There is a tree with a thick trunk to the left and to the right of the exit of Echo Valley. These two big trees have grown for one or two thousand years, which is longer than the founding of the Great Xuan Kingdom. The roots of the tree were deep in the earth, far more than twenty feet.

The wonder of nature lies in the fact that these two big trees are more than ten zhang high and more than one zhang in diameter at the bottom when the wind is strong at the mouth of the valley, and the branches of the trunks are mainly concentrated in the lower part of the trunk, and there are only a few small branches in the upper part - creating two magical trees in impossible places. Looking at these two big trees from afar, they look like two umbrellas standing upside down.

Looking at the big tree like an "umbrella", the owner of the dragon lizard once again sighed in his heart that "the wood is beautiful in the forest, and the wind will destroy it".

The Lord of the Flower Valley said: "Elder Qin Ge, when you came last year, you came in a hurry and left. ”

"Oh, I had something important to do last year, so I drank two cups of tea and left. ”

"Last year, the treehouse was only two storeys, and now it is nine stories high. ”

"I'm just looking at the umbrella tree. Isn't the ninth floor a bit high?" "The dragon lizard's owner looked up, and through the dense branches and leaves, he saw a nine-story wooden tower like a round platform clinging to one side of the tree trunk, and on the other side was a wooden staircase built against the tree trunk, and the wooden staircase spiraled up among the large number of branches, which made people admire the ingenuity of the builder. The dragon lizard owner was puzzled: "Such a tall building, there should be forty or fifty rooms!"

"There are forty-five rooms that can be seen. ”

The dragon lizard's owner thought in his heart: for such a large project, it is very likely that there will be a secret room, which will be built either in the trunk of a tree or in the soil under the tree. The dragon lizard master smiled, "The Lord of Flower Valley and that deaf and dumb child can't live in so many rooms. ”

The Lord of the Flower Valley sighed: "This nine-story treehouse, I asked the most famous carpenter of the Great Xuan Kingdom to build it according to my imagination, and I always come here to live here for a few days every month. Do you want to visit Qin Ge Lao?"

"Forty-five rooms on nine floors! I can't finish seeing the moon come out. I'd like to know what the Lord of Flower Valley is doing with so many rooms?"

The Lord of Flower Valley smiled smugly and introduced, "There are nine rooms on the first floor, which are used to raise some rare small insects. There are eight rooms on the second floor, including a practice room, a medicine refining room, a food storage room, a medicinal herb storage room, a kitchen, a pantry, a reception room, and a dining room. "The six rooms on the third floor are the quarters of the six little girls, and one room is the bathhouse...... Haha, I'm going into too much detail. ”

"Good. The Lord of the Flower Valley is really a meticulous person. What about the fourth floor?"

"The fourth floor houses 18 weapons, more than 3,000 hidden weapons, and several boxes of firearms, as well as three guest rooms; the fifth floor stores 1,960 anthologies, poetry and songs, and various historical books. ”

The dragon lizard master took a deep breath and said in surprise: "The Lord of the Flower Valley is going to gather all the essence libraries of the Great Xuan Kingdom?"

"I have all the books that I can see in the bazaars and markets. I also have books that I don't see in the bazaars and markets. ”

The owner of the dragon lizard said in his heart: The cowhide is blowing very big. "Do you have the Nine Domains Map here?"

"Yes. On the eighth floor, there are copies of the complete works of the Atlas of All Things and a copy of the nine volumes of the Nine Domains Map. ”

Taken aback, the dragon lizard owner kept nodding his head, indicating that he was completely convinced. It is rare to see a valuable copy of the "Atlas of Everything" and the imitation of the "Seven Regions of the Great Xuan Kingdom" in the bazaar, and here there are not only copies of the complete works of the "Atlas of All Things", imitations of the "Seven Regions of the Great Xuan Kingdom", but also a full-volume imitation of the "Nine Regions Fangyu Map" in the secret collection of the imperial capital.

"I heard that there are 1.5 million living creatures and countless plant species in the Atlas of Everything!"

