Chapter 65 Qingchengzi went up the mountain to explore treasures

Another day, when he had nothing to do, Li Yunhan went to visit Guo Yi alone.

Guo Yi was extremely happy to see him arrive, and hurriedly beckoned him to sit down. The two exchanged a few words, and Li Yunhan went with him to visit Guo's mother.

Guo's mother was lying on the bed, her face was haggard, her eyes wandered, and she nodded when she saw Li Yunhan smiling.

Seeing this, Li Yunhan felt a trace of sadness in his heart, comforted her a few words, and walked out of the house lightly.

The two returned to the living room, drinking and catching up.

Li Yunhan said: "Brother Guo has cut his job for the people and is idle at home, so he can accompany Lord Lingtang more." ”

"Alas, my mother's old age and illness are short, and it is of course my greatest wish to be able to fulfill my filial piety in front of the bed." Guo Yi smiled bitterly, "It's just that I'm idle, I'm afraid I won't be able to go to the battlefield to serve the country anymore." ”

"Brother is still worried about the border pass?"

"Hmm; When Guo left, all military affairs had been entrusted to the deputy general Pu Huaien; Although this man is loyal and capable, I am still somewhat relieved. ”

"Since ancient times, it has been difficult to achieve both loyalty and filial piety, and my brother has been cut to the people, so why worry about it." Li Yunhan comforted.

Guo Yi smiled when he heard this, and changed the topic, talking about his wrongdoing, thanks to Zixu Zhenren who came down the mountain to save him, he was deeply grateful.

Li Yunhan smiled indifferently when he heard this, and said that he was about to go to Nine Lotus Peak to meet his master, and he would definitely convey this thanks when the time came.

After drinking, Li Yunhan said goodbye to Guo Yi, beat his horse out of Chang'an City, and went straight to Jiulian Peak.

After entering the Yuhua Temple and arriving at the Crane Pavilion, Li Yunhan saw Zixu Zhenren and gave a deep salute, and thanked Guo Yi for his kindness.

Zixu smiled slightly and beckoned him to sit down and drink tea.

"I wonder how Master persuaded Your Majesty, that old urchin?" Li Yunhan's voice was a little eager.

Zixu stroked his silver beard lightly and said slowly: "It's a long story. Back then, he was framed by the villain because of the teacher, and he cut officials and was idle at home for the people. One day, I suddenly heard that His Majesty was looking for the whereabouts of his mother's bones, and I was worried about it. Because I had been a close attendant of Emperor Wu Zhou in the palace in my early years, I knew a little about the secrets of the palace, so I went to face the saint to try.

When the bones of the queen mother are found, His Majesty is very happy and wants to add an official to me; However, I had already made up my mind, so I politely declined. Your Majesty couldn't keep me, and read that I Tanglong Palace had become meritorious, so he promised to meet me with three things. ”

"What three things?"

"First, rehabilitate Zhaoxue for me; Second, because my brother has lived in the Nine Lotus Peak for many years, I implore Your Majesty to reward me with this peak and cultivate the place for me to grow old. ”

"What about the third thing...... Li Yunhan asked.

Zixu paused and said, "The third thing, because I didn't think about it at the time, I had to leave it for the next day; I don't want to use it on Guo Yi this time. ”

"Oh, I see." Li Yunhan suddenly realized, pondered for a moment and asked, "Then how do you get married to Princess Pingyu?" ”

"Your Majesty saw that I insisted on going up the mountain to cultivate, so he entrusted his sister Princess Pingyu to me and worshiped me as a teacher, when she was only sixteen or seventeen years old......"

Li Yunhan interrupted and asked: "Princess Jin Zhi Yuye, who grew up in the deep palace since she was a child, why does she not enjoy Qingfu and is willing to follow her master in the rivers and lakes?" ”

"I was also quite puzzled at the time. Later, after a long time, Fang figured out the reason. She lived in the deep palace for a long time, and her mother was killed when she was three years old, and since then she has been like a kite with a broken string and nothing to rely on.

