I shook the silver bell on my wrist and forced out a smile.

"This bell is the only thing my mother left me, but I have never seen her, not even a portrait. When I was eight years old, Ah Zhao and I secretly entered the palace, because we got lost, so we met Hege by mistake, and I knew that he was my father. My adoptive mother hated me and never got close to me, and my adoptive father fought in the battlefield all year round, and I didn't see him a few times. Although I am not close to them, I am really grateful to them, and at the same time, I am deeply sorry. For me, they paid too much, even losing the life of their own daughter. At one point, I felt that I should not have been born, because I simply could not bear the burden of reviving the Tuoba family. He Ge went to great lengths to send my mother out of the palace to give birth, thinking that I would be a prince, but unfortunately, I was not. My birth not only blinded their minds, but also harmed my mother, my adoptive mother, and my adoptive mother's daughter. ”

When these things are said now, it is like telling a drama or a story that happened to someone else, and I repeat it calmly, with a faint smile on my face throughout the whole process.

I sniffed, and the tip of my nose was pantothenic. As soon as my eyes blinked, the tears fell like beads with broken threads, and Changji couldn't bear it, holding my face and gently wiping the tears from my cheeks for me. I took his hand and looked at him through his hazy teary eyes, and he smiled and kissed me on the forehead.

We looked at each other, and in the quiet and foggy room, we only heard his soft reassurance: "It's all gone, and these don't matter anymore."

I sighed with relief and looked up at him with a smile: "This is my secret, no one knows it except my relatives, and I have never told anyone about it." But you are also my relative now, so I said it. Everything I say to you is true, every word is true, not fabricated. ”

Changji hugged me, my side face against his chest, and he said, "Thank you, thank you for trusting me so much and being willing to tell me these things."

I choked up slightly and said softly, "I've finished my secret, and now it's time for you to talk about yours."

He laughed and said, "I don't have any secrets to say, you know everything about me."

I held back all my tears and raised my eyes to glare at him: "You don't keep your promise!"

He sneered and held his forehead: "When did I agree?" I haven't said anything secret to you from the beginning to the end, and besides, I don't have any secrets. ”

I froze in my chest and hummed, "You're still hiding it from me, you still haven't admitted it?" Okay, you wait, I'll go get you evidence and see how you explain it. ”

I pulled out of his arms and slammed out the door barefoot. The study is not far from the bedroom, just in the west of the courtyard, out of the bedroom door can walk back and forth without half a cup of tea, I want to compare the portrait in the study with the one hidden in the pipa, I want to see if the person in the two paintings is the same person. In the end, it's not Dongjia.

It was deeper and heavier, the cold night was hazy, and the floor in the courtyard was stained with autumn frost, and it was good ice to step on. When Changji saw me going out, he didn't know what I was going to do, but because he couldn't wake me up, he hurriedly followed. When I got to the study with my front foot, he also came in with his back foot, and he had an extra piece of clothing in his hand.

"What the hell are you going to do?"

He put on my coat with a cold face and reprimanded: "Can you change your stinky temper, always run out at every turn, and go out barefoot no matter what time of day or weather." What if it's frozen? ”

I didn't pay attention to it, just rummaged through the cabinets to find the painting, and let Changji say nothing and didn't reply. I turned all the tubes over, but I couldn't find the painting. I was so tired that I was panting, and I sat down on the ground dejectedly, distressed: "It doesn't make sense, why is it gone?"

Changji didn't ask anything, just slowly squatted down, reached out and rubbed my head.

I thought about it carefully, and the ground was clear and transparent, and I remembered that the painting was originally stored in the bedroom by me, no wonder I couldn't find it in the study. So, I got up again, and ran back to the bedroom, crying and laughing, and rushed back with me again.

As soon as I stepped out of the threshold, I was picked up by Changji's waist, which was fast and urgent, and without warning, so frightened that I quickly circled Changji's neck.

"Changji, what are you doing here?"

He was expressionless, sighed helplessly, and said clearly: "You are not wearing shoes, and the ground is cold."

I was a little embarrassed to open my eyes, and when I looked down at my feet, I realized that he was not wearing shoes.

The floor was so cold, but he was only worried about me.

I'm a little annoyed, I shouldn't be so impatient, this fiery temper is really time to be closed.

I was honestly hugged by him, and it was unusually quiet.

When I got back to my bedroom, I hesitated to ask him about it.

In a daze, Changji put me down and said softly: "What do you want to ask me, you ask."

"You're willing to tell me your secrets again?"

"Just ask."

I hesitated for a moment, but finally took out the two portraits, as well as another "Nanzhan Kanyu Map".

I didn't care about it, so I put it aside and ignored it.

