Qin Mubai and Li Ke searched carefully in the "palace" for a long time, but did not find any other suspicious signs. In addition to those stone puppets, there are only some ordinary buildings and ornaments left in the whole hall.

Li Ke took the jade seal and looked at it carefully, shaking his head: "Now there is nothing to prove the authenticity of this jade seal." ”

Qin Mubai didn't speak, but he heard some extraneous voices in Li Ke's words: He wanted to keep this jade seal privately!

"Why don't you speak?" Li Ke looked at Qin Mubai, and his eyes became a little weird.

It's really weird, as if there is some vigilance, and there is some weakness. He seemed to be worried that Qin Mubai had spied on his mind and wanted to hide it as much as he could, but he was worried that he couldn't hide it. It seems hesitant, hesitant, and slightly frustrated.

Qin Mubai pouted outside the hall gate: "Let them go away." ”

Li Ke understood, personally stepped forward to retreat the entourage, and walked back and said: "This matter is important, I want to hear your opinion." I don't have to beat around the bush, I want to hear the most honest thoughts. ”

"My idea is that no matter whether this jade seal is real or fake, you must give it to His Majesty the Emperor." Qin Mubai said categorically.

Li Ke's eyebrows were inadvertently raised slightly, and he said lightly quietly: "Why?" ”

"The husband is not guilty, but he is guilty." Qin Mubai only said these eight words.

Li Ke was silent for a long time after hearing this, and nodded very unwillingly: "I understand." However, if this is a fake jade seal, and my father is teased by me, will he blame me in turn? Or, when the Tang Dynasty welcomed back Empress Xiao after the Northern Turks, he also took back the jade seal, and his father was so happy. If this jade seal is real...... What is the explanation for what Queen Xiao brought back from Mobei back then? Then didn't she deceive the king, and didn't I hurt her again? You know, she's my grandmother. ”

Qin Mubai nodded and said, "Your worries are reasonable, but these are not big problems. If we can figure out the origin of this place, we can figure out the twists and turns about this jade seal. When the time comes, there will be a way to explain it to His Majesty the Emperor, and naturally it will not involve Empress Xiao. Your Highness, no matter what, this jade seal does not belong to you, so you must not think rashly. ”

Li Ke pursed his lips, gritted his teeth, twisted his eyebrows, and nodded.

"I listen to you."

Qin Mubai breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. Looking at Li Ke's expression, it is absolutely a lie to say that he doesn't want to take it for himself in private. Moreover, from the moment he stepped into the hall, Li Ke seemed to have forgotten that he was the prince of the Tang Dynasty and the son of Li Shimin; He probably smelled the breath of Yang Guang of the former Sui Dynasty, the Great Sui Heavenly Son who once ruled the world, as if there was still a trace of residual soul attached to Li Ke's body, which made him a little trance-like.

It is also possible that he is even fantasizing about if this jade seal is real...... Does that mean that he, Li Ke, is the true son of heaven who is "ordered by heaven"? Moreover, this place is so similar to Yang Guang's mausoleum, he is easy to have an illusion - this jade seal is deliberately left to him by Yang Guang in the dark!

This is undoubtedly a rather dangerous sign!

From the beginning, Qin Mubai knew that Li Ke was definitely not a thing in the pool, and to say that he had no ambition and no retribution would definitely be self-deception. But this ambition and this retribution must not come from the aftermath of the former Sui, nor from the bewitchment of the jade seal!

There is no impermeable wall in the world, if Li Ke swallows this jade seal privately - and whether this jade seal is real or not, he will definitely die, there is no suspense!

Originally, Li Ke was born to the princess of the former Sui, and was criticized by a group of old ministers led by the eldest grandson Wuji, saying that he was carrying the "blood of the former Sui", which was a great bad luck and a great disadvantage. In fact, this argument of the eldest grandson Wuji is quite absurd, and few people will really accept it. Because, blood from the father, this is a custom throughout the ages. The eldest grandson Wuji's argument is clearly to use strong rhetoric to refer to the deer as a horse. His purpose is nothing more than artificially labeling Li Ke as a "fake and shoddy label" and fundamentally depriving him of the capital to seize the heir, so as to reduce the pressure on his own nephew and reduce the enemy.

