Chapter 6 Linglu Twelve Golden Men

In the daze, Li Xuan seemed to have returned to the desert again. In a blink of an eye, there was a wind and sand, and the sky full of yellow dust covered his body, and suddenly turned into cold raindrops and splashed on his face. He slowly opened his eyes, and sure enough, water droplets fell on his face.The first thing that catches the eye is a huge bronze head. She has her hair in a high bun, her brows are tightly knitted, her eyes are the size of a polo, and she is constantly shedding tears. Li Xuan was taken aback, and at the same time found himself lying in the huge palm of the bronze figure.He turned his head and looked, and was even more shocked. The palm of the bronze man was more than three feet above the ground. If he accidentally turned over, he would fall to his death.But then I was surprised to find that the palm of the copper man seemed to have a kind of suction, as if it could stick itself firmly.

Looking up, it was still a grotto, with a ball of fire hanging from the top with an iron lock, burning all the time, emitting a dazzling light. However, the grotto was too big, and the light still couldn't clearly illuminate the ground.A large round mirror is set on the opposite stone wall, emitting a faint blue light. Suddenly, a mandala flower that seemed to be swaying in the wind appeared in the mirror, and the delicate petals fluttered down in profusion. Then, a hazy figure of a woman appeared in the mirror.Although he couldn't see her face clearly, Li Xuan could feel that she was graceful, charming and charming, and she was far different from the four ugly girls.

A clear and sweet voice sounded above Li Xuan's head: "You come to the Netherworld, tell the merits and demerits of your life quickly, let the King of Pluto evaluate the merits and achievements, and save you from rebirth." Li Xuan was startled, and thought, could it be that I have already died and entered the underworld?But I heard that there are Naihe Bridge, Hades Palace, Bull Head and Horse Face in the underworld, why is it completely different here?But I didn't dare to ask more questions, thinking that there are no oil pans and knives here, wouldn't it be a good thing!It must be the blessing of the fairies to avoid the suffering of hell.How dare I hide it now, so I started talking about it from my childhood, "good things" like saving a lamb bitten by wolves, and "bad things" like going up a tree to dig out birds' eggs from a bird's nest, all slowly. .

The fairy seemed a little impatient, interrupted him, and said, "Don't talk about the boring things about your childhood, just why did you come to Chang'an?" Li Xuan sighed, and said: "Oh, the old servant Er Zhutuo often told me about the prosperity of Chang'an, and I often held him by the hem of his clothes and asked him to bring me, but he always refused. This time he finally agreed, but Such a disaster has occurred. By the way, is Erjutuo’s soul also here?" The fairy said coldly: "You will all be reborn as human beings, divide your belongings, and drink Mengpo soup for a while, forget everything, so you don't need to ask. I saw that on your booklet, there was a big crime rewritten in black and white. Quite a few, and I will be imprisoned in the hell for ten thousand years. Out of compassion, I am afraid that the investigation will make mistakes, so I came to ask, do you still have something to hide?"

Hearing this, Li Xuan trembled all over, and said: "There is absolutely no concealment, how dare I lie to a god like you, the fairy?" He told me that when he went to Chang'an this time, he wanted to find a white jade seal engraved with a dragon and a tiger, and the words on it were 'Imperial Treasure of All Nations', which was said to be very important to us. But I didn't pay attention at that time." The fairy's voice changed, showing a very eager mood, and she said: "This is the imperial seal of the founding ancestor of this dynasty. Who would dare to keep it? What are you looking for for it?" Li Xuan was surprised: "Is that so? Is it the emperor's jade seal? Then I don't know. I have absolutely no bad intentions, so please be merciful, fairy lady, and let me go back!"

I only heard the fairy laughing softly: "As long as you obey my advice and don't dare to disobey, I will have the magic power to let you do whatever you want!" Li Xuan said happily: "Really?" The fairy's voice sank: " Hmph, why don't you believe it?" Li Xuan hurriedly said: "I believe, I believe..." The fairy asked: "Then what do you want to do most? Say it boldly." Li Xuan said: "Let the old servant Er Zhutuo came back to life, and we will return to the Western Regions to live our original life together." The fairy fell silent for a while, and then Li Xuan said sadly: "People cannot be resurrected after death, maybe even the gods can't do it. It seems that my wish can't be fulfilled..." The fairy interrupted him and said: "It's actually not difficult. But don't you have other wishes? For example, you don't want to see my appearance!"

