Extraneous beauty

After Gu Huaizhang ascended the throne, he worked in Chongyuan Hall according to the habit of Emperor Xiaomin. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

When sorting out the case, the former eunuch Zhong Si presented him with a pair of golden bells.

"Your Majesty, this is the belongings of the former emperor, used to open the secret room of Chongyuan's apse. The emperor had a decree, except for the Son of Heaven, those who entered the secret room died. In the secret room is the burial of the emperor's will. Please take out the contents of the secret room, and put a pair of golden bells into the coffin of the emperor. Zhong Si was seventy and two, gray-haired, skinny, and kneeling on the ground, as if he was a dried corpse that had come back from the dead, about to be crushed by the wide official uniform on his body.

Gu Huaizhang took it and found that although this pair of golden bells was small, the surface was finely carved with a full picture of dragons and phoenixes, but they had been played with for many years and polished to shine, and the pattern was almost worn out.

"After the death of the first emperor, didn't Xiao Zhao enter the secret room?"

"Your Majesty," Zhong Si's old voice repeated, "Outside of the Son of Heaven, those who enter the secret room die. ”

Gu Huaizhang studied the golden bells for a while, and after thinking about it, he didn't seem to have seen this pair of golden bells from his father.

Either Zhong Si was lying to him, or the pair of golden bells were placed close to his father and never showed them.

In the core of the Great Zhou Dynasty's imperial power, there is actually a secret room, which does not see the light of day, and no one can enter it except the Son of Heaven.

Do you want to pass on the jade seal of the country?

The more Gu Huaizhang thought about it, the more he felt that it was possible.

When Empress Xiao Zhao relied on the edict of the first emperor to establish her son as the emperor, some people said that the seal on the edict was not the jade seal of the country, and then suspected that the edict was fake. Gu Huaizhang was in Chengdu at the time, and he only felt ridiculous when he heard the news.

The jade seal of the country is different from the six seals of the Son of Heaven and is not used in daily edicts. I'm afraid no one knows what the handwriting is on it except for the emperor himself. Edicts are not available in every dynasty, and only in the absence of a crown prince will there be a situation where the emperor rushes to make an edict before his death. His father served as the crown prince for three years and ascended the throne at the age of twenty-two, and there was no edict at that time. In the third year of the Apocalypse, there was a fire in the Water Pavilion, which affected the Huan Tai, and the edicts of the past dynasties in Taichung had been burned to eight or nine out of ten. The most recent edict was lost in that fire more than 50 years ago. The people who have seen the edict with their own eyes are estimated to have already become dry bones under the spring, where can they come out to say right and wrong.

The Chongyuan Hall is heavily guarded, and it is indeed possible that the father and emperor have placed the jade seal of the country in the secret room. But Xiao Zhao couldn't find the heirloom jade seal, didn't he think of going to the secret room to take a look? Even if he couldn't get this pair of golden bells, he would destroy the wall and smash the tiles and go straight in, just a secret room, would he still cherish it and refuse to destroy it?

Gu Huaizhang thought about it, and suddenly shook his head and smiled.

What's the use of thinking so much. Open the secret room, and everything will be revealed.

"Flatten. Since it is the will of the emperor, I know it in my heart. ”

Zhong Si trembled and got up and led Gu Huaizhang to the apse. I saw him walk to a dragon relief in the middle, and pressed its front paws heavily, the dragon claws turned out to be active, as the dragon claws slowly moved towards the wall, the dragon head that was originally half-hidden in the wall gradually rose, revealing two black holes in the dragon's mouth.

Gu Huaizhang stepped forward and put a pair of golden bells in the dragon's mouth, and waited for a while, but there was no reaction.

Gu Huaizhang said in his heart, yes, this golden bell shape is not complicated, and it is not difficult to imitate. In such a secret room, there should be a more elaborate mechanism, and it is impossible to have only this one "key". Maybe it's a clever thing that Zhong Si doesn't know. The character of Emperor Xiao Min would not have set up the mechanism of the secret room so simply.

