Chapter 21 Chapter 21

This house is different from the ones I saw before. The whole house is paved with snow-white stones, the ground is white, the walls are white, and there are no pillars in the house. It is extremely huge.A circle of coffins was placed around the room, forming a circle, with a snow-white raised stone on the ground in the middle.The most important thing is that there is no door on the other wall of this room like the previous room, that is to say, this room is already at the end. Mr. Chen and Mr. Chen who had caught up were very excited when they saw the room. Mr. Chen said hoarsely, "Mr. Chen, this is probably the last room. Maybe the emerald plum blossom paper will appear soon." Mr. Chen Nodding his head, his eyes were full of fanatical light.When I saw the layout of this room, I was also a little dazed. In the past, the robbers paid attention to the specifications of the tomb, but this Chen family tomb has been extraordinarily weird from the beginning, and now the coffins are placed in the whole room. The house with the nine Heisha that I saw before looked even weirder.

The fat man poked me and said, "Old Hu, don't be dazed, hurry up and raise the coffin, find the jade plum blossom paper and save Yang Shen." I nodded, handed Shirley Yang to the fat man, and picked the one that looked the most pleasing to the eye. The coffin went over.The fat man followed me with Shirley Yang on his back.Old Chen and Mr. Chen saw that I was about to act, so they quickly followed me.I can see that although this Mr. Chen has deep scheming and good skills, he is really a layman for this coffin robbery, so he asked me and the fat man to help him lead the battle and help him find the jadeite plum blossom letter.

I walked to the coffin that looked pleasing to the eye and looked it over carefully.These coffins are all made of white marble, which seems to be integrated with the ground and walls.I asked the fat man to put Shirley Yang down next to a coffin, freeing up his hands to open the coffin with me.It seems that both Lao Chen and Mr. Chen are fighting for the first time. Seeing that we are going to raise the coffin, they are both a little inexplicably excited.I handed Lao Chen a thick candle and asked him to light it in the southeast corner of the room, and watch the flames before it went out.Old Chen was reluctant.Mr. Chen said: "Old Chen, go and light it. This is the rule of the captain who touches gold. As the saying goes, 'If the cock crowing lamp goes out, don't touch gold'. If this candle goes out, I'm afraid we will all be buried in it." .”

Hearing what Mr. Chen said, Lao Chen took the candle and went to the southeast corner to light it.Together with Fatty and Mr. Chen, I pushed off the outer cover of the coffin.The cover of the outer coffin is designed with slides, so it is easy to open.Opening it revealed the coffin inside.I don't know what kind of wood this coffin is made of. The color of the wood is white and the texture is delicate. When tapped on it, the sound is crisp but not mellow. At first glance, it looks like a good wood that is rare in a hundred years. Seeing that the coffin board was extraordinary, the fat man burst into joy, and hurriedly went to his backpack to find the engineer's shovel to pry the coffin.I took a closer look at the structure of the coffin, and said to the fat man, "Don't ask engineers to shovel it, the lid of this coffin is not nailed at all, it is completely concealed."

The fat man was very surprised when he heard what I said, because he had never encountered such a situation before.The fat man and I hurriedly found a pair of gloves and put them on, and told Mr. Chen not to touch the corpse with our hands after we opened the coffin, in order to prevent the corpse from being exposed to yang energy suddenly.The three of us each tore off a corner of our clothes and stuffed our nostrils to prevent inhaling the corpse gas and being poisoned by the corpse.After preparing everything, I secretly held the black donkey's hoof in my hand, Mr. Chen held a handful of glutinous rice in his hand, and the fat man took the corpse rope. The three of them pushed hard, and the coffin lid fell to the ground.

The corpse in this coffin is a male corpse, with a burly figure, a vigorous physique, and wearing armor. What is even more amazing is that the corpse has not rotted, but has only lost part of the water, and looks a little shriveled.The body rests on a lotus flower carved from pink agate, the head rests on a white jade pillow, and the sides of the body are stuffed with jewels of various styles.When the fat man saw these jewels, he immediately smiled, and without a word, he picked up the corpse rope and wrapped it tightly around the corpse.This set of corpse ropes is soaked in cinnabar, which has the effect of restraining corpse transformation.The fat man put down his backpack, disregarding the rules, and stuffed all kinds of weapons into the bag desperately.Mr. Chen and I were attracted by a book that was placed on the corpse's chest.Seeing that there was nothing wrong with Fatty's nonsense, I reached out and picked up the book.

