On the second day, Su Qi went to Xizhimen.

"Ah Qi is here, I was looking for you for something, but I didn't expect you to come, what a coincidence." Murong Qin greeted him.

Su Qi smiled, but didn't say a word.

It was still a small study in the courtyard of Xizhimen, and Shao Gong put on the fragrant tea and closed the door and went out.

"This is my newly made lotus leaf tea, which is the best way to cool off the fire." Murong Qin said.

Su Qi glanced at it, the verdant fine porcelain of the high-grade Ru kiln, the curled lotus leaves were slowly unfolding with the boiling water, and the leaves with distinct paths were so tender that they seemed to be able to drip water.

"It's autumn, and my grandmother explained that you should eat less cold things." Su Qidao.

The smile froze on Murong Qin's lips, and the outstretched hand didn't know what to do for a while.

"What the prince Murong Qin confessed, I already asked my aunt in the palace yesterday, if the prince wants to know, just ask me." The stiff words rang coldly in my ears.

Murong Qin's heart was cold, he thought of something and hurriedly said: "Ah Qixu is misunderstood, I sent someone to follow you to protect your safety, not to spy on you." ”

Su Qi sneered in his heart.

Not to spy on her for what? If it weren't for this, why did she just leave the palace yesterday, and the county lord of Qiling rushed to the general's mansion on the back foot, and asked her that Emperor Rende really had a marriage contract with the eldest daughter of the Wang family first, and complained vigorously that why she, the first county lord who entered and exited the palace almost every day, didn't know about such news?

Su Qi heard it at the time, but he couldn't cry or laugh. Later, Chu Qing took the initiative to say that the county lord of Qiling came directly from the general's mansion from Xizhimen. And it came in a hurry.

Su Qi immediately thought of something, she didn't come here today to question, she didn't expect that she just said a few words, and Murong Qin said it himself.

It's just that what he said, Su Qi didn't like to hear it.

"Yesterday I asked a lot why my aunt hated my mother, why she wanted to do everything possible to get her to die, and who killed my mother, but unfortunately the result was not what I expected, and my aunt strongly denied it. She didn't kill her mother. Although she could rest easy when my mother died, she still refused to admit that her death had anything to do with her. Su Qidao.

"I thought about it, if my mother's death really had something to do with my aunt, I don't think it would be my turn to question me today. I'm afraid that the grandmother of the palace and His Majesty Rende will not let go of my aunt. And the aunt will not have the day when the concubine is used to the harem. ”

"Here today. First, he wanted to inform Gongzi of the news he had obtained, and he also wanted to know if Gongzi had anything to gain by sending someone to infiltrate the Beishan suburb of the emperor's eldest son Murong Heng some time ago? ”

What explanations, what excuses. Su Qi she didn't want to hear it, and she didn't want to pour out the unhappiness in her heart, Murong Qin was very good, at least it was good for her Su Muli, but everything that had happened recently made her wear colored glasses when she looked at Murong Qin, she thought, maybe it was a problem of concept, maybe it was because of her personal character, Murong Qin had been unfavored and rejected for many years, and now that he finally returned to the emperor, he was not sent out casually, he would naturally try his best to behave well in front of Emperor Rende, yes, On that day, he closed the city gates, held torches high, and wanted to completely burn Xicheng, but he didn't want to provoke the dissatisfaction of the old emperor Rende again.

He's lost enough over the years that he can't afford to lose any more opportunities to climb up.

Therefore, Su Qi understands her, but it doesn't mean that she agrees.

Once there is a thorn in the heart, no matter how big or small, it will always sting people.

If you don't explain, maybe it will also leave some room for Ah Qin and Ah Qi.

Murong Qin's eyes were already deep, and he said, "...... I asked about the past. ”

He said that Murong was recruited, and the third lady of the Wang family did go to his prince's mansion that day, but not to him. It was his uncle who received the newly widowed general's wife, and the two had been talking in the small study for a long time, and he didn't know what they said, but when the general's wife left, his uncle was full of sadness, and said that many things must have an ending after all. Immediately after, the general's wife went straight to the palace.

"In the palace? Is it Shouren Palace or Goshu? Su Qi asked.

In her opinion, the mother went to the palace at this moment is nothing more than to find the old emperor Rende and the queen mother, the queen mother is the only person in the palace who can be the master of the mother, but I don't know if the old woman at that time was also as now, standing by and watching, in the current situation, although the palace is said to be the mother's family, but because of the relationship between the Molian Palace, the mother and the palace can already be said to be strangers, listening to Qiling's nurse said that the mother in the imperial capital with the closest relationship with the mother of the county lord of Qiling - the eldest princess. It's a pity that the eldest princess died suddenly within a month after her mother left, otherwise Su Qi would have asked this mother's last close friend before her death.

