The ghost laughter and the fluttering ghost fire lasted from midnight until dawn broke at the ugly hour, and Jiang Rin told a ghost story and went back to sleep, saying that after dawn he set off to climb the lone bee where the imperial concubine was.

The other palace people don't have as big hearts as him.

After listening to the words that I was not afraid of ghosts crying and afraid of ghosts laughing, I only felt that the night had become especially terrifying, and almost all of them stayed with their eyes open until dawn.

Because there were small buns in the breakfast, Liang Chen couldn't stand the torment of conscience after all, and told Xiong Yishan about the human meat buns, and the buns in Xiong Yishan's hand fell to the ground with a "click", and ran out and vomited in the dark. Liang Chen shook his head and sighed, and said secretly: Thank you for your hard work, big brother!

The mausoleum of the imperial concubine is called "Yuan Palace", so everyone calls that lonely peak "Yuan Peak".

Yuanfeng does not have a plank road suspension bridge, they have to walk along the suspension bridge from the place where the mausoleum keeper lives to the peak where a funeral mausoleum is located, and then go down the mountain along the plank road, and then take a boat from the nine rivers under the mountain to the foot of Yuanfeng.

Finally, climb up the side with the slowest slope.

Most of the people brought by Jiang Rin this time are people from the Imperial City Division, and these subordinates have been doing "waste firewood" in the Imperial City Division for a long time, and when they heard that they were going to climb Yuanfeng, they were all intimidated, and said with a green face: "Boss, my subordinates really want to go to the soup with you, but this is too ...... It's too difficult, my subordinates can't do it......"

Jiang Rin didn't get angry when he heard this, but said lightly: "Since you know that you can't do it, you have to practice hard with Xiong Yishan after you go back." ”

These people were left behind by Jiang Rin after he took office in the Imperial City Division, and he was impressed by Jiang Rin, and he was very obedient, and everyone looked at Xiong Yishan when they heard this.

Xiong Yishan also had a vegetable face, but he vomited, and snorted unhappily when he heard the words: "I told you to be lazy and slippery on weekdays, and now I finally know that I am a wasted person, why don't you practice well when you go back?" ”

"Yes yes yes ......"

Jiang Rin glanced at Xiong Yishan with satisfaction and said, "You take them to stay here, and the others go up with me." ”

Everyone agreed, and Liu Yong walked towards them at this time, followed by a few sturdy guards, and said, "Only these few people under the lower officials can go up, and they will be sent by Lord Jiang." ”

Jiang Rin looked at the few people behind him, and his eyes fell on the chamberlain guarding the door in the courtyard where he lived.

Seeing this, Liu Yong explained: "Shen Huai is an old man in the emperor's mausoleum, and he can lead the way for the adults and send them all the way to the foot of Yuanfeng. ”

Shen Huai bowed to Jiang Rin, and his face still had the same look of "don't talk to me, I'm not interested". Jiang Rin didn't say anything, took the people and the things to use for this trip, and set off from the suspension bridge.

The road they chose only led to the nearest Yuanfeng.

The suspension bridge is not long, and the plank road is also relatively easy to walk, but it is long and windy and rainy, and there are occasional collapses. It took more than two hours, and everyone finally arrived at the boat on the shore of Jiushui.

There were a total of sixteen people on this trip, Jiang Rin brought eight people, plus Liu Yong's six people, and went to Jiushui in four boats, and Shen Huai followed Jiang Rin on the boat, at the front. The boat is not big, just like a flat boat when you come to the lake to boat, but fortunately, everyone can support the boat, and there is no need to look for a boatman.

The man who held the boat moved very quickly, and the boat floated out of the shore at once.

Everyone has been running around all morning, and it will be a little listless. It was cold in the mountains, and they were on the water again, so they felt even more wet and cold, so they didn't speak.

Liang Chen peeked at Shen Huai, feeling that he was infected by Xiong Yishan, and always felt that Shen Huai revealed this trace of cunning with an expressionless face.

After rounding a corner, Shen Huai suddenly said to the person holding the boat: "It's not easy to walk ahead, be careful." ”

Everyone was a little puzzled, but he didn't mean to explain. But after a while, everyone understood.

The mountains on both sides are steep, the mountains are snowy, the scenery is very good, but drifting down the river, it is two turns in a row, the waterway is getting narrower and narrower, looking up, there is only one line left in the sky. If they are not careful, their boat will hit the rocks on the shore.

The crowd walked through the complicated river for a long time, and further on, there was a cave, the cave was pitch black, obviously very deep, and it was not possible to pass through it at once. Shen Huai spoke again at this time, "You have to go through the hole." ”

Outside the cave, I didn't think that after coming in, everyone realized why this ship was so narrow. Because the width of the cave was only three feet more than that of the ship, it was barely enough to allow the ship to adjust its direction a little so that it would not hit the bow and stern.

Some people wondered, "Is there no other way to go?" ”

Shen Huai didn't keep his mouth shut this time, but he didn't explain much, only said: "When the mausoleum was built, there were suspension bridges and plank roads on it, and after the emperor ordered someone to demolish it, there was only one way to the Yuan Palace." ”

Jiang Rin had already heard Liu Yong's explanation before, and he didn't raise any doubts at this time, so everyone stopped asking.

