The emperor’s palace has been left unattended for a long time now, only an elderly eunuch who is hard-earned at the door is guarding it.
After the emperor succeeded to the throne, he set up the bedroom in Mingde Hall, which was separated from the palace of the first emperor by two walls.
Xiao Xuan walked over the wall and turned in from the back of the dormitory. He was naughty when he was young, and relied on his agility to walk around the entire palace.
He had visited the palace of the first emperor twice, but he didn't like the cold feeling there, so he just checked in the courtyard and left.
Xiao Xuan landed gently and stood at the door of the sleeping hall.
After the emperor ascended the throne, he ordered the first imperial palace to be sealed off. A large and heavy lock was placed on the door, which was covered with a thick layer of dust, and there was a spider web on the chain.
As soon as Xiao Xuan reached out and touched the lock, his fingertips were stained with dust.
The guard said behind him: "Master, let the subordinates come down and unlock."
"No," Xiao Xuan said, "this lock is equipped with a mechanism. Once it is touched, there may be hidden weapons at us." Xiao Xuan has always been a cautious person. The lock core was obviously touched. I'm afraid that as soon as they open the lock, they will immediately trigger the mechanism. I'm afraid that they won't even know how to die.
Xiao Xuan said, "You are guarding below, and I will go up from the roof." As he said, he went up on the roof.
After so many years of wind and sun, the glazed tile roof has long lost its original luster and the surface has fallen off.
Xiao Xuanfu lowered his body and uncovered four or five glazed tiles. The light shone into the house through a small vacancy on the roof. The wind blew through, and the dust in the house was cleared in mid-air, light and weightless.
Xiao Xuan jumped and jumped into the room.
There was a lot of dust in the room. When Xiao Xuan jumped in, the room instantly became dusty. His eyes were so fascinated by the dust that he couldn't open his eyes. He coughed slightly, and his voice appeared especially in this empty room. Big.
Xiao Xuan covered his mouth and nose with his sleeves, and when he adjusted to the dim light in the room, he began to look around.
The palace of the first emperor was naturally decorated with magnificent magnificence. The pillars were plated with gilt flying dragons. The dragon's eyes were still bright, but the scales on the body had already darkened.
This is the place where the first emperor usually handles government affairs. The first emperor's bedroom is in the apse.
Xiao Xuan walked gently to the apse. Although he knew that no one would come here, he still didn't want to disturb such a quiet place in his heart.
The curtains and curtains of the first emperor’s bedroom were all withdrawn, all covered with white cloth, but it looked very dazzling.
One, two, three... Eight, nine...
Xiao Xuan counted the numbers silently in his heart, and when he counted to "nine", he was already standing under the ninth beam.
He looked up at the top of his head. There were spider webs all over there. There was a spider with a billowing belly, motionless, and moth wings beside the spider.
Xiao Xuanfei leaped onto the beam of the room. He was already prepared to be disappointed. After all, he did not believe in metaphysics. After hearing Xie Yunqing's words, he just came to try his luck. Then he saw that there was nothing on the beam of the room, so he still forbeared. Can't help but feel a little lost.
Xiao Xuan was about to go down, and when he glanced at Fang Liang again, he found it a little strange.
In a dark place, there was a bulge. Xiao Xuan reached out and tried the raised area, and found that the wood had loosened. He uncovered the raised area and discovered that a hole had been dug there.
Xiao Xuan breathed suddenly
After stagnation, there was an idea ready to come out.
That girl didn't lie to him!
Xiao Xuan withdrew his fingers and thought through his thoughts before reaching out again to take out the things in the hole.
It was a soft cloth, and Xiao Xuan had already determined what it was just by touching it.
-The edict of the first emperor.
Xiao Xuan stuffed the edict into his arms and touched the hole again, but he found a jade seal. Xiao Xuan was taken aback for a moment, and he could probably see that the jade seal was jasper jade, with a panlong button, engraved on it, with eight characters engraved on it, "Destined to heaven, it is a long life."
Xiao Xuan was taken aback. The real jade seal was here, so the jade seal in the hands of the emperor must be fake. He hurriedly stuffed both the edict and the jade seal into his arms, making sure that they would not fall out, and then refilled the hole in the beam of the house.
The guards waited outside for a long time for Xiao Xuan to not come out, and suddenly they heard the voice of two old mothers.
"This place has been abandoned for so long, so we just sweep the fallen leaves casually."
"Yeah, I really want to clean this place. There are no one hundred and ten people. It depends on our two old bones. Even if we are exhausted, we can't clean it up."
The royal palace has been abandoned for almost 20 years. Who would have thought that almost no one had set foot in a place, but someone would clean it as soon as they arrived
The guards were not weak in martial arts. Hearing the footsteps of the two mothers getting closer and closer, he turned over and jumped on the roof. Xiao Xuan was preparing to come up from below, and when he saw the guard looking down from the top of his head, his face suddenly became dark, "It's not for you Are you guarding outside? What are you running up to do?"
The guard scratched his head and said with a silly smile: "It's not that we are out of luck. Two old mothers came to clean the dormitory. I heard their movements getting closer and closer, so I climbed to the roof for fear of being caught."
bad luck? Xiao Xuan didn't feel that way at all. He had gained a lot from this trip, and it could be said that even the gods were looking after him.
