Chapter 36: Empathy

For a moment, the silence in the room was palpitating. [No pop-ups. Except for Qu Jingshan, no one expected that the old things mentioned by Gu Changming would be related to the palace concubine, Dai Guozi couldn't help but look at Qu Jingshan a few more times, this person is just a guy who is greedy for money, will he still have something to do with the emperor's relatives.

Unexpectedly, Qu Jingshan's eyes were red, as if Gu Changming's words had stimulated all the resentments that he had hidden in his heart for many years, and he was almost uncontrollable.

Soon, even Liu Zhuxue sensed that something was wrong with Qu Jingshan, she subconsciously covered the fruit behind her, and held the snow-melting sword tighter with her right hand. Although Dai Guozi is well protected, he is a little uncomfortable in his heart, and he has to come out with a favorite woman for everything, but he is a little aggrieved, and there is a slight sweetness in this grievance, just like pī shuāng.

"Master Qumen, do you still want to continue listening?" Gu Changming is fearless and fearless, and some things are said openly and honestly, which is better than the person concerned being in the dark for a lifetime.

Qu Jingshan's hands grasped the handle of the chair tightly, his ten fingers were too strong, his knuckles turned white, and he barely managed to hold his breath steady, for fear of scaring anyone: "It's okay, you go on." Is that third princess a princess wishful of wishes? ”

Dai Guozi's eyes widened again, they had followed the three princesses in the family team for a while, and they had hardly heard of the title of the three princesses, anyway, they called the three princesses internally, and the princesses of the Great Song Dynasty and the princesses externally. This Qu Jingshan can actually say the title of the third princess in one mouth, which is really surprising.

"It's Princess Ruyi." Gu Changming nodded and said, "The Qu Sect Master also knows her?" ”

"I've never seen it, I've just heard it." Qu Jingshan closed his eyes slightly, and his emotions temporarily restrained, "If she can say something like that, she must still have something in her heart, and she is a good child." ”

The little phoenix listened to it in horror beside her, and from the first sentence of Gu Changming, her heartbeat suddenly accelerated, and she had the idea of wanting to stop him from going on. Some things, if not spoken, will be a secret for the rest of their lives, which is not a good thing.

The third princess said that the little phoenix was very much like an old man in the palace. She was born in the palace and grew up in the palace, and those who can be called old people must be most likely concubines of the emperor, and they will definitely not be ordinary palace people. Gu Changming's eyes softened when he looked at the little phoenix, "At that time, I was afraid that you would be disturbed, so I didn't say much." ”

"That person was wholeheartedly for the emperor, but he was framed by a slut. The emperor was indiscriminate, and did not even give her a chance to defend herself, so he ordered her to be imprisoned and sentenced to death. When I heard the news, time was running out. I traveled for three days and three nights, and rode three good horses, never thinking that when I arrived at Kaifeng Mansion, she was no longer there. "Qu Jingshan has a secret that has never been told to anyone, but the more I don't want to remember some secrets, it always exists, and from time to time it jumps out to give a sting blow to the heart.

He has had enough of these years, and he thinks about finding the knowledge he knew at the time, and he doesn't vomit or feel unhappy. It turned out that he knew that qíng rén was far away in the sky, close in front of him, his eyes were slightly open, and he smiled bitterly: "Do I want to go to Kaifeng Mansion, it turns out that there are you waiting for me in the dark." ”

"I also don't know that the Qumen Master will have something to do with this matter." Gu Changming's voice was very calm, which made people feel calm.

"You don't know? What don't you Gu family know, when Ruyi said who she looked like, you didn't have a thought to find out? If you don't have any of these, you don't care that you are Gu Wuduo's son! When Qu Jingshan looked at the little phoenix, he felt pity.

"It's a pity that I haven't seen that concubine, so the words of the third princess can only be used as a reference at most, and they can't be taken seriously." Gu Wuduo had already settled in the Criminal Department twelve years ago, but Gu Changming spent most of the year practicing martial arts with his master, and there was very little communication with his father, where did he still have the kung fu to enter the palace to explore these.

"You go on, I'm going to listen to the part you didn't finish yesterday." Qu Jingshan felt tired, as if he had been working day and night for three days and three nights, but he had not rescued people, and he suddenly got up at this moment and felt the same way. He hadn't been in such a helpless state of mind for a long time, and it seemed that he was about to lose sight of where people were and what day they were.

"Twelve years ago, Luoyang. I saw a homicide in the alley, there were so many people who died, the murderer was no longer at the scene. Gu Changming was reluctant to mention this, he was young at the time, and he was shocked to see the blood all over the place. even thought that the murderer was next to him, and he was eyeing himself in the dark.

After all, he is Gu Wuduo's son, in order to exercise his courage since he was a child, Gu Wuduo has taken him to the Criminal Division many times, and what he saw may not be more merciful than the mercy in front of him, but he smelled the heavy bloody gas, his heart was uncomfortable, and he almost wanted to churn. So he forcibly suppressed his fluctuating mood and cautiously stepped into the alley.

He tried to avoid the blood, but there was blood all over the place, and the result was the same no matter where he got his feet. Gu Changming walked three or five steps, but his courage was let go, and a thought surfaced. In case any of these people are lucky enough to be alive, the blood on the ground has not dried up, so it can be seen that the murderer has not been committing the crime for a long time, and it is normal if there is a mistake in the hurry.

Gu Changming flipped over the still warm corpse, checking the breathing pulse one by one, ignoring the blood on his fingers. He found that most of the deceased were women, and that they had gold hairpins in their buns and gold utensils on their bodies, and that they had not been taken captive, indicating that the murderer shā rén was not for wealth.

