Hearing Xie San's words, Shen Jinglun still had a polite and detached smile on his face, and said calmly: "Xie Sanye is quick to talk, I will also tell you directly, you live in the inn closest to my house, most of it is because of this jade pendant, right?" As you know, the jade pendant in the brocade box was indeed bought by me from Feng Jiyang, but it was also not the one I was looking for. In fact, Feng Jiyang and I also became attached because of this jade pendant. ”

"What do you mean, you're also looking for Xie Chen?" Xie San chuckled sarcastically.

Shen Jinglun didn't care, and asked Xie San: "I don't know if the third master Xie Dao knows Lu Dao, where is the jade pendant you are looking for?" ”

Xie San didn't respond to his words, just took out a handkerchief from his arms and gently placed it on the table. As the silk veil slowly spread out, a delicate jade pendant appeared in their sight.

Although the shape, size, and even the patterns carved on the two jade pendants side by side are very similar, anyone can see at a glance that the texture of Xie San's jade pendants is more delicate and round, exquisite.

Shen Jinglun's eyes were fixed on Xie San's jade pendant, his expression became solemn and profound in an instant, and he continued to raise his head and said, "Lord Xie, should I call you Third Master Xie or Lord Xie next?" ”

"It's just a title." Xie San didn't deny it, nor did he admit it himself, but instead asked, "How does Uncle Shen know that the jade pendant I took out is not the one you are looking for?" ”

"It turns out that Third Master Xie took out the jade pendant to test the future." Shen Jinglun chuckled disdainfully, stood up and turned his back to Xie San, and stated word by word: "Don't hide it from Xie Sanye, ten years ago, I told Xie Houye." The little prince Xie Chen carried the jade pendant 'Peony Beauty' given to the first prince by the emperor. ”

Hear the words. Xie San clenched his fists violently. His eyes stared at Shen Jinglun's back. Before he could speak, he only heard Shen Jinglun say again: "As for the question that Third Master Xie just asked, it's very simple, if the jade pendant in your hand belongs to Little Master Xie Chen, it is impossible for you to be in Jizhou at this time, searching for his whereabouts everywhere, isn't it?" ”

"Then I will ask you again, why did Uncle Shen spend a lot of money to ask Feng Jiyang to retrieve this jade pendant? Is it because he is afraid that others will know the Tao? Did the first prince give you the 'Peony Beauty'? ”

"Third Master Xie, is your sentence also a temptation?" Shen Jinglun chuckled again, turned his back against the window frame, looked at Xie San and said, "As we all know, the emperor had a pair of jade pendants, and under the strong light, a green peony will appear in the jade pendant. More than 30 years ago, the former emperor gave one of the jade pendants to the former prince, who had not yet been canonized as the crown prince......"

"I know everything you say."

"Then do you know that Lu Dao, the jade pendant is from the maiden family of the former queen? The pair of jade pendants were side by side in the sun. Will a pair of peonies emerge side by side? Even, there were people in the capital who had a heart to spread it. The one who receives the jade pendant is the future lord of the world. ”

Under the sleeves, Xie San's fists clenched tighter, and his knuckles turned white. He naturally understood, Shen Jinglun was telling him that no matter how much the first prince favored him, even if Zhao Yi regarded him as his own brother, it was impossible to give him such a jade pendant.

Xie San didn't want to believe Shen Jinglun's words, but he knew better than anyone that thirteen years ago, the reason why the emperor's mother was charged with unchastity was because the first emperor gave her another jade pendant, which made the first queen jealous and wanted to get rid of their mother and son. A few days ago, the emperor casually gave him the jade pendant, saying that he would help him find Xie Chen, but in fact, the emperor always felt that this jade pendant killed his mother, caused him to live in exile for 13 years, and was assassinated countless times.

Before this moment, Xie San firmly believed that the jade pendant that Xie Minjun put on Xie Chen was a token of her and Shen Jinglun's love. This matter is only known to the parties and Yong'an Hou. Previously, Shen Jinglun asked the broker Feng to buy back a fake jade pendant with a huge amount of money, which was obviously his weak heart.

Now it seems that the jade pendant that disappeared with Xie Chen should have been handed over by the first prince to his eldest son Zhao Yi, and Zhao Yi was given to Xie Minjun. In other words, the child in Xie Minjun's belly is likely to be Zhao Yi's. As for Shen Jinglun, it was not that he asked Feng Jiyang to find the jade pendant, but that he bought the jade pendant in Feng Jiyang's hand, and it was even very likely that he was coerced by Feng Jiyang to buy the jade pendant.

