Shen Huacheng lowered his voice very low, polite and polite, and faintly showed a little concern.

Shen Lingxi knew that he meant well, and smiled lightly, "Thank you brother for reminding me." ”

With that, she wanted to turn away -

"Mother, stay here." Shen Huacheng suddenly said, "There will be something in the end, I want to ask my mother ......."

A flash of surprise flashed in Shen Lingxi's eyes.

She glanced at Xiaodouzi and Ning Fu, who were following her.

The two took a few steps back.

Shen Huacheng was silent for a few breaths, and Fang said in a low voice: "Before my mother came to go, I said that even if my father didn't have an affair with Zhang Cuiniang, there would be others. She hated her father...... Later, after her mother found out that her father replaced her dead sister with Ah Yao, Zhang Cuiniang begged her mother to recognize Ah Yao, and did not hesitate to sacrifice her life to exchange it. Since her mother allowed her, it was equivalent to recognizing A-Yao's daughter......"

He said to her, "dead sister", instead of "you", which made Shen Lingxi's apricot eyes slightly raised, "Brother means ......"

Shen Huacheng: "My mother died of illness when Ah Yao was five years old, and Ah Yao can be regarded as taking the place of her sister to bear the joy under her mother's knee for five years. The last general begged Niangniang to look at her grandmother and mother's relatives in the future, if A-Yao did something wrong, if she could spare her life. She is not bad in her heart, but she believes in her aunt and father too much over the years, and she has been raised crookedly. ”

If Shen Lingxi was still suspicious before, hearing him say the word "sister" this time, and then thinking about his previous attitude towards himself, there was already a little bit of confusion in his heart.

"So, my brother has always known that I am not your sister?" Shen Lingxi asked with a faint smile.

Shen Huacheng did not deny it, "The last general has been naughty since he was a child, and when his mother gave birth to his own sister, the last general took his two younger brothers to play in the view, and happened to see them secretly changing people." It was also the last general who watched them throw dead babies into mass graves. ”

He paused, "My sister was buried by the three of us with our own hands, and there is no chance of survival." ”

This made Shen Lingxi even more interesting.

"In that case, why didn't you expose me in the first place? Still let me dispose of my grandmother and Lingtang's private property? ”

Shen Huacheng stood up straight and said seriously, "Because you did what you had to do for the three of us brothers and our dead sister." Grandmother entrusted everything to you, and we should follow Grandmother's wishes. ”

"I don't know what Shen Yuyao did, so I can't promise you that I will be able to spare her life." Shen Lingxi meant something authentic.

"To have a glimmer of life is already her creation, and the last general will thank the princess in advance." Shen Huacheng bowed and thanked him.

Shen Lingxi turned sideways to avoid his salute, and kindly reminded: "It is an eventful time in the palace, and the brothers have received the envoys of the forbidden army, so they need to be careful in everything." ”

Shen Huacheng responded in a low voice, "Please also ask the crown princess to be more careful." ”

Shen Lingxi glanced at him tacitly, and then turned to leave.

After stepping out of Shen Huacheng's line of sight, Shen Lingxi paused and looked sideways at Xiaodouzi, "You go to Concubine Yue and ask her to do me a favor." ”

Xiaodouzi stepped forward lightly, listened to Shen Lingxi cover his lips and whispered a few times, and then took the order and left.

*

Shen Lingxi stepped into the gate of the East Palace, it was close to noon, and it was the hottest time.

When I looked at it, I saw that Chu Yan was standing tall and jade, waiting under the corridor with a cold expression.

Seeing her come back, Chu Yan strode up to her and looked at her from head to toe, and her phoenix eyes finally relaxed a little.

"How?"

He took Shen Lingxi's hand, and his tall body walked beside her, deliberately covering the sun above her head.

Shen Lingxi walked and told him about the things in the palace one by one.

It wasn't until she walked back to the main hall that she took out the purse that Shen Yuyao gave her.

"This purse was embroidered by my own hands, and the night before Shen Yuyao's wedding, I asked Qiao Xing to send it to her, and this time she returned it to me."

