Vol 4 Chapter 98: Ironware gouache (one more)

The two carriages left the city smoothly, and half an hour later, they came to the deserted courtyard on the outskirts of Beijing.
Ye Chang and Su Fengnuan got out of the carriage and looked at the deserted courtyard on the outskirts of Beijing. Su Fengnuan glanced around and frowned, "Someone came here yesterday after we left."
"Huh?" Ye Chang raised his eyebrows.
Su Fengnuan stretched his hand to a wall and said, "There are traces."
Ye Chang took a close look, then narrowed his eyes and said, "There are indeed finger marks."
Su Fengnuan said, "Go, go over and take a look."
Ye Chang nodded.
After Xu Yunchu got out of the carriage, he followed the two of them.
The three of them came to the wall and saw a fingerprint on the wall slightly. Because the wall was blown and snowed, a layer of dust fell on the wall. The fingerprints fell on it, not very clear, but it was visible. Only the mark of two fingers.
Su Fengnuan stretched out his fingers, pressed them slightly, and compared them, affirmatively, "It's a woman's fingerprints." After the words fell, he took Ye Chang's hand and posted a poster for comparison. Ye Chang's fingers were compared with those Growing an inch, she turned her head and motioned to Xu Yunchu, "You can also compare it."
Xu Yunchu raised his hand, compared the poster, and nodded, "Yes, it is indeed a woman's handprint."
Su Fengnuan said, "The hands of the two of you are slender and slender among men, but they are also much larger than the knuckles of women's hand bones. These have slender phalanx and are almost the same as my hands. It's a woman, no doubt."
Ye Chang said, "Do you mean that this place is where the agency is?"
Su Fengnuan said, "Yesterday, when we left, the sky was already dark. I always felt that something was wrong here, but I couldn't tell how it was wrong. If these are the mechanism, it can be seen that the mechanism here is really very sophisticated."
Ye Chang said, "If you don't have these two fingerprints, it looks like a stone wall, and you really can't tell that this is where the organ is. The texture of the stone is very natural, and there is no trace of carving."
Xu Yunchu said, "See if it is really a mechanism? Can it be turned on?"
Su Feng Nuan nodded and pressed her to the two fingers. She applied a little force, and that place collapsed. After a while, she heard a "click", and the wall sank down, from the base of the wall to the ground. A hole was opened in the gap between the bluestone bricks to allow one person to go down.
"Sure enough, it is the entrance to the organ." Su Feng Nuan said.
Xu Yunchu looked at the entrance of the cave and said, "Although these two fingerprints are not obvious, they have been clearly discovered by you. If you go down easily, if it is a trap, it is not good."
Ye Chang shook his head and said, "The reason why we can find out quickly is because we never forget. Yesterday, when we came, we remembered everything here in our hearts. If an ordinary person comes, such two light fingerprints, I may not find it."
Xu Yunchu said, "But if someone has been here now, it's better to be careful."
Su Fengnuan said to Ye Chang, "You and Uncle Xiaoguo are waiting for me, I will go down to explore."
Ye Chang said, "No, how can I let you go down by yourself? I will go down with you."
Su Fengnuan said, "I will go down and check, if you are on it, if there is any situation, you can save me in time. Such an agency, we have tracked down to this point, I also think it is not easy here, especially when we left yesterday. After that, someone came."
Ye Chang insisted, "That won't work either, I'll be with you."
Su Fengnuan looked helplessly at Xu Yunchu.
Xu Yunchu said, "I am with you too. Every time I am the person waiting outside, I am really anxious."
Su Feng Nuan said, "You should wait outside, how can you go down? If something happens, there will be no one outside to take care of it." When the words fell, she glanced at the sky and said, "It's almost noon now. There is a limit of two hours. If we don’t come out after two hours, something has happened."
Ye Chang also said, "Not bad."
Xu Yunchu could only nod his head, "Okay, two hours are the limit, you guys be more careful." After that, he said, "I will tell Fu Ying to check if any woman has been here yesterday? Look at the neighborhood. Someone left any traces."
Ye Chang nodded.
Su Fengnuan got off the entrance of the cave first, and Ye Chang jumped right after him.
After the two went down, Xu Yunchu called to Fuying and ordered him to go down, and he checked around the deserted courtyard.
After Su Fengnuan jumped down the entrance of the cave, the entrance of the cave was quite a few meters away. Fortunately, she had martial arts and fell on the ground without incident. It was dark underneath, and I couldn't see my fingers. Unlike the secret roads investigated earlier, there are no night lights or other lights on the stone walls. She took out from her arms the Ye Mingzhu that she had digged out of the stone wall when she was exploring the secret path, and used it for illumination.
Ye Chang jumped down afterwards, and the two of them looked at this place with the light on.
I saw that it was a very wide underground stone chamber, which was as big as a house, and the walls were smooth and empty on all sides.
