A large Vivie flew gracefully over the blue sky, shuttling between the white clouds from time to time, making a low humming sound. The wide double-layer wings on both sides are painted with the blue sky and white sun emblem, and the word "Tenghong" is written on the fuselage in red paint. Originally, this was a bomber purchased by the Beiyang government with a British loan, but it was later changed into a transport plane and flew exclusively to Beijing and Tianjin for civil aviation. It is equipped with two Rolls-Royce aero engines, which is much safer than other small aircraft, and can carry nearly six tons of cargo and can carry 12 passengers.

However, at this time, there were only two passengers on this plane, Xu Yicheng and Hai Lanzhu.

They only had two hardwood hoop chairs to sit on, and they were surrounded by a clutter of various parcels and wooden boxes. The heavy smell of engine oil came in from time to time through the cracks in the skin, and the fuselage shook violently twice from time to time.

Hai Lanzhu looked out of the porthole curiously, this was probably her first time on a plane, and everything she saw felt fresh: "When Cixi went from Beijing to Xi'an, how long did she walk on the road. But how long have we been flying this time, and the breakfast in our stomach has not been digested, and we are almost in Xi'an! ”

"If you want to thank you, go to thank Dai Li."

Xu Yicheng held the photo of the Tang Sword in his left hand, shook off the half of Chen Weili's letterhead with his right hand, and said without raising his head.

Although Dai Li had left Beiping, he left Ma Hansan as a liaison. Xu Yicheng returned the restored Nine Dragons Sword to Ma Hansan, and asked him if there was any fastest way to go to Xi'an. Ma Hansan is also a master with hands and eyes, and after some inquiry, he actually arranged for a plane to come out.

The origin of this aircraft is quite interesting. During the Northern Expedition, Feng Yuxiang marched into Hebei, believing that he had the greatest credit, and Hebei, Beijing, and Tianjin should belong to him. Chiang Kai-shek was afraid that Feng Yuxiang's tail would not be lost, but instead appointed Yan Xishan as the commander-in-chief of the Pingjin garrison, and only gave Feng Yuxiang's subordinates the fictitious title of mayor of Beiping. Feng Yuxiang was greatly dissatisfied with this, and Chiang Kai-shek, in order to appease him, promised to give him a part of the aviation left behind by the Beiyang government. This Daweimei is going to be handed over to Xi'an, first flying from Beiping to Luoyang, and then flying directly to Xi'an after refueling.

The dispute between the big warlords made Xu Yicheng catch up. Otherwise, I don't know how long it will take to go from Beiping to Xi'an.

"Are we in time?" Hai Lanzhu retracted her gaze, a little worried.

Xu Yicheng put down the photo and letterhead: "The Chinese terroir inspection team left in early July, and now it is early August, and we are a month behind them. However, they took the land route, and they had to go to Zhengzhou first, and then transfer to Xi'an. I asked, but now the trains have not been restored, the roads are intermittent, and the most reliable ones are horse-drawn carriages. Even if they were lucky enough to have no delays from natural or man-made disasters, it would have taken them more than 20 days. We weren't a few days behind them. ”

Hai Lanzhu looked a little relieved, but then became worried again: "Hey, Yicheng, why are you so sure that the Japanese are targeting Wu Zetian's Qianling?" ”

Xu Yicheng handed her the photo of Tang Jian: "Do you see the word Zhenhu here?" ”

"What do you mean? Do you play with antique spring snacks? Hai Lanzhu didn't understand at all.

This is a word that only accompanies funerals, and it is not an ordinary burial, but a mausoleum for the living. For example, the emperor has a great favor to you, and now that the emperor is dead, you are still alive and cannot be buried, so you have to take a thing as your stand-in to guard the emperor's mausoleum, and generally write words such as 'a certain protector' and 'a certain minister'. I checked, Guo Zhen died when Tang Xuanzong was in power. He was appreciated by Wu Zetian with the "Ancient Sword Chapter", and the empress had the grace of knowing him, so after Wu Zetian's death, he offered the sword and protected the tomb on his behalf, which is normal. ”

"So, this sword turned out to be in Wu Zetian's tomb?"

"No, it won't. This sword is a substitute for guarding the mausoleum, so the location where it appears should not be inside the tomb, but outside the tomb, that is, the periphery of the entrance to the underground palace, the so-called sword gate. Xu Yicheng flicked the photo, "Look, this line segment above should be the mountain map of Wu Zetian's Qianling Mausoleum, and this location marks the place where this sword is buried." If you find the sword gate where this sword is buried, you can find the entrance to the tomb road. ”

When Hai Lanzhu heard this, she sighed, and said Isn't this the same as that ginger stonemason in Tanglin?

Xu Yicheng nodded: "Guo Zhenjian's to Qianling is similar to Jiang Stonemason's to Tangling, and even more critical than the latter." The mausoleum of the Tang Dynasty is very distinctive, and Taizong of the Tang Dynasty once carved a tablet, which reads: 'The king takes the world as his home, why bother with things in the mausoleum, but for himself.' Now because Jiuzhi Mountain is a mausoleum, there is no gold and jade, people and horses, utensils, and civil engineering tools are just used. In other words, the Tang Tomb is based on a mountain, and the rules are vast. If you don't know the location of the grave, it's almost impossible to dig hard. ”

"Is that an exaggeration? It won't be the same as Tanglin, right? ”

Xu Yicheng said: "As early as the end of the Tang Dynasty, Huang Chao had the idea of Qianling. At that time, he mobilized an army of 400,000 to dig a big ditch around the Qianling, but finally exhausted and did not find the entrance to the tomb. No matter how powerful the Japanese are, can there be more people with Yellow Nest? ”

Hai Lanzhu immediately understood: "So the Japanese spent so much effort just to get the location of Guo Zhenjian's Qianling Tomb Gate." This is the only way to enter Wu Zetian's mausoleum. ”

Chief Xu Yicheng sighed and said, "I was completely wrong before. The bloody handprints of the five fingers left by Wei Li on the letterhead are not the five emperors in Tanglin at all, that is a five, Wu Zetian, and the extra word 'Ling' next to it naturally refers to Qianling - if it weren't for the sketch of the sword shadow and the Guo Zhenshi copied by Sakai Daisuke, I really wouldn't have thought of this layer. ”

Speaking of this, Xu Yicheng suddenly fell silent. Only now did he truly realize how shocked and angry Chen Weili was when he learned the true goal of the China Terroir Expedition. That's Qianling, Wu Zetian's mausoleum. He resolutely sacrificed his life, and also wanted to spread the news, the weight of this move, Xu Yicheng only now fully understood.

He subconsciously looked to the right-hand side, where there was a suitcase containing Chen Weili's tablet. He hopes to fight alongside his friends.

"The Japanese are almost obsessed with Tang culture, and they think that today's China is not worthy of being the successor of Tang culture, they are. I don't know how they found out that Guo Zhenjian could indicate the direction of the Qianling Tomb, and I don't know how they found out that Qianlong hid Guo Zhenjian in the Nine Dragons Sword. But I know that if they are allowed to open Wu Zetian's mausoleum, it will be a great shame that cannot be washed away for our people. ”

Xu Yicheng smashed his fist on the thin bulkhead of the plane: "I must not let the Tanglin tragedy happen again." Hai Lanzhu looked at him and found that he showed that familiar expression again, his lips pursed slightly, his brows furrowed slightly, with the perseverance of tens of millions of people. But......" Hai Lanzhu's voice was a little shy, "Why didn't you bring the five veins this time, and just called me?" ”

Xu Yicheng smiled bitterly and leaned back: "Among the five veins, most people have thoughts like Yao Shenxing. They don't understand me, they don't know what I have to do, why they should be called. ”

"What about the three little ones? Why didn't you bring it either? ”

"The medicine comes to the house, and it is inconvenient to come; Huang Kewu is a good boy, but he has a little pimple in his thoughts, and he hasn't straightened it out himself; As for Liu Yiming, he has a good brain, and he is a suitable candidate, but it's a pity that ......"

