Chapter 128

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date="2021-09-03"

title="Chapter 128"

weight="134619"

series = ["The Tyrant’s Beloved Empress"]

mode = "manual"

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Although she was very attracted to the elephant and the white peacock, an Changqing finally did not agree to take Huai Rushan in. In the final analysis, it was a matter between the Huai Ruyu brothers. He intervened horizontally in the middle, and there was always some meddling. After having fun in the city of Fuliang, an Changqing and Xiao Zhige went to the secret vault with the token of Huairuyu.

The secret vault was built on the ground floor of the dormitory in Huairuyu. The attendants of Huairuyu led them down, bowed to the door and left. The gatekeeper was two deaf-mute attendants. An Changqing showed her token and went in smoothly with Xiao Zhige.

The secret vault is so dry that it doesn't feel wet or hot outside at all. In addition to the rows of bookshelves in the whole storeroom, there is only one book case for reading, with pen, ink, paper and inkstone on it, as well as basic stacks of books. In order to prevent the running of water, the lighting in the secret vault is full of night-luminescent pearl, and many of them are inlaid on the walls, illuminating the storeroom brightly.

Not long after they came in, one of the gatekeepers brought tea and cakes and preserved fruit. An Changqing nodded his thanks, and the janitor made two gestures and retreated.

An Changqing casually flipped through the books stacked on the case and found that in addition to some previous manuscripts, there were many records related to the mackerel people, which they had never seen before in Dahu and Xili.

When he put the books down, an Changqing flipped through them on the shelf, and the books were carefully classified into categories, including manuscripts of ancestors, rumors of wild history, and some predecessors left behind scrolls, which were specially stored in non-perishable wooden boxes.

"it seems that we have come to the right place on this trip to Yuze." An Changqing opened a wooden box and looked at the picture inside.

Xiao Zhige also felt the same way, pointing to these bookshelves and said, "there are still more than ten days left, and we can each read half of the books on the bookshelves. We can't say that we can find some new clues before we leave."

An Changqing happened to coincide with his ideas, and immediately divided with him, each hugged several books and began to read them. An Changqing looked at the handletter left by Huai Shu, and the time was marked on the cover of the handlet. it was only when he flipped through it from the very beginning that he vaguely figured out the identity of the person in the painting.

The handwriting should be written by Huai Shu's recollection of his old age. from the beginning of his first encounter, there are memories between the lines.

"in the sixteen years of Zaide, I went out to sea by boat and met Yu Kui at sea. He said that he went out to sea and unfortunately encountered a storm at sea, and the ship capsized. He held a ship and floated for three days before he met me. I couldn't bear it. I allowed him to get on board and took him back to Yongzhou. "

This Yu Yu is the man in the picture. At that time, Yuze still belonged to the wild land of Yongzhou. Huai Shuan, who comes from the Huai family in Yongzhou, is still a young man with a weak crown.

At the bottom of this paragraph, Huai Shuan added another paragraph in small print: "I was young at that time. I saw that he was beautiful, and I believed him so easily that I was fascinated by beauty." In retrospect, he was in high spirits at that time without even a trace of haggard, how could he be a man who had been floating on the sea for three days? The wonder of him has been revealed for a long time. It's just that I wasn't aware of it when I was young at that time. "

An Changqing read it one by one according to the time listed on the cover. Most of the handwriting is about the two people knowing each other and getting along with each other. Except for a name mentioned at the beginning, there is no other information about Yu Kui. In addition, when Xu was old, he couldn't remember many things clearly, and most of the notes were short and fragmentary. An Changqing read three lines very quickly, and things didn't change until he saw the record of Zaide for 21 years.

The handwriting reads: "in the 21 spring of Zaide, there was little rain in the north, and there was a severe drought." In autumn, there was a poor harvest of grain, but the exorbitant taxes and taxes of the imperial court became heavier and heavier. I heard that there were thousands of miles of hunger, and countless people died. In the south of Yongzhou, although there was no severe drought, it was overcast and rainy for months, and the dam burst and flooded the farmland. The court refused to allocate silver for disaster relief, countless victims were killed and injured, and pestilence was rampant. Xiao Li wrote to me and asked me to go to Kyoto to conspire. Yu was curious about the situation in Jingdu and went with me. This is the last thing I regret in my life. I hurt him. "

The handwriting of this paragraph is strong on the back of the paper, which shows the remorse in Huai Shu's peace of mind. An Changqing hurriedly turned back, only to find that there was a large blank in the back, turning over a few pages of blank paper, but the record jumped directly to the last year of Zaide two years later.

In the last years of Zaide, the monarch of the former Wei Dynasty was in poor condition because of the monarch's obscurity and impudence. The eight big pillars conspired to rise up for two years, and finally led troops into Kyoto to overthrow the former dynasty and establish a new one. The other seven big pillar countries jointly elected Xiao Li as emperor and changed the name of the country to Daji.

