Chapter 608: Ding An's Last Words
"It's a little too hot in this room, Miss Cheng, do you want to open the window?"
Saying this nutritious nonsense in his mouth, Yue Qianqiu decisively ended his hesitation, reached out and took the silk book directly. It took him a moment of effort to figure out the stakes, and everyone else took out everything, can he still help him? Anyway, it's unlikely that this clumsy method will be used to poison, so let's see what tricks Cheng Qianqian or the people behind her are playing!
When he started with the silk book, he saw that the texture was yellow and old, most of them were old things that had been put for many years, and he had a point in his heart. After all, if it has really been stored for so many years, there is a good chance that the content on it will be repeated again and again. Fortunately, he has had enough of all kinds of secret shocks in recent days, and he will not be surprised even if people directly say that he is the emperor.
Yue Qianqiu casually unfolded the silk book, but when he saw the title of his head clearly, his face froze instantly. It turns out that this is not something that is very likely to kill people such as the secret decree assigned to anyone, but the first two words on the header are not trivial. Because that's ......
Future generations!
Almost immediately, he forced himself to empty all distractions, and looked intently at the sudden and inexplicable letter.
"Qianqiu, when I saw this letter, I wanted to come to you to know the person, but not the background. My name is Ding An, and I once served as the Empress Wenwu of Dayan as the Shang Palace, and kept the queen's seal. β
In order to calm the pounding heart at this time, Yue Qianqiu couldn't help but take his eyes off the silk book and glanced at Cheng Qianqian. I saw her sitting there quietly like a clay sculpture, with a pale face, cold eyes, and pursed lips, looking like a delicate but expressionless porcelain doll, completely lifeless, and she didn't even react much to his sharp gaze.
Soon, he retracted his mind and continued to read the letter: "I once traveled to Jinling in Southern Wu with the queen, and then took you to live in the market. After living for more than a month, three times the dead were assassinated, knowing that you and I were afraid of not being protected, so I secretly reported to the Southern Wu Household Department Shangshu Yue Taichang, and Yang Qi returned home with you and raised you as a grandson. The queen used to have an appointment with the Yue family, so the Yue family agreed, and I can die. β
Faced with these few words that were too much information, Yue Qianqiu forced himself to look away again and took a deep breath. The person who wrote the letter not only claimed to be Ding An, but also explained the origin clearly, and the experience after arriving in Jinling was also condensed into a few words, revealing that the former queen of Beiyan once had a secret agreement with the old lady Yue!
Compared with revealing his life experience directly as soon as he comes up, this kind of narrative technique is too clever, well, give it a thumbs up.
He joked with himself and tempered the agitated mood at this momentβit was not so much excitement about his own background, but rather a curiosity about to learn the secret, even if he knew that it was likely to be a hoax in the endβbut before continuing to read the silk book that looked like a suicide note, he coughed at Cheng Qianqian again.
"Since Miss Cheng, you don't want to open the window, the tea on this coffee table should be cold, do you want me to pour a cup of hot tea?"
Yue Qianqiu, who had nothing to say, saw that Cheng Qianqian was silent, and he didn't have time to investigate whether she had no intention of cooperating with him to act, or if there was any other reason why he was reluctant to speak, anyway, he played his role temporarily, and in a short period of time, he didn't have to worry about the few people who were interrogating the assassin outside to break in, and he was still distracted.
Soon, calming down, he lowered his head and continued to sweep the dense words.
"Empress Wenwu has lofty aspirations, but the plan is too big, I can't agree, it is the righteousness of the master and servant for more than ten years, and finally parted ways. The queen had traveled to Wuyue, met with Emperor Wu, a night of spring dinner, returned to Yan to see Emperor Yan at the border, and had a son for more than two months. However, this son is the son of Emperor Wu, or the son of Emperor Yan, because the queen was born prematurely when she gave birth, although I know about the witnesses, I don't know. On the day of delivery, I retired for the queen and entered the delivery room, but I saw two sons. β
Seeing this, Yue Qianqiu finally couldn't help but raise his head and wipe the sweat from his forehead, not to mention that the corners of his mouth twitched, and his heart was about to twitch. That should be the dead Queen of Beiyan, how much do you know how to toss? Did this give birth to twins, or did he already hold a spare tire in advance and go into the ecstasy? Even if you have to hide your own henchmen, what kind of suspicious person do you have to be?
Thinking so in his heart, he had already determined what he would see next. But even so, he was completely shocked, and he saw that the next sentence was: "One of the sons, the queen is named Qianqiu." Life is also a thousand years, death is also a thousand years, and a long time is also a thousand years, which is you. β
Yue Qianqiu only felt a heart throb violently. If he was really the baby who was carried back by the old lady Yue in his infancy, when he saw this sentence, even if he didn't want anything else, he would feel that the name Empress Beiyan was really timeless, and it would definitely not be as vibrating as he was at this moment.
Because until now, he still remembers the words that Old Lady Yue had said when he named himself. And except for the sedan chair driver, the person who followed the sedan chair, and Yue Ying, he believed that this sentence would never be able to be spread.
