Chapter 15

After looking around the hall, everyone focused their eyes on the four brocade boxes on the table and the flat box on the long table.

Everyone knew in their hearts that inside was the key point of this mission, the treasure of this secret plane.

However, everyone was still muttering in their hearts. Coincidentally, there were four forces this time, and there were four brocade boxes on the table. If there were three forces that had just been lost in the dense forest, would there be one less brocade box on the table?

These were just people's thoughts. These boxes had been here for more than three hundred years. How could they suddenly disappear and suddenly appear?

Yanming Jushi was still cautious. He walked to the front of the square table and did not rush to take the box. Instead, he carefully looked around. He knocked on the chair with the dagger first, and even knocked the futon to the ground. Then, he used the dagger to put the brocade boxes in place, but he did not find any movement.

Finally, he was still not at ease. He walked to the right side of the wall, opened the three paintings and looked at them separately. He did not find any mechanism.

Then he walked to the front of the table and said to everyone, "It seems that there should be no mechanism here. What do you think?"

The rest of the people had been following Layman Yanming ever since they entered the secret place. When they arrived at the hall, they didn't dare to move. There had been a saying about tactical deployments in Jianghu since ancient times, but in their era, tactical deployments had long become legends. Occasionally, there would be a few tactical deployments, but they were just verbal deployments. They had never heard of any tactical deployments that could trap someone with just a few bamboo slips and a few stones, let alone a big tactical deployments made by the whole Wild Jujube Forest Sect. This was obviously a big move made hundreds of years ago. Everyone's mind had long been shocked. They had already listened to their master's instructions and followed Layman Yanming's lead. At this time, when he asked for a suggestion, how could they have any objection?

They all nodded and agreed.

Yanming Jushi was very satisfied with their attitude. He said with a smile, "Jianghu is an unpredictable place. It's good to be more careful. You should also look around and see if there are other mechanisms in the hall. It's also your opportunity. If you get something, it's your benefit."

Everyone looked at each other for a few moments before dispersing in all directions to check out the various corners of the hall.

Everyone muttered in their hearts. Could it be that Yanming Jushi was planning something?

Change the brocade box?

However, the hall was only so big. Everyone could see clearly what he was doing, so they weren't afraid that he would do anything.

Perhaps Senior really has the heart to take care of this junior. In any case, it's not a big deal to look around.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for everyone to finish searching, but they didn't find anything.

It seemed that the treasures in the hall were these few boxes.

When Yanming Jushi saw that everyone had returned, he cleared his throat and said, "According to the previous agreement, each of our four factions can choose a brocade box. Although Clan Leader Situ is from the Evil Tiger Gang, you should belong to Shaoxia Ma's faction and not be considered an independent faction. Does Clan Leader Situ have any objections?"

Situ Ping said calmly, "I have no objections."

That's right. How could she dare to have any objections? Her life was saved by someone else.

Yanming Jushi continued, "Then next, we'll follow the order of the leather hides. Follow the map from left to right and from top to bottom to pick the boxes. What we get will be up to fate." After saying this, he stood at the side of the table.

According to the order, the Misty School should be the first to pick a box. Wen Wenhai thought for a moment and walked forward. He carefully looked at the four brocade boxes on the table. They were exactly the same, without any differences. There was a layer of dust on top of them. It seemed that they had been there for a long time. After thinking for a moment, he picked up the second box from left to right.

Just as he was about to open it to see what was inside, he was stopped by Yanming Jushi. Yanming Jushi said, "There must be treasures inside the box. Since there are four of them, everyone will have a harvest. However, the items in each box may not be the same. There may be differences. If we all know what is inside each box, we will inevitably have greedy hearts. Why don't we all keep it a secret and don't open the boxes until we leave this place?"

Everyone nodded in agreement. Wen Wenhai also put away the brocade boxes and returned them to their original positions.

Next was Wan Jianfeng, Ma Xiangyang, then Yanming Jushi, and finally Tan Wu went forward to pick up the last brocade box.

No one looked at it and put it away.

After the distribution, everyone's eyes turned to the long table. There was a flat box in the distance.

Yanming Jushi walked to the end of the long table and picked up the box. It was hard to the touch and seemed to be quite heavy. Looking at it carefully, it seemed to be carved out of a piece of stone.

It seemed to be used to store treasures. However, for some reason, it was not placed on the table, but on the other end of the long table.

Yanming Jushi walked to the table and passed the box around for everyone to see. Afterwards, he placed it on the table and quietly looked at everyone. He said, "There is only this box left in this room. There is no way to divide it equally. How about we do as we said before and use rock, paper, scissors to decide who gets it?"

Everyone looked at each other and felt a burst of absurdity. The people of Jianghu actually wanted to use a child's game to decide such an important matter. However, if they did not use this gentle method, who would hold back when facing such a coveted treasure?

It was hard to say who would benefit in the end.

Everyone could only acquiesce. At this time, Ma Xiangyang said, "Senior, I have a suggestion."

Yanming Jushi said with an unsurprised expression, "Shaoxia Ma, feel free to speak."

Ma Xiangyang said, "I have no objections to rock, paper, scissors. However, I have a small request. That is, I hope that no matter who gets this box, they will open it and let us see what is inside.

