Chapter 69: Penetrating the Text

Han King Zhu Gaoxu: Ming Xuanzong Zhu Zhanji's uncle,

During the "Jing Disaster", he made military exploits and rescued Zhu Di in danger many times. Then he was arrogant, fierce and lawless, and wanted to usurp the throne of the prince.

In June of the first year of Hongxi (1425), he tried to ambush Xuanzong, but failed. On August 1 of the first year of Xuande (1426), Zhu Gaoxu took advantage of the Beijing earthquake to rebel in Le'an (now northeast of Guangrao, Shandong), set up the Wang Junfu and the Thousand Sentinels, and appointed officials and officials, and colluded with the British Gongzhang to assist him as an internal response.

Xuanzong Zhu Zhanji, under the persuasion of the scholar Yang Rong, personally drove Zhu Gaoxu to conquer him. On the 8th, Xuanzong led the army to march, and on the 20th arrived in the north of Le'an City, the army besieged the city, and Zhu Gaoxu's escort army surrendered without a fight.

On the 21st, Zhu Gaoxu surrendered, was sent back to Beijing, imprisoned in the imperial city, and was later executed.

On the way back to Tianjin, Lao Liu Tou repeatedly looked at the short sword picked up from the corpse of Zhao Kuncheng's father, and sighed vigorously, "Sai Weng lost his horse, how can he know the blessing and the curse!" ”

"Senior brother, what kind of sword is this?" Zhang Guozhong is not particularly knowledgeable about antiquities.

"I'll tell you, don't be alarmed..."Old Liu Tou coughed his throat, put his mouth into Zhang Guozhong's ear, and muttered in a low voice.

"Ahh Zhang Guozhong shouted, so frightened that the driver braked suddenly, "What's wrong?" What's wrong? What's wrong? ”

"Master driver, it's okay, it's okay, you keep driving, our own business, I'm sorry, I'm sorry..."

The car continued to exercise, stroking the sword, Zhang Guozhong followed the fingers of the old Liu Tou, and saw two badly worn seal characters in a very inconspicuous place on the hilt of the sword, the second character is too complex and due to serious wear, it is no longer clear, but the first word can be vaguely seen: "giant".

"Senior brother, are you sure that this is the real thing?" Zhang Guozhong couldn't hide the excitement in his heart, and asked Lao Liu Tou in a low voice.

"I can't guarantee if it's a real guy, but since Zhao Kuncheng and his father dare to break into the Eighteen Immortals with this thing, I can't see it fake." Old Liu Tou twisted two handfuls of sparse beard with his hands, "How does it feel to use it?" ”

"Hmmm! Well! The bottom of the cave is full of water, and the yin qi is very heavy, and it is generally used to deal with that ghost and ask the sky, but this guy seems to be quite effective! Zhang Guozhong analyzed that Zhao Mingchuan deliberately put a layer of water in the secret room in order to create the effect of the Yin Gathering Pool in a place that was not a Yin Pool, so that nine out of ten ordinary blades would fail.

"So, Ou Yezi's swords are all true? It doesn't seem to be as elaborate as the legend says! Zhang Guozhong gently touched the blade of the sword with his fingers, and immediately rushed to a slight pain, and raised his hand to see that it had been cut, "It's not pleasant to look at, it's really fast to touch..."

The car continued to gallop, although the seal of the country was lost, but in line with the psychology of "no fish and shrimp", Zhang Guozhong felt that it was worth it, the sword in his hand was nothing else, it was the legendary blade - Juque Sword, if it was not a fake, according to fashionable words, this is Ou Yezi's "flagship product".

Back in Tianjin, the first thing Zhang Guozhong did was to draw a sketch of the secret room of Longtan in Wuling Mountain and the surrounding terrain, including the burial place of the two eighteen underworld that he found and the location of the bottle in the stream.

After checking with Lao Liu Tou, there are about five known burial places of the underworld, two of which have been discovered by himself, one is the place where the bottle is buried under the stream, which is tentatively suspected, one is found by Lao Liu Tou, and the other is temporarily listed on the route of Li Ruixue's escape. Although the location of the eighteen underworld is only roughly delineated, but looking at it on the map, the approximate arrangement is very similar to the dragon array in the treasure cave of the Later Jin Dynasty.

"Senior brother, did you say that this Eighteen Immortals are from the Chisel Dragon Formation?" Zhang Guozhong said.

"It's very likely..."Old Liu Tou spread out the treasure map of the Later Jin Dynasty at that time, and began to compare the mountains around each town platform of the Chisel Dragon Array, and found that there were many similarities.

At this time, there was a knock on the door, and Li Erya opened the door and saw that it was Zhang Guoyi.

"Brother, someone called you this afternoon, why did you call me?" Zhang Guoyi looked strange.

"Is it from Beijing?" Zhang Guozhong asked?

"yes, what do you say the results are out, let me tell you."

