Chapter 56: Return to White Deer Plain
The ancient book said that "the Qianling Tomb cannot be approached, and there is wind and rain when it is near".
Qianling is the only tomb of two emperors in China and even in the world. And these two emperors have ruled the most powerful empires on the planet. They are husband and wife, a man and a woman, a yin and a yang, gathered in a tomb, like a combination of Tai Chi gossip, with the most powerful imperial power in ancient and modern China and abroad, there is no one.
In the seventh year of the Republic of China, 1918, midsummer.
Under the bright sun of Qianling, in front of the wordless monument, suddenly, a terrifying hail rose from the sky......
Ah You ran to the side of the carriage, stuck to the coffin and said, "Little prince of the Tang Dynasty, please forgive us for our blasphemy, and ask your grandparents to let us go!" Ah Yu swears to protect you from being harassed by the wicked. ”
The hail has gotten smaller. The fine freezing point does not hurt when smashed on the face, but is exceptionally cool. Eventually, it turned into a drizzling rain that sprinkled on the arid Loess Plateau, and even the green grass at the foot of the tomb mountain turned green.
The old father dragged Ah Hai and Tuhuan, and kowtowed in front of the tombstone of the Qianling Mausoleum, but Ah You revealed the majesty of his master and reprimanded: "Get up!" ”
"Yes! Master, we are guilty. ”
The three murderous assassins stood up and stood in front of Ah Yu resignedly, as if the little girl could wipe them out with a flick of her fingers.
Ah You said coldly: "Ah Hai, I will punish you." ”
"Master, Ah Hai pleaded guilty."
With that, the assassin drew his ivory-handled dagger and stabbed himself in the chest, causing blood to burst open. Daddy and Tuohuan are unmoved, accustomed to this form of punishment.
Ah You stepped forward to check the wound, the dagger was two inches deep, and the blood groove caused Ah Hai to lose a lot of blood. Ah You gave him gold sore medicine, bandaged the wound, and let Ah Hai lie down on the carriage to rest.
In front of the wordless monument, Ah You said: "Who dares to open the Qianling? As you have seen, the Qianling Tomb cannot be opened. Even if we get the coffin of the little prince, even if we really have the key to open the Qianling, how can we take out this key? ”
"It's a pity that we let Xiaomu escape."
Tuohuan remembered his adventures in the East China Sea last month.
"The key to open the Qianling is on the little prince of the Tang Dynasty. The key to unlocking the little prince of the Tang Dynasty is on Qin Beiyang. Dad began to summarize along the train of thought, "Because, he was born in the underground palace of the Tang Dynasty tomb in Bailuyuan, on the coffin of the little prince." ”
"Qin Beiyang is the real key to this. Without him, no one would be able to move Qianling. ”
"Nine years ago, in the German Concession of Tianjin, I killed Qin Beiyang's adoptive parents, but I failed to capture him. I knew this was the case, even if I fought for my life, I would bring him back. Dad said, and looked at the scar on Ah Hai's right face, "Master, this spring, Qin Beiyang has already arrived on the mountain, but it's a pity that you ordered him to be let go again." ”
"Because he's graduated!" Ah You snorted angrily, "This is the old rule!" No one can disobey it! ”
"Where is Qin Beiyang now?"
"Japan."
The Assassin Ahai endured the pain in his chest and said, "We...... ...... to Japan? Looking for him? ”
"No, let him finish college in Japan."
The old man looked at the carriage and said, "Master, please show me, what should I do with the coffin of the little prince?" ”
"Where did you come from, where did you go back!"
"You mean ......"
"White Deer Plain, Tang Dynasty Tomb, Underground Palace."
Ah You categorically said that the place where the little prince was buried is also the place where Qin Beiyang was born.
"Never! Master, in order to get this coffin, we spent a year, painstakingly, running between Shanghai, Dharma Mountain and Beijing, killing hundreds of people, patrolling the Shanghai Public Concession, and the members of the Beiyang Government, who almost lost their lives. ”
Daddy argued, and the fifteen-year-old girl shook her head: "Daddy, I think you are an elder and you have worked hard, I will not punish you today." ”
Hearing this, the father bowed his head in horror and begged for his master's forgiveness.
Everyone changed the horse's head, bid farewell to the Qianling Tomb and the wordless monument, protected the coffin of the little prince of the Tang Dynasty, left the grave of the grandparents, and turned to the southeast.
Two days later, the convoy crossed the Wei River, and "Daddy" looked west at the majestic Taibai Mountain and whispered, "It's getting closer and closer to home." ”
They traveled east along the northern foot of the Qinling Mountains, avoiding the county seat and villages, and arrived at Bailuyuan outside Xi'an.
Passing by the tomb of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, ascending the loess plateau surrounded by the valley of the Chanba River, and finding the tomb of the Tang Dynasty sleeping quietly.
It took Daddy a long time to finish surrounding this majestic sealed soil, and there were dense thieves hidden in the grass and trees. Since ancient times, tomb robbers have known the legend of Qianling, only by opening this Bailuyuan tomb and obtaining the coffin of the little prince of the Tang Dynasty can it be possible to open the Qianling Tomb of Wu Zetian.