Li Xuan's heart fluttered, and he couldn't help but said: "Although I don't dare to think of Liu Ruan meeting a fairy on Tiantai, I really want to see the beauty of a fairy." Hearing the fairy suddenly "bah", she scolded sharply: "You look like a simple and honest gentleman, who knows that you are so dishonest!" Li Xuan was so frightened that he fell silent, thinking that the fairy's mind is so unpredictable, suddenly darkened. Suddenly clear, it is unpredictable. Li Xuan couldn't think of how to answer for a while, only heard a loud noise, a piece of the stone wall on the right suddenly collapsed, followed by an iron cart rolled over "vomit hoarsely", this iron cart looked very strange, surrounded by iron armor , It looks like a big iron-covered tortoise.

A rough voice said coldly from inside: "He Lanjing, you little goblin, are you pretending to be a ghost again? Last time you shot four of my senior brothers to death with a dark crossbow. Now I am prepared. The crossbow arrows in the dark passage It can't hurt even half a hair of grandpa, hahaha!" The fairy did not answer, nor did she make a sound.Suddenly, an old woman's voice in the belly of the bronze man under Li Xuan said: "Brother Wei, you are greedy for money, and you have received one thousand taels of gold from the corrupt official and military minister Zong Chuke to help him get back the evidence. It was your master who found out and wanted to clean up your family. Do you think we can’t do anything to you if you hide in this bastard?”

This sound came from the belly of the bronze man, the sound of the urn reverberated in the ears, it was very scary. The man in the "turtle car" looked very angry, swearing and swearing endlessly.Not long after, a stream of black water suddenly poured from the roof of the cave and landed on the "turtle car".When the iron cart was touched with black water, it melted into black soup like ice cubes meeting hot soup in winter. The man surnamed Wei jumped out of the car with a strange cry of "嗤", clasping his hands to the back of his head.Li Xuan vaguely saw that a large part of the hair on the back of his head had been corroded by the black water, exposing his bright red scalp.

"Wei San, look up." The old woman said with a sneer, "Did you see it?" Li Xuan also wanted to turn his head to look, but he was in the palm of the bronze man, and his vision was obstructed, so he couldn't see anything. Condition.But Wei San saw it. Facing him, a row of men in black, holding shiny steel crossbows, had already aimed at him. Wei San was startled, knowing that he would definitely die today. But I heard the old woman say: "Wei Laosan, you can be regarded as a person if you can find this cave. But you are too insane. The Minister of the Ministry of War Zong Chuke gave you a thousand taels of gold, and you all tried your best to kill the cave. Our master. But I don’t want to think about whether our master is easy to kill or that idiot Zong Chuke is easy to kill. If you kill him, you can also earn a thousand taels of gold.”

After hearing this, Wei San seemed to be enlightened, knelt down and begged for mercy: "Please let me go, I will help you kill the dog official Zong Chuke, and I don't want a thousand taels of gold. I will bring it back and present it to you when I go back." At this time, the fairy behind the round mirror suddenly said: "Hmph, we want to kill the Minister of the Ministry of War, why use you? We only use a three-year-old child to send a secret letter to announce his crimes to the world, Zong Chuke's head You will be hanging in Chang'an East City soon. You bear a blood feud, and Anken is loyal to us. If you want to survive now, you can just take the Binxin Pill." Wei San smiled miserably: "After taking the heart-binding pill, I will be like them." As he spoke, he pointed to the blind servants in black, "The eyes are also blind, and the people are also stupid. They obey your orders like dogs. My own thoughts are gone, so I might as well be happy if I die. He Lanjing, at such a young age, you are as vicious as your mother, and sooner or later there will be a day of retribution, ah..." Before he could finish speaking, a crossbow arrow hit his throat, pierced through, and then hit the stone wall behind, splashing out a little spark, which shows that the strength of this crossbow is really astonishing.Immediately afterwards, a rain of arrows shot Wei Laosan all over his body like a sieve, with blood holes everywhere. Li Xuan was terrified to see it, but he didn't dare to show his breath, and he was afraid that the fairy would also give him a heart-binding pill, so he felt uneasy and trembled all over involuntarily. All of a sudden, a voice said sadly: "Fox sleeps in ruins, rabbits run away on the deserted platform, it's a place for singing and dancing in the past; yellow flowers in the dew, smoke and decaying grass, all belong