Seven days later, a wooden box was sent from the Forbidden City and transported to Xiling by horse.

The box was opened in front of the mausoleum superintendent, first the birthday of Emperor Guangxu, and then a portrait, a scroll of imperial strokes, a collection of imperial poems, a sandalwood bracelet used by the emperor, and a royal photo taken by a foreigner. It must be signed and collected by the Qin Customs, and returned to the inner court within 30 days.

The underground palace is the design room, and Qin Customs said that it is necessary to design the most perfect tomb beast in this dark environment, with the blessing of the aura of the Jinjing Dragon's Cave. Qin Beiyang saw the portrait and photo of Emperor Guangxu for the first time, which was exactly the same as the man who dreamed of Yingtai in Zhongnanhai a year ago. The emperor was wearing a coat and a black beanie, with a clear face and resentful eyes, and his heart couldn't help but twitch.

Open the collection of imperial poems, the beginning is the imperial text of Emperor Guangxu when he was fifteen years old: "Those who are superior must first have the heart of loving the people, and then have the meaning of worrying about the people." The depth of love, the depth of worry. Worry, so a people are hungry, and I am hungry; A people are cold, and I am cold. Whatever the people can do, they do with all their might; That is, what the people cannot do, that is, with all sincerity and respect."

There is also a song: "A leaf in the golden well falls, next to the desolate Yao Palace." The stumps are not scattered, and there is a glow in the sun. The ditch water is empty and hateful, and the clothes are broken and broken. He is like the grass on the side of Ze, and he still has to stay with mandarin ducks. It looks familiar, Qin Beiyang thought about it carefully, and it turned out to be a dream.

The imperial brush painting is a chrysanthemum on the rockery, stamped with the seal of "the treasure of Guangxu imperial pen". Color brush, stone cyan, chrysanthemum yellow, pink, red, white four colors, and then with green leaves, colorful, it is good-looking, but not gaudy.

Qin Beiyang held the sandalwood bracelet and suddenly snorted. A stream of heat surged through the palm of the hand, along the right half of the meridian, penetrating every pore of the body. The things that were touched by Emperor Guangxu day and night also left the grand wishes of the monarch in the first half of his life and the resentment of the second half of his life. Putting it in front of his nose and sniffing it, sandalwood mixed with the scent of a man before he died, rushed into the lobes of a ten-year-old boy's lungs, and seemed to transform into a human form. Qin Beiyang coughed violently and handed the bracelet back to his father.

"Do you understand the characteristics of the emperor?"

"Well, I see him!" Qin Beiyang pointed to the underground palace Jinjing, and in that dark light, the dust of another world rose, "Very clear!" Not only his appearance, but also his heart, breathing, joys, sorrows, seven emotions and six desires. No, I didn't see him, but he was right in me. ”

The boy groaned and rolled on the ground, as if poisoned by arsenic. He kicked his legs wildly, spasmed violently, and foamed at the mouth, and Qin Customs couldn't get close at all. Suddenly, a cloud of smoke rose from the golden well, and Qin Beiyang calmed down.

Before he had time to wipe the beads of sweat from his forehead, Qin Beiyang immediately sat down in front of the bookcase, lit the oil lamp, and spread out the drawings. In the same way that I learned to draw drawings in a mechanical school in Germany, I first sketched a vague human figure with straight geometric lines.

Two curved goat horns are drawn on the top of the head, and the upper body of the humanoid figure stands upright, the left hand is stretched diagonally upwards at 45 degrees, and the right hand is bent and pulled behind the ear, showing a posture of bending the bow and shooting arrows. He also drew a carved lacquered horned bow, with long arrows pointing straight at the sky, which was the inspiration he got from watching the flying general Li Guang shoot the tiger from the drawing book.

Lao Qin hurriedly hugged his son's shoulder: "What are you drawing?" ”

"Emperor Guangxu's tomb beast!"

Qin Beiyang dropped the paintbrush, his body was weak and weak, and he seemed to have collapsed.

"Why draw a man who bends a bow and shoots an arrow? And a ram's horn on his head? ”

"Daddy, think about it, which foreign country should Emperor Guangxu hate the most in his life?"

