Chapter Seventy-Eight: Huangpu Lingyan
He Xiu saw that Guan Kaihui didn't mean to blame himself, but gave him the greatest encouragement, and couldn't help but have ruddy eyes in his eyes: "Uncle Guan, don't worry, I will fight with a hundred thousand hearts to deal with these things." ”
"The old man has more important things to discuss with you today, so you two come with me. ”
The two of them sat in his carriage and came to the mansion in all directions, and the three of them walked into his bedroom and living room, Guan Kaihui locked the doors and windows, and carefully checked them again.
Guan Kaihui's normal reaction made the two look at each other, but they were embarrassed to ask, and after half a ring, Guan Kaihui added a lock to the doors and windows inside, and he ordered: "You two move the position of the main seat." ”
The two of them didn't know what it meant, but they had to do it, and Guan Kaihui gently tapped three times on the four floor tiles under the main seat, one by one.
"Squeak Squeak......"
A crisp sound sounded, and the two of them saw that the middle tiles of the ground began to slowly fall and a huge square pit appeared.
"Alright, let's go inside. ”
Both of them were shocked by the mechanism in front of them, especially Qiao Shenming, who had been in the Guan family for more than twenty years and had never heard anyone talk about this mechanism.
After half a ring, the two of them each took a candle and followed him, carefully watching their feet and walked in.
There was a steep staircase under the square pit, and as you went inside, you went deeper and deeper, and soon you smelled a thick and damp smell, and I don't know how long it was, and I don't know how many turns it took, but I felt that it was like a labyrinth down there, and everything looked exactly the same.
Guan Kaihui has been walking in front, without saying a word, just lighting it every time he walks in front of a lampstand, as he goes deeper and deeper, a yin wind blows in his face, blowing the candles in the hands of the three people, and the candlelight shakes wantonly.
As he walked, he saw a dead end in front of him made up of green bricks, but some of these green bricks were concave and some were convex, and Guan Kai would stand there and didn't speak for a long time.
"Uncle Guan, do we still want to go inside?"
"Xiu'er, open it. ”
He Xiu looked at it for a while, and also tried to move a few green bricks, but there was no response, "Uncle Guan, Xiu'er is stupid and doesn't know how to open it." ”
"Butler Joe, what about you?"
"Sir, I don't know. Qiao Shenming saw that He Xiu didn't open it, so he didn't go up to try it, and directly admitted defeat.
"Remember the four words on the visitors' hall?"
"Relieve the worries of the people!"
The two said in unison.
"I'm old, so I'll leave this manual work to you. ”
The two of them will take a look, He Xiu is on the left, Shen Ming is on the right, one person is responsible for fiddling with the two words, these green bricks are like being controlled by the organ, and it takes a lot of effort to move each piece, He Xiu is okay, he has the Xuan Gong on his body, and it is relatively easier to move than Qiao Shen Ming.
As Qiao Shenming used up his last bit of strength, the four were placed in a row, and the sealed stone wall began to rise slowly.
"Squeak Squeak......"
The two of them held their breath at the same time, and their hearts also rose to their throats, at this moment, the two of them must be in one place, they thought that this must be the place where all the savings of the Guan family have been stored for decades.
"Don't think about it, just go in and find out. ”
The two of them each took a step back, Guan Kaihui tidied up his clothes, walked in with a candle in his hand, and the two of them also slowly and carefully followed in.
He Xiu saw that there was a huge warehouse with countless wooden boxes in it, and the most conspicuous place was a map of the land of Nanyang hanging in front of the wall.
"This is the old man, who has been galloping all the savings of the business world for 30 years. ”
After the two of them lit all the oil lamps in the warehouse, they saw that the boxes inside had been placed in a place where there was nowhere to put them.
"Uncle Guan, why did you bring the two of us to this place?"
"Master, Qiao Shenming has been with you for twenty-three years, and I never knew that there was such a big warehouse here, Gongzi He is right, you shouldn't have brought us to this place. ”
"Hey, it's okay, you two, the old man has long treated you as his own son, and there is nothing wrong with taking you to see these things. ”
When they heard him say this, they both felt flattered, and they were sincerely frightened, and they were very honored, so they quickly put the candle in their hands on the ground, and respectfully buckled their heads at him three times.
"Alright, you two can watch as much as you want. ”
After Guan Kaihui finished speaking, he took the candle in his hand and walked to the edge of the map of Nanyang Kingdom, and watched carefully.
The two of them knelt on the ground and nodded knowingly: "Uncle Guan, Xiu'er and Brother Qiao will wait outside." ”
"Look at it, look at it, look at it once less. ”
Guan Kaihui looked at the map, sighed and finished speaking, after the two of them heard it, they didn't know if he was talking to himself or talking to the map.
"Look at these things, they will help you in the future. ”
It wasn't until this sentence came out that the two of them had confidence in their hearts.
