Chapter 427
As Situ Qiao spoke, Li Qiufeng kept staring into his eyes.
Since Li Qiufeng arrived in the capital, he was recommended by a senior cabinet elder of Zhishi to work as an errand in Jinyiwei, and has been working in the Nanzhen Fusi under Jinyiwei. Jinyiwei is divided into two divisions of the south and the north, of which the north is responsible for the cases ordered by the emperor himself, and there is an edict prison, which can be arrested, tortured, and executed on its own without the approval and verification of the three law divisions. The three legal divisions are the Criminal Department, the Dali Temple, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate that are in charge of punishment and supervision. In the Ming Dynasty, the power of the Metropolitan Procuratorate was very great, not only to supervise the Criminal Department and Dali Temple, but also to "adjudicate major matters and make decisions on small matters". It's just that the Beizhen Fusi is not under the jurisdiction and surveillance of the Three Law Divisions. Although everyone in the world thinks that Jinyi Wei is powerful, in fact, it is only Jinyi Weibei Zhenfu Si who makes the officials and people of the court change their complexion and fear them like snakes and scorpions.
Nanzhen Fusi is not in charge of investigation, arrest, torture, execution and other affairs, but is only responsible for the law and military discipline within the Jinyi Guard, and is also responsible for the inspection and guarding of various palaces in the palace. From the point of view of power, the South Town Fu Division seems to be far inferior to the North Town Fu Division, although it is responsible for supervising the North Town Fu Division, but the North Town Fu Division executes the cases that the emperor personally ordered to handle, and the leader of the South Town Fu Division will never dare to point fingers at the North Town Fu Division. However, Li Qiufeng entered Jinyiwei as an errand and shouldered a very secret mission, and he often went to Beizhen Fusi for an excuse to walk around, and was extremely familiar with a set of detective, arrest, and interrogation methods of Beizhen Fusi. In addition to extorting confessions by torture, the Beizhen Fusi interrogated the suspects, and the kung fu of observing words and emotions was also extremely powerful. In many cases, it is easy to tell from the look in the eyes whether a suspect is lying.
Li Qiufeng also learned these powerful interrogation tricks of Beizhen Fusi, because he kept staring into Situ Qiao's eyes, wanting to judge whether he was lying. It's just that although this person was a little flustered when he spoke, his eyes were not as uncertain as when an ordinary person was lying. Li Qiufeng once saw the captured tomb robbers on trial in Fusi, Beizhen, including Luo Sixi, a thief who stole the ancestral tomb of the Zhang family, a big family in the river. Naluo Sixi's tomb robbing skills are unparalleled in the world, and it is said that you can judge whether there is a large tomb underground just by sniffing it with your nose. This person is strong in martial arts, and he is even more cunning, and the people in the rivers and lakes call him 'slippery hands'. He was arrested and interrogated by the Sentinel Envoys of Shaanxi, Henan, and Shanxi Provinces, but because he could not get evidence of his crimes, he had to be acquitted in the end. Luo Sixi was proud, he actually ran to the capital to commit a crime, and was targeted by the spies of the Fusi of Jinyi Weibei Town, and when he sneaked to Hejian Mansion to steal and dig the ancestral grave of the Zhang family, he was captured by the master of the Fusi of Beizhen and taken to the capital for trial. Although he denied it in every possible way, he was finally caught by the Jinyi Wei Baihu who tried the case, and had to admit his guilt and surrender to the law. At that time, Li Qiufeng was ordered by the head of the Fusi Division of Nanzhen to sit in the court and watch the trial, and benefited a lot. At this time, he carefully observed Situ Qiao's words and deeds, and judged that this person was not lying and deceiving.
