1067, Northern Song Dynasty, Bianliang, underground palace

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Lan Yuanzhen said softly, leading the way in front.

After being in distress that day, Lan Yuanzhen really didn't leave Chris, took care of him carefully, and did everything himself. The corpses in the underground palace were disposed of, and except for Liang Weijian and Xing Yun, no one in the Baoci Palace knew what was going on. The apse of Baoci Palace is still locked to the palace door, and in order to recuperate with peace of mind, the Queen Mother ordered that no one should enter at will. As for the palace maid Zhu'er, instead of curing her sin, Chris kept her by his side. I heard that this kind of girl who climbs on the bed will be killed with a rod if she angers her master, and Chris putting her next to her is also a kind of maintenance, hoping that Lan Yuanzhen and others can understand that they really don't want to execute such an innocent woman.

This night, Lan Yuanzhen took Chris down to the underground palace again.

Coming from the wooden spiral staircase, Lan Yuanzhen touched the wall next to him, and suddenly a series of flickering firelights lit up, illuminating the entire underground palace. Chris watched Lan Yuanzhen turn on the mechanism, but he didn't speak, just silently followed behind.

When she reached the front of the two stone chambers side by side, she glanced at the door of the stone chamber where Pearl had been closed, and the strange appearance of the corpse appeared in front of her again.

Lan Yuanzhen walked to another locked stone room, stopped, and took out a key.

There was a "card" sound, the stone door opened, and suddenly a deep cold air floated out of her face, although Lan Yuanzhen let her put on a fluffy cloak before coming down, Chris was still shivering from the cold.

No wonder it's so cold, it turns out that this is an ice cellar with large rectangular ice cubes stacked all over the floor.

Lan Yuanzhen gently supported her, his big thick hands were warm and powerful, and the two entered the stone room side by side.

Lan Yuanzhen said as he walked: "The master was sick at that time, so his subordinates took matters into their own hands and moved the "Five Buddha Hall (1)" in Kunning Palace first. It's just that the two stone chambers of Baoci Palace are too simple, and it is not safe enough to place the Five Buddha Halls. However, there is a rule in the palace that no idle people are allowed to enter the ice well room, so putting some ice cubes here can be regarded as an extra guarantee. ”

Chris listened silently, her mind still lingering on the thrilling scene of that day. Now, she didn't know that an even more amazing drama was about to take place.

"I have already told the official family that he agreed to build the Empress Dowager's Qingshou Palace and the Empress Dowager's Baoci Palace in the coming year. When the time comes, I will take the opportunity to expand the underground palace and connect it with the original secret passage. ”

Hearing the word "secret passage", Chris's heart jumped, and there really was a secret passage.

Through the layers of ice, around the innermost part, another stone gate appeared.

After the two entered, Lan Yuanzhen pulled the mechanism inside the door, and the stone door slowly closed, and the cold air was immediately isolated outside.

This is a small secret room, there are dots of bright spots in it, as Lan Yuanzhen lit the candles in the room with a fire fold, Chris saw the little light source just now, it turned out to be dozens of night pearls of all sizes inlaid on the roof, emitting light under the light of the candle flame. On the left wall, two small charcoal braziers are placed to keep the room at a comfortable temperature. Obviously, there is another air outlet in the house, so there is no feeling of sullenness at all. On the right side of the wall is a huge bookshelf filled with books, account books, various ornaments and utensils, and at the bottom there are several delicate lacquered carved wooden boxes.

In the middle of the stone house, leaning against the wall, is a large granite platform with five neatly arranged Buddha statues. The Buddha statues have the soft faces of women, and the serene and natural, thoughtful, and indescribable smiles on the Buddha's face are like Mona Lisa, and the posture is beautiful and breezy, and the clothes are fluttering. The texture of the five Buddha statues is different, look at the color, obviously gold, silver, copper, iron, jade, lined up, each Buddha statue is placed in front of the base with a beautiful pattern of the brand, there is a mahogany offering table in front of the stone platform, on which some books, books, and picture scrolls are placed.

Chris picked up the signs separately and looked at them carefully, each according to its own texture, with "Golden Buddha Order, Silver Buddha Order...... written on them" She thought to herself, what is this "Five Buddha Hall"?

