Chapter 133: The Key to the Jade Pendant

There are three rooms in the whole Tibetan temple, and the main hall houses a statue of a hero. The hero has a plain golden body, more than one zhang high, holding a bow and arrow in his left hand, holding a shovel in his right hand, his eyes are like a torch, and his momentum is high, only to see that the decayed offering table is in the middle of the "Song Gaozu Wu Emperor's spiritual seat", and the next is the tablet of the emperor of Liu and Song dynasties.

Xu Zhi led everyone to salute the statue deeply, and then he and everyone checked the ear rooms on the left and right sides of the main hall, only to see that there was a bedroom on the left, the wooden bed and furniture in it had long been rotten, covered with thick dust, the walls were also covered with cobwebs, and the ground was full of traces of insects and ants.

The transept on the right is filled with all kinds of farming tools used by the master during his lifetime, such as ploughs, shovels, harrows, hoes, shovels, and plows, as well as tools such as sieves, baskets, baskets, and spinning wheels used by women.

Zhou Yuanzhi shook a spinning wheel beside him, and after a few turns, squeaks, and fell apart. Zhou Yuanzhi hurriedly took a few steps back and sighed: "I didn't expect Liu Yu to be the Son of Heaven and not forget the hardships of farming before, which made many emperors in later generations feel ashamed!"

Xu Zhi sighed: "This is the strange circle that the previous dynasties can't get out of, most of the founding emperors are diligent and thrifty and love the people, and the throne is passed to the back, and those worry-free sons forget that their rivers and mountains are all obtained by their ancestors, all of them are absurd and unreasonable, making the people's grievances boiling, the world is in chaos, and finally the country is ruined!"

He Mengjiao also said: "What Brother Xu said is very true, not to mention that the Tang Dynasty has not escaped such a historical lesson in the past three hundred years, even the Yellow King Righteous Army is in full swing!"

Li Cunxiao saw He Mengjiao suddenly mention Huang Chao, and interjected: "Sister He, these are all in the past, let's not mention the matter of Huang Wang again!

Zhou Yuanzhi said gloomily: "Thank you for your kindness! Sister Mengjiao is right, Daddy's career is humble and recruits heroes, but he is also defeated by pride and complacency, and he believes and listens. Even if we are ashamed to mention it, how can we hide the leisurely mouth of future generations?"

Luo Suying and Gao Xiaohui listened to everyone's discussions, and only then did they know that Zhou Yuanzhi was the righteous daughter of Huangchao. Especially Gao Xiaohui, she was very discouraged when she saw that Zhou Yuanzhi had a noble status, was smart and beautiful, and she couldn't help Brother Xu except for fishing.

Gao Xiaohui couldn't bear to see Xu and Zhou talking and laughing, inseparable, walked to the foot of the wall alone, took down a bamboo plaque hanging on the wall, and shouted in surprise: "Everyone come and see, there is a calligraphy and painting on the wall here!", Xu Zhi and everyone listened, and when they came closer, they saw that the calligraphy and painting were full of dust, and they could hardly see the content inside. Zhou Yuanzhi carefully took off the calligraphy and painting, and wiped it with an embroidered handkerchief, only to see clearly that the painting on it was a young hero carrying bundles of reeds, holding a bow and arrow to shoot a big green snake, next to a few lines of small words: "I was originally a villager in South Xuzhou, my father died early, the family was poor and could not be served, only to go to the mountains to hunt, riverside woodcuts, to make a living, and then shoot the green snake and rise, Zhu Huan Xuan, Fu Liangjing, Shun Tian should be people, ascend the throne, life is so, enough!" I hope that my descendants will remember the difficulties of my business, so I built a Tibetan Zhai on the top of Shouqiu Mountain, and put the farm tools I used in my micro time into it. ”

He Mengjiao sighed: "It turns out that this Tibetan Zhai was built by Liu Yu to warn his descendants, and it can be said that he has good intentions!

Xu Zhi replied: "It's a pity that the descendants of the Liu family didn't listen to these earnest teachings, Liu Song died in only three generations, and now only this dilapidated Tibetan Zhai is left to make people sigh and sigh!"

