Helian Tao was at a loss, he didn't know if the truth of this matter was destined to be revealed by Li Shuci, and the key figures in this puzzle appeared around her one after another...... Is he one of them?" a young girl with a newborn baby is too eye-catching to hide from anyone who cares, so your mother is very clever in entrusting the child to a family that is still well-off...... And he left enough silver and gold to say to them, that someone would come and receive the child...... I guess your mother has planned it for a long time......"

"Liu Zhong is soft and kind, presumably his parents and relatives are the same, otherwise he would not have raised a child of unknown origin for three years, I think, your mother should have inquired about this family early, deliberately fainted in front of his house, thought of reasonable words, and designed what happened later......

Mu Yun's face turned pale, "My father once said...... My mother is a very smart girl, but ...... The result of this is that many innocent people have been harmed in vain...... That burning of the village must have been a one-and-done method by the Shen family for fear that people would find clues......

"Mu Yun, don't think like this, your mother is also forced to do so, she is a weak woman, she is inexplicably involved in this conspiracy and is running away, it is not easy to save her own life...... With a child, you can't escape...... This is already the safest way I can think of. This matter will not end better to anyone. ”

Helian Tao nodded, "That's right, if it were me, I would do the same." ”

Li Shuci glanced at Helian Tao gratefully, she didn't want Mu Yun to leave a dark shadow in her heart, so she asked about the letter: "Liu Zhong said that the person who came to pick up the child was holding a letter in his hand, and the letter was painted with a white pattern. The only people who know about this matter are Liu Zhong's family and your mother, and there is no doubt that it must be a secret letter sent to the Shen family by your mother...... After three years, she felt that the matter should have subsided, so she secretly told the Shen family where the child was. Hopefully this will be over. Because she knew that the Shen family would never give up if they couldn't find that child. ”

"But that was more than a decade ago...... Why is it that after a long time, it has been exposed again? So much so that the whole family ......" Mu Yun bit his lower lip tightly, and his voice was blurred.

"Now it is almost certain that the Shen family did it, but we are still in the fog, and we don't know the cause and effect. I have a hunch that Empress Shen's death is a mystery, and this matter must involve the biggest secret of the Shen family...... If you can know your mother's name in the palace back then, maybe there will be some clues......"

Mu Yun's tears hung down his eyelashes: "My mother's real name is Gu Rou...... My father always called my mother Arou. There doesn't seem to be much else to call for it...... My family lived in seclusion in the valley, and the villagers who left the neighborhood often came to see my father, and had little contact with outsiders...... Anyone who has anything to do with calls my mother Rou Niangzi. ”

"Gu Rou?" Li Shuci pondered, she and Helian Tao were already very familiar, and Helian Tao's temperament was also casual, and there was no barrier between the two of them now: "There are very few ancient surnames in this dynasty...... Shizi, you are free to enter and exit the palace, presumably the king will also secretly provide you with convenience, it is better to check as soon as possible where the people around Queen Shen went in the end, and the origin and name of the palace maid are recorded in detail...... Let's see if we can check Dao Gurou's name and related personnel ......"

Helian Tao's brows furrowed slightly, and he looked at Li Shuci, "The ancient surname is the surname of the royal family of the previous dynasty, and now the ancient surnames left in Chongnan are extremely rare, and almost all of them are the descendants of the family slaves who gave the surname...... Because the royal family with the ancient surname has all been killed, and the only one who survives in the world is Concubine De...... I don't know if you've heard of it...... That is, the biological mother of His Royal Highness the Confucian King, was the only bloodline left in the previous dynasty, because it was just a newborn baby at that time, and it was a female / infant, so she was pardoned...... Her name is Gurzhen. ”

"Gurzhen, then what do you mean......" Li Shuci was stunned, thinking of the Confucian King's life experience, she said: "Gu Rou may have something to do with Concubine De?"

Helian Tao shook his head, "I don't know...... It is very likely that Gu Rou is a descendant of a house slave who was given a royal surname and was highly trusted and favored in the previous dynasty, but ...... If this is the case, how could she be selected as a palace maid with such an identity as her, and if Concubine De forged her identity to enter the palace for her, then why did Empress Shen entrust the prince to her? Concubine De is a person who is extremely favored by the king, and there should be quite a big contradiction between Empress Shen and Concubine De!"

The room was quiet for a while, and the three of them were silent and meditative, Li Shuci looked at the portrait that Mu Yun put on the table, and suddenly said, "What if Gu Rou and Concubine De have nothing to do with each other...... Being able to be entrusted by Empress Shen is enough to prove that Gu Rou is extremely trusted! This kind of trust is by no means something that can be cultivated overnight...... What if Gu Rou and Empress Shen met outside the palace? Or did the two already know each other? After Empress Shen entered the palace, it must not be difficult to let a woman enter the palace to serve! Then Gu Rou's entry into the palace to be a palace maid should be controlled by Empress Shen. ”

"Are you saying that my mother was actually the girl next to Queen Shen before entering the palace? But this doesn't make sense, if my mother stayed in the Shen family, after Queen Shen's accident, would such a close-knit and trusted maid still have a life......?"

