The heat is steaming, and the time is mid-June.

Wonders such as snowfall in June are naturally hard to come by, and if you don't see the snow falling, the weather is naturally hot.

Fortunately, the greening work of Chang'an City is done well, "Chang'an Street, Poplar Acacia", a piece of tree shade shades the sky and the sun, offsetting the seven points of heat, pedestrians finally dare to go out, and vendors can finally set up stalls to sell.

Under the shade of a tree, Shunqiang didn't care about the sweat stains on his face, and drank the iced sour plum soup in the bowl in one gulp, still panting heavily.

Pei Shengqin didn't mind, took the empty bowl from his hand, and handed it to the vendor behind him: "Boss, another bowl." ”

Seeing Pei Shengqin handing the second bowl of chilled sour plum soup to Shunqiang with a smile, the male dog also drank a bowl of sour plum soup while smashing his mouth and said: "This bowl of sour plum soup costs one or two silver, which is enough for ordinary people to eat for a family of three for a month, it is really expensive." ”

Pei Shengqin laughed and said: "The valuable thing is not this soup, but the ice cubes next to the soup, and it is indeed rare to see ice at this time." ”

"The guest officer knows the goods at a glance!" The peddler gave a thumbs up and boasted: "My family's ice cellar is considered big in the whole of Chang'an, and if you look at the ordinary ice food sellers, the ice will basically run out in May." There are several streets in the neighborhood, and now my family can still take out so much ice food to sell every day. ”

Pei Shengqin smiled, didn't bother with the hawker anymore, thinking about the inexhaustible ice in the Zitong Mansion, he felt very happy.

Unless you encounter a rare June snowfall, the only way to see ice during this season is to dig up ice cubes in the winter and hide them in the ice cellar for summer use. However, this method consumes a lot of manpower, and the efficiency is quite low, even in the Great Qin Palace, the annual ice storage is barely enough. As for the people, there is usually no ice in June and July.

Of course, with Pei Shengqin here, the Zitong Mansion is destined to be unusual, because Pei Shengqin knows very well that as long as he throws saltpeter into the water, he can make ice in the summer. This is Pei Shengqin's unique secret recipe, and every time he makes ice, he hides in the ice cellar alone and then comes out. Everyone only thinks that the Pei family's master has not lived in the mansion of Chang'an for many years, and the people dig ice every year, accumulating a lot over the years.

It is also a coincidence that today Pei Shengqin led the male dog out to hang out, just in time for Shunqiang to return to Beijing, and the three met on the side of the road.

After drinking two large bowls of sour plum soup in a row, Shunqiang finally gasped. He arched his hand towards Pei Shengqin and said, "Master Hou, the matter is done." The last general found Hu Yanping in Zhangye Prison, handed him a message, and left another hundred taels of silver. When Hu Yanping learned that Hou Ye was a famous general, he also heard that he was reckless, and he also sent people to make friends thousands of miles. Naturally, he was also grateful, and thanked him repeatedly, saying that if he had the opportunity in the future, he would definitely come to Hou Ye and die for Hou Ye. ”

Pei Shengqin asked, "When you arrived, Fu Taishou shouldn't have arrived yet." ”

Shunqiang replied: "This is natural, the official road that Fu Taishou walked, the trail that the last general walked, naturally the last general was faster, and Fu Taishou had not come when he finished the matter and left." ”

The advantage of the official road is that the road is wide and smooth, which is suitable for the army to pull, the transportation of goods, and the march of horse-drawn carriages. The disadvantage is that the construction of official roads is one city after another, and it is impossible for all the cities to be strung together in a straight line. In other words, taking the official road is more or less a detour.

The trail is a road that is naturally stepped out by more people than there are many people walking. The trail is narrow and the road condition is not good. The only advantage is that the trail between the two cities is generally a straight line distance, and there is no need to take a detour. Shunqiang copied the trail, so he arrived in Zhangye ahead of time and wooed Hu Yanping before Fu Chang took office.

