Chapter 17: The Jade Pendant (2)
"I want to think about how to avenge my mother." Tong Hang grabbed Xiaocui's hand and said softly: "When you take revenge, I will take you to the capital to check my life experience and find my father." At that time, we won't have to be this scared boy and young lady. β
Xiao Cui retracted her hand a few times, but did not shrink it, so she let Tong Hang pull it, and when she heard Tong Hang's words, she couldn't help but say, "Background? I don't know if you can tell your background from what you put here with me before. β
When Tong Hang heard this, he hurriedly let go of his hand and urged: "Show it to me!" β
Xiao Cui hurriedly got up and walked to the head of the bed, opened the large wooden cabinet against the wall, took out a vermilion package from it, walked over, and handed it to Tong Hang.
"Close the door, it's a little dark in the room, light the candles." Tong Hang said as he opened the package.
After Xiaocui closed the door and latched, she came over and lit a candle, and sat down next to Tong Hang, her heart fluttering. It was the first time she sat so close to the awake Tong Hang, and she felt that her face was starting to heat up. When he used to sit so close to him, it was when he came back from Haizhou and was lying on the bed with an injury, when he was in a coma, and he secretly touched his lips with his lips......
Tong Hang picked up a jade pendant from the inside, this jade pendant is very fine workmanship, and it is also very warm to start, it is a good jade. The thin white water-like pattern on it is vivid. Flip it over, and there is a traditional Chinese text in regular script on it "Mixed Hall Si Chen". Mixed Mess Chen? What do you mean? What does this imply to me? What does this have to do with my background?
Xiao Cui saw Tong Hang staring blankly at the jade pendant, and she reminded in a low voice: "The jade pendant belongs to the deaf uncle." You forgot, that time when Steward Li asked someone to bury his deaf uncle, you secretly turned it out of him and left it. When you gave it to me, you told me the origin of this jade pendant. β
"The origin of the jade pendant?" It turns out that this jade pendant is not his own.
"Isn't there four words on this?" Xiao Cui pointed to those four words and said: "This mixed hall division refers to a yamen who is in charge of bathing, and Chen refers to the deaf uncle's surname Chen." This jade pendant is an identity. β
"What kind of yamen is this? Do you still care about people's baths? β
"I haven't heard of it either. It's just that you told me this at the time, oh, yes, you also said at the time that what Sister Qiu'er said was right, this deaf uncle is a father-in-law. β
"Mixed Tang Division, surnamed Chen, father-in-law ......" Tong Hang muttered silently. The yamen in charge of bathing in the mixed hall, this kind of yamen can only be found in the palace, and it is impossible for the prince's mansion to have it. It seems that this deaf uncle is from the palace, and his life experience may be related to the Forbidden City.
"And a jade pendant." Tong Hang found a bright yellow dragon-faced jade pendant, and the surrounding colorful auspicious clouds came to life.
"This is a dragon?" Xiao Cui covered her mouth and looked at Tong Hang with frightened eyes.
"You haven't seen it before?" Tong Hang was surprised by Xiao Cui's surprise, didn't this girl open the package all along?
Xiao Cui nodded straight and whispered in a trembling voice: "You said that there are very important things in it, and you can't let others see it, and I can't peek at it, and I will look at it for a while...... Lose your head. Originally...... It's true...... Yes. β
Tong Hang slowly flipped this jade pendant, and the reverse side was also four words "praying for heaven and town", but these four words were not traditional scripts, but seals. Pray for heaven and town? What kind of yamen is Qitian Town? Isn't the yamen a place? Bang, what kind of surname is this?
"Pray for heaven and town......" Xiao Cui said in a low voice. She's also confused, what does that mean? She was born as a girl, and she really didn't understand what it meant, and she almost couldn't read these four words completely.
"What else is missing?" Tong Hang continued to rummage and found that except for the most meaningful jade pendant, the others were all small ornaments with no special meaning.
"Everything is in this package, you don't have anything else to give."
