Xixia dead book

Chapter 189 The KGB and the CIA (26)
"But this is fate, you are destined to be the queen of Xixia." Tang Feng suddenly felt that the weird mask became sad at this moment.

"Queen, huh, it's a pity that I don't have the blessing to enjoy the honor of a queen, and in the end, my head is in a different place. After a thousand years, I still can't rest in peace."

"The head is in a different place? Why is your head in a different place?" Tang Feng eagerly wanted to know what was going on.

But the woman in the mask didn't answer Tang Feng's question, instead she asked Tang Feng, "Where are you going?"

"I...we are going to Hanhai Micheng!" Tang Feng hesitated for a moment, but still told their destination.

"Han Hai Mi City?!" The woman took a step back after hearing Tang Feng's words, "Young man, I advise you to give up this idea."

"why?"

"Because Hanhai Micheng is a forbidden place for the party members, it is impossible for you to find it. The difficulties and obstacles along the way are enough to take your life!" The woman's words became severe.

"I'm willing to take the risk!"

"Then you will regret it." The woman in the mask pondered, but she still stood upright on the spot. After a long time, the woman seemed to relax and said, "Even if you narrowly escaped death and found Hanhaimi City, you will regret it , the bustling place has long since ceased to exist, and it has become a ruin.”

"Ruins? Why did they become ruins?" Tang Feng asked.

"Because of greed and arrogance, this is the root of all evil."

"No, no matter what Han Hai Mi City has become now, I want to find it, even if it's just to take a look, I'm willing." Tang Feng said firmly.

The woman in the mask seemed to sigh slightly, and then said, "Since you are so persistent, then, let me give you something, maybe this thing can help you."

"Send me something?" Tang Feng was obviously not mentally prepared.

"Yes, this item was given to me by King Hao, and I have always treasured it. If you can reach Hanhaimi City, please help me bring this item there! If you fail to reach Hanhaimi City, and left here safely, this thing will be left to you; if you fail to reach Hanhaimi City, and fail to leave here safely, then this thing will be your funeral object."

"Ah—a funeral object?" Tang Feng trembled all over, feeling shuddering.

"Don't be afraid, it's only a third chance."

"But...but why did you bring it to Hanhaimi City?" Tang Feng was puzzled.

"The secret must not be leaked! As long as you go, you will naturally understand."

As he said, the woman in the mask slowly raised her right hand. Tang Feng was already too familiar with this movement. His heart suddenly hung up as the woman raised her right hand. He didn't know what the woman was going to do. Tang Feng Feng instinctively took a step back, and leaned against the strangely shaped Populus euphratica, and there was no way to retreat.

Tang Feng was afraid that the horrible mummified arm would grow out from behind the trunk again, but he didn't have the courage to move forward and leave the Populus euphratica tree. However, what surprised him was that the masked woman didn't come forward again. , she still stood in place, raised her right hand, and pointed at herself.

Tang Feng felt the breath of death again, his pupils dilated rapidly, he wanted to speak, but he couldn't say a word with his mouth half-opened, Tang Feng was afraid, but for some reason, his eyes fixed on the woman's mask, especially These are the two black holes in the eye sockets on the mask.Facing the woman's arm pointed at him, Tang Feng instinctively wanted to protect his body, but at this moment Tang Feng felt that his arm no longer belonged to him, and he could not control his hands at all. He forced himself to concentrate, but everything went wrong. It is futile.

Tang Feng leaned suffocatingly on the trunk of Populus euphratica, he couldn't see the arm in the woman's sleeve, it was just a black hole in the sleeve, Tang Feng was wondering when he suddenly felt that his chest was scorched by something, and there was a piercing pain Pain... Tang Feng yelled and woke up. He found that he was still in the car. Could it be another nightmare, a long nightmare! ?At this time, it was already daylight, Tang Feng shook his heavy head, and found that Han Jiang and Liang Yuan were looking at him in surprise.

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"Are you having nightmares again?" Liang Yuan asked Tang Feng with a smile.

Tang Feng twisted his sore neck, "No, I can't tell whether it's a dream or something that really happened."