During these three years, Huai Shu'an did not write down, but only wrote: "We spent three years occupying various places and invading Kyoto, and everyone, including Yu Yi, would like to honor Xiao Li as emperor." Yu Ying once said that he was a wise man with a heart of the world and a man worthy of trust. But in fact, he is just a hypocrite with a lust for power, and we are all deceived by him. "

An Changqing continued to look back, only to find that this paragraph was empty again as before. do not know whether Huai Shuan is unwilling to recall, or whether he is afraid to write it out and be peeped into that year, so he deliberately hides it.

An Changqing turned to the last page, only to see that there was only one sentence written on it: "Yu Jing is gone. If I had taken him back to Yongzhou earlier, maybe everything would have been different."

The record of Zaide years came to an abrupt end. An Changqing rubbed his eyes and was about to get up to look for the back of the handwriting, but suddenly he was dizzy. Xiao Zhige held him in time, poured him a cup of tea and asked him to sit slowly: "take a rest first, you don't have to look so urgently."

An Changqing drank a cup of tea, pinched the brow and said, "there are so few useful contents in these manuscripts. Now I only know the man in the painting as Yu Kui. He went to Kyoto with Huai Shuan and got to know Taizu and six other Dazu kingdoms." But there is no way to know what happened. "

Xiao Zhige said, "I didn't find anything useful in my handwriting, but I found a painting."

He handed him the picture at hand: "it's exactly the same as the painting in Xili."

An Changqing slowly unfolded the picture and saw that the portrait was exactly the same as the one Xue Wuyi gave them. But one is in the west and the other is in Yuze. There must be some connection between these two paintings.

"Let's talk to Huai Ruyu and take the picture out for comparison." An Changqing said.

Xue Wuyi said that the caravan sent by Xue Chang probably went out to sea. At the beginning, they analyzed that when they went to the seaside from Xiyang, they had to pass through the border of Yuze. And the two men sentenced Dazu at the same time, obviously there is some kind of connection. If Xue Chang sent a caravan to sea to build a mackerel tomb with Huai Shu an, it would make sense for each of them to keep a picture scroll. There may be clues to the mackerel tomb hidden on this scroll.

Xiao Zhige looked at the secret library that was clearly photographed by night-luminescent pearl. He didn't see the sun and didn't know the time, but he guessed that it was getting late, so he said, "Let's go out and talk about it. You can come back tomorrow to see the rest."

An Changqing felt a little dizzy when she sat down, so she took the painting and went out with him. Originally thought that when they went out, the two janitors would stop them from taking the paintings out, but they did not expect each other to stop them, only after they came out, they carefully locked the door.

When the two men went up the steps, they found that it was already the middle of the month. In addition to Huai Ruyu's attendants waiting in the hall, Huai Ruxian is also there.

Seeing them coming out, Huai hit Yawn sleepily and said, "there are countless people in that secret vault, and you didn't come out until this time."

Xiao Zhige looked at the sky outside and asked, "what time is it?"

The attendant replied, "at the end of the ugly time, when the king saw that the two distinguished guests had not come out, he asked the slave to wait." The king is still dealing with political affairs in the study. "

"if you've been waiting for a long time, you can't see the light of day in the secret vault, and if you can't tell the time, you'll be delayed a little longer." An Changqing said.

The attendant bent down, said, "I'll get the king" and left.

On the contrary, Huai Rushan hit Yawn again, looked sleepily at the axis of the painting in their hands and asked, "what clues have you found?"

"some clues have been found, but they have yet to be confirmed." An Changqing said.

As soon as Huai listened to this, he immediately leaned over briskly and said, "what is it?" Show me. "

An Changqing carried the scroll behind her and said slowly, "there are no elephants or white peacocks in Dazu."

"?" Huai Rushan's outstretched hand froze in mid-air, looked at him in disbelief, and said angrily, "I know now that you are much worse than my brother."

An Changqing smiled with small white teeth, like a clever and cunning little fox, lovely and good-looking. Huai Rushan immediately succumbed to beauty: "OK, the elephant gives you one, and so does the white peacock." Please show me. "

With that, he reached out behind him and grabbed the scroll. Anyway, when Huai Ruyu came, he would see it. At this time, an Changqing did not argue with him and gave him the picture scroll.

Huai Rushan unfolded the picture, and his excited expression froze when he saw the person in the painting. he rolled up the picture and squinted at an Changqing: "you're not messing with me with your own portrait, are you?"

