Oh no! Seven kids at the start, all yellow and skinny.

Chapter 189 Night Visit to the Marquis's Residence

The room was dimly lit, but Yunyi could still see clearly that there were only a few boxes and some large pieces of furniture in the huge room, but they didn't look very valuable.

This doesn't look like a marquis's storeroom. Could we have come to the wrong place?

Just then, footsteps were heard outside, but they didn't sound like those of the guards.

Yunyi quickly lowered her body.

Sure enough, three people walked into the courtyard shortly afterward.

The leader was none other than Marquis Bai Jianming of Zhenbei, followed by Ni Zhong, the steward of the Marquis's residence, and Bai Shiyi, a guard.

Ni Zhong stepped forward first and opened the warehouse door.

Bai Shiyi lit a lamp and went in first, followed by Bai Jianming.

Looking down from the rooftop, Yunyi noticed Ni Zhong move one of the bookshelves, then squat down and tapped on a few floor tiles before pressing hard on one of them.

Then a very faint rattling sound was heard, and one of the walls moved about a meter away, revealing a dark passage.

Yunyi clicked her tongue. The wealthy people in ancient times really did have basements and tunnels in every household. However, apart from the difficulty of construction, they were actually quite useful. After all, they could hide money in peacetime and take refuge in times of trouble. They were much better than safes in later generations. At least you could live in a basement, but you couldn't live in a safe.

Soon, the safe... no, the tunnel entrance closed up, and even the bookshelf was restored to its original state. It has to be said that the wisdom of the ancients was remarkable.

Yunyi jumped from the roof into the house and first checked the dozen or so boxes and cabinets outside. Because the house was big enough, the dozen or so boxes seemed inconspicuous, but upon closer inspection, she found that they contained some good things, such as a box of silk, a box of calligraphy and paintings, a box of medicinal herbs, and a box of jewelry. After storing them all in her space, she was about to leave temporarily when she heard a sound coming from the tunnel. There was no time to go back to the roof, so she could only find an empty box to hide in.

The only drawback of that space is that living things cannot enter.

Just as he had hidden it in the box, the Marquis of Zhenbei emerged from the tunnel.

"The contents here are of utmost importance; you must guard them well," the Marquis of Zhenbei instructed before leaving. "Also, send more men to this area."

"Don't worry, Lord Marquis," Bai Shiyi replied, "I have already dispatched additional guards to keep watch."

"Hmm." Marquis Zhenbei nodded. "Also... as for that Fengyun Gang, find a way to infiltrate them. That woman... cannot be allowed to live."

Yun Yi's brow twitched. What had she heard? They actually wanted to kill her? How terrifying! Since that was the case, then she wouldn't hold back. Her consistent principle was to sacrifice her fellow Daoists rather than herself. She had finally earned this chance to die peacefully in her old age; how could she easily give up her life? Therefore, it was all her choice to die.

As for how he should die? She'll have to think about that carefully.

Soon, the Marquis of Zhenbei left with his men, and the door was locked.

Yunyi came out of the box, listened outside to make sure no one was approaching for the time being, then moved the bookshelf and opened the secret passage.

Once inside, she realized that the secret passage was built between the walls. Obviously, the walls on this side must be very thick, making it very difficult for anyone to find the passage if it was built in the middle.

The passage wasn't long; it only took seven or eight steps to reach the end. However, it wasn't a basement. Instead, there was a wooden staircase leading up to a small wooden door. Pushing it open, one could clearly see the gap in the middle of the roof ridge.

This part is only about 1.5 to 1.6 meters high, so if you are a little tall, you have to bend over. Not to mention that the area is not big. You can't design such a mechanism just for such a small room, right?

There must be something fishy going on here.

The room was small, so she searched little by little.

Fortunately, the mechanism wasn't too hard to find; it was on a piece of wood at the top. After pressing it, the floor of the small house suddenly opened up.

Yunyi was startled, but fortunately she reacted quickly. As she fell, the grappling hook caught the wooden plank above her, and she slowly descended along the rope.

The grappling hook's rope was thirty meters long, and it reached the ground after about a third of it was used, indicating that the secret chamber was not very deep from the ground, and there were lights on below, so the lighting was not dim.

"Ah, let me out, ahh..."

Before Yunyi could even stand still, a frantic scream came from beside her, startling her. She turned around and saw a large iron cage on one side of the basement, inside which a disheveled person was chained up with chains that went straight through the collarbone.

This method is generally used against people with exceptionally high martial arts skills, because once the collarbone is pierced, they cannot use internal energy.

At this moment, the man was frantically shaking the cage, but unfortunately the cage was made of fine steel, and a person whose martial arts had been suppressed could not budge it even an inch.

"Old man, how did you end up locked up here?" Yun Yi asked after calming herself down.

Perhaps not expecting someone else to come, the person in the cage stopped screaming and looked up at Yun Yi. But the moment they saw her face, their eyes widened in shock: "Miao'er? Is it really you? Miao'er, I was wrong. I'll never abandon you again, Miao'er..."

Yun Yi frowned. Miao'er? The original owner's mother was named Qi Miao'er. Could it be that melodramatic? She then took two steps closer: "Senior, you've mistaken me for someone else. My name isn't Miao'er, it's Yun Yi. But my mother's name is Qi Miao'er. Do you know her?"

"Your mother?" The other person's eyes showed a moment of confusion. "Miao'er is only sixteen, how did she become a mother? No, no..." She shook her head vigorously. "Miao'er said she would marry me, how did she end up with a daughter?" Suddenly, she remembered something and burst out laughing. "Daughter? You're my daughter, aren't you? I'm your father..."

"I'm your father." Yun Yi blurted out instinctively. How dare he take advantage of her?

The old man fell silent: "My father? I don't have a father, he died a long time ago."

Yun Yi sighed, realizing this person was clearly mentally unstable and impossible to communicate with normally: "What's your name?"

"Me? What's my name? Oh right, what's my name?"

Yunyi took a deep breath: "Then how did you end up here?"

“I…” The old man frowned, then suddenly clutched his head and began rolling around in the cage. “Who am I? How did I get here? Miao’er, you’ve come to get me? I’m going to kill you… kill you all…”