Chapter 67: Serendipity
As if to make up for his regrets, I told Ye Jiuqing and the general everything in the Kunlun Golden Gate in great detail, and talked about the last time that the woman took the bronze ball from our hands.
"Bronze balls?" Ye Jiuqing's expression became grim. "Whatever it takes to let you go to Kunlun Jinque is for a bronze ball, this thing seems to be extraordinary, what is the origin of the other party, have you figured it out?"
"No, Han Jin has been by the side of the gold lord for so long, he doesn't even know the name of the gold lord, that woman took the bronze ball, and she will come to us after listening to her tone." I replied.
"Then this matter is not over yet, it seems that this gold lord knows far more about the Nine Dragons of the Moon Palace than we do." Ye Jiuqing nodded silently.
I asked Ye Jiuqing to take a closer look at the group photo, according to our inference, the gold owner should be someone who went to Kunlun Jinque forty years ago, and I asked Ye Jiuqing to identify whether there was anyone he knew in the photo.
Ye Jiuqing read them one by one again, he didn't know anyone except Gong Yu, or he couldn't remember it anymore, I pointed to my father and told Ye Jiuqing, he shook his head without the slightest impression.
Originally, I hoped that we could get the answers to these mysteries from Ye Jiuqing, but now it seems that everything is probably going to be solved by ourselves.
"You put away the photo, maybe it will be useful in the future, it seems that I have thought things simple, I originally came into contact with the Nine Dragons Boat of the Moon Palace forty years ago, what secrets is hidden in that ship?" Ye Jiuqing pushed the photo in front of me. "It first appeared in the imperial tomb of the Yellow Emperor, thousands of years ago, and it will appear every once in a while, and the last time it was actually Lop Nur ......"
"Lop Nur?" All three of us were shocked to hear the name. "How do you know the last time you were in Lop Nur?"
Ye Jiuqing glanced at the general, and the general immediately opened the door smartly and went out, and nodded to Ye Jiuqing when he came back, it seemed that what Ye Jiuqing wanted to tell me was extremely important.
"I came to you because I had something to tell you." Ye Jiuqing lowered his voice and asked calmly. "Zhiqiu came to me and said that you went to the Aoki River, why did you suddenly go to that place?"
"Something is wrong with this, someone deliberately provided Zhiqiu with clues to the ruins of the Aoki River, guided Zhiqiu to investigate and found the underground altar, the person who revealed the news to Zhiqiu definitely knew that we were looking for the Nine Dragons of the Moon Palace, and wanted to tell us through her."
"Zhiqiu said that the altar found by Aokigawa was blown up, did you do it?" The general looked around through the crack in the doorway and asked.
I shook my head and told Ye Jiuqing and the general everything that happened in the Aoki River.
"Wen Ru fried?!" Ye Jiuqing frowned, looking very surprised.
"Wen Humpback is impatient, this old thing knows the relationship between Zhiqiu and Brother Ye, he actually dared to blow up the tomb, if it weren't for their cleverness, it is estimated that Zhiqiu would have been buried inside." When the general heard this, he was furious.
"You know Wen Ru?" The palace lord asked in surprise.
"How can you not know, Wen Ru has dealt with us a lot, how much news did the old thing get from Brother Ye, otherwise where would he be today, I didn't expect Wen Humpback to dare to do something to Zhiqiu." The general has a hot temper and a little bit of temper.
"Wen Ru doesn't seem to be targeting Zhiqiu, but he doesn't want to keep the altar under the Aoki River." Tian Ji shook his head and said. "He installed all the explosives on all the support points of the altar, obviously trying to destroy the altar, and he didn't care who was in the altar."
Ye Jiuqing said that he knew Wen Ru when he was young, as an archaeologist, Wen Ru is indeed a master of tomb exploration, and the techniques used are all in the tomb robbery industry, these are secrets passed down from generation to generation, outsiders can't touch them at all, as for where Wen Ru learned it, it is unknown.
Wen Ru is not completely famous in the archaeological world, there is not much intersection between archaeology and tomb robbery, but on the surface, everyone is actually doing the same thing, so they all know each other, not to mention that with the name of Ye Jiuqing, it is impossible for Wen Ru not to know since archaeology.
