The secret passage is not very long, but the walls are polished and smooth, and it looks carefully repaired.

When he reached the end, Su Qi looked up at the small sky above his head, and had no idea of ​​going up the steps on the well wall.

The subordinates who were responsible for exploring whether there were other things hidden in the secret passage came to report: "Sir, no other secret doors were found in this secret passage. The subordinates speculated that this secret passage should be used only for mutual communication."

"Then go back first."

The group returned the same way.

After returning to the yard, Su Qi said to Wen Jiuming: "Please keep this yard without moving. After the official of the bag finds out the reason for this secret passage, he will work."

"It should be like this."

"There are also the staff of Lord Wen, and the investigation of the three of the merchant family will be fully taken over by the Ministry of Justice."

"yes."

**

Qin Zhenniang was having dinner with her son and daughter.

No matter how busy the business in the cloth shop is, she will finish the business early every day and rush home to have supper with the children.

Unable to break.

Seeing that his son stopped chopsticks first, Qin Zhenniang hurriedly looked over, "Why are you only using this little bit today? Shuoer is approaching the county test, so she is nervous?"

Feng Shuo shook his head, and there was a hint of calmness on his face, which was still a little childish, "My son is not nervous, but in the past two days, my son always feels that someone is secretly following me, but often can't figure it out." Looking at the expressions of his mother and sister's nervous momentarily, he hurriedly comforted, "Mother, sister, don't worry, maybe it's just a son's illusion."

Qin Zhenniang waited for her son and daughter to return to her yard before getting up and going back to rest.

On the way back to the main courtyard, she passed by a closed courtyard gate. She paused and stood there for a while before turning her head away.

The next day, Qin Zhenniang still had to go to the cloth shop under her command.

Because she was pretending to be in her heart last night, she slept a little late, got up a little late the next day, so naturally she arrived a little late.

As soon as I entered the cloth shop gate, I saw the shopkeeper she invited to greet him with nervous expressions. The other guys in the cloth shop were no longer as enthusiastic as before and looked towards the second floor from time to time.

"What's wrong?"

"Boss," the shopkeeper saw Qin Zhenniang as if he had seen a life-saving straw. "You are here. Early this morning, an amazing guest came to our cloth shop. We are waiting for you on the second floor."

Qin Zhenniang felt a sudden slap in her heart and asked without a trace: "Do you know which customer it is?"

"I don't know," the shopkeeper shook his head repeatedly, "Which wealthy young man should be from, he has brought several guards."

"I'll go up and take a look."

The shopkeeper bowed his hand, "Oh, then I'll go and do it first." This was the first time he received such a big show guest, and he felt guilty. Fortunately, the boss didn't let him follow him.

Following the stairs beside him to the second floor, Qin Zhenniang looked at the door of one of the rooms in the corridor, and there was a guard wearing a black short-strike, a sword-wielding waist and sword-wielding standing on the left and right.

Take a deep breath and walk slowly over.

One of the two guards turned his head and looked over, reached out to open the door of the room, and made a gesture of invitation: "Boss Qin, my master is invited."

grown ups?

Qin Zhenniang paused again. There were only a few yamen who could be called an adult and also be able to carry the sword guards in Shangjing City.

Why did you come to her?

In the room.

Su Qi sat at the table, facing the bustling street scene outside the window, but turned around when he heard the sound of the door opening. His eyes met Qin Zhenniang's shocked and suspicious eyes, and he felt a little more certain.

He didn't urge him, but just watched quietly.

Qin Zhenniang met the gentle but cold gaze of the young official in the room. She also knew that she could not avoid this view anyway today. She stepped into the door with a calm attitude, "The civilian woman greeted the adults."

Su Qi stood up and reached out to help him, "Boss Qin doesn't have to be too polite. I came here this time just to ask Boss Qin about some old things."

"Sir, please ask."

Su Qi made a gesture of asking for a seat. After the person sat down, he looked at Qin Zhenniang and said, "Boss Qin must have heard that Qinghe Garden is now being converted into a Yixue School. Unfortunately, just a few days ago, a craftsman in Qinghe Garden accidentally found a secret passage in the dry well in a yard in the park."

Qin Zhenniang put down her fingers under the table and tightened her fingers.

Su Qi looked at the change of expression of the woman in front of him with a wrong look. Naturally, she also noticed that her expression froze, curled her lips and continued, "What's more coincidental is that the secret passage actually leads to Boss Qin's home. I have also checked the files about this house in the past two days. Boss Qin's cloth shop has been passed down for three generations. Now, the cloth shop is getting bigger and bigger, and I think I have made a lot of money. I should have used enough money to change to my family a larger and better house. Why did I move from my ancestors to live in that house that has been used for decades and has been living in a dilapidated house?"

