Chapter 89: The Stone Tablet
Lu Shuang said with a blank face: "Organ, why don't I know?" I smiled and said, "Of course you don't know, if you do, will you still touch that lantern?" After the ever-bright lamp was cut by me, there was silence all around, and Lu Shuang seemed to be a little afraid of the dark, and then he returned to my back.
Leaning on my back. In the dark tunnel, Lu Shuang leaned on my arms, rubbed her hair on my face, smelled the faint fragrance passing through her body, and felt a little dazed in her heart, but at this time, Sun Fei's shadow appeared in my mind for some reason, especially thinking of Sun Fei's resentful eyes, I was shocked in my heart, and said to myself: "I shouldn't have been born to save her, but now I am still as close as her?" Hurriedly pushed her head to prevent her from leaning on my shoulder, Lu Shuang was stunned for a moment, and then gently leaned her head on my shoulder again with a smile on her face, I sighed slightly, and did not push her head again.
Lu Shuang seemed very happy to see that I was not pushing her head, and she twisted her throat and said, "Brother Tang, how did you know that the mechanism had to be dodged like this?" I smiled slightly and said: "This is very simple, you think Taizu is so eloquent, he can't tolerate others to have the slightest disrespect for him during his lifetime, I want Taizu to travel on the night of the Lantern Festival and see many lantern riddles." There was a lantern riddle drawing of a woman, holding a watermelon, sitting on a horse, with very large hooves. When Taizu saw it, he was furious, and returned to the palace to urgently order the criminal officer to investigate and execute the citizens who made lantern riddles. The criminal department did not know the details, and asked for forgiveness, so Taizu said: "Blaspheming the queen, committing a big crime of disrespect, do you still say that you can be forgiven?" "At this time, the criminal officer realized that Queen Ma was a Huaixi woman, and she had always been a big foot, and the meaning of the lantern riddle pointed directly to the queen of the horse." Imagine that even a small lantern riddle Taizu thinks it is disrespectful, let alone entering his mausoleum? Lu Shuang nodded and said, "That being said, how do you know that those organs can make those organs disappear as long as they kneel down and shout 'Long live my emperor, long live, long live'?" I smiled and said, "This is very simple, don't you see the word 'long live' written on the side of the lantern in red cinnabar?" These two words may have been written by Li Xin on order back then, in order to let Taizu enjoy the emperor's three kneels and nine bows after his death! Lu Shuang nodded and said, "That makes sense!" In that case, what do we do next? I glanced at the winding dark tunnels and said loudly, "What to do, just go ahead!" Lu Shuang seemed to have some lingering palpitations in his heart about the mechanism just now, and hesitated: "Do you want to go forward?" I nodded.
Seeing my fearless expression, she suddenly exhaled and said, "Okay, Miss Ben will go out today and follow Brother Tang to the end!" I smiled and didn't say anything more, and walked deeper into the tunnel with my dragon sword.
It didn't take long to walk to another winding place, an everlasting lamp kept shining in the tunnel, I carefully took a lot of it, and carefully walked towards the ever-bright lantern, Lu Shuangben was a little scared, at this moment I saw that I was about to pass towards the ever-bright lantern, so he also followed, the ever-bright lamp looked extremely ghostly in the dark tunnel.
Lu Shuang said scaredly: "Brother Tang, could this also be like just now?" I was silent and did not answer, and continued to walk towards the lantern, when suddenly a red cloud of mist erupted from the wall on one side of the lantern, and my heart trembled, and I hurriedly held my breath.
Seeing this, Lu Shuang didn't dare to be careless, breathed closely, and followed me with the 'Champion' sword in his hand and moved towards the ever-bright lamp step by step.
At this moment, Lu Shuang's 'ah', and then the ever-bright light went out all of a sudden, and it was pitch black all around, and I secretly shouted: "Not good!" As soon as the words fell, a burst of smoke erupted from the surrounding tunnels, and then I heard a few loud sounds, it seemed that a door was opened, I held my breath, and after the smoke dissipated, I looked at it, only to see a door in the dark tunnel, and there seemed to be a huge palace inside, and countless permanent lamps were lit on the walls around the palace, which illuminated the tunnel as if it was day!
I stood there in a daze, not daring to rush in, until Lu Shuang behind me whispered at me: "Brother Tang, Brother Tang? "I suddenly realized that Lu Shuang didn't know where he was for a while, I was shocked, and hurriedly shouted a few times, and it took a long time to hear Lu Shuang's voice coming from behind me, I was stunned, and then I looked behind me, only to see Lu Shuang a foot away from me, sitting on the ground, and the 'Champion' knife in his hand was not lost far away.
