The rumors in Lu Zhi's mouth started from the summer of a year ago, when it happened to be the first Dragon Boat Festival after the completion of the change of the Su Qianguo dynasty, and Mu Ziqin received an invitation from Su Qianguo, inviting him to participate in the enthronement ceremony of Su Ling, the king of Su Qian.

According to the covenant of the countries of the Five Horses and Eight Desolations, Mu Ziqin needed to send someone to Su Qianguo to congratulate and send congratulatory gifts, but because the current queen of Su Qianguo was his junior sister Xia Tianqing, he chose to go in person.

In the early dynasties, the ministers were unanimously opposed to Mu Ziqin's approach. But for the sake of Xia Tianqing, he is willing to take risks.

The road from Su Qianguo to Mu Jin is not difficult. So Mu Ziqin hurried and hurried to Kyoto in a month. But he saw something different there.

He hid his identity and followed Daohe's envoy team to the palace, but he didn't meet Xia Tianqing as he wished, but he saw the man who made him hate for the rest of his life - Su Ling.

Their conversation takes place in the Imperial Garden.

"As the monarch of a country, I didn't expect that Mu Ziqin, the lord of Mu Jin Kingdom, would come to congratulate Gu in person."

"I'm not here for you, I think you know my relationship with Xia Tianqing. I came here just to see her. ”

"As my queen, should I be happy or sad to be able to make the monarch of his country worry?"

The smugness revealed in Su Ling's words made Mu Ziqin feel very uncomfortable. But as a monarch of a country, those bearings cannot be lost.

He just smiled slightly, then looked at Su Ling and said, "I am just a senior brother and sister with her, and this time I came only for the sake of my teacher's life." ”

When Su Ling heard his words, his expression stiffened slightly, but he turned to greet him with a smile and said, "Since this is the case, then as her husband, I can tell you on my behalf." ”

Su Ling's feeling of blocking his words like this made Mu Ziqin suspicious. However, he had no choice for the time being. In the end, he could only briefly explain a few words and then left the Imperial Garden.

After that, Mu Ziqin tried to see Xia Tianqing many times without success, either he was not there or was told that Xia Tianqing was unwell. Even Su Ling's enthronement ceremony did not participate. Finally, the night before leaving, Mu Ziqin used light skills to climb into the courtyard where Xia Tianqing was. Unexpectedly, the scene he saw made him unforgettable for the rest of his life.

The Xia Qianqing he saw was no longer the lively and lovely junior sister he saw back then, but a woman with a sad face, wandering in the huge palace as if she had lost her soul. She was talking to herself, even ignoring his greetings.

He couldn't bear her to be tortured like this, so he could only approach and talk to her, hoping that she would not be like this again, but he didn't expect that what he heard shocked him.

"My mother was killed by Su Ling's father. It was the king who had just died. And his death was not a natural death, but a work done by me. ”

"How could you?"

"I didn't know it at first. One day, Su Ling came to ask me what kind of method I can use to slowly deteriorate a person's body, and then let him die as if he was sick. When I asked him what kind of person he was, he just wanted his enemy to die. I believed. But who would have thought that ......"

"Since you said that he was the murderer of your mother, then your wish to die at this moment has been fulfilled, then why are you still so low?"

"Two days ago, I met an old lady in the palace, and she said that my mother's death was not as recorded in the palace. Instead......"

"What is it?"

Before Xia Tianqing could say anything, she started crying. Mu Ziqin couldn't bear it and proposed to take Xia Tianqing away, but Xia Tianqing was unwilling to go. She must find out the truth about her mother's death.

In desperation, Mu Ziqin could only accompany Xia Tianqing to stop crying before leaving. But I didn't expect that after leaving this time, we would never see each other again for the rest of our lives.

Because not long after the autumn equinox, Mu Ziqin received an anonymous letter, which wrote: Xia Tianqing is in deep danger and hopes that he will go to the rescue.

Faced with the sudden message of help, Mu Ziqin naturally did not believe it, but sent someone to secretly investigate.

During this half-year investigation, every time the news came back, Xia Tianqing was fine. This kind of information was completely unacceptable to him, and he still ordered someone to continue to investigate.

It wasn't until the summer of a year later that Mu Ziqin found out the real information - Xia Tianqing had been locked up in his bedroom, and Su Ling sent someone to guard it every day.

This is not the treatment of a country after that, like a prisoner.

Hearing this, Luo Ge's heart trembled, and the memories of those days kept coming to his mind. The face that appeared in the darkness again and again, except for Su Ling, who was a strange palace maid who had never seen before.

Suddenly, one day, someone brought her out of the darkness. She ran and ran until she reached the cold palace. In the cold palace, she met an old man, took her mother's codex from the old man, and then she was taken back to the dark palace again.

Lu Zhi's words, she didn't listen to half a minute. Instead, she searched for the contents of the Codex she had seen through the cracks in the window in the dark.

