Discovering The Hidden Door
“Bang,” the sound of a heavy object falling attracted the line of sight of Jiang Yimian and the Two People.
Being stared at by two cold lines of sight, Assistant Administrator Li was a little embarrassed. He touched his head, chuckled dryly twice, and was about to bend down to pick up the Incense Burner on the ground. “I didn’t hold it steady, didn’t hold it steady.”
He never thought that a small Incense Burner would be so heavy. He just slipped and dropped it on the ground.
Lu Cijian quickly shouted, “Don’t move.”
Assistant Administrator Li was taken aback and immediately withdrew his hand and stood there, nervously saying, “What’s wrong? Is there a Problem with this Incense Burner?”
Lu Cijian didn’t speak, but took a few steps forward, squatted down, and looked under the table.
The originally clean Flat Ground was now covered with Incense ashes, and there was a faint Footprint where the Incense ashes extended. You could only see the trace against the light.
If the Incense Burner hadn’t fallen, he probably wouldn’t have noticed this Footprint.
Assistant Administrator Li stared at the Incense ashes on the ground, curiously saying, “What’s wrong?”
Lu Cijian didn’t speak, but stretched out his hand and pushed hard against the wall inside the table. Instantly, three thin cracks appeared in the wall that was originally tightly joined to the side.
The next second, a Hidden Door appeared under the table, large enough for one person to pass through.
Assistant Administrator Li only widened his Eyes in surprise, and quickly called for people to move away the heavy table, saying in surprise, “There’s actually a Secret Passage here.”
Just now, he had taken people to search through several Houses, but found nothing.
Unexpectedly, Lu Cijian saw an Abnormal sign here.
Jiang Yimian also raised her eyebrows and said with a smile, “Lord Lu is indeed amazing.”
Lu Cijian only shook his head helplessly.
After a few people took the Tinder and entered the narrow Hidden Door, the dark Passage was instantly lit up, and there was a long string of stairs under their Feet.
Jiang Yimian was about to follow when Lu Cijian grabbed her. “I’ll go down. You wait for me here. There must be someone outside.”
Assistant Administrator Li looked at the Two People and said with a smile, “You and Jiang Girl should stay outside, Lord. I’ll go down with them. It looks like there should be a Cellar in here. I just don’t know what’s inside.”
As he said that, he went straight in.
How could a Girl and an Adult go in to take risks? Even if there was any real danger, they would have to protect the Two People.
These are the saviors of all the Common People in Qingnan.
Jiang Yimian stared at Lu Cijian’s serious expression and said amusingly, “What’s wrong? Are you worried that there’s danger here? I’ll be fine. You should worry about them.”
Compared to the few people Assistant Administrator Li brought, it would be safer for her and Lu Cijian to go down. Who knows who would protect whom.
Lu Cijian was stunned, seeming to realize this Problem. He was about to follow when he heard Assistant Administrator Li’s exclamation from below, “Lord Lu, Jiang Girl, come and take a look!”
The Two People exchanged a glance and quickly entered the Hidden Door.
The stairs under their Feet were a little narrow, but fortunately not long.
As soon as the Two People reached the bottom of the stairs, they saw many large Boxes placed in the room lit by the Tinder.
Those large Boxes were extremely large, stacked together lengthwise, almost filling the entire House.
They looked a little eerie in the dim light.
Lu Cijian only frowned and said, “Open the Boxes.”
Several Constables responded, stepped forward, cut off the locks on them, and opened the Boxes.
After seeing clearly what was in the Boxes, everyone gasped in unison.
Inside the Boxes were neatly arranged various types of Weapons, Broadswords, spears, swords, and halberds. Basically, all the Weapons used on the Battlefield were in these Boxes.
It was obvious that the Weapons were all new, as if they had just been made and had not been used yet.
Assistant Administrator Li was so shocked that he couldn’t speak. He quickly stepped forward and opened several more Boxes in a row, all of which were filled with various Weapons.
