"Ah You, let's go!"

Qin Beiyang said goodbye to the two corpses in the secret room. The old eunuch's body was full of mercury, and his face was gray and silvery-white, and Ah You's twin brother would not change color until he was old.

Back in the tunnel, Ah You's memory is not bad, holding an oil lamp in his hand, leading Qin Beiyang through two forks, and then he sees an upward rammed earth step. The two walked to the exit of the ground, which was actually the treasure city of Emperor Guangxu. But seeing many people holding torches and shouting loudly, Qin Beiyang blew out the oil lamp, grabbed Ah You's arm, and was about to run away, when the little girl said, "Brother, run for your life yourself, leave me alone." ”

How could Qin Beiyang leave her: "If you don't leave, I won't leave either." ”

While the two children were talking, they were surrounded by the banner men and soldiers, and it was difficult to fly.

Qin Customs followed the sound and grabbed his son's shoulder: "Beiyang, why did you run away?" ”

"I don't want to be a tomb builder for the rest of my life."

Lao Qin covered his mouth and whispered in a low voice: "Beiyang, you don't know how hard I can find you!" You must know that this is an important place in the imperial mausoleum, and it is strictly forbidden for anyone to trespass, and it is a capital crime to be caught! Especially in the middle of the night, if the first emperor is disturbed, all the guards guarding the tomb will be beheaded. ”

"Then kill me!"

Qin Beiyang was stubborn by nature, but he didn't mention the strange incident of meeting the ghost of Emperor Yongzheng at night, which really disturbed the first emperor.

"What's the matter with this little girl?" Qin Customs pulled Ah You away from Qin Beiyang's side, but Ah You grabbed Qin Beiyang's arm and didn't let go.

"Go and see for yourselves!"

Qin Beiyang pointed to the entrance and exit hidden in the weeds.

When they arrived in Yin, they were sent to the temporary official residence of the Chongling Construction Site. The mausoleum superintendent is a four-grade official of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who personally went down to the tunnel to inspect it, and ordered the two bodies to be cleaned up and transported out of the Xiling territory for burial. As for the underground passage, be sure to fill it in as soon as possible.

The superintendent personally asked Ah You about the ins and outs, and finally took the case: "This old eunuch is innocent!" This dynasty strictly forbids martyrdom, which really corrupts the discipline! ”

Of course, Qin Beiyang and Ah You deliberately concealed a passage: the secret that the old eunuch was chronically poisoned by the Empress Dowager Cixi with arsenic before he died.

The overseer of the mausoleum stretched out his hand with sharp and slender nails, like a translucent dagger, and rubbed Ah You's face with a smile: "This girl is so handsome!" Thinking of my little daughter who died at the age of seven, uh...... Ah You, since your parents are dead, you have no relatives and no reason, why don't you go to my house and be a little maidservant, at least you can eat enough. ”

Ah You looked at the superintendent blankly, and glanced up at Qin Beiyang again, as if he needed his approval before he could agree. Qin Beiyang didn't know how to answer, and the overseer had already dragged Ah You away from him: "Don't worry, I will treat her as my own daughter." ”

Qin Customs tugged at the corner of the girl's clothes: "Don't thank you for the overseer!" Hurry up and get down on your knees! ”

Ah Yu knelt on the ground irresistibly, and as soon as he stood up, he was taken away by two sturdy banner women.

"Ahh

Qin Beiyang called her again, and Ah You looked back and said, "Brother, don't forget your sister!" ”

Two children, one bright red and the other light green, looked at each other, as if they were parting from life and death.

Seeing that Ah You was far away, Qin Customs pulled his son aside and said, "This is Ah You's blessing!" It's better than her wandering alone and precarious, right? At least you can save a small life, do you want her to be sold in a kiln as a chick? ”

There are also some things that Qin Customs can't say in person - the mausoleum supervision of the Internal Affairs Office is poor. There is a saying in the capital, "Fang Xinshu's small paintings are not ancient, this person must be the internal affairs office", that is, when you are on an errand in the internal affairs office, you can buy the most expensive house in the capital, hang the most valuable paintings, and the servants and slaves in the family are all arrogant. Do engineering, you know, it's still Wang Xiaobo's sentence: there is no difference between ancient and modern.

Later, the mausoleum superintendent retreated from irrelevant people, put down his face, and said to the Qin father and son: "If you trespass on the imperial tomb in the middle of the night, you should be decided!" Even if they are young and ignorant, they should wait until they reach the age of 16 to be executed according to the laws of the Qing Dynasty. ”

Qin Customs' face turned pale, and he knelt down and said, "Supervising the master!" Please spare this stinky boy's life! It's me who can't discipline me, if you want to kill, please kill me first! ”

"This ...... Lao Qin, you are the number one craftsman in the construction of the mausoleum, and your life does not belong to you, but to the emperor. ”

"Ask for mercy from the great master! If this child dies, I won't survive! ”

Qin Customs' hand trembled, and he took out a gold ingot from his arms and stuffed it under the feet of the mausoleum superintendent. This is a reward given to him by the regent, weighing five taels, and the condition is excellent, which is definitely a huge amount of money in those years, which can be exchanged for five thousand catties of grain.

