Gu Shi'an entered the Palace of Nourishing Heart after obtaining permission at the gate of the palace, and Emperor Yongping saw that the corners of his eyes were slightly red, and his expression was sad, without pretending at all.

And after coming in, as if he couldn't hold on, he fell to the ground, and it was not very regular to salute the emperor.

"Shi'an, what's wrong with you?" Emperor Yongping asked him with rare caution.

He knew Gu Shi'an when he was young, before and after marrying Jing Ning, he was a high-spirited young man, and after Jing Ning passed away, he settled down and slowly became the elegant man in front of people.

Now, his handsome face was pale and bloodless, as if he had no purpose in life.

"Your Majesty, the minister knew something unbelievable a few days ago." After Gu Shi'an got up, he saw Emperor Yongping looking at him with a look of concern, he lowered his eyes and said softly.

"Your Majesty must also feel incredible, Your Majesty, you should know that the minister wanted to remove Jing Ning's bones from the Gu family's ancestral cemetery, but when the minister wanted to move the grave, he found that Jing Ning's bones were gone."

He paused at this point, and his voice choked, as if this was the most painful thing in the world.

With red eyes, he said hurriedly, "This is also to blame the minister, it is the minister's fault, and he never took care of her after the burial." ”

"After the burial, how can you manage it? I don't blame you. Emperor Yongping is still very concerned about this former confidant and favorite general, and now his nephew is still very concerned, and he is relieved to see him so sad.

"But a few days ago, the minister unexpectedly found that it was the British duke who dug up the bones of the minister's wife." He told Emperor Yongping how he found it in the British Mansion, and in the end, he coughed, and the corners of his mouth were bleeding.

Emperor Yongping was shocked and wanted to pass on the imperial doctor, the British Duke has always been a loyal and reliable minister in his heart, and the British Duke also contributed to his ascendancy.

Although the British duke did some disgraceful things back then, in the end he had merit.

He still believed in him.

Gu Shi'an stopped Emperor Yongping from passing on the imperial doctor, "Your Majesty, it's not a pity for the minister to die, but before the minister dies, I hope that Your Majesty can call the shots." ”

"Your Majesty, if it's just Jing Ning's bones, the minister will only be resentful, not sad, Your Majesty, do you know? Jing Ning, Jing Ning's bones were burned clean by the old thief, and now only these ...... remain."

Gu Shi'an touched the porcelain jar beside him, and saw that Emperor Yongping shivered in shock, and said in a sad voice, "Your Majesty, it's not just these ......."

"Here, there are ministers' fathers, mothers' concubines, and even ministers' adoptive fathers, the old Qi Guogong."

Gu Shi'an covered his eyes, he didn't want the emperor to see his sadness, but the tears flowed out of his fingers and fell on the floor one by one.

Seeing that everyone was moved and sad, Father-in-law Yu even quietly wiped his tears with his sleeves.

"Your Majesty, you know, Old Thief Zhang used to be their close friend, why, they died, he was going to burn them? Where is this to make friends? This is clearly an enemy who has a common destiny. ”

Gu Shi'an's voice was choked, his hands were always covering his eyes, and only tears kept betraying his sadness.

He was so resentful of the British Duke that he didn't even call him by his title, but changed his name to 'Zhang Lao Thief.' ’

"I really didn't expect it." He hurriedly got off the imperial case, and stretched out his hand to help Gu Shi'an, who had been kneeling.

Gu Shi'an avoided it.

"The British Duke is an old minister of the two dynasties, and he has always been my right-hand man...... Emperor Yongping thinks that he can still hold the courtiers in the palm of his hand, after all, he has a brocade guard and secret agents, and the courtiers' every move can still be seen clearly.

It's just that the British public can't see it clearly now.

"The minister and the emperor confide in this, just to talk about the rights and wrongs in it, and want to talk to Your Majesty about what is in your heart, after all, Your Majesty is the uncle of the minister and the elder of the minister."

Gu Shi'an shook his head slightly, "Your Majesty, the minister knows very well that his father did something wrong back then, and now you can let the minister continue to be King Su, which is already a great favor, how can you dare to ask Your Majesty for this and that." ”

"The ministers are just wronged by their father, they have not been able to enter the ground for peace, and now they don't know where to be a lonely ghost."