Over the years, he had pestered his grandfather half-truthfully and asked why he was named Qianqiu in the first place, but he never got an answer, and every time the cunning old lady Yue hid or used other words to perfunctory him.
And now, this sentence that he kept in his heart appeared again in this silk letter. Unless the old lady Yue and Yue Ying are not tight-lipped, or those few insiders leak the news, there is only this possibility mentioned in the letter - his name was not given by grandpa!
However, the other son, the queen, was not named, and stayed by his side, and you were sent away as soon as possible. When she arrived in Jinling, the queen sent her attendant to send her other son away, but she brought you back again. Your appearance and sideburns and red moles, I still remember deeply, but I am close to the queen, saying that this folk abandoned baby was brought back because of pity. Therefore, I angrily reprimanded the servants for lying and deceiving the lord, but the queen also insisted that it was not her own son, and ordered it to be given to the people. I was in a hurry, hugged you far away, and then there were many dead soldiers, I was unable to deal with it, so I entrusted it to the Yue clan. β
At this point, the cause and effect are clear, but they don't say anything, Yue Qianqiu gently rubbed his eyebrows, thinking that this is really a toss. He casually glanced at the last few words, then pinched his chin thoughtfully.
"Emperor Wu in the past had the heart to swallow the world, but he had no power to deter civil and military forces; The Yue family has the ambition of the auxiliary master to dominate the world, but it is a pity that he was born from a humble background and has not had a lot of party members; Emperor Yan also has the wish to set the world, but he is arrogant by nature and does not care about civil and military affairs. And Nanwu is not Dayan, the minister has the minister's way, and the king has the king's way, so the queen decided to go south because she was pregnant with Liujia in Dayan, and her body was unable to support. β
"When you see this book today, you should know that your life is strange. Whether it is the queen's son, the son of Emperor Yan, or the son of Emperor Wu, the son of a beloved man, you have to live, and you should be cautious and self-protective in everything, and hide and forbear. Remember that peace is a blessing, do not involve the emperor's family. β
"Ding An's last pen."
Yue Qianqiu subconsciously grabbed the silk book tightly, then let go of his hand again, and little by little folded the suicide note, which was as thin as a cicada's wings, but with earnest intentions, and put it into his arms, and then stepped forward and walked to Cheng Qianqian. He dipped his tea on the coffee table and said, "On whose orders did you send me a letter?" When did this letter get into your bracelet? Have you ever seen it? β
Cheng Qianqian did not continue to write with tea, but closed the bracelet, and then sent the bracelet that could not be restored to its original state to Yue Qianqiu.
Such a trivial matter, Yue Qianqiu will not be polite, immediately took it over and fiddled with it for a while, and found that in addition to the middle groove on the half of the bracelet, there are small grooves on the four points of the circle, and the other half of the bracelet can vaguely see that there was a bulge, and now the protrusion has been smoothed out, he saw that there were crumbs in Cheng Qianqian's seat, and he had a rough guess in his heart.
When he was sure that the bracelet could not be restored after it was opened, he raised his eyebrows, and directly pinched the bracelet in his hand and did not return it. And the next moment, he saw Cheng Qianqian's fingertips dipped in water and drew a few words.
"The bracelet was given by the eldest princess."
Yue Qianqiu's eyes widened. What about liars! Dongyang Changgong mainly sent a letter to him, there are a thousand and ten thousand methods, absolutely unaware, not letting him know who sent it, and then use it to turn his hand through Cheng Qianqian? Unless...... The eldest princess of Dongyang is not so clean, and people come in, but this possibility is too low.
He didn't bother to guess, so he just looked at Cheng Qianqian, waiting for the other party to reveal the mystery by himself. After all, if you don't want to say it, people won't use practical actions to say that the bracelet is just a one-time storage tool, let alone find out that the thing was given by the eldest princess of Dongyang.
"The bracelet is an old thing of the Cheng family, and the eldest princess sent the Cheng family's belongings that have not yet been burned to the box, and I chose this thing and two hairpins and a few handkerchiefs to keep as a souvenir."
This answer is basically reasonable, and Yue Qianqiu only needs to think about Cheng Qianqian's situation in the princess's mansion like being under residential surveillance, and she knows that if she really opened the bracelet and read the letter, then it would be absolutely impossible to restore the thing. Because she couldn't find the materials to fix it.
Well, now there is only one problem left. Who told her that there was a letter hidden in the bracelet, and who asked Cheng Qianqian to give it to him?
"The letter hidden in the bracelet is what my biological mother said in her suicide note, which was with me for many years, but it was accepted by my grandmother before this trip."
With a wipe of his hand, all the water droplets on the coffee table fell to the ground, and Cheng Qianqian dipped in the water again and continued to write.
"Mother's suicide note clearly said that the bracelet contains books, and it will be given to the Baimen Yue family, and the more thousand years."