Chu Yan looked at the lotus flower embroidered with gold thread on the top, and his phoenix eyes were slightly raised.

"And the twins, you wanted to use your brotherhood to remind her not to go astray?"

Shen Lingxi nodded, "Since it was the queen's marriage, Shen Ji dared to let Shen Yuyao marry instead, because he was sure that the queen and the Shen family would admit it even if they knew about the marriage." It can be seen that the Mu family's family affair, even if it is begged by Mu Huai'an, is not a good match. ”

"If Shen Yuyao thinks of her brotherhood and refuses to marry, I will find another way to solve it, and I will not let her jump into the fire pit. As a result, she still chose to get married. ”

"Later, I saw her from afar at the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet, and she looked at me and felt quite resentful of me."

Speaking of this, Shen Lingxi lowered her eyes, rubbed the smoothed corners of the purse, and thoughtfully, "I just didn't expect that she still kept this purse." ”

Chu Yan has long been accustomed to such a person, and he took the purse from Shen Lingxi's hand.

The feeling of heaviness in his hand made his phoenix eyes slightly picked, and he directly opened the purse and poured the contents into his palm.

It is a Pisces jade pendant tied with a red rope.

Shen Lingxi picked up the jade pendant in surprise and looked at it carefully.

It was the piece that Mu Huai'an entrusted her to the queen when she left Yunjiang before.

"This thing, obviously the queen has already accepted it, how can it be in Shen Yuyao's hands?" Shen Lingxi muttered strangely, "Why did she quietly give me this thing?" ”

Chu Yan was also looking at the jade pendant.

Suddenly, he seemed to find something, and his eyes darkened slightly.

"Why did she give you this jade pendant, I don't know." His slender fingers pointed to the red rope hanging behind the jade pendant, "I only see that there is something wrong with this rope." ”

"Rope?" Shen Lingxi glanced at him suspiciously, and seeing that his eyes showed disgust, Fang picked up the rope and took a closer look, put it on the tip of his nose and sniffed, his face changed instantly.

The red of the rope is not paint, but human blood!

Shen Lingxi picked up the jade pendant, walked quickly outside the hall, and carefully looked at the jade in the sun.

At a glance, it was found that there was a faint light pink color in the carved lines on the jade.

There is no doubt that not only is there blood on the rope, but even this piece of jade has been soaked in human blood.

It seems that things are getting more and more interesting.

*

Shen Lingxi knew that Shen Yuyao would not give her the Pisces jade pendant for no reason.

No matter what her purpose was, finding out where the human blood on the jade rope came from had become the only thing she could do at the moment.

The embroidered clothes were checked very quickly, and in less than half a day's effort, they inquired about the origin of this jade pendant clearly.

"This jade pendant is a gift from the old Chengen Gong to General Mu when General Mu was one year old, and it is of great significance to the queen mother and General Mu."

"I heard that before Shen Yuyao entered the palace, the servant girl beside her said that this jade pendant was given to Mu Huaijie by the queen mother more than four months ago."

"Mu Huaijie was alive, he had been wearing the jade pendant with him, the treasure was very good, once he was looking for joy in the flower shop, a thief who was not long-eyed, and the jade pendant was taken away, and after he found it, he was beaten half to death. Not long after, the thief died. ”

"The mother-in-law who stole the child was also a spicy one, hired someone to carry the body of the thief, went to the door of Mu's house to ask for money, and threatened to sue the official and sue Mu Huaijie for his life."

"Although the Mu family has been demoted to a concubine, the queen's face is still there, and if this matter breaks out, the queen's face will be disgraced. The Mu family originally planned to spend money to eliminate the disaster, but who would have thought that that night, Mu Huaijie suddenly died violently, and the mother-in-law who stole the child was so frightened that she didn't even want a corpse, and ran away overnight......"

Speaking of this, the embroidered envoy who came to report showed a strange look on his face, "It's also very strange to say, in the flower shop for a while, there were many people who died of hemorrhage, and the capital was spreading, is it an epidemic...... The hospital also sent people to take a look, but they didn't find anything, but fortunately, no one died later, and the matter of this hemorrhage was over......"