After a moment, Chang Sui Ning said: "At first, when I learned that it was you from the mouth of the jade crumbs, I couldn't move you, and I couldn't easily tempt you, so I could only wait patiently for the opportunity——"

Yu Zeng, who put his forehead on the ground, was stunned, but there was no accident, so the disappearance of the jade shavings was done by His Royal Highness...... Back then, what he saw was His Highness.

"But now in this Jiangdu land, I want to kill you, it's no simpler." Chang Suining's gaze moved away from the dagger in his hand, and his voice became more and more inaudible: "Where is the need for you to ask me to kill, and let me kill with my own hands." ”

She said, "I saw you today because I wanted to hear you tell me in person why you chose to betray me back then—"

"If you betray, you are betrayal, but I still have to ask the reason, this seems to be very unchic, and it is far better to kill it directly."

Chang Suining looked at the water again, but there was no self-deprecation in her tone, nor was she angry, she was very calm and able to achieve self-acceptance and understanding, and did not embarrass herself: "But you are different from others, I can't figure it out, so I have to ask to understand." And I think you need to give me a clear explanation, instead of holding a dagger and begging me to kill you without saying a word. ”

When Yu Zeng heard this, his tears suddenly became more and more turbulent.

He lowered his hand tremblingly, his body twitching slightly from the huge emotional fluctuations, he tried to raise his head, almost wanting to speak, but the words were shattered.

"I don't know where to start for a while." Chang Sui Ning slowly exhaled as if he had nothing to do, and asked himself: "Then let me ask you—when did you start working for King Rong?" ”

Yu Zeng's errand for King Rong's mansion is the result of some clues she found through Meng Lie, combined with King Rong's previous assassination of Cui Jing.

And a secret letter from the Holy Emperor to her also indirectly confirmed this matter.

The secret letter was received when she was in Dongluo, and it was sent to Dongluo along with the documents informing Dongluo that the Dasheng court would send envoys to observe the new king's enthronement ceremony.

Emperor Sacred Records reminded her in the letter that Yu Zeng was most likely the eyeliner of King Rong, and the suspicion was not only that King Rong used Yu Zeng to spy on the secrets of the Son of Heaven and the imperial court, but also involved the former prince's mansion-

In other words, Emperor Sacred wanted her to understand that when she was still the first crown prince Li Xiao, Yu Zeng was most likely the eyeliner of King Rong.

Therefore, the Holy Emperor told her to "watch out."

In this matter, Chang Sui Ning Da can speculate about the empress's intentions, but he doesn't have to suspect that the other party's words are false—using lies to sow discord, such clumsy means will not appear on this emperor.

And the suspicious points that Meng Lie found, although scattered, have been able to roughly confirm her conjecture.

And from the fact that Yu Zeng has been secretly helping King Rong to act, it can also be reversed that the mastermind behind Yu Zeng's poisoning of her with jade shavings may also have something to do with King Rong.

But if all these conjectures are true, Chang Suining still has something he can't figure out-

Seeing that when she mentioned "doing things for King Rong", Yu Zeng's reaction had indirectly acquiesced to the matter, and Chang Suining asked his puzzlement: "So, have you always been his person?" ”

If so, why had she not even noticed his dissenting heart and hypocrisy before?

"No......" Yu Zeng was finally able to make a relatively complete voice, he hung his head, closed his eyes for a moment, and said in a trembling voice: "Slave is not like this...... The slave entered the palace at the age of nine, accompanied His Highness for 12 years, and then separated from His Highness for three years, and never gave birth to half of the heart of His Highness. ”

The wind blew, Chang Suining's long eyelashes moved slightly, and he nodded with relief: "I think so too...... At least it proves that I did not believe you wrongly in the past, and that would be good. ”

It seems a little more acceptable to do so.

But this also seems to make people even more unacceptable.

It's good, it's not good.

Chang Suining looked at Yu Zeng, who was kneeling there, his hands were weakly supporting the ground, and his head was trembling: "Since the fifteenth year is true, then the sixteenth year, the year I died, what did King Rong do to make you choose to betray me?" ”

This question seemed difficult for Yu Zeng to answer, and he burst into tears, unable to contain his surging emotions.

Chang Suining blew the wind and said to himself: "There are three common reasons for people to change their minds overnight, one is that both sides turn against each other, the second is to be lured by profit, and the third is to be coerced by bonds. ”

"I believe I have not done anything to you that I am ashamed of, so it will not be one. I believe that you treat me with some sincerity and loyalty, and it is difficult for fame and interests to impress you, so it will not be two. Chang Sui Ning said: "Thinking about it, it seems that there are only three left." ”

And Yu Zeng's fetters are nothing more than his mother and younger brother.