"That's fine, thank you." Pei Shengqin nodded, this is to do his best to obey the destiny of heaven. Everything that needs to be done has been done, and now I am waiting for Hu Yanping to send Murong Chao to the door.

Shun Qiang smiled and said: "It is a blessing for the last general to be able to do things for the Hou Ye, and it is not hard." ”

Shunqiang still doesn't understand Pei Shengqin's intention to win over Hu Yanping, but he knows very well that his own Hou Ye will never be untargeted. Since he was allowed to go to Zhangye, there must be a deep meaning in it.

Shunqiang drove all the way, and at this time, Pei Shengqin naturally didn't want to pull him to continue shopping. After drinking the sour plum soup, the three of them went home.

Back in the house, Pei Shengqin was immediately called into the study by Pei Yuanluo.

"Wu'er, the news from Liaodong has come back." As soon as he entered the study, he saw Pei Yuan sighing heavily.

Pei Shengqin saw Pei Yuanluo's uncertain expression, and his heart tightened: "Is it bad news?" ”

Pei Shengqin didn't have a deep impression of his mother, and naturally he couldn't talk about his feelings for the uncle who he had never heard of before and didn't know whether he was dead or alive.

But after all, they are blood relatives, so they didn't know it before, and now that they know, it's impossible to say that they don't care at all.

"Alas, my father sent a letter to Liaodong last month, and so far, the replies from Gao Qiufu and Fu Yuju have arrived one after another. Goguryeo and Baekje have searched all over the territory, but no trace of Changling has been found. ”

"Fu Yu Ju is also looking for someone for our family?" Pei Shengqin was a little surprised.

Although Gao Qiufu repeatedly found excuses to ask the court for salaries, which was quite rebellious, he was after all a vassal king and a feudal official officially canonized by the Great Qin court. is slightly better with Pei Yuan, and he is an official in the same dynasty, and it is normal to be willing to sell Pei's face. But that Fuyu sentence has always been canonized by the Jin Dynasty, and it is rare that he is willing to help the Pei family find people.

Pei Yuanluo bowed his head and said: "Baekje now wants to break away from the Jin Dynasty several times and accept the canonization of our dynasty instead. Our Pei family's holy family is thick, and the rest of the sentence is eager to have the opportunity to climb our house, so we will naturally not refuse such a trivial matter. ”

"I see." Pei Shengqin then remembered that in the early dynasties recently, there were indeed several times when the minister said that Baekje would be attached, but he didn't pay attention at that time.

Since neither Goguryeo nor Baekje found the tomb of Muyu Changling, there are only three possibilities left.

First, the small Silla kingdom in the southeasternmost part of the Korean Peninsula - Silla at this time was actually equivalent to a tribal alliance, and it was still in a very primitive stage of tribal civilization. The danger of a son of a family who has nothing to grow to escape to that kind of desolate place can be described as nine deaths.

Second, Mu Yu Changling secretly returned to the Central Plains - this possibility is extremely unlikely, when the former Yan, Mu Yu Changling, as a wanted criminal, how could he dare to return to China. After the imperial court pacified Yan, the old land of the Yan Dynasty improved the household registration system in accordance with the Qin law, and it was difficult for Mu Yu Changling to sneak back to the Qin Dynasty without being discovered.

Third, nearly 30 years have passed, and Mu Yu Changling has already died silently on a certain piece of land in Liaodong without knowing what year and month - in fact, this is the most likely speculation.

Pei Shengqin looked at his father, hesitated for a moment, and sighed: "You can't do anything, my father still don't have to think too much, my body is important." ”

Pei Yuanluo also understood this, he lowered his head, and sighed heavily: "I can't find Changling, I'm sorry for your mother for my father......"

As soon as Pei Shengqin left Pei Yuanluo's study, another maid immediately came to pass the word, asking him to go to Magu to have a look, saying that the research of the ancient talisman had progressed.

As soon as he heard that the ancient talisman had made progress, Pei Shengqin couldn't help but be shocked. Unconsciously, that strange ancient talisman with a strange origin and infamy in later generations has become a knot in Pei Shengqin's heart.

