There are some clues, but they are all things that have been turned over. After all, the reputation of the Kingdom of Qiande is not small, and it was not that long before it was destroyed. It was only a few hundred years. This is a similar legend in the ice and snow north. The middle calculation is relatively recent in time.
Therefore, after seeing such a story, there are naturally not a few people who also choose to explore and search. There are not even a thousand but also eight hundred.
In the end, it gradually became uninterested and was regarded as a real "story" with no way to continue to explore.
There are many legends in the ice and snow north that only have some clues at the beginning but lead to dead ends. It can even be said that this kind of "story" is the protagonist. Those who can dig deep are rare. And as time goes by, there are only a handful of them. It will become increasingly rare, and treasure hunters will gradually become as history as the treasures they seek.
But these have nothing to do with Yang Rui. Others think it is a "pure story" without the potential and possibility of digging deeper. But he does not agree with it.
Because just the name of a place mentioned in the story was enough to cheer him up and stop treating this record as a story.
Sanxingwuliu Village.
A strange place name. It is said that it is because there are many willow trees in the area. The first willow trees you can see when entering the village are three rows of five trees in each row, so it got its name.
But Yang Rui doesn't see it that way.
Three lines and five willows? He felt that this was someone else's misunderstanding, or that someone deliberately changed one of the words, so that people who didn't understand had nowhere to look it up, but people who really understood it would know something fishy at a glance.
"Three rows of five and six, seven rows of one and five, and nine, nine and three three are for the door lock to be opened."
This sentence comes from a secret book, or a collection of secret book fragments. It is a treasure secretly stored in the Nanyuan Kingdom. It contains the contents of the most secret documents collected from the Qiande Kingdom.
And this sentence is actually a formula for unlocking a machine lock. Start with numbers six and six and five in the third row, and then turn the machine backwards in order, and finally the machine lock can be opened. And this machine lock is used to lock At that time, the core of the Qiande Kingdom was the gate where Wuchi was located.
As a member of the Nanyuan Kingdom's royal family whose mission is to revive the glory of the Kingdom of Qiande, Yang Rui is naturally no stranger to these secret books about the Kingdom of Qiande. Back then, he had seen the remains of the mechanism lock, which was very damaged even though it was damaged. A large one, embedded in a half-foot-thick metal door.
Because it was the first time he saw such a big and strange-shaped "lock", Yang Rui clearly remembered everything related to the lock. Among them was the formula for unlocking the lock recorded in the secret book.
Three rows and five willows actually means three rows and five willows!
Something is wrong with this village!
Yang Rui moved his luggage directly into this small village and found a hospitable farmhouse willing to accept him as a guest to stay so that he could inquire about information in the village.
This stay lasted more than three months. Relying on his passable handwriting, he helped people in the village write letters and help the mayor write notices for free. He successfully became familiar with the people in the village, and he really found some new friends. A useful clue in his eyes: a copper turtle.
Turtles are not something that should exist in the snowy north. It's so cold here that they can't survive even if they are fed indoors.
However, various types of turtles are common in Beiwu Kingdom and Nanyuan Kingdom. They are often used as mascots of longevity and are displayed on handles, scrolls, and jewelry.
It is said that this copper turtle was accidentally picked up by an old woman when she went to the river to wash clothes many years ago. After brushing off the dirt on it, she thought it was gold, but after looking at it, she found out that it was copper. So there was no
Sell it, but keep it as a toy for the children at home.
Later, some people came to see the copper turtle, but they just looked at it.
After Zhang Yan got the copper turtle, he understood why no one cared about this copper handle that suddenly appeared in this village. Because there was no word or emblem on the copper turtle. The image was just like an ordinary turtle walking around.
This kind of thing is not uncommon in the south. Maybe it was a visitor from afar who accidentally fell into the river and was washed over.
In addition, the creek where the turtle was found had been plowed over a long time ago. After no results were obtained, no one mentioned it again.
But for Yang Rui, this turtle is of great significance.
Because there are twenty-seven tortoise shells on the back of this bronze turtle, and thirteen and a half shells on its abdomen! A total of forty and a half shells. This number is the length of the reign of the first emperor of Qiande.
It was regarded as an unwritten time discipline by the former royal family and considered the most auspicious number.
Moreover, in the secret book of the Nanyuan Kingdom, Xu Yegong, the ninth prince of the Kingdom of Qiande, was born with an abnormality towards gold objects, and would get rashes all over his body after coming into contact with them. Therefore, all the objects that should have been made of gold to show nobility were replaced by brass.
Therefore, in Yang Rui's eyes, this seemingly inconspicuous copper turtle is most likely the possession of Xu Yegong, the ninth prince of Qiande Kingdom.
Continuing to dig deeper, Yang Rui finally found something strange at the source of the creek behind the village where the copper turtle was found.
Yang Rui likes to read books, not just these historical essays from various places. He also likes to learn some minor skills when he was on the cliff mountain. Geophysics is one of them.
Although Yang Rui still has some superficial knowledge, there is no problem in putting it to use.
So Yang Rui discovered an unusual place at the source of the creek by relying on physiognomy, that is, the topography around the source of the creek has been artificially changed. Although there are no traces of carving on the surface, there are direct signs of geomorphology.
The orientation and essence are very rough and obvious. It cannot be hidden from Yang Rui.
After careful searching, an inconspicuous cave at a break in the terrain became a breakthrough point. Going down the cave, a deep pool is the end. After diving in, I found an underground undercurrent like a bay that can go straight to the heart of the mountain. And legend has it that
The treasure belonging to the Kingdom of Qiande is hidden in the belly of this mountain.
Even Yang Rui was surprised to find that the inside of the mountain was not "just a cave structure" as he thought, but looked like a palace. The ground was covered with floor tiles, and the walls were horizontally and vertically without any protrusions of rough stones. Moreover, there were
There are many strange stone carvings that have never been seen before for decoration.
But the corpses scattered on the ground showed that this place was not a good place.
There were still pieces of clothing and armor on the corpse, as well as some remains of weapons, which was enough for Yang Rui to identify the origin of these things.
"These are the standard weapons and soft armor of the Qiande Shangguo. This guy's status in the military is probably not low. He should at least be a partial general."
But after recognizing the corpses on the ground, a new question arises: How did these people die here? And they died in their own treasure trove?
Yang Rui looked at the strange stone carvings and architectural styles around him, and then looked at the corpses on the ground that most likely belonged to Xu Yegong, the ninth prince of Qiande, and he suddenly had a bold guess in his heart.
"Perhaps Xu Yegong, like me, is an intruder here?"