Summary of the previous chapter: Ma Xiaoquan deployed traps and waited for the wealthy children to break in. Sure enough, four people fell into the trap. Under this situation, the wealthy children, led by Hua Wuxin, quickly changed their strategies and gathered all the children to act together.
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A young man from a wealthy family cautiously walked to the door of the attic. Just as he was about to push the door open and enter, Hua Wuxin quickly stopped him: "Wait a minute!"
"Um?"
Hua Wuxin stepped forward, left a branch, and gently explored the stone slab at the door.
There was a "crunch" sound, and the stone slab sank half an inch downward, and then, another burst of mechanical sound came from under the eaves.
"Everyone, retreat quickly"
Hua Wuxin shouted and led everyone to retreat. As they retreated, a storm of arrows fell in their face.
Hua Wuxin spread out her long coat and used her strength to catch the arrow rain.
Hua Wuxin learned this trick from Liang Long a few days ago, and it came in handy today.
"Wow." The other wealthy disciples retreated while praising Hua Wuxin's superb martial arts.
Hua Wuxin was not proud, but calmly ordered everyone: "Continue to retreat."
Everyone nodded in unison and took five steps back.
"Whoosh..." The arrows shot from under the eaves kept hitting the ground, making a collision sound.
"Huh?" Hua Wuxin leaned forward, quickly twirled an arrow, and took a closer look.
"Pine wood? No arrow?" Hua Wuxin was stunned for a moment, and then understood.
"Don't be afraid, these are pine trees without arrows and will not shoot anyone to death!"
When the children of wealthy families heard this, they suddenly realized.
Someone said: "We have been deceived by Master Shangxian, please rush in?"
Upon hearing this, Hua Wuxin immediately stopped and said, "Don't be impulsive. These pine arrows may be just appetizers. If we enter the attic rashly, something else might happen!"
Upon hearing this, everyone felt that it made sense, so they suppressed their impulses and followed Hua Wuxin, but they were disappointed after hearing this.
Hua Wuxin nodded and said in a deep voice: "Sir Shangxian just placed an arrow trap at the door, so there must be a similar trap at the window."
Someone didn't understand and asked: "Dude, there are already doors at the door, shouldn't there be windows?"
Hua Wuxin shook her head: "Everything we can think of, Master Shangxian must have thought of it a long time ago, so this time we entered through the door. As the saying goes, the most dangerous place is also the safest place. Please see, everyone,
Those pine arrows have been shot just now, so the door should be the safest."
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When everyone heard this, they began to discuss in low voices.
On the top of the attic, Ma Xiaoquan pursed his lips and smiled, and said softly: "Smart guy, interesting, but, to be smart, it depends on whether you have experience, haha..."
Hua Wuxin led the wealthy children to the door again carefully, avoiding the stone slabs in front of the door. Then, Hua Wuxin gently pushed the door open with a branch.
With a "squeak" sound, the door slowly opened.
Hua Wuxin straightened the branch and gently threw it along the doorway.
There was a "pop" sound, and the branch fell to the ground. It seemed that nothing unusual happened.
Hua Wuxin nodded, turned around and whispered to everyone: "It's safe inside for now, I'll go first, and everyone will follow!"
Saying that, Hua Wuxin slowly reached out and walked into the attic.
As soon as I stepped forward, I heard two "swish" sounds in my ears.
Hua Wuxin subconsciously squatted down and looked around.
Since it was pitch dark in the attic, Hua Wuxin could not see anything, so she could only rely on her ears to judge.
From the two "whooshing" sounds just now, Hua Wuxin decisively judged that the sound was coming from the left. Therefore, Hua Wuxin cleverly twisted her body and turned her body to the side.
It's a pity that Ma Xiaoquan had already thought of Hua Wuxin's approach.
As soon as Hua Wuxin turned sideways, he felt a huge object coming towards him. Before he could react, there was a "bang" sound and Hua Wuxin flew backwards.
"Uh" Hua Wuxin screamed, frightening the wealthy children outside the attic so that they did not dare to move forward.
"Playboy"
"Brother Wu Xin..."
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"Ahem!" Hua Wuxin climbed up slowly, coughed a few more times, and shouted slowly: "I'm fine. Everyone, please pay attention. There are sandbags on the first floor of the attic. When everyone comes in, set fire to it."
All the wealthy disciples nodded one after another, and then someone immediately took out a fire stick to light a fire.
After a few breaths, little bits of light emitted, and the first floor of the attic suddenly became a lot brighter. Although it was relatively dim, overall it was possible to see clearly.
Everyone carefully entered the first floor of the attic and looked around. They found that except for a few sandbags swinging back and forth, there were no other visible signs on the first floor of the attic.
"Oh!" All the wealthy children gasped.
Hua Wuxin stood up, wiped the sweat from his face, walked in front of everyone, and whispered: "Everyone, please pay attention, Master Shangxian designed this attic. The first floor will never just ask me to wait for it to pass, so,
Everyone should be extra attentive.”