The expression on my face was extremely painful, as if I was hurt, and I ran over and asked with concern, "What's wrong?" Lu Shuang was a little scared and said, "My feet are ......."
I looked at Lu Shuang's leg by the candlelight emanating from the palace, only to see that Lu Shuang's leg was pressed by a big long pillar!
I saw that the long pillars were more than a foot long, and the golden appearance was embroidered with beautiful flowers, and the flowers were carved lifelike, like a living creature, and I was attracted by the patterns on the pillars for a while, and I did not move for a long time.
Lu Shuang didn't want to disturb me, but the pillar was too big and too long, and it pressed heavily on her right foot.
I just came back to my senses from the pillars and hurriedly lifted up the pillars that were pressed on Lu Shuang's feet! ”
Lu Shuang slowly stood up from the tunnel with a 'smack' in her mouth, raised her eyes to look at me, and suddenly 'huh'. I was shocked and said, "What's wrong?" Hurt you? Lu Shuang saw that I looked nervous, a faint smile appeared on her face, and her pink face turned red under the light!
Ban Xiang said: "How can there be such a big hall here?" I glanced back at the main hall and said, "I don't know, maybe it's the reason for this pillar!" Lu Shuang lowered his head and thought about it: "Oh, by the way, just now I seemed to be walking and feeling that there seemed to be something around the tunnel, I was scared, thinking that it might be easier to walk by holding on to the wall, maybe it would be easier to walk, I vaguely saw that there seemed to be something like a tree root around the wall, and I didn't have to think much about it and reached out to pay it, but I didn't expect my hand to just touch the general things of those tree roots, and suddenly moved to take things, and then my feet were pressed by the roots, I shouted at you in a hurry, but I just shouted, I saw a door-like thing open, and soon there was red smoke, I was afraid that it would affect your opponent, and I didn't dare to call you, until I saw that you were safe and sound just now, and I didn't? I looked down and thought about it, and then looked at the pillar, under the light, the flowers on the pillar looked strangely beautiful, as if there was a magic power, people still want to see it, I was afraid that there was something strange on the pillar, and I was busy cleaning up my mind.
Lu Shuang slowly stood up, helped me step by step towards the hall, the everlasting lights in the hall emitted dazzling light, and soon Lu Shuang and I entered the hall, standing under the grand and gorgeous palace of the hall, I suddenly had an indescribable feeling, only to feel that the whole person is extremely small.
The palace is a special building, condensing all the technology of the predecessors of the previous generation and all their essence, is the direct refraction of the emperor's political and ethical concepts, although the underground palace as early as the Xia Dynasty, there is the prototype of the palace, to the Sui and Tang dynasties for the peak, to my dynasty and later generations and other dynasties can not surpass, but in the subtleties are more refined.
Having said that, but the moment I saw this hall, I still had a shock in my heart, although this hall was buried in the ground, but it was only the smallest part of the entire filial piety tomb.
I see this hall faintly exuding the domineering spirit of the Qin Dynasty, Taizu to this Han Gaozu Liu Bang self-style, everything to follow the Han Gaozu Liu Bang, and the Han Dynasty Qin system, this hall, naturally can not get out of the overall framework of the Qin and Han Dynasty architecture, the appearance and layout are according to the Qin system, and the building materials have absorbed a lot of advanced experience of the Han Dynasty.
There are long jade steps under the main hall, each step corresponds to an ever-bright lamp, a total of one hundred and eight steps, due to the relationship of the terrain, although this jade step is wide, but extremely steep, the bottom just extends upwards from the rainbow light of the road, straight to the palace door.
There are hundreds of Lingnan wood as the main body on the main hall, only to see layers of Qin bricks and Han tiles, purple pillars and golden beams, extremely luxurious things.
It's a sight to behold! "I raised my eyes to look at the main hall, only to see that the layers of palaces were swept into the cliffs, gradually rising, with the smoke of the void, there is a risk of wanting to attach or not attached.
The two of us were dizzy and horrified. Climb the jade steps along the stone plank road of the mountain concave, look at it, but see the towering rock pavilion on the golden top, the waterfall curtain at the cliff ancient road, the ancient wood and strange vines around the deep pool, the rainbow light floats in all directions, listen to the birdsong in the valley, a group of isolated and unearthly scenes.
