What the heck?

This is close to the construction site of the tomb of Emperor Guangxu, maybe the tunnel has extended to the scope of the underground palace, if the tomb robbers dug this path, is it for the convenience of the future robbery?

Qin Beiyang hid in the dark of the secret room, watching the oil lamp like a bean flicker, illuminating an old man in Qing palace clothes, and placing the little girl next to the boy who didn't know whether he was dead or alive.

The little girl is alive!

Her eyes opened and she screamed in fright at the sight of the wrinkled old man. The old man grabbed her by the neck, and with his other hand he pulled out a steel bottle from behind her back, which was filled with some kind of liquid. The little girl kicked her feet wildly, and the cylinder was aimed at her mouth, and she was about to pour something into it.

In an instant, the little girl turned her face, and she saw Qin Beiyang hiding. But her throat was choked and she couldn't make a sound. She has a pair of big eyes that can talk, and when she is dying, she prays to Qin Beiyang for help.

"Phew! Who's coming? ”

Qin Beiyang shouted violently, and now he uses the tone of the ghost of Emperor Yongzheng, with a little taste of Peking Opera Wusheng. He jumped out of the corner, and the demonic old man was frightened. Qin Beiyang was full of strength and smashed his fist on the old man's temple, knocking him to the ground. The little girl took the opportunity to hide to the side. The old man was not ambiguous, and he could see that he was a practitioner. He confirmed that Qin Beiyang was a human and not a ghost, and took out a dagger and stabbed it. Qin Beiyang reacted quickly and avoided this almost fatal blow. But he was not bare-handed, the suitcase given to him by his adoptive mother was German, authentic goat leather, extremely hard. He brandished the heavy suitcase, killed the old man with three punches, smashed the dagger in the old man's hand, and then immediately picked it up and aimed it at the old man's chest.

The old man's face was white and beardless, and he didn't even have an eyebrow, like a ghost in the shape of a duck's egg, looking up to the sky and sighing, and making a piercing old woman's voice: "I am clear when the sky is dead!" Emperor! A slave is an old piece of shit! I can't even do this little thing! Alas! ”

It turned out to be an old eunuch! Hearing this, Qin Beiyang got goosebumps, and he took two steps back to protect the little girl who was trembling.

"What are you doing here?"

"Stinky boy, that's what our family is going to ask you." The old eunuch sat cross-legged in the corner of the secret room, "You listen to our family!" Our family is the chief eunuch who serves Lord Guangxu, and everyone calls me father-in-law. ”

"It turns out that you are the eunuch mentioned in the history books!"

"Don't be presumptuous!" The old eunuch didn't expect this nine-year-old child to speak like this, and directly poked him in the sore spot, "You! You! You! Who is it? ”

"If you don't change your name, you won't change your surname, Qin Beiyang!"

He has accepted his new name and feels that it is louder than "Qiu Xiaogeng".

"What's that?"

"I am the craftsman responsible for building the mausoleum for Emperor Guangxu." Qin Beiyang also knew that he had brought his father as a shield, "What about you?" Moving on, is there anything else below? ”

After a while, the old eunuch heard that this kid was actually scolding himself in bad words—is there anything else down there?

"The dragon is trapped in the shallows and is played by shrimp, and the tiger is bullied by dogs in Pingyang!" The old eunuch wiped his tears with his sleeve, "Our family has served the emperor for many years, since the year he ascended the throne at the age of four, to the year of Wuxu year, Lafayette has closed the emperor in the Hanyuan Hall of Yingtai in Zhongnanhai, and our family has never left the emperor." In the year of Gengzi, the Eight-Nation Alliance entered Beijing, and our family escorted the emperor to Xi'an, and then drove back to Beijing with the two palaces. The emperor's life is bitter! finally got into power, and was deceived by Yuan Shikai's bastard, and the favored Concubine Zhen was also pushed into the well by Cui Yugui's wife. The emperor is in Yingtai, he can't communicate with the outside world, and he is skinny, isn't it hell on earth? Our family is distressed when they see it. Last year, Galeries Lafayette was seriously ill, and the secret was to put arsenic in the imperial diet, and the amount should be small, and it should be stopped every time, so that the emperor could slowly return to heaven. ”

"You mean-Emperor Guangxu was poisoned by the Empress Dowager Cixi?"