Chris's thoughts were quickly interrupted by Lan Yuanzhen's voice, "Master, Yuanzhen has something to tell him, and he needs his master to get an idea." ”

"Good. Chris's facial expression has not changed in the slightest, she has trained herself to not show her emotions easily in business or in a hurry.

A few seconds later, she saw Lan Yuanzhen present a red, cardboard-like thing, and turned the inside page, with four small words in small letters in the upper right corner: "Northwest Military News".

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Early in the morning, Chris got up early in the morning.

She walked to the window with only a coat on, pulled one of the windows open, and a ray of sunlight shone on her, and Chris greeted the morning light and closed her eyes. A few days ago, she thought that all this was just a dream of Nanke, and she would be able to return to the modern era when she woke up. It's a pity that when she opens her eyes again, it is still the palace, and she recognizes this fact. If you come, you will be safe, at least your status is noble, and you don't have to worry about food and clothing.

A few days ago, she was brought into the underground palace by Lan Yuanzhen and saw the "Five Buddha Hall", and she was very shocked. Although I don't know what the five Buddha statues represent, it is enough to deduce that this is a secret organization that Empress Dowager Gao has painstakingly operated for many years. Lan Yuanzhen asked for instructions to herself, where did Chris answer, and brought it vaguely at that time, she didn't know anything about the current situation of the Great Song Dynasty, and she couldn't talk about such a military event as the border battlefield, not to mention that she was not interested at all, she just wanted to find a way back to the 21st century.

She gradually sorted out some clues, and kryptonite was the key to her return to the modern age. Chris remembered that the drone carried the I16 to search the Arctic Circle, and the source of interference appeared not only in Alaska, but also in the Siberian region of the Russians, where kryptonite was also found. Perhaps, only by seeing Kryptonite with her own eyes again can she find a way back.

Thinking about this, Chris is full of energy. She thought of the dungeon as if it were the secret base she had built in her father's garage when she was a child, and she almost put up a banner saying "Return to 2025 Combat Command".

During this time, she often went down to the underground palace alone, closed the stone door, and began to recover her body. This body has been lying in bed for a few months, although the Queen Mother's nurse Liu Mama massage is a good hand, turning over and massaging every day, but Chris always feels that he is in this body, often feeling inexplicably tired and heavy. In order to get rid of the fatigue, she followed the warm-up activities that her uncle used when he first taught her martial arts, and at that time she was very similar to the current body, and she tried to do it as usual.

Even if the Queen Mother didn't stay motionless for so long, that noble delicate body didn't have much opportunity to use all kinds of muscles, and Chris reorganized them all at once. After intense, effective activity, sweat dripping and muscles screaming silently, she endured the initial pain, and then began to stretch again, allowing her body to fully extend to its limit. She was so tired that she felt like she wanted a wrung out towel, but she felt relaxed, as if every cell in her body had memorized a crucial detail about who was now in charge of the body.

After a few days, my strength slowly recovered, and I felt a lot more energetic.

The rest of the time, she settled down and began to flip through all kinds of materials about the Great Song Dynasty on the bookshelves of the underground palace. But when she found the map of the Great Song Kingdom, she was dumbfounded, where is this Beijing? Isn't Russia above China?

After reading a few history books, Chris finally figured out the history of the last one or two hundred years. The Beijing she was familiar with, called Yanjing, and the sixteen states of Yanyun, including Yanzhou, were occupied by a powerful state called "Liao", and the Song people have always been angry about it, and the previous emperors have tried many times to recover the lost territory, but all of them have failed.

The Liao State contended with the Song and had always controlled a large area of land in the north, and the Song people were very unfamiliar there, and they did not even draw it on the map. Chris, who is familiar with Western history, knows that there are both Mongol ancestors and ancient Rus' people in that land, and modern Russia has not yet appeared, which makes Chris breathe a sigh of relief. But if you think about it carefully, you will be worried, not to mention that Song Liao has always been hostile, and it is difficult to pass through Liao, not to mention the place you want to go, in the northeast of Siberia, even in modern times, to get there, and then excavate and mine is a huge project, which requires a lot of manpower and material resources, not to mention in this era.

First of all, money is needed, a lot of money.

Lancer did not have such a large amount of money for the event, but he was able to convince Hatti Selim Mohammed to make the excavation plan go smoothly.

