Chapter 41

In the evening, Wen Rao hesitated slightly, and then said directly to Qi Yao.

"I hope you can release Xie Heng."

"Impossible." Qi Yao refused.

Seeing that he was about to get angry, Wen Rao hurriedly grabbed him and said, "My grandmother was poisoned, and he can't solve it." โ€

"Do you really want me to let him go?" Qi Yao asked.

"Yes." Wen Rao nodded.

"Okay." Qi Yao responded, "But I have one condition. โ€

"On what terms?" Wen Rao was already very happy when she heard him say yes, no matter what conditions he proposed, she would find a way to meet him.

"I want you to accompany me to the spring hunt." Qi Yao said.

"But......" Wen Rao was stunned when she heard this.

"It's nothing, but if you can't do it, don't talk about it." Qi Yao saw her hesitation and looked displeased.

"No, I do, it's just that my grandmother can't wait that long." Wen Rao explained.

"I can let him go first, but since you have already agreed, you must not fail to keep your promise." Qi Yao narrowed his dark eyes and said with some distrust.

"I won't regret it, but it's Mrs. Flower, as long as you are not partial, I will definitely work hard." Wen Rao swore and promised.

"Am I not partial?" Qi Yao smiled, "I am the most eccentric person. โ€

Wen Rao didn't squeak, Qi Yao was no longer embarrassed, and asked Wen Rao to take his warrant to the prison tomorrow to pick up people, Wen Rao thanked him a thousand times, and treated him with a better attitude.

Qi Yao's heart was naturally comfortable, but when she thought of something, her face suddenly became gloomy again, and Wen Rao was not allowed to serve at night and drove her back.

Wen Rao didn't understand what he meant, but she fell asleep after she went back, and saw Xie Heng the next day.

"Xie Heng, I did what I said." Wen Rao said.

"Yes." Xie Heng didn't even look at her, and treated her with an extremely indifferent attitude.

"I know you must hate me, but the emotional matter is barely coming, I only hope that you can unravel my grandmother's poison for me, and at that time, I will be grateful." Wen Rao was afraid that he would not be satisfied, and added.

"Miss Wen." Xie Heng interrupted her, "We didn't have any feelings before, although I used to like you, but it was only once, I also wondered, how could I like a married woman, I hope you will forget these unpleasant memories in the future." โ€

Xie Heng's attitude was extremely indifferent.

Wen Rao was only slightly stunned, but she didn't care.

"Yes, forget the past." Since he can see through, that's for the best.

Wen Rao personally sent him into the carriage, and when she was leaving, Xie Heng suddenly stopped her again, "You said how much I liked you before, so I took you out of the palace and betrayed the emperor?" โ€

Wen Rao saw that his expression did not seem to be fake, although she was surprised in her heart, she did not show much on her face.

"You didn't like me before, just because of kindness, you think I'm unhappy in the palace, so you take me away, you are a person who values love and righteousness." Wen Rao said.

Xie Heng just threw down the curtain after hearing this, and snorted: "Ridiculous." โ€

Wen Rao didn't know which he was referring to by this absurdity, but the matter between them was indeed ridiculous.

Wen Rao watched the carriage gurgling away, and then slowly breathed a sigh of relief, and suddenly heard the sound of a horse's nose behind her, she walked forward a few steps without a trace, and then turned around and saw Feng Song.

"General Feng, why do you like to hide behind women?" Wen Rao glanced at him coldly.

"Where do I like it, Miss Wen, are you so confident? It's clearly something I like โ–กโ–ก. There was a hint of amusement in his eyes.

Wen Rao didn't know why, but she heard his ambiguity.

"Indecent." Wen Rao said angrily.

"Where am I nasty?" Feng Song laughed.

Wen Rao didn't want to talk to him and left quickly.

There was a guard guarding the door on the side couldn't help but sneer, Feng Song hooked the corners of his lips, turned his head to look at him, and when he saw the hairs on his back standing up, Feng Song raised his hand and gave him a whip, whipping him to the ground.

"You deserve to laugh at me?" Feng Song put away the whip, and it was stained with blood.

The guard was so frightened that he bowed to the ground, and he didn't dare to make a sound in pain, until Xie Heng left, and then slowly got up.

In the Chengde Palace, Gao Lu handed the redrawn list to Qi Yao, Qi Yao picked it up and looked at it, and found that behind Wen Rao's name, there were two more.

It's Wen Ru and Wen Wan.

"All three Wen sisters participated." Gao Lu explained.