What does everyone think? "

Yanming Jushi pondered for a moment and nodded in agreement. Everyone else also had the same thought. They would naturally know what their treasure was when they returned. The thing inside the box might not be theirs, so they had to take a look.

Afterwards, Yanming Jushi arranged the order of the game. It was still the same order as before. Misty School and Wan Jianfeng were in one group, while Yanming Jushi and the Tan Family were in the other group.

Misty School's Wen Wenhai and Xue Qing looked at each other. Wen Wenhai nodded towards Xue Qing and smiled encouragingly. At the same time, his face was full of awkwardness. Xue Qing walked forward and arrived in front of the square table. Only she knew why her senior brother's face was full of awkwardness. Anyone who had played this game with her since they were young and lost to her since they were young would feel embarrassed whenever this game was mentioned.

Wan Jianfeng only had Ma Xiangyang, so he naturally wouldn't feel at ease letting Situ Ping come up. In fact, even if he felt at ease letting Situ Ping play, Clan Leader Situ wouldn't dare.

Seeing the two come forward, Yanming Jushi said, "The rules of rock-paper-scissors are: Scissors beats paper, paper beats rock, and rock beats scissors.

Before we start, we need to cover everyone's eyes with a scarf. When I count one, two, three, everyone will play at the same time.

Then, take off the scarf and we will see who wins. "

Xue Qing and Ma Xiangyang both used scissors in the first round. In the second round, Xue Qing still used scissors while Ma Xiangyang used paper. When Ma Xiangyang took off his scarf for the second time, he retreated regretfully.

Yanming Jushi and Tan Wen's contest was decided in one round. Yanming Jushi used rock while Tan Wen used scissors.

The last round was the most crucial one. At this time, Yanming Jushi thought for a moment and signaled Situ Ping to cover himself and Xue Qing with a scarf. After Ma Xiangyang counted to three, he took out scissors. After taking off his scarf, he found that Xue Qing also used scissors, so he covered her with another scarf. After thinking for a moment, he took out scissors again after counting to three. In the end, he found that his opponent was still scissors and couldn't help but be stunned. In fact, Yanming Jushi had his own selfish reasons for proposing this game.

Since young, he was proficient in all kinds of miscellaneous skills, such as rock-paper-scissors, gambling, and so on. He won more than he lost, but because he dabbled too much in martial arts, he couldn't reach the peak.

At this crucial moment, he found that his opponent was also an expert. His heart trembled and he paid more attention to this game. However, in the third round, Yanming Jushi used paper, while Xue Qing and Xue Qing still used scissors. There were no changes.

When Yanming Jushi pulled off his scarf, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart. He was trapped in a cocoon of his own making. If he had known earlier, it would have been better to compete in martial arts.

Not to mention Xue Qing's face full of excitement, Wen Wenhai took the box and was about to open it when Yanming Jushi stopped him. "Wait, put it on the table and use your sword to pry it open from a distance to prevent any traps."

Wen Wenhai put it on the table and used the tip of his sword to pry the box a few times, but he couldn't find the position of the lid. This time, he picked up the box again and looked at it carefully. Only then did he realize that the box was actually sealed. Then, he tried to pry it open, but it didn't open.

The other people also didn't open it. Yanming Jushi also picked up his dagger and tried to pry the box open, but it didn't work. In the end, he completely ignored Wen Wenhai's gaze and actually used his dagger to cut the box open, but it didn't leave any marks on the box.

He finally understood why this box was thrown far away at the end of the long table.

He casually returned it to Wen Wenhai. Wen Wenhai also carefully put the box in his arms.

Seeing that there was nothing left in the hall, everyone's thoughts had already flown to the medicinal garden.

Yanming Jushi brought everyone to the medicinal garden and said to everyone, "Everyone didn't prepare enough, and I don't know if we can take more herbs. I suggest that we first take some mature herbs that can be preserved. There will be four sets, one for each sect. As for the seeds and other transplants, we'll discuss it again.

What do you all think? "

Everyone had no objections, and then led by Yanming Jushi, they collected one by one. All the mature herbs were collected in four sets and packed into four packages, one for each sect.

In the end, Scholar Yanming said to everyone, "Since no one has any luck, we can only comfort ourselves here in the herb garden. What we brought just now was for our respective sects. Next, each of us is only allowed to pick three mature herbs for ourselves."

After that, Yanming Jushi took everyone to walk around each medicinal field again, and collected the herbs according to their own requirements. In fact, everyone knew about the same herbs, most of them were hundreds of years old ginseng, polygonum multiflorum, Tianqi, Shanjing and other things.

After finishing this, the light in the secret plane was already a little dim. It was estimated that it should be early noon outside. Everyone only then remembered the matter of going out. It took a long time to come in, so if they went out, wouldn't it be late at night?

Yanming Jushi smiled and comforted everyone, "Go out, just find a place to go, as long as you go straight, you can go out.

However, looking at the sky, it's time to go, let's leave. "

After that, everyone picked up their packages and followed Yanming Jushi to find two jujube trees in the middle of the jujube forest and went straight away.

Everyone didn't know that when they just walked into the jujube forest, a snake-like monster's head poked out of the high temperature lake. It looked at the place where they were going for a moment, and then retracted into the water, leaving only the ripples on the lake.