The room was dark and dark, Jiang Chuting took out a torch and ignited it, and quickly patrolled around with the faint light of the fire.Apart from a few empty bookshelves, there is only one desk here.

Jiang Chuting stretched out his fingers and wiped the desk, and touched a hand of dust, it seemed that it had been abandoned for a long time.

Not finding anything strange, he took the time to go up to the second floor, and then up to the third floor. The huge place was empty, and no mechanism was found.

This is strange.

When Jiang Chuting went downstairs, he couldn't help thinking, could it be that Lin Xuan had discovered the evidence that Zique hid here?

Or, the hairpin led him here, not for any evidence at all.

Back on the first floor, Jiang Chuting inspected it carefully again. When he got close to a wall, the hairpin in his arms began to feel faintly hot again.

Jiang Chuting raised his hand and tapped the wall lightly, looked around, checked everything just now, and found no mechanism, did he miss something?

Finally, he walked a few steps, went back to the desk, groped for a while, and found a raised thing on the back, he twisted it slightly, and the wall behind him slowly opened, revealing light in an instant.

Jiang Chuting's vision immediately became clearer.

It turned out that there really was a secret room.He didn't pay attention to it just now.

Jiang Chuting got up, walked in, and the organ door closed behind him.

Walking through a long aisle, there are illuminated night pearls on the walls on both sides of the aisle, and at the end of the aisle is a dozen steps of stairs.Jiang Chuting's heart skipped a beat for no apparent reason before walking slowly.

The further you go down, the more you feel that your whole body is enveloped by a chill.

Before Jiang Chuting came to Qilange to investigate, he had already made several guesses and was mentally prepared to deal with various accidents, but when he came to this underground dark room and saw what was placed inside, he was still so shocked that he lost his mind.

——The whole body of the dark coffin was covered with yellow talisman paper, a burning lamp, and a spirit tablet engraved with "The Spiritual Tablet of the Dead Husband Yun Zique".

This is not a dark room, but Zique's cemetery!

Jiang Chuting's blood ran cold all over his body, and it took him a while to regain his composure. He uncontrollably rushed to the side of the coffin, looked up at the talisman papers painted with cinnabar, and his breath began to tremble.

Back then, he watched Zique being buried with his own eyes. Why is there still a coffin here?

Could it be that the funeral was just a cover-up, and that Zique's real body was actually here?

It would be impossible for others to do this, but it would not be surprising for Lin Xi to be so insane.

That's why the hairpin suddenly directed him here, because Zique had been imprisoned by the Lin family before he died, and he didn't want his body to be trapped in this suffocating cage after death!

Zi Que wanted him to take him away.

"Zi Que, Zi Que...is it really you?"

Jiang Chuting was in a state of confusion, his eyes were red, and he raised his hand, but the moment he touched the coffin, more than a dozen flying arrows shot into the air.

Jiang Chuting hastily turned around to dodge, with almost no gaps, wave after wave of arrow feathers came straight at him.He was originally weak in skill, and he was injured by the arrow almost avoiding it. In the end, he could only be forced to a corner. The arrow stopped, but he stepped on something uneven under his feet. A black object fell from the sky. , The loud bang made the ground tremble a few times.

Jiang Chuting can't avoid it at all, and the prey is usually covered in it like this.

It was a big cage made of fine iron, and Jiang Chuting tried his best, but he couldn't shake it.

It was still a moment of carelessness, how could Lin Xi not set up a trap to protect the place where Zique's coffin was placed?

He stood in the middle of the iron cage, looked at the coffin quietly through the iron bars, and his mind suddenly calmed down.

The calmer you are, the more your heart sinks.

Before he came to Qilange, he didn't know what would be here, but he was trapped here by a trap, and Lin Xi would find out sooner or later.When Lin Xi knew it, it was equivalent to knowing Lin Zhi too.