Later, Ye Zhiqiu became Wen Ru's student by mistake, because of Ye Zhiqiu's relationship, Ye Jiuqing had no choice but to deal with Wen Ru, Wen Ru was able to dominate the archaeological world, and a large part of the reason was due to Ye Jiuqing, if he hadn't revealed the news of some important tombs to Wen Ru, he would not have been able to make a splash in the archaeological world.
"It seems that I underestimated Wen's hunchback, he should also know about the Nine Dragons Boat of the Moon Palace, but the matter of blowing up the tomb can't be explained, he must have hidden some secrets, go back and let Feng Cheng send someone to probe his bottom." Ye Jiuqing mentioned that Ye Zhiqiu's face was immediately anxious and worried. "Wen Ru knows the relationship between Zhiqiu and me, and he also knows my Ye Jiuqing's methods, and he is not afraid of hurting Zhiqiu if he dares to blow up the tomb, which shows that the secret in the altar is more important than me, so that an old fox like Wen Ru can take risks."
"Call Zhiqiu back, she will have an accident sooner or later if she follows Wen Humpback." The general said worriedly by the door.
"No, you don't need a hammer to sound the drum, Wen Lao Fox is thoughtful, and he usually doesn't act rashly, you go back and pick something to send it to him, don't say anything." Ye Jiuqing shook his head unsurprised. "Just one thing, Aokigawa Chiaki can be safe and sound, thank him for taking care of ......"
The general nodded, Ye Jiuqing's words were a knock on the mountain and a tiger, although the words were said politely, but the meaning of it believed that Wen Ru himself could also weigh the weight.
"I'm also coming to you for Aoki River's business." Ye Jiuqing took a sip of water and continued.
The underground altar found by Aoki River is too quiet, and the feather dragon pattern on the tomb door is now well known, but anyone who has a little bit of origin knows that this is the symbol of the Nine Dragons Boat of the Moon Palace, Ye Jiuqing said that after we leave Aoki River, even if the underground altar is destroyed, tomb robbers can flock everywhere, trying to find clues from the ruins.
Ye Jiuqing learned from Ye Zhiqiu that the three of us had been to the Aoki River before they disappeared, so he set out to investigate the matter related to the underground altar of the Aoki River, and the result was the same as Ye Zhiqiu's tracking down to Lu Sheng's body.
"Zhiqiu has already told us that the person who built the underground altar was Qin Shi Huang, and Lu Sheng, who supervised the work, and after the underground altar was completed, Lu Sheng disappeared." I nodded.
Ye Jiuqing said that he was the same as I thought, after the completion of such a secret altar, the people who participated in the construction of it were bound to die well, and Lu Sheng became the only one who knew the secret of the altar, so Ye Jiuqing planned to track down from Lu Sheng's body.
"Two thousand years ago, you know a name, how to check it?" Gong Jue asked.
"Coincidentally, Feng Cheng was a teacher before, and his background was not small, during the Cultural Revolution, he was beaten into a black five type of elements, and he was beaten by a group of Red Guards with only one breath left, and I rescued him from the cowshed." Ye Jiuqing said unhurriedly. "After learning that the underground altar of the Aoki River was related to Lu Sheng, Feng Cheng recalled one thing, when he was exiled and reformed, he met a person who was also criticized as a black five, and in the small talk, the person told Feng Cheng that his ancestor was Lu Sheng."
I knew that the knowledgeable Feng Cheng had some origins, but I had never heard him mention that people who could be beaten into the black five categories had some ability, and I had always wondered how a person like Xiang Feng Cheng who was rich and five cars could rob tombs, but I didn't expect him and Ye Jiuqing to have such a relationship.
Ye Jiuqing went on to say, that person was also a talented scholar, and he was beaten into a black five class and couldn't live in fear, and Feng Cheng told him about his family affairs when he saw it.