"What a pity?"

Xu Yicheng turned his gaze to the porthole, looking at the clouds outside, with a hint of tiredness in his voice: "You think Yao Shenxing was arrested, who reported it?" ”

Hai Lanzhu was startled and almost didn't sit still.

Xu Yicheng squinted his eyes and looked normal: "Yao Shenxing went to the office of the Twelfth Division, and it was discovered by Yiming and Yao Lai at that time, and they only told me later. I won't talk to Yaolai, so it's just him. This hand is amazing, he picked the day of the birthday banquet to pull Yao Shenxing off the horse, he single-handedly laid this game, he didn't make much effort, through my exposure of Sun Dianying's evil deeds, he created a situation where Yao Shenxing had to retreat and I had to go up. ”

Hai Lanzhu was amazed, she knew that the little guy who wore glasses and always didn't like to talk was very smart, but she didn't expect her mind to be so deep. Xu Yicheng said: "In time, he will be a powerful character - but I can't take him with me this operation." ”

Hai Lanzhu smiled: "That's why you found me?" ”

"Fu Gui hasn't woken up in the hospital yet, and I have no other friends." Xu Yicheng's answer was very crisp.

"Is that all?" Hai Lanzhu asked.

"Hmm."

Hai Lanzhu snorted, indicating that she was very dissatisfied with this answer. Xu Yicheng raised his eyes and asked rhetorically: "The matter in Xi'an has nothing to do with the clan, why are you willing to come with me?" ”

"Hmph, knowingly, I won't tell you."

Hai Lanzhu turned her body and ignored him. But instead of moving, Xu Yicheng spread out the map on his lap and lowered his head to study. She gritted her teeth in hatred, and reached out to kick him in the butt under the wooden box, and he almost didn't fall. Seeing that Xu Yicheng, who was usually calm and breezy, showed an embarrassed appearance, Hai Lanzhu chuckled: "To be serious, even if I help you, there are only two people in total, and it is not enough to deal with the entire China terroir inspection group, right?" ”

Xu Yicheng picked up the map and shook it, it was a high-precision topographic map of the vicinity of Xi'an — ironically, it was published by the Japanese military headquarters — which had already been outlined in pencil in several places: "The key to victory or defeat has nothing to do with numbers." The competition is the familiarity with the Qianling Tomb. Whoever finds the entrance to the tomb first will win," Speaking of this, Xu Yicheng raised his head, and the corners of his mouth showed a hint of a smile in his chest, "It's hard to say anything else, things related to Wu Zetian, the information that our Xu family has is not comparable to those Japanese." ”

After several hours of flight, the plane finally landed at a military airfield in Dayingpun, Xiguan. Xu Yicheng and Hai Lanzhu got off the plane, and the local people from Wumai were waiting under the gangway. This is a young man with a very Confucian demeanor, surnamed Ji, called Ji Tianjun, a native of Qishan, and one of the people related to Wumai in Shaanxi Province. As soon as he saw Xu Yicheng, he immediately greeted him and shook hands vigorously, calling him the patriarch.

Xu Yicheng helplessly explained that it was not yet, but Ji Tianjun couldn't help but say it, and he didn't change his words when he recognized it, and he always adhered to the etiquette of the younger generations to the elders. Xu Yicheng had no choice but to go to him.

Ji Tianjun is very talkative, chattering along the way to explain the history of Xi'an to Xu Yicheng and Hai Lanzhu. From the Three Emperors and Five Emperors to the Three Kingdoms, and from the Three Kingdoms to Chen Shufan, it is like commenting on books. Xi'an was originally organized under Chang'an County, but just last month, the four districts of Chengguan in Chang'an County were separately divided by the Shaanxi Provincial Government and upgraded to Xi'an City. Therefore, Xu Yicheng saw everywhere along the way, and the people were full of joy and seemed to be honored.

In the same month, Beijing was downgraded to Beiping, but Chang'an was upgraded to Xi'an.

Xu Yicheng looked at Xi'an City gradually approaching in the distance, and a warm feeling rose in his heart. It is a kind of intimacy between the Qin bricks and Han tiles of the Zhou Palace in Tang City, and the heavy momentum accumulated over thousands of years. Whether as an archaeologist or the head of the Five Veins, Xu Yicheng can feel that it is calling for himself, calling for the ancient roots hidden deep in the blood.

Although Beiping and Xi'an are both ancient capitals, their styles are subtly different. The atmosphere of Beiping is the present world, and it is a radiant Gongbi painting; The temperament of Xi'an, but it seems to be looking at people from a different world, like an ancient bronze, the pulp has been polished round by the years, and it shines with a deep and deep light. Xu Yicheng closed his eyes, raised his head, and took a deep breath, wanting to feel this ancient and vast breath carefully.

On the way, Ji Tianjun happily introduced the business of Wumai in Shaanxi. Xu Yicheng patted him on the shoulder, vaguely indicating that there were outsiders present, and he would talk about it later. Ji Tianjun glanced at Hai Lanzhu and said I thought it was the patriarch's wife, I'm sorry. Then he groaned, patted his head, and said that it was troublesome.

When they arrived at the reserved inn, Xu Yicheng and Hai Lanzhu understood what was the trouble. It turned out that Ji Tianjun only booked a big room, which made Hai Lanzhu blush. Ji Tianjun hurriedly changed the room into two.

At this time, the benefits of the five-vein patriarch are reflected, and local resources and connections can be used at will. Xu Yicheng instructed Ji Tianjun to check the traces of the Chinese terroir investigation group, and by the way, inquire about the current situation of Qianling. Ji Tianjun should leave quickly, Hai Lanzhu asked Xu Yicheng what to do next, Xu Yicheng said steadily: "Wait." ”

For the next whole day, Ji Tianjun did not show up. Xu Yicheng locked himself in the house to study the map, and Hai Lanzhu was really bored to stay, so he went out for a walk. There are too many monuments in Xi'an, and she can't finish it in a month.

The next day, Ji Tianjun came to visit again. He told Xu Yicheng that there are many foreigners in Xi'an, most of whom are antique dealers and scholars, especially Japanese. They built a lot of clubhouses here, and it is likely that the Chinese terroir expedition team lived in one of them, and it was not easy to find a foothold.

As for the Qianling, it is now under the management of the Shaanxi Provincial Antiquities Preservation Committee. This committee is a non-governmental organization established after the smuggling of the six horses in Zhaoling, and is responsible for cleaning up and protecting important cultural relics and relics in Shaanxi Province. It's a pity that Shaanxi has been in war for many years, and the regime has changed, and this committee is now only an empty shelf, and now the Eighteen Tombs of the Tang Dynasty are unguarded at all, completely unguarded, and only the local police will occasionally patrol around.

Ji Tianjun also brought a large stack of materials, mostly local chronicles, travelogues and some theft and excavation case files - this is not accessible to ordinary people - there are also feng shui books similar to "Yang Mansion Finger Miao", "Five Classics of Survey and Public Opinion" and "Twenty-four Sand Burial Methods". Xu Yicheng left the information, did not express any opinions, and continued to study in the room, looking at it for several days. Hai Lanzhu was a little anxious, urging that the Japanese might be digging a pit now, aren't you in a hurry to read here?

"Sharpen the knife and don't mistake the woodcutter, don't worry, the Japanese don't move so fast."

Xu Yicheng told her that the entire Qianling Tomb was actually an upside-down feng shui array, and the layout was very different from the ordinary way. The map left on Guo Zhenjian's sword must not be simply compared with the terrain of Qianling, which hides the mystery of feng shui. People who don't know, can be easily misled.

