Along the steps, a group of people reached the bottom. Several people looked up and couldn't help but be a little surprised.

"This secret room is quite deep, and..." Shen Cha looked at the others and asked, "Do you feel a little damp?"

"Isn't there some moisture? There used to be a lake here, but later the water was drained and filled up." Xue Ruitian looked at Shen Cha and Jin Miaomiao who looked confused, and explained, "I don't blame you all I don’t know. In fact, I have never seen this lake, but my father mentioned it. You all know that my mother cannot live in a particularly humid place because she is prone to rashes, right?"

"Yes, I know." Jin Miaomiao nodded, "Master took me to show it to my aunt and said it was due to heavy moisture."

"The lake has been leveled, but it still feels very damp. If the lake is not filled, my mother will suffer a lot." Xue Ruitian raised his head and looked at the top of the stone, "Shall we go forward?"

"Okay!" Shen Cha nodded and gestured towards Ying Wu, "Walk slowly and pay attention to your steps, the ground is slippery."

"I'm holding you." Jin Miaomiao took Shen Cha's arm, followed Ying Wu, and walked slowly inside. The fire folding paper in his hand lit up the entire secret passage bit by bit, "Do you feel Think it’s weird here?”

"Yeah!" Shen Cha nodded, "The pattern just now has disappeared. The bottom layer of the steps is gone. The deeper inside is the original stone without any markings." She looked at Xue Ruitian behind her, "It must be bad. Eagle?"

"Maybe I don't have time, or maybe it's not necessary." Xue Ruitian has never been down before, and he didn't know there was such a world under the pavilion. He looked here and there in curiosity, "Xiao Wu, we want to How long will it take to walk?”

"Master Hou, what you are asking seems unprofessional." Ying Wu chuckled, "We never knew there was a tunnel in the Hou Mansion, let alone how long it would be, so how could we possibly tell you? How long can we go?"

"That's not what I meant." Xue Ruitian looked at the stone walls on the left and right, "I thought the secret room could be seen after coming down such long steps, but now it seems that is not the case. After we come down, we still have to walk It is possible to reach the secret room through such a long passage. But whether there will really be a room here is not necessarily certain, right?"

"Master Hou is right, that's what happened." Ying Wu nodded, "Maybe this is a cover, or a passage, and the real secret room is still in the backyard of the Hou Mansion." He felt the direction, "Visually check where we are going. The direction is towards the backyard."

"Backyard?" Shen Cha looked at Xue Ruitian, "Haven't you and Brother Xiaojing already checked it out? Isn't there a secret room or something?"

"We didn't check anything. We just looked around casually and didn't do any in-depth investigation. Besides, we're not very good at these things, so we weren't surprised when we couldn't find anything." Xue Ruitian laughed at himself. He smiled and said, "However, my father went to great lengths to build such a detoured secret room. The things he probably wants to hide are very important to him."

"That's not accurate, Lord Marquis!" Jin Miaomiao said with a smile, "It should be the top priority. After all, these secrets involve the past of the Xue family. Secrets from many years ago, if someone is not careful, they will be stolen by someone with ulterior motives. If you see it and leak it, it will be a disaster."

"This is natural. I understand why my father has to be cautious. This is not only a matter of the Xue family, but also the Xia family is involved. However, even so, I still don't understand it."

"Brother Xiaotian doesn't understand why the Xue family is still implicated in what happened more than a hundred years ago, right?"

"That's right." The Xue family who joined the Qinglian Sect is the Xue family of our Wuding Marquis Mansion?"

"I have to say it, Mr. Hou!" Jin Miaomiao raised his eyebrows slightly, "You have a very tricky way of thinking!"

"To be honest, that's what I think. How can they determine that the Xue family is the Xue family, just because our family once offered incense? We once worshiped it to the point of obsessiveness? If this word spreads, I'm afraid it won't convince the public, right? ?”

"Family tree." Shen Cha didn't pay attention to his feet and stumbled slightly. Fortunately, Jin Miaomiao supported him and kept him from falling.

"Be careful!" Jin Miaomiao blinked, took a look at the ground with the fire stick in his hand, looked at the cobblestone ground, and sighed softly, "This is the disadvantage of using local materials, it is slippery and slippery. Unfair.”

"After all, we want to avoid people's eyes and ears, so we have to use local materials. Such movements will be smaller." Shen Cha looked around and carefully stepped over a protruding stone block. "Brother Xiaotian just said that it had been filled in before." Lake, so it is very likely that the filling of the lake and the digging of the secret tunnel were completed at the same time." She smiled at Xue Ruitian, "No wonder Brother Xiaotian didn't know, at that time, we hadn't come here yet. !”

"If you say so, it's true. It can't be said that the elders kept it from us because we didn't need to know." Jin Miaomiao smiled, "However, we have never thought of the issue that the Marquis mentioned just now. Now that I think about it, this is a way to clear up the relationship." She looked at Shen Cha, "What do you think?"

"It is a way." Shen Cha looked at Xue Ruitian, "However, as soon as we learned about the Xue family's empress, Uncle Wang proposed this idea, and we also discussed it seriously."

"What was the outcome of the discussion?"

"This is our trump card. This is how we can make a comeback and reverse the situation." Shen Cha raised an eyebrow at Xue Ruitian, who was looking over, "What do you think, Brother Xiaotian? Is this decision a wise one?"

"Indeed." Xue Ruitian rolled his eyes, "You have already discussed it, but you still hide it from me. It is not loyal enough."

"It's not that we are unloyal. We had just found out at that time and we were still very shocked. Besides, most of them were just our guesses. There was no conclusive evidence to prove that it was the Qinglian Sect that was responsible, and we didn't know that the Xue family was involved. The Qinglian Sect is deeply involved, so speaking out will only increase worries. Besides, if there were no Liu family and no Southwest people, Brother Xiaotian wouldn't believe what we say, right?" Seeing Xue Ruitian touching it Nodding, Shen Cha shrugged, "So, why do we need to inform you in advance, right?" She lowered her head slightly, avoided a stone pillar above, and turned to the right, "Xiao Wu, What direction is this?"

"Still in the Marquis Mansion, but where exactly he went is not very clear yet."
Chapter completed!