"So far, our family has nothing to hide!" The old eunuch snorted and cried, "Our family deserves death!" Killing the monarch is a great crime of the Nine Clans, but Lafayette's will has to be obeyed. Lafayette must not let himself die in front of Emperor Guangxu, let alone let the Qing Dynasty fall into the hands of the emperor and the reformers. Therefore, the day after getting the news of the emperor's death, Lafayette designated the son of Prince Alcohol Zaifeng, three-year-old Pu Yi to succeed her, and she returned to heaven with peace of mind. ”

"Anyway, there is no proof of death. Then I ask you, why are you trying to harm this little girl? Qin Beiyang grabbed the little girl's arm, the little girl was as thin as a kitten, and she could almost clearly feel the shape of her collarbone, "Also, did you hurt that boy?" ”

"Don't you know the custom of keeping the graves of virgins and girls?" The old eunuch didn't look at children as human beings at all, "All the rich and noble landlords in the countryside want to buy a pair of boys and girls to accompany them when they are buried." When the emperor was alive, he never enjoyed a good day! When he died and returned to heaven, I swore to compensate him, so I chose this pair of boys and girls from among the prisoners in the imperial court, and let them serve the emperor permanently in place of our family. The virgin can be a little eunuch, and the virgin will be a concubine for the emperor. ”

"How are you going to hurt them?"

"Hey, hey! Mercury is a good thing! The old eunuch laughed miserably and raised the steel bottle in his hand, "It can make people not rot for thousands of years, and it will not melt for thousands of years!" This boy was dealt with by our family last night! Fill his mouth with mercury, then dig holes in the top of his head, back, and soles of his feet, and then pour mercury into it, and then sew it up with a needle and thread. Our family will smear his whole body with mercury powder to ensure that he remains the same for a long time, which is also a piece of our family's loyalty to the emperor! Heaven and earth, the sun and the moon can be seen! ”

This conversation under the imperial tomb made Qin Beiyang's heart tremble, he himself was only nine years old, and he was also a "child man". He remembered that in German schools, the teacher had said that mercury, commonly known as mercury, was highly toxic and should never be touched by the body. With so many mercury empowerments, how painful it must be to die!

"You old goblin who has no children!"

Qin Beiyang was furious and slapped the old eunuch eight times.

"It's okay! In front of the emperor, human fate is a fart! Our family is old, and we don't have the strength to do two at the same time, so we can only deal with the virgin boy last night, and then deal with this virgin tonight. It's a pity that I was messed up by you kid! ”

Qin Beiyang retreated and hugged the little girl: "Don't be afraid!" I'm with you, and the days of this old gelding donkey are over! ”

"In addition to serving Lord Guangxu, our family is also looking forward to this pair of boys and girls buried in the imperial mausoleum to protect the country of my Qing Dynasty forever." The old eunuch cried again, "The regent Zaifeng, is a rough boy who has not dried up, he can't even match half of Lafayette's hair, and the Qing Kingdom has fallen into his hands, hehe!" Three years to die! Pity me for the 300 years of the Qing Dynasty......"

"It's better to die!" Qin Beiyang had the courage to shout in the imperial tomb of the Qing Dynasty, "Don't let you old monsters come out to harm people anymore!" ”

"Big rebel boy, if our family was young and strong, we would have chopped you alive a long time ago! Do you know what Ling Chi is? ”

The old eunuch laughed again, this weird and harsh voice made Qin Beiyang panic, and the little girl also hugged him tightly.