"The inheritance of the bright-eyed plum blossom for nearly a thousand years has mastered some things that outsiders do not know. The Japanese don't know these ways, they are in the opposite direction, and the advantage is on our side. Xu Yicheng smiled, then lowered his head again, and slowly turned a page.

"Why don't you contact the government and let the Northwest Army send someone to protect it?" Hai Lanzhu still doesn't understand, Xu Yicheng's approach is too strange. In order to protect Tanglin, he borrowed troops everywhere, first looking for Li Debiao and then Sun Dianying. How did I get to Xi'an, but I just did it alone.

Xu Yicheng shook his head, revealing a sad look: "Warlords everywhere are all the way. If the Northwest Army is alarmed, they are afraid that the front foot will drive away the Japanese, and the back foot will do it themselves. The incident of Tanglin cannot be repeated. ”

Hai Lanzhu knew that Tanglin was now a thorn, and if he pulled it out, it would make Xu Yicheng very painful. So she didn't rush anymore, went out shopping during the day, and when she came back, she soaked in Xu Yicheng's room, reading and chatting with him.

During this period, the whereabouts of the China Terroir Investigation Group remained a mystery, but there were no suspicious characters near Qianling.

At noon on the fifth day, Ji Tianjun came again. This time, he mysteriously brought a black cloth bag, opened it, and saw that it was actually a copper feng shui compass, as well as incense candles, lanterns, red threads, or something. Hai Lanzhu came over to take a look, a little confused. She looked at Xu Yicheng and said Are you really planning to change your career?

Xu Yicheng picked up the compass and checked it, and said to Hai Lanzhu: "The ancients laid out the tombs, and they all relied on feng shui. After figuring out the doorway of Tang Feng Shui, you have a chance to solve the mystery in the plate and find the tomb door. You get ready, we'll be on our way in a moment. ”

"Leaving now? It took the middle of the night to get to Qianling, right? Hai Lanzhu was surprised.

Xu Yicheng said: "The mystery on Guo Zhen's sword will not be obvious until that time. If nothing else, we can put this over tonight. After speaking, he looked in the direction of Qianling, and his delicate face showed a little solemnity and nervousness.

Hai Lanzhu asked, "Then what should I do to prepare?" ”

"It's simple, protect me." Xu Yicheng looked at her with a deep gaze. Hai Lanzhu was slightly cramped, but she didn't avoid Xu Yicheng's gaze, the corners of her mouth were slightly raised, revealing a smile.

Ji Tianjun prepared three Hetao horses, and the saddle was complete. The three of them each stepped on a horse and hurried out of the west gate of Xi'an City-Andingmen. When he was out of the city, he was slightly delayed by the soldiers of the Northwest Army defending the city. Xu Yicheng asked Hai Lanzhu to be optimistic about the horse, and then went to negotiate with Ji Tianjun, and it took half an hour before the soldiers scolded and let them go.

After such a small episode, the three of them hurried out of the city and galloped all the way in the northwest direction. First pass through Xianyang, then pass through Liquan County, and finally arrive at the county seat of Qianxian. They galloped all the way for five or six hours, and both men and horses were exhausted, and they had to rest in the county seat of Qianxian County.

When the days were long in August, when they entered the county seat, there was still a faint afterglow of the setting sun in the west, leaving the last glimmer of light in the sky. Qianling is in Liangshan, which is twelve miles north of the county seat of Qianxian County, and its majestic mausoleum can already be seen from afar. But after they had eaten dinner, the last vestiges of the afterglow were gone. Under the thin starlight, Qianling was like a huge blurred black shadow, looking majestic and terrifying.

"Hey, you said that after entering the mountain, will it be haunted?" Hai Lanzhu shrank slightly. After all, she is a girl, and she will always be a little scared when she breaks into the graveyard of the dead in the middle of the night. Xu Yicheng sorted out the equipment on horseback and said with a smile: "Afraid of ghosts? You studied in the UK, so you should have studied 'Mr. Sai'. ”

"I know, but I'm scared." Hai Lanzhu pouted.

"There are no ghosts in this world, and when people who do bad things are weak-hearted, there are ghosts." Xu Yicheng laughed. Hai Lanzhu stepped on Xu Yicheng's feet fiercely: "Don't think that I haven't read Mr. Lu Xun's book!" ”

They took a short break and then left on time around nine o'clock in the evening. The road was bumpy and there was no lighting, so the three horses had to slow down and move cautiously. Later, the main road became a small road, and the small road became a mountain road, and when they reached the foot of Liangshan Mountain, the horses could not move forward at all. This is also a helpless thing, although Qianling is famous, but this is neither a military place, nor a place where incense flourishes, it is rarely visited in peacetime, and there is naturally no motivation to build roads in the local area.

So the three of them tied their horses to a stone monument at the bottom of the mountain, each put on their backpacks, turned on their flashlights, and walked along the Shinto Road towards the mountain.

There are three peaks in Liangshan, one north and two south, among which the north peak is the highest, and Qianling is on the top of the abrupt and lonely north peak. The two peaks in the south face each other from east to west, and there is a Sima Road in the middle, and there are two water belts of the Swill River and the Moshui River on the left and right, and the momentum is very majestic. Even at night, looking up at the Qianling Tomb from the bottom of the mountain, what you feel is not dead air, but the glorious atmosphere that has passed through thousands of years.

"I can't believe it, Wu Zetian is sleeping in this mountain, the only female emperor in China." Hai Lanzhu craned her neck and sighed.

Xu Yicheng corrected: "Wrong, this is actually the joint tomb of Tang Gaozong Li Zhi and Wu Zetian." It's just that Wu Zetian is too famous, so Li Zhi's name is not obvious. ”

"With such a wife, Li Zhi must be very hard, right? After death, they will be crushed. ”

Xu Yicheng said seriously: "I have never married such a wife, and I have never died, I really don't know." It made Hai Lanzhu giggle and dispelled the gloom of many dark night mausoleums.

Ji Tianjun walked in front, and introduced as he walked: "The two of you haven't been here, so you may not know." Originally, there were two inner and outer cities and four gates in this place of Qianling, and there were more than 300 buildings such as the sacrificial hall, the que tower, the ancestral hall, the lower palace and so on at both ends of the Shinto, but unfortunately it was long gone. Now all that is left on the ground is the stone statue of Weng Zhong at both ends of the Shinto and the wordless stone tablet. ”

"What is a wordless stele?"

"There are two stone tablets on the top of the Qianling, the one on the west side is the Shusheng Ji tablet of Tang Gaozong, and the one on the west side is the tablet of Wu Zetian. Generally, the stele should be full of words, singing praises or something, but Wu Zetian's stele is particularly strange, there is not a word on it. ”

Hai Lanzhu was very curious: "Why did Wu Zetian erect a wordless monument for himself?" Do you feel like you have nothing to say? Ji Tianjun said that he didn't know, there have been many sayings, some said that Wu Zetian thought that women should not be called emperors, so he didn't dare to set up a monument to leave a message, and some said that Wu Zetian thought that his merits were too great, and he didn't need to build a monument at all.

"Yicheng, what do you think?" Hai Lanzhu turned to Xu Yicheng.

Xu Yicheng stopped and thought seriously for a while, before answering: "I guess, she should have a clear conscience about the path she chose, and she is not afraid of the evaluation of future generations, so she calmly left the stele there - in fact, it should be like this, as long as it does not violate her heart, even if she insists on something that seems stupid to others, she is worthy of her life, so why bother with the name behind her?" ”

"Why do you say it like your last words, unlucky!"

