In the twenty-sixth year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty, the year of Gengzi, the 1900th year after the birth of Jesus. In the city of Beijing in the middle of summer, the secretary of the Japanese legation, Sugiyama Bin, was chopped into meat by Dong Fuxiang's Gan Jun; The German minister Klinder was killed by the Shenji battalion Zhang Jingenhai on the North Street of Dongdan Pailou. The Empress Dowager Cixi issued a decree to declare war on the eleven powers, offering a reward for killing all foreigners. It is rumored that the Yellow Lotus Our Lady Lin Hei'er, who shines with a red light, soars tens of thousands of miles during the day, burning down Tokyo and St. Petersburg. Tens of thousands of Boxers and Qing troops besieged the embassy area of Dongjiaomin Lane and the Xishiku Cathedral of the 800 foreign devils, but they did not defeat them for two consecutive months, leaving only the "invulnerable" corpses of boxers. On August 14, the Eight-Nation Coalition entered Beijing, marching through Tiananmen Square, Duanmen, and Wumenmen, passing through the Taihe Temple and the Forbidden City. On the same day, the Empress Dowager Cixi and the Guangxu Emperor fled westward in a hurry. Lafayette dressed as an old lady from the countryside Han and the emperor disguised himself as a poor scholar. The princes and ministers, the Eight Banners Army, the eunuchs, and the palace maids who accompanied them were panicked like lost dogs.

At the end of the fleeing queue, there was a man named Qin Customs. A burly and tall seven-foot man, with calloused palms on his hands, carrying a sturdy wooden box with two hammers, wedges, chisels, hammers, steel rulers, and ink fountains, and a sledgehammer, steel drill, and bellows in his hands, all of them were stonemasons' eaters. There is a craftsman village of the Ministry of Internal Affairs under the root of the imperial city, from carpenters, blacksmiths, masons to jademasons, ceramicists, framers.

The daughter-in-law is in her thirties and has a belly that has been pregnant for several months. She heard that foreign devils are all evil ghosts, and when they see women, they pounce, and in the chaotic world, fleeing with her husband is the only choice. Qin Customs had just turned forty years old, but he had no children under his knees. The daughter-in-law has been married to him for twenty years, has been pregnant three times, has two miscarriages, and died once, and this time is probably the last chance. But all the way to the upside, starvation, even the emperor had to share a car with the princes and beylers, and the daughter-in-law could only hold her stomach in fear and cross the mountains.

Luan drove through the village of Xiguan City, the Muslim people in the suburbs of Beijing, and passed through Juyongguan, Huailai Yulinbao, Xuanhua Jimingyi, and Datongfu City...... When they arrived in Taiyuan, Shanxi, everyone paused for a while. The daughter-in-law with a big belly did not have a miscarriage as in the past, but her body became stronger and stronger, and Qin Hai cared that it was the blessing of the ancestors. After the bloody summer, the Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu rushed westward. The sand and dust are rolling along the way, and the Great Plain of North China behind him is already scorched with fire.

In October of that year, the procession crossed the entire Shanxi, crossed the Yellow River from Fengling to Tongguan, and arrived in Xi'an. The escort team is getting bigger and bigger, and all kinds of skilled craftsmen come to serve the royal family, after all, they are paid well. The Empress Dowager Cixi lived in the palace and could not accommodate all the entourage, so she found a place to settle down. Qin Customs is a stuffy gourd craftsman, the most bad at dealing with people, others will bribe the steward eunuch, and he was left aside, and he couldn't find a foothold in the city.

Seeing that the daughter-in-law's belly is getting bigger day by day, the winter clothes festival on the first day of October of the lunar calendar has just passed, every household burns paper money and sends wine to the dead relatives in front of the door, the next day is the light snow solar term, the two of them go out of the Xi'an city gate, go to the southeast to find a place to live, and see a magnificent loess plateau, the Chanhe River and the Bahe River canyon are deeply cut. The far stand is like a cliff, and it is known that it is the White Deer Plain after inquiry.

