Chapter 21: The Imperial Tomb

Huangfu Qingyun is already in his fifties, and he no longer has much patience to wait for the natural death of another emperor. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 When he sent people from all over the country to congratulate the new emperor on his accession to the throne, he had a special secret meeting with the Duan family and the Yuan family, who had always been good friends.

As for the Ji family and the Guigu family, although he did not arrange a meeting, he believed that the two families would take a wait-and-see attitude towards Zhongji, after all, if there was an opportunity to get rid of the status of courtiers and become independent of the country, they would definitely not let it go.

In the spring of the second year of the 48th year of Zhuluo, the second princess proposed to the emperor that she and the fifth princess should go to the imperial tomb to live for a period of time and accompany the first emperor successively. The emperor was not very close to them when the first emperor was alive, but after they left, he suddenly began to miss them. The father's love and mother's love, which are usually ignored, become clearer and clearer after being lost.

The emperor decided to go to the imperial tomb to worship in person, but the emperor Qingyun objected, on the grounds that the imperial tomb was far away from Zhongdu, it was too dangerous for the emperor to leave Zhongdu, and the newly mourned tomb was not suitable for worship within three years. In the end, the emperor had no choice but to give in and persuade the two princesses to wait for the spring after the three-year mourning period to let an expeditionary force and the royal guards protect the two princesses on a trip to the imperial tomb. The two princesses agreed.

In the spring of the 48th year of Zhuluo, the second princess once again proposed to go to the imperial tomb with the fifth princess to live for two years, but the emperor did not want his fellow sisters to suffer like this, so he only allowed them to go to the imperial tomb to guard the tomb for three months, and in July they would leave for Zhongdu.

Soon Yunzhou received a spy report, Xingxi learned that his sister was going to stay in the imperial tomb for three months, and there was no more suitable opportunity to take the two little princesses away.

The imperial tomb of the Zhuluo royal family is located in the Qinling Mountains north of Zhongdu, where it winds for sixty or seventy miles from north to south and more than two hundred miles from east to west. As early as two years ago, Xingxi had already sent two secret guards around him, as well as two female spies who went to Zhongdu last time, and these four people took some people to sneak around the Zhuluo Emperor's Mausoleum in the Qinling Mountains and made preparations.

On the side of Zhongdu, Huangfu Qingyun sent a good hand at tracking to follow the two princesses to the imperial tomb; because the emperor was not at ease, he secretly ordered Fu Lingzhen to send people to secretly follow the two princesses behind them to protect them.

The two secret guards sent by Xingxi were named Luo Wu and Luo Liu, and the two female spies were named Gu Eleven and Gu Thirteen respectively. They had already gone to the Imperial Tomb and lurked around it. It was a great deal to wait for the two princesses to finally leave, but their royal car had not yet arrived, and they had already discovered that many other forces were also lurking near the imperial tomb at the same time. The water on this trip to the Imperial Tomb was too muddy, and I didn't know whether the other party was friend or foe.

The two princesses also have their own secret guard powers, and this time they also followed the two princesses north. The second princess told the Hu family that if she was in the imperial tomb at that time, she could let the secret guards around her exchange news on her behalf, and the secret guards of the second princess also appeared to meet with the Hu family at that time and agreed on the code.

Therefore, after the two princesses settled down in the palace next to the imperial tomb, Gu Shiyi quickly contacted the secret guard beside the second princess.

The two princesses went to the tomb of the emperor every morning to worship, and in the afternoon they had to enter the temple next to the imperial tomb to copy scriptures for most of the day, so the best time to take the two princesses away was in the afternoon or midnight. The forbidden army and the expeditionary force are not enough to deal with the trouble, and the most afraid are those who are lurking in the dark, so it is necessary to set up a plan to divert the tiger from the mountain.

The second princess knew that she would have the opportunity to leave Zhongdu if she went to the imperial tomb this time, so when she was leaving, she sent some of her usual henchmen out of the palace because they were too old and sent them back to their hometowns;

In May, the second and fifth princesses began to walk out of the imperial tomb and to nearby villages and villas. The two princesses were beautiful and polite, and the people in the neighborhood were full of praise for the two princesses. The spies sent by Huangfu Qingyun checked and checked the details of the people in these villages, and found nothing abnormal, so they kept their eyes on the imperial tomb again.

In June, everyone is even more nervous, because after June, the two princesses will return to the central capital, and if something really happens, it should happen this month.

The people sent by Huangfu Qingyun strengthened their monitoring at night, and during the day, because the two princesses were either copying scriptures or walking around the imperial tomb, and there were guards following, there was no need to keep an eye so closely.

One day, when the two princesses went to play in the nearby Dingzhuang, they happened to encounter the heavy rain of liquidation, so they went to a family to take shelter from the rain. Because the clothes were wet, the family took the clothes and gave them to the two princesses to change temporarily, and then cooked ginger soup for the two princesses to serve, and served the two princesses to rest in their rooms.

This family was arranged by Gu Shiyi, and the original owner had already been transferred to other places. After arriving at the room, Gu Shiyi immediately led them out of the village through the tunnel that opened in the room, which led to the depths of the back mountain. Because of the heavy rain that day, their whereabouts happened to be covered by the rain.

