All the ancestors in the capital begged me to be a substitute

Chapter 215 Bronze Sparrow Spring Locks Zhang Ting (Two in One)

"At first, he proposed to run away with me, but I refused. Then, a few days later, when I went to Huguo Temple to offer incense, his adoptive father disguised himself as a maidservant, entered my wing, and looked at me with those eyes , ordered me to write that elopement note and take me away."

"They took me to the country of Yun and placed me in the Tongque Garden. Only when I got there did I know that he was not a drug dealer at all, nor was he the so-called adopted son of the special envoy of the country of Yun. Hiroyama..."

Shen Lingxi's pupils shrank.

The king of Xijing, Yun Hongshan, was her uncle in the previous life, Yun Huang's father, and also the king of Yunjiang who was canonized after Da Zhou destroyed the Yun Kingdom.

Yun Hongshan loved to travel around in his early years, and he was not often in the capital.

After careful calculation, Shen Lingxi didn't see him many times since she was a child. The biggest impression of him is that he is always submissive and timid in front of her scumbag father.

But outside, he is romantic by nature and shows mercy everywhere. There are many wives and concubines in the mansion, as well as many children.

Yun Wang was the illegitimate son he brought back to the capital from outside.

"So, you have been in the Tongque Garden for the past three years?" Shen Lingxi asked in surprise.

The Tongque Garden was built by Yunhong Mountain after imitating the Tongque Terrace of the ancients, and it is specially used to house Yingying and Yanyan.

As long as he brought back to the capital from outside the women, he would place them in the Tongque Garden.

However, Xie Zhangting is the daughter of the Xie family. With her status, being placed in the Tongque Garden by Yun Hongshan is an insult to the Xie family.

Shen Lingxi never imagined that the uncle who had been submissive in front of Emperor Li ten years ago would dare to do such a thing behind his back to provoke the aristocratic family of the enemy country.

"The Tongque Garden is the place where King Xijing's chamber is housed, and next to it is Da Zhou's special envoy's mansion in Yunguo." Shen Lingxi asked suspiciously: "If you send a message to Da Zhou's special envoy to show your identity, you will be protected by Da Zhou's special envoy. Yun Guo will not dare to neglect you, and will send you back to Da Zhou. Why were you trapped in the Tongque Garden for three full years?"

As soon as these words came out, Chu Yan's phoenix eyes darkened slightly.

Tongque Garden was the private courtyard of King Xijing back then. Although it was close to the Dazhou Special Envoy's Mansion, it was located in a very remote place, and not many people knew about it.

As early as six years ago, after the Kingdom of Yun was destroyed, the Tongque Garden was requisitioned by the late emperor and rebuilt as the Xuanfu Division of Yunjiang.

Since Yun Hongshan took the seat of the king of Yunjiang, he has been showing people the image of a virtuous king all day long. Tongqueyuan, a place that represents his romantic past, is never allowed to be mentioned by the people.

Therefore, six years later, even the locals of Yunbian City may not remember the name Tongqueyuan.

At Shen Lingxi's age, even if he learned about Yunjiang from the mouths of those Yunjiang ghosts.

They may not tell the story of King Yunjiang's past love affair with a little girl who is not married to Yunying...

Chu Yan lowered his eyelids halfway, hiding the inadvertent light in his eyes.

He is the commander of embroidered clothes, and even the commander who led millions of lions to the battlefield with the late emperor when he was young.

If he wasn't happy with the little girl in front of him, just the flaws she inadvertently revealed in the past few days would be enough to make him doubt her identity.

But now, even if he knew something different in his heart, he would only choose to believe it without hesitation.

Xie Zhangting also showed surprise on Shen Lingxi's words, "I didn't expect Miss Shen to be so familiar with the capital of Yunguo at such a young age. You are right. The Tongque Garden is indeed the Great Zhou Special Envoy's Mansion."

Shen Lingxi's eyes flickered slightly, realizing that she had revealed a flaw, and subconsciously looked at Chu Yan with a guilty conscience.

Seeing that his face was calm as usual, she secretly breathed a sigh of relief, only smiled at Xie Zhangting, and did not relay this sentence to Chu Yan.

Neither Xie Zhangting nor Xie Zhanghua noticed anything unusual.

Xie Zhanghua's face changed slightly, "He took a lot of trouble to bring you back to Yunguo, and he just let you be the outer room?"

"I didn't know at the time that the Bronze Sparrow Garden was the place where he placed his outer room, and there were no other women in the garden at that time."

Xie Zhangting's eyes were full of remorse, "It's only my fault. I believed his sweet words and believed that he had a deep love for me. He told me that since I was trapped in the mountains all night, I couldn't get the Xie family to agree to marry me to him. Why don't you just let me give birth to a son and a half for him, and he will take me back to Da Zhou to marry him... That's why I am willing to stay in the Tongque Garden."

