The space was silent for a while, and Ah Ping asked slowly: "Based on your years of experience in tomb robbing, how many years has the female corpse been dead?" Chen Ergou, who was originally panicked, obviously didn't expect Ah Ping to ask this question, so he was stunned for a moment and then immediately replied: "According to small observations, the bones should have been dead for at least twenty years, and they were still young when they died." ”

I couldn't help frowning, saying that the palace is the most sinister place, every day someone disappears innocently, and there may be unjust souls buried under every dry well. I was fortunate to have Ah Ping's protection, and I didn't come into contact with those intriguing palace fights, but I still almost lost my life several times, so it can be seen that the ugliness in the deep palace may be exposed at any time.

In the final analysis, it is still a power word. Those palace concubines ostensibly want to win favor in front of the emperor, but in fact, there are a few people who are really right, even if they really fall in love with the emperor, I am afraid that they will love the power behind it even more.

Chen Ergou was taken down by Yan Qi, I don't know if he will be punished, but I can be sure that Ah Ping will not kill him. Although this person's behavior is not good, he is a special existence, since he didn't even cause a murder when the tomb of Aping's father was stolen from Ginkgo Village, he definitely wouldn't kill him because of today's incident.

However, I saw that Ah Ping was very silent after this, and he went back to the room without even eating lunch. I waited for the two children to cook and went back to the house to look for him, and saw him holding the dragon-shaped jade pendant in his hand.

Before I could walk over, I heard him ask, "Do you know the origin of this jade pendant?" ”

In his heart, did he recognize who this jade pendant was? I shook my head, walked over to him and sat down, and said softly, "Tell me about it." He hooked the corner of his lower lip lightly, and said slowly: "I once had a piece of jade pendant that was exactly the same as this one, but my piece was light green, which was given to me by my grandfather, but it was broken by my father." At the time I didn't understand why he took my jade pendant and smashed it to the ground, but now I think I understand. ”

I should have understood what he meant, and reached out to shake his palm, "It's all over." ”

He raised his eyes to look at me, "I'm fine, just a little emotional." Things and people that have been sealed for so long will actually have a time when they are exposed to the blue sky, in fact, when Yan Qi said that there is a tomb underneath, I have a faint feeling, the tomb that can make Chen Ergou's heart move must be extraordinary, and a woman who dies in the palace is either an ordinary palace maid or a palace concubine, until I see this jade pendant, I can be sure. After all, my father still has affection for her, so he gave her the jade pendant of the imperial grandfather and broke my piece later for fear of seeing things and thinking about people, and later my father died of illness. ”

If so, then his father must have been very sad back then, but he was helpless. In that position, you can't even keep your beloved, and you still have to maintain a superficial balance and pretend not to know even though you know that you have suffered, how much pain does it have to swallow?

Zhu Biao was a literati with an elegant and gentle personality, but he eventually died of depression because of this until his early death. How sad?

Suddenly, Ah Ping shook it back and locked my eyes, "Alain, I won't be like my father, if I can't even protect my own woman, then what's the point of my birth?" ”

"Don't say that about your father."

His eyes sank, "I'm telling the truth, I used to admire him and worship him, but it turned out that there was too much ugliness behind that smooth and bright beauty. He is a coward, and even his own woman has to be sacrificed for the balance of the court, but he is still pretending to be ...... after cruelty" I covered his mouth, I don't understand why he suddenly became so extreme, I don't want him to think about his father so much, as he said, how much he admired his late father, and did not hesitate to go from the court to Ginkgo Village for three years to keep filial piety.

But my hand was pulled down by him, and the originally gloomy eyes suddenly changed back to gentleness, and he squeezed my palm lightly before saying, "Don't worry about me, just now I just simulated my father's original mentality, and figured out why he died of depression and suicide." ”

"What did you say?" I was taken aback.

He smiled sarcastically: "Everyone thinks that my father's early death was due to illness, but I don't know that my father died by suicide, I saw it with my own eyes." The emperor's grandfather immediately suppressed the matter, and announced that his father had died of illness, and even the Lu family did not know the inside story. The reason why I was sent to Ginkgo Village to guard filial piety for three years was also to cover up and erase this matter. ”

I was so shocked that I couldn't speak, this is just another palace secret, Zhu Biao actually died by suicide!