"All I can say is countless. Because I haven't finished reading it yet. The Flower Valley Lord continued, "Guess what's stored on the sixth layer?"

The owner of ......the dragon lizard couldn't even think of it, and he really couldn't think of it.

"One hundred volumes of "Records of Hundred Works", fifty volumes of "General Dictionary of Soldiers", eleven volumes of manuscripts of "Outline of Heaven and Place", and one volume of "Treatise on War". ”

"The book of soldiers that has been lost for hundreds of years - "The General Dictionary of the Soldier Saint", "Summary of the Advantages of Heaven and Place"?"

"It's just a manuscript. ”

"If I were young, I would definitely borrow the Outline of Heaven and Earth. What are the two floors stored?" the dragon lizard owner couldn't think of, so he could only eagerly ask about it.

"The seventh floor is my study, bedroom and bathroom, and the ninth floor is the tea room and potted plants. ”

The dragon lizard owner originally felt that the two floors of the room were not surprised, but when he heard the word "hundred flowers", his facial muscles unconsciously jumped twice. The owner of the dragon lizard has been a scholar of the palace in the imperial capital for twenty years, and his biggest regret is that he did not investigate the secret organization in the palace - the Hundred Flowers Palace.

The Hundred Flowers Palace is not an organization that has always existed, and the purpose of its leaders and henchmen is to participate in the struggle between the princes and compete for the position of the prince. Before each generation of emperors ascended the throne, they were either the object of the Hundred Flowers Palace's assistance, or the object of the Hundred Flowers Palace's attack. After each generation of emperors ascended the throne, the leaders and henchmen of the Baihua Palace would disappear.

Whether it was the Great Xuan Emperor, who held the power of the Seven Domains, or the palace scholars who handled government affairs, they could not eradicate the henchmen of the Hundred Flowers Palace. The fundamental reason why it cannot be eradicated is that the organization of Baihuagong exists to seize power, and before it succeeds in seizing power, it forms a party to assist the prince, and after seizing power, it transforms into a new emperor's powerful bureaucracy. The seizing of power does not consider himself to be the leader of the Baihuagong, and the accomplices of the seizing of power do not consider themselves to be the henchmen of the Baihuagong. This kind of organization exists and does not exist, "the elephant is invisible".

When the previous emperor was seriously ill, the owner of the dragon lizard, who was the first assistant scholar of the palace, noticed that some of the palace maids, eunuchs and guards were sneaky and behaved abnormally. Under torture, a confessor said that he was at the behest of a contact with a nickname. The liaison person claimed to be the Lotus Messenger, the Lily Messenger or the Rose Messenger, and these envoys either coerced and intimidated, or bribed them with a lot of money, perhaps with high-ranking officials and profits, so that the people around the emperor could provide information and intelligence to the Hundred Flowers Palace.

Legend has it that the founding emperor of the Great Xuan Kingdom was surnamed Xuan Mingzhao, and one of his favorite concubines was named Begonia Flower, and Begonia Flower was regarded as "the honor of a hundred flowers", so the bedroom of this favorite concubine was named "Hundred Flowers Palace". In order to compete for favor and fix favor, this "flower concubine" founded an informal organization in the Baihua Palace where she lived. In the organization, the favorite concubine called herself the "palace master", and the members of the organization used the name of the flower as the code name, calling themselves the messenger of the hundred flowers, secretly acting and contacting many ministers inside and outside the court and the generals and commanders with heavy troops. Later, the son of the favorite concubine inherited the throne, and the palace master of Baihua Palace was respected as the Queen Mother, and the power of Baihua Palace soared.

After the death of the first generation of the palace master of the Hundred Flowers Palace, it went through several generations of emperors, and the huge influence of the Hundred Flowers Palace gradually declined. For more than a thousand years, the organization has been hidden from time to time, operating only during the change of the throne, and its disciples are very secretive in their activities.

