Chapter 10 Chapter Ten: The Mystery of King Zhu's Tomb

It is said that when Jiang Yilang stepped off the main stage, Qian Jincai invited him to the private room upstairs to entertain him warmly.All the plainclothes policemen in the hall did not dare to leave without Xiao Ziyu's order. After the hall was quiet, Xiao Ziyu called Shu Zhenqian to him and gave such orders, and then announced: "Everyone can go, remember Don't spread what you just heard!" The gate was opened, but there was a crowd of people waiting to hear the story outside the Zhige Pavilion. When they saw someone coming out, they grabbed their clothes and asked this and that, but all they got was rude scolding.

Xiao Ziyu returned to the police station and found that Xiao Zhong was following him, so he asked, "Will the old housekeeper go back to Liushan Road?" "I have something I want to talk to the second young master." Xiao Zhong hurriedly closed the door, and said mysteriously: "Second young master, I have heard about the legend of Zhu Wangjin's head since I was very young. It's no secret that many people are looking for it, but what Jiang Lang said just now made people suspicious." Xiao Ziyu was puzzled: "What suspicion?" Xiao Zhong said: "Judging from his tone, it seems that Zhu Qifeng's tomb has been stolen. But as far as I know, Zhu Qifeng's real body coffin has never been found. If it is really found, will there be no news about such an important event? But since From the official to the public, there are no rumors about this.”

Xiao Ziyu said: "Whether King Zhu's tomb was stolen or not, what does it matter to me?" Xiao Zhong stepped forward and said: "It has a lot to do with it. If it's not stolen, you can..." Xiao Ziyu understood completely now, his Adam's apple twitched: "What if Zhu Qifeng's tomb has been stolen?" Xiao Zhong said: "We still have hope. Listening to Jiang Yilang's tone, he doesn't seem to be telling stories for the sake of telling stories. He knows the inside story. If the tomb has been robbed, he can find the tomb robber through him. The majesty of the young master police chief, do they dare not hand over the spoils?"

Xiao Ziyu was very surprised. Unexpectedly, Xiao Zhong and himself thought of going together. He pondered for a moment and then asked: "You said that Jiang Yilang didn't tell stories for the sake of telling stories, so what purpose does he have?" Xiao Zhong said: "I also feel strange about this matter. If he just wanted to show off, why did he wait until now? The real purpose is only known to him. Second young master, in my opinion, it is better to arrest Jiang , some torture, he can do anything." Xiao Ziyu said: "Using torture is certainly a way, but it depends on who the target is. If, as you said, he is a person with a lot of background, the effect of torture on him is no different from scaring the snake."

Xiao Zhongdao: "That's true, so what does the second young master plan to do?" Xiao Ziyu said: "Let him finish telling the story first, and then his true face in Lushan will be revealed, and then we will follow the plan." Xiao Zhong said: "It turns out that the second young master has already made up his mind, and this old man is just worrying about it for nothing." Xiao Ziyu said, "Old housekeeper, thank you." Xiao Zhong said: "Where did the second young master talk? It's my duty to think for the master. These two days, I have always held my breath in my heart. Jiang Xinghe was originally a commoner, so by stealing a The tomb is rich, and the wealth far exceeds that of our family... Our family is the result of the virtues accumulated by our ancestors plus ten years of hard study by the old man..."

Xiao Ziyu said: "Don't worry about other people's affairs, old butler, please go back." As soon as Xiao Zhong left, Shu Zhenqian brought Qian Jincai to the director's office.Qian Jincai didn't know why the police station was looking for him, and he seemed very panicked. Xiao Ziyu naturally saw his thoughts and intentionally created tension for him psychologically: "Boss Qian, how is the situation at Zhigeting this morning?" Qian Jincai said cautiously: "I don't know what aspect the bureau chief asked about the situation - if it's just about business, it's very good to ask the bureau chief's blessing."

