Feeling uneasy, Qin Yunuan still decided to go with Sun Miaoyang, the midnight wind blew on people's faces like a knife, Sun Miaoyang under the leadership of the mandarin duck had already entered the house to treat the old lady for almost an hour and still did not come out, Qin Yunuan leaned on the Zen chair and fell asleep for a while, and suddenly heard a somewhat sad female voice: "Third young grandmother, the old lady called you in." ”

As soon as Qin Yunuan opened her eyes, she happened to see Sun Miaoyang shaking her head while asking the maid to go over and grab the medicine.

"Senior Sun," Qin Yunuan stepped forward and asked, "What is the situation with the old lady?" ”

Sun Miaoyang shook his head: "Since the old lady called you in, you will know when you see her." ”

Qin Yunuan was silent, she already had the worst conjecture in her heart, and Sun Miaoyang suddenly said: "Do you know what the oak tree that has been hollowed out by termites looks like?" ”

"Huh?"

Sun Miaoyang sighed: "Now the old lady's physical condition is like the hollow oak, it looks as usual, and the bottom inside is completely empty. ”

The mandarin duck probably knew the situation, but he just bowed his head and asked: "Third young grandmother, the old lady is still waiting for you." ”

The crescent moon white shark yarn curtain on the ground was held up with a golden hook, and vaguely the old lady was lying on her weak and sick body, and there was not a single personal maid in the room who served, even the intimate person like the mandarin duck had already retreated, and the old lady was still energetic in the hall to count the second wife to make trouble, which was so sick in a blink of an eye, which was really embarrassing.

"Old lady."

"Yu Nuan? You're coming, coming. The old lady's withered hands lifted the curtain and shook it towards Qin Yunuan.

Suddenly, Qin Yunuan couldn't bear to approach.

The old lady didn't force it, and said to Qin Yunuan after a few steps: "You have also seen it, my body bones have long been gone, in the early years, I followed the old prince to fight on the battlefield, and lost two children halfway, the doctor said, it is difficult to get pregnant in the cold of my palace, and then it was difficult to conceive loyalty, filial piety and loyalty, so I cherish these two children very much, and I cherish the blood of Ning Wangfu, and I want to choose the best woman from the first family background for the descendants of Ning Wangfu to marry, when you first entered the house, I don't like you, you are not surprised." ”

"Where is the old lady," Qin Yunuan still remembered that the old lady was full of courage to take herself into the palace to find the queen mother for help, "The old lady plans the overall situation, and she will naturally worry more." ”

"When the kind words are finished, I'm going to say something unkind." The old lady moved her body with difficulty, "You are from a low background, and there are many people who have offended, and now the Qin family has also been classified as the object of the emperor's strict investigation because of the affairs of the three princes, and those people in the palace are also trying to get rid of you in every possible way, I only ask you, do you have the ability to protect yourself?" ”

Qin Yunuan thought carefully for a while, then nodded: "Yes;

。 ”

The old lady sighed and said suddenly: "Then you have the ability, do you have the ability to protect the Ning Palace?" ”

Qin Yunuan was slightly stunned, she probably understood what the old lady meant, could it be......

"Yes or no? I just need a word from you. ”

Qin Yunuan said solemnly: "Ning Wangfu is Qin Yunuan's root, the root is in the people, and the root is dead." ”

"Good." The old lady nodded, suddenly called the mandarin duck in, and ordered the mandarin duck to open a secret compartment at the head of the bed, the mandarin duck seemed to hesitate, and even looked at Qin Yunuan with a vigilant look.

"Brute, don't you even listen to me?" It wasn't until the old lady said like this that the mandarin duck was in tears, and while turning on the switch of the dark grid, she cried quietly: "Old lady, you said that this dark grid can only be opened after you breathe." ”

The old lady closed her eyes and didn't say a word, until the mandarin duck handed over a palm-sized agarwood box to Qin Yunuan and stepped back, and the old lady slowly said in a vicissitudes of life: "Now the four major families of Daqi are recognized as the Shangguan family in Jiangnan, the Dou family in Yangzhou, the Shen family and the Cui family in Baling, do you know that in fact, fifty years ago, the four major families were completely different. ”

"I've heard a little about it," Qin Yunuan thought about it seriously, "Yunuan only knows that fifty years ago, the Sun family's power was even more powerful than it is today. ”

"Fifty years ago, the four major families were the Jinling Sun family, the Luguan Meng family and the Southwest Leng family, and one was our Yasukuni Mansion Ge family."

"Who is the Leng family?"

"That's right, the Ning Wangfu you see now is just a branch of the Leng family, you must want to ask why the four major families fifty years ago are silent now, think back then, the four major families were not only powerful, but also the same qi, mutual marriage and cooperation to help each other, you know, as a monarch, the most feared is that the power of the people is stronger than the imperial power, so the first emperor thought of a good way, and as a result, the four major families fought within without spending a single soldier, and their vitality was greatly damaged."

"What's the method?"

