Chapter 25: Last Wishes
Xu Cuiniang's room is the most luxurious place in the entire Mu family except for Mu Le's master bedroom.
The red walls and green tiles, and even the handle of the gate are made of white marble, which shows the prosperity of the Mu family back then.
The house is connected to the courtyard, and you can see gilded decorations and carved beams everywhere. It seems that Xu Cuiniang has put a lot of money in her pockets over the years. At this level, it is difficult for Mu Le to catch up.
"Girl, if there is a secret room and a secret door, it is usually hidden in the house, or in some inconspicuous place."
Ke Yun skillfully checked everything here, she had learned all the secret techniques in the Hou Mansion before, and it was not difficult to find a small secret room.
Mu Qianyan glanced at all the decorations in the house with cold eyes, half of the things in this room were familiar to her, because most of them were moved from her mother's house!
Opposite the lavish bed, there was a statue of Buddha, more than six feet tall and made of pure gold, which looked quite intimidating.
"Even if such a person worships a Buddha statue, can he still hope for bliss after death?"
Ke Yun looked at all the ornaments in the room that could be used as mechanisms, and looked at them with disdain.
"Xu Cuiniang's personality should not be able to worship Buddha statues."
Others don't know, but Mu Qianyan knows her best, Xu Cuiniang was born in the dust, she is ruthless and vicious, she doesn't look like a person who can believe in Buddhism.
Unless, the Buddha statue has some other purpose.
"Keyun, look at that Buddha statue."
"Yes, girl."
Ke Yun put down the coral ornament in her hand and walked to the golden Buddha statue, she looked at it, thought for a moment, and pressed it towards the longest finger of the Buddha statue,
Bang!
The Buddha statue actually fell straight down.
"The girl is so smart, this is really the place!"
"Let's go."
Mu Qianyan's breathing unconsciously sped up a little, and she could finally see what her mother left behind.
The two of them stepped into the secret room with both feet,
The sight in front of them couldn't help but make their eyes widen:
It's not pitch black, on the contrary,
Piles of gold and night pearls illuminate the place, stimulating the eyes of the two.
On the spotlessly polished sandalwood table, stacks of title deeds and house deeds are neatly stacked, and there are even slave sales deeds, looking at these numbers, how can there be more than half of the Mu family.
Now, it turns out that Xu Cuiniang has most of the financial power of the Mu family!
"Girl, I've never seen so much money in my life."
Ke Yun couldn't help but swallow his saliva,
"I haven't seen it either."
Mu Qianyan also didn't expect that Xu Cuiniang really gave her a surprise.
"Girl, are all these your mother's? We're afraid we won't be able to move out. ”
Ke Yun looked at the pile on the ground with some worry, if she really got it back, the girl would be able to live more comfortably.
"It's not."
Mu Qianyan took it and walked to the table, picked up a book of accounts and was about to look through it, but felt a crisp sound under his feet,
Oops!
She felt a sigh in her heart, and quickly squatted on the ground reflexively,
Boom!
The arrow slammed into the table in front of her, and the buzz shook her heart.
"Girl!"
Ke Yun instantly rushed over and blocked in front of her, but she didn't expect Xu Cuiniang to have such a mechanism!
"I'm fine."
Mu Qianyan stood up by her hand, frowning,
"You say, who is Xu Cuiniang guarding this time?"
It is said that Xu Cuiniang could not have known that the two of them would come here tonight, and the only person who would compete with her for the money and had the ability to come in was Mu Le!
She was really ruthless enough, she had already thought about Mu Le's life, no wonder she didn't panic at all when she saw Mu Le being held hostage during the day, she had long wanted to get rid of him!
That's right, the mother's relics.
What I just saw was more like the property of the Mu family more than ten years ago, and her bureau started at that time.
Although the basement is large, the layout is clear, more like a large vault.
In the front is a neatly stacked paper document such as title deeds and other documents on the table, and on the left side of the back are countless piles of gold and jewelry, and only on the right is an ordinary cabinet, and it is impossible to see what is inside.
"There."
Her instincts told her that it must be there.
Stepping over the piles of jewels and gold, she walked to the inconspicuous little brown cabinet.
Her hands trembled slightly, and she opened the cabinet,
The carved snow-white glazed hairpin is as smart and smooth as ten years ago, exuding a faint luster, which was given to his grandmother by Emperor Taizu when he was the official of the founding of the country, and later passed to his mother, no wonder Xu Cuiniang did not dare to wear it.
Thinking of her grandmother, Mu Qianyan's eyes darkened. In one of the few memories she remories, her grandmother treated her very well and would hold her in her arms for a whole day, and no one would come or leave.
But she heard that since her grandfather was slandered and belittled, she broke off contact with her grandfather and went back to her mother's house in Guanbei.
She didn't come back to see her grandfather until he died.
Under the glazed hairpin, there is also the West Sea coral bracelet, bright red and crystalline, so beautiful that it is not like a mortal thing, it was offered when the Southern Zhao returned to obedience, and Emperor Taizu rewarded it to his grandfather.
