Mountains and seas close at hand

Bai Xunhuaxiu frowned, and softly stopped Song Banyan: "Banyan, let's talk about this matter after we go out. After such a long time, Xiao Pan and Zhou Rao are going to be anxious outside."

Song Banyan lowered his eyes and remained silent, obviously unwilling.

Seeing this, Bai Xunhua's heart sank, and he continued to persuade: "The empress dowager's golden seal has already been obtained, and there is no other way out here. Why don't you go back to the main tomb first?"

When Wen Luoluo heard her mention the golden seal, she immediately became nervous, and hurriedly clenched it tightly to stuff it into her pocket.Song Banyan suddenly raised his head and said to her, "Luoluo, show me the golden seal."

The intimacy and naturalness she said caused Bai Xunhua to frown.

"It went into my Wen Luoluo's pocket, and there has never been a precedent for returning it." Wen Luoluo winked at Song Banyan, then raised her hand, "I'll make an exception for you."

Song Banyan had a straight face, not as warm and elegant as usual.She pinched the golden seal and looked again and again, her eyes lit up immediately.

The gold seal of "Master Wuzang" is a seal button, not the turtles, tigers, evil spirits, dragons and other auspicious beasts that are common in official seals, nor the landscapes, flowers and birds used in private seals.

That is a piece of rope.

A section of winding coils, like a dragon snake-like rope.

Song Banyan blinked, then looked again.The texture of the rope is exquisitely carved, and you will never be mistaken!

A section of rope is engraved on the seal button. Does that mean that the legend of the origin of the hidden family may not be so ethereal and absurd.At least the extraordinary Empress Dowager Wuzang firmly believed in it and was proud of it.

Otherwise, how could she make her golden seal like this.

and many more!

A thought suddenly flashed in Song Banyan's mind, but he couldn't grasp it.She was suddenly upset, and she raised her legs and paced back and forth in the dark passage.The cold air in the narrow underground passage seemed to be stirred by her restless emotions.

Xiao Wu shrunk his neck, fearing that someone would accidentally set him on fire.Manaski held the cold fire stick in another hand, trying not to make a sound.Wen Luoluo put away the dagger she was playing with, lowered her head, wondering what she was thinking.

Intentionally or not, everyone became cautious.

Seeing Song Banyan walking up and down, Bai Xunhua knew that something was wrong with her again, so he was worried for a while.She pursed her lips, and said the mystery she found: "Banyan, stop first, I think of something."

Song Banyan stopped in his tracks, forcibly suppressed the boredom in his heart, and tried his best to speak gently: "Well, tell me."

Seeing the impatience written all over her face, Bai Xunhua was not unhappy, but sped up his speech, and said concisely: "The golden seal of Master Wuzang is here, but where are the remains? There are three corpses in the main tomb, but obviously It is impossible to hide the empress dowager."

Xiao Wu recalled: "Sister is right, those three don't look like women."

Wen Luoluo's complexion changed, and she asked anxiously, "Why are there three corpses? I remember that there were clearly two corpses, one on the ground and one on the door, how could there be more..."

Song Banyan, Bai Xunhua, and Xiao Wu were startled for a moment. They all looked at Wen Luoluo and asked almost in unison: "Did you see the one behind the door?"

The expressions of the three were strange, which made Wen Luoluo almost doubt herself. She glanced at Manaschi and said to him, "Old man, tell me how many corpses are there."

Manaski frowned: "It's hard to say, we chased too fast, and didn't look carefully except handing it to our eyes."

Xiao Wu scratched his head: "No, although I didn't look carefully, there must be two lying on the ground."

Wen Luoluo dismissed it with disdain: "Don't treat the broken wood as a human being, there are corpses all over the ground."

"Impossible." Xiao Wu couldn't help raising his voice, choking out a bunch of crackling words, "Can the wood grow two arms and two legs? Can it also grow a round head? Has it become a spirit?"

Song Banyan's stomach full of suffocation made them stop their quarrel, so he quickly smoothed things over: "That's all right, all right, what's the living arguing about the dead? Anyway, it's definitely not a woman, so it can't be that there is no empress dowager."

"That's not necessarily true." Wen Luoluo rolled her eyes, and the child gave her a vindictive look, "Perhaps that empress dowager is five big and six thick, a Xixia-like female man, just like Zhang Gong and that four-eyed one."

Xiao Wu admired Zhang Gong and such a "cultural person" in his heart. When he heard Wen Luoluo's nonsense, he immediately jumped up: "You are a talented woman! Sister Zhang is so educated, how can you be like you..."

Bai Xunhua hurriedly held Xiao Wu back, lest Xiao Wu, a little devil who had been in the rivers and lakes, say something too embarrassing, causing the already unreliable alliance to fall apart in an instant.