Xie San lowered his eyelids and looked at the dark ground, he didn't want to believe that Xie Minjun was not only pregnant out of wedlock, but also committed adultery with Zhao Yi behind her fiancé's back. He suppressed his voice and said, "I don't think Uncle Shen will deny that ten years ago, it was Miss Xie who begged Yong'an Hou so that you could leave the prison." Except for a lover, what can make a woman betray her father and brother? ”

"You're right, but—" Shen Jinglun smiled bitterly, "Miss Xie just asked Yong'an Hou to rescue the man named 'Shen Jinglun'." ”

"What do you mean, could it be that Miss Xie mistook her fiancé?" Xie San blurted out. When he realized what he had said, his face became even more ugly. The marriage contract between Shen Jinglun and Xie Minjun was brokered by the former crown princess, and Zhao Yi's wife was the niece of the former crown princess...... It is rumored that when Zhao Yi was discussing marriage, he originally intended Xie Minjun, but it was Yongan Hou Wan who refused to marry. If Zhao Yi borrowed the name of Shen Jinglun and deliberately approached Xie Minjun......

"Actually-" Shen Jinglun suddenly spoke, interrupting Xie San's thoughts, "The day before, even if Third Master Xie was not in the court, he knew very well what happened in the court, right?" Someone asked me earlier what kind of hatred I had with the master of Shui Ting, and the other party did not hesitate to endure it for ten years, just to kill the people I care about in front of me. ”

Hearing this, Xie San only felt his brain buzzing. A sentence of "someone", a "someone I care", Shen Jinglun is clearly telling him that he cares about He Huan, and He Huan also knows his intentions, and they are happy with each other.

Shen Jinglun looked at Xie San, a light smile flashed across the corner of his mouth, and then narrated: "I didn't answer, she asked me again, after Xie Houye interceded for me, I left the capital directly, when did the emperor allow me to return to Jizhou with Tang An's calligraphy and paintings......"

"The case of the former prince's rebellion, it was you who reported ......"

"I didn't say anything." Shen Jinglun interrupted Xie San in a loud voice, looked at Xie San with blazing eyes, and said with a straight face: "No one knows the truth of the facts better than Hou Ye Xie. I think, Xie Sanye came to Jizhou, I'm afraid it wasn't instructed by Hou Ye, right? ”

Xie San didn't know how he left the Shen family, and he didn't remember what Shen Jinglun said to him later. He only knows the way, just like Shen Jinglun said. Yong'an Hou knows the whole truth. So it is impossible for him to deceive him.

According to Shen Jinglun. Xie Minjun committed suicide, it was she who saw the real Shen Jinglun and found out that she had mistaken her fiancé, so she committed suicide in shame. As for Yong'an Hou interceding for Shen Jinglun, the emperor promised not to blame the past and let him go back to Jizhou, which was also their wishful thinking. I'm afraid that Shen Jinglun and the former emperor had an agreement before the accident of the former prince, and the so-called prison was imprisoned. It's just a show.

In the living room, Shen Jinglun watched Xie San's figure disappear from his sight from a distance, and his expression suddenly collapsed.

"Uncle!" Wen Zhu and Shen Zhihua spoke in unison and hurriedly stepped into the room.

"Go make me a hot cup of tea." Shen Jinglun supported Wenzhu.

Shen Zhihua frowned and helped Shen Jinglun sit down, then turned around and closed the door, and persuaded in a suppressed voice: "Uncle, it has been ten years, you have to take care of your health......"

"Send a message back to the capital, and let them find an opportunity to check the mausoleum of the third prince of the Yong'an Hou Mansion and find out if there is a corpse in the coffin."

Shen Zhihua was stunned. The Xie family is not only the founding hero. It is a family that has been inherited for hundreds of years, and it is necessary to check the mausoleum of the descendants of the Xie family. Easier said than done. "Uncle, haven't you already decided to ......"

"This has nothing to do with my earlier decision." Shen Jinglun gasped slightly, his face was as pale as paper, and he no longer had the calmness to face Xie Sanshi. He took two deep breaths to calm down his emotions, and then continued: "Thirteen years ago, before the emperor was demoted out of Beijing, Marquis Xie announced to the public that his third son died of a sudden illness, and the eldest son fell ill because of brotherhood...... " He coughed twice, gasped and said: "If only the prince of Yong'an Hou was injured at that time......

