Chapter 228, Hundred Years of Confidentiality
This is the only thing I can think of, I am also gambling, Zheng He was dead or alive at the time, no one knows where the body was buried, but he has a soft spot for this small island, plus Jiao Ba said, this is the location of the real tomb, combined with the stone murals I saw in the upper two floors of the underground palace before, as well as the stone statues of the Ming Dynasty generals, I have to make me suspicious.
When I finished saying this, the old man turned his face sharply and looked at me with a look that was about to kill, his eyes really scared me, this old guy's face was simply unreadable, the more he looked at it, the more cautious he became, "Young man, there are some things, the less you know, the better, don't ask any more questions." ”
Don't ask? Since you have said so much, why don't I ask, from your expression and attitude, I can analyze almost the same, the person buried in this main tomb is really Zheng He.
"Okay, I won't ask about that, but there's one more thing I have to ask you, what about the person in the other painting? The eunuch named Liu Qian, where is he? "I deliberately didn't ask where the body was, I asked where he was, the meaning was obvious, I suspected that the man was not dead at all.
But when I asked this sentence, I saw with my own eyes that the old man's body trembled, and his face changed instantly, and he seemed to have some concerns about this person, and he didn't know whether he was afraid or what.
"This man is gone." After waiting for half a minute, he actually came to such a sentence.
"Gone? How could this living person disappear for no reason? Who is this Liu Qian? Can you tell me? I asked in a low voice, hoping to get some information out of his mouth.
The old man turned his back slowly, and said in a hoarse voice, "Liu Qian, he was the confidant eunuch of my family at that time."
Listening to this old man, when he didn't follow Zheng He, Liu Qian was already by Zheng He's side, and later after he followed Zheng He, the two of them became Zheng He's right-hand men, and they were very powerful in terms of the fleet that went to sea at that time.
There are many things, Zheng He will ask the two of them to complete, when he first went to this island, Liu Qian was sent here by Zheng He to be responsible for governing the residents living on the island, but according to him, Liu Qian is too selfish and ambitious, and he is not willing to live on such a small island at all.
So whenever Zheng He came to the island, he would ask to go back with Zheng He, but Zheng He never agreed, in order to appease Liu Qian, Zheng He also let the Taoist priest stay on the island, saying that it was to appease him, but in fact, it was to let the Taoist priest monitor Liu Qian, or rather, let the two of them monitor each other.
Zheng He later discovered Liu Qian's ambition, thinking that this person could not return to the Central Plains, once he returned to the Central Plains, he would leak out all the very important secrets, as for what this secret was, the old man did not say, but I think this matter must be not small, it must be a big secret.
This eunuch named Liu Qian probably knew where the secret was, and Zheng He was trapped on this small island in order to keep the secret, which was surrounded by the vast sea, and without ships, people could not escape at all.
To put it mildly, it's a paradise, but to put it mildly, it's no different from a prison, it's a place of seclusion, and you can't get in touch with the outside world at all.
On the first day of Liu Qian's life on this island, he was building a mausoleum for himself, which was the first underground palace that Jenny and I discovered, and then not long after Zheng He died, Liu Qian also died suddenly.
The people of the Ming Dynasty who lived on the island at that time buried Liu Qian's body in the underground palace built before, and everything seemed to be calm and quiet, without any problems.
It wasn't until this Taoist priest faked his death that the problem arose, this Taoist priest could live forever, but he couldn't let the residents of the island know his secret, so he faked his death once, and his underground palace was also built at that time, next to Liu Qian's underground palace, which was the second underground palace that Jenny and I saw.
After burying him in the underground palace, the Taoist priest planned to live in seclusion on the mountain all the time, maybe even he didn't know why he went to Liu Qian's underground palace to check the coffin, it was when he checked Liu Qian's coffin that he found that there was no body in Liu Qian's coffin, except for a piece of clothing, there was nothing.
As for whether Liu Qian was dead or alive, he didn't know, the body just disappeared out of thin air, so Jenny and I would see the two empty coffins.
As for when the body disappeared, he didn't know that when the old man faked his death, Liu Qian had been buried for more than ten years, so there was no way to find out about this matter.
