As Ye Tiancheng and the others had just come up with a clue, they suddenly heard a slight movement.
Ye Wuji immediately panicked and quickly reminded Ye Tiancheng and the little fox, "It seems my mother is coming out. According to her habit, she should be coming out to the main hall to the weaving machine and start weaving."
After hearing Ye Wuji's words, Ye Tiancheng remained calm and said to the little fox, who was holding the props, "Quickly open the mechanism, we're going into the secret door."
They were racing against time, and the little fox quickly tried using the key and entering the password.
Fortunately, their previous guesses did not present any problems.
The secret door was successfully opened.
Ye Tiancheng led Ye Wuji, closely followed by the little fox, and they immediately flashed into the secret door.
The little fox was just about to figure out how to restore the secret door to its original state when, with a bang, after everyone had entered the secret door, it closed on its own.
Ye Tiancheng was stunned for a moment and looked at the little fox.
"The door is closed... Does it matter?"
The little fox was still quite calm. He glanced at the closed secret door in front of him and then said, "It should be fine. Looking at this door, there's a mechanism on this side as well, so we can still open it. If we find more clues, we'll know."
Hearing the little fox say this, Ye Tiancheng felt a little relieved.
He felt that the mechanisms here were not as complicated as in his dream. Although they were not simple, they were much easier to solve, so there was nothing to worry about.
He nodded at the little fox and said, "Then let's search quickly and see if we can find the clues we want, and also find a way to get out. We can't stay here forever."
Ye Tiancheng noticed that Ye Wuji had been silent and inactive for a long time after entering the secret door.
So, Ye Tiancheng said to Ye Wuji, "What's wrong? Something on your mind?"
Hearing Ye Tiancheng's voice, Ye Wuji slowly came back to his senses. After realizing what Ye Tiancheng had said, Ye Wuji paused, remained silent for a moment, and then said, "I really didn't expect that my former home would have so many secrets."
Ye Tiancheng glanced at Ye Wuji's feathers, and the area that had turned white had shrunk a little.
This was not a good trend.
He thought for a moment and then comforted Ye Wuji, "Don't think too much about it. It's been so long, and you've finally regained your freedom. Why should you let past events weigh you down again, making your heart feel heavy and your spirit unfree?"
"Even if your former home had problems, perhaps the problems lay with your father. I can feel that your relationship with him wasn't that good."
"You seem to like your mother more and be closer to her."
"Looking at your mother's condition, she doesn't seem to have been involved, so you don't have to think of everything as too bad."
"Moreover, one must look forward. Even if your past was truly terrible, you can't just rot away in a quagmire. You have to learn to save yourself. If you are always lost in the past, you can never break free."
One-sidedly showing the good side to others is meaningless.
No one is foolish, and everyone has been through so much. Those words are just toxic chicken soup. Therefore, when it comes to certain things, it's better to be direct and let people learn to face them.
If this is not the case, it will not be good for Ye Wuji's mental recovery.
Ye Wuji was also able to take advice. After Ye Tiancheng finished speaking, he thought for a while, and his mood did indeed improve a bit. He also thanked Ye Tiancheng.
After that, their attention turned to the room behind the secret door.
In fact, after paying attention to the situation in Ye Wuji's house before, one could notice that Ye Wuji's house was not particularly poor. It could be considered a well-off family in the village.
After all, their family still had their own weaving machine.
This was very rare.
Not every household could afford so many things.
Not to mention the cabinet in Ye Wuji's main hall, with its two large, transparent glass cabinet doors, so many devices, and those toys. It was evident that they required some financial backing to acquire them.
As a result, the situation behind the secret door felt even more pronounced.
At least this family was definitely not poor; they certainly didn't lack money.
So, how exactly was Ye Wuji sold back then?
The furnishings inside the secret door were even more exquisite than the decorations in Ye Wuji's house in the open. The items inside looked more valuable.
The little fox walked up to a cabinet.
This cabinet was about the same size as the one in the main hall, but it had no secret cabinet doors. To be precise, it didn't even have cabinet doors. The little fox found some book page fragments and mechanical toys on it.
However, the mechanical toys required clues to open.
Under the table, there was a cabinet with a mechanism, which also required clues to know the password, and it needed to be used with electrical appliances. It was a pity that the wires were broken for some reason, and it might need to be repaired, so they had to look for materials.
In this room behind the secret door, they even found an old-fashioned generator that needed fuel, and they didn't know where to find it.
It might be stored somewhere and had to be found.