It was an accident that he found Zique's coffin, but it was also a fact.At this juncture, Lin Xi only needs to push the flames a little bit, Lin knows that the dark emotions that were suppressed will completely collapse, and she will not listen to any explanation from him at all.

What's more, in order to completely separate him and Lin Zhi, she is definitely more than simply pushing the flames. She will definitely seize this opportunity, add fuel to the flames, and make him and Lin Zhi have no room for change.

Jiang Chuting's bloodless face was covered with a layer of frost, he rubbed his suffocating heart, and sat cross-legged on the spot.

At this time, he had nothing to do but wait restlessly.

In the beautifully furnished room, the lights are bright, and the small incense burner on the table exudes a gloomy fragrance, which makes the air thicker.

Lin Xi looked at her fingers without saying a word, while Li Ruoshuang sat down, twisting her handkerchief silently with her head bowed.

When there was silence, Chuntao hurried in, but she glanced at Li Ruoshuang and didn't speak.

Lin Xi said: "Ruoshuang, you should go back first."

"Yes." Li Ruoshuang hurriedly stood up and said, "Ruoshuang bid farewell."

Chuntao sent her away, closed the door, Lin Xi frowned and looked at her and spoke first: "What's the matter at night? But what's going on over there?"

Chun Tao didn't know whether it was contempt or excitement in her eyes, and she hurriedly told Lin Xi: "Yes, it's really satisfying! Before Madam set up a trick, he jumped into the trap by himself!"

Lin Xi immediately sat up straight and opened her eyes wide: "You mean, he broke into the dark room?"

Chuntao nodded sharply: "Yes, ma'am, at this moment he has been locked in a cage, even if he has peerless magic skills, he is still unable to fly!"

Lin Xi wanted to separate Lin Zhi and Jiang Chuting in her dreams, but she knew that she missed the blow before, and now that she is in Lin's mansion, she can't act rashly.

At present, Lin Zhi believed her words and was still angry. If she really did something to Jiang Chuting now, Lin Zhi would hate her instead.

So she held back and waited for the opportunity, hoping that when the conflict between the two of them became more intense, she would use Yun Zique's relics to lure Jiang Chuting to Qilang Pavilion, find Zique's coffin, and let Lin Zhi know where it was. Jiang Chuting came to the Lin Mansion because of Zique, and Jiang Chuting didn't love him at all.

Lin Xi knew Lin Zhi, his personality was similar to hers in some respects, he was prone to extremes, and more impulsive.

It would be great if he could do something irreversible under this extreme impulse.

Then she takes the last step.

As long as Jiang Chuting leaves the Lin residence, no one can blame her for death or injury.

Unexpectedly, what was originally planned to be arranged tomorrow will be realized tonight.

Lin Xi's expression fluctuated for a while, and she said in a gloomy voice: "Why does he know about Qilange?" There are so many places in Lin's mansion, why did he just break into Qilange and find Zique's location?

Chuntao thought for a while and said, "Maybe, maybe he saw that Qilange was not guarded, so he went in to check, and found it by mistake."

Jiang Chuting would walk around the mansion, in order to let him relax his vigilance and lure him into the bait, Lin Xi had removed all the guards from Qilange long ago.

Although she was caught, but out of her own calculations and control, Lin Xi didn't feel any joy or complacency. On the contrary, her heart was full of intense hatred.

If it wasn't for cutting off Lin Zhi's feelings, how could she let that man meet Zi Que again?

Lin Xi stood up, took two steps back and forth, gritted her teeth and ordered: "Just follow the previous plan."

"Okay, ma'am." Chuntao clenched her fists and snorted coldly, "This time I will definitely drive that man out of the Lin residence."

In the room full of alcohol, Lin Zhi stood up staggeringly, kicked one of the empty wine jars, and rolled around several times before stopping.

Sitting down by the bed, rubbing and pressing the throbbing forehead, someone knocked on the door hastily outside.

"Master, master! Master, open the door!"

