Strange events in the imperial capital

At night, the vehicles on Chang'an Avenue were still running continuously, and the lights were shining red in the sky, making the night in the capital as dazzling as day.

According to the plan, Chu Han and Shen Chenghe wore camouflage suits for field work, hat brim and sunglasses to cover their faces, and prepared to visit the underground palace under Daxiangfeng Hutong.

Prince Kung's Mansion closed its doors to thank guests at night.From time to time, groups of diners come from the direction of Yinding Bridge, eating a box of three-yuan cheese or carrying a few skewers of octopus balls in their hands, passing through Ya'er Alley, and walking towards Dewai Street.At night, there are human-powered tricycles to solicit customers, with a string of colorful lights on the front of the car, crisp bells passing by, and the driver shouted, "Masters, do you want to take a car!" In the past two years, retro fashion has become very popular, and tricycles are deliberately decorated to look like the Republic of China. In the style of a rickshaw, there are advertising posters of old-fashioned beauties on the awning.

Mr. Shen searched back and forth, pulled off his big sunglasses, and asked, "Do we both need to wear such mysterious clothes? I've always been upright when I travel."

Chu Han said: "He is aboveboard. He reported to Liu Xuecheng and did not hide anyone. Houhai is crowded with people and there are too many acquaintances. I don't want to make a noise and be surrounded by aunts and uncles."

Mr. Shen asked again: "Where's your friend?"

Chu Han subconsciously took out his pocket to look at his phone, and then realized that Fang didn't need these things at all.That kid didn't have any electronic communication equipment on him, and he didn't have an ID number in games on social platforms. He was quite a fringe character who was separated from the world; or a character that shouldn't exist in this world.

Chu Han said to Mr. Shen, "I have made an appointment with Fang, who will come over in a while."

When passing the Yinding Bridge, Chu Han saw that there was also an old well on the side of the alley.Chu Han took out a telescopic stick from his backpack and walked over to knock on the mouth of the well.Knock three times first, pause for a while, and knock three more times, completely ignoring the sideways glances of passing aunts and uncles.

Mr. Shen was even more puzzled: "What are you doing?"

Chu Han said vaguely, "...I'll try self-defense weapons."

The two of them sat on a threshold at a deep bend in the alley, waiting.When I was a child, I often sat like this when I went out to play.

Mr. Shen took out his cigarette and smoked it.

Chu Han said in a low voice disgusted: "Sit down a bit, your butt will grow bigger and bigger, and the threshold will not be able to stop you."

"I'm still getting old." Mr. Shen said without shame: "My chrysanthemum is also for you to fuck, it's not tight enough, can the butt not be fat! Hey, how about you help me take a look? "

Shen Chenghe unceremoniously moved a few inches to this side, and his broad waist was attached to Chu Han, deliberately rubbing against him.Chu Han's body is warm, making people around him feel a special warmth when they touch it.

"Don't mess around." Chu Han sneered, "Is it all soaked in your place? It's made into chrysanthemum tea."

"Hehe." Mr. Shen did not show any weakness: "I have enough time to make three pots of chrysanthemum tea! Let me tell you, your friend doesn't take too much face? Are you not coming tonight?"

Chu Han: "..."

A look of disappointment flashed across Chu Han's eyes, but Shen Chenghe didn't notice it.Someone has clearly missed an appointment.

He stood up and said simply: "No need to wait, let's go in."

Chu Han doesn't like to talk, but always holds back, but he is actually a very serious person in his heart, and he has sorted out every item clearly——how many times has Third Master Fang broken his word?He was raped without knowing it when he went to Dali, and he didn't bother with the other party when he came back, man, he forgave him for being silent in his heart.Subconsciously, he always feels that the other party is hiding something from him, but if a person just doesn't want to tell you the truth, you can't blame that person. You can only blame yourself for not being able to make the other party trust you like that, and blame yourself for not being capable.Thinking of this, Chu Han felt very depressed.

