Chapter 248: The Puppet Man (1)
Ah Wu subconsciously shrank back, looking at Xiao Ling and not daring to go over, Xiao Ling was stunned for a moment, thinking of what she had done to Ah Wu two days ago, and then felt a little guilty, just wanted to explain to Ah Wu, saying that he couldn't control himself at that time, then he saw Ah Wu walking towards them again, and he was not scared anymore, he walked to Princess Luanying with the diameter of the lantern, and then looked up and didn't speak.
Ji Qingyi didn't know what Princess Luanying called Ah Wu for, but she didn't speak when Ah Wu was called, she stared at Ah Wu and said, "Ah Wu, why are you here?"
Ah Wu pursed his lips and said, "Auntie knows that you will come sooner or later, so you can ask me if you want to know something."
As soon as he finished speaking, Xiao Ling took two steps forward and asked, "Do you know what we want to know?"
Although this is a bit tongue-twisting, it is one of the things they have doubts in their hearts. Ah Wuwenyan glanced at Xiao Ling, but there was three points of guilt in his eyes: "I'm afraid you want to ask, it should be an abnormality in the past few days."
Xiao Ling was shocked again, and said for a while: "You know?"
Ah Wu nodded, and then hurriedly explained, "I also learned about it recently."
After speaking, he glanced up at Xiao Ling, then lowered his head and said, "That's it, you won't know until you beat me."
Ji Qingyi listened to it and thought to himself, thanks to Xiao Ling's whips.
Xiao Jin walked over, looked at the emperor in the coffin, and then turned his head and asked Ah Wudao, "Can you explain to me what is going on?"
Ah Wu glanced at the coffin slightly, Xu was afraid, and then quickly looked away: "When my aunt wrote it to me at the time, there were some words in this coffin that I didn't quite understand, but I knew that it seemed to have a little reason with the conjuring spirit."
Conjuring spirits can be regarded as a taboo, because most of this kind of thing is religious public opinion from the people, and they are afraid that they did not expect that in this palace, the first emperor took the lead in setting an example.
Xiao Yunyan suddenly patted his head, Ji Qingyi heard the voice, and then turned to look at Xiao Yunyan and said, "What's wrong with you?"
Xiao Yunyan pursed her lips and glanced at everyone and said, "I seem to have some impressions of this conjuring."
As soon as the words fell, everyone looked at her, Xiao Yunyan was stunned for a moment, and then swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said: "I only know a little, but this thing of mine is indeed a kind of magic in Qimen gossip,"
Ji Qingyi turned his head sideways and said suspiciously to her: "This is inside the Qimen gossip?"
Xiao Yunyan shook his head, and then continued: "Actually, there are two kinds of Qimen techniques of the Xiao family, one is Qimen gossip, and the other is Qimen Dunjia, the former is to break the mechanism and the latter is to solve the mechanism, and the soul conjuring technique is the sum of these two, but it is not either, because of the taboo, so my father only mentioned it to me at that time, and did not tell me carefully."
Ji Qingyi nodded when he heard this, and then said: "Then you tell what you know, it's best to say everything."
Xiao Yunyan pursed his lips, then nodded and said: "Spiritualism is the most difficult thing to learn in Qimen, because it is a taboo, so my father did not teach me, and my father said that he did not learn either, as the name suggests, spiritualism is to summon the soul of the dead person back, but this is against the way of heaven, and the soul summoned back cannot return to his original body." ”
Ji Qingyi was stunned for a moment, thinking to herself, isn't this her situation? She pursed her lips and said, "Is it similar to snatching the house?" ”
Xiao Yunyan was stunned, shook his head and said, "It's not taking away, taking away is to lodge the soul in the body of a living person or a dying person, but conjuring is to place one's soul in a half-human body." ”
Chu Xiaoyao also felt strange when he heard it, so he asked, "In a half-human body?" What is a demihuman? Is it a human head? Such living creatures are only recorded in the Book of Mountains and Seas. ”
Xiao Ling glanced at Chu Xiaoyao and echoed: "Yes, this kind of living creature has been recorded in ancient times, but they are all divine beasts." ”
Xiao Yunyan shook his head and said with a solemn expression: "The half-people mentioned here are not those things with human heads and horses, but puppets similar to people made of Qimen Dunjia. ”
Ji Qingyi was stunned for a moment, then subconsciously looked at the "First Emperor" in the coffin, and then said to Xiao Ling: "Don't tell me, the half-person you said is the First Emperor who is lying in the coffin now." ”
Xiao Yunyan glanced down at the coffin, and then said lightly: "The body of my father is already in the royal mausoleum, and there is a puppet man who has made the appearance of my father lying here." ”
After Xiao Yunyan finished speaking, everyone looked at the "First Emperor" in the coffin in disbelief, after all, they had never seen such a realistic puppet who could do it. Ji Qingyi stayed at her grandfather's house when she was a child, and she saw that there were jugglers in the town who played puppet shows, and the puppets there were made into very small appearances, the kind of puppets that could perform a scene with a string in her hand, she had ever seen the best puppet, that is, a woman in ancient costume who was one meter tall, she liked it very much at the time, and she had to let her grandfather buy it, and finally persuaded her grandfather, but when they passed, they were beaten away by the puppet show.
