This villa is built on a barren mountain, and there are no other artificial villas around it. A fire here is even more taboo. It is believed that the feng shui is not good, and the weeds grow half a person tall.

When the mute doctor returned to Beijing, he was stared at by the Marquis of Xingning and came to the other courtyard to dig out what he had done back then and was intercepted and killed.

Before coming here, King Xiang had sent someone to search, but no one else was stationed, so they rushed over.

Xue Shenzhi ordered the guards of the royal palace to dig up the ruins.

King Xiang found out that his mother was detained here, and it was indeed a fire. The Queen Mother said about the murder, and he guessed that it was caused by the threat of Emperor Jin of Yuan and would not tell the truth. He regarded the Queen Mother's reactions with Emperor Jin of Yuan, and he was still alive as his mother.

"This villa covers a wide area. You have to verify whether there are any authentic tunnels below. I don't know if they can only dig them out in the year of the monkey and the horses. If the other authentic tunnels have not been dug out, you will startle my father and dig them!" King Xiang felt that he had suffered a loss in his cooperation with Xue Shenzhi.

Before he could bring anyone in hand, he helped Xue Shenzhi do his job first.

There is also a risk of injury.

If Shang Zhi could know what King Xiang was thinking, he would definitely sneer.

King Xiang is not a fool. Since he puts his bet on Xue Shenzhi, he is interested in his potential. He is willing to invest in high risks in Xue Shenzhi and get high returns.

Xue Shenzhi didn't think so. If there was an underground passage, there would be more than one, which would be densely covered with the entire courtyard.

As long as two were dug out, he could be sure that his mother was 90% sure she was still alive.

"If it weren't for the accident between King Yu, the Marquis of Xingning suffered consecutive setbacks. Their old subordinates secretly surrendered to me. Some of them were witnesses of the incident back then, and I might not have found out. All the matters had been after the disaster, leaving no clues. He told me that a person imprisoned here saw that he was swallowed by a fire with his own eyes. The fire was very big, and it took a day and a night. It was the next heavy rain that put out the fire, and several corpses were dug out, and there was no possibility of survival!" King Xiang looked at Xue Shenzhi, and saw his face was impermanent, staring at a pile of ruins, "You are so stubborn. If you dig out the secret passage, you can conclude that the person is still alive?"

The secret passage was dug up and it was not possible to prove that people were alive, but before that, the Empress Dowager's actions and the abnormalities of Emperor Jin of Yuan made Xue Shenzhi have such speculation.

Seeing Xue Shenzhi silent, King Xiang dug underground secretly, and said that the project was huge and would not have any results in the short term.

"You are waiting here, I will get on the carriage and sleep first." King Xiang left this sentence and lie down in the carriage to sleep.

An hour and a half later, someone suddenly shouted, "Digged it!"

Xue Shenzhi walked over and a stone slab appeared in the mud pit several feet deep. The guards knocked it with a shovel a few times. The echo of "dongdong" came from below, not the truth.

"Pry open."

Several guards sweated heavily and dug along the stone slabs to the side, finding the splicing gap of the stone slabs. Several people stood in the pile of mud next to the stone slabs, inserted the gap with shovels, and pried the stone slabs up.

With a "click", the wooden stick broke and the stone slab did not even pry up a crack.

Xue Shenzhi took a shovel and dug next to the stone slab. Seeing that the stone slab is wider than the wall of the secret passage, he inferred that this villa was digging a huge deep pit first, building the secret passage first, then pressing the stone slabs up, laying a 1 meter deep mud to build the villa.

"Hammer." Xue Shenzhi put down the shovel and smashed a hole to make it easier to pry up the stone slab.

The guards held the hammer and smashed a gap in the pivot, revealing a hole in the black slab. They pried up the stone slabs. A cold breath came, and the guards couldn't help but shivered.

Xue Shenzhi picked up the fire stick beside him and lit it with the flintstone. He handed the torch to the guards beside him. He jumped down with the stone slab. The guard gave the torch to Xue Shenzhi. He held the torch and saw clearly the situation in his secret passage and walked deeper.

King Xiang woke up after sleeping, lazily stretched his waist, narrowed his peach blossom eyes slightly, lifted the curtain, and saw Xue Shenzhi jump into the secret passage. He quickly got off the carriage, asked the guards to light a torch, and followed Xue Shenzhi.