"What did he say?" Zhang Guozhong rummaged through the cabinet and found a passbook, "Guoyi, you take this, take it out and share it with your parents, I don't care about this matter." ”

"He said it was mucus from the carp." Zhang Guoyi took the passbook and opened it, and immediately became stupid, 20 million Hong Kong dollars in foreign exchange passbook, "Brother, why did you go?" It's not a crime, is it? ”

"Mucus on the surface of a carp?" Zhang Guozhong thought hard, the mucus on the surface of the carp's body plus the organs on the human body? What is Zhao Kuncheng's father going to do?

"I understand..."Old Liu Tou said, "The fish belongs to the yin, this kid has already broken the eighteen underworld!" ”

"How?" Zhang Guozhong still didn't understand what Lao Liu Tou meant.

"Eighteen Immortals, why would they rush or kill?" Old Liu Tou asked. Zhang Guozhong shook his head.

"Zhao Mingchuan killed those eighteen people, not to simply kill, but to first perform 'Scattering Soul Surrender', and then kill!" Lao Liu Tou analyzed, this soul scattering is a kind of primary descending technique, which makes people have the effect of "losing the soul", the breathing pulse is normal, occasionally accompanied by high fever symptoms, and will be unconscious, "All those who do not possess the soul have the idea of returning to the body, but if there is" Soul Scattering Spell ", the soul will not be able to return to the body, and resentment is born from this!" ”

"You mean, as long as these souls find their bodies, their resentment will be dissipated? The human organs in this bottle can use the mucus of the carp to blind those unjust souls, so that they can treat the organs in the bottle as their own corpses? Zhang Guozhong said, "I found four bottles, that is to say, Zhao Kuncheng and his father must have come with eighteen bottles, and there are four left at the moment, which means that these eighteen immortals, Zhao Kuncheng and his father have already broken fourteen for us?" ”

"Yes!" Old Liu Tou said, "And listen to you, you also ran into a land demon, that's one!" Also, let the tree hold up the one, the 'Soul Scattering Curse' has been broken, count one, this is sixteen, Li Ruixue hit one, and there is another person, crookedly beaten, not one left! Old Liu Tou snapped his fingers, all right.

"That person seems to have been done by Zhao Kuncheng's father... I saw a head next to his body, but I couldn't find it. Zhang Guozhong suddenly remembered the skull next to Zhao Kuncheng's father's bones.

"Hmm...... I doubt it... It's possible that... The place where Zhao Mingchuan buried the man back then was Juyin Pond,... Zhao Kuncheng and his father dug up the bones and stuffed the bottle into the corpse... And at that time, he was performing a spell, and when he opened the corpse, he broke his breath..."Old Liu Tou frowned and analyzed, "Otherwise, it will be up to Zhao Kun to become his father, and if he wants to kill people, he still uses a knife?" And this kind of family secret, how could he take someone else with him? That place is a maze, and you can't find a way to enter it during the day, so you can only enter it at night, so it's unlikely that it is a mountain people......"

"Well, after the corpse was raised, something got into the headless corpse, so it became a human body... It makes sense..."Zhang Guozhong also fell into deep thought, and looked at the location of Zhao Kuncheng's father's death and the direction of the surrounding mountains on the sketch, if it is a chisel dragon array, it is also very possible to place a town platform in this kind of terrain, maybe it is really what Lao Liu Tou said... Unexpectedly, this Zhao Kuncheng became his father, and he died at the hands of his father......

"Yes, I'm going back, I don't listen to your nonsense here..."Zhang Guoyi listened to a rough idea, and the three sentences did not leave the dead man, only felt a cold breath in his neck, and hurriedly left after drinking a saliva.

The next day, Zhang Guozhong suddenly found that there was a good-looking little girl who came to help Zhang Yicheng with his homework, saying that it was tutoring, but the sound of video games coming from the house was hahaha laughter, and it didn't sound like he was studying.

"Good boy, I haven't learned much about serious things, I've learned to engage in objects..."Zhang Guozhong is really angry and happy, angry is angry that his son has shown signs of early love at a young age, laughing is laughing It seems that his son is still quite attractive, and it is not bad to engage in this little object. Since he came into contact with Qin Ge, Uncle Qi and others, Zhang Guozhong's thinking can be regarded as a little connected with the world, and he is not very old, so he is still very open to this kind of thing.

Standing at the door of his son's house and about to knock on the door, suddenly Zhang Yicheng opened the door, "Yo, Dad, what are you doing here?" ”

"I... Hey, I'm looking for something..."Zhang Guozhong was caught off guard.

"It's just right, come here and ask you something..."Zhang Yicheng dragged Zhang Guozhong into the house, "Introduction, this is our squad leader, Liu Mengmeng, this is my father!" ”

"Hello uncle, thank you uncle!" Liu Mengmeng got up and bowed to Zhang Guozhong.

