Mountain and Sea Demon Tomb Chapter 21 The Python's Belly Rises to the Coffin (2)
Hearing this, the fat man and I let out an "ah" in unison, and opened our mouths wide for a long time. After a long time, the fat man said: "I'm boiling, I'm boiling!" No wonder this Zhu Yunwen is missing, Zhu Di has searched almost all over China and has not found it, it turns out that Ya is hiding in Chen's house in Shanhaiguan! It's time to rewrite history. It's a secret! ”
I said: "It seems that the false news spread by those personal guards and eunuchs is very effective, Zhu Di has always thought that Zhu Yunwen fled south to the Nanyang area, so he sent Zheng He to Nanyang seven times, under the pretext of exploring the national situation and the reason for trade, in fact, to inquire about Zhu Yunwen's whereabouts, but there has been no news. How could he have thought that this Zhu Yunwen was actually right under his nose? ”
Mr. Chen continued: "The original intention of the Chen family was to help Zhu Yunwen regain power, but Zhu Di had no choice but to implement a clear government, the people's will, and the implementation of an iron-fisted regime, so that many courtiers who once firmly supported Zhu Yunwen gradually changed their minds and supported Zhu Di instead. The Chen family's family background is not too big, and the financial resources are not very strong, so the seizure of the throne was delayed until Zhu Yunwen's death. Zhu Yunwen regretted this all his life, was depressed, and died at the age of only thirty-seven, leaving two sons and a daughter, who confessed to the Chen family before his death, and must assist his son to ascend the throne in the future. The Chen family swore with the lives of the whole clan that they would always be loyal to the little prince and fully assist. However, Zhu Di's regime was stable, and year after year, there was no chance to regain the throne, and until the death of the little prince, this matter was still not achieved. But the Chen family has not given up hope, and the Chen family has been accumulating wealth and contacts, hoping that the descendants who can assist Zhu Yunwen will return to the throne. This has become the mission of every generation of the Chen family. Therefore, all the people of the Chen family, once they are sensible, are informed of this mission, and must swear to complete it with their lives and not leak it. But in the end, it still didn't happen. After Li Zicheng's peasant army broke through Kyoto and seized the throne, Zhu Yunwen's only descendant, due to illness and the news of the demise of the Ming Dynasty, was so anxious that he couldn't afford to fall ill and died within a few days, leaving no heirs during his lifetime. Since then, Zhu Yunwen's vein has been cut off.
"The mission of the Chen family for generations is to help Zhu Yunwen regain the throne, but Zhu Di's regime is stable, and the Chen family has not done this for hundreds of years. In addition, the Ming Dynasty collapsed, the Qing army entered the customs, the Chen family decided to live and die with the Ming Dynasty, and resolutely could not fall into the hands of the aliens, so the whole clan rebelled in Wu Sangui, and the Qing army invaded Shanhaiguan on the day of the collective retreat into the tomb of Wuliang Mountain and was martyred for the Ming Dynasty.
"This immeasurable mountain was used to store the wealth accumulated to assist the new regime, and it also stored a large amount of grain and grass. But the Chen family also gradually felt the gradual decline of the Ming Dynasty. Since Chongzhen ascended the throne, the Ming Dynasty has become more and more mediocre and chaotic, and the Chen family's determination to assist Zhu Yunwen's descendants to ascend the throne at this time is not as strong as before. ”
Mr. Chen said with a long sigh and said, "I think my Chen family has been loyal for hundreds of years, but in the end, it still ended up with the death of a whole clan. But this result is also the Chen family's own choice, which is a pity and sadness! This is all the creation of fate. ”
The fat man snorted and said: "If you want me to say that this Chen family is also pedantic enough, since you want to assist the new emperor to ascend the throne, after hundreds of years of accumulation, presumably there is a lot of money and people, why don't you try it?" In case of taking advantage of the mediocrity and incompetence of the Ming Dynasty, maybe it will succeed, it is better than not even trying in the end, and just dying and warping. ”
Mr. Chen thought for a while and said: "Maybe when the world is stable, my Chen family also knows that once they try to support the new emperor to ascend the throne, they will inevitably start a war, and the world will be in chaos, and the lives will be ruined. Later, the Ming Dynasty was mediocre, but the idea of establishing a new regime in my Chen family became weak, and the people in the clan like Chen Zhen were busy fighting against the Qing army and the peasant armies in various places to protect the family and defend the country, and the idea of changing the new emperor was also stranded. ”
I nodded and said, "If it is really as you said, then the Chen family is really a generation of loyal and famous families." Indeed, no matter who takes the throne, the biggest victims of war are always the people, and the new regime will not necessarily be better off than the old one. The life that the people want to live most is a plain and stable life! ”
Mr. Chen nodded, continued to flip the book, and when he reached the last page, he was suddenly stunned, looked up and said to us: "In this book by Ancestor Chen Zhen, it is said that Zhu Yunwen and his descendants are all buried in this immeasurable mountain, and the mechanism is on the stone in the center of the room. ”
When the fat man heard this, he jumped up and ran to the middle of the room, and sure enough, there was a white stone on the ground. The fat man studied it for a while, lifted his foot, and stepped on it with one foot, and the stone slowly sank into the ground, and suddenly a crack gradually parted in the ground in the middle of the room, and the crack opened more and more, until it was nearly two meters wide. The three of us looked at each other, not knowing what the situation was, and we couldn't help but be a little nervous. Slowly, a coffin rose from the ground, and the coffin rose higher and higher until it was completely above the ground. The cracks on both sides also shrank smaller and smaller, just stuck on the edge of the coffin.
Mr. Chen ran over excitedly, and was about to reach out to push the coffin lid, when the fat man grabbed his arm: "Slow, did you expect that the jade plum blossom note to be in this coffin?" Hehe, no one is stupid, such a valuable treasure is still handed down by Zhu Yuanzhang, and it must be by the side of his grandson Zhu Yunwen. But you didn't find this plum blossom note, you want to take it away from the fat man, no way. ”
Mr. Chen didn't speak, looked at the fat man deeply, and said, "Let's open the coffin first, and we will make sure that there is no plum blossom note." After speaking, he stretched out his hand and pushed, and the coffin lid fell to the ground. This coffin is made of the heart of a thousand-year-old tree, extremely precious, the price per gram weight on the black market is more expensive than gold, and the body buried in this coffin is well preserved and will not decay for 10,000 years.
The person in the coffin showed no signs of shriveling and decay on his body, as if he had fallen asleep. Zhu Yunwen has a serene expression, a round face, and flowing hair, wearing a Ming Huang imperial dragon robe, and a nine-layer pagoda crown on his head. But our eyes were all drawn to a green jade two feet long and one foot wide on his chest. This piece of jadeite is nothing else, it is exactly what we are looking for after all the dangers - jade double seal plum blossom paper.