He looked around and said with a tsk voice: "I really found it for you. Are you sure your mother will escape from this secret passage?"

"Unsure." Xue Shenzhi's face was tense, and he observed carefully, without missing any subtle points.

I secretly said that it had been covered with dust for twenty years, and many things could no longer see their original appearance. Even if there was a trace of tiny clues left, I was afraid that they would be buried by time.

This secret passage went to the end, and there were several forks in the middle. Xue Shenzhi didn't notice anything, so he changed to another secret passage.

King Xiang waved his sleeves, and the dust stimulated his nose very uncomfortable. "The air in the secret passage is too thin. Are you not stuffy when you have been inside for so long?"

"You talk too much." Xue Shenzhi left this sentence coldly.

King Xiang wanted to leave directly with his sleeves!

"We have walked five secret passages. It is said that this villa has only six large pieces in total, one secret passage in one area, and there is still a secret passage left..." King Xiang saw Xue Shenzhi stop, lower the fire to touch the ground, slid the dust with his hands, and picked up an object. "What is this?" King Xiang leaned over and looked at it, and found that it was a small jade comb smaller than half a slap. On one side was engraved with dragon and phoenix patterns, on the other side were engraved with auspicious cloud patterns, and on the other side there were several small lines of small characters, but was blocked by Xue Shenzhi's fingers. "This is the jade comb used by a woman to decorate between her hair bun."

Xue Shenzhi looked at the lines of words: I wish to be worthy of virtue and join hands with you. I will be quiet and live up to my youth.

At the end, there is a word honking.

Xue Shenzhi tightened his fingers, and his comb teeth were embedded in his palm, causing a stinging pain.

Emperor Jin of Yuan imprisoned his mother in a separate courtyard, and would not send people in a secret passage, but directly locked people in a separate courtyard. The private courtyard was swallowed by the fire that soared into the sky, and people could not enter or go out. Emperor Jin of Yuan could only rescue people from the secret passage, and then he would drop the jade comb in the secret passage.

Xue Shenzhi's expression was very tolerant and restrained. King Xiang confirmed from his expression that this jade comb was the item of Xue Shenzhi's mother.

For a moment, King Xiang didn't know what to say to comfort him.

All languages ​​look pale at this moment.

The culprit was his father, and no matter what he said, it seemed even more ironic at this moment.

Xue Shenzhi restrained the emotions in his heart. He looked at the front half and said in his mind, put the jade comb into the inner bag in his sleeve, and turned around and walked towards the way he came.

When the guards saw Xue Shenzhi coming out, they pulled him to the ground.

When King Xiang came up, he felt his whole body covered in dust and his eyebrows were frowned. "If you have done the matter, let them put the stone slabs back and fill the pits."

"Have I asked you to find the person you are looking for?" Xue Shenzhi asked suddenly.

King Xiang shook his robe and focused on checking that there was any stain on his body. He didn't raise his head and said, "Look for it. Those people are the villagers at the foot of the mountain. When we leave, we will ask the Taoist priests to do it and build the Taoist temple here."

"Yes." Xue Shenzhi nodded.

They were damaging ground here. Although Emperor Jin of Yuan had never sent anyone to watch it, the noise would inevitably reach his ears.

Everyone said that his mother was burned to death by a fire, which means that someone saw her with his own eyes surrounded by a sea of ​​fire and did not come out. He guessed whether there was a secret message that King Xiang would find the place where Emperor Jin imprisoned his mother back then, and he thought about how to cover it up.

A few people were burned to death in the other courtyard, so he asked King Xiang to find someone to build a Taoist temple in this place. He claimed that it was haunted and that the children cried constantly at night. The villagers went up the mountain to hunt and saw monsters trapped in the mountains and forests, so they built a Taoist temple to suppress evil ghosts.

The people are superstitious and it is not surprising that they do such things.

When building a Taoist temple, you have to build a ground to lay the foundation, just to cover up the traces of their digging of authentic tunnels.

Even when Emperor Jin of Yuan heard the news, he didn't know that they had dug up here.

Xue Shenzhi looked at the mud stained with the soles of his shoes, wiped clean the weeds, and sat in the carriage with his robe.