Lin Zhi was already in an extremely irritable mood, plus he had a headache from drinking too much wine. Hearing the constant knocking on the door, he was still babbling. He felt something in his hand and threw it out, making a bang, and roared in a hoarse voice: "roll!"

The people outside seemed to be frightened. They didn't make a sound for a while, but they didn't give up. There was another knock on the door, and someone shouted, "Master, it's Chuntao! I have something urgent to tell you!"

Lin Zhi also recognized that it was her at this time.Chuntao is Lin Xi's personal maid, so she must be here so late because she has something urgent to do.

Lin Zhi rubbed his face to refresh himself, and got up to open the door.

"What's wrong with my mother? Is there something wrong?"

"Ma'am, Ma'am, she..." Chuntao looked eager, and couldn't speak after stuttering for a long time.

Lin Zhi became impatient and said, "Speak quickly if you have something to say."

Chuntao stomped her feet, as if she was going all out, and told Lin: "Master, you also know that Madam has a deep affection for Master Yun. Madam was really reluctant to give up, so the coffin where Master Yun was buried actually only put some of his old things. His corpse was smeared with anti-corrosion medicine and kept in the darkroom of Qilange, Madam would occasionally go over to talk to Young Master Yun to express her missing."

Lin Zhi's face was numb for a long while before he asked, "You mean, my father's body has been in the mansion all along?"

"Yes." Chuntao bit her lips, looking at his face that looked more and more gloomy because of the backlight, she couldn't help but shuddered, but she insisted on continuing: "Originally not many people knew about this matter, but For some reason, someone took advantage of it. Someone broke in today and almost stole the coffin. When Madam found out, she was too emotional and passed out. She didn't want you to know about it, but Chuntao always felt that ,feel……"

There was a hint of resentment on her face: "I feel that this matter has something to do with the young master, and I can't just be kept in the dark like this, so I came here to find you on my own initiative."

Lin Zhi's eyes seemed to be covered with endless shadows. It was so dark that there was no light. After a moment of silence, he asked each word in a deep voice, "Who is the one who broke in?"

Chuntao was chilled by his eyes, clasped her hands tightly, and told him truthfully: "It's that...Jiang Chuting, he's already trapped in a trap, young master, look..."

The corners of Lin Zhi's lips twitched, his expression was calm as expected, and after a while, he just snorted softly: "It really is him."

I don't know how long it took, but finally there was movement on the other side of the passage.

Jiang Chuting stood up restlessly, staring at the stairs.After he was imprisoned, someone found out and went to report to his master, but he didn't know whether it was Lin Xi or Lin Zhi who came here now.

Quickly gave him the answer, Jiang Chuting clenched his fists, and saw the boy in purple clothes and hair in sight.

Lin Zhi glanced at the side of the coffin before walking to the side of the iron cage, looked him over, his tone seemed normal, and asked, "Why are you so careless?"

There was no violent wind and rain as imagined, but it made Jiang Chuting's heart more restless.

Jiang Chuting took a step forward, grabbed the iron railing, and said earnestly, "I came here to check things and found out by accident. Before I came here, I didn't know that this place was..."

"Oh? My house is so big, and you just happened to find this place, find the mechanism, and enter the dark room. It seems that your intentions have moved the heavens." Lin Zhi stared at him quietly for a moment, then asked He said: "Is this the real purpose of your coming to the Lin Mansion?"

"No!" Jiang Chuting didn't expect that the more he thought about it, the more absurd he became, and hastily denied: "I really came back with you. If I just wanted to come to the Lin Mansion, I don't need to go to such lengths to deceive you and take advantage of you. That's it You can figure it out, right?"

"Even if not, you really want to steal the coffin, right?"

"I……"

"Only when you try to move the coffin will the mechanism be triggered, and you—" Lin Zhi raised his hand, tapped lightly on the iron rail twice, looked at him and said, "You were locked up so pitifully."

Jiang Chuting was taken aback for a moment, when his emotions came up, the thought in his mind was indeed to take Zi Que away, his life was too hard.