Shu Zhenqian said harshly: "The quality of your business has nothing to do with the bureau. The police station is concerned with law and order. I heard that Zhige Pavilion has gathered a lot of people in the past two days. Is there a potential safety hazard?" Qian Jincai understood now, and hurriedly said: "The bureau really thinks what the people think. In the past few days, a storyteller has come to our shop, and everyone in Duliang wants to come and listen. The Zhige Pavilion is surrounded by There are three floors inside and three floors outside, ah, ah, I don't know what to do about this."

Xiao Ziyu asked again: "Who is this storyteller? Does he have a name and a place of origin? Digging up people's ancestral graves is the dirtiest thing in the world. Why are the listeners so interested?" Qian Jincai replied: "The name of the storyteller is Jiang Yilang. I don't know where he is from. He told the story of robbing King Zhu's tomb. People in Duliang are interested in it." Xiao Ziyu said: "I came to you today for nothing else. Many people have reported to me that the safety problems in Zhige Pavilion are more serious than you imagined. My ugly words are up front. Once there is a casualty accident, Then you'll see it's done."

Qian Jincai stomped his feet anxiously: "I can't stop others from coming to listen to the story, what should I do..." Shu Zhenqian said: "What's so difficult about this, the big deal is not to have that Jiang narrating stories." Qian Jincai wondered: "I have an appointment with Mr. Jiang, and I must let him finish telling the story, otherwise I will compensate him, and even if the story is abandoned halfway, those listeners who have listened halfway will not give up, they must smash my story." The store is not allowed." Shu Zhenqian said: "It's better to smash up the shop than kill someone, right?"

Qian Jincai's brain was cleared at this moment, he looked at Xiao Ziyu and said, "Boss, you are the patron saint of the people of Duliang, I'm afraid I have to ask you to help with this matter, about the cost..." What Xiao Ziyu wanted was this sentence, but he said: "The people in Duliang City are all crowded in the Zhige Pavilion. Such a difficult task, who will go to hell if I don't go to hell! Go back, and I will make arrangements." The next morning, the story meeting started on time. The strange thing was that the Tianzhige Pavilion was far less lively than yesterday, and only the plainclothes policemen who arrived yesterday were sitting in the hall.When Jiang Yilang stepped onto the podium, Xiao Ziyu ordered the door to be closed.