Suddenly, the old eunuch pointed the steel bottle at his mouth and fell, and the corner of his mouth overflowed with silver-white liquid, rolling to the ground like glass beads. A whole bottle of mercury was almost poured into his body.

"When Emperor Chongzhen hanged himself on the coal mountain in the previous dynasty, there was only one eunuch named Wang Chengen left by his side, and the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty were smeared with oil on the soles of their feet, but this Wang Chengen hanged himself next to Emperor Chongzhen. The Qing Dynasty entered the customs, Shunzhi Ye repaired the tomb for Wang Chengen, and the royal pen inscribed the words 'Zhenchen is the main, donating his body to follow'! The old eunuch's voice had been deformed, getting weaker and weaker, his body was as soft as a ball of cotton, and he lay down in the corner of the wall and shouted, "Master Guangxu, the slave is here to serve you!" ”

He died.

For the first time, Qin Beiyang saw someone commit suicide with his own eyes. Moreover, the eunuchs were martyred for the emperor, and there were not many people in ancient times, right?

Dead is dead! He looked down and asked the little girl again, "Hey, are you alright?" ”

"Hmm."

The little girl was crying, and when she approached the boy on the ground, Qin Beiyang grabbed her: "Can't touch it!" ”

"Brother! Brother! ”

She called out to the boy who was eternally imprisoned by mercury, and tears rippled in her eyes. Qin Beiyang looked at her appearance carefully, her eyebrows were clear and beautiful, quite cute, and there was an indescribable resentment in her big eyes. The girl was also dressed in festive satin, and her hair and face were carefully groomed. It must have been done by the old eunuch to let the virgin dress up and be buried. She looked like the dead boy and was about the same age.

"You're twin siblings?"

"Yes."

"Don't cry, where are you from? How did it get here? The old immortal just now, saying that you are a prisoner of the imperial court? ”

"What is the imperial court...... We are from rural Henan. This year's drought broke the Yellow River, the family ran out of millet, even the sweet potatoes in the field were dug up, my father and mother starved to death at home, and my brother and I could only come out to ask for food. We fell into Baoding Mansion in Zhili, and somehow fell into the hands of this old man. ”

"Why didn't this old goblin braids earlier!" Qin Beiyang wiped away her tears with his fingers, "By the way, what's your name?" ”

"Ahh

"Which one?"

"I don't know, I can't read."

"Since we met underground in this imperial tomb, let's call you the ghost of the ghost."

Qin Beiyang used his finger to write the word "secluded" on the dust on the wall of the secret room.

"This word is so good-looking, I like it."

In the end, it's a girl, and she only looks at how she writes. She is very smart, and she also drew a gourd on the wall and wrote one, although it was crooked, but the strokes were all right.

"Ah You, how old are you?"

"Six."

"I'm nine years old this year, in the future, you will call me brother, my name is Qin Beiyang!"

"Yes, brother."

Ah You's soft little body was buried in his arms, and the faint smell of sesame oil in his hair was like an immortal deceased. She touched the warm blood jade on Qin Beiyang's chest, and felt a burst of heat rush into her ears. Qin Beiyang gave her a look at the jade pendant, and the blood-stained jasper looked like a boy dressed up and killed beside him.

"It's so beautiful!"

All girls, even if they were only six years old, could not resist the temptation of jewels and jade, and she stretched out her finger to touch it gently, but she was frightened back by the warm jade temperature.

"Ah You, do you know how to sing children's songs?"

"Green dragon head, white dragon tail, children beg for joy on rainy days......"

"Sure enough, it's this song!"

Qin Beiyang remembered that he was passing by the secret room just now and heard a child's voice singing - this children's song begging for rain must have been sung by this pair of boys and girls who fled from Henan all the way. I'm afraid it's Ah You's brother, the boy who was killed by mercury, and the last cry of the ghost after death! If it weren't for this song, he wouldn't have gotten into this secret room, let alone saved Ah You's life.