Han Yu pointed to the dragon in the painting and said that there was a real dragon living in the imperial city, and the dragon here may refer to the emperor Zhu Di, and the dragon on the noon gate would not mean that Zhu Di had anything to do with the noon gate.

Nangong Yi quickly shook his head and denied Han Yu's idea, the noon gate is indeed very important, and its main role is twofold, one is the place where the imperial edict is issued.

Generally speaking, the emperor will give spring cakes in the beginning of spring, cold cakes on the Dragon Boat Festival, flower cakes on the Chongyang Festival, the first day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar, and issue the next year's calendar.

In the event of a major war, the army triumphed, and a prisoner offering ceremony to the emperor was held at the noon gate.

Another use is to declare the majesty of the emperor, if the minister violates the dignity of the royal family, he will be tied out of the court staff on the east side of the imperial road in front of the noon gate for the crime of rebellion.

"If according to your speculation, it is difficult to estimate the number of times Zhu Di went to the noon gate, and Zhu Di continued to think that it would not be so abrupt to leave the line." Nangong Yi said with a cut of iron.

"Why...... Why is this dragon ......" Gu Xiaoxiao's head was buried very low, and he frowned for a long time, staring intently at the soaring dragon and said in surprise. "This dragon doesn't seem to have eyes?!"

As soon as we heard it, we all gathered around curiously, looking at the place of Gu Xiaoxiao's finger, the lifelike flying dragon I felt weird when I saw it before, but I never thought of anything wrong, Gu Xiaoxiao said this I reacted, although the flying dragon is vividly drawn, but it has no eyes as in Gu Xiaoxiao's novel, no wonder I was surprised before, it turns out that this dragon has a form but no god.

"Since this is the thread related to Genghis Khan's treasure, the person who left the secret will not be so abrupt and omitted, this dragon without eyes should have other meanings." I said thoughtfully.

"Could it be that the person who found this painting will give the finishing touch?" Gu Xiaoxiao said suspiciously.

"Finishing touch......," I said, frowning, and taking a few steps back and forth. This allusion originally said that the painter's skills were wonderful, and the origin of the allusion refers to the famous Zhang Shengqiu. ”

It is said that Zhang Shengqiu's paintings are vivid, and the things he painted are exactly the same as the real ones, and some people even say that the animals he painted can really come to life.

Once, he went to a place to visit, he was interested, and he painted four dragons on the wall of the Jinling Anle Temple, but he didn't draw eyes, and someone asked him why he didn't paint the dragon's eyes, and he said that the eyes are the essence of the dragon, as long as the eyes are painted, the dragon will fly away.

Everyone laughed at his arrogance, but he didn't expect him to lift the paintbrush, use enough strength, just put the eyes on the two dragons, and immediately the dark clouds rolled in, suddenly lightning and thunder, the two dragons rose into the air, and people were stunned.

"I don't think if you draw eyes on this dragon, this dragon will fly away." Han Yu smiled disapprovingly.

I rubbed my forehead and walked back and forth a few steps, my mouth carefully and repeatedly recited the dotted words, suddenly a touch of golden light refracted into my eyes, I subconsciously used my hand to cover it, from my fingers I saw the gold pen that I took out of the wooden box before, and there was a dry Zhu batch in the notes.

My eyes lit up, our attention was on how to unravel the meaning of the painting, and I never understood what this gold pen was for, and of course the finishing touch needed a pen.

I walked back quickly, picked up the gold pen and asked Han Yu to find cinnabar, soaked the gold pen in water, and then stained the cinnabar and hovered on the picture, carefully dotting the eyes of the soaring dragon.

Then all of us stared at the painting without saying a word, and after a long time there was no change, of course there could be no lightning and thunder, this dragon jumped out of the paper and rose into the air, I slowly lifted it up, my brows furrowed even tighter, and I didn't understand what the relationship between this golden pen and the pattern was.

Suddenly his hand pressed against the back of my hand, and I saw that his eyes were particularly bright, and he was silent for a moment before speaking to us.

"Some of the patterns in this painting should be right, but there is one thing that is wrong."

"What's wrong?"

"The white tiger hugging the moon should have a deviation in our understanding, the moon belongs to the west and can already mark the direction, and the white tiger hugging the moon is inevitably a bit of a snake, and the white tiger has other meanings." Said with a faint smile and meaningfully.

"What else does the white tiger mean?" I asked, surprised.

"The rat and the horse, we speculated that it was the noon gate of the day, and the rat was the rat, and the horse was the noon horse, which originated from the saying of the zodiac, and what is the tiger called in the zodiac?"

"Yinhu." Gu Xiaoxiao blurted out.

"Yes, it's Yinhu, and Yinhu under the moon is not referring to the direction, but to the time!" Said to us unhurriedly. "The real meaning of this painting is that the golden pen is hung above the noon gate in the early hours of the morning."

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We all looked at each other hesitantly, not understanding the meaning of this at all.

