[Black Flower] Jiangshan Yichang

Chapter 18 18

When Xie Yuchen walked into the aunt's room lightly, the aunt was waiting for him. She stood in front of the altar with her back to Xie Yuchen, without combing her hair, and her waist-length black hair was interspersed with a few white hairs.

Xie Yuchen wasn't sure what to call her for a while, but instead she spoke first: "I've been waiting for you for a long time."

Xie Yuchen stepped forward and helped her to sit on the edge of the couch. When she was not pretending to be crazy, she had a gentle but firm aura. Xie Yuchen found that the lips and face shape of the black blind man did resemble her.

"You waited for me, presumably because of something very important."

Auntie smiled: "I heard they say your name is Xie Yuhua, tell me about you."

Xie Yuchen pondered for a moment, then smiled: "My life is very boring. I am trapped in a big mansion, doing things that I have no interest in every day, but for the sake of more people and greater secrets, I must do so."

"I knew it, you are very similar to him, I did not miscalculate." Auntie stared at Xie Yuchen carefully, as if she wanted to see someone else's shadow on his face, "I also know, you are investigating about Time is running out for his affairs, so let me tell you."

Xie Yuchen nodded solemnly.

"Since you are from the Xie family, you should know something about the legends of the Zhang family, right?" Auntie opened the cabinet next to the bed and took out a pair of animal bone carving tools.

Xie Yuchen was secretly startled, he never thought that in this era, someone would use the words "Xie's family" to describe him, and the pair of animal bones in his aunt's hand, Xie Yuchen heard from his master, is a special divination tool , and the master saw this kind of thing in the hands of Qi Tiezui.

"You and Jiumen..."

Auntie smiled nonchalantly again: "My business is not important anymore, as long as you understand, then I can continue to talk about it."

Nurhachi's biological mother is a collateral line of the Qitar family, which originated in Changbai Mountain, and the dragon vein of the Qing Dynasty in the legend is also located in Changbai Mountain. This coincidence makes the Zhang family, the last emperor's family in China and the Zhang family who guards the secret of longevity for generations, come forward. Closely connected with the unprecedented.

The Manchus believe in Shamanism, which believes that all things have spirits, and one of the most respected gods is the mountain god. For this reason, the Qing Dynasty regarded the Zhang family as the psychic of the mountain gods. They knew their existence, but respected them extremely them.

Xie Yuchen's guess was correct in the first half of the story. Kangxi was firmly seated in the pass, but he was always worried about the dragon's veins, so he sent his confidant Qitar Tuhei to Yongling. The secret of the dragon veins of Changbai Mountain, during this process, the Zitar family and the Zhang family had some contacts and negotiations.

The Qing Dynasty had an idea. They wanted to introduce a new dragon vein in the capital, so that the Manchus could secure the throne in the Central Plains.The first thing to be built was the Summer Palace on the former site of Qitar Tuhei's palace, followed by the Old Summer Palace, and then the seemingly scattered imperial mausoleums of the emperors. Dragon veins are ready.

"Why is it Qitartu's black lineage?" Xie Yuchen asked.

"You are really smart." Auntie sighed, "Because the Tuhei lineage has been completing some underground tasks for the emperor since before they entered the customs. They suffer from a special eye disease, which is actually a kind of poison. , the corpse gas in the tomb will aggravate the poison, but this eye disease can help them see things in the tomb that we can't see clearly, so they all regard this inherited disease as the glory of the family. But This kind of poison will torture them, and when it accumulates to a certain extent at the age of four or fifty, it will attack the eyes, erode the spirit, and finally die in an unknown tomb."

"Why did you die in an unknown tomb?" Xie Yuchen couldn't help but think of the black blind man who insisted on taking the most dangerous job even though he knew his eyes had deteriorated.

"Maybe it's because of what they can see? It's probably because their family claims to be the guardians of the tombs of the Qing Dynasty, so it's their pride to die like this." Auntie sighed.

Xie Yuchen couldn't help but frowned. His train of thought had been wrong all the time, because the blind man's eye disease and longevity were too special, so it was inevitable that people would link the two together. family, but did not prioritize this possibility too high.According to my aunt, there are quite a few people with eye diseases in the Tuhei lineage, and they do not have the characteristics of longevity and immortality.

But that plan changes with the appearance of a woman.The nuns of Prince Chun's Mansion called her the Empress Dowager, and in Xie Yuchen's era, people called her more Empress Dowager Cixi.In people's minds, the Empress Dowager Cixi is synonymous with incompetence. Even if the Beiyang Navy's funds are embezzled, the Summer Palace must be overhauled.But any person who can reach the top position of power is by no means mediocre, let alone the only woman in history who has been in power for three generations. Besides, she also abolished footbinding, established women's schools, and banned opium. The far-sighted policy seems to be completely contrary to her closed and selfish personality.

In my aunt's story, the empress dowager almost disregarded the relationship between herself and her own son for the sake of power. A woman even sacrificed her instinctive motherhood, so what she wants must be something beyond ordinary human beings—— live forever.

The Empress Dowager no longer pursued the longevity of Manchu blessings, but instead pursued personal immortality, so she made a series of actions that can be described as crazy.

