The water seemed to have stopped rising, and the sparrow took out the half of the candle and lit it, but the blind man said, "Dead end, here is dead end." "He was already ahead of everyone else, and he was sealed less than twenty meters in front of him.

The sparrow took up the candle and walked over, and when they came closer, they found that there was a bronze door blocking their way, and there was an iron chain on the right side of the bronze door, and the sparrow stretched out his hand and pulled it, but did not move. Luo Lie and the three of them walked over, they all saw that the iron chain should be the key to opening the copper door, and together they pulled the iron chain downward, and the iron chain was finally pulled under the joint efforts of the three of them, and the copper door slowly opened as the iron chain was pulled downward.

Luo Lie said: "Sparrow, you go in first to find something to hold up this door." ”

The sparrow answered, and after the bronze door was opened to the height at which she could pass, she slipped through the gap, and by the light of the candle, looking for something usable, she saw a stone sculpture not far away, and rushed up to move, but after all, she did not have enough strength, and only moved an inch with great effort, and the sparrow cried, "I can't push!"

Luo Lie asked the blind man to go in to help, and now the distance raised by the bronze door was enough for the blind man to climb in, and when it came to brute force, the blind man was the biggest one among them.

The blind man got inside, came to the stone carving, pushed it down, and then worked with the sparrow to roll the stone sculpture to the bronze door.

Luo Lie and Arnold were also struggling to support, and after the blind man went to help the sparrow, the bronze gate became the two of them pulling, and instead of improving, it dropped a little. The blind man and the sparrow finally pushed the stone sculpture under the bronze door.

Luo Lie and Arnold also almost exhausted their strength, as soon as they let go, the bronze door fell on the stone carving, Arnold first crawled under the gap, Luo Lie then climbed in, and the body just climbed over, and heard the stone carving crackling sound, but the stone carving could not bear the weight of the copper door, and was crushed open.

The sparrow's heart was raised to his throat, the blind man and Arnold used force at the same time, each grabbed Luo Lie's arm, and dragged him out of the crack in the door, Luo Lie's feet just passed through the bronze door, and the stone carving was completely cracked because it could not bear the weight of the copper door, and the copper door closed heavily, and the dull sound of landing shook their ears to buzz.

Luo Lie was also scared out of a cold sweat, if he left a second later, I am afraid that if he does not die, his legs will be crushed.

The companions were also afraid, this stone carving should have been cracked in the past, but it was not completely cracked, and it was completely split under the pressure of the bronze door.

Sparrow's hand holding the candlestick trembled slightly, Luo Lie walked over and took the candlestick from her hand, and smiled: "It seems that my life is still very big." ”

Arnold probed around the bronze door by candlelight for a while, and found that there was no device to open the bronze door on this side, which meant that they could not go back. Since there is no way back, the drain valve that the sparrow said has no meaning, and even if it is found, there is no way to leave.

Luo Lie said: "This door should play the role of sealing, isolating the water from the outside. He turned to the sparrow and said, "Remember the map?"

Sparrow said: "Clearly. She walked forward, Luo Lie followed to hold a candle for her, and encountered a bronze door about fifty meters forward, the method of opening the bronze door was the same as just now, this time they had experience, first found two stone statues to carry to the door, and after pulling open the bronze door, let the blind man stuff the stone statue in, although it lasted a little longer, but in the end the stone statue was still pressed into powder by the bronze door, this is because the bronze door is too heavy, and the stone used to carve the stone statue is too soft.

The sparrow was secretly surprised that he had not seen the drain valve marked on the map along the way.

Walking through this bronze door, a sloping step appeared in front of you, the steps were narrow and deep, and I didn't know where to go. Luo Lie blew out the candles to save their few light sources and let the blind man walk in the front to lead the way.

They had walked up the stairs for about five minutes, and when they reached the exit, the blind man stopped and let out an exclamation.

Luo Lie came to the blind man, re-lit the candlestick, and looked up, but saw a chain bridge hanging in the air in front of him, and on the opposite side of the bridge stood a tall building, because of the dim light, he could not see the whole picture.

The blind man had already seen that the building opposite was a huge statue, which was at least thirty meters high, and from the appearance of the statue, it should have been a Manchu emperor. He was dressed in a dragon robe, holding a rosary in one hand and a sword in the other, and carved a few lines of large characters on the wall opposite the statue.

After listening to the sparrow, he judged that this statue should be the Yongzheng Emperor, among the emperors of the Qing Dynasty, the Yongzheng Emperor liked to read the Buddhist scriptures since he was a child, and made friends with monks, not only the religion is universal, but also the secret and the fusion, but also the practice of meditation, is recognized as the only Chinese emperor in the past dynasties of the real personal understanding, through the three levels of the great Zen master.

