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达芬奇密码|The Da Vinci Code

第52章|Chapter 51

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维莱特庄园位于凡尔赛近郊，占地185 公顷，从巴黎驱车25 分钟就可以到达。它最早是由弗兰西斯。曼萨特于1668 年为奥弗提伯爵设计的，是巴黎附近的历史名址之一。维莱特庄园里有两个四边形的湖泊和众多的花园，这些都是勒。瑙特设计的。与其说这座庄园看上去像座大厦，倒不如说它像个现代化的城堡。

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兰登把车停在长达一英里的车道前。透过那扇气派的防盗大门，可以看到远处草坪边上雷。提彬爵士居住的那座城堡。门上的告示牌用英语写着："私人领地，非请勿入。"

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为了表明这是英国人的领地，提彬不仅在告示牌上写上英语，还把对讲电话安装在了车辆的右侧。除了英国，在整个欧洲那可是乘客坐的方位。

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索菲诧异地看了看对讲电话，问道："要是有人没带乘客怎么办？"

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"别管这么多了。"兰登很熟悉提彬那套我行我素的做法。"他喜欢按英国的规矩行事。"

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索菲摇下车窗："罗伯特，最好由你来叫门。"

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兰登从索菲的身前倾过身子，去按对讲电话的按钮。这时，他闻到了索菲身上诱人的香水味，突然意识到他们俩已紧紧地靠在了一起。他尴尬地等在那儿，听对讲机不停地振铃。

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最后，对讲机里终于传来"咔嗒"一声，接着传出带法国口音的声音："这里是维莱特庄园。是谁在按铃？"

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"我是罗伯特。兰登。"兰登俯在索菲的膝盖上，答道："我是雷。提彬爵士的朋友。我需要他的帮助。""主人正在睡觉。我也是。你找他有什么事？"

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"有点私事。他会非常感兴趣的。"

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"那么，我敢肯定他会非常愉快地在早上会见您。"

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兰登变换了一个姿势，坚持道："这件事非常重要，我需要马上见他。"

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"可是雷爵士正在睡觉。如果您是他朋友，您应该知道他身体不好，经不起折腾。"

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雷。提彬爵士小时候得过脑灰质炎，现在腿上还绑着矫形器，走路得用拐杖。可是兰登上次见他时，发现他是那么活泼风趣，一点也不像有病的样子。"如果可以，请告诉他我找到了有关圣杯的新线索。非常紧急，不能等到早上。"接下来就是一片沉寂。

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兰登和索菲等在那里，耳边只有装甲车发动机的隆隆响声。

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足足过了一分钟。

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终于对讲机那头传来了清脆而温和说话声。"好家伙，我敢说你现在还在按照美国哈佛大学的标准时间来行事呢。"兰登听出话里浓重的英国口音，笑了起来。"雷，非常抱歉在这个不合适的时间把你吵醒。""我的男佣告诉我你不仅来到了巴黎，而且还带来了圣杯的消息。"

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"我想那样会把你从床上喊起来。"

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"不错。"

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"能为老朋友开开门吗？"

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"寻求真理的人不仅仅是朋友，而且是兄弟。"

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兰登看了看索菲。提彬喜欢用戏剧里的古怪台词，这一点他早就习惯了。

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"我会打开大门的。"提彬宣称道。"但是首先我得确认你的心是否真诚。为了测试一下你的道义，你得回答三个问题。"兰登叹了一口气，在索菲的耳边低声说道："请忍耐一会儿。我跟你说过，他是个有个性的人。"

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这时，提彬大声说道："第一个问题。你是要喝茶还是咖啡？"

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兰登知道提彬讨厌美国人喝咖啡的习惯，于是说道："茶，而且是伯爵红茶。"

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"很好。第二个问题。要加牛奶还是糖？"

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兰登犹豫了一下。

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"牛奶。"索菲低声说。"我想英国人喜欢加牛奶。"

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"牛奶。"兰登答道。

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沉默。

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"要不，就加糖吧？"

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提彬仍旧没有回答。

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等一下。兰登突然想起了上次来访时喝的苦茶，意识到这个问题是个圈套。"柠檬！"他大声说道："伯爵红茶加柠檬。"

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"好的。"提彬听起来非常开心。"我要问最后一个非常严肃的问题。"提彬停顿了一下，然后用庄重的语气问："哈佛大学的划桨手，于哪一年在英国亨利市举办的划船比赛中胜过了牛津的划桨手？"

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兰登对此一无所知，但他却非常明了提彬提出这个问题的原因。于是，他答道："这种滑稽事从来就没有发生过。"大门"嗒"的一声打开了。"你有一颗真诚的心，我的朋友。你可以进来了。"

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Even at a modest sixty kilometers an hour, the dangling front bumper of the armored truck gratedagainst the deserted suburban road with a grinding roar, spraying sparks up onto the hood.

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We’ve got to get off the road, Langdon thought.

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He could barely even see where they were headed. The truck’s lone working headlight had beenknocked off-center and was casting a skewed sidelong beam into the woods beside the countryhighway. Apparently the armor in this "armored truck" referred only to the cargo hold and not thefront end.

