What the hell?

This is the construction site next to the tomb of Emperor Guangxu. Maybe the tunnel has extended to the underground palace. If the tomb robbers dig this path, is it to facilitate excavation in the future?

Qin Beiyang hid in the darkness of the secret room, watching the flashing oil lamp like beans, illuminating an old man in Qing palace costumes, and put the little girl next to the boy who didn't know whether it was dead or alive.

The little girl is alive!

Her eyes opened and she saw the old man with a pleated face, screaming in shock. The old man grabbed her neck and took out a steel bottle from behind with his other hand, filled with some liquid. The little girl kicked her feet, and the steel cylinder was aimed at her mouth, and she was about to pour something into it.

In an instant, the little girl turned her face and saw Qin Beiyang hiding. But her throat was pinched and she couldn't make a sound. She had a pair of big talking eyes, and she was about to die and prayed to Qin Beiyang for help.

"Ye! Who is coming?"

Qin Beiyang shouted loudly, and now he used the tone of Emperor Yongzheng's ghost, with a little bit of Peking Opera martial arts. He jumped out of the corner, and the evil ghost-like old man was frightened. Qin Beiyang made a fist and used natural brute force to smash the old man's temple, knocking him to the ground. The little girl took the opportunity to hide aside. The old man was not vague, and could see that he was a martial artist. He confirmed that Qin Beiyang was a human being and a ghost, so he took out a dagger and stabbed him.

Qin Beiyang reacted quickly and avoided the almost fatal blow. But he was not bare-handed. The suitcase given to him by his adoptive mother was German goods, authentic goat leather, extremely hard. He waved the heavy suitcase, killed his master's father with three punches, smashed the dagger in the old man's hand, and then picked it up immediately and aimed it at the old man's chest.

The old man had a white face and no beard, not even his eyebrows. He was like a ghost in the shape of a duck egg. He sighed to the sky and made a harsh old woman's voice: "I am the Qing Dynasty! Your Majesty! The slave is an old waste! You can't even do this little thing! Alas!"

It turned out to be an old eunuch! Qin Beiyang got goosebumps when he heard it. He took two steps back to protect the trembling little girl.

"What are you going to do here?"

"Boy, my family is going to ask you about this." The old eunuch sat cross-legged in the corner of the secret room, "Let me listen to our family! Our family is the eunuch who serves Emperor Guangxu, and everyone calls me father-in-law."

"So, you are the castrator mentioned in history books!"

"Don't be presumptuous!" The old eunuch didn't expect the nine-year-old child to speak like this, and directly hit his sore spot, "You! You! Who is you?"

"If you don't change your name, if you sit down, if you don't change your surname, Qin Beiyang!"

He had accepted his new name and felt that it would be louder than "Qiu Xiaogeng".

"What?"

"I am a craftsman responsible for building the tombs for Emperor Guangxu." Qin Beiyang also knew that he had brought his father as a shield. "Where are you? Let's talk about it, are there any below?"

After a while, the old eunuch realized that the child was actually scolding him with insults - is there any other one below?

"The dragon trapped in the shallows and was played by shrimps, and the tiger fell into the flat sun and was bullied by dogs!"

The old eunuch wiped his tears with his sleeve tube, "Our family served the emperor for many years. From the year of four years of ascending the throne, after the Wuxu year, the old Buddha locked the emperor in the Hanyuan Hall of Yingtai, Zhongnanhai. Our family had never left the emperor. In the Gengzi year, the Eight-Nation Alliance entered Beijing, and our family escorted the emperor to Xi'an, and then returned to Beijing with the two palaces.

The emperor's life is so miserable! He finally took power and was deceived by the bastard Yuan Shikai, and his beloved concubine Zhen was pushed into the well by Cui Yugui. The emperor was in Yingtai and had no news with the outside world, and his bones were thin and disfigured. Isn't it a hell on earth? We feel distressed.

Last year, Lafayette was seriously ill and secretly designed to put arsenic in the imperial meal. The amount should be small. Every time I click it, I will stop, so that the emperor can slowly return to heaven."

"You mean - was Emperor Guangxu poisoned by Empress Dowager Cixi?"

"At present, there is nothing to hide in our family!"

The old eunuch sniffled and cried, "Our family deserves death! The regicide is a serious crime to kill the nine clans, but the Lord Lai Buddha had to obey the will. Lord Lai Buddha must not let himself die in front of Emperor Guangxu, nor could the Qing Dynasty fall into the hands of the emperor and the reformists. Therefore, the day after the news of the emperor's death, Lord Lai Buddha appointed Prince Chun Zaifeng's son, three-year-old Puyi ascended the throne, and she returned to heaven with peace of mind."

"Anyway, there is no evidence to die. Then I ask you, why are you trying to harm this little girl?" Qin Beiyang grabbed the little girl's arm. The little girl was as thin as a kitten, and could almost clearly touch the shape of her collarbone. "Also, did you harm that boy?"

"Don't you know the custom of children and girls guarding the tombs?" The old eunuch's eyes did not regard children as human beings at all. "All wealthy landlords in the countryside want to buy a pair of children and girls to bury them when they are buried.

When the emperor was alive, he never enjoyed a good life! When he passed away, I swear to compensate him, so I chose this pair of boys and girls from the imperial prisoners, so that they would serve the emperor forever on our behalf. That boy could be a little eunuch, and that virgin would be a concubine for the emperor."

"How do you harm them?"

"Hehe! Mercury is a good thing!" The old eunuch smiled miserably and raised the steel bottle in his hand, "It can make people not rot for thousands of years and not melt for thousands of years! This boy was dealt with by our family last night!