Because of Pei Shengqin's status as a concubine, Magu usually lives in the same room with Pei Shengqin at night, just sharing the bed. However, during the day, the two of them usually have their own activities.

Pei Shengqin usually goes to the court in the morning, and occasionally goes to the Ministry of Rites to take a look on the days when he is not in the court, and most of the time he goes to deal with his various things. mixed to the level of the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, there is no need to go to the yamen every day to be on duty, which is the same as the fact that the officials of later generations do not have to go to work every day.

As for Magu, she usually studied her gods and ghosts in a hut prepared for her by Pei Shengqin. Sometimes I will sneak out of the house, probably to contact the people of the Fuzhao Society. In the past, Xie Daoyun lived in the house, and Magu was sometimes bored, and would pull Xie Daoyun to chat to relieve boredom. After Xie Daoyun moved away, the maid Zi Hibiscus that Pei Shengqin brought home a few months ago became Magu's new tool.

Pei Shengqin rushed to Magu's hut where feudal superstition was engaged, pushed open the door, and saw Magu sitting cross-legged on a futon, her face was a little pale, and the ancient talisman was held in her hand: "What's wrong with you, are you okay?" ”

Magu looked at Pei Shengqin, shook her head with a flat expression, and said, "It's okay, it's just that it takes a lot of energy, just rest for a while." This charm is very strange and requires a lot of effort to decipher. I have been studying for many days, and it is only today that I can decipher the tip of the iceberg. ”

Pei Shengqin didn't ask Magu about the principles and ideas of interpretation, he knew that even if Magu told him, he wouldn't understand them. He asked bluntly, "What did you decipher?" ”

"For the time being, I only read seven words-" Magu looked at Pei Shengqin and said word by word: "Emperor, out, five, general, long, long, got!" ”

Pei Shengqin's expression became solemn.

If it was said that before this, he also suspected that there was a traitor who deliberately misinterpreted this talisman so that Emperor Qin could get the erroneous proverb that "the emperor will come out with five generals for a long time", so as to hate eternity. After all, this ancient talisman is mysterious, where can ordinary people see the clues, if they really encounter a malicious god stick to interpret it randomly, no one can tell it.

However, now after Magu's interpretation, these seven words have also been derived!

First of all, Pei Shengqin believed that Magu would not deceive herself, and secondly, she didn't have a chance to confess with another person who interpreted ancient talismans in parallel time and space!

This can only show that in this ancient talisman, there is indeed a hidden proverb that "the emperor will be five generals for a long time", and it is not a deliberate misinterpretation by man.

Pei Shengqin took the ancient talisman from Magu's hand, and once again observed it repeatedly, except for those strange runes, he still found nothing: "Sure enough, the things of ghosts and gods can only be understood by the divine stick." ”

He threw the ancient talisman to Magu again and asked, "You just said that these words are just the tip of the iceberg, so there is more information hidden in this ancient talisman?" ”

Magu said seriously: "Naturally, this thing is strange, but I am afraid that it is not under the Hetuluo Book and Taiji gossip." There are countless of them, and there is more than just one proverb. ”

Pei Shengqin said: "Then if you have nothing to do, continue to study and study, see if you can see anything, and if you can't study it, forget it." ”

Pei Shengqin's tone was rather casual, and his interest in this ancient talisman had weakened a lot.

Because, the history of his previous life has already told him that this "Ancient Fu Biography Jia Lu" is an evil book, and the so-called "Emperor out of the five generals for a long time" is a standard hypothesis!

Emperor Qin mistakenly made a false prophecy as a prophecy, and really went out to the Five Generals Mountain, which caused the trouble of the Five Generals and the disaster of Xinping.

Being able to hide countless information in a small ancient talisman is indeed beyond Pei Shengqin's comprehension, and it can also be called a "miracle".

The problem is that the information recorded in this ancient talisman is false - at least the proverb "the emperor will be five generals for a long time" is false!

No matter how much information is recorded on this thing, how strange it works, and how strange its origin is. But if the information is wrong, it will be useless.