However, if Li Ke got a "suspected jade seal" in a "suspected former Sui palace" and hid it and did not report it, it would really be self-digging, and it would be difficult to die without dying. The remarks of the eldest grandson Wuji will be based on the facts - although the former Sui has not been cleared, no, Li Ke has different ambitions and holds the jade seal left by his grandfather, with bad intentions!

At that point, there really will be no one to save him. Even if Li Shimin has always been a son who values and likes this "Yingguo like me", he will kill him quickly when the time comes!

……

Li Ke took the jade seal, pondered while looking at it, and suddenly couldn't help but shudder, and said with a hint of panic in his eyes: "Mu Bai, perhaps, we shouldn't blow up here!" ”

"Are you scared?" Qin Mubai said lightly.

Li Ke nodded reluctantly and said, "Whether I offer this jade seal or not, it is no good." If the jade seal is true, it will cause my grandmother to sit on the crime of bullying the king; If the jade seal is fake, then I will be guilty of defrauding the king; Don't ...... Then I will surely die. ”

"The two are compared, so let's give it!" Qin Mubai said, "If you give it a little smartly, it should be fine." ”

"How to give?" Li Ke hurriedly asked.

"First of all, it is important to find out the authenticity of this jade seal." Qin Mubai said, "If you want to clarify this matter, there is only one way. ”

Li Ke wrinkled his brows and said, "You asked me to go to Empress Xiao?" ”

"Yes." Qin Mubai nodded, "A secret that has been hidden for decades is suddenly discovered, and she must be shocked. But I guess she's mostly in the know. Returning a truth to history is not necessarily a major sin. Maybe back then, she herself was deceived? ”

"Makes sense." Li Ke obviously heard the "important hint" from Qin Mubai's words, his eyes lit up, and he nodded: "As the saying goes, those who don't know are not guilty, maybe Empress Xiao has also been deceived for many years, I don't know if the jade seal is true or false?" If this jade seal is fake, it is even better to say. In the last years of the former Sui Dynasty, anti-kings were everywhere, and anyone could forge jade seals privately, which may be one of them. In this way, it can also be justified. ”

"It's just...... This palace is really hard to explain. Qin Mubai looked around and muttered, "Ordinary grass robbers against the king, where did they have the strength to build such a huge underground palace?" Moreover, this is not an ordinary mausoleum, but an underground palace that imitates the size of the real Jinluan Palace. If you want me to say, this is not a mausoleum at all, but an underground palace. ”

"Yes, if it's a tomb, there should be a jade coffin, but there is no one here. There are only so many civil and military officials made by the earth puppet Yin people. Li Ke said as he walked around.

Qin Mubai stretched out his hand and touched the body of the clay puppet, and couldn't help but be a little surprised, and said, "It's so strange, they are actually wearing real armor and official robes!" ”

"What?" Li Ke was also taken aback, stepped forward to take a closer look, and exclaimed, "Sure enough!" When I first came in, I thought these dolls were too realistic, they were wearing real armor and robes, but I thought they were just gilded, so realistic! ”

While turning his head to speak, his hand was no longer light, Li Ke pushed his hand, and a puppet actually fell to the ground.

With a "bang", the puppet smashed loudly after it landed, and the mud tire under the armor actually shattered, revealing the white bones inside!

"Ahh The two of them exclaimed together - "How can this be! ”

"Could it be that these dolls are all cast from real human corpses, and then draped in armor or official robes, and stand here as Yin people to protect the treasure hall? Just like after the death of a monk, the body is cast with clay to ensure that the relics are not destroyed? Li Ke was surprised.