The old lady took a deep breath, and everything she saw in the family when she was still young seemed to come to mind: "That is, the first emperor just captured the capital of South Vietnam, and the more gold was produced in Nanyue, after the monarch of South Vietnam surrendered, he offered 10 million taels of gold, and the problem came, how to store tens of millions of taels of gold?" The first emperor was really wise, he ordered someone to dig a big hole in a mountain near Beidi, and the specific location even the craftsmen who dug the hole did not know, they were all brought in blindfolded, and afterwards, they were all killed in a big pit in front of the cave entrance, and the only supervisor who knew the route was also poisoned after drawing the only road map, and the first emperor was to divide this road map into four and give it to the patriarchs of the four major families. ”

"So only when the four maps are combined, can you find the gold hidden in the mountains?" Qin Yunuan probably guessed, "But the four major families originally had some entanglements of interests, this time, everyone wants to monopolize this gold, even if they don't want to, after the people on the rivers and lakes know the news, they will hunt down and kill the people of the four major families, just to make up four maps?" ”

"You are very smart," the old lady paused with her chin, as if nodding, "That's probably the case, the four major families are divided, and the most famous one of the Southwest Leng family is now Ning Wangfu, but it is not as good as before, as for the Meng family, let's even if it is a Menghua and Yun Guifei, you see, can it become a big climate?" The Ge family surrendered to the emperor and was named an empty and famous Yasukuni Duke, but the Sun family, the Sun family, is the most terrifying;

。 ”

Qin Yunuan suddenly thought of the strange little boy of the Sun family that Baochuan told her, she remembered that the little boy's name was Sun Chengzhen, Baochuan was not a reckless person, but according to Qin Baochuan's dictation, as soon as he saw this Sun Chengzhen, it was as if he had been taken by someone, and there was only one voice in his mind, walking forward, walking forward, as soon as he walked forward, he fell into the pond.

"The Sun family, is it relying on the magic of witchcraft?" Thinking that Madam Sun had analyzed the illusion technique so thoroughly at the banquet, Qin Yunuan couldn't help but have doubts in her heart.

"No," the old lady shook her head and said, "I shouldn't have told you these things, but I don't have much time, you knew earlier, and you should take precautions early, the Sun family is not a skill, but a curse, the Sun family, like the other three major families, has also experienced discrete disintegration, but just thirty years ago, a man from the Sun family suddenly reorganized the Sun family, and the name of that man was Sun Chengzhen." ”

"Impossible." Qin Yunuan lost his voice and said, "That little boy is the same age as Baochuan, but he is only five or six years old, how could he ...... thirty years ago." ”

"Naturally not," the old lady said slowly, "Have you forgotten that none of the men of the Sun family will live to be thirty?" After Sun Chengzhen brought the Sun family back into its heyday, it happened to be the day of his thirtieth birthday and suddenly died, since then, in order to commemorate him, the Sun family will choose a boy with the best qualifications, named Sun Chengzhen, in order to expect this boy to bring miracles to the Sun family, you will definitely laugh at their superstition, heh, there are more strange things in the Sun family, although none of these Sun Chengzhen lived past the age of eighteen, but their mothers have become the leaders who lead the Sun family to become more and more prosperous, but, no matter what, One of the bad luck that the Sun family cannot escape is that the male life of the Sun family has become shorter and shorter, and some have even lived no longer than five years old. ”

"There are gains and losses." Qin Yunuan sighed helplessly, although she knew in her heart that it must not be so simple.

"Yes, the Sun family has already gotten too much, in addition to the map in the Sun family's hand, they have already collected the map of the Meng family and the map of our Ge family, only a map of the Leng family is missing, you can find coveted treasures, when the time comes, the Sun family will be rich and rival the country, recruiting troops and horses, are you still afraid of how short the life of the male will be?"

"The Sun family, it's really terrible." Qin Yunuan's back couldn't help but feel a little chill, for a complete treasure map, a family had paid so much price, now that I think about it, the Sun family worked tirelessly to marry one daughter after another into the Leng family, in order to probably be the only remaining map of the Leng family.

"Terrible?" The old lady showed a disdainful sneer, "After all, they are not being played with by my sister in the palm of her hand. ”

The old lady's sister, isn't that the queen mother?

"Do you know why my relationship with my sister was so cold from the beginning?" The old lady turned her head sideways, and her drooping eyelids were full of tiredness and sickness, "Because the idea of using the map to carve up the power of the four major families is my sister, the current Queen Mother's idea for the first emperor, at that time, her heart was full of the man who had the world in mind, and in order to help that man consolidate the power of the monarch, she turned the gun to deal with her own family, I am unwilling, and I don't understand, love, it really makes women dizzy." ”

"And now? The Queen Mother should have done more than that. "Otherwise, the Sun family should have gotten the four maps a long time ago.

"That's right," the old lady showed a weird smile on her face, "The early death of the male of the Sun family was also designed by my sister, when thirty years ago, when Sun Chengzhen was newly married, my sister had already secretly done something to the woman who was about to marry into the Sun family, but whenever the child they gave birth to, the girl was fine, if it was a boy, he would definitely die early, my sister was a master in the end, and slowly, the Sun family was thinned." ”