He said in disbelief, “This, so many Weapons, even more than the Weapons in the Yuncheng Prefecture Armory. What is Zhou Shiwen planning to do? Is he planning a Rebellion?”
When investigating Xu Changli’s whereabouts, he had looked at the Land Deed for the Houses in the Yamen. The owner of this House had died several years ago, and the House had been transferred to several families before finally ending up in the hands of the Yamen.
Because the House was dilapidated, Zhou Shiwen had previously said that he would renovate it and sell it, but he never expected that it would eventually become his Warehouse, and he even dared to place so many Weapons there.
This person not only engaged in Corruption of the Imperial Court’s Disaster Relief silver and oppressed the Common People, but also had Sinister Intentions. Fortunately, he was already dead, otherwise, who knows what kind of trouble he would have caused in the future.
Jiang Yimian and Lu Cijian exchanged a glance and said nothing.
Assistant Administrator Li didn’t know who was behind Zhou Shiwen, but they were clear that these things had nothing to do with Zhou Shiwen at all. If there was any connection, it should be that he provided the Chu Prince with a secret hiding place.
If it hadn’t been for the serious Flood in Qingnan, and the Censorate sending Lu Cijian here, and them successfully capturing Qi Shang, how would they have discovered the Weapons here.
I’m afraid that the Chu Prince’s people would have successfully taken the things away long ago, and no one would know anything about this place.
Assistant Administrator Li looked at the Weapons and said indignantly, “Zhou Shiwen, this villain, secretly hid so many Weapons. I don’t know what he wants to do.
I think the Craft of these Weapons is not bad. They can be used by the Yuncheng Prefecture Garrison Troops.”
The Weapons used by these Garrison Troops were still the Weapons transported from the Li City Military Armaments Bureau several years ago. Because there was no use for them, they had not been replaced in recent years.
Lu Cijian said faintly, “These Weapons can’t be used.”
Before Assistant Administrator Li could ask why, he saw Lu Cijian step forward, pick up a Broadsword at random, and chop it against the wall a few times with force.
Instantly, the Broadsword, which looked exceptionally sharp and sturdy, broke into two pieces.
Everyone in the House widened their Eyes, staring in disbelief at the broken Broadsword on the ground.
Jiang Yimian was also a little surprised. She initially thought that the Chu Prince had secretly hidden these Weapons for a Rebellion in the future, but now seeing that these Weapons were so fragile, there was no way the Chu Prince would use these Weapons for a Rebellion.
Wouldn’t that be sending his own people to their deaths?
On the Battlefield, a place like that, if the Weapons aren’t suitable, then they can only wait to die.
Assistant Administrator Li also said in disbelief, “What, what does this mean? What does Zhou Shiwen want to do with so many Weapons that break with a single touch?”
They look no different from normal Weapons, and even look like a good Broadsword, but they break after being chopped a few times with force.
If they were to go to the Battlefield, wouldn’t all those people die under the enemy’s sharp blades?
Lu Cijian didn’t speak, but said, “Take the things back to the Yamen.”
He originally thought that coming to Qingnan this time and successfully saving Wei Jinghai and curing the Flood would be excellent. He never expected that the Chu Prince would actually send him such a great gift.
These things should be the Weapons that were transferred from the Mine.
The Chu Prince probably prepared them for Wei Jinghai’s people. Perhaps because the Mine was gone, and coupled with a major inspection by the Ministry of Works, he didn’t dare to do anything at the Military Armaments Bureau.
Resulting in all these things falling into his hands, and he could only temporarily put them in Qingnan.
Now, they have fallen into his hands.
The Chu Prince probably didn’t expect that these things would be found by them.
Now that there is this Evidence, although it is not enough to bring down the Chu Prince, at least there will be an opportunity to cleanse the Military Armaments Bureau and several Military Armaments Bureau in Great Jin.
So that the Chu Prince will no longer have a chance to take advantage.