to the old battle field. What is the ups and downs? Strong Where is Weak An?" Everyone was shocked at the same time, looking around, they couldn't see any traces. "On the top!" Li Xuan cried out, it turned out that his body was stuck, so he had to look up, but he was the first to find this ghostly man in black.When everyone heard Li Xuan's cry, they raised their heads and looked up, only to see a man in black robe hanging upside down on the top of the grotto like a huge black bat, swinging back and forth, as if he was about to fall off. The man in black sighed faintly: "Although this man is an idiot, there is some truth in what he said. It's really not a good thing for a girl like Jing'er to have blood on her hands all day long. According to my calculations, you will be killed soon. There will be an earth-shaking blood disaster, you'd better avoid it as soon as possible." He Lanjing's sullen voice behind the round mirror said, "Who are you? How do you know my name? Are you in the same party as Wei Laosan?" The voice of the man in black was desolate: "The past is like a lifetime ago. People of your generation may not know my name for a long time. Thirty years ago, my old man was called Ming Chongyan." "Ming Chongyan!" This was a mysterious figure back then. One year Tang Gaozong Li Zhi suffered from headaches, fainted and bored, and almost died.The imperial doctors of the Manchu Dynasty were helpless.Just when he was panicked, a beautiful young man with a fairy-like look and a jade-like appearance came from outside the palace, claiming that he had learned the thaumaturgy of the immortals, which could cure the emperor's stubborn illness.He moved left and right, and he cured Emperor Gaozong's illness with only three silver needles as thin as hair.Emperor Longyan was very happy and regarded him as a fairy. According to legend, he has profound mystical skills, and he is in charge of the unforeseen opportunities of immortals and Buddhas.One summer, everyone was sweating profusely. Emperor Tang Gaozong couldn't eat. He couldn't help feeling that in this season, even the best delicacies can't be eaten. If there is a plate of ice and snow in front of him, wouldn't it be better than the hump shark's fin? ?Ming Chongyan replied: "It's not difficult. I'll wait for my minister to go to the top of Yinshan Mountain to get it." After finishing speaking, he took a white porcelain ou from Xing kiln on the table and turned away. Ou Hanxue was presented on the imperial banquet. There are still many strange things like this that everyone spreads.For a time, the emperor and empress were very kind to Ming Chongyan.However, just over a year later, on a moonlit night in early summer, a mournful cry came from Ming Chongyan's mansion, and the sound resounded through the official neighborhood.When the night patrol soldiers arrived, they saw that Ming Chongyan was covered in bruises, his face was black and swollen, and he had already died of exhaustion, with a gleaming dagger stuck in his chest. Someone lightly grasped the back handle of the dagger, and felt like being stung by a scorpion. His fingers were extremely painful. Immediately afterwards, his fingers were swollen and festered. Later, he had to amputate several fingers in pain, and managed to survive.Ming Chongyan held a yellow cloth scroll tightly in his right hand, and people dared not move it. Later, someone clamped it with iron clamps, and when he unfolded it, he saw sixteen big blood-red characters written on it: People were terrified, and there were rumors that Chongyan often enslaved all kinds of little ghosts to do things for him. The ghosts took pains, so they "rebelled" and killed him. Later, a servant of Prince Li Xian confessed that the prince sent assassins to do it.Because Ming Chongyan often spoke in front of Wu Zetian and opposed Li Xian's succession.At this point, things seem to be completely clear.Who would have thought that after so many years, another person appeared, claiming to be Ming Chongyan? He Lanjing snorted, and said, "Ming Chongyan was the Empress of Heaven, and was killed by the prince long ago. What is your plan to fake his name?" I only heard the man in black say: "The world is turbulent, and the stories that people say are true and false. Even the things recorded in the annals are sometimes unreliable. Let me tell you something like this : That year, I transformed a pot of double-headed peonies during the imperial banquet in the Hanguang Palace. The Emperor and Empress were overjoyed. The girl chanted a poem impromptu: "Your potential is like a pair of friends, and your heart is like a stinky orchid." Emperor Gaozong was overjoyed and gave her a tortoiseshell hairpin inlaid with night pearls. You can ask your mother to ask about it in the future. confirmed." He Lanjing was startled, and asked: "Did you cheat your death back then? Then why did you take