Jiang Chuting had no way to defend himself, and said: "The dead should be buried properly, not..."

"What isn't it?" Lin Zhi suddenly raised his voice, his eyes were cold, and he said with a sarcasm, "Who do you think you are? A wife or a concubine? What does it matter to you where he is buried? Do you think you have a position to control?" ?!"

Jiang Chuting only felt his eyes swell and hurt, paused, and then looked directly at him with red eyes and said, "I can't just let it go. Your father doesn't like this place. When I met him back then, it was he who He ran away before marriage to relax, but he was a domestic servant, so he couldn't escape at all, and the marriage was also forced. Lin Zhi, you belong to the Lin family, and you grew up in the Lin family, and you only believe in your family's words, that's human nature But now, I also need your trust, if the suspicion continues like this, I'm afraid we won't last long between the two of us."

Lin Zhi didn't seem to have heard the latter sentence, and motioned for someone to open the mechanism, and the fine iron cage was raised from the ground. He pulled Jiang Chuting out, faced him and asked, "He doesn't like this place, he doesn't like my mother. , he only loves you, do you mean that?"

Jiang Chuting looked at him, and said for a moment, "That's right, that's what it means."

Lin Zhitong's eyes suddenly shrank, his eyes burst red, and his breath became heavy.

Jiang Chuting continued: "Your father doesn't love your mother. To him, the Lin Mansion is just a cage of prisoners. He was forced to marry your mother. The person he loves is indeed me. But your mother is here After he died, he still didn't let him go and trapped his coffin here. I felt sorry for him, so I wanted to take him away. Lin Zhi, you have been lied to by your grandmother and mother for so many years, you should wake up, don't Be a blindfolded fool."

Lin Zhi grabbed his collar, gritted his teeth with a cold expression, "Try one more word of nonsense!"

The two were very close, Jiang Chuting's nose smelled heavily of alcohol, he could clearly feel his scorching breath, and saw his expression about to eat people.

It seemed that if he opened his mouth again, he would really be swallowed alive by him.

Jiang Chuting was not afraid of him, but felt sad and pathetic.

In the past few days in the Lin Mansion, he and Lin Zhi are always at odds. He doesn't want to be like this all the time. It's too painful and tormenting.

If Lin Zhi wanted to understand him, everything had to be explained clearly, and he couldn't be vague in order to fear that he would get angry even more.

"What I'm saying is the truth, why are you talking nonsense?" Jiang Chuting's hair was slightly disheveled, his face was as pale as paper, and he said in a low voice: "The day you broke my identity, it was indeed your mother who brought people to kill me. Lin Zhi, you asked her, right? She didn't admit it, did she? She should be the one talking nonsense."

Lin Zhi's forehead was throbbing with veins, he pushed him back a few steps, slammed his back against the wall, and roared, "I told you to shut up!"

Jiang Chuting coughed a few times when he was bumped into him, and after finally recovering, he breathed weakly and said: "Your mother is not as magnanimous as she is in front of you, she will not let me be with you, she will only try to I will let you go. Lin Zhi, I love you, and I don't want to have to leave you one day."

Lin Zhi sneered: "Then may I ask, what did my mother do to you these few days when you came to the Lin Mansion? Did she tie you up to frame you when you came here today? Can you stop thinking about leaving for yourself? make excuse!"

"It is true that I got clues to find it today, but this is the place where your father's coffin is stored. It is such an important place for your mother. When I came in, there was not even a guard. Do you dare to say that she didn't mean it?" I don’t expect you to forgive me right away, but please don’t push me away with your mother, okay?” Jiang Chuting’s tone was almost begging at the end.

Lin Zhi shook his head slowly, and laughed sarcastically: "I know that today's facts can't be justified, so I thought about it before I came and pushed it all to my mother, right? Then you think, you Is what you said credible? She also said that she is going to kill you, and I will be thankful that you don't hurt her anymore!"

