Qiao Ran's hands were squeezed and she couldn't use any strength. She bent her body hard and used her raised back and legs to support the stone wall to prevent it from closing so quickly. Then she raised her hand with difficulty to press the red, yellow and green colors on the lantern handle.
Among the three color buttons, the second one is yellow.
At this time, the continuously squeezing stone wall slowly loosened, indicating that Qiao Ran pressed the second button correctly.
The reason why yellow was chosen is because the Jiang family's pursuit of power would set yellow, the color of the emperor, as the switch for the machine button.
It turns out that her guess was right.
The Jiang family's pursuit of power is so sophisticated that even things like agency traps have to use colors that represent power.
It is not surprising that people with such a persistent mentality would imprison their loved ones.
After breaking through the third mechanism, Qiao Ran successfully reached the secret room.
At a glance, Jiang Yongzhu was seen wearing a white tulle Hanfu and a beautiful butterfly mask, sitting at the tea table, making elegant movements.
Her movements are beautiful and very pleasing to watch.
Every move like this is full of classical style. How can this lady, a lady like us, still look a little bit crazy and scary like she did the last time we met?
Qiao Ran walked over to Jiang Youzhu and sat down opposite her. He said with a firm voice, "You closed the mechanism before and let us in smoothly. This time you didn't close the mechanism to test my ability, right? Miss Jiang Jiu.
"
Jiang Yongzhu handed the brewed pot of tea to Qiao Ran. Under the butterfly mask, his beautiful eyes looked at Qiao Ran with a smile.
"As expected of the person that both Xiaoqiu and Xiaochun care about, Miss Qiao, you really did not disappoint me. You are tired from going through all the tests. Let's have a cup of tea to relax!"
Jiang Yongzhu's few words convinced Qiao Ran that she deliberately acted crazy in front of her and Han Mo last time.
"Miss Jiang Jiu pretended to be stupid and deliberately lured me here for the second time. I wonder if she wanted to prove that I have the ability to save you, or she wanted to destroy me here?" Qiao Ran looked at the tea in front of him that was rich in fragrance, but the color was like clear water.
Qingcha asked.
"Then let's see if Miss Qiao has the courage to drink this cup of tea?" Jiang Yongzhu said, looking into Qiao Ran's eyes.
Qiao Ran looked straight at Jiang Yongzhu. The butterfly mask was very beautiful. Although only one eye was exposed, Jiang Yongzhu didn't look scary at all. Instead, she had a different kind of beauty that made people want to look at her more.
The two looked at each other for a long time. Qiao Ran slowly picked up the delicate tea cup and drank the cup of tea while looking into Jiang Yongzhu's eyes.
"When you enter the fresh tea, the fragrance of the tea lingers between your lips and teeth. It is indeed a rare and good tea. I have never tasted it on the market. I wonder where Miss Jiang Jiu got the good tea?"
"Miss Qiao is so courageous. She dares to drink tea of unknown origin. No wonder Ah Xuan was forced by you to have no choice but to protect me with her own life!"
"Lin Jiaxuan did many evil things outside, but in front of Miss Jiang Jiu, he was indeed a rare good man. If the crimes he committed were judged according to the law, he would have died several times, but he died for Miss Jiang Jiu. To him,
I mean, I died a worthy death and have no regrets." Qiao Ran commented objectively.
"So I didn't poison the tea you drank!" Jiang Yongzhu said, picking up the delicate teapot and pouring tea into the empty cup in front of Qiao Ran gracefully.
The thin and long tea water slowly flowed out of the teapot. It took a while to pour the small cup to the right position, and then put the teapot away in time. The action was done in one go, which was very eye-catching.
"It can be seen that Miss Jiang Jiu is a person with extremely upright views. She will not indiscriminately blame others for the death of her lover." Qiao Ran picked up the cup and drank the tea in it again.
over.
"I know that he is to blame for his death, so I won't blame others. It's just a pity that I have to drink such good tea one less time. Don't you want to know where such good tea comes from? Come here!" Jiang Yongzhu said.
He took a sip of tea from the cup and then stood up gracefully.
Qiao Ran followed Jiang Yongzhu to the corner of the secret room, where there was a green tea tree. There were several incandescent lamps on the tea tree to increase the light.
"He planted these tea trees himself. Although he installed a few fluorescent lamps to imitate the sun, they are not real sun after all. Therefore, after the tea is picked and fried, the color is not obvious at all, just like clear water.
But just because it has not been exposed to wind and sun, the taste has a hint of aftertaste that other teas do not have. These are the last batch of teas that A Xuan planted for me. I don’t know if I still have the time to wait until they grow into tea!
"
Of course Jiang Yongzhu's words were not just a request for tea. Qiao Ran knew that there was a deep meaning in her words.
"It depends on what Miss Jiang Jiu chooses. If Miss Jiang Jiu chooses the right path, not only will she have time to wait for them to grow into tea, but she can also let them bathe in real sunlight and taste their taste after being exposed to the sun. Yes.
Isn’t it more intense and fragrant?”
"So, are you making the right choice?" Jiang Yongzhu looked at Qiao Ran with burning eyes.
"The fact that I can stand in front of Miss Jiang Jiu is the best proof." Qiao Ran said with confidence in his eyes.
It was obviously a very beautiful, harmless, and non-offensive face, but it gave Jiang Yongzhu an inexplicable feeling of fear.
It's as if she is a born queen, and people can't help but believe in her.
Jiang Yongzhu looked at the arrow stuck in Qiao Ran's arm. Because she was wearing black clothes, it was hard to see how much blood she had shed.
"Aren't you very good at medical skills? Why don't you deal with it?"
Qiao Ran said nonchalantly: "It's a small injury, I'll deal with it when I get back..."
Before he finished speaking, the arrow from his arm was pulled out.
Before Qiao Ran could feel the pain, he saw Jiang Yongzhu holding an arrow and stabbing his arm hard.
Suddenly, blood stained her white clothes.
"There is a hidden compartment under the desk. Go and hide under the desk!" Jiang Yongzhu said in a deep voice.
Qiao Ran knew that Jiang Bingqiu might have brought the child in, and said in a low voice: "To detoxify the child, I need to know some blood samples of the child to test what kind of poison the child has been exposed to, so that I can develop an antidote." Then he went to hide under the desk.
After a while, Qiao Ran heard the sound of moving, and then the pitiful cry of a woman came from the distance.
So the sad cries she heard outside were all caused by Jiang Yongzhu deliberately pretending to be crazy and crying in order to see his child?
I thought about Jiang Yongzhu, who was actually such an elegant and decent person, but was imprisoned in this basement by the Jiang family on the grounds of being unlucky. He wasted away for decades without seeing the outside world, but he was able to paint such amazing works.
Qiao Ran felt that Jiang Yongzhu was a very rare and strange woman.
She wanted this strange woman who had lived a poor life for forty years to live a normal life for the rest of her life.
A few minutes later, Qiao Ran heard a woman's cold voice.
"You touched the agency again. Didn't I tell you that you are not allowed to come out and touch the agency? Why don't you listen? If you do this again, you will never see Pingping again."
"You agreed to bring Pingping to see me at nine o'clock. It's almost eleven o'clock and you still haven't come. I was too anxious and worried that something might happen to Pingping, so I rushed out. I won't do it again. Don't be angry.
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Jiang Yongzhu said flatteringly in a silly voice, but his eyes looked passionately at the boy of about seven years old behind Jiang Bingqiu.
The little boy who was looked at by Jiang Yongzhu glared at Jiang Yongzhu with disgust, and looked at Jiang Bingqiu with pleading eyes: "Mom, now I see her, let's go back."