Chapter 25: Grievances
"Xiao Fan." Early in the morning, Qiu Shenghan looked at Luo Xiaofan, who was packing his package, supported his side face with one hand, and chuckled: "Let's go back to Longming Country." ”
"Long Mingguo?" Luo Xiaofan looked at Qiu Shenghan with some surprise, thinking about the place where he hadn't gone back for two years, and asked puzzledly, "Why do you suddenly want to go back?" ”
"There's something to deal with." Qiu Shenghan stood up with a smile on the corner of his mouth, stretched lazily, walked slowly in front of Luo Xiaofan, bent down slightly, his eyes flickered and met her eyes, and then said faintly: "Don't you think that the shadow and that Shen Yunyou are very interesting?" ”
"Brother Qiu." Luo Xiaofan rolled his eyes weakly, took two steps back, and opened a little distance from Qiu Shenghan. "You're not going to have another idea, are you? You've been fighting the Shadow for so many years, you want to kill him, he wants to kill you, but so far, none of you have been able to kill anyone. When will the fight be the end?! ”
Luo Xiaofan's words made Qiu Shenghan smile silently. I've known the Shadow for so many years, and I've been fighting for so many years. In a way, no one knows that person better than he does. So this time, he couldn't give up this opportunity......
Situ Rui looked at several corpses on the ground and sat in his chair expressionlessly. But the terrifying murderous aura emanating from his body had already made the people around him dare not take a breath.
More than a dozen corpses were clearly placed in front of Situ Rui's eyes. The murderer dared to act on his territory so unscrupulously, obviously he did not take him seriously. And what made Situ Rui most angry was that he didn't even hear a strange sound last night!
Shifting his gaze to Shen Yunyou, Situ Rui thought for a moment and asked in a cold voice, "Did you hear anything last night?" ”
"Back to the prince, no." Shen Yunyou shook his head seriously, scolding the shadow's nonsense in his heart, but replied with a blank look on his face: "I fell asleep after returning to the room, and I didn't hear anything." ”
Situ Rui looked at Shen Yunyou intently, trying to distinguish the truth from the falsehood in her words. The people who were killed were not the guards outside Shen Yunyou's door, so Shen Yunyou shouldn't have seen anyone else last night. However, if the prisoner was that shadow, Situ Rui couldn't be sure that Shen Yunyou really didn't meet that person. Look at the wounds on the necks of these people, they are the same as those on the Liu family. At least Situ Rui can be sure that the one who sneaked into the palace last night was the one who wiped out the Liu family.
But one thing that Situ Rui couldn't figure out was why that person would target Shen Yunyou. This is something that Situ Rui can't figure out no matter what he thinks.
"You get out." Situ Rui waved his hand at Shen Yunyou with a gloomy expression, and said, "Without my permission, you are not allowed to leave the palace." ”
"Lord, can I ...... A trip back to the Prime Minister's House? Shen Yunyou looked at Situ Rui with a tangled expression, and said in a low voice: "When I came out yesterday, I didn't explain it clearly to my mother. I was afraid she would be worried, so I wanted to go back and see her. The princess will go back to the Prime Minister's Mansion with me, and if the prince is not at ease, he can send other people to spy on me. ”
Situ Rui listened to Shen Yunyou's words, was silent for a while, and agreed to Shen Yunyou's request. "Remember to come back before dark."
"Thank you, Lord Wang."
Shen Yunyou left the room, and the nerves that had been tense were finally able to relax a little. He had been thinking about the shadow in his head, and Shen Yunyou felt that the shadow's actions in the past few times had already shown that he was ready to take action against Situ Rui. So what will happen to himself and Yezixuan next? When will the identity be revealed? What dangerous things will the Shadow arrange to do? Shen Yunyou didn't know anything.
Leaving the palace with Situ Liuyun, under the escort of Zheng Yunqi, Shen Yunyou returned to the Prime Minister's Mansion.
After getting off the sedan chair, Shen Yunyou stood at the gate of the Prime Minister's Mansion, looking up and squinting slightly at the plaque on the gate. Surrounded by the humble attitude of the Prime Minister's family, he slowly walked into the courtyard of the Prime Minister's Mansion.
Shen Yunyou ignored the gazes that those family members were looking at him one after another, which was not quite the same as before. While chatting with Situ Liuyun beside him, he walked straight towards Meng Yuqing's residence.
Walking into Meng Yuqing's room with light steps, Shen Yunyou looked at Meng Yuqing, who was sitting on a chair, bowing his head and embroidering a handkerchief, and spoke softly, shouting: "Mother." ”
Meng Yuqing hurriedly raised her head when she heard the footsteps, but she didn't expect to see Shen Yunyou and Situ Liuyun. Too late to talk to Shen Yunyou, Meng Yuqing looked at Situ Liuyun's strange gaze at her, stood up with a far-fetched smile, walked in front of Situ Liuyun, and whispered, "Say hello to the princess." ”
"No courtesy." Situ Liuyun looked at Meng Yuqing with stiff eyes, and did not ease up for a long time. Situ Liuyun had also come to the Prime Minister's Mansion before, but he had never paid serious attention to Meng Yuqing. Last time I heard Shen Yunyou say that her mother had been a servant girl by the queen's side before, although Situ Liuyun also doubted it, she never thought that this person would really be her!
