Chapter 081: Royal Secrets
On the second day, the Yiguo army did not seem to have any intention of continuing the offensive, after all, the soldiers also needed to recuperate.
So, Shen Che was idle, and immediately summoned Gu Qingming and Yun Yao to the tent, carefully inquired about what had happened in the past few days, and discussed the next plan.
Gu Qingming was concise and concise, and briefly said what happened after they left Yiguo, from Haoguo to Jingguo, to Yuguo, from Daning Chicheng to Beidi Military Camp, every place seemed to be full of dangers, but fortunately, they overcame.
It's just that when mentioning Ning Xin, the princess of the Jade King Shen Xun, Shen Che's expression was a little strange, but this scene did not escape Yun Yao's eyes.
When I was in the Rong Mansion of the Jade Kingdom, I saw Ning Xin and the acacia knot hanging around her waist, as well as the Rong Mansion that meant something, plus the same poison as the Jade King and Princess Qin Zhen'er of Ningyuan, countless mysteries have been entangled in Yun Yao's heart.
But because there were too many things before, Yun Yao didn't have time to think about these things, and she didn't have the opportunity to figure out the root cause of this, and when she saw Shen Che's expression at this time, she knew in her heart that Shen Che must know the inside story.
"Your Highness, what is the origin of that Jade Princess Ning Xin?" Yun Yao asked curiously.
"You would ask this, do you already know something?" Shen Che was also a smart person, so he could naturally hear the meaning in Yun Yao's tone.
When Yun Yao heard this, she didn't hide it from Shen Che, so she told everything she knew, including the connection between Xuanyang Hou Rongyan and Ning Xin, as well as the poison on the Jade King and Princess Ning Yuan.
She seemed to vaguely remember that Princess Qin Zhen'er of Ningyuan had personally said that the poison on her body was personally inflicted by Xuanyang Marquis Rongyan, but now it seems that His Royal Highness King Yi knows other secrets.
"I thought it was weird, but I couldn't get the gist of it. At the end, Yun Yao said, "I always feel that their affairs are not so simple. ”
"It's not simple, these are basically the four victims manipulated by the Empress Dowager Qin. Shen Che sneered, "Do you think that why did Brother Jade Wang agree to your request for an alliance so easily without asking anything? It is because in his heart, he has a strong hatred for the Empress Dowager Qin." ”
Yiwang said, and then told the whole story.
It turned out that when the first emperor died and the Empress Dowager Qin helped the current saint Shen Ze seize power, she took a fancy to the power of the Rong family in the past, and the prestige of Rong Huan, the father of Xuanyang Hou Rongyan, among the people, so she had the idea of marrying and wanted to use the power of the Rong family to send Shen Ze to the throne.
But at that time, Rong Yan already had a lover who fell in love with him, and it had reached the point of talking about marriage, this person was Ning Xin, she was a woman in the rivers and lakes, good at using a sword, and the sword spike was knotted with acacia, which was her symbol, and the same acacia knot, Rong Yan also had one in his hand.
Empress Dowager Qin forced her to marry and took Rong Yan's mother into the palace and took her hostage as a threat. Rong Yan was going to fly away with Ning Xin, but on the day of the elopement, he was stopped by Rong Huan and asked him to save his mother.
Ning Xin refused to allow Yan to take risks alone, so she accompanied him, wanting to move with the Empress Dowager Qin with affection and reason, and seek her fulfillment.
But unexpectedly, after the two entered the palace, the Empress Dowager Qin didn't see them at all, and ambushed a large number of black-clothed dead soldiers to subdue the two separately, and then forcibly poured a glass of wine.
The eggs of a Gu worm are placed in this wine, and after the wine is swallowed into the stomach, it takes root in the human body and begins to grow.
This kind of Gu worm comes from Nanyi, which was given to her by Nanyi's Gu keeper when the Empress Dowager Qin followed the first emperor to the south many years ago, and then Nanyi's Gu keeper gave it to her. She has not been willing to use it for so many years, but later she used it on Rong Yan and Ning Xin.
After pouring wine, Rong Yan and Ning Xin were released, and the two did not find Mrs. Rong, but after looking around, they met outside Jianzhang's palace.
At this moment, something terrible happened, as soon as the two of them got close, each other's bodies were like being gnawed by thousands of insects, which was more violent than the poison of those poisonous insects in Gu Qingming in the past.
With just a cup of tea, the two of them spat blood and were dying.
When they all lost their ability to resist, the Empress Dowager Qin appeared and told them that they had been poisoned in their bodies, and this poison made the two of them can only look at each other from a distance and cannot stay together for life, as long as they get close, both of them will be in danger of their lives.
Empress Dowager Qin didn't say that it was a Gu worm, so Rong Yan and Ning Xin always thought that it was some kind of unknown poison, so that later they found countless divine doctors to unravel the poison, but they were unsuccessful.
In addition, the Empress Dowager Qin also told them that this poison will be buried deeper and deeper with the passage of time, and will slowly enter the bones and blood, depleting people's spirits.
Rong Yan had no choice, he couldn't care about the safety of his family and Ning Xin's life. So he went to see the Empress Dowager Qin and expressed that he was willing to take Qin Zhen'er, let the Empress Dowager Qin give the antidote to Ning Xin, and not embarrass his family.
Empress Dowager Qin was very happy to see Rong Yan obediently, but she didn't plan to give up controlling Rong Yan, after all, this Gu worm was rare, and Rong Yan and Ning Xin were born rebellious, if they escaped after untying the Gu, then she would lose more than she gained.
So, the Empress Dowager Qin lied.
