Chapter 109: Not King An
Since Jiang Yuerong was crowned princess, she has become unstoppable, and those daughters of official families who were not familiar with her have also thrown olive branches, inviting her to drink tea with her today, and inviting her to enjoy the flowers tomorrow, in short, all the excuses that can be used have been used.
And Jiang Yuerong also enjoys this kind of life very much, originally she could only enter the palace during the state banquet, but now with the identity of a princess, she can enter the palace at any time to play, which is an honor that many official daughters do not have.
It has been seven or eight days since the Queen Mother's birthday banquet, and on this day, King Jing suddenly came to Chu Lixue's medicinal kitchen, if it weren't for Chu Lixue's deep memory of which of his hypocritical faces, King Jing was really inconspicuous in the crowd in plain clothes.
"Respect ......" Chu Lixue was just about to step forward and salute, but was stopped by a gesture from King Jing. Although Chu Lixue doesn't like King Jing very much, he is King Chen's uncle after all, and in terms of politeness, she also has to salute King Jing.
Seeing that King Jing was wearing regular clothes and only brought a guard by his side, he didn't want others to know that he had come to the Medicinal Kitchen, and he came here on purpose, he must have something to find himself, as for what it was, Chu Lixue had already guessed in his heart, but he still needed King Jing to determine.
Thinking of this, Chu Lixue asked King Jing to enter the inner courtyard as a supplier, which is a cost-effective place for running water and purchasing ingredients in the medicinal food workshop on weekdays.
King Jing followed the little maid into the inner courtyard, Chu Lixue instructed Ning Xiang to prepare Biluochun and flower cakes to entertain guests, King Jing had never seen a snack with flowers as fillings, picked up a piece and bit it, and chewed it slowly in his mouth, "Princess Chen is really a business wizard, and in a short period of time, she has taken over all the properties of Princess Chen, and she has continued to expand other businesses, which is really King Chen's virtuous help." ”
"The prince has won the award, but the prince should not come here just to praise the concubine, if you have anything to say, the prince might as well say it directly." Chu Lixue said lightly.
"Hahaha, Princess Chen is really a cheerful person, since that's the case, well, this king is not polite, are you doubting King An?" King Jing took a sip of tea.
Hearing this, Chu Lixue was slightly stunned, and then returned to normalcy and said: "The prince said that he was laughing, how could I doubt King An?" This concubine has nothing to do with King An. ”
"Princess Chen, let's not talk darkly, at the Queen Mother's birthday banquet, you asked Xiyue to pretend to be crazy, so as to ask us to hand over the jade pendant, the people present, only King An did not have a jade pendant, it can be seen that you are suspicious of him, this king just wants to know, what do you know? Is the current King An or not? ”
King Jing's words made Chu Lixue feel a little confused, that's right, at the beginning, it was indeed she who instructed Xiyue to pretend to be crazy, but she didn't expect that Xiyue's situation that day was not pretending, but something really happened, and after returning home, Ling Yijun also told her.
It should have been Xiyue pretending to be crazy that day, thus leading to the jade pendant incident, maybe you can know the true identity of King An now, but I didn't expect that Xiyue was really evil, originally, Chu Lixue was suspicious of King Jing, because all this was indeed too coincidental, and the Queen Mother actually used this incident to recognize Jiang Yuerong as a righteous daughter. It seems that the mastermind behind this is playing everyone in the palm of his hand.
"What the prince said made the concubine even more confused, if King An is not King An, then who will he be?" Chu Lixue asked without asking.
"It seems that the princess is still doubting the sincerity of the king, or not, the queen mother's birthday banquet that day, King An did not take out the jade pendant and the king already doubted, although King An is not close to the king, but after all, he is a brother of a compatriot, and the king still understands his preferences and habits. A person's appearance can be changed, and the movements and sounds can be imitated, but life habits are the most difficult to change, especially in critical moments, which can highlight some of the person's habits. ”
Hearing this, Chu Lixue nodded slightly, King Jing's words coincided with her, and she suspected King An, it was because she had heard King Ning talk about this person, the famous Virtuous Prince.
Although King An and King Jing are brothers, they don't get along very well, on the contrary, they get along very well with King Ning, that is, three years ago, suddenly King An and King Ning have less and less contacts, until now, they just give each other some regular gifts during the New Year's holidays.
That is, yesterday, the Chenwang Mansion also received the autopsy reported by the court, the skeleton has been proved to be the remains of a man, and from the degree of decomposition of the corpse, it can be known that the deceased has been dead for more than three years.
Thinking of this, Chu Lixue said lightly: "To the prince, this concubine wants to invite you to go to Jingzhao Yamen together, I wonder if the prince is willing to go along?" ”
"Go to Jingzhao Yamen?" King Jing wondered.
