Early the next morning, under the leadership of Zhang Bao, everyone entered the ancient city again, because of the first experience, when they entered again, they seemed to be familiar with it, and did not waste too much time on the waterway.

In order to get more information, Huang Li brought a digital camera as a photographer and was responsible for taking pictures.

When he came to the entrance, Zhang Bao pointed out the two words Song Cheng on the lintel to Huang Li, and at the same time asked Huang Li to take a picture. After Huang Li saw it, she didn't express her opinion, so everyone rushed in and entered the stone room.

Coming to the stone room, He Caishan first read out the virtual holy decree at the exit in front of the platform: "Fengtian carrier, the emperor's edict said: Today's Tartar is rampant, the country is troubled, and Zhang Zhenren, the master of the Han Dynasty, led the crowd into Song City to inspect, and specially ordered all birds and beasts in Song City to stand by in place, and those who do not obey will not be killed." Chin this. On the ninth day of the first month of March in the first year of Xiangxing. ”

After He Caishan finished announcing the decree, Zhang Bao took the ancient Ruyi sword, took the lead on the platform, and watched the changes, and after making sure that there were no more birds of prey, he beckoned everyone to come out and walked to the bottom of the tower.

In the ancient city, the sun is still shining, the sky is clear, everyone climbs down the steps from the top of the tower, counts it carefully, but it is the number of thirty-nine, a total of 270 steps. Due to the age, the steps are covered with moss, and stepping on them is as if you are stepping on a carpet, which is very comfortable.

The sun is shining in the ancient city, the sky is clear, and the silence is silent, which seems extraordinarily weird. Everyone carefully climbed down the stairs from the top of the tower, stepping on a thick layer of dry moss under their feet, like walking on a green carpet.

On both sides of the avenue, there are some square houses of the same size, spacing and height of the same stone, about two meters high, there is a small stone door in the direction of the avenue, and if you look closely, you will find that it is actually a stone tablet, which is engraved with eight big characters: brave and loyal, sacrifice for the country.

"From these eight words, it seems that this is a tomb," Huang Li said, "but we don't have more information, so we can't determine who are buried in these graves?" ”

"Isn't this stele engraved with the eight characters of 'Brave and loyal, sacrifice for the country'?" He Caishan took Huang Li's words and said, "This can show that the grave is buried with soldiers who sacrificed their lives for the country." ”

"I mean: I don't know which dynasty it is." Huang Li replied.

"Look at the slip on the stele, don't you know?" Zhang Bao said, leaning over to carefully inspect the stone tablets, but did not see any words such as inscriptions.

"Strange, it stands to reason that if the tomb is erected, it is impossible not to pay for it!" Zhang Bao raised his head, looking confused.

Looking on both sides of the avenue, the tombs of the same size and height are arranged very neatly and criss-crossed, and there is no eye on the edge.

"If these graves are all buried soldiers who sacrificed their lives for the country, how many people must there be?" Zhao Mingding sighed.

"If it is determined that the last emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty is buried in this ancient city, then this ancient city should be an imperial mausoleum, not an ancient city." Huang Li continued, "According to records, the last battle between the Song army and the Yuan army was the Battle of the Mountains, after the defeat, the last emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty was carried by the minister Lu Xiufu to commit suicide by jumping into the sea, and many harems and ministers also committed suicide by jumping into the sea, and more than 100,000 Song soldiers and civilians were martyred in the sea. Therefore, if this ancient city is determined to be the imperial tomb of the last emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty, then the people buried in the tomb are naturally the soldiers and civilians who sacrificed their lives for the country in the Battle of the Mountains and Mountains. ”

"If that's the case, then that's why there are no signatures on these steles." He Cai said, "In the Battle of the Mountains, the emperor committed suicide by jumping into the sea, and the soldiers and civilians were martyred, announcing the end of the Southern Song Dynasty." The Song Dynasty does not exist, and the mourners do not want to use the era name of the Yuan Dynasty, so there is no payment. It's just that I don't know who buried these soldiers here? Looking at the number of these graves, it is also a huge project, which requires a lot of manpower and money. After the war, who wants to bury these soldiers of the Southern Song Dynasty? There is only one answer: those who are still alive in the Southern Song Dynasty. ”

"I think it's better to move forward and see if I can get an answer in front." Huang Li said, walking along the wide avenue and taking the lead forward.

From the compass they carried, it was clear that the direction they had come from was due south, so they walked along the wide avenue to due north. This Song City (let's call it that) has an area of five square kilometers, and there are two main roads in the north and south that meet in the center of the city. If you want to get to the end of the avenue, it will take a lot of time, and from a distance, at the end of the avenue, there seems to be a majestic palace.

"If my guess is correct, that palace is the tomb of Zhao Yu, the last emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty." Huang Li said, speeding up her pace. When everyone heard this, they were excited and accelerated their pace.

As soon as everyone walked to the center of the intersection of Songcheng North-South Avenue, they heard a "hissing" sound in their ears, and before they understood what was happening, they saw a lot of snakes popping up densely around them, slowly surging towards everyone. This north-south avenue divided Song Cheng into four parts, and the snakes that surged towards the crowd also divided into four phalanxes, holding their heads high and spitting letters, surrounding the four people in the center of the crossroads.

Seeing so many snakes coming, everyone was startled, Huang Li was even more frightened and screamed, only Zhao Mingding was calmer and told everyone not to act rashly.

"He Caishan, didn't you make a holy decree? Why are there still so many snakes coming out? Zhang Bao asked.

