Chapter 66: The Chamber of Secrets

Maybe I was too helpless, which made Qi Ao think of the old thing: "The queen mother died, and there was a time when I thought the same as you, and I felt very indebted to her. I was born as the crown prince and the eldest son, and with the prominent background of my mother's family, my father loved me very much. My homework and martial arts were among the best among the princes, and everyone said that I was destined to inherit the throne. ”

"I saw my mother drink poisoned wine with my own eyes, and I hated my father's cruelty and hated myself for not being able to maneuver. The Qi family was beheaded, and there was no one left alive except me. I ran all the way, got angina, and had nightmares that filled me with blood. ”

"Then I figured out that when you are not strong enough, you will become a fish on the chopping block, unable to decide your own destiny and unable to protect your loved ones. The law of the jungle is for the way of heaven. ”

His eyes were burning, he couldn't see the emotion of pain, the years had precipitated, he had been able to hide the sadness in his heart very well, he had rarely heard him mention the past over the years, he didn't mention it if he didn't say it, but it was so tragic. Dad still breathed a sigh of relief, and I was so sad that I didn't dare to think about how he could face the scene of his biological mother's death in front of his eyes.

"In the world of the jungle, there is no other way than to become stronger. If this is the fate, all you can do is become stronger. ”

I saw my face clearly in his resolute eyes, he was right, since my father's accident, I just passively accepted the reality, pinned all my hopes on my father to wake up, but I didn't have half the idea of facing the difficulties, I was too ignorant.

A trace of tenderness appeared on his face: "Master loves you a lot, you know better than me, he is your father, it is natural to protect you and love you, if he is willing to die to protect you, you don't have to blame yourself too much, this is cause and effect." ”

How could I not understand what he said? But I don't want to submit to my destiny, for my father is my only relative, and I can't see him die.

I resolutely said, "Even if I try my life, I will never let my father die for me, never." ”

"If you are too persistent, you will only hurt yourself." He seems to have something to say.

"Qi Ao, do you know something? Who is the mastermind behind the person who hurt my father, and no one will reveal the slightest hint? Do you know? ”

He didn't feel unnatural, and said calmly: "The people who want to keep the Dugu clan with all their might, even if they don't know the origin of the other party, they can guess whether they are rich or noble, and they are high-ranking and powerful people." In Kyushu, is there any high-ranking person who has had dealings with the master, or even has a grudge that cannot be resolved? ”

It's not that I didn't think of what he said, it's just that my father has been sitting in Qinzhou City for decades, and he has a lot of contacts with powerful people from all over the world, and I have never heard him mention any special people, and I can't find clues for a while. I can't ask my dad directly, he doesn't want to trouble me, so I can't get an answer from him.

"That's all I say, maybe you can find something useful in Master's study."

He wasn't a very enthusiastic person, and it was rare to be able to say this series of words to me, and when I saw that he was leaving, I subconsciously stopped him: "Qi Ao-"

"What?"

I thought about it for a moment, but still asked, "You really don't know anything?" ”

He didn't hesitate, like his usual indifference: "What do you want me to know? ”

I smiled, I was too careful, my father and Qin Fu were kind to him, how could he turn his back on me?

"Nothing, I'm going to the study. If Dad wakes up again, remember to tell me. ”

"Okay."

At that time, I didn't know that I was the number one fool in the world, Qi Ao hinted so obviously, I didn't even hear that half of the mountain rain was coming. Long Xiao can't tolerate me, he must be fully prepared, and calculate every person and every joint around me, which will inevitably make me fall into a betrayal of my relatives, and it will be difficult to become a threat to him.

Most of those who become emperors are cold-blooded and ruthless, isn't Qi Ao's father the best example? In order to consolidate the imperial power, even the wife can say that he will give up, how much truth can he have? What's more, Long Xiao and I only have the names of brother and sister, but in fact we are no different from strangers.

I hadn't spent much time in my father's study before, because I didn't like to read, and my father's study was full of rows of bookshelves, which gave me a headache. Dad didn't set foot in the study for a few days, and the study was still spotlessly cleaned by the housekeeper.

When I was young, I would be very curious about why my father stayed in the study for a few days, and once deliberately stayed in the study to accompany my father, but when I was awake, he was reading the official documents, and when I woke up, he was still reading the official documents, sitting like a clock, as if he had not moved, and my father was very involved in dealing with official business, and rarely took care of me, and over time I lost interest and simply didn't come much.

I walked around the bookshelf three or two times, looked at a rough look, and found that although there are many books here, they are placed very regularly, and at a cursory glance, they are arranged according to categories and years, and the books at eye level are mostly related to the art of war and the rule of officials. The books below deal with Buddhism and medicine, and there are not many traces of turning them, so they belong to the category of seclusion.

With my unforgettable eyes, I swept it all at a glance, and only found more than ten classics such as the Atlas of the Kingdoms, and did not find the records of political exchanges between Qinzhou and various countries.

But I know every part of the Qin Mansion thoroughly, there is a secret passage, just below my Xi Garden, and the rest of the places have not even built basements, where will my father hide these confidential things? I hit my head with my index finger for a while, and I looked at the study at a glance.