Thinking of the lack of money, Chris was angry and didn't fight anywhere. This noble queen mother of the Great Song Dynasty is really too "picky". Special attention is paid to diligence and frugality, the room is very simple in furnishing, and there are few pieces of furniture. So much so that on the first day of crossing, she couldn't believe that she was the queen mother of a country. There are strict rules on how much money you spend each month, including the amount of money you can tip. Chris was afraid of goofs, so he didn't ask Liang Weijian to change the spending rate, and as a result, she didn't have much cash in her hand at all.

Secondly, excavation projects require large tools and a large number of labor.

Chris was not discouraged by this, read a lot of information about the underground palace, and unexpectedly found that the Song Dynasty was not as backward as she imagined, with developed commerce, as well as handicrafts and manufacturing industries that are ahead of the world level, and no aspect of people's livelihood technology should be underestimated. As long as you can draw the design yourself and recruit a group of skilled craftsmen, you may be able to do it.

Finally, the most important thing is the route.

Perhaps it is difficult to cross the Liao Kingdom by land, so you might as well try the waterway? You can pass the navigation skills by yourself, and I have recently read that there were several major shipyards in the Song Dynasty, and it is best to build a group of ships that can go to the sea. In case kryptonite is not found in Siberia, there is also an alternative, crossing the Bering Strait, on the other side of Alaska, looking for the same site, maybe the excavation will go more smoothly.

Chris knew that these things couldn't be done overnight, so he had to plan slowly. Sensing Xing Yun entering the door, Chris retracted his thoughts, turned around and walked to the chaise longue and sat down.

Xing Yun hurriedly placed the cushion behind Chris, allowing her to lean comfortably.

Chris smiled, Lan Yuanzhen and Xing Yun were always very worried about her physical weakness. Although the original Queen Mother was seriously ill, she didn't feel any discomfort at all at the moment. During this period, the doctor came to take the pulse again, and I don't know why, Chris always felt that the doctor had a strange expression, as if he was terminally ill. Fortunately, the final diagnosis was that the pulse had stabilized, and Chinese medicine was still prescribed.

There is a small table on the chaise longue, on which is placed a copy of the latest "newspaper". This was Chris's greatest surprise, she didn't expect that the Song Dynasty already had a newspaper published by the imperial court. The newspaper is rich in content and covers a wide range of topics, including the recent appointment and dismissal of officials in the imperial court, the promulgation of new policies, official policy discussions, border wars, and even obituary columns...... In short, everything from national politics to people's livelihood is described in detail, and the function of modern newspapers is almost the same. Lan Yuanzhen asked her from time to time what she thought about the affairs of the court, and Chris was afraid that he would not be able to deal with it and show his feet, so he also began to study the newspaper every day.

The more I read, the more I feel that I want to go out of the palace to see what the real Great Song Dynasty looks like.

At this time, Lan Yuanzhen entered the door, and Liang Weijian followed behind with something in his hand. Watching Chris read the newspaper carefully early in the morning, Lan Yuanzhen felt a sense of comfort in his heart, he thought that the master had lost interest in political affairs for the past two days, thank God.

"Master Wan'an!" The two of them stood up, and Lan Yuanzhen said again: "Is your body good?"

"I'm much better, and they're all so thoughtful. ”

"The pulse that Imperial Doctor Liao has only diagnosed does say that the Queen Mother is in good health. Liang Weijian said: "We watched from the sidelines, and we also felt that the master's body was better!"

Lan Yuanzhen nodded, looking at the person in front of him, his clear and flawless eyes, ruddy and delicate cheeks, although he was a little thin, but he was in good spirits, and he seemed to have regained his former brilliance.

Chris raised his head and squinted slightly at Lan Yuanzhen, he was dressed in a dark blue robe, revealing meticulous majesty, Chris was wondering why he was wearing different clothes from the eunuchs in the past, when he saw Lan Yuanzhen take out a small wooden box and put it in front of her.

"Open it and take a look!"

Chris gently opened the wooden box, and the contents were flesh-colored.

Xing Yun couldn't help but look over with wide eyes curiously.

Chris discovers that this is a "face", a delicate "skin" to be exact. She thought to herself: This can't be what I imagined, right?