After hundreds of years, the pages of this book have become so fragile that it seems that even a slight force can crush it into powder.I held the book carefully, and there was no word written on the cover of the book, so I had to turn inside to understand the content of the book.There are countless valuable artifacts in this coffin, all piled up on both sides of the body, only this book is placed on the chest of the body, which shows its extraordinary importance.I gently opened the book, and it was full of scribbled handwriting. I have never been very good at studying ancient Chinese. Usually when we encounter problems related to writing in Duodou, it is Shirley Yang who comes out to answer them. Now Shirley Yang is unconscious. , I was helpless.

Mr. Chen took the book and said: "Let me have a look. Mr. Chen still knows a thing or two about this ancient prose." As he spoke, he turned the pages carefully, and after turning a few pages, his face gradually became serious.Seeing that he seemed very surprised, I hurriedly asked: "Mr. Chen, what is this book talking about?" Mr. Chen said slowly: "It turns out that the person in this coffin is the ancestor of Chen Zhen, and this book is his notes, which contain the records of the Chen family's great secret." I was shocked when I heard this, and hurriedly picked out the artifact The fat man couldn't help but stop and looked at us in surprise.

Mr. Chen walked up to the coffin, knelt down with a "plop", solemnly kowtowed three times, and said in a loud voice: "Chen Suqing, a descendant of the Chen family, pays homage to the ancestors. Today's move is really helpless, because Suqing feels deeply for the Chen family. It’s strange that the family died overnight, and it’s to fulfill the wish of Chen Zhi’s ancestors to return to the Chen family, so I’m taking the liberty to disturb you, and please forgive me.” After speaking, he got up and said to the fat man and me: “Come here, you two, I’ll tell you The contents of this book." Fatty and I hurried over, thinking that we could finally uncover the mystery of the Chen family.

Mr. Chen slowly flipped through the book, translated it into vernacular and said in detail: "This book was probably written by the ancestor of Chen Zhen before his death, so the handwriting is illegible and difficult to read. It is written in the book that the Chen family has guarded a big secret for generations. Well, the hundreds of years of the Chen family's foundation even existed for this secret, and now that the Ming Dynasty's demise has become a certainty, this secret will also be buried in this tomb forever with the demise of the Chen family. "The founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, ruled both civil and military affairs. He was a rare generation of Ming emperors. After Zhu Yuanzhang died, he passed the throne to his grandson Zhu Yunqi, but the king of Yan, Zhu Di, was ambitious and led an army to Beijing to snatch the emperor's throne. Zhu Yunqi had no choice but to flee. Kyoto. Some of Zhu Yunwen's bodyguards and eunuchs went down the coast and faked the news that Zhu Yunwen was going south, but in fact Zhu Yunwen took a few personal entourages and fled towards Shanhaiguan, preparing to escape from the pass. Who knows that Zhu Yunwen arrived at Shanhaiguan Unexpectedly, he couldn't afford to be ill, and Zhu Di set up a heavy truck in Shanhaiguan to strictly check the pedestrians. Zhu Yunwen was absolutely unable to escape. After a follower's suggestion, Zhu Yunwen decided to join the Chen family. Chen Qihou, an official of the Chen family at the time The ancestor was loyal during Zhu Yuanzhang's reign. Although his official position was not very high, he was appreciated by Zhu Yuanzhang. So Zhu Yunwen fled to the Chen family overnight and knocked on the door of the Chen family. This Chen family is indeed a loyal generation. At that time, he showed his loyalty and only recognized Zhu Yunqi as the king of a country. Zhu Di was a rebellious minister and traitor who wanted to usurp the throne. He vowed to help Zhu Yunqi regain the throne and settle Zhu Yunqi down. From then on, Zhu Yunqi lived secretly in the Chen family. This stay is for a lifetime, until the end of life."

