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Chapter Sixteen (24)

After leaving the palace, the two bought two sets of civilian clothes to change into it. Duoduo hired a carriage until he was several miles away from the city. He hired another one, but did not ask the previous coachman to leave, but gave him some more silver to drive alongside the second carriage. After that, every time he traveled, he always had to transfer a carriage. Chu Menglin didn't understand his intentions, and had already informed the emperor why he had to sneak on when he was on the road? However, after asking repeatedly, Duoduo was always vague.

A few days later, the carriage entered Liaodong. Duoduo did not explain to Chu Menglin that he stayed in Liaozhong, Kangping and Changhai, and asked each inn to go to the room and not to go out. Chu Menglin was used to keeping silent by his side and did not ask much.

That day, Duoduo took her to the road again and ordered the coachman to drive to Liaoyang. After wandering around for a while, he left on his own, but took Chu Menglin to another carriage. The person who drove the carriage was a strange young man with an ordinary appearance and figure, but it seemed to be too ordinary, and it was a bit abnormal. Chu Menglin heard him mention the Hetuala in Xinbin County in the carriage, which was an unknown strange place. Finally, he couldn't help asking why he stopped recently. Duoduo told her that.

Hetuala was originally the capital of the Later Jin regime, also known as Xingjing, which means "Henggang" in Manchu. In the 31st year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, Taizu Nurhaci started building a castle here. Two years later, the outer city was built for the relatives and soldiers of Jinghan. In the ninth year of Tianming, he moved the tombs of his grandfather, brother, son and more than ten others to Liaoyang to build the "Tokyo Mausoleum". However, Prince Zhuang Shurhaqi secretly arranged during his lifetime, and was only a tomb of clothes and clothes. He was imprisoned by his brother and died. In his early years, he had a confidante named Mu Qingyan, who built an underground palace for him. It was large in scale. It was located under the Zhaozong Temple in Laocheng Village, Yongling Town, so that he could be buried with Princess Yong'an.

Princess Yong'an married to the Great Wall in her early years. Although she had experienced hardships with Shurhazi, she never performed a formal ceremony and could not be recorded in history until her death in the name of a concubine.

In order to prevent the disturbance of foreign thieves, this royal tomb was built like a maze. Not only was the road twists and turns, but there were countless secret crossbows in the mechanism. The picture drawn from the drawings is the map of the inner part of the royal tomb, and the text is the last words left by Shurhaqi, saying that he died unjustly. I hope that his descendants would go deep into the underground palace hall when he was worshiping him. After learning the truth, he would seek revenge for him.

Duoduo thought that there were many crises in the ancient tomb. If he did not seek an experienced person to accompany him, it would not only be difficult to accomplish things, but also to encounter unexpected problems. He made careful plans and took some jade artifacts from the palace before leaving the palace. They were all plundered from the people's homes after entering the pass. Several of them were quite old. When he went to the big town to sell jade artifacts, he deliberately attracted people. At first, they were all outsiders, and gradually some experts came.

After most of the time, a young man followed behind him quietly. When he arrived at a shabby alley, he showed up and asked where the jade came from. Duoduo first assumed that it was passed down from his ancestors and was forced to make a living. The young man asked a few questions, pretending to cover it up, saying that it was all obtained from a back-and-forth battle.

The young man was half-believing and half-doubted. After a few cuts, he was very happy and said that he was a foreigner and had also been doing this business since he was a child. He had lost patience with those unknown small tombs and came alone to this place where he was unfamiliar with the land. He wanted to pour a big fight. After many days of investigation, he set his sights on Xingjing Tomb at the foot of Qiyun Mountain, which is the place called "Ente and Momengan" in Manchu. Duoduo told him half-truth and half-false about the underground royal tomb. The young man was very interested and immediately expressed his willingness to go with him.

Chu Menglin heard that he was complicated and could not understand it all, but she still praised her repeatedly. Duoduo was anxious and wanted to resolve the matter as soon as possible. When he sat in the car, he closed his eyes and rested. Chu Menglin did not dare to quarrel with him, so he sat quietly next to him. The road was bumpy, and after a few days, the carriage stopped. According to the young man, there were rocks and mud in front of him, and the road conditions were not easy to drive, so he had to hike.

After Duoduo got off the car, he helped Chu Menglin down. Not long after walking, he saw the ruins of Hetuara City, now in front of him, with devastated and overgrown weeds. Some of the outer walls remained, and the rest became ruined walls, no longer as majestic as before. When Chu Menglin saw this desolate and dilapidated scene, she felt that the world was impermanent and unstable, and her heart felt sad and shed tears.

During the war, most people were displaced. Although this place was dilapidated, there were always some eaves that could shelter from wind and rain, and could barely be used as a place to settle down. Therefore, they often live together and have gradually formed small villages over the years. Usually, few people came, and the villagers could not help but take a look at a few outsiders at first sight.

In order to cover up, Duoduo first took the two of them to visit and worship everywhere. After passing through Guandi Temple, he saw the Confucian Temple, set off the Yun Academy, and then went to Xianyou Palace and Dizang Temple. The Zhaozong Temple was left for the end. The three of them worshiped the bronze statues and searched around the various parts of the ancestral hall. The last words clearly stated that the royal tomb was built under the Zhaozong Temple, but they did not point out the entrance. After searching for it for half a day, they still found nothing.

