Chapter 143: Treasure Digging (I)

When Yi Xiangxiang took Le Qi and Qingxuan to fold peach blossoms in the garden, Zhao Ziqian and Zhao Zixian were talking in the study of Yongle Ju.

Many years ago, both of them had been to this Yongle Residence, but Yi Xiangxiang's independent study, they were all entering it for the first time.

The study furnishings are not much different from the past, when the Yi family moved into Beijing because Yi Xihu was promoted, the first emperor sent someone to urge, because at that time, although the Yi family also took away some things, but not all the things in Yi Xiangxiang's study were shipped to Kyoto.

Mainly because it was too dazzling, Yi Xiangxiang didn't know much about the situation in Kyoto at that time, so she didn't dare to move the things in the study to Kyoto Yifu.

What is in Yi Xiangxiang's study?

Putting aside the precious jewelry of classic calligraphy and painting for the time being, it was said that the unicorn jade seal placed on the red sandalwood case shelf made Zhao Ziqian and Zhao Zixiu very embarrassed.

Zhao Zixiu picked up the jade seal from the shelf and played with it, only to hear him say with a sigh: "The queen's private collection is really quite rich. ”

During the years he lived in the Anwang Mansion in Tongzhou, although he often came to walk, because Yi Xiangxiang sent people to guard this study even if he was in Kyoto, he did not deliberately snoop on it.

Unexpectedly, there is still a jade seal here.

Zhao Ziqian was also a little surprised: "She has always been very bold. ”

The unicorn jade seal was taken away by the descendants of the Shangguan family after the destruction of the previous dynasty, and later the Li Dynasty was established, and the new emperor could not find the unicorn jade seal when he ascended the throne, so a new seal was made.

However, this unicorn jade seal is still being searched for by several generations of emperors of the Li Dynasty, mainly to find the descendants of the Shangguan family, in order to cut the grass and eradicate the roots and stabilize the Zhao family.

Now this thing is placed in Yi Xiangxiang's study, if this is known by someone who cares, the Yi family will not be able to wash it even if they jump into the Yellow River.

This is why Zhao Ziqian said that Yi Xiangxiang is gallbladder fat.

"I don't know where the queen got this thing? Could it be that Commander Mo gave it? Zhao Zixiu asked.

Mo Zhaoxi's grandmother is a princess of the previous dynasty, and Zhao Zixiu knows about this.

Zhao Ziqian shook his head and said, "It should be from Qishan." ”

Zhao Zixiu didn't know what he meant, so he asked why.

After a cup of tea, Zhao Ziqian told Zhao Zixiu about the grievances between Yi Xiangxiang and Qishanzhai, as well as the news of how she got the treasure by chance.

Zhao Zixiu, who listened to the process before and after, was very surprised, he always thought that the treasure had fallen into the hands of his seventh brother, but he didn't expect that it was they who fought with each other, and let Yi Xiangxiang, a fisherman, benefit.

"What the saint said is good, the queen is really bold, and this king has nothing to say." Zhao Zixiu shook his head and sighed with a smile.

Isn't that timid!

At the beginning, he and Zhao Ziqian almost lost because of the treasure, and Yi Xiangxiang knew about it at that time. I didn't expect her to dare to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight with her things, and she was ready to take it for herself, she was a bear-hearted leopard!

Yi Xiangxiang, who was in the garden, wanted to sneeze a little.

"I was also very surprised by this matter, if it weren't for the predicament of Meizhou this time, her brother wanted her to take out the Wuda business, she would definitely not hand over the treasure." Zhao Ziqian remembered Yi Xiangxiang's painful expression at that time, and couldn't help laughing.

Zhao Zixiu could also think of how much Yi Xiangxiang resisted this matter, so he also said with a smile: "It's really embarrassing for her." ”

When he received the news that Zhao Ziqian and Yi Xiangxiang were going to accompany the second elder of the Yi family back to Tongzhou to recuperate, he felt that things were not so simple. Sure enough, there is something else hidden in this matter. And if it was for the treasures of the previous dynasty, it would not be surprising that the emperor and queen left Beijing at the same time.

Zhao Ziqian nodded in agreement, and then he extended the topic to Meizhou: "Now the court is still turbulent, and the Lin family has attracted a lot of party henchmen in the past two years...... is based on this Meizhou matter, and I hope that the fourth brother can help me. ”

Zhao Ziqian is rarely humble.

"Meizhou? Do you want me to participate in the construction of the Meizhou River? Zhao Zixiu was a little surprised, so he unconsciously changed his name.

Zhao Ziqian nodded.

Zhao Zixiu twisted his eyebrows, a little bit didn't quite understand Zhao Ziqian's intentions.