The three of them walked for about half an hour, and Hai Lanzhu suddenly found that the trajectory of their advance had deviated from the Shinto Road and walked towards the mountains at the foot of the Qianling Tomb. Xu Yicheng told her that if she wanted to find the tomb door, she couldn't find it from the front. It's really that simple, Qianling has been dug up countless times. In the Tang Dynasty, the mountain was the mausoleum, and the entire mountain was a part of the mausoleum, so it was necessary to start from the ridges on both sides of the central axis of the Qianling Tomb. In other words, the search area should not be within the Qianling Tomb, but should be around the Qianling Tomb.

"It's just the three of us, and it's dark and blind, how can we search it?" Hai Lanzhu said worriedly. She shook her flashlight, and the shadows of the trees around her rustled with the mountain wind, and she didn't know the reality of the terrain at all. The north peak mountain is tall and steep, dense forests are spreading, it is dark at this time, and if you are not careful, you will stumble and fall.

"Don't worry, the mountain people have their own tricks."

Xu Yicheng nodded at Ji Tianjun. Ji Tianjun untied his backpack, leaned over and tinkered for a while, and took out a bunch of bamboo grates and cotton paper. These bamboo grates are the same length and are obviously specially made. Ji Tianjun was quick with his hands and feet, and soon assembled three cylindrical lanterns, with cotton paper on the outside, a bracket at the bottom, and a tight seal on the top, but the opening facing down was very large.

Ji Tianjun put a cloth ball covered with soybean oil under the lantern and lit it on a fire. Soon the three lanterns floated up and down. Because the lantern was tied to the lower end of the silk thread, it didn't float far, only floating above the heads of the three people, illuminating the surroundings a little. However, in this dark Qianling Mountain, three bean-like lanterns suddenly rose, which were extremely eye-catching from a distance, revealing a trace of weirdness.

"What is this?"

"This is the Kong Ming lantern, which is said to have been invented by Prime Minister Zhuge Cheng. can float in the air for more than an hour, let's find the Qianling Tomb Gate this time, but it all depends on this thing. Xu Yicheng explained.

Hai Lanzhu is a little confused, the lighting effect of this thing is not very good, if it is really dark, it is more convenient to hold a few candles in your hand. How can you find the door of the tomb with it? Could it be ...... This thing has some special effects that science can't explain? As soon as Hai Lanzhu raised her head, she was suddenly startled.

She saw Xu Yicheng take out the feng shui compass and put it flat in his hand, and the silk threads of the three Kong Ming lanterns were tied to the compass and hooked the three fingers. Above the compass, there is a rubbing of the sword pattern on Guo Zhen's sword. Xu Yicheng looks like that, where is he still an exquisite archaeologist, and he is clearly alive and well as a feng shui god.

"Patriarch Xu, then I'll go first." Ji Tianjun arched his hand, turned around and picked up his backpack and left. Hai Lanzhu was stunned: "He...... How did you go? ”

Xu Yicheng said: "Qianling is too big, we must search separately." We go all the way, he goes all the way. We each brought a flare gun with us, so we could contact us whenever we found one. ”

Ji Tianjun quickly disappeared into the darkness, and Hai Lanzhu followed Xu Yicheng closely, leaving the Shinto Road and stepping into the mountains and forests near the northern peak of Liangshan. Although Liangshan is not as steep and difficult to walk as Huashan, and there are no deep cliffs, the terrain changes a lot, the ditches are continuous, and you have to be very careful under your feet when you enter the mountain at night. Xu Yicheng looked at the feng shui compass all the way, pulling the Kong Ming lantern to walk slowly, sometimes climbing up to take a look, sometimes downhill to investigate, and stopping and going. Hai Lanzhu followed behind him, and her heart was full of wonderful feelings. At this time, the surroundings are silent, only the cool mountain breeze occasionally blows, the shadow of the mountains and trees, everywhere, occasionally you will see an ancient monument, a broken wall, and feel that the valley is deep.

The two of them wandered around the mountains for an unknown amount of time, and Hai Lanzhu couldn't help but ask, "What kind of feng shui are you looking for?" She didn't believe in these things, and she didn't think Xu Yicheng would believe either. He said that he wanted to find a tomb according to feng shui, which always felt quite strange.

Xu Yicheng stared at the compass: "Hehe, you don't know anything." This place of Qianling is different from the mausoleum of other emperors. If you don't know the mystery, you'll only get caught in a maze. ”

Hai Lanzhu saw that he said something solemnly, remembered that he had said that the feng shui yin and yang of Qianling were reversed, and hurriedly asked him what the mystery was. Xu Yicheng kept at his feet, and while continuing to explore forward, he spoke eloquently, and his voice echoed between the deep mountains and forests: "This has to start with the construction of the Qianling Tomb." Tang Gaozong Li Zhi has always had a long-cherished wish, that is, to be buried in Chang'an after death. In order to find a suitable piece of auspicious soil near Chang'an, Li Zhi sent two feng shui masters, one was his uncle Changsun Wuji, and the other was Taishi Ling Li Chunfeng. ”

"The Li Chunfeng who wrote "***"?"

"Yes, that's him. The eldest grandson Wuji and Li Chunfeng each chose a direction, starting from Chang'an City and visiting Sanqin. The eldest grandson Wuji first found a piece of feng shui treasure land and buried a copper coin at the dragon's eye. Immediately afterwards, Li Chunfeng also found a treasure land and drove a nail at the dragon's eye. The two returned to the court one after the other, and Li Zhi was a little embarrassed, so he let Wu Zetian pick it. Wu Zetian decided to go and see it in person, and found that the two of them were the same, and they both chose Liangshan. And at the dragon's eye, the nail that Li Chunfeng nailed happened to pass through the center of the copper coin of the eldest grandson Wuji.

Wu Zetian was very happy, and came back to tell Li Zhi that Liangshan Mountain faces Jiuzhi Mountain across Wushui, and Qishui Mountain is connected to Loujing Mountain and Qishan Mountain in the west, which is indeed an excellent place to gather wind and water. Originally, this matter had already been decided, but one of the people in the court stood up and said to Li Zhi that it must not be. Who is this man? He was Li Chunfeng's teacher, Yuan Tiangang. At the beginning, in order to predict the fortunes of the Tang Dynasty, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty asked Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng to make calculations. Li Chunfeng was young and vigorous, and he counted backwards for more than two thousand years in one breath, Yuan Tiangang hurriedly pushed him on the back, and said You have leaked too much, go and rest, Li Chunfeng stopped. Hence the name of the book, which is called "***". Since "***", Yuan Tiangang has paid attention to Li Chun's style, knowing that his student does not know how to be humble, and sooner or later he will cause a big disaster.

After retiring from the dynasty, Yuan Tiangang met Li Zhi alone and said that Liangshan could not be the emperor's mausoleum. Li Zhi was very strange and asked him why. Yuan Tiangang said that he had chosen a mausoleum site for his ancestor Li Yuan, and had also visited Liangshan. At first, he also thought that it was an auspicious soil, but after a closer look, he found that the feng shui of Liangshan was different. First, the dragon vein of Liangshan is separated from the imperial tombs of Gaozu and Taizong, and there are signs of interruption, but it is entangled at the end of the dragon vein of the Zhou Dynasty, which has the worry of changing the dynasty; The second is that the north peak of Liangshan is the head, and the south twin peaks are double breasts, showing the appearance of a woman, and this Lingli woman is not good for men; The third is that Wu and Qi Ershui hug together in front of the mountain, the water potential is low, which seems to be in line with the art of feng shui, but at noon standing in the place where the hug is held, here is just covered by the shadow of the twin peaks, and the yin is prosperous but not the yang. In short, Yuan Tiangang said that if he chose to be buried here, the yin and yang would be reversed, and he was afraid that Li Tang's imperial rule would be interrupted by a woman related to the Zhou Dynasty.

