Chapter 20: Revisiting the Underground Palace
Yuesheng, Qin Qiong hid behind the stone statue for a quarter of an hour before the rain of arrows stopped.
Although the stone door is open now, Yuesheng did not rush forward, first, I don't know if there is a follow-up mechanism, and second, Qin Qiong has been injured and bleeding nonstop, so he must be sent out for treatment as soon as possible.
Therefore, Yuesheng pulled the rope tied to the two of them below, and the team leader got the prompt, so he shouted into the cave and asked if they needed to pull them up.
Yuesheng responded: "General Qin is injured, pull us up quickly!" Then the two were pulled out of the dungeon.
When he came to the ground, the Third Highness saw that General Qin was injured, so he hurriedly walked towards Qin Qiong, and ordered his subordinates to hurry up and call the accompanying military doctor, and then asked his subordinates Qin Qiong with concern.
"Why is General Qin injured? Does it matter? ”
"Your Highness, the skin is rough and the flesh is thick, this little injury doesn't matter, don't worry!" Qin Qiong said with a smile to the Third Highness.
Only then did everyone take a look at it clearly, the arrows in Qin Qiong's hands were all on the arms and shoulders of both hands, a total of six arrow wounds, the arrows were still inserted in the flesh, but there were no fatal injuries, now everyone is worried about whether the arrows are poisonous, if they are poisonous, it will be more troublesome!
After a while, the military doctor arrived and pulled out the arrow for General Qin, but the problem of the poison of the arrow that everyone was worried about did not appear, and soon the military doctor cleaned and stitched up the wound.
After cleaning the wounds, everyone began to ask them about the situation below, and Yuesheng told everyone about the situation below.
"What do you think will be in the dungeon below? How can there be such an elaborate arrangement? After listening to Yuesheng's story, His Royal Highness asked everyone's opinions.
At this time, the eldest grandson Wuji walked out and said to the Third Highness and everyone:
"The ancients arranged mechanisms in the underground palace, there are only two situations, first, in order to hide treasures, and second, in order to protect themselves! It's the tomb.
Based on what General Qin and Brother Yuesheng saw, there was a high probability that it would be a treasure cave, because they didn't see what they should have as a mausoleum, such as epitaphs, tombstones, and other basic things.
Moreover, the tombs are generally unilateral mechanisms, that is, once the tombs are closed, the descendants can only forcibly break in, who will set up a mechanism for the descendants to enter and exit the tombs? Therefore, it is likely that the place below was used by the ancient people who lived here to store treasures or important things, and not the tombs. ”
After listening to the analysis and reasoning of the eldest grandson Wuji, everyone felt that it was very reasonable, but then everyone looked at the Third Highness again, because since it is a treasure cave below, there must be more precious things inside, but there are many organs inside, how can they enter it smoothly? Who will be sent in? Everyone was waiting for the arrangement of the Third Highness.
His Royal Highness also frowned and pondered, whether there are treasures below is not the most important thing for him, the most important thing is to find out the situation in the underground palace below, to see if he can learn more information about Zhongnan Mountain from the underground palace, if he is lucky enough to be able to get one or two antiquities, the antiques are of course better.
However, if it is too dangerous, endangering the lives of his subordinates and causing casualties to his subordinates, it is not what he wants to see.
Therefore, he had a plan, and then said: "Since the underground palace is so dangerous, even our General Qin has been injured, so I have decided to close the underground palace and open it when the time is ripe, what do you think?"
Everyone was silent and didn't speak, even Qin Qiong, who was known as the first general of the Tang Dynasty, was almost folded inside, not to mention them.
At this time, Yuesheng approached and said to the Third Highness:
"Your Highness, General Qin and I worked hard to open the door of the underground palace, before we figured out the real situation, and we could give up halfway, now there is no danger below, in case there is only a rain of arrows entering the door, there is no other danger, at the moment we just need to make sure that there is still danger below! If not, we can enter safely. ”
"I know this truth, but the underground palace is so dangerous, if you rashly send someone down to investigate, if there is any more danger, I'm afraid you won't be as lucky as you to dodge!" The Third Highness looked at Yuesheng and said.
"Your Highness, we don't need people to go down to probe, we only need to bring a few animals to help us probe, and we can detect the danger!" Yuesheng said with a smile.
"Little brother is right, we want people to go, why didn't we think of these layers!" The Third Highness suddenly realized.
"Your Highness is just a smart life, just confused for a while!" The eldest grandson Wuji said to the Third Highness with a smile.
"Okay, Wuji ordered to go down and bring two dogs over." The captain had already heard the conversation between the two people, so he hurried out to look for the dog. After a while, two wolf dogs were brought over, followed by the guards who kept the dogs, which were two military dogs used for tracking, and they were raised and trained by special people.
"You prepare, take these two dogs down the cave, follow me, let's go down to explore the secrets of the underground palace below." Yuesheng said to the dog guard.
Then everyone tied the rope to the wolf dog and the guard, and Yuesheng also stepped forward and pulled a rope to tie it up, in fact, Yuesheng's strength does not need to use these, you can go down or come up with a light vertical, but Yuesheng doesn't want to be too public, and secondly, it is also an extra layer of insurance.
After Yuesheng went down first, he arranged for the people above to put down the guards and wolf dogs. The two wolf dogs stood quietly and waited for their master's orders.
Yuesheng took the guard and the wolf dog behind the stone statue, and arranged for the guard to send a wolf dog to explore the way forward, the wolf dog has night vision eyes, and he is not worried that it cannot see the front.
When the wolf dog heard the guard's order, he shook his head and walked towards the gate of the underground palace, and disappeared in front of Yuesheng after a while.
There was no danger as expected, only the sound of dogs walking and barking could be heard inside.
The guards kept arranging for the dog to search around the gate to see if there was any hidden danger, but there was no danger from the dog's barking.
The guard sent another wolfhound as well. After tossing for a while, I came back after making sure that there was really no danger inside.
When the wolf dog returned, Yuesheng and the guards also stood up from behind the stone statue, lit torches, and walked behind the stone gate.
In fact, Yuesheng can go in alone, but in order to avoid suspicion, Yuesheng brought a guard, so that even if there is anything found, such as a treasure or something, he can say it clearly in front of everyone, so as to avoid personal suspicion and trouble.
When Yuesheng and the others walked into the hole behind the stone gate, they could roughly see the situation in front of them, which was a stone room, about forty or fifty square meters.
And the stone wall above the head is full of small holes, I think those arrow feathers are shot from here, and there is a row of stone frames under the stone cave, on which are lined up with a pile of bamboo slips and books.
Next to the left side of the stone shelf, there is a tea table and desk, on which are placed pen, ink, paper, inkstone and tea set. There are no chairs or stools to sit on, and the owner sits on the floor.
There was a carpet on the ground, and there was a candlestick shelf next to the carpet, and Yuesheng walked up to see that there was still solid wax oil in it, but he didn't know if it could be lit. There was nothing on the right side of the stone shelf, making the whole room look a little weird, one side was well arranged, and the other was empty.
Yuesheng gave him a cursory look, then exited the stone chamber with the guards and pulled the rope. The people above understood, so they pulled the two and the two dogs up.