During this time, she heard and witnessed all kinds of deceit and bloody killings in the palace, and her fragile heart was hit and tortured, and she became suspicious, pessimistic, and misanthropic. In order to avoid danger and protect herself, she fell in love with Huang Lao's way at a young age......"

"No wonder when Qingcheng Mountain first met, she looked so preoccupied, cold and strange."

While the two were talking, Tu Kun of the prison brought a pot of wine and walked closer, filling the wine for each of them.

Zixu Zhenren did not drink, and his eyes were like torches looking at the jade pendant on Li Yunhan's body.

Li Yunhan was quite uncomfortable when he saw it, lowered his head slightly, and said, "Last time, the master said that this jade had a bloody disaster, although it was unintentional, but the disciple was still quite confused about it......"

Zixu Zhenren said "um", and his eyebrows furrowed slightly: "My brother said before his death that when the two jades meet, there will be blood difficulties." ”

Li Yunhan was shocked when he heard this, and asked him what he meant by this?

Zixu didn't answer, got up and looked indifferently at the distant mountains and clouds, and muttered to himself, "There is another jade pendant." ”

"And a ......"

Zixu nodded lightly and remained silent for a long time.

At this time, a harrier flew low and landed gently on Zixu's shoulder; He stroked it for a moment, then turned around.

Li Yunhan knelt on the ground and said, "Master, could it be that this pendant has something to do with that martial virtue secret treasure?" ”

"Only under this peak, the hole is deep and I don't know where it is." Zixu turned around and smiled mysteriously, and then ordered Tu Kun on the side to fetch some torches.

After Tu Kun walked away, Zixu helped Li Yunhan get up and said, "Are you here to hunt for treasure?" ”

"The master misunderstood, and the disciple was worried that it would fall into the wrong hands."

"What a bad guy ......"

"Master, do you remember the young man who invited you down the mountain?"

"He ......"

"According to the disciple's verification, this person is Chu Mohan's eldest son-Chu Qing."

Zixu was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and suddenly laughed out loud: "He's too self-conscious." ”

"Oh?"

"There are thirty-six large and small caves in the Ape King Cave, which are intertwined and intertwined like a labyrinth; In the meantime, there are flying currents rushing through, outsiders don't know the path, even if they go in, it's in vain......" Suddenly seeing Tu Kun walking over with Er Qiu, Zixu suddenly became alert and stopped the conversation.

Erqiu arrived at the pavilion and put down the bundle of torches in his arms; Zixu couldn't help frowning when he saw it, and asked why he became smaller?

Erqiu said that the torches that had been brought in last time had run out; In order to save money, Tu Jian Yuan ordered him to buy some new ones that were small in size, cheap and durable.

Tu Kun looked respectful and explained further to Zixu: "In recent years, the number of Taoists on the mountain has been increasing day by day, and the master is unwilling to accept donations from the world, so he is nervous about eating and drinking, so he has to save it. ”

Zixu said "um", waved his hand and motioned for Tu Kun and Er Qiu to go away.

Li Yunhan was a little puzzled, saying that what is the use of torches in broad daylight?

"Don't you want to see the Treasure? As a teacher, this will take you to find the answer. Zixu said angrily.

Subsequently, Zixu took Li Yunhan out of the back door of the Taoist temple, passed through a pine forest, and went down the mountain road to the entrance of the Ape King Cave.

The two of them entered the cave in a small boat. After a pillar of incense, he came to a slightly flat boulder. Zixu Zhenren docked the boat on the shore, pointed to the boulder, and said that this was the place Li Yunhan was looking for - the treasure cave.

Li Yunhan was full of suspicion when he heard this. He disembarked from the boat, took a closer look with a torch, and saw that the cracks on the four sides of the boulder were covered with moss, and there was nothing unusual except for a slightly square appearance.