Hearing this, the fat man and I said "ah" in unison, our mouths were wide open for a long time and did not close.After a long time, the fat man said: "I swear, I swear! No wonder Zhu Yunwen disappeared. Zhu Di almost searched all over China but couldn't find it. It turned out that he was hiding in the Chen family in Shanhaiguan! This, this history should be rewritten. This he Mom is definitely a shocking secret!" I said: "It seems that the false news spread by those personal guards and eunuchs is very effective. Zhu Di always thought that Zhu Yunwen had fled south to the Nanyang area, so he sent Zheng He to Nanyang seven times, under the pretense of investigating the national conditions and trade, but in fact inquiring about Zhu Yunwen's whereabouts. , but there has been no news. How could he have thought that Zhu Yunqi was right under his nose?" Mr. Chen went on to say: "The original intention of the Chen family was to help Zhu Yunqi regain power, but Zhu Di had no choice but to implement the Ming government, the people's will, and the iron-fisted regime, which made many of the courtiers who had firmly supported Zhu Yunqi gradually change their minds and support Zhu Di. The family background of the Chen family is not very big, and the financial resources are not very strong, so the matter of seizing the throne was delayed until Zhu Yunwen died. Zhu Yunwen regretted this all his life, depressed, and died at the age of thirty-seven. The two sons and one daughter are left behind, and they will be handed over to the Chen family before they die, and they must assist his son ascend the throne in the future. The Chen family swears on the lives of the whole family that they will always be loyal to the little prince and assist with all their strength. But Zhu Di's regime is stable , Year after year, there was no chance to regain the throne, until the death of the little prince, this matter still has not been achieved. But the Chen family has never given up hope, the Chen family has been accumulating wealth and making contacts, hoping to assist Zhu Yunwen This has become the mission of each generation of the Chen family. Therefore, everyone in the Chen family was informed of this mission as soon as they were sensible, and they had to swear to fulfill it with their lives and not let it out However, it was not achieved after all. After Li Zicheng's peasant army broke through the capital and seized the throne, the only descendant of Zhu Yunwen, due to illness and the news of the demise of the Ming Dynasty, was so anxious that he couldn't afford it. Tian died without leaving any heirs. Since then, Zhu Yunqi's lineage has been cut off. "The mission of the Chen family for generations is to help Zhu Yunqi's lineage regain the throne, but Zhu Di's lineage has a stable regime, and the Chen family has failed to accomplish this for hundreds of years. In addition, the Ming Dynasty fell and the Qing army entered the customs. The Chen family decided to live and die with the Ming Dynasty, and they were determined not to fall into the hands of foreigners. So the whole family retreated into the Wuliangshan Tomb collectively on the day Wu Sangui turned against him and the Qing army invaded Shanhaiguan, where they were buried for the Ming Dynasty. "This immeasurable mountain was originally used to store the wealth accumulated to assist the new regime, and also stored a large amount of food and grass. But the Chen family gradually felt the gradual decline of the Ming Dynasty. Since Chongzhen ascended the throne, the Ming Dynasty has become more and more fatuous and chaotic. Chen At this time, the family's determination to assist Zhu Yunqi's descendants to ascend the throne is no longer as strong as before, and then gradually foreseeing the end of extinction, the Chen family changed the Wuliang Mountain into a large tomb." Mr. Chen said with a long sigh: "I think my Chen family has been loyal for hundreds of years, but in the end it still ended up with the result of a whole family being buried. But this result is also the choice of the Chen family. It's so sad. ! This is all fate." The fat man snorted and said, "If you ask me, the Chen family is pedantic enough. Since they want to assist the new emperor to ascend the throne, after hundreds of years of accumulation, they must have gathered a lot of money and people. Why not?" How about trying? If you take advantage of the Ming Dynasty’s incompetence, you might succeed, it’s better than not even trying at the end, and just dying.” Mr. Chen thought for a while and said: "Perhaps when the world is stable, my Chen family also understands that once we try to embrace a new emperor as the throne, we will inevitably start a war, and then the world will be in chaos again, and people will suffer. In the end, no matter who is in power, the people will suffer. Later, when the Ming Dynasty became corrupt and incompetent, my Chen family’s desire to establish a new regime faded away. Besides, members of the family, like Chen Zhen, were busy fighting against the Qing army and local peasant armies, defending their home and country. The idea of ​​the emperor has also run aground." I nodded and said: "If it is true as you said, then the Chen family is indeed a loyal and famous family. Indeed, no matter who wins the throne, the biggest victims of the war are the people, and the new regime may not necessarily be better than the old one. The life that the common people want most is a peaceful and stable