Qingchuan History

Chapter 152 Jade Broken Tiles ([-])

During the last two days in Xiling, Ruan Xueyin never asked about the progress of the hut incident.For some reason, when she saw the way he rode his horse that evening, she always felt that she already had clues.And everything I can think of here has been said and done.

As a person from Pengxi Mountain, she is of course curious about such things, especially since she is one of the parties involved.But it was inconvenient for her to keep looking for him, so she could only wait.On the way back to Jidu, she thought of another thing, that is, last month when her concubine had an accident, Shangguan concubine went to petition, but Chunfeng said that he did not ask her for help.

This is not surprising, the two of them have always been on good terms, and it is reasonable for Shangguan to ask for it when she hears the news.It's just that so many seemingly scattered clues are related to the person from Zhu Yudian, she has to take all the big and small things related to it into consideration.

When she finally couldn't hold back and told Gu Xinglang about this shortly after returning to the palace, the other party was very calm.

"There is another item. I didn't hear Diyan say it."

"I thought Master Diyan thought it was a trivial matter, so I didn't mention it."

"It's really not important. But it is used to support certain speculations, but it has some weight."

"guess?"

Gu Xinglang was writing and didn't look up at her: "Let's pass in two days. It's still the same. You are also the party involved. You are allowed to watch this scene."

It was said to be two days, but in fact only one and a half days passed.

It was the third day after returning from Xiling when the people from Lanlan Palace came to Zhexue Palace to invite them.

It's just before another evening.

It was a cloudy day with thick clouds, but the rain did not come down for a long time.According to the emperor's instructions passed down by the palace people, Ruan Xueyin only brought Yunxi, and when she arrived at Lenggong, the latter was only allowed to wait outside the gate.

There are few in the courtyard.This was Ruan Xueyin's first visit to the Leng Palace, and the eerie sense of death and decay still surpassed what was portrayed in the books and what she had expected.

Maybe it's also because it's really autumn, a season that keeps going silent and can't be completely silent throughout the year.It was the end of October, and most of the sycamore trees in Qi Palace were just yellowing leaves, but here it was like late autumn, and even the only tall sycamore tree on the northwest side was about to lose its leaves.

She didn't know if it was a psychological effect, but she felt that after the door was closed, the surrounding temperature suddenly dropped a lot.

"Madam, please come in from the back of the hall with me. Your Majesty ordered that you can only stay in the corridor behind the main hall and not show up."

The palace man kept his voice extremely low, as if he didn't want to disturb everything around him, including the condensed air and the dead leaves on the ground.

She followed the instructions and walked in at a low pace. When she passed the closed gate of the main hall, she faintly heard voices.Both Di Yan and Shen Ji were in the corridor, she nodded in greeting and continued to follow the palace servants to the back of the hall.

Finally entering through the back door, she quickly walked to the corridor and stood still, the sound from the front hall came through the narrow indoor partition.

"Your Majesty's speed is faster than I expected."

The voice was familiar, and Ruan Xueyin didn't hear it many times, but she immediately recognized that it was Ah Pei.

"You have left such a big loophole waiting for me to take advantage of it. It has been a few days and there is no result. Wouldn't it be a joke to you?"

Ah Ping chirped, seeming to be laughing: "If I had known this before, I would have let them kill those ten people. Your Majesty's skill is so good, even if there is no evidence to prove it, you must be able to find it out. At most, it will take some more time. I'd rather have a quiet few days."

"Murdering Mrs. Yu, you guys are so brave." His tone was suddenly cold, perhaps because the hall was empty, it was especially deafening.

But Ah Xie seemed unmoved, and still said leisurely: "Your Majesty is wrong. It was your Mrs. Jin who murdered Mrs. Yu. I just gave her the medicine. Whether she does it or not is entirely up to her. I People are in the cold palace, even if everything is arranged for her, if she doesn't do anything, no one else can cooperate."

Gu Xinglang seemed to be taken aback, and after a while he asked, "Why?"

"Which one is your majesty asking?"

"Turn against."

"Ha!" She laughed, as if she was very happy, "Your Majesty is really good at joking. Why did I ever turn against you? I am not." Her voice suddenly became deep and hoarse, "I am tired."

"You lured Mrs. Jin to take action, and you deliberately exposed your feet for me to investigate, and confessed yourself. Even if you didn't help me, at least you missed the scheme of Cangwu City. Isn't it considered a defection?" After finishing speaking, he was kind again, Even though that kindness is as sharp as a knife blade, "It's been ten years, if it's not necessary, why bother to break the merits."

No one answered.Ruan Xueyin counted her breaths to five.Ah Xie's voice finally sounded again: "If it weren't for the matter of Si Shu Zhan and Yu Ling, the king would not be able to find me this time alone."

"That's right. That's why I asked you why."

"Your Majesty must have used a chess piece like mine a lot. In Your Majesty's opinion, if a chess piece stops playing suddenly, or even smashes it with your hands, usually, why?"

Gu Xinglang didn't seem to expect her to ask back, the air was quiet for a while, before he heard him answer lightly:
"Chess pieces are used by people. In this generation, they are usually used for three things: one is profit, the other is righteousness, and the third is love. Benefit is the most unreliable, and I seldom use it; love may be reliable, but it is not for a gentleman to use affection; My pawns are all righteous men, and they are in other countries to protect their families and the country, and also for the peace of the world."

He paused before answering her question:

"I don't know what kind of benefits Wei Jun or Lord Shangguan promised you, whether it's profit or love, or they actually coerced you. But come to think of it, if there is no big change, you will not break the safe board."

"Using affection is not what a gentleman does. Heh!" Her voice was suddenly sharp, like a blade cutting through a brocade, "Your Majesty actually insists on this kind of truth, which really surprises me. It's a pity, in troubled times, some people do whatever they can to fight for power, and affection counts." What!"

She paused, as if she had realized something, her tone became weird:

"Your Majesty Qi Jun, I overestimated you. You found out that I was the one who killed the four sisters in July, you found out that I took Chunfeng out of the palace every month to deliver news, and you found out that the six people who have been in Jidu all year round The so-called friends outside the palace that I sent, the so-called Ah Lu, have completely confirmed that I am a Wei person who has been hiding in Qi Palace for ten years, but they still don't know who I am. Ha!"

"I am not sure that you are from Wei. I am only sure that you work for Mrs. Jin and the country of Wei. You came to Jidu with your parents when you were five years old. They are all from the country of Qi. They lived on the border of Qiwei before; when you were 11 , your parents passed away one after another, and before they died, they entrusted you to a distant relative who worked as an official in the Imperial Food Department, and then brought you into the palace. The life of your late parents in Qibei is too long to be investigated. Now listen to You mean, they are just your adoptive parents."

Ruan Xueyin stood in the corridor at the back of the hall, her mind racing with all these words.Sishu Zhan is not an ordinary medicine, Shangguan concubine knows it, and Auntie also knows it. If one of them is not teaching the other, then it is a teacher from the same school, at least a very close relationship; the latter has been dormant in Qigong for ten years and has the ability Going in front of Chunfeng as a maid, and taking advantage of Chunfeng's temperament to go out of the palace every month, and quietly complete the news delivery——

Therefore, Zhu Yudian has never been found to send letters from Feige, because the letters were not sent by Shangguan concubine at all.

And Shangguan concubine and Chunfeng are good friends, they often stay together, and they want to bring the news to Auntie every month. They are aboveboard, and they don't even need to meet in private, so for half a year, even Gu Xinglang has not noticed it!
(End of this chapter)