Qin Customs' eyes lit up, and he hurriedly took his daughter-in-law to climb this loess plateau. The autumn is high and cool, on the white deer plain, the wheat waves are golden, and the wheat customers from the poor countryside are bending down to harvest with a sickle.

As a craftsman, Lao Qin was also proficient in feng shui, and he did not need to rely on the astrolabe, so he circled the plateau for two hours. Passing by the tomb of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty and the southern tomb of Emperor Wen's biological mother, Empress Dowager Bo, they are all huge barren mounds. He looked up at the sky, looked down at the ground, and looked west at Zhongnan Mountain, and then he saw the direction. Step onto the towering cracked ridges and walk straight to a barren mound. The daughter-in-law struggled to support her waist and asked him if he had convulsions.

He was silent, as if he had reached the place where he was destined. Qin Customs heard a loud rumbling sound from the ground, thunder sounded in the sky, and suddenly thick clouds covered the sun, and the day was like late night. The peasants in the fields scattered and fled, and the world seemed to return to the beginning of Hongmeng's development, when the ancient father-in-law was in the blue wisps of Qishan Road. The west wind swept the countless dead leaves on Zhongnan Mountain, like colorful butterflies and moths all over the mountain.

A huge yellow leaf rolled up to the daughter-in-law's eyes, and she never wanted to obscure her vision. Suddenly, she felt a sharp pain in her lower abdomen, and her amniotic water was about to burst. "Oh, didn't Lang Zhong say that it would take half a month to give birth?" She screamed heartbreakingly.

Qin Customs hurriedly dragged his daughter-in-law behind the mound, which was a large tomb in the Tang Dynasty, and the sealed soil was more than a foot above the ground, just to block the wind.

His ears were close to the loess underground, and there was a rumbling sound, as if there was a naughty child underground, either lighting a cannon battle or playing a war game. Who can tell the doorway in the tomb?

Lao Qin only heard two strange screams, and then turned around, and his daughter-in-law disappeared out of thin air behind the tomb!

"Hell yes!"

His heart was beating wildly, and his hands were groping in the haystack, only to find that there was a bottomless pit underneath. This place is close to the tomb of the Tang Dynasty, and countless tomb robbers have visited throughout the ages, and the daughter-in-law must have fallen into the robbery hole!

Qin Customs didn't say a word, and jumped into this thief hole. This hole was like a tilted bottomless pit, and Lao Qin just slid down uncontrollably. Suddenly, the loess in front of me flew wildly, like tears pouring down, directly over the long time of more than a thousand years.

The dust settled.

He felt like a feather falling onto a large plank, and a rumbling echo rang in his ears.

Suddenly, a hand grabbed his arm, and the cold hand, the nails scratched the skin, and made deep blood marks. Qin Customs reflexively touched it again, it was a woman's big belly!

"Daughter-in-law!"

"Master!"

The couple reunited in the underground of the Tang Dynasty tomb, touched each other and did not miss arms and legs, fortunately fell to this wooden plank, and there were layers of loess buffer in the middle.

Qin Customs opened the fire fold, illuminating a dim and claustrophobic space. Only then did he realize that the wooden plank he and his daughter-in-law were sitting on under their buttocks turned out to be the lid of a catalpa coffin. There are gorgeous paintings on the surface of the wood, and at first glance it is the pattern of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, painting all kinds of rare birds and beasts, the sun, moon and stars, and the wind and clouds......

He jumped off this huge coffin, and his daughter-in-law who was about to give birth to a child in the coffin of the ancient tomb screamed and groaned, did she want to give birth to a child on the coffin of the ancient tomb?

Qin Customs touched a stone tablet by the coffin. He used the fire fold to get close to take a closer look, revealing a dense fly's head small Kai, the inscription is the basic skill of the stonemason, you can understand a lot of words, the beginning is a line of Lishu big characters "The Epitaph of the King of the Southern County of the Great Zhou Dynasty".

