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Chapter 88
"Zhaoyan, it's not as good as us." She leaned close to Ye Zhaoyan's ear and whispered.

"You're right." Ye Zhaoyan's eyes lit up, and a sly gleam flashed in them.

"I see, leave this matter to me, don't worry." Ye Zhaoyan stroked his mother's black hair, with a decision in his heart.

After nightfall, Ye Zhaoyan got up quietly after everyone in the Ye Mansion fell asleep.

In her arms, there was an important thing.

Thinking of what her mother said when she handed the object into her hands, her movements became more relaxed.

In the past few days, the number of guards in Ye Mansion has decreased a lot, and the leader in charge of supervision has already rested, and it is time to relax.

At this time, the night was so dense that he couldn't see his fingers. Ye Zhaoyan held a dagger in his hand to defend himself.

She avoided the night patrolling eyes and ears with ease, and walked slowly towards the back door of the warehouse.

The lights around the room had long since been turned off, and it was pitch black all around.

Following her mother's description, she groped for a while, and finally found an unusually hard place at the bottom of the door, which was where the mechanism was located.

She took the thing out of her bosom and quickly unlocked it.

But after a while, the mechanism was successfully opened.

In a blink of an eye, a small door slowly appeared on the wall, the structure was exquisite, and it could only allow a child half the height of a person to pass through.

This is the trap door that my grandfather ordered someone to build when my mother was a child. A few days ago, it was repaired by the old craftsman Ye Fugui found.

Ye Zhaoyan breathed a sigh of relief, and slipped in lightly.

The warehouse was dark and dark, and Ye Zhaoyan didn't dare to light the lamp, and went straight to the right corner based on her feeling. She remembered that there were rows of inconspicuous shelves with delicate scrolls on them.

Ye Zhaoyan slowly walked around the row of shelves against the wall, tapped a few times on the wall behind, and heard a strange noise, she touched a bump with her hand, twisted it lightly, and a small groove was exposed .

It is a package with no visible inside.

When she was about to put the contents in the groove into her arms, she heard a sound behind her.

She quickly squatted down, held her breath, and stood quietly.

Squeak!

The warehouse door was slowly pushed open.

Ye Zhaoyan's nerves suddenly tensed up.

When the person behind the door came out completely, Ye Zhaoyan's pupils shrank suddenly, his whole body froze in place, and his face became pale as paper.

It was Ji Sinian!
How did he come here? !
She couldn't help cursing herself for being too careless for not noticing him and letting him sneak into the warehouse!
After Ji Sinian walked in, he looked around, and seemed to find nothing unusual, and closed the door of the storeroom casually.

Ye Zhaoyan breathed a sigh of relief, and after a long time, he walked out of the closed door of the warehouse and carefully restored to the original state.

She had just walked a few steps away when she heard light footsteps.

"The guards are on the east side." Ji Sinian's voice sounded from behind.

Ye Zhaoyan's heart skipped half a beat.

She turned her head to look east, and saw two tall and strong men walking towards here with vigilance in the distance.

It seems that Ji Sinian had discovered her a long time ago, so he came here to report the news.

Why did Keji Sinian do this?
Ye Zhaoyan was puzzled. At this moment, something flashed in her mind, and her face changed.

"What are you doing here?"

The calmness on Ji Sinian's face froze.

"Passing by here."

His eyes were deep, and he looked very soft and warm at the moment, Ye Zhaoyan looked at his face like a fake.

But for some reason, she always felt that something was wrong, and she couldn't figure it out for a while, and the doubts in her heart became heavier.

"Are you watching my mother and I's yard?" Ye Zhaoyan stared into his eyes and said coldly.

"You misunderstood, I did not monitor you."

"Then what are you doing here?"

"Under Master Xue's order, to protect your safety." Ji Sinian sighed.

Protect?

Ye Zhaoyan sneered in his heart.

"Ji Shaoxia, my mother and I don't need your protection." Ye Zhaoyan sarcastically said, "If you dare to reveal the matter just now, I will definitely not let you go!"

Her words were threatening.

"You're worrying too much, I'm just following orders. Now that I've achieved my goal, I'll take my leave first." Ji Sinian said, turning around and heading outside.

Ye Zhaoyan pursed his lips slightly, looking at his back with a dazed expression.

She didn't believe it at all.

If Ji Sinian betrayed this matter, she would definitely not let it go.

Thinking of this, she hugged the thing in her arms even tighter. It seemed that this thing had to be hidden before dawn.

In the yard, Ye Fugui didn't fall asleep, she suddenly heard noises in the yard while she was half asleep and half awake, she hurriedly put on her clothes and got up.

Seeing the empty bed in the cubicle, she was about to go out when she ran into Ye Zhaoyan who had returned from the dew.

Ye Zhaoyan was stained with a lot of dew, his forehead was slightly sweating, and he was holding a yellowish square object in his arms.

"Zhaoyan." Seeing his daughter, Ye Fugui hurried over, grabbed her and pulled her into the room.

The two returned to the house and carefully looked at the objects in front of them.

I saw that its surface was covered with a layer of delicate doily, which was completely covered.

The doily was yellowing with age.

Ye Fugui gently tore off this layer of cloth, revealing a dark mass, like some kind of secret compartment.

She frowned slightly, and followed her memory to open the secret compartment of the mechanism.

"Zhaoyan, take a closer look."

Ye Zhaoyan leaned over and looked at it carefully.

I saw a small cloth bag in the secret compartment of the mechanism, which seemed to be wrapped in a small box.

Ye Zhaoyan untied the cloth bag and opened the box. Immediately, a strong scent of medicine came to his nostrils, revealing the contents inside.

It was a woman's bracelet.

The whole body of the bracelet is dark green, with a pattern of a green dragon engraved in the center, holding two lotus flowers in its claws, and the surroundings are engraved with complicated and simple patterns.

Ye Zhaoyan saw it when he was a child, it was an engagement gift prepared by his grandfather for his mother, and it was also a treasure handed down from the Ye family.

Ye Zhaoyan picked up the bracelet and looked at it carefully. The more he looked at it, the more strange he felt.

She held the bracelet in her hand, and found that the bracelet was very thin, cold to the touch, much more delicate than ordinary jade, and it did not seem to be made of jade.

After watching for a long time, there will be an illusion that Qinglong seems to be still breathing.

Could it be that this bracelet is also spiritual?
"Zhaoyan, I heard that this was carved by a famous master. It is said that it is a masterpiece produced by Zhongli's family a hundred years ago."

Seeing Ye Zhaoyan's dumbfounded expression, Ye Fugui reminded him.

"The Zhongli family?"

Ye Zhaoyan was slightly taken aback, she had never heard of Zhongli's family.

"That's right, the Zhongli family is one of the top families in the royal family of the Chongji Kingdom."

Ye Fugui explained.

Ye Zhaoyan nodded slightly, remembered the name, and at the same time became more and more curious.

What kind of existence is the Zhongli family, and what is the special use of this bracelet?
Just as she was thinking, Ye Fugui put away the bracelet, and then opened the hidden compartment of the second level mechanism.

(End of this chapter)