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Chapter 374 Chapter 471~472

A group of seven people walked to the depths of the dark cave amidst the huge roar of the waterfall. The dim light from the torches in their hands was not enough to illuminate them at all, so they could only walk cautiously, stepping deep and stepping shallowly.

The further you go, the sound of the deafening waterfall becomes quieter. There seems to be light coming in from the front, and the wind blowing in front of you swirls, and the hairs of the people who blow it stand on end. On the other side of the waterfall, I can only rub my arms to keep myself warm.

Jun Lanzhou kept holding her hand, and seeing that she was trembling badly, he took off his plain white robe and jacket and put it on her shoulders, and hugged her shoulders again, passing on the warmth continuously.

Ruan Yunting hurriedly shook her head and wanted to take off her robe: "I'm not cold, don't freeze!" In such a gloomy cave, how could he wear only a middle coat, even the hardest man would freeze to death.

But Jun Lanzhou shook his head, hugged Ruan Yunting's hand and squeezed her arm secretly, his eyes, which were extraordinarily bright in the dark secret passage, looked around vigilantly.

Ruan Yunting's gaze was also attracted by the increasingly bright exit ahead, "There really is an exit ahead.":
"But I don't know if there is any danger inside." Xiao Beishu said.

"Don't go there rashly. Where the dragon veins are, there must be many traps to prevent people from intruding." The emperor walked at the end of the line, and then ordered a guard to explore the way forward. Xiao Beishu.

Ruan Yunting and Jun Lanzhou looked at each other, feeling even more nervous.No one knows how the mechanism in the secret passage is designed, and who knows if there will be poisonous crossbow arrows waiting for them at the next corner.

Not long after, a group of people walked out of the opening about two doors wide, looking at the scenery in front of them, everyone was stunned.

The goal is a small valley covered with green grass, about ten feet in diameter, oval in shape, the grass is full of unknown light purple and yellow small wild flowers, colorful butterflies are dancing, surrounded by steep mountains covered with vines The wall, about twenty feet high, divides the blue sky into an irregular oval.

"I can't believe that this place is located in the worm mountain!" The emperor couldn't help but marvel.

The whole group was so amazed, all the scenery in the valley was clear at a glance, and some wild animals were found.The warm wind with the fragrance of flowers blows towards her face, the jacket that Ruan Yunting was wearing just couldn't wear it anymore, and a thin layer of sweat protruded from her forehead.

"It's cold outside, and the place is as warm as spring. If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't believe it." A dark blue butterfly lightly landed on her shoulder.Ruan Yunting couldn't help smiling happily.Before reaching out to touch her, the butterfly flew into her hair again.

"Is this exactly what is shown on the treasure map?" The emperor looked back at Xiao Beishu.

I was in the cave just now, and I couldn't see the road clearly, and of course I couldn't see Xiao Beishu's face clearly. Now under the sun, I found a lot of blood seeping out from the bandage on his left arm, which had dried up and turned brown. There are no traces, and his face is even more blue and white with a dark yellow. He was originally a very handsome person, but now his face is full of lifelessness.

Ruan Yunting stepped forward to support him worriedly, "Brother Xiao, are you okay?" Being bitten by a wild wolf, how do you know there is no virus?In ancient times, there was no vaccine, and it hurt the large blood vessels... Ruan Yunting felt a little guilty. If he hadn't helped her block that blow, she would be the one who was injured now.

"It's okay." Xiao Beishu smiled gratifiedly, lightly brushed Ruan Yunting's hand away, stood proudly with his back straight, and looked at the emperor contemptuously: "If you don't believe me, the emperor can go find the treasure by himself." Without the consciousness that he is now captured by the emperor.

The emperor sneered and said, "Of course I'm looking for it. Go and have a look."

"According to the order."

One guard stayed by the emperor's side, and the other two began to search along the mountain wall from the right side of the cave entrance. The mountain was covered with green vines. The two guards carefully lifted up the plants with their sabers to inspect the mountain wall. Crouching down to inspect the grass, not missing an inch.

