Chapter 283: Secrets
As the black shadow walked out of the bedroom, Yan Suwen saw Jiang Li standing in the courtyard. Jiang Li held a sword and happened to the neck of the group photo: "Madam, are you okay?" β
"It's okay, let your people take him down, and by the way, check how many of the secret guards in this prime minister's mansion are involuntarily. Tell them that if they want to save their families, they have to cooperate with their wife and me. Of course, if they can't trust me, they can't trust Xiangye, and it doesn't matter, as long as they don't regret it when they want to meet their families in the underworld in the future. That's it, I'm upset, and I'm sitting in the yard by myself. β
"Madame is still in confinement, and she can't stand the cold."
"I know, just sit down for a while, take a breath, and go back to your room."
"Madame, be careful." Jiang Li glanced at Yan Suwen deeply, and his eyes stayed on the stone table in the courtyard for a moment before escorting the man in black to the outside of the courtyard.
Mechanism, just under the stone table. Jiang Li's glance when he was about to leave made Yan Suwen have a new idea, but this idea still needs to be further verified.
Pressing the mechanism hard, she found that the entrance to the secret passage was not near the stone table, but under a very inconspicuous tree that she couldn't even name, she stepped on the steps all the way up and down, and found that the secret passage was full of permanent lights, but the secret passage was very long, longer than all the secret passages she had ever gone down before. Passing through the long secret passage, when you come out, you find that it is the back door of the Prime Minister's Mansion, and the exit of the secret passage is also set in a corner that is not usually noticed.
Not far from the exit of the secret passage, there was a carriage with a glass lamp hanging from it, and under the lamp sat a coachman wrapped in black. Yan Suwen thought about it, walked to the carriage, and got into the carriage with his feet raised. The coachman did not ask, but drove his carriage through the city to another courtyard.
Getting off the carriage, Yan Suwen met Ying Hanshi, the shopkeeper of the bookstore.
"Should you be in charge?"
"Mrs. Gu." Ying Hanshi lowered his body and arched his hands, as if he was not surprised at all by Yan Suwen's appearance.
"I really didn't expect that the person behind the scenes would be Ying in charge of you."
"Who's behind it?" Ying Hanshi smiled: "Madame, I'm afraid I misunderstood something?" Hanshi is not the person behind the scenes. The reason why he threatened the man's family and forced his wife to come here to meet Ying was really a last resort. β
"The shopkeeper seems to have calculated that I will come."
"Who is Madame? What kind of place is the Prime Minister's House? How can a little secret guard bring his wife here without the gods knowing, the ghosts noticing. Ying's carriage will return on time on the fifth watch. Anyway, the carriage was empty. Well, it's Madame who comes. β
"Should the shopkeeper have been to the Prime Minister's Mansion?"
"I've been there, but if Mrs. asks about the secret passage, Han Shi can tell Mrs. truthfully, and Han Shi knows about the secret passage, but Brother Gu may not know. Madame must be very curious, how did I know that there was a secret passage under the Prime Minister's Mansion when I opened a bookstore in Hanshi. Quite simply, because that mansion was once my own home. β
"Should the shopkeeper's home?"
"Or should it be said that it is the home of Princess Hehui and her concubine Ye Ying Hanshi."
"Princess Hehui? What do you mean...... You are the princess's mansion who has been missing for many years. Yan Suwen was shocked again.
"Missing?" Ying Hanshi smiled with his hands behind his back: "Yes, it's missing, but this disappearance is in the eyes of others, not my own." β
"In the eyes of others? So you'reβ"
"I was kicked out by the people of the princess's mansion, or to be more accurate, I was beaten, the kind that died for life. Maybe God saw my life as cheap and refused to accept me, but let me live again. Afraid that the people in the princess's mansion would know that I was not dead, I could only hide incognito in that small bookstore. Sometimes, even I wonder if the time I once lived in the princess's mansion was a dream I had, a dream that was both cruel and beautiful. β
"It turns out that you are the one who killed Princess Kazue."
"I wasn't the one who killed Kazue!" Ying Hanshi's voice suddenly rose: "I'm sorry, it's a little louder." β
"They said that Princess Hehui was married to you. But after getting married, you don't know how to cherish it, and treat the princess coldly everywhere. The princess couldn't stand your cold treatment, couldn't stand your flowery heart, couldn't stand your mercy everywhere, so she became depressed and became ill, and her life returned to Huangquan. β
"Does Madame know what the Princess's Mansion looks like? Does Madame know what a princess looks like and what a colt looks like? Ying Hanshi looked at her, the corners of his mouth were slightly raised, full of bitterness: "I met the princess in the mansion of Marquis Xuan." That year, it was the birthday of the little marquis, and the Hou Mansion invited many people, and I was a deputy general from Rong at that time, and I went to the Hou Mansion with our general to send congratulatory gifts. Princess Hehui, as the people rumored, is beautiful and generous, gentle and meticulous, in short, she is the kind of extremely beautiful woman who makes people can't help but look at her when they see her. She was a princess of noble birth, but I was just an unknown lieutenant, and I never thought that I would be favored by the princess.