Everyone nodded.
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On the roof, Ma Xiaoquan chuckled without making a sound, thinking: This Hua Wuxin is a bit interesting, she is very cautious, but... hehe...
Hua Wuxin led everyone to search carefully on the first floor of the attic. During the search, they found many small mechanisms, some of which even Hua Wuxin had never seen before.
After the cleaning was almost done, Hua Wuxin led everyone up to the second floor of the attic.
The second floor is divided into several rooms, and each room has a name on it.
"The Four Gentlemen of the Warring States Period?" Hua Wuxin stood under the door of a suite of rooms, raised his head and took a look at it with a firebrand, and murmured, "The name of this room is called the Four Gentlemen of the Warring States Period. Well, wouldn't that be Lord Mengchang, Lord Pingyuan, and Lord Xin?"
Lord Ling and Lord Chun Shen? What does Master Shangxian mean by naming them like this?" Hua Wuxin said, carefully opening the door and stepping in alone.
The rest of the rich and powerful children, who had no intention of looking at the flowers, also chose the rooms they were interested in and pushed open the door.
After a dozen breaths, there were only two people left outside the door.
The two people saw that everyone had chosen a house to go in, so they gritted their teeth and chose a house at random.
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"Wow!" Hua Wuxin opened the entrance curtain and walked into the inner room of the house.
There is a desk in the inner room, and two mats are placed under the desk.
Hua Wuxin looked around several times, then searched around the room for a long time, then nodded and slowly sat down on the mat.
As soon as my butt touched the mat, the desk in front of me sank slightly.
Hua Wuxin held the fire certificate in her hand, looked at it once, and said to herself: "Meditation? What does it mean?"
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In several other rooms, the disciples from wealthy families also successfully entered the inner rooms of the room.
"present?"
"Fame?"
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As the topic was revealed, everyone was once again confused.
On the fourth floor of the attic, Liang Long respectfully poured a cup of tea for Ma Xiaoquan and said slowly: "Master, they have reached the second floor. There are four floors in this attic, but I don't understand the questions on the second floor.
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Ma Xiaoquan chuckled, picked up the tea cup, took a sip carefully, and said: "You must not understand that I am testing their psychological quality. Okay, Diplodocus, you can watch from the top, I will go first."
Meet them..."
Diplodocus half knelt on the ground: "Congratulations, Master!"
Ma Xiaoquan nodded, slowly becoming indifferent in the darkness.
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Hua Wuxin sat on the mat and began to meditate following the prompts of those two words.
While meditating, Hua Wuxin suddenly fell into a dream state.
In the dream, Hua Wuxin returned to her childhood. At that time, the Hua family and the branch family were still in harmony and had not yet fallen out and split. Hua Wuxin was pulled by Hua Yuexin and ran on the ridge of the field, very happy...
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"It's time to wake up..."
A deep male voice pulled Hua Wuxin back from her dream.
Hua Wuxin opened her eyes, took a look at the book, and saw that it was Lord Shangxian.
"Shangxian Da..."
"Okay, no need to be polite, sit down!"
Hua Wuxin nodded and slowly sat back on the mat.
Opposite Hua Wuxin, Ma Xiaoquan also sat down.
The distance between the two was less than two feet, and Hua Wuxin could clearly feel Lord Shangxian's aura and majesty. For a moment, Hua Wuxin was so frightened that she could not speak.
"Don't be afraid, I just want to ask you a few questions."
Hua Wuxin nodded and put out the fire.
"The first question is, who is at the helm now that the Hua family is separated?"
Hua Wuxin thought for a moment and replied: "Hua Zhengxiong."
"How is this person?"
Hua Wuxin shook his head and said: "I don't know very well, but my father is very afraid of him. According to my father's description, the head of the family is far better than Hua Yixi of the Hua family in terms of martial arts and strategy."
"Well..." Ma Xiaoquan nodded slightly and remembered Hua Zhengxiong's name firmly.
"Second question, what is your final purpose of staying in my Ma's house?"
Hua Wuxin fell silent.
"Answer me!"
Hua Wuxin thought for a moment, then gritted his teeth and said, "I want to integrate the two branches of the Hua family."
"It's just you? Don't forget that you, Hua Wuxin, belong to the branch family. Even if you take over the main family, how will you make them believe in you?"
Hua Wuxin said: "Anyone who disobeys me will be killed!"
Ma Xiaoquan shook his head: "Your thoughts are too violent. If things go well, it's okay. If things don't go well, you will fail miserably."
Hua Wuxin asked: "Then what should I do?"
Ma Xiaoquan said: "Marry with my family."
As soon as Ma Xiaoquan finished speaking, Hua Wuxin retorted: "How is this possible?"
"Why not? Although you are from the same family, to be honest, apart from the same surname, there is nothing else in common between you..."
Hua Wuxin nodded: "Yes, our two families are actually not related by blood, so that's why we made such a fuss."