At first, this person didn't know that the ancestor was Lu Sheng, he was a historian, and his ancestors were famous families, and it was passed on to his generation to catch up with the Red Revolution, when the Red Guards smashed his ancestral hall, he found a sealed family tree, and he traced back to the roots of the family tree and found that he was a descendant of Lu Sheng, but from Lu Sheng's generation, he began to become incognito.
His family has always required his children to be familiar with the family motto, saying that it is the legacy of the ancestors, and advising future generations to read the Four Books and Five Classics carefully to obtain the treasure of the world.
But in the end, he discovered the secret of the family motto, which had two numbers in each line of the family motto handed down by his ancestors, and this man had the wit to compare these numbers with the words in the Four Books and the Five Classics, and he actually got a complete sentence.
It means that Lu Sheng buried a priceless treasure in the ancestral mountain, the ancestral mountain is the meaning of the ancestral tomb, the person was overjoyed and went to the ancestral tomb many times to investigate, but found nothing, and then was criticized, the ancestral hall and the ancestral tomb were smashed, the man was heartbroken to know that the treasure left by the ancestors has since disappeared, so he told the secret to the seal.
Feng Cheng didn't care about it at the time, but this time he heard that the underground altar of Aoki River was actually related to Lu Sheng, so he remembered the old past.
"We found a jade box in the altar, and in addition to the bronze dragon horse, there was indeed a blank groove inside, and the contents were taken away." Tian Ji looked at Ye Jiuqing happily. "Maybe it's the treasure mentioned by Lu Sheng in his family motto."
"It's been too long, Feng Cheng didn't care about it when he was dying, he only knew the name of that person, so we have been trying to find that person for this time, and there is no news for the time being, but Feng Cheng said that he remembered that the person mentioned the location of the ancestral mountain, and he had sent someone to visit and investigate." Ye Jiuqing nodded confidently. "Since there is a feather dragon on the underground altar, it must also be related to the Nine Dragons Boat of the Moon Palace, and the things that Lu Sheng took away from the altar are not trivial, once they find it, they may be able to find the whereabouts of the Nine Dragons Boat of the Moon Palace."
"We originally planned to continue to follow up, but Brother Ye has been worried about your safety and has been uncertain, so I want to rush back to see if you have arrived home." The general stared at me coldly by the door.
"I ......" I was too impatient to take into account the feelings of Ye Jiuqing and the general, I was very difficult when I asked those words, but I believe that they heard it more uncomfortable than me, and I didn't know what to say for a while.
"It's good to come back safely." Ye Jiuqing looked open-minded, smiled and put on the shoes that Ye Zhiqiu gave him, and walked a few steps to be satisfied. "This girl doesn't hurt in vain, the size of these shoes is just right."
"Your birthday today, I will forget ......" I buried my head and felt a little sorry for Ye Jiuqing, he poured out his heart and lungs for me, but I was actually wolf-hearted.
"Shopkeeper Ye, you are a senior, I don't know that you have a big birthday today, and the palace lord is here to wish the shopkeeper a blessing like a longevity in the East China Sea than Nanshan." The palace lord stood up politely.
"Shopkeeper, what he said is empty words, when we finish dealing with the matter, I will take you to Kunlun Jinque, which is full of treasures, you can choose it as a gift for your birthday." Tian Ji is not so polite.
"There are talented people in the country, I, Ye Jiuqing, am old, and I will be the world of you juniors in the future." Ye Jiuqing laughed heartily. "I've had enough glory and wealth in my life, I really want me to be happy today, you three can have a good meal with me, don't get drunk and don't go home."
When I walked to the door, the general took a cigarette in his mouth and saw that I was still not breathing, and he smoked too hard and choked into his lungs and coughed violently, I retreated and threw the cigarette on the ground from the corner of his mouth and stepped on it: "Don't smoke, you won't even have the strength to hit me if you smoke again." ”
The general was stunned for a moment, covering his mouth and coughing even more, I patted him on the back, and found that his body was a little stiff, and his face was so strong that there was a time when it was soft, and he glared at me, and his eyes fell on the corner of my mouth.
"Does it hurt?"
"I'm porcelain, I'm afraid of getting into your hands."
"Bastard, I haven't had a soft word in my mouth for the rest of my life."