Li Zhi listened to Yuan Tiangang's words, and was a little embarrassed, because this place was chosen by Wu Zetian, and it was not easy to change. He was a coward, and finally decided that Liangshan was the emperor's mausoleum, and then drove out all the women in the palace with the word 'Zhou' in their names, thinking that they would have peace of mind from now on. Later, after Li Zhi's death, Wu Zetian buried him in Liangshan, and within a few years, she sought to seize the throne and become the emperor, and the country name was really a 'Zhou' word. ”

Hai Lanzhu was dumbfounded, and said that there were so many stories behind the Qianling. Xu Yicheng pushed aside the branch in front of him, lowered Kong Minglan a little, and continued: "Yuan Tiangang said that Liangshan is a reversal of yin and yang, and it is beneficial to the heroine. When Wu Zetian built the Qianling Tomb of Liangshan, he secretly concealed his intentions and deliberately installed cronies to maximize the effectiveness of this feng shui. Therefore, the feng shui of this Qianling Tomb is contrary to other imperial tombs everywhere, and the main yin is not the main yang. Naturally, the setting of the tomb door is also very particular. If you go to the tomb door according to ordinary feng shui theory, it is impossible to find it. ”

"The map on Guo Zhenjian's ......"

"That sword stripe, you have to look at it backwards. If the Japanese don't know the secret of Qianling, they will look for it according to the sword pattern, hehe, it will be the opposite of each other, and they will not be able to find it for a year. ”

Hai Lanzhu then understood why Xu Yicheng did not follow the right path, and originally wanted to step into this anti-feng shui bureau. She was suddenly curious: "How can you know these things so clearly?" Xu Yicheng stopped, turned around, and showed an indescribable wonderful look on his face: "You may not believe it when you say it." Our ancestors of the Xu family have a deep relationship with Wu Zetian. ”

"Huh? Don't tell me, you are the queen of Wu Zetian? ”

"Not really. My ancestor of the Xu family is called Xu Heng, and he is Wu Zetian's Mingtang guard, responsible for taking care of a jade Buddha treasure. Later, Mingtang suffered a fire, and the jade Buddha was lost. Xu Heng was dismissed, and he vowed to recover the Jade Buddha in order to live up to his holy grace. In order to find the Jade Buddha, Xu Heng studied jade identification hard, and later became a generation of masters. His descendants and disciples evolved into later generations and gradually formed the five veins. ”

Hai Lanzhu didn't know how many times she was stunned tonight, the origin of the five veins could be traced back so far.

Xu Yicheng said: "But these are legends, not necessarily true." The five veins have been passed down to this day, and many records have been lost. There are still many gaps in the story of my ancestors, and I am trying to fill them up, hoping to have the opportunity to completely restore that history. ”

Hai Lanzhu still wanted to ask, but suddenly Xu Yicheng raised his hand and said wait a minute. The two of them looked ahead and saw a barren slope in front of them. The slope of the barren slope is quite gentle, and the sides are squeezed by the sloping stone walls, as if a mountain wall has been split by a barren slope. There is a thin layer of grass growing on the slope, and there are no tall trees nearby.

From the point of view of location, this is just the southeast foothill halfway up the north peak, and it is far away from the southern breasts. According to Yuan Tiangang's theory, Liangshan is compared to a young woman lying flat, then this position is where the waist and eyes are.

Xu Yicheng asked Hai Lanzhu to hold the Kong Ming lantern and the compass, first used Guo Zhenjian's rubbing to compare the nearby terrain and landforms, and then walked over with a flashlight. He walked to one side of the stone wall first, touched the surface with his hand, then walked to the other side of the stone wall, stood a few steps, and reached out to measure the distance between the two. He asked Hai Lanzhu to throw the backpack over, and took out a shovel and a three-foot-long metal rod from it. Xu Yicheng picked up a shovel, dug a few times on the barren slope, stabbed it down with a stick, and then lifted it up to see the color of the soil. Three or four times, he thrust the stick down, and there was a muffled thud from it, not against the dirt, but against the slate.

"Is this it?" Hai Lanzhu asked.

Xu Yicheng raised his head and said to Hai Lanzhu with a happy face: "That's right, the tomb gate is here!" In the entire Qianling, only here is it in line with the feng shui of yin and yang reversal and Guo Zhenjian's instructions......" But this joy suddenly froze sharply on his face, because he saw a person coming out of the shadow behind Hai Lanzhu.

"Sister Xiaolu Yong......" Before Xu Yicheng finished finishing his name, the man had already flown forward, waved his fist, and smashed it on Xu Yicheng's head with one punch, and then smashed it three times in a row on his right ear, chin and abdomen. This stormy attack, even Fu Gui and Huang Kewu couldn't resist it, let alone Xu Yicheng. In the dizziness, Xu Yicheng vaguely heard Hai Lanzhu screaming: "You guys! ”

Sister Lu Yongde swung his fist again, and Xu Yicheng fell to the ground with his back to the sky, struggling for a long time without getting up. Hai Lanzhu pounced and helped him up, but Xu Yicheng shook off her arm and glared at her angrily. Hai Lanzhu hung her head and didn't say anything.

"Mr. Xu, we meet again."

This time it was Daisuke Sakai who came out of the shadows. He was dressed in a black silk coat and dressed like a Shanxi silver boss. No wonder Ji Tianjun couldn't find any trace of them, it turned out that they disguised themselves as Chinese caravans and blended into the city of Xi'an. Behind him, there were about seven or eight other people, each with flashlights and weapons, standing at the bottom of the barren slope.

Xu Yicheng gasped and wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth with the back of his hand, breathing heavily.

"Thanks to Miss Hai Lanzhu's great assistance, we were able to meet in Qianling, this is the so-called fate." Daisuke Sakai raised his fat fingers and pointed at her lightly. Hai Lanzhu's face turned slightly pale, but she didn't deny it.

"You...... You've been giving them a tip-off...... Why did you betray me? Xu Yicheng asked in a hoarse voice. He never expected that he would investigate all the way, but there would be a yellow finch following behind.

Hai Lanzhu twisted her face and wanted to hide behind the crowd, but was stopped by Sakai Daisuke: "What betrayal?" She has been doing her job well. She is one of our best spies. ”

Xu Yicheng closed his eyes angrily: "So you ...... from the beginning"

Hai Lanzhu raised his head: "Yicheng, I told you that the clan has always been in fear, and those who are afraid will look for someone who can help them. ”

"Then you sold Tanglin directly to the Japanese in the first place, why did you ask me for more trouble?"

"Because Yu Fang is not a member of the Zongshe Party, he first found you because he really wanted to protect Tanglin. In order to cooperate with Mr. Sakai's actions, our Sect of Socialist Party concealed my true identity and used Yufang to get me close to you. ”

"The Sect?"

Xu Yicheng suddenly remembered the two dragons playing with pearls he saw in his carriage when he first visited Yufang. It seems that the Socialist Party has not died, it is like a mark on a carriage, waiting for a chance to revivenation. He coughed a few times, but had nothing to say.

"Yu Fang has long been unambitious, he is a Taiping dog who only wants his life. The ideals of our Zong Socialist Party are much greater than his. He just wants to live a lifetime with his ancestors' mausoleums, but he doesn't know that as long as he can get the cooperation of the Japanese, sacrificing a Tanglin is an acceptable price. ”

When Hai Lanzhu said this, her voice gradually became colder, but a mocking smile appeared on her lips, I don't know if it was Xu Yicheng or to herself. Xu Yicheng looked at her fixedly and did not speak.

Sakai Daisuke said proudly: "Mr. Xu, you are really admirable, I didn't expect you to be able to find the Nine Dragons Sword from the smoke and soil, and trace it from the Nine Dragons Sword to Qianling." But fortunately, you are so capable that you can take us to find the tomb gate of Qianling. You didn't expect that, did you? ”

With his hands behind his back, he looked up at the Qianling Tomb on the north peak from the barren slope and sighed, "Such a great mausoleum, if it were in Japan, would become a sacred place for all people to worship - look at what you have ruined it?" ”

"Phew!" Xu Yicheng couldn't hold back any longer, spit and flew to his chubby face. Sakai Daisuke was not angry, squatted down in front of Xu Yicheng, pulled out the big white handkerchief from his arms, wiped his face, and put it back for him.

