Kirin family

The Kylin Courtyard is as simple and unadorned as it looks, and the quietness does not look like a place where the head of a family should live, but rather like a hermit in the mountains.Few people came here, but Meng Ruyi occasionally came to hang around for a while, and it seemed that nothing had changed, it was frozen in that night 20 years ago.

The door of the main room was wide open, probably because Meng Ruyi hadn't closed it after she came out of it, as if she was inviting Qi Guanyan and Gu Ya to come in and have a look.

The main house was in a mess, even though it was only Gu Qinghe and Zhuang Shengyan who came to trouble Qi Guanhong at that time, but after the Qilin family was destroyed, Zhou Yunfeng had to spend a lot of effort here, almost everything in the house was incomplete , the museum shelf fell to the ground and broke in the middle, Qi Guanyan could tell at a glance that it was high-quality wood, but it was useless after falling like this.

The previous things are gone, and what remains are only some fragments of porcelain and broken cloth, all of which are covered with a thick layer of dust, and the original color can hardly be seen.

The bed curtain on one side of the bed was lowered, as if it was covering something, Qi Guanyan glanced at Gu Ya and winked at him.

Qi Guanyan walked over slowly, took the scabbard of the unicorn sword and opened the bed curtain, and found a trap on the bed, Qi Guanyan hesitated for a moment, then turned to look at Gu Ya: "Shall we go down and have a look? "

Gu Ya also hesitated for a moment, nodded and said, "There should be nothing wrong."

Qi Guanyan responded, he and Gu Ya will appear here today completely exceeded Meng Ruyi's expectations, no matter whether Meng Ruyi opened this trap on purpose, they should not set any trap inside, after all, no one would Didn't know the two of them would be here today.

Gu Ya pulled Qi Guanyan back, and jumped down first.

It was pitch black below, and there was no light at all.

Qi Guanyan was a little strange. Qi Guan’s family had always installed special oil lamps in the secret roads to ensure that everyone passing through the secret roads could see the road in front of them. There is no reason why the secret passage under the bed cannot be opened.

Gu Ya touched his sleeve in the dark, and found a fire pocket from it, he has the habit of carrying these things with him.

The Huozhezi radiated a faint light in the darkness. Qi Guanyan looked at the wall on one side through the light, and found that there were indeed oil lamps on it, probably because it had been used for a long time. It was lit up, and only then did I discover the abnormality here.

This is not a secret path at all.

He and Gu Ya stared dumbfounded at everything in front of them. A tall iron fence stood in front of them, dividing the entire secret room into two. The fence was as high as the top floor of the secret room, and both sides were crushed to the wall. This is a secret room, rather it is a cage, used to lock someone in this cage.

The cage was huge, and it could be seen that the layout inside was very fine. There was a large carved bed, a dressing table, two large dowry, and a round table. There should be two wooden chairs beside the table.

But all these elaborate arrangements have been destroyed. The chairs fell to the ground, one armrest was missing, the other was missing a leg, and the tables were also on the ground. , revealing the jewelry inside, it seems that this secret room was not discovered by Zhou Yunfeng at that time, only Meng Ruyi discovered it.

Qi Guanyan only felt that his back was gloomy and cold, and the mirror on the dressing table emitted a dim light, as if it could reflect his and Gu Ya's shadows.

Gu Ya knew that Qi Guanyan was most afraid of such a weird environment, so he quickly pulled him into his arms, giving him a little warmth: "This is the conclusion Meng Ruyi came to."

Qi Guanyan was taken aback: "Huh?"

Gu Ya frowned and looked into the prison cell: "This should be the place where Qi Guanhong's wife is locked up."

Qi Guanyan immediately reacted. Once a person who takes drugs becomes addicted, he will fall into madness if he doesn't have any drugs to take. This is obviously the place where Qi Guanhong locked up his wife, but he can't bear to let his wife suffer. I just moved a lot of things, let alone other people when I never thought about being addicted, these people would even hurt themselves, and this is such a mess inside.

Qi Guanhong's wife's surname is Tang Mingyuan, and his father is a teacher in a private school. Although it is a private school, it is only teaching in a small place in the countryside. Before meeting Qi Guanhong, he has only been to a small town to go to the fair.Tang Yuansheng was good-looking, literate, and his family conditions were not bad. When he was young, countless matchmakers broke through the threshold of their family.

Scholars are somewhat noble-minded. Her father looked down on ordinary peasants in the village, thinking they were illiterate and vulgar, and he also looked down on children from landlord families, thinking that they had money but were not good people. , Just going around like this, dragged Tang Yuan until he was seventeen or eighteen years old.

