Chapter 16(24)
After leaving the palace, the two men first bought two sets of civilian clothes to change into, and Duoduo hired a carriage until he was a few miles from the city, and then hired another one, but did not let the previous coachman go, but gave him some more silver taels, and let him drive side by side with the second carriage. After that, every time you go along a section, you have to turn into a horse-drawn carriage. Chu Menglin didn't understand his intentions, since he had already made it clear to the emperor, why did he have to sneak around when he was on the way, but after repeated inquiries, Duoduo was always vague.
Within a few days, the carriage entered the territory of Liaodong. Duoduo didn't explain to Chu Menglin, he stayed in several big towns in Liaozhong, Kangping, and Changhai, and asked for a room in each inn, and told Chu Menglin to stay in the room and not go out. Chu Menglin was used to keeping her mouth shut beside him, so she didn't ask much.
On this day, Duoduo took her on the road again, ordered the coachman to drive to Liaoyang, and after pondering around for a while, he left on his own, but took Chu Menglin into another carriage. The person driving the car was a strange young man, and his appearance and figure were very ordinary, but it seemed to be too ordinary, and it was a little abnormal. Chu Menglin heard him mention in the carriage that he was going to Hetuala, which was an unknown and strange place, and finally couldn't help but ask the reason for his recent trip. The Dordor told her.
Hetuara was originally the capital of the Later Jin regime, also known as Xingjing, which means "Henggang" in Manchu. In the 31st year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, Taizu Nurhachi began to build a castle here, and two years later the outer city was added to live for relatives and elite soldiers. In the ninth year of the Mandate of Heaven, the mausoleums of more than ten people, including his grandfather, younger brother and son, were moved to Liaoyang to build the "Tokyo Mausoleum". However, Prince Zhuang Shuerhaqi secretly arranged it during his lifetime, and the relocation was only a mound of clothes. He was imprisoned by his brother and died, in the early years of the people had a confidant, named Mu Qingyan, had built a dungeon for him underground, the scale was huge, located in the old city village of Yongling Town, under the Zhaozong Ancestral Hall, so that he had to be buried with Princess Yong'an.
Princess Yong'an married to Saiwai in her early years, although she experienced hardships with Shuerhaqi, but she never performed a formal worship ceremony, and she was not recorded in history in the name of his concubine Fujin until her death.
In order to prevent foreign thieves from disturbing the nuisance, this royal tomb was built like a labyrinth, not only the road is tortuous and difficult, but there are also countless hidden crossbows. The picture drawn from the drawings is the internal map of the royal tomb, and the text is Shuerhaqi's last words, saying that he died unjustly, and hoped that the descendants and nephews would go deep into the palace hall on his sacrifice day, and after learning the truth, they would avenge him.
Duoduo thought that there were many crises in the ancient tomb, and if he didn't find an experienced person to accompany him, only by himself and Chu Menglin, it would not only be difficult to succeed, but also likely to encounter accidents. He planned carefully, and before leaving the palace, he took some jade artifacts from the palace to carry, all of which were looted in the people's homes after entering the customs, and several of them were quite old. The business of selling jade in large towns was deliberately eye-catching, and at first it attracted all laymen, and gradually insiders came.
After most of the jade was sold, a young man followed quietly behind him, and when he arrived at an alley, he appeared and asked where the jade came from. The first hypothesis of Duoduo was passed down from his ancestors and was forced to sell it for his livelihood. The young man asked a few questions, and pretended to cover it up, saying that it was all obtained by the inverted bucket.
The young man was skeptical, and after a few incisions, he was overjoyed to hear the score, and introduced that he was a foreigner, and he had also made a living in this profession since he was a child, and he had lost patience with those little-known tombs, and came to this unfamiliar place alone, just to pour a big bucket, and after many days of exploration, he stared at the Xingjing Mausoleum at the foot of Qiyun Mountain, that is, the land called "Ente and Momeng'an" in Manchu. When Dordor told him the half-truths about the tomb of the kings of the earth, the young man was very interested, and immediately offered to go with him.
Chu Menglin listened to him complicatedly, and she couldn't understand it all, but she still praised it repeatedly. Duoduo was very interested, eager to solve the matter as soon as possible, and only closed his eyes when he sat in the car, Chu Menglin didn't dare to quarrel with him, and sat quietly next to him. The road was bumpy, and after a few days, the carriage stopped. According to the young man, the road ahead was full of rocks and mud, and the road conditions were not easy to drive, so he had to walk to get there.
After Duoduo got out of the car, he helped Chu Menglin down. After walking a short distance, you will see the ruins of the city of Hetuara in front of you, full of devastation and overgrown weeds, and some of the walls of the outhouse are still left, and the rest are in ruins, and they are no longer majestic. When Chu Menglin saw this desolate and dilapidated scene, she felt that the world was impermanent, ups and downs, and her heart was sour, and she wanted to shed tears.
During the war years, many people were displaced, and although this place was dilapidated, there were always some eaves that could be sheltered from the wind and rain, barely enough to live in. Therefore, they often live in clusters, and over the years, they gradually form a small village. Usually few people come, and the villagers can't help but pay attention to a few more eyes when they see a few outsiders at first glance.
In order to hide people's eyes, Duoduo first took the two of them to visit and worship everywhere, passing through the Guandi Temple, seeing the Temple of Literature, the Qiyun Academy, and then to the Xianyou Palace and the Dizang Temple; The three of them worshiped the bronze statue, and they searched all over the ancestral hall, and the last words clearly stated that the royal tomb was built under the Zhaozong Ancestral Hall, but did not point out where the entrance was, and after looking for a long time, they still found nothing.
