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Chu Shao glanced down, and was the first to jump down from the edge of the hole. The hole seemed to be very shallow, and he could even be seen landing on a stone slab below the hole. Then he said in astonishment: "Here ...it looks like there are steps."

Seeing Zhou Lanmu frowning, Bai Canglang turned his head and complained to him, "You shouldn't be wearing white clothes today. I think there's a lot of dust underneath."

Bai Canglang couldn't help laughing: "I'm also wearing white clothes. Besides, Mr. Lan is so rich, wouldn't he feel sorry for a piece of clothing?"

Zhou Lanmu pouted at him, and then jumped down together with Bai Canglang.

The steps were so narrow that only one person could pass through them. The three of them walked along the narrow steps behind the stone slab for a while before meeting a door.

Maybe it shouldn't be called a door, it's just a stone sculpture placed here, and a door is carved on the stone sculpture.

At the end of the cramped passage, it suddenly opened up, finally able to accommodate a few people side by side, and facing the passage was a huge rectangular boulder with fine patterns engraved on it.There is no other way here, and it seems far-fetched to say that this stone sculpture is not a door—could it be that such a passage was dug to hide a stone sculpture?

For some reason, Chu Shao stared at the very finely carved patterns on the stone carvings, and always felt a little familiar.

"This can't be a tomb door, let's not dig someone's ancestral grave..." Bai Canglang stared blankly at the stone when he was speechless, and said in a daze.

Chu Shao's heart was shaken, and he suddenly realized that the narrow steps, the opening on the top of the mountain, and the heavy stone carvings all looked like the standard configuration of a tomb.Zhou Lanmu took a step forward, reached out and touched the pattern on the stone carving, his eyes darkened: "This is... the tomb door of the royal family."

No wonder it looks familiar.

Back then when Chu Shao was imprisoned in the mansion, he tried every means to save the lives of Emperor Qing Yuan and Feng Shuo.Qi Lang swears, saying that Wei Shuqing has not yet killed the emperor's heart, he wrote many letters trying to explain the pros and cons, and even desperately contacted Sang Zhe secretly, hoping to use the power of the internal and external eight departments to exert pressure.

But before he could come up with any foolproof idea, he suddenly heard that the emperor had passed away.

Rumors spread everywhere in the palace, saying that in order to save his own life and please Wei Shuqing, Prince Feng Shuo personally prepared poisoned wine, and two cups of wine poisoned his biological father to death.

Later, when he met Feng Shuo, he also asked about these things, but he seemed to be scared by Qi Lang and Wei Shuqing, and he didn't dare to say anything, but just lay in Chu Shao's arms and cried.

That's right, how could such a thing be done by a child?Wei Shuqing's means, he should have understood a long time ago.

He followed Feng Shuo to deliver the emperor's spirit, and saw him being sealed in the tomb that had been prepared long ago.The door of the tomb was slammed shut by a group of martyred palace ladies and eunuchs, causing a cloud of dust to rise.

The pattern on the door of the tomb is exactly the same as the one on the stone carving.

Bai Canglang took two steps forward, and tried to exert force on the tomb door: "If it is said to be the tomb door of the royal family, it must be sealed, and there will be no external mechanisms... um, but Xiao Chu helps me, maybe I can push it away."

"I've never heard of anyone from the royal family not being buried in the royal tombs of Yanshan Mountain in Zhongyang, but here..." Zhou Lanmu seemed to be in deep thought. Yang, why is he buried here? I'm afraid it's not as simple as the mausoleum."

Chu Shao went forward to help Bai Canglang push the extremely heavy stone together. Zhou Lanmu saw that they were struggling, so he went to help them. It took the three of them a lot of effort to finally let the stone go. The stone moved slightly.

Bai Canglang drew his sword, inserted it into the exposed gap, and tried his best to pry it out, grinning his teeth while prying: "If people in the Jianghu know that Zhuoying, the famous sword that intimidates the world, is used to pry open doors, they will definitely curse their mothers with heartache."

"What does that matter?" Zhou Lanmu said behind him, "The tabloids in Jianghu have made up countless messy stories about your sword, which has various uses, and now it doesn't matter if you add door breaking."

After tossing and tossing for an unknown amount of time, the boulder in front of them was finally moved by three people to the point where one person could pass through.Bai Canglang wiped the sweat from his forehead, panted and sat down on the ground: "It's too heavy...Fortunately, it's us, if ordinary people come, I don't know how many people can open this door..."

Zhou Lanmu didn't use much force, he was not in good health recently, so he didn't dare to use too much force.He glanced at Bai Canglang with a smile, and as he spoke, he was the first to go behind the boulder: "Brother Bai is born with supernatural powers, it takes so much effort to open this door, if it were someone else, I'm afraid..."

Before the words fell, he suddenly stopped.

Then he said slowly: "I remembered, did Emperor Qingyuan build a secret imperial mausoleum in the eastern region back then? Could it be that we came here by mistake?"

Chu Shao frowned and walked in first.

Behind the gate of the tomb was an ever-burning lamp, and it hadn't seen the sun for many years, yet there was still light.

And the first thing he saw was a corpse that had turned into white bones.

The white bone was just behind the stone gate, and it still maintained its posture at the last moment of its life. It stretched out its hands and prostrated itself on the ground, as if trying to escape from the place behind it, but in the end it failed and died under the gate.Because time is too long, no traces on this bone can be seen.

Zhou Lanmu approached, but he seemed to have discovered something. He walked around behind the corpse, and carefully picked out a sword from under the bones near the waist of the corpse.

"This is...'Song'!" Chu Shao exclaimed in a low voice, pointing at the corpse and said in shock, "How could there be... Master's sword?"