the initiative to tell us this big secret now?" Ming Chongyan stayed for a while without saying a word, as if he was reminiscing what happened back then.After a long time, he sighed and said: "We have a lot of connections. Back then, I really cheated my death. If I hadn't pretended to die first, our whole family, six relatives and nine clans would have been killed. Do you know what happened back then? Who killed me?" He Lanjing said: "Isn't it Prince Li Xian?" Ming Chongyan said in a hoarse voice: "No, he was also framed. Although he doesn't like me, he is not so shameful as to send someone to assassinate me. It is Wu Zetian who really wants to kill me!" "The Empress? Didn't I hear people say that you and the Empress are very ambiguous?" He Lanjing wondered, "Why did she kill you?" "That night, the Queen of Heaven summoned me into the palace late at night." Ming Chongyan's voice was trembling, "I thought Empress Wu was suffering from some kind of sudden illness and asked me to treat it. Who knew that the maid of honor led me into a palace room, surrounded by bright and beautiful pictures Bronze mirror. Under the light of dozens of huge candles, I discovered that the Empress Dowager is completely naked, not even a single thread on." He Lanjing hesitated to speak, but Ming Chongyan seemed to be aware of it, and continued: "You may think that it is not a bad thing for Tianhou to seduce me. What is a big man afraid of? But you know, having an affair with Tianhou, This matter is no small matter, if the emperor finds out, it will be a catastrophe for all families to be copied and killed! I Ming Chongyan was very handsome in those days, and there was no shortage of beauties around me, so I couldn’t afford to take the risk to serve the Queen of Heaven privately.” "However, I just said something like 'Tian Hou rests, and my servants leave'. Who would have thought that Tian Hou waved her hand, and her personal maids brought over a doll. I saw that this doll looked like Emperor Gaozong. His name was written on it, and it was densely filled with steel needles, and I was sweating profusely at that time..." "This must be the reason that the Queen of Heaven used to threaten you. You didn't do it, right! But the world knows that you are good at the art of hating victory and praying for relief, and you can't escape the responsibility." "That's right. The Empress of Heaven declared that she had already arranged for manpower, and secretly placed puppets in my residence and the mansion of my hometown. If there was any trouble, she would expose the matter. At that time, our Ming family was a good family. The bitch will die without a place to bury him!" Thirty years have passed since that night.Ming Chongyan still clearly remembered that even though he was proficient in illusion and martial arts, in front of the Queen of Heaven, Wu Zhao, he was at his mercy like a little mouse under the claws of a cat.The half-hundred-year-old Tianhou is plump and tender, exuding the charm of a mature woman. However, she has an almost crazy greedy look, greedy for lust, Ming Chongyan has never seen such a look in the eyes of a woman.He was tied to the ivory bed in the Mirror Hall by the Queen of Heaven, and the Queen of Heaven sat on him, with a proud and satisfied expression, as if she had conquered a disobedient horse... Everyone was silent, each secretly calculating. After a while, Ming Chongyan said slowly: "If you just let me become the servant of Queen Zetian, I will accept it too. And what happened later, But it put me in a dilemma of life and death. Do you know the origin of your unique secret medicine, Binxin Pill?" He Lanjing was startled, and said immediately: "Since you also know that this is a unique secret medicine, it is naturally inconvenient to tell outsiders about its origin." "Haha," Ming Chongyan said with a smile, "the little girl is very clever with her words, but she can fool others, but she can't fool me. This Heart-Bounding Pill was created by me and the six court physicians together!" "Ah, are your words true or false?" He Lanjing actually didn't know the origin of this binding heart pill. He only knew that this kind of pill was not easy to refine, and it was extremely harmful to the human brain. There was no antidote, so it should not be used lightly. .At this moment, listening to Ming Chongyan who doesn't know the truth and falsehood, he was half-believing for a while. Ming Chongyan knew that she wouldn't believe it, so he said: "You may not fully know the secret recipe of Fuxin Pill, but you should know that you will always send some people to Jiaozhi to catch a big flower spider, pick a Toadstool mushrooms with dark spots, this is what is used to make Bie Xin Pills." He Lanjing was shocked, thinking that what this person said was really good, she couldn't help but turn her doubts into full confidence in his words, and immediately