"This means that Hou Ye Xie has already understood everything." Shen Zhihua's expression also changed, and he exclaimed: "Although Hou Ye Xie is a low-key person, he has never been a weak and bullying person, and he can even be called a baht. ”

Xie San didn't see Shen Jinglun's embarrassment and eagerness, he had only one thought in his mind, he had to go back to Beijing in person and find Yong'an Hou to confirm Shen Jinglun's statement. If it was really Zhao Yi who deceived Xie Minjun and gave birth to a series of incidents later, even if he dug the entire Jiangnan three feet into the ground, even if he traveled to the ocean to go to the Japanese country, he would have to wipe out the "Yu Gongzi" and his henchmen!

The sky was bright, Xie San took Chang'an and several entourages and rode out of Jizhou City on a fast horse.

At the same time, on the outskirts of Lingcheng, dozens of miles away from Jizhou City, a lonely farmhouse courtyard was brightly lit all night. In the corner of the courtyard, three corpses dressed in coarse cloth were disposed of in the corner like garbage. Next to the corpse, dozens of boxes full of gold, silver and jewelry were being transported by the man in black in an orderly manner.

With the sound of horses' hooves, a lean man turned over and dismounted, stumbled into the courtyard, and went straight to the hall, shouting loudly: "Master, Xie San has just left Jizhou and is coming over here......"

"Great, it came at the right time, the Lord is really clever!" The man who spoke picked up the large bowl on the table, drank the liquor, and then raised his right hand and wiped his mouth with his sleeve. In an instant, the blood stain on the right side of his face left a long scratch on his cheek with his movements, and with the fine beads of blood splattered on his forehead, eyelids, and hair, his expression became more and more weird.

The man was the same as everyone else, he was also wearing a night coat, the black clothes were stained on the east and west, and he didn't know if it was wine or other people's blood, and others only felt that he was full of blood and murderous smell.

The lean man prostrated on the ground, gasping for breath a few times before continuing: "The Lord has an order, Xie San and his entourage, not a single mouth can be left alive. After you succeed, search your body carefully, and if you find a jade pendant, you must present the jade pendant to the Lord as soon as possible, and there must be no damage to it. ”

When the man heard this, he asked in surprise: "What kind of jade pendant makes the Lord so solemn?" ”

"I don't know if it's a little one." The lean man shook his head and added, "The Lord temporarily sent someone to inform Xiao Xiao of this matter. The messenger did not know the details of the message. ”

As soon as his words fell, the man dressed as a scholar on the side said uncertainly: "Speaking of jade pendants, it can make the lord look at it...... Could it be the two 'peony beauties' of the former emperor? Rumor ......"

"What a beautiful woman is not a good person." The man interrupted the scholar's words, pushed the dishes on the table, and shouted to his subordinates to stand at the table, their fingers dipped in water and wine, and said while gesturing on the table: "The people around Xie San, except for Chang'an, everyone else's kung fu is good. We ambushed them here, first caught them off guard with bows and arrows, and then rushed forward, first capturing Chang'an alive and then killing the others. If Xie San resists stubbornly, he will threaten him with Chang'an. I heard that he is the most affectionate and righteous, and I must be reluctant to die in front of him for a long time that has accompanied him since he was a child......"

While a few people were talking, the east was already shining. Not far away, in the mausoleum city, the city gate was wide open, and the soldiers guarding the gate were lying on the ground, and everyone was terrible to die.

The people who got up early and entered the city saw such a tragic situation, and before they could react, they heard the screams of the entire mausoleum one after another, and it seemed that even the air was filled with a faint smell of blood.

The Lu family in Lingcheng, the body of the richest man Lu was hung under the plaque of "Lu Mansion". His eyes were wide open and his whole body was dripping with blood, and he knew at a glance that he had been severely tortured before he died.

Behind the black-lacquered gate, the bluestone tiles were covered with dried blood, the maids were in rags, the maids were in different places, the ladies and ladies were either dead on their beds or hanging on the beams, and everyone's bodies were already cold.

In fact, not only the Lu family, but all the wealthy families in Lingcheng were bloodbathed and slaughtered by unknown people overnight, and not a single living mouth was left.

[End of Volume 2] (To be continued......)

PS: Although no one cares, I still have to say, do you still remember He Xin's fiancé, the Lu family in Lingcheng?