Chapter 9: The Tomb Keeper
Chen Yuanyuan was also a little jealous of Ma Yuanyuan, this girl gave her a very dangerous feeling, knowing that it would not end well if she really started, but she was bound to win the Ziwei sword, so she had to stare at Wang Jian with an annoyed face, and somehow, she would only regard dignity as more important than anything else in front of Wang Jian. Only in front of Wang Jian will she regard her dignity as more important than anything else. She never used the tactful tricks she learned in the Qinglou Chu Pavilion, she just blindly used force, and she never gave in!
Wang Jian saw that Chen Yuanyuan didn't seem to show signs of giving in, and knew that she was extremely stubborn and couldn't force too much, so he had to throw the Ziwei Sword to her and said, "Oh, take the token, don't regret it." ”
Chen Yuanyuan took the crape myrtle sword with a "hum", and then put it into the Tianmu pipa, and sure enough, the pipa shook again, and when Yuanyuan closed the mountain pass of the pipa, the Tianmu pipa suddenly became shiny again! As she expected, it turned out that Zhu Yuanzhang used the imperial spirit of this crape myrtle sword to suppress the untimely spirit of Tianmu Pipa. Later, the world was stable, and there was no need for the crape myrtle sword, and in the long years, the two depended on each other, and finally the two became one, and the Tianmu pipa became the scabbard of the crape myrtle sword. And without the Ziwei Sword, the Tianmu Pipa also lost its true aura.
"Okay, you will be my daughter-in-law in the future." Wang Jian saw Chen Yuanyuan's face excited, and reminded him happily.
"Hmph, who told you that you want to be beautiful!" Chen Yuanyuan said disdainfully.
Wang Jian looked at Chen Yuanyuan, who had a disdainful face, and said with an evil smile: "Since you are not trustworthy, don't blame me for taking back the Ziwei Sword." ”
Chen Yuanyuan glanced at him with a look of contempt, as if to say, you can't beat me, how can you get it back?
Wang Jian smiled, gently let go of Ma Yuanyuan, vomited the true qi of his whole body, and gently summoned his hands, and suddenly, the pipa in Chen Yuanyuan's hand was indeed as he expected, and it shook violently, and Ziwei Jian felt his dragon qi, and it seemed that he was about to break out of the cocoon again!
"You !!"
Chen Yuanyuan glared at him angrily while urging her true qi to forcibly suppress the Tianmu pipa, but no matter how she urged her true qi, she still couldn't suppress it gradually. Just when the Ziwei Sword was about to break through the cocoon again, Wang Jianlong's anger was retracted, and suddenly the Tianmu Pipa was quiet again.
Wang Jian glanced at Chen Yuanyuan infinitely proudly, and Chen Yuanyuan also glared back at him with an unwilling face, presumably she also knew: Wang Jian wanted to retrieve the Ziwei Sword in a matter of minutes!
"It's up to you to do in the future." Wang Jian said proudly.
"Little Niangpi, I still don't believe I can't cure you." Wang Jian's heart was in ecstasy at the moment, and he was even happier to be able to cure Chen Yuanyuan than to get the Ziwei Sword.
Now that he has the Xuanyuan Mirror and the Ziwei Sword, the legendary three imperial artifacts, he has monopolized the two.
"I don't know what the Mandate of Heaven is?" Wang Jian silently thought, not only he has not seen, the Ming Emperor of the previous dynasties has not seen, according to legend, the Mandate of Heaven Seal for Qin Shi Huang ordered people to use He's bi to build, so it is also called the Mandate of Heaven Seal of the King of Qin, which has been passed down to the Song Dynasty, and then disappeared without a trace after Yuan Mengyuan escaped to the north of the desert.
Chen Yuanyuan didn't answer, she carefully observed the Tianmu pipa, and then entered her true qi little by little, feeling the changes in the pipa, and slowly she found that as long as she cooperated with the special five-string pronunciation structure of the pipa, she could isolate the aura of the crape myrtle sword from the outside world, forming a special confined space, and even absorb the aura of the crape myrtle sword for her own use.
Of course, Wang Jian didn't know anything about these things, but he still thought that he had eaten Chen Yuanyuan thoroughly, but in the blink of an eye, he was cracked by others.
