Chapter 44, Prince Huai
Qin Blind picked up the sack and poured out the contents one by one. Then crouch down and reach for touch.
A total of four wooden boxes were poured out. The lights around Ghost Alley are also dim, and you can barely see it clearly through the lanterns lit by the young man surnamed Li's house. Qin Blind opened one casually, and there were golden bracelets, necklaces, etc., and Huang Gui knew at a glance that these were the jewels that were sold a few days ago.
After the blind man reached out and touched a pendant, he picked up a necklace with both hands. After a moment, Qin's blind man's face became ugly. He waved his hand to let Xia Fanxing get closer, and said to the two of them: "This pendant should be genuine, and that necklace is fake at first glance." And this bracelet, I can't see the real or fake either... This stinky boy mixed up the real and fake jewelry, deliberately left it, and he must have taken some of it with him!"
"What should I do then? The family in Dongxiang will get married in a few days, and when the wedding banquet comes, it will be seen that those are fakes..."Huang Gui shouted.
"Don't be in a hurry, bring these back first, and then tell the truth from the fake. Xia Fanxing said calmly.
"No, I can't. There is a curfew tomorrow night, and six gates in the northern city will be closed for patrol. Only the Kaiyuan Gate on the west side can enter and exit freely!Andingfang is such a big place, if that bastard escapes to the west of the city, it will be difficult for us to go out and find it!" Qin Blind shook his head, "Damn, there was no curfew for a few days a month in the past few years, and there has been a curfew for half a month in the past two years!"
"Yes, and violating it is a felony! Some time ago, I heard that there was a drunk person in another place who violated the curfew and was directly beaten to death by a stick!" Huang Gui said with a helpless look on his face.
"I'm going to catch him tonight!" Qin Blind gritted his teeth and said.
"Well, listen to me. Xiuxiangfang and Andingfang in the south have been patrolled by soldiers every night recently, and if he goes to Xiuxiangfang and enters Puning Fuxing and other squares, he will definitely be interrogated. Huang Gui, you go back immediately and call your two senior brothers, you go to the post station in Fangxi to report my name, and lead a horse to Xiuzhen Fang to guard him. I asked someone to look at the Xiude Fang in the east. Xia Fanxing, you and I rushed to Jingyao Gate in the north, I can't let him out of the city!"
When Xia Fanxing heard this, he immediately took out a talisman from his cuff. This is called the Divine Walking Talisman, chanting a mantra softly, injecting spiritual power into it, and sticking it on Huang Gui's leg who has not yet understood. The little fat man jumped up as if he had been pricked by a needle and let out a strange scream. Xia Fanxing held him down and said, "Go back and find them! Did you understand what the hero said just now? Don't waste time!"
Huang Gui stretched out his legs and ran, the soles of his feet were windy, and the speed was so fast that he was dumbfounded.
Qin Blind didn't say much, took a deep breath, put his finger to his mouth and let out a loud finger whistle. This place was not far from Qin's blind man's house in Ghost Alley, and he seemed to be calling for something.
Sure enough, not long after, there was a "chirping" bird cry in the dark night sky, Xia Fanxing glanced at the blind man Qin beside him, and used the bird to send a message to his friends in Xiudefang? But the two squares are next to each other, only a mile or two away, why don't you go by yourself?
After a period of silence, the birds did not emerge from the sky, only a short cry. As if he knew Xia Fanxing's doubts, the blind man Qin opened his mouth and said, "My people in Xiudefang are also chivalrous. I don't have a fixed place to live, and my whereabouts are uncertain, and if I look for it myself, I'm afraid I won't be able to find it in a day. This bird is not an extraordinary bird, but a spiritual bird that was given to me by a Taoist senior by chance. Send it to find someone, and it was found at once. ”
"I see. Xia Fanxing said softly, watching a bird shaped like a swallow slowly fall, the variety is relatively rare, and he can't name it. The blind man stroked its head lovingly, and took out a yellow wooden plaque from his sleeve with a few scribbled words written on it, and tied it to its leg.
After seeing the spirit bird fly away quickly, Qin Blind stepped onto the horse beside him and waved his hand to signal Xia Fanxing to get on the horse. Xia Fanxing's heart suddenly burst into excitement, after all, he has been in the sect all the year round, and he rarely travels out, let alone acted with heroes. Thinking of such an exciting experience, he quickly stepped on the horse's back and shook the saber at his waist.
The blind man Qin rode very fast, and he was very familiar with the roads and buildings around Andingfang, so although he was blind in both eyes, it could not affect his speed in the slightest.
However, after flying in for a while, after twisting a few winding alleys, the blind man Qin suddenly grabbed the reins and slowed down, "Look, this is the famous Qianfu Temple in Andingfang. ”
Xia Fanxing had already seen the temple on the left side of the alley, shrouded in night. The temple inside is solemn and beautiful. Wait, Senfukuji Temple? I seem to have heard of it, but I can't remember the specifics.
The speed slowed down a lot, and the horses under the seat were walking slowly. "Qianfu Temple was originally the residence of Prince Zhang Huai. After the death of Li Hong, the crown prince of Gaozong and Empress Wu, Li Xian, the prince of Zhang Huai, was established, and when he was twenty years old, he gave up his house to become a temple, and then was exiled to Bazhou for the crime of treason. ”
By the way, that's it! Master once told himself about many political affairs in the Tang Dynasty during the post-martial arts period.
But why stop here and not hurry? Xia Fanxing glanced at the blind man Qin in front of him with some confusion.