Seeing that Xu Zhi and others were sighing about Liu Yu's story, Luo Suying forgot the purpose of coming to Shouqiu Mountain this time, and reminded: "Why do you mention it in these past events, let's quickly find the clues of "Tui Bei Tu"!"

After listening to Luo Suying's words, everyone woke up like a dream, and then turned to the main hall of Tibetan Zhai, carefully inspected every corner of Tibetan Zhai, and found nothing unexpected.

Just when everyone was disappointed, Li Cunxiao suddenly shouted: "Look, everyone, don't you think the dragons on these pillars are a little strange? They all tilt their heads in one direction, and that is the direction of the statues!"

Gao Xiaohui said with a smile: "Cunxiao, what's so strange about this, Liu Yugui is the Son of Heaven, of course he hopes that all things in the world will bow down to him!"

Zhou Yuanzhi said: "Sister Xiaohui, maybe what Cunxiao said is reasonable, this statue is a little strange! Brother Xu, let's check this statue again!"

Xu Zhi replied: "Okay, let's bow to the statue first, and let it forgive us for our blasphemy!", after speaking, he took the lead in bowing to Liu Yu's statue, and then jumped on the Buddha statue, from top to bottom, carefully knocked and inspected each part of the Buddha statue, and said with a smile: "Yuan Zhi, this Buddha statue is really strange, you can hear from the sound of knocking on the outside, it is empty inside! I just don't know where the mechanism is? How do we get in?"

Gao Xiaohui suddenly said to herself: "Why do I think this statue is a little weird, but I can't say for a while, what is weird about it!"

Xu Zhi looked at the statue carefully again, and analyzed: "The whole statue is upright and imposing, and there is nothing strange about it. If you want to say strange, I'm afraid that only the agricultural furniture in his hand is a little weird, and the normal shovel should be carried on his shoulder, but the shovel in the statue is pointing forward, which is very unnatural and unreasonable. ”

Luo Suying and Zhou Yuanzhi shouted almost at the same time: "Big brother's analysis is reasonable, maybe the switch is on this farm tool!"

Xu Zhifei jumped on the statue and tried to turn the shovel in the statue's hand, sure enough, the shovel could be turned, and when he turned the shovel to the statue's shoulder, he only heard a clang, and a secret door opened behind the statue.

At this time, there was the sound of horses' hooves and shouts outside the Tibetan Zhai, and then a general shouted: "Listen to the rebels inside, you have been surrounded by our regiments, if you want to live, come out and surrender quickly! Otherwise, we will rush in and put you on the spot to correct the Fa!"

Xu Zhi was shocked, and thought to himself: Who accidentally leaked his whereabouts and let the people from the government follow him? He didn't dare to think about it, so he jumped down from the tall statue, led everyone into the secret passage behind the statue, and closed the secret passage behind the statue. Everyone went down the dark passage and came to a stone chamber underground, and the stone door was made of a piece of marble weighing more than a thousand pounds.

Xu Zhi saw that the stone door had a hinge connected to the oil lamp tray at the door, gently turned the mechanism at the door, and the stone door slowly creaked open, Xu Zhi waited for a while, and made sure that there was no trap in the stone room, so he led everyone into the stone room, and lit the lamp and candle on the wall, only to see that the wall in the middle of the stone room hung a portrait of a general wearing armor, the portrait has been torn apart by most of the people, and it is full of bloodstains, and a tablet is set up on the offering table next to the wall, which reads "The spiritual seat of the right general Xu Gonghui under the command of the British Duke of the Tang Dynasty". On the floor of the stone chamber lay many bones of Bai Sensen, and there were swords scattered everywhere.

When Xu Zhi, Zhou Yuanzhi, and He Mengjiao saw the spiritual seat, they suddenly remembered: Xu Hui had died in the ancient tomb of Songzhou, and who had erected the mourning hall here? Was it his descendant? Or was it his colleagues? Could it have been discovered by the officials and soldiers, and there had been a fierce fight? Is the "Tui Bei Tu" still in the stone room? Could it have been taken away by the officials and soldiers?

