Jiapingguan Chronicle

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"If you say that, it makes sense."

"Right, from the very beginning until now, the Empress Dowager has always played an important role in these cases." Shen Cha yawned, resting his head on Shen Haolin's shoulder, """Mother left the Empress Dowager The relics, the dagger that the empress assassinated the late emperor was left behind, and I didn’t leave it casually, I thought it was attachment and nostalgia for the Empress Dowager, but now it seems that it is not.”

"The first emperor and his mother were siblings, they were not born to the Empress Dowager, and they didn't have many interactions with the Empress Dowager. Maybe they might have been attached to each other when they were young, but as they grow older, I'm afraid it will fade away. Quite a few."

"What brother said is true." Shen Cha thought for a while, "Does brother know what kind of person the Empress Dowager was when she was young, that is, before she entered the palace?"

"I don't know much about it, I just heard about it." Shen Haolin thought for a while, "When the Empress Dowager was young, she was not particularly outstanding. , among the batch of candidates who were going to be sent to the East Palace, they could barely be considered average. At that time, the emperor's grandfather was still the crown prince, and he did not ascend the throne, but only selected the crown princess and four side concubines."

"In the end, only one crown princess and two side concubines were selected, and the empress dowager was among them."

"Yes, the Empress Dowager will be eligible to be selected. She is not the candidate for the Crown Princess. At that time, the Crown Princess has basically been decided, and she will be our real grandmother." Seeing Shen Cha nodding, Shen Haolin He continued, "Speaking of this, I once heard from my mother and Aunt Xue that the Empress Dowager was eliminated several times, but in the end she became one of the side concubines."

"Why were you eliminated, and why did you end up becoming a side concubine? What's the trick here?"

"It's because of her elder brother." Seeing Shen Cha's blank face, Shen Haolin explained, "The censor who died for the emperor's grandfather."

Shen Cha thought about it seriously, but still didn't remember what was going on, and shook his head towards Shen Haolin.

"Can not remember."

"It's not that you don't remember, it's that you don't know. When the eldest son of the Bai family, the closed disciple of Mrs. Yue, passed away, he had just entered Yushitai for less than a month." Shen Haolin sighed softly, "At that time, the emperor's grandfather Weifu went on tour and went to the Jiangnan area to investigate the salt affairs. In the past few months, the Yushitai and the cabinet have received reports about the collusion between officials and businessmen in the salt road from different channels. You also know that the emperor’s grandfather attaches great importance to the salt affairs , If only one or two people say there is a problem, he may send someone to investigate secretly, but if so many people say there is a problem, he is not at ease to send someone to investigate, so he went in person."

"Where did the news about the emperor's grandfather going to Jiangnan come from?"

Shen Haolin didn't speak, but showed a meaningful smile towards Shen Cha.

Shen Cha looked at the smile on his face, and after a little thought, he showed an expression of disbelief.

"That's her real brother, why... no, no, no!" She waved her hand, "It can't really be the Empress Dowager, she was only thirteen or fourteen years old at that time, and she also got involved in private affairs... ? But, didn't she hurt her brother by spreading the news?"

"Where did you want to go?" Shen Haolin couldn't help helping his forehead, "It's not the Empress Dowager, but it has something to do with her."

"Fortunately it wasn't her, otherwise she would be the culprit who killed her brother. But..." Shen Cha looked at Shen Haolin, "What does brother mean by being related to her? Lu Yuantian? Isn't that right?"

"It's not Lu Yuantian, it's his grandfather." Shen Haolin sneered, "His grandfather was in the imperial hospital back then, and he heard that the emperor's grandfather was going to investigate the salt road. This has something to do with it, so, afraid of getting burned, the old man of the Lu family sent a message to his in-laws. The original intention was to let them keep their tails in order to prevent the emperor's grandfather from being caught, but the old doctor Lu didn't expect that his The in-laws are so courageous that they actually want to kill the weeds."

"Cut grass and roots?" Shen Cha sneered, "Assassination of the emperor, there are so many high-sounding reasons? They are ambitious themselves, and want to do something out of the ordinary, right? Or, old doctor Lu didn't tell them, Is the emperor's father going to check it himself?"

"Then I don't know." Shen Haolin shook his head, "It was the one from the Bai family who sensed something was wrong and took the risk of going to the so-called Hongmen Banquet for the emperor's grandfather. As a result..." He sighed softly, " Once gone and never returned, people walked by themselves, but when they came back, they were carried back. The emperor's grandfather was furious when he saw his body. Everyone involved in the Yandao case, big and small, officials and businessmen added up There were almost 3000 people, none of them ran away."

"The Lu family actually ran out? Didn't the Hongmen Banquet originate from him?"

"His in-laws didn't tell him, and he swore he didn't know anything about it."

"Those letters and so on, have already been burned?"

"Yes." Shen Haolin nodded, "So they escaped a catastrophe, which is the main reason why they didn't dare to take any action after hearing that the Empress Dowager was selected as a side concubine. Feel guilty, so, let the Bai family send the Empress Dowager into the palace, to be the side concubine of the late emperor who was still the prince at that time."

"Understood!" Shen Cha yawned, leaning his head on Shen Haolin's shoulder, "It's a matter of compensation, no matter what, I also helped the young man who died for him to take care of his sister and his family, and guaranteed his family worry-free life, right?"

"That's it." Shen Haolin looked down at Shen Cha whose eyes were almost closed, "How about we come here first today? See how sleepy you are, let's go back and have a good sleep, and come back tomorrow, okay? it is good?"

"Hmm..." Shen Cha thought for a while, rubbed his eyes, and looked at the drawers that he had pulled out, "Why don't we open these wooden boxes and have a look, and then we'll go back Let's go." She yawned again, "I'm so curious what these wooden boxes are next, if you don't look at them, you will be considered as asleep..."

"I'll wake up too, right?" Shen Haolin rubbed Shen Cha's head, "Sit down, and I'll get those wooden boxes, okay?"

"Brother, don't move, I'm close." Shen Cha shook his head, moved his arms and legs, and slowly moved to the cabinet, and put the remaining ten or so wooden boxes on his seat. On the mat he was sitting on, he pushed the mat and rubbed back.Rushing to Shen Haolin's side, she put all the wooden boxes on the ground, and sat back down again. After sitting down, she proudly shook her head at Shen Haolin, "How about it, are you smart?"

"Smart." Shen Haolin reached out and pulled the person towards him to ensure that she would not be cold, "Open them all and see what's inside."

Shen Cha was too lazy to move, took the little stick that Shen Haolin had before, and lifted the lids of the dozen or so small wooden boxes on the ground.

After seeing clearly what was inside the box, the expressions of the two of them changed completely.

(End of this chapter)