one step closer to the end

"Aren't they twins? Why is there only one..."

Zhao Guanren walked carefully to the cradle to watch, Yongning ran over and hugged him, and said with a smile: "The big one is too edible, I can't feed it by myself, so I sent it to the queen mother to help feed it, this is our second child, How about it? Let me live up to it, and I gave birth to two sons for you!"

"It looks like it's my own, but it looks like my mother..."

Zhao Guanren raised his dirty hand, thought for a while but didn't dare to touch it, but leaned forward and kissed it with joy on his face, watching his son's non-stop silly joy, Yongning also hugged him sweetly.

"Zhao Yunxuan, Zhao Yunxuan..."

Emperor Shun Yao's father and son all walked in. Prince Duan glanced at his grandson and smiled wryly: "I treat you as a brother, but you actually treat me as a father-in-law. It doesn't matter if you are just a father-in-law, but you and my sister actually have a hand. Should I call you son-in-law or brother-in-law?"

"Seventeen definitely can't marry me, you should call me son-in-law..."

Zhao Guanren smirked shamelessly, but Luo Tan suddenly said, "My lord! I have something important to tell you. The former emperor Ye Zimei didn't commit suicide, but was poisoned to death by corpse poison powder. She suddenly transformed into a corpse in the East Palace. , almost bit us!"

"what?"

The four men were stunned at the same time, Zhao Guanren thought he heard it wrong...

Chapter 0632

"Whoa~"

Zhao Guanren tore off the chains on the gate of the East Palace, and pushed open the two courtyard doors. What he saw was a mess; The last smell hits the face.

"Master! The incident happened in the backyard, the house where Yongning lives alone..."

Luo Tan and Qiu Ning followed him into the East Palace, Shen Qingwen and Ouyang Jin also followed, Lu Datou hurriedly distributed epidemic masks and sheepskin gloves, and the two deputy commanders of the Dragon Guard followed behind, a group of people wrapped themselves in Like a surgeon.

"What did you burn here, where did the corpse go..."

When Zhao Guanren walked into the backyard, he found a large pit. There were many bluestone slabs in the scorched pit, and sand and ashes were also mixed together.

"All the suspicious items were burned here, and then the ashes were removed and exposed to the sun until now..."

Luo Tan stepped forward and replied: "The corpse was transported to the north of Urn City. The underground is impermeable three-component soil. We built a purification pool to burn the corpse. We strictly followed the epidemic prevention procedures. We didn't dare to leak a drop of corpse oil. Wengcheng slept all night before leaving!"

Zhao Guanren asked: "Why did the corpse poison enter Yongning's room? Did Ye Ruoqing bring back a rouge box?"

"Yes! We found an overturned rouge box and found poisonous powder in it..."

Luo Tan said: "Ye Ruoqing had two boxes of the same rouge, which were sent to the palace along with other gifts. We tortured the female guards who sorted out the belongings, and they refused to admit the poisoning, only said that the gift was accidentally dropped on the way, and it was unintentional." Put the rouge in the gift box!"

"Is Ye Zimei's body burned too?"

Zhao Guanren glanced at Lu Datou noncommittally. Lu Datou was so depressed that he couldn't speak. After a long time, the rouge box he had lost was taken away by Emperor Ji Renfu, and finally entered the palace by accident. It's Tiande Ye's family.

"No! The new emperor and the king of Qin insisted not to allow the burning, saying that they would keep the whole body..."

Luo Tan spread his hands and said: "However, we stabbed a big hole in the back of his head with a sword, and put it in the coffin after nine days of exposure to the sun. The special coffin is divided into three layers, the inner layer is made of golden nanmu, the middle layer is made of bronze, and the outer layer It’s a big sarcophagus, no corpse oil will leak out!”

"I won't tell a fart, he's already a corpse..."

Zhao Guanren said angrily: "I always thought Ye Yunchen was playing tricks, but I didn't expect you guys to get out the corpse. No matter where Ye Zimei is buried, take me there and dig him out. Once he blows up the grave, everyone will die. !"

"impossible!"

Tianqi Emperor Ye Guanhai suddenly ran in, and Qin Wang, who had been captured alive by Zhao Guanren, and Renfu Emperor Ji also followed.

"Uncle! It's absolutely impossible for my father to cheat the corpse..."