Everyone looked at Xu Zhi with full questions, and Xu Zhi also looked at the hut with a blank face, and shook his head at everyone. The crowd searched carefully, but could not find any new clues. Xu Zhi saw that everyone was tired, so he asked everyone to rest against the wall. Li Cunxiao suddenly shouted excitedly: "Brother Xu, come and listen, the wall here seems to be empty!", and after speaking, he struck the wall on the left side of the stone room with his fist.

Xu Zhi was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly picked up the axe and big knife on the ground with Li Cunxiao, and slashed at the wall, sure enough, the wall was made of clods of soil, and it was very thin, and soon a big hole was opened by the two.

Zhou Yuanzhi and He Mengjiao held lanterns, led everyone, and got into the hole, and saw that there was a similar stone room next door, but it should be the inner room where the master rested, with only a wooden bed and a table, and the four treasures of the study room were neatly placed on the table.

Xu Zhi led everyone to approach, and saw that there were two notes on the table, Xu Zhi took one of the notes in his hand, looked at the candlelight, and read aloud: "Brother Xu rest assured, my brother has transferred the savings of the imperial court treasure and the righteous army for many years to a safe place, and told my brother a good news, if he has a child, he will become a brother of the opposite sex with Ling Lang, if he has a daughter, he will become a husband and wife, and the Xu and Luo families will be relatives for generations, neighbors for generations, and they will be united forever." Now that the Wu clan is in politics, the jackal is in charge, the younger brother has to open the secret clues, make a poem, a pair of dragon and phoenix jade pendants, our two families each hold a piece, I hope that future generations can understand the mystery, treasure hunting so far, you and my wishes will be announced to the world! The younger brother has been besieged underground by the official army, and he will accompany the elder brother in the near future!

Xu Zhi finished reading the letter and said to Luo Suying, "It turns out that our Xu and Luo families are the descendants of the British Gong and Luo's predecessors, and our ancestral jade pendant is the witness, but unfortunately this jade pendant hides too many secrets!"

Luo Suying still didn't want to accept this fact, and said: "Brother Xu, this can't be true, there is still a difference between my surname Luo and Luo's predecessor's surname Luo!"

Zhou Yuanzhi analyzed: "Sister Luo, there is nothing strange about this! Luo and Luo have different shapes, this is probably because Luo's seniors were afraid that their juniors would be charged with a rebellious crime and would be wanted by the government, so they deliberately changed their surnames and buried their names!"

Luo Suying listened to Zhou Yuanzhi's words and felt that there was some truth, so she didn't speak.

Zhou Yuanzhi said again: "Brother Xu, read another note, maybe there is something we are looking for on it!"

Xu Zhi picked up another letter on the table, and saw that there were only a few lines on it: "I, Xu and Luo's descendants, can immediately open the stone slab under the bed, and use the dragon and phoenix jade pendant to open the cast iron box in it, and the secrets of the ancestors are in it!"

Xu Zhi saw it, leaned down, got into the bottom of the bed, and saw that there was indeed a moving stone slab at the bottom of the bed, Xu Zhi lifted the stone slab and took out a cast iron box from below.

Everyone saw that there were only two small open holes on the iron box, and the surrounding area was very tightly sealed, and there was not even a gap in the blade. If you want to open this iron box, you can't open it by chopping, splitting, baking, soaking or other methods except for inserting a small hole with a specific key. Xu Zhi and Luo Suying respectively took out the dragon and phoenix jade pendant, inserted the tip of the jade pendant into the small hole, and turned it clockwise, only to hear a squeaky sound, and suddenly the iron box was bounced open by the mechanism inside, revealing a layer of paper wrapped in yellow paper

Xu Zhi, Zhou Yuanzhi and others excitedly took out the pieces of paper in the iron box, except for the first one, there was not a word on the rest of the paper.

Xu Zhi and Luo Suying saw that the first piece of paper with words was written: "After I, Xu and Luo, open the iron box, I must not peek at the contents of the paper, otherwise it will bring you endless danger." There is a bottle of blue ink in the middle of the iron box, which can be smeared on these papers and destroy these things that have misled the country and the people! Your ancestors have been mistaken all their lives for the sake of false fame, and you must not make mistakes again, and you must not hesitate, otherwise you will be the unfilial descendants of the Xu and Luo families!"