"What do you mean? When I'm a corrupt official, can't I? The mausoleum superintendent stared at Qin Beiyang's stubborn eyes and said, "However, I quite appreciate your child, a hero has been a boy since ancient times!" He was able to subdue the old eunuch single-handedly underground, and save the little girl, eliminating the unlucky hidden danger for the imperial tomb, which can be regarded as a great achievement! By the way, I heard that the old eunuch was a master of the Ouchi thirty years ago, and seven or eight big men couldn't get close! ”

"Thank you for the grace of the overseer!"

Lao Qin dragged his son down and kowtowed to the mausoleum superintendent. Nine-year-old Qin Beiyang knelt down, but never kowtowed.

"Don't thank you first, although you have merit, you can't resist it! The regent has decreed that your father and son should serve in the mausoleum of the former emperor, and in order to prevent this boy from escaping again, this official has ruled as follows: You two must be confined in the underground palace and strictly forbidden to return to the surface for one year. ”

Qin Customs kowtowed vigorously to thank him. The overseer of the mausoleum took a step forward, and the five-tael gold ingot was hidden in the hem of his robe. Qin Customs was distressed in his eyes, but compared to the only son of two generations, this gold ingot was worth it.

When I left the official house, it was already dawn, and the rooster crowed.

A team of soldiers escorted the Qin father and son to the underground palace of Emperor Guangxu's Chongling. These soldiers will guard the cemetery crossing day and night, bringing them food and provisions at regular intervals.

After passing through the winding tomb road, Qin Customs warned his son not to escape by digging tunnels in the underground palace. The golden well is the location of the dragon's lair, which not only gathers the essence of heaven and earth, but also must ensure that it is impregnable, so as to prevent future generations of tomb robbers from robbing the tomb. The excavation of this underground palace a few months ago took the labor of thousands of migrant workers, and it took them day and night to get to this scale. As for how the old eunuch dug a tunnel behind the mausoleum? Because that's the soil needed for the top of the treasure, not the rock. Moreover, after this incident, the overseer of the mausoleum will inevitably step up his inspections, and it will be more difficult to escape from the underground palace than for the dead to crawl out of the tomb.

Suddenly, the nine-year-old boy whispered, "I'm sorry. ”

"As long as you live."

Lao Qin hugged his son's head tightly. The father and son walked through the three tomb doors and returned to the depths of the underground palace, Qin Beiyang's vest was cold. At the behest of the mausoleum's overseer, a small shack was erected and two mats and bedding were laid out. This is where they work, and where they eat and drink three meals a day.

Qin Beiyang hadn't slept all night, and he was already so sleepy that his eyelids were fighting. He untied the white cloth around his waist and fell asleep as he fell......

He dreamed of a dark night rain of water, surrounded by weeping willows and vermilion palace walls. There is an isolated island on the open water, and the pavilions and pavilions like Penglai are wonderland. Crossing a wooden suspension bridge and entering the decayed palace of gloomy and cold spider silk, Qin Beiyang followed the ambergris incense and climbed the stairs, and behind the layers of curtains, stood a man in his early thirties—wearing a yellow coat and a black beanie, sighing and reciting a five-character poem-

A leaf of the golden well falls, next to the desolate Yao Palace.

The stumps are not scattered, and there is a glow in the sun.

The ditch water is empty and hateful, and the clothes are broken and broken.

He is like the grass on the side of Ze, and he still has to stay with mandarin ducks.

"Beiyang, you're finally here." The other party actually recognized Qin Beiyang, his eyes were resentful but also earnest, and he slowly stretched out his hand, "I waited for you so hard!" Quickly take me out of the cage, this place is definitely not a palace, and there is a clear grave! ”

Qin Beiyang couldn't help but say, "Okay, I'll take you away, I'll take you out of this tomb." ”

Although the man exuded a rancid smell all over his body, Qin Beiyang still stretched out his hand. When these two hands were about to touch, an old man in a Qing palace robe came out of the oblique thorn, and it was the old eunuch he saw tonight, followed by a boy with a silver face on his face. The old eunuch's mouth was wide open, but he couldn't speak, and a large ball of mercury spurted out of his throat, heading straight for Qin Beiyang's face......

It's a nightmare. He was afraid that he would not wake up from a long dream. Qin Beiyang gradually understood that the place he went to in his dream was the Yingtai Hanyuan Hall in Zhongnanhai. The man who called himself "I" was the Guangxu Emperor, and the poem he recited was a farewell to Concubine Zhen.

It was night, on the side of the Chongling Underground Palace where Qin Beiyang dreamed, and the Lianggezhuang Palace less than two miles away, the Zigong Palace of Emperor Guangxu was parked. Aisin Jueluo Zaiyan, who had been dead for half a year, lay in the coffin of the golden silk nanmu, and it is said that he made strange noises all night. There are eunuchs on duty outside the main hall as evidence. Some people say that in fact, Emperor Guangxu did not die at that time, he was put in a coffin before his death, and starved to death after several months. Whether this is true or not, then you have to ask the emperor himself.