"You see, even Mr. Xu, you, are spitting in this sacred cemetery and don't cherish it. Such a treasure should be handed over to someone who knows how to cherish it better. Speaking of this, Sakai Daisuke straightened up, his eyes changed when he looked at Qianling, and his voice was very loud, "Open Qianling, and the "Zhina Bone Dong Account" can fill a big gap. Those students of the Imperial University, they can't hold their heads up in front of me anymore! ”

Sister Koji Yongde asked expressionlessly if he started digging, and Sakai Daisuke waved his big hand, as if waving a *** straight down.

Seven or eight people immediately took out their shovels and began to bury their heads in the dirt on the barren slope. Their movements are standard, uniform, and no one is silent, and at a glance, they know that they are from the same military background as their sister Lu Yongde. Sakai Daisuke was still reminding him: "Light, don't push too hard, be careful of hurting things." ”

Xu Yicheng was stubbornly controlled by his sister Lu Yongde, unable to move, and could only helplessly watch the Japanese push away the barren slope inch by inch, like peeling off a girl's dress. Hai Lanzhu shrank in the shadow of the stone wall, as if turning into a stone statue, and never made a sound or walked away. The vegetation on the barren slope was quickly dug up, and then the soil layer was also peeled away, revealing a stone slab. Sakai Daisuke leaned over to look, brushed away the floating soil with his hand, looked at it for a while, and was surprised: "Lion horse pattern, this is the unique style of Tangling, you can't be wrong!" ”

The people around him were excited, and they dug even harder. In less than half an hour, the entire door of the tomb revealed its true face. These are two stone slabs carved with lion and horse patterns, the stone slabs are tightly seamed, and there are auspicious clouds, peonies and other decorations around them, leaning along the slope - however, as the tomb door of the Qianling Tomb, it seems to be a bit shabby.

"Look here!"

Sakai Daisuke shook it with a flashlight, and the pillar of light shot through, shining on the stone slab directly above a stone lintel, on which was carved a sword, the shape of which was exactly the same as the shape of Guo Zhen's sword in the Nine Dragons Sword. Sakai Daisuke urged in surprise, "That's right. Guo Zhen offered a sword and guarded the tomb on his behalf, indicating that the tomb he guarded was undoubtedly the joint tomb of Wu Zetian and Li Zhi! Open it, open it! ”

The slate was very thick, and the Japanese didn't dare to use **, so they had to take out a crowbar, and seven or eight people pry it little by little. Fortunately, behind the tomb gate is not like Dongling, there is a town stone top, and a large crack was quickly pried out, which can accommodate one person. Behind the gap was pitch black, and I didn't know where it leads, only the cold air swished out.

Sakai Daisuke grabbed Xu Yicheng and made a gesture politely: "Mr. Xu, as the first discoverer of this tomb gate, I leave the honor to you, please be the first to enter." ”

"No, you can't!" Hai Lanzhu hurriedly spoke to stop it. The situation inside the tomb is unknown, and if there is poisonous gas or some mechanism, the first person to enter will be very dangerous. Xu Yicheng glanced at her sarcastically, as if to laugh at her hypocrisy. Hai Lanzhu was swept away by his eyes, and her whole body trembled for no reason, she had never seen Xu Yicheng show such a look: cold, quiet, and rejecting people for thousands of miles.

Xu Yicheng took the initiative to stand up, met Sakai Daisuke's gaze, stretched out his hand to slightly support the tomb door, and walked in.

He entered the tomb and took a breath. The air in the graveyard smelled of staleness, but at least it contained enough oxygen. He took the first step cautiously, feeling his footsteps land on a stone face. He reached out and touched around the left and right, and found that the same bluestone walls were all around. It was dark ahead, and there was no end to it.

Sakai Daisuke saw that there was nothing unusual after Xu Yicheng entered, and he and the others rushed in, leaving only one person outside to guard the door. Hai Lanzhu hesitated for a moment and followed. The Japanese were well prepared, and in addition to the flashlight, they also brought a special fish oil torch. Seven or eight torches lit up at one point, and in an instant the tomb road was illuminated. They saw that it was a downward sloping road, with no end in sight. The top of the corridor is oval-shaped, and the surrounding and ground are made of bluestone four fingers thick, and there is no decoration on the wall.

Sister Lu Yongde walked behind Xu Yicheng and pushed him with his hand, allowing him to continue to take the lead.

It is rumored that Wu Zetian is ruthless, so there are a large number of mechanisms in her mausoleum, and she needs a cannon fodder to block it. Xu Yicheng knew the intentions of the Japanese, but there was nothing he could do, so he had to continue to walk forward. The Japanese stood in a row, one meter apart, and followed behind him. The whole tomb is very quiet, the insects and birds outside and the mountain wind are all isolated, only the sound of footsteps and heavy breathing can be heard in the corridor, the cramped darkness and the gloomy tomb road make people feel irritated in their hearts, and a trace of panic rises in their hearts, what a terrible thing it would be to stay here forever.

Xu Yicheng suddenly stopped, and his sister Lu Yongde pushed roughly: "Why don't you leave?" ”

"It's over."

Sakai Daisuke walked to the front, and his sister Xiaolu Yongde held the torch high, and looked around to know that Xu Yicheng was right. At the end of the corridor was a large square room, just the size of a large coffin, but empty of nothing. On the wall facing the corridor is a painted mural of a military general who is like a god holding a sword and raising his eyebrows. Unfortunately, the mural is so old that only the upper body can barely be recognized, and the wall skin below is peeling, and the inside is not made of bluestone, but filled with earth. There is also a trace of a wooden shelf underneath the mural, but the wood has long since rotted into mud.

This obviously could not be where Wu Zetian's tomb was. But in the whole square room, there is only one entrance, Yongdao, and the rest of it is made of blue-striped stones, which is impermeable. Sakai Daisuke frowned, he held the torch and searched for a long time, but he couldn't find an entrance or secret passage to other places. Sakai Daisuke was a little blind at this moment, he turned around a few times, and finally walked up to Xu Yicheng helplessly: "Mr. Xu, what's going on?" ”

Xu Yicheng shook his head, indicating that he didn't know.

"I really don't know?" Daisuke Sakai stared at him. Under the light of the torch, his face was cloudy.

Xu Yicheng said calmly: "I came in with you, what can I do?" ”

Sakai Daisuke couldn't do anything about him for a while, so he discussed it with his sister Koji Yongde and decided to explore it again. Wu Zetian can't be reasonable, this square room must have hidden mysteries. If necessary, Xu Yicheng can be punished, this guy has five veins, maybe he is hiding something.

A group of people took out their shovels and began to knock on the nearby stone wall, hoping to knock out a secret passage or switch, but unfortunately found nothing. At this moment, there was a sudden sound of footsteps on the other side of the road.

In this mausoleum, where does the footsteps come from? Whose footsteps? Everyone's faces changed, and they took out their guns and aimed them at the Yongdaokou. The footsteps gradually approached, and then a head poked in, and Sakai Daisuke and the others suddenly breathed a sigh of relief. It turned out to be the man in charge of guarding the door. Daisuke Sakai asked him how he had come down. The man said that he didn't know who he saw in the foothills of the mountain outside, and suddenly fired a signal flare, and hurriedly came to report.