"Yes, because when Jiang Nan was captured, the mastermind of the underground palace fled, and then we blew up the underground palace, and at the same time found a corpse, the corpse was wearing a royal blue regular clothes, and this was also found on the body of the corpse." After speaking, Chu Lixue took out the dragon-patterned jade pendant from her sleeve.
King Jing saw the dragon pattern jade pendant, tears fell when he landed, the origin of the jade pendant, Chu Lixue already knew, but why did King Jing cry when he saw the jade pendant? This really made her guess King Jing's current mood.
Chu Lixue was not busy urging, but the answer would naturally be revealed after King Jing calmed down. After about a cup of tea, King Jing's mood calmed down a little, "Princess Chen, do you know how this jade pendant is different from the others?" ”
Hearing this, Chu Lixue was very surprised, the dragon pattern jade pendant was different from the others? This jade pendant is the same as that of King Ning and King Chen, the only difference is the color of the jade pendant, and King Ning has already explained the reason for this matter.
King Jing saw the doubts in Chu Lixue's heart, and immediately said lightly: "This is the jade pendant of this king, this is the jade pendant you found on the corpse of the underground palace, you take a closer look at what is different." After finishing speaking, King Jing handed the two jade pendants to Chu Lixue's hands together.
Chu Lixue took the jade pendant and looked at it repeatedly, carefully looking at the patterns in each place, all of them were the same, suddenly, Chu Lixue finally discovered the difference between the jade pendant, the jade pendant found in the dungeon, the dragon's eyes were red, and the other dragons only had eye sockets and no eyes.
"This ......" Chu Lixue looked at King Jing and said.
"King An's jade pendant is dyed by his own blood, when we were young, the relationship was still very good, when we were young, when we played together, once I fell from the tree, King An hurriedly used his arm to pick me up, but he was smaller than me, how could he catch me, when I fell, I also smashed his arm, at that time, the blood flowed, but also stained his jade pendant red, and then how to clean it can not wash away the little blood stains on the dragon's eye, and his right arm has not been able to lift heavy objects because of that injury, also because of this, An Wang practiced the ability to use his left hand. ”
"Left hand? But this man is also left-handed, right? Chu Lixue wondered.
"He does use his left hand in front of people, but it can be seen that it is very awkward, so he just drinks at the banquet, and ordinary people can do it if he serves a wine glass, and if he eats food, he will use his usual hand."
After listening to King Jing's narration, Chu Lixue recalled that on the copywriting found in the underground palace, the inkstone was indeed on the right, if the other party was a left-handed person, wouldn't it be inconvenient to put the inkstone on the right? That only tells the question, the man is a right-handed man.
It's just that the man didn't take anyone with him. Skin. Face. Gu, this is what Ling Yijun has carefully observed, if it is disguised, no matter how advanced the skill is, there will be flaws, but that person's face is simply the original face, and there is no disguise. Thinking of this, Chu Lixue boldly suspected that it was likely to be King An's twin brother.
"Lord, does King An have twin brothers?"
"Nope." King Jing replied very simply.
If there are no twin brothers, it is not easy to find a person with a similar appearance in the vast sea of people, and it is even rarer to carve it out of a mold. Even twins have characteristics that make people distinguish their identities, let alone outsiders.
It seems that this matter can only be known by finding the closest people to King An, but the people close to King An are Jiang Bai's and Jiang Nan, and now that Jiang Nan has been beheaded, how much does Jiang Bai's know about this matter?
"King Jing, do you know who is closer to King An? And the cronies around King An, which ones do you know? "Chu Lixue is trying to find a breakthrough from King Jing's side, when he broke through the underground palace, all the people in the underground palace were killed, even if there were one or two fish that slipped through the net, but they also hid early, since King Jing has always cared about King An, then he will definitely know what cronies King An has.
"I only know one of King An's cronies, he is Lao Wei, who is disabled, but he has always been by King An's side, and King An trusts the most."
"But King An has never seen this person around him?" Chu Lixue wondered. Is it that there are always a few young men around King An, and I haven't seen a person with a disability? Could it be that his disability is not obvious?
"Indeed, this king may not have seen this person for a long time, if the current King An is fake, then most of Lao Wei is no longer alive." King Jing said in frustration.
At this moment, Wanyue whispered outside the door: "Princess, the carriage is ready. ”
"To the king, please." Chu Lixue said in a gesture of please.
King Jing glanced at Chu Lixue, walked to the door, in order not to attract the attention of outsiders, Chu Lixue deliberately chose an ordinary canopy carriage, King Jing was stunned when he saw the carriage, and then took the lead in getting into the carriage without saying anything.
After Chu Lixue got into the carriage, Wanyue drove the carriage all the way towards the back door of Jingzhao Yin's Yamen......