After the carriage arrived in the town, Liu Jiaojiao directly asked the carriage to go to the house that Lei Zhong had arrived at her, and then explained to the pharmacy guys and asked them to tell Lei Zhong that they would help Liu Jun and Lao Li Tou clean up the house first, and then return to Lei Mansion later.

In fact, she was anxious to listen to Lao Li Tou tell the story behind the hairpin, this matter is related to Liu Jun's life experience, which is too important.

Although no one has lived in this house, Lei Zhong is a careful one, so he has always asked someone to clean it on time, and the furniture is all in order, so it can be said that he moved in with his bags.

After putting their luggage in their respective rooms, the three of them went to the study in the middle of the room, closed the door, and sat down.

Liu Jun deliberately brought the bracelet carved with Dilian, handed it to Lao Li, and asked, "Grandpa, take a closer look first, is it the bracelet in your impression?" ”

After all, the stakes are very high, and it also involves the privacy of the heavenly family, so it is better to confirm it clearly.

Lao Li Tou took the bracelet, leaned in front of him and looked at it carefully for a while, then handed the bracelet back to Liu Jun, and said quietly: "This is indeed the eldest princess's thing, I saw it by chance back then, and I won't be mistaken." ”

Liu Jiaojiao asked curiously, "Master, do you know that eldest princess?" ”

Lao Li Tou sighed, his eyes looked in the direction of the window of the study, as if he was reminiscing about life, and said in a distant tone: "In the entire palace back then, who didn't know the peerless eldest princess?" It's a pity that you don't have a good life! ”

Lao Li Tou began to slowly tell the story of twenty years ago.

At that time, he was just an ordinary cook in the imperial dining room in the palace, and in addition to helping out every day, he was dealing with all kinds of intrigues in the imperial dining room, stumbling and barely living.

At that time, the reigning emperor was still the first emperor, and the eldest princess was his favorite daughter, who had just turned sixteen years old that year, which was the best age in a woman's life.

Although the eldest princess is a lady of heaven born with a golden spoon, she may be pampered and protected too well, or she may be born pure, so she does not have the rude temper that a princess should have, has a gentle temperament, is kind-hearted, and has a gentle attitude towards the servants in the palace, so she is deeply loved by the people.

Lao Li Tou was once sent by the chef to the Imperial Garden to find some flower petals, so that he could study the flower dishes that his favorite concubine wanted, but he inadvertently rushed and bumped into a concubine.

At that time, he had not been in the palace for a long time, and he had become famous at a young age, and he had been smooth sailing, and he couldn't see the battle for favor between the women in the palace clearly, so when he was asked what he came to the imperial garden for, he answered truthfully.

As a result, he angered the concubine who was jealous of his favorite concubine, not only punished him for kneeling on the ground and kowtowing, but also let his eunuchs beat him, but fortunately, the eldest princess saved him after passing by.

That was the first time he had seen the eldest princess who had been so much loved, and it was also at that time that he saw this bracelet, which happened to be worn on the eldest princess's right wrist.

Later, he learned that this was specially tailored for her by the first emperor who had found skilled craftsmen, and that blue jade was the only one in the world, which could be said to be priceless.

Speaking of this, Lao Li Tou suddenly stopped talking.

Liu Jiaojiao was fascinated when she heard it, and hurriedly asked, "What happened later?" Master, what did you just say about your humble life? Could it be that the eldest princess has passed away? ”

"When she was seventeen years old, the monarch of the neighboring country came to ask for marriage, the first emperor was reluctant, but the monarch was bound to win, and was willing to take out three cities as a dowry, the Manchu Dynasty was shocked by it, and repeatedly asked the first emperor to agree, and finally, the first emperor had to agree."

Lao Li Tou said it very simply, but Liu Jiaojiao heard that it contained too many things.

What about being pampered by thousands of people? In the face of interests, they will still be sacrificed in the end, and they all say that "there is no family affection in heaven", which is honestly not deceiving me.

She couldn't help but feel a little sorry for the masked eldest princess.

As if seeing what she thought, Liu Jun suddenly reached out and held her hand, passing not only the temperature on her hand, but also something else.

Liu Jiaojiao raised her eyes and saw that Liu Jun was looking at her with burning eyes, something amazing happened, she actually understood his eyes at the moment.

Rest assured, no matter what happens, I will not choose to sacrifice you.

Liu Jiaojiao felt her cheeks hot for a while, her heartbeat suddenly accelerated, and she quickly looked away in a panic.

Lao Li Tou was still immersed in the memories of the past, and did not notice the undercurrent between the pseudo-brother and sister, and continued: "That monarch is so sincere, we all thought that he was sincerely asking to marry the eldest princess, and he would treat her well in the future, but we didn't expect that all this was just a conspiracy, a conspiracy against our dynasty!" ”

Out of guilt for the eldest princess, the first emperor prepared an extremely rich dowry for her, and even though he knew that she would marry to a neighboring country, he still spent a lot of money to build a princess mansion for her, saying that it was convenient for her to live in when she came back to visit relatives in the future.