Yue Qianqiu didn't bother to pursue Cheng Qianqian's words, how much was true. He looked down at the bracelet in his hand, knowing that there was only one problem that was the most troublesome at the moment. This bracelet that was neatly cut in half from the middle, how did it repair it and return it to Cheng Qianqian? The next moment, he suddenly had an idea, and simply returned to the chair by the door and sat down as if he were riding a horse.
At this time, he could hear that the outside world was continuing to interrogate the assassins, Chen Wuliang and Yan Xu Du Bailou were simply fatigued bombardment, and endless questions were thrown out, and they couldn't hear the voices of the little fat man Li Chongming's uncle and nephew at all, and they had clearly become spectators, so he faced Cheng Qianqian and raised his eyebrows slightly.
"Speaking of which, how did Miss Cheng get to you with the Zhu Kill Post that Miss Cheng showed before? If I'm not mistaken, in the car that Master took you in later, there were two maids guarding you every step of the way, and when the eldest princess took you out before, she also said that there was another mystery in the carriage, and even if someone touched you, you would be chased. So, when you received that Zhu Kill post, others didn't notice it at all? β
Yue Qianqiu knew very well that the reason why no one asked this question when she was in the Yue family before was because of Yan Xu's arrival, and the eldest princess of Dongyang cared about the choice that her son suddenly made was too late, where could she take care of anything else? Besides, even if she realized that she thought that Yan Xu was about to take charge alone, she deliberately didn't mention it, and let Yan Xu ask herself, this possibility was very likely.
Therefore, at this moment, he simply clarified this issue on behalf of the master. As for after asking...... Hehe, the person who was able to send Zhu Kill Ti to Cheng Qianqian's hands unknowingly made her silently drop a bracelet on her hand, is there anything strange about this? Even if you turn around and catch that person, it's okay if people don't admit it, anyway, if it's gone, it's gone!
What Yue Qianqiu can think of, Cheng Qianqian is not a dull-minded fool, of course she can think of it. It's just that she obviously didn't have any intention of revealing Qianqiu, and answered calmly according to his question at the moment.
"On the way to Yuefu with the eldest princess, we encountered a startled horse, and the attention of the entourage and the guards was attracted to it. The driver hurriedly stopped because he couldn't avoid it, and I hit my head in the car, and even the door was knocked open. At that time, there was a maid in the car with me, but in an emergency, although she pulled me, the car door still opened, and several people approached. That Zhu killing post should have arrived in my sleeve at that time, and I also lost a bracelet, which was a relic of the Cheng family that the eldest princess had just given me. β
Yue Qianqiu immediately hid the broken bracelet in his arms almost without thinking, and then gave Cheng Qianqian a thumbs up. And when he settled down, he smiled and rested his chin on the hand resting on the back of his chair.
"Then the last question, such a big thing, why don't you say it in the first place?"
Cheng Qianqian casually threw the teapot that had just been dipped in water and writing on the ground. With that bang, she saw that the door curtain was suddenly knocked open, and she saw that it was Li Yiming and Li Chongming's uncle and nephew who poked her head in, so she sneered.
"Is the ninth prince trying a prisoner? If yes, I might as well be honest. The eldest princess wanted to lure the snake out of the hole, but compared to me who immediately noticed the clue and shouted on the street, causing chaos, naturally I pretended not to notice, which made it easier for people to think that they had succeeded, and then revealed their flaws! I've been in the Princess's Mansion for a long time, and if you think I'll be able to get that kind of special paint early, write something and hide it on my body, or collude with people inside and out, you can put me on trial like the assassin outside! β
The little fat man and Li Chongming looked at the back of Yue Qianqiu's head almost in unison, one was a little angry, and the other was a little admired.
How did helping people to rest in the house with dignity evolve into interrogating prisoners?
And at this moment, a loud cough came from behind the two royal teenagers, and immediately after, the two of them were grabbed by the collars, and then they were unceremoniously carried aside. Yan Xu, who walked into the room, walked past the chair he was sitting on as if he hadn't seen Yue Qianqiu, and walked to Cheng Qianqian.
"Miss Cheng, just because of that assassin, I ignored your side. Originally, Du Zhutou and I invited you to come just for the Cheng family's affairs. Not only did Du Zhutou chase a suspected murderer, but Honghu Shuangchou was finally willing to speak, and your maid, they provided some very important information, how about you go with me and Du Zhutou to meet them now? β
As soon as these words came out, Li Chongming and the little fat man, who had experienced being carried away by their collars for the first time and for the Nth time, shouted in unison: "I'll go too!" β
Without waiting for the two to stare at each other, Du Bailou, who came over in the next step, agreed instead of Yan Xu: "His Royal Highness the King of England and Prince Jiawang will come together, the scene is not too suitable for girls for a while, you can give Qianqian a strong courage." β
Yue Qianqiu saw Yan Xu looking at himself, and he immediately shook his head like a rattle. Compared with Cheng Qianqian's side, he was more interested in the assassin who wanted his life, anyway, what really happened, Yan Xu would tell him. What's more, there are still very terrible things hidden in his arms right now, and his mind is in a mess!