While studying the trick in Bei Juese, Concubine Yun took out a small agarwood box from the cabinet. She walked back, gently placed the wooden box on the table, and opened it. Uncovering several layers of cloth in the box, a dark green cloth bag appeared in front of him.

Concubine Yun took out the cloth bag and glanced at Bei Jue Se before slowly opening the cloth bag and carefully pouring out the contents inside. She held the jade pendant up in front of Bei Jue's eyes and asked, "Have you ever seen an identical jade pendant?" ”

Bei Juese looked seriously at Concubine Yun's hand, and it turned out to be a thumb-sized, red and emerald flower-shaped jade pendant, the red place was just five large petals, and the stamens, flower body, and the circle at the bottom were emerald green. The image of this flower looks very similar to the flower embroidered on Yun Taifei's clothes.

After looking at the flower-shaped jade pendant for a while, Bei Juese shook his head and said affirmatively: "I haven't seen it." ”

Concubine Yun asked in disbelief: "I really haven't seen it?" She pushed the jade pendant forward a few points, "You can see clearly!" ”

Bei Juese still replied with certainty: "I haven't seen it." ”

"Haven't seen it?" Concubine Yun repeated this sentence while looking straight at Bei Juese, as if she wanted to see a clue from his face, and in the end, she didn't see anything wrong, and she took back the jade in disappointment and held it in her palm.

Bei Juese saw her strange look in her eyes, and couldn't help but ask curiously: "Concubine Yun, why do you want to ask the slave if he has ever seen such a jade pendant?" Does it have any special significance or use? ”

Concubine Yun sighed lightly, slowly opened her palm, and stared at the jade pendant lying quietly on her palm. After a long while, she raised her head and looked into Bei's stunning eyes, and asked softly, "Do you know what kind of flower this is?" ”

I don't know why Concubine Baiyun asked this, Bei Juese was stunned and then shook his head and said, "I don't know." "Although his master Western Changshi is said to have traveled all over the world and embroidered all kinds of different flowers in the world, Bei Juese has also seen the Western Changshi embroidered the snow lotus in the Western Regions, the cherry blossoms of Fusang, and the poppy of the Great Moon Kingdom, but he has never seen the Western Changshi embroidered the kind of flower that Concubine Yun asked.

Concubine Yun looked at the flower-shaped jade pendant and said, "This flower is a flower that grows on a tree called 'Red Cotton', and its name is 'Red Cotton', dazzling red, with large and thick petals. The red cotton tree is the national tree of my homeland, and the red cotton tree has rightfully become the national flower. Because of the red cotton, my homeland was named 'Nanmian' at the beginning of the founding of the country. In the South Cotton Country, every household grows the Red Cotton Tree, and you can see the Red Cotton Tree in the South Cotton Country on both the streets and alleys. Every year in the spring when the red cotton is in full bloom, the whole southern cotton country is full of brilliant and dazzling red; In the summer, when the Kapok tree bears fruit, the cotton wool fluttering in the wind floats over the head and rubs it around from time to time. In the spring and summer of the Kapok Country, everything looks so beautiful, and it is extremely unreal. Speaking the truth, Concubine Yun stopped and raised her eyes to look out the window into the distance, and gradually lost her mind, as if she was caught in the memories of the past.

Bei Juese, who was listening carefully, couldn't help but whisper to her: "Concubine Yun? ”

Concubine Yun came back to her senses, smiled apologetically towards the north, and continued: "In Nanmian Country, the place where you can see the most beautiful scenery is the Feifeng Pavilion, the highest in Nanmian Palace; The best place to find jade is Qianlong Mountain in the north; The jade craftsmen who can make the best jade are the Ning clan who have lived on Qianlong Mountain for generations. I don't know if you have heard these things about Nanmian Country, Xiaobei Gonggong? ”

Bei Juese shook his head and said, "The slave never knew that there was a country called 'Nanmian', so how could he have heard of something related to this country?" "Ever since he stepped into here and faced Concubine Shangyun, he had only shaken his head. I really couldn't figure out what kind of medicine was sold in Concubine Yun's gourd, so I called him over and kept asking some questions that he couldn't answer, what kind of red cotton jade pendant, I don't know which direction of Nanmian Country, what did she want to know from herself?

