The water level seemed to stop rising. The sparrow found half of the candle just now and lit it, but the blind man said, "The way to death is dead, this is dead." He had seen a place less than twenty meters ahead of him before everyone could see that it was blocked.

The sparrow raised the candle and walked over. When he came closer, he found that it was a copper door blocking their way. There was an iron chain on the right side of the copper door. The sparrow stretched out his hand and pulled it without moving at all. Luo Lie and the other two walked over. They all saw that the iron chain should be the key to opening the copper door. They pulled the iron chain downwards. With the joint efforts of the three of them, the iron chain was finally pulled. As the chain was pulled downwards, the copper door slowly opened.

Luo Lie said: "Sparrow, go in and find something to support this door."

The sparrow responded, and after the copper door opened the height for her to pass, he drilled into the gap and used the light of the candle to find something available. She saw a stone sculpture not far away and rushed up to move, but after all, she was not strong enough, and she only moved an inch with her hard work. The sparrow shouted, "I can't push it!"

Luo Lie asked the blind man to crawl in and help. Now the distance raised by the copper gate is enough for the blind man to crawl in. When it comes to brute force, the blind man is the largest among them.

The blind man crawled into it, came to the stone sculpture, pushed it down with force, and then worked with the sparrow to roll the stone sculpture to the copper door.

Luo Lie and Arnold were also struggling to support. After the blind man went to help the sparrow, the bronze door became the two of them. Not only did they not improve, but they fell a little further. The blind man and the sparrow finally pushed the stone carving under the copper door.

Luo Lie and Arnold almost exhausted their strength. As soon as they let go, the copper door fell on the stone sculpture. Arnold crawled over from the bottom of the gap. Luo Lie then crawled in. As soon as he crawled over, he heard the stone sculpture making crackling sounds, but the stone sculpture could not bear the weight of the copper door and was crushed to break open.

The sparrow's heart was raised to his throat. The blind man and Arnold tried hard at the same time, holding Luo Lie's arm and dragging him out of the crack of the door. As soon as Luo Lie's feet passed through the copper door, the stone sculpture completely cracked because it could not bear the weight of the copper door. The copper door closed heavily, and the dull sound of landing shocked their ears buzzing.

Luo Lie was also scared and sweated. If he left one second later, he would probably have been crushed to death.

My companions were also very afraid. The stone sculpture should have cracks when it went over, but it did not completely crack and completely split under the pressure of the bronze door.

The sparrow's hand holding the candlestick was trembling slightly. Luo Lie walked over and took the candlestick from her, and smiled and said, "It seems that my life is still very big."

Arnold used the candlelight to search around the bronze door for a while and found that there was no device to open the bronze door on this side, which means that they could no longer go back. Since they could not go back, the water discharge valve mentioned by Sparrow had no meaning, and even if they found it, they could not leave.

Luo Lie said: "This door should be a closed door, isolating the water outside." He turned to the sparrow and said: "Do you still remember that map?"

The sparrow said, "Clear." She walked forward, and Luo Lie followed her up to raise a candle for her to illuminate it. After walking about fifty meters, she encountered a bronze door. The method of opening the bronze door was the same as before. This time they had experience. They first found two stone statues and carried them to the door. After working together to open the bronze door, they asked the blind man to stuff the stone statue in. Although they had lasted for a long time, the stone statue was still crushed into powder by the bronze door. This was because the bronze door was too heavy and the texture of the stone used to carve the stone statue was too soft.

The sparrow was secretly surprised, but he didn't see the drain valve marked on the map along the way.

Walking through this copper door, a tilted downward step appeared in front of it. The steps were narrow and deep, and I didn't know where to go. Luo Lie blew out the candles to save them a few light sources and let the blind man walk in the front to lead the way.

They walked along the stairs for about five minutes and had arrived at the exit. The blind man stopped and exclaimed.

Luo Lie came to the blind man and lit the candlestick again. He looked up and saw an iron chain bridge hanging in the air appearing in front of him. A tall building stood opposite the bridge. Because of the dim light, he could not see the whole picture of the building.

However, the blind man had already seen that the building opposite was a huge statue, which should be at least thirty meters high. From the appearance of the statue, it should be a Qing emperor. He was wearing a dragon robe, holding a rosary in one hand and a sword in the other. He carved a few lines of big words on the wall opposite the statue. The blind man recited the lines to his companions, which one was written on it, which was the principle of unity of three bodies and four wisdoms. The world and me are the same as the original way of emptiness, and celebrated their lives.

After hearing this, the sparrow judged that the statue should be Emperor Yongzheng. Among the emperors of the Qing Dynasty, Emperor Yongzheng liked to read Buddhist scriptures since he was a child and had a wide range of monks. He not only had both religions, but also had both exoteric and esoteric, and practiced meditation. He was recognized as the only great Zen master among the emperors of all dynasties who truly understood and understood the three gates.

