"Although our family has a strict order from Qingning Palace, no one outside the palace is allowed to enter the palace to see your mother. At that time, Li Da said that he was under the emperor's command, and he had important official business to ask your mother for verification in person, he was the first eunuch to be used by the first emperor, and our family did not dare not believe his words, so he personally brought your mother to see him in this duty room.

Our family still clearly remembers that Li Jinzhong retired from everyone and stayed in this room alone with your mother for a whole afternoon. It wasn't until the fixed shift time that our family saw your mother leave the room with red eyes. After Li Jinzhong saw your mother, he didn't stay for a moment, and returned to the capital overnight.

Afterwards, no matter how our family interrogated her, your mother never mentioned the content of the conversation she had with Li Jinzhong. Our family thought about it again and again, and finally decided to report this matter to Qingning Palace.

What our family never expected was that after Qingning Palace received the report, Furong Sizheng personally led a team of people to Jiucheng Palace immediately, and executed all the people in Jiucheng Palace who knew your mother's details except for our family, leaving no one alive. ”

Speaking of this, Dong Laocheng wiped his eyes with his sleeve, obviously full of sadness and sadness. Lai Xing'er was also shocked when she heard it: Is there any major secret hidden in her mother? Otherwise, why would Fleur kill so indiscriminately.

"After Furong slaughtered, she specially told our family supervisor to take care of your mother, and she would take your mother away from Jiucheng Palace the next day.

Our family was frightened and frightened at the time, so we had no choice but to go and guard your mother in person. It was on that night that your mother committed suicide by swallowing silver......"

Lai Xing'er heard that her heart was like a knife, and she felt unwilling, so she hurriedly asked: "Isn't it that you are personally guarding, why did my mother suddenly commit suicide?" ”

At this moment, a eunuch walked into the room with a bowl of hot soup cakes. Dong Laocheng sighed, pointed to the bowl of soup cakes and persuaded Xing'er to say: "Child, after a day's journey, let's eat the soup cakes first to cushion your hunger." You don't listen to the rest. ”

Lai Xing'er couldn't eat anything at this time, pushed the bowl aside, and anxiously urged: "You said that my mother died because of me, what is this for?" ”

"Speaking of which, your mother is worthy of being a famous lady, pretending to be a confidant, and she doesn't see anything unusual at all on the surface.

That night, she saw that our family was guarding her and refused to leave half a step, in fact, she already had the idea of suicide in her heart, but she pretended to be nothing, and deliberately started a family routine with our family.

Since she came to Jiucheng Palace, our family has never seen her so talkative, and we are also curious about what is different about her family background, which has attracted the powerful people in the capital to come here to kill her for her. So, he suppressed the fear in his heart and listened intently to what she said.

She first talked about your father, and then she talked about you in particular to our family. At that time, according to her, Li Jinzhong specially brought her news of you from the capital not long ago. Knowing that you were transferred from the stable courtyard to the East Palace and went on an errand with the prince, she was sincerely happy for you, and seemed to see in you the hope of restoring the reputation of the family and reviving the family style of the Lai family.

What makes our family feel most remorseful is that your mother took out a yellowed silk handkerchief from her sleeve as she spoke, and said to our family with a smile: "The sinner woman was surprised when she heard that the child had a chance, and she wrote a poem that night, written on this silk handkerchief, and I would like to ask the adults to go to Chang'an in the future, you might as well go to my child and give him this little poem of the sinner, which can be regarded as a little encouragement to him for the mother." ’

As soon as she said this, our family was suddenly alert, for fear that she would take the opportunity to transmit the message to the outside world, so he took the silk handkerchief from her hand and casually recited: "In the old days, Wang Xie Tang Qianyan flew into the homes of ordinary people. Once incarnated as an eagle and a dog, smiling at plum blossoms on lonely branches. ’

Lai Xing'er listened to the posthumous work left by her mother, and couldn't help but secretly wonder: The first two sentences of this little poem are borrowed from the famous sentences of the predecessors, implying that the family is in the middle, and it goes without saying;

The third sentence seems to refer to the fact that he was taken out of the idle yard by Li Jinzhong two years ago and infiltrated the East Palace as Empress Zhang's eyeliner;

Only this last sentence has a deep meaning, lonely dew means an orphan abandoned by his parents, the mother's name with a plum word, plum blossom is self-proclaimed, solitary dew and plum blossom together, it seems to have an ominous meaning, but what does the word laugh mean here?

He was guessing wildly, only to hear Dong Laocheng continue: "It's strange that our family is lonely and unheard. At that time, I saw a laughing word at the end of the poem, and mistakenly thought that the mother had expectations for her son, but unexpectedly, the laughter and filial piety were in harmony, and the meaning was actually to support the orphan......"

Lai Xing'er suddenly woke up: it turned out that her mother had the idea of going since she saw Li Jinzhong!

"It was this mistake that made most of our family's vigilance disappear, and your mother took advantage of our family's contemplation to ponder the poetry and quietly swallowed the silver ring on her hand......

The people under the Zhang family want you to come to Jiucheng Palace to see our family and listen to our family tell us about your mother's suicide. Have you ever wondered what their real intentions are? ”

Lai Xing'er recalled the scenes of Li Jinzhong deceiving herself, gritted her teeth and said: "They want to tell me that Li Jinzhong single-handedly caused the death of his mother!" ”

Dong Laocheng nodded approvingly, and sighed: "Seeing that you are not as young as the weak crown, you are not confused at all when you encounter trouble!" For nearly three years, they kept our family from killing, so that our family could tell you in person that your mother was no longer alive three years ago. ”

Lai Xing'er was immersed in deep grief, where could he care to savor why Dong Laocheng would speak like this. After listening to the story of his mother's suicide, he just sat there in a daze, his mind blank.

"Alright, kid, see you tonight, we've said everything we need to say. It's getting late, so you can rest in this room for the night. Early tomorrow morning, our family will take you to your mother's grave to pay respects. Young man, you still have a long way to go, so remember that you must think twice about everything and do not act recklessly. ”

Dong Laocheng said and stood up.

Lai Xing'er provoked Ling Ling to shiver, woke up, and saw Dong Laocheng standing up to leave, and hurriedly asked: "The silk Pa that you just said wrote the poem of Jiaci's will is still there?" I want to ask for a souvenir below. ”

"Do you think Fleur will leave it with us?" Dong Laocheng asked coldly, and walked out of the duty room.

Although since Luo San'er suddenly appeared at the mouth of Duliu Lane in Chang'an, stopped him, and handed him the coil of hair, Lai Xing'er had a premonition that his mother was very likely to be dead. But when he arrived at Jiucheng Palace, once he got the exact news of his mother's death from Dong Laocheng's mouth, he still couldn't help but be discouraged, and he couldn't suppress the sadness and pain in his heart for a long time. (To be continued.) )