"Oh, that's not what I meant. You girl be careful, help me go through these little things carefully, and see if there are any special patterns on them, or fonts or something. β
When Xiao Cui heard this, she hurriedly followed suit.
After a while, I heard Xiao Cui's voice. Tong Hang hurriedly looked up and saw Xiaocui fiddling with a small ornament.
"What?" Tong Hang asked, "Isn't it a little unicorn?" β
"It's a little unicorn, there seems to be something wrong." Xiao Cui shook her head and said, "I can't say it." β
"What's wrong? Don't rush, take your time, we can always see it. "Tong Hang knows that he can't eat hot tofu in a hurry, ancient people are good at mechanics, and some things have to be pondered slowly.
I don't know how long it took, the candles were changed several times, and Tong Hang carefully looked through the other trinkets several times. Looking up at Xiao Cui, she was still fiddling with the little unicorn.
"Come, tell me what's wrong." Tong Hang put away the other things, stretched out his hand to Xiao Cui and said, "Come, give it to me." β
Xiao Cui handed the little unicorn to Tong Hang, pointed to the belly of the little unicorn and said, "You look at the belly, there are two pieces of gold wrapped from the top, and they are not interlocked below, and they look inside from the bottom, and there seems to be something inside." These two pieces of gold can be pulled a little bit, and it seems that this piece of gold is moving. It can't be completely unwrenched, something must be holding it back. β
"Well, that's good." Tong Hang couldn't help but glance at this smart girl and said, "The mechanism shouldn't be difficult to find." β
Seeing Tong Hang twisting the little unicorn's head, Xiao Cui smiled and said, "I have twisted it several times, and later I found that the skeleton of this head and body is the same, and it can't be twisted at all." β
Tong Hang smiled and twisted the tail of the little unicorn again. It can't be opened, and it doesn't seem to be. Eye? Press, no movement, not really. Leg? Tong Hang hurriedly pushed and pulled the four legs of the little unicorn, not moving, and it was not open. What's that?
Tong Hang and Xiao Cui looked at each other, staring at the little unicorn carefully.
Head...... Neck...... Eye...... Tail...... Leg...... Ear...... What else? Tong Hang turned the little unicorn. Hey, what's in the mouth of this little unicorn? Tongue? Why is the tongue sticking out a little bit? Try it! Tong Hang pulled it with his hand, hey, it's a ribbon wrapped? A small knot was tied in the lips. If you don't have a wrench, pull it and try it. As soon as I pulled it, I heard a "click", and the two pieces of gold bounced open in half, and a square column stretched out from inside. Tong Hang looked at the pillar and found that the ground of the pillar was a seal in traditional script. There are two words on it, "Orthodox".
"Orthodoxy?"
Xiaocui listened to Tong Hang read these two words, and said busily: "I know this, orthodoxy is the name of our Ming Dynasty, and this year is the third year of orthodoxy." β
Orthodox three years? Tong Hang's brain flashed, and he realized that it was not Emperor Yingzong who used the orthodox era name of the Ming Dynasty? I remember that the history teacher said that this was the only emperor in the history of the Ming Dynasty who ascended the throne twice. This emperor's name is Zhu ...... Cinnabar...... Qizhen, yes, that's right, it's called Zhu Qizhen. Hey, Qitian Zhenbang originally implied the name of Zhu Qizhen. Think about it again, call yourself Niu Ba, Niu Ba? Niu Hachi! Hehe, isn't that a Zhu character taken apart and read? So, I'm Zhu Qizhen? How am I not in the palace, how can I be outside? Was there a coup d'Γ©tat? Oh, in ancient times, it was not called a coup d'Γ©tat, it was called a palace d'Γ©tat. Could it be that the palace has changed? I'm on the run? β¦β¦
Finding out that he was the emperor, Tong Hang couldn't help but be pleasantly surprised. Haha, Emperor!? It's mine, I'm going to get it back! Daming, brother is here......
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