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Liu Bian slowly opened his eyes, looking puzzled. He loosened his fingers that had formed handprints, stood up carefully, walked back and forth a few steps, and relaxed his legs and feet that had been sitting for a long time. When the two guard doctors saw him, they were about to come over to serve him, Liu Bian waved his hand and signaled them to retreat. The doctor looked at each other and bowed his hands to hide.

Liu Bian turned his head and looked at the mountains in the northwest, feeling a little stunning.

Xun You, who was awakened by the cold, walked over and saw Liu Bian's appearance, and was a little surprised. Xingshan is the remnant of the southern foot of Songshan Mountain. It is not tall and cannot be said to be steep. It is now early spring. Although there are many trees on the mountain, the branches and leaves are sparse and the scenery is also very ordinary. What's more, it's pitch black at night. No matter how good Liu Bian has his eyesight, he may not be able to see anything.

"His Majesty?"

Liu Bian looked back at Xun You and smiled: "Have you woke up from the cold?"

Xun You smiled silently, shook Liu Bian's cloak, walked behind Liu Bian, and draped it on Liu Bian. Although he was in good health, he was a literati after all, and could not be compared with those soldiers. Sleeping in the wild was a serious challenge for him. Even if Liu Bian covered his cloak on him, he was still awakened by Ye Hanwu.

But there was a hint of warmth in his heart.

"It's nothing, I just can't sleep." Xun You concealed: "I can't figure out Xi Zhicai's plan."

"If you can't figure it out, don't think about it. In the end, you have to rely on real swords and guns to decide the outcome." Liu Bian pointed to the mountain peak in the distance: "What's on it?"

"What?"

"I just sat in meditation and my heart moved. There seemed to be something on the mountain. It was like..." Liu Bian tied his cloak tightly and shrugged: "It's like a mare summoning a foal."

Xun You raised his eyebrows, his eyes suddenly lit up, and his voice trembled: "Your Majesty, take it seriously?"

"Of course, what am I lying to you?" Liu Bian turned around and saw Xun You's face being different, and he couldn't help but be surprised: "Gongda, you are..."

Xun You was a little out of control, and his eyes showed uncontrollable ecstasy: "Your Majesty, there is a tomb of a son on the mountain."

"Zichan's tomb? Is that wise man from Zheng State?"

“That’s right.”

"So. I am a garrison here, alarming this wise man?" Liu Bian sighed: "Then should I go and worship?"

"No, no." Xun You said repeatedly: "This place is a place that military strategists must fight for. There are countless people stationed here. I have not heard of anyone who dreams of Zichan at night. As far as I know, Your Majesty is the first person. This is not a bad omen. This is a good omen."

"Auspicious sign?" Liu Bian then understood where Xun You's joy came from. Zichan was a wise man in Zheng State and a politician respected by Confucianism. Confucius once praised him for his achievements in governing Zheng. Xun You was a Confucian scholar and was from Yingchuan, so of course he also highly praised Zichan. He was able to be moved by Zichan, which was almost the same as Confucius dreamed of Zhou Gong, so Xun You was of course happy.

"Gongda, are you interested in a night tour?"

"Okay, okay." Xun You agreed repeatedly.

...

Zichan’s tomb is located on the top of Xingshan Mountain, which is only three feet high and less than twenty steps wide. It looks very ordinary. The Han people value filial piety and burial, and the tomb chamber also advocates magnanimity and luxury. Zichan’s tomb is obviously relatively shabby. Apart from the Zichan Temple in the east of the tomb, it is almost impossible to see that a once prominent politician is buried here.

What surprised Liu Bian even more was that the tomb door of Zichan’s tomb was wide open.

"This is Zichan's intention to indicate that there is no treasure in the tomb." Xun You explained: "This is also the reason why Zichan's tomb has not been robbed for hundreds of years."

Liu Bian nodded. So, Zichan is indeed smart enough. The ancients became popular tomb robbery, and even the emperor's tombs were strictly guarded, let alone such tombs without guards. Scholars may respect Zichan, and they are not short of this amount of money. Ordinary people cannot control so much. When they are hungry, who cares that Zichan is a wise man?

Liu Bian bowed in front of the tomb, but his eyebrows were still puzzled.

"No, what I sensed is not here." Liu Bian closed his eyes, held his breath and focused for a moment, turned half a circle, and pointed his hand at Zichan Temple: "It should be there, about a hundred steps away."

Xun You opened his mouth wide and said for a while: "Your Majesty, are you sure?"

"Of course." Liu Bian opened his eyes: "What's there?"

Xun You swallowed his saliva, his voice a little dry: "There is Chen's tomb."

"Chen Wei? Chen Wei, one of the four chiefs of Yingchuan?"

"Of course, except for this Dexing, who else dares to be buried with Zichan?" Xun You returned to his calmness and led Liu Bian to Dongpo. After walking about one hundred and twenty steps, Liu Bian saw a tomb much larger than Zichan's tomb.

The doctors raised the torches and illuminated the tombstone, which was undoubtedly Chen Zhi's tombstone.

"So the Chen family is here."

"No, the Chen family is not here." Xun You shook his head: "The Chen family is in Xu County, about thirty miles away. This is Changshe County."

Liu Bian was puzzled. The Han people paid great attention to the ancestral tombs, and even if they died in other places, they had to return to their hometown for burial. The Chen family was in Xu County, while Chen's tomb was in Changshe County, which was more than 30 miles apart, which was a bit strange. Could it be that the Chen family's ancestral tombs are here? But looking around, there are not many tombs.

