Chapter 17 fourth quarter

Song Ruozhao's tone revealed a touch of sadness: "That's right, 'Ape Playing Fireball' is the ninth image of "Tui Bei Tu". And this ninth image was solved by the elder sister." "Did Lady Song untie it?" Pei Xuanjing was even more surprised, "Then what the Ninth Elephant predicted was..." "Mr. Wu Yuanheng was assassinated." Pei Xuanjing was dumbfounded——Song Ruohua actually thought that Wu Yuanheng's assassination was predicted by the ninth image in "Tui Bei Tu"? Song Ruozhao said: "I'll explain it to Master Lian."

"Tui Bei Tu" ninth Xiang Renshen: "Fire Sky Dayou", "Fire Sky Dayou" is the third hexagram "Dayou" hexagram with the Li hexagram as the upper hexagram.This hexagram is from the top to the bottom, which means great wealth. "Yuan" means monopoly, and "Heng" means omnipotence. The five-character quatrains read: "There are many disasters for the two emperors, and Zhongxing will stop fighting. No one has a woman, so what to be afraid of being alone." The first two sentences of this prophecy poem: "The two emperors are full of disasters, and Zhongxing will stop fighting." The two emperors refer to the two emperors before the current emperor——Emperor Dezong and Emperor Shunzong.During Emperor Dezong's reign, the Tang Dynasty suffered several military turmoil, and Emperor Dezong was even forced to flee from Chang'an City.However, Emperor Shunzong, also known as the first emperor, was seriously ill as soon as he ascended the throne, and he announced his abdication just six months later.It is quite appropriate to describe them as "two emperors with many disasters".

ZTE in "Zhongxing No. Zhige" refers to Datang ZTE, which is the cause that the current emperor has devoted most of his life to. Too many loyal ministers and good generals have participated in it, and have paid everything including their lives for this, such as Wu Yuanheng. Isn't Zhige just a word for "wu"?Therefore, the sentence "Zhongxing No. Zhige" can be interpreted as: the emperor's ZTE career relied on Wu Yuanheng, the mainstay, to make great progress. From the bumpy fate of the two emperors before, to the success of today's holy majesty.It is the meaning of the two lines of the poem "Two emperors have many disasters, and Zhongxing will stop fighting".

How do you explain the following two sentences "No one decides a woman, so what if you are afraid of being alone"? Women are often solved as the word "good" in anagrams. These two poems seem to say: The good man has disappeared, so he can only be alone. Which good man?Who is alone? Assuming that these four prophecy poems are related to each other, the last two sentences say that the emperor got Wu Yuanheng as his right-hand man, and finally he was able to wash away the humiliation suffered by the two emperors, father and grandfather, and the revival of the Tang Dynasty is in sight!The last two poems pointed out that at the critical moment, Wu Yuanheng was assassinated, the emperor lost his most powerful assistant, looked around, and fell into an extremely lonely situation...

Look at the seven-character poem again: "Among them there is a red ape, who is the culprit of the world. Running around, causing trouble everywhere, making the community uneasy. It should be known that the combination of hexagrams, prophecies, poems, and paintings is the image of "Tui Bei Tu". The painted apes are juggling three fireballs.Wasn't Wu Yuanji's Huaixi, Wang Chengzong's Chengde and Li Shidao's Pinglu colluding with each other to assassinate Wu Yuanheng?These three fireballs should specifically refer to the three feudal towns that killed Wu Yuanheng in an attempt to destroy the emperor's cause of cutting feudal vassals.

Therefore, the ninth phenomenon in "Tui Bei Tu" predicts that the current emperor is determined to cut down the vassal, and the three feudal towns of Huaixi, Pinglu and Chengde assassinate the prime minister Wu Yuanheng in an attempt to frustrate the emperor's ambition and make the great Tang revival fall by the wayside. historical facts! "After the elder sister deciphered the ninth image of "Tui Bei Tu", she reported the truth to the Holy Majesty." Song Ruozhao said in a low voice, "That happened at the end of the tenth year of Yuanhe." "and then?"

"The Holy Majesty ordered my eldest sister to continue to decipher other "Tui Bei Tu", but the eldest sister died in the spring of the following year. Before the eldest sister passed away, she did not report any new discoveries to the Holy Majesty." "What about after the eldest lady passed away? Did the Holy Father let you..." "No," Song Ruozhao categorically denied, "The Holy Majesty entrusted me with the title of Eldest Sister and almost everything she did. Only the matter of deciphering "Tui Bei Tu" was never mentioned by the Holy Majesty. And I, too, It was only after the vision in the Lingyan Pavilion recently that I was summoned by the Holy Majesty and told the whole story."