"Don't talk about it, I just had a nightmare, I still can't tell what is it, I have a long history of enemies, and I had a nightmare last night!" Han Jiang said angrily.

"Ha - did you also have a nightmare last night?" Tang Feng looked at Han Jiang in surprise.

"Yeah, it's been two nights in a row. I've never had so many nightmares in my life!" Han Jiang said with a frown.

"Then tell me, what dream did you have?" Tang Feng suddenly became very interested in other people's nightmares.

"What dream? Just like yesterday's nightmare."

"Did you dream of that masked woman again?"

"Yeah! The difference this time is not chasing the Grand Cherokee on the Gobi Desert, but I got lost in the Devil's City driving a donkey alone. In Blackstone, but on the giant mound in Devil City." Han Jiang briefly recalled his nightmare.

"that's it?"

"Well, the rest of the plot is basically the same as yesterday."

"It seems that I really think about it every day and dream at night!" Tang Feng sighed.

"Fart! This is called ghosts during the day and nightmares at night!" Han Jiang cursed.

"Yuanyuan, what about you? Did you have a nightmare last night?" Tang Feng asked Liang Yuan instead.

Liang Yuan seemed very calm, "I also had a dream, but unlike you, mine was not a nightmare."

"Oh! It seems that Changshengtian still cares about you!" Tang Feng sighed.

"That is, when I was a child, my mother told me that you who have nightmares are not clean in your heart, and people with a clean heart will not have nightmares." Liang Yuan said solemnly.

"Fart! How innocent I am! I only know how to complete tasks!" Han Jiang retorted.

"Your mother?" Tang Feng murmured.

"That's what my mother said." Liang Yuan said and took out the heart necklace she was wearing with her mother's photo.

"You didn't dream about your mother, did you?" Han Jiang said with a smile.

"No, I still dreamed about the woman wearing the mask, but it was the same as last time. In the dream, I traveled with her and enjoyed a big meal. Anyway, it's all a good thing!" Liang Yuan said with a smile .

"Interesting! A yellow beam dream!" Han Jiang laughed at Liang Yuan.

Liang Yuan retorted: "It's better than your nightmares every day."

"Let's listen to Tang Feng's nightmare!" Han Jiang said.

"I..." Tang Feng pressed his temples hard with his hands, "My nightmares are different from yours. I heard that weird music again, and then I saw a woman wearing a mask in the Populus euphratica forest. She admitted that she was The empress did not hide, and told me some of her life experience. The life experience she said was basically consistent with what I already knew, but she also said that she was not a queen. I didn't understand. She said... said such a sentence —Have you ever seen a queen with a decapitated body?"

"A queen with a different head? What does this mean?" Han Jiang and Liang Yuan were puzzled.

"By the way, she also said, 'It's a pity that I don't have the blessing to enjoy the honor of a queen. In the end, my head was separated. After a thousand years, I still can't rest in peace.'" Tang Feng added.

"It's so strange. Literally, she said that she didn't have the blessing to be a queen, and ended up decapitated?!" Liang Yuan said.

"Beheading was a very serious punishment in ancient times. Who would let a queen be decapitated? In ancient times, even if the queen committed the crime of treason, the queen's life was only given three feet of white silk." Han Jiang said .

"That's right, one is a woman, and the other is a queen. Even if the most serious crime is committed, the noble queen will not be decapitated!" Tang Feng shook his head, unable to figure it out.

"But there is indeed something wrong with the remains of the empress. The head and body are indeed not the same person." Han Jiang said.

"And this time I clearly remember that I can't see anything in the two holes of the mask's eye sockets! Coupled with the horrible scene behind the mask last time, all of this seems to prove that Empress Wuzang did die after she died. It's a different place." Tang Feng tried his best to recall every detail of the dream.

"How did Empress Wuzang die in history?" Liang Yuan asked suddenly.

"There are different theories about Empress Wuzang's death, but one of the more widely circulated ones is that the Empress Dowager Wuzang was still very young, so she got together with a few male favorites and was extravagant. She didn't wait until Liang Zuo took charge On the day when the Wuzang family fell into decline, they were stabbed to death by two assassins. Some people said that the two assassins were her boyfriends..." Tang Feng fell silent when he said this. Liang, "I understand a little bit. Empress Wuzang said that her decapitation was in a different place, and it was probably done by an assassin."

