Chapter 39: Doubts
I looked at the visitor a little strangely, the visitor was dressed as an ordinary person on the streets of Jinling, but his look, tone, and etiquette all revealed that the person who came was not an ordinary person.
I was a little puzzled and hurriedly asked, "May I ask who is the master of your family?" The person who came bowed slightly and said: "The name of my master is not a small person who can say it casually, Tang Zhutou will know it when he goes!" At this time, Lu Shuang on the side suddenly snorted coldly and said, "What if we don't go?" The visitor glanced at Lu Shuang fixedly, silent, but there was a kind of respect in his eyes that I couldn't tell, as if Lu Shuang was the master of his family.
This kind of respectful look flashed in the eyes of the visitor, who did not answer Lu Shuang's question, but looked at me with a pair of eyes, as if waiting for me to answer in person.
I smiled slightly on my face and said, "Trouble lead the way!" The person who came nodded, and suddenly waved with one hand: "Tang Zhutou, please!" Seeing this, Zhao Wu hurriedly shouted behind me: "Hey, boss, you won't eat the meal made by Sister Fei'er with her daughter's fragrance!" I turned my face and replied, "Of course, I'll save it until I'll come back when I'm done!" Seeing that I was really going, Lu Shuang looked a little nervous, and hurriedly followed, but was blocked by someone who came, and said: "Miss Lu, my master only invited Tang Zhutou alone, and did not invite Miss Lu, so please Miss Lu stay!" Lu Shuang took two steps forward and said angrily: "Bold, dare to block my way, do you know who I am?" The person who came seemed to have known that Lu Shuang would say this, and said with a smile on his face: "The villain doesn't know who Miss Lu is?" I don't want to know who Miss Lu is, so I ask Miss Lu to forgive me, the villain is just acting on orders! Lu Shuang obviously wanted to say something, I was afraid that the two of them didn't know what would happen if they continued to talk about it, so she hurriedly said, "Miss Lu, please go back?" Don't worry, I've seen his master and will definitely come back to you! Lu Shuang glared at the visitor and said, "But? I smiled and said, "Miss Lu, don't worry, I'm fine!" Lu Shuang couldn't stop it, hesitated for a moment, and saw me and the person coming farther and farther away, so she had to stand helplessly and watch me leave!
The visitor led me all the way towards a mountain, and after walking for a long time, I saw a manor in front of me, and the manor was built very grandly, but vaguely seemed to have seen it there, and I felt a little strange in my heart, who would build such a large courtyard here?
Is it to guard the imperial mausoleum, but even the tomb keeper who guards the imperial mausoleum will not build such a large private house.
I wondered. Someone came and took me into the private house, and I saw that the private house was full of soldiers wearing armor and holding weapons, and when I saw this formation, my doubts in my heart slowly cleared a lot.
Someone took me through a long corridor, and then through the hall of three entrances, came to a warm pavilion, at this time it was early summer, Jinling was already very hot, but the warm pavilion was cool, but there was no wind, I saw that the warm pavilion set up brilliant, faintly confiding a kind of royal style, no one in the warm pavilion, but the two men who led me to the demeanor were extremely respectful, one of them bowed slightly to the screen of the warm pavilion and said: "Master, Tang Catcher has arrived!" After saying this, both of them stood vertically and respectfully on one side, not even daring to breathe loudly, after a while, I saw the screen of the warm pavilion move, and then an old man over fifty years old came out behind the screen, the old man squinted at me, and said: "Liufu, you are really, Tang Zhutou has been here for so long, you don't know how to look at a seat!" The subordinate named Liufu hurriedly replied: "Yes! Be! After saying that, I hurriedly moved a chair covered with soft brocade tiger skin and placed it behind my buttocks.
I followed with a polite look and sat down with my ass on my ass. looked at the person who spoke, but saw that he had a long beard and a gray beard, his eyes were full of spirit, and his whole body revealed a certain nobility.
I wondered who this man was and why he knew my name, and I was even more surprised that he knew exactly where I was staying, and it seemed that this old man was no ordinary person, at least at the moment I thought so.
The old man didn't wait for me to speak, and the old man preemptively said, "This king has been waiting for Tang Zhutou here for a long time!" When I heard this, I was shocked, and secretly said in my heart: "Lord, that prince?" Could it be the King of Jinling! "Yes, this person is Zhu Lian, the king of Jinling.
When Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang seized the world, he was afraid that his subordinate Wenchen generals would be unreliable, and he sealed his descendants as kings, one of whom named Zhu Quan was assigned to Nanjing and was named the king of Jinling, and later after the death of Taizu, his fourth son Zhu Di launched the Battle of Jingyan, after the success of the Battle of Jingnan, although Zhu Di was afraid that some princes would also follow his example, so he sent some of his brothers from the north to the south, this Zhu Quanyin himself was divided into Jinling by Taizu in the south, and he did not pose much threat to Zhu Di, therefore, ended up being a carefree king of Jinling in Jinling.
In the Ming Dynasty, as long as the prince of Taizu did not have the queen in the family, the throne has always been there, so the grandfather passed it to the son, and the son passed it to the grandson, so the father passed on to the son, the son to the grandson, two hundred years later, the throne of the King of Jinling passed to Zhu Lian's hands.