Due to the heavy rain that day, from noon to dusk, when the people who served the princess wanted to urge the two princesses to return to the palace early, they did not find anything unusual about the princess. Gu 13 took the two princesses and walked away from the tunnel, Luo Wu personally waited at the exit of the tunnel, and one of them carried a princess through the mountains, braving the rain to the original first stop.

Luo Liu stayed in the house, and Gu Shiyi stayed in the room in person, pretending to be a princess, leaving enough time for the two princesses to retreat. At dusk, Gu Shiyi, who was dressed as the second princess, said that the fifth princess was a little uncomfortable and wanted to stay here for the night. Since the fifth princess was served by the second princess herself, and the fifth princess had been resting on the bed, the tent on the bed was hanging down all the time, so the palace maids who served them did not find anything abnormal.

Because the heavy rain has been falling, even if the princess stayed at the farm overnight, everything was simple, and no one went back to the imperial tomb to bring the princess's usual supplies. When the people on the other side of the imperial tomb received the news that the princess was going to spend the night outside, they rushed to the vicinity of the farmhouse, and the princess was already resting. From the outside, there's nothing wrong with it. In fact, Gu Shiyi and Luo Liu had already left the farm through the tunnel.

It was not until the next morning, when the princess's servant found that the room was empty, that the man and woman of the room were gone. In order to prevent the good players who are good at tracking from discovering their escapes, last night, Gu Shiyi and Luo Liu also deliberately sealed the two tunnel entrances before leaving the tunnel. In this way, even if they turn the room upside down, they will not be able to discover the existence of the tunnel.

When Gu Eleven and Luo Liu arrived at the first stop, the four secret guards around the two princesses were also concentrated there, and everything was going well, but the second princess found that the fifth princess, who had always been delicate, had a fever that was getting worse and worse. The second princess was very anxious, the fifth princess was drenched in a little rain yesterday, and when she was carried by Luo Wu in the mountains yesterday, although she was wearing a rainproof coat, she was still stained with a little rain and a little cold wind, and in the second half of the night, she began to have a fever, and now she is burning badly. The second princess could only catch the rain with a strip of cloth, which was wet and applied to her forehead.

Fortunately, Gu Shiyi and the others hid food, water and some basic medicines at the first stop, but they couldn't make a fire to decoction and boil water, so they could only pick out pills for the fifth princess to swallow.

Gu Shiyi was a little anxious in his heart, the news of the disappearance of the two princesses spread, there must be no shortage of people searching in this mountain, and some good hands who are good at tracking will definitely look for these caves that are good at staying one by one, if they stay here, they are afraid that the danger will be greater.

Gu Shiyi asked the two princesses to sit in the big bamboo basket that they had originally prepared, and then covered them with rainproof robes from the outside, and then Luo Wu and Luo Liu carried them on their backs respectively, Gu Shiyi took the two secret guards beside the princess to break off, and Gu Shiyi took the other two dark guards to lead the way and walked towards the mountains, and they had prepared a second stop in front.

The second princess was very worried about the five princesses, but they had to sit separately, and the second princess took off her coat and covered the five princesses tightly. Gu 13 was worried that the fifth princess would be burned out of her brain, so she made a suggestion, "There is a person in the mountain, he has always lived alone in the mountain, and the place where he lives is also quite secret, I have seen him twice when I was exploring the road before, and he also knows a little bit of Qihuang technique, why don't we go to him first and let him help the fifth princess take a look?"

Gu Shiyi was reluctant to disrupt the plan, but the second princess looked at her expectantly, while the fifth princess was unconscious all the time. She was also worried that it would really burn out the brains of the fifth princess. So he discussed with Luo Wu, led the way by Gu Thirteen, and turned the road first to find the person who lived alone.

This person lives in a valley of no return to the west of the Qinling Mountains, where the location is secret, if you take the usual road, you can't see that valley, you can only go down through a cliff, ordinary people will not find here. When Gu Shiyi arrived there, his face was slightly softened, they were all people with strong martial arts, and it was not difficult to pull the vines down from the cliff. Gu Shiyi also carefully covered his tracks to avoid being tracked down.

Gu Thirteen had dealt with this person twice, so he led the way in front, and judging from Gu Thirteen's footsteps, this person also set up a formation in the place where he lived.

What Gu Shiyi didn't know was that this person who had been living here alone was Gongsun Yang, a world-famous organ master. And this valley was renamed the Valley of No Return by Gongsun Yang. Because this valley is rarely visited, it is not famous in the rivers and lakes.

Gongsun Yang is a character who suddenly appeared thirty years ago, and his mentorship is unknown, because he is good at mechanical techniques, and some people speculate that he is from the snowy region.

When Gongsun Yang first debuted, his personality was very flamboyant, and he offended many dignitaries, including Huangfu Qingyun, and then he suddenly disappeared from the rivers and lakes, and he came and went without a trace, and he has become a legend.

As soon as Gu 13 entered the valley, Gongsun Yang noticed that he had always been pure and used to it, so he naturally didn't like to be disturbed. If Gu Shisan hadn't held the sick fifth princess in his arms in advance, Gongsun Yang would have fought a lot.