In order to prevent the eldest princess from being wronged in a neighboring country that she was not familiar with, the first emperor also prepared a group of servants for her and a team of secret guards that only she could mobilize, all of whom were good at one in a thousand.

It can be said that in order to make the eldest princess marry with peace of mind, the first emperor was also heartbroken.

But just a year after the eldest princess got married, an accident happened.

The sudden start of war by the neighboring countries, and the fact that they seemed to know the state of our border defense in the near future, took less than ten days for all five cities near the border to fall.

Just when our dynasty was about to send troops to neighboring countries, Zhongshuling stood up in the court and took out a lot of evidence that the eldest princess collaborated with the enemy and betrayed the country, pointing out that the reason why the neighboring countries took down the five border cities so easily was because the eldest princess leaked military information.

"Nonsense!" Hearing this, Liu Jiaojiao couldn't help but complain, "How can a young woman who has lived in the deep palace for a long time know about the situation and military situation at the border?" "It's not Wu Zetian's kind of person who can have direct contact with the music and has an extremely keen sense of politics and governance.

Lao Li was stunned for a moment, and then said with a smile: "Everyone understands the truth, but why is there no excuse for the crime that you want to add?" ”

It turned out that the Zhongshu Order at that time had already colluded with neighboring countries, and it was actually him and the military department Shangshu at that time who sold the country, and the two teamed up to splash dirty water on the eldest princess, and even the marriage proposal a year ago was deliberately arranged by them, just to pull the eldest princess out to confess after the war.

In fact, this conspiracy is not meticulous, and it is even full of loopholes, because as Liu Jiaojiao said, with the origin and character of the eldest princess, it is impossible to grasp this kind of confidential military information, but the three of them became tigers, and the first emperor, who was already suspicious and sick, couldn't help but start to suspect the eldest princess.

At this time, news came from the neighboring countries, saying that the monarch favored the eldest princess alone, and even wanted to dissolve the entire harem for her.

Suddenly, the first emperor's suspicion was even worse, and he felt that the eldest princess must have betrayed her country and threatened her husband on this ground, otherwise how could the king of a dignified country dismiss the harem for a woman?

is also a monarch, he will never believe that the emperor will end up with a woman, the harem is not only as simple as a woman, but also closely related to the previous dynasty, otherwise why would the emperor accept so many women? Are all the people who really think of emperors as perverts and wolves? That's to stabilize the court.

Suspicious, then it can't stop, plus the army sent has lost several battles to neighboring countries, causing panic in the whole country, the first emperor simply ruthlessly, sent someone to secretly contact the leader of the secret guard sent at the beginning, and ordered him to assassinate the eldest princess, and never suffer in the future.

The poor eldest princess was completely kept in the dark, and knew nothing at all, so she died at the hands of her trusted secret guard, and she was only eighteen years old when she died.

Later, the imperial court changed generals, and finally changed the situation of the war, and successfully captured the general of the neighboring country, and learned from him that it was not the eldest princess who betrayed the military situation of our dynasty at all, but the Zhongshu order that impeached the eldest princess and the military department Shangshu who fanned the flames with "ironclad evidence" in the court.

After the news was transmitted back to the imperial capital, the first emperor was furious and severely punished the real culprit, but the officialdom was pulled out of the radish and brought out the mud, and in the end, the entire court was almost changed from top to bottom.

In the following years, the first emperor almost let go, and used all the strength of the whole country to launch three wars in a row, and finally frightened the neighbors, not only giving up half of the country, but also willing to be a vassal.

But the first emperor was still angry, and forced the monarch to commit suicide before ordering him to accept the title of vassal and stop the war.

Liu Jun has heard of these things, but she doesn't know them as much detail as Lao Li, but Liu Jiaojiao has never cared about national affairs, so she listens to them with relish.

When Lao Li Tou finished talking about the past, she said suspiciously: "Since this bracelet belongs to the eldest princess, why did it fall into the hands of my brother and mother?" I originally thought that his mother would be the eldest princess, but Master, you have seen the two of them, even if the eldest princess faked her death and fled back then, you will definitely not recognize the wrong person, unless you ......"

"Unless what?" Lao Li asked curiously.

"Unless the eldest princess has a different face." Liu Jiaojiao just guessed casually, after all, there is no plastic surgery in this era, unless you self-destruct your appearance and figure, and forcibly turn yourself into another person, even if you can disguise it again, you will be discovered after a long time.

And the age doesn't seem to be right, people in this era basically marry early, Liu Jun is now sixteen years old, the eldest princess was 20 years old sixteen years ago, even if she fled to this small mountain village immediately after faking her death, then she would have to be 18 years old when she married Liu Jun's father.

Even if the Qin family doesn't wait to see Liu Jun and his father again, they won't let him marry an old girl, right?

But Lao Litou's next words made her almost jump up from the stool.

"I vaguely remember that your mother fled from elsewhere and met bad people when she passed through the village, but fortunately she was rescued by your father. It is said that your grandmother did not agree to this marriage back then, disgusted that your mother had no father and no mother, and that she was too old, but your father wanted to marry, and he knelt and begged your father for several days before he agreed to the marriage. ”

I'm rubbing, could it be that her brain hole is really right? Is Liu Jun really the eldest princess?