I didn't wait for Zhu Lian to continue to ask, hurriedly stood up from my seat, and made a big salute: "Villain Tang Tianyou knocks on the prince!" Zhu Lian said in a cold tone: "Tang Zhutou, please, this king has long stopped asking about the world, and there is no doubt that Tang Zhutou does not have to make this big gift!" I stood up from the ground, patted the dust on my body and said, "I don't know what the prince is inviting here?" The expression on Zhu Lian's face changed, and his tone suddenly said gently: "Knowing that Tang Zhutou led the team to Jinling, the old man just wants to invite Tang Zhutou to sit in the mansion!" "I saw Zhu Lian say this, there was something strange in my heart, this Zhu Lian I saw for the first time, but he was like a person who already knew me, and wanted to ask me to do it at this time, at this moment, several servants in the lobby in the warm pavilion were full of wine and food, Zhu Lian picked up the wine glass and raised it slightly towards me, and then drank it all, I saw him drink the wine in the wine glass, and knew that the wine was not poisonous.
I was relieved to drink a clean one. After three rounds of drinking, Zhu Lian put down his wine glass with a smile and glanced at me.
How shrewd I was in my heart, and when I saw his expression, I knew that the next thing was not to drink. Sure enough, after Zhu Lian put down the wine glass, he asked, "I don't know what mission Tang Zhutou has in Jinling?" I sneered in my heart, and said with an unmoving expression on my face: "Oh, a little mission!" Zhu Lian said with a smile: "Although the old man is not in the government and the opposition, he also knows a little about the government and the opposition, I wonder if Tang Zhutou's mission this time can tell me a thing or two?" I drank the liquor in the wine glass and said, "Please forgive me, the prince is a confidential matter of the court, and my subordinates cannot tell me!" After Zhu Lianhaha laughed a few times, he touched a few goatees on his chin and said, "Tang Zhutou doesn't say that the old man can guess one or two?" I said, "Oh, yes?" Zhu Lian nodded, and then said: "Otherwise, let the old man guess, Tang Zhutou can see if there are any mistakes and omissions in what the old man said!" I smiled, noncommittal.
Zhu Lian saw that I was silent, touched a handful of goatee and said: "I guess Tang Zhutou must have come to Jinling on the mission of the imperial court to find a book in an ancient tomb!" I said: "The prince is really good ears, it seems that the prince is prepared?" Zhu Lian said: "The old man is just guessing!" I smiled wryly and fell silent.
Zhu Lian continued: "But in the old man's humble opinion, I'm afraid this book is fake! I said, "Why did the prince say that?" Zhu Lian laughed and said, "Isn't this obvious? If there was a book in the tomb, why did it take so long for it to become known to the world? When I heard it, there was some truth, and I said with a slight hean: "I am ignorant, please tell the prince!" Zhu Lian touched the goat's beard and said, "Okay, seeing that Tang Zhutou is so sincere, the old man will talk more!" I nodded.
Zhu Lian continued: "As far as the old man knows, the place where Tang Zhutou is going this time should be an emperor's tomb, right? If the old man's guess is correct, the owner of this tomb should be Sun Quan, right? I sneered and said, "Yes, the prince's guess is right!" Zhu Lian pondered for a moment and said: "According to the old man's grasp, this Sun Quan is a generation of emperors of Wu during the Three Kingdoms period, Jian'an for ten years, his brother Sun Ce died early, Sun Quan succeeded to the throne as the lord of Jiangdong, Jian'an twenty-nine years, Sun Quan ascended the throne as emperor in Wuchang, the founding name of Great Wu, the Eastern Wu Dynasty was formally established, and the capital was immediately moved to Jianye. He reigned for 24 years. In the past 24 years, in addition to consolidating the great cause of Jiangdong, Sun Quan also built a luxurious mausoleum for himself, the location of this mausoleum is on the left side of the Ming Tomb, the location is very obvious, but there is one thing that the old man really can't figure out and hopes that Tang Zhutou will give him a point! I said, "What's the matter?" Zhu Liandao: "What is strange to me is that the location of the side of the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum is very conspicuous, and it is the mausoleum of the Emperor of Wu of the Three Kingdoms, which should be concerned by the tomb robbers of the past dynasties. Why is that? "I didn't answer immediately, I thought in my heart for a moment, as far as I know, this Sun Quan Tomb has been set up from the beginning of a lot of powerful organs, these institutions in addition to the original designer can pass, if other people are not clear and rashly entered, most of them have gone and no return, most of the tomb robbers because they do not know these low institutions, so even if some tomb robbers enter, they also died in the organs of Sun Quan's tomb, over time, later tomb robbers went to Sun Quan's tomb less, Some timid and some tomb robbers who are not very experienced and skilled slowly have some fears about Sun Quan's tomb, and they slowly stop going, and the bold and experienced ones either don't pay attention to Sun Quan's tomb, or they are
"Yellow Springs is gone". Therefore, although this ancient tomb of Sun Quan has experienced thousands of years, the underground palace is intact and located at a depth of more than ten meters, and it has indeed not been excavated by tomb thieves.
Seeing that I didn't go back to his question directly, Zhu Lian continued to ask: "Why is the ancient tomb of Sun Quan of the Hero I ignored by tomb robbers?" I sneered twice, and said in my heart: "This old fox, if you want to put the words in my mouth, Uncle Ben will let you see for a long time!" After making a decision, he bowed his hand slightly and said: "Lord Wang, according to his subordinates, this tomb robber ignored Sun Quan's ancient tomb, which just shows that the book is in the ancient tomb!" Zhu Lian's face changed, and he quickly showed a sly smile, and said, "Oh, why is this?" This king is puzzled, and asks Tang to tell him! ”