There is a dragon in the backyard of the palace

Xiao knelt down first, and performed the three-kneeling and nine-kowtow salute.

He is the direct descendant of Gaozu, and the empress Gaozu is really his ancestor.Now it is wrong for him to trespass into the underground palace, so naturally he has to bow and admit his mistake first.

Qinglong's attitude is much more relaxed than his. As a real dragon, he naturally has no reason to salute the emperor and empress. Even if Gaozu is a real dragon, he is just like him.So he didn't wait for Xiao to finish his salute, so he stepped forward to check the lid of the coffin.

"There are some traces here, apparently it was touched just a few days ago."

As he said this, he pushed open the coffin lid, and Gao Zu's bones were exposed in front of him.

Xiao didn't dare to look closer, but stood far away and asked:

"How about it?"

Qinglong looked at the bones in the coffin, with a smile on his mouth:

"Interesting, really funny."

Qinglong didn't say anything else for a long time, and Xiao was also a little curious. Although he felt a little awed and fearful in his heart, he still took a few steps forward and looked into the coffin.

Qinglong pointed to Gaozu's bones, and said to Xiao:

"Look, there is half a piece missing here, probably your emperor's cousin took it away. The skeleton looks obviously different from human beings. But if you want to say that this is a keel, it is too reluctant. In my opinion Come on, your great ancestor is roughly similar to your current state, and can be called a half-dragon."

Xiao was taken aback:

"If you say that, could it be that Gaozu's father was a dragon?"

Qinglong shook his head:

"You can see that the color of his bones is different, and there are traces of growth after middle age. Your great ancestor was just a mortal when he was born, and it was probably a coincidence that he became a half-dragon later. Judging from the changes in his bones, I'm afraid he He has been taking dragon blood all the time. In my opinion, he probably never had any real dragon blood, but his body has changed because of long-term consumption of real dragon blood and flesh."

Xiao thought of the legend of Gao Zu beheading the white dragon.

"Could it be that Gaozu was originally a mortal, and after beheading the white dragon, he ate the flesh and blood of the real dragon, and that's why he became like this?"

Qinglong shook his head:

"I have also heard a little about the story of your ancestor Gaozu beheading the white dragon. In this story, Gaozu was a red dragon with a dragon binding rope in his hand, so he beheaded the white dragon. How can a mortal behead the white dragon?" ? Compared with your guess, the statement in this story is a little more reliable."

Xiao came here originally to dispel doubts, but after seeing Gaozu's remains, his doubts deepened.

Qinglong pushed back the coffin lid of Empress Gaozu again, and lowered his head to observe the queen's skeleton.

There are not many records about this queen in the history books, only that she was deeply loved by Gaozu.The concubines in Gaozu's harem were rare, and none of them came out. She alone gave birth to five princes and two princesses.It's just that the princes and princesses she gave birth to were very miserable, except for the two youngest children, Taizong and Taizong's sister and Princess Yuan, all of them died young.

The queen's skeleton didn't look special, it was just an ordinary human being. Qinglong closed the coffin lid after just a few glances, raised his head and said to Xiao:

"We should look elsewhere."

elsewhere?

Xiao was a little dazed, and looked around.Compared with the tombs of ordinary people, this underground palace is indeed much larger.In addition to the central part where the inner and outer coffins are stored, there are four chambers for storing funeral objects.However, these tombs are not too big, as long as you stand at the door, you can see them all at a glance.Xiao really didn't understand where Qinglong was going to see and what.

Oh, by the way, he said before that he once felt a dragon's breath at the gate of the underground palace.But... Xiao turned his head and looked around again:

What is here that can exude dragon energy?It doesn't look like much...

Qinglongzai carefully observed the locations of the four chambers, then went straight to the wall facing the coffin to check.Looking at Qinglong's movements, Xiao also touched the door a little bit:

"You mean, there's a secret room behind here?"

Qinglong nodded and called Xiao over:

"I can feel that the dragon's aura should come from this direction. You can see that the gap between the stone bricks here is a little wider than other places. It may be the secret door. I just don't know where the mechanism is. place."

Xiao Xiao heard what Qinglong said, and immediately started looking for the mechanism.The light under the underground palace is very dim, but Xiao has been in for a while, enough to see the small corners clearly.He searched for places that seemed inconsistent, and finally found that there was a brick with a strange size and position. He was about to go forward to try it, but he heard the sound of a boulder moving, and then the voice of Qinglong came from there:

"Let's go in."

Xiao raised his head, only to realize that Qinglong had found the direction to open and close the secret door, and pushed the secret door open with brute force.

……

Well, that's fine too.

Xiao followed Qinglong into the secret door, only to find that behind the secret door was a rather large room, its size second only to the part of the underground palace where the coffins were stored.In the center of the room, there is a white keel.

