Aristocratic Concubine

Chapter 285 Figure (1)
Seeing the tiredness in his eyes, Wanqing couldn't help smiling, took Shangguan Yeli's hand and said, "If I go on, do you think I'm making trouble for no reason?"

It was rare for Shangguan Yeli to see her smile, but now she smiled quietly, like a tranquil lotus blooming, extremely beautiful, and that smile was playful, beautiful and cute, and Shangguan Yeli could see her breathing They were all suffocated, couldn't help but hug her, caressed her pretty face, leaned down, and was about to kiss, Wanqing raised her finger and pressed against Wanqing's forehead, pushing his face away, and said angrily: "It's a good thing you still have this thought. I saw you sad and sad just now. Tell me, what did Nanny Han say to you?"

A trace of pain flashed in Shangguan Yeli's eyes, and he turned to Mingxiang and said, "Go find some people, and take good care of Nanny Han, and don't let her make any mistakes."

After hearing this, Wanqing whispered to Shangguan Yeli: "I see that Nanny Han still has some things to say, why don't you ask the truth? Maybe there are some secrets hidden that you don't know about."

The pain in Shangguan Yeli's eyes was even worse. He looked deeply at Wanqing and said, "Should she still say it? What is it that she didn't say? You should have guessed what she didn't say. You just wait, these few days God, something must happen here with Nanny Han."

Wanqing saw that he was concerned, so she didn't ask any more questions, and went back to the house with him. As soon as she entered the door, Shangguan Yeli said to Wanqing: "My lady must be curious about what Nanny Han said to me."

Wanqing nodded solemnly and said, "Of course I want to know."

"My lady, do you still remember the picture my father gave you?"

Wanqing was surprised when she heard it, and asked suspiciously: "It's just that the father said that there are no practical family heirlooms?"

"Yes, that's the half picture." Shangguan Yeli nodded.

"Then what do you mean, the other half of the picture is in Ouyang's house? And Mrs. Ouyang died because of this other half of the picture?" Wanqing asked.

"The other half of the picture did belong to Ouyang's family before, but it should be in the palace now, and the emperor also took the half picture from the Jingning Hou Mansion. The half picture in your hand is just a rubbing. .”

"Ah, Tuopin, that means, this half of the picture is already useless?"

"It can also be said that, in fact, besides the royal family, the Ouyang family also has the whole picture in their hands. It's just that the treasure can't be excavated with only the picture. It also needs a password key to open the treasure door, and That key is inside the jade pendant I gave you." Shangguan Yeli said while looking at the sparse and swaying tree shadows outside the window.

"Key? Can't the door be opened without that key? Not even with explosives?" Wanqing was extremely curious when she heard this, and felt like she was recounting a fairy tale of the Arabian Nights.

"I heard that there is a trap in the treasure. As long as someone opens the door forcibly, the treasure will explode by itself, and no one can get the treasure inside." Shangguan Yeli replied with a frown.

"That's it, but, no matter how I look at this piece of jade, I can't see that there is any key in it. It is so crystal clear that there is nothing there." After hearing this, Wanqing took out the piece of jade pendant, carefully Looking at it, I can only feel that the jade is pure and warm to the touch, except that it is a piece of excellent jade, I really can't tell anything.

Shangguan Yeli nodded and said: "Don't say it's you, I've been holding it for more than ten years, and I haven't discovered any secrets."

"Is it because of this treasure map that the Ouyang family will suddenly be wiped out?" Wanqing asked puzzledly while rubbing the jade pendant in her hand.

"Back then, the emperor personally asked for the treasure map from the Shangguan and the Ouyang family. The old matriarch was very good at judging the world. After the map was removed, he still handed over the real map, but the patriarch of the Ouyang family used a fake map. Hand it in, after being found out by the emperor, the entire Ouyang family was confiscated. Hundreds of people in the family almost all died in that catastrophe. My mother was married early in the morning, so she was exempted from criticism. At that time, the emperor didn't expect that my grandfather would hand over the treasure map and the key to my mother. Therefore, in the first year or two of my mother's first marriage, the emperor thought that the Shangguan family was still loyal. How to embarrass my mother, but there is no impenetrable wall. In the end, the emperor found out that my mother had the other half of the treasure map. In order to keep the entire Shangguan family, the old matriarch forced my mother to hand over the other half. Royal."

The old matriarch is right to do this, the entire world of the Great Zhou belongs to the emperor, what he wants, as a subject, shouldn't he give it?However, since the emperor has already got both treasure maps in his hands, why was Mrs. Ouyang killed?
Shangguan Yeli seemed to see Wanqing's doubts, and then said: "What the emperor didn't think of, he got two treasure maps, but he couldn't open the treasure. Later, he found out that the treasure has a specific key. Who I don't know where the key is, and the emperor is helpless, so this matter has been shelved."

Wanqing became even more puzzled when she heard this, and asked inexplicably: "The emperor owns the world, why does he care so much about the so-called treasures, and insists on snatching them from his courtiers?"

Shangguan Yeli sighed after hearing this and said, "Speaking of which, Ouyang and Shangguan both started their businesses as merchants. As for merchants, no matter how much wealth they have, their status is not high, and it is impossible for them to have any threat to the royal family. However, the last emperor of the former dynasty was cruel and immoral. Emperor Gaozu rebelled at that time. At that time, the ancestors of the family first assisted Emperor Gaozu. Later, the Ouyang family also learned from their ancestors. They donated a lot of money to support Gaozu. After seizing the throne, the ancestors of the family and the head of the Ouyang family were enshrined as lords, and the two families have also broken away from the humble status of merchants, and have become a veritable aristocratic family."

"Isn't this very good? What about the treasure?" Wanqing asked puzzled.

"At that time, the ancestors of the family knew very well the truth that being with a king is like being with a tiger. Although the Shangguan family was enshrined as a marquis, if they wanted their descendants to be rich and honored for a long time, they still couldn't do without a word of money. With the support of his family, he successfully won the world, but he also had a certain understanding of the financial resources of the two families. He was worried that the businessman was too rich and would pose a threat to his Great Zhou royal family, so he coveted the property of the two families. The family ancestor guessed Gaozu's mind, so he negotiated with the Ouyang family to bury all the most valuable treasures of the two families. .”

(End of this chapter)