Qingfeng Daoist didn't speak, and suddenly said at this time: "Maybe Emperor Chengzu is afraid that a master will sneak into the Great Bao'en Temple, steal the treasures enshrined to Queen Ma, and even destroy the jade statue, so he set up another secret room in the main hall and enshrined Queen Ma in it......"

Before his words fell, Chu Danyang said: "Although Qingfeng Dao Chief's words are reasonable, but if he really has such concerns, the statue outside the secret room does not have to be so simple, and even a little ugly. What's more, listening to what Mr. Situ just said, Dabao'en Temple is a royal temple, and it communicates with the government. The Hongjing monk found that the momentum in the temple was not right, and immediately sent a monk to inform the government, and the Nanjing Criminal Department sent people to the Dabao'en Temple without saying a word, and Xiaolingwei would also rush to the Dabao'en Temple to investigate the case together. The defense is so tight, if you want to sneak into the main hall to steal the treasure, I am afraid that if you look at the rivers and lakes, few people dare to think about it......"

When Chu Danyang said this, everyone thought in their hearts: "Few people dare to think like this, isn't there just one standing in front of them?"

Situ Qiao said: "At that time, I also had the same thoughts as you, and I didn't know how many thoughts turned in my mind, but I just thought about it carefully, but none of them could make sense. I couldn't figure it out, so I was so anxious to walk around the statue. By the light of the two candles, I realized that the length of the chamber was about the same as that of the chamber from east to west, but the width from north to south was much narrower than that of the chamber. The reason for this is that the wall separating the chamber from the outside is more than a foot thick. The corridor behind the stone gate I threw myself in was actually less than a zhang long, but when I looked outside the stone gate, it was pitch black in this secret room, as if the corridor was extremely long. The left and right sides of the statue are full of rare treasures, there are more than a dozen coral trees alone, each of which is as high as a zhangxu, and there are jewels and jade hanging on it, and under the candlelight, there is a golden light everywhere, which is moving.

"I wandered around the secret room, and found that there were traps everywhere, and if someone rushed to get gold, silver, and jewelry, the traps would be activated immediately, and I didn't know what terrible murder traps would appear in this secret room. Naturally, I don't pay much attention to these mechanisms, not to mention that my head is full of questions, how can I bother to crack the mechanisms? It's just that on a pillar on the right, I find that there is a hidden grid. I was surprised and delighted in my heart, and secretly thought that there was a secret passage hidden in this pillar? I groped on the pillar for a while, and then found the location of the mechanism to open the secret grid, and gently stirred it twice, and a portal appeared on the pillar silently, and a jade Ruyi more than two feet high was placed in it, which emitted a faint glow in the candlelight.

I took the jade ruyi in my hand and looked at it carefully. The ordinary jade Ruyi is no more than a foot long, but the Ruyi in his hand is more than two feet long, and a secret compartment is specially set up in this secret room to place it, which shows its precious abnormality. By the candlelight, I saw that the bottom end of the jade Ruyi was engraved with a line of official script, carefully identified, but it was written 'Taifu Luling County Gong Xie Wenjing Gong commonly used Ruyi'.

