"I didn't think about it at the time, and I was too young to think about it. Later, my mother had an accident, and I myself was in dire straits, because I was bent on avenging my mother, so I didn't have the heart to think about it. It's just that my maternal grandfather and grandmother also went one after another, except for Zhang Luo's later incident, and he never entered that gate again. Ye Xici was a little embarrassed in retrospect, and continued: "My maternal grandfather and grandmother have no children except for my mother, and I have only adopted a daughter, but I have only heard of it, but I have never seen it. After the second elder went, he never saw her come to mourn. It's just that after the funeral, I saw some melons and fruits at the graves of my grandfather and grandmother, and I think it was the adopted woman who came to pay respects. But why she refused to show up is unknown. ”

"Did you personally plan the aftermath for them?" Fang Xiaoyu asked.

"It's strange to say this, because my mother didn't allow me to go to the second elder's mansion to play, and I didn't mention it after a long time, and then my mother died, and I was busy facing the persecution of Concubine Li, so I didn't think about it. I still learned the news of the death of the second elder from the subordinates of the second elder's mansion. When I went, the second elder had already prepared a coffin for himself. I thought that the subordinates had prepared them for them, but I learned from the old housekeeper that ten days before the death of the second elder, my grandfather ordered two coffins to be ordered and placed in the courtyard. The people feel unlucky, they don't like to live in the courtyard, and would rather take a detour to walk more, unless it is ordered by the second elder, when they have to pass by, they will frown and pass through, and afterwards they have to use grapefruit leaves dipped in water to cleanse themselves. Such an unfortunate thing was placed in the courtyard with such a swagger, and the old friends who originally came to play chess gradually did not want to go. More than ten days later, the two elders seemed to feel that the time had come, so they both lay down in the coffin, and after they died, they asked their subordinates to nail the coffin to death, and then went to King An's Mansion to inform me of their funeral. ”

Ye Xici rubbed his head and continued: "At first, I also felt that this matter was different, so I asked my subordinates to open the coffin for inspection. The subordinates did not hesitate, and opened the coffin directly, and it was indeed the bodies of my grandfather and grandmother, and I also looked for someone to see it. There was nothing suspicious about the death, so I didn't pursue it further, nailed the coffin, and held a funeral for the second elder. Be buried early and be buried in the ground. ”

"Why do you mention your grandparents?" Ye Xici was deeply puzzled.

Fang Xiaoyu hesitated and didn't know where to start, but when the words came to his mouth, he took them back.

Ye Xici had a bad premonition in his heart, he always felt what Fang Xiaoyu wanted to say. It will be a very important turning point for him.

"I suspect that your mother may not be the biological daughter of your maternal grandparents. Of course, I'm just skeptical, and there's no real evidence to prove it right now. Fang Xiaoyu finally said it.

"What? You say that my mother is not the biological daughter of my maternal grandfather and grandmother? How is this possible? If they are not their own children, then who is my mother and concubine? Ye Xici felt that Fang Xiaoyu's words were too incredible. If she is not biological, it means that the family is unknown, so is her mother an abandoned outcast?

No, it's not! Could it be that the mother refused to go to her grandfather's house because of this? As soon as he mentioned his maternal grandfather and grandmother, his mother's eyes turned red, and she was also sad about this?

Could it be that the mother concubine is really not their biological daughter?

"Zhou Xiang." Fang Xiaoyu told the guesses one by one.

"What? Prime Minister Zhou? Ye Xi was stunned. Speaking of Prime Minister Zhou. That's his king-sized enemy.

He is the prince's person, supports the prince's ascension to the throne, plots for the prince, and opposes Ye Shucheng. And Zhou Xiang is Zhou Guifei's father and Ye Shucheng's maternal grandfather, Ye Shucheng's connections in the court are mostly supported by the power left by Zhou Xiang.

Ye Shucheng has ambitions for the throne, and the prince, the prince, is the number one enemy. When he and Ye Shu become enemies, it is equivalent to dismantling the field of Zhou Xiang.

But according to Fang Xiaoyu's words, wouldn't Zhou Xiang become his grandfather? They've been fighting for years. Could it be that the flood washed away the Dragon King Temple's own family and beat its own family?

Ye Xiqi didn't think that Fang Xiaoyu would joke with him about such a thing, but if he really accepted that his mother concubine was not the Jian family but the Zhou family, it seemed that people were reluctant to believe it.