Sakai Daisuke looked at Hai Lanzhu, who hugged his arms and said weakly: "Ji Tianjun divided into two ways with our soldiers in the middle of the way, and agreed that if there is a discovery, we will use signal flares to contact." When Sakai Daisuke heard this, his eyes lit up: "So, Ji Tianjun should have made a discovery." Leave a few people here, and the others go over and take a look! Mr. Xu, you ...... What are you doing? ”

As soon as he lowered his head, he found that Xu Yicheng took out a wooden plaque from his arms and respectfully placed it under the mural of the generals. Because it wasn't a dangerous move, no one stopped it. By the light of the fire, Hai Lanzhu saw the words "Chen Gongweili's Position" written on the wooden sign, and her heart beat wildly. Xu Yicheng raised his hands in front of the tablet, put his eight fingers together, first turned the back of his hand into his palm, bowed three times, and then handed his thumb to it, and then took it away. Say your goodbye three more times.

She knew this gesture, Xu Yicheng had told her. This is called the worship of the solitary, and after doing this worship, we must fulfill the entrustment of the deceased, and make a promise of life and death. But his current gesture is the opposite of Togubai, which means that he has completed the entrustment and has come to comfort the deceased.

Her pupils narrowed instantly, and she shoved Daisuke Sakai and shouted in horror, "Hurry, get out of here!" ”

"Willy, take a closer look. Your enemies are here. Xu Yicheng stood up, holding the spirit card in his arms, and his face was extremely calm.

Before Sakai Daisuke and the others could react, a muffled explosion suddenly came from the flat ground, and the explosion was far away, and it was not very real to hear, and the entire tomb only shook. Immediately everyone looked up, and heard a rustling sound overhead, first very finely chopped, like ants eating leaves, and then gradually louder, like a bison galloping.

Daisuke Sakai shouted and said let's go! A group of people hurriedly ran up the road. But it was already too late, only a "boom" was heard, and half of the corridor collapsed suddenly, and the blue stone crackled down, and the two people who ran in front were smashed under it at once.

Daisuke Sakai and his sister Nagatoku Koji pounced at the same time, using shovels to try to dig a passage. But the retreat in front of him was not sand, but was blocked tightly by boulders, and it could not be dug at all, and the square room became a completely closed space.

Everyone's faces changed, they were all soldiers, not afraid of sacrifice, but trapped in a small burial chamber of an ancient mausoleum and suffocated to death, which was unacceptable to anyone.

Sakai Daisuke grabbed Xu Yicheng and couldn't calm down anymore: "What the hell did you do?" ”

Xu Yicheng laughed out loud, laughing extremely happily and heartily. His eyes lit up frighteningly: "When you came in, did you notice the walls on either side of the barren slope?" The foundation of the mountain wall was dug up by the tomb, and it was very fragile, and it only took a little ** to collapse the mountain wall and smash on the barren slope, completely sealing this place. That signal flare means that Ji Tianjun has ignited **. ”

Sakai Daisuke roared angrily and threw him away. Xu Yicheng's back hit the painted stone wall hard, and then fell to the ground, but he was still laughing, laughing breathlessly. Hai Lanzhu walked over, her voice trembling a little: "So...... Was it all premeditated? ”

Xu Yicheng's voice was gentle, but it was full of stingers: "If you don't do your duty, I can't do it." Great work. ”

With just one question and one answer, Hai Lanzhu understood everything. Xu Yicheng already knew her identity, and the night visit to the Qianling Tomb was not to find the tomb at all, but just to lure the king into the urn. Hai Lanzhu bit her lip: "When did you start doubting me?" ”

Xu Yicheng leaned against the stone wall, tilted his head, and a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth: "Very early, since you insisted on accompanying me to Ping'an City, I have been suspicious. Later, as soon as Fu Gui was attacked, I was almost sure - otherwise, how could the Japanese be so coincidental and just happen to be able to intercept Fu Gui and Jiang Mason? ”

Hai Lanzhu smiled bitterly: "So since you returned to Beijing, everything you told me was all fake, it was all a play!" Xu Yicheng said sarcastically: "Each other." At this time, Sakai Daisuke's face was distorted and he shouted: "So, what is the reversal of the feng shui bureau, what is the secret of the five veins, it is also nonsense?" ”

Xu Yicheng simply sat down cross-legged, held Chen Weili's tablet in his arms, and leaned his back against the stone wall: "You are very strong, I can't fight against you." I can only plan and pass on information to you through Hai Lanzhu, so that you will think that I have an exclusive secret, and only by relying on me can I find the real Qianling Tomb Gate. ”

"So this tomb is not the door of the Qianling Tomb at all?" Sakai Daisuke yelled.

"Don't you see it yet? This tomb is Guo Zhen's substitute burial tomb. "Xu Yicheng has completely relaxed at this time, as calmly as giving a lecture in class," Guo Zhenjian's sword pattern mountain is engraved with two words: 'Zhen' and 'Protect'. This is not only a prayer for the body, but also a place mark, not a place, but two - the word protection mark, is the entrance to the Qianling; And the shock mark is this substitute burial tomb. I guessed it from the first time I saw it. ”

Speaking of this, Xu Yicheng burst into laughter again: "I was delaying time in Xi'an City, and Ji Tianjun was looking for this tomb in Qianling and began to arrange it." Hurry up so that you don't have time to prepare; The soldiers stopped the gates of the city to give you the opportunity to tell them; The purpose of choosing to enter the mountain at night is to prevent you from discovering the ** buried nearby; The Hung Ming lantern is lit so that you can track it down so that you don't get lost—look at how thoughtful I am. ”

The burial chamber became quiet, more precisely, dead silence. The Japanese thought that they had been spying on Xu Yicheng, but they didn't expect that on the contrary, they had been controlled by Xu Yicheng. Every time he spoke, Hai Lanzhu's body had to shake, and he could barely stand up later.

Only then did everyone understand why there was no coffin in this tomb, only a painted mural. Guo Zhen was still alive when Wu Zetian died, but in order to repay the emperor's kindness, he erected an empty tomb near the Qianling Tomb, leaving only a sword and a portrait to protect the monarch. This kind of empty tomb doesn't have anything of value in it, and of course there are no secret passages. A corridor, a square room, that's all.

"Every antiquity has a reason for it. Guo Zhen guards the tomb with loyalty, and his sword is a sword of loyalty. If you don't understand this, you deserve it. Xu Yicheng stared at Sakai Daisuke tightly.

Sakai Daisuke's face changed slightly, he took out a photo of Guo Zhenjian, lay on the ground, and moved his fat fingers inch by inch on the photo: "'Zhen' is here, 'Protection' is there, not far away." Perhaps, on the road we just walked, there is the real entrance of Qianling! He trembled at the thought that he might have missed the real entrance to Qianling just now.

"If you had found it yourself, you might have found it long ago." Xu Yicheng sneered.

As soon as Sakai Daisuke heard this, his face first turned the color of pork liver, and his whole body began to tremble violently, and after shaking, he fell to the ground, foaming at the mouth, which seemed to be epileptic symptoms caused by excessive excitement. But no one came to see him, and everyone was dying.

The air in the burial chamber had begun to thin out, and in order to conserve oxygen, Sister Lu Yongde ordered all torches to be extinguished. A group of people sat in the dark, listening to the increasingly rapid breathing, feeling death slowly approaching. Sister Lu Yongde suddenly snorted coldly, and grabbed Xu Yicheng's shoulder: "Since you have set up such a bureau, how can you not leave a way back!" Say it! Where is it? ”

Xu Yicheng glanced at him contemptuously: "If I don't put myself to death, how can I trick you in?" ”

"Aren't you going to die the same way?"

"When I got here, I never intended to go out. Weili's revenge has been avenged, and Qianling has been preserved. People are born to die, and I have no regrets. His voice resounded through the dark catacombs.

"Okay, then I'll fulfill you! Save us some oxygen too! Sister Lu Yongde smiled and pinched Xu Yicheng's neck, and soon his face turned from white to blue. At that moment, there was a fluttering sound on the ceiling of the burial chamber, and everyone felt dust shake down from above. They don't know whether the change is good or bad. Sister Lu Yongde let go of her hand and looked up suspiciously.