It's just that after he goes out, it's time to talk to the little girl from the Xie family.
"Where are they now?" Xiao Xuan rolled his eyes.
The guard raised his head and saw two old mothers in soap clothes bending over and sweeping the fallen leaves not far away, and whispered to Xiao Xuan: "They are a hundred and eighty feet away from us."
Xiao Xuan said, "We go around behind the sleeping hall, and no one will find it." After that, let the guards go down, make a light leap, and jump to the roof.
Xiao Xuan stayed in the dark for a long time. When he saw the sunlight, his eyes were stinged. He covered his eyes with his sleeves, and then filled the glazed tiles back and restored them to the original shape before coming down from the roof and sticking to the sleeping hall. Walking, bypassing all the open spaces where it is easy to expose their whereabouts, both of them are physically vigorous and walk without any movement.
When Xiao Xuan returned to the Queen Mother's palace, he and the Queen Mother made plans to leave the palace.
The Queen Mother kept saying: "It hasn't been long since I entered the palace, and I left without even eating a meal? Did you play outside so much that you forgot about my grandmother?" Even so, the Queen Mother also knows Xiao Xuan's age. When he was big, he had his own space, and no longer forced him, so he asked his confidant to send Xiao Xuan to the gate of the palace.
Sitting in the sedan chair, Xiao Xuan didn't say a word along the way, holding two very important things in his arms, and any one of them would be slain for him. He is not afraid of death, but he is afraid that he will not have time to rectify his parents, and he is also afraid that his only sister and uncle's family will be involved.
Xiao Xuan must protect the two things in his arms.
Fortunately, the carriage drove smoothly all the way to King Yu
In the house, Xiao Xuan got out of the carriage and entered his study, and ordered the maid and the guards not to come in.
Xiao Xuan locked the door, walked to the bookcase, and pulled out a book on the side of the third row of the bookcase. Only a "click" was heard, then a muffled sound came out, the bookcase slowly turned, and a passage appeared in front of his eyes.
Xiao Xuan walked in, and the bookcase was restored to its original state immediately.
This is a secret room.
Xiao Xuan stepped down the steps, lit an oil lamp and walked forward about ten meters, before a set of tables and chairs appeared. A huge night pearl was placed in the center of the table, setting the surroundings as bright as day.
Xiao Xuan did it and took out the edict and jade seal in his arms.
The original bright yellow silk cloth was a little white now, and Xiao Xuan slowly unfolded it with vigorous and powerful regular script, which was the writing of the Emperor Xian. When Xiao Xuan started to learn Chinese characters when he was a child, his father was the character of the first emperor that he asked him to imitate.
However, what shocked Xiao Xuan even more was the content of the edict.
Xiao Xuanhong read the contents of the edict with his eyes, and read it three times again, until he could recite it, and then put the edict together. I picked up the jade seal again. There was a lifelike dragon carved on the jade seal. Under the whole world, only the emperor's jade seal was qualified to engrave dragons.
The Emperor Xian didn't give such a thing to anyone until his death. It can be seen that he was forced to be like that, no one around him could trust him.
Xiao Xuan clenched his fist and slowly released it. He found a nanmu box, put the jade seal and the edict in it, and locked it with a small precision lock and placed it in a hidden compartment. Such things must be kept away. , Before the time is right, you can't take it out.
Xiao Xuan walked out of the dark room, his face returned to his usual casual smile.
When someone came over and handed a letter, Xiao Xuan unfolded and saw that it was his uncle who invited him to Song's house for a drink.
Xiao Xuan handed the letter to Baili, who took care of his daily life, and said: "I'll change into my clothes first. It's noon, and the Prince Yu's Mansion has saved another meal."
What can you do if your uncle finds himself? Xiao Xuan would not believe that his uncle was really idle and boring to invite him to drink.
When Xiao Xuan arrived at the Song family, his grandparents were very concerned about him, and Xiao Xuan never put on the prince’s score. Instead, he accepted the Song family’s kneeling ceremony after greeting the elders.
He played two games with his uncle Song Zhien, each of whom won one game, and neither of them said a word.
Xiao Xuan cleaned up all the black and white chess pieces, and then said, "Is there anything important when my uncle calls me over?"
Song Zhien caressed his long beard and said, "A goose lady is here today, let me ask you for an question." Song Zhien has already passed the age of calm, with a beard, but his face is not old, and he can still be seen when he was young. Handsome style.
Xiao Xuan heard that, there was no change on his face, and asked lightly: "It's been a long time since I saw Lady Yan, what did she ask you to ask me?" Xiao Xuan probably guessed it, it must be Xie Yunqing who cracked the wooden box. The agency, with the token inside, went to find Lady Goose.
He gave the wooden box to Xie Yunqing at that time. He could expect that since Xie Yunqing knew what was in the wooden box, he must know how to crack the wooden box mechanism, but he felt that Xie Yunqing would definitely not know how to use the token. Even if the token was given to her, she didn't know how to find the secret guard of the clumsy character department, it was just a piece of useless wood. So I don't worry about giving it to her.
Unexpectedly, Xie Yunqing knew how to use that token.
(End of this chapter)