Yang Jinqiao stood at the door, looking at me calmly.

"You're here."

"Hmm."

After meeting at the birthday banquet just now, I won't be surprised to see each other again at this time, but I am still a little at a loss, as if I am afraid of homesickness, and when I see her dark eyes, I still feel my heart beating like thunder. And she didn't seem to be as calm as the expression on her face, and I could feel that her breathing was a little disturbed.

She walked slowly into the room.

I saw that she was still holding a plate of dim sum in her hand, steaming with the sweet fragrance of osmanthus, and after putting it on the table, she turned to look at me: "Do you want to eat some?" ”

"Cai Wei, she-"

"I told her to go down and rest."

“…… It's good. I looked at her with a smile, and it seemed that she was just as I thought, and at this time, I didn't want anyone else to bother.

Her upright and indifferent face was still lacking in smiles, and when she leaned on the edge of the table and slowly sat down on the stool on the side, I somehow remembered some scenes when I was in Shangyang Palace, she was like this at that time, and after so many years, it seemed that nothing had changed.

She sat there, looked at me calmly, and said, "I know you have a lot of questions for me. Tonight, I will answer all of them. ”

“……”

"You can ask whatever you want."

“……”

She seemed to be planning to be open and honest, honestly without any tricks, I looked at her silently for a while, and then asked heavily: "In Jixiang Village, the person who assassinated Pei Yuanxiu was you?" ”

She seemed to know that the first question I would ask was going to be this, so as soon as my words fell, she nodded calmly: "It's me." ”

"Why?"

"Why do you say?"

She looked at me coldly, with a hint of coldness and ridicule in her eyes: "Why do you think I should kill him?" ”

I clenched my fists slightly, only to feel the coldness of my fingertips: "Is it for, for Yang Yunhui?" ”

Yang Jinqiao's eyes flickered - that name, like a stone, was thrown into her originally stagnant heart lake, rippling with ripples, making her eyes and breath not calm.

I just felt my chest getting heavier: "Is it really for him?" ”

“……”

Yang Jinqiao glanced at me, his gaze was not only cold, but even a little heavy hatred and killing intent.

Could it be that Yang Yunhui's death is really related to Pei Yuanxiu?

I felt suffocated, my legs were a little weak, and I barely held on to the edge of the table to the other side of her, and sat down on the stool.

She looked at my pale face, and after a moment said in a tone of indifference, "It's hard to believe, is it?" It's not just that it's hard for you to believe that I didn't even doubt him at the beginning. ”

I looked up at her, "And what about you—how can you be him?" ”

I still remember that when Ah Lan and I made those officers and soldiers on the official road, it was Yang Jinqiao who sent someone to "rob" me, and I finally saw her who "came back from the dead", at that time, I remember that she told me a lot of things, talked about her relationship with Yang Yunhui, and also talked about the transaction between the two of them and Pei Yuanhao, and even, she also told me that Yang Yunhui's death was extraordinary, because when he was sent by Pei Yuanhao to Xichuan to investigate some things, he sent her a letter, the letter said, wait for Dongzhou to finish, Yang Yunhui will let go of all responsibilities and go into hiding with her.

Of course, he didn't wait for that day.

At that time, when I found out about this, Yang Jinqiao and I had the same guess, and we were almost certain that he knew something that he shouldn't know, so he was killed.

But—

At that time, Yang Jinqiao didn't point the finger at Pei Yuanxiu at all, and she didn't even involve this person in her conversation with me, why did she suddenly set a trap around me after I left her and later returned to Jixiang Village?

I looked at Yang Jinqiao, only to feel a chill behind me: "When did you start and know that it was him?" ”

Yang Jinqiao said coldly: "That's right, I didn't doubt him at first, what I suspected was-" She paused, didn't finish this sentence, and continued: "However, but I know that the rebellious leader of Jinling is him, and the old man who defected from Xichuan, I understood." ”

My brow furrowed, "What do you mean?" ”

She looked at me coldly: "Do you know what the emperor sent Yunhui to Xichuan for?" ”

"I don't know."

"The emperor asked him to go to Xichuan in order to investigate the life history of the 'crown prince'."

"What?!"

"The emperor asked him to find out what happened when Empress Yin was still in Xichuan before entering the palace."

“……”

"What do you think, Yunhui found out?"

“……”

My face was as pale as paper, and cold sweat was dripping down.

I kind of know what he's found.

Pei Yuanxiu is not the biological son of Emperor Taishang, but the illegitimate son of Empress Yin and Yao Lao, this matter is no longer a secret to me when I went to Jinling and married him, but for many people, including people in Jinling, this is still a fantasy.

