Hibiscus Flower West Moon Splendid

Chapter 125 Is it from the same root (2)
We walked into the tunnel in the middle and entered a dim passage.The dark green torches, like will-o'-the-wisps, shone seductively. There were colorful murals on both sides of the passage and the top wall. There were men and women in the paintings, with gorgeous and complicated clothes, and noble expressions. Some parts of the whole murals were weathered, and their faces were somewhat Unclear, it can be seen that it has a long history.

Along the way, I slowly found that no matter how the scene changes in the murals in the passage, how the clothes of the characters change, but the protagonists are always just a man and a woman. The painting describes how they met and cherished each other by the river, and finally Married, the bride sat on a long and sharp-toothed mythical beast, much like the monster that attacked me in the crude oil pool. The bride had a pair of melancholy and beautiful wine-red eyes, and several passionflowers adorned her head.

I shivered and insisted on reading one by one, but when I reached the last giant portrait, I stopped involuntarily.The man in the painting looks like a Turkic man, wearing a golden crown with the Ashina clan emblem on his head. He has the obvious characteristics of a Ashina man in his appearance. He has a high nose and deep eyes, is handsome, masculine and domineering, but his eyes are brown. Sitting on a golden wolf-headed throne with a stalwart figure, there is a woman from the Central Plains sitting on her knees. She is dressed in a harem red dress, with slender eyebrows and long eyes. what to look for.I see that the inscription is written in ancient Turkic language, and Ashina Bidulu and Ami will never be separated.

In the past few months, I have devoted myself to studying Turkic history books, and learned that Ashina Bidulu was the ancestor of the Ashina family. He was originally a forging slave of Loulan. The famous Great Turkic Empire.I remember reading the documents written by Ashina Bidhulu. The strokes are bold and powerful, which is very similar to the inscription on this mural. It is very likely that Ashina Bidulu wrote the inscription himself.

As for the woman, I never seem to have seen the word Ami in the book, nor have I heard it mentioned by any palace people. It may be because of her bloodlines that she did not become a Turkic queen in the end, so her name is also in history. Disappeared in the flood.

I vaguely remember that the founding emperor in the official history of the Turks, Ashina Bidulu, was passed down with the image of wine-eyed and red-haired. Turkic people once proudly claimed that their ancestors were the descendants of the wolf god and the god of fire, so they were born with wine-eyed red hair hair, but here is brown hair and brown eyes?Since the subsequent generations are all Jiutong, it is very likely that this concubine named Ami, her descendants will eventually become the next Turkic emperor. In order to cover up the embarrassment of blood, they falsified history!

However, no matter how later generations change the history books, history is always history, and this king still proved this love with his own fanaticism.Since ancient times, no matter which era or country, it is such an honor to be included in the same portrait as the king, which means that she or he will follow the king and pass it on to future generations.Especially for a foreign woman, if the painting on paper is not properly protected, it will be difficult to last for a long time, but the murals full of caves can be preserved for thousands of years. Deep, I took a closer look and couldn't help being startled.This woman is actually very similar to the female Feitian in the Flying Flute Dance on the murals of the Dark Palace in Ziqi Mountain Villa.

Passiflora, a woman from the Central Plains with red eyes, and the female Feitian in the Feitian flute dance!

Suspicious, I stepped forward in a strange manner, touched the face of the wine-eyed woman with my hand, and stroked it gently.I don't know what happened to me, but suddenly the eyes of the wine-eyed woman suddenly turned pale yellow, as if she had come alive and stared at me coldly, I was so scared that I fell to the ground.

Qi Fang ran over and looked at the giant mural with all his guard.The woman named Ami looked at us silently and solemnly, and then soft words came out.My hairs stood up one by one, but Qi Fang walked over to have a look, and soon smiled and waved to me.I climbed up boldly and suspiciously, and leaned forward, only to find that Ami's eyes turned out to be a pair of surveillance holes, and the pale yellow light was shining through her eye sockets from the other side of the palace wall.

I held my breath, but saw that the room was rich and luxurious, with red silk tents, thousands of feet high, studded with pearls and diamonds, so gorgeous that it made people blush and heartbeat.There was a bald young man standing beside him, who was the chief eunuch whom he had met once, Yiming from Ashina's family.

Someone rushed in to report, and Yiming said softly to the account, a woman crawled out of the account naked, with skin as white as snow, breasts and buttocks, sexy and provocative, it was Ah Sina Gulia.

My heart moved, since ancient times, there have been three thousand faces in the harem of empresses, presumably Ashina Guliya's lover is in the tent.

Two maids came to cover her with a snow veil, and the mature body was half exposed, adding to the temptation. Yiming leaned over and whispered in her ear, and her complexion changed.

"What happened?" A man's voice, with a hint of aftertaste after passion.

Ashina Gulia glanced at Yiming, and Yiming walked down immediately.

I was taken aback, ah, isn't this the cold-hearted Guo Erren?
The curtain moved slightly, and Guo Erren's lower body was wrapped in a thin layer of gauze, and he came out, looking at the Empress Dowager suspiciously.

