Love Affairs in Chang’an Chapter 246: The Dragon of Jade Well
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Qin Mubai and Li Ke searched the "palace" for a long time, but found no other suspicious signs. Apart from the stone puppets and figures in the whole hall, there are only some ordinary buildings and ornaments.
Li Ke took a close look at the jade seal and shook his head: "There is nothing to prove the authenticity of this jade seal."
Qin Mubai did not speak, but he heard some overtones in Li Ke's words: He wanted to hide this jade seal privately!
"Why don't you speak?" Li Ke looked at Qin Mubai, his eyes became a little strange.
It is indeed weird, as if there is some vigilance and some guilty conscience. He seemed to be worried that Qin Mubai caught his mind and wanted to hide it as hard as possible, but worried that he could not hide it. He seemed hesitant, hesitant, and a little bit hopeless.
Qin Mubai puffed out the temple gate: "Let them go far."
Li Ke understands, personally stepped forward to drink away the accompanying person, and then walked back and said: "This matter is important, I want to hear your opinion. Don't go around, I want to listen to the truest thoughts."
"My idea is that no matter whether this jade seal is true or false, you must give it to the emperor." Qin Mubai said firmly.
Li Ke raised his brows inadvertently, and said calmly: "Why?"
"The husband is not guilty, and he is guilty of his crime." Qin Mubai only said these eight words.
After listening, Li Ke was silent for a while, and nodded unwillingly: "I understand. But if this is a fake jade seal, and the father is teased by me, will he blame me again? Or perhaps, when the Great Tang Dynasty welcomed Empress Xiao back to the Turks, and at the same time took back the jade seal, the father's emperor was rejoiced. If this piece of jade seal was real... Then what explanation did Empress Xiao brought back from Mobei back then? Didn’t she deceive the monarch, did I harm her again? You know, she is my grandmother."
Qin Mubai nodded and said, "Your concerns are reasonable, but these are not big problems. If we can figure out the origin of this place, we can figure out the twists and turns of this jade seal. At that time, there will be a way to explain it to His Majesty the Emperor, and naturally it will not involve the Empress Xiao. His Royal Highness, no matter what, this jade seal does not belong to you, so you must not rush your mind."
Li Ke pursed his mouth, gritted his teeth, twisted his eyebrows, and nodded.
"I listen to you."
Qin Mubai let out a sigh of relief. Looking at Li Ke's expression, it is absolutely false to say that he does not want to take it privately. Moreover, from the moment he stepped into the hall, Li Ke seemed to have forgotten that he was the prince of Tang Dynasty and the son of Li Shimin; he probably smelled the breath of Yang Guang from the former Sui Dynasty, the emperor of Sui Dynasty who once ruled the world. It seemed that there was still a trace of remaining soul attached to Li Ke's body, making him a little dazed and forgetful.
It's also possible that he is even imagining that if this jade seal is real... does that mean that Li Ke is the true prince of "destined to heaven"? Moreover, this place is so like Yang Guang's mausoleum, he can easily produce a kind of illusion-this jade seal is deliberately left to him by Yang Guang Mingming!
This is undoubtedly a very dangerous signal!
In the past, Qin Mubai knew that Li Ke was definitely not a thing in the pool. To say that he had no ambitions and failed to repay him would definitely be self-deception. But this ambition, this retribution, absolutely cannot come from the lingering wind of the former Sui Dynasty, and it cannot come from the enchantment of Yuxi!
There is no impermeable wall in the world. If Li Ke swallows this jade seal privately-no matter whether the jade seal is true or false, he will die without any doubt!
Li Ke was originally criticized by a group of veterans headed by Changsun Wuji because he was born by the former princess of the Sui Dynasty. He said that he was carrying the "blood of the former Sui Dynasty", which was very unlucky and disadvantaged. In fact, Changsun Wuji's argument is quite absurd, and few people will really believe it. Because blood is from the father, this is custom made throughout the ages. Changsun Wuji's argument is clearly arguing that deer is a horse. His purpose is nothing more than artificially putting a "fake label" on Li Ke, depriving him of the capital of his protagonist, thereby reducing the pressure of his nephew and reducing the enemy's pressure.
However, if Li Ke got a "suspected jade seal" in a "suspected former Sui palace" and concealed it, then he would really dig his own grave, and it would be difficult to survive. Changsun Wuji's remarks will be supported by facts. Although the remnants of the former Sui Dynasty are still unclear, Li Ke is embarrassed, holding the jade seal left by his grandfather, and has bad intentions!
By then, no one really can save him. Even if Li Shimin has always regarded and likes this "English fruit like me" son, he will be killed soon!
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Li Ke held the Yuxi seal and looked at it as he meditated, and suddenly couldn't help but shudder, and said with a trace of panic: "Mu Bai, maybe, we shouldn't explode here!"
"Are you scared?" Qin Mubai said lightly.
Li Ke nodded reluctantly, and said: "It doesn't matter if I offer this jade seal or not. If I offer it, if the jade seal is true, it will cause my grandmother to be deceived; If the jade seal is false, then I will be guilty of deceiving the emperor; if I don’t offer it... then I will definitely die.” “Compare the two, then offer it!” Qin Mubai said, “If the offer is a little clever, it shouldn’t be There will be something."
