Chapter 138: My Son Has Died a Long Time Ago (1st Update)
There was a lock on the door, and He Ran brought the fire fold closer, and the lock was clean, without dust, and the position in the middle was polished.
This door, this lock, someone unlocks it every day and locks it back when they come out.
He Ran took out something that looked like a key but was not a key from his arms, turned left and right in the lock hole a few times, and with a click, the lock opened.
He Ran didn't hesitate, pushed the door and walked in.
The fragrance of sandalwood came to his face, He Ran frowned, why is this smell so strong? No wonder you can smell it when you're far away in the tunnels.
How much incense does it take to burn to have such a strong smell?
He Ran raised the fire fold a little, there was no incense case in the house, but there was a large incense burner, and the aroma was wafting out of the incense burner, and next to the incense burner, there was a person kneeling upright.
He Ran's first reaction was whether this was a real person or a dummy.
Because this man was too thin and kneeled too straight, like a wooden man who was not good at carving.
He Ran approached and shone it down from the top of the person's head with a fire fold, and this time he saw clearly, it was a real person, with skin, facial features, and slightly trembling hair.
But the man was thin, with pale skin wrapped around the bones, and lacklustre, like a puppet that had been sucked out of flesh.
He Ran had to look carefully to be sure that this was a woman.
It's just that the feminine features on this person are not obvious because they are too thin.
"Cai Ying?" He Ran asked softly.
The man was indifferent, his eyes were empty, and he stared blankly at the incense burner in front of him, not like a person, but more like a statue.
He Ran walked around the room with a fire fold, there was an empty bowl, a bucket, a bed, a quilt on the bed, and a kang cabinet, and a few coarse cloth clothes in the kang cabinet.
He Ran walked back to this person and looked at her condescendingly, she had hair, not the old princess she had seen in the small Buddha hall when she visited the palace at night last time.
"You are the real Cai Ying, you have been locked up in the dungeon all the time, and the one in Xiuyuan is just your stand-in."
He Ran said her guess, she didn't know who started all this, whether it was the old King of Jin or the King of Jin.
He Ran sighed, and suddenly, she leaned into the man's ear and whispered three words: "Crane Forest View!" ”
The man's body shuddered violently, his neck turned hard and stiffly, and his eyes were no longer empty, but deep.
He Ran was originally just a temptation, but now she can be sure that Cai Ying's little bamboo horse monk Taoist temple is the Crane Forest Temple.
And the Crane Forest View is suspected to be a place used by the father and son of the King of Jin to cultivate killers.
"The man you love so much is locked up in Crane Forest Temple, and you are locked up here like a mouse, year after year, day after day, and the most ridiculous thing is that it was your husband who used to make you a mouse, and now it is your son who makes you a mouse.
Do you know? Your brother is dead, dead at your hands. ”
When He Ran said this, he closed his mouth and looked at Cai Ying firmly with a pair of wonderful eyes.
"You, you say." may have not spoken for a long time, Cai Ying's voice was hoarse, as if her throat was blocked by something, "You said Cai Jie is dead?" ”
"yes, he was killed by you." He Ran said.
"No, it can't be, I didn't, I didn't." Cai Ying panicked, her body kneeling on the ground trembling slightly.
"I know it's not you, you're trapped here, it's your stand-in who killed Cai Jie, in anyone's opinion, that's the real you, these are all done by your son, are you happy?"
Speaking of this, He Ran suddenly thought of something, and she asked, "Don't you know that your husband died a few years ago?" ”
Cai Ying's expression confirmed He Ran's guess, and He Ran sighed: "Your husband died of illness a few years ago, and the current King of Jin is your son, he didn't save you, but he still killed your brother with your hand, and the Cai family, who lost Cai Jie, is just a toothless tiger." ”
Cai Ying looked at He Ran blankly, and suddenly, she laughed and laughed silently.
"It's dead, it's all dead, it's good, it's good, it's good!"
He Ran looked into her eyes: "Do you want your son to let you out?" ”
Cai Ying seemed to have reacted at this time, and she looked at He Ran unhappily: "What son, my son died just after birth, and he was thrown to death by that bastard." ”
He Ran almost thought she had misheard, but she soon understood.
"That child wasn't born to you and your husband, but you and your lover?"
"No, it's not!" Cai Ying's face was full of pain, "He is the prince of the domain, and he was married as early as the capital, at that time, his main concubine and two side concubines were all from the official eunuch family that seemed to be noble, but in fact could not give him any help, he was unwilling in his heart, so not long after arriving in Jindi, these three people died of disobedience." ”
He Ran understood what she meant, such a family affair was the most suitable for an ordinary prince who had no chance to be on the throne, however, this prince was ambitious, he wanted to return to Beijing, and he also wanted to sit on that chair.
Such a Yue family is naturally not what he wants, so the three princesses can only die.
Cai Ying continued: "Outsiders only think that the Cai family is in a hurry to marry me into the palace, but in fact, if there are no frequent hints from him, with a small family like the Cai family, how dare Xiao want to be the prince's son-in-law?"
At that time, although the Cai family only had two petty officials of six or seven grades, there were mines, and we had five mines, large and small, five!
He talked to my father several times, and finally he agreed on the terms, and he went to the fold and asked the emperor for marriage.
In terms of background alone, I can't even compare with the previous side concubines, but I am not decent, so the emperor soon gave us a marriage, and I became the princess of Jin.
I married three mines, one iron mine and two coal mines, all of which were big mines, especially the iron mine, which was saved by the Cai family's desperate life and given to him. ”
He Ran remembered the iron mine in the hands of King Jin, except for the iron mine in Fenzhou, the others were in Xinzhou.
"Is that iron mine the one in Fenzhou?" He Ran asked.
"Yes, that's it! The iron mine was originally my family's private mine, after I was brought to the palace with my marriage, he wrote an excerpt, and dedicated this iron mine to the court to show his loyalty, and then the court sent people to manage it, and those people were bought by him as soon as they arrived in Jindi, and the iron mine changed hands, and it really belonged to him. ”
He Ran nodded, sure enough, what kind of son does Lao Tzu have, Lao Jin King's trick to borrow chickens to lay eggs is worth learning.
Winter melon is now in this iron mine, and He Da said that she has taken a fancy to this iron mine.
These past events are deeply buried in Cai Ying's heart, she has never told anyone, and no one has asked her to say it, listen to her.
Today, the person who broke in by mistake suddenly gave her the desire to talk.
Today's three watches, this is the first watch