"Saruer just met an assassin at the erotic palace, where your good daughter is." The Empress looked at Guo Erren coldly and said.

"Has Your Majesty ever been injured?" Guo Erren frowned, "Has the assassin been caught?"

"Only one of them committed suicide, but this assassin's weapon was poisonous, and that poison was actually the ant poison prepared by a strange person invited by your Huoba family." The empress's eyes were sharp. The arrow shot at Guoerren.

Guo Erren stood there in a daze with a hurt expression on his face. After a while, he said with difficulty: "Gu Liya, do you think I sent someone to assassinate His Majesty..."

The empress interrupted him abruptly, and shouted loudly: "Bold Guoerren, you dare to call me by my name and still not kneel down!"

Heartbroken, Guo Erren said angrily: "Guerren asks himself that loyalty is the main thing, what is wrong with it? Even if the old minister has mischief in his heart, he will not be so stupid. He spent a good night with the empress in the palace, but turned around and sent someone If someone assassinates His Majesty, the assassin will leave traces, which will spoil my affairs."

"Then tell me, how did your family's secret poison spread out?"

"Guo Erren is naked now, please His Majesty let the old minister get dressed so that we can investigate the matter."

The Empress suddenly pulled out her naked dagger from the tent, and said to Guo Erren, "Please also ask Master Ye Hu to sit with me in the Winter Palace for a while, so that I can send warriors to investigate this matter."

Guo Erren had a cold sharp blade in his throat, and his face was full of sadness, "The old minister has spent half his life working for the mistress, why does the mistress not trust the old minister so much?"

"Why?" The empress sneered, "Because your daughter is desperately blowing the pillow wind in Saruer's ear, trying to give me palace advice, blaming me for not giving Saruer real power after I abdicate. And you As soon as you arrived in Gongyue City, you opposed the establishment of Buddhism as the state religion. Guoerren, your heart has changed now."

"Then Your Majesty cried in my arms just now, is that happy smile fake?" Guo Erren smiled miserably, "I thought that my infatuation for half my life would finally move Your Majesty and make the Mistress Your Majesty smiled for me, it turned out that everything was false."

He looked at her in pain. In the blink of an eye, Guo Erren had already struck at the empress's wrist, and with a slight twist, the precious blade fell into Guo Erren's hand, and it was instead pointed at the empress's wrist. Throat.

The empress calmed down for a moment, her nobility remained the same, Jiu Tong looked at Guo Erren and sneered, "The Huoba family is now the largest family, and it seems to overwhelm my Ashina family. Now, I am in your hands, please Ye Hu hurry up, but you don't want to force me to write an edict to abolish Saruer."

Guo Erren's hands trembled more and more, his face twisted in pain, he swung the dagger abruptly, and said loudly: "Who on earth is pushing people too hard, Gu Liya? It was you who broke our vow first and fell in love with that damned The original Qingjiang, did I ever have the slightest heart of betrayal?" Guo Erren's cold face became agitated, "Everyone says that Guo Erren is a dog under Ashina Guliya's crotch, but you But you said I was going to kill your son, and that I was going to give you palace advice? Gu Liya, it's your heart that has changed."

Guoerren said sadly: "For you, I have never married a woman in my life. When did I enjoy family happiness? For you, I will take care of you and the former Qingjiang's precious son, and I have been the former Qingjiang's slave for seven whole years. For you, I don't care how others laugh at me, I really became your dog, and kept calming down the tribes that didn't accept your rule, and gave up the ambition of a man to open up territories. But my so many years What did you get for the sacrifice? Without your edict, I couldn't even enter Gongyue City to see you. Because of the suspicion of those cowards of the Taihuang Party, I even forbid my tribe to drive livestock to graze near Gongyue City. Do suspect that I came to harm Khan. He is Yuan Qingjiang’s son, but I watched him grow up. Isn’t he my son in my heart? I really want to betray Ashina’s family. The family has been easy in the past few years! Gu Liya, Gu Liya," Guo Erren called out the name of the empress with tears in his mouth, "do you really want to open Guo Erren's heart to see how much he treats you? Are you sincere? Forget it, Guo Erren is here, you stab me to death, let me accompany the late emperor, don’t ever see you, a woman with a heart of stone.”

I was not moved when I heard it.For a woman to have such a man who loves her to death, this life is really not in vain!

But seeing Guo Erren turned his back with a face full of pain, he really didn't look at the Empress Dowager, only saw his shoulders twitch, unbearable grief and anger.

The empress gradually calmed down, her angry eyebrows were lowered, and she gently hugged Guo Erren from behind.

"I'm sorry, Guoer," the empress suddenly cried bitterly behind Guoerren, "Maybe I did fall in love with the handsome and domineering Yuan Qingjiang when I was young, but the years have made me mature, and you miss me day and night, Don’t I understand the pain of lovesickness?”

Guo Erren turned around slowly, with a face full of surprise, watching the empress's beautiful eyes begin to shine with the light of love.

