Chapter 209: Distorting the Truth

"When?" After all, Qing Ruiyang still has to react faster than Qing Ruiting. In his opinion, what should be done after knowing the truth is to find out the truth and solve the problem.

"Half a month ago." Qing Ruifan's voice was a little hoarse, and suddenly, Gu Lingge had been away from him for more than half a month.

"That's not right." Qing Ruiting came back to his senses, looking at the two of them, their faces were a little pale, and although their voices were calm, their tones were still a little unsteady, "The queen mother has always been healthy, so she shouldn't have walked so suddenly...... Moreover, the queen mother is devoted to the Buddha and compassionate, and there should be few enemies; Third, just the day before yesterday, Zhao Niangniang also returned to the west, is there any connection between this? "It's also difficult for him, he is the Queen Mother's most beloved youngest son, and he has the most grace, and it makes sense that it is difficult to accept it now.

The three of them, all of them were born by the Queen Mother, Qing Ruifan was crowned the prince at the age of three, and he spent more time with Qing Haoxuan than with the Queen Mother, Qing Ruiyang was thrown to the school field at a very young age, and he spent a lot of time there, only Qing Ruiting was alone, in addition to going to the study since he was a child, he was by the Queen Mother's side, and when he was young, he even knew which chrysanthemum the Queen Mother liked in front of the court, and the feelings were not profound, and now it is really difficult for him to accept it.

The Queen Mother is also concerned about Lao Shi. Back then, Qing Ruiting walked into Ci'an Hall with a resolute face, and told the Queen Mother that he was going to marry a flat-headed commoner, and when he refused to accept a concubine in this life, the Queen Mother was not angry or sad, she just looked at him calmly, stared at him for a while, and asked him "Have you thought about it", he said that he had thought about it, and this matter turned the page, and no one dared to tell Qing Ruiting about the concubine.

"The queen mother fasted too much a few days ago, so she is a little weak," Qing Ruifan explained to Qing Ruiting one by one, he didn't want to light this small cannon battle yet, "After all, the queen mother also struggled out of the harem, and in her position, the enemy should still have it; As for Zhao Niangniang, she reported to me before she died, and it was impossible for her to commit suicide in fear of sin. Qing Ruiting has thought about these considerations, and he has also seriously thought about using one of them to create an opportunity to blame others, so that apart from Gu Lingge, they still have a chance to be together.

But no, the only way left is to start with Gu Huai.

"In other words, it is impossible for the queen mother to die, so what can the royal brother find out after so long?" Qing Ruiyang was forcing him step by step. "Yulin Army, Gyeonggi Guard, Long Wei, Blue Clothes, what did they find?" He didn't believe it at all, Qing Ruifan had the most developed intelligence department and the best guards in the country, and he would not be able to find any clues. This is really under his nose, and it is impossible for Qing Ruifan not to notice it at all.

"Do you know who was the first owner of Liulizhuang?" Qing Ruifan wiped his face and put away his bitter emotions. These two brothers are uncomfortable, is he better? Looking at the empty Ci'an Hall every day, isn't he sad at all and even feels that it is good to kill? He just can't say that.

"The first? The younger brother doesn't know anyway. "Qing Ruiyang only had a vague impression of Liulizhuang before Gu Lingge entered the Middle Palace, except that he felt that he was rich and rivaled the country, and the gods were mysterious, he didn't know a little more, he rarely cared about this.

"I haven't heard much about it, Liulizhuang has always been famous for only the wind ghost Liuli, and the first one really doesn't know if he doesn't check it out. I only heard that the first one was called Gu Huai, and he was a scholar at the beginning. Although Qing Ruiting also made an intelligence voice, he was not familiar with the first term of Liulizhuang, or he did not have a holiday, so he didn't find out at all.

"Gu Huai once had a loving wife, who was a singer and her name was Pei Yao." Qing Ruifan planned to sell Gu Huai, anyway, he couldn't find anyone, so he just borrowed these two brothers to help him find it together, and it was naturally impossible to tell him frankly, so he came secretly, anyway, what he said was right.

Gu Huai didn't get into the palace exam, so the husband and wife made a living in a silk village in Beijing, living in harmony and happiness. One day, Pei Yao was summoned, and her cousin in the palace heard that there was a relative who was in the world and wanted to see her. Qing Ruifan recounted the beginning and end of the dispute of the year, and at the same time felt a pain in his heart. Gu Lingge's birth did not have to be as difficult as it is now.