Qi Yao put it down, he didn't speak in his mouth, but he was talking to himself in his heart, no matter how many people there are, you haven't seen her dance, if you have seen her, you will know what it means to be a fairy.

Qi Yao had seen it in his previous life, because of that dance, many things had changed dramatically, and I don't know what would change this time.

Wen Rao is now a subordinate, and when other young ladies and concubines are preparing dance clothes, she can only count the money in her purse and calculate what kind of fabric she can buy to make it herself.

Wen Rao has not learned piano, chess, calligraphy and painting in the past, and can only hide in the boudoir for a long time and have nothing to do, so when she learned from women, she also made clothes, not to mention how good they are, but they can also wear them out to see people, she is a young lady, and the clothes she makes are naturally the style worn by young ladies.

Therefore, if Wen Rao is not in the palace one day, she may be able to support herself by buying clothes.

It's just that she has been confined to a fixed place since she was a child, and if she really opened the cage door and let her out, she would only be confused.

The news soon came back from the Wang family, saying that Mrs. Zhuo had woken up and that she wanted to see Wen Rao.

When Wen Rao heard the news, the needle poking the cloth suddenly pierced her hand.

went to Wang's house, but she was not ready for this.

In the past, although my mother was expelled from the Wang family, the reason why she really cut off contact with the Wang family was that she refused to contact the Wang family.

Qi Yao had already given Wen Rao a warrant, and Wen Rao went out of the palace after completing the formalities, and there was a small sedan chair waiting there at the door.

"Miss Biao, we are the subordinates of the palace, and the eldest lord asked us to pick you up." The palanquin man explained.

Wen Rao sighed slightly and sat in the sedan chair.

The palace is so big, compared to the mansions of many Beijing officials.

The housekeeper led Wen Rao to the living room, where a middle-aged man sat dressed richly, but his eyes were extremely friendly, which made Wen Rao feel much more at ease.

"The eldest master, the second master, Miss Cousin is here." Butler Tong reported.

Wen Rao entered the living room, saw two people sitting in the living room, and hurriedly greeted the two, "I've seen the eldest master and the second master." โ€

"You're Rao'er, hurry up, don't be so polite, sit down and talk." Wang Rui's face was gentle, and he looked at this young woman in his heart, and the more he looked at it, the more he looked like Wang Yun back then.

Wang Sheng knew that she would come today, and he was also happy, but he was still sad to see Wen Rao, he had the best relationship with his sister in the past, but he didn't help anything.

"Rao'er, sit down quickly, and let the second uncle take a closer look."

Their enthusiasm for no reason, but it has been brewing for more than ten years, but for Wen Rao, these are two strangers, although there is a relationship between her mother, but she thinks that people should be indifferent to each other, her mother is no more, and her family relationship with the Wang family is naturally not much.

The sudden enthusiasm made her flinch a little.

"Why are you so ugly, but you are tired from the bumps on the road, do you need me to ask someone to prepare a room for you, so that you can go and rest for a while?" Wang Rui said.

"Thank you for the relationship between the two masters, Wen Rao is fine, it's just that Mrs. Zhuo just woke up and wants to see me, is there anything urgent." Wen Rao said detachedly.

She said this, the two brothers of the Wang family are so old, and they are not stupid, knowing that there is a gap in her heart, and she is unwilling to recognize them so abruptly, she sighed slightly, and then gave up.

"Your grandmother woke up, but she said that there were words on the paper, and it was something related to your mother, and we couldn't ask how to ask about it, and she asked to see you by name." Wang Sheng explained.

Something related to Wang Yun, but her mother has been dead for so many years, what can happen?

"It's because I'm happy to forget, my mother is still staying up and refuses to rest, I want to see you, and I ask you to go to her old man's house first, if you say it later, we'll talk slowly." Wang Rui said.

Wen Rao nodded, and followed the housekeeper's guidance, and finally came to Old Madam Zhuo's room.

Wen Rao touched the three moon beads in the bag nervously, and finally took a deep breath and firmly pushed the door in.

The old lady was lying on the bed, she was already old, and she had a lot to worry about.

Seeing Wen Rao coming, he ordered all the people who were waiting to withdraw, leaving Wen Rao alone.

"You're Yun'er's child." She spoke, very slowly.

"Yes." Wen Rao was a little nervous and didn't dare to step forward.

"Come here." Old Madam Zhuo beckoned and asked Wen Rao to sit on the edge of the bed.

Wen Rao approached slowly, sat down stiffly, took out the three moon beads, and handed them to the other party.

"This is your royal family's thing." Wen Rao said.