"What did the assassin do? You mean that the assassin cut off Queen Wuzang's head after assassinating her?!" Han Jiang and Liang Yuan were extremely shocked by Tang Feng's deduction.

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After a while of silence, Tang Feng patted his forehead, "Yes! It must be like this, that's why the empress lost her head."

"According to what you say, in the Great Buddha Pagoda of Heishui City is the body of the queen whose head was beheaded, and another woman's head was put on it?" Han Jiang asked in surprise.

Tang Feng nodded, "That must be the case. Therefore, after Liang Zuo took office, he was very annoyed at his mother's disorderly life, especially because her mother's body had no head, so the best way is to add a The head is sealed together in the Buddha statue, which is dignified and can keep this secret!"

Han Jiang shook his head, "Although it is perfectly possible to do this, I always feel that it is unreasonable to do so. If the head of the empress without hiding is gone, if you have to add one to her, you can use metal materials, such as gold." Silver, or copper or iron to make a head, there is no queen's cavity on the frame, why find another woman's head to match it? This is not in line with common sense."

"Yeah, this is not in line with common sense. The ancients put a lot of emphasis on blood status. Which woman's head can be placed on the cavity of the Empress Wuzang, but I really can't think of anything other than this. Where is the head?" Tang Feng shook his head and said.

"Could it be... Could it be that the head in the Buddha statue didn't hide the queen?" Liang Yuan suddenly made a bold inference.

"The head belonged to the Empress Wuzang?" Tang Feng nodded thoughtfully, "There is also this possibility. After the Empress Wuzang was assassinated, the head was cut off by the assassin. Therefore, the court had no choice but to share the headless body of the Empress Wuzang with Yuan Hao was buried together in the Xixia King's Tomb; and a few years later, when Liang Zuo was in charge, the head of Empress Wuzang was found. At this time, it was already inconvenient to open the tomb and put the head in, but it was him The mother didn't hide the queen's head, so she couldn't dispose of it easily, so Liang Zuo thought of a way to seal his mother's head in a Buddha statue."

"If you explain it this way, you're back to the original question. The head in the Buddha statue is the empress's head, so whose body is worthy of the empress's head? If it's just to put the empress's head, you can just use it Putting the skull into a Buddha statue does not require a body." Han Jiang retorted.

"Yes, what you said makes sense, and it seems unnecessary, but there are only two possibilities, so what else?" Tang Feng asked.

"In short, Empress Wuzang died a miserable death. Her head was in a different place. After a thousand years, she still cannot rest in peace. That's why her soul has no peace and always comes to harass us!" Han Jiang also became superstitious.

"Then what's next?" Liang Yuan asked urgently.

"Next, the woman in the mask stopped talking about her life experience, but turned the topic to me. She asked where to go? I just said that I was going to Hanhaimi City, just like you yesterday As said in the dream, this woman persuaded me not to go to Hanhaimi City, saying that Hanhaimi City is a forbidden place for the party members, it is impossible for me to find it, and said that the difficulties and obstacles along the way are enough to take my life. "

"You are stupid, she is the queen of the party members, of course she would say that, you will not say no!" Han Jiang scolded Tang Feng.

"I didn't hide it, I insisted on going! Then, just like in Liang Yuan's dream, she said that Hanhaimi City had lost its glory and was in ruins. I said that no matter what Hanhaimi City has become now, I will find it , even if it’s just to take a look, I’m willing.”

"You are so screwy!" Han Jiang sneered.

"Don't laugh at me, the next good thing is coming. Seeing that I insisted on going to Hanhaimi City, the woman in the mask said that she would give me something, saying that this thing might be useful to me!"

"What stuff? Where is it?" Liang Yuan asked.

Tang Feng felt around his body, but found nothing. Han Jiang smiled at Liang Yuan, "Miss, you are so stupid, he was just dreaming, there really is someone who can give him something!"

"That's true, I ate a lot of delicious food in my dream, but now my stomach is empty!" Liang Yuan said while touching her stomach.

