Chapter 16: The Veil of Hypocrisy
Coral said for a long time, and her mood had calmed down from the panic just now, and at this time she glanced at Yunhua with a gloomy look and said, "If you want to add to the crime, why bother?" Su Mengtang and Tong Ning'er also looked at Yunhua, not knowing what he was referring to.
Zhang Yunhua's face sank like water, and he raised his voice and said: "The first thing, according to what you just said, Prince Zhao Hong was seriously ill, vomited blood and fainted, so that he was carried out of the palace gate; In addition, the confidant General Han Qingzhi was brutalized, it stands to reason that the East Palace has collapsed since then, and it will not pose much threat to Shi Miyuan, but why did you go out of the East Palace on your front foot, Shi Miyuan was suddenly extremely jealous, and he had to go to Huzhou to kill all the hundreds of people up and down his family? Do you dare to swear you don't know? Su Mengtang looked at Yunhua gratefully: the question he just asked was his original intention of asking Tong Ning'er to find Coral, but she had just fallen into grief and forgot to ask.
Yunhua originally disapproved of Su Mengtang and Tong Ning'er rashly finding Coral: this matter was too risky, if a flaw was revealed and Shi Miyuan caught the handle, it would immediately invite trouble. But he couldn't resist her, and he didn't want Su Mengtang to be sad, so he had to come over and help them play this play - let Coral reveal all the truth under the pressure of life and death. But since he came, what Su Mengtang wanted to know, he was willing to help her figure it out.
Coral Justice was awe-inspiring, and his eyes were burning and said: I really don't know, Shi Miyuan is just and unkind, so he naturally wants to cut the grass and eradicate the roots. If I have half a lie in what I have just said, I will leave it to you.
Yunhua seemed to be waiting for Sango's words, he nodded and said, "Okay, then let me ask you, how much eyeliner did Shi Miyuan have placed in Prince Zhao Hong's place?" Coral wanted to relieve herself of her guilt, but she had an idea and said, "I don't know, there may be many, not just me."
Yun Hua chuckled: "Since there are many, why does Shi Miyuan not hesitate to break you up and Xia Zhen and have to stuff you in?" In case Xia Zhen turned against him because of this, wouldn't it be worth the loss? β
Sango's eyes were a little flustered, and she defended: I said I don't know, in that case, it may be just me.
Yunhua asked again: Shi Miyuan asked you to be ready to return to Shifu from the East Palace at any time, does it already feel that you have completed your mission?
Coral didn't know what he meant by asking, and didn't know how to avoid the trap in his words, so she only said vaguely: What does he think, how do I know? I'm just in charge of delivering the message.
Yun Hua leaned forward and said to her: You want to answer me clearly, everyone in Huzhou City knows that Prince Zhao Hong was deceived by Qin Guoxi to go to the suburbs and killed, and Qin Guoxi deceived him out of Jiwangfu for only one reasonβββ he didn't know the structure of Jiwangfu at all, and if he rushed in, he might not be able to find the prince. At this time, if you are in the mansion, cooperate with him inside and outside, and assist him in finding the prince, will he still use the risk of being scolded by the world to do it in broad daylight in the suburbs? Just say that he entered the Jiwang Mansion on the orders of the emperor, and he was ambushed before counterattacking, isn't it better to block Youyou's mouth? β
Yun Hua's inference made Coral even more flustered, and she said while thinking quickly: This is just your guess, Qin Guoxi may not think like this. He might. You may want to be. Kill the prince outside to make an example. Yun Hua sneered: What does it mean to set an example? Shi Miyuan has been covering up this matter for himself so far, can't he wait to let the world know that he has gone against him, driven out all of his extermination, and came to crusade against him?
Sango's mind was in a mess and she didn't know what to say, she swallowed a mouthful of spit and asked, "What exactly do you want to know?"
Yunhua Zhengse said: "Since Shi Miyuan only planted you an eyeliner in the Prince's Mansion, then when you go back, it will definitely be when his goal is achieved." If he wants to kill them all in the morning, he will definitely leave you in Huzhou to deal with Qin Guoxi. But he didn't do that, he recalled you before leaving Lin'an, so it can be seen that defeating the East Palace, eradicating General Han, and demoting the crown prince to the king of Ji are his goals. Now that the goal has been achieved, and the crown prince has no new threat to him, why should he risk the disapproval of the world and wash the palace in blood?