Not to mention the good reputation that Meizhou can accumulate, let's just say that the matter of letting him, the vassal king, return to the court, can set off a lot of waves.

Since ancient times, which emperor has not been afraid of the vassal king taking the throne? You trust me too much, don't you? This is Zhao Zixiu's question to Zhao Ziqian.

Zhao Ziqian naturally understood Zhao Zixiu's doubts, so he explained.

"The fourth brother doesn't need to worry too much, there is really no one available in the court now. Although even Kaienke, there are not many available people in the younger generation, and there are clear factions among the old ministers. Although I am ready to let Yi Luochuan, Duan Yi, and Jiang Xuanrui participate together, and even dispatch dozens of officials from the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Household Affairs to cooperate, I still lack an identity that can deter those stubborn people. Zhao Ziqian was also a little helpless.

There were many people involved in the case of the second prince selling officials back then, and later the second prince did not give up and came to the palace again, so he pulled out the radish and cleaned up a group of officials. That is, since that time, the Lin family, which is a weak prime minister, has risen again.

Originally, the Lin family was a tree with deep roots, but now it is a headache for Zhao Ziqian. Coupled with the fact that some old ministers are proud of their high merits, he is a little passive. Of course, over the years, he has also cleaned up a lot of people who only take money and don't do anything, but the water in this pool is still muddy.

Well, although he doesn't have to be repaired by Zhao Zi, he just wants to repay his favor, and Yi Xiangxiang is not wrong at all when he says that he is meritocracy.

Yi Xiangxiang's original words were: "Zhao Zixiu is your fourth brother, and he is the prince of An who is not low in status in the Li Dynasty, and the point is that he is a brain. It was because he was in charge of the Meizhou River that those demons and monsters would not dare to jump around. ”

Although Zhao Zixiu didn't hear anything outside the window, he also guessed the situation in the court, and after thinking about it, he said: "If you let the household department intervene, won't the treasure be revealed?" ”

Pei Zhao, the head of the household, is his father-in-law, it seems that Zhao Ziqian really trusts him! Zhao Zixiu sighed, he never thought that the two brothers would have such a day.

"It's okay, I didn't make a big fanfare because I was afraid of making a small mess. When the time comes, the things will be transported out of Tongzhou, and there will be no fear of the spread of the treasure. Zhao Ziqian replied.

The household department has a relatively good understanding of the people's livelihood in various places, and the treasure is also money, how it is spent, and where it is spent, there must be a record.

Zhao Zixiu is not a mother-in-law, since the other party dares to throw such a big plate to him, he naturally has no reason not to accept it.

So the historian recorded that in the summer of the third year of Jiuzhi, Emperor Wu had a secret conversation with King An in Changchun Villa in Tongzhou, and since then it has opened the prelude to the return of King Zhao Zixiu to the court.

Half a month later.

On a sunny morning, Yi Xiangxiang took everyone to the main courtyard of Changchun Villa to dig treasures.

"Did Miss say that the treasure is in the main courtyard?" After looking around, Le Qi didn't find anything unusual, so he asked, "Where is it?" ”

The main courtyard was where Yi Xihu and the Lin family lived in the early years, if there was something hidden, how could it not be discovered at all? Le Qi was a little puzzled, worried about whether Yi Xiangxiang had made a mistake.

The fox fairy looked at Yi Xiangxiang as the horse's head, and she asked excitedly: "Miss, is the treasure under this ground?" Are we going to dig? ”

The place where they were standing at this time was the small empty garden in front of the main courtyard, so the fox fairy thought that the treasure might be hidden under this garden.

Yi Xiangxiang looked at everyone's expressions like cat's paws, and even Zhao Ziqian, who was unhappy and sad, faintly looked forward to it, and felt very proud in his heart.

"Look, if I don't come, you won't even find the entrance." Yi Xiangxiang raised her chin at Zhao Ziqian quite shyly.

Yes, the old mistake was made again, and everyone laughed.

Zhao Ziqian was also very cooperative, he smiled and said, "What you said is right." ”

Everyone rolled their eyes.

Luo Baohua is the most awkward, since he knew that he came to Tongzhou to dig treasures, he thanked his father more than once for his decision to let him lick his face and follow, only to hear him urge: "Queen Mother, don't go around the pass, hurry up and tell us where the entrance is!" ”

Yi Xiangxiang walked to the middle in no hurry, only to see her pointing to the east wing and saying, "The entrance is in there." ”

When Luo Baohua heard this, he ran to the wing room without saying a word, and everyone followed in.

"There's nothing wrong with that!" Luo Baohua knocked here and there in the wing, and even broke the candlestick, but he didn't find anything special about this east wing.

Qingxuan and Le Qi were people present who were more familiar with this Changchun Pavilion except for Yi Xiangxiang, and they also checked it together.