In the secret room under the Wuying Palace, there is not only an altar, but also many "sacrifices", which is simply a small arsenal, with all kinds of weapons and many martial arts classics.
Ma Mi took a fancy to a red tassel gun called "Yinxue" in the corner at a glance, the body of the gun was as clear as snow, and the head of the gun was very black, like a poisonous snake in a moonlit night spitting letters.
She happily ran to Wang Jian to offer treasure and said, "Brother Jane, look, what a beautiful spear." ”
Wang Jian took the spear that was very inconspicuous and was thrown in the corner before: it seemed like silver but not silver, like iron and not iron, it was weird and evil that could not be said, and he always felt weird in his heart, but since Ma Mi liked it, he was also very happy for her.
Qi'er and Yao'er also picked a pair of twin swords called "Frost" and "Drizzle".
Wang Chengen is also a master of the realm of kings, but he doesn't seem to see what weapons he uses, although Wang Jian is curious, but due to the particularity of the eunuch's body, there must be some strange exercises, so he is embarrassed to ask.
Soon, Wang Jian found a treasure chest on a case, which contained a mask soaked in a mysterious potion, which looked like collagen from the material, but this material could not be made in this era, so Wang Jian deduced that it was probably pigskin or something.
In fact, Wang Jian inferred wrong, it was a real human skin, that is, it was plucked from a living person. It was with this human skin mask that Zhu Di escaped under the siege and interception of Emperor Jianwen.
If Wang Jian knew that it was human skin, he would definitely feel disgusted and dare not wear it. He quietly took it out and put it on his face like a mask. Suddenly, the mask seemed to come alive, quickly and tightly attached to his face, as if it had grown on his face.
"I'm grass, I won't be possessed." Frightened, Wang Jian hurriedly rubbed it down and threw it on the ground.
Wang Jian found that he was not uncomfortable, and after taking it, his appearance immediately changed, as if he was a different person.
He put on a human skin mask again, and while Yao'er was not paying attention, he saved her from behind.
Yao'er turned her head and saw that it was a stranger holding her, and she screamed in fright, causing Wang Jian to laugh "haha".
"Haha, don't be afraid, it's me."
Only then did Yao'er find out that it was the emperor's prank, and her little face suddenly turned red: "The emperor's brother is so bad, scare the slaves and maids!!"
Then Yao'er found that there was a small room in the secret passage, which seemed to have been newly dug up in recent decades, and there was a pile of boxes inside.
Wang Jian picked up a silver ingot and looked at it, only to see four big characters engraved at the bottom: Wanli Tibetan Silver.
I have heard that Emperor Wanli is not only absent from work, but also does not go to court for decades, but also is a greedy ghost, especially fond of hiding silver, buried a lot of silver taels in the palace, and finally even he forgot where to bury, was secretly dug up by the eunuchs, but I didn't expect him to hide so much in the secret passage.
"The emperor is rich all over the world, but he treats silver taels as private property like a miser, which is really funny." Wang Jian sighed, "It's really troublesome to get out so much silver, forget it, I don't want to, I won't run away with long legs anyway." ”
Wang Jian shook his head, and simply returned to the secret room, studying the martial arts of this world, if he didn't understand, he asked Wang Chengen and Ma Yuanyuan, as for Chen Yuanyuan, he also consulted, but unsurprisingly, he was scolded again, and then he didn't dare to ask her again.
Before I knew it, three days had passed, and I didn't know what the situation was outside.
Wang Jian thought about it again and again and decided that it would be better to go north to stabilize the Guanning Iron Cavalry first, as long as he joined Wu Sangui, then he would have a strong army, and it would be much safer to gather the old troops along the way to the south.
At the foot of the military mountain in the north of the imperial capital.
At this time, it is the twilight of spring, and the whole valley is lush and thriving.
"Third brother, why did you say that Grandpa asked us to be on duty here?" A teenager asked, flipping the hare.
The third brother said: "The ghost knows, yesterday's heavy rain almost drenched us in soup, and grandpa didn't let us go back, let us stay in the valley, just said that when we heard there was movement in the mountain, we would immediately go back to report, there must be something important." ”
"What can be done in these barren mountains? Is it bigger than the destruction of the capital? It is rumored that our ancestors are still a thousand households in brocade clothes, and I haven't seen my grandfather lead us King Qin to kill the enemy. ”
"But it's not, it's a great time to make a contribution," the third brother thought that he would be like his ancestors for generations, abide by the ancestral precept of not interfering in world affairs, nest in the mountain nest for a lifetime, and end up wasting his martial arts, he could only sigh.
