Chapter 8: The Secret

Jiang Zhengxin was just lamenting that the blind boy still had some skills, and he actually knew about the connection between her family's ancestral tomb and the emperor's tomb. And he also guessed the true background of the Tearless Building, and made her have to fetch things for him in the form of a bet.

At that time, Jiang Zhengxin participated in the design of the imperial mausoleum organs, and had several encounters with some craftsmen who built underground palaces. She knew that these craftsmen and many palace people would need to die after the emperor's death. Because she couldn't bear those innocent deaths, she asked the craftsman to secretly open a secret passage between the emperor's tomb and the Jiang family's mausoleum, which was closer to the emperor's tomb, when building the underground palace, and escaped with others after the underground palace was sealed.

The blind boy obviously knew that the entrance to the dungeon and the front hall were not only densely packed with mechanisms, but also poisonous barriers and mercury, so entering through the secret passage of her house was the easiest and safest way. He asked her to dig two graves together, and the actual purpose was only in the emperor's tomb.

In fact, Jiang Zhengxin is not afraid of digging her ancestral grave at all, because her ancestral grave is actually an empty grave. When the emperor was short of money to fight, Guan Jiang Zhengyu borrowed a large amount of silver to solve his urgent need. Jiang Zhengyu knew that the first emperor couldn't afford to pay it back, so he generously said that he didn't need to pay it back, and he should contribute to the country. So the emperor mistakenly thought that Jiang Zhengyu was a patriotic and righteous man, and not only rewarded him, but also posthumously crowned his ancestor as the king. In order to show honor, he opened a piece of feng shui treasure land on the edge of the emperor's tomb and gave it to the Jiang family. But Jiang Zhengyu has no parents in this life, so he can only find two old clothes that he doesn't wear and forge a clothes mound, so that he can be regarded as fooling this matter.

The emperor used a false name in exchange for a large sum of silver, and he was very happy. But Jiang Zhengyu has been obsessed with this matter for a long time, and he never thought that giving away money would cause so much trouble.

Now there is nothing in the Jiang family's ancestral tomb except Jiang Zhengyu's two stinky clothes, because Jiang Zhengxin has no reverence for the ancestral tomb, he digs it if he wants to, and enters it if he wants to. But the guards were deeply shocked, thinking that this little girl took more than 20 fierce men into her ancestral tomb with great fanfare, and she didn't even kneel or worship, which was really inhumane. But they didn't dare to say much, because the regent had instructed that no matter what amazing actions he saw this little girl do, he should be calm and calm, and he should not lose face. The guards all pretended to be indifferent, and strode into the tomb with Jiang Zhengxin.

At that time, the exit of the secret passage was sealed by Jiang Zhengxin, so she quickly found the location of the seal, and let the guards chisel open the sealed soil, and a dark hole appeared in front of everyone.

Jiang Zhengxin immediately changed his expression of surprise and took out the words he had prepared in advance: "Oh my God, why is there a hole here?" Could it be the grave robbers? No wonder the tomb of my Jiang family was empty at this time, and all the treasures dedicated to my ancestors had disappeared. These grave robbers are so hateful! ”

After speaking, she turned her head to look at Luan Shu and the others, but she didn't expect that they all didn't change their faces and didn't react.

Jiang Zhengxin led everyone to walk in the secret passage for a long time and finally entered the underground palace. When she arrived at the entrance of the dungeon, she hurriedly pretended to be indignant and said: "It's terrible, it turns out that these tomb robbers covet the treasures of the first emperor, so they opened this secret passage from my ancestral tomb to sneak into the dungeon, which is really rebellious and extremely shameful!" ”

After speaking, she looked at everyone's reactions again, but she didn't expect that everyone was still expressionless.

Jiang Zhengxin secretly sighed: It is worthy of being the person next to Liyuan, and when he sees this, he can not change his face, which is amazing. If you don't have an expression, you don't have an expression, just don't go and sue Liyuan. Even if you can't guess that I let all the martyrs go, Liyuan can definitely guess what good I did.

After dismantling four or five mechanisms along the way, everyone finally entered the hall where the coffin of the former emperor was placed.

Then Jiang Zhengxin saw a scene that made her cry and laugh, there were countless treasures in the hall, all of which were well placed there, without any traces of being touched, and it was clear that this secret passage was not done by tomb robbers.

At the beginning, Jiang Zhengxin had asked those martyrs to take the treasures away, and if they could not make a living for a while after escaping, they could still make a living. Unexpectedly, those martyrs were grateful to Jiang Zhengxin for saving his life, and they didn't take a single treasure with them when they fled. They were afraid that if something happened, all the treasures would be there, at least they would not add to Jiang Zhengxin's crimes.