"Your tribe is the strongest. If you don't enter Gongyue City, you won't let other tribes have the opportunity to criticize you and take the opportunity to reduce our strength. Guoer, I understand why you want to oppose my promotion of Buddhism in public, but since the first emperor, The people in the grasslands are in constant disputes, Moniahe expropriates and extorts money, and the people are in dire straits. Since Saruer came to the throne, he has resorted to militarism and unified the eastern and western Turks. Guoer, the people should rest."

Guo Erren stretched out his strong arms, hugged the empress with a sigh, and gradually calmed down his anger.

The empress leaned gently on his chest, weeping and said: "You and I have been separated for so many years. After Saruer came to power, because of the political situation, we still couldn't stay together forever. This life wasted ten years in a blink of an eye. But How many ten years are left in our life. Guoer, don’t leave me again, those people can say what they want, stay with me, and don’t leave me again.”

Guo Erren gently wiped away the empress's tears, and kept nodding to her every time she said a word, but she couldn't hold back her tears.

The empress suddenly said fearfully: "I've been having nightmares recently, and Moniah's disgusting appearance always appears before my eyes. Gore, I'm terrified in my heart, I... I'm old, so stay with me Have a few days of peace."

"Nonsense, you won't grow old, you will always be the most beautiful Gu Liya in my heart, the most beautiful and great goddess on the grassland." Guo Erren's affectionate words gradually faded away, drowned in whispers to his lover.

The two figures returned to the red gauze tent, cuddling each other tightly, and I vaguely heard Ashina Guliya panting softly: "Gol, I want to give birth to a child for you."

I turned my eyes away to avoid this restricted-rated picture.Facing Qi Fang's puzzled face, I coughed dryly in secret, turned my head to look again with a solemn face, but there were two faint red eyes in front of me, huh?When did the hidden door close, was it still automatic?

Suddenly, without warning, we plummeted again.

After some time, I woke up faintly, only to see that I was in a dark tunnel, with a faint green light in front of my eyes, and Qi Fang was lying beside me, with blood on my arm.I tried my best to get up slowly, but I felt like my whole body was falling apart. I shook Qi Fang, and Qi Fang frowned and opened his eyes.

"How about Xiao Fang?" I asked nervously.

Qi Fang immediately replied steadily: "Master, don't worry, it's just a skin injury." He also stood up.

I took out the silk and simply bandaged him up.We looked around, surrounded by a thin black underground river, with a faint green light shining in front of us, we decided to move towards the light.

A pungent and familiar smell gradually floated out of the underground river.Along the way, I dipped my fingers in the thin black underground river, and it really was crude oil.The further we went, the thicker the stream became, and I became suspicious. It seemed that where we were going was rich in crude oil deposits.Maybe the ancients didn't know how to really use the liquid gold in the future, but the fact that oil is flammable is obviously clear.Why did you build Gongyue City and this underground palace in a flammable place?
Could it be that the designers and builders of the palace discovered that there was crude oil underground after construction started?

Could it still be an ancient tofu dregs project?

Is it because they are afraid that the ruler will take the anger out on all the craftsmen in a fit of anger, and bite the bullet and continue to build, so they use the method of circulating pool to relieve the oil spray and draw out the oil more gently?
Or, in this palace, like the dark palace under Xi'an Ziqi Villa, there is an earth-shattering secret buried, the secret related to the change of dynasties.So the rulers used this oil mine to make second-hand preparations. If there was an emergency, whether it was due to the possessive mentality of the feudal ruling nobles or the purpose of burying the secret underground forever, they would rather set fire to the entire mine. Gongyue Palace is not allowed to be occupied by anyone.

The closer the green light is, the thicker the eerie rancid stench, and the gleaming green sparks float over, like the messenger of death.

Qi Fang whispered to me: "This is a will-o'-the-wisp, master, be careful not to touch any unlucky things."

The ancients called phosphorus fire a ghost fire, but it is not too much.In the past few years, I have traveled far and wide, and there are many cemeteries of rocks, barren mountains and wild places, where there are not bones everywhere, and phosphorous fires everywhere.

The color of the ground began to change, turning red and black, as if blood had solidified, and the smell of crude oil in the air was also mixed with a disgusting smell of blood.

After a turn, the stream turned into a dark pool at the end.Qi Fang and I raised our heads and stayed there immediately. The two of us couldn't speak anymore. I couldn't help bending down and retching.

I saw layers of corpses piled up into hills. Looking at the clothes, there are Han people, Turkic people, Loulan people, Shiche people and other ethnic groups. The biggest hill of corpses is facing us. , is more than two meters high, and the phosphorous fire surrounds us coldly.Trembling all over my body, I kept stepping back, touched a piece of softness in my hand, and turned my head in shock, only to see a purple passionflower grinning at me, just like the terrible nightmare in my mind.

However, the petals of this passionflower are purple and red, and several blood-red stamens are drawn out from the center of the flower. Lotus flower and its vine branches.On the top of the largest hill of bones, a corpse dressed in the clothes of a Turkic palace sits crookedly, supporting the skull with rotting skin and flesh weakly. Thick vines crawl in and out of the skull's mouth. A huge passionflower bloomed in the empty eye sockets, looking at us gloomyly with the ghosts around it.

Qi Fang's face was also a little pale.

(End of this chapter)