I walked to the table, slowly opened the two portraits and spread them on the table, under the bright candlelight, the woman in military uniform on the white paper looked particularly beautiful, beautiful and generous.

A closer look shows that the person in the two portraits is really a person.

I was busy talking to Changji while looking down at the painting, and I asked him, "Do you remember the last time you quarreled with me?" At that time, you angrily asked me for a painting, and I was full of doubts, I didn't know what I had lost of your painting. You didn't make it clear, but you insisted that I stole it, and no matter how I explained it, it was useless. Later, when the maidservant who cleaned the study returned the painting, I saw it for the first time. The painting slowly unfolded in front of me, and I mistook the people in the painting for Wen'er at the beginning, because their eyebrows and eyes were really similar, but Wen'er said that the person in the painting was not her. I was full of doubts until I got another one. Tonight, Concubine Tao announced that I would enter the palace, although I couldn't see her, but she asked someone to hand me a pipa when she was dying, saying that she wanted me to keep it for her, and I was even more confused. ”

After a pause, I said again, "On my way back from the palace, I accidentally broke this lute. By mistake, I discovered the mystery in the pipa. There are two pictures in the lute, and I opened them out of curiosity. One is a portrait, and the other is a picture of the mountains and rivers depicting the south. All my attention was drawn to this portrait, and the person on it still looked like Wing. To be precise, it's like the person in the painting you lost. I think, how could Tao Guifei hide the portrait of Wen'er, so the person in this painting cannot be Wen'er. I still don't understand, if the person in the painting is not Wen'er, why did you care so much at that time, and even did not hesitate to be angry with me, and lost your mind to ask me. But in fact, this man is indeed not Wener. I don't understand again, she's not Wen'er, so who is she? Why do you and Tao Guifei still have a portrait of this woman? I would love to know these unsolved mysteries. ”

I turned my head and asked Changji, and said solemnly, "You tell me the truth, do you know the person in the painting?"

He didn't say a word, staring indifferently at the portrait on the table.

The answer came to me and I asked, "Do you know each other?" This one of these paintings is really the one you lost, right? ”

He nodded calmly.

I pointed to the portrait and said, "I originally thought the person on this painting was Wen'er, but it wasn't. She's actually Dong Jia, isn't she? I first heard the name Dong Jia from Tao Guifei, and it was unfamiliar. But what I'm curious about is what is the relationship between you and Dong Jia, and why do you have her portrait? ”

Changji stared at the painting, his face became whiter and paler, his hanging hand gradually clenched into a fist, and he said word by word: "This is what Tao Guifei told you?" What did she say to you? ”

I was stunned for a moment, and paused: "She didn't say anything, it was all my own question."

"And what did you guess? What do you want to know? ”

I shook my head and told the truth: "I can't guess anything, I'm waiting for you to take the initiative to tell me."

"Okay, then I'll tell you everything."

Chang spoke with great difficulty, and looked up at me in horror, and his eyeballs were bloodshot. It seems that I have touched the reverse scales of the long pole.

"Am I a strong man?"

He laughed suddenly, and his voice was hoarse: "Yes, it is indeed difficult for a strong man."

I suddenly didn't want to know his secrets, and I regretted my cleverness. I quickly rolled up the scroll and sneered, "Then I won't ask you, you just don't say these things." Let's go back to sleep,"

I turned around and wanted to leave, but the patriarch stopped me.

Behind him, he asked me, "You don't want to hear my secrets?"

I said, "This question doesn't seem like a good answer, so I won't embarrass you."

"It's never hard to answer your questions."

I raised my eyes to stare at him, and he restrained his previous anger, his eyes half-lowered, his long eyelashes reflecting a shallow shadow. He sighed, revealing a rare trace of sadness: "If you want to know, I will tell you all today and never hide it." But after you have listened to it, you have to forget every word I say, and you must not mention half a word. ”

Seeing that I was silent, he said again: "Did I scare you by the way I looked just now?" ”

I shook my head: "It didn't scare me, I just thought I asked something I shouldn't have asked." It's like it's sad to remind you. ”

I bowed my head and wrung my fingers desperately.

"I know what you want to ask. I simply told you all today, lest you go to inquire indiscriminately again, and then you will be caught by someone with a heart. ”

Changji groaned for a long time, took the scroll in my hand, and slowly spread it out, he smiled bitterly, looked at the person in the painting and said: "This woman, like you, is from Beiqiu, and she has the blood of Beiqiu people on her body. However, she is different from you, because she is only half of the Northern Qiu blood, and half of the blood of the Nanzhan people. You're right, her name is Dongjia, and she ...... It's my birth mother. ”

I thought that their relationship was not ordinary, but I didn't expect it to be so ordinary. If you look at it according to their age, they can't be anything else except for this relationship. But as far as I know, this kind of thing is absolutely impossible.