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Sophie sat in the passenger seat, staring blankly at the rosewood box on her lap.

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"Are you okay?" Langdon asked.

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Sophie looked shaken. "Do you believe him?""About the three additional murders? Absolutely. It answers a lot of questions—the issue of yourgrandfather’s desperation to pass on the keystone, as well as the intensity with which Fache ishunting me.""No, I meant about Vernet trying to protect his bank."Langdon glanced over. "As opposed to?""Taking the keystone for himself."Langdon had not even considered it. "How would he even know what this box contains?""His bank stored it. He knew my grandfather. Maybe he knew things. He might have decided hewanted the Grail for himself."Langdon shook his head. Vernet hardly seemed the type. "In my experience, there are only tworeasons people seek the Grail. Either they are naive and believe they are searching for the long-lostCup of Christ...""Or?""Or they know the truth and are threatened by it. Many groups throughout history have sought todestroy the Grail."The silence between them accentuated the sound of the scraping bumper. They had driven a fewkilometers now, and as Langdon watched the cascade of sparks coming off the front of the truck,he wondered if it was dangerous. Either way, if they passed another car, it would certainly drawattention. Langdon made up his mind.

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"I’m going to see if I can bend this bumper back."Pulling onto the shoulder, he brought the truck to a stop.

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Silence at last.

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As Langdon walked toward the front of the truck, he felt surprisingly alert. Staring into the barrelof yet another gun tonight had given him a second wind. He took a deep breath of nighttime air andtried to get his wits about him. Accompanying the gravity of being a hunted man, Langdon wasstarting to feel the ponderous weight of responsibility, the prospect that he and Sophie mightactually be holding an encrypted set of directions to one of the most enduring mysteries of all time.

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As if this burden were not great enough, Langdon now realized that any possibility of finding away to return the keystone to the Priory had just evaporated. News of the three additional murdershad dire implications. The Priory has been infiltrated. They are compromised. The brotherhoodwas obviously being watched, or there was a mole within the ranks. It seemed to explain whySaunière might have transferred the keystone to Sophie and Langdon—people outside thebrotherhood, people he knew were not compromised. We can’t very well give the keystone back tothe brotherhood. Even if Langdon had any idea how to find a Priory member, chances were goodthat whoever stepped forward to take the keystone could be the enemy himself. For the moment, atleast, it seemed the keystone was in Sophie and Langdon’s hands, whether they wanted it or not.

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The truck’s front end looked worse than Langdon had imagined. The left headlight was gone, andthe right one looked like an eyeball dangling from its socket. Langdon straightened it, and itdislodged again. The only good news was that the front bumper had been torn almost clean off.

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Langdon gave it a hard kick and sensed he might be able to break it off entirely.

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As he repeatedly kicked the twisted metal, Langdon recalled his earlier conversation with Sophie.

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My grandfather left me a phone message, Sophie had told him. He said he needed to tell me thetruth about my family. At the time it had meant nothing, but now, knowing the Priory of Sion wasinvolved, Langdon felt a startling new possibility emerge.

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The bumper broke off suddenly with a crash. Langdon paused to catch his breath. At least the truckwould no longer look like a Fourth of July sparkler. He grabbed the bumper and began dragging itout of sight into the woods, wondering where they should go next. They had no idea how to openthe cryptex, or why Saunière had given it to them. Unfortunately, their survival tonight seemed todepend on getting answers to those very questions.

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We need help, Langdon decided. Professional help.

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In the world of the Holy Grail and the Priory of Sion, that meant only one man. The challenge, ofcourse, would be selling the idea to Sophie.

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Inside the armored car, while Sophie waited for Langdon to return, she could feel the weight of therosewood box on her lap and resented it. Why did my grandfather give this to me? She had not theslightest idea what to do with it.

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Think, Sophie! Use your head. Grand-père is trying to tell you something!

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Opening the box, she eyed the cryptex’s dials. A proof of merit. She could feel her grandfather’shand at work. The keystone is a map that can be followed only by the worthy. It sounded like hergrandfather to the core.

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Lifting the cryptex out of the box, Sophie ran her fingers over the dials. Five letters. She rotated thedials one by one. The mechanism moved smoothly. She aligned the disks such that her chosenletters lined up between the cryptex’s two brass alignment arrows on either end of the cylinder. Thedials now spelled a five-letter word that Sophie knew was absurdly obvious.

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G-R-A-I-L.

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Gently, she held the two ends of the cylinder and pulled, applying pressure slowly. The cryptexdidn’t budge. She heard the vinegar inside gurgle and stopped pulling. Then she tried again.

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V-I-N-C-IAgain, no movement.

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V-O-U-T-ENothing. The cryptex remained locked solid.

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Frowning, she replaced it in the rosewood box and closed the lid. Looking outside at Langdon,Sophie felt grateful he was with her tonight. P.S. Find Robert Langdon. Her grandfather’s rationalefor including him was now clear. Sophie was not equipped to understand her grandfather’sintentions, and so he had assigned Robert Langdon as her guide. A tutor to oversee her education.