Ruan Yunting and Jun Lanzhou watched the surrounding movement carefully, and after a while, they saw the two of them staying together, and said loudly: "Your Majesty, there is a mechanism here!"

Hearing the words, the emperor rushed over in big strides.Ruan Yunting, Jun Lanzhou and Xiao Beishu followed.

Two guards cut off the vines, revealing the closed stone door, with uneven totem marks on the door, like an ancient pattern.

The emperor and Xiao Beishu were overjoyed, their eyes lit up, one left and one right arrived in front of the stone gate, regardless of whether there was dirt or dust on the door, they carefully checked whether there were traps on the pattern.

"Is this where the dragon veins are?" Ruan Yunting looked back at Jun Lanzhou.

Jun Lanzhou nodded, and said suspiciously: "This is completely different from what I originally guessed."

"You guessed it?"

"Since it is a dragon's vein, it must be heavily guarded, but you see, this mountain stone gate is nothing more than a hidden place, and there are no hidden devices installed around it. Apart from a coincidence after we entered the waterfall with Brother Bei, No other troubles have been encountered. If the person who created the dragon's veins is extremely confident in the concealment of this cave hidden behind the waterfall, or he is sure that no one can open this door."

Jun Lanzhou turned his head, looked at the quiet and comfortable valley, and said quietly: "Where does this place look like a place to hide treasures? I want to live in seclusion."

"Yes." Ruan Yunting also felt the same way. There are natural barriers around this valley, and there are plenty of water and grass. If you build a three-arrow hut, plant some vegetables, raise some livestock, and go outside for shopping on weekdays, that will be the real quiet enjoyment. .

"There are organs here!"

Just thinking about this, the emperor suddenly exclaimed, and saw him snatch the saber from the guard's hand, and cut off the hanging vine on the right side of the stone gate.

Ruan Yunting and Jun Lanzhou approached quickly, and saw some small squares the size of fingernails on the upper end of a square sunken area. Strange symbols were engraved on the squares, but there was a circular groove underneath. The concave and convex parts carved are exactly in line with the bat pattern jade pendant.

"What kind of symbol is this?" The emperor frowned suspiciously.

"Looks familiar." Jun Lanzhou murmured forward, touched the dusty symbols with her fingertips, and found that the small squares seemed to be loose and could move along the slideway inside, and there was a groove under the slideway , which fit exactly seven inscribed cubes side by side.

Xiao Beishu also discovered this, and said: "I have seen these symbols in ancient books, and they seem to have been handed down from the time of Empress Xiuyan, and they represent auspiciousness."

"No, these symbols look a bit like the characters of Dayi Kingdom." Jun Lanzhou looked at Ruan Yunting inquiringly: "Ting'er, what do you think?"

Ruan Yunting pursed her lips, hesitated and said nothing.She was really stunned just now, because those symbols that looked strange to ancient people were actually the 26 English letters in cursive capital letters that modern people are familiar with.

Could it be that the secret of the treasure is related to the people of Dayi?Ruan Yunting fell into deep thought.

"Never mind him!" The emperor was impatient: "Since you have the key, you can open the stone gate. What are you waiting for!"

As soon as the emperor gave an order, two guards restrained Xiao Beishu, found the sapphire rune jade pendant from his body and handed it to the emperor, and then took Xiao Beishu to the left and right.

Assassin Xiao Beishu's complexion had already turned brown, his whole body was weak, and his eyes were blackened in bursts. It was impossible to struggle, but he was still not reconciled. He laughed and said, "Be careful, there will be hidden weapons when you put the key carefully."

"Written like this on the map?" asked the emperor sharply.

Xiao Beishu averted his eyes, looked at Ruan Yunting, and grinned cheerfully as if the prank was half successful.