Just as he was about to dismantle the green bricks on the ground and search them, he heard a heavy cough when a bearded man walked in. The three of them only said that he was also a foreigner who came to worship, and hurriedly put on a respectful look at the bronze statue, hoping that he would finish worshipping and walk as soon as possible. Unexpectedly, the big man did not salute the statue, and his small eyes only kept turning on the three of them. After looking at it, he said coldly: "As soon as the three of you entered the Guandi Temple, I noticed it, just because you were too focused and didn't notice that I was following behind." What the hell are you doing? If you want to steal something, you can't do it?"
Chu Menglin was the first to lose her breath, and said angrily: "Blind your dog eyes, what is there to steal in this kind of broken place?" The man said: "It's not stealing, then it must be looking for something." Duoduo pondered for a moment, and said half-truthfully: "In the past, there was a hero buried here, and we have come to worship his legacy and admire his style. The man glared and said, "Prince Heshuozhuang's mausoleum is not here, where did you come from and where are you going!"
Chu Menglin shouted: "Aha, you are so exposed, we didn't mention Prince Heshuozhuang, we just said that he is a hero, there are so many heroes in the world, how do you know?" He said angrily: "So what? Our ancestors have been entrusted by the Grace Gong to be the guardians of the mausoleum for generations, and we will not allow tomb robbers to invade wantonly!"
Seeing that the situation was like this, the people of the village obviously knew about it, and there was no hatred for Prince Zhuang in his tone, but there was respect for him. If you want to enter the tomb, you can only fall on him, so you can't tell the truth, and salute respectfully at the moment and say: "Don't hide it, I have a lot of relationship with the tomb owner, this Prince Zhuang...... It's my uncle, please make it easier for my eldest brother, and I am grateful for it. ”
The man said, "Your uncle, are you a person who loves the Xinjueluo family?" The man still had a bad face, and snorted coldly: "What's so strange about the same clan? It's that brothers can still not be affectionate and cannibalize each other!" Duoduo was secretly frightened when he heard the words "fratricide".
Chu Menglin was furious, although the man was simple-minded, he was extremely stubborn in what he believed, if it was changed to another situation: the entrance had appeared, and the other party was just an eventful person who came to stop him, then of course he didn't say a word, and killed him with a sword. Now it is useless to kill him, and he shouted angrily: "We are entrusted by Mu Qingyan Mu's predecessors to enter the mausoleum to obtain the relics of Prince Zhuang, do you want the loyal things to be buried deep in the ground forever and not see the light of day?" Let's just call out a dead horse as a live horse doctor.
When the man heard this, his face softened a little, and he said, "Do you know that Engong's name is ......secret?" Eun Gong has been dead for many years, you are still so young, how can you be entrusted by her again? Hehe, I am not so easy to deceive. ”
Chu Menglin said: "Stupid, who said that the entrustment must be entrusted face-to-face in person? Although Senior Mu has passed away, she can leave letters, edicts and the like, or let her descendants convey them, are you right?" Fortunately, the man respected Mu Qingyan like a god, and he heard that it was related to her, so he didn't study it in detail, so he believed it, scratched his scalp, and said: "Since it is the messenger sent by Mu seniors, it should be treated as a different matter......
Chu Menglin was overjoyed and praised: "That's right! I didn't expect that you, the elm head, finally had a time to open up!" Duoduo and the tomb robber shouted in unison: "Shut up!" finally persuaded the man to loosen his words, in case he gave Chu Menglin a word and changed his mind in anger, the true sect would be wasted.
Fortunately, the man was not angry, but he didn't agree, grabbed a few more handfuls on his head, and said, "I can't do anything about this, so I have to go and ask the village chief first." Wait, don't go. When he walked to the door, he was still not at ease, so he turned around and said, "Don't go." After saying that, he ran away. Duoduo thought secretly: "Then you still need to say, it seems that the secret of the Broken Soul Tears is related to Prince Zhuang's grievances, and this matter must be investigated immediately, if you drive me away, I will never leave." ”
Chu Menglin scolded secretly: "Agree with us to go to the underground palace, you can't be the master." Hmph, I knew that you were a paper tiger and had no right to take care of business, so why should I spend half a day talking to you? Wouldn't it be easy for you to call the village chief directly?"
Or because the village was too small, and the houses were not separated by a few steps, the man had just run out, and it didn't take long for him and several villagers to come to the ancestral hall with an old man. The old man was thin and withered, the wind was blowing, his white beard and white hair, his eyebrows drooped slightly, and he seemed to have a sad face at any time. The old man walked to the middle, his eyes skimmed over Chu Menglin and the three of them one by one, his eyes were firmly fixed on each other's eyes, Chu Menglin had never been looked at like this, or it was more appropriate to scrutinize, Deng felt uncomfortable, and glared back.
The old man coughed and said, "I heard that the three of them are the descendants of Miss Mu." Chu Menglin said: "Yes, why don't you open the tomb road and let us in?"
The man shouted: "No, you just said that you are the descendant of Prince Heshuozhuang, but this time it has changed again, and your words are inconsistent, most of them are lies." ”
Chu Menglin glared at him angrily, saying that they were Mu Qingyan's descendants, and they were said by the village chief, and who could he listen to when he said so-called "heard"? Naturally, it was that man. To say that he deliberately deviated when he told him, and set a trap for them to drill, with the man's IQ, it was absolutely impossible, I thought that he couldn't remember clearly when he told him, but he remembered it again after he turned around. Snorted coldly: "You're lying! Everyone knows the ...... of Prince Zhuang and Senior Mu The relationship is very good, very good, so good that it is like a person, and in the end there is a matter of men and women. What is the difference between Prince Zhuang's descendants and Mu's predecessors? Let me give you an analogy, if you are your father's son and you are your mother's son, these two statements have become contradictory, then I don't know who went out to steal ......"