The little emperor said anxiously: "His brains flowed out like tofu. I watched with my own eyes. I couldn't bear to leave him with a whole body. Besides, the copper coffin and the sarcophagus will not go wrong. It must be something else." Someone cheated the corpse, so don't disturb his rest!"

"I know you love your father..."

Zhao Guanren pressed his shoulders and said: "Your father should be buried in the imperial mausoleum. Let's open the tomb and have a look. I won't open the coffin as long as there is nothing wrong with it. I will ask the Bodhisattva to save him once more so that he can be reincarnated as soon as possible and reborn." How are you doing?"

"But the underground palace can't be opened, it's been sealed..."

The little emperor said anxiously: "The mausoleum of the late emperor has not yet been built, and it happens that the mausoleum of grandfather has not been closed, so he buried his father and son together. The entrance of the underground palace is locked by two heavy gates, even if the grand master is locked inside, he can't come out." If you don’t come, outsiders won’t be able to enter either!”

"It's enough to dig a robbery hole and go in to see if it's okay, and the vault can also be opened for it..."

Zhao Guanren's attitude was very firm, but King Qin came over and said, "King Zhao! The mausoleum is made of three layers of blue stones, and is covered with a waterproof layer and compound soil. Let alone a robbery hole, it is difficult to get in through the whole plan. Digging up ancestral graves is a huge taboo!"

"Yunxuan!"

Emperor Renfu also said anxiously: "Even if my brother cheats the corpse, he won't be able to get out. That underground palace is really impenetrable, and our family's ancestral grave has been dug up. How can we explain it to our clansmen?"

"Okay! Let's take a look first, and then we'll talk..."

Zhao Guanren walked out thoughtfully, the little emperor was not in the mood to go to court, so he hurriedly changed into simple clothes, and rode with Zhao Guanren to the imperial mausoleum. The ancestral graves were dug up.

Ji Chongling is far away in the mountains in the countryside, and everyone rushed to arrive in the afternoon without stopping. With the financial resources of the Ji Kingdom, it will definitely be extravagant and wasteful.

The bluestone slabs were paved all the way into the deep mountains, with various large stone carvings of mythical animals on both sides. Several mountains were dug into mausoleums, and the palaces built on the top of the mountains could be seen from a distance.

In addition to the magnificent palace, there are also many temples, city walls and towers. A whole battalion of soldiers is stationed here, and there is also a yamen for the management of the imperial tombs, just to protect the eight emperors who have been buried here.

"The emperor is here!"

The mausoleum guard officials suddenly saw a large number of dragon guards coming on horseback. The fool also knew that the emperor had arrived, so he hurriedly ran to the archway and knelt down to greet him, but Zhao Guanren jumped off the horse first and asked, "Get up and talk, what are the plans for this year?" Didn't lightning strike the imperial mausoleum?"

"There was a time at the beginning of the year, but the mountain fire has been extinguished by us, and it has not affected the imperial tomb..."

The officials got up from the ground one after another, and Zhao Guanren immediately asked them to lead the way on horseback. The scale of the imperial tomb was larger than the imperial palace, and it was divided into two valleys on the left and right. However, just entering the imperial city on the ground, a large number of concubines guarding the tomb Just ran out.

"King Zhao is here! King Zhao is here..."

The concubines seem to have seen a savior. The concubines of the two emperors all recognize him. They know that none of the concubines who have slept with him have become monks or guarded the mausoleum. the living dead.

"Let's talk about it later, I have something urgent to do..."

Zhao Guanren quickly rode his horse and ran deep, and soon came to the foot of a big mountain. The mountain had obviously been struck by thunder and fire. Although a lot of vegetation had grown, there were several dead trees lying in the forest.

"Is there a mausoleum under this mountain..."

Zhao Guanren jumped off his horse to look around, and the mausoleum official also jumped down and said, "Nothing! The imperial mausoleum faces south, and the mausoleums are arranged on the east and west sides. In recent years, this mountain has been struck by lightning once, and last year there was another mountain fire. , far outside the imperial tomb!"

"Take me to Ye Zimei's mausoleum..."

Zhao Guanren followed the mausoleum official to Dongshan Mountain, but the graves of Ye Zimei and his son were not in the mountain, but a very large courtyard was built. There was a Hades Hall in the courtyard, and behind the hall was a huge tomb. The entrance to the underground palace had long been filled. up.

"Yunxuan! No corpse can deceive you in this kind of place..."