For some reason, Ruan Yunting suddenly felt sad.It is impossible to say that she does not hate Xiao Beishu for wanting to kill Jun Lanzhou.But Xiao Beishu just saved her life.Moreover, if he hadn't been injured, he might not be restrained by the emperor now.Rationally, she felt that the emperor's victory would be a good thing for Han Su and Jun Lanzhou's revenge, because if Xiao Beishu wins, the political situation in the court will change, there may be developments that are not conducive to them, and the situation will get out of control.Emotionally, she felt that Xiao Beishu was seriously injured because he saved her, and lost the strength to fight against the emperor.

The emperor ignored the two and strode forward.Seeing this, the guards rushed to replace the emperor, but the emperor did not refuse, and handed the jade pendant to the guards.

The guard carefully aligned the bat-patterned jade pendant with the groove of the pattern. The groove was really finely carved, and the jade pendant was just embedded in it, perfectly fitting.

Everyone backed away nervously, staring at Shimen intently, but after waiting for a while, there was a ticking metal sound coming from the valley, but Shimen didn't move at all!

"What's going on!" The emperor pushed away the guards and went forward to take off the jade pendant in person, suspecting that there was something wrong, but he had worked so hard that his nails were split open, and the jade pendant was still tattooed. It didn't move at all, it was perfectly embedded in the air strike, as if it was just one.

The door is right in front of you, and the key is put in, but the door just won't open!

The anger in the emperor's heart could no longer be described in words, and he grabbed Xiao Beishu's lapel angrily: "Say, what steps have not been taken! Tell me!"

Xiao Beishu laughed loudly, and the laughter echoed in the valley, covering the repeated "dick-tick-tick" sound.

"You are the emperor of the current dynasty, the Ninth Five-Year Lord, and you actually ask me how to open this traitor's dragon vein? Tell everyone to listen, isn't it funny!?

"You!" The emperor's face flushed red, as if those unbearable memories that had been buried in the depths of his memory for a long time flooded up, and his eyes became crazy: "I am the emperor, the master of the Liang Kingdom, and everyone in this world My dragon veins are naturally mine too!"

"Really? It's yours. Why didn't the emperor tell you how to open the dragon's veins when he passed on the throne to you? Why don't you have a key and a treasure map?! You murdered my father, and Lanzhou's father, from your The brothers have won the country, but they don’t know how to be grateful, and instead repay their kindness with revenge! You are also worthy of being a king, worthy of being the master of this world?!"

"Shut up, your father is a traitor, and after you become a traitor, I will kill you now!"

"Then you come and kill me! Let's see if you kill me, who else will overthrow your power!"

……

The two uncles and nephews were arguing red-faced. This was the first time that the emperor indirectly admitted the fact that he had usurped the throne and ascended to the Great Treasure in front of outsiders.

The three guards deliberately stayed far away, not to listen to the royal secret.It is enough for them to know that their allegiance is the emperor.

However, Jun Lanzhou found that when the emperor and Xiao Beishu were arguing, Ruan Yunting was always listening.

It turned out that after the jade pendant was put into the groove, the ticking metal sound never stopped, but the sound gradually became weaker.

"Ting'er, you..."

"Shh."

Ruan Yunting made a silent gesture, walked towards the stone gate, and listened carefully. Then, like playing Huarong Road, she began to move the small squares carved with English letters the size of a fingernail.

Ruan Yunting is not a erudite Confucian, but she likes to read detective novels in modern times, which often mentions a kind of code - Morse code. For a period of time, she once studied the Morse code in some miscellaneous books, Knowing the principle of its expression, although not proficient, the voice echoing in the valley is only repeating several sounds, which respectively mark the letters H, O, N, G, X, I, U, and in the jade pendant petition , indeed there is a groove that accommodates seven small cubes.

The emperor and Xiao Beishu stopped arguing. Just like Jun Lanzhou, she watched Ruan Yunting nervously and strangely playing with the strange symbols on it. Gradually, she first moved the H down and placed it in the seven grooves. The first position of , followed by O, N...

When all seven seats were filled, the ticking sound stopped abruptly, and the sound of an old mechanism turning came from behind the stone gate.

"Crack, creak..."

"The door is open!" The emperor shouted in surprise, Ruan Yunting really had a secret hidden in her body, since she knew how to open the code of the stone gate!