First, pour mercury into his mouth, then dig holes on the top of his head, back, and soles of his feet, then pour mercury in, and then sew it with needle and thread. Our family then apply mercury powder to his whole body to ensure that he remains the same forever. This is also our family’s loyalty to the emperor! Heaven, earth, sun and moon can be seen!"

Qin Beiyang was frightened by this underground conversation. He was only nine years old and was also a "child boy". He remembered that in a German school, the teacher said that mercury, commonly known as mercury, is highly toxic and must not be touched by the body. So many mercury initiations, how painful it would be when you die!

"You old fairy with no descendants!"

Qin Beiyang slapped the old eunuch eight times in anger.

"It's okay! In front of the emperor, my fortune is nothing! Our family is old and I don't have the strength to do two at the same time. I can only deal with the virgin first last night and deal with the virgin tonight. Unfortunately, it's a pity that you have been ruined!"

Qin Beiyang retreated and hugged the little girl tightly: "Don't be afraid! I'm by your side, this old castrated donkey's life is over!"

"In addition to serving Master Guangxu, our family also hopes that this pair of boys and girls will be buried in the imperial tombs to protect the Qing Dynasty forever." The old eunuch cried again, "Regent Zaifeng is a rough boy who is still not dry. Even half of the hair of Lord Lai Buddha can't get enough. The Qing Dynasty falls into his hands, hehe! It will perish in three years! I have pity for my Qing Dynasty for three hundred years..."

"It's good to die!" Qin Beiyang shouted in the Qing Dynasty imperial tomb with courage, "Don't let you old monsters come out to harm others again!"

"A ruthless boy, if our family was young and strong, he would have cut you alive long ago! Do you know what Lingchi is?"

The old eunuch smiled again. The strange and harsh voice made Qin Beiyang feel furious, and the little girl hugged him tightly.

Suddenly, the old eunuch pointed the steel bottle at his mouth and fell down. Silver-white liquid overflowed from the corner of his mouth and rolled to the ground like glass beads. A whole bottle of mercury almost poured into his body.

"When Emperor Chongzhen of the previous dynasty was hanging on the coal mountain, there was only a eunuch named Wang Chengen, and all the civil and military ministers in the court were covered in oil. Only Wang Chengen was hanging by Emperor Chongzhen. When the Qing Dynasty entered the pass, Shunzhi master built the tomb for Wang Chengen, and wrote the words "Zhenchen as the chief, sacrifice his life to follow"!"

Mercury was tearing the throat, and the old eunuch's voice had deformed and became weaker. His body was as soft as a ball of cotton. He lay down in the corner and shouted, "Master Guangxu, I am here to serve you!"

He died.

The first time Qin Beiyang saw someone commit suicide with his own eyes. Moreover, there were not many people in ancient times, right?

If you die, you will die! He lowered his head and asked the little girl again: "Hey, are you okay?"

"Um."

The little girl cried and approached the boy on the ground. Qin Beiyang grabbed her: "You can't touch it!"

"Brother! Brother!"

She called the boy who was forever imprisoned by mercury, and tears flowed.

Qin Beiyang looked at her appearance carefully, with beautiful eyebrows and pretty eyes, and was quite charming. Her big eyes were filled with indescribable resentment. The girl was also wearing festive silk, and her hair and face were carefully dressed up. It must have been done by the old eunuch, and she was buried with her virginity. She looked very similar to the dead boy and was about the same age.

"Are you twin siblings?"

"yes."

"Stop crying, where did you come from? How could you get here? The immortal man just now said that you were the imperial criminals of the imperial court?"

"What is the imperial court?... We are from rural Henan. This year, the drought is severe, the Yellow River is broken, the family has eaten up all the millet, and even the sweet potatoes in the field have been dug. My father and mother have starved to death at home, so my brother and I have to come out to beg for food. We have been wandering to Baoding Prefecture in Zhili, and somehow fell into the hands of this old man."

"Why didn't this old fairy get rid of her braids earlier?" Qin Beiyang wiped her tears with his fingers, "Yes, what's your name?"

"A You."

"Which ghost?"

"I don't know, I don't recognize words."

"Since we meet underground in this imperial tomb, let's call you the ghost."

Qin Beiyang wrote the word "小" on the dust in the wall of the secret room with his fingers.

"This word looks so good, I like it."

After all, she is a girl, and she only looks at the beauty of her words. She is very smart and wrote one on the wall according to the same way. Although it is crooked, the strokes are all correct.

"A You, how old are you?"

"Six years old."

"I am nine years old this year. From now on, you can call me brother, my name is Qin Beiyang!"

"Okay, brother."

Ayou's soft little body was buried in his arms, and the faint smell of sesame oil in his hair was like a dead person who would never rot. When she touched the warm blood jade on Qin Beiyang's chest, she felt a heat flowing into her ears. Qin Beiyang gave her the jade pendant, and the blood-stained jasper was like a boy who died in costume by his side.

"So beautiful!"

Even if all the girls were only six years old, they could not resist the temptation of jewelry and jade. She stretched out her fingers to touch them gently, but was frightened by the warm jade temperature and bounced back.

"Ayou, can you sing nursery rhymes?"

"The green dragon head, the white dragon tail, the child begging for joy on the rain..."

"It's indeed this song!"

Qin Beiyang remembered that he had passed by the secret room and heard the voice of a child singing - this children's song for rain must be the sing of this child boy and girl who came all the way from Henan to escape from famine. I'm afraid it was A You's brother, A You's boy killed by Mercury, and the last call from the ghost after his death! If it weren't for this song, he wouldn't have entered this secret room, nor would he save A You's life.
Chapter completed!