Seeing this, Xu Chu took a deep breath and said, "It's really a mistake." It's just that who is in the coffin, and the clothes are ......."

She frowned, hesitated for a moment, and asked tentatively, "Do you recognize the rules of the garment?" ”

Xiao Qinglang nodded, "The style of the dress is the palace dress worn by the mother when she was a concubine, and it is embroidered with a luan bird pattern, interlaced with gold and silver threads. ”

"That's strange, how can it be a palace dress?" Xu Chu muttered suspiciously, as if he was puzzled.

"What's wrong?"

"I've seen in my dreams someone in that palace dress with a baby in her arms. Later, a man said something to kill......"

She hadn't thought about it before, but now that she thought about it, she should have seen the scene as a bystander. That is, she or the original person had seen a woman in that palace dress coaxing a child, and had witnessed a massacre.

Xiao Qinglang's expression was slightly solemn, and he suddenly asked as if he had thought of something, "Do you remember that dream when you had it?" ”

"It was after the assassination on the way back to Beijing, I still remember that in order to concentrate on my mind, I specially asked Aunt Chu for some soothing incense."

mentioned this, Xiao Qinglang suddenly understood, probably when he was with her that night. At that time, he heard the exclamation and was worried, so he hurried over. At that time, he did hear Xiao Chu say that it was a nightmare, and the soothing incense in the house was also the warm incense brought by Aunt Chu from the capital.

That warm incense used to be used by the palace in the palace, and now it is very popular in the capital. According to the dream that Xu Chu said, it should have been when the first emperor was alive. And the smell of the warm fragrance is most likely a kind of introduction, leading out what she has forgotten in the depths of her mind.

It is not difficult to speculate that she should have been young or just a baby at the time, and she was very familiar with the palace incense in the court.

Later, in all likelihood, she became a survivor of a massacre, but she also engraved that scene into her mind. It's just that maybe it was too young at the time, so that that memory was lost.

Xiao Qinglang could think of this, and Xu Chu, who had calmed down, could naturally think of it.

At this time, the strange look on the face of the lady in charge when she saw her face when she went down to the court before seemed to have an explanation.

She was horrified, and looked at Xiao Qinglang who was frowning and silent.

Her background and the secrets hidden by her father may be related to the palace with red walls and yellow tiles, and Biwa Zhuyong, which she and Xiao Qinglang never imagined.

At first, they all thought that she was at most related to the Sun family. Even, she is very likely to be the illegitimate daughter of Imperial Physician Sun. Unexpectedly, she found out that she was involved in the most undesirable place.

If it's just an accident, it's fine, but if it'...... But if it is......

She bit her lip and glanced at Xiao Qinglang a little helplessly, and then lowered her eyes and was silent, if that was the case, she was afraid that she really didn't know how to deal with herself.

The sky gradually became a little gloomy, as if she was in a difficult and panicful mood at this time.

Xiao Qinglang sighed lightly, stretched out his hand to smooth her frowning brows, and said in a low but gentle tone, "Don't worry, it won't be what you think." The royal heirs are already scarce, and it is impossible for them to wander outside the palace at will. Mo said that it was lost from the palace, that is, when the emperor was on his southern tour, he accidentally favored the woman of the good family, and it must be recorded in the living note. And all the concubines who are pregnant will also be recorded in the pulse case of the Tai Hospital, and there will be no mistakes......"

His words were a little solemn and solemn, but when they fell on Xu Chu's ears, they made her heart relax.

As long as it is not what she thinks, although she is willing to face the bloody storm and ups and downs with him, it does not mean that she can have the courage to challenge secular ethics.

"According to your age, the situation in your dream is very likely to have happened in the fifty years of the first emperor, when there was only one killing in the palace, that is, in the fifty-sixth year of the first emperor's order, the palace people in the palace of the mother concubine were exterminated. Later, the people in the inner court were very secretive about that incident, but the file recorded that when the inner court collected the corpses, there was one woman missing from the dozens of corpses that should have been pregnant. Xiao Qinglang's face was slightly solemn, and he continued with a deep groan, "That woman is actually not an ordinary palace person, but a friend of my mother's concubine before she entered the palace. At that time, she entered the palace with her mother, and her mother was given the title of concubine, and she was given to marry the British prince Xiao Heng, a royal family. ”

Xu Chu has never seen this person in the British Gong Xiao Heng, but she has seen this person's life on the file given by Xiao Qinglang.

It is said that he was young and promising, went to the battlefield several times, repeatedly made military exploits and was often appreciated by the emperor. In addition, he is a little similar to the first emperor, and he is very knowledgeable and interesting, so he was also deeply loved by the queen mother at that time. For this reason, the Empress Dowager and the first emperor at that time were also very uplifting the British government.

If it weren't for Xiao Heng's recurrence of his injuries later, I am afraid that the queen mother at that time would have asked the first emperor to ask Xiao Heng to take the throne of the king of Yingjun.