Pei Xuanjing wondered: "Could it be that the eldest lady has never told your sisters that she is deciphering "Tui Bei Tu"?" Song Ruozhao smiled faintly: "She kept it from all of us. In the heart of the eldest sister, our sisters' weight can never be compared with the Holy One." After a moment of silence, she said again: "After I saw "Tui Bei Tui", I realized that the vision of 'ape playing fireball' described by the Shence Army is exactly the picture on the Ninth Elephant." Pei Xuanjing thought about it and asked, "Could it be just the imagination of those sergeants?"

"Do you all think the same? And the description is vivid? It happens to be consistent with the picture of the ninth image in "Tui Bei Tu". Is this possible? Those Shence soldiers have never even heard of "Tui Bei Tu". So The Holy One is extremely worried about this matter." Pei Xuanjing understood. The emperor should have two concerns: first, whether "Tui Bei Tu" was leaked; second, how did the vision of "ape playing with a fireball" come into being, and what does it mean? She nodded and said, "So Fourth Lady was involved?" Song Ruozhao smiled wryly: "Although the eldest sister never mentioned "Tui Bei Tu" to us before her death, she was the last person responsible for deciphering "Tui Bei Tu". "I really couldn't say anything. Instead, the Holy One told me another amazing thing."

She carefully took out another piece of yellow paper from the golden chamber: "Master Lian, please read this again." I saw two trees in the painting, one withered and the other prosperous.The dead tree fell to the ground, and the Rong tree stood up from the branches of the dead tree, and it was flourishing.On the left side of the painting is inscribed a line of words: "The thirty-third elephant, Bingshen, has a great wind and charm." The seven-character poem next to it reads: "You must know where Tai Sui is, and the green dragon changes into a white-headed rabbit. At this time, it is time to change the home soil."