It's easy to imagine and it's very cliché, but when people live above the world, they are destined to be bound by worldly emotions, which is the root of people's growth in this world.

"That is, Li Yin is blackmailing your mother and younger brother?" Chang Suining was still confused in his eyes: "But if that's the case, putting aside everything else, since you can't allow your mother and younger brother to be in danger like this, then why are you still willing to do things for King Rong all these years?" Right now, you're walking on thin ice, and you could implicate them at any moment to the point where they can't be recovered—"

"And King Rong, who is far away in Yizhou, can no longer threaten your relatives who are in charge of the palace, how can he let you continue to obey him?"

"Could it be that you think you have no choice, but you are willing to 'make mistakes and make mistakes', and are you willing to serve him as the master and share the great cause with him?" Chang Suining finally asked a ridiculous-sounding speculation, which was the most reasonable possibility she could think of in combination with the existing clues.

But unless Yu Zeng is really crazy and has no logic.

Otherwise, there must be a truth hidden behind this, which Meng Lie has never touched.

The process of Chang Suining's questioning is also the process of Yu Zeng gradually calming down and regaining his thoughts.

He was temporarily detached from this shocking and unbelievable reunion, and was finally able to speak, giving a complete explanation to the old master in a relatively normal order.

"Since Your Highness is still willing to listen to the slave's explanation......" Yu Zeng's voice was hoarse, and he pulled the corners of his mouth with difficulty, and said sarcastically and sadly: "Then slave, let's tell the story of the slave to His Highness again." ”

"The slave is from Yanzhou, it's true." His voice was very slow, as if revealing the deepest old wounds in his heart: "When the slave was eight years old, there was a great drought in Yanzhou, and the land was thousands of miles away. It is also true that he fled with his mother and left Yanzhou. ”

"But I fled not only from the drought, but also from sin...... My father was a small county magistrate in Yanzhou, and Yanzhou was not effective in disaster relief, and some people embezzled disaster relief money, and the imperial court severely punished many corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and my father was one of them. ”

But my mother said that my father was framed and blamed for others...... I don't know if it's true or not, I just know that my mother took me to escape, blended in with the homeless people, and took advantage of the chaos to get out of Yanzhou. ”

But his mother was just a concubine, and before she became a concubine, she was a maid of a rich family.

So she doesn't have anyone to run to, and she doesn't have a very good ability to protect herself, just a good-looking skin and a childish child who follows her appearance.

It is not difficult to imagine what such a mother and son will encounter in the chaotic crowd on the way to escape.

Women are pitiful, children are pitiful, and in such a cannibalistic environment, the misery of all vulnerable groups will be infinitely magnified.

They suffered not only starvation, fear of not being able to see the way forward, but also unimaginable humiliation.

Many times, he thought he was going to die.

Once, when he was about to be steamed and eaten by those men, his mother found him and knelt down in front of them without dignity and begged and begged, and when he was about to be dragged down, she shouted at him and told him to run.

He sat up, took one last look at his mother's teary eyes, and obediently fled the place.

Dominated by fear, he ran until he had no more strength, fell in no one's place, and fell unconscious for an unknown amount of time.

When he woke up again, he came back to his senses, cried and slapped himself countless times, how could he really leave his mother alone!

He went back to his mother in a frenzy, and finally found the place, but there was no one there, and he only found the stinking human bones and limbs in the corner.

He felt that he would never be able to forgive himself again in this life.

But the instinct to survive made an eight-year-old child unable to stay in sorrow forever, and the following days became more and more difficult and dangerous, and he happened to meet a fellow countryman of the same age, who was very clever and helped him a lot along the way.

But a heavy rain and a high fever still cost the child's life.

Before he died, the boy said in a faint voice that if he lived, if he saw his mother and brother, who had been separated......

What happens after you see it?

Before the child's fairy tale was finished, he was silent, leaving him with only a woodcarved peace lock and half a sentence that had not been finished.

He buried the child, clutched the lock of peace that represented the child's identity, and walked on.

From then on, firstly, to help the boy find his mother and brother, and secondly, to hide the identity of his criminal courtiers, when he was told about it, he used the boy's name, which he did not even think about at that time, and it is used to this day.

Later, he and a few children met a caravan, which kindly took them with them, and half a month later, sold them on the way.

After tossing and turning, they fell into the hands of a servant who looked at their teeth, changed them into clean clothes, and smiled and said that they were going to send them to a good life.

The two children he met on the way entered the Rongwang Mansion.