Xiao Beishu looked at Ruan Yunting with strange eyes. He knew that Ruan Yunting had some fantastic ideas, but how could he get them? Not only did she have the key to enter the dragon vein, but she also knew how to open the stone gate. Just now he had been intentionally angering the emperor, and he himself didn't know how to open the door.

Jun Lanzhou hugged Ruan Yunting and retreated, while the other three guards were protecting the emperor.

The stone gate rose slowly, gradually revealing the neat black marble floor inside the gate. The hearts of the emperor, Xiao Beishu, and Jun Lanzhou were all in their throats, and there was no time to wonder why Ruan Yunting could open the stone gate.

The sound brought to the machine stopped completely, and the stone gate had completely risen to the top. Emperor Bo hurriedly urged the guards to enter, followed by himself, Xiao Beishu again, and finally Ruan Yunting and Jun Lanzhou.

Walking through the front hall covered with black marble floor, there are steps about one foot wide and one foot deep in front of you.The further down, the dimmer the light, and then, everyone came to the square cave.There are eight octagonal palace lanterns placed in the four corners of the hall. On the lamp sockets are fist-sized night pearls, dutifully emitting green light, dimly illuminating the scenery in the cave.

When Ruan Yunting saw all this, she was completely stunned and stood on the steps stupidly.The strange things in the cave seemed to the ancients, but she was very familiar with them.

The combination sofa made of rosewood looks like a modern one. The tea table and TV cabinet are also made vividly. On the TV cabinet is a wood-carved LCD TV. Digital camera... At the foot of the wall stands a rosewood wardrobe with a floor-to-ceiling mirror inlaid on it. It is not the bronze mirror used in this era, but a real mirror. Next to the wardrobe is a wooden sewing machine...

All the furnishings in the room are modern items!

Perhaps because of the age, these wooden furniture have already exuded a musty smell, and some of them have even decayed, but they stand there alive, showing the fact to Ruan Yunting that the owner of the legendary dragon vein is definitely a modern people!Non-modern people, who would have thought that the door lock should use Morse code?Who would furnish Shandong to look like a modern bedroom and living room?
"Where's the treasure? Where's the treasure!?" The emperor eagerly searched the entire cave, but didn't find what he expected to see: "Where's the 'telescopic mirror'? Where's the 'Thunderbolt'? Why isn't there any?!"

Like the emperor, Xiao Beishu also had crazy eyes, looking around.

Suddenly, a leading guard said: "Your Majesty, there is a secret room here!"

"Open it up and let me see!"

The guard pushed open the double stone door hidden behind the combined wardrobe with bare hands, but there was no Ye Mingzhu inside the door.The emperor ordered people to take three palace lanterns inlaid with luminous pearls for lighting, and several people walked into the inner room together.

The inner room is obviously a tomb, and there are three coffins placed side by side in front of the public. The coffin in the middle is green and transparent, exuding a hazy mist, and the two sides are ordinary sarcophagi.

"Cold Jade Coffin!" Jun Lanzhou exclaimed.

"You recognize?" Ruan Yunting raised her head and asked.

Jun Lanzhou nodded and said: "I have read about the cold jade coffin in the master's medical book. It is said that the master took a thousand years of cold jade from the extreme north to forge it. Putting it in a cold jade coffin can keep the corpse immortal for thousands of years."

"Really?"

"Quick, get all the Ye Mingzhu!"

The emperor issued an order, and the three guards went back and forth several times, and took all the luminous pearls illuminated from the outside to the inner room. The area of ​​the inner room was originally small, but now it is brightly illuminated by the green light. At this moment, several people can see clearly. There are three portraits hanging on the wall. The painting techniques are amazing, and the people are depicted very realistically, as if they are in front of their eyes. The emperor, Xiao Beishu and Jun Lanzhou, three people who are proficient in painting, can't help but feel inferior.

Ruan Yunting knew that it was a sketch.