"Eight-Nation Alliance...... I've heard that there are more than eight foreign countries, but which one is it? ”

"Oh, the First Sino-Japanese War, the Treaty of Shimonoseki, the Japanese cut off a province of Taiwan in China, a great shame! The emperor who has lost his territory cannot make a monument of merit. The emperor will bring this resentment into the tomb. ”

Qin Customs suddenly realized: "Yes, this is also your mother's resentment, and your grandfather died in Liugong Island because of this." Beiyang, your name, is also to commemorate the destruction of the Beiyang Naval Division. ”

"Daddy, look, the tomb beast I drew is exactly the bow to shoot the sun!"

"It's Japan that shoots! Reasonable. Emperor Guangxu devoted himself to the Beiyang Naval Division, and also had the intention of riding and shooting on the sea, and it was appropriate for you to use the archer to be the emperor's tomb beast! ”

Yes, Emperor Guangxu once inscribed a couplet for Deng Shichang, who was martyred in the First Sino-Japanese Naval Battle, "On this day, the world is full of tears, and there is a strong navy."

"As for why the shooter has horns on his head - I saw the emperor's birthday."

On the desk is the eight characters of Emperor Guangxu sent by the inner court: Xin Wei Bingshen Ding Hai Renyin.

"The emperor Xin was born in the new year, belongs to the sheep, the five elements belong to the soil, and the roadside is the soil. Therefore give him a ram's horn. Qin Customs looked his son up and down, and couldn't help but be overjoyed, "Child, you are really a natural tomb beast craftsman!" But you haven't learned Zhou Yi yet, so don't rush it. Let me tell you first, the emperor's eight characters are from the decay, and the defect is that the seven killings of Haishui are leaked by Yinmu Yin Xingxing, and the seven killings are controlled by auspiciousness. The Seven Killings of Haishui are precisely the Yin Xing, representing the mother's generation. ”

"Although the Empress Dowager Cixi is not the biological mother of Emperor Guangxu, she has always been an adoptive mother and suppressed Emperor Guangxu for a lifetime, which is exactly in line with this fate."

"Draw inferences!" Qin Customs continued to analyze, "The emperor's birthday is a sign of frailty and illness, and he is only thirty-eight years old in the Spring and Autumn Period. The eight-character star without food and injury, with Yinmu Yinxing as the substitute god, Yinmu as the fierce god is not controlled, and there is no child in the hit. Although Shenjin Caixing is auspicious, it is not burned, and Caixing is controlled to make the marriage unhappy. I heard that the emperor didn't like the queen very much, and his concubine Zhen was killed by Lafayette throwing herself into a well. ”

"He himself was poisoned."

"Don't talk nonsense!"

"Daddy, I'll only draw so much, and then it's up to you!"

"Good. You see, you only drew the upper body, and you don't know the lower body of the tomb beast. Although it is a tomb beast, it is still a 'beast' in the end. The so-called beast must be a four-legged animal, even if the upper body is in human form. Of course, there are exceptions, such as birds of prey, pythons, etc., but those are very few. ”

"So, you're going to draw four legs for it?"

"Yes, the feet of four beasts."

Qin Customs took the brush and made a few simple strokes on the drawing, and the humanoid four-legged sheep's horn archer was about to come out.

However, this is only a rough draft, and it will take a lot of time to actually complete the drawings. The father and son were locked up in the underground palace, drawing drawings all night, designing various details of the tomb beast, such as the size of the human face, the size of the eyes, the length of the nose, whether it was Tang style or Ming style or the style of this dynasty? Color is also important, and each component has to have its own color, and it must be colorful in the end.

Within 30 days, Qin's father and son completed the drawings on time. Emperor Guangxu's belongings were returned to the inner court. Qin Beiyang didn't know that that photo was the last surviving photo of Emperor Guangxu, and the rest was destroyed by the Empress Dowager Cixi, in order to prevent the emperor's imperial photos from circulating among the people, or being used by Kang Youwei and other constitutionalists.

Qin Customs said that the tomb beast must not be achieved overnight, this is an ancient and long craft. After drawing the design drawings, the third house is next: material selection.