A year ago, this tomb was excavated by the rout of the Beiyang warlords, using explosives that the tomb robbers never thought of, no matter how strong the tomb is, no matter how powerful the tomb beast is, how can it fight against the human race in the twentieth century? Li Longqi, the king of Zhongnan County, who had slept in the tomb for 1,200 years, and the tomb beasts of the young Qilin Town, have since been exiled to the dirty world.
After the tomb robbery, the rout soldiers re-plugged the robbery hole, and the Assassins circled around it twice, but found no sign of it.
Suddenly, from the southwest of the edge of the tomb, a puff of green smoke rose.
The assassin Ah Hai was the first to approach, although he still had a bandage on his chest, he had the vitality of a beast, and after eating some herbs and secret recipes, he had also recovered sixty percent of his physical strength. He saw an ancient locust tree with a crooked neck, digging down three feet and three feet, it was actually a huge hole, and there were scorched black marks on the edge.
This is the entrance to the tomb opened by the Beiyang warlords with explosives a year ago. And there is smoke wafting out of the interior, and there may be someone or something strange underneath.
Dad explored the way, and sure enough, he found a brick and stone tomb road in the Tang Dynasty. He asked everyone to take out the daggers, and carried the coffin of the little prince out of the carriage and carried it on a special wooden bed with rollers, like installing wheels at the bottom of the coffin, which could propel forward. The infinite strength of the joy pushes the coffin with wheels in the back, and the father holds the handle next to him. The Assassin Ah Hai was wounded and could only walk behind with a haunting leg. At the forefront of the torches was the Assassins' master, Ah You.
"I'm sending you home."
She glanced back at the coffin of the little prince, and Qin Beiyang's face inexplicably appeared in her heart.
Tuhuan asked cautiously: "Do you want to prepare the burden of 'Underground Palace Dao'?" ”
"No need, this tomb has been stolen by the warlords, and the tomb beast has also been excavated, and it is by Qin Beiyang's side."
Daddy was confident and walked through the deep graveyard. The murals on the wall are almost intact, and Ah You saw the maids, warriors, scholars, and servants of Wu Zetian's era, as if they all had something to say to her......
Although the dungeon was sacked by warlords, the soldiers only knew about gold and silver treasures, and did not understand that the murals were of higher value. If it were Sinologists and archaeologists like Bo Xihe, I am afraid that even the murals would be completely uncovered and gone, just as they had done in Dunhuang.
The tomb is like a labyrinth, bottomless, and the assassins who have killed countless people also feel a little afraid. I don't know how long I walked, Ah You found that there were traces of flooding, and there were still the remains of several monsters lying in the corner. It looked like the bones of a two- or three-year-old child, but it didn't look like a human, but something somewhere between a human and an animal.
Daddy looked down and said, "This is a water monster!" There are many records in ancient books that lurk under the mausoleum and eat the liver and brain of the dead. In fact, the Tomb Beast is mainly used to protect against these monsters. ”
"If only Lao Jin was here!"
Tuohuan interjected again.
Passing through this most dangerous passage of the tomb, a burial chamber door appears. Strange smoke wafted out of it, and there was a certain cacophony of noise.
"There are people in the dungeon."
Daddy walked to the front, and sure enough, from behind the door of the tomb, a lantern flashed, followed by a man's head.
This is a tomb robber who has found the cave opened by the warlord and wants to break into the dungeon and ransack it a second time. The tomb robber had a gun, and when he saw the sudden arrival of his father, he panicked and wanted to fire, and his throat was cut by an ivory-handled dagger, and without making any sound, he fell to the ground and died.
Daddy, Ah Hai, and Tuohuan, the three of them entered the tomb, and crackling gunshots rang out. Today's tomb robbers, no more than in ancient times, have changed their guns. The Assassins rolled and moved on the ground, and when they saw the swaying figure, they approached silently, slicing their necks with lightning speed. There is no need for mercy for the grave robbers who are full of evil, let them be buried in the graves they have dug up.
Suddenly, someone lit a large flame and illuminated it as if it were day. The group of tomb robbers, numbered a dozen or so, with seven or eight guns, retreated to the back of the tomb, their muzzles lined up neatly, aimed at the three assassins. The Beiyang warlords have been in civil wars for a long time, and most of these tomb robbers have served as soldiers and know how to fight, no matter how powerful the assassins are, they will not escape the end of blood splashed five steps.
The leader of the tomb robbers, a bald one-eyed dragon, held a Wang Ba box cannon, and a Shaanxi dialect popped out of his big golden teeth: "Kill them!" ”
Dad, Ah Hai and Dehuan are going to die in Bailuyuan today. The death of the assassin, like a comet striking the moon and a white rainbow piercing the sun, and the eagle striking the palace, even if it cannot go down in history, must die with dignity, so he rushed to the tomb robbers desperately and died together......