Chanting is the sword of Xiao Teng, the leader of the Great Nei Parrot Guard at that time.

But didn't Xiao Cheng die in Dian Xing Temple a long time ago? How could he appear here?

Zhou Lanmu frowned and took a look inside, with more and more doubts on his face: "Let's continue to look inside first."

Several people nodded, and then continued to walk along the tomb passage behind the stone gate.

The tomb path was very long and had no branches. Although they lost their sense of direction in the middle of the mountain, Chu Shao instinctively felt that they had turned a big corner.The surrounding lights were getting darker and darker, until he could barely see the road in front of him clearly. He raised his eyes to look at Zhou Lanmu, but Zhou Lanmu was expressionless, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

Bai Canglang who was walking in front let out a low cry, and as expected, after making a turn, his eyes suddenly brightened.

The tomb is in a typical royal style, with bluestone pavement and white jade as the coffin. Strangely, there are no funerary objects on the table on one side, only a fan and a writing brush.What made everyone even more surprised was that there was not only one coffin in the tomb, but three coffins were neatly arranged, and there was no difference in size. It was not a joint burial tomb, which looked very strange.

Zhou Lanmu looked around, but stood still.Chu Shao suddenly felt his hand tighten, and looked at him quickly: "What's wrong?"

"Don't you think we came in too smoothly?" Zhou Lanmu looked at him and asked carefully, "The tomb is different from other places, it is extremely secret, and it is a place that should not be disturbed. The passage to the cave should be complicated It’s tight, but we’ve come all the way, not to mention obstacles, we haven’t even seen a mechanism..."

Chu Shao pondered for a moment: "You mean, maybe that road wasn't originally the passage to enter the tomb?"

"Yes, but there is only one exit from the main tomb." Zhou Lanmu turned around casually, and said, "It is said to be the main tomb, but why do I feel that this is not a tomb..."

Chu Shao was startled.

After he came in, he also felt very strange.In the main burial chamber, there are no burial persons, burial objects, and joint burial ceremonies in the royal ceremony, but there are no burial persons or burial objects in the main tomb except for the three coffins. There is even a screen behind the coffins, which is arranged in a neat way It's as if... a living person has lived here.

Chu Shao was suddenly frightened by his own thought and burst into a cold sweat.

"The third coffin is empty." Bai Canglang suddenly came over and said in a low voice.

Zhou Lanmu's eyes lit up, he looked up at Chu Shao, and showed a smile: "It really is so..."

He yawned, and continued: "There are living people who lived here, and then left for unknown reasons, leaving behind this empty coffin that was prepared for themselves, and this is the tomb of the royal family..."

Zhou Lanmu touched Han Baiyu's coffin with his fingers, and his eyes were unpredictable: "I remember that when Emperor Qingyuan was not enthroned, there were floods in the clouds and the southern border. He seemed to have visited the east several times."

When Emperor Qingyuan was not enthroned, he was not born, nor was the elder brother of the crown prince, Zhou Lanmu knew these old things so clearly.

"The longest time, he lived in Ruyun for about nine months." Zhou Lanmu stared at the empty coffin, and laughed ecstatically, "Yuan Jia, what do you think you can do in nine months? "

"I heard that Emperor Qingyuan didn't seem to be the candidate for the crown prince in the hearts of civil and military officials," Chu Shao said dully, "When the first emperor passed away and took out the edict, he was still in the cloud, and he rushed back after hearing the news. It seems that I didn't even think of it..."

"If I want to know what's going on, I'm afraid I have to open the coffin." Zhou Lanmu put away those vague emotions and said indifferently, "Although this is disrespectful, but... this place is strange, and there is an emperor with a name and surname in the Great Seal All the concubines are buried in the imperial mausoleum, who is this place built for? Crown Prince Chengyang died, if we don’t investigate carefully, no one will know about this place.”

In the first coffin was a small skeleton.

This bone frame was well preserved, very neat, without any scattered traces, it looked like a baby, and there were no extra funeral objects around him.

"How could there be a child... Strange," Chu Shao closed his eyes and took a deep sniff, "This corpse must be old..."

Zhou Lanmu kept thinking.

This mausoleum is not used as a mausoleum, what should it be used for?If it is an ordinary hermit, why spend time building a mausoleum and staying in the dark underground?

The only explanation is that someone was reluctant to part with his lover's corpse, secretly built a royal tomb in Ruyun, and lived underground with the other's corpse. He wanted to die here, but unexpectedly changed his mind temporarily and left here.

So that's the case, no wonder they came in so smoothly, that passage is very likely to be a way he left for himself to connect with the outside world.

But if this is the case, what happened to Xiao Chen's body?Since it is a road, the stone gate should be able to be opened, there is absolutely no reason to seal it.

Zhou Lanmu felt that his mind was in a mess, and Bai Canglang had already opened the second coffin in a daze.

Inside this coffin was a woman.

A very young woman, by some unknown method, her bones are not immortal at all, and her appearance is lifelike.She was wearing a gorgeous light gold dress, which was not a concubine's dress, but the ceremony was also very complicated, and her head was densely decorated with bright red coral beads, which seemed to be not the usual jewelry of Dayin.

Her brow bone is very high, her nose is also higher than that of the average Indian, she is of typical foreign blood, and she is a bit fiercely beautiful, but she just lay there quietly, without breathing, heartbeat, or even grow old.

Everything remained as it was at the last moment of her life, the dagger stuck in her heart was not pulled out, and the wound on her heart was clotted with dark red blood clots.With a very happy smile on her face, she seemed finally relieved.

This strange and strange beauty infected everyone unconsciously, and no one spoke for a while.

The author has something to say: Xiaolan: I dug my ancestral grave (bushi