"This kid is quite polite..."Zhang Guozhong looked at Liu Mengmeng, looking like a good student, "Hey, good, good, you... Thank me, what? ”

"Zhang Yicheng helped my family a lot, saved me and my grandfather, he said that you taught those skills!" Liu Mengmeng said.

"What?" Zhang Guozhong was stunned and looked at Zhang Yicheng, "This... What the hell is going on? I... What did I teach you? ”

"Hey, you don't care...! By the way, you tell us about the four-corner number* to check the dictionary, how to check? Zhang Yicheng took a dictionary and handed it to Zhang Guozhong, turned his head and blew with Liu Mengmeng, "My dad used to be a university professor, don't worry, there is nothing he won't know..."

Zhang Guozhong smiled bitterly, he has been a secondary school teacher for two years, when did he go to the university to teach? How can this unlucky kid be as good as his uncle?

After taking the dictionary, Zhang Guozhong began to teach the two children how to look up the word of the four-corner number, and as he spoke, an idea suddenly came to him, and when he finished talking to the two children, he immediately ran to his house and turned out the book that the Hong Kong police had turned out from the safe of Zhao Kuncheng's house.

"Could it be that ... This... Is it this dictionary? Zhang Guozhong was puzzled for a while, turned out the silk silk hidden in Zhao Le's stomach before, and began to check one symbol after another.

After about an afternoon, he finally came up with a rough idea, and the result made Zhang Guozhong overjoyed, it turned out that this book was indeed a dictionary of death, with the help of this dictionary, Zhang Guozhong found the real cause of Zhao Le's death, and the reason was very different from what he had guessed at the beginning.

The translation of the text is as follows:

Chisel dragon is nine, broken there are eight, but the righteous must think far-sighted, so save one of them, to be used for righteousness, then live up to the king of Han.

However, send the hand of the Han King to the eunuch party, I know that the limit is not long, so the Si array map in the abdomen, if my descendants take it, break its true immortal that is the treasure in the mountain, gold and silver can be the country, and the husband will become a great cause!

"I said, why didn't that Zhu Di hesitate to move all the long beards that the North Koreans paid tribute to!" Zhang Guozhong's face was full of spring breeze, "It turned out that he was also afraid that after his death, the throne would be usurped by the 'Han King'..."Seeing this, Zhang Guozhong turned up the "Meritorious Fame" again, and found that this "Han King", that is, Zhu Gaoxu*, who had saved Zhu Di during the "Jing Disaster", was in the second year after Zhu Di's death, that is, in the first year of Xuande (1426 AD), it was convenient for Le'an to rebel, and colluded with the British Gong Zhang Fu as the internal response, and was later defeated and sent back to Beijing to be executed.

It turned out that this Zhao Le had broken the Chisel Dragon Array during his lifetime, but he colluded with the Han King Zhu Gaochu to rebel, deliberately left a real Sendai unbroken, and wanted to drag it until Zhu Di's death, leaving the treasure for Zhu Gaochu to raise troops, but later he was caught by Zhu Di and was exterminated by the Nine Clans, according to the record of "Meritorious Fame", Zhu Gaochu has saved Zhu Di many times, and there are many henchmen in the court, so even if Zhu Di knew that Zhu Gaochu wanted to rebel, he did not attack him, but used Zhao Le, the unlucky bastard, as a punching bag...

"It's wrong to blame Zhu Di..."At the beginning, Zhang Guozhong thought that Zhu Di killed Zhao Le because he was selfish and didn't want future generations to pick the fruits of his labor, but now it seems that this Zhao Le really wanted to rebel, no wonder, on his coffin, Zhu Di wanted to engrave a slightly ironic pattern of "dragon on tiger down......

Note*:

Four-corner number: An early dictionary search method, each stroke of a Chinese character has a number, and the stroke number of the four corners of each character is combined in order to find the Chinese character, which is rarely used now because it is difficult to master.

Zhu Gaoxu, King of the Han Dynasty: The uncle of Zhu Zhanji of Xuanzong of the Ming Dynasty, he made military exploits during the "Jing Disaster" and rescued Zhu Di in danger many times. Then he was arrogant, fierce and lawless, and wanted to usurp the throne of the prince. In June of the first year of Hongxi (1425), he tried to ambush Xuanzong, but failed. On August 1 of the first year of Xuande (1426), Zhu Gaoxu took advantage of the Beijing earthquake to rebel in Le'an (now northeast of Guangrao, Shandong), set up the Wang Junfu and the Thousand Sentinels, and appointed officials and officials, and colluded with the British Gongzhang to assist him as an internal response. Xuanzong Zhu Zhanji, under the persuasion of the scholar Yang Rong, personally drove Zhu Gaoxu to conquer him. On the 8th, Xuanzong led the army to march, and on the 20th arrived in the north of Le'an City, the army besieged the city, and Zhu Gaoxu's escort army surrendered without a fight. On the 21st, Zhu Gaoxu surrendered, was sent back to Beijing, imprisoned in the imperial city, and was later executed.