Zhou Yuanzhi carefully looked through all the blank papers, and saw that there was no handwriting on them, He Mengjiao was puzzled on the side: "Sister Zhou, since the ancestors of the Xu and Luo families don't want their descendants to see the content on the paper, this means that there are words on this paper originally, and it will definitely not be the blank paper in our hands, could it be that these papers with words have been stolen?"

Gao Xiaohui carefully looked around the iron box and said: "Sister He, this iron box should not have been opened by others, you see that the surrounding area of this iron box has not been cut, has not been split, let alone pried, and besides, except for the dragon and phoenix jade pendants in the hands of Brother Xu and Sister Luo, who can open this iron box? So I think the paper in this box should still be the original, and it must not have been stolen!"

Li Cunxiao saw that what He Mengjiao and Gao Xiaohui said was reasonable, so he had to smile and say: "What the two sisters said is reasonable, could it be that there are ghosts in this box, so that these words on the paper will be gone when we meet us?"

Zhou Yuanzhi thought for a while and said: "There is another possibility, that is, the official army suddenly attacked, and Senior Luo was panicked for a while, and mistakenly put the blank paper into the iron box as a letterhead?"

Luo Suying listened to Zhou Yuanzhi's words and praised: "Miss Zhou is still smart, if you can think of this layer, you might as well find other places in this room, is there such a letterhead!"

Xu Zhi and the others searched carefully in the stone room again, even under the bed, under the table and chairs, and even digging three feet into the ground several times, but they did not find any extra paper with handwriting.

Xu Zhi sighed: "Senior Luo shouldn't be so careless, what is written on this lost paper?

Zhou Yuanzhi also said: "Judging from these two letters, Senior Luo's words seem to contradict themselves, but these two handwriting are indeed from one person, and there should be no fake!"

Xu Zhi picked up the letter and read it repeatedly, but he didn't find anything suspicious, but every time he read it: "...... You must not be mistaken again, you must not hesitate, otherwise you will be the unfilial descendants of the Xu and Luo families!" Here, I always feel that my ancestors are watching me from the sky, urging me to do something that is extremely difficult to decide, but he can't be sure for a long time.

Xu Zhi suddenly picked up the blue potion in the iron box, held it in the palm of his hand and looked at it repeatedly, but he couldn't see any mystery, he opened the cap of the bottle, and was about to pour it on the paper.

Seeing this, Luo Suying hurriedly stopped: "Brother Xu, don't." We have gone through a lot of hardships to find Shouqiu Mountain, and only then have we obtained these secrets, how can we let them disappear forever after being polluted?"

Everyone was secretly relieved to see that Luo Suying stopped Xu Zhi's reckless behavior in time, but Xu Zhi said: "Sister Suying, since our ancestors don't want us to be caught in the battle of "Tui Bei Tu", according to what the eldest brother sees, we might as well completely destroy it, and we can also cut off the endless greed of the world!"

Luo Suying retorted: "Brother Xu, how can the painstaking efforts of our ancestors to collect and protect books be in vain? Since the eldest brother destroyed the great secret in accordance with the last wishes of the ancestors, then the ancestors asked us to reveal the secret and show their heroic righteousness to the world, then why didn't the eldest brother obey it?"

Everyone thought that Luo Suying was a gentle and virtuous woman, and she would not go against Xu Zhi's wishes, but she had a strong personality, but she had her own opinions, and in order to keep the secret of her ancestors, she would rather have a dispute with Xu Zhi. When everyone saw that Luo Suying had changed her original gentleness, they couldn't help but look at her with admiration.

Xu Zhi ignored Luo Suying, but asked He Mengjiao directly: "Miss He, you are proficient in pharmacology, have you heard that there is a potion that can restore the lost handwriting?"

He Mengjiao replied: "Brother Xu, this kind of potion should be very rare, but the little sister also heard the ancestors mention that there is a potion that can make the white paper show blue-purple handwriting, but the little sister has never seen it with her own eyes!"

At this time, everyone understood Xu Zhi's intention to pour the blue potion on the blank paper, and they all nodded at him silently, even Luo Suying stopped speaking.