CHAPTER XXIII

A chess array carved on the stone wall, a fierce battle is in full swing in the chess array, one side has a steady chance of winning, and one side has a definite defeat.

There are two lines engraved under the chess array, and those who are not descendants of the Ye family can save their lives by retreating.

In such a place, in such a scene, and seeing such handwriting again, my brain that has been sealed for many years has finally opened up.

The chess array carved on the stone wall is the key to opening the secret door, the secret room in the secret room, and there must be treasures inside.

Curiosity can really kill people, and the thought of turning my head and running away in my heart is like a big mountain, and I am a little out of breath. However, the body stood there honestly, constantly comparing to the stone wall, trying how to solve the dead game above!

My chess skills are not outstanding, but Master Kaimeng is more special, and that is my father.

I don't know if he was bored at the time, or if he felt that it was too embarrassing to have me, a daughter who knew everything about piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and he didn't even bother to look at me, and one day he wanted to teach me to play chess for the first time.

When the girl came to me, I made fun of me when she sat on the swing with the fruit and laughed at her, "Teach me how to play chess!" Not to mention my father's chess skills, even if it is good, it is impossible to teach me to play, it must be someone else, you have heard it. Otherwise, my father has other daughters outside, and I missed my mouth for a while, and you misunderstood me and found me. ”

However, as soon as I said this, I noticed that the girl had a ghostly expression, and following her big frightened eyes, I turned my head and saw my father standing behind me.

My father personally taught me what is the golden horn and silver edge, what is the retreat as the advance, and taught me how to break the formation on the chessboard and how to be in danger.

At that time, I thought that my father had changed his heart and was very happy, but this joy was stifled in less than half a month, and I became the daughter who did not succeed in his eyes.

The more I compared the chess array on the stone wall, the more familiar it became, and finally I remembered the past that had been sealed for many years from my distant and vague memory.

This chess formation is called the Silver Snake Formation, and my father once ordered me to break the formation within three days, otherwise I would kneel in the ancestral hall and think about it for three days and memorize ten chapters of chess.

According to my talent for learning chess, kneeling in the ancestral hall rose from three days to six days, and a pair of legs kneeling black and black, and the long needle of sewing a sack pierced into it without any sense.

That feeling is very wonderful, seeing that it is clearly piercing himself, but there is a feeling in his heart as if he is piercing others, and he has been lying in bed for several days after leaving the ancestral hall before he has some vague consciousness.

I picked up a small piece of stone from the ground and carved the side with water chestnuts on the stone wall.

The so-called silver snake array is to compare Baizi to a silver snake, when the prey is tightly entangled by the snake, the prey has become a defeat, and no matter how hard it is, it can't be broken.

On the chessboard, the white son is like a snake, and it is encircled and suppressed on the level of the sunspot's formation, whether it is from the number or from the perspective of the formation, within five moves, the sunspot will lose the whole game.

And the key to opening the stone wall should be to crack the silver snake array, make a gap in the white zi, and help the black son turn defeat into victory.

The sound of stones carving on the stone wall echoed in the quiet dark passage, and the empty dark passage "Zi Zi La!" The voice was swinging around, and in a trance, the sound seemed to be divided into two, as if someone was taking over from me in the darkness with no end in sight, and the voice echoed in the ears one high and one low, making people panic in their hearts.

When I finished carving the last sunspot, I only heard the sound of the mechanism turning around me, I took a few steps back, only to see the stone wall began to shake, the heavy stone wall slowly pushed to the side, and for a while the dust flew in the dark passage, and a bright light and fragrance came out of the secret room.

In the secret room, the fragrance is rich, the purple smoke is filled, and in the center is placed a five-clawed golden dragon relief Nanmu offering table, on the table is a basin-sized three-legged gold incense burner, and the incense burner is immortal incense.

Immortal incense is a tribute to the vassal country of the martyrdom, this incense is precious, it is difficult to reach ten thousand gold, and it takes a whole month to burn one. There is only half of the incense left in front of me, and the calculation time should have been lit half a month ago.

Behind the incense burner there was a big gold card, the spirit card was unusual, just the few golden words on it startled my hamstrings, almost kneeling in front of it.

It reads the throne of the Great Sage Emperor of the First Emperor Bunraku.

Although I am not good at piano and chess, I don't understand calligraphy and painting, and I was praised by my father as a waste wood among waste firewood, but I still know the name of the Great Sage Emperor of Bunraku.

The Great Sage Emperor of Bunraku was the thirteenth emperor of the former dynasty Yasukuni, Emperor Lexu.

When this land was still part of the Yasukuni era, several great events took place.

People always say that good things come in pairs, but they don't know that God also likes a series of bad things, Emperor Lexu ascended the throne at the age of thirteen, and encountered a series of problems in less than half a year after succeeding to the throne.