Golden silk hollow incense balls, python pattern jade pendants, nine beads and hundred rings, these are all valuable things, no wonder Xu Cuiniang can endure so many years without taking them out and selling them, if people find out, she is afraid that her life will not be guaranteed.
"Girl, this hairpin is so beautiful."
Ke Yun admired the glazed hairpin and was amazed.
Mu Qianyan stretched out his hand and took the wooden box containing the hairpin in his hand, but he felt that something was wrong.
"The weight is wrong."
An ordinary sandalwood box should be lighter than this, she reached out and knocked on the inside of the box, but it was not solid!
She fiddled with the box, and suddenly found a switch at the bottom of the box, and with a light press, the box opened from the bottom, but out of here it was not a hairpin, but a broken book?
"I've never seen my mother have this thing."
Mu Qianyan curiously opened the book, which was only a few dozen pages, it was the Juanxiu small seal she was familiar with,
"In the sixteenth year of Daye Wude, the eunuch, Bai Changfeng, the head of the Bai family, collaborated with the enemy and treason, and Zhaoxue ......"
After roughly scanning the keywords above, Mu Qianyan's eyes had changed from the original curiosity to deep excitement.
She trembled and flipped through the old pages, tears streaming down her face.
It turned out that she was not the only one who was working hard, her mother had been collecting evidence more than ten years ago, thinking that one day she would be a grandfather. At that time, her mother was seriously ill, and due to the loss of power of the Bai family, Xu Cuiniang wantonly suppressed and bullied, and this book was written in the most difficult days of her mother.
Tears wet the old handwriting on the page, and she hurriedly wiped her tears, and when she tried to turn it back, the next page was missing.
The book was artificially ripped off in part!
"Why is it gone?"
Mu Qianyan put down the sandalwood box, and reached out to find other boxes to put the bracelets and incense balls, but those boxes were very small, and they didn't look like they could fit half a book at all.
"Where?"
Mu Qianyan, who has always been calm, is in a hurry to rummage at the moment, if she has these incriminating evidence, she will be able to fulfill her mother's last wish and let her grandfather look away!
"Where?"
Her movements became more and more anxious, and she became more and more flustered, her voice was flustered and anxious, and tears hung on her white and immaculate face, but she still continued to move on her hands.
"Where?"
This incriminating evidence has been sealed in the Mu family for ten years, but she doesn't know anything, she has lost so much time in vain!
"Don't worry, girl, the slave will look for it with you."
Ke Yun was a little distressed, a good girl, she was only fifteen years old, but she had so much suffering in her heart.
The two of them searched all the boxes, but found nothing.
Mu Qianyan picked up the glazed hairpin in a daze and rubbed it gently, but found that there was a crack in the head of the hairpin and it was broken?
She frowned and checked, but found that the head of the hairpin was slightly loose, and she immediately twisted the head of the hairpin off without thinking about it.
There's even a mechanism!
The pale yellow note slipped from the hairpin and landed in the palm of her hand. Unfolded the old paper slightly, it seemed to be stained with the scent of ink from ten years ago, as well as the fragrance of flowers on her mother's body, these breaths with deep memories floated in the air, and instantly hit the softest place in her heart.
Seeing the words like faces, my daughter is dead:
Maternal ancestor had a bad fate, and served the country and the people all his life, but he was slandered by the eunuchs, depressed and depressed for a long time, after I was the Bai family, so the evidence of the eunuchs was collected here, compiled as a history, divided into four, Sun Yang and Zhou Bai each held a copy, in order to avoid the persecution of traitors, Zhao Xue could not. This is my dying wish, but it has not been realized, and my daughter can see her death, and I need to undertake this great responsibility to show snow for my white family. It is also necessary to undertake the responsibility of compiling history of the Bai family, to benefit all the people, and to Chengze Daye.
My daughter is grave and cherished.
"Mother...... Pro"
Her mother's voice and smile instantly jumped into her heart, as if her mother was whispering to her in her ear.
She closed her eyes, clutched the old note tightly in her hand, and wept silently, but her heart was full of encouragement and strength that she had never seen before.
Since then, the compilation of Daye's annals has been the responsibility of the Bai family, and outsiders and ordinary people are not allowed to write history privately, and compiling history has become a special errand of the Bai family.
But after that incident ten years ago, my grandfather was degraded, and the history seal of the Bai family was taken back by the eunuch and held in his hands. Since then, Daye's Taishi Academy has completely changed its blood, and its style is greatly different from before.
Under the instructions of the eunuchs, the book is full of prosperity, luxury, and merit, but there is no mention of the great drought in the north, the floods in the south, the wandering people, and even the change of children. They didn't mention any of these sufferings. The Taishi Courtyard is also full of Fengcheng's flattering wind, relying on the eunuchs' preferences to wantonly capitalize close-ups, sing praises of virtue, and lose the original atmosphere of being honest and truth-seeking, and not afraid of power.
Without Bai Changfeng, the Taishi Academy seems to have become a place of fame and fortune for eunuchs to give themselves and gold.
When Daye was founded, it was not allowed to write history privately, but at this point, if no one comes out to compile a real history of Daye, will future generations really misrecognize, learn, and mislearn.