When I saw this line, I was shocked. Throughout the dynasties and generations, there is only one person who ranks as the Taifu and is named the Duke of Luling County, and is nicknamed 'Wenjing', that is, Xie An, a famous man of the Jin Dynasty. This person was born in the Xie clan of the famous family of the Jin Dynasty, and lived in seclusion in the East Mountain of Shanyin County, Huiji County when he was a teenager, and made friends with Wang Xizhi and Xu Xun, and often traveled together to play in the mountains and rivers. Later, although he grew older, he had no intention of pursuing a career in public affairs, and only taught the grandchildren of each house to read in the family. Later, all the officials of the Xie family in the court died, and political enemies took the opportunity to make waves and wanted to uproot the Xie family. Xie An was persuaded by the clansmen to become an official in order to protect the lives of more than 1,000 people in the clan. This is where the four-character idiom 'comeback' comes from. After Xie An entered the court, he successively served as the general of the expedition to the west, Sima, Shizhong, the secretary of the ministry, and the Zhonghu army, and thwarted the conspiracy of the powerful minister Huan Wen to usurp the throne. However, Xie An's proudest thing was that in the Battle of Weishui, he defeated a million Qin troops with 80,000 soldiers and horses, turning the precarious Jin Dynasty into peace. Later, because of his high merits, he was suspicious of the emperor of the Jin Dynasty, and had to go to Guangling to avoid trouble. It is said that after he commanded the Jin army to win a great victory in the battle of Weishui, the emperor of the Jin Dynasty rewarded him with a rare jade Ruyi in the world, which is said to be able to drive ghosts and gods, but this matter is only seen in the wild history, and I can't imagine that this thing is actually true, and it also appears in the secret room of this Great Bao'en Temple.

"I was playing with the jade Ruyi when I suddenly heard the sound of 'rolling' from the stone gate. I knew that someone had discovered a secret door in the wall and was opening it. I was so frightened that I slapped out my palms in my hurry, extinguished the two candles first, and seeing that there was nowhere to hide, I lowered my head in a hurry and got into the dark grid on the pillar, stretched out my hand to activate the mechanism, and the door of the dark grid closed silently.

"This secret compartment was so narrow that I had to shrink my body, and like a roasted shrimp, I bent down and bowed my head, which was very uncomfortable. It's just that at the moment of life and death, it is really rare to have such a hiding place, what can the husband ask for?"

"I had just hid it when I noticed a little light in front of me. I was shocked, and at first I thought that there was a strange treasure hidden in this dark compartment. It was only when I looked closely that I realized that there was a very small hole in the center of the upper half of the dark grid. At this time, I think that someone has already entered the secret room with a torch or something illuminated, and the light will come in through the hole. I lowered my body slightly, put my eyes in front of the hole, and while looking out, I thought to myself: "I originally thought that this secret grid was specially used to hide this jade Ruyi, but now it seems that I am afraid that this secret grid was used as a secret room for temporary refuge in times of crisis at the beginning of the construction of the secret room, and later it was used to store jade Ruyi." ’

"The hole is in a good position, and you can see the situation outside the secret room clearly. I saw that more than a dozen people had walked into the secret room at this time. Seven or eight of them had torches in their hands, while others were empty-handed. One of them wore a black gauze hat and a green coat, and a black eagle embroidered on his chest ......"

When Situ Qiao said this, Li Qiufeng let out a "pout", seemingly surprised. Murong Danyan couldn't help but glance at Li Qiufeng and said, "Brother Li, what's wrong?"

Li Qiufeng hadn't answered yet, but he heard Situ Qiao say to him: "This brother is suspicious, do you want to know the origin of this Tsing Yi man?"

Li Qiufeng said: "The black eagle embroidered on the complement is the mark of Xiaolingwei. If my guess is correct, this person should be a master of Xiaolingwei. ”

Situ Qiao nodded and said, "What you said is right, but when these people walked into the secret room, I didn't know the identity of this Tsing Yi man." When the man entered, his hands behind his back, he was clearly not in the same group as the others. The rest of the people were wearing official uniforms, and the leader was wearing a black gauze hat and a red official robe. These people walked with steady steps, showing that they had martial arts.

After these people walked into the secret room, they were stunned when they saw the situation in front of them, except for the man in green clothes. The man in the black gauze hat trembled, 'What-this?'

The man in Tsing Yi sneered, "Lord Shi, I told you that this hall must not be entered, otherwise it will be unfavorable to you." You see how smart the monk Hongjing is, he refuses to step into the main hall. But if you don't listen to people, you will enter the main hall alive or dead. But now that you're in, it's okay to know these things. ’

"Lord Shi was still stunned, but when I noticed that when he saw the gold, silver and jewels around him, there was greed in his eyes. It's just that the man in Tsing Yi stood behind him and didn't see his expression. I saw Master Shi walk up to the dried corpse sitting cross-legged, look at it carefully for a moment, and then turn to the man in green clothes and say, "Wei Qianhu, who is this, this corpse?"

