As soon as the two entered the dense forest, they saw an abrupt path appear in front of them, Pei Yuan and Shen Jiahe glanced at each other, then stepped on it together, and walked along the path all the way in, and at the end was a dark cave entrance.

It was already late, and he couldn't see his fingers in the forest, Shen Jiahe tripped over the branch under his feet, and the whole person threw himself into Pei Yuan's arms, Pei Yuan hugged the person tightly and walked into the hole, and when Shen Jiahe stood firm, he quickly took out the fire fold and lit up the road.

The light of the fire fold was faint, and it could not take in the appearance of the cave, Shen Jiahe held Pei Yuan's arm and slowly moved it in, and the faint sound of water could be heard in his ears.

"There's still living water in there? Is there a waterfall nearby? Shen Jiahe was surprised.

Pei Yuan waved his sword to probe the road under his feet, and took the time to return to her: "There is indeed a mountain not far away, it seems that we are not far from that mountain." ”

The long sword in Pei Yuan's hand touched the stone wall, he picked up the fire fold and looked closer, there was no road ahead, there were two wall lamps on the left and right, and there was still residual oil in them, Pei Yuan hurriedly lit the wall lamp with the fire fold.

Shen Jiahe had the opportunity to explore the whole picture of the cave, the cave is not big, it is very clean inside, it seems that someone often cleans it, there is a small waterhole on the right side of the cave, a line of water is actually leaking down from the top of the mountain, there is a stone pier in the middle of the waterhole, it looks very abrupt, and it is not visible, there is an ink-colored line book lying on it.

"Take a look." Pei Yuan stepped forward to get it as he spoke, but as soon as he picked up the line book, he found that a small stone that had been suppressed in the center of the stone pier rose up, and he hurriedly reflexively pulled Shen Jiahe to a short body, and rolled to the side with her.

Dark arrows shot out from the brush between the front and back stone walls, and if Pei Yuan and Shen Jiahe were still in place at this time, I am afraid that they would have turned into two sieves.

Shen Jiahe looked at the arrows nailed to the ground, and looked cold: "What secret, it is actually guarded by layers of organs." ”

Pei Yuan opened the line book he took and looked at Shen Jiahe in surprise: "Piano scores? ”

Shen Jiahe also felt strange, it was a yin and yang illusion, and it was a dark arrow, but it was just a piano sheet hidden? She flipped left and right, but she couldn't figure out what else was inside.

Thinking of the pipa on his body, Shen Jiahe sat directly on the ground, held the pipa in his arms, and watched the piano score play slowly.

The sound of the pipa sounded in the cave, Pei Yuan had no intention of listening to the music, he was only worried that something would appear, and his eyes were patrolling back and forth in the cave.

The sound of the piano made a loud echo in the cave, and after a while, Shen Jiahe collected the last last note, when the echo of the tail note appeared, the cave wall in front of him suddenly opened from the middle, and the stone steps that went up layer by layer appeared inside, and the white misty smoke followed, Pei Yuan hurriedly helped Shen Jiahe cover his mouth and nose.

After a while, Pei Yuan strangely found that the smoke was not poisonous as he imagined, Shen Jiahe put away the pipa and said with a smile: "It seems that we are too worried, let's go forward and take a look." ”

The stone steps came to the end and there was no way, Shen Jiahe touched the stone wall everywhere, and Pei Yuan also knocked around with a sword to hear if there was any empty sound.

Shen Jiahe looked down at a spot of light on the steps under her feet, and looked up again, there was a small hole at the top of her head, at this time, the moonlight in the middle of the moon just came in, she observed for a long time, and always felt that the hole seemed to be drilled artificially, so she lowered her head to look at the place where the moonlight was shining.

There was indeed a dark pattern on the steps under his feet, Shen Jiahe stretched out his hand and pressed it, and the piece sank down, revealing a Taoist yin and yang mark.

The moonlight shone on it, and the yin and yang markers actually emitted a dazzling silver light, reflecting on the top, opening the mechanism above Shen Jiahe's head, and the two of them only heard a click, and the stone wall above their heads slowly pushed open like both sides, and a ladder appeared in front of them.

