Chapter 316: Roselle Lamp
"Is Prince Yide also buried in the Qianling Tomb?"
"Exactly!"
"I'm going to go to Prince Yide's Mausoleum, and I need your help!" Li Tao said directly.
Wang Qi was stunned for a moment, and then said: "There are special mausoleum guards in the imperial mausoleum, and there are also soldiers stationed in the imperial mausoleum, so you must find a few helpers, choose a good location, and make a long robbery hole, which will take about a few days." ”
Li Tao nodded: "You can look at these and prepare!" I'm living in Zuichun House now, I'm ready, go find me there! ”
Coming out of Wang Qi, Li Bai asked strangely: "This stealing and digging the imperial tomb is a big crime of killing the head, how can this Wang Qi agree without thinking about it?" ”
"Want to know?"
Li Bai nodded.
"I'm thirsty for a day, please let me have tea, and then I'll tell you!" Li Tao said with a smile.
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Don't look at Wang Qi's sharp-beaked monkey cheeks, thin as dry wood, but he is very clever, with a simple set of crime tools in his hand, no matter how tightly set up other people's graves, he can easily open it. There is no one in the Tao who does not admire him.
Since Li Tao released Wang Qi from Jingzhao Yin Mansion, he really kept his promise, washed his hands in a golden basin, married a lady like a flower and jade, and opened a small pawnshop to start a business.
That night, Wang Qi came out of an old friend's house drinking, and suddenly two men in black jumped out of a small alley. They clasped their fists at Wang Qi and said, "Dare to ask Your Excellency, but Wang Qi?" We've been waiting here for a long time, so please come with us!"
Then, I couldn't help but say that one person was holding Wang Qi's arm. Stuff him into a nearby carriage.
"You...... What do you do?" Wang Qi was suddenly so frightened that a layer of cold sweat broke out on his back, and the wine also woke up.
One of them said, "Don't be afraid, our family wants to see you." You'll know when you get there!" As soon as the words fell, another person pulled out a black cloth and blindfolded Wang Qi's eyes.
The carriage passed through the streets, and I don't know how far it had gone. When the car stopped, the two tore off the black cloth covering Wang Qi's eyes and led him into the living room. With a burst of dry laughter, a man spun out from behind a screen. The man was about fifty years old. He is quite fat, with hanging eyebrows and slanted eyes, and two mouse whiskers. It's a cold winter right now. This person has a nervous disorder, and there is a goose feather fan in his hand, the handle of the fan is decorated with seven-colored ruyi beads, and the fan surface has a dragon and phoenix picture wrapped with colorful gold wire. It is also exquisite.
Wang Qizheng looked at the man in a daze. I heard someone shouting behind my back: "Don't hurry up and meet our Lord Liang Quanliang!"
As soon as he heard the name Liang Quan, Wang Qi shivered coldly. He was about to kneel down and salute the fat old man, when Liang Quan let out another dry laugh: "Hahaha, okay, don't be polite." Wang Qi, you should know that my Liang Quan is amazing!"
"Yes, the villain understands." It seems that Wang Qi already knows how powerful this person is. While responding resignedly, he asked cautiously. "My lord, I wonder what you have to tell the little one?"
"Did you kid ask knowingly?" Liang Quan patted Wang Qi's head with the goose feather fan: "I called you here to ask you to steal someone's tomb for me!"
Wang Qi asked, "Whose grave?"
Liang Quandao: "Liu Qing's wife Wang's grave!" Hearing him say that, Wang Qi was stunned again!
So who is Liu Qing? Who is Liang Quan, and why did he ask Wang Qi to rob his wife's grave?
Speaking of this Liang Quan, everyone in Chang'an knows it, and no one knows it. He was originally just a scoundrel in the market, and he liked to hang out with a bunch of loafers, fight, and cheat around. Everyone else knew his scoundrel character, and when they saw him, they all walked around the road. If you want to mention his history, you have to thank Wu Zetian.