"This east wing seems to be narrower than the west wing?" Qing Xuan asked suspiciously.

Le Qi was not as sharp as Qing Xuan, but when he heard this, he also found that the internal space of the east wing was smaller than that of the west wing.

"As soon as you say it, it seems that this is really the case, and the east and west wings should be the same size, and the same is true in appearance. But I vaguely remember that there was a carved shelf of yellow rosewood on the side of the West Wing, but it was not as crowded as here. Le Qi frowned at Qing Xuan's words, and gestured as he spoke.

Luo Baohua understood, and he said in surprise: "Then this means that there must be a place on the surrounding wall that is hollow?" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he began to tap on the walls around him. Sure enough, he noticed that the east wall was different from the echoes elsewhere, so he focused on finding the mechanism again.

Everyone also joined the search, while Zhao Ziqian and Zhao Zixiu looked at Yi Xiangxiang with their hands on their hips, waiting for her further movements.

Yi Xiangxiang watched everyone busy, shook her head and pretended to mock and said: "Don't think in vain, I have touched everything in here hundreds of times, if there was a mechanism, it would have been opened a long time ago!" ”

Ever since she knew that the treasure was in her own home, she began to "find fault" everywhere! It took almost a month for her to discover that there were some problems with the size of the interior space of the two wings in the east and west of the main courtyard where her parents lived.

In fact, it is only about two feet in size, and you can't find it without careful observation. The reason why Qing Xuan was able to detect it at the first time was also because Yi Xiangxiang first said that the secret passage was in the east wing, if there was no such premise, Qing Xuan would not have been able to find the difference in the size of the room.

At the beginning, Yi Xiangxiang first collected the anomalies in the house, and then eliminated them one by one, and finally confirmed the east wing.

The fox fairy was anxious when she heard this, and she said anxiously: "Then what should I do?" Why don't you tear down this wall? ”

Everyone was a little embarrassed, and they all sighed in their hearts how could there be such a rough woman!

However, what is even more surprising is that Yi Xiangxiang agreed!

Yi Xiangxiang has no reason to disagree!

She didn't find it for a long time, so she used her modern thinking to figure out the thoughts of the founding emperor of the Qilin Dynasty, that is, her fellow countryman. So she felt that if she wanted to hide the treasure, she would definitely not reveal any mechanism. Because if someone walks away and hits the trap and opens the secret door, then this thing will be cheaper for nothing!

The fellow used the principle of the Rubik's Cube to make a dark iron box, and left "Hello fellow, the treasure is in Tongzhou Wangfu Villa." No thanks, please call me **! This is clearly just trying to take advantage of your fellow countrymen!

Since it is something left for his own people, there will definitely be no chance for others to accidentally open the secret door. This is also the conclusion that Yi Xiangxiang came to after collecting the East Wing.

Of course, for such a **, Yi Xiangxiang really hopes to have a few more.

And one of the reasons why she didn't take the treasure before was that the demolition of the wall would definitely be discovered by the Lin family, and the treasure would have to be handed over at that time.

I didn't expect to go around and around, but I still have to hand it over! Yi Xiangxiang sighed.

Zhao Ziqian sent people to call the craftsmen who had been prepared a long time ago, and asked them to tear down the east wall without losing their load. So it was only two pillars of incense, and a secret passage leading to the ground was revealed behind the wall.

Luo Baohua bore the brunt of the rush to check, but he ate a mouth full of ashes.

Compared with his impatience, Yi Xiangxiang observed all the details after the wall was demolished in detail.

She saw that the opposite wall was leaning against the main wing, and the entire wall was nailed shut. And the wall panels that have been demolished here have also been sealed from the passage. She looked it up again, and found that there was a one-foot-wide wall panel that had not been sealed behind it, and there were traces of adhesion at the side joints, thinking that this should be the last wall panel left for people to pass through after the completion of the project.

"No wonder Miss agrees with the fox fairy's suggestion to tear down the wall, these two walls are sealed like this, there is no possibility of a mechanism to move the wall panel!" Yaksha also looked at the two walls.

Luo Baohua was so choked by the dust that he couldn't breathe, and after coughing, he said: "What does Shangguan Zhan think, hide things like this!" If someone demolishes a house and rebuilds it, won't they be able to discover this secret passage? ”

Shangguan Zhan is the founding emperor of the Qilin Dynasty, that is, the person who hides the treasure.

Yi Xiangxiang rolled her eyes and said: "Shangguan Zhan spent a lot of money to build this royal palace, but no one was willing to demolish it until the change of dynasty later, but it was used as an official residence. With such a good house, who do you think will be okay to demolish it? ”

Even after the completion of the Anwang Mansion next door, Changchun Villa is still the best house in Tongzhou. The construction and construction materials are of the finest quality, and in addition to the necessary repairs for hundreds of years, no one really mentioned that this place should be demolished and rebuilt.

