11. The old things of Kaiyuan • Three-legged golden crow
Han Dang stopped in front of the female corpse and turned around. Long. He smiled bitterly, and there seemed to be a hint of apology in that smile, probably sorry for Xian Yuyan. When Xian Yuyan rashly approached this female corpse, he was full of karma, and he still remembers it.
He sighed, and finally made up his mind.
"She's called Rabbit. He looked at the two of them and said, like introducing his sweetheart to an old friend.
"My brother and I lost our father when we were young, and after my mother remarried, we lived in my uncle's house, who was an ordinary jade worker in Lantian and not a famous craftsman, and his income was always meager. In order to help the family, my brother went to work in the jade workshop at the age of twelve or thirteen.
My aunt has to work every day, and she can't take care of me at all. At that time, I was thin and small, and boys my age always bullied me. I'm just wandering around the village by myself. Later, I found out that there was a school in a dilapidated temple outside the village, where a young Xiucai taught some children from poor families to read.
That Xiu has a little daughter, that is, Rabbit, she is two years older than me, very innocent and kind. ”
It turned out that this girl who seemed to be eighteen or nineteen years old was two years older than Han Dang, and if she lived until now, she would be an old lady who was close to her sixtieth birthday. The two of them thought about it, and looked at the rabbit in the freezer, and couldn't help but feel that there was something absurd and funny.
"Since then, I have been running to the ruined temple every day, listening to the showman and playing with the rabbits. It's a pity that creation makes people. After three or five years, when I was twelve or thirteen years old, Rabbit's father had to be in the middle of the flower, and he was released to Wanzhou to make a general judgment, and soon left his hometown with his family to take up his post. At that time, I didn't know about the fame and fortune of adults, and I was very happy to see his family, but I was very sad, I was reluctant to give up the rabbit, and the rabbit was reluctant to give up on me. She sewed a rabbit for me from the scraps of fabric that her mother had left over from her clothes. ”
Xian Yuyan has seen it, Han Dang often makes a small ragdoll rabbit, it looks like it is indeed old, and it has lost its original color.
"For the first year or so, I cried every day. Later, I couldn't help but think that I would probably never see her again in my life. When I grew up and began to understand the impermanence of the world, I met her again. ”
At this point, Han Dang fell into a long silence, as if he was thinking about whether he should continue to speak, or just let everything be drowned.
After a while, he finally spoke again: "When I saw her again, it was already six years later, about the seventh year of Kaiyuan, and nearly forty years have passed now. At that time, I was already a small apprentice in the Right Kinwuwei. By chance, I saw her outside a flower building. She was coming out of a richly decorated sedan chair and into the flower building. She was already very gorgeous, and she wore a lot of jewels and jewelry. But I'm sure that's what I see. ”
The two who listened glanced at each other again, and understood Han Dang's hidden intentions in their hearts.
"Naturally, I tried my best to get close to her. I realized that there was such a big change back then. Just when her father was on his way to Wanzhou with his family, he met a group of mountain bandits when he passed through Bashu. Her parents and two-year-old brother were killed, leaving her sold to a brothel. After several rounds, it was sold to Chang'an.
I didn't care about that, and she knew I didn't. But at that time, I was just a small apprentice, and my brother had just entered Shaofu Temple, and his income was meager, and he couldn't raise money to redeem her.
Once, when we met, she inadvertently told me that one of her benefactors, a general of the Right Jin Wuwei, once drunk and babbled, saying that she had contacted a prince and wanted to achieve something great, and that she would be redeemed in the future, and she would be included in the palace as a concubine, and give her a lifetime of wealth. I was young and vigorous at the time, and I was angry that she said this, probably because I couldn't raise money to ransom her.
Actually, at that time, I was in a humble position, and I had never met the general of the Right Jin Wuwei. When I first met him, I followed my master and went to perform an autopsy on him. At that time, my master examined for a long time, but did not find any clues, so he decided that he had a heart attack. The deceased's home was buried according to the ceremony, and there was no suspicion.
There was always a trace of worry in my heart, so I went to the flower house where the rabbit was overnight. Who knows, but the old bustard said that the rabbit died last night, and he was dragged to the mass grave in the east of the city early in the morning.