To be precise, there is actually only one skull here, but the other parts of the dragon's body don't know where to go.

However, a dragon head alone is already quite big. Xiao stood next to the dragon head and compared it. The height of the dragon head was more than two feet higher than his height.

Xiao has seen the appearance of Qinglong when it was restored to its original form, and the huge Qinglong is amazing.The skeleton of the huge foreign body in front of him gave people a strange sense of solemnity. He stretched out his hand to touch the skeleton lightly, and asked softly:

"This is……"

"This should be the skeleton of the white dragon mentioned in the story." Qinglong stood opposite the skull and said calmly, "You can pay attention to the section - this head was severed by someone."

To be able to cut off the head of such a huge white dragon with a single knife requires not only the astonishing divine power, Xiao recalled the bones he saw in Gaozu's coffin just now, and doubts arose in his heart:

Can that person... really do it?

No matter how you think about it, it feels very forced.

After thinking for a while, Xiao put this unanswerable question to the back of his mind, and turned his head to ask Qinglong:

"The dragon aura you mentioned before should come from the white dragon skull here, right?"

Qinglong didn't respond, neither nodded nor shook his head, just frowned, as if thinking about some problem.

"Mr. Qing?"

After being called by name, Qinglong suddenly raised his head to look at Xiang Xiao, and said:

"What I want to say is that this is the strangest thing. When I found the dragon aura at the entrance of the underground palace before, I felt that if the dragon aura can be transmitted so far, it is almost certain that there is a living dragon here. Now I follow the dragon aura So far, only this skull has been found. It's not quite right, and I figured there must be something else here that I haven't found."

Xiao couldn't feel any dragon aura, so he didn't quite understand what Qinglong said, so he could only stand aside and watch Qinglong approach the dragon's skull for a while, mutter something to himself for a while, walk out of the secret room for a while, He ran to the wall to look again.Xiao watched Qinglong fiddle with it for a while, and finally said:

"There is also a secret room inside."

There is actually a secret room here?Xiao stared blankly at the cracks in the wall, trying to find traces of the secret door from the cracks in the stone bricks, but found nothing.

"It's useless. According to my inference, when the wall was built, no secret door was installed."

No secret door installed?What kind of operation is this?Didn't people intend to enter this secret room from the time it was built?

But if you think about it carefully, this is the imperial mausoleum after all, and no one would normally come here.Before Gaozu died, he hid some things here that he didn't want people to know, and it's probably not a strange thing to have people build up the wall to death.

Xiao wanted to understand this, and looked up at Qinglong again.Qinglong is eager to try and prepare to demolish the wall at this moment, Xiao Xiao always feels a little uncomfortable when he thinks that he brought outsiders to demolish the underground palace in his ancestral mausoleum, and finally speaks out to dissuade him:

"This is the imperial mausoleum, don't make too much noise."

"Don't worry." Long said, "I will be careful and make sure that the guards outside won't hear me."

This is not what Xiao wanted to express. After thinking about it, he finally felt that this was not enough, and said tactfully:

"Well... it is my ancestors who are buried here. You demolished the wall... isn't it good? Will it affect Feng Shui?"

"It doesn't matter, I will put the stone bricks back later."

Qinglong's words successfully sealed Xiao's mouth, and Xiao no longer objected.To be honest, Xiao himself was actually quite curious, what exactly was hidden in this tightly sealed secret room?

Qinglong saw that Xiao didn't say anything anymore, so he asked him to take a few steps back, stood in front of the wall, clenched his fists with both hands, and hit the wall hard.

The originally seemingly solid wall shattered under the blow of Qinglong, releasing a lot of dust, revealing the dark room inside.Xiao stood opposite and held the lantern. He was far away, and the little light of the lantern could not reach that far. He took two steps forward cautiously, trying to see clearly what was in the dark room.

But it was useless, the opening made by Qinglong was not too big, and he only took two steps forward, and the light from the lantern still couldn't reach there.

Xiao swallowed.

He took another two steps forward, and then stopped. At this time, the surrounding area was extremely quiet, except for his and Qinglong's breathing, there was no other sound at all...

wrong!Xiao suddenly realized that what he heard...was not just the breathing of him and Qinglong.

The sound was heavier than his and Qinglong's breathing, and Xiao suddenly realized that there was really something alive on the other side of the wall.Maybe...that was a dragon.

He flinched and didn't dare to go any further, but at this moment, he heard a female voice coming from the black hole, hesitantly asked a name:

"...Chongjia?"

The author has something to say:

I'm flattered that people have been so enthusiastic about throwing mines at me lately.It stands to reason that it should be added, but my old waist really doesn't allow it.I can only thank everyone here empty-mouthed. If the big money owners who have voted for mine have any extras they want to watch, they can come up with them, and I will think about them in advance.