An Changqing said, "I don't know what you are doing. The person in this picture is called Yu Jing, about." Is it my ancestor? "

Huai Rushan doubtfully unfolded the picture scroll and took a closer look at it, and just found the difference. He spread the picture on the table of the case, looked at an Changqing and looked at the portrait, and sighed, "the mackerel people are really amazing. They are all great beauties." I heard my brother say that the face of the holy envoy was also unique. "

"that's all you remember, but why don't you remember me telling you to stay out of it?"

A voice came from afar, and as soon as Huai Rushan looked back, he saw him striding over, and immediately picked up a flattering smile and leaned over: "I remember." But aren't I worried about you? More than one person makes a lot of effort, isn't it? "

Huai Ruyu glanced at him with a look of helplessness. Instead of driving him back in the end, he only turned to an Changqing and Xiao Zhige and said, "what's so special about this painting?"

An Changqing had not told him about the portrait and the secret treasures of Xihu, but she did not deliberately hide it. It was just that there were too many things to say, so Huairuyu naturally did not know the special of them.

"I also have such a painting here, which is handed down by Xue Chang, the first king of western dung." An Changqing told him about the secret treasure of Xiyi, and the man who happened to be sent to pick up the painting also came. An Changqing took over the paintings and gave them to Huairuyu Road: "take a look at it first. It's exactly the same."

Huairuyu took over the portrait, opened the shop on the edge of the previous painting, and found that it was exactly the same.

"do you suspect that the mackerel tomb was actually built by the former king and Xue Chang?" Huairuyu asked.

"that's right." Xiao Zhige said: "the secret treasure of Xue is often left to the person in the painting, that is, Yu Yi." And Huai Shu built the mackerel tomb for Yu Yu. The two of them know each other and it is not surprising that they will cooperate. "

An Changqing added: "it is a pity that many important events have been omitted from those manuscripts." If we could find out what happened that year, it might be much easier for us to explore the tomb of the mackerel. "

Huai was good at meditating for a while and said slowly, "in fact, although the mackerel tomb was built for Yu Ju, I went through all the handletters, but I felt that Yu Huan might not be buried in the mackerel tomb at all." Although it is called the mackerel tomb, it is actually only an isolated island. "

He frowned, as if he did not know how to explain: "when I was flipping through those letters, I felt that in the accounts of the former king, I did not regard Yu Yu as dead." The mackerel tomb is not like a graveyard, but more like building a Taoyuan on the sea. He has been waiting for Yu to come back, but not until his death. "

He had this idea vaguely before, but he couldn't be too sure. It was not until today that I heard Xue Chang's last words that I felt that my guess might not be wrong.

"both the former king and Xue Chang seemed to think that Yu Huan would not die and would come back again."

An Changqing was touched by him, and her eyes lit up: "Yes, there is a passage in Huai Shu an's initial handletter saying that he should have discovered the wonder of Yu Yu." Can be called miraculous. What could it be? "

"immortality." Xiao Zhige suddenly said.

Seeing that all three people looked at him, he said quietly, "I have seen the portraits of Yu Kui left in the secret store. have you found that those portraits have obviously been separated for several years, but the appearance of Yu Huan has not changed at all?"

It took a total of seven years from Huai Shuan met Yu Yu at sea to their founding of the new dynasty. Yu's age is never mentioned in the handwriting, but it is estimated from sporadic fragments that Yu is about the same age as Huai Shu'an. From the year of the weak crown to nearly thirty, even if the old age is slow, it is impossible that there will be no change at all. But the faces of the people in the portraits have not changed at all, not even the slightest increase in fine lines, except for the change in clothes and appearance.

Although it can be explained that Huai Shu an specially painted Yu Kui's youthful appearance, according to these signs, it is more likely that Yu Huan's appearance has not grown old over the years.

If Yu Kui is immortal, then the attitude of Xue Chang and Huai Shu'an can be explained.

An Changqing was dumb for a moment, but when he thought about it, he found that this guess was not unreasonable. Otherwise, Xue often doesn't make sense with Huai Shuan's strange attitude at all.

"but is there really anyone in this world who can live forever?" Huai Ruyu twisted his eyebrows and felt a chill coming up from the soles of his feet. In the previous dynasty, there were always emperors seeking the art of immortality, but he only felt terrible. Just imagine when the relatives and friends who know each other die one by one, and finally they are left alone, living alone. This is not a gift, it is clearly a punishment.

An Changqing subconsciously wanted to say that immortality was too strange. When he was about to speak, he suddenly remembered his rebirth and swallowed the words from his mouth. He twisted his eyebrows and said, "if it's true or false, you'll know when you go to the mackerel's tomb."

The three people were relatively speechless, and Huai Ruyu said, "that's all, it's useless for us to guess here." I'll arrange things as soon as possible. Let's leave for the South China Sea as soon as possible. "

The author has something to say:

Here: there is no need to rob. I have both an elephant and a white peacock.

Pussy: cheer you on.