I sat down on the ground and didn't come back to my senses for a long time. I hate it so much in my heart, I hate the sky for making people, and I hate myself for not having the ability. I felt powerless, as if a little dust could crush me to death.
I sat slumped outside the flower building, and my mind was blank. It wasn't until the wee hours of the morning that he stumbled out of there, returned to the right Jin Wuwei, found a horse, and went out of the city with Jin Wuwei's waist card. I know that more than 30 miles east of the city, there is indeed a mass grave.
Rabbit, really there. I checked and there were no signs of trauma or poisoning on her body. I don't know what to do, no direction, no measure. I felt like I was dead.
In the end, I picked the rabbit on the horse and took her to a place.
When we were very young, we found two caves in a col in Lam Tin while playing. One of the caves, the cave is agitated by cold winds all the year round, and no one can enter, and in a cave next to it, like a crystal palace, it is full of thousands of years of cold ice, which does not melt all year round.
I took the rabbit to the ice cave.
I began to study all the medical arts, and I learned a lot about the skills of autopsy, as well as alms, witchcraft, medical poison pharmacology, and Qimen Dunjia. I believe that the death of the rabbit and the right Jingo general will not be so simple.
Three years later, the more I learned, the more desperate I became. Because rabbits really seem to die of natural causes, there are no signs of internal and external injuries and poisoning.
In the end, I had to take a risk. I stole the tomb of General Youjin Wuwei. Over the course of three years, the general's bones had rotted. Luckily, I found a steel needle inside his skull. The steel needle entered the brain two inches, and it was still tightly embedded in the bone.
It dawned on me. For three years, the rabbit's body had remained in the ice cave, and I couldn't bear to destroy her hair. It's embarrassing to break the truth. I asked my brother to help me carve this little Sinan, and with the help of it, I also took out a similar steel needle from the rabbit's head.
I have probably recovered the circumstances of the case at that time, and someone must have used an extremely powerful * on the two of them, perhaps it was a long-boiled hemp boiling powder, and then a steel needle was inserted, causing the person to die silently. Generally, if there is no scar on the head after an autopsy, it is difficult to think of a craniotomy. ”
After Han Dang finished speaking, he couldn't help but raise his head, and he didn't speak for a long time. Three people, silent.
However, Guo Yu could see that Han Dang seemed to be much more relaxed all of a sudden, and his cold face gradually relaxed. Yes, what a pleasure it would be to remove the boulder that has been weighing on my heart for decades.
"This matter, I have always hidden it in the bottom of my heart, I dare not say it, even if I do the position of the right street envoy of Jin Wuwei, I know that with my strength, it is difficult to publicly picket this secret case. Therefore, over the years, I have been secretly paying attention to the visit, but I have never encountered a steel needle murder incident.
It wasn't until later that Tian Mosang happened. In fact, there are very few people who know that I have done a job. On the surface, I deliberately allowed Jin Wuwei's pretense to inspect indiscriminately, and I used the personal relationship of the Wada family to secretly inspect the body. I'm sure that Tian Mosang's death and Rabbit's death were done by the same group of people.
I was both delighted and shocked, and at the same time filled with fear. I remained indifferent, pretended not to know, and let the situation develop, because only if the situation continued to expand, the forces in the shadows would become clearer, and stronger forces would come out to fight against them. Otherwise, with only my strength, it will be difficult to avenge the rabbit in this life.
Knowing that Guo Gongzi also intervened in this case, I am still very relieved. When I was having dinner at the Picking Flowers Building, I kept thinking about whether I should tell you about it. I'm getting older, and many things don't go my way anymore. I can only gamble, or this big secret may have to be carried into the coffin. ”
After Han Dang finished speaking, he finally showed a smile and looked at Guo Xuan.
Guo Hua saw Han Dang laughing, thinking that he could finally breathe a sigh of relief. He is a person who loves to laugh, and the depressing atmosphere just now really made him breathe.
Guo Yu also smiled slightly, smiling very gently and cutely, it is rare for a man to smile like this. He asked vaguely, "So, Brother Han must have discovered something over the years, right?"
