Lonely King and Widow

Chapter 1348 The pit is 334 meters deep, a mess

It was probably too noisy during the day, the little girl was carried back to the room by Mo Jiu, a little noisy, and kept crying.

Holding her daughter in her arms, with things in her mind, Mo Jiu walked up and down the room, coaxing the child, but her body was scratched and scratched. She always felt a little uncomfortable, and even her breathing seemed to be difficult.

People who work in her profession believe in Feng Shui.From this point of view, once some unfavorable things come one after another, the aura and feng shui pattern around the human body will change, which will affect the whole person's luck.

Mo Jiu was like this at this moment, and thinking about it this way made him even more restless.

After finally coaxing the little girl to sleep, she put her on the small bed and settled down, but because she herself hadn't gone out for a long time, Zhang Luo's daughter's full moon wine caught some wind today, and she started coughing.Thinking of Xiao Qian, she found a pill and took it. She lay on the bedside and read a book for half a night, but she didn't see him coming back. After finally calming down, her heart became a mess.

In a daze, it was the middle of the night.

She woke up when she heard the sound of the watch, opened her eyes but did not see Xiao Qian, and finally got up with clothes on.

Instructing Mei'er and the nanny who were on duty at night to take good care of the little girl, she walked slowly to the study.

These days, Xiao Qian basically moved her study to work.Before she fell asleep, she heard that Xiao Qian had asked Zhao Shengdong and Xue Fang to discuss matters in the study, and in order to avoid trouble, she didn't bother him.Seeing that it was almost dawn at this moment, I had to go out to find someone.

But as soon as she walked to the porch, she saw Zhao Shengdong hurried out of the yard and headed towards the stables.

Suddenly bumping into each other, Zhao Shengdong was startled, "Master Jiu, are you still not resting so late?"

Mo Jiu looked him up and down, and seeing that he was still dressed in the same clothes as when he saw him yesterday, he couldn't help frowning.

"Looking at the way you're walking in a hurry, you're going on a long trip again?"

Zhao Shengdong cupped his hands: "Yes, I have something to do."

Mo Jiu was suspicious, "Didn't you just come back? You haven't settled down for a warm meal yet, and your master is too ruthless in employing people! Why do you always pick a capable person like you?"

Heh, Zhao Shengdong was amused by her, "Jiu Ye was joking, being able to serve the Lord is what Sheng Dong wished for." Having said this, he glanced at the sky, as if he was a little anxious, and bowed deeply to Mo Jiu, "Jiu Ye , Sheng Dong still has important things to do, so I dare not delay, so I will leave now!"

Before Mo Jiu could respond, he had already walked away.

Under the night, Mo Jiu looked at his back, frowning tightly.

Looking at him like this, how urgent is it?

After thinking silently for a moment, she turned her head and continued to go to the study.

The oil lamp in the study room illuminated the room brightly. Xiao Qian sat behind the desk, frowning in thought, drawing with a wolf hair in his hand, as if he had no plans to go back to his room to sleep.Xue Fang was on the sidelines "adding incense with green sleeves", refilling water and incense for him, silent and daring to speak.

Hearing Mo Jiu's knock on the door, Xue Fang seemed relieved.

"Master Jiu is here?"

He opened the door, and Mo Jiu stepped in.

She nodded and smiled at him, but she was speaking to Xiao Qian.

"Why don't you go back to the house and rest? It's almost dawn!"

Xiao Qian looked up at her, his eyes softened, he waved his hand to Xue Fang, signaling him to go down first, then he came over and took Mo Jiu's hand, supported her shoulders and pushed her to sit on the chair, lowered his head and asked softly: " Why did the big girl come here? Is it hard to sleep because of the noise from the little girl again?"

In the past few days, she had to take the child to sleep by herself.The little girl has to eat night milk every night, and the result is that she can't sleep well.But tonight... She couldn't sleep well, but it was because of him.

Looking at his somewhat blue face, Mo Jiu stretched out her hands distressedly, and stroked his face to hold his face.

"Rokuro, what happened?"

"Don't worry about—"

"Don't say it's okay!" Mo Jiu interrupted him, and suddenly became fierce, "When I came here, I ran into Brother Shengdong. Didn't he just come back? If it wasn't an urgent matter, why would you send him out again?"

Being stared at by her like this, Xiao Qian sighed helplessly, pulled a chair and sat beside her, no longer hiding anything.

"To tell the truth, Ah Jiu, something happened."

Hearing this, Mo Jiu's heart was slightly suffocated.

For people like Xiao Qian, big things are small things, and small things are not big things at all.It must be a big deal for him to say something with a solemn face.

Thinking about it this way, Mo Jiu's heartstrings became even tighter, and he subconsciously grabbed Xiao Qian's hand.

"Tell me quickly. What's the matter?"

Xiao Qian's eyes sank.

