diskusbooks Chapter 294: Finally Meet
Chapter 294: Finally Meet
That day, Bai Houpu came to see Li Lanzhen.
"Mrs. Li,"
Before she could finish her words, she stopped her and said, "I've told you before, I'm just a peasant woman from the countryside. Don't call me Madam. Just call me Sister Lan Zhen like everyone else in Taohuayuan."
Bai Houpu smiled gently, "Sister Lanzhen, the New Year is almost here.
I want to take advantage of the fact that Scrophularia is not here.
Please take me with you to find my brother-in-law's coffin, bring him back before the New Year, and bury him on this East Mountain. Look,"
"Okay. We'll go tomorrow. The earlier we go, the earlier we can come back." Li Lanzhen agreed readily.
Li Lanzhen invited Xue Lao Hu to go with them.
The three men, along with five guards, came to the exit of the underground river.
When Li Lanzhen and her companions hurriedly escaped from the underground river, they landed on a relatively high hillside.
The next morning, this area turned into an ocean.
Now it's all covered with dense thatch.
Although it is dry and the scenery is bleak, one can imagine that there was once green grass here.
After searching for a long time, they still couldn't find the exit of the underground river from which they escaped.
Li Lanzhen suddenly remembered that when she fell into the cave that day, there was a section on the top of the underground river that was open to the sky.
She remembered it very clearly. The golden sunlight shone on the surface of the underground river, and then the light and shadow of the river projected a triangle of light on the wall.
She touched it and it fell.
"Let's keep going. There's an opening in the underground river. We can go down from there."
Everything went smoothly and they successfully stood on the riverbed of the underground river.
At this time, there was no sunlight shining on the river, and the river did not cast a triangular shadow on the wall.
Li Lanzhen still touched the position accurately.
With a slight force of his palm, the eight of them fell upside down as if the floor had turned over.
It fell into the same cave where Li Lanzhen fell.
Li Lanzhen took out two torches from the basket.
After lighting them, Xue Lao Hu and she each held one and continued walking forward.
When Bai Houpu stepped into the cave, he immediately saw the lonely coffin in the cave.
He staggered and quickly approached the coffin, stroking it gently with his hands.
The two guards rushed to stop him from rushing in, but failed to stop him.
Li Lanzhen also came to the coffin.
She looked around and found nothing had changed, as if Li Lanzhen and the others had just left.
The two guards gently opened the lid of the coffin.
A set of neatly arranged bones appeared before everyone.
Bai Houpu stared with tears in his eyes without blinking, then, as if he had thought of something, he quickly walked to the left foot of the skeleton and gently stroked the shin bone with his hand.
Then, speak softly to everyone.
"It's him! It's my brother-in-law, Imperial Physician Hua, and the father of Xuan Shen and Bai Zhi's two children!
His leg was injured before, and I healed him personally.
"Woo woo woo woo..."
Bai Houpu cried in suppression and pain.
Several guards bent down and looked at the bones, tears streaming down their cheeks.
"Master, we and the housekeeper have had a hard time finding you!
I never thought that you would be here, leaving all alone!
master!"
……
Wait until they calm down.
Li Lanzhen described to them in detail the scene she saw and what she discovered here.
"I have already given the box to Xuan Shen. As for the food..."
Bai Houpu waved his hand to interrupt Li Lanzhen.
"Sister Lan Zhen, don't mention the food!
We will always remember your great kindness and kindness!"
Seeing his excited expression, Li Lanzhen stopped talking.
At this point, any more words would be pale!
There is a long way to go, so let’s just wait and see.
Next, Bai Houpu discussed with everyone how to transport the coffin back to Hulu Valley.
Li Lanzhen held a torch and searched carefully on the four walls of the cave.
She felt that since Xuan Shen's father and his family had once lived in Hulu Valley and left behind that secret passage, there must be a door leading here.
A guard also knew Li Lanzhen's idea and followed her in the search.
The two men searched carefully back and forth twice, but found nothing on the four walls of the cave.
Li Lanzhen dusted off her hands and asked everyone to eat something.
"Let's eat something first, and then figure out a solution."
As he spoke, he took out a water bag from his backpack and asked everyone to wash their hands.
He took out wild vegetable pancakes, boiled eggs, and a water bag filled with spiritual spring water from the backpack and handed them to the eldest family.
Here we can only eat cold food.
Li Lanzhen didn't dare take out the warm food in the space for everyone to eat.
A few people took some wild vegetable cakes and boiled eggs and found a place to sit down and eat.
No one knew what Bai Houpu was thinking. He walked over and sat down on the place where Li Lanzhen said Imperial Physician Hua had sat.
Unexpectedly, when he sat down.
The wall behind him made a dull sound and slowly opened a hole.
If the guard hadn’t been quick enough to grab Bai Houpu.
He would fall backwards and fall in.
When the stone door is completely opened and no longer moves,
A guard quickly jumped in.
Then he shouted loudly.
"Uncle, look!"
The three people followed in and saw such a heroic scene.
A pile of bones!
Li Lanzhen discovered that there were at least 100 skeletons scattered throughout this secret passage.
Some of the bones were three or five overlapping each other, while others were obviously the body torn into pieces before death.
At this time, a guard beside Hua Zixi said.
"Uncle, the ten guards who followed the master are all here!
Master, Master, what on earth did he go through? ! "
After saying that, he called another guard to go in with him to check where the exit of the secret passage was.
Bai Houpu quickly told them, "Be careful and stay safe."
Li Lanzhen also felt that this secret passage should not have come from Hulu Valley.
Because they did not find any chasing, fighting or destruction in Hulu Valley.
Bai Houpu carefully examined the dozen or so guards and other bones.
He frowned and said, “These guards are poisoned, and the others are all highly skilled in martial arts.
Either they are dead soldiers or…"
Li Lanzhen also discovered this.
Just look at the weapons around these people, they are not what you usually see.
From what Bai Houpu had not finished saying, Li Lanzhen also thought of something.
She didn't think about it any further; it didn't matter now.
All you need to know is that Xuan Shen's father was killed by his enemies.
As for who the enemy is, let them find out for themselves.
The three men retreated back to the cave through the secret passage, and Bai Houpu took another careful look at the place where he had just sat.
Li Lanzhen looked at his expression and asked.
"Mr. Bai, do you think there should be some mechanism here?"
“I think, yes, my brother-in-law passed away sitting here.
He must be trying to hide something.”
This time, he did not sit down rashly, but groped slowly.
Later, he actually touched a protruding stone the size of a thumb.
He pressed down hard, but the stone didn't move at all, and there was no change in the cave or other places.
He held the stone in both hands and twisted it left and right vigorously.
Still nothing happened.
Xue Lao Hu reminded him, "Mr. Bai, why don't you try to pull it up?"