Wu Zetian encouraged people from all over the country to whistleblow, and she also ordered the local government to impose protection on the lives of whistleblowers.
There is a craftsman named Yu Jiabao in the capital, who smelled the business opportunity from it, and specially cast a whistleblower box in copper for Wu Zetian, which is divided into four grids, each grid is equipped with an organ, and the whistleblower letter can only be thrown in, not taken out, so as to provide security for the whistleblower. When Wu Zetian saw the box, he was overjoyed, and gave the box the name of the Yujia box, and rewarded the Yujia Bao with 1,000 taels of gold. Liang Quan had a relationship with Yu Jiabao, and when he saw that the surnamed Yu had made a fortune all of a sudden, his eyes immediately turned red, and he went to the door, begging to borrow some money from him to spend it. Yu Jiabao knew that he lent him the money, which was equivalent to a meat bun beating a dog, and there was no return, so he refused to say anything. Liang Quan was annoyed and angry for a while, and secretly threw a letter, falsely claiming that Yu Jiabao was duplicitous, and had built weapons, bows and arrows for Xu Jingye in the past. Wu Zetian got the whistleblower letter and sent someone to search Yu Jiabao's residence, and he really found a few knives. Then Yu Jiabao was arrested and killed, and Wu Zetian rewarded the informant with the gold that was originally awarded to Yu Jiabao, confiscated and gave it to Liang Quan.
After Liang Quan tasted the sweetness of whistleblowing for the first time, he was really happy, and then hired many people to make eyeliner for him with money, specializing in the emerging industry of whistleblowing. After that, he sued several people in a row, and won many rewards, and Wu Zetian also gave him a goose feather fan.
With that money, Liang Quan's prestige and style also have it, he always hugs and shouts on Chang'an Street on weekdays, regardless of spring, summer, autumn and winter, he always holds the goose feather fan that Wu Zetian rewarded him in his hand, showing off everywhere. Although Liang Quan is very secretive about what he does, there is no impermeable wall in the world, and many people know that he started by informing, and seeing him from afar is like encountering a plague god, and he avoids it, for fear of offending him, and the whole family will suffer.
Later, after Wu Zetian's death, Zhongzong became the emperor. Liang Quan knew that it was Empress Wei who had the final say in the court, and he had set up a lot of opponents in secret, and maybe one day if he was not careful, he would be taken off by the enemy. For this reason, he has been thinking about how to please Empress Wei, and who will dare to touch him at that time?
Just as Liang Quan was bothering about how to please Empress Wei, he suddenly remembered something.
There is a big family named Liu Qing in the capital, once his daughter got married, and the family was holding a wedding banquet, Liang Quan saw a Persian merchant offering treasure to Liu Qing in front of all the guests. The Persian merchant said that his ancestor had come to China to do business and bought a Roselle lamp, which came from Cao Zhi during the Three Kingdoms period.
According to legend, Cao Zhi fell in love with one of his brother Cao Pi's concubines, Zhen, after Zhen's death, Cao Zhi was very sad, once rushed back to the fiefdom from the capital, stayed in the boat at night, and in a trance, he saw Concubine Zhen Lingbo coming from afar, and woke up in shock, it turned out to be a dream of Nan Ke. Back in Juancheng, Cao Zhi was still churning in his mind about the encounter with Concubine Zhen Luoshui, so his thoughts were stirred and he wrote a "Luo Shen Fu", composed a tune, and let people sing it. Someone saw that he was always obsessed with Zhen, and specially made a lamp for him, called Roselle lamp. The lamp is made of copper, with a delicate structure and a very ingenious structure. The biggest feature of this lamp is that oil is added to the lamp, and after it is lit, with the swing of the lamp, a woman will slowly appear in the green smoke, waving her sleeves and dancing, which is the same as Zhen's before her death; At the same time, in the fine holes of the copper lamp, there will be a sound, listen carefully, it is the singing of "Luo Shen Fu". Later, Cao Zhi died, and I don't know where this Roselle lamp went...... (To be continued......)