Chapter 163: The Secret in the Cowhide
[I have something to do today, and I came back late. There are still 200 words left to finish, and it is too late for time, so the old rules will be sent first. 200 words can be written in a few minutes, and if you add revisions, let's wait about 20 minutes to read it. I'm sorry]
Fang Xiaoyu rummaged carefully in the room.
Because it wasn't night, and there were still bright lights outside, Fang Xiaoyu was careful not to make too much noise, but after rummaging back and forth a few times, he didn't find anything valuable.
I heard that this house has been renovated several times since then, and the structure of the house has not changed, but some of the furniture has been replaced several times.
If this is the case, if Princess An or the Fifth Prince wants to hide something here, it should not be hidden on the surface, because it is too easy to be discovered. Even if it is not discovered, as the furnishings in the house are replaced, the things to be hidden may also be lost, and if the things are gone, the five princes should not stuff this note to themselves.
But where are the things hidden?
In addition to the furnishings, it is either the wall or the ground, do you have to dig over the wall to find it? Someone must have discovered what they were hiding in the first place, right?
Isn't that what it is? But if he didn't want to tell him something, what did the strange behavior of the five princes mean?
Fang Xiaoyu carefully thought about the situation when he met the five princes in the palace.
First of all, she and the Five Princes definitely didn't run into each other by accident. The five princes had prepared a note in advance, which was enough to prove that this was not a temporary idea.
As for whether the note was intended to be given to her in the first place, or whether he just found someone to give it away, these are still to be investigated.
It's just that if her imagination is not bad, this room of 'going with the flow' should have something to do with Jian An. Then, the note is an infinite increase in her possibilities.
But a qiē is just her guess, and she can't find any substantial evidence to prove a qiē.
If, the son with a white jade face was pretended to be Jian An, then why did she go to a place like Qinglou to live overnight?
I didn't come home all night. Even if King An doesn't like Jian An anymore, won't he take advantage of this matter to play?
"That's right, Zhou Xiang!" Fang Xiaoyu suddenly remembered if her assumption was true. Then it means that Jian An is Zhou Xiang's daughter-in-law. At the beginning, she based all the qiē on the premise that Zhou Guifei knew a qiē and Princess An was kept in the dark, so what if it was the other way around?
If Princess An knew the truth, knew that she had been dropped, and recognized the thief as her parents. What if she knew that Zhou Xiang might be her real father?
Ye Xici said that at first, Princess An was a very filial person, every time she went to Jane's Mansion, she was smiling, and even if her life in King An's Mansion was unsatisfactory, she met in the best posture when facing Jian Zhengyan and his wife.
But suddenly one day, everything became different. She didn't like to go back to her parents' house again, and she didn't want to mention anything about her parents anymore, even if Ye Xici said that she missed her grandfather and grandmother, she didn't want to take him to step into the gate of Jane's Mansion again. Even mentioning Jian Zhengyan and his wife has become a taboo, every time they mention it. Jian An's eyes would always be red, and the expression on his face was complicated and sad, so that Ye Xici would never dare to say such things in front of Jian An again.
And after that, Ye Xici never stepped into the door of Jane's Mansion again. Until he grew up, he went to collect the bodies of Jian Zhengyan and his wife and bury them to deal with the aftermath.
It is said that father and daughter have no overnight enmity, but Princess An has never been reconciled with her parents since then. Even why they became so angry and never interacted again became a mystery.
Hypothetical, just hypothetical. Suppose that Jian An somehow learned that she was not Jian Zhengyan's daughter, but was given a bag, what if she trusted her filial parents to be the culprit who made her leave the family?
Will hate for sure. After all, in this era, the honor and glory of the lintel and the family are simply more important than life.
Forced to leave his biological parents since he was a child. But she recognized a thief who stole her as her parents, even if she is strong, I am afraid that she will suffer a huge blow, not to mention that Jian An is just a woman after all.