Zixu Zhenren measured it with his arm, and slapped it in the middle of the boulder; Everywhere in the palm wind, I saw the stone chips cracking, revealing a palm-sized dent. Zixu Zhenren cleaned up the debris at the dent, pressed the jade pendant down, and slowly rotated it while chanting a spell softly.

Later, a loud rumble was heard, and the boulder slowly moved away, revealing a dark hole.

Zixu Zhenren jumped into the cave and walked seven or eight steps against a heavy bronze door. He pushed it away vigorously, holding the torch and looking in, along the sides of the doorway, dozens of skeletons were scattered horizontally, and the white bones were very terrifying.

The two of them carefully groped their way forward with torches, stumbling over the skeletons under their feet from time to time.

Walking about seventy or eighty steps inside, there is a huge and gloomy stalactite hall. There were all kinds of weapons piled up on the ground, some rusty, some still glowing with a faint silver light. Along both sides of the stone wall, dozens of small carts, wooden boxes, and sacks of burlap are piled up like hills.

Zixu Zhenren walked closer and poked it lightly with his hand, and the sack cracked, revealing a yellow gold ingot; He picked up one casually and looked at it, which was engraved with the words "Wude Year". When the wooden box was opened, there were still some gold nuggets, silver ingots, ingots, antiques and other things.

Li Yunhan saw it as if he was in a different world, and exclaimed: "Master, I'm not dreaming......

"Of course not," Zixu looked calm and glanced at the deep cave, "This treasure is rich enough to rival the country, and now it is finally back in the hands of its master." ”

"Master, this is ......"

"From now on, you will be the owner of this treasure." Zixu let out a long breath, his face was calm, and he said eloquently, "More than a hundred years ago, Emperor Gaozu raised troops in Jinyang, overthrew the Tyrannical Sui, and unified the Central Plains. However, in order to compete for the throne, the two brothers Prince Yin and King Qin fought openly and secretly.

In order to prevent the failure of seizing the throne, Prince Yin listened to the advice of others and ordered Che Duwei to secretly hide some of the treasures in the palace and the spoils of war in the Hebei area; He thought that once he lost the throne, he could confront the king of Qin and wait for help.

Not long after the treasure house was built, the Xuanwu Gate suddenly changed. The king of Qin quickly cut off Prince Yin's party and killed all five of his sons. And their wives and daughters were punished as court members, and even their names were crossed out from the royal genealogy.

When the soldiers who guarded the treasure house heard the news, they suddenly became discouraged, and they did not hesitate to kill each other in order to rob the property, and the captain of Fengche had no choice but to close the stone gate, and since then these treasures have been like stones in the sea and have not been heard from again......"

"And then?"

"Prince Yin had been here under the pretense of patrolling before his death, but unexpectedly, a palace maid who accompanied him could not return to Beijing because of the imminent delivery, so she left her to entrust to the captain of Fengche, and gave her a fish and dragon jade pendant before leaving.

Under the careful care of the captain, the palace maid successfully gave birth to a baby boy. Suddenly, when he heard that there was a change in the court, Nadu Wei took the palace maid and the baby boy to escape to another country in order to repay the kindness of the prince......"

After hearing this, Li Yunhan pondered for a while and said: "The fighting in the palace is as poisonous as a snake and scorpion; The emperor is ruthless, as ruthless as a tiger wolf. It's a pity that everyone in the world envies the emperor's family, but who would have thought of the misery at that moment when disaster fell from the sky...... However, the lieutenant attaches great importance to love and righteousness, which is really admirable. ”

Zixu listened and nodded slightly.

"How can Master know about such a secret matter in the palace?"

"It's not a secret, the poor road is after the captain of Fengche."

"Master, you ......"

Zixu stroked his long beard lightly and said with a smile: "He is the great-ancestor of the poor road." After he sent away Prince Yin's family, when the political situation stabilized a little, he sneaked back to Nine Lotus Peak to live in seclusion.

