Chapter 556: Portrait of a Child
"Ahem, huh!" Xue Zhen bowed slightly.
"She often runs to the General's Mansion diligently, can you hide from the first year of junior high and hide from the fifteenth?"
Meng Jiu'er didn't say much, and tonight the cold wind forced her to turn around and go back to the study to read the account book.
Xue Zhen laughed so helplessly for the first time, sighed, sat on the tea table opposite Ah Jiu, and boiled tea by himself:
"It's useless for me to see her, I can't answer the questions she wants."
Ah Jiu looked at Xue Zhen in confusion: "What do you want to ask until she wants?" ”
"Nothing but the child's problem." Xue Zhen lifted his sleeve, pinched the teapot, poured a cup of tea, and tasted it comfortably.
"But since she's looking for you, then you naturally know." Ah Jiu withdrew his gaze and sketched on the ledger.
"Not necessarily." Xue Zhen hastily told about the events of that year:
"Back then, because of the death of the first emperor, the king was executed one day, I ran away, I couldn't stay there and wait for death, Ning Yatou fled to where with the child, and I haven't seen Concubine Chang at all in the years since, let alone her child, how do I know where it is."
Ah Jiu glanced at Xue Zhen: "Then you tell her directly?" ”
Xue Zhen didn't speak, which made Ah Jiu suspicious: "You won't do anything to be sorry for her before you're afraid to see her." ”
"No, absolutely not." Xue Zhen's reaction was obviously not quite the same as his usual calmness.
Ah Jiu stared at him for a long time: "Don't say it? Why don't you come along? I'm afraid I can't say it. ”
Xue Zhen sighed helplessly:
"It's not that I can't say it, in fact, it's just because on the day before she committed suicide, I personally sent Miss Ning the Resurrection Pill, and I was entrusted by her, saying that she hoped to take care of her child with Ning Yatou after her death, and she helped me escape from the palace, and as a result, just out of Kyoto City, I met Jinyiwei......
I was separated from Miss Ning, and it took me about five years before I found the original Miss Ning, when she had married Master Gao as a concubine, she said that Concubine Chang's son was born with an intellectual disability, and she needed money to have the opportunity to treat the child, who knew that she was lost. ”
It turned out that this was the case, Ah Jiuhu put down the brush in his hand suspiciously:
"It's really hard to find someone who is mentally retarded and lost."
"Hmm." Xue Zhen bowed slightly and continued: "Ning Yatou said that it may be caused by Concubine Chang eating something she shouldn't eat when she was pregnant, but, as far as I know, when Emperor Huachang was preparing to dispose of the Meng family, he had already found a reason to put her under house arrest, and the food was specially sent by the emperor to the Internal Affairs Office. ”
"You mean, when Concubine Chang was pregnant, the emperor planned to cut the grass and eradicate the roots?" Ah Jiu's heart sank when he heard this, then the emperor was so vicious and ruthless, and the tiger poison did not eat children.
Xue Zhen sighed: "Master, what do you say if I see Concubine Chang?" If she said that she was lost because of her incomplete intelligence, she would naturally feel impossible, I am afraid that she would not know until she died that the emperor wanted to harm her children, and it would inevitably increase the sadness of mentioning the old things, so why bother. ”
Xue Zhen said this, Ah Jiu nodded silently:
"Actually, I also admire Concubine Chang, she has experienced such a big turmoil, but people can withstand it and be able to do it alone, how difficult it is."
Anyway, even if Ah Jiu asked herself, she couldn't bear the story of the mother's annihilation.
"Or are you making up a lie?" Ah Jiu felt that he couldn't hide for the rest of his life, and now that they were all living in Menghua City, they might meet one day.
"How do you make it up? Please also ask Master for advice. "Xue Zhen has achieved the ultimate in modesty this time.
Ah Jiu thought about it and racked her brains and couldn't think of a good way, if she didn't mention the problem of mental retardation, then she would have to pester herself to help her find the child.
But where can Ah Jiu find it?
Xue Zhen saw that the little master was also the male lead, and added: "Ning Yatou told me back then that all the doctors said that the child would not live to be eight years old. ”
"Huh?" When Ah Jiuyi heard this, it became even more difficult: "Speaking of which, I have been dead for more than ten years at this time, so I can't find it, hey, that's right." ”
Ah Jiu suddenly remembered something, rummaging through the boxes and cabinets back and forth on the bookshelves.
Suddenly remembering that Alain's notes had been buried by her, she took a shovel and dug them out overnight, found the booklet in a wooden box full of dirt, turned to the last page, and pulled out a portrait from it.
"Do you think it's this kid?" Ah Jiu handed the portrait to Xue Zhen.