asked: "Then why did you prepare this pill back then? You wanted to use it to harm Queen Zetian ?” Ming Chongyan smiled wryly and said: "Harm her? I don't have the guts. You have never seen the Queen of Heaven. Her eyes, like the legendary Qin Palace Mirror, can illuminate people's liver and gallbladder. Any thoughts of mine seem to escape. But her eyes. It gives me the feeling that she is not a human being, she is a demon, a demon, and came to the human world after she transformed. She ordered me to make this pill. Wu Zetian made this pill to give it to Tang Gaozong, the emperor at that time. Now, let Gaozong become a walking dead who has lost his mind and is at the mercy of others!" Ming Chongyan then sighed: "Naturally, I don't want to do such a big and treacherous thing. But the Queen of Heaven's network is so dense that if I disobey her will, I will inevitably die. Just when the pill is about to be successfully prepared, Emperor Gaozong suddenly summoned me to face the saint inside. I panicked at the moment, thinking that the matter had been revealed. But the eunuchs and guards were all in front of me, and there was nothing I could do." Hearing this, Li Xuan was secretly startled, wondering whether this little fairy named He Lanjing would let herself take that terrible heart-binding pill. "However, when Emperor Gaozong saw me, he had a benevolent face. Seeing my flustered expression, he thought it was because I was nervous when I saw Tianyan. He comforted me warmly, and ordered the maid to bring tea and snacks. I I think the emperor summoned alchemists like me to ask about the way of longevity. So I talked about some techniques of health preservation, but Emperor Gaozong smiled sympathetically and said that he knows that life is limited, and each depends on his destiny. He heard that I can Mastering the underworld, summoning gods to serve ghosts, so I want to pray for the queen, Xiao Shufei, Mrs. Wei, Prince Li Hong and others. He is limited by the current situation and cannot restrain the Queen of Heaven. He is really ashamed." "I saw Emperor Gaozong's sincere words, with tears in his eyes, and I couldn't help but feel very moved. The emperor is kind, kind, and governs the world. He is really a benevolent king. How can I bear to commit a great rebellion against the king? thing!" Ming Chongyan's voice reverberated in the empty grotto, and every sentence was shocking: "So I had the idea of ​​'escape the shell of the golden cicada'. At that time, a street hooligan pretended to be me and raped Miss Zhang, who lived in the army. I After capturing this person, I saw that he was indeed very similar to me, so I let this guy eat the Binding Pill that I had just prepared, and he really lost his mind. So I asked him to pretend to be me and claim that it was a trial pill , was accidentally poisoned, and was seriously ill at home. I hope that the Queen of Heaven will allow me to return to my hometown thousands of miles away, so as to stay away from this treacherous and terrifying court whirlpool." He Lanjing asked: "Since you want to protect yourself, you can just call yourself sick and not be an official, why do you have to go to such lengths to find someone to pretend to be yourself?" "You still don't understand Tianhou's character. She is such a cruel and ruthless person. She can even murder her own daughter who is still in her infancy, let alone an outsider like me! Besides, I know so many secrets. That is a must." It’s only safe to put me to death.” He Lanjing suddenly realized: "It turns out that you deliberately let the assassin sent by Tianhou stab the false Ming Chongyan to death on the spot, and then pretended that his body was poisoned, so that careful people would not be able to recognize your appearance. right?" Ming Chongyan sighed: "I have been able to hide this trick from others, but in fact I haven't hidden it from the Queen of Heaven. Fortunately, someone helped me cover it up." He Lanjing wondered: "How did the Queen of Heaven see through it?" Ming Chongyan He fell silent, as if there was something unspeakable. It turned out that the false Ming Chongyan was 80% similar to him, and Ming Chongyan himself was proficient in the art of changing appearance and makeup. After trimming the eyebrows, trimming temples, shaving and applying powder, the false Ming Chongyan was already very similar.In addition, the corpse was smothered with black gas later, showing the appearance of being poisoned and swollen, even if it was his close relatives who lived with him day and night, he might not be able to recognize it. Unexpectedly, not long after the head of the Ministry of Punishment left, Fan'er, Tianhou's confidant maid, came.Under the orders of the Empress Dowager, she removed the left and right people, and ordered the eunuch to strip off the lower garment of the corpse for examination.It turned out that there