Who knows, as soon as she entered the palace, she met the emperor, and the emperor appreciated and talked to her for a few words, but was bumped into by the queen. On the way out of the palace, he was strangled to death by the queen and thrown into the well, and his bones are still unknown. After Qing Ruifan finished speaking, he raised his hand to let the little eunuch make tea and came in, looked at the confused eyes of the two brothers, and shook his head.

"Gu Huai was furious, declaring that this revenge would not be avenged by the non-male, so he moved to the mausoleum, founded Liulizhuang, and began to engulf the road of dumping. Speaking of Gu Huai's self-made business and growing up in the next three years, Qing Ruifan is still embarrassed, how can such a resolute and tenacious person be a good stubble?

"In other words, the queen mother killed Gu Huai's wife, and Gu Huai hired a murderer to kill the queen mother, what does this mean?" Qing Ruiting still sorted it out, and when he saw Qing Ruifan nodding, his mind buzzed. He naturally didn't believe that the queen mother was a loving mother and a virtuous queen, and the reason why the queen mother was a queen mother and not a concubine was because she was smarter than anyone else's, stood firm, and could get her hands down, and that's it.

"Yes." Qing Ruifan is still satisfied with his brother's understanding, he can guess the meaning of his words, and he can also go down the paved road, which is very worry-free.

"But why did he choose this time to assassinate the queen mother? If you really have a grudge, shouldn't you report it right away? Qing Ruiyang felt that something was wrong. He doesn't know Gu Huai, but Liulizhuang has done it all the way to now, in ten years, why didn't he assassinate sooner or later, but chose this time? That day, like all the days before it, should be no different. Even if you want to talk about birthdays, Liulizhuang has stood for ten years, and the Queen Mother has been born nine times, why is it the tenth time except for mistakes?

"Maybe he's just finding a master now." Qing Ruifan sighed. Gu Huai is a madman, but the two brothers don't know that he can't tell it for special reasons, so he can only lie around.

"And what about him now?" Qing Ruiyang didn't have a big feeling about this matter, he just needed to know who did it. and the Queen Mother, in terms of love, as the second child, although his status is not up or down, but the Queen Mother loves everyone equally, in terms of getting along, he and the Queen Mother seem to respect and love, but in fact they are far from being so indifferent, so it is enough. "The younger brother is going to slaughter him, throw him away and feed the pigs."

"This is also what I am worried about, in the past half a month, many people I have sent out have been sunk in the sea, and there is no sound." Qing Ruifan frowned. Even if there are Gu Huai's eyes and ears in this capital, it should have disappeared after so many years, and Long Wei has turned the entire capital door to door, and he has never found the slightest trace.

"Then let's look for it, we'll find it." Qing Ruiting and Qing Ruiyang glanced at each other, arched their hands at Qing Ruifan, and said in unison. Qing Ruifan also achieved his goal, and snorted.

The three brothers said a few more words, on the question of when the death of the Queen Mother will be announced, they unanimously decided to wait for the New Year, after all, the people have been busy for a year, and they should still have fun, and they will talk about it when the New Year begins, so they can take this time to dig out where Gu Huai is.

Sending them away, Qing Ruifan glanced at the little eunuch standing aside, and the other party lowered his head, not knowing what he was thinking. He shook his head, rubbed his temples, and lay on the dragon couch with his clothes, his heart in a mess.

Tzu Ann Church.

When he was young, Qing Ruiting came to the Queen Mother, and always liked to pull a chrysanthemum to give to the Queen Mother, and he also said that he picked it from the Imperial Garden. The Queen Mother would laugh and scold every time, because what he picked was always the favorite that the Queen Mother saw that morning.

Now in Ci'an Hall, people come to water these flowers every day, and they look the same as before, with branches and branches, but at this time there are no flowers, only green leaves shivering in the snow.

The blue clothes were guarding the door, and when they saw that it was Qing Ruiting, they turned sideways and let go of the way, and made a general announcement, there were eyeliner everywhere in this palace.