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Unfortunately for Langdon, he had turned out to be far more than a tutor tonight. He had becomethe target of Bezu Fache... and some unseen force intent on possessing the Holy Grail.

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Whatever the Grail turns out to be.

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Sophie wondered if finding out was worth her life.

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As the armored truck accelerated again, Langdon was pleased how much more smoothly it drove.

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"Do you know how to get to Versailles?"Sophie eyed him. "Sightseeing?""No, I have a plan. There’s a religious historian I know who lives near Versailles. I can’t rememberexactly where, but we can look it up. I’ve been to his estate a few times. His name is LeighTeabing. He’s a former British Royal Historian.""And he lives in Paris?""Teabing’s life passion is the Grail. When whisperings of the Priory keystone surfaced about fifteenyears ago, he moved to France to search churches in hopes of finding it. He’s written some bookson the keystone and the Grail. He may be able to help us figure out how to open it and what to dowith it."Sophie’s eyes were wary. "Can you trust him?""Trust him to what? Not steal the information?""And not to turn us in.""I don’t intend to tell him we’re wanted by the police. I’m hoping he’ll take us in until we can sortall this out.""Robert, has it occurred to you that every television in France is probably getting ready tobroadcast our pictures? Bezu Fache always uses the media to his advantage. He’ll make itimpossible for us to move around without being recognized."Terrific, Langdon thought. My French TV debut will be on "Paris’s Most Wanted." At least JonasFaukman would be pleased; every time Langdon made the news, his book sales jumped.

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"Is this man a good enough friend?" Sophie asked.

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Langdon doubted Teabing was someone who watched television, especially at this hour, but stillthe question deserved consideration. Instinct told Langdon that Teabing would be totallytrustworthy. An ideal safe harbor. Considering the circumstances, Teabing would probably tripover himself to help them as much as possible. Not only did he owe Langdon a favor, but Teabingwas a Grail researcher, and Sophie claimed her grandfather was the actual Grand Master of thePriory of Sion. If Teabing heard that, he would salivate at the thought of helping them figure thisout.

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"Teabing could be a powerful ally," Langdon said. Depending on how much you want to tell him.

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"Fache probably will be offering a monetary reward."Langdon laughed. "Believe me, money is the last thing this guy needs." Leigh Teabing waswealthy in the way small countries were wealthy. A descendant of Britain’s First Duke ofLancaster, Teabing had gotten his money the old-fashioned way—he’d inherited it. His estateoutside of Paris was a seventeenth-century palace with two private lakes.

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Langdon had first met Teabing several years ago through the British Broadcasting Corporation.

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Teabing had approached the BBC with a proposal for a historical documentary in which he wouldexpose the explosive history of the Holy Grail to a mainstream television audience. The BBCproducers loved Teabing’s hot premise, his research, and his credentials, but they had concerns thatthe concept was so shocking and hard to swallow that the network might end up tarnishing itsreputation for quality journalism. At Teabing’s suggestion, the BBC solved its credibility fears bysoliciting three cameos from respected historians from around the world, all of whom corroboratedthe stunning nature of the Holy Grail secret with their own research.

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Langdon had been among those chosen.

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The BBC had flown Langdon to Teabing’s Paris estate for the filming. He sat before cameras inTeabing’s opulent drawing room and shared his story, admitting his initial skepticism on hearing ofthe alternate Holy Grail story, then describing how years of research had persuaded him that thestory was true. Finally, Langdon offered some of his own research—a series of symbologicconnections that strongly supported the seemingly controversial claims.

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When the program aired in Britain, despite its ensemble cast and well-documented evidence, thepremise rubbed so hard against the grain of popular Christian thought that it instantly confronted afirestorm of hostility. It never aired in the States, but the repercussions echoed across the Atlantic.

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"Do you know more or less where Mr. Teabing lives?" Sophie asked.

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"His estate is called Chateau Villette."Sophie turned with an incredulous look. "The Chateau Villette?""That’s the one.""Nice friends.""You know the estate?""I’ve passed it. It’s in the castle district. Twenty minutes from here."Langdon frowned. "That far?""Yes, which will give you enough time to tell me what the Holy Grail really is."Langdon paused. "I’ll tell you at Teabing’s. He and I specialize in different areas of the legend, sobetween the two of us, you’ll get the full story." Langdon smiled. "Besides, the Grail has beenTeabing’s life, and hearing the story of the Holy Grail from Leigh Teabing will be like hearing thetheory of relativity from Einstein himself.""Let’s hope Leigh doesn’t mind late-night visitors.""For the record, it’s Sir Leigh." Langdon had made that mistake only once. "Teabing is quite acharacter. He was knighted by the Queen several years back after composing an extensive historyon the House of York."Sophie looked over. "You’re kidding, right? We’re going to visit a knight?"Langdon gave an awkward smile. "We’re on a Grail quest, Sophie. Who better to help us than aknight?"

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