Just as they were about to take apart the blue bricks on the ground, they suddenly heard a heavy cough, and a bearded man walked in. The three of them said that he was also a foreign guest who came to visit. They quickly pretended to be respectful to the bronze statue, hoping that he would finish his worship as soon as possible and walk as soon as possible. Unexpectedly, the big man did not salute the statue, and his small eyes turned around on the three of them. After a look, he said coldly: "I noticed it just now that the three of you entered the Guandi Temple. You were too focused and didn't find me following you. What are you doing? Do you want to steal something?"

Chu Menglin was the first to be calm and said angrily: "Your dog eyes are blind. What is there to steal in this kind of broken place?" The man said: "It's not stealing something? Then it must be looking for something." Duoduo pondered for a moment, and said half-truely: "In the past, there was a hero buried here. We respect his virtues and come to worship him to admire his style." The man glared and said: "The tomb of Prince Heshuozhuang is not here. Where do you come from and go back!"

Chu Menglin shouted, "Ah, you're so exposed. We didn't mention Prince Heshuozhuang, but only said that he was a hero. There are so many heroes in the world. How could you know?" The man lived here for a long time, didn't know the world, and the people in the same village were simple in nature and lacked experience in dealing with the outside world. He was inspired by a sentence and was very angry. He said angrily: "So what? Our ancestors were entrusted by the benefactor to be the guardians of tombs for generations, and they should not be violated by tomb robbers!"

Seeing this, Duoduo was obviously aware of the situation. He had no hatred towards Prince Zhuang, but instead had respect. To enter the tomb, he could only fall on him. He would rather tell the truth. He saluted respectfully and said: "I am not hiding it. I have a lot of connection with the tomb owner. This Prince Zhuang... is my uncle. Please give me some advice. I am grateful."

The man said, "Your uncle? Are you from the Aisin Gioro family?" Duoduo said, "That's right." The man still had a bad face and snorted coldly, "What's the strange thing about the same clan? Even if the brothers don't care about mercy, their brothers are still tragic, and their brothers are tragic!" Duoduo was secretly shocked when he heard the four words "Triples and Brothers are tragic".

Chu Menglin was furious. Although the man was simple in his mind, he was extremely stubborn in his determination. If it were another situation: the entrance had appeared and the other party was just a matter-of-five person who came to stop him, of course he would kill him with one sword without saying a word. It would be useless to kill him now. He shouted angrily: "We are following the instructions of senior Mu Qingyan and Yan Mu to enter the tomb to obtain the relics of Prince Zhuang. Do you hope that loyal and good things will always be buried deep in the ground without seeing the sun?" She racked her brains to make up the words, accidentally remembering that Ji Qiannian had mentioned to her that the Broken Soul Tears were also closely related to Mu Qingyan, and there were rumors that she was Shurhaqi's lover, and because she was thinking about the sisterhood with Princess Yong'an, she deliberately kept her distance from him. Let's just kill her horse and kill her casually.

After hearing this, the man's face was calm and relaxed, and he said, "Do you know the name of the benefactor? Could it be..." He suddenly shook his head vigorously again and said, "No, no. The benefactor has passed away for many years, and you are still so young, how can you accept her instructions again? Hehe, I'm not so easy to cheat."

Chu Menglin said, "Silly, who said that the instruction must be entrusted face to face? Although Senior Mu passed away, you can leave letters, handwritten instructions, or let her descendants convey it. Are you right?" This is a bet. I just hope that the man is not scheming. Otherwise, if she really asked Senior Mu to take out Senior Mu's handwritten letters as evidence on the spot, there would be no way to do it. Fortunately, the man was wise to Mu Qingyan, and he heard that it was related to her. Without further investigation, he believed it, grabbed his scalp and said, "Since it is an envoy sent by Senior Mu, it should be a different matter..."

Chu Menglin was overjoyed and praised, "Yes! I didn't expect that you, a elm-head, will finally get enlightened!" Duoduo shouted in unison with the tomb robber, "Shut up!" After finally persuading the man, his words were loose. If he gave Chu Menglin a sentence, he would change his mind and be wasted all his previous efforts.

Fortunately, the man was not angry, but he did not agree. He grabbed a few more hands on his head and said, "I can't do this, I have to ask the village chief first. You can wait, don't leave." When he walked to the door, he was worried, so he turned around and told him, "Don't leave." After that, he ran away. Duoduo thought to himself, "That's what you need to say? It seems that the secret of Broken Soul Tears is related to Prince Zhuang's grievances. This matter must be found out immediately. Even if you drive me away, I will never leave."

Chu Menglin cursed inwardly: "Agree to let us go to the underground palace, you can't make the decision. Stop us, you will make the decision! Humph, if I had known that you were a paper tiger and had no right to take care of the serious business, why would I spend all the time with you? Wouldn't I be relieved to ask you to call the village chief directly?"

Perhaps because the village was too small and the houses were not far apart, the man had just run out, and not long after, he came to the ancestral hall with a few villagers. The old man was thin and dry, with the wind blowing, with white beards and white hair, and his eyebrows were slightly drooping, and he looked like he looked sad at any time. The old man walked to the middle, his eyes swept over Chu Menglin and the other two, staring at each other's eyes firmly. Chu Menglin had never been looked at like this, or it was more appropriate to examine it, and he felt uncomfortable all over and glared back.

The old man coughed and said, "I heard that the three are descendants of Miss Mu." Chu Menglin said, "Yes, why don't you open the tomb passage quickly and let us in?"

The man shouted, "No, you just said that you are descendants of Prince Heshuozhuang. Now that you have changed again, your words are inconsistent, and you are probably lying."
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