For a long time, he didn't make a sound.

Under Mo Jiu's earnest gaze, he hesitated for a moment, then walked slowly to the side of the desk, took a letter sealed with wax paint, and handed it to her, "Ah Jiu, look at it yourself."

Usually, he wouldn't show her such a letter directly.

Mo Jiu was startled, and took it nervously, before opening it, he raised his eyebrows and eyes to check Xiao Qian's expression.

Under the light of the oil lamp, his face was stern, as if shrouded in a layer of cold light, which made the atmosphere in the room low.

She pursed her lips, opened the letter, and looked carefully——

Mo Jiu was used to the vertical writing, and he read it quickly.

However, the more she looked down, the more frightened she became.

"Liulang, this—how could this be?"

She believed that the content of this letter must also have surprised Xiao Qian.Otherwise, he wouldn't have said "wait until the little girl calls her father and leave" before.According to his plan, Gu Er returned to Harahelin to attend the funeral for Menghe, and then held a khuriltai meeting under the auspices of Ayigu, and it would take more than half a year for him to successfully ascend the position of Great Khan .At that time, the little girl would probably really know how to call her father.

But the contents of this letter terrified Mo Jiu.

Just after Hara and Lin got the news that Menghe was seriously injured and died, Princess Alagu, the mother who is said to love her son Su He the most, had already summoned her clan relatives and was doing activities in private, planning to recommend her youngest son Wu Rigen is Xinbei Menghan.Moreover, the time for her to hold the Kuriltai Conference will be the day after tomorrow.

At this time, Gu Er Fuling's team has not yet reached Hala and Lin.

That is to say, Ayigu wants to let Wu Rigen ascend the throne before Prince Suhe arrives at Hara Helin, creating a situation that has become a "fact".

Furthermore, judging from the wording in the letter, Hara and Lin still have a "game" waiting for Suhe.

The content of the letter was shocking, but it also puzzled Mo Jiu.

Relying on her mother's instinct, she can conclude that when Hara and Lin met Suhe, Princess Ayigu could not fake her feelings for this son, nor could she fake her love for him.But now, why is the person she wants to plot against precisely his son?
Is it the temptation of the pinnacle of imperial power that distorts human nature and makes Ayigu lose himself, wanting to give up his eldest son and support the stupider and simpler second son Wu Rigen in order to control Beimeng?Or was it because of other unexpected reasons that she made such a subversive decision?

It has to be said that Ayigu had a great influence on the matter.

Once Wu Rigen ascends to the position of Khan, that is to say, Su He's previous efforts will be in vain—even if Su He has soldiers in his hands, he is no longer the Su He who was slaughtered by others, but in a short time, he wants to go to the Khan again. Winning Beimeng and securing Beimengjiang Mountain will require paying more.

Ayigu this time, is simply a lore that draws the salary from the bottom of the pot!
"What did Ah Jiu think of?"

Xiao Qian's faint voice pulled Mo Jiu out of his contemplation.

"I'm bored!" She said bluntly, she told Xiao Qian all her doubts, and finally she tilted her head and asked him: "Could it be that you told Brother Shengdong to leave Xinglong Mountain late at night, just to inform Gu Er?"

The corner of Xiao Qian's lips curled up, as if he was satisfied with her guess.

"The one who knows me, Mo Jiu."

Being praised by him, Mo Jiu smiled and relaxed a little.

"But even if he travels day and night, he may not be in time, right? The next day will be the Kuriltai Conference, and Gu Er will soon arrive at Hara and Lin. Brother Shengdong will set off from Xinglong Mountain, and he may not be able to stop it!"

Mo Jiu has always had a headache for the underdeveloped communication in ancient times, which caused delays in things and time.

After receiving the news from place A, when it reaches place B, the day lily might be cold.

Xiao Qian obviously also had such worries, "Let's try our best to make it up. However, even if we know that Ha La and Lin are having an affair, we still have to dig in!"

Indeed, in order to help the spirit, can Su He not return to the imperial capital?
What they can do now is to prepare in advance to deal with possible changes.

But what puzzled Mo Jiu was... so far, does Xiao Qian still trust Gu Er?

What happened to the Bagua Tomb?What did Shengdong tell him?

Mo Jiu stared at him blankly.

Under the firelight, Xiao Qian's frown remained unfurled for a long time, and there seemed to be a faint trace of anxiety.This made her worry reach an unprecedented peak, and she couldn't rashly mention the Bagua Tomb to annoy him.

"Liulang..." Mo Jiu stroked his hand, squeezed it with a little comfort, and then analyzed it for him, "Have you ever thought about why Ayigu suddenly changed? Where is the problem everywhere? "

Xiao Qian looked at her solemnly.

"Remember the fire in the small town of Er?"

"Remember!" Thinking of the fire, Mo Jiu felt a little terrified.