Fang Xiaoyu saw Ye Xici's struggle and hesitation, and finally said, "Do you remember before you left for Zaozhou Kingdom." We once speculated that Zhou lost his concubine at the beginning, and then Zhou Guifei appeared out of thin air, recognized her relationship with Zhou Xiang, returned to the Zhou family tree, and then was able to enter the palace. Becoming a mother actually seems like a planned play? ”

Ye Xici nodded.

"At the beginning, we suspected that Zhou Guifei was the daughter of the fugitive concubine of the early state country, and when she came to Dacheng, she must have a plan to pretend to be Zhou Xiang's daughter. In order to find out the truth about Princess An's death, you went to the early state to investigate, but found out that the most favored concubine in the palace of the early state was actually a man from the Great Zhou. ”

As he spoke, Fang Xiaoyu paused, and then continued: "During the time you went to the early state of Zaozhou, I was not idle. Inkmark had found something suspicious, so I went to the northwest, where your grandfather and grandmother lived, and I had some unexpected gains. ”

"What's the catch?" Ye Xici's eyes shrank subconsciously.

Fang Xiaoyu sighed: "The ink mark has been found to have a deep scar on your mother's arm, as if a piece of flesh has been deeply stripped of by something, and the unknown of the scar happens to be the same as Zhou Guifei...... No, because it should be said, it happens to be in the same place as the birthmark on the concubine that Zhou Xiang once lost. ”

"That's why you asked me about the scar on my mother's arm?" Ye Xici suddenly realized. But these may also be coincidences, and they don't prove anything.

"Also, Sizhu found out that Zhou Xiangfu lost his daughter quite strangely, and the Miss of Zhou Xiangfu was lost in the house, and the maid who was asked by the nurse to take care of the young lady temporarily was going to die in the pool. And the ink marks also found out that when Zhou Xiang lost his daughter-in-law, your grandfather and grandmother happened to be in the capital. And your grandmother is pregnant with Liujia and is almost about to give birth, but she has to risk hurting the child and herself, holding a big belly, and rushing all the way from the northwest to the capital. ”

Fang Xiaoyu looked at Ye Xici's face, and saw that he also seemed suspicious, so he continued: "Zhou Xiang's child has just been lost, the matter is very important, Long Yan is furious, the whole process is investigated, your grandmother has never been on the road in front of people since she entered Beijing. Soon after giving birth, I took the baby back to the northwest with your grandfather. Since then, Zhou Xiang's child has no whereabouts. And your grandmother's origin is a little unclear, but it is only rumored that your grandfather accidentally heroically saved the beauty and finally won the heart of the beauty. So they became relatives, but what I checked in the northwest, your grandmother almost never went out, and even if she bought something, she had to be sent to Jane's Mansion by the merchant herself, and she always wore a veil or a curtain to meet people. When it comes to appearance, no one has the slightest impression of it. ”

"My grandmother's face was bruised, like a knife scar, which I had only seen once when I was a child, and I had accidentally ripped off her scarf. At that time, my grandmother was very angry and scolded me, so I was really afraid of my grandmother, but I was closer to my grandfather. Ye Xici said.

"It's even weirder over there." Fang Xiaoyu sneered and said, "It is rumored that it was almost love at first sight after your grandfather saved your grandmother. Immediately poured for her. Lord Shizi, I want to ask you, if it were you, would you fall in love with a woman who ruined her face at first sight? ”

Ye Xici thought for a while, shook his head and said: "If you get along for a long time, it's not necessarily, but if you fall in love at first sight, I'm afraid few people will fall in love with a person who has ruined his appearance." Even if you don't value the looks, even if you find someone who looks ugly, I'm afraid you won't find someone who is disfigured, unless you fall in love for a long time. Understand this person's habits and temper, otherwise ......"

What Ye Xi said was already implicit. Indeed, no one would fall in love at first sight with a disfigured person.

People love beautiful things. Just like Ye Xici said, unless you get along for a long time. You know something about her inside, or know that she has some kind of soft point in her heart that can poke your heart, otherwise if you meet for the first time, a beautiful, dignified, delicate and elegant woman and a hideous and terrifying woman with a face full of knife wounds, which one will you like?

"After Concubine Zhou Guifei went to Zhou Xiangfu to recognize her ancestors and return to her ancestors, your maternal grandfather and grandmother moved their family to the capital. Don't you think. Is this qiē too much of a coincidence? Fang Xiaoyu felt that there must be something boring anyway.