"Possibly!" Qin Mubai took a deep breath, the scene in front of him was really a bit unexpected for him. He bent down, picked up those broken mud tires, found a silverfish talisman from Sen Sen's white bones, picked it up and looked at it, there were words on it - "Give things from the commander of Wupin Fengche, Cao Lian"!

"That's true!" The two exclaimed in unison!

The fish talisman is equivalent to the official's "ID card" in the former Sui Dynasty, and it is shown from this fish talisman that the person on the clay puppet is obviously Yang Guang's henchman guard, Fengche Duwei, that is, Yang Guang served the military attache from the side of the imperial chariot when he traveled by car!

"And these people...... Is it also true? Li Ke was surprised, and wanted to reach out and push down a clay puppet again.

"Forget it, Your Highness." Qin Mubai stopped him and said, "Even if they are people from the former Sui, it is rare for them to be loyal to the Lord and accompany them to the death, so give their undead a little respect!" ”

"Well...... Li Ke gritted his teeth and nodded, "In this way, Zhao Chong's grandfather is likely to be one of them." These people may have come here with Zhao Chong's grandfather before their deaths, and became water bandits in the Xiangzhou area. Later, these people passed away one after another, and then, according to their own agreement, the remains were cast in the mud tire, and then put on the official robes and armor before their death, and turned into clay puppets to continue to guard the palace. It is possible that Zhao Chong's grandfather did not tell these secrets to his descendants. But before he died, he left behind a secret about the palace and wanted his children and grandchildren to erect his remains here as well. It's a pity that the old man went quickly, and he returned to heaven before he could finish explaining, so he left those treasure maps and poems, which became a secret that troubled Zhao Chong's father and son for more than 20 years! ”

"That's how it should be." Qin Mubai nodded, sighed and said, "They should be the diehards of the former Sui, to be more specific, the diehards of Yang Guang, the last emperor of the former Sui." ”

"Mu Bai, then you say, is it possible that after Emperor Yang was buried in Jiangdu, they secretly changed his corpse and transported the real corpse here for reburial? Since they know about this secret palace, it is very likely that they will do so! Li Ke said, "Seeing that they will also stand here and protect them loyally after they die, I suspect that there is a very good chance that there will be the real remains of Emperor Yang here!" ”

Qin Mubai's eyes lit up: "It makes sense, Your Highness is wise!" ”

"Shall we look for it then? If the real corpse of Emperor Yang is really found, then the authenticity of the jade seal may be able to be distinguished! ”

"Good!"

The two searched the palace for a long time again, and did not let go of even the darkest and most inconspicuous little corners, but unfortunately, they did not find any secret passages.

They looked at each other and shook their heads in disappointment, and both of them wanted to give up.

"Maybe we guessed wrong......"

Li Ke was a little tired, so he rested against a big jade pillar nearby, and said, "I have something I can't figure out." After the Jiangdu rebellion, Empress Xiao was taken captive by Yu Wenhua, and later returned to Dou Jiande, and later, the sister of Emperor Yang received the Turkic tent that lived in Yudu Jinshan for a long time, and was displaced for decades. It is said that when she went to Mobei, she took the jade seal with her, so I am very suspicious, how did she hide the jade seal without falling into the hands of Dou Jiande and Yu Wenhua and other ambitious people, and was able to keep the Turks to be leveled by the Tang Dynasty until it was brought back to the Central Plains to be dedicated to my father? ”

"yes!" Qin Mubai was also surprised, "Could it be ...... Dou Jiande and Yu Wenhua, as well as the Turkic Khan and others, all knew that the jade seal in her hand was fake, so they were not interested in taking it for themselves? ”

"So to speak! ......" Li Ke's eyes widened, "the ...... in my hand Is that true? ”