Since longevity was involved, her first reaction was to win over the Zhang family, but the Zhang family remained unmoved.

Originally out of awe, the two parties could live in peace, but at this time, a major event happened in the Zhang family. I heard that the Zhang family took out a holy man who had been sleeping for 3000 years from King Zhou Mu's stone box with dragon patterns. infant.

The Empress Dowager was furious when she found out about this, and then she was almost ecstatic. The secret of longevity guarded by the Zhang family was invisible and intangible, but this holy baby of longevity with the blood of the Zhang family was actually living in this world.The Empress Dowager was getting old day by day, and her desire for longevity surpassed her respect for the Zhang family, so she began to secretly send troops to round up the Zhang family, hoping to get the child and the secret of longevity.

That holy baby is Zhang Qiling.

Xie Yuchen had heard this story about blood and family from Wu Xie, but Wu Xie's mental state was very bad at the time, and Xie Yuchen didn't have too much curiosity to ask the details of the story, but chose to comfort Wu Xie And an intensive plan to launch a counterattack.

In Wu Xie's description, the decline of the Zhang family also began in the last few decades of the Qing Dynasty.Xie Yuchen took it for granted that the decline of the Zhang family was due to years of wars. Now that he thought about it, it had something to do with the near-killing of the empress dowager.

"The Zhang family is stronger than she imagined, and she failed. But she was not reconciled, she got some Zhang family with stronger blood, so she wanted to make a full-fledged, banner-man baby by herself. It must have a bloodline similar to that of the Empress Dowager, but it must also have the ability of the Zhang family."

Black blind man.Xie Yuchen silently read the name in his heart.

"Since Emperor Xianfeng, the blood of the royal family has gradually withered. In the huge Forbidden City, almost no newborns were born. The emperor's party and politics between Emperor Guangxu and Empress Dowager Cixi have also become increasingly fierce. "Auntie grabbed her cuffs tightly, "I was pregnant at the time, and I predicted that my child's fate would be in chaos when I returned to the capital. In order to protect him, I secretly hid in a mausoleum and gave birth to him, but It was quickly discovered by the Zitar family."

When Xie Yuchen thought her emotions were on the verge of collapse, she took a deep breath, restrained her emotions, and continued: "Maybe it's because I stayed in the mausoleum for too long, or maybe I was born this way, that The child’s eye disease is more serious than anyone in the family. There is a saying in shamanism that a baby born with a disease is a reincarnated new shaman, that is, a messenger between humans and gods.”

Xie Yuchen was a little distracted when he heard this statement. The black blind man suddenly appeared in front of him again and again when he was in a desperate situation. It was like a miracle. Surrounded by the delicious taste, full of human fireworks.The messenger between man and god, Xie Yuchen recalled the face of the black blind man, so it was like this.

"Shoubeile was very happy to see this child, and thought he was the hope of the Qing Dynasty, so he gave him a baby name, Erbi, and dedicated this child to the empress dowager." The aunt said, crying Come, "I hope my child will live well, so I was locked up and said that he was from Fujin, and I had no complaints, but Baylor brought him into the palace and never brought him back again. After another A few days later, the two young sons of Fujin in the mansion, one two years old and the other four years old, were forcibly taken away. Fujin cried and passed out. I secretly followed the leader who took the children away, only to find that they The child was brought to the imperial mausoleum that the Empress Dowager built for herself!"

This is what my aunt said when she was pretending to be crazy before, and the Yin soldiers took her child away.Xie Yuchen also took a deep breath. It turned out that the aunt was hinting that she was secretly about the imperial tomb.

"Both Fujin and I lost our children, so we decided to join forces to find out the whereabouts of the children. Fujin sent people to inquire from the palace, and the news we got was that the Empress Dowager sent a child with royal blood to experiment in an attempt to make the Zhang family The blood of the Manchu people, preferably the blood of the Manchu people who are close to the empress dowager, are fused together."

"What's the use of having such a child?" The Zhang family made up such a story to strengthen the belief in the family, and what is the purpose of the empress dowager?

"Make medicine." The aunt's lips trembled, and spit out these words, "At that time, it was believed in the palace that human flesh was used as medicine, and the efficacy was greatly enhanced. Use your own flesh as medicine."

My aunt let out a long breath: "Unfortunately, fate tricks people. She got a child who survived the transfusion of Zhang family's blood as she wished. She plans to start the plan immediately after the death of Emperor Guangxu, but she is only better than Emperor Guangxu." One more day to live."

"The only child who survived..." Xie Yuchen already had a conclusion in his mind, but he still couldn't help asking.

"That's right, it's my child." Auntie lowered her head and smiled, "I heard from the spies in the palace that countless princes and princesses were sent to the mausoleum to carry out that secret experiment, but he was the only one who survived. After the Queen Mother died, he was taken to the side of the Queen Mother Longyu. The child of the Queen Mother Longyu died in the tomb. She believed that the soul of her child was attached to Erbi, so she kept him by her side and treated him well. .”

If it is true as she said, then this absurd plan should come to an end. Could it be that Shoubaile really just wanted to use the remaining troops of the Bannermen to give it a go? , just to bring half of the meteorite's tiger talisman.