"Besides, this is just an entrance, there must be a doorway down there. If someone really finds out, there must be protective measures! Shangguan Zhan is so cautious that he seals the wall, how can it be just such a level. Yi Xiangxiang looked down on Luo Baohua's lack of knowledge very much.

Kyoto Bai Xiaosheng, except for Kyoto, has become a "blind person"! Yi Xiangxiang deliberately complained.

Zhao Ziqian and Zhao Zixiu glanced at each other when they heard this, and they both saw a trace of doubt in their eyes. That's right, they all felt that Yi Xiangxiang seemed to know Shangguan Zhan very well.

Their suspicions were not out of nowhere, for example, the previous Xuantie square box, Yi Xiangxiang opened it very easily, which made them wonder for a long time. Although Yi Xiangxiang said that she had seen the opening method in ancient books before, when she asked her to say the name of the ancient book, she only pushed it and said that it was a fragment, and she didn't know the name.

And what she had just revealed after observing the wall panel also made them wonder.

However, Luo Baohua quickly interrupted their thinking.

"What a wine cellar is this!" Luo Baohua, who was below, exclaimed.

As soon as he said this, everyone smelled a hint of wine coming from the dust.

It turned out that after Yi Xiangxiang finished saying that, Luo Baohua blew the fire fold and walked down the stairs of the dark passage.

The staircase was slightly steep, made of bluestone slabs, and went down about fifteen feet deep. Luo Baohua had just pushed open the heavy wooden door at the end of the stairs. The smell of pure wine came to the face.

Mo Zhaoxi and Qing Xuan lit the fire one after another, and led Yi Xiangxiang and the others to go down. Then they saw all kinds of jars of wine in the room, large and small, that were sealed.

Sure enough, this is a wine cellar.

Qing Xuan and the others lit the candlesticks around them, and then everyone looked at each other at the wine vats.

Yi Xiangxiang was proud again: "I'll just say it, even if someone demolishes the house and rebuilds it, they will only think that this is a place to seal wine." ”

Her smug voice was so loud that even the glimpse and Pang Qi who were guarding the entrance could hear it clearly.

Luo Baohua, who had always knelt and licked Yi Xiangxiang, should not be with her at this time, only to see him search around again for organs, but found nothing. In the end, he could only turn around and look at Yi Xiangxiang pitifully.

Yi Xiangxiang said that he didn't know anymore, and in order to prove that he was really not watching a play, he could only follow along to explore the mechanism. Of course, she also didn't find anything, which also surprised her.

Seeing this, Luo Baohua sighed: "Is it possible that Shangguan Zhan dumped us?" Or is he a drunkard, and this wine is his treasure? ”

Zhao Zixiu shook his head: "It shouldn't be, look for it again." ”

So everyone fumbled again, but still got nothing.

Well, the scene is deadlocked.

Yi Xiangxiang touched her chin and thought, and muttered unconsciously: "Impossible, I can have such a boring fellow?" ”

The fox fairy was closest to her, and after hearing her words, he asked, "What fellow?" ”

"This wine is old and fragrant!" Yi Xiangxiang poked the fox fairy's poking out of her head and continued, "Step aside, let me think about what's going on." ”

So the fox fairy didn't have time to walk away by himself, so he was pulled back by Yaksha and Luo Baohua at the same time.

Does it have something to do with this wine? Yi Xiangxiang lowered her eyes alone.

Everyone followed with bated breath, so they saw Yi Xiangxiang nodding and shaking her head and muttering: "When is the bright moon?" Ask the sky for wine. But the moon can't shine here! ”

Although the big guy didn't know why Yi Xiangxiang was writing poetry at this time, his thoughts followed.

Well, this cellar is underground, but it can't shine into the bright moon.

Yi Xiangxiang didn't care what others thought, she only thought to herself: "Persuade you to have a glass of wine, there is no one in Yangguan in the west." Do you want to drink all this wine? ”

Everyone looked at the wine vat full of rooms, and before Yi Xiangxiang could veto his idea, they had already shook their heads in unison.

Yi Xiangxiang also felt that it was impossible, so she continued to think: "Where is the restaurant?" The shepherd boy refers to Xinghua Village. ”

"Shepherd boy, is this the shepherd boy?" The fox fairy, who was pulled aside, pointed to the corner.

When everyone turned around, they saw a wooden carving standing in the corner of the wall, which depicted a shepherd boy riding an old cow.

Yi Xiangxiang was stunned!

Is this really how WOCAO works?

It's too obvious!