XXVIII. Ming Yi Yi Jin (B)
Xiang You'er's surprise was not trivial, the candle in her hand fell to the ground in an instant, rolled a few times, and then was extinguished on the spot. The stone room was suddenly dark, and only the faint light of the two white candles that Xiang You'er had placed at the entrance of the Yongdao in order to prevent the stone door from closing was obliquely penetrating to the place where Xiang You'er was standing. Xiang You'er was extremely vigilant at this time, knowing that if that person could hide quietly in the stone room in advance, and he didn't notice it, this person must be a master who he couldn't deal with, and before the candle was extinguished, the person seemed to be sitting quite relaxed, as if he didn't see it in his eyes at all, and besides, at this moment, he was in the light, and the other party was in the dark...... Xiang You'er had a lot of thoughts in his heart, and suddenly turned his heart sideways, retracted his retreating heart, clenched the long sword with both hands, and slowly leaned towards the direction of Fang Cai's bookcase, and only took a few steps, the pressure of the darkness made his heart beat and panting, thinking that if the person opposite was an assassin, his goal would be too big. So Xiang You'er took advantage of the assassin's lack of action, the long sword was up, and stabbed forward, only to feel that the tip of the sword touched something brittle and hard, and it was stuck and couldn't pull it out, he was surprised in his heart, so he didn't dare to fight anymore, turned around and ran towards the Yongdao, and when he could get the candle at the Yongdaokou, he stopped, but he didn't see anyone chasing. So Xiang You'er calmed down a little, took one of the two candles at the Yongdaokou, and turned around and walked towards the lower stone room.
This time he walked quite carefully, the candles shone in all directions, and only after making sure that there was no assassin before going down, and when he got to the bookcase, he couldn't help laughing, it turned out that where was a person, it was clearly a skeleton that had decayed into the sky, but the skeleton was covered with purple clothes and jade robes, if the light was unknown, it was like a real person. And the blue-blue sword of his own was dangling between the ribs of the skeleton. Xiang You'er is not very old, although he is quite afraid of ghosts and gods, but he is not very afraid of skeletons, after all, he is a child from a poor street, and he has not seen starving people and ownerless corpses in ordinary life. At this time, the Qi Dynasty has gone through more than 400 years, although the national strength is still strong, but the inside is already empty, the gap between the rich and the poor in the neighborhood is quite large, the children of the rich family may be "why not eat minced meat", and children like them can only try their best to survive. Before Xiang Youer got acquainted with these many brothers, he even competed with wild dogs for food when he was most depressed, and some poor families had no money to nail coffin boards, so they could only dig pits and bury them, so Xiang Youer had seen many wild dogs gouging and eating human corpses, Xiang Youer was resentful, every time he met this scene, he had to fight the man-eating wild dog desperately, and he was almost besieged by the dogs several times and lost his life, so he was not afraid of the dead. And he was afraid of ghosts, thanks to the blind Chen who told fortunes at the corner of the street to talk to them all day long, and intimidated them from an early age.
At this time, Xiang You'er saw that there was a skeleton sitting on the couch, so he was not afraid, reached out and pulled out the long sword, put the candle on the bookcase, and sat next to the skeleton. He could already see clearly by this time that the bones from the neck down to the chest of the skeleton were slightly black, and it seemed that he should have died of poison, no wonder he maintained this death posture reclining on the wooden couch. Xiang Youer thought that this might be Prince Zhaoming, but he didn't know which dynasty it was the prince, although he had heard a lot of storytellers and jokes about the merits of each dynasty, he never remembered that there was a person who was Prince Zhaoming. He couldn't judge how long the owner of the skeleton had been dead for a while, so he had to look at the bookcase, but saw that the bookcase was full of books, and the top one was opened, Xiang Youer looked down, but saw that under the dust, the yellow page was printed with "**** cause first", and the small print behind it read, "For a while, the Buddha was in the ...... of the country". Xiang Youer couldn't see the essentials, but saw a piece of rice paper pressed under the paperweight next to him, the paper seemed to have handwriting, Xiang Youer looked at it, but saw that the handwriting was neat and beautiful at the beginning, but it became more and more messy at the back, almost unrecognizable, Xiang Youer looked at the skeleton, knowing that it must have been written by the Prince Zhaoming before he died, and he felt a little depressed in his heart, so by candlelight, he used his sleeve to slightly brush off the thick dust on the paper, read it carefully, but saw that it read: "Yu grew up in the Buddha country, young and good Buddha things, and even the crown, the world slandered the Buddha as a void path, The temple destroyed the law and thought it was a fallacy for the country. Yu knows that the anger of the people lies in the extensive cultivation of the Buddhist hall and the decline of the people's houses, and the anger of the people lies in the emptiness of the Buddha's words and the lack of suffering of the people. However, Yu also knows that this cover is not caused by the theory of the true Buddha, and the Buddha is the king of great doctors, and the great doctor is also the one who heals the people's suffering. Therefore, although Yu does not say that he takes refuge, he is practicing asceticism in order to fulfill the great wish of the true Buddha. This house is in the collection, is more than 7,300 volumes of Buddhist classics and the rest of the clumsy "Anthology", if there is a fate to come, hope that the body is more painstaking, do not let the wisdom of the classics be damaged...... In the autumn of the forty-second year of Jianyuan, when His Majesty was critically ill, Empress An wanted to help his younger brother Xiao Dong, King of Liang, ascend the throne, Dong Ping was forbearing, Yu Ben did not want to compete with him, and then Empress An should be the giant envoy of the Bright God Sect. However, Yu tossed and turned in his heart, couldn't bear to think about it, locked himself here before the difficulty, cut off the way for everyone to tend to the arsenal, and took the golden pill to break off. I only wish that I would go to hell alone and all sentient beings would be spared, this is my remaining wish......" and the word "wish" is already abnormal, obviously Prince Zhaoming used all his strength, and wrote that the oil had run out by this time.