Su Fengnuan circled the stone wall and found that there was no way or way. She explored for a long while, but did not find the organ, so she said to Ye Chang, "This is not a secret road, like an underground secret room for storing things."
Ye Chang nodded, "There is a smell of ironware. Ironware should have been stored here."
Su Fengnuan sniffed with his nose, but didn't smell anything, only smelled the deserted smell. But knowing that Ye Chang's nose is sharp and he can uniquely smell the breath that others can't smell, she said, "Have you stored weapons?"
Ye Chang said, "Maybe."
Su Fengnuan asked, "Anything else?"
Ye Chang said, "There is still a hint of fragrance, a faint, like..." He condensed his eyebrows for a moment, scented it carefully, and said, "Like the smell of precious gouache."
Su Fengnuan asked, "Are you sure?"
Ye Chang looked at her and said, "You don't apply gouache, but you rub it, I seem to have smelled this kind of gouache on her body in the past."
Su Fengnuan blinked, "Se Se was at Rong'an Palace yesterday."
Ye Chang nodded, "Yes, it is of course not her. However, I think this kind of gouache smell very much."
Su Fengnuan asked again, "Anything else?"
Ye Chang shook his head, "No more."
Su Feng Nuan said, "Go, let's go up."
Ye Chang nodded.
The two tapped their toes and left the basement chamber.
Xu Yunchu only took a round in the courtyard and found nothing. Hearing the movement, he turned his head and saw that the two of them had come out so quickly. He was taken aback for a moment and said, "Why so fast?"
Su Feng Nuan said, "The following is not a secret tunnel, but an underground stone chamber. The inside is empty, but it seems to have the smell of iron and precious gouache."
Xu Yunchu looked at the two of them, "Then what did you find?"
Ye Chang said, "I should have stored iron or weapons in the past. Of course, swords and other weapons on the rivers and lakes should not be ruled out. As for the precious gouache, after I go back, I ask Sese what gouache she wiped in the past."
Su Fengnuan said, "Yes, it's not totally unprofitable."
Xu Yunchu said, "I checked again and found nothing, otherwise, would you check again?"
Su Fengnuan nodded, and walked around the ruined courtyard again. She still found nothing. She stood in the courtyard and said to Ye Chang, "I always feel that there is still nothing to be broken, but it is difficult to think of it for a while."
Ye Chang thought for a moment, and said, "Yesterday, when you and I went out from here, the sky was completely dark. There were no traces around, but someone had come. Then how did she accurately find the mechanism on the stone wall? ?"
Su Fengnuan said, "Yes, this is the problem."
Ye Chang said, "It should be night when the woman comes."
Su Fengnuan glanced at the sky and said, "In this way, let's go back first, and you and I will come again at night."
Ye Chang nodded, "Okay."
Xu Yunchu heard the two say this, and said, "If this is the case, let's go. After I go back, I will check the Huazhuxiu show. For many years, I have never doubted my uncle, but I did not expect it to happen."
Su Fengnuan said, "If a person does something, there will be a corresponding reason. Maybe there is something about your uncle that you don't know. You might as well go back and ask the head of the country."
Xu Yunchu nodded.
The three got into the carriage and left the deserted courtyard.
The carriage returned to the city and passed the facades of several brothels on Ronghua Street. By coincidence, Ye Xi and Qi Shu came out of a brothel. When they saw them, Su Feng Nuan picked up the curtain and asked, "Brother, have you found anything?"
Ye Xi nodded, came to the front of the car, took out a few pieces of rice paper from his sleeve and handed it to Su Fengnuan.
Su Fengnuan reached out and took it, and saw that each piece of rice paper was painted with a portrait, which was a portrait of a person, and the painter was Shen Qi. She looked at it carefully for a moment, and handed it to Ye Chang.
Ye Chang took it, flipped through it casually for a moment, and asked Ye Xi outside the car, "Where do these portraits come from?"
Ye Xi said, "They were all painted by the old bustards of the brothel. They said that the man was indeed the third son of Shen, and they all insisted. You know, although the brothel is doing business with wine and color, but the girls inside are all piano, chess and calligraphy. Excellent talent. As an old bustard in the brothel, he is also proficient in these talents. So I asked each of them to paint me a portrait of Shen San Gongzi."
Qi Shu looked at Ye Chang and said, "I see that the person they painted is indeed Shen Qi. Is it true that he is carrying us and often visits the brothel? Or is there really someone who looks exactly like him in this world? This is strange."
Ye Chang said, "These brothel old bustards have painted portraits, and each portrait is also inscribed with the name. Although the painters have their own advantages, they are indeed unintentional. But why are the portraits painted by the Hongfenlou old bustard alone? ?"
Ye Xi said, "Didn't Shen Qi go to the Hongfenlou with you from time to time? Can't you use it?"
Ye Chang said, "If you can use it, you can go to the Hongfenlou, and let her paint a portrait of Shen Qi."
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