Starting boy Ma Kongqun

Chapter 5 Treasure Mirror, Treasure Cave

After Ma Kongqun left "Xingyun Village", he walked around a few times to make sure there were no pursuers behind him, and then returned to an inn where he was staying.

He quietly sneaked into the private room through the back window, first changed out of his night clothes, then lit the lamp on the table, sat at the table and read the book "Lian Hua Bao Jian".

This book is really all-encompassing. In terms of martial arts alone, it records twenty-four kinds of top-notch miraculous and secret techniques including internal strength, swordsmanship, boxing, grappling, light skills, hidden weapons, etc. There are countless miscellaneous subjects.

And the contents recorded in the book are by no means simply copied from the predecessors. They are all based on the wisdom of others and then come up with their own ideas, leaving a mark that is unique to Wang Lianhua.

But what Ma Kongqun was paying attention to at this moment was not the content. He carefully read through the entire secret book from beginning to end, first confirming that there were no special marks between the lines.

After closing the book and thinking for a while, he suddenly remembered a vulgar passage. He hurriedly picked up the secret book again, carefully kneaded and groped the front and back covers, and felt a strange touch at his fingertips.

Ma Kongqun was overjoyed and hurriedly took out a knife with an extremely thin blade. With a little hope and anxiety, he pierced the edge of the back cover and cut it left and right, splitting it into two. Sure enough, he found two thin papers with writing on them sandwiched between them. .

He barely suppressed the excitement in his heart, and leaned in front of the light to read the words on the two pieces of paper carefully. He saw that one of them was a contract for hiring someone to look after a house in Luoyang, and the other indicated the name of the underground floor of the house. The location of the secret cave and the method of entry and exit.

The smile on his face grew bigger and bigger, and finally he burst into uncontrollable laughter, waking up the residents in adjacent rooms and eliciting several angry curses.

Early the next morning, Ma Kongqun packed his bags and left Baoding Mansion, heading south all the way to Luoyang in a dusty journey.

Now is the time when peonies are in full bloom in Luoyang. The flowers are in full bloom and there are many tourists.

At this moment, Ma Kongqun has used the disguise technique he first learned from "Lianhua Baojian" to dress himself up as a young man in his mid-twenties and mid-twenties with an ordinary appearance.

He had no intention of looking at flowers and scenery, so he walked through the streets and alleys to a remote alley in the corner of the city. He stopped outside a house, went to the door and gently knocked on the door knocker.

"Who is it?"

Following an old female voice, the door opened halfway inward, and an old woman in her fifties with gray hair came out.

Ma Kongqun cupped his hands and said with a smile: "Is this Granny Cai? I'm Yunkong, Yunhua's nephew. On my uncle's orders, I came to the old house to pack some things."

Granny Cai looked Ma Kongqun up and down: "It turns out he is Boss Yun's nephew. Counting that he has been gone for nearly three years, how is he doing now?"

Ma Kongqun understood and took out an envelope from his arms and sent it over. He smiled and said, "My mother-in-law is asking, everything is fine with my uncle. He is outside the customs now. This is the contract that my uncle made with my mother-in-law. Please check it clearly."

A smile suddenly broke out on Granny Cai's old face: "Actually, it's not necessary. If you look carefully, the little brother and Boss Yun are indeed somewhat similar. Anyone can tell that they are a family."

She said she didn't need it, but she took the envelope with her hand, took out the contract and checked it several times, and then handed it back to Ma Kongqun after making sure it was correct.

"Little brother, wait a moment. I'm going to get the key."

Not long after, Granny Cai led Ma Kongqun to the outside of a house in the alley, took the key and opened the door, mumbling:
  "I clean this house every ten days, and everything is kept in good condition. According to my opinion, Boss Yun should have rented it out. If so, I don't know how much rent has been collected in the past three years. …”

The words were full of regret for missing out on hundreds of millions.