At that time, he searched almost the entire island, but he couldn't find Liu Qian's body, originally a dead person, more than ten years after being buried, the body disappeared for no reason, which is really incomprehensible.
After I listened to this old man's words, my first thought was that this eunuch named Liu Qian was not dead at that time, since this old man could think of using the method of fake death, why couldn't Liu Qian? Since he is ambitious, he will do whatever it takes.
If this Liu Qian really faked his death at that time, then the question is big, why did he fake his death? What is his purpose?
But if he didn't fake his death, then where did his body go? How could a dead person jump out of a coffin, even if it was a corpse, it would not be impossible to find the corpse.
This matter is really weird, as for whether he is dead or alive now, it is even more difficult to say, a disappearing corpse, there must be some ulterior secret hidden behind it, I don't know if this secret will be related to this trip to sea.
"Haven't you seen him since he disappeared?"
What he said should be true, but this old man must have hidden some important information, and the reason why Liu Qian was able to disappear out of thin air should be inseparable from what he was hiding.
The old man looked at me and whispered, "Gone, gone, where will I see him, but"
"But what?" I hurriedly asked, how did this old guy speak.
"When the Qing soldiers went to the island, the old man was very suspicious, this island is so hidden, even if you want to find it, you may not be able to find it, at that time, except for my family, almost no one can find it, the sudden arrival of the Qing soldiers, so that the old man really can't figure it out." The old man touched his beard again, and when I saw his fingernails, I felt sick.
"It's not that you can't figure it out, you don't dare to think about it, you suspect that someone brought them to the island, and this person should be the disappeared Liu Qian, he is the henchman of your family, and he has lived on this island for many years, so he is very familiar with this place." Jenny suddenly interjected next to me, but she was right, and I thought so.
The old man looked at Jenny and smiled, "Little girl, are you very smart, the old man has really thought about it, but it's a pity that the old man has never seen him again for so many years, whether he is dead or alive, the old man doesn't know, so he doesn't dare to jump to conclusions." ”
I sneered and asked, "Since you can live forever, have you ever thought that this Liu Qian may also live forever?" ”
"Impossible, without ginseng fruit, it is impossible for him to live forever." As soon as the old man raised his hand, he immediately vetoed me.
"How do you know he doesn't know where the ginseng fruit is? We all know, let alone a ruler who has lived on the island for many years? I pressed him again and said that the old man must have missed something.
After listening to my words, the old man's face became more and more ugly, and his hands seemed to tremble, and he said to himself, "Is he really still alive?" ”
"Perhaps, he may be for something important, or rather, what is he looking for in the purpose of his life?" I tried to paraphrase his words and see if it worked.
As soon as I said this, the old man's face became even more ugly, "If this person is still alive in the world, then the world will be in chaos." ”
"Old man, how do you say that?" I don't dare to be presumptuous, and anger him that there is no good fruit to eat.
The old man said with a bitter face, "Liu Qian's ambition is too big, if his ambition hadn't been discovered by the adults, the adults would not have left him on this island, it's all because the old man was careless, if the old man burned his body back then, there wouldn't have been so many things, if he really didn't die, then the secrets that the adults have painstakingly hidden for hundreds of years will probably be destroyed." ”
Centuries of hidden secrets? I knew that there must be something wrong here, or something big, "What kind of secret?" ”
The old man suddenly reacted to his own words, he deliberately smiled and said, "It's nothing, it's just a secret on this island, hehe, but as long as the old man is still here, no one will be allowed to step into this place for half a step, young man, as long as you leave here now, the old man will never kill you." ”
I absolutely don't believe that the hundreds of years of secrets that Zheng He has hidden will be this ghost island, but it must have some connection with this island, but I also know very well in my heart that this old man will definitely not say it, he is reminding me to leave here quickly, otherwise my life will be lost.
I nodded and said, "Okay, after asking this question, let's leave, what do you mean by what you just told me not to be used by traitors?" ”
This old man stared at me for a long time with a pair of dead fish eyes, and I felt uncomfortable, "Why are you looking at me like this?" ”
"The reason why the old man said this just now is because you were able to land on this island, and it was not by chance, someone definitely deliberately led the way to bring you here." The old man spoke neither hurriedly nor slowly, and his ears hurt when he heard his hoarse voice.