Gu Huaizhang said to Zhong Si, "Lord Zhong, do you want to wait for this dragon to fly out of the wall?"

Zhong Si hunched his body and almost lowered his head to the ground: "Back to Your Majesty, the secret room has been opened, and it is behind the bed in the dormitory." ”

Gu Huaizhang was stunned for a moment, walked over to take a look, and sure enough, he saw that the seemingly one-piece wall sculpture behind the bed had cracked a gap in the middle. In the picture carved on the whole wall, the pampas reeds and lotus flowers are beautiful and melancholy, and the wind and water are blowing into waves, which looks gloomy and indifferent.

Gu Huaizhang didn't want to go into that wall alone, he always felt that something bad was snooping on him.

"I don't know why my father chose such a picture to engrave behind the bed, can I sleep every night. Gu Huaizhang muttered.

Gu Huaizhang likes to be lively by nature, and hates these flowers and plants to take care of their own sad things.

When he stepped in, the light was dim, and he only saw a few boxes in the middle of the secret room, and a few lacquer boxes.

Since returning to Chang'an, Gu Huaizhang felt joy for the first time. He felt he had guessed right. The heirloom jade seal that Zhao Wan'er didn't find is now being obtained by him.

But when he picked up the box, the little joy in Gu Huaizhang's heart was gone.

The weight of the box is wrong. It's too light.

Empty box?

He opened it and saw that there was a white silk inside the box. When I shook it open, I found that there was something wrapped in the silk, and when I rubbed it, it was a bundle of hair tied with a red rope. Gu Huaizhang felt that his scalp was numb, and he hurriedly came out of the secret room.

He took the bundle of hair and asked Zhong Si, "The emperor only said that he wanted this to be buried?"

Zhong Si was too ruthless, and he couldn't raise his head, and said respectfully: "The emperor's deathbed edict, 'The things in the secret room will be buried in the coffin'." ”

Gu Huaizhang went to look at the silk in his hand again, and saw three columns of words written on the silk.

"At the time of Bize, there are Pu and Lotus. There is a beautiful person, what is the injury? ”

Gu Huaizhang suddenly understood, and suddenly slammed the box to the ground.

What a "coffin with the burial"! What a secret room!

Zhong Si fell to his knees in a hurry.

"Your Majesty!"

Gu Huaizhang trembled and sneered again and again.

This is Concubine Yin's hair. Qinghe and Taiping's biological mother, her hair has been placed behind the bed by Emperor Xiaomin, separated by a wall.

What did Emperor Xiaomin do on the bed in this Chongyuan Hall back then!

If Concubine Yin had a spirit, why didn't she kill him at the right time!

Gu Huaizhang strode over to the lamp slave and lit the silk book and hair.

Seeing this, Zhong Si pounced: "Your Majesty!

Gu Huaizhang kicked him down and continued to burn.

Father, don't blame me. Life and death are fateful, and the sins you have done in life are enough. Why bring your sins to the underworld again and continue to plague that poor innocent woman.

That pair of golden bells is the soul bell when Concubine Yan died, right?

You imprisoned the soul of your concubine in this secret chamber and let her watch her daughter be humiliated.

After death, he refused to let her go, and asked her to "be buried in the coffin"?

Father, you bastard.

Gu Huaizhang burned it viciously, ignoring Zhong Si, who was lying on the ground and didn't know whether he was alive or dead, and walked out of the Chongyuan Hall quickly.

The place of governance of the new dynasty has since been changed to the Jianzhang Palace, which is the farthest away from the Chongyuan Palace.

In the twenty-fifth year of Taihe, the Chongyuan Hall fell into disrepair for a long time, and some of the brick walls were broken. Huaizhang ordered the old hall to be torn down. The craftsmen all said that when the old hall collapsed, there was clearly a woman's sigh coming from the apse. At this point, the Chongyuan governance of the Great Zhou Dynasty, which had been glorious for more than 100 years, no longer existed.