Song Banyan smiled and said, "What's wrong with being a female man, 'Han' is Tianhe, and 'Zi' is an honorific title. The combination of these two characters is not something ordinary people can afford."

After Song Banyan's serious nonsense, the tense atmosphere instantly eased a lot.Wen Luoluo snorted, raised her legs and walked into the secret room, calling out to Song Banyan: "Graduate scholar, don't study your empress dowagers. That dead ghost said there might be something down there, let's dig it out."

Xiao Wu made a grimace at Wen Luoluo's back, and opened his mouth: "Bah!"

"Snapped!"

Wen Luoluo raised her foot to pick up the skull on the ground, kicked it out without looking back, and shot it straight at Xiao Wu's forehead.Xiao Wu was also agile, and he raised his hands and hugged him tightly.He immediately smiled triumphantly, and was about to show off when he lifted it up, but a piece of bloody minced meat suddenly fell out of the two black holes in the skull, scaring Xiao Wu to throw it out in a hurry.

"Hmph." Wen Luoluo's mood improved instantly, she took out the flashlight from behind her waist, and looked around the dark secret room.

A deep hole was blasted into the ground.

Wen Luoluo frowned, and suddenly remembered what Zha Ye said when she discovered the robbery cave, that the robbery cave was blasted out by directional extrusion blasting.I should have thought that the other party had secrets, but this time I was too careless.

She touched her painful waist and shouted, "There is something in the soil."

Song Banyan glanced at the skull on the ground, and thought: Of course there is something, otherwise where did it come from.

The secret room was filled with a strong smell of blood, but the four of them were frightened by the scene in front of them and had no time to pay attention.

"This..."

A large area of ​​white was exposed in the pit, ignoring the scattered ones that were blown up, the rest of the skulls were laid out neatly, and the round skulls seemed to have the same curvature.If placed in an art gallery, this would be a postmodern work by an obsessive-compulsive artist.

However...

On the top of the secret room that was torn apart by the gun, some soil and sand leaked from time to time, sparsely falling on the top of the skull's bare head, as if trying to do everything possible to let these dead people rest in peace.

"Go ahead." Wen Luoluo brushed her hair and said excitedly, "There must be something down there."

Bai Xunhua looked away and said tactfully: "We are worried that you are in danger, and you didn't bring any heavy equipment. Why don't you go up to meet up first, get the engineer shovel and then come down. The situation is stable now, so there is no rush."

Seeing that the others were silent, Wen Luoluo knew that she was weak and could not convince these elm heads.

"Woo hoo... woo..."

The little lynx suddenly let out a series of whimpers, pulled out a small leather bag from the soil, held it in its mouth and ran to Bai Xunhua's side.

Xiao Wuxi said: "What treasure has this guy discovered again?"

Bai Xunhua looked at Song Banyan in a little surprise, Song Banyan was afraid that there would be danger inside, so he stepped forward and snatched it over: "Let me take a look."

The leather bag is only the size of a child's palm, and the style is simple and simple, and it is impossible to tell what kind of leather it is.It's flat, you can't tell if it's packed.

Wen Luoluo stared at the leather bag: "What good thing?"

"It doesn't matter how much gold can be packed." Song Banyan smiled, opened the leather bag to take a look, and his expression froze instantly.

She paused, and took out a piece of RMB from the leather bag.

Pink, with a face value of one hundred, neatly stacked.

Bai Xunhua only felt the tip of his nose sore, and a pang of grief suddenly rose in his heart.

That rainy night in Nanjing seemed as close as yesterday.At that time, Xiao Wu was still Boss Xu's loyal subordinate, and Pan Xiaohong was still an old employee of the Baijia Drugstore... The car that quickly fled Ming Xiaoling was full of people, and the handsome young man was leaning against the door, wet Da's hair was dripping water.Holding Zhang Gongyu's pen, he leaned over the car window and wrote an IOU.

Today I borrow [-] yuan, and I will repay the loan against the slip.

Chaye

2016/10/23

Song Banyan held 100 yuan in his hand, and suddenly frowned and asked, "Where's the IOU?"

Bai Xunhua blurted out: "The money he borrowed, the IOU is of course in Xiao Zhang's hands."

Song Banyan breathed out lightly: "Do you know Wu Zetian? Before being admitted to the palace by Li Yuanhao, Wu Zetian also stayed in the temple for a period of time before he was admitted to the palace. Li Yuanhao awarded the title of Master Wu Zang."

Bai Xunhua nodded slightly: "I also feel strange, how could someone call himself 'Master' and engrave it."

Song Banyan raised his eyebrows and smiled: "Yes, this golden seal must have been given to Mozang by Li Yuanhao. Except for him, no one in the Xixia Kingdom has this power. Holding a divination rope bestowed by the gods, those who are good at divination are not good at it. Li Yuanhao is just, obviously not just a beauty."