But Yang Jinqiao, she-

Seeing me looking at her nervously, Yang Jinqiao sneered: "Those tricks of his, it's okay to deceive others, but don't treat everyone as fools." That old man has been doing things for Xichuan all his life, why did he defect from Xichuan for the sake of a person who has no relatives and no reason, hand over all his forces in Jiangnan to him, and rebel with him? Is there such a cheap thing in the world? ”

“……”

I was silent for a while, and then said, "You are through this matter, so you conclude that he killed Yang Yunhui's son?" ”

Yang Jinqiao said coldly: "At that time, after I separated from you, I was very worried about your safety, so I also followed into Yangzhou. I originally planned to find you and then find a way, but I didn't expect to see the official government looking for you in Yangzhou. Yangzhou was already an outpost of Jinling's rebellious forces at that time, and they would actually look for you, of course, it was an order from the people of Jinling. So at that time, I began to doubt. ”

“……”

"Until later, not long after, he accompanied you across the river."

I subconsciously took a breath of cold air - that is, I took Gu Ping to cross the river to find his mother and sister, and Pei Yuanxiu accompanied us across the river to Yangzhou.

I said, "At that time, you knew that he was the head of the rebellious forces in Jinling, and that's—"

"I guessed his relationship with the old man."

“……”

"He is not the emperor's biological son, but he used his identity as the crown prince to recruit troops in Jiangnan, Yunhui is in Xichuan, he must have found out about Empress Yin and that old man, in order to kill him, he colluded with Shengjing's people and killed Yunhui!"

“……”

I didn't speak.

Before, when I had been suspicious of Pei Yuanhao, this was what I had always been unable to figure out. Pei Yuanhao and Yang Yunhui have a deep friendship, and there is no conflict of interest, so there is no need for him to kill him. Besides, even if he really has a conflict with Yang Yunhui, there are many ways to kill him, and the method of making him fall to Shengjing can be said to be the most unstable, because Luo Shi is not controlled by Pei Yuanhao at all, even if he catches Yang Yunhui, it is still unknown whether he will really kill him.

But, if Pei Yuanxiu wants Yang Yunhui's life-

In the battle between the imperial court and Shengjing, Huang Tianba fell into the hands of Luo Shi, and Yang Yunhui's death was more like Luo Shi's intention.

And at that time, not long after Pei Yuanxiu left Shengjing, he and Luo Shi were allies!

If he really found out that Yang Yunhui had to be killed, then while Luo Shi captured Yang Yunhui, as long as a news was sent back, Luo Shi would certainly not hesitate to do so.

Thinking back to that day, the blood that spurted out of Yang Yunhui's chest almost stained the whole world red, and when I held his gradually cold corpse and watched his slowly disappearing eyes, at this moment, it seemed as if a blunt knife was cutting my heart in my chest.

Could it really be him?

Is it really him, in order to hide his life experience, to kill Yang Yunhui?

I already knew that he was not as simple as I had seen, in addition to his gentleness and consideration for me, he had too many faces, too many strange to me, and even frightened looks, but I saw too little, but I really didn't think that he had done such a thing.

If this is really the case, then what was that arrow to me in the first place, that night in Jixiang Village?

At this moment, I was burned inside, but Yang Jinqiao calmed down.

There was a deliberate indifference in her eyes, as if after the extreme pain, she would freeze all the qiē into ice, and only in this way could she make herself less painful.

She said slowly: "When I figured out that incident, I wanted to kill him, but at that time, it was too hasty, I didn't have a chance to attack, after all, a person like him, there are many guards around him, if you can't hit him with one blow, it will be difficult to kill him again." ”

"So, you've been waiting?"

"Yes."

"When he took me back to Jinling, later, I also left Jinling."

"I've always had people watch over you."

“……”

"Because I know that for your sake, he will cross the river again. He'll definitely come to see you again! ”

“……”

As she spoke, her voice became a little hoarse, and when she looked at me, a trace of guilt and helplessness seemed to flash in her eyes: "But I didn't expect that the arrow hit him in the heart, but it didn't kill him." And you, you've been - "

I choked up and couldn't speak.

It turned out that even Yang Jinqiao knew that he would definitely cross the river for me, and he would not let me go so lightly, but I naively thought that as long as I left him for a long time, he would definitely forget me and give up on me.

In the end, that arrow ......

I smiled bitterly and faintly.

There are some things that may have been arranged in the dark, so it is probably predestined to get to this point.

Still, for some reason, I still felt something was wrong with me.

Like, there's something wrong.

I thought about it, looked up at her, and asked, "Well, what about later?" ”

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