Chapter 7: The Assassin's Gift (1)

A fake of the underground palace of the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang.

Qin Beiyang opened his eyes again, already covered in cold sweat. He was afraid that his sweat and body fluids or the hot breath exhaled from his mouth would destroy the incorruptible body of the little prince of the Tang Dynasty, so he hurriedly drilled out of the coffin and resealed the coffin lid.

He locked the nine colors in the heavenly and earthly palaces, and walked to the top of the mountain alone, it was already dawn. He realized that there had been another heavy snowfall last night, and now the snow was clear, and the mountains were as white as jade.

Lao Jin started to work early in the morning, and Zhongshan also saddled the horse and the horse, commanding the people of Taibai Mountain, etc., to clear the snow in front of the small square, and decorate the main hall of Gewu Zhizhi with golden brilliance, and tonight there will be lanterns to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Taibai Mountain Assassin Order. They became less like assassins and more like managers and porters of a grand hotel. Although Ah You is pregnant, after all, she is only two or three months old, and her body shape has basically not changed, and she also arranges tonight's ceremony in every detail. Qin Beiyang seemed to have nothing to do, wandering idly in the snow, only Li Gaolou wearing a ghost mask accompanied him.

Walking through the sea of uncles covered in silver, Li Gaolou carried a big burden and said: "Ten days of dry: A, B, C, D, E, G, XIN, NON, and DEC. Twelve earthly branches: Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu, Hai. From Jiazi, Yichou, Bingyin, Ding Mao to the last Guihai, exactly sixty combinations, for a Jiazi cycle, and so on, endlessly. In ancient times, the Chinese used the heavenly stem branch to represent the year, month, day, and hour, like the four pillars between heaven and earth, supporting the concept of time. ”

"Time ......" Qin Beiyang seemed to be discussing a certain philosophical proposition with him, "You remind me of a friend." ”

"Sixty years ago, the remnants of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Young Heavenly King, and the coffin of the Heavenly King, took refuge in the Taibai Mountain, and founded the Assassin Order, following the example of the mountain elders of Persia seven hundred years ago. Tonight's celebration is the most important event in 60 years. ”

While talking, Li Gaolou kept looking up at the sky, and he didn't know what kind of eyes were behind the ghost mask?

Qin Beiyang looked up at the cold sky after the heavy snow: "What are you looking at?" ”

"Look at the Bloodlight Plague."

"Lang Lang Qiankun, where is there any bloody disaster?"

Although Qin Beiyang said this, he thought of the dream he had in the early hours of the morning, lying in the coffin of the little prince of the Tang Dynasty.

Li Gaolou patted the big burden behind him and said, "I hope not." ”

It's dark.

The 60th anniversary of Jiazi celebration of Taibai Mountain officially began. It is not only a great event for Taibai Mountain in the past sixty years, but how can it be without the guests and congratulatory gifts of the Assassin Alliance. The drawbridge of Taibai Mountain was lowered, and Lao Jin and Zhongshan led several Assassins, armed with daggers and fast guns on their shoulders, to greet the six representatives of the Assassin Alliance.

Six top-tier Assassins, speaking a variety of languages and of different skin tones, each crossed the drawbridge with a congratulatory gift. It's an eventful time for the League of Assassins and the Craftsmen, and they've all surrendered their weapons to show harmlessness.

In the Great Hall of Knowledge, everyone shouted in unison the creed of "Five Steps of Bleeding, the World's Susu" formulated by Qin Beiyang. The male and female hosts of Taibai Mountain sit together on the throne. Qin Beiyang had Assasin's golden dagger stuck in his waist, and Ah You wore the highest-grade ivory handle dagger, and the two of them were radiant and their fingers were interlocked. Lao Jin stood in the first position, followed by Li Gaolou in the ghost mask, and the third was the young Zhongshan, who had the least qualifications, but his status far surpassed that of many old brothers.

The first representative of the League of Assassins was an American, but instead of "Angel Michael", who had come back to help put down the rebellion, he was replaced by a black-haired, hook-nosed white man, but not like a blond, blue-eyed Germanic-Anglo. The heir to the Assasin Gold Dagger, the titular leader of the Assassin League, paid tribute with Western rituals. He calls himself Vito Corleone, a native of Sicily in the Mediterranean, a member of the New York mafia, who has assassinated countless bigwigs and committed political murders. Two years ago, the Artisan League bloodbathed the American League of Assassins, killing his father and three brothers. He has a bitter enmity against the Artisan Alliance. Vito Corleone presented a new phonograph from Columbia Phonograph, accompanied by a set of classical opera recordings in Italian.

Qin Beiyang was so happy with this gift that he took the gramophone and record with his own hands, and asked in Japanese English, which was already unfamiliar: "Is there "The Marriage of Figaro"?" ”

Vito Corleone pulls out a record and places it on the turntable. In the first two years, Lao Jin had installed a small generator for Taibai Mountain, plugged in the power supply, and the singing of the two Italian women spread throughout the Gewu Zhizhi Hall, soaring up to the night sky and the universe of the Qinling Mountains......