It's like a treasure hall in the sky. Seeing such a good fairyland, Lu Shuang yelled twice into it with some excitement, I came to the door of the main hall and saw a stone tablet standing next to the door, under the stele is a kneeling tiger, making a tiger roaring dragon roaring, the stone tablet is written in rows of big characters, the strokes are complicated, but I can recognize it, I whispered along the words on the stele: "Huaixi woman is so big-footed."
I remembered one thing in my heart, one year Taizu went out of the palace to see how the people of Nanjing celebrated the Lantern Festival.
I came to a place where I guessed lantern riddles and saw a group of people guessing a riddle. The painting depicts a barefoot woman holding a watermelon, and the riddle asks you to guess a local saying.
The result was guessed, and the riddle was
"Huaixi women have big feet". The lantern riddle pays attention to different solutions, the homonym of Huaixi here is Huaixi, which means that the woman with a watermelon is a big foot, which is a common saying that Nanjing people ridiculed the Anhui women at that time.
Taizu was greatly annoyed when he heard this, thinking that he was secretly ridiculing Queen Ma. Because Queen Ma is a native of Huaixi and has a pair of extra-large feet.
Taizu secretly wrote down the residence of the riddler's family, and the next day sent troops to kill all the people in this alley.
Although this story is legendary, it is strange why Taizu wrote these on this tablet? Seeing that I was fascinated by the stele, Lu Shuang walked over with Wending and asked softly, "What's the matter, Brother Tang, what did you find?" "I was still wondering why these words were left on the stele.
Is there any divine meaning? I can't figure it out! At this time, Lu Shuang saw that I was puzzled, and walked over with a smile, took my arm and said, "What's so strange about an inscription, let's take a look at this Lingxiao Treasure Palace, right?" As he spoke, he walked towards the white jade steps.
I secretly laughed at my own heart, maybe it was just that Taizu was fun back then, and it was nothing at all?
Thinking of this, I also walked towards the white jade steps, there were a total of one hundred and eight steps, I helped Lu Shuang step by step towards the white jade steps, the white jade steps along one of the walls of the Lingxiao Treasure Palace, steep and slippery, probably due to the shift of the center of gravity, the whole palace slanted out a lot towards the front, and it seemed that it could be flipped over at any time.
I helped Lu Shuang walk step by step on the white jade steps, and when I walked to the end of the jade steps, I suddenly found that the air here was completely different from when I first came in, the hazy white mist, layer by layer, penetrated silently along the walls of the Lingxiao Treasure Palace, and for a while, the entire Lingxiao Treasure Hall was full of steam, everything was wet, and the tunnel we were in now was extremely dry, without the slightest moisture.
I didn't expect that between this high and low, the humidity was so different. The white mist gathered more and more, slowly spreading in this Lingxiao Treasure Hall, standing on the white jade steps, at a glance, it was indeed extraordinary, as if the clouds were driving the fog.
I set up Lu Shuang and continued to walk along the white jade steps towards the depth of the Lingxiao Treasure Palace, and walked to a winding place, and suddenly saw a stone tablet standing next to the wall on one side, under the tablet was a kneeling monster, making a posture of carrying a monument in the clouds, on the stone tablet, it was full of red block letters, although the words were small, but they could be recognized.
I saw that the stele was engraved with the words 'Slave girl helped drunk and stepped on the moss, and the bright moon returned from the banquet in the West Garden; The puppy barks in the air, and no one is allowed to return to the palace in the middle of the night.
I muttered a few words silently, and suddenly a flash of inspiration flashed in my mind and I remembered that this poem was written by Gao Qi.
It is said that he was the editor of the Hanlin Academy in that year, and wrote the "Chronicles" and "The Biography of the Martyr" in the "History of the Yuan".
He knew that his companion was like a tiger, so he resigned and returned to Suzhou under the pretext that he couldn't manage money, which had caused Ming Taizu to be dissatisfied.
In addition, Gao Qi once wrote a poem "Title Palace Maid", which aroused Taizu's suspicions, the poem: The female slave helped the drunk and stepped on the moss, and the bright moon returned to the banquet in the West Garden; The puppy barks in the air, and no one is allowed to return to the palace in the middle of the night.
Although the poem hints that there is fornication in the harem, it is not explicitly stated, and Taizu can only be angry and inconvenient.
After Gao Qi returned to Suzhou, at the request of Wei Guan, the prefect of Suzhou, in order to move the original site of the Suzhou Mansion to the former residence of Zhang Shicheng, he wrote "Shangliang Wen".