Han Dang sighed and replied, "This, it's a shame to say. For decades, although I have been searching for clues about the group of people who plotted the uprising, I have not made any substantial progress, as if they never existed. Sometimes, I even want to give up. So far, all I've had is speculation. I guess that this group of forces may be related to Bian Lingcheng, that is, the Bian Lingcheng who forced Gao Xianzhi and Feng Changqing in Tongguan, after the fall of Tongguan, he was also taken away by the rebels, and a few days ago the court received a report that Bian Lingcheng was arrested again, and now he is being detained in the former army camp. ”
When Guo Yu heard him mention Bian Lingcheng, he was shocked, could it be that Han had really made some amazing discoveries!
Xian Yuyan was suddenly blinded. Although there were no newspapers and radio stations in ancient times, after local affairs were reported to the imperial court, they would sort out categories and draw up articles and send them to officials at all levels to read and read them to know the affairs of the world. Bian Lingcheng's killing of Gao Xianzhi and Feng Changqing had already spread throughout the capital, and Xian Yuyan naturally knew about it. After seeing Bian Lingcheng being caught, Chen scolded the dog thief in his heart, and put it down, where would Xian Yuyan have thought that Ling Cheng here would be involved in several secret cases.
"Bian Lingcheng, will it have something to do with these secret cases? Impossible! In the seventh year of Kaiyuan, I am afraid that he was still wearing open crotch pants, he has been imprisoned in the rebels for the past few years, how could he come to Chang'an to commit crimes?" Xian Yuyan was a little anxious, after all, it felt uncomfortable to be regarded as a big-headed mosquito, and he hurriedly said the question in his heart.
Guo Yu saw that Xian Yuyan asked first, and also cast a questioning glance at Han Dang.
"Let's go, let's go up. It's too cold underground. After Han Dang finished speaking, he led the two of them and took the torch out of the ice cave. When I came out, Qibao was not there, probably I had been waiting for a long time, and I went to the front hall to find someone to relieve my boredom. simply didn't look for him, the three of them entered Han Dang's residence, and there was a small secret room inside, and Han Dang led the two into the secret room.
Han Dang took out the steel needle taken out of the skull of Yuwen father and son, put it on the table, and took out a small bright bamboo tube that was rubbed. Guo Xuan, who couldn't help but look at it, was surprised in his heart, and he couldn't imagine that Han Dang's gadgets were no less than his own.
But he saw Han Dang open the bamboo tube and poured out two steel needles, the shape and size were exactly the same as the two that killed Yuwen and his son, but they were brighter. It seems that in the past few decades, Han Dang has often twisted and looked at these two steel needles.
"This is the steel needle that killed the rabbit and the general Jin Wuwei, the same one used in the past few days. Look?" Han Dang finished speaking, and handed the needle to the two of them, and replaced two crystal balls the size of peaches.
The two of them understood, under the crystal ball, the steel needles looked like the thickness of a thumb, and they looked at the four steel needles in turn, and found that they were not only the same size and shape, but also engraved with patterns.
But when I saw the tail of several steel needles, they were all engraved with the same figure: a dragon and a phoenix, circling and flying around a crow, and there were clouds and glow, and when I looked closely, I saw that the crow had three legs. The picture on the steel needle is clearly recognizable, and the engraving on such a small steel needle does not know what method to use, which makes people wonder.
The time difference between the appearance of these four steel needles is nearly forty years, and each time they appear is used to kill people, it should not be the work of some needle-making shop to show off their craftsmanship, but to carve these figures on the needle. These marks, most likely, belong to some extremely secretive and ancient organization, and these steel needles are their tools for secret killing.
The three-legged crow, also known as the three-legged golden crow, is a symbol of the sun. Legend has it that the sun is the son of Emperor Jun and Xihe, and the incarnation of the Golden Crow. Since the opening of the world in Pangu, the ancestors have the custom of worshiping the sun, and it is widely spread, so far, the various tribes of Yidi and Jiuli Baiyue in Huaxia have the tradition of sun worship, they either take the sun as a totem, or take the incarnation of the sun as the totem, and so on.
Most of the monarchs of the Li Tang Dynasty were generous and benevolent, and all ethnic groups lived in harmony and peace, among which there were not a few ethnic groups with the sun or golden crow as their totems.
How could Han Dang judge that this golden black steel needle was related to Bian Lingcheng? It seems that Han Dang has really put a lot of effort into it in the past few decades.