Gu Shi'an's concession made Emperor Yongping feel even more that he should give him an explanation.

He thought of the British Duke and hesitated again.

Although the British public did something wrong, it was a matter of private morality.

It's just that, in an instant, Emperor Yongping thought again, the British Duke is really deep in his thoughts.

In the past, Emperor Yongping paid attention to a balance, whether it was the court or the inner palace.

In the court, Yang Ge Lao and the British duke, one scholar and one martial artist, complemented each other and suppressed each other, while he sat on a high platform.

In the harem, the crown prince and the fourth prince also suppressed each other, and the queen and Cheng Guifei balanced the harem, which he thought was very good.

Now that he is severely punishing the British duke, when he has not yet supported Xiao Yue and Yang Ge Lao to oppose him, rash punishment will inevitably break this balance.

However, the British Duke has been retired for many years, and now, it is not bad to let him really retire. In the future, let him retire with peace of mind.

As for Yang Ge Lao......

His eyes narrowed, he remembered something again, and paused, "Yang Ge is always the head of the cabinet, and his roots in the court are too deep, so if you want to uproot this big tree, you can't be in a hurry." ”

"I remember that I sent you to the south that day, and the evidence about Yang Ge Lao that you handed over, I have been shelving, and I can't find a good time to turn it over......"

Gu Shi'an said, "Those evidences were presented by the minister, naturally, the minister is willing to be the knife in His Majesty's hand, where His Majesty is pointing, the minister is willing to follow His Majesty." ”

Emperor Yongping laughed and said 'good' in a loud voice

"British duke, you can do whatever you want, but you must remember that he is an old minister who has made meritorious contributions to the country after all." Finally, Emperor Yongping said.

Gu Shi'an did not expect Emperor Yongping to punish the British public harshly from the beginning, the ruthless emperor family since ancient times, but now it is just an anti-king in the period of the first emperor The bones were dug up and burned. It wasn't his own bones that were dug up.

But if he wants to pull down the British Mansion, he must be the sword in the hands of the emperor.

Next, the British Mansion gathered countless strange eyes.

The recurrence of the British public injury is now lying on the bed, and in the palace, there is no reaction to the recurrence of the old British public injury, and there is no even giving medicinal herbs to express honor.

Then came the British prince, Zhang Ying's father, who originally served as the governor of the Dongshan battalion, but was also suspended and held accountable because the officers and soldiers in the battalion harassed the people.

At this time, if you don't know why the British public is disgusted and fall out of favor by the emperor, you are a fool.

Therefore, when Gu Nian knew, she was heading to the imperial village that the emperor rewarded that day.

The poison is not a daily attack, but the process of poisoning is very painful, and every time she is in pain, she wants to kill herself, but when she saw Xiao Yue's gloomy face, she felt that no matter what, it was better to endure it.

At this time, she suddenly thanked God for letting her experience so much pain, which made her ability to endure pain extraordinary.

These days, Xiao Yue personally served her to wash and change clothes, and even carried her to the side of the gong bucket in person for things like going to the official room, and sometimes checked the firmness of the gong bucket.

Gu Nian wanted to tug at the man's collar and tell him that in fact, she was not so fragile and did not need to be so careful.

It's just that, seeing his face, she didn't say anything, let him check it over and over again, and then pushed him outside and threw him out the door.

On this day, Gu Shi'an came to find Xiao Yue, Weng and his son-in-law muttered on the side, Xiao Yue told her that he wanted to go out, and Gu Shi'an also came over to touch her head.

"Niannian, I need to discuss with Yue'er for my father, you are obedient at home."

These two men treated her as a child who couldn't take care of herself, and told her over and over again.

Gu Nian reluctantly drove the two away, and when they were about to rest, Astragalus came in and said that someone from Huangzhuang had come to report that Mama Zheng who had been sent over that day was not good.

Gu Nian was shocked, she was still counting on digging out more inside information from Mama Zheng's mouth, she frowned and said,

"Wasn't it okay to send it over at the time? How can it be so good, say no? ”

Astragalus was also puzzled, "It stands to reason that as long as the slave maid gave her the decoction and medicine, not to mention ten or eight years, it will be fine in the past three years." ”

Gu Nian asked Astragalus and Aoba to help her make up and change her clothes when she went out.