And then there's the text-

"Wang Zhenlong, Qizi, young Ming, Longxi, Chengji, also the former Longguangzhu, Shi Hongdao, the general of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, the general of the arm, the meritorious name in the Western Han Dynasty, Wu Zhao's economic hegemony, the dying house, the melon, the cool Shenyao, the establishment of the emperor, the foundation of the emperor, the prosperity of the Jin, the spirit of the Jin, the spirit of the heavens, the Fan Chang, the collection of melons, the golden ke, the cousin, the first king, that is, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, the grandson of the emperor, the sixth son of the king of the great Zhou Dynasty, also ......"

There are no punctuation marks on the inscriptions of the ancients, and at first glance they are crowded together. The so-called "Great Zhou" is not the Western Zhou and Eastern Zhou, let alone the Northern Zhou and Hou Zhou, but Wu Zetian is called the emperor, and the country name is changed from Tang to Zhou. The identity of the owner of the tomb has been explained straight to the point: the name is Longqi, the word is young, and Longxi Chengji is the origin of the Li Tang royal family. The Emperor of the Tang Dynasty was Tang Gaozong Li Zhi, and the Great Zhou Xiang King was the later Ruizong Li Dan. In this way, the owner of the tomb is the grandson of Li Zhi and Wu Zetian, the sixth son of Ruizong.

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"On April 8 of the second year of Chang'an, he was buried in Bailuyuan, Chongyi Township, Wannian County, on October 20 of the year of his private life, and there were five sorrows, deep sorrows, deep sorrows, and sorrows.

Among them, "Spring and Autumn Ten Five" is clearly written: the little prince of the Tang Dynasty who died at the age of fifteen...... Sure enough, it was him!

Qin Customs buzzed in his mind, he had touched a certain dusty gate, the secret of 1,200 years ago? Just take one more step in it, and you will either ascend to heaven in bliss or fall into hell!

At this moment, the daughter-in-law also arrived at the ghost gate and began to cry out in pain again.

Fate plays tricks on people like this, the secret that he has been searching for all his life, the key that he has dreamed of for generations, is automatically delivered to the door of his eyes - but Qin Customs must give up, only his daughter-in-law and children are left in his eyes, and everything else is worthless!

Lao Qin hurriedly climbed back to the upper layer of the coffin, hugged the pregnant woman in cold sweat tightly, and waited for the moment when the child was born.

Suddenly, in the dark underground palace, a green beam of light floated from the ghost fire.

The translucent glass fireball, up and down, left and right, unpredictable, like a naughty boy playing with lanterns......

The fireball emitted a green cold light, and flew around Lao Qin, just touching the stonemason's hammer on his waist, this solid wrought iron tool, was instantly burned to ashes.

In the darkness, another glass fireball flew in.

Qin Customs knew the source of this fireball - he was regarded as a tomb robber. It's a pity that the hard-working daughter-in-law and the soon-to-be-born child will all die in the Tang Dynasty tomb in Bailuyuan.

"We are a family of three, and we will be a family in the next life!"

He hugged his daughter-in-law's head, kissed her forehead, and prepared to die together.

The glass fireball stopped between the daughter-in-law's legs.

The fireball was trembling.

Qin Customs' eyes widened again, only to see that the fireball trembled a few times and automatically extinguished in an instant.

Under the underground palace of the Tang Dynasty tomb, in the ancient and dark light and shadow, a pair of antlers gradually appeared, snow-white and sharp like a tree branch, and then a face.

Not a human, not a ghost, not a mummy.

It's a beast.

Lao Qin saw a beast face, glass-colored eyes, ghostly light, staring straight between his daughter-in-law's legs. This beast has no lustful intentions, but pure curiosity—

The fetus has emerged from the birth canal!