Every furnishing in the house was ruined when Qing Ruiting was a child. The porcelain small send-off Guanyin and Manjushri Bodhisattva, he doesn't know how many times he broke it; On the small ebony carved moire round table, the Queen Mother didn't know how many times he opened a small stove; The Buddhist shrine with a bright yellow soft cloth all the year round, he opened it countless times, and was beaten countless times, crying wow...... Everything seemed to come to life, a little reminder of how much that woman had loved him.

Only now there is none. Suddenly, the woman was gone, and her life, which had been as complete as a cake, was now missing a large piece, as if she had been bitten off alive.

He doesn't feel sad, everyone has life and death, each has its own cause and effect, and each has its own retribution, all of which should be. It's just that so many years of love and memories collapsed silently in an instant, just like this palace, obviously every brick and tile is there, but it's the space is empty, shouting, as if the whole world can hear the echo. It's so lonely in a room like this.

He couldn't speak, and the longer he stayed in this room, the more sad he became, and he wanted to shout, but he couldn't, he wanted to say something, and when he opened his mouth, he was like a stranded fish, fighting with his mouth empty, and he couldn't say anything.

He wanted to let Lan Yi go out and make himself quiet, but he was actually afraid of being here alone, because there were too many heavy things, which made him breathless, at this time, even if Lan Yi stood here without any help, it was a relief for him.

"The prince's day mourns." Lan Yi's somewhat worried voice sounded, and Qing Ruiting ignored it. Lan Yi could only shake his head when he looked at his lost soul. When Qing Ruifan came in, the bodies of the Queen Mother and Duanxia were already flat on the ground, wrapped in white cloth, with blood stains everywhere, and the traces of the fight on the throne were also very obvious, and they looked very violent at first glance.

Qing Ruifan didn't say anything at the time, just sat on the round stool he was used to sitting on, dismissed everyone, and sat quietly until the next morning. Then he went to Fenglan Palace, looked at Li Xia, and sat silently on the edge of the already cold bed for half an hour, and then asked Lan Yi to clean himself up and go to the court as if nothing had happened.

No one knows what he was thinking, then and now. Although Qing Ruifan is not the eldest son of the emperor, he has always been the most able to afford to let go and hide himself, so he has stubbornly concealed it until now, and no one has broken it, and no one has told him. He is the supreme king in the world, and the loneliest widow in the world.

"Blue clothes, this king invited this statue of Guanyin away, you go back and tell the imperial brother." Qing Ruiting seemed to have stood enough, walked to the incense case, gently picked up the sending child Guanyin, and hugged it tightly in his arms. The warm and soft touch of the fine porcelain made him almost cry, and he left with the porcelain statue in his arms, and the blue clothes stood behind him, sighing softly.

Han Wangfu.

Gu Liangyue is fine today, earlier Qing Ruiting and Qing Ruiyang muttered in the study for a while, and entered the palace to find Qing Ruifan. She was also happy, and no one forced her to drink medicine, so she simply took fish food, moved a chair and sat on the edge of the corridor, feeding the fish and humming a little song, in a beautiful mood.

Although Chinese New Year's Eve was just a few days away, Gu Liangyue was not panicked at all. The housekeeper and Cui Qi are very neat, they ask her for instructions on everything, and when they get the order, they will be busy by themselves, but she is even more idle.

Every day the housekeeper finds a new reason to annoy her, and Cuiqi can always stop him back. Gu Liangyue just looked at the two of them, you said a word to me, you didn't let me and didn't retreat, it was quite fun.

She didn't have time to finish a song, there was more warmth on her back, she looked down at the paws around her neck, the clothes were worn by herself in the morning, and the moon cloud pattern on the cuffs was embroidered by herself, well, it was her own prince.

"You've been sticking to me for a long time, it's a disease." Gu Liangyue didn't push him away, and continued to sprinkle fish food in this position, and the red, white and white koi fish came around, and their small mouths were closed one by one, full of life.

"I don't cure, I love you." Qing Ruiting's voice sounded muffled, and Gu Liangyue couldn't hear it clearly through the fabric. However, his own prince has always been a good hand at being naughty and raising the bar, and he rarely is so gentle and straightforward, which makes her ears red.

"Oh, how do you love that?" Gu Liangyue felt that the hand on her neck tightened, but she didn't care, she continued to sprinkle fish food, and wiped her hands in the middle and took a piece of sour horn cake to eat.