She told Rong Yan that this poison only needs to be detoxified by either of the two people, and the other person will be safe, after all, this poison needs two people together to have an effect. And the way to detoxify is the joy of men and women.
In other words, as long as Rong Yan marries Qin Zhen'er and has a round house with Qin Zhen'er, then this poison can naturally be solved.
Rong Yan originally only planned to marry Qin Zhen'er, and didn't plan to touch her at all, but in order to detoxify, he could only have sex with Qin Zhen'er according to the Queen Mother's request.
But what he didn't know was that this was a Gu worm, not a poison at all, and this kind of Gu worm would pass from one person's body to another's body when men and women were intertwined. In other words, Rong Yan and Qin Zhen'er had a round house, and the poison on Rong Yan's body was resolved, but Qin Zhen'er became the carrier of the Gu worm.
Just when Rong Yan thought that everything was safe, Qin Zhen'er became pregnant, and as the child slowly grew up, the Gu worm also grew up in Qin Zhen'er's body, Qin Zhen'er began to endure the pain and torture caused by the Gu worm, even after giving birth to Rong Ya, this torture still did not decrease, which is why Qin Zhen'er needed to rely on medicine to recuperate all year round.
It's not because she had a dystocia when she gave birth to Rongya, but because she had Gu worms in her body.
Empress Dowager Qin first told Rong Yan that the result of detoxification was to let Qin Zhen'er bear the harm of this poison for him, but Rong Yan felt guilty about Qin Zhen'er, and she would not have any other thoughts in this life, and the Rong family could only be loyal to her for the rest of her life, and then Empress Dowager Qin told Qin Zhen'er that the poison in her body was caused by Rong Yan.
Qin Zhen'er questioned Rong Yan, and Rong Yan admitted because he felt guilty, after all, the poison had indeed spread from his body to Qin Zhen'er. But Qin Zhen'er thought that it was Rong Yan who hated her for breaking up him and Ning Xin, so she poisoned her.
The misunderstanding arose, one of the two people was guilty and the other was resentful, but for the sake of face, they had to pretend to be in love for so many years. This is also why the parents in Rong Ya's eyes are always "respectful like guests", and what's more, Rong Yan never mentioned leaving Qin Zhen'er, but he often played with a long sword with an acacia knot.
The words were divided into two ends, because Ning Xin witnessed the wedding of Rong Yan and Qin Zhen'er, and under the arrangement of the Empress Dowager Qin, she heard Rong Yan and Qin Zhen'er's cave room flowers and candles, and all thoughts were lost.
She felt that all the oaths that Rong Yan had made to her in the past were false, and none of them were credible, so why did she still guard Rong Yan like a jade?
The children of the rivers and lakes are informal, and dare to love and hate, since Rong Yan has another woman, why can't she Ning Xin have another man?
And the man she found was the unlucky ghost jade king Shen Xun.
At that time, it coincided with the death of the first emperor and the new emperor before the new emperor was established, and all the feudal kings had to return to Beijing, and the Jade King happened to be there at that time. I don't know if it was a coincidence, or if someone deliberately designed it, the Jade King and Ning Xin met.
It happened that Ning Xin was drunk and unconscious, and she pestered the Jade King back to the other courtyard. It can be said that all this is almost Ning Xin's initiative, after all, the Jade King has been weak and sickly since he was a child, and he has no power to restrain the chicken, how can he be the opponent of Ning Xin, who knows martial arts? Moreover, Ning Xin, who is delirious after being drunk.
In this way, after a night of lingering, the Gu worms on Ning Xin's body were transferred to the Jade King's body, but Ning Xin didn't know it.
It wasn't until soon after that at the palace banquet of the new emperor's accession to the throne, the Jade King and Qin Zhen'er attended at the same time, and when the two of them approached, they suddenly convulsed, and spit blood, the situation was exactly the same as Rong Yan and Ning Xin at the beginning.
Others didn't understand, they just thought that the two of them had any pain, but Rong Yan knew that Ning Xin had a skin-to-skin relationship with the Jade King, so after the palace banquet, he found the Jade King and explained this matter to the Jade King.
And when Rong Yan was explaining, it happened that Ning Xin felt sorry for the Jade King, came to apologize, and listened to all the words that Rong Yan said. She realized that her momentary willfulness had harmed the Jade King, and since then, she and Rong Yan decided to forget about each other in the rivers and lakes and never see each other again in this life.
After the capital was stabilized, Ning Xin left the capital with the Jade King and arrived in the Jade Kingdom. She felt sorry for Shen Xun, so she followed him without asking for fame and helped him take care of the palace and deal with political affairs.
Shen Xun also knew that Ning Xin couldn't be blamed for this matter, and that night he happened to meet Ning Xin that it was obviously designed by someone, and then remembered Rong Yan's words, so he counted this matter on the head of the Empress Dowager Qin.
But this is not the end, the Gu worms inhabit Qin Zhen'er and Shen Xun's bodies, and as they get older, they grow bigger and bigger, and the damage to the human body is getting deeper and deeper, so that Qin Zhen'er has been living on tonics, and Shen Xun's body is getting worse and worse.
He was already frail and sickly, and now it is even worse, but fortunately, thanks to Ning Xin's care and help, it has dragged on for so many years.
And in July last year, on the birthday of the Empress Dowager Qin, Shen Xun and Qin Zhen'er met again at the palace banquet, and the two of them had a Gu poison attack at the same time, which was much more serious than many years ago.
"Yun Yao, do you know that Princess Qin Zhen'er of Ningyuan heard that the Jade King and Ning Xin led their troops to attack the capital, and they had already committed suicide on the fifteenth day of last month?"