Chapter 358: Secret Letters

Lu Chenghu suspiciously replied, looking from the beginning: "Your sister-in-law is pregnant again, which is a good thing." It's just that it stands to reason that it is enough to report this matter to the Gongchangbo Mansion to know, so why bother to write a separate letter and hand it over to you through the hands of the people in the Gongchangbo Mansion?"

Hearing Lu Cheng say this, He Changan remembered one more thing. It seems that when Steward Xiao Yang handed over the letter to Yinzhen, he said that he must hand over the letter to the prince and princess, if it is just an ordinary family letter, then it is enough to give it to her. Naturally, they are husband and wife, and there is nothing in her letter that cannot be shown to Lu Cheng. But when I said it in words, and now that I think about it, I feel that there is something meaningful, so I snatched the letter and read it again.

"But there's nothing out of the ordinary, isn't there?" He Changan was almost able to remember the contents of the letter, but he still didn't find anything unusual. Just as he was about to stuff the letter back into Lu Cheng's hand, a blank piece of paper slipped out from behind the letter, the one that had not written a word.

Lu Cheng picked up the blank paper that fell on the ground, pinched it in his hand and looked at it carefully, turned his head to He Changan and said, "Do you think that this piece of paper is not quite right?"

Without waiting for He Changan to answer, he walked straight to the edge of the table, lifted the cover of the wind lamp and put it aside, and moved the white paper back and forth a little distance from the midpoint of the candle flame. He Changan also leaned over to see what the reputation of this blank piece of paper, which she ignored at first, was.

After a long time, Lu Cheng's face also showed a slight look of disappointment, and just when He Changan was already a little impatient, a light brown handwriting began to appear on the paper. Lu Cheng hurriedly pointed the candle at the other half of the word that had not yet appeared, and sure enough, the other half of the word slowly began to show.

"There are really words! How did you come up with the idea of roasting this piece of paper with fire!" He Changan was surprised and delighted, but he couldn't help but be curious about this method. Rao is a meticulous work in her previous life, and such a method of transmitting the message is unheard of and unseen for her.

Lu Cheng saw that the words on the paper were almost exposed, and the edge of the paper was slightly about to burn, so he quickly put the lid of the wind lamp back, and pushed the wind lamp farther away, and then replied: "Actually, I also heard this method talk about it by chance a long time ago. When the fourth brother was cooking before, he added a unique fruit to the south of Qianyou, called lemon fruit, which was said to be fishy in the meat dish. It just so happened that when the fourth brother brought me the food, the eldest brother was there, and he wondered for a long time where this fruit came from. Soon after that, he told me that he had read many ancient books and finally found the origin of this lemon fruit, and told me an interesting anecdote, that is, he used the juice of the lemon fruit to write, and after writing, the words could not be seen on the paper, and he had to be roasted to see the original appearance. At the time, we were joking, but I didn't expect my uncle to really use it this time!"

He Changan stood for a long time, only felt that his calves and stomach were sore, so he pulled Lu Cheng and the two of them to the couch to read the letter.

The letter is not long, but the more I read it, the more incredible it becomes.

After Lu Cheng told He Jiaqing about the Gu family before, He Jiaqing had already secretly investigated. As Gu's aunt and nephew said, the Gu family can be regarded as a scholarly family in Pingyang Mansion, and Aunt Gu's father also passed the examination, but later he failed to pass the Jinshi examination, and finally donated an official job. It's just that when I got to Aunt Gu's brother, he was a martial artist who didn't like literature, and he resolutely refused to take the road of the imperial examination according to Aunt Gu's father's wishes. Gu Juren was furious and threatened to sever the father-son relationship with his son, and Aunt Gu's brother really packed some of his clothes and left home when it was dark.

"What my brother means is that Aunt Gu's brother, after leaving home that year, went straight to the imperial capital? and even entered the palace as a guard? If this is the case, then how did this person enter the palace? It stands to reason that it is basically impossible for a person who is not registered in the imperial capital to enter the palace as a guard. Back then, Lu Yuan also wanted to arrange a group of his own people in the palace by placing guards, but the selection of guards was different from the selection of palace maids, and there were many people who were not inserted in the end because of the problem of household registration, which He Changan still had an impression of.