In that fire, she was almost pushed into the fire by Ayigu and burned to death.

"But... what does it have to do with this matter?"

She asked, but Xiao Qian frowned, his stern face was extremely serious, and he seemed unable to give her an accurate answer, so he only said half hesitantly and half guessing: "Looking back now, her behavior seems to be the same as that day." Something is wrong. But what is wrong? I can't tell."

That's intuition.

Whether a person treats you well, whether he is sincerely good, sometimes you can be sure without any reason.The expression of emotion when people communicate with each other is never deceiving.

Mo Jiu believed in Xiao Qian's intuition, and couldn't help being shocked.

"That is to say, the fire that made Ayigu change? Or, that hunting? Could it be Namuhan's death? It's not right! Son!?"

Rubbing his temples with his hand, Xiao Qian didn't answer. Those pair of cold eyes seemed to instantly burst out the murderous aura that had been buried in his heart for so long, spreading between his brows and eyes, making Mo Jiu's heart feel cold. Fu grabbed his hand again.

"Liu Lang, don't worry! In fact, there is no absolute advantage in things. If you think about it in a deeper way, it's also good for her to do so. She took the initiative to turn her face, and we don't have to carry the emotional burden in the future."

Seeing her worrying about himself, Xiao Qian hugged her unbearably, his expression slowed down.

"It's okay. Ah Jiu, no matter what happens, I can handle it."

"Will this matter be troublesome?"

Mo Jiu has always believed in Xiao Qian's ability to strategize, but the world is so big and the pattern is so complicated.He is only one person, no matter how high the IQ is, no matter how sophisticated the plan is, there may be a bottleneck.A wise man thinks a lot, and there is still a mistake. What's more, the sudden departure of Ayigu's maternal love this time is indeed too unexpected.

"It won't be a big trouble. Ah Jiu doesn't need to think too much, the worst result is just spending some more time!" Xiao Qian didn't want her to worry about him, he gently stroked her back, The black eyes fell on her face with flickering light, and suddenly, she changed the subject.

"There is one thing that needs to be told to Ah Jiu."

"So serious?" Mo Jiu had a faint guess in his heart, and couldn't help asking him tentatively, "But about the tomb of gossip?"

She guessed it again.Xiao Qian couldn't help but smiled and pinched her face lightly, "You, you are a ghost, you guessed my heart every time. Why don't you guess again, is the ancient tomb that appeared in the Miao Village a Bagua tomb? ?”

"I guess so."

Xiao Qian was slightly surprised by Mo Jiu's decisive answer.

"Why is Ah Jiu so sure?"

"If it wasn't for the Bagua Tomb, Liu Lang wouldn't have told me so carefully."

"Ah!"

This explanation was reasonable, and Xiao Qian couldn't help laughing and shaking his head.

"Ajiu is smart!"

"It's not that I'm smart, it's that you think too much and neglect my IQ."

"..."

After pondering for a moment, Xiao Qian scrutinized Mo Jiu's eyebrows and eyes, and his tone suddenly became serious, "As Ah Jiu expected, the Yanzhi well in the Miao village is indeed Dui's tomb, one of the gossip tombs. However, the lady's jade carving Whether it fell into Gu's hands or not is currently unknown."

Under the Yanzhi well is the tomb of Bagua...

Mo Jiu pursed her lips, feeling very delicate in her heart.

It was like something that had been expected for a long time was suddenly confirmed.

Believe it or not.So, she also needs evidence.

Staring at Xiao Qian's cold face, she asked softly, "How did Brother Shengdong make sure?"

Xiao Qian looked back at her lightly.It was only then that Mo Jiu realized that his brows and eyes seemed to be more handsome, he had lost some weight, but his complexion looked better, his eyes were blurred, and he was a little dazed, like Xiao Liulang from before.It wasn't until he turned around and handed a set of sketches in front of her that she came back to her senses.

"Ah Jiu, look at this again."

"Okay." Mo Jiu lowered his head and looked at the picture carefully.

The picture shows an ancient well, judging from the color of the ink on the picture, it should not have been painted for a long time, maybe it was written by Zhao Shengdong.The Gujing is not very delicate and nothing special in his writing, but the pattern inside the Gujing is very familiar to Mo Jiu - the Eight Diagrams.

And the exchange position of the gossip is just facing the mouth of the well.

Seeing her pondering, Xiao Qian explained, "This is the pattern that Shengdong found the location of the ancient well from the ruins, dug it open and traced it back. In addition, he found something in the ruins under the ancient well—"

Speaking of this, Xiao Qian's voice was a little low, as if what he was going to say next was more important than the discovery of Dui's tomb.

Stunned by his tone, Mo Jiu's heart tightened, "What is it?"

Xiao Qian didn't answer, and solemnly took out something tightly wrapped in green cloth from his bosom, put it on the table, slowly peeled off the green cloth layer by layer, and showed the things inside in front of Mo Jiu.