And. She had heard Ye Xi mention it. Again, Princess An suddenly fell seriously ill, the reason is unknown, the imperial doctor only said that she was infected with wind and cold, coupled with overwork, which led to a serious illness. It's like a thread. But what Ye Xici couldn't understand was that the weather was not cold when Princess An was seriously ill, and she was a so-called housewife who was not treated well by her husband, except for her and her son, what was there in the house for her to worry about to become tired and sick? As for the rush to attack the heart, at that time, Ye Xici thought that it was King An Ye Shilin who had done something excessive to Princess An to cause Princess An's serious illness, so he was very resentful of Prince An. And Prince An didn't regret his mistake and didn't even look at Princess An, which has always become the biggest reason why Ye Xici dislikes King An.
Combined with what Shuanghua said, and then thinking about what Ye Xici said, the difference between the days when the prince stayed in this room for a night and the days after Princess An's serious illness is not long, will there be any connection between this?
On the basis of this assumption, if Princess An also realized that her biological father might be the prime minister of the dynasty, and even deduced some other suspicious things from it, she met each other, but the other party was her enemy's father at this time, and she couldn't wait to get rid of her and come to the door rashly, not saying that others didn't believe it, I am afraid that the other party would harm her.
But no matter what, I wanted to meet, or for some other reason, I learned that the backer behind Wanghualou was Zhou Xiang, so Jian An came here disguised as a man, and left some clues here......
But there are many unreasonable things in thinking like this, Fang Xiaoyu can only rely on guessing to think of this, but he always feels that there will be some deviations from the truth of the matter.
Fang Xiaoyu urgently needed to calm his head, so he pushed open the back window, where he could see the moat outside the capital. The moonlight is sprinkled on the river, sparkling, and it has a somewhat melancholy beauty.
The wind blew softly on his face, making Fang Xiaoyu's wine wake up a little more.
Although I used internal force to force most of the alcohol out of my body before, after all, I drank a lot, and I was still a little hazy drunk.
Outside the window is a wild jujube tree, the jujubes that grow are not big, but they are sweet and sour. It's just that I don't know what kind of tree it is, it's as tall as a few floors of buildings, and the girls in the building often take bamboo poles to the bottom of the tree to beat dates to eat, but this date tree is too high, and they can only hit the bottom layer, as for the red dates on the top. They can only sigh at the sight.
Fang Xiaoyu flew up from the window, and the whole person had already landed on the top of the jujube tree, she picked a few sweet and sour wild dates and stuffed them into her mouth, while looking through the window into the room of 'Whatever You Encounter'. My mind was racing to think about the places in this room where things might be hidden and not easy for people to detect.
Suddenly, Fang Xiaoyu was stunned for a moment, and then stared at the place outside the room near the window frame, where there seemed to be a shallow mark, which was no different from an ordinary wall if you didn't look closely. But Fang Xiaoyu's eyes were very good, even if it was in the moonlight, he could vaguely see some different places.
Fang Xiaoyu supported her body with her hands and wanted to stand up, but she accidentally touched a shallow bulge on the jujube tree, and subconsciously looked over, and she suddenly found that the bulge was carved with a very small knife with a pattern similar to an arrow.
The direction of the pattern is facing the shallow imprint on the wall outside the window of the opposite 'Whatever Happens', as if to point out a path to Fang Xiaoyu.
The words carved with this knife are small and difficult to read, but they are very easy for those who are proficient in the art.
Fang Xiaoyu is the general's daughter, and she should have been exposed to it since she was a child. This kind of micro-carving method is mostly used in the military to transmit messages. Because it's not easy to be noticed. The secrecy is good, so it is deeply loved by the generals in the army.
Fang Xiaoyu wasn't sure if she was thinking too much, but at least it was a possibility. It's just that if it is not dark today, there are even girls under the jujube tree who accompany the guests to eat dates, if it weren't for the fact that the jujube tree is very tall and the leaves are also dense, I'm afraid Fang Xiaoyu would have been discovered at this moment.
Fang Xiaoyu endured her strong curiosity and returned to the house. She'd wait until the dead of night to go out and check it out. She always felt that the tiny arrow carved in the bulge of the tree meant something.