His unchanging attitude made Jiang Chuting heartbroken and completely disappointed.

Originally, he felt that he had deceived Lin Zhi, and he was indeed the wrong party. As long as Lin Zhi was willing to forgive him and not betray the relationship between the two, he would not give up.

But now, even with the evidence in front of him, Lin Zhi would only think that he was framing his mother.

This is simply a dead end, there is no solution.

Hearing his last words again, Jiang Chuting's blood surged up suddenly, and the bloody aura hit his throat. He tried hard to restrain himself, his chest heaved, and looking at him, his voice was already a little hoarse: "Since you If you think I don't love you and I want to hurt your mother, wouldn't it be better for me to leave you?"

This was a disheartened question to Lin Zhi, but it was not the same thing in the ears of a drunk man whose reason had been burnt out.

"Leave me?" Lin Zhi's expression has been distorted: "Okay, sure enough, I just said that Datong feels wronged by me just now, just to pave the way for this moment? Do you think you can escape after messing with me?"

Lin Zhi tugged hard on his wrist, dragging him a few steps away from the coffin without any explanation, his eyes were burning with madness.

"You said he loves you, do you love him? Well, let him see for himself. "

Before he could say anything, Jiang Chuting's eyes darkened for a while, and he fell to the side.Not only did Lin Zhi not help him, but he let him fall to the ground, covered himself up, and began to tear his clothes violently.

Jiang Chuting opened his eyes in a dizzy state, and he realized what he was doing after he was relieved. He tried to stop him, but he wrapped his wrist with his belt three times.

Now that his skills are drained and his body is weak, compared with Lin Zhi, he is completely at a disadvantage.

Jiang Chuting's eyes were red, and his voice was almost forced out of his throat: "Lin Zhi, stop immediately."

"Why do you want to stop? Don't you like it? You didn't quite cooperate with me before, so you don't want to change it?" Lin Zhi sneered, and threw the small cloth bag scattered in his arms aside, and the broken hairpin fell off. When he came out, Lin Zhi just glanced at it, and there seemed to be two gloomy will-o'-the-wisps flashing in the bottom of his dark eyes, he pinched his chin and said: "He must be very happy to see that you are still carrying the hairpin I gave you. Well. Soon, though, he won't be happy."

Jiang Chuting, who was trembling all over, could no longer restrain himself, tilted his head, and spat out a mouthful of blood.

The movement of the person on his body froze for only a moment, and he tore off his last clothes fiercely.

……

In the dimly lit room, there were a few light coughs from time to time.Jiang Chuting has had a fever for two days and has been lying on the bed for two days. He has a dull pain in his abdomen and it is difficult to move. To make matters worse, his internal strength is only [-]%.

The servants came in and removed the untouched food from the table, Jiang Chuting stopped them hoarsely: "Excuse me, where is Lin Zhi now?"

The maids didn't ignore him like before. After looking at each other, one of them said: "The young master is having dinner with Miss Li."

Jiang Chuting coughed twice before saying in a low voice, "Thank you for letting me know."

Jiang Chuting rummaged through the baggage for a while, took out a medicine bottle and took a pill, then lay back on the bed with his sword in his arms.He obviously had a high fever, but he felt cold all over.

After sleeping drowsily for an unknown amount of time, out of a subconscious vigilance, he suddenly opened his eyes.

Candles were lit in the room, and Lin Xi was standing in front of his bed, with her subordinates behind him.

Jiang Chu quickly sat up and put his hand on the hilt of his sword.

His black hair was disheveled, his clothes were disheveled, his whole body was weak and embarrassing after being brutally raped, his face was even paler, but there was a knife-sharp sharpness in his pupils, which made people dare not underestimate him.

Lin Xi sized him up, clicked his tongue twice and said, "Look at your pitiful appearance, if I knew today, why bother?"

Jiang Chuting's voice was dry and hoarse, and it hurt like a knife when he spoke: "I will return this sentence to you without a word in the near future."