"So how much do you know about tonight's plan?" Xie Yuchen asked.

Auntie pulled out a row of animal bones and asked, "How many can you guess?"

"If it were me, an emergency plan that has been in effect is terminated, then I will naturally implement the plan before the emergency plan was inserted, but the original plan to introduce new dragons in the capital has been burned out with the fire in the Old Summer Palace. Now Anyone who is full of Eight Banners knows that the most important thing is to regain the capital from the warlords, so I will improve the huge device used in the original plan, make the best use of it, and serve the most important plan at the moment." Xie Yuchen replied.

"I didn't misunderstand the person, you are smart enough." Aunt lowered her voice, "Fu Jin passed the news out of the mansion through me, Shou Beile received a secret report, President Cao broke up with Commander Feng, who was leading the army for him in the Shanhaiguan area, I’m afraid I won’t be able to come back for a while. As long as a team of soldiers is left in the imperial mausoleum on the outskirts of Beijing to isolate the capital from the outside world, and another team enters the presidential palace to take down the president, the Qing Dynasty can be restored again.”

"Now the imperial family's army is only left with the imperial guards led by Prince Qi. Even with the soldiers hidden in the imperial mausoleum of the Baylor Mansion, it is not enough to isolate the capital." Xie Yuchen said.

"So they want to borrow——yin soldiers." Auntie said slowly.

Xie Yuchen immediately understood that meteorite is a tool to change the magnetic field, and the relationship between feng shui and magnetic field is controversial even in the present era. The Meteorite Tiger Talisman that Shou Beile had planned so hard to obtain might be the key to triggering a riot in the entire imperial mausoleum, and even the entire capital's magnetic field.Xie Yuchen had heard countless mysteries about the Forbidden City when he was a child, and they probably all stemmed from this magnetic field riot.

In this way, everything makes sense, the tiger talisman has always been half the army and half the minister, and Prince Zheng was the Tuogu minister of Emperor Xianfeng, who held half of the tiger talisman in his hand. After being forced to death by the empress dowager, he took the tiger talisman into himself His descendants, instigated by the Japanese who wanted to drive a wedge between the old Manchus and the warlords, opened the tomb of Prince Zheng.If this half of the Tiger Talisman falls into the hands of the Japanese and the plan of the Manchu elders is made public, then the warlords will immediately break with the imperial family.

Perhaps out of such considerations, or perhaps it was really convenient, Zhang Qiling brought back the half of the Tiger Talisman and handed it over to Hei Xiazi.The Zhang family knew where the fate was going. Perhaps when Zhang Qiling handed over the tiger talisman to Hei Xiazi, he knew that time and civilization did not allow the Qing Dynasty to have any room for redemption. He just simply returned it to the original owner.

How could the black blind man not know.

And Nuo Min, who married from Prince Regent Prince Chun's mansion, brought the tiger talisman held by the other half of the king. So far, the two tiger talismans have been combined in the hands of the last Prince Heshuo, the last imperial guard of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and Prince Qi. Two become one, awakening countless Yin soldiers sleeping in the imperial mausoleum, and fighting to the death for the last king.

"Shoubaile will lose." Xie Yuchen said, Fujin and his aunt worked together to spread the information, no matter which side it was, they would prevent this from happening.

"This old lunatic should have lost long ago." A satisfied smile appeared on Auntie's face.

"Then what do you want me to do?" Xie Yuchen asked.

"I want you to save my child. Apart from you, I have no one else to entrust to him. You are smart enough and love him enough." The aunt stood in front of Xie Yuchen and grabbed Xie Yuchen's hand, "Tell him, sleepy The thing that lived in him is gone, and then accompany him."

"I can't accompany him, and maybe I can't save him either." Xie Yuchen lowered his eyes.

"It's enough for you to appear here." Auntie smiled at him, "This place will no longer exist after tonight, you go to find him now, get out of this door, and never look back."

Xie Yuchen has always been used to implementing plans and not asking too much why. He knows what Auntie means. After tonight, the palace will fall apart, and all the servants in the palace will be destroyed, and he will definitely not look back. .

But this time, he still couldn't help asking: "This is his home...Maybe you can go find him with me?"

My aunt let go of Jie Yuchen's hand, put her hands together and stood in front of the altar: "I've been stuck here for too long, and I don't belong to this era anymore. After leaving this door, I don't know how to live. My child, if you are willing to realize my one Wish, I hope you can give him a home."

Xie Yuchen saw his mother from this back. When he had to be sent to his master to seek asylum, it was his mother who supported his crumbling home. On the day his mother died, he sat in the attic and listened to the rain. He didn't understand why she Willing to give everything to carry a tattered burden on his own, not knowing why he would give everything to support a home that is only his own.

Where there is a home, the traveler has a place to return to.

"I assure you, as long as I live, he will have a home." Xie Yuchen walked behind her, bowed deeply, and walked out.

The woman softly sang a song to coax the children, it was a song in Manchu, and it seemed a little crazy.

Xie Yuchen remembered that on a night when he thought he was going to die, Heixiazi also sang this song to him.