"How to offer?" Li Ke hurriedly asked.
"First of all, we must find out the true and false of this jade seal." Qin Mubai said, "There is only one way to clarify this matter."
Li Ke frowned and said, "You asked me to find Empress Xiao?"
"Yes." Qin Mubai nodded, "A secret that has been hidden for decades was suddenly discovered. She must have been shocked. But I guess that she is mostly an insider. There is a truth in history. Not necessarily a serious crime. Maybe she was deceived back then?"
"It makes sense." Li Ke apparently heard the "important reminder" from Qin Mubai's words, his eyes lit up, and he nodded and said: "As the saying goes, people who don't know are not guilty, maybe Empress Xiao has been deceived. For many years, I don’t know if the jade seal is true or not? If the jade seal is fake, it would be better to say. In the last years of the Sui Dynasty, everyone could forge the jade seal privately. This may be one of them. So, it can be justified."
"It's just...this palace is really hard to explain." Qin Mubai looked around and muttered, "The average grass bandit against the king, how can the strength to build such a huge underground palace? And, This is not an ordinary mausoleum, but an underground palace imitating the size of the real Jinluang Temple. If you want me to say, this is not a mausoleum at all, but an underground palace."
"Yes, if it's a mausoleum, there should be a jade coffin, but there is no one here. Only these hundreds of civil and military officials made by the clay puppets." Li Ke said as he walked around.
Qin Mubai stretched out his hand and touched the body of the clay puppet. He couldn't help but feel a little surprised, and said: "It's strange, they are actually wearing real armor and official robes!"
"What?" Li Ke was also taken aback, came up to take a closer look, and said in surprise, "Sure enough! When I first came in, I thought these dolls are too realistic. They are wearing real armor and robes. Because of this, I originally thought they were just plated with Ryukold, so realistic!"
While turning his head to speak, there was no weight in his hands, Li Kexin pushed his hand, and a doll unexpectedly fell to the ground.
With a "bang", the puppet hit the ground with a loud noise, and the mud fetus under the armor was actually broken, exposing the deep bones inside!
"Ah!" The two screamed together-"How can this be!"
"Could it be that these dolls were cast from the corpses of real people, then put on armors or official robes, and stood here as the underworld guarding the palace? It's like a monk who passed away and cast his flesh in mud to protect the relic Immortal?" Li Ke said in surprise.
"It's possible!" Qin Mubai took a deep breath, the scene before him was a bit unexpected. He bent down, pulled away the broken mud tires, and found a silver fish charm from the dense white bones. He picked it up and looked at it. There was a word on it-"Take care from the fifth-ranking captain, Cao Huan. "!
"It's really like this!" The two were surprised in unison!
The fish symbol was equivalent to the official’s "identity card" in the former Sui Dynasty. From this fish symbol, it is obvious that the person on the clay puppet is still Yang Guang’s henchman, Lieutenant Fengcha, or Yang Guangzai. When traveling by car, the military attaché who served by the Tongdeng imperial servant!
"Then these people...are also real?" Li Ke was surprised, and wanted to stretch out his hand to knock down another clay puppet.
"Forget it, Your Highness." Qin Mubai stopped him and said, "Even if they are from the former Sui Dynasty, they are rare to protect the Lord loyally to the death, and give their undead a little respect!"
"Hmm..." Li Ke gritted his teeth and nodded, and said, "So, Zhao Chong's grandfather is likely to be one of them. These people may have been with Zhao Chong's grandfather during his lifetime. They came here together and became water bandits in the Juxiao rivers and lakes in Xiangzhou. Later, these people died one after another, and then according to their own agreement, they cast the remains in the mud, and then put on the official robes and armors they had before their lives. As a clay puppet, he continued to guard the palace. It is possible that Zhao Chong’s grandfather did not tell his descendants these secrets. But before he died, he left behind the secrets of the palace and hoped his children and grandchildren would treat him The remains of Zhao Chong were also erected here. It’s a pity that the old man went fast and returned to heaven before he had time to explain it. So he left those treasure maps and verses, which became a secret that has troubled Zhao Chong and his son for more than 20 years! "
"It should be like this." Qin Mubai nodded and sighed, "They should be the diehard loyalists of the former Sui Dynasty. To be more specific, they are the diehard loyalists of Yang Guang, the last emperor of the former Sui Dynasty."
"Mu Bai, then, do you think it is possible that after Emperor Yang was buried in Jiangdu, they secretly carried his corpse here for a new day, and transported the real corpse here for re-burial? Now that they know this place Secretly leave the palace, it is very possible to do this!" Li Ke said, "Seeing that they will stand here to guard loyally after they die. I suspect that there may be the real remains of Emperor Yang here!"
Qin Mubai's eyes lit up: "The words are reasonable, Your Highness is wise!"
"Then let's look for it again? If we really find the real corpse of Emperor Yang, then maybe we can tell the truth of the jade seal!"
