Chuxiu Palace——

Concubine Xu swallowed the last mouthful of bitter medicine soup and wrinkled her eyebrows.

Gu Yunxi presented the candied fruit and was gently pushed away by Concubine Xu.

Qingpa dipped the corner of her lips, and Concubine Xu sighed:

"I didn't expect Zhao Cairen to be straightforward and fast-talking, but he acted viciously. Now that he has been sentenced, the five clans are not allowed to enter the palace gate for half a step for eternity, which can be regarded as deserved. It's just that there is one less Zhao Cairen, and this harem will never stop cheating. ”

"Niangniang, someone wants to borrow a knife to kill someone, but Zhao Cairen is just a blade."

"Oh?"

Concubine Xu was stunned, her eyes stared straight at Gu Yunxi's tense face, and she looked stunned:

"Xiao Yexuan is in trouble with snakes, could it be that there is another hidden story behind it?"

Gu Yunxi nodded, looking around with vigilant eyes. Seeing Concubine Xu stretching out her hand to signal her to come closer, she went over and whispered in her ear for a while.

After hearing this, Concubine Xu's eyes widened suddenly, she thought for a moment, and said with a solemn brow:

"This chain of tricks is wonderful! If it was Gu Yunjin again, with her brain, there would be someone behind her. ”

Gu Yunxi took two steps back and sneered:

"It's nothing more than the Admiral of the West Factory. Recently, it is inconvenient for the mother to greet the queen and the imperial concubine, and the servants who sent fruits and cakes to the two palaces according to your instructions came back and said that they could always see the master of the Ming Governor in the Yongning Palace. ”

Concubine Xu raised her eyebrows, raised her eyes, and sighed:

"The palace was originally calm, and I always thought about everything, this harem is the emperor's harem, and there will be new people settled in every year. Shaohua is fleeting, and the palace can't change this kind of fate, if there is a newcomer who can replace the palace to serve the emperor, it will naturally be better.

However, Gu Yunjin was arrogant and did things without fear. Relying on the blessing of the Wan family in the front and the support of the West Factory in the back, he became more and more reckless, and actually made a fuss about Lin'er in the palace. In this way, this palace must not sit idly by! ”

The sonorous words fell into Gu Yunxi's ears, she folded her hands and lowered her eyebrows obediently, and her eyes gradually turned cold.

Obedient and obedient, she didn't need more instructions from Concubine Xu, she already knew what to do next.

Coming out of the main hall, Gu Yunxi was dragged by Lan Xin before he stepped into the small kitchen, and was pulled back to the ear room all the way.

Closing the doors and windows tightly, Lan's heart was mysterious:

"Twilight Xue, last time you asked Brother Fan about it, he asked for you."

"Really?"

Gu Yunxi had other things in his heart, he was listless, but when he heard his friend say this, his eyes suddenly lit up and became shining:

"I've been entrusting you for a long time, and I thought you had forgotten!"

Lan Xin shook his head:

"Because the two things are too confidential, it always takes a lot of effort to find someone to interrogate. It's just that you trust me, no matter how difficult it is, I will also ask Brother Fan to help you do it. ”

Gu Yunxi was grateful and moved, thanked him too much, and began to urge Lan Xin to speak quickly.

Lan Xin tightened her brows at this moment, her eyes were silent, she swept over Gu Yunxi's serious face, and fell to the ground:

"Let's talk about the Gongnu case two years ago. According to the people of the forbidden army, seven tribute girls were lost in a spring banquet, and Dongchang ran all over the country to find only two. It's also pitiful, not to mention that the body is dirty, one is crazy and the other is dumb, the emperor did not give the two of them the death penalty in order to accumulate blessings for the little prince, and sent people to the emperor's tomb, and sent them to the old eunuch who guarded the spirit to form a pair......"

"Emperor's Tomb! Seriously? ”

Before Lan Xin finished speaking, Gu Yunxi shouted in surprise, and grabbed Lan Xin's jade wrist with both hands.

Lan Xin felt that her hands were strangled and painful, and she whispered continuously, looking pained.

Gu Yunxi hurriedly loosened his fingers when he saw it, and apologized with a red face:

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I—I'm so excited! ”

How could Gu Yunxi not be excited?

The only familiar face she saw in the stone house where she had been held for a year was Bao Ting, a tribute girl who had been rescued by the Dongchang Ti Cavalry from thousands of miles to return home.

That is to say, the final destination of the tribute girl after her return is the shelter of the damned masked man.

Lan Xin didn't know much about the various small thoughts buried in her friend's heart, so she just rubbed her wrist and nodded firmly to confirm:

"Yes, I went to the Emperor's Tomb, northwest of the suburbs of Beijing, the Emperor's Tomb in the Hidden Mountain!"

Gu Yunxi secretly memorized the place name, and immediately asked:

"What about Pei Ruyi? What can be found out about her background? ”

Lan Xin sat down at the table, poured herself a glass of water and drank it all in a big gulp, wiped her mouth, and continued:

"Oh, that man was on an errand in the palace many years ago, and he was the head of the dining room, and he was ordered to marry Zheng Guogong......"

Gu Yunxi's expression was so agitated that he forgot to breathe, and interrupted Lan Xin in a trembling voice:

"Wait, wait! What did you just say...... Zheng Guogong, who is it! ”

Even if Pei Ru is her own mother, she married Zheng Guogong, isn't that man ...... Own father!