"How do I know?" He Caishan replied, suddenly patting his head, "Damn, my holy decree only mentions birds and beasts, and snakes do not belong to birds and beasts, so that holy decree does not work." Or do I have another decree now? ”

"No, if you don't bring the jade seal, the holy decree will not work." Zhao Mingding said.

"So what to do?" Huang Li looked at the snakes that were getting closer and closer, and was anxious, "Hurry up and find a way!" ”

Zhao Mingding looked at it, and those snakes were all highly venomous king cobras, most of them were the thickness of children's arms, with their heads held high, and they were "hissing" and spitting letters. This king cobra is not only highly venomous, but also very cruel, eating other snakes for a living, when there is a lack of food, will eat the same kind, so it is difficult to find traces of other snakes in the range of the king cobra. If you are bitten by a king cobra and do not receive treatment within half an hour, you will die.

Seeing that those ferocious king cobras with a strong fishy smell were getting closer and closer, Zhao Mingding had no choice but to disperse them, so he pinched a sword trick, recited the incantation, pointed at the surrounding snakes, and shouted "Bah!" If you don't leave now, when will you stay! ”

At this moment, a miracle happened, and the king cobras with their heads held high slowly leaned down, turned their heads and stepped back, and in an instant, disappeared without a trace, as if they had never appeared.

"Jiuding, you are really, you can drive snakes, you can't do it early, and everyone has been worried for a long time for no reason." Zhang Bao complained.

"I'm also fighting for the last time, not at the last minute." Zhao Mingding smiled bitterly, "I have just learned my Taoism, and I haven't driven snakes, who knows if it's useless?" God is pitiful, this technique was not learned in vain, and it still saved his life at the critical moment. ”

Although the snake array was withdrawn, the fishy smell still existed, and everyone had palpitations, and the steps forward were very cautious. Once surrounded by snakes, ten years afraid to leave?

At last they came to the end of the avenue and came to a palace. The palace sits north and faces south, standing on a high platform, echoing the pyramid that comes in, but it is slightly taller than the pyramid.

The four of them climbed the stairs, and when they counted them carefully, the steps were also thirty-nine, a total of two hundred and seventy steps. The palace has only one floor, made of stones, and sits on a high platform, solemn and imposing. The lintel is engraved from right to left with three big characters of "Qianlong Palace", and the two sides of the door are engraved with eight slightly smaller big characters, and the right side: auspicious; Left: Xinglong Song Zuo. In the center of the platform in front of the palace, facing the center of the palace gate, there is a large stone incense burner, in which three sticks of incense about 20 centimeters long and slender with a thumb are inserted, which are green. Zhao Mingding was curious for a while, and took a look at the three sticks of incense, the tentacles were warm, but they were incense carved from three jadeite. This jadeite seems to be of the highest grade, with a crystal green body and no impurities. The most peculiar thing is that the top of this incense is a little red, and from a distance, it seems that this incense has been burning and has not been extinguished.

Zhao Mingding casually handed the three jade incense sticks to Huang Li, leaned over to look into the incense burner, and saw three piles in the incense burner, a total of three piles of nine gold ingots, although covered with a layer of ash, but did not lose their true color, still shining in the sun.

"Haha, gold ingots!" He Caishan smiled, "Get rich!" So saying, he put all the treasures in his backpack, and after carefully examining them, he made sure that there were no more treasures, and then continued to walk towards the palace.

This palace has no door, the threshold is carved from stone, and a dragon head is carved on the left and right, which contains this threshold, which means "dragon gate". On the stone slabs inside and outside the threshold, two characters are carved on each. Outside the threshold, the inscription inward: Out of the general. Inside the threshold, facing outward, inscribed: Into the Phase. It is taken from the meaning of "going out and entering the prime minister": going out to the army can be a general, and entering the dynasty can be a prime minister.

"After this threshold, everyone jumped into the dragon gate, and they can enter and exit." Zhao Mingding looked at the words on the ground and said with a smile, "It seems that everyone will be either rich or expensive in the future, and Hong Fu Qitian!" ”

"I hope so!" Everyone laughed.

This palace is actually not big, but it is a miniature version of the Jinluan Palace, nine zhang square, and the ground is paved with square bluestone slabs. The hall is empty, and in the middle of the hall is a stone screen, under which there is a stone dragon chair, and in front of the dragon chair is a stone table. Three meters in front of the stone case, there is a rectangular transparent glass case.

"If my guess is correct, this last emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhao Yu, is lying in that crystal coffin." When everyone walked towards the hall, Huang Li said softly, "It seems that all the truth is about to be revealed!" ”

"What did you say?" Hearing Huang Li say this, most of them were startled, "The last emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty was lying in a crystal coffin? ”

"If you're right, yes." Huang Li affirmed, speeding up her pace. Everyone was stunned for a moment and immediately chased after them.

Huang Li guessed correctly, the rectangular transparent glass cabinet was indeed a crystal coffin, about one and a half meters long and half a meter wide. In the coffin lay a little boy of about eight years old, wearing dragon boots, wearing a dragon robe, wearing a dragon crown, thick eyebrows and big eyes, dignified appearance, ruddy face, as if he was sleeping, his lips were slightly open, and a bead was in his mouth, glowing with a green shimmer.

"Strange, if this little boy is really the last emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty, it has been more than seven hundred and thirty years ago, how can the body still be intact and lifelike?" Zhang Bao asked.

"All the secret lies in the bead in his mouth." Huang Li said, "That's a dragon ball, the dead contain it, the soul is not scattered, and the body is not rotten." ”

"And what if the living contain it?" He Caishan couldn't help but ask.