They originally agreed on this time and place.He fully thought that Fang San'er would definitely come because of his affection.It seems that he is still self-righteous, thinking that he has a lot of face.

At the previous dinner, Chu Han sent Cheng Xiaocheng home at night to the boss's villa in Ziyu Villa on the North Fourth Ring Road.After sending it to the door, Chu Han didn't go in, but stood outside the door chatting with Xiaocheng as usual.Cheng Xiaocheng originally said, you and Hehe are going to that underground palace, how could you not take me with you, the three of us together!Cheng Xiaocheng set up an outdoor adventure scientific research company with a few friends as a sideline business. She has traveled to many places in famous mountains and rivers all over the country, and she is especially agile and tough.

Chu Han lowered his head and rubbed his nose: "Oh... what's in it... forget it, don't go."

Cheng Xiaocheng wondered: "Why didn't you take me! You're avoiding me when you go out to play now?!"

Chu Han still smiled to cover up: "No, why should I avoid you?"

From the living room came a rough and loud voice full of pyrotechnics: "Who is here! If you haven't eaten, come in and eat!"

Chu Han hurriedly shouted: "Third Master, we have eaten!"

Boss Luo shouted from the room: "Come in and sit down! What are you two whispering while hiding at the door?"

Cheng Xiaocheng put her arms around Chu Han's neck and shouted: "I'm whispering to Han Han, Dad Zhan, are you willing to listen? Can you consciously avoid it?"

Boss Luo laughed loudly: "Chengcheng, you two continue to whisper... I still have sticky eyes under my eyelids, how old are you two!"

"How old are you two?" It refers to Chu Han and Xiao Cheng, two naughty children who have been used to flirting since childhood.In fact, everyone in the family knew that it was a joke. Chu Han would call Xiaocheng "cousin" when he was serious. The relationship between cousins ​​and brothers is very pure.But when I am not serious, I sometimes call "girlfriend" to people who don't know the outside world.As a result, his co-workers, his partners, and friends in the circle mistakenly thought that Mr. Chu had a girlfriend who had been with him for many years.

Chu Han declined Xiao Cheng's enthusiastic proposal, and with a few words and a smile, he fooled his cousin away.He didn't expect Fang San'er to miss the appointment and not come.

But he has never been a talkative and mother-in-law person, never entangles anyone, and has a strong self-esteem.If he doesn't come, he won't come, and he won't ask anyone to get to the bottom of it, so as to make others resent him.

If the person he cares about looks down on him, he will never pester him, and he will definitely choose to walk away silently.For this, he especially admired him, Third Master Luo, and also admired a big bitch like Shen Chenghe, how could he be able to get rid of his old face and stalk and stalk someone endlessly.Chu Han couldn't do it by himself, he was just cheerful on the surface, but he was very sensitive and shy in his heart.

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Chu Han and Mr. Shen are both fully equipped, and each of them carries a large travel bag on their backs.Of course, Chu Han didn't take Shen Chenghe to try to drill into the "big wall gap" in No. 3 courtyard, and that courtyard was completely closed.They took another road and entered the ruins through the side passage opened by the archaeologists.The entrance is concealed and narrow, followed by a long, steep flight of stone steps.Chu Han is relatively thin, flexible in movement, and walks very quickly in large strides.Mr. Shen was tall and strong, and he would get stuck in the middle of the road from time to time, hit the top of his head or his shoulder somewhere, and muttered in a low voice all the way, "People at that time were so dull, don't you know that digging tunnels should be more spacious and kind?"

The underground is like a maze, with seven turns and eight bends. Mr. Shen was completely dizzy after walking through a few forked roads, and every road looks exactly the same.

Chu Han walks this way, just like he walks on the few familiar streets in Beijing to and from get off work every day, without having to look much, without frowning.This so-called labyrinth is the fuxi gossip trick used by the ancients to blind one's eyes.Looking down from the whole maze, it is in the shape of eight trigrams, and each hexagram has a correct path and an interference path, that is, the "gate of life" and the "gate of death".Based on his memory, he walked to the center of the underground palace effortlessly.The correct route and every intersection sign are mechanically printed in his mind, unless those roads are diverted inexplicably, he will never get the wrong direction.