"At the end of the day, the gold pen is hung at the noon gate...... Correct...... And then what? Gu Xiaoxiao asked suspiciously.

Laughing without saying a word, the hand holding the rosary pointed to the painting in front of us, I looked down and suddenly realized, the golden pen cast a long shadow under the lamp, impartially pointing just on the constellation chart, and the constellation diagram actually alluded to the Forbidden City.

"I see, the place where the golden pen hangs at the noon gate at the time of day, and the place indicated by the shadow cast is the entrance to the treasure!" I said cheerfully.

Just as everyone was smiling, the joy on Nangong Yi's face slowly dimmed, and he slowly shook his head and said.

"This is not right, even if we understand the meaning of this picture, but how can we put the gold pen on the noon gate so high, even if we can do it by trying to do it, but the question is, where should the gold pen be placed?"

Our smiles were all fixed on our faces, if the shadow cast by the golden pen projected by the moonlight was used to indicate the location of the treasure, then the position of the golden pen on the noon gate was different, and the shadow cast was also different, and the noon gate was so big that there was no exact location at all. ”

Lightly, pointing to the painting in front of us, he said like a stop in the water.

"Why don't you understand, all the mysteries have been revealed in this painting, and the stars are used as a metaphor for the Forbidden City, indicating that we are not referring to the real Forbidden City, you should think about what kind of Forbidden City will appear on paper."

"The Forbidden City appears on paper......," Han Yu suddenly raised his head and said excitedly. Map! It is a map of the Forbidden City, and if you use the map as a reference, you can hang a golden pen over the noon gate, and the place where the shadow is cast on the map is the entrance to the treasure. ”

We had speculated that the treasure was in the Forbidden City, so we found a map of the entire Imperial City, and when it was just the end of the day, we walked quickly to the stone table in the backyard, spread the map on it, and then I carefully hovered the golden pen directly above the morning gate of the map......

We were confident that we could find the entrance to the treasure, but when the shadow was cast on the map, our happy expressions were fixed on our faces, and the shadow cast by the golden pen was completely beyond the map, and it was supposed that the shadow would be fixed at a certain point on the map.

"Maybe we're wrong." Gu Xiaoxiao said with some disappointment.

I just wanted to speak when I suddenly noticed a meaningful smile, I guess he still hasn't finished speaking, and asked in surprise.

"What the hell are we doing wrong?"

"There's nothing wrong with anything, but you're just taking the wrong thing." Meaningful answer.

"Got the wrong thing?" Nangong Yi looked at it suspiciously.

"......" I was stunned and suddenly reacted, and looked back at the map on the stone table. Zhu Di left this line to take the map of the Forbidden City as a reference, and the map we use today is not the one used by Zhu Di, of course, we can't find the exact place, to find the location of the entrance, we must first find the original map of the Forbidden City used by Zhu Di. ”

"That'...... Then we will never find the entrance to the treasure. Nangong Yi sat weakly on the stone chair after hearing this.

"Why?" Han Yu asked in surprise.

"There is Zhu Biao on this gold pen, which is an allusion to the emperor's things, and the original picture of the Forbidden City is indeed there, when I checked the history, I learned that it was Dao Yan who designed the Forbidden City, he first drew the original drawing of the building and submitted it to Zhu Di for review, Zhu Di saw that the building in the drawing was scattered and majestic, and he was overjoyed and wrote the inscription of Zhu Pi on the original drawing, and began to build the Forbidden City with this picture as the original drawing." Nangong Yi replied worriedly.

"Presumably, Zhu Di used this original map to leave the treasure line at that time." I nodded thoughtfully.

"Now that we have the original map, we just need to find a way to find it, can we determine the entrance to the treasure?" Gu Xiaoxiao asked suspiciously.

"I can't find it!" Nangong Yi sighed and replied disappointedly.

"......" We looked at each other and looked at Nangong Yi in astonishment. Why can't I find it? ”

Nangong Yi pursed his lips and said to us, after the completion of the Forbidden City, Zhu Di cherished the original drawings of the building, and ordered the golden pen Zhu to order people to include them, but after the completion of the compilation and repair of the Yongle Canon, only one was copied, called the Yongle original, and when he arrived in the Jiajing Dynasty, he was afraid that the canon would be damaged, so he re-recorded another one, called the Jiajing copy.

Because the two canons were hidden deep in the palace, they were not printed, and they were sparsely circulated, and they were stolen, looted, and burned in the change of dynasties, internal and external troubles, and the originals disappeared, and there were only more than four copies left.

"There is also a saying that Zhu Di is in love with the Yongle Grand Ceremony, and it is likely that he will be buried with him in the Changling Mausoleum." Nangong Yi sighed silently and said weakly. "If this rumor is true, to find the original architectural map of the Forbidden City, we have to enter Changling."

"It's not early, you all go and rest, and I'll take you to a place tomorrow." Suddenly, a voice came from behind us, and I turned around to see Xiao Lianshan standing in the courtyard, and he said to us with a very calm expression.