"You are confused!" Xie Zhanghua said sadly, "If a man really loves you and cherishes you, he will never hide you. He will definitely try his best to bring you in front of others and accept their blessings. Are you following him without a name?"

Xie Zhangting clenched her heart tightly and shed tears, "Sister is right, I only hate that I was deceived by lard..."

"How did you get the injury on your body?" Shen Lingxi asked hesitantly, "Was it Yun Hongshan...?"

Xie Zhangting shook her head.

"He never gets rough on women, and he is always gentle and polite in front of me, asking for warmth."

After calming down a bit, she continued: "I stayed in the Tongque Garden for three full years, but I couldn't conceive a son and a half for him. Then one day, he was ordered by Emperor Li to go out of the city on business, and a woman suddenly I came to the door and told her that she was Yun Hongshan's official concubine, and only then did I know that Yun Hongshan was in Yunguo and had already married a wife, and he even...had a child already."

Shen Lingxi sighed slightly.

It's not just about having children, as far as she knew ten years ago, the emperor's uncle had several children of the same age as her.

The Tongque Garden housed the outer rooms, and there were many concubines in the back house of Prince Xijing's mansion.

Xie Zhangting closed her eyes, "At first I just didn't believe it, his concubine took me to his mansion, and I found out that there were a lot of wives and concubines in his back mansion. I was discovered by the concubine's maid and rescued me. When the medical officer treated me, he found that I was pregnant..."

"I don't want to stay in Yunguo any longer. Princess Xijing knew that I had decided to go, so she secretly sent someone to send me back to Dazhou. I knew that I was a disgrace to the Xie family, and I didn't want to contact my family. Wu Guan lived in anonymity, after all the child is innocent, I want to give birth to the child and raise him up."

Speaking of this, Xie Zhangting's voice began to tremble a little, "I thought that I could live peacefully in Tongwuguan, but I didn't expect that after more than half a month, my brother suddenly came to the door for some reason... He was very angry and asked Since I wanted to elope back then, why did I come back? He locked me up, ordered people to beat and kick me, tortured me to the brink of death..."

Xie Zhanghua did not expect that the injuries on his cousin were not caused by that scumbag at Yun Hongshan, but by Xie's family members!
Shen Lingxi's face was also full of surprise, "Why?"

She relayed this to Chu Yan.

He thought he would see the same surprise in Chu Yan's eyes.

Unexpectedly, Chu Yan just frowned, with strong disgust in his eyes, but he was not surprised.

Obviously, he had already guessed the reason.

Xie Zhangting took a deep breath, "I didn't understand why my brother, who has always loved me so much, suddenly became like this."

"It was only later that I found out that since my disappearance, sister felt guilty towards Sanfang, and begged His Royal Highness to arrange a good job for my brother in front of the emperor. When my brother found me, someone had already gone to the capital to tell me my whereabouts. Sister."

"Brother thinks... that I am living is a disgrace to Sanfang. Only when I die is it best for Sanfang and his official career. So, in the shortest possible time, he let people torture me to the point where only One breath."

"He let me only have time to meet my sister for the last time, and let my sister see my suffering with her own eyes, so that after my death, my sister will feel more guilty towards Sanfang and will make up for it with all her heart..."

Hearing this, Xie Zhanghua covered his lips in disbelief, his beautiful eyes filled with tears of sorrow.

"I didn't expect that I would kill you..."

She was heartbroken and guilty, and wanted to step forward to hug Xie Zhangting, but both of them were soul bodies, and they couldn't even hug each other.

"I'm sorry, Zhang Ting, I'm the one who hurt you."

Xie Zhangting shook her head at her, and said softly: "Sister, it's not your fault, you are the only one who treats me sincerely from the beginning to the end. It's not you who are wrong, it's them."

Speaking of this, Xie Zhangting showed guilt on her face, "I am the one who should say I'm sorry. Just now you told me what happened to you after my death, and I realized that maybe I hurt you..."

She looked at Shen Lingxi and explained, "The night before my sister arrived at Tongwuguan, my brother wanted to cover up my new injuries, so that my sister would not see too many abnormalities, so that my injuries could be made out of my body. The illusion of being domestically abused by a heartless person, he specially hired a quack alchemist who is good at disguise to cover up my injuries."

"After the alchemist treated my injuries, he used a special powder to paint my whole body blue. It wasn't until after I died that I found out that the man from the rivers and lakes was the one who took me away from the Huguo Temple. A special envoy from Yun Kingdom with a brown birthmark..."

Shen Lingxi's pupils trembled when Xie Zhangting mentioned "special medicinal powder".

At this point, she finally understood what was the most important part of the other party's killing of Xie Zhanghua.

She relayed Xie Zhangting's words to Chu Yan.