"Neither." Murong Qin said.

Su Qi looked back and said in surprise: "Could it be that my mother went to Molian Palace?" ”

Could it be that what Mo Concubine said yesterday was a lie?

Su Qiyi felt a chill in his heart for a while.

In this way, my water is still too shallow.

"No, the general's wife went directly into Chuxiu Palace after leaving the Prince's Mansion." Murong Qin said.

Su Qiyi didn't hear clearly for a while, and it wasn't until Murong Qin said it for the second time that she asked in surprise, "Chuxiu Palace?" Why did my mother go to Chuxiu Palace? Can you know which lady lived in Chuxiu Palace at that time? Is it the mother's old age? ”

A series of questions, even Murong Qin didn't know where to start.

He said simply: "I didn't find out which lady it was, I only heard that the one who lived in Chuxiu Palace entered the cold palace with a royal loss of honor within a month after the death of the general's wife, and died of a violent illness after only three days in the cold palace." ”

"Died of a violent illness?" Su Qi asked rhetorically: "Within a month of my mother's death, the eldest princess died of a sudden illness, and the one in Chuxiu Palace was beaten into the cold palace and died of a violent illness, could it be that the old emperor Rende wanted to hide some secrets?" ”

"Yes, it's not just these two, the news from the secret guard that almost all the slaves in the Imperial Capital General's Mansion were sold to the Imperial Capital after the General's Wife Sanqi." Murong Qin continued: "Fortunately, the Duchess of Guo lives in Cen Zhou all the year round, so it has not affected her old man. ”

"Since then. The Imperial Capital General's Mansion was desolate, and it was not renovated until you Su Muli returned to the Imperial Capital two months ago. Murong Qin said emphatically.

The clue seems to have been broken when they arrived at Chuxiu Palace, they don't know what happened when their mother went straight to Chuxiu Palace, and the former prince doesn't know what his mother talked about with his uncle, and his mother's only close friend, the eldest princess, has already died.

In addition to hating or hating her mother, she lived in the palace for nearly a month, from her grandmother and uncle, to the rough maid and mother-in-law in the courtyard, no one talked about her mother, even when she was curious to wander around the palace and casually ask about her mother's boudoir before leaving the pavilion. The good old old aunt also smiled.

She also thought that the tragic deaths of her mother and father had broken her grandmother's heart. Now it seems that this is not the reason. I don't know what happened at that time, or whether there was still an unknown secret between the three ladies of the Wang family and the old emperor Rende at that time, but even if more than ten years have passed, the palace is still silent about it. There is also the old emperor Rende. Is it precisely to preserve this big secret? Kill all the people associated with it at that time?

Thinking of this, Su Qi's heart jumped!

No matter what the identity of the Chuxiu Palace, the woman who is the emperor is impermanent after all. This is not surprising. But what about the eldest princess? That is the sister of the old emperor Rende, the proudest daughter of the former emperor, and the most trusted heart of the queen mother.

Su Qi said this conjecture, and Murong Qin also looked solemn, but he did not have any surprise and curiosity, but fell into deep thought.

"But what's wrong?" Su Qi asked.

According to common sense, guessing that the emperor murdered his own imperial sister is such an unbelievable thing, no matter who listens to it, it should be extremely surprised.

"I remember." Murong Qin said loudly: "When the news of the death of the general's wife came, the eldest aunt and eldest princess had entered the palace and went to the imperial study, I was kneeling outside the imperial study, and I vaguely heard the sound of the dispute inside...... It wasn't until after the mother's thirty-seven days that I was lifted from my grounding......"

In other words, as soon as the eldest princess received the news of her mother's death, she directly found the old emperor Rende, and there was a dispute between the brothers and sisters, and the queen mother actually called Murong Qin to her bedroom in order to protect the matter!

What is the earth-shattering secret that made the eldest princess openly argue with Emperor Rende, and what kind of secret made the queen mother, who had been standing by and watching, come out in person, but in the end, these people who wanted to be related to her died suddenly......

Murong Qin comforted her, there was no hurry, this matter was very important, and it would naturally take some more time to find out the truth. But Su Qi has followed the clues to find such a thing these days, and seeing that the truth is being revealed little by little, how can she not be in a hurry?

