Chapter Eighty-Four: The Pavilion of the Scriptures
In the palace, there are still places where the emperor can't go?
Shen Du was surprised in his heart and asked, "What place? If it is a heavily guarded place, I don't dare to go there." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½ā
The young man shook his head and said, "It's just an abandoned mansion in the corner of the palace, inaccessible, and there is not a single soldier." ā
"It's just an abandoned mansion, why do you need me to accompany you?" asked Shen Du.
After hearing this, the young man hesitated for a moment, then leaned over to Shen Du's side, and said a little mysteriously: "Because people say ...... The house is haunted!"
"Haunted!" Shen Du was shocked.
If it was a few years ago, a so-called haunted house, he would have no fear.
But now that he had seen it with his own eyes, even the monks had seen it with his own eyes, and he really didn't know if there were any ghosts in the world.
"What kind of haunting?" Shen Du asked tentatively.
"I don't know much, it's just gossip from other people. The haunted mansion is said to have burned a palace maid to death twenty years ago. "It was a very strange situation, the fire burned all night, but no one noticed. The next day, I went to see that the house was not burned out much, only the smoke was billowing out, and it did not disperse for a long time. ā
After a pause, the young man continued: "A group of guards tried to go in to check, but one of them choked to death on the spot, and it is said that when he died, his eyes were about to crack open, and he didn't know what he was looking at. ā
"No one dared to go in now, just waiting for the smoke to clear. Seven days and seven nights later, when the smoke cleared, two more guards entered, and one died and the other went mad, and no one knows what was going on in the house. The young man said, inexplicably a little excited, "Later, someone was going to demolish the house directly, and just reported it, and before the demolition began, the man went home and died of a violent illness." Moreover, it is said that the appearance of the man when he died was indescribably strange, but no one who had seen his death dared to look at it a second time. ā
"That person died, and others didn't even dare to mention the name of the haunted mansion casually, and the haunted house was in a remote corner, so it has become a wasteland. The boy said.
After the young man's bizarre words, Shen Du felt more and more ridiculous, and it was inevitable that he would not believe it in his heart, and most of the jealousy was immediately dispelled.
I only heard him smile and ask: "You want to go to the ghost house, don't you want to see what the female ghost looks like?"
"How do you know?" the boy was stunned.
Shen Du was silent when he heard this, and after thinking about it, he nodded and said, "Okay, I promise you, after going to the Hidden Scripture Pavilion, I will go to the ghost house with you." ā
"It's a deal!" the boy was excited.
Then, Shen Du found a place to hide the two sleeping guards, and then groped with the young man to walk in the palace.
It seems that the little emperor still has a little impression, although it took some effort, the two of them turned around, and finally came to the location of the Great Inner Scripture Pavilion.
Along the way, the two also encountered some patrol guards. It's just that these guards' martial arts are low, and Shen Du can detect it early and easily avoid it.
After some time, an arch outside.
"Here it is. The boy stretched out his hand and pointed upward, and immediately said.
Shen Du then raised his eyes to look, and what he saw was a three-story nine-zhang attic, the first floor was the most wide, occupying a thousand zhang of space, and the momentum was magnificent, and the third floor was the size of an ordinary pavilion, hidden in the night and difficult to distinguish the shape.
On all sides of the first floor of this attic, there are plaques on the top, and there are three gilded characters on it: Tibetan Scripture Pavilion.
Seeing this, Shen Du couldn't help but have some expectations in his heart, and immediately stepped forward a few steps, came to the arch, and bent down to probe inside.
Outside the arch is the place where the Scripture Pavilion is located.
The books in this scripture pavilion are not only classics and historical materials, but also many peerless books and even court secrets. In this way, it is naturally one of the important places of the imperial palace, and it is well defended.
As soon as Shen Duchu looked at it, he saw that there were soldiers and guards all around the Hidden Scripture Pavilion, dressed in strong and stubborn clothes, all of them had fine eyes, and their momentum was fierce, which was obviously different from ordinary guards.
The four doors of the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion are all closed, and they seem to be locked, and it is obviously not feasible to enter through the door, only by turning the window.
In this case, Shen Du should be careful if he wants to go in, if he takes the little emperor over, he is afraid that the risk is too great.
Thinking like this, he immediately turned his head and said, "This place is heavily defended, I can't take you in, how about you wait for me around here?"
"Good. The young man obviously had no interest in the Scripture Pavilion and simply said.
Seeing this, Shen Du turned his head and continued to look at the guards for a while.
After a while, when he figured out the deployment of troops on the four sides of the Hidden Scripture Pavilion, he turned back to the edge wall and walked to a corner of the corresponding defensive gap.
I saw that he tapped on his toes, and immediately turned over, like a flying fly, swirled over the wall, and landed silently.
After landing, Shen Du looked left and right, and saw that no guards noticed it, so he immediately flew like the wind under his feet, and quickly moved to a corner of the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion, and then rose up and went to the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion.
When he was in Fengzhou, he had already collected a large number of classics to search for them, but there were still no clues about the strange words on the mysterious fragments.
The first floor of the Scripture Pavilion is full of ordinary classics and historical materials, except for the delicate binding, there is nothing special. And the first floor of the book collection, he couldn't turn over much overnight, he went up to the wall with Shen Duyuan, directly crossed the first floor, came to the second floor, found a window, and turned in.
As soon as he entered the second floor of the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion, Shen Du raised his eyes and saw that there were dozens of tall bookshelves in this dim room, all of which were full of books, dense and dense, making people's heads big.
"Sure enough, it is worthy of the Great Inner Scripture Pavilion. He sighed slightly, and said with some embarrassment.
These two layers are clearly not easy to find.
After thinking about it, Shen Du said in his heart that it would be better to go to the third floor first, and after seeing the third floor, it would not be too late to look at the second floor.
It's really not good, anyway, I already know where the Scripture Pavilion is, so it doesn't hurt to come a few more times in the future.
After thinking about it, he turned around and looked for the stairs leading to the third floor of the Scripture Pavilion, stepped up, and came to the third floor of the Scripture Pavilion.
The three floors of the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion are just the size of the ordinary attic, and the layout is spacious, Shen Du came in and saw that there were nine five-story bookshelves, and some of the bookshelves were clearly not full of books, so it can be seen that the collection of books here is rare and rare.
I don't know if it's an illusion, Shen Du always felt that the third floor of the Scripture Pavilion was particularly dim.
It was much darker than the night outside.
It was as if someone had deliberately obscured the light from the outside world, leaving almost no gaps.
There was a faint smell of mold in the dark room, mixed with a faint smell of alcohol, and it smelled very strange.
Following the smell of this strange smell, Shen Du saw a square table on the side of the entrance of the stairs, and the square table was full of miscellaneous items, a mess, and everything.
In front of the table, there was a Taishi chair, which was empty.
Shen Du glanced at it, and then turned his head disapprerovingly.
He reached out and took the candle and flint that he had prepared in advance from his bosom, lit the candle, and took advantage of the dim light to walk to the bookshelf.
The candlelight dimmed, and after a few steps, the place behind him fell into a deep darkness again.