The blind man Qin, who stopped his horse, naturally understood the doubts in his heart now, sighed, and said: "The reason why I said Prince Zhang Huai, my 'ghost alley' that no one dares to approach, and that piece of bird droppings, are all thanks to him!"
With that, he turned his horse's head and stopped on the side of the road.
"How do you say this?" Xia Fanxing felt very strange as soon as he entered the ghost alley, and now he was even more curious after listening to Qin's blind words.
"A hundred years ago, when I was not born, the so-called 'Ghost Alley' was as lively as Liuye Lane, and its original name was Fushou Lane. Later, Prince Zhang Huai's house was a temple, and after entering the imperial prison country, Andingfang began to have abnormal conditions. Sometimes there is a clear sky in Andingfang, and the sun and rain will suddenly fall around the ghost alley. There were also a few more times when June snowed over Ghost Alley. Many people gradually moved out, and those who stayed said that when they woke up in the middle of the night, they often heard the sound of babies crying at the entrance of the alley. Soon, Prince Zhang Huai was found in the palace with hundreds of armors. ”
However, the matter must have been framed by someone to frame the prince. At that time, Gaozong was already half-dead, and it would be natural to wait for another year or two for the throne. Why does Prince Zhang Huai need to be rebellious?" Xia Fanxing interjected and asked, when he heard Master say this when he was a child, he was very strange.
"What is inside the Xiao wall is really incomprehensible. The blind man Qin lay on his horse, sighed, and silently stared at the peaceful Qianfu Temple in the night, "At that time, Ming Chongyan, the favored divine doctor, once looked at the faces of the four sons of Empress Wu, and 'Li Xianshen looks like Taizong' is Ming Chongyan's evaluation of Prince Zhang Huai. Empress Wu naturally thought of Taizong's Xuanwu Gate changes, and became wary of the prince. ”
Soon after, Ming Chongyan's house was burglarized and killed. Empress Wu suspected that this was done by Prince Zhang Huai, and when she searched the East Palace, she found a hundred armors and was convicted of the crime. The prince once wrote "Huangtai Melon Speech", comparing his four brothers to the melons on the Huangtai, and comparing his mother Empress Wu to a melon picker, and advised Empress Wu not to force all his sons to death. After Empress Wu knew this, the East Palace was even more stolen, so she drove Prince Zhang Huai to Bazhou and demoted him to a concubine. He also sent the Jinwu general Qiu Shenji to force Prince Zhang Huai to death. Later, there was a bloody tragedy in the East Palace. ”
"And in order to avoid the persecution of the queen mother, Prince Zhang Huai pretended to be incompetent and mediocre, and had a same-sex relationship with his household slave Zhao Daosheng... But in the end, Zhao Daosheng was arrested and tortured, but he couldn't survive the punishment, and framed the prince and instructed him to arrange for someone to kill Ming Chongyan. Prince Zhang Huai raised a male pet to avoid trouble, but he still can't escape death!"
"So there are such secrets... In fact, it is just that the Empress Wu wants to be autocratic and does not want to pass the throne to the crown prince. By the way, how did you know about these secrets of the deep palace?" Xia Fanxing asked.
Qin Blind said: "There is a late great historian in the court, who also lived in Ghost Alley before. He once wrote a biography for Prince Zhang Huai. After the incident, I left the dynasty as a chivalrous guest, I met him, and I happened to have an ancestral house in Fushou Lane, Andingfang, so he told me about this. It's just a pity that he passed away ten years ago. ”
"Tell me about the ghost alley. ”
"Prince Zhang Huai likes to read poetry and books since he was a child, and he was also deeply loved by all parties and Gaozong when he was in charge of the country. According to Buddhism, I am afraid that Li Xian is the reincarnation of some big man. Because on the day Qiu Shenji arrived in Bazhou, he heard him say that the wind and thunder around the ghost alley were loud, and the Buddha bell of Qianfu Temple was silent. Soon after, Prince Zhang Huai committed suicide. On that day, the ghost alley was full of wind and rain, thunder, heavy snow and hail fell together, which was really a century-old wonder between heaven and earth. What's even more terrifying is that late that night, thousands of crows hovered up and down the Ghost Alley and the Thousand Fortune Temple, refusing to leave for a long time in the face of the storm, and howling bitterly. The people of Ghost Alley did not dare to go out a single step. The monks of Qianfu Temple chanted sutras all night to drive away evil spirits. The next morning, it was said that the ground was covered with the corpses of crows. Someone came to clean it up, but there was a lump of bird droppings that couldn't be removed, as if it was growing on the ground. Soon after, the man who was cleaning the ground died violently. ”
"After that night, almost everyone in Haunted Alley, except for my grandfather, who was also a ranger, moved out to avoid evil spirits and gave it the name 'Haunted Alley', and the place was reduced to its present state and completely abandoned. ”
"After a jiazi, it's still like this. I lived in Chang'an City ten years ago. There was another incident that happened at that time. Over the years, there has been a folk legend that there is gold in this piece of bird droppings, but you should never touch it. There was a person in Willow Leaf Lane who didn't believe in evil and went to dig inside, but he didn't get anything except digging a stinky. I was so angry that I spat on it before leaving. A day later, the man was devastated and died. It's been so long, and my old Qin family dares to live inside. ”
The blind man Qin said, straightened up, and picked up the horsewhip. Xia Fanxing was still immersed in the story of Prince Zhang Huai and Ghost Alley, and Qin Blind smiled and said: "I have a lot of stories, one day I am in a good mood, let you hear enough! Now it's time to arrest someone, and let him slip away if it's too late!" he flicked his horsewhip.