Knowing that urgency had no effect, Su Qi still couldn't sleep well at night.

Old Madam Su knew, and told Su Qi in private, now their focus is to find the root cause of the matter back then, and then let the matter be solved from the root, so that the old emperor Rende can no longer be so blind and persistent in asking Su Qi to enter the palace as a concubine, as for the old case of the Huo family that Murong Qin wants to retract his confession, it has little to do with her Su Qi. Therefore, what she should do is to find out the real cause of death of Wang Yulin, the third lady of the Wang family, little by little.

originally guessed that Wang Yulin's death was somewhat inseparable from Emperor Rende, but now it seems that it is almost because of this old emperor.

However, what was going on, Su Qi and the others still didn't know.

Things seem to have returned to square one, but the original speculation has been confirmed, but there is still no progress.

Su Qi obediently responded "yes", and when she coaxed Mrs. Su back to Changfeng Hall, she sat in front of the octagonal Tongling dressing mirror inlaid with pearl scallops.

Chu Qing didn't know when he came in, and by the time Su Qi realized it, Chu Qing had already closed the door and walked over.

"I remember that the girl who was half-fragrant should be on duty today, why is that girl lazy and wants you to replace her?" Su Qi asked with a smile.

Several times Banxiang came to menstruation because she was uncomfortable and couldn't be on duty at night, Su Qi was very considerate of the hard work of these girls, and wanted to directly exempt them from serving on special days, but Banxiang didn't follow, and she had to ask Chu Qing to help her endure the night for a few days, and then pay it back one by one.

Seeing this, Su Qi didn't force it anymore. but they added five taels of silver to these personal servants.

"She's in good health, do you want my doctor to take a look?" Su Qizheng still wanted to ask a few words, but she was so frightened by Chu Qing's actions that she stood up directly, she was surprised: "Chu Qing, what are you doing here?" All right, if you have anything to do, just get up and speak! ”

It turned out that Chu Qing actually knelt straight in front of Su Qi.

Su Qi went to pull, but Chu Qing didn't move.

"I didn't report it, I'm guilty, and I ask the lady to listen to me." Chu Qing looked at Su Qi and said solemnly.

Su Qi took a deep breath and sat back. He nodded and said, "Okay." ”

Chu Qing has always been cold and frosty. Although it is rare to laugh, it is the first time that Su Qi, the master, has seen such a serious expression.

Su Qi couldn't help but feel his heart beating faster.

"My father was a merchant in the south, and he was in the spice business, and the business was quite large. It's also somewhat related to the palace. My aunt will be included in the harem by His Majesty today as a beauty due to fate. It is the Chuxiu Palace that lives. ”

"Chuxiu Palace?" Su Qi's eyebrows lit up when he heard this.

Chu Qing nodded and said, "Yes, Chuxiu Palace." I was seven years old when my aunt entered the palace. Since I was a child, I have been good at remembering, not to mention that my aunt entered the palace and canonized as a beauty, my father often talked about it, and Chuxiu Palace must be true. However, my aunt entered the cold palace after entering the palace for the second year, and died of a violent illness within three days, and my father had the honor to enter the palace two months before my aunt entered the cold palace, and my aunt handed over some books to my father, and my father ordered us to leave the imperial capital as soon as possible after leaving the palace that day. ”

"By the time the news of my aunt's death came, my younger brother and my father had become ordinary villagers at the foot of the East Island Mountain. My father went from a spice merchant on the rich side of the south to a taciturn Tojima villager overnight, but fortunately, my younger brother and I were both young, so I didn't know what was going on. ”

"However, my father still could not escape, and in the second year after my aunt's death, when I was ten years old, on a rainy summer night, a group of people rushed into our house, and killed my father without saying a word, and the bright red blood splashed the corners of my skirt, but I still shrunk in the corner, trembling, not daring to scream, and in my arms were a few books that my father had just told me to keep safe."

"Fortunately, Murong Qin's people came, and what happened after that ...... The lady should say that she knows......"

"What about the books?" Su Qi hurriedly asked.

"On me, I've always carried it with me." As she spoke, Chu Qing took out three books from her arms.

Chu Qing took it, the dark yellow paper, and opened the scribbled handwriting inside, "Self-cultivation? Su Qi chattered word by word.

"Exactly. At that time, I was young and didn't know a few words, but it was later that Murong Qin's son invited the teacher to come, and I recognized all the words in these books. Chu Qing said.

