Chapter 19
Chapter 19
After Guiqi and Nan Xuanze confirmed that there were no notes in the kitchen, they walked towards the secret door.
The secret door is still in its original position, but the color has changed from greasy gray and black to scarlet, and it also exudes a pungent fishy smell.
Gui Qi walked to the front of the secret door, took the wooden shovel from the stove, and poked it on the door frame of the secret door: "The stench on this door is as good as the boss's."
Nan Xuanze stood beside Guiqi, his slender fingers slowly flipping through the vegetable leaves in the vegetable basket.
Hearing Gui Qi's words, Nan Xuanze suddenly lowered his head, staring at Gui Qi with deep eyes, without saying a word.
Gui Qi's words paused: "...?"
What the hell is this guy going to do?
Nan Xuanze leaned forward, moved closer, and asked, "Guiqi, smell me, do you smell anything?"
The chiseled handsome face suddenly enlarged, Gui Qi was caught off guard and was almost poked in the face by the man's tall nose.
A click.
Gui Qi broke the wooden shovel in his hand.
Gui Qi turned his wrist, and the handle of the wooden shovel was inserted into the small mechanism on the edge of the door frame with a squeak: "Yes."
Nan Xuanze: "What do I smell like?"
Guiqi: "Old vinegar taste."
Nan Xuanze: "..."
Gui Qi: "If you don't believe me, you can hear it yourself."
Nan Xuanze: "..."
After successfully making Nan Xuanze shut up, Gui Qi turned the handle of the wooden shovel in his hand, and the lock of the secret door opened with a click.
He easily turned his body sideways, leaned against the wooden frame next to him, and pushed the door with the wooden handle in his hand.
The mildew and dust that had been in the dust for many years rushed out, and the kerosene lamp in the kitchen quietly shone in through the crack of the door.
Gui Qi waited for a while, and looked in through the fist-sized door, and there was a faint light in the room.
There is a kerosene lamp hanging on the corner of the wall facing the door. The light is dim, only illuminating the door, but the rest of the place is dark.
Gui Qi frowned.
In this case, if there are people in the dark place of the secret door, they will be a living target if they go in.
Nan Xuanze said, "Don't worry."
After speaking, he took out a paper figurine. The little black paper figurine had twisted arms and legs, different lengths, and an even more irregular rectangular head. It was the paper figurine that opened and closed the door just now.
The miserable-looking paper man sat up from Nan Xuanze's palm, shook his arms and legs, and jumped into the crack of the door.
Gui Qi looked at the paper figurine with a subtle gaze.
When his master was young, he learned paper-cutting from a master paper-cut master for several years, and the paper figurine was created on a whim when the master was learning cutting.
His master is a perfectionist, even if the cut out paper figurines are the size of a thumb, they are all slender, with delicate features and lifelike.
Sometimes when the master gets interested, he will cut out a few life-sized paper figurines, attaching the spirit of anger, and the paper figurines will be able to dance lightly and gracefully.
Getting used to the paper people cut out by the master, and looking at the crooked melons and split dates that Nan Xuanze tore out, Gui Qi only felt a toothache.
"Actually, my skills are still very good." Nan Xuanze felt that it was necessary to make a name for himself.
Gui Qi didn't answer Nan Xuanze's words, but threw a sentence: "I don't know you well enough."
In the past ten years, he always thought that his fiancé was a delicate and beautiful man who needed his protection, so he practiced desperately and dared not slack off for a moment.
Nan Xuanze smiled: "The master who taught you has a very close relationship with the Nan family. I have known each other since I was a child."
After finishing speaking, the man moved closer: "You can start now to understand me. What do you want to know about me? Height, weight, or size? I will answer all my questions."
The man paused, then smiled softly: "Of course, I don't mind if my little daughter-in-law wants to measure it herself."
Gui Qi: "..."
Little daughter-in-law, you have a look on your face!
Nan Xuanze lowered his voice, his voice was low and magnetic: "Who gave you this privilege?"
After a pause, the man added another sentence: "Yes, and only you."
Gui Qi was silent for a second, then turned her head, raised her white chin slightly, looked cold and proud, and her eyes gleamed: "Then take it off."
After a slight pause, the young man said, "Hurry up."
Nan Xuanze laughed.
Soon, the little paper man came back.
Safe inside the house.
Gui Qi and Nan Xuanze entered the door.
There were still rows of wooden shelves inside the secret door, and on each shelf were boxes, half a meter high, filled with white bones.
The first row, the second row, the third row... until the last row, everything was exactly the same as before they came.
Gui Qi stood next to the last box on the last shelf, thinking: "Did we guess wrong? The notebook is not here, but is carried by the innkeeper?"
Nan Xuanze said: "Do you still remember the empty wall in Room 07? Since there is no mechanism in Room 07, the mechanism should be somewhere else."
Gui Qi: "Do you think there is a secret door here?"
Nan Xuanze: "Yes."
Gui Qi immediately began to check the surrounding walls, but the kerosene lamp was far away from them, and the corner was very dim, so he couldn't see the walls clearly.
Nan Xuanze released the little paper figurine: "Let it find it, let's search these boxes carefully."
Out of respect for the dead, they did not turn over the bones in the box along the way.