And he, because he was born particularly pleasing to the eye, was sent to the palace by the people, cleansed, and became a chamberlain.

Yu Zeng said this, and said in a dumb voice: "The slave was nine years old that year, and His Royal Highness was only eight years old. ”

Chang Suining's mood is complicated and indistinguishable.

Nine-year-old "Yu Zeng" experienced more suffering than he had told her before.

It turns out that he is not really "Yu Zeng", but has another background that he has never stated.

The age of eight or nine is a somewhat special turning point, as it seems that from an ignorant child, the consciousness of being a "human" began to germinate.

It was at the age of eight that she became a Xiao.

It was also that year that Ah Xiao repeatedly became the target of bullying by those princes, and I remember that after a class, the third prince Li Yi took people and pushed Ah Xiao into the shallow pool to tease.

Chang Suining recalled and said: "That time, it was you who went into the water to save Ah Xiao, and those servants didn't dare to offend Li Yi and them. ”

"In fact, when the slave first entered the palace, he didn't know the power factions of the princes in the palace......" After many years, Yu Zeng confided his true thoughts at that time, he laughed at himself: "The slave just saw a child in brocade clothes fall into the water, and thought that if he could save it, he might get some rewards......"

"I guessed it afterwards." Chang Suining looked in the direction of Ah Dian, and said, "But what's the hindrance, if you help Ah Xiao, you will help, I will make a note of that favor." ”

But in the eyes of those people, this new waiter who didn't understand the rules made the three princes unhappy, and the three princes didn't say anything, and the little stewards in the palace platform already regarded him as trouble.

If he finds the wrong place at will, he can be punished by kneeling for half a day, whipping him a few more times, and throwing him back to his dwelling to fend for himself.

Although Li Shang was young, he knew the atmosphere in the palace for a long time, and expected that he would be in trouble afterwards, so he asked his mother to ask him to come to this Xiangyuan side hall to do things, but Ming did not allow it, and told her calmly and rationally: [Don't make trouble anymore].

When Li Shang was anxious, he found King Rong.

At that time, King Rong was only seventeen or eighteen years old, he had just become a relative, an idler, very free and easy, and often went to the palace to accompany his royal brother to relieve his boredom, and asked the queen mother for peace, because of his interesting temperament and no dispute, he was also very popular among a group of princes and princesses.

Young Li Shang likes this little Uncle Wang very much, he is gentle and approachable, and when she and her younger brother are bullied, he will come forward to help her, and teach her a lot of truths, like a brother, like a father.

On the day when Li Yin entered the palace every month to ask for peace, Li Shang waited early at the place where he had to pass.

Li Yin agreed with a smile, and he said: [This is the first time that Ah Shang has taken the initiative to ask Uncle Wang, how can Uncle Wang not help? 】

Although he doesn't have much real power, he is a prince in the end, and because he has never had a fight, he is very comfortable in the palace, and he wants to protect a little eunuch who has made a mistake, and he can still do it.

In the drizzle, when Yu Zeng limped to the side hall next to the elephant garden with a small burden, eight-year-old Li Shang said to him: "Although it is a little remote here, no one will bully you at will! 】

When he came to the side house where Yu Zeng was placed, he looked up at the corner of the leaky house, Li Shang was a little surprised, but quickly assured him: [In the future, we will definitely be able to change to a good place to live. 】

At that time, I don't know where the eight-year-old child got the confidence to say big things.

Nine-year-old Yu Zeng had tears in his eyes and said to her: "It's good here! Slaves will repair, slaves will repair the roof! 】

At that time, looking at those teary eyes, Li Shang was pleasantly surprised that this little chamberlain was really good, and she could repair the roof, but she hadn't learned it yet.

She asked him, "What's your name?" I mean, your original name. 】

Yu Zeng blurted out almost habitually: [The slave is called Yu Zeng, a native of Yanzhou, who was separated from his mother and younger brother on the way to escape......]

He said this all the way, and the two children who were sold into King Rong's mansion also said the same, and he could only continue to say this.

He never thought at that time that this lie would make the girl in front of him remember it for a long, long time.

The weather soon cleared, the roof was quickly repaired, Li Shang became Li Xiao, and the days were visibly better.

Yu Zeng also thought that life would go on forever, until the winter of that year, when he braved the snow to go out of the palace to King Rong's mansion to spread the word, King Rong said to him: [It's just right, help me recognize someone.] 】

(I haven't written much about the past of Yu Zeng's character before, so half of the memories in this chapter have been written, and tomorrow it should be possible to write all the things of the year~ Good night first, continue to code words.)