Emperor Yongzheng once practiced meditation in the 50th year of Kangxi under the guidance of Zhang Jiaguoshi, and successively broke the initial pass, the heavy pass, and the second year through the last pass, reaching the principle of the unity of three bodies and four wisdoms. Self-proclaimed Yuanming Jushi, he is the only emperor in Chinese history who combines the respect of a human king and a French king. After his accession to the throne, in the last few years, he produced a set of 1.2 million words of Buddhist classics, including the "Imperial Selected Quotations" of Zen Buddhism, which he personally compiled.

Sparrow told a few people about his reasoning, and the blind man now admires the knowledge of Sparrow, not to mention Arnold, a foreigner, of course, Arnold has little interest in politics, he only knows that the current monarch of England is George V, and he is not interested in understanding the emperors of other countries.

Luo Lie's knowledge of history is also quite rich, but he still can't compare with the sparrow with family history, he knows that Emperor Yongzheng died in the Old Summer Palace, and he doesn't know if the statue in front of him is directly related to Emperor Yongzheng.

The cause of the death of the Yongzheng Emperor is also the biggest mystery of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, there are rumors that he was assassinated, and some people say that he was a state worker, and died of emaciation, the most credible one is the pill said, the Yongzheng Emperor is also superstitious to ask for immortals and ask, immortality, in order to seek immortality, he is close to the Taoist priest Zhang Taixu, Wang Dingqian and others who are keen on the pill. It is recorded that these two people once offered Jindan medicine in an attempt to prolong Yongzheng's life. Although there is no record of Yongzheng Daoist alchemy in the official history, historians still picked up clues of alchemy from the archives of the Qing Palace.

According to the palace archives, from the ninth to the thirteenth year of Yongzheng, Yongzheng ordered to deliver the items needed for alchemy to the Old Summer Palace a total of 157 times, an average of two or three times a month. A total of 192 tons of black coal and 42 tons of charcoal were used, in addition to a large amount of mineral silver, red copper, black lead, sulfur and other items, which were all essential supplies for alchemy. Just twelve days before Yongzheng's death, a batch of 200 catties of black lead was transported into the Old Summer Palace.

All kinds of evidence show that it is these so-called elixirs that can prolong life and make people immortal that sent Yongzheng to the west early.

In addition, there is a historical fact as evidence. Three days after Yongzheng's death, Emperor Qianlong, who had just ascended the throne, drove more than 100 people, including Yongzheng's favored Taoist priests Zhang Taixu and Wang Dingqian, out of the Old Summer Palace. And issued an order that it is not allowed to mention Yongzheng's words and deeds in the palace outside, and if there is a violation, the loan will never be forgiven.

Luo Lie raised the candlestick and took the lead on the chain bridge, the chain bridge is only twenty meters long, although it is not long, but the volley is erected between the stone wall and the statue, about thirty meters away from the lowest platform, walking on it swaying, the iron chain squeaks when it shakes, and the wooden planks laid under the feet are also more than 100 years, not ruling out the possibility of decay, Luo Lie is the first to walk across the chain bridge, convinced that the chain bridge can bear the weight of a person's body, so that everyone walked one by one.

The blind man used to be afraid of heights, but since a trip to Lianyunzhai in Pale Mountain, his fear of heights actually healed and successfully crossed the chain bridge.

After crossing the chain bridge, he found that the braid behind Emperor Yongzheng hid a vertical downward iron ladder, Luo Lie put away the candlestick, and was still ready to be the first to go down, the iron ladder was very simple, just a bent iron rod embedded in the statue, and there was no protection around.

Luo Lie told everyone to be careful, in fact, although this kind of iron ladder goes up and down vertically, as long as you hold it firmly and step on it, there should not be much risk. When he was about to climb down the ladder, Arnold suggested, "Let the blind man come first." ”

The blind man looked at Arnold with a puzzled expression, not knowing what he meant.

Arnold said: "Save him from stumbling and falling and hitting others." After saying that, he couldn't help but laugh.

The blind man snorted and said, "You go down first, I'm above you, even if I fall down and die, I have to pull you on your back." Of course, he knew that Arnold had good intentions, and deliberately said this to reduce the tension in his heart, but Arnold didn't know that his fear of heights was actually cured.

The blind man was indeed the first to go to the iron ladder, and he said to the sparrow, "The sparrow is broken." ”

The blind man descended cautiously along the iron ladder, and as long as he did not look down, he was not particularly frightened in his heart, and they followed the iron ladder to the bottom without danger.

Standing on the bottom platform of the Yongzheng statue, looking up, the more I felt the solemn momentum of the statue. Luo Lie couldn't help but think of Rushmore Mountain in the United States, where the stone carvings of the four presidents of the United States are about eighteen meters, and the Yongzheng statue in front of him is obviously taller than the stone sculpture of President Mountain.

The statue is not a single stone, but a pile of stones, which are supposed to be transported here in batches, and then the craftsmen complete the entire process of carving and stacking them, although the enormous work is already breathtaking. The sparrow looked up at this statue, she was proficient in Qing history, she had never heard of such a statue of Yongzheng under the Old Summer Palace. The underground sewer map they saw on the big ball outside did not mark the buildings here, and they had apparently broken into an unknown underground world.