First-rank palace maid Su Jixiang

Chapter 392 Zhang Changping is dead

"Are you cold?" Wei Ling noticed that the night wind was a little chilly. As they were lying in a high place, the wind would be even stronger. So he pulled Su Jixiang into his arms and asked softly.

"It's okay to have you here." Su Jixiang turned his head to look at him and smiled brightly.

The wind at Phoenix Mountain at night is indeed a bit cold.

But Wei Ling's body was very warm, and he deliberately stood upwind of Su Jixiang, so Su Jixiang didn't feel that cold.

"If you really feel cold." Wei Ling whispered, "Then I will take you back."

"We are doing something big here!" Su Jixiang gently pushed him, "What are you talking about!" He rolled his eyes at him, "I'm not that spoiled."

Even though he was despised with just this one glance, Wei Ling still felt warm in his heart.

He smiled gently and held Su Jixiang tighter in his arms, "Then let's wait a little longer." In fact, compared with Su Jixiang, those treasures are naturally not even as valuable as a hair of Su Jixiang.

As Su Jixiang said, even if the treasure was found, it would only be icing on the cake.

Her hair was blown by the wind and fell on the back of his hand. He couldn't help but pick up Su Jixiang's hair and fiddle with it.

"Behave yourself!" Su Jixiang felt her hair being entangled in Wei Ling's fingertips, and she couldn't help but pat him lightly.

"I know! Madam is so fierce!" Wei Ling then let go of Su Jixiang's hair.

It's really a bit boring to squat here. The pool of water is sleeping like a dark giant beast in the night.

No one knew how much time had passed, so long that Su Jixiang was about to fall asleep in Wei Ling's arms, when there was finally some movement on the water surface.

Wei Ling patted Su Jixiang gently. When Su Jixiang opened his sleepy eyes, he saw ripples on the water surface. Soon a head emerged from the water, followed by a body.

This man was short and was the Lord Chen from before.

Then his men also surfaced one after another. They climbed ashore along the rope. There were four of them in total, the only one missing was Zhang Changping.

After the four people came up, they all collapsed on the ground, looking exhausted.

However, this place is still some distance away from the release pond, and it is night time, so Su Jixiang cannot see the expressions on these people's faces, but from their panting he knows that they seem to have experienced something bad down there.

"That damn Zhang Changping actually wanted to use the trap inside to kill us!" Someone angrily expressed Su Jixiang's doubts, "If it weren't for Lord Chen's good luck to find out what he was doing, we wouldn't be able to get up!"

Su Jixiang and Wei Ling looked at each other and instantly guessed why they were in such a mess.

Zhang Changping must have felt that he could not convince these people, or he wanted to occupy the tunnel he discovered this time and keep the treasure for himself, so after taking people down, he began to have murderous intentions and put them into action.

"This guy is determined to rebel!" Someone wiped the water off his face and said hatefully, "He even doesn't let us go."

"If a man does not work for himself, he will be punished by heaven and earth!" Lord Chen sneered, "But he also got his retribution, he was killed by the machine gun!"

"Yes, yes, yes! He will be punished for his evil deeds!" The others also echoed in unison.

"Sir, the mechanism here is really powerful." Someone asked, "Zhang Changping originally studied mechanism and numerology. Now he is dead, what should we do? Should we report the truth or..." He looked around and said in a low voice, "Sir, now we brothers are in charge of Fahua Temple. We should be the first to discover the mechanism and secret passage here. There is no news from other places, or maybe ours is the only entrance and exit to the treasure of Phoenix Mountain. What should we do in the future?"

His words silenced everyone present.

Yes, what should we do in the future?

Everyone looked at each other, and finally everyone's eyes fell on Lord Chen.

Lord Chen lowered his head and pondered for a long time. "We have been together since we followed His Majesty to conquer the world. We can be said to have a life-and-death friendship." He said slowly.

"We will do whatever the master says!" Someone expressed his opinion immediately after hearing what Master Chen said.

"Yes, sir, please give us your orders! We will all obey you. You have saved several of our lives!"

"Yes, you are our eldest brother, and whatever you say goes! Even if we are killed and silenced if we report it to the court, as long as it is the eldest brother's decision, we will have no complaints."

"Correct!"

Everyone nodded.

Seeing everyone's trust in him, Lord Chen seemed to be under a lot of pressure. His eyes kept wandering around the faces of several people. After a long time, he made a very firm decision.

"Look here. Everyone trusts me so much, it would be wrong for me to take everyone to die! Now is not the time to fight for an empire, even if we die, we can't die in such a meaningless thing." Lord Chen said slowly.

Although he is not tall, he speaks and acts in a very methodical and decisive manner.

"Brother, just tell me!"

"Yes." Lord Chen said, "Although Zhang Changping betrayed us and deserves death, he was right in one thing. We were orphans before, without family background and future, but things will be different in the future. We should also think about ourselves. If we are lucky enough to find these treasures before others, we can take out a part that is enough for us to settle down and buy a house, and the rest will depend on the situation. What do you think?"

He thought that if there were no account books or anything like that, no one would notice even if they took some of the treasures. If they took all of them, how to transport them out would still be a big problem. Although they were now under the guise of repairing the temple, it was still difficult to conceal their tracks.

There were three groups in total searching for treasure in Phoenix Mountain. They were responsible for the Fahua Temple, while the other two groups were in two other places.

Although they seem to have no contact on weekdays, there is no guarantee that the news will not leak out. And His Majesty will not let them go out to hunt for treasure like this. There must be someone secretly watching them.

Zhang Changping still thought too simply.

"Okay, we'll all listen to Master Chen, but Zhang Changping is dead, and there aren't many of us who understand the mechanisms anymore." Someone said, "This secret passage is filled with mechanisms, and we really can't handle it."

"Let's use the simplest method, demolish it!" Lord Chen pondered for a moment and said slowly. "Leave two people here to guard today, and the others go back to sleep first. We will take a closer look tomorrow night."