Ye Ruoqing followed him to the grave, and Zhao Guanren walked around the grave, but found nothing suspicious, so he went back and asked, "Are you sure that the corpse entered the coffin and was not transferred halfway? It might be poisonous if you don’t burn it!”

"Master! I was present at the burial, and the Dragon Guards also guarded the whole process..."

Qiu Ning stepped forward and said: "I saw the corpse being put into the coffin with my own eyes. The Dragon Guards locked it with chains, and sealed the top and bottom of it. The outer copper coffin was sealed with iron brazing, and finally it was carried into the sarcophagus in the underground palace. And it is placed independently in the ear chamber, and the tomb is sealed by a thousand-jin gate!"

"This is weird..."

Zhao Guanren squatted in front of the grave bag in confusion, but Lu Datou suddenly asked: "Have you counted all the corpses, have you checked with the number of dead people, did some corpses run away, or hide somewhere in the palace? "

"Checked!"

Qiu Ning nodded and said: "We have counted the number of people in the entire palace, and no one is bad. We have even searched the secret room under the East Palace to make sure there is nothing wrong with it!"

"I'll go ask..."

Zhao Guanren got up and walked outside the compound. Hundreds of concubines guarding the mausoleum gathered outside the door, and there were even many old concubines with gray hair. Nothing unusual happened?"

"..."

The concubines shook their heads blankly, and an old concubine said: "Sometimes I can see the emperors, take the queen or concubine out for a stroll, but it's not scary, we are used to living here, anyway, sooner or later I have to go down to accompany the emperor!"

"King Zhao! If you say the monster is the mausoleum monster here..."

A former side concubine stepped forward and said: "The mausoleum officials don't pay more than a hundred taels of silver a year, but their wives all wear gold and silver, and some people have several concubines, but the imperial mausoleum is not a place to earn money. , so we suspect that they are guarding themselves and stealing, and someone is stealing funerary objects!"

"Self-defense?"

Zhao Guanren was surprised and said: "But the tomb is sealed, so how can you steal it? If you have evidence, I can take you away!"

"Although we don't have evidence, there must be a demon if things go wrong..."

The side concubine hurriedly said: "It stands to reason that we should live here and accompany the late emperor for 49 days, but they let us live in the middle palace for a month on the grounds that the underworld hall was in disrepair, and some people heard the donkey braying in the middle of the night. Well, it is impossible for an imperial mausoleum to have a donkey!"

"Thank you!"

Zhao Guanren immediately rushed into the compound, grabbed the mausoleum official and shouted: "Wow! You gang of thieves dare to guard and steal yourself. No wonder there are funerary objects on the market. Say! Where did you make the robbery hole? If you don't tell the truth, you will be executed everywhere!"

"Never mind! Absolutely nothing..."

The mausoleum officer waved his hands again and again in fright, but two of his subordinates were paralyzed in fright. Ouyang Jin quickly rushed forward and stepped on one, drew out a steel knife to brace the other's neck, and the guy immediately wailed, "No way!" My business, Master Xu forced us to do it!"

"Tell me honestly! Where is the robbery hole..."

Ouyang Jinjiao shouted, and the other party said in horror: "No, it's not a robbery. The craftsmen who repaired the mausoleum are afraid of being buried alive. There is a secret passage in every underground palace. You only need to dig the soil outside to enter. It's a century-old rule, and every mausoleum official does this!"

"Bastards! You bastards who are paid a thousand dollars..."

The little emperor jumped into a rage, grabbed a knife and was about to cut down the mausoleum official, but Zhao Guanren stopped him and asked, "Speak! Have you ever entered Emperor Yongji's tomb? Have you ever opened his coffin?"

"No no no! Absolutely no..."

The mausoleum official knelt down on the ground and wept in mourning: "The late emperor used a three-layer coffin, and even cast a spell on the copper coffin to suppress the corpse. We thought that the late emperor must have cheated the corpse, so we only took the gold, silver and jade objects in the sarcophagus. The copper coffin can't even be touched. I dare not touch it!"

"Damn it! You dare to rob the tomb even if you know the corpse is cheating, take us to the secret path..."

Zhao Guanren kicked the opponent hard, the little emperor was already crying out of anger, Ye Ruoqing said with a pale face: "It's over! My elder brother must have really cheated, and the emperor is in the same mausoleum with him , how can this be good?"