At the end, she said in a deep voice: "The special medicinal powder is produced in the Yunguo Medicine Palace, and it is called 'Drunk Heart'. It is a medicine that can cause hallucinations. ease their pain."

"However, I heard later that during the battle between Yunguo and Dazhou, someone used the combination of Zhu Youshu and 'Zixin' to make the dying soldiers pick up their weapons again and go to the battlefield until the last moment."

Hearing her mention this matter, Chu Yan's pupils became more gloomy and dark.

Back then, he was naturally on the battlefield, leading troops to fight against such soldiers, and almost died because of it.

Afterwards, he had checked the archives of Yunguo University, and only mentioned that the combination of Zhu Youshu and the elixir of Yaogong could give people a short-term "resurrection" effect. As for the name of the elixir, there was no record.

He didn't expect to hear this from Shen Lingxi again today. She said the name of the elixir so easily.

Chu Yan was full of doubts in his heart, until this moment, he realized that it seemed that he had never really understood her.

At this moment, Shen Lingxi only wanted to tell what she knew, so as to help Chu Yan clarify the conspiracy behind the enemy.

She didn't realize that what she said, in Chu Yan's ears, was almost about to confess her own background.

Shen Lingxi was afraid that she couldn't explain clearly, so she specially explained it from the principle——
"The duration of Zhu Youshu is very short, and it needs an alchemist to follow and hypnotize constantly. But because 'intoxication' can make people hallucinate, it can infinitely magnify the idea that Zhu Youshu has rooted in people's hearts."

"In other words, through hypnosis, Zhu Youshu can bury an idea into the opponent's consciousness like a seed, and 'intoxication' is like the rain and dew watering the seeds, constantly catalyzing the rooting and germination of the seeds until they grow into a tree. Giant trees."

"So, the first princess went to visit Mrs. Xie. The two had been close since childhood, so there was bound to be physical contact. The medicinal powder that was applied to Mrs. Xie's body was inhaled by the first princess through this contact. It only takes a little." "Drunkenness", together with Zhu Youshu's hypnosis, can plant thoughts on the body of the First Crown Princess, making her haunted by nightmares all day long..."

Speaking of this, Shen Lingxi glanced at the two sisters of the Xie family, and said with a dignified expression: "If I expected it right, from the time Mrs. Xie was sent back to Tongwuguan, all this was just a game, far away in Haizhou. Xie Wenlang, the magistrate, would not appear in Tongwu Pass thousands of miles away for no reason if no one told him."

She looked at Xie Zhangting, "Although the other party didn't directly attack you, he has counted Xie Wenlang's heart, knowing that he will not let you live for the sake of his official career. He only needs to secretly push the flames, and he can bewitch him to kill you."

"At the same time, they are also sure that the Crown Princess will come to meet you, use your body to poison the Crown Princess, plant the idea of ​​'you become a ghost, ask her for help' in her body, and then step by step Pushing her to the end of suicide..."

After her explanation, Xie Zhanghua and Xie Zhangting finally understood the conspiracy and mystery hidden in it.

Shock, heartache, and anger are not enough to describe the mood of the two of them at the moment.

It took Xie Zhangting a long time before she recovered her voice, and asked with great pain: "So... the person who set up this situation is Yun Hongshan? He wants to use my hand to kill sister? But sister and him No injustice, no enmity, why did he do this? Could it be that everything was a conspiracy since he approached me in Donghua Mansion?"

"It's not just Yun Hongshan... Maybe there are others..." Shen Lingxi said vaguely, "As for their motives behind this arrangement, we have to go back to Beijing to know."

After hearing what Xie Zhangting said about her relationship with Yun Hongshan, Shen Lingxi suddenly remembered that Tongque Garden became the place where her uncle raised Yingying and Yanyan. It was when she was ten years old, almost the second time after Xie Zhangting's death. Year.

She was in the medicine palace before, but she had eaten a lot of melons from the emperor's uncle's house, and his concubine was also very powerful.

I remember that when Yun Wang was taken to the medicine palace, he had a lot of injuries on his body.

Although he never said it, every time Yun Wang looked at Princess Xijing, something was wrong.

Shen Lingxi even suspected that Yun Huang's life in Dazhou is so miserable now, and it has something to do with that person.

It can only be said that Yun Hongshan and his wife are not good things.

Da Zhou wiped out Emperor Lie and supported Yunhong Mountain to the top, which is equivalent to killing the worst and promoting a worse one.

But why did they get rid of the first princess?

Shen Lingxi was really confused for a moment.

She couldn't help but look up at Chu Yan——
After Chu Yan pondered for a while, there was already a faint guess in his expression.

His voice was cold and meaningful: "Go back to Beijing first, I believe that Yun Chong has tried his best to lure me to investigate this case, and he will not disappoint me. Maybe the big gift he gave is already waiting in the capital. me."

(End of this chapter)