Chapter 18: I Hurt Jing's Mother
He Jiusheng couldn't believe his eyes, everything in front of him was like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, and it seemed like someone had poured a basin of cold water from head to toe, and his whole body was numb.
"Who did it?"
After a while, she asked expressionlessly.
Song Yanjiao was a little surprised to see that she didn't seem to show the shocked expression of an ordinary girl, but she still calmed down and said, "Zihao and I have carefully examined this arrow feather, but it is just ordinary workmanship, and there are no obvious characteristics. But we deduce that the murderer was a professional killer who was hired by people. ”
"Mother Jing has no grievances with others, why should she kill her?"
"The murderer's target may be you!" The sunspot man named Zihao squatted down, ruthlessly pulled out the arrow feathers on Jing's mother's back, and turned the corpse over with one hand, the clothes in front of Jing's mother were soaked with blood, and she was holding a veil on her hand.
"The murderer probably knew that you were wearing a white veil all day long, so he attacked Mother Jing, who was holding this white veil and happened to appear in your room." Zihao raised his head and pointed to a high pavilion in the distance outside the house, "Shoot arrows from there, and here, the murderer can only judge who is who by his clothes." ”
"After seeing that she was holding a piece of white yarn in her hand, I thought it was you, and released a cold arrow after entering the door."
When He Jiusheng heard this, he finally collapsed to the ground weakly, and muttered to himself, "Mother Jing has suffered so much, the clothes she wears on weekdays are all torn patches, and this dress is made of the fabric that the emperor gave me, and Mother Jing said that she has never worn the fabric in the palace in her life." When she made this dress, she was very happy to wear it and kept saying thank you to me......"
"I change the veil every day, and Jing's mother washes and dries it for me by hand, and it is never too troublesome."
"I hurt her......"
She is not afraid of corpses, murder weapons, or blood, but at this moment, when she knew that the first person in this era who was so good to herself was killed by the clothes she rewarded and the veil she was wearing, she really couldn't bear her depression, her nose was sore, and tears fell down like a river.
Unlike the contrived crying in the garden today, she didn't make a sound, and tears rolled out of her eyes, but her eyes were still staring at the arrow feather, radiating a light of annoyance.
Song Yanjiao on the side looked at it really well, and felt a pain somewhere in her chest for no reason.
"You don't have to blame yourself, if it weren't for Mother Jing today, maybe the person who fell here would be you."
"Does the Queen Mother know? Will the matter be thoroughly investigated? She lightly pursed her thin lips and said lightly.
"I have already sent someone to report to the Queen Mother, but now Zihao and I have examined the body, and we have only come to the conclusion of assassination, I'm afraid that the Queen Mother is the same."
Song Yanjiao helplessly shook Nie on the shoulder, "The most important thing now is that you have to protect yourself, and you must not be careless." I will let Zihao stay in the villa to protect you secretly, after hearing about your poisoning a few days ago, I also sent someone to investigate, it was a servant girl named Xing'er who was poisoned, but after the poisoning, she committed suicide by throwing herself into the well, and the body was only fished up today. ”
He Jiusheng sneered, "Is it related to my entry into the palace?" ”
"It's about to matter, the emperor and the queen mother value you so much, and they also caused you to be killed."
He Jiusheng suddenly felt God's malice towards her, she thought that after leaving the He Mansion, with the blessing of the emperor and the queen mother, she would be able to make her want to be windy and rainy, but now that she thinks about it, since ancient times, the most poisonous woman's heart, there are too many double concubines and concubines in this capital who are staring at her.
The more the emperor exalted her, the more she must have been envied and hated, so much so that he came to harm her one after another, and the most hateful thing was that she didn't know who did it.
What Xie Jinshuang said is not unreasonable, her status is most threatening to Empress Qin, but she can't completely blame Empress Qin for the fault, and it is futile to do anything without evidence.
If it is really found out that the two things are related to Empress Qin in the future, what should she do to pull the official woman with a prominent family into the water?
"Uncle Huang, send someone to clean up here. Can you find a good place for Jing's mother to be buried? ”
"I'll arrange it for you, don't worry." Song Yanjiao assured.
From just now, He Jiusheng noticed that his gaze had not left him since he entered the door, and said, "Uncle Huang, can you accompany me out for a walk?" ”
"Uncle Huang, your ointment is very effective, and the scars on my face are about to fade."
"That's very good."
"Thank you, Uncle Huang, do you know where the scars on my face came from?" He Jiusheng said to himself, "It's okay to tell you, in fact, this is the poison I smeared myself, in order to cover up my edge and prevent my aunt from bullying me again." ”
"I also have doubts after losing my memory, isn't it good for a good girl to rise to the top with her beauty? Why do you want to spoil your face for no reason? But now I can see it, I'm here, my father doesn't love my mother, if I have a good-looking skin, it will only lead to death. Not only that, even if everyone knows that I am wearing a veil, and everyone knows that I am broken, once the emperor starts to pay attention to me, it will make people jealous. The edge of this world turns out to be not only a beautiful face, but also the care and concern of powerful people for me. ”
"I know poetry and songs, everything is better than He Qingli, they drugged me to make me a fool and a madman, my face is beautiful and I am liked by the concubines, they let me sleep on the watery bedding with eczema and sores. So I ruined my own face. But they were still not satisfied, they wanted me to never be able to turn over, they wanted to trample me under my feet to highlight their nobility. ”
"It's just a woman from Hefu. There will be women in the palace in the future. Uncle Huang, do you say that I go to the palace to be the emperor's woman, is it a good road or a bad road? ”
Song Yanjiao looked at the woman in front of her, between her eyebrows, there was an aura different from that of a mortal woman, just like a feather in the air, she wanted to touch it, but she couldn't bear to disturb her dusty beauty.
"It's up to you which way to go." He was stunned for a long time, and a different kind of tenderness still existed in his eyes, "I will protect you." ”
He Jiusheng didn't answer his words, pointed to the fish in the pond in front of the door and said, "I have seen a few of the nine fish raised by Uncle Huang in Qinglan Temple, and these fish are all koi fish. Every time you walk to the side to feed the fish, they will come together. How long has Uncle Huang kept them? ”
"It's almost ten years."
"These fish have been kept for 10 years, so they are close to people, but if they are released into an unattended lake now, they will die very quickly. And if you catch a few fish from an unattended lake and keep them in this pond, they will soon die. Koi fish are so beautiful and so colorful, it is the result of artificial domestication, they are just playthings, and they cannot survive without the people who keep them. ”
"But Uncle Huang, I'm not like a koi in the pond, and I'm not a plaything in anyone's hands. I'm a fish jumping in from an unattended lake, out of tune with everything around me, and if I want to survive in this pile of koi fish, I can't fit in at the end of the day. ”
She has never been an ancient person, if she wants to be like those women, she may be able to protect herself for a while, but a lot of experience tells her that if she wants not to be persecuted, she must fight in the deep palace, and she has to fight in the palace for a lifetime before she can get ahead.
She was really reluctant to put her best years in such an intrigue.
Although the emperor liked her, he never saw him care about him when he was poisoned, and what was even more annoying was that in the past seven years, no one had cared about him.
The love that is said to be talked about is just the sincerity of the occasional love when getting along day and night.
If she is still a madman, and the acne on her face still can't be eliminated, the emperor probably won't even see her.
"If you marry the emperor, the status and power of the He Mansion will increase day by day, even so, don't you want to?"
When Song Yanjiao asked this, his own heart trembled.