The codex began a month before she left home when she was five years old. The record is the first time the mother entered the palace, and the mother was invited into the palace by the queen that day, under the pretext of asking the mother to taste a pair of Yan Zhenqing's calligraphy. Xia Tianqing's mother, as the first talented woman in Beijing at that time, would not refuse to hear such news, she was full of joy to participate in this tasting, but she never thought that this was a trap from the royal family.

From that day on, my mother was imprisoned in the palace for ten years. Until Xia Tianqing returned to Beijing, she lived in the palace where she was humiliated and tortured by the emperor.

Although there was a small codex, my mother recorded everything the emperor had done. It was also through this codex with all kinds of unsightly words that Xia Tianqing also saw everyone in the Su family clearly.

Because Xia Tianqing finished reading the codex, when she took it to Su Ling for the first time, she saw a different Su Ling.

Su Ling, who got the codex, looked at her with a sad face and said, "Where did you get this thing?" ”

"From the hands of an old man."

Hearing her words, Su Ling was shocked. He didn't expect that there were still old people in the palace who could tell Xia Tianqing about this. And Xia Tianqing, who was waiting for him to solve it across from him, looked at him with anticipation.

Su Ling didn't show any kindness and concern, he just read the codex in his hand, and then returned it to hers, and said seriously: "It's better that you don't know about this matter." ”

"Don't want to know? Is it ......?"

Before her suspicions could be spoken, Su Ling covered her mouth, and then heard him say in a tone with murderous intent: "This matter, you know that it will only be death." Your mother's codex, which I will give back to you, is read for the sake of husband and wife. I hope you can destroy it. And then when nothing has happened. ”

The sound of stealing killing intent made Xia Tianqing's whole person feel like he had fallen into the eighteenth layer of hell. And how she returned to that palace that day, she no longer remembers. She just thought about Su Ling's words repeatedly, and then repeatedly found out the Su Ling she knew in the past from her memory.

After rummaging through her memories over and over again, and reshaping her memories over and over again, the image of the man who promised her her life gradually blurred, and the appearance of a tyrant who was ruthless because she had locked her up in the palace and sent people to guard her firmly because of her words.

The memories continue, but the story of Angelica has long been over. She looked at Luo Ge, who had not moved, and was a little scared in her heart. She stepped forward and gently shook her shoulder.

Shaken by her like this, Luo Ge came back from the brief memories of his previous life.

Looking at the curious and skeptical face in front of her, she said, "It's that simple? ”

"Hmm."

Lu Zhi nodded.

Looking at her determined appearance, Luo Ge felt a little annoyed in his heart. Because she didn't hear the second half of the story, she still doesn't know why "Xia Qianqing" became an unmentionable name, and why Mrs. Jing entered the cold palace.

With such doubts, Luo Ge ushered in the special envoy meeting before the Spring Festival.

According to the ancestral system of the Mu Jin Palace, the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month is the day when the envoys of various countries come to visit. On this day, all the envoys who came to meet him gathered in Weiyang Palace to present New Year's gifts on behalf of their respective countries and submit the "family letters" of each concubine.

At this time, the "family letter" represents the coming year's agreement of each country and the transmission of those unknown "code words".

The envoys of Su Qianguo who came to Mu Jin this year were not ordinary from previous years. In previous years, Su Qianguo sent at most one deputy envoy of the fourth grade, and the team of a party was at most about 20 people, and the gifts would not exceed five. This year, Su Qianguo sent Shangshu from the first product of the dynasty to come, and there were more than 60 people in the group, and for the first time there were more than 15 gifts.

Looking at the boxes of gifts placed in the hall, Mu Ziqin had some doubts in his heart. According to Su Ling's character, he is definitely the kind of person who is unhelpful and unpleasant. This year's sudden extra gifts are definitely fraudulent.

Sure enough, after reading the gift list in the inner waiter, Li Shangshu, who came here, hurriedly handed over the letter to his family. One is for Empress Su and one is for Mrs. Luo.

The waiter received a letter and presented it directly to Mu Ziqin. He opened the family letter again and again and listened to Li Shangshu say: "This year, my king wants Mrs. Luo to go home to save her relatives. I don't know what the king wants? ”

As soon as these words came out, Mu Ziqin's heart felt a little more steady. He had been guessing Su Ling's purpose since just now, but what he didn't expect was that it was so "simple".

And Luo Ge, who was sitting in the hall, was different from Mu Ziqin's relaxed face, and after hearing Li Shangshu's words, her heart rose to her throat.

Mu Ziqin, who was sitting on the dragon chair, did not stop the movements in his hand, and said while looking at the family letter: "Mrs. Luo only found out that she was pregnant a few days ago, so it is not appropriate to run and be tired. Go back and tell you that the king said that when Mrs. Luo gives birth to the dragon safely, I will definitely let her go back to see King Luo. ”