Su Qi didn't listen, she first quickly rummaged through it from beginning to end, and saw that she didn't find what she was looking for, and then carefully searched page by page, no, still no, it was all some handwriting of dragons flying and phoenixes, from beginning to end, Su Qi frowned, and she patiently flipped through several pages word by word, the book talked about how to cultivate oneself, and the short paragraph she read was specifically talked about from the daily diet, every word is common saying, and there is nothing strange between the words, see the end, Su Qiyi closed the book.

"Over the years, when I've been fine, I've taken it out and looked at it, and I can almost recite it backwards from beginning to end, and it's all common words to exhort people to cultivate themselves, and I didn't find anything abnormal." Chu Qing said.

"Could it be that those people killed your father because they were robbing books?" Su Qi asked rhetorically.

"Yes." Chu Qing nodded firmly, "I still remember clearly that night, my father seemed to have expected what would happen, and before it was dark, he called me and my younger brother to the house, closed the door, and did not light the lamp, I still remember what my father said, he said: These books were exchanged for my aunt's life, no matter what happens in the future, you must protect them and not let others touch them." If you can't protect them anymore in the future, remember to burn them all in a fire and not let them fall into the wrong hands, remember? ”

"Father also said that these books were entrusted to her by one of my aunt's life-saving benefactors, although this life-saving benefactor can never come back later, but our Chu family promised others that we must do it, even at the cost of our own lives!"

In the end, Chu Qing's eyes turned out to be ...... It's red!

No matter how much it was, Su Qi couldn't ask. She stacked the books neatly, handed them back to Chu Qing with both hands, and said, "Now that you have enough ability to keep these books, you must not take them out so easily in the future." ”

Chu Qing raised her head in surprise when she heard this, and hurriedly said, "Lady...... Chu Qing is not that consciousness, the lady is not an outsider, no. ”

There was panic in the eager words.

Su Qiyi smiled when she heard this, and she said, "I don't mean anything else, I'm very happy that you can tell your family such a secret thing." I'm telling the truth. Your father and your aunt both died because of these books, and now you have enough strength to save them. ”

Chu Qing nodded, and her eyebrows lit up more and more.

"It's late at night. You've been walking around with me for a tiring day. Go get some rest early. Just let the half-incense come at night. Su Qi persuaded.

Chu Qing retreated, but said before going out: "Lady, I forgot to say it." My aunt and lady...... Much like that! ”

That night, Su Qi still didn't sleep peacefully, and finally she was relieved with her grandmother's comfort, but she didn't expect that after hearing Chu Qing's words, her heart, which had just calmed down, became noisy again, tossing and turning, until the drum of the third watch was beaten outside, and she closed her eyes slightly.

On the second day, it was naturally panda eyes.

Mrs. Su was very distressed, and after scattering the people around her, she took Su Qi's hand and said: "There was such a big thing in the General's Mansion back then, it was naturally difficult to investigate, not to mention that it also involved the emperor of Rende, so don't be reckless, find out that it can solve your current situation, it is naturally good, if you can't, don't force yourself too much, you also know the report at the end of last month, and now with such a big cash cow as Cenzhou Yujinfang, our small treasury has long been full. It's a big deal, when the time comes, grandmother and you will leave with the gold, the world is big, as long as there is gold by your side, what are our grandparents afraid of? ”

Su Qi was amused and sad when she heard it, knowing that this was her grandmother comforting her, but she was still happy to hear it, no matter what time it was, her grandmother was still reluctant to let her suffer a little.

But Su Qi couldn't let himself get by like this, not to mention that what his grandmother said were all comforting words, in fact, even if their grandparents and grandchildren had a lot of silver and gold by their side, if the old emperor of Rende didn't let go for a day, Su Qi was afraid that even if he fled to the ends of the earth, he would inevitably be arrested back to the imperial capital again, so if he wanted real freedom in the future, he could only grit his teeth and continue to work hard today!

Although Chu Qing didn't find any clues in the books that he swore to preserve, what Chu Qing said gave a good clue, that is to say, her mother went straight to Chuxiu Palace back then, and it was probably for these books that her father asked Chu Qing's beautiful aunt to keep? Then why didn't my mother bring these books back after she arrived at Chuxiu Palace? And is the old emperor Rende also because of these books, so he wants to execute the beauties of Chuxiu Palace, and why Chu Qing's father is so incognito, and in the end, he can't escape death? Is it all for the sake of a few books called "Theory of Self-cultivation"?

She still couldn't figure it out, couldn't figure it out.