But I heard Situ Qiao say: "After I crashed into the stone coffin, I was afraid that those ghosts would chase after me, so I threw the torch backwards with my backhand." After I entered the stone coffin, I hurriedly turned around, leaned my back against the wooden coffin inside the stone coffin, and gasped for breath. Although the entrance to the stone coffin was built like a portal, it was much smaller than the entrance of ordinary people. If the entrance is guarded, it will be extremely difficult for the enemy outside to attack no matter how high their martial arts are. After I escaped into the stone coffin, I just turned around, and I was relieved to see that the entrance was so small, and secretly thought that as long as I held the entrance, it would not be a problem to resist for a few hours. It's just that when I think about it, these people in the tomb are ghosts, and it is easy to get into the stone coffin. Thinking of this, I fell into an ice cellar, and my body trembled.
"After the torch in my hand was thrown, it happened to fall in front of Li Xianhui, Wu Yanji and the man in fancy clothes, and I could see the situation in the tomb very clearly by the light of the torch. I saw more than a dozen gold-armored warriors pressing their long swords in their hands, and they were about to approach the stone coffin. At this moment, the sound of horses' hooves reached the door of the tomb, and a moment later, I saw a figure flickering, and several horsemen and horses rushed into the tomb.
"I was stunned, I didn't know why there were knights in the tomb of Princess Yongtai. When I saw the men and horses clearly, I was even more surprised. I saw that these horses were dressed in red and green, brightly decorated, and the knights were dressed in strange clothes, wearing high hats, and peacock feathers were inserted in the top of the hats. And these knights have big beards, high noses and deep eyes, and they don't look like Central Plains characters.
"The more I looked at these centaurs, the more strange they became, but for a moment I couldn't figure out what was wrong. was in shock, but saw that the knights jumped off their horses one after another, and bowed to Princess Yongtai and the other three. When the men were on their horses, they didn't see anything wrong. After they jumped off the horse, I immediately knew what the problem was when I compared it with Princess Yongtai and the others. It turns out that these people are much smaller than normal people, they are not short, but small ......"
The more everyone listened, the more bizarre they became, and their eyes widened one by one, staring at Situ Bridge tightly. But I heard Situ Qiao say: "Only then did I know why I felt that something was wrong after these knights entered the tomb. It turned out that before I entered the back burial chamber, I had carefully surveyed the eight ear chambers on the left and right. In the ear chamber, you can see many male and female horse warriors, Hu cavalry figurines, warrior figurines, tomb beasts and various animal figurines. And the one who rushed into the tomb was the Hu cavalry figurines. These figurines are much smaller than ordinary people, so they can ride horses and gallop through the tombs and burial chambers. I didn't think that these horse warriors were also alive, and I thought I was dreaming, so I hurriedly bit the tip of my tongue, only to feel a sharp pain in my tongue, salty in my mouth, and still clearly saw those Hu people kneeling down to worship Princess Yongtai, knowing that this was definitely not a dream. It's just that the situation in front of me is too weird, and my heart is even more panicked.
"I saw that those golden-armored warriors had drawn their long swords and slowly approached the stone coffin, and I knew that the situation was not good. In desperation, I turned to the side and crawled in along the gap between the coffin and the coffin. The coffin was built in the shape of a living room, and although it was extremely narrow, it could be drilled into. To make you laugh, I was like a lost dog or a fish that had slipped through the net, and as long as there was a crack in the net, I had to get into it, so how could I care about anything else? I went deeper and deeper, and I went around to the end of the coffin.
"I thought to myself that the princess Yongtai in the tomb must not be a living person, and if she is a ghost, I don't know if there is still her body in this coffin. It is often said that if a ghost is haunted and destroys the body, the ghost loses its body, and the soul will be scattered. Now that I am in the dead ground, it is better to fight to the death, open the wooden coffin, if there is the body of Princess Yongtai and his wife, destroy the corpse, maybe there is a glimmer of life. Thinking of this, I embed it in the gap of the wooden coffin with a steel grip, and lifted it hard, only to hear a loud 'click', and the coffin lid had been pried open by me.