"Is it possible? Is it because of that secret passage?"

In the already cool weather in mid-September, Qin Zhenniang's back sweat had already wet her inner clothes.

"Boss Qin has something to say to me?"

Seeing that Qin Zhenniang was speechless, Su Qi pointed to the table, "I heard that the young master in Boss Qin's home is now preparing for the county examination. Your Majesty is kind and allows the children of merchants to take the imperial examination like others. Now the county examination is imminent, Boss Qin should be able to guess that the official did not choose to visit Boss Qin's home, but chose this cloth shop, right?"

Qin Zhenniang finally couldn't help but collapse, and the last trace of luck in her heart was exhausted.

"Sir, this matter must start with the mother of the civilian woman, that is, the grandmother of the civilian woman......"

**

Wei Xi and Zong Xu guessed that the story of the secret passage should be quite bizarre, but they didn't expect it to be so bizarre.

That yard was indeed the residence of the staff set up by King Duan in secret.

There is no prince who doesn’t want to be the emperor, and so is Duan Wang.

The prince secretly raised some aides to give advice on this matter for himself. Not only Duan himself, but many princes would do this.

But King Duan, who originally planned to keep a low profile like other princes, fell in love with someone.

That person was the daughter of one of the staff he recruited, Qin Huai.

Just a girl, even if she is just the daughter of an aide, as a prince, she can still bring people to the mansion and spoil them.

But King Duan did not do so.

Because he would fall in love with Qin Huai, it was precisely because she had the wisdom that was not inferior to her father.

A beautiful and smart girl, Duan Prince couldn't bear to trap her in his back house.

What's more, two people can get along more freely outside the mansion.

But the girl he likes is not just a smart mind, she also has vigorous ambitions.

It was Qin Huai's ambition that ruined King Duan's life and his desire to go straight to the palace to become a concubine.

The sudden death of King Duan Zhuangnian recorded in the book is indeed the action taken by his father at that time, Emperor Jing Chen.

Because after hearing Qin Huai's instigation, King Duan was preparing to kill his father and also kill the lord.

Even though his conspiracy was exposed later, he did not confess Qin Huailai.

Later, Duan was executed secretly, and the Duan Palace and the Qinghe Garden he built specifically for Qin Huai were taken back by the royal family.

As soon as King Duan died, his aides also left quietly, and in the end, only Qin Huai was left guarding the house.

It was only after a person died that Qin Huai was shocked to realize that his longing for entering the palace to be a concubine had been broken, and it was far inferior to the blow that Prince Duan's death brought to her.

At that time, she had already had the flesh and blood of Duan in her belly. In the end, she ignored her father's advice and stayed in the house resolutely. Finally, she gave birth to a daughter and raised her. She also used the money left to her by Duan to run a cloth shop.

That daughter was also the only bloodline left by the King Duan in the world, but she didn't dare to give her daughter the surname "Zong", so she had to use her own surname "Qin".

Before his death, Qin Huai told his daughter about himself and King Duan, which could be regarded as indirectly telling him about his life experience. Finally, he also talked about the dry well in the yard and the secret passage below the dry well, which could be regarded as a way of retreat that future generations may use.

Qin Huai's daughter did not get married, but instead hired a son-in-law to live in that old house, and then Qin Zhenniang was born. She learned her mother, and her daughter's surname was still "Qin".

When Qin Zhenniang grew up, she inherited the story of this house and this house, and like her mother, she still guarded this house and guarded the place where her grandmother regretted her for the rest of her life.

But she gave birth to a pair of children, and her daughter still used the surname Qin. She thought about her son's surname repeatedly and finally decided to use her husband's surname "Feng".

Before, Qinghe Garden suddenly started construction to Jianyi School, but she was worried that the secret passage would be discovered.

But if I want to seal the secret passage here, I will inevitably alarm a pair of children in the family.

My daughter is better, and she is almost ready to tell her about the secret passage.

But her son's place was a critical moment when preparing for the scientific examination. If she knew about the secret passage, she would inevitably be distracted. After hesitating for a long time, she still did not move the secret passage.

Just thinking about it by chance, no one would run to a dry well to see on a whim.

Someone went down to see it.

This can only say that you must not be lucky in anything.

Then there was a subsequent investigation.

After listening to Su Qi telling the things that Qin Zhenniang confessed, Wei Xi pointed his chin with a finger, "So, Qin Zhenniang and her two children are all descendants of that King Duan?"

Zong Xu nodded, "That's right."

"Then King Duan almost killed the regicide back then. If he had descendants at that time, what would it be?"

"The third generation of direct lineage was concurrently assigned to the position, exile and exiled."

Wei Xi took a deep breath, "Then Qin Zhenniang's son is the third generation. Can he still participate in the imperial examination?"

**
Chapter completed!