Ah You's interest was quite high, and everyone moved to Baxiantai on the top of the Qinling Mountains and sat in front of Jiang Ziya Temple to admire the moon. There is a vast white snow on the mountain, and some of the steep places can almost bury the knees, which is extraordinarily magnificent and bright.

Taibai Mountain, Ba Xiantai, legend is the place where Jiang Ziya sealed the gods. Three thousand years ago, after King Wu fell, a total of 365 gods were sealed, covering the entire Chinese immortal world, and Jiang Ziya also became the main god of Taibai Mountain. The statue of Jiang Ziya in the temple, riding a four-headed head under the crotch, resembles a nine-colored beast transformed into a young unicorn town tomb beast. Every time Qin Beiyang came here, he would think of the ancestor of the nine-colored divine beast, who was once Jiang Ziya's mount? Helped King Wu to conquer and create Zhou Tianzi's country?

At that time, the Kingdom of Heaven took refuge in Taibai Mountain, and according to the old rules of the Heavenly King, it was to smash these old gods and worship the Emperor God. Fortunately, Meng Po opened up to Jiang Ziya and allowed this ancient temple to fall on the top of the mountain, but forbade anyone to worship the idol.

On Ba Sendai, everyone put out kiwi fruit and nectar water and listened to "The Marriage of Figaro" by Columbia Gramophone. Qin Beiyang had been in a state of mind all day, and he was quite excited to hear this music.

After the American Assassins presented the gifts, the Spanish Assassins presented a classical guitar from the Alhambra in Granada, the Arab Assassins from French Syria presented a Damascus Full Moon Scimitar, the Rajput Assassins from British India presented a "Light of the Sea" diamond, and the Javanese Assassins from the Dutch East Indies presented a sack of ambergris.

The last representative of the League of Assassins was the Korean Assassins.

Ah You only asked: "Why not Yin Ji?" ”

She remembered the young Assassin who had helped her search for Qin Beiyang in Korea a few years ago.

The guests, dressed in knotted hanbok robes and over 30 years old, brushed their beards and said in a half-baked Northeast dialect: "The owner of the Hui Taebaek Mountain, whose surname is Kim and whose name is Jeongyun, is a member of the Korean independence assassination team." Last year, Yin Ji plotted to assassinate Japan's newly enthroned Emperor Showa, and after the East Window Incident, he took refuge in exile in the Shanghai Concession. He specially commissioned the little one to be the hostess of Taibai Mountain, and also for the heir of Assasin, to present a Tianzi Korean ginseng. ”

All the congratulatory gifts were inspected by Lao Kim and Zhongshan, and the North Koreans opened the Korean paper package again and took out a dried baby Korean ginseng. Qin Beiyang had seen Korean ginseng before, but he had never seen such a huge and beautiful ginseng - about seven inches long, reddish-brown on the surface, a certain matte glow under the firelight, slightly oily, and two short and thick dimple-like rhizomes, also known as "butterfly reed". The stem marks are especially like the mouth of the bowl, the root is covered with horizontal rings, the middle and lower parts have longitudinal wrinkles and longitudinal grooves, and the lower part has as many as four ginseng legs, which are shaped like children's feet, exuding a strong fragrance, making people feel like falling into a dream. Qin Beiyang took a deep breath, and felt that his lungs were hot and dry, and a pure masculine and rigid qi rolled endlessly from the dantian to the spring, and he felt that the nosebleed was about to spurt out.

"Korean ginseng is the king of herbs, nourishing yin and nourishing the kidneys, strengthening the essence and strengthening the essence, which can greatly replenish vitality, calm the mind and improve intelligence, and prolong life. Authentic Korean ginseng is made from ginseng that has been used for six years, and other Chinese herbs are used in the process to dispel the dryness of ginseng, and this recipe is in the hands of several masters of the Korean Kingdom. Therefore, even if someone digs up wild ginseng in Changbai Mountain, China, it still cannot be compared with Korean ginseng without the hands of Korean masters. Since ancient times, Korean ginseng has been the number one tribute paid by the Joseon kings to the Chinese emperor, and such a superb Korean ginseng may not have been enjoyed by the emperors of the Qing Dynasty, such as Kangxi and Qianlong. Kim Jong-woon, a North Korean, smiled wickedly, "In the past, the dignitaries of the Qing Dynasty said that if there was no Korean ginseng, I am afraid that it would be very difficult to even have a bed, and even a son would not be able to give birth." ”

Hearing the second half, Lao Jin snorted: "This is a bit bragging, right?" ”

"There's no harm in trying!" Ah You stroked his abdomen and said, "Brother, this Korean ginseng, I will stew it for you to drink, and you can have another son." ”

Qin Beiyang's face was flushed, and he was still like a young man in this regard.

Kim Jong-yun, a North Korean, held this priceless Korean ginseng, humbly bent over, held high above his head, like a Korean envoy who paid tribute to the Qing emperor, slowly approaching Ayou and Qin Beiyang.

Suddenly, Ah You pulled out the ivory-handled dagger from his waist. js3v3