Chapter 41: The Prison of the Kingdom

In the second year of Yelan, on the eighth day of December, the emperor got married, and the whole world celebrated.

In the distant sky, Ziwei turned qi into honor, and it was extremely bright and flickering.

In order to Mu Sheng's grace and dip the Holy Joy, the emperor granted amnesty to the world and feasted for three days and three nights. Even the prisoners in the prison, the outrageous concubines in the cold palace, and the down-and-out people who have been degraded can enjoy themselves and rest when they get drunk.

The entire imperial city was like being stimulated, fluttering, and quickly relaxed from the tense state of first-level martial law.

Almost everyone put on festive costumes, all the royal roads in the palace, no matter how big or small, were covered with red carpet, red lanterns were hung high, and colorful silk fluttered.

Early in the morning, the bells and drums in the palace rang in unison, the gongs and flutes were noisy, and the greeting procession that stretched for several miles set off for Caifu under the accompaniment of blowing and beating.

Helian Yi was announced to greet the "Fog Concubine" who was about to enter the palace, leaving Lu Hui alone in the "Prince Yi's Mansion". She originally went straight to the banquet with wishful thinking, but there were too many red tapes, and all kinds of unheard of etiquette such as canonization, flattery, worship to the gods, and pilgrimage before the banquet were simply challenging the limits of the human body, and this series of rituals was enough to toss for a long time. The feast is arranged almost at the end of the wedding.

And the official wedding has just begun.

In fact, compared with any dynasty in ancient China, the emperor's wedding process of the Chongye Dynasty has been compressed a lot, and the ancient Chinese emperor will definitely not succeed in marrying a wife in a few days.

Green Hui wasn't in the mood to join in the fun right now, her mind was on something else.

Felt out the token hidden on her body, and there was a word "Yi" engraved on it, which she did not hesitate to exchange with Helian Yi with her kaleidoscope, with it, she could enter the Guozi Supervision to verify whether there were really two chronicles.

At first, Helian Yi refused to lend it to her, although the two already had a certain personal relationship. Although he is an idiot, his alertness is higher than that of ordinary people, which should be due to Helian Sik's implanted ideological indoctrination in him since he was a child - important things cannot be lent to others casually.

There was nothing on Lu Hui that could shake him, so he had to use Gongsun Li Zai's kaleidoscope as a quid pro quo for the time being. She kept it with her, but she didn't expect it to come in handy this time.

She had never forgotten her original intention of entering the palace, and now was a good time. Taking advantage of everyone's ******** at the wedding, the vigilance was not so high, and she hoped that she could sneak into the Guozijian along the way. If before, even if she had a pass, she would have been interrogated thoroughly before she could enter, and she didn't want to be recognized in the first place.

After figuring out the way to Guozijian, Green Hui set off in a hurry.

Guozijian is located in the northwest suburbs of the imperial city, which is relatively far away from the main palace complex in the imperial city. Guozijian is only a non-governmental organization, not an institution of the imperial court, but based on the customs of the Chongye Dynasty, its status is comparable to that of an important institution of the imperial court, and in order to show his attention to it, the emperor has also repeatedly invited Guozijian to move to the hinterland of the imperial palace. But in order to show his "neutral" attitude, Guozijian still refused.

I like the suburbs so much, do cultural people like to get close to the landscape?

Hehe, it seems that the ancient culture people had the same spiritual cleanliness and did not want to be in the company of the world. Midori thought mockingly.

It wasn't until she was at the foot of the lion-like Nushan Mountain that she finally stopped being confused. Because, Nushan is the base of the entire country.

Guozi supervised the construction of the mountain, the mountains and rivers depend on each other, the green fields are next to each other, and the pine and cypress, the giant acacia and the proud poplar are accompanied. A vast mountainous area that stretches for dozens of miles is full of palace-like buildings, schools, dormitories, library pavilions, canteens, meeting halls, etc., which are all available, and the momentum is magnificent, magnificent.

I really don't enter the garden, and I don't know how much spring is there. It turns out that the status of Guozijian is not boastful, this style is beyond anyone's reach except the emperor, right?

In front of the towering gate, there were only a few people standing sporadically guarding the gate. It seems that not only is the imperial city lax, but the Guozijian is also an empty city, who said that today is the day when their boss marries his daughter. With the help of the "loan and return card", Green Hui soon entered the Guozijian with the permission of the soldiers guarding the door.

