking side by side.
Going deeper, there is a stone gate blocking the way.
It is inappropriate to call it a stone gate, because it is composed of five rows of huge relief blue bricks.
"Press the second from the left in the first row, the fourth in the third row, and the third from the right in the fourth row." Zhang Qiling stared at Zhang Haiyan and said.
"Chief, it's okay if I press it. You won't use me as a trap."
Zhang Haiyan was warned by his godmother to follow the patriarch closely and not to touch anything.
Now the patriarch asked him to turn on the mechanism again, which made him wonder if the patriarch was taking the opportunity to take revenge.
"I can't die." Zhang Qiling spat out three more words.
I’m even more scared when you say that... Zhang Haiyan looked at Zhang Qianjun, who raised his head and looked at the ceiling of the cave.
She looked begging at Zhang Haiqi again. She stretched out her fingers in front of her eyes and looked at her Dankou.
Zhang Haiyan had no choice but to step forward and press the three positions in sequence as the patriarch said.
As the last blue brick was pressed, the stone door shook and began to sink downwards.
When the stone gate collapsed, a large number of hidden weapons shot at Zhang Haiyan from around the gaps in the stone gate.
Fortunately, his reaction speed and body shape have been trained by Zhang Haiqi since he was a child. He is very familiar with the directions in which these hidden weapons are launched, but it is more intensive than the training he received when he was a child.
Apart from being a little embarrassed and scratched by several hidden weapons, he did not suffer much damage.
It seems that these hidden weapons were set up to test whether they were members of the Zhang family.
He looked back at the other people, and sure enough they were hiding far away.
Alas, who made him offend the patriarch.
"Godmother, if the clan leader remembered the wrong order of the gate just now, what will happen to me?" Zhang Haiyan approached Zhang Haiqi and asked in his ear while walking.
"Nothing will happen, Zhang Jiarenshan, the first mechanism was pressed incorrectly., the location behind the door was directly replaced by a random mountain path. "Zhang Haiqi kept walking.
After walking forward for a while, the cave looked like it was built artificially. For such a large project, it seems that the Zhang family had a lot of people and wealth during its heyday. < /p>
They entered a circular cave space with five stone doors in a circle.
They all looked like ordinary stone jack doors without any carvings. < /p>
There were three unicorn stone statues on each side of the middle one.
Zhang Qiling stopped.
"Don't move. "He said to Lin Ruoyan.
He walked forward, pulled out the knife, closed his eyes and recalled the set of movements that he had been repeatedly told to remember when he started learning martial arts in the inner courtyard.
When he took the second step to the middle of the two rows of unicorn statues, the six unicorn stone statues turned their heads in his direction and spit out meteor darts from their mouths one after another.
He followed suit. He rehearsed the movement technique in his memory completely.
When he opened his eyes again, all the darts had been picked up by his knife and flew to a stone wall to form a direction arrow.
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The direction of the arrow is pointing to one of the stone gates.
“It’s so handsome. "
Lin Ruoyan, who was staring at Zhang Qiling's figure, didn't know why these three words suddenly appeared in his mind.
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"The patriarch is so awesome. I still thought that I could do those meteor darts without any delay. The patriarch didn't let me come this time because he was afraid that I would steal his limelight in front of his woman. It turns out that it is the function of guiding the correct stone gate. ”
Zhang Qianjun looked at Zhang Haiyan speechlessly, and didn’t know how he could express his admiration for the patriarch and his compilation of the patriarch in one sentence at the same time.
Zhang Qiling also heard Zhang Haiyan’s words When he said that, he tilted his head back slightly and his eyes changed.
Lin Ruoyan came over and took his hand, looking up at him with unusually bright eyes.
" nice. "
Zhang Qiling couldn't help but raise the corners of her mouth.
Pulling her towards the stone door pointed by the arrow, Zhang Haiyan and Zhang Qianjun moved the meteor darts on the wall from behind. Take it off.
"Every time the stone gate mechanism is activated, it will evolve again, and the darts spit out by the stone statue will guide the direction. Only the movement of the patriarch can find the correct stone gate. It makes no difference whether you take it off or not." "
Zhang Haiqi spoke lazily after the two men had picked off the darts.
Why didn't you tell me earlier... Zhang Haiyan and Zhang Qianjun were speechless.
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In front of the last stone door, Zhang Qiling inserted two strangely long fingers into Qilin's eyes, moved them slightly, and listened carefully to the sound of the machine inside.
A huge ancient Zhang family building stood quietly in front of them in the darkness.
Rather than a building, it would be more appropriate to call it a tower.
The bottom floor is wide and becomes smaller as it goes up, with a total of seven floors.
This is a typical Qing Dynasty building.
The sound of the door creaking was heard, and Zhang Qiling was in a trance. After so many years, he stepped here again.
However, this time I did not enter the Zhang family’s tomb alone.
The space on the first floor is unusually large, with four pillars standing in the middle. It is unusually dry inside, without the humidity found in the mountain, and I don’t know what the ancestors of the Zhang family used to maintain it.
When Zhang Haiqi heard Zhang Haiyan and the others’ questions, he turned around and solemnly warned them again.
"You must not touch or do anything."
Zhang Haiyan looked at Zhang Haiqi and took the trouble to tell her repeatedly, which was completely different from her godmother's character.
Knowing that there would be serious consequences if he encountered it, he put away his nonchalant manner and became serious.
Zhang Qiling led Lin Ruoyan straight towards the wall at the back of the hall, not knowing where he touched.
The hall, which had only been dimly lit by their bodies, suddenly became brighter.
Flames appeared on the hanging flower carvings on the four walls of the hall.
The blank wall facing the door also spreads out to both sides.
A lifelike statue of a lying unicorn was revealed.
Below the Qilin’s hanging head is the tablet of the first Zhang Qiling, which seems to be held in the arms of the Qilin’s two forelimbs.
Below the tablet, there are three permanent lamps that spontaneously ignite without fire.
Zhang Qiling opened the sapphire box from the bag.
Inside, a row of finger-thick purple-printed agarwood lay quietly on the black velvet.
He took out three of them, lit them, and placed them in the small bronze tripod in front of each ever-burning lamp.
Zhang Haiqi, Zhang Haiyan and Zhang Qianjun approached and knelt down with Zhang Qiling.
"The thirty-sixth generation Zhang Qiling, his wife and his clan members pay their respects."
Among the few people, only Lin Ruoyan stood blankly, not understanding why they all suddenly knelt down. .
Seemingly attracted by the fragrance, Qilin, who was lying down, opened his eyes and slowly stood up straight.
.........No, is it really a unicorn?
Zhang Haiyan, who was kneeling behind him but kept glancing up secretly, was shocked.
(In the original work, there is a Qilin family whose chessboard is the 34th generation. The two Zhang Qilings in modern times died early, so they are counted as 36th generation. I am not sure. Friends with research can Let me know and I will change it)
Also {Thanks for clearing up.Quantingting's gift, this is the first time I have received such a big gift, and I will add an extra chapter for you today. Thank you very much. I didn’t save many manuscripts before and didn’t dare to post more. I saved them in the past few days and it’s only a few days late. ｝