Shen Yunyou looked at Meng Yuqing suspiciously, and then looked at Situ Liuyun. Walking to Meng Yuqing's side, Shen Yunyou grabbed her arm and asked, "Mother, what's wrong?" ”
Without waiting for Meng Yuqing to speak, Situ Liuyun suddenly smiled softly, sighed with relief, and said, "It turns out that Yunyou is your daughter. After speaking, Situ Liuyun stopped talking, stayed quietly on the side, and quietly listened to the conversation between Shen Yunyou and Meng Yuqing.
Shen Yunyou and Meng Yuqing chatted for more than half an hour, and only after making sure that Meng Yuqing had a good life in the past few days did they leave with peace of mind.
Back at the Rui Palace, Shen Yunyou kept looking at Situ Liuyun of the iQue without a trace. Obviously, after Situ Liuyun saw Meng Yuqing, he looked like he had lost his soul. This made Shen Yunyou have to suspect that Meng Yuqing knew Situ Liuyun. And between the two, something must have happened.
Meng Yuqing was in the palace before, and she was working beside the queen. So even if Situ Liuyun has seen Meng Yuqing and knows each other, it is not surprising. But the blame is on Situ Liuyun's attitude......
"Princess, do you know my mother?" Shen Yunyou took the initiative to ask.
"Well, I know." Situ Liuyun nodded lightly, turned his head and looked at Shen Yunyou, and said with a solemn expression: "Your mother once saved my life before. ”
Situ Liuyun's words made Shen Yunyou's heart sink suddenly, and he had a bad premonition. A bright light flashed through his mind, giving Shen Yunyou a feeling that he was about to think about something, but he had never been clear.
Situ Liuyun didn't continue, and Shen Yunyou didn't dare to continue to ask.
Situ Liuyun took the lead in returning to the room under the pretext that he was not feeling well. Shen Yunyou was left alone with nothing to do, so he had to go to Xiu'er's room and ask Xiu'er some questions.
Sitting on the edge of the bed, Shen Yunyou looked at Xiu'er, who was still weak, and couldn't help but feel a little guilty.
"Xiu'er, do you know what happened to my mother before?" Shen Yunyou asked straight to the point.
"Madame's past?" Xiu'er bit her lower lip incomprehensibly, and after thinking seriously for a while, she said: "I only know that Madame has been in the palace before, how she met the master, and how she married into the Prime Minister's Mansion, it's completely unclear." ”
Xiu'er's answer made Shen Yunyou a little disappointed, but it was also expected. After all, Xiu'er is just a little maid, if she knows too much, it will be abnormal.
"Now that the status of the young lady has changed, presumably the lady will have a good life." Xiu'er was a little unfinished talking about Meng Yuqing. "In the Prime Minister's Mansion, Mrs. has the best temper and the most gentle! But it has been oppressed by several other ladies, which is really unfair! ”
"Xiu'er, why does the eldest lady disagree with my father to straighten my mother?" Shen Yunyou tilted his head and asked puzzled. The second lady Ye Yunqian disagrees with this matter for understandable, she committed adultery with Liu Song, and she is afraid of worrying about her status in the Prime Minister's Mansion. The third lady Nangong Ruowu is arrogant, and it makes sense that she doesn't want a person who used to be a palace maid to stand at the same height as herself. The fourth lady lost her son and didn't hear about family affairs for many years, so this kind of thing has almost nothing to do with her. But why does the eldest lady Xue Lanzhen keep vigorously opposing this? She is already in charge of the finances of the Prime Minister's Mansion, and although she has no children or daughters, her position is already deep-rooted. What else did she have to worry about?
"There's a reason why the eldest lady will hold a grudge against our wife." Xiu'er looked at Shen Yunyou's frowns, looking distressed, and sighed weakly. "Because since our wife entered the Prime Minister's Mansion, the lord has never had the same room with the eldest lady again. Therefore, the big guys all spread that the eldest lady has no heirs now, and the reason is all on our wife. ”
"Why?" Shen Yun asked reluctantly. "No matter how much my father likes my mother, it won't come to this point."
Xiu'er swallowed her saliva, a little worried and scared about Shen Yunyou's attitude of breaking the sand pot and asking the end, and didn't want to say any more. But being forced by Shen Yunyou again and again, she had no choice but to tell everything she knew.
"I've only heard about these things. The eldest lady is also a famous lady, not only beautiful, but also very smart. When I didn't marry into the Prime Minister's Mansion before, I was already helping out with business in my mother's house. When the old man wanted to marry his wife, the eldest lady was the first to stand up against it. Because she thinks that the status of our wife is low, marrying into the prime minister's mansion will make people gossip, and the master's status in the court may also be lost. But the old man didn't know why, and insisted on marrying his wife back. So at that time, the two had a big quarrel, and the lord almost wrote a letter of resignation to leave the eldest lady. After that, the lord never entered the eldest lady's room again. ”
It turns out that there was such a grudge between Xue Lanzhen and Meng Yuqing......
After listening to Xiu'er's words, Shen Yunyou suddenly became enlightened. But there are still some questions that continue to bother her.
As a palace maid in the deep palace, how did Meng Yuqing meet Shen Zhiyuan, who is the prime minister? How did the two develop their feelings? Why did Shen Zhiyuan have to marry Meng Yuqing? There must be some reason for this, or it may be an ulterior secret. Otherwise, a person in a high position will not easily joke about his official position!
PS: Tomorrow will be added more ~~~