The plague in the south of the Yangtze River broke out suddenly, and the five poisons in Jiangdong were rampant. At the same time, there was a great drought in the north of the Yangtze River, and nearly 100,000 people in five counties in three provinces starved to death. The Ming king, who was guarding Jiangxi, took the opportunity to unite with the vassal king to rebel, waved his troops south, and killed all the way to the gate of Kyoto.

The war was sudden, and there were only less than 50,000 troops in Kyoto at that time, plus the palace guards, and some of the strong and strong fathers-in-law who knew a little kung fu were counted as just 50,000 people, but at that time, the King of Light alone had 90,000 male soldiers, and he was replaced by other vassal kings.

These things seem to be deliberately trying to embarrass Emperor Lexu, and the front and back feet have erupted, if they fall on the heads of other emperors, hearing this series of urgent reports, they would have been anxious to wipe their necks and pick them up.

The so-called people can't look good is true, at that time, Emperor Lexu was less than fourteen years old, and in the eyes of the uncles of King Ming, he was a naked yellow-mouthed child, but no one thought that this yellow-mouthed child, who was less than six feet tall, really had the ability to kill and kill, and the danger was repeated.

Emperor Lexu first asked the soldiers to guard the gate of Kyoto, no matter how the battle outside the door was not to fight, after several days, he stole their grain and grass while he was unprepared, and did not transport it to Beijing, pushing the grain cart to the north, directly solving the great drought in Jiangbei.

In the hungry shouting and scolding of the anti-thieves, Emperor Lexu asked people to set up a big pot on the city platform, stewed hundreds of chickens, and roasted a few fat sheep, which is not counted, and let people specially build a few three-foot-long pu fans, so that the soldiers on the city platform took turns to fan the fire next to the cauldron, and the greedy rebels scolded their mothers.

The soldiers lay on the city platform, holding big chicken legs and gnawing mutton as if watching the play, watching them scolding angrily, and from time to time they shouted good, and when they got up, they threw a smooth bone stick as a silver reward.

Ten days after King Ming's army ran out of food, Emperor Lexu found the right time, and the rebels were caught off guard by a large number of soldiers, and they were defeated. King Ming and the vassal king were captured alive, Emperor Lexu stabbed King Ming in front of the vassal king, the vassal king was frightened, bowed his head to the minister, offered all the family property, and sent his son to Beijing as a proton.

Emperor Lexu divided the family property offered by the vassal king into two batches, one went to Jiangnan to cure the plague, and the other went to Jiangdong to eliminate the five poisons.

For the emperor, the fear in the hearts of the people is greater than admiration, and Emperor Lexu is an exception, when it comes to him, he praises and admires, and even the flowers that sing on the street are singing the great achievements of Emperor Lexu all day long, which shows that he has won the hearts of the people.

At that time, Mrs. Wen just missaid a poem that was not outstanding in the previous dynasty, so he was imprisoned and the He family was slaughtered.

Although the emperor has been caring for the Ye Mansion, if he knows that he has been favored by his benefactor for so many years, he is actually supporting the first emperor of the previous dynasty!

No matter how merciful he is, no matter how lightly he treats it, I think Ye Mansion is a short-tailed rat and will want to run out alive.

This is good, which one lacks the heart to offer the tablet of the Great Sage Emperor of Bunraku in the Ye Mansion! If someone finds out..........

The more I think about it, the more desolate I feel in my heart, and the future is bleak!

I don't know if it's the thin air in the dark passage, or I'm a little upset in my heart, my chest is stuffy for a while, and my eyes are a little dizzy, I hold the five-clawed golden dragon relief Nanmu offering table and barely standing, the offering table is exquisitely made, but the golden dragon's claws are too hard, and my hands are distressed.

Before I could change the place to help, I felt the protruding dragon claws under the palm of my hand suddenly sink down, and I only heard "Click!" With a bang, my clenched heart sank with the dragon's claws.

Mother, why is my luck like this today, stepping on a mechanism in one step, and the mechanisms in this secret passage are all tailor-made for me!

All I heard was "Buzz!" coming from overhead. "The sound of vibration, at first it was like a wasp flapping its wings, and then it was louder than the hum of dry thunder, and I subconsciously retreated to the corner and watched a dragon head descend from the top floor of the secret room.

Although there is only one dragon head, but the dragon head is extremely spectacular, if the two big stone lions in front of my Ye Mansion are tied together, it is not half the size of the one in front of you.

The dragon's head stopped in the middle of it, and I circled around the grinning dragon's head, and saw a sealed box in the dragon's mouth.