"Wei Qianhu said: 'This person is very famous. His surname is Zheng Minghe, the word Sanbao, a hundred years ago, he served as a garrison in Nanjing, and he was a real feudal official. ’

"Lord Shi was startled, turned around, looked at Wei Qianhu and said, 'Didn't Lord Zheng and Lord Zheng die in the Guli Kingdom, but his ashes were brought back by the treasure ship fleet?

Wei Qianhu sneered and said, "Emperor Chengzu left a will before he died, asking Lord Zheng to serve the Empress Dowager underground. When Lord Zheng commanded the treasure fleet on his seventh overseas voyage, he realized that he was seriously ill, and soon after his death, he ordered his confidants to hide in the cabin of the Admiral's ship under the pretense of being ill. The so-called ashes are just incense ashes that Lord Zheng has prepared a long time ago. When the fleet returned to Daming, Lord Zheng calculated the day of his death, and after a hunger strike for seven days, he quietly sneaked into this secret room in Dabao'en Temple, and sat in front of the jade statue of the Empress Dowager, which was considered to have completed the last life of Emperor Chengzu. The ashes in the underground palace of Hongjue Temple are naturally fake, as for the tomb of Zheng He in Niushou Mountain, it is just the mound of Lord Zheng's clothes, and there is a set of clothes he wore before his death in the coffin. ’

"Lord Shi stared at Wei Qianhu for a while before he said: 'What is Lord Zheng doing this for? The main hall of this Great Bao'en Temple has never been opened since it was built, but what is the reason? There is a secret room in the main hall, and there is such a ghostly statue standing outside the secret room, and the secret room is full of gold, silver and jewelry, what is going on?'

Wei Qianhu sneered: "Master Shi, I know that you are a person who can be used by Commander Qian, and you are also very close to the Governor of Dongchang and Grandpa Zhang, but have you thought about it, why were you sent to the Nanjing Criminal Department and sat on such a cold chair as the head of the Guizhou Qing Officials Division?"

Lord Shi was stunned for a moment, and then snorted and said: "The ups and downs of the sea of eunuchs, whether it is to be promoted to an official or to be exiled, thunder and rain and dew, all are Jun's grace, and this official has no complaints. ’

After listening to Lord Shi's words, Wei Qianhu seemed to have heard the most ridiculous joke in the world, and he actually laughed. Lord Shi was quite surprised at first, but when he saw that Wei Qianhu was happier the more he smiled, his surprise gradually turned to anger. After a while, Wei Qianhu suppressed his laughter and said to Shi Daren: "The Six Divisions of Nanjing have always been decorations, and sitting in this cold yamen from Beijing to Nanjing is no different from exile. You, Master Shi, were originally a big celebrity in the Beijing Criminal Department, but he was sent to Nanjing, and he didn't know why, but he was afraid that the loss was not big enough. If you plant another big heel in Nanjing, maybe you can understand. It's just a pity, it's a pity, but this opportunity is no longer there. ’

"I looked out of the small hole in the dark grid, only to see Lord Shi's face gloomy, staring at Wei Qianhu viciously. Several of the military attaches under him had already reached out and grabbed the swords at their waists, just waiting for Lord Shi to give an order, and they were going to cut Wei Qianhu into pieces. I thought to myself, 'If these people are in the midst of infighting, and they start in this secret room, I can take advantage of the chaos and escape.' Thinking of this, I stared at everyone closely, looking forward to their actions, and secretly prayed in my heart that Zhu Di's kid would have a spirit in the sky, let that Wei Qianhu show his might, and kill all Lord Shi's men, and then he and Lord Shi died together, and the brothers and Zheng He buried the Queen Mother together, and also fulfilled Zhu Di's wish to repay his mother's kindness!"

(End of chapter)