"You talk nonsense, you talk nonsense, we didn't ignore Ah Qi." Chen Ayuan jumped up in annoyance, roaring hoarsely, his face twisted and hideous, as if Han Changdu's words had poked her sore spot, and the wound on her arm also collapsed again, gurgling and bleeding.

"Ah Yuan, you're bleeding again." Qi Minghui exclaimed, hurriedly helped Chen Ayuan cover his wounds, and kowtowed to Han Changdui to confess his guilt, and whispered to Chen Ayuan: "Ah Yuan, Ah Yuan, Ah Yuan's whereabouts are unknown now, and we can't save her with our skills." ”

Chen Ayuan was unconvinced, and was about to speak, but she was suddenly dumbfounded and lowered her head silently at Qi Minghui's pair of gloomy teary eyes.

Rong Sulan stretched out her hand, and her thin and rough fingers trembled and landed on the back of Chen Ayuan's hand.

Chen Ayuan felt the coldness and roughness on her hand, and her heart twitched, and her expression became even more lonely.

Qi Minghui let go of Chen Ayuan's arm, took a deep breath, and the seemingly respectful Korean Changdui kowtowed, but his words were aggressive: "I don't know what adults want to know?" ”

Han Changwan's expression was indifferent, even though he was very worried about Han Changyun's whereabouts, he didn't show any melancholy, and only casually spit out two words: "All." ”

Qi Minghui sneered: "Adults are so greedy, aren't they afraid of knowing too much and dying too early?" ”

Han Changwan didn't make a sound, only picked up a cup of tea, took a sip slowly, silently, and glanced at Qi Minghui playfully.

Qi Minghui's heart sank inch by inch, she opened her mouth, but was pulled by Rong Sulan.

"Minghui." Rong Sulan shook her head slightly in fright.

"Sister-in-law, there's no time, Ah Ji can't afford to wait." Qi Minghui lowered his head in despair, tears rolled down drop by drop, leaching shallow pits on the ground, and a little dust splashed out.

Although Lizheng's house is the largest in the village, and the main house is also the best one, it is still simple and dilapidated compared to the mansions in the capital.

The room is not lit by candles, but by oil lamps, which are much cheaper than candles, and are commonly used by ordinary people, the lights are not very bright like beans, and the smoke is particularly heavy after ignition, even if it is such a cheap oil lamp, ordinary people do not dare to burn a few more.

Especially in this kind of farmhouse, when it is dark, if there is nothing to do, the lights will be turned off, and if you can do things in the dark, you will never waste the oil in the oil lamp.

At this time, the oil lamp in this room had been burning for a long time, and the oil in the lamp had bottomed out, and the lamp was even more dim, but the smoke was more smoky than when it had just been lit.

Seeing Qi Minghui's hesitation, Han Changwei did not rush to urge, but slowly added a spoonful of oil to the lamp and trimmed the wick.

The lights lit up a little bit in an instant, but Han Changdu's expression was extraordinarily calm.

Qi Minghui looked at Chen Ayuan and Rong Sulan with scruples, and then at Han Changdu.

Han Changdui understood in an instant, and ordered Jin Yu: "Take Chen Ayuan and Rong Sulan down." ”

Chen Ayuan and Rong Sulan glanced at each other, and just about to say something, Jin Yu didn't allow them to speak, and dragged the two down.

I heard the mournful but not tragic cries of the two

, Qi Minghui knew that the two of them were not guilty, but she didn't want her to tell the secret, she breathed a sigh of relief and kowtowed: "What do adults want to know, just ask, the slave must know everything, and say everything." ”

Han Changwan raised his eyelids lazily, still those two words: "All." ”

Qi Minghui grinded his teeth, hesitated for a moment, and finally made up his mind and said: "My lord, you can know that the slave is the wife of Chen Yuying, the imperial historian who was convicted and destroyed sixteen years ago, and Ah Ji is Chen Yuying's young daughter. ”

Han Changwei didn't show a look of astonishment, he actually had some guesses about this matter, after all, since the tragedy in the first year of Yong'an, the surname Chen, like the surname Fang, has become the two most unmentionable surnames in the Dajing Dynasty, and they are taboos that cannot be touched.

The surname Fang is okay, and he has a name of loyalty.

But the surname Chen has become a traitor who everyone gets and condemns.

During that time, the family surnamed Chen, regardless of whether they had anything to do with Chen Yuying or not, was busy changing their names and surnames to clear up their relationship.

It seems that the matter of surnamed Chen has become the original sin of being born, and everyone is afraid to avoid it.

But these four people dared to defy the world's condemnation and used the surname Chen on the household registration list, and they were not obsessed with this surname.

If there is anyone who is so obsessed with the surname Chen today, it is none other than Chen Yuying's clansmen.

In the past 16 years since Chen Yuying was convicted, every year there have escaped clansmen jump out to cry out for injustice.

They always believed that Chen Yuying was wronged back then, and those crimes that were enough to destroy the nine clans were all fabricated, and they were the treacherous methods used by Emperor Yong'an in order to make an example and shock the hearts of the people in the world.