"Do you know what kind of mistake your mother made to get kicked out?" Old Madam Zhuo didn't reach out to take it, but just let out a long sigh.

"I don't know." Wen Rao had an answer in her heart, but she was a little uncertain, so she simply didn't guess.

Old Madam Zhuo was silent for a while when she heard this, as if she was reminiscing, and then slowly spoke.

"She's so naughty, and because she's my youngest daughter, everybody loves her very much." Old Madam Zhuo sighed, "It's just that this is also to blame me, I am too indulgent to her on weekdays, and the Taoist guide is bold, and she actually went to the Qinglou to pretend to be a dusty woman, and she is entangled with a man." โ€

"That man is my father." Wen Rao said.

"It's not." Old Madam Zhuo shook her head.

"Isn't it?" Wen Rao was surprised.

"This is not the reason why I drove her out of the royal family in anger back then, but because she was willing to fall because of the man who abandoned her, and when we found out that she was forcibly taken back, her chastity was no longer guaranteed."

"Her father came back from the sea, the old illness was very old, at first hearing about it, I vomited blood and fell unconscious, I was angry, I drove her out of the Wang family, her father later dragged on for a while, so many years, I have not been able to accept her anymore." Old Madam Zhuo said.

"She's dead." Even if Wen Rao's mother made a big mistake, Wen Rao had no way to blame her, because the only person who hurt her when she was young was her mother.

"But you're alive." Mrs. Zhuo said.

"What do you mean by that?" Wen Rao was puzzled.

"Do you know the origin of this moon pearl?" She asked.

"Legend has it that it was given by the merman." Wen Rao said.

"Yes, did your mother say anything to you?" Old Madam Zhuo asked.

"If it's the Wang family's business, my mother hasn't said anything to me." Wen Rao replied.

"That's weird." Old Madam Zhuo muttered, and then looked at Wen Rao, "Our Wang family has been in decline for a long time, and the dispute with the second room is not stopping, and it has gradually * from the inside, seeing that the century-old family business does not know the way back, do you know why?" โ€

"This is a private matter of the Wang family, I don't know." Wen Rao didn't understand why she had to talk to herself about so many things inside the Wang family, and she really didn't know anything.

"Have you ever heard of fairy yarn?" Old Madam Zhuo asked.

"I've heard, rumored that once upon a time there was a lady Zhen, she was good at dancing, in the past a song of fading the capital, so that the emperor was favored, she danced and wore clothes, called fairy yarn, seemingly white, but in fact under the moon will emit colorful light, like a fairy. It is said that the fairy yarn is made by a family surnamed Wang......" Wen Rao said here for a moment and looked at Mrs. Zhuo.

"Yes, it's our royal family." Mrs. Zhuo said: "Back then, the merman not only gave our Wang family ten moon pearls, but also gave us a secret book, but the secret book disappeared later, and since then, our Wang family has lost the fairy yarn, and so far, we are not even imperial merchants."

After that, the Wang family will only become obsolete day by day, and will be reduced to ordinary businessmen from then on.

And your mother knows a big secret of the Wang family, which can bring the Wang family back to life. Mrs. Zhuo said.

"What's the secret?" Wen Rao never thought that she would hear so many things today, and obviously, the secret that her mother knew could be related to her death.

"I thought you knew." Old Madam Zhuo closed her eyes and looked sad.

"I don't know, mother, she didn't say anything." Wen Rao's heart suddenly went up and down, and every word the old lady said today was telling her that her mother's death was indeed not simple.

"Later, I asked her to come back, but she refused to come back until she became pregnant with you and married into the Wen family, and since then she has not seen any Wang family, your uncle and second uncle tried every means to find out her news, but she was very ruthless and did not want to contact any of them."

Wen Rao saw that Old Lady Zhuo said at the end, a line of tears flowed out of the corners of her eyes, she was older, how tough she was outside, but how many sad things she remembered in her heart when she was sick, the more ruthless she pretended to be outside, the more uncomfortable she became.

Wen Rao didn't find the veil, so she hurriedly wiped her tears with her sleeve.

"Tears will flow into the ears, and they will hurt the ears." Wen Rao didn't know how to comfort her, so she just whispered this.

"I used to say that to your mother." Old Madam Zhuo said sadly.

"I'm sorry." Wen Rao sighed.

"You don't have to apologize, as long as you don't learn from your mother, who doesn't even admit it." When Mrs. Zhuo said this, her tone was full of complaints.

Wen Rao didn't know what to say, so she was silent for a while, and the old lady fell asleep.