Ji Qingyi was thinking about it, his eyes inadvertently looked at Xiao Jin, and saw that Xiao Jin's face was black the whole time, Ji Qingyi lowered his eyes, and inexplicably felt pity for Xiao Jin.
Xiao Ling opened his mouth, then looked at Princess Luanying and said, "Auntie, this, this is what you did?" ”
Princess Luanying didn't nod or shake her head, she looked at them indifferently, Ah Wuying nodded and said, "My aunt did it." ”
Ji Qingyi was taken aback, after all, something like this must have been done for a long time, and she was now beginning to wonder if Princess Luanying went to the Wufu Sea a few years ago, was it because of this matter, or that they had been preparing for a longer time?
Ji Qingyi looked at Xiao Yunyan, then pursed his lips and said, "Then, if you conjure a soul to this puppet, will the puppet you use become a thinking person?" ”
Xiao Yunyan lowered his eyes slightly, and then said slowly: "I don't know about this, because no one has ever been able to succeed, although this method is taboo, but there are always some people who want to live forever, or don't want to give up their power, so it is recorded in the information that there have always been many people in the Xiao family's Qimen clan to do soul summoning, but none of them succeeded." ”
Ji Qingyi nodded, then turned to look at Princess Luanying and said, "Then, there is another question, what is that attic?" Why did Xiao Yunyan, Xiao Ling, and the emperor and the three of them have such a thing? ”
As soon as Ji Qingyi's words fell, Ah Wu spoke: "This, I can explain." ”
Everyone looked at Ah Wu, which made Ah Wu retreat quite embarrassed, he swallowed his saliva and said: "Actually, this matter is not long, and it is not short." ”
Ji Qingyi said impatiently: "Let's talk about it carefully." ”
Ah Wu nodded hurriedly and said: "Just more than ten years ago, when the emperor ascended the throne, this attic was built, but the attic disappeared within two days after it was built. ”
Ah Wu stopped and scratched his head and said, "I didn't use the wrong word, did I?" My aunt wrote it at the time, which seemed to be unbelievable. ”
Ji Qingyi was listening, and was completely angry by Ah Wu's words, and hurriedly glared at him and said, "You just have to say, it doesn't matter if the meaning is not expressed correctly." ”
Ah Wu shrunk his neck, feeling aggrieved to death, after all, it takes time to memorize so much what Princess Luanying wrote, and besides, he is still a disabled person.
He secretly defused his stomach for a moment, and then continued: "But everything in the palace comes and goes quickly, and no one explores this matter, this attic is actually hidden by the emperor with Qimen gossip, but there was also my aunt who did this thing together at that time." ”
Ah Wu paused when he said this, then glanced at Ji Qingyi and said, "So when you go into that place, my aunt can feel it." ”
Xiao Ling glanced at Princess Luan Ying, and didn't know what it was like, but it was very uncomfortable. Ah Wu pursed his lips and said: "My aunt said that in their generation, there are only a limited number of children who can learn Qimen gossip and Qimen Dunjia, that is, those who are not talented and those who can't endure hardships have not practiced Qimen, not only that, in order to hide the secret of Qimen's existence in the royal family, so those who are not qualified, some have been erased from their memories and become fools, and some are too strong to change their memories, so they were killed, but even those princes and princesses whose memories have been erased will not live to be twenty years old, Only one Eternal Prince is an exception. ”
"Prince Yong?"
Ji Qingyi didn't remember that there was a Prince Yong in Wei State, so he subconsciously asked.
Xiao Ling opened his mouth to explain: "Prince Yong is an old prince, he has been stupid since he was a child, and he just died a few years ago. ”
After Xiao Ling explained to Ji Qingyi, he looked at Ah Wu and motioned for him to continue, Ah Wu tilted his head, as if thinking about what to say, and said after a while: "Although this matter is very cruel, this is something that the Xiao family has to experience in the past dynasties, so the first emperor made a hidden attic, and then used it to cultivate the next generation of Qimen people." At that time, Sister Yunyan was born with a birthmark on the spiritual bones on her body, and the emperor knew that it was a characteristic that could be practiced into a very powerful Qimen technique, which was very rare, that is, one might not appear in eight hundred years, but it appeared on Sister Yunyan, and the only regret of the emperor was that Sister Yunyan was a girl, otherwise she could pass on the throne to her. ”
Saying this, Xiao Yunyan's nose was sore, and she almost cried, Ji Qingyi tilted her head and glanced at her, then stretched out her hand to put it on her shoulder, and smiled at her.