"It is said that our Cui family is a mausoleum keeper, but I haven't heard of any emperor buried in this mountain, and the nearest imperial mausoleum is dozens of miles away from our village."
"You are the grandson of our generation, and grandpa Tai loves you the most, and even your future patriarch doesn't know, how do I know."
The young man cut off a rabbit leg and handed it to the third brother and said: "Hehe, that's what I said, the masters of our generation have done their best, ten steps and one sentry, surrounded this mountain with three layers inside and three layers outside, and they have been waiting for three days, and there are no ghosts, let alone anyone." ”
"Hey, there seems to be movement", the young man put his head on the ground and listened carefully for a long time: "The beast is four-legged, not like a beast, and the number seems to be four or five, quick, third brother, go and inform grandpa!! ”
It is said that not long after Wang Jian and the others walked out of the secret passage, they heard a sparse sound from the surrounding dense forest, and soon more than 100 villagers surrounded Wang Jian and the others.
The first gray-haired old man over seventy saw Wang Jian and others appear, he was very excited, and knelt down on one knee and said: "Long live, the old minister has been waiting for you for three days, and I am looking forward to you." ”
According to Chongzhen's memory, he didn't know this old man, how did he recognize himself as Emperor Chongzhen?
Wang Jian did not admit that he was Emperor Chongzhen, but looked around vigilantly, secretly on guard, and he asked rhetorically, "Who are you?"
The old man saw Wang Jian's vigilance, and he said sincerely: "The emperor is honorable, the old minister's name is Cui Jian, and the ancestor is a thousand households in brocade clothes who followed the grandfather Cheng's martyrdom. ”
Chen Yuanyuan, who was on the side, laughed coquettishly when he heard this, and his pleasant laughter and enchanting demeanor immediately hooked away the souls of more than 100 villagers around him. Especially the young man who was squatting before, his eyes were about to fall off.
Cui Jiancheng looked confused, he didn't know how his heartfelt words caused this lady to laugh, she was embarrassed for a while, and saw that the villagers she brought were very unreasonable to look directly at "Niangniang", and reprimanded: "There are no rules, how can you see the concubine Niangniang?" Carefully gouge out your dog's eyes, and quickly kneel down to ask the emperor for guilt. ”
The more than 100 villagers seemed to have the discipline of soldiers, and they all knelt down in one fell swoop.
"Cough, cough" Wang Jian coughed dryly, he naturally knew that Chen Yuanyuan was taking the opportunity to mock him again: how can the king of the dead country be honored?
"Get up,"
Those villagers all stood up according to the words, but their heads were lowered, and they really didn't dare to look at Chen Yuanyuan, who was so beautiful that he had brought disaster to the country and the people.
Wang Chengen also knew Chen Yuanyuan's temperament, so he bypassed the topic and said: "Cui Qianhu, who are these people?" Have you leaked any rumors? ”
Cui Jiancheng knew that this father-in-law doubted the identity of himself and others, so he handed Wang Chengen a pair of small sandalwood waist cards, and replied: "Father-in-law, the name of the lowly village is Cuijia Village, these people are all lowly family members, and the patriarchs of the past generations are all mausoleum guards, and only the mausoleum keepers know the exit of this secret passage, please rest assured that the father-in-law will not leak the news." ”
Wang Chengen took the waist card and looked at it carefully, although the waist card said that it was old and weathered a lot, but it could still be identified as Jinyiwei, and asked: "Then how did you know that the emperor would appear and bring so many people over?" ”
"I heard that the thieves broke the capital six days ago, and I want to come to the emperor who will appear soon, so I am waiting here every day, if the emperor does not appear tomorrow, the humble duty will take the whole village to the capital, kill him upside down, in order to repay the grandfather's mighty imperial grace back then!"
Wang Jian was moved when he heard it, they didn't know when another martyrdom would happen, maybe many generations were hopeless in this life, but they abandoned the ambitions and dreams of generations, just to stick to a promise made back then.