It is said to be a seclusion, but in fact, it is to secretly guard these treasures, dreaming that one day this treasure can be returned to the hidden prince. In this way, three generations of our Pei family waited silently here for more than a hundred years, until the elder brother who guarded the mountain told me the truth before he died......"

"For the sake of a promise, it is really not easy for the Pei family to be three generations." Li Yunhan was full of emotion, stared at Zixu for a while, and asked, "Now that the secret treasure has appeared, I don't know what the master is going to do?" ”

"It's up to you." Zixu's eyebrows stretched, "If I'm not mistaken, you're the queen of Prince Yin." ”

"I ......" Li Yunhan's heart was shocked, and he eased up, and said, "The ancestors have been passed down from generation to generation, and it is only said that the clansman is the king of Xiliang - Li Hui, and after careful study, he can be regarded as a distant relative of the Li Tang royal family." However, before his death, my father repeatedly warned me not to trace the life history of my ancestors, and as for whether it is the hidden prince or not, only God may know the inside story. ”

"According to the poor road, Ling Zun is afraid of setting himself on fire." Zixu shook his head and looked indifferently outside the cave, "Back then, I took the opportunity of traveling from the north to the south, from the Central Plains to the Western Regions, and visited the famous mountains and rivers, in fact, it was to find the hidden prince. Since you and I met in Qingcheng Mountain, although the teacher had some doubts, it was difficult to confirm for a while.

Later, the teacher sent someone to secretly inquire about your family history; At the beginning of the founding of the Tang Dynasty, you Li clan people lived in various countries in the Western Regions, and you stayed for eighty or ninety years; When Empress Wu ascended the throne, the Li royal family was deeply attacked, the Shu clan raised its head again, and the civil situation was greatly eased. After that, your people returned all the way to the east, and quietly sneaked back to Shu for safety, until they took root in Lianzhou......"

"Then, why can't you find a clue on the royal family tree of the Zongren Mansion?"

"The secrets of such palaces are the taboo of the emperor, and I am afraid that they have long been erased." Zi Xu smiled, "This pendant is proof of this!" ”

"This ...... Since the master knew the identity of the disciple, why didn't he say it earlier? ”

"Although you have this admiration, but after a hundred years, the world is difficult and unpredictable, in order to verify your identity and find out your will, the poor road has secretly investigated you many times, in case this treasure falls into the hands of villains."

"Oh, I see." The mystery in Li Yunhan's heart disappeared in an instant, and he sighed, "It's a pity how many people in the world have gone astray, turned against each other for the sake of wealth and fame, and even did not hesitate to kill each other; But wealth is sinless after all, and what is guilty is only the greed and plundering methods in their hearts......"

"Now that the thing is back to its rightful owner, what are you going to do?"

"The disciple hasn't thought about this yet."

"Don't want to keep it for yourself?"

"Hmm; This is the treasure of the people of the world, how can I swallow it alone! ”

"Do you want to dedicate it to the court?"

"Nope." Li Yunhan's tone was firm, "At present, traitors are in power, and the saints are too deceived by others, once they sacrifice their treasures, they are afraid of falling into the hands of traitors." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, a harrier cooed and flew closer, and his voice was very urgent.

Zixu looked out of the cave and saw a black shadow passing by; He was stunned, turned and ran out of the cave.

Zixu looked around with a torch in his hand for a while, but found nothing unusual except for the sound of rushing water, so he let out a long breath. He had the strength to close the stone door and casually discarded a burning torch at the entrance of the cave.

After getting on the boat, Zixu stared at the cave for a while, and said, "Providence is like this, let it sleep here all the time." ”

"No, one day it will wake up and it will come in handy." Li Yunhan said. The master and apprentice drove the boat out of the Ape King Cave.

After getting off the boat, Zixu pointed to a bush of grass on the shore and said that the grass had obviously been trampled on, and the footprints were still new.

"This ...... Who could he be? Li Yunhan asked.

"No matter who he is, when he comes, there will only be a hell of a ghost gate." Zixu's expression was calm, looking at the mist of the forest in the distance, and said.