Hu Xiaotian nodded, raised his eyes, the mountains were undulating like the back of a camel, but because the winter snow had not melted, the hills had been dyed white by snow, and now it should be more appropriate to call it White Camel Mountain.
However, the place name seems to be somewhat familiar, and Hu Xiaotian can't remember where he heard it for a while.
Zong Tang said: "The ghost doctor Fu is buried here. ” When Hu Xiaotian heard the name of the ghost doctor Fu Qi, he immediately remembered that he had heard Liu Changsheng mention it before, and it was he who told him that the ghost doctor Fu Qi would be buried in the Black Camel Mountain after his death, but the Black Camel Mountain was outside Yanzhou City, and he didn't expect it to be so close to Yongdu.
Zong Tang continued to ride his horses, the Black Camel Mountain was not steep, they came to an abandoned medicine temple halfway up the mountain, tied the two horses in the main hall, and found forage from the kitchen.
Hu Xiaotian secretly thought in his heart, it seems that he will not be able to rush back to Yongdu tonight.
Zong Tang took him to the Medicine God Temple, the statue of the boy next to the God of Medicine, a small hole appeared below, he took out a strange-shaped key from his waist, inserted it into the hole, rotated left and right, and after a while, he heard a creaking sound around him, accompanied by the tremor of the ground, the statue of the God of Medicine moved throughout, revealing a black hole.
Hu Xiaotian blinked, he couldn't imagine that there were such organs in this barren mountain range.
Zong Tang lit the torch and said to Hu Xiaotian: "Let's go down and talk" Hu Xiaotian looked outside and said, "No one will come here."
Zong Tang shook his head and said: "It has been abandoned for many years, the incense has long been broken, and it is cold and snowy, who would come to this kind of place" He had already taken the lead in entering the cave.
Hu Xiaotian couldn't suppress the curiosity in his heart, and walked in behind Zong Tang, the hole went straight up and down, and the cave wall was uneven for climbing up and down, and it was not so easy for ordinary people to go down.
But Zong Tang and Hu Xiaotian are both masters of martial arts, and they can't make any obstacles to them at all, and when they came to the bottom of the cave, a horizontal hole appeared, and Zong Tang inserted the medicine spoon into the hole in the wall, and twisted it.
The statue of the god of medicine above was re-put into place, just in case, in case someone came in and discovered the secrets here.
At the beginning, the entrance of the cave was narrow, they walked more than fifty steps with their waists, the entrance of the cave suddenly became wide, Zong Tang straightened his waist, and he said to Hu Xiaotian: "This secret passage was discovered when my father presided over the construction of the imperial mausoleum, and the mausoleum of Emperor Jingde was built thirty years ago and opened nineteen years ago.
Empress Dowager Jiang proposed several rebuilding plans for her posthumous affairs, and when my father was rebuilding the imperial mausoleum, he found a thief hole. ” Hu Xiaotian exclaimed: "Someone robs the tomb" Tomb robbery is not uncommon in any era, but the imperial tomb was stolen, and it was a bit strange that it was a matter of the dynasty.
Zong Tang nodded and said: "Yes, my father didn't dare to speak out after discovering this matter, because the mausoleum of Emperor Jingde was designed by him, and if the imperial court learned that the imperial tomb was stolen, he would definitely be unable to escape the responsibility."
So he gathered his cronies and disciples to repair the thief hole, and also discovered many secrets in it. ” Hu Xiaotian secretly thought in his heart.
It is understandable for the magician Zong Yuan to do this, if anyone will do it, if the matter is revealed, I am afraid that he will face the punishment of raiding the family and exterminating the clan, no need to ask, the work of repairing the thief cave naturally includes Zong Tang.
Zong Tang held the torch and continued to walk forward.
As he walked, he said to Hu Xiaotian: "When the imperial court asked my father to design the imperial mausoleum, my father politely declined, because everyone knows that building the imperial mausoleum will not be rewarded.
Emperor Jingde died early, and my father was worried that he would be wiped out, and he was ready to send me to escape from Dayong.
But later the Empress Dowager Jiang asked him to rebuild the imperial mausoleum, so he temporarily escaped, with the end of the imperial mausoleum reconstruction, my father also knew that the end was near, several times urged me to leave Dayong. ” Hu Xiaotian nodded, the old man of Zong was still prescient, and the best way to let a person keep a secret was to kill him, and Empress Dowager Jiang would certainly not let the designer and builder of the mausoleum continue to live in this world for the sake of stability after death.
Zong Tang said: "My father has always intended to keep me away from the construction of the imperial mausoleum, but the court still will not let us go easily, my father is seriously ill this time is not because of old age and frailty, but when the mausoleum is about to be completed, the Empress Dowager Jiang rewarded a wine banquet, which was mixed with poison."
As he spoke, a pair of tiger eyes burst out with an angry light.
Hu Xiaotian only knew at this time that Zong Tang was full of hatred for the Dayong royal family in his heart, and he sighed and said, "Old Man Zong died of poisoning."