"Princess, the two princes said before they went out that you would stay at home." Astragalus said worriedly.

Gu Nian had a stomach full of questions to ask Mama Zheng, how could she sit still at this time.

While she got into the carriage, she asked people to go to Rong'an Hall to talk to the old lady, and then let people inform the old lady when she got into the carriage, because she was afraid that the old lady would not agree to her going out.

But today, she must see Mama Zheng.

The carriage shook for most of the day before it arrived at the Zhuangzi in the suburbs, and the carriage entered through the side door, but Gu Nian lifted the curtain and saw two people tied at the door of the village, one old and one young.

The old one was covered with dust, gray hair, and a dirty and knotted beard, and he was an old man of quite a grade.

The old man had been tied up for an unknown amount of time, his head was tilted, his eyes were closed, and he was not looking, but he could still tell that he was still alive.

Gu Nian knocked on the carriage, asked the carriage to stop, and said to Huang Qi, "Go and ask, what are you doing with those two people?" ”

The person who went to the palace to report the news said, "Originally, Zhuang Tou saw that the old man was pitiful, so he took in the two of them for one night, but I didn't expect the old man to be sneaky, and Zhuang Tou said that he was not a good person, so he tied him up and prepared to send him to the government." ”

Gu Nian frowned, and said, "Go and let people go, one old and one young, even if you want to report to the official, you can send people away, he is sneaky in Zhuangzi, just be optimistic about him." ”

The man went in response, and Gu Nian saw that the old and the young were untied, and the little one glanced at the carriage and hid behind the old one.

The old one saluted Gu Nian, and patted the younger one again, signaling that he didn't need to be afraid.

Gu Nian bowed his head, ordered the carriage to stop at the second gate, and went directly to Mama Zheng's house.

Astragalus walked in front, pushed open the door with a calm brow, and smelled a strong smell of medicine in the room, sure enough, Mama Zheng did not take medicine properly.

"Princess, the slave maid will go and open the window a little first, and then you will come in again." After she entered, she opened the window, and then sat at the head of Mama Zheng's bed and probed her snort, her breath was faint, and she frowned.

The mother-in-law who was sent to serve Mama Zheng knelt in front of Gu Nian and cried,

"Princess, it's not that the slaves and maids don't take good care of it, it's really that Mama Zheng has not eaten well when she arrives in Zhuangzi, whether it is food or decoction. It was all forcibly fed to her by the slave and another man. ”

Gu Nian was hurt by her crying, waved her hand, asked her to get up and retreat, and then entered the house.

Probably because the noise was too loud, Mama Zheng opened her eyes and saw Gu Nian standing at the head of the bed, and smiled with relief, as if she had seen an old man who had not seen her for a long time, her voice was rough,

"You're here."

Gu Nian looked at her lightly, his expression indifferent.

"People who are bent on dying can't be saved even by immortals, don't you just want me to come to see you if you're dragging like this? Or, what you want to see more is the prince, but I'm sorry, I won't let the prince come to see you. ”

She didn't want Xiao Yue to know, and she didn't want him to know in this life, because this matter was like a magic barrier, which would crush his pride.

Mama Zheng 'Huo Huo' laughed twice, struggling to get up, and after Astragalus helped her sit up, she said,

"Princess, the slave swears to heaven that no matter what she hears, she will not say anything, but beg the princess to let the slave and maid stay in front of you."

She was afraid that if Gu Nian was excited, the poison in her body would come out at any time, and the consequences would not be something she could bear.

Gu Nian thought about it and let her stay.

She looked at Mama Zheng and said, "What else do you want to say to me, now, you can say it." ”

Mama Zheng's eyes were scattered, like a dream,

"Little master, she looks very similar to the big girl, the girl has been forced to become a monk, but I didn't expect those two brutes to let the girl go."

"At the beginning, it was the prince who forced the Ji family to recognize the concubine's slut as his daughter, and he also married into the palace in the name of the eldest girl."

"The eldest girl is helpless, there can't be two eldest girls in a family, she can only leave the house, but who would have thought that one day, the prince went to the nunnery and asked the girl why she lied to him."