The Great Zhou Dynasty inherited the Tang system, and the titles of the imperial family were distinguished by princes, heirs, county kings, national dukes, and county dukes. Among them, the position of the king of the county and the prince of the country can be awarded meritorious heroes. If the first emperor was hindered by the empress dowager's affection at that time, coupled with Xiao Heng's military exploits, it would not be difficult to crown him as the king of the county.

It's just that in the end, he didn't wait for the canonization, but first a pregnant lady went down without knowing the fate of the unknown, and then he died of a recurrence of his old injury.

Since then, the British government has plummeted, and the servants of the palace have also been dismissed and do not know their whereabouts.

Because when Xiao Heng was young, he ran on the battlefield all the year round, and he didn't care about women, so there were no aunts and concubines in the house, and even sons and daughters were not left. This incident once made the magnates in the capital feel sorry, and naturally it also added an excuse for many men to take concubines.

To this day, no one knows what happened at that time, why the British duchess suddenly entered the palace to see the concubine, and how could she be implicated in the destruction of the first emperor. Where did her body go later, and why didn't the British government investigate her whereabouts, or even retire directly from the court?

One is that time has passed, and the British government has no successor, so naturally no one wants to pursue it or stand up for the declining British government. The second is unfounded, at that time, the Dong family controlled the government, so that many people were in danger, and who could take care of the disappearance of a woman?

For a moment, Xu Chu couldn't help but fall into deep thought, if it seemed a bit far-fetched to say that she had a relationship with the British Duchess. After all, according to Xiao Qinglang's words, the British duchess had not yet given birth at that time, how could she be so impressed?

But what else is possible besides this speculation?

After all, if Daddy is really the missing Imperial Doctor Sun, then the baby he brought to the Xu family must be himself. And where the child came from, why he went to great lengths to hide his identity and life experience, these are all doubts.

The mountain wind came and blew out along the mountain col with bursts of coolness, which made Xu Chu shiver.

Xiao Qinglang looked at Xu Chu, who was a little pale, helplessly, and slowed down with a sigh, covering her with his body to prevent the cold wind from blowing on her again.

"At this time, we will discuss it in the future, and the top priority now is to make all preparations first, and then go back to the dark room of the Taoist temple to examine the piles of bones and the female corpse in the coffin."

The two of them whispered and went down the mountain and returned to the carriage.

Because there are too many hallucinogenic drugs in the dark room, and because it is closed for a long time, if people enter it, they are likely to feel suffocated, which will make the hallucinations more and more real. Therefore, before he was ready, Xiao Qinglang did not intend to let people in rashly, and of course he would not allow Xu Chu to risk going forward for an autopsy.

In normal times, they would only cover their nose and mouth with a damp cloth, but today is different. The spice that would make him lose his vigilance, he wasn't sure if it would make others lose their minds.

In the past, when he was in Yunnan, he had encountered cases where people killed each other due to miasma. So, he won't take any chances until he's sure.

Because of the discovery of the dark room and the speculation of the two of them, the atmosphere has been very solemn on the way back to the city. It can be said that since the two have been heart-to-heart, there has never been such a time of silence.

Xiao Qinglang glanced at Xu Chu, who was a little depressed, raised his hand to help her cut her hair, and comforted, "Today's trip is not for nothing." The Taoist who guarded the door was most likely the Taoist we were looking for, and he was also the one who blew up the Dong family's Lushan Courtyard. Of course, if that Xuanyang Daoist really encounters someone who commits murder, I am afraid that today's Daoist is the most suspicious. ”

Xu Chu nodded, "He said that he hadn't come down the mountain for a long time, and there had been no visitors in the Taoist temple for a long time, but I saw that the tea cups and refreshments he used to entertain you were all fresh, and there was also the mark of the shop where you prepared jujube cakes for me last time." It can be seen that his words are not to be believed. ”

"In addition, he often alchemy in the grass house, so if he carries the mercury and other things used in alchemy to make the gold threads on the brocade quilt covered by the Xuanyang Daoist white, it is also very likely."

Xiao Qinglang saw her methodical analysis, and immediately smiled, "What's more, in the Taoist temple, except for the dead Jingxu Shitai and the missing Xuanyang Daoist, he is the only one who is in the Taoist temple." If someone wants to avenge Master Jingxu, or deliberately blow up the alchemy room of the Lushan Courtyard to make Master Jingxu's case come to light, then this person is none other than him. ”

Xu Chu watched him say these words calmly and casually, and his heart was full of respect. She suddenly remembered that when the headless female corpse case was back then, he only doubted the truth of the case because the old man did not recognize the body of the deceased. Now, he didn't expect that long before he came, he had already guessed that this gatekeeper was inappropriate.

Sure enough, in the matter of prison, her sensitivity is far less than Xiao Qinglang. Probably this is the art industry has a specialization......

Outside the carriage, the wind was quiet, and the gloomy sky was full of clouds at some point, and the clouds could be seen rolling as far as the eye could see. In a moment, I heard the sound of rain crackling on the leaves swaying in the wind.