Ming Dynasty: At the beginning, the house was ransacked and the ancestral temple was burned down.

Chapter 24 Find out!
  "Hang yourself with a hook? Are you childish?"

Ren Yangxin was also convinced. The condition this boy said was to pull the hook!

But when I thought about it again, I felt that there was nothing wrong with it. After all, the person in front of me was just a six-year-old baby.

It is normal for such a young child to be childish. On the contrary, it would be abnormal for a child not to be childish.

Although Ren Yangxin had always felt that Zhang Chonghui was an 'abnormal' child, after the series of conversations just now and such a 'hanging with a hook', he gradually began to feel that Zhang Chonghui was a 'normal' six-year-old child.

"Hang yourself on a hook for a hundred years and don't change. You must keep your word."

"If you don't keep your words, you will die."

The childish voice echoed in his ears, and Ren Yangxin felt his old face turn red with shame. He didn't expect that he was still hooking up with a six-year-old baby here despite his age.

shame! Shame!
  "Okay, come on!" Ren Yangxin hurriedly withdrew his hand, and to show his disgust, he even wiped the little finger that had pulled the hook.

Zhang Chonghui didn't seem to see this scene, he said: "Actually, I'm not sure whether the family property is stored there."

"What? You're not sure?" Ren Yang was annoyed: "You're not sure what hook to pull? Are you kidding me again!?"

"I'm not kidding." Zhang Chonghui defended: "I'm just not sure. After all, my father only told me where the entrance was. He didn't take me in to see it."

"Where?" Ren Yangxin asked impatiently.

"In the ancestral hall." Zhang Chonghui replied.

"Ancestral Hall?" Ren Yangxin was filled with disbelief: "How is it possible! The Jin Yiwei had inspected it carefully back then! Unless... wait! Could it be that there is a secret passage?"

Zhang Chonghui's eyes were full of surprise: "Wow! How did you know?"

Seeing Zhang Chonghui's surprised reaction, Ren Yangxin couldn't help but smile proudly and thought to himself: I eat more salt than you eat rice, how could you not have guessed?
  But soon, Ren Yangxin became suspicious again. He brought the lantern close to Zhang Chonghui's face and carefully observed the expression on his face and other behaviors.

"Other than you, who else in your family knows where the entrance to the secret passage is?" Ren Yangxin asked while observing.

"Except for my grandfather, my father and me, no one knows." Zhang Chonghui answered calmly, as if he was still a little confused as to why the other party suddenly brought the lantern so close.

"Then why didn't you tell me earlier? Then so many people in your family wouldn't have died, and your uncles wouldn't have been tortured." Ren Yangxin became even more suspicious.

"Do you think I'm a three-year-old child?" Zhang Chonghui seemed very angry and said with a child's temper:

"If I had spoken out early and let the emperor find out that my family had so much money, he would have had our whole family beheaded long ago. How could we still be alive today?
  If I hadn't heard you say that prince is coming to take my life tomorrow, I wouldn't have wanted to listen to my mother and use my family property to bribe you! "

Hearing the word 'bribery', Ren Yangxin couldn't help but feel his heart skip a beat.

No one does not love money, especially the Ming Dynasty officials whose salaries were notoriously low.

This is even more true for Ren Yangxin. He is only a seventh-grade official. If the position of 'Censor of Patrol' had not brought him a lot of 'conveniences', his family would have been wiped out by the little self-salary paid by the court. The young and old are too poor to open the pot.

Although he had a 'fat job', Ren Yangxin, the fat job patrolling the censor, did not fly out of thin air.

In order to get this position where he could go out on patrol, Ren Yangxin went through countless people and went through a lot of hard work to finally 'grab' such a 'hot potato'. Although he has grabbed the position of patrol censor, he can't stop his work, especially when the next Beijing inspection is about to start. Whether he can find a 'good position' by then depends on the next work.

In other words, Ren Yangxin is not short of money now, but he is very short of money. Now Zhang Juzheng's huge family property is about to be placed in front of him. If he says he is not greedy, it is all lies.

But Ren Yangxin is not blinded by money. After all, if he is not careful, the entire nine tribes will "ascend to heaven" together.

More importantly, he still doesn't know whether Zhang Chonghui's words are true or false. What if this kid is lying again, or there is someone else instigating him behind his back?

"It's unreasonable. You two are so brave! You actually want to resort to the despicable method of bribing me with money! I am dedicated to serving the people and have been doing nothing for many years. Do you think that I am as immoral as your Zhang Juzheng, and I take bribes? That’s ridiculous!”

Ren Yangxin put on an upright and awe-inspiring look, but soon he returned to his greedy and suspicious expression and asked, "Where is the entrance to the secret passage?"

Zhang Chonghui controlled the urge to roll his eyes and replied: "Didn't I say, in the ancestral hall?"

"I remember that your ancestral hall is not far from here. Please take me to see it now." After Ren Yangxin finished speaking, he seemed to feel that something was wrong, and added:
  "I'm just going to find out the truth first. When King Lu comes tomorrow, I will still explain the truth to His Highness King Lu. But don't worry, I will try my best to intercede with King Lu to keep you and your family safe."

"Ah?" Zhang Chonghui looked disappointed and said angrily: "You have to tell Prince Lu anyway, so I might as well tell him myself!"

Zhang Chonghui's angry words reminded Ren Yangxin of a detail. Fortunately, he came early tonight. Otherwise, when King Lu arrives tomorrow and tortures Zhang Chonghui, this kid will definitely be capable of anything!

When the time comes, he won't be able to get any credit if he just raises his heart!
  no! He must know where the Zhang family's property is before King Lu comes!

In order to get Zhang Chonghui to tell the answer obediently, Ren Yang thought for a while and resorted to an old trick - scaring:
  "How childish. If you take the initiative to confess to Prince Lu, not only will he not let you go, he will even continue to torture you and ask you if you know the whereabouts of other properties until he beats you to death!"

Although it is a scare, it is also reality.

"No way..." Zhang Chonghui seemed to be really frightened.

"Don't worry, as long as I guarantee you, you won't die!" Ren Yangxin assured casually.

"Okay, anyway, we have already pulled the hook." Zhang Chonghui mentioned the matter again, and even emphasized: "If you don't keep your words, you will die miserably!"

Ren Yangxin was so amused by Zhang Chonghui's serious and ferocious look that he really wanted to laugh. He thought that only a child could be so naive and think that taking a life and death as an oath was a very important thing.

Even pulling the hook, he even dared to swear to God!
  "Okay, stop talking nonsense and take me there quickly!" Ren Yangxin urged, although he felt that there was a high chance that the trip would be empty.

After all, Zhang Chonghui is only a six-year-old baby. Can Zhang Jingxiu really tell a little baby the entrance to a huge family fortune?

Who are you lying to?
  Although it's not impossible.

But Ren Yangxin still didn't believe it.

But he didn't say he didn't believe it at all.

In short, it's not far to go anyway. Ren Yangxin remembered that the Zhang family's ancestral hall was not far next door, and it only took a few steps to get there.

Instead of worrying about this, it’s better to go and find out for yourself!
  (End of this chapter)