Chapter 0633 Charm

The secret passage in the tomb had already been backfilled. The little emperor didn’t want to let the scandal of the imperial tomb being stolen, so he had to let the dragon guards take turns to dig the soil. More than 100 people dug until midnight. After eating supper, they finally opened the secret passage. The stone door was dug out.

"Boom~"

Shimen fell to the ground with a bang. Two mausoleum officials walked in tremblingly holding oil lamps. Zhao Guanren and Ouyang Jin followed closely behind holding flashlights. Familiar smell - the smell of corpses!

"Be careful! There may be corpses..."

Zhao Guanren called out the Soul Knife and held it in his hand. The underground palace was also very tall. A corridor led to the main tomb and eight ear chambers. The concubines who hanged themselves for the two emperors were all buried in the ear chambers. Buried in the last room on the left.

"Huh? Why don't you take these porcelain and bronze wares..."

Zhao Guanren walked into the "main room" of the underground palace. There was a big bronze tripod in the middle, and there were many pottery figurines of soldiers on both sides, but there were many exquisite porcelains on the ground, and none of them were missing.

"No one dares to buy!"

The mausoleum official wailed, and Ouyang Jin explained: "The funerary porcelain is specially fired by the official kiln. Once it is taken out, it will be known to others. They stole the imperial tomb. The same is true for the bronze wares, so they only dare to take them. Gold, silver and jade articles are easy to change, and they are easy to sell on the black market!"

"How did you open the door, this stone door is not light..."

Zhao Guanren went to the main tomb and pushed the door hard, but the two heavy stone doors did not move at all. The mausoleum official held a special flat hook and fiddled with it a few times under the stone door, and then opened the door with a hard push.

"Oh! So there are two big stone balls behind the door..."

After Zhao Guanren walked in, he suddenly realized that there were two sloping grooves behind the door. As long as the door was closed, the stone ball would roll down. People who didn't know how to do this could not open the door of the tomb. This stone door probably weighed several thousand catties. It doesn't necessarily work well.

"Yo~ Isn't this the emperor's bedroom..."

Zhao Guanren raised his flashlight and looked around. The decoration of the main tomb was the same as that of the imperial palace. There were three sarcophagi, one large and two small. Emperor Jiwu and his two concubines were buried respectively. It was broken even more.

"Old father-in-law! Look at what you are fighting for. In the end, you didn't die so tragically..."

Zhao Guanren took out an anti-epidemic mask and put it on. Emperor Jiwu's coffin was also placed in the gold-inlaid sarcophagus, but the gold leaf on it was picked off.

When he walked to the side of the sarcophagus and looked around, Emperor Jiwu was so rotten that only a skeleton was left, the brocade quilt and dragon robe were lifted off, none of the funerary objects were left, and even his jaw was smashed , It should be to take away the night pearl in his mouth.

"Old father-in-law! Let me see you off again..."

Zhao Guanren lifted the lid of the coffin and put it back on again, but he walked to the side of the concubine's coffin and took a look. A female corpse was stripped naked, with her buttocks lying in the coffin. After the drug treatment, the rot was not serious. Seems to have been violated.

"You bastards, you even invaded corpses..."

Zhao Guanren was annoyed at once, but the mausoleum officer waved his hand and said, "My lord, you have misunderstood. We never do these dirty jobs, but after the empresses are buried, they will be covered with jade stones from top to bottom. They turned the empress to... take out The jade that plugs the anus!"

"Get out! I'll get angry when I see you..."

Zhao Guanren cursed furiously. After taking out his gloves and putting them on, he turned the two female corpses over with his own hands, covered them with brocade quilts and coffin covers, lit three cigarettes one by one in front of the three coffins, and bowed respectively. Only then withdrew.

"Master! The front is flooded..."

Ouyang Jin stood at the entrance of the passage holding an oil lamp. The passage leading to the ear room was a slope. The dark groundwater was probably one foot deep, and wooden funerary objects were floating on the water.

"Go get the gravel to pave the way, be careful not to touch the water, there may be corpse poison..."

Zhao Guanren pulled Ouyang Jin to the back, and the two mausoleum officials sighed and went to move the stones. After barely paving the way, Zhao Guanren forced them to open the way with a knife.

Corpse people are all soulless things. Hiding behind the door, he can't see them with his soul-chasing eyes. Moreover, this place cannot be exposed to the sun, and the poison of corpses in the water will not dissipate. corpse.

"Damn it! I knew it..."