life!" Mr. Chen nodded and continued to flip through the book. When he turned to the last page, he suddenly froze. He raised his head and said to us: "This book written by the ancestor of Chen Zhen said that Zhu Yunqi and his descendants were all buried in this Wuliang Mountain. The trap is on the stone in the center of the room." The fat man jumped up and ran to the middle of the room. Sure enough, there was a white stone on the ground.The fat man studied it for a while, raised his foot, and stepped on it. The stone slowly sank into the ground. Suddenly, a crack opened in the ground in the middle of the room. The crack opened wider and wider until it was nearly two meters wide. stop.The three of us looked at each other in blank dismay, not knowing what was going on, and couldn't help feeling a little nervous.Slowly, a coffin rose from the ground, and the coffin rose higher and higher until it was completely lifted above the ground.The cracks on both sides became smaller and smaller, just stuck on the edge of the coffin. Mr. Chen ran over excitedly, and was about to reach out to push the coffin lid, when the fat man grabbed his arm: "Wait a minute, did you expect that jadeite plum blossom note to be in this coffin? Hehe, no one is stupid, such a precious Baby, it was handed down by Zhu Yuanzhang, and it must be by his grandson Zhu Yunqi's side. But you didn't find this plum blossom note, you want to take it away from the fat man, there is no way." Mr. Chen didn't speak, but took a deep look at the fat man, and said, "Let's open the coffin first, let's make sure there is no plum blossom note." After speaking, he stretched out his hand and pushed the coffin lid to the ground.At first glance, this coffin was made of the heart of a thousand-year-old tree. It is extremely precious. The price per gram on the black market is more expensive than gold. The corpses buried in this coffin are well preserved and will not rot for thousands of years. There is no sign of dryness and decay in the body of the person in this coffin, as if he is asleep.Zhu Yunwen has a serene expression, round face, flowing beard and hair. He is wearing a bright yellow imperial dragon robe and a nine-story pagoda hat on his head. All the shapes are in accordance with the emperor's standard.But our eyes were all attracted by a piece of green emerald two feet long and one foot wide placed on his chest.This piece of emerald is nothing but what we are looking for after going all the way - the jadeite double-sealed plum-blossom note. This treasure was really in front of them, but no one reached out to take it, they just looked at it silently.This emerald was carved into the shape of a banner scroll, transparent as glass, and emerald green like poplar leaves in summer.The entire emerald has no trace of impurities, just like a piece of green glass, glowing with brilliance under the illumination of a flashlight.On the front of the emerald, there are two lines of big golden characters written: "Long Lovesickness, Long Lovesickness, Short Lovesickness, Infinity." The double seal characters of plum blossoms are beautiful and golden.There is a line of small characters on the lower left of the emerald: "Ruiyuan layman, Ming Hongwu fourteen years." Mr. Chen said softly: "Long-term lovesickness is long-term memory, short-term lovesickness is endless. Li Bai's poem. Presumably Tang Xuanzong saw this sentence and was very impressed, so he wrote it on this emerald to mourn Yang Guifei. Such unquestionable love between Tang Xuanzong and Concubine Yang is really rare and admirable." I saw that Mr. Chen seemed to have tears in his eyes when he said this, and I couldn't help being very surprised.I nodded and said, "Since the plum-blossom seal character was written by Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty, then the layman of Ruiguo is naturally signed by Hongwu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang. It is said that Zhu Yuanzhang also had a lover in his life, and he was very affectionate, but the two fell in love not long ago. , that woman died of illness, and Zhu Yuanzhang was hit hard. It seems that Zhu Yuanzhang also had a lot of feelings for these two poems written by Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty." The fat man said: "This jadeite is still a token of love? It seems that with this history, the value of this jadeite has doubled." After speaking, he raised his head and glanced at Mr. Chen.I saw the fat man's expression was different, and immediately understood what he meant.Before it was too late, Fatty and Mr. Chen shot at the same time and grabbed the emerald.When Mr. Chen reached out to snatch the jade, I reached out and snatched the pistol from his waist, and pressed it against his head.Mr. Chen immediately stopped moving, and slowly let go of his hand.Fatty cheerfully held Jade in his arms, and was about to speak when suddenly the whole room trembled, there was a crackling sound from the floor, and the marble on the ceiling began to shatter small stones. Fatty and I were shocked, but only Mr. Chen said calmly: "It is mentioned in the book of Chen Zhen's ancestors that the tomb of Wuliang Mountain was built in the body of a ten thousand-year-old python in Changshou Mountain. Nian is really a different kind, with too much demonic energy in his body, which is suppressed by the auspiciousness in the emerald. The yellow water seeping from the wall you see is actually the body fluid of that giant