"Mother-in-law, you don't have to tell me."

"I don't want this secret to be taken to heaven by me." Meng Po's eyes lit up, and she held back the last breath of true qi, making her voice loud again, although the Cantonese accent was still difficult to understand, "I said, I was originally the righteous sister of the King of Heaven, Hong Xuanjiao." When Tianjing fell, it was I who protected the Young Heavenly King to break out of the siege and fled to Taibai Mountain to rebuild the Little Heavenly Kingdom. And the young king who was executed by Ling Chi of the Qing court in Nanchang was just a stand-in for a young guard. ”

"That's right, that's why there is an annual 'Ascension Festival' on Taibai Mountain."

"But this is a lie...... Meng Po gasped heavily, "in the fourteenth year of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the great catastrophe of the destruction of the Heavenly Kingdom. I protected the Young Heavenly King from Tianjing to Jiangxi. I, Hong Xuanjiao, was incompetent, failed to protect the young king, and let him be captured by the Qing demon. When I brought an elite army to save the young king, I found a young guard as a stand-in in the pile of the dead. We planned to rob the prison in Nanchang, but failed several times. Maybe I want to rescue the young king, but it will prompt the Qing court to kill him, so as not to have too many dreams at night. I hid among the onlookers, watching the sixteen-year-old young king being slashed by a thousand knives, but there was nothing I could do to save him. I can only buy his severed flesh and internal organs with a lot of money, and bury them hastily in the suburbs of Nanchang......"

"Mother-in-law, are you saying that as early as more than sixty years ago, the Young Heavenly King was executed by Ling Chi of the Qing Dynasty?" Qin Beiyang's head turned rapidly, "Then who is the Heavenly King on Taibai Mountain?" Who is Ah You's descendant? Could it be that he is a young guard who is a stand-in? ”

Meng Po's eyes flowed with cloudy tears: "The young king has ascended to heaven, but the banner of heaven cannot be fallen. It happened that Zunwang Lai Wenguang sent someone to pick us up and go to Taibai Mountain, and I thought of the young guard who looked like a young king. Even if it's an impostor, it can unite people's hearts, as long as you raise your arms and shout, whether he's true or not? There will be a day when the mountains will make a comeback. Exactly 60 years ago, we climbed Mount Taibai and supported the young guards to ascend the throne as the king of heaven. We deceived everyone, and the rest of Heaven believed that he was the Young King. I am bent on reviving the kingdom of heaven and avenging the young king, and I swear to assassinate Zeng Guofan, Li Hongzhang, Zuo Zongtang, and even the Manchu emperor and the adulteress Yehenara clan! Hence the existence of the Taibai Mountain Assassin Order. ”

Qin Beiyang remembered that the family of the last tsar in Europe was not killed, and there was a princess who escaped death to the Western world, and was calling on the old and young of White Russia to be loyal, I'm afraid it's also an impostor, right? But for politics, it doesn't matter if it's genuine, it's whether people believe that they or she are genuine.

"It turns out that Ah You is not the great-granddaughter of the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan, she is the descendant of the young guard, she is the descendant of a stand-in, and she was not surnamed Hong at all?"

"Yes, this is the real secret of Taibai Mountain." Meng Po smiled faintly, "The annual ascension sacrifice, in fact, is not a stand-in, but the real Young Heavenly King Hong Tianguifu!" ”

Qin Beiyang said dejectedly: "Since even the young Heavenly King is fake, then the Heavenly King's Mausoleum next to the fake in Qin Shi Huang's underground palace must also be a fake?" ”

"There is no such thing as a coffin for the Heavenly King...... You must know that on the day of the fall of Tianjing, it was extremely difficult for even a living person to escape, let alone escape a coffin. ”

"Yes, it's a matter of common sense, but people tend to prefer myth to common sense."

Meng Po still had the last bit of strength to raise her hand and stroke Qin Beiyang's chin: "Beiyang, I didn't misunderstand you." This coffin, or the tomb of the Heavenly King, is just to unite the morale of the people of Taibai Mountain and package Taibai Mountain as a holy place in heaven. ”

"Everything here is fake! Including Faith ......"

Qin Beiyang actually shed tears, although he never really integrated into Taibai Mountain, and would never let go of his hatred for the assassins, but he had infinite sympathy and pity for the descendants of the Heavenly Kingdom who had been on this mountain for three generations. Some people have fought for their lifelong ideals and beliefs, but they are based on lies. Perhaps this is the truth and normalcy of history.