Nan Xuanze took out a piece of black talisman paper, twitched his fingers, and quickly tore out two paper figurines: "These boxes are here before and after, there may be clues."
The two paper figurines stood up, jumped into the box and removed the bones one by one, revealing the blood-soaked clothes, and some gold and silver jewelry under the clothes.
In a box on the shelf at the front, there are gold ornaments and clothes on Liang You's body.
Gui Qi looked at the box.
"found it."
Nan Xuanze spoke.
Gui Qi: "Huh?"
Nan Xuanze: "The secret door."
There is indeed a secret door in the small warehouse.
It was a gray-white iron door that fit tightly with the wall, and behind the door was a spiral staircase that was as wide as one person.
Three ugly little paper figurines hopped and walked in the front, Gui Qi walked in the center holding a toothed blade, Nan Xuanze failed to resist, and followed helplessly at the end.
The stairs are very low, with cold and damp solid walls on both sides, and a cold white wall in front, which is so oppressive that it is difficult to breathe.
Fortunately, not long after walking, Gui Qi saw a pure black door, guessed it, it should be the second floor.
Nan Xuanze clasped Guiqi's wrist, took a step back, stood at the corner of the arc and said, "Let them go."
The paper people leisurely stepped forward and opened the door.
The door opened quickly.
It's just that as soon as the door opened, the three paper figurines trembled at the same time, and then fell lightly to the ground, becoming real pieces of paper.
Nan Xuanze frowned: "There is a power in this room that blocks the connection between me and the paper figurine."
"Don't move, let me see."
Gui Qi glanced sideways.
Seeing this, Gui Qi was slightly taken aback.
The black door opened, and behind the door was a corridor about one meter away. There were three rooms in the corridor, but the doors were all closed. At the end of the corridor was a closet.
There is a black-and-white photo hanging in the closet. Above the photo is the proprietress and two children. Below the photo is an altar, and a blood-stained cloth bag is placed on the altar.
It was the one the innkeeper took.
Gui Qi: "I saw the cloth bag."
Both Guiqi and Nan Xuanze knew that the secret door they discovered this time was not simple, and they had to step into the corridor one after the other, being careful and walking towards the altar at the end as quietly as possible.
The altar is getting closer and closer.
When passing by the doors on both sides of the corridor, Gui Qi suddenly felt something was wrong, the air-conditioning blew past, and an inexplicable crisis came to his heart, and goose bumps came up.
"careful!"
Before Guiqi could react, Nan Xuanze, who was walking behind him, pounced on him, hugged him and rolled on the spot.
A bloody kitchen knife fell from the place where Gui Qi was standing just now, and wiped Nan Xuanze's arm and cut it to the ground. A pair of big dark hands were holding the kitchen knife.
Bang!
During the tumbling process, Nan Xuanze's shoulder hit the wall fiercely, and Gui Qi, who was protected by him, heard a muffled groan.
Gui Qi's heart was burning with anger.
The innkeeper, wearing blood-stained clothes, came out of the room next to him, staring at Guiqi with red eyes, and he withdrew his kitchen knife to continue chopping after he missed a hit.
In the blink of an eye, Gui Qi stood up and protected the paler Nan Xuanze behind him, holding the kitchen knife with the toothed blade.
hum!
After a short confrontation, the blades trembled for a while, and Gui Qi's wrist was numb from the innkeeper's strong chop, followed by fine-grained pain.
Gui Qi's eyes were indifferent, ignoring the pain in his wrist, he circulated his inner breath to open the teeth on the blade, the teeth clicked and stuck firmly on the kitchen knife, the innkeeper yanked it but couldn't pull it back.
Nan Xuanze stood up, raised his leg, and kicked the innkeeper's knee quickly and accurately. The innkeeper was restrained by Guiqi's tooth blade and kicked straight.
The innkeeper's legs softened, and he knelt down on one knee in front of Guiqi with a plop. Guiqi was expressionless, and kicked the innkeeper's chest.
The boss just shook his head.
Guiqi frowned.
The innkeeper was kicked twice one after another, but stood up like a normal person, and continued to chop Guiqi with a kitchen knife.
The innkeeper is not afraid of pain or talisman, he knows how to cut people tirelessly while blocking the corridor, Gui Qi's whole right arm starts to go numb.
Nan Xuanze already had the blood cloth bag on the altar in his hand, he clasped Guiqi's wrist and retreated towards the altar: "There is a door here, enter."
There was an inconspicuous small iron door next to the altar. Nan Xuanze fiddled with the lock on the iron door, led Guiqi into the door, and then locked it.
Behind the door is another staircase.
Gui Qi: "..."
The innkeeper likes stairs?
Boom boom boom!
The kitchen knife chopped on the iron gate.
Gui Qi took a piece of talisman paper on the iron gate, and looked at Nan Xuanze: "Go up and have a look?"
Nan Xuanze nodded.
The two went upstairs with full alert, only to find that upstairs was a very spacious hall. The hall was clean and tidy, with exquisite furniture, which was completely different from the rooms downstairs.
The thumping downstairs stopped.
Guiqi and Nan Xuanze looked at each other, carefully searched the hall, but there was nothing unusual, everything was normal.
After confirming that there was no danger, the tense nerves of the two eased, and Nan Xuanze put the cloth bag in his hand on the table in the hall.
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