"Listeners, yesterday it was said that Zhu Guoying jumped from a woodcutter in the mountains to Zhu Qifeng, the feudal king under one man and above ten thousand people. It is said that once a failed scholar becomes an emperor, it must be a senior scholar who suffers This Zhu Qifeng worked as a woodcutter in Tongbao Mountain. He had no land and no land. He lived by renting dry land and cutting wood on the mountain. Therefore, in his heart, he hated peasants. After he ascended the throne, he extorted money and complained a lot. He kept a group of hawks and dogs in the palace. He snatched into the palace and let him enjoy the first night. In order to avoid accidents, the common people changed their marriages to be held at night, which is the custom of late night wedding in Duliang. One day, Zhu Qifeng led his entourage to Nanshan for hunting. He was eating tea in a single household, and when he heard that the head of the household was a widow, he couldn't help thinking of the past—it turned out that when Zhu Qifeng was a woodcutter in Tongbao Mountain, he saw a beautiful widow who resisted strongly when he tried to misbehave, and his arm is still bitten. Since then, he hated all the widows. He sent someone to inquire and learned that the widow was surnamed Wang and had an eight-year-old son. The pain makes people snatch children into the mansion. Zhu Qifeng built a five or six zhang square leech pond near Leyangtang in the northeast of Xiaowangcheng. This pond is built with square bluestone and lime joints. It is semicircular. There are stone benches and chairs specially for viewing. The running water in the pool is quiet and quiet, and there are millions of hungry leeches. In order to keep the leeches hungry, only a little food with fishy smell is put in every day. For fun, Zhu Qifeng often ordered People caught children from the people and put them in the pool to feed the leeches. Now the widow's son naturally cannot escape this catastrophe. That afternoon, Zhu Qifeng, his concubine, and the prince sat by the pool and ordered the warriors to strip the widow's son naked Push it naked into the pond... Countless leeches in the water smelled the smell of blood and squirmed frantically like a snake letter, swarming up, biting every part of the child's body... The child instinctively crawled to the bank, and the samurai used a bamboo pole to go to the pond. At the top of his heart, Zhu Qifeng's family danced with joy and laughed wildly. Due to excessive blood loss and excessive fear, the child fainted in the pond after struggling for a while, and was sucked desperately by greedy leeches... Early the next morning, Zhu Qifeng ordered the child to be taken away. Wang Widow returned the dead body to the Widow Wang. Seeing her horrific son, the Widow Wang did not cry, she turned all her sorrow into hatred, and vowed to avenge this deep hatred to the death. , and finally learned that the Zhu family has a feud that has been waiting for an opportunity to retaliate. It turned out that the day Zhu Yuanzhang killed Lan Yu's nine clans, except Jiang Chengen's mother was rescued, when the soldiers surrounded the Lan family, Lan Yu knew that there was no escape, and quietly sent a family The child hides in the tunnel, and I am reminded to remember the deep hatred. The child witnessed the scene of the nine clans being punished, so he swore revenge, and the children and grandchildren took responsibility for it. Since Zhu Wei moved to Duliang, the descendants of Lanyu have continued Looking for opportunities to avenge, she encouraged Miao people and Yao people to attack Zhoucheng several times, and Duliang was also in danger several times. Widow Wang found out that Lanyu's descendants changed their surname to Qing.Called Qing Youcheng, she found Qing Youcheng, and the two hit it off, and the widow Wang provided information, and Qing Youcheng acted.In the early summer of a certain year, Zhu Qifeng cheerfully left the city from Ying'en Gate in Dongcheng City accompanied by his entourage. Before he had traveled far, a group of men and horses came to kill him and beat him to death.Zhu Qifeng was panicked by this surprise attack, and wanted to return to the city, but he rode his horse to the south. To the south was Nanshui River.Qing Youcheng, who had been lurking at the head of the bridge for a long time, slashed at Zhu Qifeng's waist with force, but was blocked by the jade belt, which broke off and fell on the bridge.Only then did Zhu Qifeng realize that he was going in the wrong direction, but the way back was cut off, so he could only move forward.The mount flew over a field ridge, and there was another small bridge in front of it. The Widow Wang who was lurking there raised her knife and rushed over. —It turned out that the leg of the mount had been injured by a knife attack.At the same time, Zhu Qifeng was thrown off by the startled horse.Seeing someone chasing Zhu Qifeng, Zhu Qifeng ran all the way—but now Zhu Qifeng is no longer the fast-paced woodcutter Zhu Guoying on Tongbao Mountain. After running for a distance, he was so tired that he was panting and sweating like rain. At the center of the bridge, a fast horse catches up, and the rider is Qing Youcheng.Zhu Qifeng hastily drew out his Qingfeng sword to meet him.Unexpectedly, once they fight, they