Kongming box is a masterpiece invented by Zhuge Xianshi, the box is made of Xuanjin iron, the thickness of the box is not three fingers but also has more than four fingers, the box is tight and seamless, only the top of the box has a special concave shape, if you want to open the box, put the fixed token into it, and the box will be opened.

Otherwise, even if you use all the eighteen weapons, you don't want to pry open a crack.

I wasn't interested in what was in the box, but I happened to catch a glimpse of the concave shape on the box, and on the top of the swarthy box, a palm-sized lock was concave.

Even if I didn't have my years of experience in making jade, I recognized what the unboxed token was.

I put the corner stone jade lock I had been wearing on the box on the box, no more than an inch, no more than an inch, no less, the mold fits very well, just listen to "click!" With a bang, a crack opened in the dark Kong Ming box, and a trace of five-colored halo appeared in the gap.

At this point, it was unrealistic to say that I wanted to turn around and leave, and I opened the box with a lot of money, and there was a bowl size and a four-inch seal in it.

The whole body of the seal is as crystal clear as white jade, but it ....... It doesn't seem to be a white jade, and there is a majestic five-clawed golden dragon with teeth and claws hovering over the seal. Through the light, you can clearly see the lines of the scales on the golden dragon's body.

I turned the seal upside down, and engraved eight big characters on it, God bestows divine power, longevity and Yongchang, and a few small characters are written next to the big characters, the founding of the Yuan Dynasty in March, the early years of the emperor's reign.

These words are very strange, and the more I think about them, the more strange they become. I looked at the spirit card in front of me, and then looked down at the big seal in my hand, and a creepy guess gradually came to mind.

This............. Isn't it the palace and the rivers and lakes that have always sent people to find the crazy founding jade seal!!

This speculation made my heart tremble, almost threw the big seal out, I trembled my hands and carefully put the big seal back into the Kongming box, but I didn't dare to hold it in my hand, although I don't know why I saw the legendary founding jade seal here, but accidentally touched a little brittle, not the emperor's decree, I myself have to wash the neck to make amends to Emperor Lexu.

Just as I was about to close the lid again, it suddenly went dark in front of me, and the torches and candles around me were suddenly extinguished, and before I could react, I felt a breeze blowing, and the wind was mixed with a hint of familiar sweetness, only for a moment the sweetness was gone, and there was only the smell of immortal incense in the secret room.

I held my heartstrings, fumbled for the firebox and lit the candle again, and almost screamed in horror as soon as I turned around.

The Kongming box was empty, and the founding jade seal was gone!!!

I was stunned for a long time, but finally reacted and rushed outside with a lighted torch.

When I got to the door of the secret room, the five* eye stones were already deep in the wall.

My heart sank suddenly, and I turned my eyes to see that the door of the secret room had been opened.

Outside the study, the fire was glittering, and the fierce fighting of swords pierced through what should have been a quiet night. I hurriedly ran out, only to see several groups of people surrounded in the courtyard, like ripples in the center of a lake, and in the center of the ripples was a masked man.

Ripples poured towards the center layer by layer, and the swords collided with each other with a crisp "bang" sound, and the crisp killing tore through the quiet night.

The maid in the neighborhood shrunk her head and bent her waist away from the battlefield, her agile posture and speed were the first time I had seen them in many years.

When the old lady in my mother's room saw me, she didn't ask me why I was dressed like this, why I was standing here, and pulled me to the inner courtyard to hide.

She trembled in a voice that couldn't shake anymore, and comforted me with a forced smile, "Miss, don't be afraid, the thief who came from nowhere is so bold, you go to Madame to hide, there is a nursing home here, it will be fine!" ”

My mother was also awakened, standing at the window with her clothes on, looking out, and when she saw me coming, she breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It's finally here!" It's finally here! Don't be afraid........ Don't be afraid of ......, there is a mother! ”

I nodded, and plunged deep into my mother's arms, "Mother, I'm in trouble." ”

"Madame!"

I buried myself in my mother's arms and didn't look up, only to hear my mother's happy response.

"Master, you're back!"

I stood aside, low eyes and didn't dare to look at people, my mother only when I was frightened, heard the words to comfort me, my father looked at me, gave Cai Su a look, Cai Su after the meeting and then retreated with a group of little maids in the house.

When everyone was gone, I heard my father talking to me, "Zhen'er, look up at Dad." ”

When I looked up, I saw my father say, "You are the one who opened the secret room, right?" ”

There was a tone of affirmation in those words, not in the slightest as if they were asking me.

I nodded, and he asked again, "Is it possible that the contents of the Kong Ming box have been stolen?" ”

I nodded again, and my father stopped asking me, but fell into deep thought, and at the same time there was a sudden knock on the door outside, only to hear someone shouting outside the door, "Master, a few more masked thieves have come and rescued the little thief!" ”