The courtyard door opened, and Granny Cai led Ma Kongqun to look at the two-entry house from front to back before finally handing the key to him.

Ma Kongqun cupped his hands and said: "I won't stay here for more than three days. I will continue to trouble my mother-in-law to take care of this house in the future." Grandma Cai said with a smile: "This is a matter within my status. After all, Boss Yun paid for ten years in one go. It's a salary. Whenever I leave, I just need to hand over the key to me."

After Granny Cai left, Ma Kongqun went out to buy some food, wine and daily necessities, and then found a room to rest and relax after returning.

At dusk, he ate something randomly, then took out the "Lianhua Baojian" and read it under the lamp.

Before I knew it, the night was getting darker and everything was silent.

Ma Kongqun put away the "Lian Hua Bao Jian", got up and went out of the house to a well dug in the backyard.

He picked up a stone and threw it into the well, and judged the depth roughly from the sound of it falling into the water. Then he took out the fire stick and blew it on fire, bit the other end of the fire stick with his mouth, and slid down the well wall with his hands and feet.

Estimating that he had descended about three feet, he put his feet on the well wall, took a fire stick with his left hand and moved closer to the well wall, carefully inspecting the green bricks used to build the well wall one by one.

Not long after, Ma Kongqun noticed that the color of one of the blue bricks was slightly different from the surrounding ones. He fumbled around with his right hand and found that it was actually made of metal. He was overjoyed and pressed it down with his fingers.

The brick sank a few inches, and then an almost inaudible "zaza" sound came from far behind the well wall.

Ma Kongqun stepped on the well wall with both feet, and with the help of the force, his figure soared into the sky and flew out of the well mouth, landing quietly aside.

He turned back to the front yard and walked to the third pillar from the right under the eaves of the main room. He hugged the pillar with both hands and exerted force. The pillar actually started to rotate and then got stuck three times in a row. " "Zhaza" sound, this time it was so close and clearly audible.

Accompanied by the sound, the seven bluestone steps in front of the platform shrank inward step by step, and a five-foot-square hole appeared on the ground, with a step extending into the dark depths.

Ma Kongqun jumped off the platform, squatted down and put the fire stick into the hole. Seeing that the flame was burning normally, he walked down the steps.

When he reached the end of the steps and walked into a straight corridor, the hole behind him had automatically closed.

Ma Kongqun knew what was going on and did not feel panic. While walking towards the two closed stone doors at the end of the corridor, he used fire sticks to light the eight everlasting lamps on the walls on both sides.

When he came to the stone door, he grabbed the bronze door knockers with embossed animal heads on both sides of the door with both hands. He turned his left hand to the right and his right hand to the left, each rotating in a circle. Then the two stone doors slid open to the left and right.

Ma Kongqun took a careful look and saw that the stone door was more than a foot thick. He couldn't help but admire that Wang Lianhua was indeed a prodigy in this world and had such profound attainments in the art of civil engineering.

His next two openings of mechanisms were all based on activating the mechanisms underground. Otherwise, even if you find these two mechanisms, you will not be able to activate them. If you want to forcefully crack them, gunpowder, poisonous water and other sinister killing moves will be triggered.

After a few breaths, the two thick stone doors were completely retracted into the walls on both sides, and the secret cave created by Wang Lianhua was finally revealed in front of Ma Kongqun.

The mysterious jade tablet in my mind also showed the message in time at this moment:
  【Host】Ma Kongqun
  【属性】悟性LV.5、根骨LV.5、内功LV.3、外功LV.2、技击LV.3、身法LV.2
  [Task] Lianhua’s treasure (completed, obtained 1 free attribute point)

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　　brief introduction:
  　　First couplet: The white knife comes in, the red knife comes out, everything is left in the hand;

　　Second line: Kill animals and help all living beings, with compassion in your heart.

　　Horizontal comment: Zhang Butcher with immeasurable merits
  　　
  　
  (End of this chapter)