With no time to visit every part of the country's prison, Green Hui just wanted to hurry up and go straight to the library on the top of the mountain, because the chronicle was in the library.

It's just that when she looked up at the "ladder" leading to the library at the foot of the mountain, she was a little weak. The light gray stone steps that spiraled up were like a pouring river, splitting the country in two.

There are hundreds of stone steps, every twenty or so stone steps are built on both sides of a few meters high stone stele, the stele is engraved with the academic research results from the quaint, Guiyuan, Manshu, in the matter, and the transformation of these schools, there are the "Etiquette and Governing the Country" of the ancient school, the "Qimen Shushu" of the Manshu school, the "On the World and the Yuan" of the Guiyuan school, the "History of Chongye Mechanics" of the "Langhua School", etc., but they are all general, and the essence of them is not carved.

A living Romance of Chongye!

The contents of the stele are arranged in chronological order, from low to high, from ancient to modern.

While climbing the stone steps, it was like following the historical wheel of the Chongye Dynasty, and I couldn't help but sigh at the advanced development here. Some of the things on the stele said did not appear until at least one or two hundred years after the Ming Dynasty in China. It's incredible, and it's amazing.

Green Hui is still struggling to climb, in this winter, there are beads of sweat on his forehead, and he wants to take a break halfway, but he feels that something seems to be sliding down not far away.

Following the prestige, it turned out to be a wooden hanging basket with thick ropes tied to it, and it was descending at a rapid pace.

The front of Nushan is a relatively flat and gentle slope, which is suitable for building some buildings, but the side peaks are relatively steep, and the hanging baskets are speeding down from the summits of the side peaks.

This kind of hanging basket green hui has been seen in previous costume TV series, and if the guess is correct, it should be used to carry people to climb the mountain.

LV regrets that she didn't find the hanging basket sooner so that she wouldn't have to climb so hard!

The principle of the hanging basket is undoubtedly the pulley, and it seems that the mechanical research in the Monocha school also added a lot of color to the Chongye Dynasty. From the "Blue Sky Array" to the current "Hanging Basket", I don't know how many surprises are waiting for Luhui to discover one by one.

Without thinking about it anymore, Green Hui gritted his teeth and climbed to the top of the mountain in one breath. Coming in front of you is a magnificent, covering an area of almost one acre, complex and exquisitely shaped square pavilion-style five-storey corner tower. The periphery is surrounded by stone railings, the dragon and phoenix are carved on the pillars, and the glazed tile roof is decorated with eaves to the sky, so it is not elegant and magnificent!

This is the library with a collection of more than one million volumes, symbolizing the wealth of the entire Guozijian and even the entire Chongye Dynasty! Here are the historical books of various schools.

Towering on the top of Nu Mountain, this culturally rich library seems to enliven the land that has been silent for thousands of years!

The first floor of the library building is set up as an office hall. Beiyi is located in the north, and the weather is dry and cold, so there is no such thing as the damp ground floor of the southern building and the book cannot be placed. It's just that there are so many books here, and it becomes a lot of work to manage chores. In addition to being used for visitor registration and receiving people who come to borrow books (because the people who come to borrow books are people with status, not everyone can borrow them), it is also a place to borrow and return books. The second floor is not very good because the light is not very good, it can only be used for book collection, and the third, fourth and fifth floors have better lighting, plus the lattice window is used, so the book collection and reading are combined into one. Due to the steepness of the staircase, all the books are carried by a pulley hanging a bamboo basket for the books.

On which floor is the catalogue placed?

Midori looked around the hall, and there were only a few people on duty. The place where the books are stored should be quiet and not noisy, so even in normal times, in addition to the necessary caretakers, there will not be many idle people, etc., plus today is the emperor's great joy, so it is naturally deserted.

Green Hui slowly approached the desk where the books were borrowed and returned, showed Helian Yi's "loan and return card" to the administrator on duty, and then casually made up a reason: "I am a maid in Prince Yi's mansion, and I came to borrow Confucius's "Analects" on the order of Prince Yi!" The expression was calm and calm.

The man took the "Loan and Return Certificate", glanced at the Green Hui lightly, and replied: "There must be such a common book like the Analects in the palace, why do you want to come here to borrow it?" ”

"Today, because of the emperor's wedding, the library of the palace is closed for a day, so I came here to borrow it, but Prince Yi is making trouble to read books again!"