"Son, was Empress Shen's death really ordered by the king? And for what? Legend has it that Empress Shen and the monarch had a very good relationship, but why did the monarch assassin......ate her after loving her?"

Helian Tao shook his head, "I don't know, but ...... If you talk about affection, the emperor's love can be a little true? When the king went to the Longyou Hidden Mansion, he was always accompanied by Concubine De, and his father had been with him for many years, and he knew a lot of old things, he said that the king didn't want to establish the queen at all, and he secretly didn't know how many of these tempers he had in order to establish the queen, and my father said that it was the only time he saw that the king was drunk...... The king was drunk and unconscious, and said that if he could not make her queen, he would rather this position be empty forever......"

"She, who is she?"

Helian Tao nodded, "Yes, Concubine De has the blood of the previous dynasty on her body, it is impossible to become a queen, and the concubine is already the ultimate that the monarch can do." But in the end, under the pressure of the government, it is inevitable that a queen must be elected, the monarch is well versed in imperial art, in order to prevent foreign relatives from sitting big, I wanted to choose a woman like the queen and queen. But that is the king has just ascended the throne, the situation in the court and China is unstable, and the woman who has no help may not be able to sit on the throne of the queen at all. ”

"It turns out that there are such twists and turns...... Then why did you choose the daughter of the Shen family later? The Shen family's hundred-year-old clan has not fallen, isn't it against the original intention of the king?"

Helian Tao smiled: "That's what I asked." The old man of my family said that the reason why Shen Wennan was chosen as the queen was because she was not the daughter of the Shen family at all...... Very few people know about it. In order to cling to the imperial power, the Shen family will definitely try their best to win over this Empress Shen and help her sit firmly in the position of the queen, however, this kind of interest relationship naturally cannot be indestructible. It just solves the problem of Junshang's troubles...... Then, everyone in the world knew that the emperor's feelings could be touched......"

Li Shuci froze...... She snorted dumbfounded, feeling incomprehensible: "What are you talking about? Empress Shen is not the daughter of the Shen family? Is the Shen family a good ......?"

Helian Tao wondered, "Where do you start with this?"

"At that time, I never understood why Li Shuqiao and Shen Yuan were cousins, but Dafang had the intention of letting them marry, and I later learned from my grandmother. My grandfather's concubine, that is, Aunt Shen's grandmother, was the daughter of an old man who was entrusted to the Shen family since she was a child, so she took the surname Shen. ”

Helian Tao was surprised: "You once said that this Aunt Shen still holds a token of the emperor in her hand...... So this old man who entrusted the orphan girl ......"

Li Shuci said irritably: "I don't know either...... I thought it was just a battle in my Li family's house, but the deeper I go, the more mysteries there are...... That's why I'm going to look it up with you......"

Helian Tao raised his eyes to the sky: "Things are getting more and more complicated...... You want to check with me, but I don't have a clue, a clue that my father finally found before, was solved by you, and a new mystery was revealed. It's a mess right now!

"If you can know the cause of Empress Shen's death from the mouth of the king......"

Helian Tao hurriedly waved his hand to interrupt her: "Are you asking me to die?"

Li Shuci smiled slyly: "Of course not, many things still depend on you! Now the key people are Empress Shen, Aunt Shen, Gu Rou, and maybe Concubine De......"

"What's the matter with Concubine Guan De...... Helian Tao resisted: "Don't be curious about unrelated conspiracies anymore......, okay! One by one, when will it be a head......"

Li Shuci hated iron and said: "What is irrelevant! You don't want to think that the king's feelings for Concubine De are so strong, because she can't be the queen, and would rather leave the queen's seat empty, such a deep feeling...... If you were Empress Shen, would you watch the king's heart be held in the hands of Concubine De like that? Will you find a way to suppress Concubine De and use all means to snatch the monarch over...... If Concubine De's death was caused by Empress Shen...... So will the monarch kill Empress Shen in order to take revenge?" Li Shuci said more and more, and in the end, he was surprised...... "Could this really be the case?"

Helian Tao's eyebrows raised, "I said you...... Don't keep guessing......"

Li Shuci spread his hands and said, "What can I do? Don't you want to end this matter as soon as possible?" The Shen family is huge, I think the king is not just looking for the child born to Empress Shen, but also looking for evidence of the Shen family's plots...... Li Shuci's face sank, "Only by finding out these things can we overthrow the Shen family and never suffer in the future!"

There was a knock on the door, and Sun Xiaozi's voice reported outside: "Fifth master, it's all ready." ”

"I know!" Li Shuci agreed, stood up and said to Helian Tao: "Everything will be entrusted to you." ”

Helian Tao asked, "What did he just say that he was ready? What are you going to do?"

Li Shuci looked at her, lightly opened the corners of his lips, and smiled mysteriously: "Fishing!"