"So this is the thirty-third elephant!" Pei Xuanjing exclaimed, "It is exactly the same as what I saw on the window tonight!" She looked at Song Ruozhao, "What's going on here?" Song Ruozhao sighed, "Master, please allow me to speak slowly." "In the past, every time my eldest sister wanted to enter Lingyan Pavilion to study "Tui Bei Tu", she would open the door of Lingyan Pavilion with the hand of the Holy Master and accompanied by the servant. She entered alone, and the servant waited outside the pavilion. On the Golden Chamber There is a lock, and only the eldest sister has the key. When the eldest sister leaves, according to the order, the servants can search the body to verify whether the eldest sister has hidden "Tui Bei Tu". It seemed that she had a premonition of her own death, and shortly after the third sister died of poisoning, she returned the key to the golden chamber to the Holy Majesty." Pei Xuanjing frowned—it was indeed a little strange. "The eldest sister told the Holy Majesty that she was worried that the Persimmon Forest Courtyard was not safe, so she dared not keep the keys. The eldest sister also said that the tragedy happened in the Persimmon Forest Courtyard, and she was physically and mentally exhausted, so she was temporarily unable to crack "Tui Bei Tu". The Holy Majesty agreed. .” Pei Xuanjing thought, it was Song Ruohua who understood the emperor's suspicion.Under the circumstances at that time, it was indeed a wise move to return the key, at least it would not make the chaos in the Persimmon Garden even more muddy.But Song Ruohua certainly did not expect that more than two years after her death, the shadow of "Tui Bei Tu" once again shrouded her sisters. Song Ruozhao continued: "Since then, the Holy Majesty has kept the key of the Golden Chamber with him, and he himself has neither been to the Lingyan Pavilion nor consulted the "Tui Bei Tu" for more than two years. Until a month ago, the first vision occurred in Lingyan Pavilion. The "ape playing fireball" revealed on the window was exactly the picture in the ninth image of "Tui Bei Tui". The Holy One was horrified, worried that someone would steal "Tui Bei" "Picture", he immediately went to Lingyan Pavilion to check, but found that the golden chamber was locked well, and there was no trace of prying. So, he took out the key and opened the golden chamber, but found a really strange thing!" "What really weird thing?" "The Holy Majesty discovered that the Thirty-Third Elephant's "Tui Bei Tu" has changed!" Song Ruozhao pointed it to Pei Xuanjing, "Did the master see anything strange?" Song Ruozhao's slenderness pointed at the second line of the seven-character poem. "The blue dragon transforms into a white-headed rabbit?" Pei Xuanjing saw the problem, "Why is the word 'head' red?" "Tui Bei Tu" was made on Yizhou jute paper specially used in the palace. Due to the age, the original dark yellow background of the paper has become different shades, and the font of the seven-character poem is so small that it is really difficult to find the handwriting at first glance. The colors are different. Song Ruozhao said word by word: "All the characters and pictures in "Tui Bei Tu" are written in black ink with the same pen, and there are absolutely no red characters." Pei Xuanjing frowned. Song Ruozhao went on to say: "The Holy Majesty was very surprised when he saw the scarlet letter. Because he recalled that in the thirty-third image, the second line of the seven-character poem turned out to be 'A green dragon transforms into a white cow and a rabbit'. Therefore, the word 'head' Definitely changed." "Si Niangzi means: the original poem of Thirty-Three Elephants is written in black ink, 'The Green Dragon Changes to the White Cow and the Rabbit', because the word 'ox' has changed to the word 'head', so this poem becomes 'the green dragon changes to the white head' rabbit'." "Yes." Song Ruozhao moved his finger to the third line of the poem, "Master, please read it again, this word has also changed." Pei Xuanjing took a closer look and found that the character "South" in the third line of the poem "Tianjun Dongnan Mu Yilai" is also red. "The word 'South'?" "Originally it was 'North'." "Si Niangzi said that the original poem was 'Tianjun Dongbei Mu Yilai', but now it has become 'Tianjun Southeast Mu Yilai'?" "Exactly." "How did the words change?" "have no idea." Pei Xuanjing carefully held up the thirty-third elephant, and Song Ruozhao watched her nervously. After a while, Pei Xuanjing put the page down again: "The original characters are completely missing, so it's not a simple alteration, and the red characters are integrated with the rest of the characters. If it wasn't for Si Niangzi's explanation, I would have thought it was like this at first. But why? How about changing the characters to red? If it wasn’t for the color change, maybe even the Holy Majesty wouldn’t have noticed that the lines had changed, right?” Song Ruozhao remained calm. Pei Xuanjing stared at Song Ruozhao and said, "Judging from Si Niangzi's statement, the thirty-third image should have been tampered with, so there are only two people who are most suspected: the first is the eldest lady, and the second is the Holy One. Because Except for them, no one else has the chance to come across "Tui Bei Tu" at all." "Why is it necessary for Your Majesty to change the "Tui Bei Tu" by yourself and then tell us? Pei Lianshi, you and I are very aware of His Majesty's character. Therefore, this suspicion can be ruled out." Song Ruozhao said calmly, "Besides, Eldest Sister, everything has already been done. It has been more than two years since she passed away. Even if she did it, it was two years ago. Besides, before she died, she gave the key to the golden chamber to the Holy Majesty. I really can't think, if she did it, what would happen? What do you want to achieve?" Pei Xuanjing said: "I can't answer Si Niangzi's question. I'm just analyzing various possibilities." "But there is a possibility that the alchemist didn't mention." "What's possible?" Song Ruozhao's eyes were burning: "Ghosts and gods." "spirits?" "The Holy Majesty handed me the key of the Golden Chamber and ordered me to investigate the matter in detail. However, after thinking about it, I always felt that the vision of 'ape playing fireball' in Lingyan Pavilion and the third part of "Tui Bei Tu" in the Golden Chamber The changes of the thirteen elephants cannot be explained by common sense, and can only be explained by the power of ghosts and gods." Pei Xuanjing said: "So Si Niangzi invited Liu Guoshi tonight?" "Yes. Tonight is exactly ten days after the second vision. I guessed that if everything that happened in Lingyan Pavilion was caused by ghosts, then there should be some clues that Liu Guoshi did on the spot." "Unexpectedly, it led to the 33rd elephant appearing on the window?" Song Ruozhao decided Pei Xuanjing: "Maybe—this is what ghosts and gods want to achieve?" Pei Xuanjing frowned and said, "Could it be that the fourth lady wants to say that the three visions that have occurred in Lingyan Pavilion so far are actually to attract everyone's attention step by step, and finally reveal the change of the thirty-third phenomenon in "Tui Bei Tu"? Moreover, all of this is the work of ghosts and gods?" "Can Master Pei Lian refute me?" After a moment of silence, Pei Xuanjing sighed softly: "Let's go, there's nothing to see here." Song Ruozhao and Pei Xuanjing boarded the same carriage and returned to Daming Palace from the sidewalk. Just after the third watch, the oil lamps flickered on the green brick walls on both sides of the road, and the wind blowing through was colder than in the wild.Two Shence soldiers drove horses to guard, and their shadows reflected on the curtains of the car, big and small. Pei Xuanjing stared at the car curtain, without saying a word for a long time.Song Ruozhao sat opposite, looking at her thoughtfully. Finally, Song Ruozhao broke the silence: "Master Lian, are you afraid?" "What about you?" Pei Xuanjing asked back, "Are you afraid?" "Scared. I was afraid every day in Daming Palace. I was hoping that one day I would get used to being afraid and not be afraid anymore. Who knows that I will never get used to it." Song Ruozhao laughed dryly. Pei Xuanjing spread out her palms: "I picked this up from the ground in Lingyan Pavilion." It was a small piece of red paper, carefully cut into the shape of two trees—one standing upright and flourishing, the other withered and falling to the ground.