The tree was already tall and lush, and there was still some distance from the house, so it was rare for people who were not good at light work to climb the tall jujube tree. And the bulge was not very obvious in the first place, and it was hidden in the countless bulges on the trunk. If it weren't for Fang Xiaoyu accidentally touching it and knowing a lot about micro-carving, I'm afraid he would have missed it.
Waiting was a long process, and Fang Xiaoyu used the time to start combing through the things she had speculated on paper. Divide it into a tree, grow from the branches to the upper layers, and draw one or several conclusions.
The tree is also missing some important parts, so it is not possible to draw exact results. She could only guess what the possible consequences would be, but the results were shocking.
The night finally began to deepen. Fang Xiaoyu carefully checked whether there was anyone outside, and came to the conclusion that there was no, and then flew out again, only this time the person did not stand on the jujube tree, but one hand grabbed the window edge, one foot pressed on the wall, maintaining a somewhat strange posture, and the other hand groped back and forth on the wall, touching the place with shallow marks, and with a slight force, she actually grabbed the stone of the entire wall into several pieces, and in the middle of the stone, she felt that she had touched a soft thing, It feels a bit like a soft leather texture such as cowhide and sheepskin, some soft, and some astringent.
Fang Xiaoyu put the thing away, and then lifted his whole body up, kicked his foot on the wall a few times, and the person had returned to the house.
Touching the thing in his hand, Fang Xiaoyu didn't first look at what was written on the thing, but observed the material of this piece of leather.
This is indeed cowhide, but it is different from ordinary cowhide, but it is a kind of cowhide of a bison living in the mountains, which is much harder than ordinary cowhide, although it is soft and soft, but it is difficult for ordinary swords to cut through it.
Spread out the cowhide and pressed the marks that were already a little wrinkled, Fang Xiaoyu frowned, there was a blank space on the cowhide, and nothing was written. She also looked carefully, and there didn't seem to be a hidden compartment in the middle, so she couldn't hide anything.
Although the hides of this bison are much more precious than ordinary cowhides, they are not particularly rare, and they really cannot be hidden in such a secret place.
Fang Xiaoyu suddenly remembered that Jian An was from the northwest, could it be that this cowhide was covered with a unique hidden method in the Northwest Army, so he couldn't see the handwriting?
Fang Xiaoyu shook all the branch drawings drawn on the table into powder with internal force, then put away the cowhide, used the back window to leave the room, and disappeared into the night.
Originally, Xie Yu was still worried about his own lady in the house. A woman's family, for no reason, went to live in the Qinglou for a night, although she knew that her young lady had opinions and ideas, but she really didn't understand what this was going to do.
Anyway, she couldn't sleep this night, so she could only stay in the outhouse and sigh.
Fang Xiaoyu secretly returned to the house, and even the subordinates in the house were not alarmed. As soon as I returned to the house, I heard the sound of sighing in the outhouse, so I pushed the door and went in: "I don't sleep so late, but I sigh here, and I'm not afraid of growing old quickly." ”
"Miss?" Xie Yu was first startled by the sudden voice, and when he saw that the person who spoke was his own lady, he immediately exclaimed: "Miss is not in that Wanghualou......
She wanted to say that the young lady was not going to stay overnight in the Qinglou? Why did you get back so quickly? I just suddenly realized that there seemed to be something wrong with asking this question, so I quickly stopped.
"It's just something I care about. What's more, why did Miss Ben follow the wishes of others, and come and go as soon as she was called? Fang Xiaoyu smiled and continued: "By the way, Xie Yu, go and help me prepare some cinnabar, water and fine sand, I have an urgent need." ”
"Yes, miss, slave and maid will go." Although Xie Yu didn't know what Fang Xiaoyu was planning to do with these things, she was also smart, and she didn't ask too much if she shouldn't ask, so she hurriedly put on her clothes and went out to help Fang Xiaoyu prepare things.
(To be continued.) )