Sango's eyes began to wander, she panicked to the extreme, and said: Maybe what the prince did after leaving Lin'an reached Shi Miyuan's ears. β
"You're still quibbling when you're dying!" Yun Hua took the case, scared Coral to the core, only to hear Yun Hua scold: Didn't you say that you are the only eyeliner, without you, who will spread the word to Shi Miyuan's ears and fight with him? What did you tell Shi Miyuan, and he started to kill him!
Su Mengtang almost wanted to step forward and hug Yunhua into her arms at this moment, she was the closest, and saw that Yunhua's eyes were red and one hand was trembling. She has known each other for more than ten years, she has never seen him have such a big fire, she knows his pain in her heart, and she can't help but cry, she looked at Tong Ning'er: Tong Ning'er was looking away, letting her tears roll down her face. For a moment, only the echo and the sobbing of coral were left in the Art of War Hall.
Yun Hua calmed down, sat down and said: You will tell the truth, after returning to Shifu, what did you say and do, and Shi Miyuan sent Qin Guoxi to launch the Huzhou Change? Coral cried: I dare not say, you will definitely kill me if I say it.
Yun Hua slowly closed his eyes in pain, he didn't even dare to listen to what Coral was going to say next: a woman's whistleblowing became a murder weapon that killed hundreds of lives. He was suddenly a little glad that Zhao Qingzhou was not here, and he knew that hearing this, he would definitely be more painful and uncomfortable than himself. He was even more glad that Li Zhuoran was not here, otherwise, Coral would have been a corpse. He opened his eyes and said to Sango: Say it, I won't kill you, if I kill you, I won't be able to get back the lives of Prince Zhao's family.
Coral cried and said: When I left the prince's mansion, it was August twenty-nine, when the prince was already better, he ordered someone to smash the mansion, once Shi Mi was far away to offer the treasures, and said to me, 'This revenge is not avenged, in vain, although I am not the prince, but I can raise my arms and shout, there must be old friends in the rivers and lakes to come to help, help me eradicate the history of the party, depose the new emperor. When he ascends the throne in the coming day, it is necessary to exile Shi Miyuan and others to Yazhou Island to uphold the dynasty'.
Yunhua nodded and said, "So you told Shi Miyuan about this?" Coral sat dejectedly, not speaking, but in fact acquiescing. When Su Mengtang heard this, he finally understood in his heart why Shi Miyuan had already achieved his goal, and he still wanted to cut down the roots of Zhao Hong's family to prevent future troubles.
She suddenly remembered that in that terrible August, Shi Miyuan sent someone to raid Han Qingzhi's general's mansion, and all the full-age men in the mansion were assigned to confiscate the state, and the female dependents were all confiscated and sold, and they were humiliated. When Mr. Su arrived with Su Mengtang, the eldest lady of the Han family had already died in a messy mansion for the sake of protecting her name. Leaving his child, who had just turned old, crying in the arms of officers and soldiers. Mr. Su immediately bought back the baby boy with a lot of money and raised it in Jiangnan Villa, in order to prevent the child from being remembered by the Shi Party, he gave the name Ximen March to hide people's eyes. Su Mengtang remembered that before Mr. Su died, he pointed to the four-year-old Simon and said to her: Good upbringing, don't make heroes the last.
She was thinking about it, when she suddenly heard Yun Hua say again: The second thing, you know so many secrets of Shi Miyuan, if he is really as you said, why would he keep you to this day. What are you doing in this world? Coral suddenly let out a sad laugh and said, "Now I understand that Shi Miyuan intends to bring me and General Xia together, just to use one to contain the other. It was then, and it is now, as long as I live, General Xia will continue to die for him. Tong Ning'er was a little puzzled when she heard this: When you returned to Shifu, you could have reunited with Xia Zhen, why did you go to Nanmin's villa again and stay incognito?