"Good!"
The two searched the palace for a long time again, and even the darkest and most inconspicuous small corners were not spared. Unfortunately, they did not find any secret tunnels.
The two looked at each other and shook their heads in disappointment, both of them wanted to give up.
"Maybe we guessed wrong..."
Li Ke was a little tired. He rested on a large jade pillar nearby and said, "I have something that I can't figure out. After the Jiangdu war broke out, Xiao Hou was taken captive by Yu Wenhua and later, and later returned to Dou Jiande. , Was received by the sister of Emperor Yang from the Turk’s Yazhang who lived in Yudu Jinshan for decades. It is said that she took the jade seal with her when she went to Mobei, so I doubt how she hid the jade seal , And did not fall into the hands of Dou Jiande, Yu Wenhua and other ambitious generations, and can keep the Turks from being suppressed by the Tang Dynasty until they are brought back to the Central Plains and dedicated to my father?"
"Yes!" Qin Mubai said in surprise, "Could it be that... Dou Jiande, Yu Wenhua and the Turkic Khan and others all know that the jade seal in her hand is fake, so they are not interested in taking it for themselves. Yes?"
"So to speak!..." Li Ke's eyes widened, "Is...Is the real thing?"
"Wait, there is another possibility." Qin Mubai said, "That is, at first, there was no such thing as a jade seal in the hands of Queen Xiao. Only a few years ago, a jade seal appeared out of thin air in her hand. , Of course, it is fake! Otherwise, she has been a weak female stream, has experienced many different men, and has been around the world for thousands of miles. How can she keep a piece of jade seal intact? I guess, a fake jade seal in the hands of Empress Xiao, Maybe it was someone in this hall who gave it to her during his lifetime, or it was Zhao Chong’s grandfather who gave it to her. The reason is that Empress Xiao knew the secret of Yuxi’s whereabouts. Her mouth is to cover this underground palace, and these talents present do so. The real jade seal has always been placed in this underground palace, enshrining the former Sui Yang Emperor!"
"The seamless reasoning must be like this!" Li Ke gritted his teeth fiercely. "So, there is no doubt that Yang Guang's real remains are definitely in this underground palace!"
"Wait!" Qin Mubai's heart suddenly brightened and said, "His Royal Highness, you just said that Empress Xiao went to Turkic, where do you live?"
"Yudujinshan where the Turk's tooth tent is located, what's the matter?" Li Ke asked in confusion.
"No!" Qin Mubai said suddenly, "Li Jing once led troops to the Northern Expedition and wiped out the Turks, but in his military books, he called the mountain of the tooth tent-Xishan!"
"Xishanfeng!——Xishanfeng, Yujinglong, looking at the morning and evening, three lines of tears!" Li Ke was also surprised, "Does Xishanfeng refer to Queen Xiao? Then Yujinglong... Doesn't it mean Yang Guang?"
"That means...Yang Guang's remains are in the Yujing?" Qin Mubai wrinkled his brows and walked toward the Long Chair.
"Yujing, does it refer to this underground palace? What is it to do with the dragon chair?" Li Ke quickly followed and asked.
"Yujing, Mijing...Isn't Mijing the place where the Dragon Chair of the Imperial Highness of the Golden Luang Temple is located?!" Qin Mu frowned, moved his hands on the dragon chair, and said in a deep voice: " Offended!"
Using a bit of dark power, the pure gold dragon chair weighing more than a few hundred jin made a slap, and it was turned.
"Ah!—" Li Ke let out a scream!
Because at this moment, the picture of the sea dragon playing on the jade wall behind the dragon chair is separated from the middle to the sides, revealing a dark passage!
"It's really here!" Qin Mubai was also surprised.
"Go in and see!"
The two of them lighted the torch and just walked two steps, they were shocked. At the entrance of the passage not deep, there were four standing skeletons staring at them, their skeletons draped in armor and "hands." Holding a long knife inside. These skeletons did not fall to the ground because they were supported by full armor.
"This is probably the four dead men who escorted the remains in. They have been standing here alive without falling down." Qin Mubai said.
Li Ke just nodded and walked inward around the four skeletons. Qin Mubai quickly followed.
There is light in the front, and after turning a corner, a gorgeous "bedroom" is revealed. The carpets and walls are extravagant, but the inside is cold.
Seeing this scene before them, the two were dumbfounded!
On a huge bed of secluded green jade, covered with a gold-wire bed cover, there are countless gorgeous and dazzling night pearls on it, and the light comes from there. Through the bedspread, one can vaguely see a "person" in a yellow dragon robe lying on the jade bed. The jade bed was chilly, and the two of them could not help but tremble after a long distance.
"Mu Bai, you say..." Li Ke took a deep breath and said in a trembling voice, "Is the man in bed--my grandfather, Yang Guang?"
Qin Mubai frowned lightly and shook his head slowly, and said lightly: "Even if it is, you don't know it."
"But I have to take a look!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Li Ke dashed to the edge of the jade bed, swallowed hard, stretched out a hand, and slowly lifted the bed cover...