"This secret was originally meant to be told to Lou'er, but since he is not on the mountain, I can only tell you."

Who is Lou'er? Qin Beiyang remembered a name - Li Gaolou, which is the "ghost mask", and he is also Meng Po's favorite schoolboy on Taibai Mountain, but now there is no trace.

Suddenly, Meng Po sat up from the mat, leaned on Qin Beiyang's shoulder, her eyes radiated with essence, and chanted the Hakka dialect of her hometown: "Heavenly Father, Heavenly Brother, Heavenly King, Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Hong Xuanjiao's soul returns to God's blessed heaven!" Brother of the king, sister is also here. ”

These words were full of anger, and he spit out the last bit of life, as if facing the raging flames of the fall of Tianjing, and facing the screams of the young heavenly king being cut by a thousand knives...... Ninety-year-old Meng Po closed her eyes, her body was soft again, as light as a three-foot white silk, and she lay down in Qin Beiyang's arms.

Meng Po will never wake up again, her soul has risen to the sea of clouds in Taibai Mountain, floating through thousands of mountains and rivers, going to the Hall of Glory of the Heavenly King's Mansion, to the God Sect Camp in Jintian Village, to Guanlubu Village in Huaxian County, Guangdong, and to Hong Xiuquan and Yang Xiuqing's side.

Qin Beiyang hugged the dead Meng Po, walked out of the cave with tears in his eyes, and walked to the snow-white sea of uncles. Ah You, Lao Jin, Zhongshan and all the brothers on Taibai Mountain, including the town's tomb beast Jiu Se, all knelt down in unison to bid farewell to Meng Po, who had ascended to heaven.

According to the custom of Taibai Mountain, the wake is buried after seven days. Meng Po left her last words on the stone wall of the cave where she retreated: the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has not been restored, and the body must not be buried in the ground, but must be thrown off the cliff and the soul will return to the kingdom of heaven.

As for Meng Po's secret, Qin Beiyang didn't think about whether to tell Ah You? If the young king is an impostor, then Ah You is also an impostor, and his great-grandson and son-in-law are even more impostors, I'm afraid everything on Taibai Mountain will disappear......

On the farewell day, it was the first seventh, and it snowed heavily on Taibai Mountain, mixed with gray smoke and dust, sprinkled with ashes like the fall of heaven. Qin Beiyang personally carried Meng Po's coffin to Baxiantai, pushing the Chinese history of the last century off the cliff, piercing through the vast sea of clouds and straight into the dust. The white crane said goodbye to Meng Po, and the coffin seemed to have wings, soaring three times, and the soul returned and disappeared without a trace.

Ah You wiped away his tears and ordered Lao Jin, Zhongshan and others to disperse, leaving only Qin Beiyang and her two on the edge of the cliff, as well as Jiu Se to accompany them.

She leaned into her husband's ear and said, "Brother, tell you a secret - I have your seed." ”

"What?"

Qin Beiyang was so shocked that he jumped three feet away, only to see Ah You caressing his lower abdomen.

"Fool, don't you understand?" Ah You was dressed in white for Meng Po's funeral, but he pinched his arm with a smile.

"You ......"

"Well, you're going to be a dad." Ah You rested his head on Qin Beiyang's shoulder, but this time he didn't dodge.

"Wrongdoer...... Qin Beiyang let out a long breath, he would be tied to Taibai Mountain for the rest of his life.

Ah You hooked his arm and blew like a lan: "Brother, don't go, you have to accompany me and our children." ”

"Well, sister, I promise you." He subconsciously stroked Ah You's hair, and his big thick hand touched her belly, as if there was a snail-sized tomb beast, which was slowly sprouting and breeding. And he turned his head and stared at Jiu Se and said, "Nine Se, Jiu Se, don't get close to Ah You, do you know?" ”

Jiuse has followed Qin Beiyang to the world for many years, and he has already been rough in personnel, and he fled into the heavenly and earthly palace pitifully, in front of the coffin of the little prince of the Tang Dynasty. It understands that the several spirit stones in its body have made its owner terminally ill, and now it can't get close to pregnant women. It is half complaining and disgusting, half jealous of Ah You's belly, afraid that the little life bred there will take its place in the heart of its master......