was a bean-sized red mole on Ming Chongyan's private parts.Ming Chongyan deliberately "modified" his substitute, but he never thought of the secret of "modifying" his lower body.As expected, the Empress Dowager is extremely intelligent, looking for this weakest weakness, which is the most difficult to be noticed by others, which really made Ming Chongyan break out in a cold sweat. Ming Chongyan knew that according to Tianhou's temperament, he knew that he had deceived her, so he would definitely kill the whole family of Ming's family.So in desperation and desperation, he secretly met with Fan'er, and was forced to agree to give her the secret recipe of Binxin Pill, which was originally determined to be destroyed, in exchange for her to cover up the matter on her behalf, so that she was able to save the rest of her life. Tianhou later heard from Fan'er that there really was a red mole on the private parts of the corpse, the size and location were not bad at all, although she was still a little suspicious, she believed it 90% of the time.She has always wondered why Ming Chongyan was stabbed to death so easily, and then she thought to herself, probably because of poisoning from refining medicine, which led to confusion and loss of martial arts, and she was really sick. So Wu Zetian felt a little guilty, so he ordered Ming Chongyan to be made a servant, and rewarded the Ming family with a lot of gold and silver treasures.Ming Chongyan kept his name incognito and did not dare to reveal any traces. This matter was very indecent, and it involved many secrets that he didn't want to talk about, so Ming Chongyan didn't answer He Lanjing's words, but said: "I have talked a lot today. If we talk about those old things, we can talk about them for three days and three nights. They are all big secrets that shocked the world. They should have rotted in our stomachs, but today I am telling you that I want to persuade you and your mother not to get involved in this court battle. Take Ming Chongyan as an example. If I hadn’t coveted the glory of the Golden Horse and Jade Hall back then, I would still be drinking with friends and wandering around the world. Daoist priest, how can I live like this without human beings and ghosts! Besides, I am lucky to be able to live." He Lanjing seemed to be moved when she heard the words "people are not humans, ghosts are not ghosts". She asked: "Senior is willing to tell us a secret, so it must be related to us, can you show me?" Ming Chongyan yawned: "You will know this from now on, so you don't need to talk about it." After finishing speaking, he raised his hand, and threw a copper ball on the ground, making a crisp sound of "clang".The copper ball bounced twice on the ground and rolled down to He Lanjing's hiding place. He Lanjing picked up the copper ball, and saw that the copper ball was hollow, with a golden phoenix engraved on the surface, but the eye of the phoenix was hollowed out, and there was something vaguely inside.She raised her head again, and found that Ming Chongyan at the top of the cave had disappeared, acting like a ghost.Although I also know some illusions, I am still amazed. He Lanjing pulled out the hairpin on her head, and gently picked out a piece of paper from the copper ball, on which was written in tiny characters: If you want to get a message, trust it, put it in the mouth of the statue of King Qi of the Twelve Golden Men , Take it from the belly of the statue of King Han, burn it immediately after reading it, be careful! But He Lanjing didn't burn it as promised, but kept it in his bosom. Seeing Li Xuan still in the palm of the bronze man, he couldn't help but feel very disappointed when he thought that he would not be able to pretend to be a fairy because of the disturbance between these two people.With hatred in her words, she said to Li Xuan: "Li Xuan, now you know that I am waiting for a lot of secrets, what should I do?" Li Xuan was so shocked that he was sweating profusely, and said: "Your secrets have nothing to do with me, I swear, just don't tell anyone." He Lanjing said sternly: "There are countless people who betrayed their trust and abandon their alliance, how can they be counted! Right now, there are three ways, one is the way of life, the other is the way of death, and the third is the way of neither life nor death, you can choose." Li Xuan thought to himself: "The way to die must be to kill me. If I live or die, I will probably eat the heart-binding pill and become a walking dead."So he said: "Of course I want to live, but I don't know how to do it." He Lanjing smiled and said: "The way to live is that you join our jade door, and you will be under my command, and you will not be disobedient for life." Li Xuan hesitated, but couldn't think about it, so he said: "I would like to obey the orders of the fairy all my life." He Lanjing was happy again when he