Picking up the candle in their hands, they each walked to a wooden box, the two turned their heads to look at each other knowingly, one hand held the lid of the box at the same time, and then nodded to each other, and gently turned the lid up.
"Big Brother Joe......"
"Brother He......"
The two looked at the box in horror, and then looked at Guan Kaihui at the same time.
"Uncle Guan, what's going on?"
"Master, how can there be some clothes in the box?"
"For hundreds of years, Nanyang country has been fighting again and again, the lives have been devastated, the people have been displaced, and the suffering is unspeakable, the old man has listened to his father's teachings since he was a child, and if he is lucky enough to earn money, he will definitely give it to him and repay the country's kindness. Guan Kaihui still looked at the map and said to them: "God bless me Nanyang, I am still standing on the Danhua continent for one hundred and eleven years, all thanks to the passionate patriots, they throw their heads and spill their blood, in order to protect the family and country, their souls fly to other places, the old man hates it!"
"Uncle Guan, what are you hating?"
"I hate those traitors in the court, they are for their own interests, they are harming the world, pushing the people between fire and water, the old man can't wait to eat his flesh and drink his blood, but this is also difficult to solve the hatred in the old man's heart, hey, it's just that, Xiu'er, take down the map. ”
Guan Kaihui stepped aside, took out a handful of incense from a box, and lit the candle seriously: "I've come to see you." ”
He Xiu jumped and took the map down.
Qiao Shenming looked at the wall in a daze, and the fist in his hand couldn't help but squeak.
He Xiu carefully closed the map, and after seeing Qiao Shenming's reaction, he couldn't help but look towards the wall as well: "Brother Qiao, this is ......"
"This is all the heroes who have died in battle in Sioux City in the past 111 years, and their heroic spirits are worthy of this map, come on, let's take a stick of incense for these heroes and heroes, and say hello. ”
Guan Kaihui divided the incense, each gave three, he stood at the front, knelt down, and then raised the incense to his forehead, chanting words in his mouth.
The two men stood behind him and knelt down, and learned that he also raised the incense to his forehead, and said his words in his mouth.
On this wall are the tablets of all the heroes who have died in battle in Sioux City for one hundred and ten years, and when you look at it from the bottom up, it just feels densely packed and countless.
After the incense was burned, Guan Kaihui got up and came to the box they had just opened, and said worriedly: "These boxes, each box can hold a full 1,000 taels of silver, and now they have been replaced by their relics, now you know it, right?"
Xiu'er understood, and all the silver taels were distributed to their families as compassionate money. ”
Qiao Shenming added: "Master, you want to warn us, if you have the opportunity in the future, you must serve your family and country, and if possible, you must also eliminate harm for the people and eradicate traitors in the DPRK and China." Qiao Shenming's words were impassioned and indignant.
"Yes, that's what the old man meant, he Guo Fengli is in the court, covering the sky with one hand, playing with the little emperor in the applause and letting him fiddle with it, doing whatever he wants, and even forming a party and private, which monopolizes and destroys the business of many merchants, the people dare not speak of their suffering, and the forces in the DPRK and China are all against the party towards the traitorous ministers, but the first adult, one person maintains the situation, hey! Sad, sad, really sad!"
Guan Kaihui couldn't help crying after speaking, and the two young people threw their admiration at him.
The boy doesn't flick when he has tears, but he hasn't reached the sad place.
No matter what Guan Kaihui said, a person who has experienced the great world, he is crying so sadly at this moment, he must be extremely sad, and I don't know how long it took, his voice gradually became hoarse, so he cleaned up his mood and ordered He Xiu to hang the map again.
"Let's go! Let's go to the next place. ”
The two of them looked at each other sharply again, and then walked out in his footsteps, and after resetting the bricks in the order just now, they followed him and walked to a dead wall, which looked exactly the same as the wall just now.
The two of them were about to get started, but they were stopped by Guan Kaihui: "Huangpu Lingyan." ”
"Huangpu Lingyan, the little princess of the former dynasty?" Qiao Shenming couldn't help but exclaim.
Although He Xiu had never heard of this name, everyone in Nanyang knew this surname, and after hearing Qiao Shenming's exclamation, he couldn't help asking: "Uncle Guan, is this the sleeping place of the little princess?"
"Open it, go inside. ”
The two of them spelled out these four words with all their might, and as the four words were next to each other, the door slowly rose up.
"Master, I'd better stay here, my identity is not suitable for it. Qiao Shenming lowered his head and said softly.
"Uncle Guan doesn't think it's appropriate for me to go in, so I'll stay here and wait. ”
"He'er's heart is all in this. ”
Guan Kaihui put down a sentence and walked in with a candle.
"Brother He, I think you should still go in and have a look, the old man said just now, there is He'er's heart in this, if you want to understand her thoroughly, you have to start here. ”
I originally thought that I already knew Guan Zhihe herself quite thoroughly, but I never thought that it contained her biggest secret, and after thinking back and forth in my heart, I decided to go inside and explore the most real thing in her heart.