Zhang Zhuoxun racked his brains and thought for a while, and suddenly remembered a man named Zhang Ying.
This man had been with Zhu Yuanzhang when he rebelled against the Yuan Dynasty. He fought with him for more than ten years and won many military exploits. Especially during the uprising of the Huguang Miao people in the twelfth year of Hongwu, he was awarded the title of Military Strategy by Zhu Yuanzhang. General, he went to suppress the uprising and led troops to guard Jiuxi Guards for more than 20 years. In the second year of Yongle, he was ordered to lead his troops to cross Beiping in Changleli, Lizhou, where he died.
The Zhang family, who is involved with Gu Miao, is really likely to be him.
The Zhang family has been active in the north, and all the places where they were born and moved are around Changbai Mountain. That place actually did not belong to the Central Plains in ancient times. It was more under the control of ethnic minorities at that time. This branch of the Zhang family obviously lived in mixed areas. A very powerful Han family among foreigners.
Chessboard Zhang belongs to one of the five branches of the family, and its status is quite high in the family. What Zhang Zhuxun cares about most is that "Chessboard Zhang has a unicorn in his body."
He turned to look at the younger brother and found that the younger brother also had a thoughtful look on his face.
"Want to open the coffin and take a look?" he asked.
The little brother shook his head and said, "That's not it." Then he turned around and walked out.
Seeing that both of them had walked out, the remaining Huo family members were looking at the coffin, a little ready to move. The fear alone was enough for them to drink a pot of wine. Now that they finally saw some sweetness, they naturally didn't want to let it go.
Huo Chushi asked Mrs. Huo who was standing aside holding the door for instructions, "Master, do you want to open it..."
Huo Xiangu waved her hand feebly, "Follow them."
After walking along the corridor for about 16 or 7 meters, the young man suddenly stopped and looked thoughtful.
Zhang Zhuoxun, who was walking closely behind him, saw that half of the door of the compartment in front of him was open. The old and rotten door shaft had been kicked open by someone and was hanging sideways. The wood was broken. The place was in great decay, and it was obvious that this cubicle had been visited.
When I took a closer look, I realized that this compartment was extremely large, more than three times the size of the previous one. The decoration in the room was also more complicated and grand. The most important thing was that the coffin in the center had been opened. The cover was placed directly on the ground aside. The altar table in the room seemed to have been smashed, smashed, and robbed by bandits, and the incense burner rolled to the ground.
The outer edge of the coffin was covered with dust, and there were many marks of chopping, prying, and pressing. There was a fist-sized gap missing in the center of the coffin walls on all four sides.
Gou Ri's group of people used brute force to open the coffin, because he saw small mechanical locks on the four edges of the coffin lid. Those people must have been unable to use these locks. The material of the coffin is simply I just cut out a hole in the wood without caring about anything else.
It stands to reason that if a mechanical lock is set on the coffin, other lethal traps should also be set.
After walking into the room and walking around for a while, I found a rotten and shriveled corpse in the corner of the room. The work uniform he was wearing had been corroded by the corpse water and alkali gas, and the original color was no longer visible.
This man's fingers are normal, but also, if the Zhang family and Chen Wenjin who are under Zhang Qishan really entered here together, there is no reason that they would be so frustrated that they can't even open a simple machine lock.
Zhang Zhuxun checked carefully and found a short iron arrow in the man's throat, and another one stuck in the heart of the man's chest.
I cursed secretly in my heart, "It's your own fault."
There was no work permit or anything on this corpse. It was probably that after being seriously injured and unable to be saved, it was searched by the teammates who came with it to avoid exposing its identity.
When he was about to withdraw his hand, his fingertips suddenly touched a piece of hard object. When he lowered his head, he saw that the object was stuck in the gap between the metacarpal bones of the white bones.
Because the white bones had been brittle by the alkali gas, they could be broken easily. Zhang Zhuoxun took out the thing and just took a look at it, and his heart skipped a beat.
Badge - This is a copper metal badge.
The little brother once found a badge exactly like this one in his backpack at the bottom of the lake. Fatty and Wu Xiaoxie found the paper pattern of the badge in the old research institute that was about to be demolished, but because it was too old, the pattern on it It has long been blurred.
But the current brass badge was not affected by the alkali gas, and the pattern on it was still clearly visible.
It wasn't Qilin, it wasn't Qiongqi, it wasn't anything that Zhang Shuxun knew, but there was always a sense of familiarity, and a voice deep in his mind told him that he had definitely seen this thing before.