"The Analects is placed on the fourth floor, you can go up and get it with our people!" The man stopped pestering, beckoned a male handyman, and instructed him to lead the green club to the fourth floor to get the book.

I thought the man would continue to interrogate her, but who knew he didn't ask again. Things seem a little too smooth.

Maybe it's because I'm too careful. Green Hui didn't think much about it, and followed the male handyman to the fourth floor.

Along the way, Green Hui didn't find anything strange, it was the rows of bookcases that shocked her, more than a million books, it seems that it is really like that. No one was reading in the reading area on the third and fourth floors, so everyone must have gone to the emperor's wedding. Except for two people guarding the entrance to the stairs and a few people sorting out books, there were hardly any other people in the entire huge library on each floor.

The chronicle is a national treasure-level book, and of course it will not be put together with those ordinary books, so the Green House excludes the possibility of the second, third and fourth floors. Could it be hidden on the fifth floor?

"You sit here for a while, and I'll go over and fetch the book for you!" The handyman said respectfully pointing to the seats in the reading area.

"Okay!" Green Hui responded casually, but in his mind he was thinking about how to find the general record.

She tried to walk towards the staircase leading from the fourth floor to the fifth floor, expecting the two guards to stop her, but the two guards didn't say a word, as if they didn't see it. The green fox went up the stairs suspiciously, and although he thought it was a little strange, he quickly went up to the fifth floor. There were still two men guarding the staircase.

This,This,This,Whether it is the furnishings, layout, number of bookcases, etc., it is almost exactly the same as the third and fourth floors. A qiē was completely unexpected by the Green Club.

Green Hui carefully looked at every nook and cranny of the place, and couldn't really think of where the chronicle would be hidden. Could it be that it is not in the library at all?

While he was pondering, a sudden gust of north wind broke through the window, and sleet fell outside the window. This seems to be the case at this time of the day for the past two days.

The north wind lifted a couplet scroll hanging on the south wall, and the whole thing flew up, and you could faintly see the words on it: "A gentleman has no number, no size, no daring to be slow, no one is too big or too arrogant?" -- The Analects. Yao said"!

Somehow, Lu Hui stared at the couplet for a few seconds, but unfortunately nothing happened, let alone any hidden mysteries.

At this moment, a clear copper bell sounded downstairs, a little hurried, like an alarm. As he wondered what was going on, the handyman ran up and said breathlessly, "So you're here, come with me!" The copper bell rang suddenly, there should be something wrong, everyone gathered in the hall downstairs! ”

Lu Hui had a question on his face, but listening to his tone, it would be impossible not to leave. Even if he was reluctant, he could only obediently follow him downstairs.

It's just that this time she came for nothing. No general records were found, and no other clues were found.

There were already a number of people standing in the hall on the first floor, standing in four columns, in a neat line, waiting for the lecture of the head of the country.

I didn't find many people when I first came, but now there are so many people, this speed of assembly!! Green Hui sighed.

Lu Hui and the male miscellaneous servants hurriedly joined the team, and after the chief manager glanced at them, he turned his head and said sharply: "I just received a notice that the merit record books of various schools have been stolen, the copper bell has just rang, the plagiarist should still be in the Guozi Prison, everyone is under martial law immediately, and the thieves must be caught and punished strictly!" ”

As soon as the sonorous words fell, everyone began to express their determination, "Catch the thief, be strict, catch the thief, be strict!" "A united force vowing to arrest the culprit!

It turned out that the things of the Guozijian were stolen, I really didn't expect that there would be people who entered the Guozijian with ulterior motives like her, and it seems that the vigilance of the current Guozijian has been relaxed. It's just that this copper bell has the effect of alarming? How?

Green Hui was a little confused at first, but after thinking about it, it was not so surprised!

This is not modern, there are no high-tech anti-theft aids such as infrared sensors and pressure alarms, but this is not ancient China, this is the Chongye Dynasty, and everything that is beyond the development of the times may appear here!

This can also explain the calm and calm state of the huge Guozijian, which is negligent on the surface, but in fact there is a net everywhere.

Looking at the current situation, the person who plagiarized things should not have been caught! It seems that he is also a powerful master, who can enter the national prison without knowing it, and can get out after stealing something, which is not something that ordinary people can do!

After the Lord Steward had given some of the matter, everyone hurried to their own business, and many of them were sent to arrest the thief.

Lu Hui, who did not belong to the Guozijian, was routinely searched and interrogated, and then left the Guozijian.