"Have you ever heard of the 'art of disguise' used by the people of the rivers and lakes? This is the mask made by the Underworld Palace-'Snake Undressing', which can be disguised into the appearance of others after wearing it. ”

Jianghu! Transfiguration! These keywords made Chris's eyes shine slightly, as if there was a context, and he wanted to speak and stopped.

Chris was in high spirits, and she gently touched the strange object with her fingers, which were cold and soft as water.

"Master, try it!"

Chris held it in his hand, and the "dough" is light and thin, and the workmanship is exquisite and amazing. Entering the inner room, she slowly sat down in front of the dresser in small steps, facing the face in the mirror, she carefully put on the mask, the mask seemed to be absorbed on the face, cool and breathable, and there was no uncomfortable feeling at all. Chris looked at the person in the mirror again, his fingers gently slid over his face, and he murmured in disbelief: "It's really changed!" The face only delicately modified the entire face through a few slight changes in the facial features, adding some edges and corners to the Queen Mother's originally beautiful face, a trace of fortitude, and a little manly bearing.

Turning around and returning to the main hall, Xing Yun's eyes widened and he couldn't help but be stunned.

Christ watched Xing Yun's expression change, thinking to himself that wouldn't it be better if he changed into men's clothes.

As if to see through her inadvertent thoughts, Lan Yuanzhen waved his hand to signal Xing Yun, and Xing Yun opened the box that Liang Weijian was holding, which contained a set of men's clothes and a pair of boots.

Chris walked behind the screen, and Xing Yun immediately set about helping her change her clothes. When wearing boots, Chris found that it was a pair of "inner height shoes", and his height reached more than 170cm after wearing them, but he really can't underestimate the wisdom of the ancients.

When she came out again, she had changed into a royal blue silver thread embroidered blouse, a light blue jade belt around her waist, and a jade crown hairpin tied with her hair. Xing Yun could see it, and it wasn't until Chris pointed to the mirror that she picked it up with a crimson face.

Chris remembers that in 2015, her grandfather came from England to visit the family in San Francisco, and her mother told her that her grandfather wanted to spend time alone with his granddaughter.

To be honest, my grandfather has always held a grudge against Lan Shien, a Chinese kid, for abducting the pearl of his palm, and he doesn't even have a good impression of Chinese culture. That performance was the famous work "The Peony Pavilion", and it was a full set of excerpts that were performed for three days, and it was a big test for my grandfather, who couldn't understand what they were singing. Unexpectedly, my grandfather seemed to be attracted by the gorgeous costumes, unique classical charm, and poignant story of "The Peony Pavilion". Three days have passed, and the grandfather and grandson actually talked about the plot and talked about the actors' qualities, and even with it, the grandfather's attitude towards his son-in-law Lan Shien has also improved, which is really an interesting windfall.

Learning the scenes in the play, Chris waved his hand at Xing Yun, imitating Xiaosheng's tone, and said in a thick voice: "Xiaosheng is polite!"

Xing Yun was teased by her, her cheeks turned red, and she suddenly twisted shyly.

Lan Yuanzhen was also amused by her stubbornness, and just pursed his lips and smiled silently.

Liang Weijian thought that the Queen Mother should be a solemn and majestic, unsmiling, quiet and leisurely woman, but now that he sees it, it is not the case at all, and he has made the situation of the Queen Mother clear to Lord Lan one by one in the past few days. But Lord Lan told him that before the master married Yingzong, he had always been like this. Liang Weijian finally let go of his apprehension, the master is not a difficult person to serve, but the "surprises" she gave herself in the past few days still made him serve carefully with a cold sweat from time to time.

Lan Yuanzhen handed over a piece of paper and said, "The identity of the master is his subordinate brother Lan Yuanxiao." ”

Chris took a look, Lan Yuanzhen really perfectly shaped the fake identity of this eunuch brother, and there were detailed records from his life experience to his growth experience, even the person like the aunt next door.

Silently remembering Lan Yuanxiao's life experience on the paper, Chris pretended to be a man for the first time, this feeling is really quite novel.

Lan Yuanzhen's next words made her even more excited.

Lan Yuanzhen looked up and down and said, "Today, my subordinates took the master out of the palace for a walk, okay?"

She bowed to Lan Yuanzhen again and again: "Brother, great!!"