"The ancients believed in ghosts and gods. First, they couldn't explain the miraculous natural phenomena. They wanted to get things beyond their own capabilities." Bai Xunhua thought about it and said, "The emperor who unified the world would also have a lot of troubles, not to mention the lord who only occupies one side." , which is not surprising."

Song Banyan shook his head: "No, no, Xixia people practice ghosts and gods, so it's not surprising that Li Yuanhao asked someone for divination. He also had a grand ceremony in Liangzhou, and he came from Liangzhou without Tibetan family. This seems normal, but now, we put So things come together."

Bai Xunhua followed her train of thought, deliberated and said, "It's not surprising that the tombs of the Western Xia Dynasty have the shape of the Big Dipper. You said that the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum is also like this. The cross-shaped tomb is not an exception, right?"

Song Banyan smiled and said: "It's not true, but the tomb of the Western Xia King and this tomb are completely vertical from north to south, so it's strange."

"This is just your inference." Bai Xunhua pointed out without giving in. "The scale of this map is 1:500. The map presents a straight line. The error of the real terrain can reach hundreds of meters."

Wen Luoluo rolled her eyes and took out the engineer shovel in her bag.But Xiao Wu listened with gusto, and asked with great interest, "Sister Song, are there any more?"

Song Banyan smiled: "Where are you going to watch a play?" Then he said to Bai Xunhua: "Let's not talk about the location of the tomb, do you remember those murals? People who can be buried in such a grand tomb are in Xixia The country will definitely not be an unknown person. Those who have hatred against Li Yuanhao are basically exterminated. Who is alive, who would dare to satirize a bloodthirsty king openly?"

Bai Xunhua didn't answer, but asked instead: "Banyan, as far as you know, who in Xixia Kingdom has the ability to build such a cemetery."

While prying the skull, Wen Luoluo replied: "I heard that the underground palace of the Western Xia King's Mausoleum is not big, and there is nothing valuable inside."

"Indeed." Song Banyan stroked the ground casually, "The underground palace of the Xixia royal tomb is very simple, basically there is only one main chamber and two side chambers. The royal tombs of the Song Dynasty at the same time were not that big, definitely not comparable to those of the Han and Tang Dynasties."

Bai Xunhua immediately frowned. If this is the case, then there are only a handful of candidates for the owner of the tomb.

Song Banyan looked at Bai Xunhua, raised the corners of his mouth and said with a smile: "Dear Miss Bai, no matter what, I don't think Li Yuanhao's descendants will go to such lengths to mock him."

Seeing her childish look, Bai Xunhua couldn't help but also laughed: "Then what do you mean, you don't have to spend so much effort to satirize Li Yuanhao."

"Yes, it's very possible." Song Banyan nodded seriously, "Li Yuanhao killed his brother-in-law because he couldn't hide it. But later, he became obsessed with his daughter-in-law, so he snatched it from his son and named him the 'new queen' You know, it wasn't until Wuzang's son ascended the throne that she had a visible status in the Western Xia royal court."

Hearing this history, Bai Xunhua said thoughtfully: "I did not hide as Li Yuanhao's fortune-teller, and built two special cemeteries for him, the Big Dipper and the Southern Cross. But out of jealousy or anger, she was in this tomb. tampered with the murals."

"I think it is very possible that Li Yuanhao abolished Sinology, and the painters of Xixia Kingdom may not know about the Tang Dynasty, let alone the gossip between Tang Minghuang and Yang Guifei." Song Banyan waited to speak, but heard Wen Luoluo exclaimed.

"The bottom is empty!"

The three of them were startled, they didn't care to discuss any more, and hurriedly surrounded them.Wen Luoluo knocked out a hole in the deep pit of the explosion. It was pitch black under the three-layered skull, and it didn't know where it led.

Wen Luoluo said excitedly: "Genghis Khan's must be buried below." She said "slap, slap, slap" with the sapper in her hand. Violently devastated, bone fragments scattered everywhere in an instant.

Manasqi's brows frowned, and he walked away slowly without making a sound, dragging the bearded corpse picked out from the soil, and walked towards the corner of the secret passage.

Zha Ye's body, which had been blown beyond recognition, lay there quietly.Who would have thought that half an hour ago, this was a handsome young man.Manaski sighed, and placed the bearded corpse next to Zha Ye.

"Ow!"

The little lynx growled behind him, and Manaski raised his head in surprise, only to see a person walking from the other side of the secret passage.He vigilantly reached out to grab the horse rifle/gun on his back, but suddenly his whole body froze, his eagle eyes were full of panic——

The person's feet left the ground and floated in the air!