While I was thinking hard, my head suddenly buzzed.
Zhang Zhuxun turned around and saw that Huo Xiaoli was fiddling with a bronze bell hanging from the roof just above the coffin.
Every time the bell swayed, Zhang Zhuxun's ear bones would vibrate. It was clearly a clear ringing sound, but to his ears it seemed like a bell amplified countless times.
"Don't move your hands!" He scolded him coldly.
Huo Xiaoli was a little confused. Seeing that Zhang Zhuxun's face was not good-looking, he quickly retracted his hand and asked carefully: "Master Yu, what's wrong with you?"
"It's okay." Zhang Zhuoxun put away the badge calmly, without saying anything about the strange feeling just now, and stood up to move the corpse in the shadow on the ground so that everyone could see it, "If you don't want to end up with the corpse in front of you, , it’s better not to touch things here casually.”
"Oh." Huo Xiaoli glanced at the body and didn't pay much attention. He scratched his head and said, "Hey Master Yu, I looked at that bell. All the reeds are there, but why doesn't it ring? Is it the time it was left here? Too long and broken.”
Zhang Zhuxun turned around suddenly and stared at him closely, "You mean, that bell didn't ring?"
Although Huo Xiaoli didn't know why, he still nodded, "Yes, it didn't sound."
The little brother who was observing the mummy in the coffin stood up after hearing this, gave Zhang Zhuxun a look, then gently touched the octagonal bell with his hand, and at the same time raised his eyes to observe everyone's reaction.
This time Zhang Zhuoxun heard it very clearly. The continuous buzzing sound like a bell came from this bell. From the performance of everyone present, it seemed that only he and It takes two brothers to hear this sound.
There was definitely something wrong. Zhang Zhuoxun's heart trembled. He looked closely at the octagonal bell and found that its material was exactly the same as the bronze mask on the face of the blue-eyed fox corpse they had seen in the Lu Palace before. It was made of the same material. The thing inside the copper tongue is a fragment of meteorite in the shape of a petal.
"Is there something wrong with this bell?" Huo Xiangu asked softly.
Zhang Zhuxun did not tell the truth, "There is no problem with the bell, but the problem is the person lying in the coffin."
Huo Xiangu frowned. There was nothing strange about the corpse that had turned into white bones, so she asked Huo Xiuxiu to help her walk to the wall directly opposite the coffin, and got closer to take a closer look at the epitaph on the wooden sign hanging above.
At the first glance, she was so startled by the three words "Zhang Qiling" on it that she could not stand steadily and almost fell over. She looked at the little brother standing behind her with a horrified face and said incoherently, "You... you are …”
The younger brother's eyes were as indifferent as usual, without any expression.
Zhang Shuxun clicked his tongue, swept the flashlight beam in his hand back, pointed at the two words "selected" at the back, and said sincerely: "Old lady, your eyes are very good. You can choose at a glance." Those three words, you didn't pay attention to the content behind them at all. Selected as, this person was selected as 'Zhang Qiling' when he was nineteen years old. Zhang Qiling is not just a simple name, but a person with special meaning. title."
"Living the spirit", as the name suggests, removes the deceased's soul and transports the coffin to the ground.
In other words, "Zhang Qiling" is a person in the Zhang family who specializes in burials. Whenever a Zhang family member dies outside, Zhang Qiling is responsible for bringing back the hairqiu hand representing their identity and burying it in the Zhang family building.
Mrs. Huo's eyes were a little shocked, "Isn't he the patriarch of the Zhang family?"
"Every head of the Zhang family is called 'Zhang Qiling'." Zhang Zhuxun lowered his eyelids and pointed to the family tree carved on the inside of the opened coffin lid, saying, "This man's real name is Zhang Ruitong, and he is the penultimate generation of Zhang Qiling, but he You must be very familiar with one of the descendants of your grandchildren.”
"Who is it?" Huo Xiangu had a guess in her mind, "The person you are referring to...is Lord Zhang?"
"That's right." Zhang Zhuoxun nodded, "That's Zhang Qishan."
A flash of horror flashed through Huo Xiangu's heart, and she thought of all the past events. She looked at her brother and said with some hesitation: "Zhang Dafo Lord once searched for a man named Zhang Qiling on a large scale. In other words, in Banai's funeral procession, Were you there at the time?"
"My little brother was not around at the time, so Zhang Qishan found another Zhang family member with a Qiongqi tattoo. That person was very skilled, so he was chosen as Zhang Qiling's replacement." Zhang Qishan asked.