It just so happened that when Zhou Xiang's concubine was lost, Jian Zhengyan and his wife were in the capital, and even ignored his wife's pregnancy for ten months, and the road was bumpy, but it was a banquet for the emperor, is it necessary to take a pregnant woman with a big belly on the road?

And Zhou Guifei recognized his ancestors and returned to his ancestors, and they settled in the capital again, and then the first emperor thanked him for handing over the military power and had no son, so he married their daughter Jian An to Prince An.

It's a drama to get mixed into the royal family.

"Hearing you say that, my mind is a little messy." Ye Xici's heart is messy, this kind of ups and downs in life makes people uneasy.

Fang Xiaoyu took out the jade pendant that Ye Xici gave her from her arms, put it in Ye Xici's hand, and said, "I also accidentally found the bottom of this jade pendant that you sandwiched in that stack of silver tickets." You once said that this is the jade pendant that Princess An wears? ”

Ye Xici nodded and said: "I see that the mother concubine has always carried it, but this jade pendant is never worn in a conspicuous place, but is tied in the undergarment." Once, when she remembered me, she took this piece of jade pendant and stuffed it into my hand, as if she wanted to say something, but before she finished speaking, she forgot about it again. At first, I thought that this might be the heirloom of my mother, and I kept it for a thought, but if this was the case, the jade quality was too rough. It's just that this is a relic left to me by my mother, so I have been keeping it and reluctant to throw it away. ”

"This jade pendant may have a lot to do with the death of your mother." Fang Xiaoyu said firmly: "I went to the northwest this time and gained a lot. The madman who had recently wronged the prince for embezzling military salaries had left a crooked map of his hometown the night before he left the barracks. The map on your jade pendant is no different. I became suspicious. Later, the Northwest and the Great Zhou fought a jungle battle, and it was decided whether the Great Zhou would invade the Northwest this year. In the depths of the jungle, in the land that belonged to the Great Zhou, I found the exact same route as this map. Even the black dot on the map and the location of a blood dot in the map left by the madman are exactly the same. ”

"You went?" Hearing Fang Xiaoyu say this, Ye Xici knew that Fang Xiaoyu must have gone deep into it and found something.

Fang Xiaoyu nodded in acknowledgement and continued: "I saw a wooden house in this black spot, and there lived an old man with strong martial arts in the wooden house. This old man is the pawn of Anza sent here by the Great Zhou, just to wait for some people in the Northwest Army, the deployment of the generals, and the important things that happened to Dacheng will be passed to him through the jungle war. ”

"It's Da Zhou again?" As soon as Ye Xici heard the word Da Zhou, he immediately became suspicious.

"I pretended to be a spy planted in the northwest, and went to find out some news. From the old man's mouth, he learned that the bloodlines of King Yun and King Meng of the Great Zhou Dynasty were actually lurking in Dacheng, intending to plot something. The plague in the capital is the old man's handiwork. Fang Xiaoyu told Ye Xici about her conversation with the old man one by one.

Ye Xici was silent for a long time, pinching his chin as if thinking about something: "King Yun, King Yumeng, are the two most favorable princes in the Great Zhou Dynasty to compete for the throne. Their lineage will at least be a supreme prince in the future, so why should they take risks and lurk in Dacheng in person? ”

"Naturally, there is a plan." Fang said with a smile.

"Leave aside what you're trying to do. Do you find that the royal bloodline would rather lurk incognito in other countries, such a thing is somewhat familiar? Ye Xici raised his eyebrows, and his eyes rolled around.

"That noble lady who disguised herself as a woman in the early state country." Fang Xiaoyu replied with a smile.

"Yes, that's him. infiltrated the palace of the early state with the prominent body of the minister, although he was not a member of the royal family, but there was a similarity between the two. What is this big week up to? Ye Xici's eyes lit up.

"I suspected that this week's concubine was the daughter of the runaway concubine. Later, when I met the old man in the tree house, I learned that the spies in the northwest were the bloodline of King Yun, and I suspected that there seemed to be something wrong with my guess, Zhou Guifei might not be the daughter of the fugitive concubine, but a chess piece sent by the Great Zhou people. However, since you came back from the country of Hayashu and brought the news that the favored concubine Niangniang is a man and a native of the Great Zhou, I have another speculation. A speculation that can connect this net. The corners of Fang Xiaoyu's mouth rose, as if he had smoothed out a certain line.

"I've probably figured out what you're trying to say." Ye Xi replied.

The two looked at each other. (To be continued.) )