"Do you think I'm willing?" Coral staggered to his feet, and said resentfully: "It's just that Shi Miyuan said, let me go outside to avoid it, and wait for two or three years after the limelight has passed, and then let me come back, who knows that this wait is so many years... I've said everything I know, so let me go. Yunhua didn't answer, he stood up and said: Let's go, it's noon, Xiaoqiu should be hungry.
At this time, it was already noon, Ziyu remembered Su Mengtang's instructions, and had already brought Qiuqiu and Ximen to Liudan Pavilion for dinner, seeing that Su Mengtang and the others did not come back, Ziyu went to the kitchen to inform the evening to serve the food, leaving only Ziwen to wait on the second floor with Qiuqiu and Ximen. Qiuqiu wanted to take the opportunity to go out to find the Art of War Hall, and she told Ziwen that she was going to the kitchen to see what was delicious. Ziwen was trying to help Ximen March change out of her sweaty shirt, and thinking that Ziyu was in the kitchen and could take care of Qiuqiu, so she agreed and told her to be careful.
Qiuqiu walked out of the room, and she suddenly thought that at this time, Yunhua and the others might have been on their way to Liudan Pavilion to eat, maybe they could see it from a high place. I came to the third floor. Looking down from this height, you can see the main entrance, the long stone steps that came in, and the neat boats on both sides of the pier. Qiuqiu looked at the rows of pavilions and guessed in her heart which one was the Art of War Hall. At this moment, a moving red caught her attention, and she looked to the west of the villa, where there was a pine forest almost at the edge of the villa.
The woods are not too dense, Qiuqiu looked at it, it was Yunhua and a group of people walking, Su Mengtang was wearing a red jacket, which was very eye-catching. Qiuqiu didn't know why they suddenly appeared from the pine forest, where there were clearly no buildings, just a small hill with a cliff on top. Didn't they go to the Art of War Hall? Shouldn't the Art of War Hall be a building? Qiuqiu had a question in her heart, and she decided to go to the pine forest in the afternoon to have a look. She came down from the third floor, and in order to fulfill her lie, she deliberately went to the small kitchen outside the pavilion for a walk, and then returned to the second floor with Ziyu.
Su Mengtang and the others soon came to Liudan Pavilion, Tong Ning'er was very happy to see Qiuqiu and Ximen March, and hurriedly asked the entourage to bring the gift she brought from Nanmin, which turned out to be two cute Quanzhou puppets, Qiuqiu and Ximen unanimously said that they liked it very much.
During the meal, the atmosphere was not very warm, only Ximen March said endlessly, "Xiao Qiu'er, you try this. Xiao Qiu'er, you taste that. It's delicious. It's all delicious. Inexplicably poked Tong Ning'er's laughter, she said to Su Mengtang: How could Xiao March be so excited as if she had eaten on the first day. Su Mengtang was originally immersed in Coral's words, but when he heard Tong Ning'er ask like this, he couldn't help but smile and said: Where is he excited because of the meal, this is not Xiao Qiu'er who is a guest in the villa, he is excited.
Ximen March heard Su Mengtang's words and was a little annoyed, but when he saw Qiuqiu looking at him with a smile, he blushed and lowered his head and ate violently. Qiuqiu gently tugged at Yunhua's clothes and said softly: Sir, Qiu'er hasn't seen you in the morning, it's okay. Yunhua turned his head and saw Qiuqiu's somewhat worried face, smiled slightly and comforted: I and my two aunts have something to do, Xiaoqiu is not worried. Qiuqiu heard that Yunhua's voice was obviously a little hoarse, but she didn't say it, and only ate the vegetables silently.
After eating, Qiuqiu took advantage of Su Mengtang and Ziruo Ziwen talking, Ning'er talking to Yunhua, and Ximen playing with puppets, and finally found an opportunity and ran out of Liudan Pavilion. Oh my God! Finally free and can stay alone, Qiuqiu suddenly felt very comfortable, and couldn't wait to do a set of radio gymnastics immediately to move her muscles. But as soon as she stretched her waist, she heard a familiar voice behind her: Xiao Qiu'er! What are you doing?