Lin Xi: "Oh?"

Jiang Chuting: "Do you think you can hide it from Lin Zhi for the rest of your life? Sooner or later he will know the truth."

Lin Xi laughed, as if she thought he was funny: "The truth? What I told Lin Zhi is the truth. Just like back then, you are just a rejected dog. Do you think you can beat me?"

Jiang Chuting breathed hard and said, "Lin Zhi is a human being, not a tool for your manipulation. For your so-called winning, you just deceive him and disregard his wishes like this?"

"I disregarded his wishes?" Lin Xi curled his lips into a smile, and said pitifully, "He is the child I labored to conceive and give birth to, and it's too late for me to love him and follow him. How could I disregard his wishes?"

Jiang Chuting stared at her coldly.

"I told you that you definitely wouldn't believe it either, so I'll give you a chance to get rid of it as soon as possible." Lin Xi didn't say any more, raised her hand as a signal, and several subordinates came forward.Jiang Chuting drew his sword to fight, and the result can be imagined.Even if he tried his best, he couldn't beat so many people.

He was subdued and acupuncture points were ordered.

Lin Xi took him to a room filled with a heavy fragrance, and someone threw him behind a screen, his body was stiff, unable to move or speak.

Jiang Chuting was closing his eyes and trying to break through the acupuncture points, when a familiar voice suddenly came from outside, "Mother, are you feeling better?"

Jiang Chuting opened his eyes suddenly, it was Lin Zhi who came.

"It wasn't good at first, but seeing you coming, my mother is much better." Lin Xi said softly.

The mother and son talked for a while, and Lin Xi said to Lin Zhi worriedly: "I heard...he has been ill for several days. Lin Zhi, when is the time for retribution, I don't want to cause death in the mansion, how about Just let him go."

Lin Zhi seemed to have been touched by something, and suddenly became furious: "Impossible!" Realizing that his tone was too bad, he quickly softened it up, but he still gritted his teeth when he said it: "It is absolutely impossible to let him go Mother, I told you at the beginning that I kept him in the mansion just to torture him and vent your anger on you. If he is sick, let him be sick. If he can’t die, he will suffer on his own.”

Every word was heard clearly, Jiang Chuting lowered his eyelashes, his face was pale and calm.

Lin Xi sighed: "Why bother?"

Lin Xi asked in a soft tone again: "Lin Zhi, tell me, are you telling the truth? Are you really willing?"

Lin Zhi paused, and said in a deep voice: "I don't love him, so why not? I just want to make him suffer. The more he suffers, the happier I am."

Lin Xi said helplessly, "Mother can't hold you back, it's just... since you have decided to marry Ruoshuang, you still have to take her feelings into consideration."

marriage?Lin Zhi wants to marry Li Ruoshuang?

No amount of sarcasm could match the huge impact brought by these two words, Jiang Chuting's heart trembled coldly, and the expression on his face broke instantly.

He couldn't believe it.

Even though Lin Zhi said a lot of ruthless words, he always firmly believed that Lin Zhi approached Li Ruoshuang deliberately out of anger, in order to get revenge on him and make him feel uncomfortable, and he would not really do anything to her.

He would rather he heard it wrong, and Lin Xi was deliberately instigating, hoping to hear Lin Zhi's denial. However, the next moment, Lin Zhi said: "Well, I will. If Shuang understands me, she won't care so much .”

"I've picked a few good dates, the most recent being next month, come and see with me."

"Mother, take good care of your body first, don't worry about it, I will discuss the rest with Ruoshuang."

"Goddess is willing to trouble you for this kind of thing. Besides, you and Ruo Shuang have known each other since childhood, and I am very satisfied to be together..."

On the other side of the screen, Lin Xiwen's gentle words continued, and Lin Zhi also responded with a few words from time to time, but Jiang Chuting was so heartbroken that he couldn't listen to anything.

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