There is Room for Rebirth in the 1950’s

On a November night, even in Lingnan, the south without winter, especially near the haunted house where many people were said to have died.

After the last guest came out of the public toilet, Zhou Jiaoji walked forward and walked around behind the tree, and put the round suet jade hanging around her neck in the recess at the root of the old tree.

Just like the secret room mechanism before, an underground hole that can only allow a single person to fall appeared on the ground of two adjacent lush ancient trees. Under the black light and blind fire, she didn't dare to take out the flashlight, took back the jade pendant, sunk down a large bag of medicinal powder, and after a while, she jumped in with the determination that if she didn't enter the tiger's den, she would catch the tiger's cub.

After jumping in, Zhou Jiao felt that the bottom of the cave was full of soft sand. After she stood up straight, the passage above her head was quickly closed. This time it was really dark, except that I could feel the wind flowing, but I couldn't see my fingers.

Turning on the flashlight, she found a recess on the wall, and she fastened it with a round suet jade pendant. This time a narrow passage opened. Zhou Jiao took out the jade pendant and didn't go in directly. Instead, she sprinkled a lot of medicinal powder on the opening, and then closed a crucial trap.

According to the Tibetan acrostic in her grandma's last words and a sentence in fancy French fonts, to open this secret room, in addition to the ancestral jade pendant, you also need to add the method of deciphering the formation. It may be empty, or even affect the destruction of the secret room.

Even if there is no hidden acrostic in the formation here, it is much more complicated than the Gu family's old house. Fortunately, there are these reminders, otherwise Zhou Jiao really wouldn't be sure to open it. Even if she had calculated with her father a few times, it would still be sweating on her brow under the ground, so she couldn't be careless for a moment.

It took her a full half an hour. After the first error occurred, Zhou Jiao confirmed that it was correct and began to untie the formation layer by layer. She didn't wipe off the sweat until she heard the familiar click sound, revealing the other side of the passage. Go to this passage. As she entered, the earliest door gradually closed.

Standing in the passage, after a while, the two passages closed back and forth. She pointed the flashlight at the closed stone door behind her again, and it was Han stone jade with carved patterns.

Seeing this and the jade pendant around her neck, Zhou Jiao was convinced that this was the secret room of the Gu family. Except for Jiangcheng, the three secret rooms belong to the same family, and these two are really the ancestral property of the Gu family.

Zhou Jiao shook her head speechlessly. No wonder the Gu family is a piece of fat in the eyes of others, everyone wants to take a bite. She could even imagine how extravagant her grandma's childhood was as the sole heir of the main house of the Gu family.

It's no wonder that my family is doing better than anyone else now, and Mrs. Cheng always says that she has been wronged. Thinking of this, Zhou Jiao couldn't help but smile. Only close relatives will miss themselves so much!

After calming down, Zhou Jiao began to follow her grandmother's prompt, moving step by step on a big rock and approaching the dark place. Speaking of this round stone, it is quite an honor. It witnessed the opening of the three secret chambers. If it had a spirit, Zhou Jiao would really have to set up a monument for it.

There is no danger in the next journey, but the distance is not short. If Zhou Jiao's sense of direction was correct, she would have already left the other courtyard. She is not in a hurry either.

It is said that another exit is not far opposite a pier. Although she hasn't experienced it personally, she has a hunch that the senior who created the secret room is a master, and she should arrange a follower.

After going around a few turns, I don’t know how many roads I walked around. The last time I checked the time on the watch was almost nine o’clock. Zhou Jiao hurriedly speeded up. If she didn’t go back before the cinema closed this time, it would be a lie. Will break without attacking. And she also plans to go to the black market to get some good things.

With an eager heart, after walking to the entrance of the secret room, Zhou Jiao followed the prompts to open the stone door again. With the experience of the previous two secret rooms, she was not surprised to see the wooden box again.

Let her grandma rank in the last mentioned secret room, let alone other things, just a coastal city, this sensitive place, she can imagine that besides gold and silver, it is overseas jewelry.

And so it is.

Hundreds of wooden boxes are stacked on top of each other, except for the box with precious wood, all of them will fall down at the touch of a touch—already weathered. Even if the tribute silk and satin in several boxes were wrapped layer by layer, they could not stand the passage of time.

However, there are several sets of red wedding dresses, tiaras, embroidered shoes, etc. from the Qing Dynasty kept in a large box, intact. Looking at the huge oriental beads and exquisite embroidery on those embroidered shoes, it is not difficult to imagine how precious these are.

Open the ten or so boxes that are not damaged at all, except for the inner jewelry, they are all overseas ivory carvings and some precious gems and jewelry, plus the yellow and white things in the weathered boxes.

This approach is simply a proper family style.

Zhou Jiao didn't bother to take a closer look, and put all the scattered gold bars, gold ingots, and gold leaves into the sack, and put all the last intact wooden boxes into the space.

After the secret room was in a mess, all that remained were black and silver winter melons. Zhou Jiao really couldn't think of any use for so much silver.

They simply put it in a sack again. Compared with gold, the ancestors of the Gu family didn't add a lot in it. Maybe he also hid some silver on a whim at that time.

After cleaning up the useful things, Zhou Jiao didn't clean up the remaining weathered things. She cleared her footprints and opened the exit passage again in the secret room.

With the activation of this mechanism, the door of the secret room was slowly closed, and finally Zhou Jiao became ruthless and destroyed the mechanism. She didn't want someone to break into this place by mistake one day. If you really have the heart to restore the history, you may come to the conclusion that this is the other courtyard of the Gu family in Jiangnan, and that is really a storm.

Along the exit passage, after closing two traps, Zhou Jiao finally stood at the entrance of a cave without any danger. Without the flashlight, a large pier in the distance could be seen in the hazy night outside.

According to the bus route she took in the afternoon, Zhou Jiao found that the meeting was not far from the city, and also far from the other courtyard, but the distance from the guest house was getting farther and farther.

In this city, Zhou Jiao felt that she was unfamiliar with the place, so she didn't dare to take out the car and wander around at the risk. She has been here for almost a month, and she has often heard about smuggling. It is estimated that the management of the area near the pier must be stricter than that of the downtown area.

I walked quickly into the city through the night, squeezed into the bus and returned to the cinema again. It was already the closing time of the cinema.

Seeing waves of people coming out, Zhou Jiao also gave up thinking about going in again, found a remote place, went to disguise herself, changed back to the clothes she had before going out, blended into the crowd, and followed the route back to the Commercial Bureau guest House.

The aunt at the front desk greeted her warmly and asked what movies are playing in the cinema tonight? How is the plot?

One asked enthusiastically, and the other answered thoughtfully. It wasn't until the gate of the guest house was closed that Zhou Jiao breathed a sigh of relief and said goodbye to her and went back to her room to rest.