Jiapingguan Chronicle

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Shen Haolin sat on the thick cushion that Shen Cha brought over, picked up the files that were carried out from the drawer just now, and began to look through these files by the light of two candlesticks, but after reading a few pages, he found problems in them.

"Cha'er, come here!" Shen Haolin looked at Shen Cha and waved to her.

"What's the matter? What's the problem?"

"The date recorded in this file is wrong. I roughly looked through these volumes. It should be relatively late, recording Aunt Xue's affairs. Now, what we need to find is twenty years before this time. Even more ancient, the dossiers related to that empress when she was young, and related to the Xue family in Xijing."

"Brother, the Xue family in Xijing is very accurate."

"At that time, there was no Marquis Wuding's Mansion in Jiapingguan City, only the Xue family in Xijing."

"Brother said yes."

Shen Cha squatted in front of the cabinet, carefully looked at the label on the bottom drawer, and raised an eyebrow at Shen Haolin.

"Brother, look here."

"Is this a little longer?"

"It should be related to the Xue family in Xijing. If not, there is no need to put it in such a remote place. Parents probably don't want people to notice, so they put it in such an inconspicuous place. Generally speaking, if we store things , I will put all the ones from the same time period together, unless I don’t want people to see them, I will spread them out.”

"That's right, the above are all deceptive, that's what's important." Shen Haolin raised his chin towards Shen Cha, "Open it and have a look."

"it is good."

Shen Cha pulled two cushions over and sat down, and opened the bottom row of six drawers one by one. Counting from the left hand side, the first to third drawers were filled with files, and the remaining In the lower three drawers, seven or eight square or rectangular wooden boxes are placed in each drawer. Judging from the texture and craftsmanship of the wooden boxes, they are basically the same as the previous wooden boxes containing bracelets and step shakers. Yes, about the same age.

She blinked at Shen Haolin, stretched out her hand to pick up one of the boxes, and opened it without rushing. She first looked at the wooden box carefully, thought for a while, and then picked up the one containing the Bu Yao just now for comparison.

"See what?"

"These two boxes should be a set." Shen Cha moved closer to Shen Haolin and asked him to take a closer look, "Judging from the carvings and patterns, as well as the smoothness of the wooden box, they were made by the same craftsman. "

"Coincidentally, our home in the capital also has several wooden boxes of the same kind, right?"

"Yes!" Shen Cha nodded with a smile, "Not only in our house, but also in the palace there are many utensils from this craftsman."

"And this craftsman is Xiaotian's great-grandfather." Shen Haolin sighed softly, "But it doesn't mean anything, it just means that the old man's craftsmanship is good, and everyone likes it very much."

Shen Cha smiled, opened the newly brought out box, and what came into view was a spherical object wrapped in gold leaf.

"What is this?" Shen Cha was about to reach out to pick it up, but was stopped by Shen Haolin, "Brother?"

"Don't move." Shen Haolin took out a handkerchief, used the handkerchief as a cushion, picked up the spherical object wrapped in gold leaf, looked carefully, and put it back again. "I know this. Before the late emperor passed away, he took this medicine. It is said that it can relieve the late emperor's condition, but..."

"Taking out this medicine and keeping it alone means that there is something wrong with this medicine?" Seeing Shen Haolin nodding first, then shaking his head, Shen Cha looked helpless, "Is there a problem? Brother is going to confuse me ?”

"I have read the pulse case of the first emperor. The number of times the first emperor took this medicine was not very many, and it was only three or four times. It was Lu Yuantian from the Imperial Hospital who recommended this medicine to the first emperor, and this Lu Yuantian is... ..."

"The empress dowager pulled it up with one hand."

"It should be regarded as childhood sweethearts who grew up together, not just pulled out by one hand." Shen Haolin thought for a while, "To be disrespectful, if the Empress Dowager does not enter the palace, it will probably be Mrs. Lu."

"I heard this rumor and thought it was just a rumor, but I didn't expect it to be true."

"It's true." Shen Haolin nodded, "The Empress Dowager entered the palace out of desperation." He waved his hand at Shen Cha, "These are not important."

"Indeed, it's been fifty years." Shen Cha rolled his eyes and sighed heavily, exuding an aura of abandonment all over his body, "But brother, you know me, I hate getting involved in this kind of royal family secrets the most. .”

"I know, I don't like it either, but there is nothing we can do about it." Shen Haolin reached out and touched her head, "Our origins doom us to often get involved in such incidents, right?"

"I understand, I'm just complaining." Shen Cha looked at the pill wrapped in gold leaf, "Speaking of which, did the late emperor have any special reaction after eating this thing? Did the physical condition improve a little, or did it get worse? "

"According to the record on the pulse case, it has improved, but..."

"Some things eat away at life little by little, right?" Seeing Shen Haolin nodding, Shen Cha sighed, "It doesn't mean that the Empress Dowager intended to kill the late Emperor, after all, it belonged to her..." She originally wanted to say that she was her own son, but suddenly remembered that the first emperor was not born to the empress dowager, so she swallowed back the words that came to her lips. "Is...retaliation?"

Shen Haolin didn't speak, but just shrugged his shoulders, signaling Shen Cha to open all the other boxes.

The second box in this drawer is larger than the first box. After opening, there is a dagger with a scabbard inlaid with gems of various colors.

"This is a dagger?" Shen Cha picked it up and looked at it with a look of disgust, "It's especially the style of those from the Western Regions, they like to put many gemstones on various scabbards to show their wealth."

"This should be from the Western Regions. There are several kinds of gemstones on it, and only those in the Western Regions have them." Shen Haolin motioned to pull out the dagger, "Look at what's inside."

"it is good."

Shen Cha took the other glove, put it on her hand, pulled it out lightly, but did not pull it out, she frowned slightly, glanced at Shen Haolin, and exerted some strength, but the dagger still remained motionless.

"Give me a try"

Shen Haolin put on his gloves, picked up the dagger, and pulled it out forcefully, only to hear a squeak, and the dagger finally came out of its sheath.

"Wait a minute, brother." Shen Cha pointed to the rust-red mark on the blade of the dagger, "What is this? Blood stain?"

Shen Haolin leaned over to smell it, then nodded towards Shen Cha,
"Yes, it's blood." He thought for a while, then looked at the scabbard, tilted his head and thought for a while, "Couldn't this dagger be used by that empress to assassinate the late emperor?
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