python. If someone wants to touch this If there is a piece of emerald, the giant python can't hold back its demonic aura, and it will come out of the mountain, then this tomb will collapse, and the world will be ruined." The fat man scolded: "Bah! Stop your mother farting! Fool children who are peeing and muddy! What a ten thousand-year-old python, the devil will believe it! If this hole is really going to collapse, what are you doing with this emerald?" Mr. Chen said: "I didn't intend to get out alive when I came to this Wuliang Mountain. Even if Emperor Liangbo had true love, I couldn't find it in my life. What's more, this is my Chen family's ancestral grave. People from our lineage have actually been here for a long time. More than 300 years ago, he should have died with the whole clan. It was just fate. After living on for hundreds of years, it is time to return. What the ancestor Chen Zhi regretted most in his later years was being expelled from the family. Let’s fulfill this wish on his behalf!” The fat man and I opened our mouths wide and cursed a hundred times inwardly, this is so fucking deceitful.The fat man said angrily: "So you made up your mind a long time ago that you don't want to live, so if you didn't say it earlier, you still wanted to drag the three of us to be buried with you! You deserve it so damn you won't get any real love." Mr. Chen ignored the fat man, turned to me and said, "Hurry up and take this emerald to expel Ms. Yang's insidiousness. If it's too late, I'll run out of time." I glanced at the fat man, and the fat man handed the jade to me, and I ran quickly Go to Shirley Yang and help her up. As soon as the emerald touches Shirley Yang, its color gradually darkens, as if there is black air surging inside.Gradually, the black air became thicker and thicker, turning the emerald into dark green, but Shirley Yang slowly opened his eyes, and when he saw me in front of him, he hugged me suddenly and choked up, saying, "Old Hu... ..." and couldn't speak anymore. With mixed emotions and joys in my heart, I forced myself to say calmly: "Let's get out of here soon, this place is about to collapse, I'll carry you on my back." After speaking, I carried Shirley Yang on my back.I walked up to Mr. Chen and handed the jade to him.The fat man exclaimed: "Old Hu, you are fucking crazy! We worked so hard to find you, but you don't want it! You don't really believe the nonsense he said about suppressing the ten thousand-year-old python!" I looked at the room that was shaking more and more violently, and said: "I don't know if this jade is really suppressing something, but I know that the three of us have been in danger several times because of this jade, and almost died. One of you and Shirley Yang had an accident, so I can’t live alone. All this is because of this emerald. It’s because of the emerald, it’s better to say it’s because of the greed in our hearts. Let go of these, we will all be better off. I don't want to lose you guys." Shirley Yang listened to my words and hugged me tightly behind his back. The fat man opened his mouth, wanting to say something more, but finally swallowed it down.Mr. Chen said: "Hurry up and go, this hole will really collapse if you don't go." I took a deep look at him and couldn't say anything.At this time, any words are superfluous.I carried Shirley Yang on my back, and waved to the fat man: "Deputy Commander Wang, let's go!" The three of us ran out desperately, the cave trembled more and more violently, broken stones kept falling from the top of the head, and cracks gradually appeared on the ground.We ran through the room where we fought against the earth sense, through the tunnel of heavenly sense that made us hallucinate and kill each other, through the room full of human senses full of black spirits, and finally ran to the fire ditch.Following Shirley Yang's example, the fat man put the rope on the fan and swung over first, followed by Shirley Yang, and finally me.I carried Shirley Yang on my back and ran out desperately. At this time, the hole behind me had already started to collapse, and large blocks of rocks fell down one after another, quickly blocking our sight.The entrance of the cave was in front of me. I grabbed Shirley Yang and jumped out. With this leap, I left everything in Wuliang Mountain behind. We rolled down the stone steps in Xuanyang Cave.It happened that the sun had just risen in the early morning, and it was extremely gratifying red.There was a loud bang in the mountain behind him, and then it returned to calm. Shirley Yang rubbed her eyes that were stung by the sun, and said, "It seems that I have missed a lot of good shows, Lao Hu, you have to explain it to me in detail." I turned back and smiled at her, feeling that the face in front of me It is the most beautiful face in the world. The fat man said regretfully, "Then Mr. Chen just died in this mountain?" I nodded and said, "Maybe this is the destination he wants most." The fat man shrugged his shoulders: "Why do I feel that this robbery is like a dream, it's too unreal. But fortunately we didn't make a loss-making business this time, so I'll go back to Panjiayuan to make a fortune." He said and patted He patted the backpack on his body, and the sound of jingling gold and jade came from inside. The morning light was twilight and the birds were singing sweetly. The three of us walked down the mountain slowly, feeling in our hearts that all the good things had just begun. (end)