Ah Ping buried his head in my neck and said in a humming voice: "My father actually lived in his own world later, and he didn't pay much attention to anyone, and the imperial grandfather closed the palace for fear of spreading the news, and even the Lu family was not allowed to enter the palace. I was the only one who could enter the temple except for my grandfather, because my father only reacted when he saw me, and he would pull me to study. And when I talked to him, he listened attentively, but I never thought that my father would drink wine in my presence one night. ”

I subconsciously hugged him, I could feel that he was vulnerable at this moment, and wanted to stop him from talking any further, but I felt that it would be better to say these things if they were hidden in his heart for a long time, so I didn't speak.

He paused for a moment and then said softly: "I watched my father pour in front of me after drinking, and his eyes kept looking at me when the blood flowed out of his mouth. ”

And this old man, he has never met, even his biological mother, yes, even his biological mother.

I feel sorry for Ah Ping, who was just a teenager back then, but he had to witness his father's death, bear the pressure alone, and swallow the secret in his stomach. Judging from his description, I am afraid that Zhu Biao had depression back then, for many reasons, it may be because of Apingna's late biological mother, it may be because of too much pressure on his shoulders, or it may be that he didn't want to be the emperor at all but was appointed by Zhu Yuanzhang as the crown prince and had to be, so he finally chose that path.

People in this era certainly don't know what kind of disease depression is, and they are afraid that they will only generalize it as hysteria. By my time it had become common and sad. Some people will say that this kind of people are too selfish, they chose death but left the pain to the living, Zhu Biao's death is afraid that the same is true, first of all, Ah Ping lost the pain of his father, followed by Zhu Yuanzhang lost the pain of his son who had been carefully cultivated, and Lu Shi lost the pain of her husband. However, suffering from depression itself has nothing to do with selfishness, they are imprisoned in their own world and cannot get out, their minds are cut off from the world, and death is sometimes a relief for them.

I can't figure out which is right and which is wrong, but I feel distressed for Ah Ping when I was a teenager, and if I grew up in that environment, I am afraid that I will also be infected with depression. It's no wonder that Ah Ping is sometimes very extreme in some cases, such as in his treatment of me, I am afraid that Zhu Biao will have an impact on him after all.

We were standing and leaning on each other, and he thoroughly dissected the fragile side in front of me, not trusting me, but also accustomed to finding warmth from me. My silence made him stick tighter, "Daughter-in-law, the luckiest thing in my life is to meet you, it is you who pull me out of that dark world little by little." ”

I thought about it for a while, and also confessed to him: "Actually, I'm the same, before I met you, I made a clear distinction between myself and this role, and I looked at everything from the perspective of a third party, even for Daddy and Xiaotong, I never really substituted myself into this role until I met you." I began to forget to withdraw my consciousness, and gradually I became in, and I accepted that I could actually merge with this era, and that you made me feel that it was not a bad thing that fate brought me to this plane. ”

"If," he paused, he asked, "one day I'm not there, or if it really makes you angry, will you leave?" ”

"Where to leave? Do you think you can still do it? I didn't wait for him to answer, and then he continued: "I don't know who didn't allow me to leave like a bully, and if there was resistance, I would be tied up and left?" With you, can I go anywhere else? ”

"No, no." He replied in a deep voice, with a look of firmness in his raised eyebrows.

I tried to ease the slightly stagnant atmosphere by softening my tone, shrugged my shoulders deliberately and said, "Okay, you know, I'm not going anywhere, I'll always be where you are." The words landed on his face and a kiss was lightly printed.

He nodded his lower lip dissatisfied, and complained to me: "Perfunctory." ”

I pursed the corners of my mouth and kissed his lips without hesitation, but he held his head and directly attacked the city and occupied it, kissing until I couldn't breathe, and I felt that even my lips were a little numb.

Since having a child, there has been less intimacy with him, after all, there are two oversized light bulbs. I saw emotion in Ah Ping's eyes, and the color of his eyes darkened, but at this time......