"Wait, there's another possibility." Qin Mubai said, "That is, at first, in Empress Xiao's hands, there was no so-called jade seal. It was only a few years ago that a jade seal appeared out of thin air in her hand, of course, it was fake! Otherwise, she is a weak woman, has experienced many different men, and has traveled thousands of miles in the world, how can she keep a piece of jade seal intact? I guess that the fake jade seal in Empress Xiao's hand may be someone in this hall who gave it to her before her death, or it was Zhao Chong's grandfather who gave it to her. The reason for this is because Empress Xiao knew the secret of the whereabouts of the jade seal. In order to plug her mouth to cover this underground palace, these people present did it. And the real jade seal has always been placed in this underground palace, enshrined in the former Emperor Yang of Sui! ”

"Seamless reasoning, it must be so!" Li Ke gritted his teeth fiercely, "In this way, there is no doubt that Yang Guang's real remains are definitely in this underground palace!" ”

"Wait!" Qin Mubai's heart suddenly lit up and said, "Your Highness, you just said that Empress Xiao went to the Turks, where do you live?" ”

"Where the Turks' tooth tent is located, Yudu Jinshan, what's wrong?" Li Ke said confusedly.

"That's not right!" Qin Mubai suddenly exclaimed, "Li Jing once led his troops to the Northern Expedition to destroy the Turks, but in his military book, he called the Mountain of the Tooth Tent - West Mountain!" ”

"Xishan Phoenix! - Xishan Phoenix, Yujing Dragon, looking at the morning and evening, three lines of tears! Li Ke was also surprised, "Could it be that Xishan Feng refers to Empress Xiao?" That Yujing Dragon...... Doesn't it mean Yang Guang? ”

"That means ...... Yang Guang's remains are in the jade well? Qin Mubai furrowed his brows and walked towards the dragon chair.

"Yujing, could it be that this underground palace? What does it have to do with the dragon chair? Li Ke also quickly followed and asked.

"Tamai, Mikai...... Isn't the Imperial Well the place where the dragon chair above His Majesty in the Golden Luan Hall is located?! Qin Mubai's brows furrowed heavily, his hands moved to the dragon chair, and he said in a deep voice: "Offended!" ”

With a few dark forces, the pure gold dragon chair, which weighed more than hundreds of catties, actually made a smacking sound, and it was really rotated.

"Ahh - "Li Ke let out an exclamation!

Because at this moment, the sea dragon behind the dragon chair plays the blue wave jade wall, and it is separated from the middle to both sides, revealing a dark passage!

"It's really here!" Qin Mubai also said in surprise.

"Let's go inside!"

The two lit the torches and were startled when they walked two steps, and not deep at the entrance of the passage, there were four standing skeletons "staring" at them, their skeletons wearing armor and holding long knives in their "hands". These skeletons did not fall to the ground because they were supported by full armor.

"This is probably the four dead soldiers who escorted the remains in, standing here alive and not falling." Qin Mubai said.

Li Ke just nodded, bypassing the four skeletons and walking inside. Qin Mubai hurriedly followed.

There is light in front of you, and when you turn a corner, you will reveal a gorgeous "bedroom", with a brocade carpet and beautiful walls, which are extraordinarily luxurious, but the inside is bone-chilling.

Seeing this scene in front of them, the two were dumbfounded!

On a huge bed of dark green jade, covered with a golden wire bedspread, decorated with countless gorgeous and dazzling night pearls, it is from where the light comes from. Through the bedspread, you can vaguely see a "person" in a yellow dragon robe lying on the jade bed. The jade bed was cold, and the two of them couldn't help but shiver when they felt the cold from a few distances.

"Mu Bai, what do you say......" Li Ke took a deep breath and said with a trembling voice, "The person on the bed, is it - my grandfather, Yang Guang?" ”

Qin Mubai frowned lightly and shook his head slowly, and said lightly: "Even if it is, you don't know it." ”

"But I have to take a look!"

As soon as the words were finished, Li Ke rushed to the side of the jade bed with an arrow step, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, stretched out a hand, and slowly lifted the bedspread......