"The design of the mechanism is really exquisite, if you hadn't discovered it smartly, I'm afraid it would have been hidden here for the rest of your life." Pei Yuan praised without hesitation, and then reached out and pulled the ladder, making sure that he could bear his weight before instructing Shen Jiahe, "I'll go up and have a look first, if it's okay, you can follow." ”

Pei Yuan jumped up in a few steps, and found that he had actually reached the top of the mountain, and his eyes were open, and there was a light not far away, and he was afraid that what he was looking for was there.

Seeing that there was no danger, Pei Yuan lay down at the entrance of the cave and stretched out his hand: "You come up, I'll pick you up." ”

If it weren't for the fact that the wind on the top of the mountain was really a bit strong, Shen Jiahe really felt that this was a good place to watch the stars, the stars in the sky seemed to be within reach, and the beauty was not like the real world.

"I haven't seen such a beautiful starry sky for a long time, and only when I stand here can I appreciate the poetry of 'the sky meets the clouds and the mist, and the stars want to turn and dance with a thousand sails'." In the last life, I was in a busy city, and the city was so polluted by lights that I couldn't see such a beautiful scenery at all.

Pei Yuan hugged her and said with a smile: "I heard that lying on the painting boat in the water town south of the Yangtze River and watching the stars in the sky is also interesting, when I am done with the things at hand, I will accompany you for a walk." ”

Shen Jiahe nodded, and didn't forget what they came out to do, so he only glanced at it twice and pulled Pei Yuan to the dim light source together.

A courtyard covered on the top of the mountain, a little Taoist boy sleeping at the door, Shen Jiahe looked really interesting, she squatted down and patted the little Taoist boy on the shoulder: "Hey, wake up, there are guests." ”

Xiao Daotong rubbed his eyes, stretched out his arms and stretched his waist, covered his mouth and yawned before looking at Shen Jiahe and Pei Yuan, and said indifferently after seeing it clearly: "You guys are finally here, I am waiting here every day, and they are all asleep." ”

Shen Jiahe turned around to look at Pei Yuan, and saw that he was also puzzled, so he turned back to him and asked, "The little master knows that we will come." ”

The little Taoist boy didn't answer, only glanced at Shen Jiahe's gorgeous pipa, and yawned again: "This pipa has an excellent timbre, and it is very pleasant to play the pipa music by it." ”

Shen Jiahe thought of what was going on in the cave, so he nodded: "Little master, do you want to listen to it?" ”

Xiao Daotong waved his hand: "No need, Master has waited long enough, let's come in with me first." ”

Shen Jiahe and Pei Yuan followed the little Taoist boy inside with a puzzled face, everything in the courtyard under the starry sky could barely be seen clearly, and the clumps of wild roses exuded a burst of sweet fragrance in the night, which was no different from the small courtyard of the farmhouse.

After a small stone road passed, there was a bamboo house standing in front of several people, and the little Taoist boy stood at the door and raised his hand to buckle the door and said, "Master, the person you are waiting for has arrived." ”

A slightly older voice inside replied, "Bring it in over there." ”

The silver-haired old man was sitting on the bed reading a scripture, and when he heard them come in, he didn't turn his head, but only told the little Taoist boy: "Make two cups of tea for the two guests." ”

Pei Yuan bowed and saluted: "The junior came here unexpectedly, I don't know what to call the elder?" ”

The old man finally let go of the book in his hand, turned around and looked at Pei Yuan: "The name of the poor road is Runzhi, and the prince is polite." ”

Only then did Shen Jiahe see the old man's face clearly, and found that his face was very young, which really did not match the voice and hair color.

Runzhi Zhenren raised his eyes and looked at Shen Jiahe, then at the pipa in her arms, nodded as if he was very satisfied, and said: "This pipa is considered to have met Allah in the hands of the princess, and the princess should cherish it." ”

Shen Jiahe also saluted: "Thank you, I will take good care of you." ”

After Xiao Daotong sent the two teas and the three of them sat down face to face, Pei Yuan took out the chess book and asked: "Since the real person knows the identities of our husband and wife, and your little boy said that he has been waiting for us, I think the real person can solve my doubts." ”

"This chess game is something that Poor Dao gave to your mother back then." Runzhi Zhenren took the chess game in his hand and looked through it, as if he saw the woman standing in front of him again. He sighed, "You look like your mother." ”

"My mother, as a palace concubine, how can she be familiar with the Taoist?" Pei Yuan was very puzzled.