In the village, seventeen or eighteen-year-olds are already old girls, and other people know that Tang Yuan's father has a high vision, so they don't come here to try again. Girls of the same age secretly mock Tang Yuan, saying that Tang Yuan's father is too much If you take it seriously, you should take a good look at who Tang Yuan can marry.

At that time, a son-in-law who made Tang Yuan's father happy finally came. He was a scholar in the city. Sent to the aunt's house in the city and waited for the scholar to marry her back home.

On the day she entered the city, Qi Guanhong, who was going down the mountain to do some errands, happened to see the wife of the future owner of the Qilin family.

Qian Youcheng once told Qi Guanyan this story with a smile, saying that although the members of the Qilin family looked decent on the surface, they were actually bandits on the inside, and even the owner’s wife was snatched back. What Qi Guan's family dare not snatch?He wanted Qi Guanyan to do whatever he wanted to do without paying attention to other people's gazes.

Although Qi Guanyan had never seen this Mrs. Tang Yuan with his own eyes, he heard a lot of news about her from Qiu Mingyu and Qian Youcheng. They said that everyone in Qi Guan's family respectfully called Tang Yuan "Mrs. Yuan". She is wild, but her temperament is as calm as water. Over the years, her father, her marriage, and her peers in the village seem to have nothing that can affect her attitude. She always looks at people with a gentle smile appearance.

That's why the children of Qilin Villa would go to her with a slow look when they made mistakes, and she always smiled quietly, and then excused them.

Tang Yuan's health seems to be not very good all the time. The doctor means that it is best not to conceive a child. The fear is that Tang Yuan's body will not be able to bear it. Qi Guanhong loves his wife and has always followed the doctor's advice. The two of them have never Having given birth to a child, Tang Yuan seemed a little regretful, but she was not ashamed of it, and often told others that every child in Qi Guan's family was like her own child to her.

And it was such a gentle and quiet woman who had to be locked up in this underground cell because of Qi Guanhong's misjudgment.

Qi Guanyan was deeply moved, all he heard from other people was Tang Yuan's gentleness and elegance, it was hard for him to imagine what kind of feeling Qi Guanhong felt when Tang Yuan smashed things hysterically here.

Gu Ya frowned, the door of the cell was broken, hanging precariously on the iron fence: "It seems that Meng Ruyi was looking for something here just now."

Qi Guanyan was taken aback, and immediately looked around. The structure of this secret room is simple, and it can be said that it can be seen at a glance. Only the entrance where they jumped down just now, and the outside of the cell where they are now, is already separated by a layer of iron railings. Inside the cell, there seemed to be nothing to check.

"How could Qi Guanhong put the things of Qi Guan's house here?" Gu Ya also frowned, "This is the place where Mrs. Yuan is locked up, it's enough for Meng Ruyi to know this, why bother to search carefully again?"

Qi Guanyan had a flash of inspiration, and suddenly said: "No, what Meng Ruyi is looking for is not what we see now."

Gu Ya glanced at him: "What is that?"

Qi Guanyan raised his chin and said to the cell: "Master, look, isn't this cell a little weird? If it's just to keep people inside, why is there a need to cast iron bars on the other side of the wall?"

Gu Ya immediately turned his head to look, only to realize that it was indeed very strange. A normal prison cell has three walls, and the side near the outside is cast with an iron fence, but this is obviously not the case. The cell in front of them has two walls on the left and right. They were all walls, but the side near them and the side facing them were cast with iron railings.

Gu Ya immediately discovered the universe inside: "You mean, there is also an exit outside that wall?"

Qi Guanyan nodded: "I'm afraid it is, as Meng Ruyi said just now, the people in Yanjiazhuang directly sent the drug up the mountain through the secret road at the foot of Qilin Mountain. It may not be as simple as sending the drug up. The processing of these in Qilin Villa should be sent here directly by the people from Yanjiazhuang, handed over to Mrs. Yuan, and then go down the mountain directly from that side, so as to prevent other people in the villa from touching the drugs."

Gu Ya walked to the entrance of the cell and opened the door. The door was hanging there precariously, but he pulled it down and fell to the ground with a loud bang. He walked in through the small door, and felt even more oppressed once he entered.

The space in this cell is not big, the floor is full of wreckage of furniture and utensils, and there are many traces of fingernails on the wall. It must be that Tang Yuan endured extremely hard here, otherwise he would not have suffered so much. kind of situation.

Qi Guanyan followed him step by step, and couldn't bear to look at the surroundings. Apart from the scratches of his nails, there were also many dark marks on the wall. Presumably, it should be the blood left by Tang Yuanzi.

"Here is her letter." Gu Ya picked up a yellowed booklet from the dressing table. This booklet seems to have been read many times, and there is almost no dust on it. After thinking about it, I know that Meng Ruyi has read it "There should be a lot of things written on it."