"The whole life of this king is yours. It was yours before, yours later, it's just yours. His voice was getting lower and lower, not trembling but not much better. Gu Liangyue glanced at Cui Qi who was not far away and asked her to move the chair.

"Listen to what the prince means, or do you want to give this life to others? Shouldn't the concubine also go to find a home? Gu Liangyue slapped the crumbs off her hands, stood up and planned to turn around to face Qing Ruiting.

"This king is not allowed!" Qing Ruiting seemed to be gritting her teeth, and she didn't intend to let her turn around, her hand was a little stronger, Gu Liangyue felt uncomfortable in her throat, but she didn't force it, patted his long claws, and let him let go a little. Qing Ruiting didn't move, and when she heard Gu Liangyue's slight cough, she suddenly let go a little like a realization, Gu Liangyue took a deep breath, and turned around to face her man arrogantly.

"What's wrong?" Gu Liangyue turned around and saw his big red eyes like rabbits, bloodshot, and his face pale, as if he had been poisoned, and if he looked closely, he even felt that he had cried. She was a little angry.

"Come and tell your mother-in-law, who bullied you, this concubine will help you get it back." Gu Liangyue couldn't wait to wrap up her sleeves and rush to the culprit the next moment, and slapped her hand a few times, so that the other party didn't even know her own mother.

"Yue'er, this king, there are only your mother and son." In just one sentence, Qing Ruiting swallowed his saliva and paused several times, and the tail note trembled lightly, which made Gu Liangyue's heart ache. It's better not to let her know who provoked her, or she'll pinch him into powder.

"Nonsense, you've always had me, so it's okay to think about anything." Gu Liangyue asked him to sit down, hugged his shoulders, asked him to bury his head in front of his chest, and gently patted his back like a child. He didn't say the reason, but Gu Liangyue wanted to force him out. After all, this kind of thing can't be hidden.

Qing Ruiting stretched out his hand to hug Gu Liangyue's not slender waist, avoided his stomach and buried his head gently, he took a deep breath, the spices on his clothes and the smell of Gu Liangyue himself calmed his heart a little, but it was not much easier. He felt that he was like a kite that couldn't fly, and the more Gu Liangyue cared for him, the more he didn't want to move.

"Do you want to tell me yourself, if you don't say it, I'll go to Brother Jiu, and if Brother Jiu doesn't say it, I'll go to face the saint, someone will always tell me, but I'll definitely be even more angry when the time comes." Gu Liangyue adheres to the idea that long pain is better than short pain, and she must let Qing Ruiting say it.

"The queen mother, she has passed away." Qing Ruiting held back for a long time, and just when Gu Liangyue sighed and was about to loosen his mouth, he said the reason word by word. Gu Liangyue couldn't go up or down in one breath, and coughed several times uncomfortably. Qing Ruiting seemed to have woken up from a dream, and gently patted her back to help her soothe.

"Huh?" Gu Liangyue knew that the matter had been revealed as soon as she heard it, but she didn't know how much Qing Ruiting knew, so she could only forcibly calm down and get out of his words little by little.

"The emperor said that it was the hired murderer of the first head of Liulizhuang who killed his mother, but that person was insidious, and his whereabouts have not been found so far." Qing Ruiting followed Gu Liangyue to stand up, put her on a chair covered with a blanket, and sat down in the chair he had just moved, he was still holding Gu Liangyue in his hand, and his face was a little calmer, but it still made Gu Liangyue feel distressed.

"Then let's look for him, and if we find him, we will definitely bring him to justice." Gu Liangyue also wanted to find Gu Huai, but Qing Ruifan also gave her a favor like this, but it hurt Qing Ruiting.

"Husband." She rarely calls Qing Ruiting like this, but these two words contain the deepest and strongest love and companionship, "Husband, look at me." She asked him to look up and face himself.

Qing Ruiting was close to numbness, listened to her indifferently, and looked at her with instructions. Godless's eyes met her gaze and suddenly shuddered. He couldn't speak, the happiness and the loss in his heart were on one side, and he didn't even know what he was going to do.

"I am your wife," Gu Liangyue's eyes were firm, and there seemed to be starlight in her dark pupils that penetrated the darkness and came straight towards him, seeing the confusion in the depths of his soul, and taking him back to her side, "I am the closest person in the world, the most complete gift you have in this world, the inseparable part of your life, and the place where you will always be." ”