Xun You was not surprised by Liu Bian's doubts. In fact, he had also experienced such questions, but he had never found the answer.

"Your Majesty, you must be here?" Xun You was a little disappointed. After all, no matter how high Chen's virtue is, it cannot be compared with Zichan. If it was Zichan, then he would be quite sure that Liu Bian was not the evil dragon that Xun Yu was worried about, otherwise how could a wise man like Zichan have a sense of his feelings?

"It's here." Liu Bian walked around Chen's tomb and finally stopped in front of the tombstone. He bowed to the tombstone and bowed to it. According to Confucian etiquette, he was as good as a chime and did not get up for a long time. Seeing that Liu Bian had not received the gift for a long time, Xun You spoke out and persuaded: "It's enough for Your Majesty to respect Chen Taiqiu like this."

Liu Bian stood up straight, turned his head, looked at Xun You with a strange look: "Gongda, I...I have a strange feeling."

Even though Xun You believed in the sayings of ghosts and gods, he respected Chen Shi. When he heard Liu Bian's words, he felt the night wind was a little cold. He couldn't help but shivered, and his voice was a little trembling: "What strange feeling?"

"There is something here, maybe it belongs to me, maybe... Chen Taiqiu wants to give it to me."

Xun You looked around and was shocked: "Your Majesty, you don't want to..."

Liu Bian was stunned and suddenly understood what Xun You meant, and couldn't help laughing: "Gongda, you're thinking too much, can I dig Taiqiu's tomb? Although the court lacks money, it's not like this that is despised. I mean, here..."

Liu Bian said, walking to a place about half a step wide between the tombstone and the tomb, and slowly squatted down. He squatted there, motionless, like a stone statue, or as if reading the inscription. Xun You was puzzled, but he was not easy to ask questions. Wei Guan and others next to him also looked at each other, not knowing what Liu Bian was doing.

After a long time, Liu Bian suddenly pulled out the slap (dagger) from his waist and dug it up on the ground. When Xun You saw it, he was angry and laughed. He also said that it was not a grave digging, what is it? Is it not a grave digging with a grave digging? Is it not a grave digging with a grave digging with a grave?

Xun You was approaching to stop him, and Liu Bian suddenly stopped moving. He turned around, looked at Xun You, and grinned his teeth and said, "I found it."

“What is it?”

"I don't know, it seems to be a box." Liu Bian stood up and took a step back. While putting his slap in his hair, he said to Wei Guan: "Be careful to dig, don't touch every grass and tree on Chen Taiqiu's tomb."

After hearing this, Wei Guan quickly agreed and took a doctor to dig it up. After about a few glasses of wine, they dug out a long wooden box. Opened the wooden box, and there was a black sheathed knife inside, which was of ancient style.

Liu Bian took the knife and slowly exerted force. A dragon roar sounded, and the knife was drawn out half.

Everyone gasped and shivered.

The blade is like a sheath, dark and dull, with cold air and a chill.

It was actually a black knife.

Not only Liu Bian, but also the onlookers were stunned. No one had ever seen such a knife. Once the knife was unsheathed, the wind around seemed to be three times cold, making people feel an indescribable fear from the bottom of their hearts.

The most surprising thing was Xun You. He couldn't understand why there was a knife buried behind Chen Zhi's tombstone, and it was such a weird black knife. Is it buried by the Chen family or someone else? Is it a treasure or a curse? Is it a good omen or a bad omen when Liu Bian got this knife?

Liu Bian smiled: "It's it."

...

In Xingyang, Xun Yu turned over and sat up, sweating profusely.

Xun Chen, who was sleeping opposite, turned over and said in a daze: "Wenruo, what's wrong?"

"It's nothing, I'm suddenly frightened." Xun Yu sat for a moment, calmed down. He wanted to lie down and sleep again, but after thinking about it, he got up in his clothes. When he walked to the desk, he turned on the lamp, added a piece of incense to the incense burner, took out a golden tube, and poured out fifty purple grass from it.

Xun Chen, who was half asleep and half awake, smelled the fragrance and realized Xun Yu's abnormality. He quickly put on his clothes and walked to the edge of the desk. When he saw the yarrow, he was stunned for a moment, and his eyes jumped up uncontrollably. He sat down without saying a word and looked at Xun Yu's fortune-telling.

After a long time, Xun Yu put away the yarrow on the table one by one. His face turned blue and his slender fingers were dazzlingly white. Although he tried his best to control the yarrow in his hand rustled, as if he was mourning.

Xun Chen didn't speak. Although his Yixue was not as profound as Xun Yu, he could tell that the hexagram was not good. He sat down and looked at Xun Yu in all eyes, and all saw fear and endless sorrow in the other person's eyes.

“Where should it be?”

"I don't know." Xun Yu crossed his fingers, closed his eyes, and there were fine beads of sweat on his forehead: "I can't calculate it."

Xun Chen closed his mouth and did not ask again.

The danger that cannot be calculated is the real danger.

“Where should it be?”

"I don't know." Xun Yu was silent for a long time, slowly opened his eyes, exhausted, and his voice hoarse: "It is good or bad to enter the game with an unplanned force, and it is still difficult to determine at present. Judging from the hexagram alone, it seems that it is good in the end."

Xun Chen stroked his chest and breathed a sigh of relief.

Xun Yu didn't say anything more. He looked at his hands, his heartbeats like a drum, and blood rushing, and he was about to break out of his body.
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