King Xiang took off his shoes and threw them to the servant, sat on the soft blanket, took off his outer shirt and replaced it with another one.

Xue Shenzhi leaned tiredly against the wall of the car, closed his eyes, sorted out his thoughts, and where to start to find the exact news about his mother.

King Xiang took out a pot of tea, poured a cup, and drank a sip, "What are you going to do next?"

Xue Shenzhi pondered and said, "I'll think about it again."

It is related to Emperor Jin of Yuan Dynasty. You should not be too rash, but you need to be very cautious.

King Xiang drank a cup of tea, and he put down the tea cup and said, "I told you to do some money to make money, and I need money."

Xue Shenzhi looked up at King Xiang. King Xiang was not embarrassed at all, nor did he think there was anything wrong with his request. "I will not use your money in vain, I am borrowing it!"

"Did you pay back the money Zhizhi paid for you?" Xue Shenzhi said indifferently.

"Xue Shenzhi, a man is so stingy that I have never seen before. This meal was asked by Miss Shang to ask me to exchange the silver for me before I would come back." King Xiang disagreed with Xue Shenzhi's words.

Xue Shenzhi said bluntly: "Zhizhi's silver is what she has worked hard to get. It is my personal business for me to cooperate with you.Zhizhi's silver has nothing to do with me."

King Xiang rubbed his eyebrows and said, "Don't you consider convincing her?"

“Not considering.”

King Xiang sighed, "Forget it, I will find another way."

Xue Shenzhi lowered his eyelashes to cover the expression in his eyes. King Xiang was short of money. He had an army in his hand and needed to prepare horse and grain.

To seize that position, power and wealth are indispensable.

The carriage was parked in Songshi Lane, and Xue Shenzhi lifted the curtain and got out of the car.

King Xiang said to Xue Shenzhi through the curtain: "Xue Shenzhi, you can consider it if you say this. I am not an ungrateful person, and will give her a lot of convenience in the future. She is a businessman and needs shelter."

Xue Shenzhi said: "I don't want her to get involved."

Leave no room for rejection.

Now she easily earns money according to her wishes. If she agrees to cooperate with King Xiang, her purpose of making money will inevitably change, and she will inevitably be utilitarian and live too tiring. Xue Shenzhi only wants Shang Zhi to do what she likes simply, but she does not want her life to change.

"Don't disturb her, it's my request to the prince." After Xue Shenzhi said this, he pushed the door and entered the yard.

Bugui looked at Xue Shenzhi's actions and said dissatisfiedly: "Prince, isn't it too unwilling to take you into consideration? He doesn't respect you."

King Xiang looked at Xue Shenzhi's back and felt that Xue Shenzhi was indeed too cold to him. When he first cooperated, he still had some respect for him. With the reveal of his identity, Xue Shenzhi was his cousin. How could Xue Shenzhi respect what his father did to Xue Shenzhi's mother?

What's more, he was still thinking about Xue Shenzhi's wife's money bag.

"I cherish my talent." King Xiang sighed: "I will inevitably be more tolerant of talented people."

I was stunned.

King Xiang leaned on his chin and looked at the Xue Mansion. His pair of peach blossom eyes with shimmering water flashed through his eyes.

Shang Zhi will agree to him one day.

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Shangzhi tinted out myrrh essential oil and began to refine rose essential oil.

Rose essential oil requires lipo absorption method. Shangzhi went to the flower market to buy a large handful of roses. After coming back, he pulled the roses one by one and rinsed them in cold water.

She bought several flat-bottomed ceramic basins, put lightly warm lard in the basin, spread the petals on the lard, then applied lard on the outer bottom of the basin, and stacked these ceramic basins layer by layer, so that the petals are pressed between the two layers of lard, and the oil of the petals can be absorbed by the lard. Change the petals every one or two days, until the lard absorbs the essential oil of the petals, and finally stirs with an appropriate amount of alcohol to separate the lard, and gets the essential oil. This process takes nearly a month, but the extracted essential oil has a high concentration and a full smell. Just one or two drops of essential oil can achieve good efficacy, and the fragrance is also very rich and pure.

The myrrh essential oil made by Shangzhi by soaking is very short, but a large can of resin only extracts a small bottle of essential oil, which is not cheap.
To be continued...