There must be some secrets in those books that they haven't discovered, is it a big secret related to the survival of the Great Yue Kingdom, the ranking of the masters of the rivers and lakes, and the Jiangshan Sheji?

Su Qi thought, in modern times, aren't all those novels and TV series written and acted like this? Otherwise, why did the Emperor Rende want to get it so much?

Phew! Emperor Rende may just want to get his mother Wang Yulin until the end of his life, maybe these books are just some excuses, what's wrong with her, her brain is open?

No, you can't be so cranky, otherwise don't say that she is next month, even in the second half of her life, she Su Muli is afraid that she will not be able to find out the truth.

Su Qi told Murong Qin what Chu Qing said.

Murong Qin smiled and said that he had known it for a long time.

Su Qicai realized afterwards that Chu Qing's sister and brother were originally rescued by him, so he naturally knew the origin of their sister and brother, as for the beauty in the palace, even if Murong Qin didn't know it back then, he must have found out early in the past few years.

"I didn't say anything about the beauties of Chuxiu Palace yesterday, because I wasn't sure for a while, Chuxiu Palace sealed two beauties at the same time, one said that he entered the cold palace, but the other didn't know where he ended up, Chu Qing has always been a man of few words, since it was sad in the past, I don't want to ask more."

"If she can say it, we will at least have one more clue."

Su Qi also thinks so, but the clues seem to be broken again in those books.

It wasn't until she got out of Xizhimen and got into the carriage that she remembered that she had just said those books, why didn't Murong Qin ask her if she had found anything in the books? Why didn't he ask a word, as if he was deciding that she couldn't find anything from Chu Qing's books, but why did Murong Qin conclude like this?

Su Qiyi frowned for a while.

Something flashed in her heart, Su Qi wanted to catch it, but when the carriage flickered, she couldn't think of anything.

Forget it, Ah Qin will not lie to Ah Qi no matter what he says, and now that the two of them are like grasshoppers in the same boat, Ah Qin has no reason to deceive her.

Su Qi thought about it and loosened his frowning forehead.

In the Xizhi Gate, the door of the small study is closed.

"Childe, can you go and warn Chu Qing?" Shao Gong asked in a low voice.

Murong Qin clenched the black water jade chess piece in his hand, and his face was gloomy. Unexpectedly, Chu Qing's girl even told Su Qi such a secret thing as herself, only he and Shao Gong knew about these things, and he did not hesitate to deal with the secret guard that he had done back then, for fear of leaking the secret secret one day.

It seems that I really underestimated that girl!

"How long has Chu Qing been in the General's Mansion?" , Murong Qin asked coldly.

"Less than three months." Shao Gong replied.

Trimester...... Less, Chu Qing has been by his side since he was ten years old, Shao Gong's martial arts, the literature he personally enlightened, and then accidentally discovered by Jiu Neng Guoshi, the second person after him Murong Qin to be praised as a martial arts wizard, Murong Qin focused on cultivating her martial arts, and personally taught her the poisoning technique in "The Language of the Witch God" when she was thirteen years old!

It can be said that Chu Qing is the one he has spent the most effort on among all his Murong Qin's secret guards, and he is also the one who pays the most attention to cultivating, if it weren't for Su Qi's safety issues, how could he send this girl to the General's Mansion?

I can't imagine that there will be such a situation today!

She ...... Is it that if you are admonished, you will be obedient? Murong Qin asked rhetorically.

When Shao Gong heard this, he immediately lowered his head.

If Chu Qing were such an obedient character, they would not have such a headache today.

"I remember, Chu Qing's younger brother, Chu Xin, should still be a companion boy in Guozijian, but what is the situation of that child now?" Murong Qin asked.

"Exactly, Chu Xin was sent to Guozijian at the beginning of this year to be a little scholar, the child is well-behaved and obedient, Mr. Jiaoshu said that he is talented and intelligent, and he is a good boy who is good at reading, and some time ago he also asked Chen Bo if he wants to stay in Guozijian to study in the future."

"I'm not asking you this."

Before Shao Gong's words could be finished, he was interrupted by Murong Qin's voice.

When Shao Gong heard this, he didn't know how to answer for a while.

Sent to Guozijian, although it is to accompany the reading, but it is still indispensable to have something to do with reading, what does the son want to ask if he doesn't ask this?

"You let people take a look these days, be more secretive, I remember that the child has a cough and asthma, Chu Qing is a little idle, you can just find something for her to do." Murong Qin said in a gloomy voice.

Shao Gong stood with his head down, "Yes." (To be continued.) )