So most of the frustration is that shā rén has died out, Gu Changming continued to investigate, the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment, the murderer was ruthless and fast, basically a fatal move, leaving no living mouth.

Suddenly, Gu Changming saw a chain falling out of the neck of one of them, he held the chain and slowly pulled it out, there was a jade plaque hanging on the chain, two fingers wide, and when he turned it to the front, there were two words on it.

The jade quality of the jade plate was ordinary, and Gu Changming firmly believed that he had seen similar ornaments before, but he went to rummage through the necks of other corpses and found nothing. When he remembered where he had seen it, dá àn was almost ready to come out, and it was as if he had been covered with a veil that he couldn't blow away.

When he finished examining the last corpse and wanted to stand up straight, he found that his legs had been squatting for too long, and he was a little numb, and he almost couldn't stand steadily, but a timid child's voice came from behind him: "What are you doing here?" ”

Gu Changming was shocked at the moment, thinking that he was the murderer's accomplice, after all, he had just gotten up from the pile of dead people, and all the plants and trees were soldiers. The other party had the light on his back and couldn't see his appearance clearly, he was slightly relieved to see his figure, the other party must be a child, at most four or five years old, with a crisp voice, and still a girl.

"What's wrong with everyone here, why are you looking at me like this?" Probably because he was young and didn't understand the fear of life and death. Moreover, Gu Changming himself is still a half-old child, and the children have a sense of existence with each other, and the other party actually stepped on the blood stains and walked in this way, "Are you playing peek-a-boo?" ”

"No, don't come here!" Gu Changming panicked again, the appearance of the dead people was ugly, plus in order to find out the living mouth, he turned all the corpses over, his face was upward, and death was bound to appear, if he was seen by a child, he was afraid that it would become a haze for a lifetime.

"You can be here, why can't I, my house is there, do you know each other?" She didn't know the depth, and she spoke with a smile, but her speech was very clear.

"Because it's not fun here, I'll come out and accompany you home right away, you wait." Gu Changming took three steps and made two steps, came out of the alley, and hid the jade plate with the word "jade" written on it with his right hand behind him. "Where is your home, I didn't see it clearly, can you show it to me again?"

"Well, that's it." The girl wore a bun, a clear face, and a smile still on the corner of her mouth.

Gu Changming looked in the direction she pointed, and it was really not too far, presumably she usually walked around and played in the alley here, he said patiently and softly: "Then did you come out alone?" How old are you, shall I send you back first? ”

"Brother, I'm four years old." The girl took the initiative to shake his hand, Gu Changming's fingers were still bloody, and he directly avoided her hand.

"My hands are a little dirty, I need to find a place to wash them." Gu Changming actually saw a somewhat injured look in her eyes, and hurriedly explained, "If you touch something dirty and go back and take something to eat, you will get sick." ”

The girl's eyebrows bent, and she smiled again: "I don't know how to take food with dirty hands, my mother taught me that I must wash my hands before eating." My brother will go back with me, and I will fetch you water and wash your hands. ”

Gu Changming just wanted to say a good word, the back of his head was in sharp pain, his consciousness remained, thinking that there was a child beside him, he reluctantly touched the back of his head with his hand, the touch was sticky, and it was full of blood.

"That strong consciousness only lasted for a short time, and I wanted to keep myself from fainting, but I couldn't." Gu Changming narrowed his eyes and said, "When I woke up, my father stayed by my side, and he came back from errands and said that someone had saved me." When I asked him about the bloody case in the alley, he looked at me deeply, saying that the case was already secret, and even the criminal department had no right to interrogate it. ”

Seeing Gu Changming's gaze looking at him again, Qu Jingshan suddenly thought of something, and flatly denied it: "It's not me, the person who attacked you at that time was definitely not me." I was in Luoyang, but I was in a different place, with another person. ”

Everyone present almost guessed at the same time that the other person in his mouth was probably the concubine who was ordered by the emperor to be sentenced to death, and the person who was rumored to have an affair with the concubine was Qu Jingshan.

"I didn't! It is even more impossible for her to do such a thing, she was wronged, and I can't see death without help. Qu Jingshan was too sensitive to this matter, and the look of others made him jump like thunder.

"What about the man? Where is she now? Gu Changming listened to what he said unclearly, knowing that there were too many twists and turns, plus it involved the relationship between men and women, it was really hard to say which was right and which was wrong, if the person concerned was still there, it would probably be much better.

"He died in the winter of that year." Qu Jingshan's voice gradually lowered, "After she gave birth to her daughter, she lacked qi and blood, and she was already in a big deficit, and she was tired of escaping, and she suffered a little on the way. I tried a lot of tricks, but I still couldn't get her through the winter of that year. ”

As soon as the word daughter came out, Liu Dai and the two turned their heads to look at the little phoenix in unison, could it be that the little phoenix's life experience is so changeable, it will be from the palace......

"You think wrong, the daughter of that concubine is the third princess we sent to Liao, Princess Ruyi." Gu Changming couldn't help them from thinking about it, and directly gave dá àn, "After the third princess's mother had an accident, she was too young and was adopted by other concubines. Maybe she was afraid, no one had told her that the person in that impression was her biological mother, and all she could remember was a little residual memory. ”

"Then how could she say I look like the guy she's ever met!" The little phoenix suddenly spoke, her voice trembling, "You are hiding it from me, right, you are afraid that I will be sad, so you hide it from me!" ”