Isn't there a secret room in this house that I don't know about? Fortunately, I have read a lot of drama books, and large families will build a secret room in the house that only the big boss knows about in order to prevent theft, which is used to collect treasures.

I began to nervously knock around the room, the study was not very large, I knocked around and found nothing that looked like a mechanism, and I was even more confused, wondering if I was thinking in the wrong direction.

I noticed that it was because my father had always preferred simple and atmospheric objects, and if it wasn't for a gift from a friend, he wouldn't have chosen such a gorgeous glass lamp. There are a lot of luxurious things in the treasury of the Qin Mansion, and I don't see my father paying special attention to it.

That's why this lamp caught my attention. I reached for the lamp, and sure enough, it was fixed on the table, unable to move, and I tried to turn it around in a full circle, but it still didn't move. If you look closely, the pattern on the glass lamp is extremely complex, but if there is a little deviation in the angle, the lines cannot match. I moved the lamp carefully, and after a while, the sound of bookshelves moving behind me sounded.

The two bookshelves, which could not see the abnormality, moved sideways in two different directions at this time, revealing a dense and opaque stone door, the stone door was made of smooth material, I pushed it hard, but the door did not move at all. Looking around, there was an inconspicuous entryway on the wall behind one of the bookshelves, the pattern design was the same as the switch of the secret passage in my room, I walked forward and rotated in the opposite direction, and the door finally opened slowly from the inside.

I walked down the stone steps and walked hundreds of meters to the secret room.

Long after my father's death, I finally returned to Qin Mansion by chance, only to know that this secret room is not all my secrets, my father didn't want me to get involved in the dangerous right and wrong, he planned to let my life experience disappear from this world with his death, even if there was no Long Xiao's step by step, he also wanted to bring this secret to Huangquan Road.

Even though he is not my biological father and has no blood relationship with me, he treats me with sincerity and treats me as his own, and this kindness is difficult to repay. How can I not get justice for his death?

The furnishings in the secret room are very simple, a table and a chair, and in the corner is a stone couch for people to rest, and nothing else. On the wall to the left of the stone couch, a portrait of a woman hangs. The woman in the painting is about two years old, with black hair and white clothes, red lips and white teeth, and the color of a captivating city.

I know who that woman is. In this world, I am the only one who is six or seven points similar to her.

No wonder every year on the death day of my mother, my father will lock himself in the study and get drunk until midnight, and the most common place for my father is the study. Because my mother is here.

I didn't have a mother since I was a child, and I was a little jealous of the children who had a mother, so I bullied the little maid in the house who was close to my age, and once I was bumped into by my father, he punished me severely, I was wronged, and the ghost cried wolf for a long time, shouting why others have a mother but I didn't, and my father, who was angry, suddenly lost his words, and changed his mind and no longer punished me. After that, he barely mentioned my mother in front of me.

I am a little older to realize that it is not easy for my father, I think my mother does not want to, he has not remarried for so many years, is to put his mother in the deepest part of his heart, so he no longer mentioned anything about his mother to his father, afraid that he would be sad. Our father and daughter have been so tacitly connected for ten years.

At this moment, when I saw the portrait of my mother and knew my mother's appearance and bearing, I thought I would cry, but my eyes were astringent, and there was really no tear. Dad carved the longing for his mother into his bones, and he, like me, never forgot his mother.

The only desk had no drawer compartments, so I could guess where what I was looking for was hidden. I gently lifted the portrait and took out the scroll in the lattice behind the portrait, and that was what I wanted. I held the scroll in my hand and kowtowed three times to the portrait of my mother, and silently recited in my heart, my mother is in the spirit of the sky, and I must bless my father to get better soon.

I sat in front of the chair and carefully flipped through the whole book, Qi Ao guessed well, the book recorded the records of my father's exchanges with the magnates of several countries in recent years, from what was given out on a certain day in a certain year, to the history and political achievements of the king of a country, in detail, and briefly, there is no pattern to be found, and it looks no different from an ordinary notebook.

I scribbled through it at first, but I didn't see anything special, but I read it twice more patiently, pondered for a while, and seemed to have some ideas coming out, when I was suddenly interrupted by a sudden knock on the door. Someone knocked on the door outside the study, it's late at night, could it be Qi Ao?

I lightly put the scroll back in its place, returned to the study along the same path, closed the door of the secret room, moved the glass lamp, made sure that everything was back to the original state, took a deep breath and opened the door, the butler stood respectfully outside the door, his eyes lowered, and handed over an encrypted letter: "The old slave saw that the light was on in the study, and guessed that the eldest lady was here, so he brought a letter. ”

I wondered, "Whose faith?" ”

The old slave didn't know that someone came to the door and left a message for the old slave to hand over a letter to the eldest lady, and the messenger left after speaking. The man was ordinary-looking, with no features. ”

I took the letter and opened the seal, *pulled out* when I took out the letterhead, I smelled a fresh peach blossom fragrance, faint but impossible to ignore, the letter paper is very ordinary, spread out to only four words: don't read it.

A Xuan word is signed.