At this moment, I suddenly heard a very terrible shout from outside the stone coffin. Although the voice was not very loud, it was both sad and sad, and when I heard it in my ears, my heart was torn. I knew that the situation was not good, so I bit the tip of my tongue hard, and under the severe pain, there was a moment of clarity in my brain. I shook the steel grip of my right hand so hard that the lid of the coffin was pushed aside and hit the coffin with a loud bang. I poked my head over the coffin, and by the light of the fire at the entrance, I saw two bodies lying side by side in the coffin. The two corpses were covered with brocade quilts, but the muscles on their faces were rotten clean, and only two skulls remained. The four gloomy eyes stared at me in a daze, and my legs weakened with fright, and I almost fell into the coffin.
At this time, the mournful shouting outside the stone coffin had stopped, but a faint trace of singing came in. It was a woman who sang, and her voice was full of grief. Just hear her sing: '...... The princess has the light of Yaotai, and the fragrance of the pearl tree...... Qingming and refreshing...... The sound of the jade flute, into the colorful clouds and not returning, whining and mourning...... When will we know how long to live?'
"With this singing, I just felt like I had fallen into an ice cellar, and my body slowly stiffened. I knew that if I delayed, I would have to be poisoned by these ghosts. With a twist of my heart, I suddenly plunged my right hand into the coffin, inserted it into the throat of the corpse on the left, and pulled it hard, lifting a human head from the coffin. I threw the man's head out of the coffin. Then he hooked out another human head and threw it to the other side of the coffin.
After the two heads were removed, the chamber shook violently. I crawled to the entrance of the stone coffin, but I saw the torch lying in the middle of the tomb, but there was still the shadow of Princess Yongtai and others. I was overjoyed, and hurriedly got out of the stone coffin, stepped a few steps to the center of the tomb, and grabbed the torches on the ground, only to see a few more piles of colorful sand on the ground. My heart sank, remembering that this was the place where the Hu knights were standing, and I didn't expect that these Hu knights had turned into sand.
At this time, the burial chamber trembled more rapidly, and it seemed that the entire mausoleum was about to collapse. I had wanted to take the cobblestone from the top of the tomb and take it with me, but it happened so suddenly that I was no longer allowed to stay. I pulled my legs and fled outside the tomb, glancing at the stone wall in my hurry. I saw that Princess Yongtai in the mural was looking at me with a resentful face, and I was so frightened that my legs weakened and I almost fell to the ground again.
"By the time I came to my senses, I was already standing outside the mausoleum. The moon and stars are sparse in the night sky, and the 'dumb' cries of crows can be heard from time to time. Thinking of what happened in the mausoleum, it was like a big dream, and when I looked at the tomb door, there was no trace of opening. I stood in front of the tomb gate, thinking carefully about what it was like in the mausoleum, and for a moment I didn't know if I had actually entered the mausoleum. It was midnight, and the wind was whining in the wilderness, and countless pairs of eyes seemed to be watching me in the grass. I didn't dare to stay any longer, so I hurriedly left the Yongtai Princess Mausoleum and went to a farmhouse outside Xianyang City to spend the night. I originally planned to get ready and visit the tomb of Princess Yongtai again, but I didn't expect that I couldn't even get out of bed early the next morning. I knew I was seriously ill, so I had to take out the money and ask the farmer to go to the doctor. This illness was more than half a month, and he almost lost his life in Xianyang. Until my illness improved, I didn't dare to stay any longer and hurried back to the capital. In the years that followed, when Wu Zetian's mausoleum was mentioned, he felt terrified......"
When Situ Qiao said this, Xu Chenghe said: "According to what Mr. Situ said, if we destroy Yao Guangxiao's body, will we be able to remove the organs in this hall?"
Xu Chenghe's voice fell, and everyone involuntarily looked at the huge ebony coffin. At this moment, everyone suddenly felt a flash of lightning above their heads, followed by a thunderclap, and the entire hall seemed to tremble slightly.