Now Jiang Zhengxin was powerless to explain, and he didn't have the heart to see everyone's reaction, so he embarrassedly ordered everyone to look for the iron box in the hall.

While everyone was looking for the iron box, Jiang Zhengxin raised the torch and carefully looked at the words engraved on the stone wall, hoping to find clues about the iron box. The text records the lifelong exploits of Emperor Wu of the Ming Dynasty, most of which Jiang Zhengxin has heard of, and only one has heard of it. It turned out that Emperor Wu of the Ming Dynasty had not only fought in other countries, but also quelled civil strife. When Yaoguo and Kui were at war that year, Emperor Wu of the Ming Dynasty, who was busy with the war, did not realize that the martial arts power was gradually rising, and it was strong enough to compete with the imperial court. The martial arts overlord Hanxian Palace secretly gathered forces from all sides in an attempt to subvert the imperial power. Fortunately, Gu Yanjiao informed the conspiracy in time and assisted the imperial court in exterminating the Hanxian Palace, so that the civil strife could be quelled.

Jiang Zhengxin knew very little about the affairs of the rivers and lakes, but she thought that since Emperor Mingwu recorded this civil strife, it should also be a lot of bloodshed.

After carefully searching in the dungeon for a week, they did not find the iron box.

Luan Shu was a little angry, and reprimanded his subordinates: "Have you found it well?" Look for it again! ”

Jiang Zhengxin had already guessed that although this iron box sounded ordinary, it would never be easily found by them, so she brought Xiao Tao.

Xiao Tao has been by Jiang Zhengxin's side for so many years, if there is anything she has learned, it is to slip the door and pick the lock and turn the somersault, and the eaves and walls to play with the spear. Now in this dungeon, it is just the right time to use its skills.

Jiang Zhengxin touched Xiao Tao's head and said to it, "You go up and have a look." ”

She thought that since there was no one below, she could only go to the top of the hall to take a look. It's good if you can find it above, but if you can't find it, the iron box may really be brought into the coffin by Emperor Ming Wu. If that's the case, it's going to be difficult, she can't really open the coffin of Liyuan's father.

Xiao Tao nodded and pulled out a bundle of rope from her treasure bag. The rope was specially made for it, light and tough, with claws at the ends with numerous hooks that could be attached to any rock face.

Xiao Tao swung the rope a few times, and the rope flew out of its little hand and grabbed it into the gap in the stone bricks at the top of the temple. Xiao Tao flexibly climbed up along the rope, and when she reached the top, she threw the other end of the rope to grasp it on the crack in the stone. This creates a sling that allows it to move around the roof of the temple at will.

Then Xiao Tao took out a small silver stick from the treasure bag and knocked it on the stone wall at the top of the temple, and finally let it find out something. It pushed open a tumpable stone slab with its hands and slipped inside. It turns out that there is a cleverly designed secret lattice on the roof of this temple, hidden behind a stone slab, and it is impossible to find it if you don't know the exact location.

Everyone was overjoyed and confident that they would be able to find the iron box.

Suddenly, a sharp sword fell from the sky, slashing in front of Jiang Zhengxin and plunging straight into the ground. It was a sword that had been sharpened like clay, and it was silent on the ground, except for the hilt of the sword, which was completely submerged in the ground.

Jiang Zhengxin was so frightened that his soul was almost gone, and the guards also raised their knives to look for the enemy who was sneaking up.

At this time, Xiao Tao came out with a small head exposed from above, and smiled at Jiang Zhengxin very guiltily.

Jiang Zhengxin breathed a sigh of relief and shouted, "Xiao Tao, you almost killed the Lord just now." ”

Xiao Tao stuck out her tongue and went back to continue looking for the treasure. In fact, this is not to blame Xiao Tao, the dark space is too small, and there are too many things in the pile, if you don't take out the previous thing, you can't take another one, so you can only throw it out. Xiao Tao turned the dark grid upside down, and the things crackled down, and everyone hid far away, for fear of being smashed and buried for Emperor Mingwu.

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Li Yuan looked at the first emperor's handwriting, wanting to help Jiang Zhengxin find clues about the iron box.

Two years ago, the first emperor died suddenly after being wounded on the battlefield, leaving not a word, only some messy notes.

At that time, Liyuan had a bad relationship with the former emperor, so he sealed all his notes and did not care about them. Today, it seems that there are many matters that need to be treated carefully.

When Li Yuan saw a letter, his expression changed slightly, and he instructed the guards: "Go to the emperor's mausoleum, stop Xin'er, and don't let her take the iron box out of the underground palace." ”