The portrait on the far left depicts a handsome man with willow brows and phoenix eyes. The corners of the eyes and eyebrows are slightly sickly, but the smile on the corners of his lips is a bit scheming. The smile is very pampering and happy.The portrait in the middle is a beautiful woman, with eyebrows like distant mountains, eyes like autumn water, and a toothy grin, which makes people feel very amiable and approachable.On the right side of the portrait of the woman, there is a portrait of a beautiful man with a sword eyebrow and melancholy eyes. On the signatures of these three paintings, the word "He Yan" is written in Diubi's less stroked characters.

Ruan Yunting also knew that it was in simplified characters.

"Could it be that these three people are the Emperor Taizu, Empress Xiuyan and the genius doctor who are dying to save them?" Jun Lanzhou said.

Several people walked towards the cold jade coffin in the middle together. The coffin was covered, and the cold air rose and the mist lingered, making it difficult to see the face of the person inside, but it was vaguely visible that lying inside was a woman in a brocade dress.

The emperor was about to push open the coffin lid.

"Wait a minute." Ruan Yunting said: "The deceased is already dead. Since the one in the coffin is likely to be Empress Xiuyan, why should the emperor disturb her? We have already disrespected them by breaking in."

"What if there is a secret manual for making magical weapons?!" Xiao Beishu disagreed with Ruan Yunting's statement.

The emperor thought the same way. There is no other secret room in this tomb. There are no dragon veins visible. The treasure will come to naught. They have been thinking about the treasure and the legendary magic weapon for so long, and now they finally found the place, but this is the result. , how can you be willing?
As soon as the emperor waved his hand, the three guards immediately stepped forward, using their robe sleeves or the hem of their clothes as pads, and pushed open the lid of the cold jade coffin. , is a beautiful woman who looks to be in her early forties, she is wearing a red Nine Birds Di Yi, and she wears a eight-treasure emerald and pearl phoenix crown on her head. Because of the function of the cold jade coffin, her body is preserved intact, just like the one just now. She closed her eyes and passed away, her eyebrows and temples were covered with frost, but she did not conceal her beautiful appearance and happy smile before she died. If you look carefully at her facial features, she is exactly the person in the painting.

"Mistress Xiuyan!"

The emperor took a few steps back, knelt down solemnly and prostrated, and so did Xiao Beishu and Jun Lanzhou.

Among the three coffins, there is a couple who are the parents of the founding emperor, Han Shaoxing and Zhuge Hongxiu, who lived in seclusion in the strange mountains. In the other coffin, they are the second generation who made Xiuyan Dan. The genius doctor, surnamed Ji, first name Xun Luo.

The story of the three of them is an unknown legend, and no one knows the details, but there have long been rumors in the market that the doctor Ji is infatuated with the empress Xiuyan, and has never been married in his life. The two Xiuyan Pills were supposed to be given to the beloved woman and his wife, but the Xiuyan Empress and his wife refused to take the medicine.After Zhuge Hongxiu left, her husband-in-law Han Shaoxing sat with his body in his arms for a day, and died with a smile on his face. Doctor Ji also died consciously after taking care of the two of them.The mausoleum of the three of them was personally supervised and organized by the founding emperor and Princess Zhenning.

Those were originally legends, not enough to be trusted, but seeing the three coffins in the same hole after death, and seeing the well-preserved Zhuge red embroidery on the corpse in the cold jade coffin, the emperor, Jun Lanzhou and Xiao Beishu all felt sorry for them. moving.

They are all the blood of Empress Xiuyan, and Jun Lanzhou is the great-great-disciple of Divine Doctor Ji, so their origins are naturally not for outsiders.

Ruan Yunting looked at the person in the coffin, and sighed, those details that she thought were strange before finally figured it out now.It turned out that things like crossing didn't happen to her and Ruan Lingyue. The empress Xiuyan who created a generation of legends and is still very influential in Daliang Kingdom is actually a modern person.

After a few people saluted, the emperor outline ordered the lid of the coffin to be closed for Empress Xiuyan to sleep, but there was a letter in Hanyu's coffin.

"Take it out and let me see! The emperor urged."

(End of this chapter)