heard that he still called herself a fairy, and said with a smile: "Well, now tell me your wish, let I will cast magic power to help you." Li Xuan blushed and said, "I just feel hungry and cold, and I want to eat something and change clothes." "Haha..." He Lanjing laughed like a silver bell, "Grandma Ji, come and take him, dress him in the most expensive clothes, and go to a good banquet." After saying a word, He Lanjing's figure in the mirror has faded away. Not long after, a steel hook with a long iron chain dropped from the sky, hooking the belt around Li Xuan's waist.The steel hook was lifted vigorously, and there was only a "chi" sound. A large piece of Li Xuan's clothes was stuck to the palm of the bronze man, and even his back was burning hot. It seemed that he was indeed covered by something like gum Something stuck to the copper man's hand.Lifting the steel hook up quickly, Li Xuan only felt that it was chilly behind him, thinking that it was not good, a large piece of his shirt was glued off, it was so ugly to see people with his butt exposed, especially when facing a beautiful girl like He Lanjing up. Unexpectedly, when Li Xuan came to the top, he saw two blind men receiving the iron chains.This place is still inside the grotto, and there are long passages on both sides, and it is dark and it is not known where they lead.The two blind men walked on without a word.Li Xuan hurriedly followed behind them, but his feet were weak, he staggered, and almost fell to the ground, but he was afraid that he would lose his way again, so he had to force himself to follow. Turning seven times and eight times, I came to a grotto, and I saw a huge rock covered with exquisite stone flowers, like thousands of flowers blooming in the grassland, densely gathered together.These stone flowers are exquisite and translucent, all come from nature, just like uncanny workmanship, dazzling and dazzling.A bronze figurine knelt on the ground, holding an oil lamp, and under the shining fire, a woman dressed in red and willow green turned from behind the stone flower, and she said in a coquettish voice: "Little brother, the dress on my sister is beautiful!" No?" Li Xuan took a closer look and couldn't help being very surprised. Although this woman was exquisite and petite, her face was wrinkled like a walnut. At least she was over sixty.Seeing Li Xuan staring at her intently, the old woman suddenly acted shy again: "It's embarrassing for you to stare at him like this." She said, covering her old face with a piece of ice silk. Li Xuan didn't know whether to laugh or cry, he was stunned when he remembered that the fairy had mentioned the name Granny Ji, so she must be the old lady who pretended to be young.Before Li Xuan could speak, the mother-in-law started nagging: "You are so dirty, you can't help but spoil the house, hurry up and take a dip in the hot spring in front, and change into the clothes I prepared for you. This dress is prepared for you, but it was bought from Caiyunfang, East City, Chang'an, the fabric and embroidery work..." Granny Ji talked endlessly, and from time to time she took out melon seeds and walnut kernels from her bosom and stuffed them into her mouth. She ate and talked without affecting each other.After a while, Li Xuan watched Granny Ji rambling on and on, from clothes to shoes and socks, from needlework to throwing hydrangea balls, so she saluted and said, "Your junior, go take a bath and change clothes first, and come back." Listen to the elders again." Granny Ji was furious, she threw the melon seeds and walnuts in Li Xuan's face, and said angrily: "Senior, do you think I'm old?" It’s just that you have seen Gao Zhuo and know a lot, it doesn’t mean that you are old, your voice is clear and crisp, like a swallow’s voice, like a twenty-eight-year-old woman..." Just hearing the sound of "pa", Granny Ji pulled out a whip from nowhere, hit Li Xuan's buttocks, tore off a large piece of the already damaged clothes, and cursed: "What do you mean 'like' A twenty-eight-year-old woman'? 'Like', then no, you still say that I am very old, or that I am very old..." Annoyed, Granny Ji lost her pretentious voice and became old. Li Xuan could tell that she was the old woman who was hiding in the belly of the bronze figure just now.Li Xuan knew that he had said the wrong thing again, and his butt was about to be exposed, so he pulled down his clothes, wrapped them tightly, and ran to the soup pool in the cave on the left to take a bath, thinking that Granny Ji would never come here again Bar. In the cave on the left, there is a hot spring pool in the shape of a duck egg. Although it is natural, the edge seems to have been artificially modified, decorated with many neat white jade-like stone strips.The pool was steaming with white steam, Li Xuan was overjoyed, quickly took off his clothes and jumped into the soup pool.Unexpectedly, there