One of the mechanisms they noticed required electricity, and without electricity, it wouldn't work.
In other places, there were also some scattered book page fragments, all of which were collected by the little fox. It could be seen that they could most likely be pieced together with the book page fragments he had collected before.
The little fox pieced together the book page fragments as he searched.
Ye Tiancheng and Ye Wuji also helped the little fox, so piecing them together was not particularly difficult. They quickly pieced together most of it, with no major issues.
After piecing them together, they saw some words circled in red on the completed book pages.
Then, they remembered the cabinet they had seen under the table. The password lock there seemed to have related handwriting, which might be the password.
However, some parts were still missing.
They searched around here again and found sticky notes with similar patterns on something that looked like a notice board. Combining them, they obtained the password.
After collecting the password, Ye Tiancheng and the others returned to the table. The little fox was responsible for adjusting the password, opening the cabinet, and finding the fuel for the old-fashioned generator and a notebook inside.
This notebook turned out to be a diary.
They flipped through it roughly and actually found some clues, which were even related to the fragments of the Fuxi Qin.
As soon as this was mentioned, Ye Tiancheng and the others became energized.
They wrote down all the clues related to the Fuxi Qin fragments and even took photos with their phones for backup, so as not to lose the clues.
In the diary, besides the clues related to the Fuxi Qin fragments, there were also some other clues that were clearly needed to open the door.
They wrote down these hints.
Since they had already obtained the fuel, they went back to start the old-fashioned generator to supply power. They also found some tape and managed to repair the broken electrical appliance. Once the appliance had power, it started up and, in conjunction with another mechanism, activated another mechanism.
Ye Tiancheng and the others remembered the content of the diary. After this mechanism was opened, the parts inside should be used to open the secret door.
As for how to solve this mechanism, it was written in the diary.
Following the instructions in the diary, they solved the mechanism and obtained several parts. These parts, when inserted into the grooves of the secret door's mechanism, would presumably open the secret door.
It seemed relatively simple, but Ye Tiancheng and the others had spent quite a lot of time on this endeavor.
However, it was not a wasted trip.
Because they obtained very useful clues.
Ye Tiancheng and the others also knew where they should go next.
However, at this moment, they were a little hesitant, unsure whether they should leave now, because the secret door mechanism in this place was not far from the main hall.
Who knew what Ye Wuji's mother was doing at this time?
What if they went out directly and were seen by Ye Wuji's mother?
Ye Tiancheng and the others asked for Ye Wuji's opinion. Ye Wuji thought for a moment and then told Ye Tiancheng and the others that it was not a big problem. His mother, in the past, would likely be at the weaving machine at this hour, weaving.
Women often sat at the weaving machine for an entire day, rarely moving around, unless it was to cook, eat, or rest.
And the woman was deaf now.
Therefore, as long as they were careful and vigilant, and since no one could see them with the naked eye anyway, as long as they were quick enough to get out and quickly turn off the mechanism, it would be difficult for the woman to discover them.
When Ye Wuji mentioned that the woman was deaf, he felt a slight pang of sadness in his heart.
Ye Tiancheng and the others didn't say much, just ruffled Ye Wuji's feathers as a form of comfort.
Since Ye Wuji said there was no problem, they couldn't remain trapped behind this secret door. Therefore, they quickly opened the secret door's mechanism. As the secret door opened and the bookshelf moved aside, they immediately went out.
Fortunately, they didn't have to worry too much.
Just as the secret door automatically closed when they entered, it also closed on its own after they exited, and then it activated the bookshelf's mechanism, causing the bookshelf to return to its original position.
Seeing this, Ye Tiancheng and the others roughly figured out the pattern.
It was probably because the bookshelf's mechanism was activated independently at the beginning, only opening but not closing. Only when the secret door moved together, when the secret door opened and closed, would the activated bookshelf mechanism also open and close.
These two were linked.
Fortunately, they were lucky enough that when they came out, they were not discovered by Ye Wuji's mother, which made them all breathe a sigh of relief.
However, it was just such a coincidence.
What Ye Tiancheng and the others did not expect was that something incredibly unbelievable happened next.
After they came out, they originally planned to leave directly and then test in the village to see what was going on with the situation they had discovered during the day. However, before they could do anything, an unexpected situation occurred.
Ye Tiancheng and the others heard someone knocking on Ye Wuji's door.
At first, they all wondered, at this time, since Ye Wuji's mother was deaf, who would be knocking on the door to visit at this hour?