Qi Minghui originally thought that when Han Changwan heard this, he would retreat from the difficulties and no longer press her, but who expected that this person did not show any jealousy, and only stared at her as usual, waiting for her to continue to say a calm appearance.

She choked up fiercely, and was stunned for a moment before continuing: "Chen Ayuan is the youngest sister of Chen Yuying, the slave family, and Rong Sulan is the widowed sister-in-law of the slave. ”

She has already decided to explain the whole thing clearly, so naturally she has to start from the beginning, starting with her own identity.

But obviously Han Changwan was already impatient with Qi Minghui babbling from the beginning, and he raised his hand without waiting for Qi Minghui to speak again: "After the Chen family was convicted, Qingqian, oh no, is Chen Aqi locked up in the prison of the Criminal Department with you?" ”

Qi Minghui was stunned for a moment, not understanding why Han Changhui asked like this, but she still shook her head with the facts: "No." ”

"No?" Han Changdui raised his voice in disbelief, and it took a while for a while to drop the sharp voice: "The sage's will is that the Chen family will be in prison, sixteen years ago, Chen Aqi was already two or three years old, and it was the forbidden army and the internal guards who were ordered to raid the house at that time. ”

Qi Minghui was a little confused about Han Changdu's words, and obviously panicked, but he still told the truth: "In the first year of Ah Ji's birth, Chen Yuying didn't know where to come back with a wild seed. She paused, with unspeakable resentment: "And after Ah Qi was born, the wild seed took the identity of Ah Qi, and Ah Qi has never seen the light again." I thought that Ah Qi would never be able to appear in front of people from now on, but Chen Fu was convicted, Chen

Yuying asked my Ah Qi to take the place of that wild seed to suffer, I, how can I give up, that is my daughter, a daughter who can't recognize each other when we meet. ”

Her hands tightly grasped the corners of her skirt, and her tears were like beads with broken threads, constantly falling down, and she whimpered in pain: "The forbidden army is in a hurry, Chen Yuying didn't have time to make proper arrangements, so I made the first move, and let my nurse take Ah Ji out of the house, and I carried the wild seed into the prison of the Criminal Department." ”

She laughed with tears in her eyes, and said sadly: "It's ridiculous that he thought until he died that the wild seed had escaped." ”

Hearing these words, Han Changdui's heart set off an uproar, he was shocked beyond measure, there were countless questions in his heart that needed an answer, his expression was indifferent as usual, and he raised his left arm: "I remember that there is a light cyan birthmark in this position of Qingqian. ”

There is no mistake

"Birthmarks, how can my Ah Qi have any birthmarks!" Qi Minghui laughed at himself and sneered, and burst into tears of heartache: "That's not a birthmark at all, it's the wild seed that has the birthmark, Chen Yuying doesn't know where to pick up this wild seed, and he doesn't know what the identity of this wild seed is, he burned off the birthmark on the arm of the wild seed, but tattooed such a birthmark on my Ah Qi's arm." ”

The doubts in Han Changdu's heart seemed to be suddenly relieved, he stared at Qi Minghui's face tightly, and asked word by word: "In other words, the one who went to the prison of the Criminal Department with you is another Chen Aqi." ”

Qi Minghui didn't understand why Han Changdui had been entangled in this matter, but he still nodded: "Yes, that wild seed used my name and identity, so naturally she had to suffer this for her, she accompanied me to the prison of the Criminal Department, and had a serious illness, I thought she would not survive, who knew that this little wild seed's life was quite big, and she survived." It stands to reason that she is also going to be sent to the church, but I think that the rules of the court are strict, and life is not good, she is so young that she enters the palace, she must not survive, so I tried my best to send her to the workshop, sure enough," she chattered and laughed, there was no trace of warmth in the laughter, and it was vicious and cold: "Ah Yuan has inquired about her in the court for several years, but there is no news of her, she really didn't survive, my Ah Ji has suffered the sin, and finally all the retribution has been retributed to her, I am happy even if I die, but my Ah Ji is innocent, She's still so young, she hasn't had a good day, she can't die. ”

Han Changdu's eyes were cold, and his heart sank, but when he thought about it, there seemed to be a hand in the dark in the court, which erased Yao Qi's identity before he entered the court and his experience in the next half a year after he entered the court.

Even if there is no evidence on paper to prove that Yao Qi is the baby girl of unknown origin that Chen Yuying took back, Han Changdu's intuition feels that she is the baby girl, she is the little girl in the prison of the Criminal Department, it must be.

It's just a matter of verifying his identity, he still needs to see Yao Ji, and then think carefully, if he can coax Yao Ji to roll up his sleeves and confirm whether there is a burn on his head, he can confirm Yao Ji's identity, and maybe he can find out what her origin is.

He smiled dumbly in his heart, he never forgot it for so many years, but he didn't expect to recognize the wrong person in the end, let alone that person was by his side.

It was he who was blind, unexpectedly, missed.