"Does Ah Jiu know?"

It was a jade pendant, which Mo Jiu had never seen before.

The ancients had a lot of jade, and it is not surprising what kind of jade ornaments.

The same goes for this piece of jade.Except that the jade is of better quality and the workmanship is more refined, there is nothing special about it.

If you have to find something different for it, it is that there is a seal engraving on the jade with the word "Xie".

Thanks?Xie family?Furui?Gu Er?

Seeing Xiao Qian's serious expression, Mo Jiu's mind suddenly turned.

"Could it be that... the jade was dropped by Gu Er? Gu Er is from the Xie family?"

Xiao Qian didn't refute, but was concentrating on thinking, and seemed to have doubts, but compared to him, Mo Jiu seemed to have more doubts, and the chatterbox opened endlessly, "That's not right, Liulang. Back then, when the Xie family and the Xiao family fought each other, After the fiasco of the Xie family, apart from the few women in the palace, all the close relatives of the Xie family were basically wiped out... Who is Gu Er? Could it be a distant relative of a certain room in the Xie family?"

"No!" There was an inexplicable coldness in Xiao Qian's expression, "This piece of jade is not an ordinary jade, it is a treasure inherited from the Xie family."

family heirloom?It will definitely not be thrown away casually.

Was it accidentally lost when the Bagua Tomb was activated?
But was Gu Er lost, or was it lost by someone else?
The people who entered the Miao village at that time were basically northern soldiers... It is unlikely that they were the Xie family.

Then Gu Er's suspicion is the biggest.

But Mo Jiu supported his head, but couldn't figure it out, which one of the Xie family could he be?
"...This is too unreal. How could the chess pieces cultivated by your Xiao family become members of the Xie family?" Mo Jiu tapped his head, and suddenly had a bold idea, and looked at Xiao Qian in horror, "Liu Lang Did it ever occur to you that maybe he was someone who would never be suspected?"

"Who?"

Looking at Xiao Qian's deeper eyes, Mo Jiu fought abruptly, "Xie Bingsheng?!"

Thinking about it this way, she seemed like a martial arts master who had suddenly opened up Ren Du's second vein, recalling many things that had been lost in her memory.

She remembered that when Xie Bing was alive and dead, his face was all scratched with razor blades. When he died, his appearance was extremely frightening. But that's another story.

So, since the Xiao family can cultivate chess pieces for their own use in the future, is it possible for the Xie family to follow suit?At that time, Xie Bingsheng took advantage of the convenience of the transshipment, corrupted the imperial court's large amount of military supplies, and colluded with the Ping Kingdom. Since the guilt could not be escaped, Xiao Qian brought the little prince Song Ao to the door to arrest him personally, what should the Xie family do?
——It is a good idea to escape from death.

——From the open to the dark, killing Gu Er, using Gu Er's identity to lurk beside the Xiao family, is a brilliant move.

She still remembered that when they discovered Xun's tomb, it had already been destroyed by someone, and the jade carvings of ladies from Xun's tomb had even flowed into the black market, leading to a murder case.And Xun's tomb was also the place where Xie Bingsheng used to store that batch of military supplies.

Someone from the Xie family can open Xun's tomb, so naturally they can open Dui's tomb.

As for the tomb of Kan in Chuzhou, it is under the courtyard of the Xiao family. The Gu Er family and the Xiao family are close neighbors, isn't it also under the wall of his courtyard?
"I don't dare to think about it. When I think about it this way, I feel so terrified!" Mo Jiu finished these suspicions one by one, and couldn't help but startled herself again. She stared at Xiao Qian with round eyes, "Liu Lang, I thought of another thing. The thing is, Ah Xibao took me captive to Wanyanxiu’s camp in Jinzhou. That night, three soldiers from the Ping Kingdom tried to take advantage of me being poisoned...to defile me!”

She never told Xiao Qian directly about this matter.

But in each other's hearts, they both know about this matter.

Thinking back to that day now, Mo Jiu's heart still twitches a little.

The situation at that time was terrible.

Just a little bit, they ruined her innocence.

"At that time, I thought, who would collude with the Pian people to frame me? Who has such a great ability to communicate with Ah Xibao?"

Having said that, she rolled her eyes coolly, and stared at Xiao Qian without blinking.

"Liulang, I don't think they have been wronged when the Emperor Zhihua convicted the Xie family of having an affair with Pun. Even if there was a reason for the Xiao family's interference, the Xie family would not be innocent since Xie Bing was born. They must be with Pun People have secret contacts... However, I think it is not a man's act to contrive a dirty trick to make people smear my innocence. It is more like a woman's jealousy. If there is no accident, it must be Xie Qingshan. Of course, then Since the medicine was made by your master, it can't escape Wen Jingshu!"

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(End of this chapter)