was a sound of footsteps, Granny Ji followed again, Li Xuan said in embarrassment: "Whether a man or a woman can kiss each other, please... avoid it for a while." But Granny Ji giggled: "Back when I opened a black shop in Luoyang, all the male merchants who looked at me lewdly, I drugged them one by one to make them fall asleep, and then dragged them to the back hall, stripped and washed. , slaughtered like a pig, and made into human meat pancakes to sell to others. I have seen thousands of this man's bare buttocks, so what are you afraid of!" Li Xuan was shocked, and said: "Just now you said that I was looking at you lewdly, and you must have wanted to kill me. You lied to me to wash it myself, which saved you trouble. I just want to ask you, can you let me Do you understand, tell me the truth about the weird things these days?" Granny Ji stuffed another piece of orange into her mouth, and said with a smile: "That happened many years ago. Later, I changed my temper and killed anyone who didn't look at me lewdly. What you call these strange things Well, I know everything, but the master has orders, so I can't tell you." Li Xuan was curious: "Master, who? Is it that fairy? By the way, how are the four ugly girls with me?" Granny Ji covered her mouth, munching on snacks desperately, and shaking her hands at him head, as if he really wanted to say something, but he wanted to hold back. Li Xuan knew that she was in trouble, so he said: "If you can't tell me the things you asked just now, then I won't force others, so where is this place, and what happened to that bronze man, can you tell me? " Granny Ji felt relieved, swallowed her mouthful of food, cleared her throat and said, "You are right to ask this matter, if you ask others, you will never know so clearly. However, I can only tell you part of it. You only saw one bronze man, do you remember what it looked like?" Li Xuan thought for a while, and said: "It looks like a goddess, with a high bun and ancient clothes, she doesn't look like a person from this dynasty." Granny Ji clapped her hands and said, "You have a bit of eyesight, this is what Qin Shihuang cast One of the Twelve Golden Men." "The Twelve Golden Man?" Li Xuan was startled, and said, "I've heard that Qin Shihuang destroyed the six kingdoms, collected all the weapons in the world, and made the Twelve Golden Man. But it was later demolished by Dong Zhuo and others, melted down and cast into coins." used." Granny Ji said: "You only know one thing, and you don't know the other thing. How many weapons are there in the world? Back then, Qin Shihuang was afraid that the people of the six countries would rebel, so he collected all their weapons and melted them down. There are many bronze figures. Apart from what you just said, the twelve bronze figures in this grotto should be relatively large. Just guess, who is this copper figure you have seen?" Li Xuan blurted out: "This is Qin Shihuang's concubine? A princess? No, this bronze figure seems to have a sad face. Could it be the queen of the kings of the six kingdoms?" Granny Ji's eyes lit up, and said: "You are really smart, you are so smart. The twelve big bronze figures were cast in the shape of the kings and queens of the six countries that were destroyed by Qin at that time. The one you saw was the queen of Yan. They were all kneeling, Qin Shihuang I want future generations to see this bronze man and always remember his awe-inspiring aura when he destroyed the six kingdoms." "Then what is this grotto used for?" Li Xuan asked, "Is Qin Shihuang also buried here? Oh, I was wrong. The Qin Mausoleum is huge, and everyone knows that it is in Mount Li." Granny Ji shook her head and said: "This matter should not be judged rashly. The emperors are very suspicious and often make fake tombs to confuse the world. There are some things that we don't understand. There is a huge sarcophagus, and everyone speculates that there may be the body of Qin Shihuang. But when it was opened with great effort, it was filled with black sewage. It was excruciatingly painful, and it was slowly festering. In short, there are many mechanisms inside, and until now, we have only discovered nine of the twelve bronze men, and the other three are hidden in some secret place." Li Xuan has stayed in the grotto for so many days, he has no interest in exploring the secrets, he just wants to go out early and see the light of day again.他对计婆婆说：“我只想走出这个石窟，管他是秦始皇的还是汉武帝的，我好想再看一眼太阳。” “见太阳还要等一等。”计婆婆见李煊听了一愣，随即又笑道，“不是不让你出去，只是现在不是白天，还是黑夜。”“哦。”李煊长吁一口气。 说话间，李煊已经洗浴干净，穿好了衣服，却见计婆婆一转眼间，竟然不知道上哪儿去了，他不禁有些着急，难道又在骗我？好在正犹豫间就听到脚步声响，计婆婆手中多了一块碧蓝色的雕花玉珮，递给李煊说：“把这个带在身上。” 李煊摇手道：“我一向不习惯带这些零碎又不实用的东西。”计婆婆脸色一变，嗔道：“这是刚才那个仙女给你的，你要是不收，她可要生气了，她要是生了气……”李煊没等她说完，吓得赶紧说：“我收下就是了，赶快带我出去吧。”计婆婆脸带笑意，上下又打量了一番李煊，神色好生奇怪。李煊不免有些纳闷，却不敢多言。 跟着计婆婆七绕八绕，最后从山坡上的一棵大空心树里钻了出来。八名黑衣盲仆，早已备下两顶轿子，让他俩乘坐。此时明月在天，秋风飒飒，虽然已是繁霜满地，落叶萧萧，但李煊轻吸一口清新的空气，心中有说不出的愉悦。