Xu Yicheng's voice sounded again: "This tomb is hollow, and there is no wooden beam to reinforce and support. The weight of the two stone walls above is probably too much to hold up here - count you lucky enough to be stoned to death rather than suffocated. This explanation is not in any way comforting. Sister Lu Yongde finally couldn't keep calm, he pinched Xu Yicheng's throat again: "Tell me quickly, where is the passage?" Xu Yicheng smiled indifferently and closed his eyes: "When Wei Li was killed by you, was it also so painful?" ”

"I promise you're ten times more painful than him!" Sister Lu Yongde also became hysterical. The movement above the tomb grew louder and louder, like a scream before something was squeezed to its limit, about to break.

Hai Lanzhu's hand suddenly put on the arm of her sister Lu Yongde: "Let me come." Sister Lu Yongde snorted coldly, let go of his hand, and took a step back.

Xu Yicheng gasped for what little air he had left, clinging to the wall, his face pale. Hai Lanzhu looked at the man and said softly: "You still have a wife and an unborn child." Hearing this, Xu Yicheng was shocked, and a few traces of attachment flashed in his eyes, which were quickly replaced by perseverance: "She will understand what I do, and my children will be in the future - Hai Lanzhu, do you know?" That's the decisive difference between her and you. Hai Lanzhu showed a strange look for a moment, both bitter and happy: "Yicheng, when you deceived people, it was really ......"

As she spoke, the power that came from nowhere slammed her whole body towards Xu Yicheng's chest, and she was resolute. Xu Yicheng was caught off guard, and was thrown into his arms by Hai Lanzhu, and the whole person slammed into the stone wall behind him. At the same time, the ceiling of the tomb finally could not support the pressure, and it collapsed with a "bang", and a massive amount of sand and stones was like Mount Tai pressing on the top, completely engulfing the small tomb and the people inside at once......

Ji Tianjun stood on the edge of the barren slope outside the cemetery, his face turned white with fright. Xu Yicheng asked him to detonate the ** to block the Japanese inside, but he never said that he would go in too. What can I do now, the entire barren slope was forced down by the stone wall for a few minutes, the surface was sunken, and it was obvious that the entire tomb had collapsed.

What's wrong? A few days after the new patriarch of the five veins came to power, he actually let him blow up with his own hands? How can this be explained to the Beiping side?

Ji Tianjun was so anxious that he circled around, but he was at a loss. If he wants to call someone to dig up and save people, he has to explain how it collapsed and who pretended to be **. When the time comes, he will be covered with mouths, and he will not be able to speak clearly. Besides, the catacombs are not like buildings collapsing, they can still survive if they are opened, and the things are like coal mines, they collapse and can only wait for death.

While complaining about Xu Yicheng, Ji Tianjun looked into the collapsed ruins, hoping that some miracles could happen. But he also knew in his heart that the possibility of a miracle was too small. Although he has never done tomb robbing, he has seen a lot of them, and in this case, there is no life. Suddenly, his eyes stopped, and he saw what seemed to be movement under a bluestone. Ji Tianjun was afraid that he was mistaken, so he leaned down and leaned under the bluestone to observe. Because of the overlapping angle of the bluestones, there is just a small open space below. And the floating soil in the open space is surging one by one. Then with a "pounce", he rushed out of the ground with a wooden sign in one hand and shook desperately.

Ji Tianjun was startled, and his body couldn't help but shrink back, this hand is holding a spirit card, isn't it a corpse? If you look closely, it is the arm of a living person, and the whole body is still arching outward, and the wooden sign is supposed to be used to dig the earth. But the top had been pressed down by the stone, and the space was too small, so he couldn't get out anyway. Ji Tianjun looked left and right, picked up a stainless steel crowbar, inserted it into the crack of the stone and tried his best to pry. After prying three or four times, the big bluestone finally let out a reluctant collision and rolled down the slope.

Ji Tianjun wiped the sweat from his forehead, and then looked at the hand stretched out from the soil, he was almost unable to hold the wooden card, let alone struggle out. Ji Tianjun raised the shovel and quickly shoveled away the surrounding soil. He was surprised to find that there was actually a square cave in the earth, leading straight down. The shape of this cave is all too familiar, it is a typical old thief's cave.

One of the people in the cave was in a posture of climbing upwards, covered in dirt, almost turning into a clay figurine. Ji Tianjun hurriedly dragged him up, poured the soil with a kettle, and a square and tired face was revealed, and the two flat eyebrows turned yellow, yes, it was Xu Yicheng.

"Patriarch, you scared me to death." Ji Tianjun was relieved.

Xu Yicheng moved, barely opened his eyes, and found himself lying on a barren slope, and the stars in the night sky were clearly visible. He was familiar with the starry sky, but he had never found it so wonderful. Ji Tianjun asked him what was going on underground, but Xu Yicheng didn't answer, he flattened his limbs and muttered to himself: "Providence, this is Providence." I didn't think of that before. ”

Guo Zhenjian is a funeral object, so how could it be spread out and obtained by Qianlong? Naturally, there were tomb robbers who made a robbery hole here in Qianling, patronized Guo Zhen's tomb, and saw that there was nothing inside, so they only left with Guo Zhenjian, which led to a series of later stories. Later, time passed, and this robbery hole was gradually covered by dust, and no one knew about it. Just now, Hai Lanzhu suddenly threw herself into Xu Yicheng's arms and actually knocked out this thief hole.

Xu Yicheng reacted very quickly, and hurriedly drilled into the robbery hole to avoid the collapse of the tomb. He wanted to pull a handful of Hai Lanzhu, but she pushed him away. This thief hole was completely filled with soil, and he had to use Chen Weili's spirit card to dig out a passage, climb up little by little, and finally escape.

An attempt to rob the cave of the Qianling Tomb saved the life of a man who desperately tried to stop the tomb robber hundreds of years later. It all started with this hole, and everything ended with this hole. This is truly providential.

"Vili, Vili, you know? You saved my life. Xu Yicheng said weakly with the spirit card in his hand.

Ji Tianjun looked around and confirmed that no one else had escaped, so he relieved himself: "Hey, Hai Lanzhu was also pressed inside?" This woman is really hurtful. ”

Xu Yicheng said "um", but there was no happiness in his heart. Hai Lanzhu's collision just now was indeed ruthless enough. But if it weren't for her collision, Xu Yicheng would probably be like everyone else, and he would have to sleep under this Qianling Tomb for a long time. There are still many mysteries behind this woman, but unfortunately these will become a mystery forever, right? Xu Yicheng didn't want to think about it, he picked up the kettle and silently sprinkled a few drops on the ground, which was counted as a subtle sacrifice.

"Look, the sun rises."

Ji Tianjun pointed to the east excitedly, Xu Yicheng turned his neck, and happened to see a round of red sun erupting, encompassing the entire land of Guanzhong and Qianling into the embrace of golden sunlight.

At the same time, thousands of miles away in Beiping, a baby's cry came from the delivery room of Union Hospital, loud and powerful. Fu Gui, Liu Yiming, Huang Kewu, and Yao Lai, who were guarding the door of the delivery room, all jumped up. After receiving permission from the doctor, they rushed into the room and saw Mrs. Xu lying weakly on the bed, and the child was lying in her arms like a kitten.

Fu Gui, who was still wrapped in bandages on his head, glanced at the little thing and said, "That guy Xu Yicheng went to Xi'an to be happy, sister-in-law, you have set the name of this child yourself." Mrs. Xu touched the child's head, looked out the window, and said lightly: "Yicheng said that I hope that when this child grows up, it will already be an era of peace." Let him be peaceful. ”

The sun is shining outside the window, like a golden waterfall.