Han Jiang turned to Tang Feng again, "Think about it, what did she give you?"

"I... I remember that at the end she raised her right hand to me again. I was terrified and instinctively leaned against a strange-shaped poplar tree, and then I felt a burning sensation in my chest, and then... and then I woke up It's gone." Tang Feng tried his best to recall, and muttered to himself again: "Populus euphratica tree...that Populus euphratica..."

Tang Feng seemed to have thought of something suddenly, pushed the car door suddenly, jumped out of the car, and walked straight to the strange-shaped Populus euphratica tree west of the Populus euphratica forest.

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Han Jiang and Liang Yuan were puzzled, and followed Tang Feng to the west side of the Populus euphratica forest. Tang Feng stopped and looked around at the Populus euphratica. Soon, he saw the strange-shaped Populus euphratica.

Tang Feng walked quickly to this Populus euphratica tree, yes, it was this Populus euphratica tree, and for two consecutive nights, the nightmare ended here!But at this moment, here is bathed in the early morning sunshine, there is no mummified arm, and no masked woman, Tang Feng stared at this Populus euphratica in a daze, his gaze went all the way down from the crown, the trunk, the roots, and finally extend around the tree.

Tang Feng walked around the Populus euphratica tree a few times. Han Jiang and Liang Yuan didn't dare to disturb them, and watched silently. After a long time, Tang Feng suddenly felt that there was something strange in the sand under the Populus euphratica tree. It seemed...it seemed There was something, Tang Feng got down on his body, carefully pushed the dust away with his hands, and a complete piece of jade was gradually revealed in the sand.

"This... there is actually a piece of jade here!" Tang Feng exclaimed.

"Yu Huang? There are still jade wares in this ghost place?" Han Jiang and Liang Yuan were also very surprised.

Sure enough, a piece of exquisite jade huang was lying quietly in the sand under the Populus euphratica tree, "Is this what Empress Wuzang gave you?" Liang Yuan asked.

"I think so."

"This...how is this possible? Yesterday morning we surveyed the place completely. If there is something, it should have been discovered long ago. What's more, the scientific expedition team and Koznov have been here before. Could it be that they Didn't find it?" Han Jiang was at a loss.

"So, now I begin to believe that everything in my dream is real. This piece of jade is made of the best suet white jade in Hetian. It seems that the workmanship should be an object from the Northern Song Dynasty and Xixia period. It has been waiting here quietly. After thousands of years, I finally found it." Tang Feng said more and more excitedly, "I clearly remember that Empress Wuzang said that this jade huang was given to her by King Hao, and it was her beloved thing."

"I just gave you my beloved? Damn, it's really unreasonable!" Han Jiang scolded.

"No, she didn't say that this thing is mine. This is what Empress Wuzang said to me - if you can reach Hanhaimi City, please help me take this thing there! If If you failed to reach Hanhaimi City and left here safely, this thing will be left to you; if you failed to reach Hanhaimi City and failed to leave here safely, then this thing will be yours Funeral objects." Tang Feng was extremely impressed by these three sentences.

"So you can't tell who owns this jade huang? You only have a one-third chance." Han Jiang said.

"I still have a one-third chance of dying here. As for what will happen after I find Hanhai Micheng? I don't know!" Tang Feng said.

"Why did Empress Wuzang ask you to bring this jade huang to Hanhaimi City?" Liang Yuan asked in puzzlement.

"I asked this question before. Empress Wuzang's answer was—the secret must not be leaked! As long as you go there, you will naturally understand."

"Playing tricks. I think this lascivious queen has taken a fancy to your little boy. You have to be careful!" After Han Jiang finished speaking, he turned around and walked towards the donkey.

"You are jealous! Naked jealousy!" Tang Feng yelled at Han Jiang.Then he carefully held the jade huang from the sand to his chest with both hands. Suddenly, Tang Feng felt a strong burning heat in his chest. He hurriedly let go, and the jade huang fell on the sand. damage.

Tang Feng hurriedly lifted up his clothes to check, and found that at some point on his chest, there was an imprint that looked like a jade huang.

(End of this chapter)