feel that the opponent's sword is like a wandering dragon, appearing and disappearing, with endless changes, within three or five rounds, the sword in his hand falls to the ground, and a gleaming sharp knife is already hung around his neck.Zhu Qifeng trembled, terrified.Qing Youcheng gritted his teeth and said angrily, "Zhu Qifeng, are you convicted?"You are as cruel as a wolf, licentious and promiscuous, and you have increased taxes excessively, causing the hungry people to spread their way and mourning everywhere; building the city wall, exhausting more than 10,000 migrant workers; choose concubines and young children, and rape countless girls from good families...Since you came to the throne in the fourth year of Chongzhen, how many families have been separated by you, and their families have been destroyed. No one in the whole state hates you!Besides, my ancestor Lan Yu was originally a hero who made great contributions to your Zhu family dynasty, but because Zhu Yuanzhang listened to the slander and killed the nine clans of his ancestors, the few who survived the catastrophe had to be buried incognito...'Qing Youcheng didn't have time to scold At the end, the widow Wang had already caught up, and the enemy was extremely jealous when they met. She raised her sharp knife and slashed at him, beheaded Zhu Qifeng's head, and rolled into the Nanshui River. " Jiang Yilang stopped here to drink a cup of tea, took a break and continued to talk: "Everyone, everyone knows the story later. Qing Youcheng and Widow Wang defected to Li Zicheng's rebel army, and Zhu Qifeng fell to the ground. The place where Yudai was named Yudai Bridge, the place where he fell off the horse was named Luoma Bridge, and the bridge where he lost his life was named "Duantou Bridge". When the Chinese soldiers heard that King Zhu was being chased, they went out to rescue him under the leadership of Tan Wenyou, the magistrate, but it was too late. All they saw was Zhu Qifeng's headless body. Tan Wenyou ordered his soldiers to look around under the bridge, but the water flow was too high. Urgently, the head disappeared long ago, so we had to collect the body and return to the city. There is no impenetrable wall in the world, and the news that King Zhu has no head spread quickly, and almost everyone in Liang knew about it—" "Mr. Jiang, I would like to ask you a question," Xiao Zhong from the audience interrupted Jiang Yilang, "King Zhu's head was replaced with a thirty-six catty gold head. What I don't understand is that the palace must have been very secretive when casting the golden head, so how did this news leak out?" "This old gentleman asked a good question!" Jiang Yilang said, "At that time, Zhu Qifeng lost his head, and Tan Wenyou, the governor of the state, agreed with the head of the palace to replace it with a fake head, and ordered a silversmith surnamed Li to complete the casting within forty-nine days. Forty-eight dummy heads. Li Yinjiang was very puzzled, because it did not take such a long time to complete this task. Where did the theory of "restriction order" come from? After accepting the task, it only took him one day to successfully make a dummy head. Then inject gypsum, and then smear gold water on the gypsum human head. In less than five days, forty-eight dummy heads were completed. Who would have thought that just as he was delivering the goods, the head of the Wangfu took out a dummy head and smashed it on the spot, saying: 'This is unqualified, it has to be redone! Li Yinjiang felt that these dummy heads were all made of the same mold, there should be no distinction between good and bad, and the master couldn't tell the difference, so he gave him a talisman to get the raw materials again.Li Yinjiang had no choice but to obey, but what he never expected was that the "raw material" he received with the talisman was thirty-six catties of golden gold!Now silversmith Li finally realized that the forty-eight gypsum heads were for the "suspect tomb", and this gold head was Zhu Qifeng's real tomb...The process of casting a human head with gold is very complicated, and the most difficult thing is to cooperate with Zhu Qifeng. The original appearance is the same.Li Yinsmith did not dare to neglect, he hurriedly and finally completed this complicated craft within the 49-day deadline.Just after the time of Haishi in the middle of the night, Li Yinjiang came to the palace with the golden head under the supervision of the palace's soldiers, but saw forty-eight identical coffins in the hall... The soldiers opened the forty-eighth coffin. With a coffin.He was stunned by the magnificent funerary objects inside... He placed the golden head on Zhu Qifeng's head, and the coffin closed quickly.It was Zishi, the forty-ninth day, and the coffin was carried by forty-eight young and strong men, including Li Yinjiang, to the northeast.An hour later, the coffin was carried to the foot of a desolate and hidden hill.Under the light of torches all over the sky, forty-eight big men were directed by their own soldiers to dig up a very inconspicuous mound, and a tomb passage that had already been built was exposed... Li Yinjiang and his companions entered the tomb along the tomb passage, and placed the coffin Going out from the same road again, still filling the