But when God matches marriages between people, it is so casual. I fell in love with the princess despite my humble origins. The princess did not dislike me because of my humble origins, and she also liked me. I was seventeen years old and had been in the barracks for three years. The princess was fourteen years old, and she spent the last fourteen years in the inner garden of the deep palace. I never imagined that one day I would be able to marry the princess, and the princess tried her best to fight for it in front of the emperor. The princess is very affectionate to me, how can I not cherish it, and how can I be willing to do those things that hurt the princess. β
"You mean, what's out there are rumors."
"Yes!" Ying Hanshi closed his eyes.
"Madame, you can know that Princess Hehui is not the emperor's sister."
"Although she was not born to a concubine, she should be regarded as her own sister."
"No, no, Princess Hehui's father is just an ordinary guard next to the emperor, and her mother didn't even have a name. The princess's biological father was hacked to death by assassins because he saved the emperor, and the princess's biological mother couldn't stand the blow, so she hit her head against the wall and followed her husband, and Princess Hehui was still in infancy at that time, which was very pitiful. The emperor couldn't bear it, so he took the princess back to the palace and let a concubine who had never given birth to her, but had a kind temper, take her in and raise her. Only the people in the palace know about this.
Whether it is the concubine or the first emperor, it is good to Princess Hehui, but unfortunately, the minions around the princess are all bullying, especially the princess's nurse, because she knows the princess's life experience, and she relies on herself to be the princess's nurse, and interferes a lot in the princess's life.
The nurse said that royal etiquette requires the princess to be dignified, so the princess and the concubine, that is, I can't imagine it at will. Can Madame imagine it? The princess and I only met once on the night of our marriage, and were kicked out of the new house by the nurse before dawn, and it was three months before we met again.
She is a princess, I am a colt, we are a husband and wife, but if the couple wants to meet, they have to get the consent of the nurse. I don't care about the nurse, but the princess is kind-hearted and takes into account the feelings of the nurse everywhere, and I can't bear her dilemma, so I have to be patient. β
"It's too much!" Yan Suwen couldn't help but scold.
"That secret passage in the house was discovered when I was wandering around. Ever since I discovered that secret passage, I have often gone to the princess's courtyard through the secret passage and secretly met with the princess in private. In order to paralyze the princess's nurse and prevent her from discovering the fact that I met the princess secretly, I thought of a way to make the princess deliberately lose her temper in front of the nurse, saying that it was not serious to learn from the maid that I often went out to look for flowers and ask willows. In fact, every time I left the house, my carriage turned to the place where I had just picked up my wife, and then returned to the house through the secret passage. But a thousand careful, ten careful, was still known by the princess's nurse. β
"If you know, you are a princess and a colt, so it's hard to be afraid of her as a nurse."
"Nurse Niangniang, that's with a mother's word. The princess has been taken care of by her since she was a child, and she will be afraid of her in her bones. At that time, the princess was already pregnant, but the nurse secretly asked the imperial doctor to prepare an abortion pill, saying that it was for the concubines I raised in the house. But in fact, there were no concubines in the princess's mansion at all, and at that time, I had never had an intimate relationship with any woman other than the princess, and I only had the princess in my eyes and heart. But the nurse didn't care about these things, she was angry, she was angry, she hated the princess for not listening to her arrangement, she hated that we met secretly in private, she forced the princess to drink the abortion pill, forced the princess to kill our child. That night, the princess was crying so loudly that I heard her begging the nurse through the window, saying that she would listen to her in the future, and begging her again and again to let her keep our child. I tried to rush in to save her, but I was tied up tightly by the damned attendants of the princess's mansion.
At that time, the little prince at that time, and now the emperor happened to come to see his sister, I begged him, begged him to help me save the princess, but he said that this was our family affair, saying that it was inconvenient for him to interfere. After the incident, he shut everyone's mouth on the grounds that this was a royal secret and it was inconvenient to leak it. It is rumored outside that the princess died depressed because of my cold treatment, but in fact, the reason why the princess died was because the nurse forced her to drink the abortion pill, she was physically and mentally damaged, she couldn't afford to be sick, and she couldn't withstand the nurse's daily reprimands. After the princess died, I thought about going to the emperor to explain everything, but the nurse took the lead, and the wicked sued first. The first emperor didn't distinguish between right and wrong, so he asked someone to beat me up and throw me back to the princess's mansion. After that, it is the story of me who escaped death and became the bookstore keeper today. β
"This nurse is really damned!"
"She's dead, and she's worse than the princess." Ying Hanshi's eyes were low, filled with an eerie coldness.