Zong Tang said: "My father knew in his heart, but he told me to keep quiet, and before he died, he told the Empress Dowager Jiang that the imperial tomb was still unfinished and that I needed to take over his work, probably because of his words, the Empress Dowager Jiang gave up her plan to kill me immediately." ” Hu Xiaotian said: "Empress Dowager Jiang is dead now, she should no longer endanger your safety." ” Zong Tang said: "Even if she dies, those of us who participated in the construction of the imperial tomb, especially the few who undertake important work, will never end well, my father asked me to delay the completion of the imperial tomb as much as possible before he died, and find an opportunity to escape from Dayong, only by leaving here can I save my life." ” Hu Xiaotian said: "Brother Zong, I won't tell you anything, I came to see you this time to ask you to go to Dongliang County with me to create a great cause, but I was worried that my eldest brother would reject me, so I hesitated to mention it." ” Zong Tang said: "Dayong treats me like this and poisons my father, it is an enmity that does not share the heavens, even if there is no brother invited, I have already made up my mind to go to defect."
"Dayong's actions have made Zong Tang completely dead, if he wants to live, he must leave Dayong, otherwise sooner or later he will have to face the fate of being killed.
Hu Xiaotian was overjoyed, Zong Tang was deeply inherited by his father, and if he could get Zong Tang's help, he would inevitably make further progress in weapon research and development, and his strength could be improved in a short period of time.
However, Zong Tang brought him here today, not just to say this.
Zong Tang said: "The thief cave leads to the northwest from the imperial mausoleum of Emperor Jingde, and the medicine temple we just entered is an exit dug by my father later, and the other exit is in front."
He pointed ahead, and Hu Xiaotian walked closer to see that there was a fork there, but the entrance to the cave had been sealed from the inside.
Zong Tang said: "This tunnel leads to the foot of the Black Camel Mountain, and at the exit is the tomb of the ghost doctor Fu Qi. ” Hu Xiaotian was stunned and said: "Didn't the ghost doctor Fu die a long time ago, did he use fake death to hide people's eyes, in fact, he quietly excavated tunnels here to steal the imperial tomb?"
Zong Tang nodded and said, "From what we have learned, it should be like this, we traced along the thief cave all the way to the tomb of the ghost doctor, and found that the coffin of the ghost doctor's talisman was empty.
He pointed to the blocked cave and said: "When my father found out the thief hole, it has been five years since the ghost doctor Fu Qi died, according to the traces of the theft of the imperial tomb at that time, it has been three years since the sneak into the imperial tomb, so we made up for the loss and sealed this thief hole first, and my father gathered his cronies and disciples to re-dig a secret passage, which is the one we just passed, just in case, if one day the royal family kills us, maybe we can leave a way to live." ” Hu Xiaotian has also seen a lot of stories in this regard, there is no lack of precedents in ancient and modern China and foreign countries after the completion of the imperial mausoleum, the migrant workers were killed together, one is to bury the dead monarch, and the other is to strangle all the secrets.
The cave is completely excavated in the mountain, and the surrounding rock walls are smooth and neat, so you can see at a glance that it is not the work of ordinary tomb robbers.
Hu Xiaotian said: "The ghost doctor Fu Di can't complete such a big project by himself" Zong Tang said: "This is also where we are puzzled, the secret passage we opened, the total length is only one mile, and it has taken six years intermittently, and the ghost doctor Fu has taken two years at most, and it has opened a secret passage from his tomb to the imperial tomb, the total length of this secret passage is about twelve miles, and all of them have been dug so neatly through the hard rock formations."
Zong Tang stretched out his hand to touch the rock wall, until today he was puzzled by this, such a amount of work, it stands to reason that one person can't complete it, even if everyone gathers, how can such a big project be done without a trace Although Hu Xiaotian has never seen the ghost doctor Fu Xuan, but he has heard a lot of legends about this person, the ghost doctor Fu Qi has treated many people, and he is also the creator of the Heavenly and Human Wanxiang Diagram, judging from all kinds of signs, the ghost doctor Fu Qi should be a master of medical Taoism, with modern medical knowledge, and even know surgery as well as himself, he remembers that the ghost doctor Fu Qi once commissioned the magician Zong Yuan to create surgical instruments, and there should be some friendship between the two.
Zong Tang said: "He is extremely familiar with the internal structure of the Imperial Tomb, knows the weaknesses of the Imperial Tomb, and knows my father's design well. ” Hu Xiaotian said: "What has been lost in the imperial tomb?"
Zong Tang nodded, a stone gate had already appeared in front of him, Zong Tang opened the stone door, and the two continued to walk forward, at this time they had returned to the area of the Imperial Tomb, but just now they entered from the ground, and now they entered the Imperial Tomb Underground Palace directly through the secret passage.
The front has reached the end, it seems that there is no way out, Zong Tang handed the torch to Hu Xiaotian, and then bowed down, brushed the dust on the ground with his sleeves, and a few stone bricks appeared, he raised his fist, and slammed his fist on the stone bricks, and the dust flew up, and the stone bricks collapsed under his iron fist, revealing a boxy hole, just enough for one person to pass, if he didn't have enough understanding of the internal structure of the imperial tomb, even if he walked on it, he wouldn't have thought that there was a hole below.
The two of them entered the cave below, and walked dozens of steps with their waists, judging from the excavation style of the cave, this hole should be from the handwriting of the magician Zongyuan, Hu Xiaotian asked Zong Tang to verify that the original magician Zongyuan sealed all the entrances of the tombs where the tomb robbers entered and exited the imperial tomb, and took the opportunity to rebuild the imperial tomb, leaving a secret passage below.
It's just that the old man of the sect is not for the convenience of robbing tombs in the future, he is just in case, leaving a way for himself and his disciples.
To be continued
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