"Haven't you heard of it?" Concubine Yun smiled indifferently and put her gaze back on the jade pendant, "I still remember that year was when the kapok bloomed the most brilliantly. Looking down from the Feifeng Pavilion, the entire Nanmian Capital City is hidden in a sea of red flowers, which is extremely gorgeous. On that day, the best jade craftsmen of the Ning clan came to offer jade to the monarch of Nanmian who was still the crown prince back then. It was a pair of almost identical red cotton-shaped jade pendants, carved from the blood-colored jade that was a specialty of Qianlong Mountain, and the most brilliant and beautiful posture of the red cotton was vividly expressed between the red and jade. The prince was overjoyed, rewarded the jade craftsman, and gave the pair of red cotton jade pendants to two people, one was his new wife Yuehua County Lord, and the other was me, who was like a brother and sister to him. The lord of Yuehua couldn't put down the jade pendant and kept wearing it closely. And as far as I know, I know that on the day she was killed, the jade pendant never left her. But later, when we found her body, not only did we find that the child in her womb was gone, but the flower-shaped jade pendant was also missing. ”

Concubine Yun paused, raised her head to look at Bei Juese, and then said: "When I saw you at the birthday banquet, I had such an inexplicable thought: that is, you who look exactly like the Lord of Yuehua County are likely to be the child in the womb of the Lord of Yuehua back then, or there was some miracle, you were rescued, and the person who saved you took the jade pendant away." ”

Although Concubine Yun's idea is not necessarily 100% impossible, for Bei Juese, Concubine Yun's idea is like a nonsensical talk that is difficult for him to agree with. First, he absolutely believed in what the master said; Second, he has never seen the flower-shaped jade pendant on Concubine Yun's hand, let alone the "red cotton", the national flower of the Southern Cotton Country.

He was so uncomfortable that he was stared directly by Concubine Yun's gaze, he moved his head to the side, not daring to make any eye contact with Concubine Yun, and after thinking about it, he said, "Or, or...... Didn't you say that the lord of Yuehua was killed when he met a bandit? Perhaps, she, her valuable items and the jade pendant were searched by those thieves. ”

Concubine Yun looked at Bei Jue's eyes and became excited, and said, "Do you know about the robbery of the Yuehua County Lord back then? ”

Afraid of causing unnecessary misunderstandings again, Bei Juese hurriedly explained: "I, the slave only found out last night, and it was Gonggong Bai in the agricultural courtyard who told the slave. ”

Concubine Yun retracted her gaze and said in an affirmative tone, "It can't be that she was searched by bandits." In that disaster back then, except for me, all the people, not only all the entourage of the Yuehua County Lord, but also all the bandits died. ”

"All dead?" Bei Juese raised his head in surprise, "Even all the bandits are dead?" How so? ”

Concubine Yun took a deep breath and said, "That day, our convoy was surrounded by bandits. The group of thieves was not only fierce, but also strong in martial arts, and it didn't take long for the accompanying guards and maids to be killed. In a desperate situation, the Lord of Yuehua and I abandoned the car and fled under the protection of my brother-in-law, but we could not run for long, and the Lord of Yuehua and we were separated in the chaos. My brother asked me to flee to a safe place to find help, and I went back to find the lord of Yuehua.

I ran as hard as I could, I don't know how long, and finally I ran into a caravan. With the help of the merchants, I quickly reported to the authorities, and the government immediately sent all the officials to follow me to the place where the incident occurred.

When I got there, I didn't see anyone alive, only blood and corpses all over the ground. On that day, the lord of Yuehua died, and so did my brother-in-law. They died horribly, and that horrific scene still appears in my dreams from time to time to this day. ”