Emperor Yongzheng once practiced meditation in the 50th year of Kangxi under the guidance of Master Zhangjia, and successively broke the first pass and the important pass. In the second year, he passed the last pass and the third pass, and achieved the principle of unity of three bodies and four wisdoms. The world and self are the same as the original way of emptiness, and celebrate their lives. He called himself Yuanming Layman, and was the only emperor in Chinese history that combines the honor of the human king and the Dharma king. After he ascended the throne, in the last few years, he made a set of Buddhist scriptures of 1.2 million words, including the Buddhist Zen quotation "Imperial Selection Quotes" compiled by him.

The sparrow told several people his inferences. The blind man was already impressed by the knowledge of the sparrow now, not to mention Arnold, a foreigner. Of course, Arnold was not very interested in politics. He only knew that the current monarch in England was George V, and he was not interested in understanding the emperors of other countries.

Luo Lie has a rich history knowledge, but it is still incomparable to the sparrows who have a family background. He knew that Emperor Yongzheng died in the Old Summer Palace back then, and he didn't know if the statue in front of him had a direct relationship with Emperor Yongzheng.

The cause of Emperor Yongzheng's death was also the biggest mystery of the Qing Dynasty. There are rumors that he was assassinated, and some people said that he died of state work and was exhausted. The most credible statement is the elixir theory. Emperor Yongzheng also believed in seeking immortality and asking for Taoism. In order to seek immortality, he was close to Taoist priests Zhang Taixu, Wang Dingqian and others who were passionate about elixirs. It is recorded that these two people once donated golden elixir medicine in an attempt to prolong Yongzheng's life. Although there is no record in the official history that Yongzheng ordered Taoist priests to refine elixirs, historians still dug up clues of the alchemy from the Qing palace archives.

According to palace archives, from the ninth year of Yongzheng to the thirteenth year, Yongzheng issued an order to transport the items needed for alchemy to the Old Summer Palace, an average of two or three times a month. A total of 192 tons of black coal and 42 tons of charcoal were used, and there were also a large amount of silver, red copper, black lead, sulfur and other items, which were essential supplies for alchemy. Just twelve days before Yongzheng's death, a batch of 200 kilograms of black lead was transported into the Old Summer Palace.

Various evidences show that it is these so-called elixirs that can prolong life and make people live forever to send Yongzheng to the West early.

In addition, there is another historical fact as evidence. Three days after Yongzheng's death, Emperor Qianlong, who had just ascended the throne, drove more than 100 Taoist priests Zhang Taixu and Wang Dinggan, whom Yongzheng's favored, out of the Old Summer Palace. He also issued an order not to mention every word or deed in Yongzheng's palace outside. If there is any violation, he will never be lenient.

Luo Lie raised the candlestick and walked onto the iron chain bridge first. The iron chain bridge was only twenty meters long. Although it was not long, it was set up in the air between the stone wall and the statue, about thirty meters away from the platform at the bottom. It was swaying on it, and the iron chains swayed. The wooden boards laid under their feet were more than a hundred years old. It was not ruled out that they had already decayed. Luo Lie was the first to walk across the iron chain bridge, believing that the iron chain bridge could bear the weight of a person's body, so everyone walked past one by one.

The blind man was afraid of heights in the past, but since his trip to Lianyun Village in Paobai Mountain, his fear of heights has healed himself and he successfully crossed the Iron Cable Bridge.

After crossing the iron chain bridge, he found that there was a vertically downward iron ladder hidden behind Emperor Yongzheng's braid. Luo Lie put away the candlestick and was still ready to take the lead and go down the first place. The iron ladder was very simple, just a curved iron rod embedded in the statue, without any protection around it.

Luo Lie reminded everyone to be careful. In fact, although this kind of iron ladder is vertically up and down, as long as you step it firmly, there should be no big risk. When he was about to climb down the iron ladder, Arnold suggested: "Let the blind man come first."

The blind man looked at Arnold with confusion, not knowing what he meant.

Arnold said, "Save him to fall and hit others." After saying that, he couldn't help laughing.

The blind man spat and said, "You go down first, I'm on you. Even if I fall down and die, I have to pull you on my back." Of course, he knew that Arnold had good intentions and deliberately said this to reduce his inner tension, but Arnold didn't know that his fear of heights had been cured.

The blind man was the first to walk towards the iron ladder, and he said to the sparrow again: "The sparrow broke the back."

The blind man descended carefully along the iron ladder, and as long as he didn't look down, he was not particularly frightened. They came down the iron ladder without any danger.

Standing on the bottom platform of the Yongzheng statue, looking up, I felt the solemn momentum of the statue more and more. Luo Lie couldn't help but think of Mount Rushmore in the United States, where the stone sculptures of the four American presidents were about 18 meters, and the Yongzheng statue in front of him was obviously taller than the stone sculptures of the President Mountain. If they hadn't happened to enter the underground flood drainage road of the Old Summer Palace, they would never have thought that there was such a magnificent statue underground in the Old Summer Palace.
Chapter completed!