They bypassed all obstructions and entered the central area of ​​the underground palace. Young Master Shen, who had seen many things in the world, was dumbfounded.

The searchlight circled past, and the entire hall was wide and empty. People who didn't know it would never imagine that such a secret place was connected underground to the famous Prince Gong's Mansion.The two walked down the stairs cautiously, staring at the ruins of the previous dynasty scattered here and there on the ground. The searchlight could not even illuminate the other wall at the end of the hall, and 15 meters away was a thick fog-like darkness.

Mr. Shen's eyelids twitched a few times, and he said in a low voice: "Honey, you didn't tell me how this place feels...fuck, why didn't we come here in broad daylight?!"

Chu Han's face was as usual: "Going into such a deep place, is there a difference between day and night?"

"Heh, I'm afraid of you as an older brother." Mr. Shen angrily followed behind Fa Xiao.Chu Han actually knew that Shen Chenghe was not bad at skills. He had a few tough guys around his waist, and he was a must when going out to fight at home. He was able to fight three against one at a critical moment, and he would definitely not hesitate.Mr. Shen just casually saw the mess and didn't know what to do. He felt that there was no place to use his abilities and nowhere to vent his energy. He didn't do archeology or forensic medicine.

To be honest, there is nothing scary in the underground palace, there are no dirty things, and there are no bloody corpses of rice dumplings or anything like that.Because experts had inspected the site before, the remains had been removed, and only the shape and location of the remains were drawn on the ground with special chalk.Therefore, only many human-shaped marks can be seen on the ground, large and small in different poses.According to their habits, men are drawn with light blue chalk, women are drawn with light pink chalk, children are marked with light green, and livestock and beasts are marked with yellow marks.In addition, there are all kinds of funerary objects scattered all over the floor and covering the entire space.

Mr. Shen squatted down to admire those "chalk drawings", and said seriously: "It looks like a burial place. How did these people die?

"He killed? Was murdered?

"Or is the emperor Lao Tzu going to prison? Killing him?"

Chu Han denied the other party: "This place doesn't look like a burial place at all."

He indicated to the other party that the tombs excavated in the usual sense have strict rules, and the ancients paid the most attention to etiquette.There are several layers of stone slabs on the top of the large tomb, covered with white clay and covered with a layer of red clay, and the outermost layer is soft cinnamon soil.None here.Large tombs also have tomb passages. After entering the tomb passage, the tombs of dignitaries and dignitaries usually have an antechamber, east and west ear chambers; after entering, there is the main coffin chamber, which is used to bury the owner; next to the main coffin chamber are east and west side chambers, where women and children are buried, etc. .There is no such layout at all here.

Who needs to build such a big maze to build a tomb?The Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang has nothing so complicated.

Mr. Shen said: "Could it be a collective burial? For example, the craftsmen who built the Forbidden City or a royal forbidden area in Shuntian Mansion were silenced here?"

"It's not a craftsman." Chu Han shook his head, pointed and said, "There are men, women, old people and children here... It's like a couple together, and that one, like two young men hugging each other to death."

It looks like a bunch of unrelated people just happened to come together.Besides, this is the underground palace.If He Shen, who originally built this mansion, dared to secretly bury so many people, then he was really daring, and it was unnecessary.

There are also traces of various utensils and fragments scattered in the hall. They are arranged in a stacked manner and arranged in an irregular manner. It seems that there are many antiques.Chu Han pointed at various things and talked about it, and Mr. Shen was completely overwhelmed.For example, here is an arhat bed surrounded by three screens. The pattern theme and knife technique are obviously Ming-style techniques. The bed board is full of Chihu Ganoderma lucidum pattern. The length and width are roughly 2.2 meters x 1 meter, and it is a bed used by officials and officials during the day.