Baihua Palace is very mysterious, there is a sect in the people of Daxuan and in the rivers and lakes is also very mysterious, this sect is called Baihuamen, I don't know who the master is, and I don't know how many disciples there are. Folk and Jianghu rumors, Baihuamen has a hundred stunning women, they take Baihua as the name, all of them look like immortals, cultivate to be high, punish the strong and help the weak, and specialize in fighting grievances;

The owner of the dragon lizard is the first auxiliary scholar of the Great Xuanguo, the prime minister of the national government affairs, and the power is very powerful, but he does not know much about the Baihua Palace in the imperial court and the Baihuamen in the folk rivers and lakes.

He still has lingering palpitations about the imperial capital rebellion three years ago, the rebellion happened inexplicably, and ended inexplicably, the prince's mansion was destroyed overnight, the prince's mansion was surrounded by a river of blood, and the corpses were piled up like a mountain, and in the corpse pile higher than the courtyard wall and gate, there were the guards of the prince's mansion, and there were also the feather dragon guards in blue armor, the city defense battalion soldiers in blue armor, and more of the high-rollers in sackcloth and the people who spontaneously maintained the prince's mansion.

The conflict was not between the two sides, but on many sides, and the chaos began at the main gate of the Prince's Mansion and soon spread to the entire Imperial City, whose streets were paved with dead bodies.

The rebellion lasted until dawn, and it was not until the 100,000 Divine Dragon Guards on the northern outskirts of the imperial capital entered the city that the turmoil in the city was suppressed. In one night, six of the seven adult princes were killed, the seventh was drunk and survived in the latrines of the palace, two scholars and many central auxiliary ministers were assassinated in their homes, and hundreds of officials were killed or disappeared after escaping their homes. The owner of the dragon lizard was protected by the black armored dragon lizard, a divine beast, so that he could not be killed by the assassins.

In the early hours of the morning, the emperor went to the morning court with his illness, and it was not until after noon that the remaining central ministers were gathered. The emperor was furious, and the ministers were terrified, and the Shenlong Guard commanded Hou Guang to preside over the order of the imperial city, arrested all the generals who served in the Yulong Guard Command Division and the city defense battalion, beheaded more than 500 Yulong Guards, and hunted down more residents, high-rollers, and merchants from other places, resulting in a rebellion that killed more than 40,000 people.

On the second day, the last prince, who was lucky enough not to die, committed suicide by cutting his throat with a dagger in front of the emperor and the remaining officials in order to prove his innocence.

The seriously ill emperor saw his last adult son die of blood all over the ground, and he died of exhaustion.

Under the consultation of the Empress Dowager and the Empress, the courtiers supported the youngest prince to ascend the throne. In order to balance, Chen Ge Lao and the other three palace scholars bypassed Qin Yan, the first auxiliary palace scholar and asked the little emperor to issue an edict, so that Xuan Ming, the general of the Southern Regions and the chief of Baicheng, who was sitting in the southern region, went to the imperial city to make up for the palace scholars with Hou Guang and jointly assisted the government.

Xuan Ming served as the general of the Southern Regions, sat in Baicheng in the Southern Regions, led the water division of 200,000, and fought against the sea tribe soldiers in the South China Sea for five years, with outstanding achievements. His family stayed in the imperial capital to live in the imperial city, and on the night of the rebellion, his four sons and family servants were all killed in the mansion by the rebels.

On the night of the rebellion in the imperial capital, the eldest son and the youngest son of the dragon lizard owner were stabbed to death by the assassins, and the families of the two sons were killed by the rebels who swarmed into the house.

The owner of the dragon lizard firmly believed that this rebellion had a great deal to do with the Hundred Flowers Palace, but because there was no evidence, he could not find the mastermind of the whole incident, so he could only rely on his own investigation in the dark. Just when the owner of the dragon lizard was about to ask the little emperor to use the Imperial City to investigate, the five palace scholars led by Chen Ge Lao jointly excluded him and forced him to return to his hometown. His investigation ended with his resignation as a beggar.

The past brought tears to the eyes of the dragon lizard owner.