Entering through the entrance of the cave, after turning a corner, the light gradually disappeared, and several boats lit oil lamps one after another, but the place that could be illuminated was very limited, and everyone was concentrating on the road, and suddenly there was a ghostly laughter from the night in front of them, which at first could only be faintly heard, and after a while, the sound echoed in the cave, and it became closer and closer, as if it came out of their ears, and the eardrums of people pierced and hurt.

In such a small place, encountering such a strange thing, the timid people only feel a little cramp in their brains.

The people brought by Jiang Rin were fine, but the people under Lord Liu panicked when they boarded, some people suddenly stood up, and the boat under their feet began to rock, and after a while, several people plopped and fell into the icy river. Although it will be watery, the river here is too narrow, the water is surprisingly deep, and in a panic, a few people fluttered a few times and sank!

"Don't move!"

Jiang Rin shouted in a deep voice, threw the rope on the boat backwards with a flick of his hand, and the people on the boat behind immediately threw the rope into the water, and then followed the rope to go into the water to save people.

When everyone heard this, they calmed down, and did not dare to move around at will, lest more people fall into the water. But he didn't come up for half a day to save people, and the person who was sitting on the boat pulling the rope shouted a few times, tried to pull the rope a few times, and found that the rope had no weight at all. "Oops! Boss, what to do? ”

Jiang Rin's eyes looked behind him, and most of the people on the four boats fell into the water, among which Liu Yong's men fell down, and his own people went down to save two people and didn't come back.

He didn't believe in ghosts, and besides, the ghosts were his real mother. In the current situation, it is clear that someone is secretly making a stumbling block.

Thinking of Empress Chen's purpose, it is not difficult to understand the current situation, the other party wants to reduce his combat strength, and after he arrives in the Yuan Palace, he will use his authority to open the coffin, and then use the "ghost" to kill him.

"Two more people go down, tie the rope around their waists, and if you can't find anyone, come up at once."

"Two of Jiang Rin's subordinates have good water quality, and when they heard this, they immediately tied a rope around their waists, and they didn't dare to delay for a moment before going into the water."

The people on the boat could feel that the rope was moving, and after a while, the two people who went into the water came up and said, "My lord, I can't find anyone, it's dark underwater, I don't know how deep it is." ”

Jiang Rin frowned and thought for a moment, then said to the two remaining Liu Yong's subordinates on the boat: "You two go back the same way, go to Lord Liu for help, and continue to search for the missing person here, and we will continue to move forward." ”

The two men glanced at each other, hurriedly agreed, and quickly reflexively retreated out of the cave.

The strange laughter had stopped, and Jiang Rin frowned and looked at the water, feeling that his two subordinates should not have lost their lives so easily, but he didn't know what the mystery was underwater. He glanced at Shen Huai, who was sitting at the bow of the boat, and asked, "Continue to lead the way." ”

Shen Huai lifted his eyelids and glanced at him, without any special reaction, and said, "Turn two more bends forward, and you can get out of the hole." ”

Liang Chen said while dressing the person who had just entered the water: "Your Excellency can really sit still? Aren't you afraid? ”

When Shen Huai heard this, his expression finally changed slightly, and he snorted almost inaudibly, and he didn't know whether he was disdainful or funny, and said: "Only people who have ghosts in their hearts are still afraid of ghosts." ”

Jiang Rin and Liang Chen glanced at each other, feeling that he had something to say.

At this time, a little light had already appeared in front of them, and three boats came out of the hole in front of and behind.

Now there were only eight people left, reassigned the boats, and continued to walk, fortunately, it was not long before they reached the foot of Yunfeng, and after going ashore, Shen Huai pointed to a place and said, "There is a cave there where you can rest." ”

Jiang Rin had this in mind, so he ordered someone to pick up some dry branches, and at least to make a fire for two of his men to dry their clothes.

Liang Chen walked up to him and said in a low voice, "Childe, that ghost laughter actually appeared in broad daylight. ”

"It's not a ghost in the first place, so you don't have to rush to scare people."

Liang Chen was embarrassed when he heard this, "That's right." ”

"The stuffy gourd and Haiyun are in the water, they will be fine, right?"

Jiang Rin said: "Intuition is chasing people. ”

"Chasing? The person who chases Liu Yong is still ...... Chasing someone who is doing it in the shadows? ”

"It's all possible."

"So what do we do? Eighty percent of the way has been secretly staring at us. ”

"Wait and see what happens, no matter what, you have to go up."

Hearing this, Liang Chen looked up at the mountain wall and frowned. "There won't be any ambush in the middle of the road, right? Otherwise, the subordinates will go up and have a look first. ”

"No, it's not so easy to ambush this kind of mountain wall."

The fire in the cave had already been lit, and eight people were sitting around the fire, and Shen Huai said: "Lord Jiang can take his subordinates up, and the villain is waiting here, and when you come down, you will go back together." ”

At this time, except for him, the rest were all Jiang Rin and others, Shen Huai paused, and suddenly asked, "Lord Jiang really wants to open the coffin?" ”

Of course, Jiang Rin didn't open the coffin, and he didn't need to look at the bones, it was Queen Chen who looked at the bones. As Qing Ruxu guessed, Empress Chen wanted to confirm whether her mother had given birth through the bones.

But Shen Huai asked, it is worth exploring: "What do you think?" ”