"Oh... gringos also use this. It's called DayBed in foreign language. I've seen it too." Mr. Shen squinted at Chu Han.

Chu Han took the measurement with his eyes and reported all the sizes, and then pointed to the silver-gilt tray in the shape of birthday peach, which was carefully carved with lotus flowers in a pool, and there was a lotus flower with a long handle beside it. A lotus-leaf-shaped silver teaspoon, a lotus-shaped silver jug ​​with a funnel filter in the middle.These are obviously three items from a set of silver tea sets, scattered here, presumably used by people like Rongguo Mansion for daily use.

"That's a teaspoon?" Mr. Shen said boldly, "I thought it was for picking teeth. Just now I thought that people in the Ming Dynasty were very smart. The small drill for picking teeth has such a long handle, how convenient it is for picking."

Chu Han also said, there is a small bridge over there, made of ordinary beech wood, the workmanship is relatively rough, and it is not worth much.

"Wait a minute, what do you pay?" Shen Chenghe glared at Chu Han.

"Jiaowu is a small stool with four legs intersecting..." Chu Han said.

"I'll tell you directly that this thing is called Mazar, and my dad has several, why don't you? Chu Han, can you stop shaking and speak humanly to me!" Shen Chenghe scolded.

Chu Han waved his hand with a smile, seeing enough, let's go!

His family's big crane has no aesthetic taste at all in this regard, and the two have little common language.What Chu Han thought in his heart was that this place was by no means a tomb.The vulgar things such as stools, square corner cabinets, water basins, and fragments of porcelain bowls used by ordinary people are scattered together with the standard red sandalwood arhat beds, writing tables, lacquerware wine sets, gold and silver tea sets, etc. of officials and eunuchs. Broken mazars and four-petal begonia-style consecrated poufs are piled up together. Whose tomb can be so chaotic and buried without losing status and class?

Mr. Shen felt a little bored, so his hands and feet became frizzy. One arm strangled Chu Han's neck from behind, grabbed Chu Han's chest, pressed it, and laughed a few times with malicious intentions.

The weight of this guy is quite heavy, Chu Han was so crushed that he couldn't even lift his neck: "Let go."

Mr. Shen laughed shamelessly: "I'm tired, you're soft, I'll lean on for a while."

Chu Han turned his head, deliberately indifferent: "Are you a zombie? Get lost."

The big zombie surnamed Shen wished he could lie on Chu Han's back, hang his arms on Chu Han's chest, and almost spit out a long tongue, dripping a few drops of greedy saliva.Chu Han's temper was still tolerable, so he picked up Da He He and took two steps, smiling.

Shen Chenghe swings his legs, rubbing back and forth on the back of Chu Han's knees.This person was playing tricks, and occasionally the back of his head shuddered, as if he had been teased by something.His hairs exploded, and he turned around sharply.

It's dark, nothing.

Tick.

A cloud of water vapor condensed on the stone wall at the entrance of the hall, and a drop of cold water slowly flowed down.

Chu Han must have heard it, and turned around suddenly, frowning.

Chu Han shook off the two arms entangled by the big zombie, raised the searchlight again, and wanted to walk a few steps deeper into the hall to see all the corners and then turn around. At this moment, he stopped suddenly and his face changed.

Mr. Shen bumped Chu Han's heel with his toe: "Let's go?"

Chu Han said, "That's not right."

Mr. Shen: "What's wrong?"

Chu Han hooked his hands at Mr. Shen, and hooked him over: "Actually, as soon as I came in, I felt...the way these things are placed...is not right, many things have moved slightly."

He said with a mouth shape that only Mr. Shen could see: "I don't think there are only the two of us in this underground palace."

Mr. Shen was so happy that he was drooling and hadn't slipped back. At this moment, he opened his eyes wide and was blinded by the smile on his face. After a long while, he mouthed and said: "Chu Han, what do you mean?"Fuck, don't make such a joke on me... Are you scaring me? ! ...