Runzhi Zhenren stood up, he looked at Pei Yuan's face, and gradually recalled the past: "Poor Dao was not here, but was in the Xianyun Temple on the outskirts of Beijing as the master, when the emperor was obsessed with the art of immortality, he once asked Poor Dao to enter the palace to make medicine for him, but he was politely rejected by Poor Dao, and when he left the palace, he happened to meet your mother." ”

He was a foreign man, and he couldn't see the emperor's concubine, but it happened that the emperor summoned Concubine Yun into the dormitory to serve, and the two met at the door.

At that time, he couldn't avoid it, so Runzhi bent down and saluted, and Concubine Yun asked him at that time: "Is the Taoist chief the master of the Immortal Cloud Observatory?" ”

Runzhi didn't know what he meant, but thinking that he would know his identity as soon as he asked, and there was nothing to hide, so he nodded instinctively, and Concubine Yun didn't say anything more, turned around and went in, not wanting to think that a few days later, Concubine Yun took a personal maid out of the palace and went to his Xianyun Temple.

"I left the palace this time to ask the Taoist chief to help me see a person's life." Concubine Yun knelt in front of the statue of the Heavenly Monarch, but her words were said to Runzhi, who was holding the dust on the side.

She motioned to the maid beside her to hand over a person's birthday eight characters, and then looked at the Taoist chief and explained: "This is the eight characters of my son Pei Yuan's birthday, and I ask the Taoist chief to take a look." ”

Runzhi sighed: "Human life is determined by heaven, even if you know it, what can you do?" ”

Concubine Yun bowed down, and then said persistently: "Maybe people will win the sky, and the Taoist chief should regard this as a mother's helplessness." ”

"Your mother is right, man will win the day, although your fate has been decided, but you still can't make a decision, I gave your mother this chess book at that time, let her refer to the mystery from it." Runzhi Zhenren pulled out of his memories and said to Pei Yuanyan.

Shen Jiahe frowned: "We have already broken the endgame mixed with the chess game, and no matter how Bai Zi who originally seemed to be defeated, he will eventually turn defeat into victory, is this the number of fates that indicate the king?" ”

"Don't leak it!" Runzhi Zhenren stroked his beard, then looked at Pei Yuan and said, "If you can remember your mother's words, you don't have to pay attention to this fate or the chess game." ”

Pei Yuan nodded, so he had to ask again: "What do the other things represent?" ”

Runzhi Zhenren pointed to the map and said: "These things are just clues that your mother led you here, and your mother once asked her confidant to send me a scroll of paintings, thinking that the purpose was to let you find and take away the scrolls stored here with me." ”

After receiving the scroll, he was also puzzled, and he didn't understand why Concubine Yun trusted him so much, and Concubine Yun's henchmen only said that this scroll was very important and needed him to keep it properly.

Seeing that the henchman was full of sorrow, Runzhi guessed that the secret of the royal family did not dare to put it in the Taoist temple, for fear that it would cause trouble for the Taoist temple, so he hid the things in the place where he was now, and explained the place to the confidant.

What made him sad was that not long after this incident, the news of Concubine Yun's death came from the palace, Runzhi guessed that it might have something to do with that painting, and maybe there was a bigger secret, but he didn't want to participate in these disputes in the imperial court, so he had to hand over the Taoist temple to the people below, and he lived in seclusion here, just waiting for the day when Pei Yuan came.

"Your mother's henchmen didn't explain the use of this scroll, and Poor Dao didn't dare to rush into the palace to see your mother, and learned that she was framed...... I hope the prince doesn't blame the poor Dao. Runzhi Zhenren sighed.

Pei Yuan shook his head: "All kinds of rights in the palace, how can the Taoist chief be able to investigate, you can help the mother concubine guard the relics and wait for me to find them, this feeling has made me grateful." ”