Chapter Thirty-Six: Ji Nan Castle

It was cold before the frost and snow after the cold, although there was no snow, Huan Yi still refused to let Han Yue go out together. At least three days of bed rest, as he intended. Zhang Xiao was a little bored for two days, and shouted to go to Mr. Chisel's Mansion with Huan Yi, Han Yue said, "You go, I'm fine." Huan Yi couldn't twist Zhang Xiao, and repeatedly told him when he left, Han Yue said: "Don't worry, I won't go." Zhang Xiao asked, "Brother Luochuan, where are you going?" Han Yue knew that he was afraid that he would take advantage of their absence, so he relieved his heart first.

Huan Yi copied the pen like a fly, and handed it to Zhang Xiao after writing one, asking him to check whether there was a mistake. Birds and insects are facing Zhang Xiao, it is even more difficult than the book of heaven, it looks almost the same, so he has to widen his eyes, stroke by stroke, and after a while, there will be a stack around him, and Huan Yi will help him after writing, so that Zhang Xiao can only complain. It was not until noon, and it was finally done in a hurry. Huan Yi picked up the thick piece of paper and pulled him back.

When I entered the inn room, I saw that Han Yue was really sitting on the bed honestly, taking a book and reading. Seeing that the two of them came back so early, Han Yue put down the scroll in his hand and said, "Stuffy, let the store go and buy the book." Huan Yi nodded, poured a cup of hot water and handed it to him, don't talk about wine these days, and don't let him drink tea.

Huan Yi said to Han Yue: "Tomorrow, I want to go to Ji Nan City in Jiangling County to find someone. Han Yue put down the cup and looked at him. Huan Yi continued to explain: "Yesterday I found out that several volumes mentioned that there was a craftsman surnamed Xiong from Yingdu, who repaired the tomb of the king of Chu instead. According to this, Ji Nancheng, Jiangling County, twenty miles away, was the Yingdu of Chu State. I thought that if I found the descendants of the Xiong family, they might be able to help me solve the mystery of words. ”

Zhang Xiao interjected and asked, "The tomb repairer knows how to interpret words?"

Huan Yi said: "The princely epitaphs, sacrificial inscriptions, and banners of the Chu State are all written with bird and insect seals. It is also a very noble thing to build tombs for princes and nobles, not for ordinary people, just like the prince, who was appointed by the Ministry of Industry to build tombs. If the descendants are still there, there should be something to pass on. ”

"Then will you go and look for it alone?" Zhang Xiao said, don't you take him.

"Gangneung is not far away, I can go alone... Before Huan Yi finished speaking, Han Yue said, "It's not far, let's go together." Zhang Xiao waited for Han Yue to speak, and immediately echoed.

"I'm fine, let's go to Pangeng for a few days, so that you don't have to rush back and forth. Hearing that Han Yue was thinking about himself, Huan Yi was a little moved, he naturally hoped that Han Yue would be by his side at all times, so he said: "Then, I'll prepare. ”

In the afternoon, Huan Yi was really busy, so he wrote a letter first and sent someone to Mr. Chisel's house, to the effect that he would go to Gangneung for a few days and come back to thank him. Then he asked the shopkeeper to find a spacious and comfortable four-passenger carriage, hired two coachmen, and said that he would go to Gangneung for a few days. and Zhang Xiao went to the street to buy some applications on the road.

Early the next morning, the carriage was waiting outside the inn, Huan Yi settled the store money, and told the store that he would come back in a few days, and remember to stay in the room then. The shopkeeper has long liked these three noble sons, and naturally hopes that they will return to Jingzhou to live again. The carriage was also well found, Huan Yi first drove the door curtain and looked inside, the soft seats of brocade in the carriage, and a few soft cushions. Zhang Xiao handed over the things to the coachman and put them away, and told the coachman to be careful to catch the car. The three of them got into the car, the car was very spacious, and the three of them didn't feel crowded at all.

Jingzhou is only twenty or thirty miles away from Jiangling, even if it is slow, less than two hours to Jiangling County, Jinan City is in the northeast of Jiangling, because it is in the south of Jishan, it was renamed Jinan City after the Han Dynasty.

Ji Mountain, the famous mountain of Chu in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, there are white, green, black, red, yellow five dragon pools around it, and it is rumored that many tiger eye stone mines are buried deep underground, it is called "Tianlong Earth Tiger", regarded as a treasure land of feng shui, it is rumored that "there is a tomb of the son of heaven in the south, there is a concubine tomb in the north", and it is said that there are tens of thousands of tombs of the king of Chu.

Ji Nan City, the capital of Ying, built the capital in 400 years, was "pulled out" by the Qin general Bai overnight, burned down the temple of Chu Guozong, flooded the Chu army, wiped out hundreds of thousands of Chu people, and the capital of Yingdu has since become a ruin. Bai Qi also became famous for the "Battle of Yan Ying", and was known as the four famous generals of the Warring States along with Lian Po, Wang Jian and Li Mu.

In the car, Zhang Xiao listened to Huan Yi's eloquent talk, and listened to it with relish, as if he was also on the battlefield. He couldn't help but sigh: "How good it would be for me to become a famous player like Bai Qi." ”

"Is it okay to kill countless people?" Han Yue said lightly.

"Of course that's not good, it's better to become a famous player without killing people. ”

"With this thought, it can be done. ”

Although Ji Nancheng has been slaughtered, hundreds of years have passed, and it is close to the rich Jingzhou, and there is no trace of the abandoned capital, only the Chu city wall that stands in the mist also tells the existence of the past, and the former nine-headed bird phoenix can no longer fly.

Huan Yi and the others first found a larger inn in Ji Nancheng and settled down, and then asked the coachman to inquire if there was a tomb repairer surnamed Xiong.

The surname Xiong, which first appeared in the Western Zhou Dynasty, originated from the surname Xiong, which is the surname of the Chu nobles, and is said to be the descendant of Zhurong. After Chu was destroyed by Qin, the surname Mi of the royal family decreased rapidly, and many Chu people changed their surnames to Xiong in order to commemorate their country. After the Wei and Jin dynasties, they lived in the Jingchu area. So there are also many people surnamed Xiong in Ji Nan City. After asking around, there are a lot of Xiong surnames, but none of them are tomb repairers.

Zhang Xiao muttered: "Who would say that his family has repaired the tomb of the King of Chu for generations, this has already been pulled out by the Qin army back then and beheaded, even if he survives, he will be forced to dig the tomb." So Huan Yi changed the way of inquiry, and sent a coachman to inquire if there was a shop that sold paper horses, and the shopkeeper would definitely use this to introduce the person who built the cemetery. Another coachman went to inquire where there was a tombstone, and the tombstone must be carved when the tomb is built, and there may be people who repaired the tomb back then.

It is much easier to change this way, and soon the two coachmen came back, one said that there is a street in the west of the city Guo is the longevity shop, because there have been many Chu people who have died here, so there are more burial relatives, so it is natural to do and sell more shops of longevity supplies, and gradually form a scale, many merchants in Jingzhou have come here to buy. The Wei and Jin dynasties are popular inscriptions, there are not a few people who carve monuments in various places, and here are close to Jishan, and there are many stones, so it is not difficult to find people who engrave monuments. So the three of them discussed, and in the afternoon, they went to Mingshou Street first, and then went to the stele carving workshop.