Who is he, Gu Yunxi naturally wants to find out.

Lan Xin's face was difficult, and there was a little fear between her tight eyebrows, and she waved her hand at Gu Yunxi again and again:

"You inquired about all the things that were forbidden in the palace, and Brother Fan didn't say it clearly. He only told me that Zheng Guogong was the favorite of the former emperor, and he made countless military exploits in the army at a young age, and was awarded the title of prince with a different surname.

However, after Zheng Guogong offended people, the whole family was slaughtered overnight, which became a major unsolved case in the capital more than ten years ago......"

Lan Xin really didn't dare to continue, she found that her friend's face was terrifyingly white at this time.

"Twilight, are you alright?"

Lan Xin's lips trembled, and she looked at Gu Yunxi in surprise with a stunned expression, and then her hands and feet trembled as if she had been struck by lightning, and her eyes rolled up.

Lan Xin rushed forward to help her to the head of the bed, helped dig out the rouge box of the hibiscus flower, and dipped a finger of brown ointment to feed her.

Gu Yunxi leaned on Lan Xin's body and breathed a sigh of relief, and his little face with cold sweat regained his blood color.

Just now, the extreme ups and downs of emotions induced Gu Yunxi's drug addiction to work, but fortunately, the cold fu paste was swallowed in time, and the drug addiction was suppressed.

For a moment, she was "happy that she had a father and a mother" and that she was no longer an orphan.

At the same moment, she heard that the murder was all over the place, the murderer was unknown, and the blow of suddenly falling from the clouds to hell was too strong for her to accept for a while, and she couldn't distinguish the truth from the fake.

After a while, Gu Yunxi lowered his head and asked weakly:

"Have you ever found out...... Who killed Zheng Guogong's family? ”

"This ......"

Lan Xin was frightened and scorched, and kept shaking his head:

"Twilight, Brother Fan and I really did our best. Some old things are taboo in the palace, Brother Fan risked his life to ask these things, and we told all of them. ”

Gu Yunxi's facial features were numb, and he shook his hands and turned over the cabinet, and took out a bag of silver from the bottom of the box and stuffed it to Lan Xin.

Lan Xin was shocked and angry, and threw the money bag back, her cheeks bulging with redness:

"What are you doing!"

Gu Yunxi was stunned, and his expression was somewhat restrained:

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean anything else. Brother Fan helped me find out such important information, drinking wine and eating tea must have made money, I can't ask him to contribute and pay! ”

"Good friends don't talk about this, and I'll be anxious with you if you do it again!"

Lan Xin helped Gu Yunxi put away the money bag and looked at her worriedly:

"Twilight, why are you looking into these palace taboos?"

"You don't care so much, I'm also helping people."

Gu Yunxi's eyes flickered without attention, and he lied vaguely.

Lan Xin pouted and glanced at her:

"Okay, I'll go to work first."

Gu Yunxi was the only one left in the ear room.

She was silent, her mind racing.

Pei is like this, Lord Leng was a good friend when he was young, this person served in the palace dining room, and his cooking skills were excellent.

After marrying Zheng Guogong, he broke off his relationship with the governor and gave him "Treasures and Treasures" as a souvenir, but it was just ......

If I am the daughter of Zheng Guogong and Pei Ruyi, who killed my parents? How did I survive?

As if a ghost was a god, she thought of that dream, the strange dream full of murder and blood, which had tormented her for more than ten years.

Did Lord Leng save me?

It's because he loves my mother that he adopted me, spoiled me and protected me, right?

Suddenly, such a thought was like a stinger deeply inserted into Gu Yunxi's weak heart, causing her to suffocate in pain.

She felt that she would spend the rest of her life with this stinger, and it would be difficult to pull it out of her heart.

"Pei Ruyi, it's your mother."

"You don't care if he exists as someone's shadow?"

His Excellency's words hovered in his ears, following him like a shadow, and he couldn't erase it like a ghost.

Gu Yunxi couldn't bear to be disturbed, and his face became sad inch by inch. She hung her head in vain, and her ten fingers were inserted into her sideburns.

At this moment, she believed His Excellency's words, and Lord Leng loved her with affection for her mother.

Gu Yunxi has always been grateful to God for allowing her to meet the cold overlord, his gentleness and all his emotions for her made her firmly believe that it was his love for her.

It wasn't until today that she understands that there is an emotion in the world called "love house and wu".

In her eyes, love is not love, but pity.

Suddenly, the truth fell from the sky like a vast net covering the sky and the sun, blocking all warmth and sunlight, and her world sank into darkness.

She gradually lost her way......

——

That night, Gu Yunxi returned to that dream again.

At the age of five, she stood in the snow, surrounded by blood, fire, and dead bodies.

With a shout, Wen Renjun was wearing a hat on his head and slashing into view, waving a big knife in his hand.

The object in front of her was flipped, and as soon as she was lifted by him, a cold cold light flashed.

The moment she fell into the snow, she saw her half-amputated arm, and her vivid five fingers were aimed at her terrified face, and she trembled.

Stimulated, she looked up with a cry and saw the scarlet-eyed Lord of the Cold Overseer.

He was wearing a thousand-household official uniform, the long sword in his right hand was stained with blood, and he stared at Wen Renjun's broken left arm with a wicked face, and shouted to her in pain:

"Ruo'er—"