"Then... is that Zhang family still alive?" There was a hint of hope in Huo Xiangu's eyes. She urgently wanted to know the whole story of everything that happened in Banai, and what happened after instructing Chen Wenjin and Huo Ling to lead the funeral. Who were they, what did they do in Banai, and what was their purpose.
"Alive." Zhang Zhuxun put on his gloves, wiped off the dust on the surface of the corpse, and examined the corpse carefully, "We have met him before, more than once."
Huo Xiangu's eyes suddenly lit up, her breathing became rapid, and she clenched her hands subconsciously, "Where is he?"
Zhang Zhuoxun looked at her strangely, "What's the use of asking now? With your current body, you need to breathe heavily to take two steps. It's unknown whether you can get out alive. So what can you do if you ask? You can't Fly over out of thin air and pick people out."
Huo Xiangu was stunned for a moment, and a look of dejection flashed across her face. Yes, she was like this now. Even if she asked, it would be of no use. It would only increase her worries.
She subconsciously touched the ring on her hand and suddenly thought of something. She looked at Zhang Zhuxun and insisted resolutely: "I don't have time, but you do. You still have a lot of time."
"So?" Zhang Zhuoxun raised his eyebrows and smiled.
"I can pay. How much do you want? Or if you want something else, I can write a message and you can find Zhizhi or Zhong Ling to cash it in after you go out." Huo Xiangu said confidently.
Zhang Zhuoxun shook his head helplessly, "Apart from being dishonest and untrustworthy, the bad habits of profit-seeking handed down from you, the Nine Sects, really need to be changed. Even if I don't like that guy, I won't help you, an outsider." Come and deal with him.”
Huo Xiangu was speechless by what he said, unable to refute.
Zhang Chuxun sighed, "I can only tell you something I know. In Zhang Qishan's mind, the interests of the country are always above all else because of the ancestral training of the Zhang family. He made great contributions to the army in his early years, and he also entered politics in his later years to protect the country. It is impossible for the Nine Sects to be completely wiped out by the higher-ups, but it is even more true that he lost his mind and took advantage of the head of the Zhang family."
"When you, the older generation, were forced to get involved, the people behind it had already targeted the new generation, so Huo Ling and the others had already been plotted to get involved and couldn't escape."
"Although Huo Ling and the others finally withdrew from the Chen Qing Sect, it was precisely because of this that they became a thorn in the side of the people behind them. Huo Ling knew too many things. Even if she didn't get tricked and become like that, she wouldn't be like that in the end. You may live peacefully, but in the end everything is just your own fault.”
"It is your own fault..." Huo Xiangu repeated, her face full of bitterness, "Is it really retribution? The karma that we people once planted has indeed come true to the future generations. When will all this end? …”
Zhang Zhuoxun looked at Huo Xiangu who was wrapped in guilt and regret. He wanted to say something, but he didn't know how to say it for a moment. He simply stopped caring about her and concentrated on looking at the situation in the coffin.
When the two of them were talking, the younger brother was listening quietly on the side, without any fluctuation in his eyes, as if he was just a bystander watching the incident.
Zhang Zhuxun moved the bones in the coffin aside one by one, and opened the quilt that was spread flat underneath. The agate and jade articles buried with him were all placed neatly under the quilt. The leather products among them were so rotten that they could not be seen. The original appearance.
At the center of the coffin bottom, there was a long and narrow mark of dust left in the buried jade. The object had been taken away a long time ago, wandering around and finally returned to the hands of its owner.
"Your black gold should have been placed here." He pointed at the mark and said to the younger brother.
The younger brother was silent and clenched the ancient black gold sword in his hand.
Zhang Zhuxun rummaged through the jade pile buried with him and picked out two jade rings, one large and one small. The original jade base was inlaid with various ancient jade engraved with runes. He handed the two jade rings to Bro.
The younger brother took it and looked at him with a surprised look, as if he was asking how Zhang Shuxun knew.
Zhang Zhuxun pursed his lips and smiled, "You guessed it, living too long is not what everyone expects after all. Last time you recognized him after just one encounter. Obviously you have met him before."
After Mr. Wu took people away from Banai, they went up the mountain for the first time. However, the little brother who had lost his memory recognized Jude Kao on the donkey's back when he saw him from a distance, and deliberately avoided letting the other party see him. .
There's obviously something odd about it.
Thank you [Bu Nian] for the reward, I have a huge heart (v)