"The eldest girl doesn't know why, I didn't expect the prince to do that kind of thing to her, the girl collapsed at that time, and after that night, I didn't expect the girl to have a body."

She was so scared that she didn't dare to tell anyone, until the child couldn't hide it anymore, she wanted to kill the child, but she drank the abortion pill, but the child couldn't get rid of it. If you forcibly beat it, the girl will also die. ”

Mama Zheng seemed to be caught in some kind of emotion of her own, and was silent for a while, saying,

"Soon, the girl's stomach couldn't be hidden, and the concubine and the prince knew about it."

"At that time, the concubine, who had not been pregnant for many years, was also pregnant, and when she found out, she was going to go to the nunnery to kill the girl, saying that the girl was shameless and robbed her man."

"But who is shameless? A person like the eldest girl was replaced by a person of unknown origin, and was also defiled by a beast. ”

"Later, I don't know what the prince said to the concubine, the concubine went to Zhuangzi to cultivate on the grounds of having a fetal gas, and at the same time took the girl to another village on the grounds that she wanted to find someone to talk about Buddhism and meditation."

"The girl went to Beizhuang alone, no one knew her situation, and no one cared."

"The girl is very scared, she doesn't want to give birth to a child, why does my girl have to go through such a terrible thing, while those two people are still living their beautiful life leisurely."

"The girl's belly is getting bigger and bigger, but she has become very thin, one day, she took advantage of the next person's idea, wanted to escape, but unexpectedly, when she ran away, she had fetal gas."

"Soon, the royal pursuers came and brought the girl back, and that day, the concubine somehow gave birth prematurely."

"Haha." Mama Zheng laughed, tears flowed out of her dry eyes, and said madly, "God has eyes, I didn't expect the old lady to give birth to a stillborn, and after the girl gave birth to a child, no one cared about it, and the blood collapsed ......"

Mama Zheng cried loudly, "In order to appease the concubine, the prince replaced the dead child with the child born by the girl, and executed all those who knew about it......"

"You said that you killed all those who knew it, but what about you? How did you survive? Gu Nian asked.

Xu is mood swings were very strong, Mama Zheng suddenly coughed, her face was pale, slowly, she gasped, and said,

"After the girl was taken to Beizhuang, the concubine sent me, the old man, to the girl's yard to take care of her. The beautiful name is to let her raise the fetus well. ”

"Fortunately, the concubine sent me to the girl's yard, otherwise, how could anyone know about her grievances?"

"Later, because I was still useful, so it was just a bowl of dumb medicine to poison me, that day I kept a heart, after the medicine was in the stomach, no one cared about me, I cut my throat with my hands, just to let the medicine spit out, even so, my throat is still bad."

Gu Nian didn't expect the truth of the matter to be like this, but until now she still half-believes, if all this is true, then does the old lady know?

And what did the old Jin King say at the beginning that the big girl deceived him, what did she deceive him? And Concubine Ji, if you don't know, why is your attitude towards Xiao Yue so bad?

Lots of questions.

"You said that the prince looks the same as the eldest girl in your mouth, but in the eyes of outsiders, the prince looks similar to the concubine, why is this?"

"That's because you haven't seen the big girl, and you won't say that when you do, you won't say that. It was precisely because the concubine's slut was a little similar to the eldest girl that the prince would come to the door at the beginning. ”

"That slut and the big girl are just five or six points alike, but the appearance of the person is not the same, dressing up, words and deeds, five or six points will become eight or nine points."

"What's more, there are also personal maids who have been serving the eldest girl, all of whom married to the palace with the concubine, and slowly, the concubine became a real eldest girl."

Gu Nian understood, what was the use of what Mama Zheng said earlier, if a person wants to become another person, it depends not only on appearance, but also on living habits and so on.

What could be clearer about these things than a maid who serves closely?

She quietly looked at Mama Zheng, who was leaning there as if she was about to decay, and shook her head, "I still don't understand, why the Ji family agreed to recognize the daughter of the concubine in the first place, and how could the Ji family ignore the daughter of the monk, and even know that she was pregnant." ”

Mama Zheng's face became more and more pale, she tried to catch her breath a few times, and said, "Ji family...... Ji Jia...... Back then, the concubine's parents had a great kindness to the old lady of the Ji family, and the concubine was the only remaining bloodline of the benefactor......"