Lu Cheng frowned: "But there is still a possibility that makes sense." That was the year when my father ascended the throne, and a considerable number of guards had to be replaced in the palace, so there must be a group of new people to add in. It is not impossible that the people below are in a hurry to cope with the errand, fearing that the above will blame them for delaying time, and let some people take advantage of the loopholes. In terms of time, it's about the same. ”

He Jiaqing also said in the letter that Gu Guards was a stunned young man when he left, with no strength and good martial arts, but he was a person who was not good at reading people's faces, because he had a bad temper, and he was not a scholar, he had low eyes and a lot of age, and he couldn't say that he was a daughter-in-law, but when he returned to Pingyang Mansion two years later, he brought a woman back, that is, his wife Yun. Many people in Puzhou remember the Yun family, because the water and soil in Puzhou do not support people, whether it is a man or a woman, they are not good-looking, there are few stunning people, and most of the local women do not bother to dress up, but the Yun family was born really beautiful, and it can almost be said that it is so beautiful that it can be called a stunner. But the Yun family rarely goes out, and he doesn't like to deal with neighbors very much, so he almost puts all his mind on raising his sister-in-law and son. He Jiaqing followed the clues of the Yun family and kept checking down, but found that the Yun family was actually a person who had not found such a person in the household documents for a long time!

Daxuan is a country with a very strict household registration system, even if it is a slave, there is a clear slave status, there is no situation of this person, either the person who sneaked into the border of Daxuan from another country, and there is a possibility, that is, to escape.

Judging from Yun's conversation and demeanor, this is another out-and-out Daxuanren, that is to say, the latter is more likely. And if she is a fugitive, someone will inevitably help her hide her identity. And this person, without a doubt, is Gu Guard.

What kind of people who are guards in the palace can come into contact with people who need to flee?

The question that Qianyou's trip pressed on his heart but had been sealed in the dust for a long time once again caused waves in Lu Cheng's heart: "So, do you remember, I told you that I have been tracking down the cause of the death of the queen mother. The last time I went to Qianyou, it happened to catch up with Qianyou's He Boiling rebellion. At that time, He Fei's people moved their hands and feet at the Queen Mother's birthday banquet, and the material used was the plum blossom fragrance that I had smelled when I gave birth to Ke'er in my mother. ”

"Naturally, I remember, when we thought that the matter of the queen mother was about to surface, but later, because Emperor Qianyou had a concubine, on the day of the queen mother's birthday, she gave birth to a child and died of blood. Shouldn't we continue to investigate? It seems that the death of the queen mother should be inseparable from the fragrance of plum blossoms!"

Lu Cheng shook his head: "Ke'er once told me something before, and Tang Yuxiao also told her. At that time, Tang Yuxiao, in order to comfort Ke'er was not a person who was a mother, said that Qianyou had an emperor from Concubine Qian, and as soon as she landed, Concubine Qian's mother collapsed. In fact, this is not the case, Concubine Qian's love back then was Tang Yuxiao's cousin who was a doctor in the palace, these two people can be regarded as happy with each other, but by mistake, Concubine Qian married the emperor of Qianyou. Concubine Qian has always been like water, and she never competes for favor. But then she became pregnant. She knew that she couldn't fight so many women in the palace with her personality, and she didn't want to affect her children, so she entrusted the child to Tang Guifei, and teamed up with Imperial Doctor Tang to play a scene of bleeding and fake death, and the golden cicada in the palace came out of her shell. Ke'er mentioned this as a joke about Tang Yuxiao coaxing her at the time, and I didn't take it to heart at the time, but now that I think about it, the pregnant women present at that time seemed to have Princess Pingyan of Qianyou, and I didn't hear that Princess Pingyan had a difficult birth. Do you think it will ......?"

"Gu Guard's wife's surname is Yun...... The queen mother, the queen mother and the daughter of the Bai family of my mother's generation are from the Yunzi generation......" He Changan's voice was already a little trembling.

Although many clues are entangled, giving people only a feeling of "cutting and cutting, and sorting out and messing", He Changan still understands what Lu Cheng is thinking. In fact, for so many years, Lu Cheng has been looking for the truth of what happened back then, if Lu Cheng's analysis is true, then it is likely that Queen He Rui did not die because of Lu Keyi, but took such an opportunity to escape from the palace, and since then she has been incognito, under the pseudonym Yun, married Gu Guard, who helped her identity cover, away from court life, and away from her own children.

It seems that everything is so logical, but He Changan still feels a little unreasonable. She is now about to become a mother of four children, and she understands the heart of motherhood. What is the reason why Empress Herui, who is a mother of two children, can be gone, and she has never appeared incognito for nearly 20 years?

That's right, bitter!

Hasn't she confessed her inner hardships to Lu Cheng so far? If she told Lu Cheng that she was a person who had died once, and that she had framed him with her own hands in her previous life, would Lu Cheng believe it?

Could it be that Empress Herui was also a person who had died once, and when she came back from the corpse, she was already the Yun Clan?

Lu Cheng looked at He Changan with a stunned look on his face, and gently touched her face: "If you want to verify our inner conjecture, the best way is to open the coffin and see what the Yun clan buried in the tomb looks like." It's just that it's not convenient for the eldest brother to come forward to do this, and it seems that it's time to talk to Gu Zhuangyuan. ”