Xiang You'er was already amazed at this time, although he lacked knowledge, but "Jianyuan" still knew, this was the name of the Wuzong Dynasty before the Second Dynasty, and the "forty-second year of Jianyuan" was the last year of the Wuzong Dynasty, and it was twenty years ago! And that Xiao Dong is the Emperor Dezong of the previous dynasty, the father of the current son of heaven Xiao Zhen! Don't...... Could it be that this Prince Zhaoming is the crown prince of the Wuzong Dynasty and the elder brother of Dezong? But why did he never hear of it in the capital?
He was puzzled, so he reached out to the bookcase to rummage, but unexpectedly they were all some Buddhist scriptures and other incomprehensible books, so Xiang Youer was depressed, so he wanted to pick up the paperweight to play with, but unexpectedly this paperweight was extremely heavy, as if it was connected to the table, Xiang Youer moved his temper, and shook it hard, but he didn't expect the paperweight to be able to turn. He also saw clearly at this time, although the stone was in front of the rice paper, it was not pressed on it, but was connected to a bracket on the table. Xiang You'er tossed for most of the night, and had made up his mind to find the location of the mechanism to get out, but he didn't expect to find the machine again so smoothly, although he didn't know if this machine was the way out, but he was overjoyed to be able to move forward, so he didn't miss the skeleton buddies in gorgeous clothes, and got up and walked towards the stone gate that appeared next to the wall. As soon as he arrived at the stone gate, looking at the bottomless passage, Xiang You'er suddenly remembered something, so he returned to the upper mourning hall, blew out all the candles except for the black eagle and Sima Qiwu's face in front of the spiritual seat, and wrapped the unburned candles in his clothes and hid them in his arms. So he turned around and returned to the stone door that had just appeared, lit the white candle in his arms with the white candle in his hand, and placed it every twenty steps, and when it was placed, he took back the candle in front of him. This passage is paved with bluestone, enough for three people to pass, although it is slightly inclined upward, but it is also flat, the passage is also full of dust, and the sky is full of ash when it moves slightly, Xiang Youer has to cover his mouth and nose with his sleeves, and slowly move forward, so that he has walked about two pillars of incense, and a vertical ladder suddenly appeared in front of him, after Xiang Youer carefully confirmed that there was no abnormality around, he pinned the long sword to his waist, and climbed up the vertical ladder, and when he climbed to the top of the vertical ladder, he saw a groove on the stone wall, Just like the organ in the mourning hall, the shape is like wish, Xiang You'er was surprised, took out the piece from his arms, put it into the mechanism, only to hear the babbling above his head slowly opened a portal, Xiang Youer was waiting to go up, but unexpectedly, a large amount of dust poured down from the portal, Xiang Youer was caught off guard, his head and face were washed by dust, and he fell down the ladder as soon as his hand was loosened. Fortunately, the vertical ladder is not high, Xiang Youer just fell to the ground, but he was not injured, but the fatal thing is that the entrance of the cave may be old dust, this time it is like the dust and sand that fills the passage, Xiang Youer was choked so that his lungs were about to cough out, and he hurriedly closed his mouth, nose and eyes, and when he couldn't hold his breath, he tentatively inhaled slowly through his clothes, and noticed that the dust around him had slowly fallen, so he couldn't hold it anymore, and climbed up the vertical ladder three times and five by two, fortunately the piece was still in the groove, so he took off the piece, And he went up through the opening.
This time it was beyond his expectations, he thought that this place should still be as narrow as Fangcai, but unexpectedly looked at it, but it was extremely wide, like a warehouse, the warehouse was very mildew, the rectangle has more than ten zhang, about more than one zhang high, there are rows of wooden shelves in the warehouse, and there are some ordnance. You must know that the Qi Dynasty has very strict control over weapons, unless there are registered casters and military households, if ordinary people secretly possess weapons, they must be guilty of a felony, Xiang Youer raised the candle and shone it around, and there were lamps hanging in the warehouse Bishan in between, and when they checked one by one, they found that most of the lamps were black, and there was no lamp oil, so they had to continue to use candles to illuminate. He was much more cautious now, but he didn't see anything like skeletons along the way, and when he looked around, he saw that the bows, crossbows, knives and guns were all rotten and corroded, and the bowstrings were broken and the handles of the guns were rotten, only the armor and armor were well preserved, and the dust was still faintly glowing. Xiang Youer looked at it for a while, didn't find the exit again, her heart was depressed, and she kicked on a cloth bag in the warehouse, and the cloth bag came with a puff of dust, Xiang Youer was annoyed in her heart, and regretted that she had kicked the cloth bag for no reason, but at this time, she smelled a strange irritating smell into her nose, Xiang Youer was shocked, it turned out that the smell of choking into her nose was the saltpeter smell of gunpowder!