"Phew, in order to fulfill their own kindness, they forced their own daughter to death, what kind of righteous person is it, didn't you see that the concubine never returned to the Ji family?"

Gu Nian felt that it was not so simple, there may be such foolish and loyal people in the world, but all this is too weird.

"What's going on with Ji Yu?" Gu Nian suddenly asked.

Mama Zheng, who was originally sloppy and had no focus, suddenly looked at Gu Nian, her eyes flashed, she opened her mouth, closed it again, and after half a sound, she shook her head slightly,

"After the death of the prince that year, the concubine was heartbroken and didn't want to see the little master, so she hugged her cousin from the Ji family to raise her...... Maybe you want to use this to comfort yourself, what the prince wants most is a daughter. ”

Gu Nian hesitated in her heart, she thought for a moment and asked, "It was the baby in the swaddling clothes that I brought over?" Or a girl? ”

Mama Zheng didn't answer again, Astragalus's face changed suddenly, and she hurriedly stepped forward to test her snort, and it was cold between her tentacles.

Mama Zheng, dead!

Gu Nian was a little dazed, and this kind of truth made her a little dazed and at a loss.

She was glad that she knew about it first, not Xiao Yue first.

She sat there for a long time before she whispered to Astragalus, "Let Zhuang Tou bury her." ”

She didn't know where the gravestone of the eldest girl was, otherwise she would have been buried beside the eldest girl.

Gu Nian was not familiar with the Ji family, she had only seen people from the Ji family when she recognized her relatives on the second day of marriage, and Xiao Yue didn't say anything about taking her to the Ji family after getting married.

At first, she thought that it was because Xiao Yue was afraid of Concubine Ji that she didn't move around with the Ji family, and later because of Ji Yu's affairs, she didn't want to see the Ji family.

All the truth is waiting for her to investigate, but her time is really running out.

She didn't dare to stay in Zhuangzi for long, for fear that Xiao Yue would be angry if they didn't see her when they went back, so she went out of Mama Zheng's house, saw Zhuangtou, and told him to bury Mama Zheng well, and then boarded the carriage and prepared to go back to the city.

As soon as the carriage arrived at the gate of the village, the head of the village at the gate ran out panting and stopped in front of the carriage.

"The princess forgives me, the old man you said you were going to let go just now wants to see you, and said that you will regret it if you don't see him......"

Gu Nian looked at the sky and asked, "Why was that old man tied up in the first place?" ”

I only heard the Zhuang head say angrily, "When Mama Zheng sent it over, although she brought medicinal herbs and the palace often sent prescriptions, her illness has not improved. ”

"That day, the little one looked at the old man with a child and pitiful baba, and kindly let him come in for a full meal, but he didn't expect to see people boiling soup medicine, and said with disgust that the medicine was useless, how could the little one pay attention to his nonsense."

"At night, he still refused to leave, the little one wanted to send the Buddha to the west, it was cold and it didn't look good, so he left him overnight, but he didn't expect that in the middle of the night, he actually went to turn over Mama Zheng's medicine jar......"

"The little one tied him up, for fear that he would harm people's lives......"

Gu Nian got out of the carriage and motioned to Zhuang Tou to lead the way, as soon as she entered the door, she saw a gray-haired old man munching on chicken legs, looking at his eating energy, as if he had been hungry for ten days and half a month.

The young man on the side had his hair neatly combed, revealing a delicate face.

Gu Nian stood quietly at the door watching the old man eat, and the old man suddenly glanced at her, and said curiously, "It turns out that you are the princess of Jin?" Looks good-hearted. ”

He looked at Gu Nian, put down the chicken legs, as if he had found something new, and ran towards Gu Nian.

The astragalus behind Gu Nian has been staring at the young man since he arrived at the door, and the young man was still calmly facing it at first, but his face changed when he got to the back, and he was afraid to hide behind the old man.

Unexpectedly, the old man ran away, Huang Qi finally remembered, she pointed to the young man, spoke incoherently, and said to Gu Nian excitedly, "Princess...... He...... He...... Isn't he that the man? ”

Gu Nian frowned, that person? The young man in front of her, she didn't have any image at all