entrance of the tomb with soil, and then gathered to eat in the temporary hut two miles away.It was also a coincidence that there was a guy named Zhu Chengsheng in this hut who knew Li Yinjiang and had a certain friendship.Zhu Chengsheng was shocked when he saw Li Yinjiang, which made the vigilant Li Yinjiang feel ominous.Taking advantage of the gap before dinner, Li Yinjiang asked Zhu Chengsheng for the reason.So Zhu Chengsheng told the truth—the food was poisoned... Li Yinjiang suddenly felt that the world was falling, and the first thought that flashed in his mind was to run away.Then he thought that doing so would implicate the nine clans. At this point, he suddenly understood that he and the forty-seven companions who entered the tomb would inevitably die—the extra forty-eight coffins in the Min Palace were just prepared for them!As death is approaching, fear is quickly replaced by hatred. Li Yinjiang thinks that the only way to get revenge is to reveal the secret of King Zhu's tomb!Li Yinjiang told Zhu Chengsheng that there was a thirty-six-jin gold head in the tomb, and he explained in detail the location of the tomb and the sign at the entrance of the tomb passage.Afterwards, Li Yinjiang and his companions ate the food under the supervision of the soldiers, and fell to the ground, foaming at the mouth, and died in a short while.The soldiers cut off their heads and buried them on the spot, and only brought back the corpses and put them in gilded plaster heads and put them in coffins.Zhu Qifeng's funeral was announced to the public on the forty-ninth day.As soon as the time came, nine cannons rang out, drums and music rang together in the palace of King Min, and forty-eight coffins were carried out of the palace.Tens of thousands of Duliang citizens competed in empty alleys to watch the excitement. They crowded around these coffins and left the city through the four gates, where they were buried in four townships and eight villages.Besides, Zhu Chengsheng was originally the cook of the imperial dining room in King Min's mansion, and after getting this amazing secret, he took the opportunity to leave, and planned to rob the tomb to get the treasure at the right time.But things took a long time, before Zhu Chengsheng could implement his plan, another cook secretly listened to the conversation between Li Yinjiang and him, and disguised himself as a hunter to visit the tomb site, but was discovered by the guards of the tomb, and was taken to Minwang Mansion for torture.The cook couldn't bear the torture and confessed truthfully. When Min Wang's mansion learned that the tomb had leaked secrets, he killed all the cooks, and Zhu Chengsheng fled outside.Zhu Chengsheng knew that the Min Palace would not let him go, so he made the matter of Zhu Qifeng's golden head public, and the trouble became a household name in Liang.After the news spread, the thirty-six catties of gold became a huge temptation, attracting groups of people to hunt for treasures.This momentum is getting stronger and stronger, until today, hundreds of years have passed, people's enthusiasm is still the same as before.Why?It turns out that the people in Duliang only know that gold is valuable, but they don't know that among the large number of funerary objects in Zhu Qifeng's tomb, any one is more expensive than a gold head.According to what Li Yinjiang told Zhu Chengsheng, the most valuable thing in the coffin is a group of ancient paintings.This group of ancient paintings is called "Pictures of Joy in Four Seasons", which was made by the talented Tang Bohu. To put it more clearly, it is actually a group of erotic paintings, divided into four seasons: spring, summer, autumn and winter. In each season, there are eight pairs of men and women in eight postures. There are 4832 different pictures of having sex.Each painting is lifelike in the form of men and women, and the brushwork is so delicate that hair can be discerned.The origin of this group of paintings is not trivial, it was a gift from Yongle Emperor Zhu Di to his younger brother Zhu Wei.It is the treasure of the town palace in the Minwang Mansion.Zhu Qifeng is an ignorant person, and he knows nothing about art, but when it comes to beauty, he is self-taught. Seeing Tang Bohu's erotic pictures can be said to have a thorough understanding and love him to the marrow.When he was alive, he said: "There is no other good person, but I love Tang Yin's "Four Seasons of Joy", and I hope that I will never give up in life or death." 'That's why Minwang Mansion buried such precious things with it.Each of these thirty-two paintings is priceless, so why is a mere thirty-six catties of gold worth mentioning? "Jiang Yilang was talking vigorously, Xiao Ziyu finally couldn't help it, and said: "You said the day before yesterday that Jiang Er's ancestors had selfish intentions, but the story of these two days seems to have been out of touch. Why? " Everyone also realized it, and said in unison: "Yes, although the story is nice, it's out of touch." Jiang Yilang said: "Don't worry, everyone, the story is absolutely not out of line, it's just a detour - this is unexpected and reasonable, and when the final mystery is revealed, you will be amazed! If you want to know what happened next, Tomorrow's story will be even more exciting!"