There was solemn silence in Yichun Palace.
An outstanding-looking palace maid tiptoed and quietly walked to the imperial concubine's couch.
The woman on the couch was wearing a crimson gold and silver silk court dress with embroidered patterns of Luan birds and phoenixes. She had a calm and graceful demeanor and was sleeping with her eyes closed. The woman is the current Queen Qin.
"Your Majesty, I found out everything."
Queen Qin slowly opened her eyes, her red phoenix eyes raised upwards, showing a bit of fierceness. She said "hmm" softly, but did not stand up. She just glanced lightly.
"Mother, the thing is like this..."
After a while, Qiu Ju finished speaking and stood quietly aside with her hands down.
Empress Qin stroked the ring on her hand, and after a while she smiled and said: "This Concubine Yin really deserves to be shot in the foot."
"You don't deserve it."
Qiu Ju responded, picked up the tea cup and offered it.
Empress Qin opened the tea bowl slightly, lowered her head and was about to take a sip, when she suddenly thought of something, her eyes flashed slightly, and she said with a smile, "Send a message to Prince Rui's Mansion and ask him to take this opportunity to bring Lao Ba and the Jiang family over."
Qiu Ju whispered: "Yes, empress."
"etc!"
Empress Qin called the person to stop and said casually: "Go and help me check the details of Miss Gu's sixth lady."
She suddenly became curious about the person who could attract the attention of both houses.
Darkness arrived as expected.
Qingguan sat in front of the dressing table, looking at herself in the bronze mirror. Her eyebrows were green but not drawn, her lips were soft and red, and her charming eyes were as silky as water.
I have been looking at this face for six years, and I have actually forgotten what it looked like before. The eyes that once had a thorough understanding of the human world and no longer care about it have become calm and calm.
Very good, I feel calm now.
Qingguan stood up, took Yueniang's hand, put on a jade-white cross-collar middle coat, took off all the hairpins on her head, and walked out of the room.
There was silence in the backyard. When Chen Ping saw the young lady coming out, his eyes lit up and he went to greet her.
In a moment, she and Yueniang had already boarded the carriage that had been waiting for a long time. When the silver lantern in the carriage saw the young lady, she excitedly jumped on her.
Qingguan glanced at her and said with an angry smile: "Naughty."
Yin Deng smiled and said: "I am happy to see you, miss. Miss, I have folded a lot of gold and silver ingots in the past few days. When the time comes, I will burn them all so that they will not have to worry about having no money to spend in heaven."
Qingguan couldn't help laughing.
"By the way, miss, Prince Shou sent a letter last night, saying that he wanted to visit the grave."
Qingguan frowned and said, "Okay, what is he going to do?"
"Prince Shou said he has something to discuss with the lady."
Qingguan stared and thought for a moment, a look of deep meaning appeared on his face.
The two carriages were traveling at a high speed all the way to the north. I don't know how long they traveled. The surroundings became more and more remote, and there was a sense of wind and thunder.
Perhaps he was timid about going to the countryside, Qingguan's palms slowly started to sweat, and he raised the car curtains. The surroundings were pitch black, with the vague outline of a mountain.
After walking for half a cup of tea, the car stopped for a moment.
The curtain opened, Qian Fu held a lantern and poked his head in. "Miss, the road ahead is narrow and the carriage cannot pass. You have to walk a hundred meters."
When Qingguan got out of the car, he saw seven or eight nursing homes surrounded. The leader, Chen Ping, squatted down and said, "Miss, it's dark and the road is difficult, I'll carry you."
Qingguan shook his head, held Yueniang's hand, and said firmly: "No, I can, you all be careful."
The group entered the path silently. The path is heavily wooded and only allows two people to walk side by side.
After walking a stone's throw away, a natural lake suddenly opened up in front of us. Qian Fu handed the lantern in his hand to Chen Ping, supported the young lady himself, pointed with his hand and said, "It's right in front."
Looking along Qian Fu's hand, two low tombs stood quietly under the shadow of the moon, neither surrounded by green pines nor erected tombstones.
Who would have thought that the famous Sheng family and the Qian family, world-famous for their medical skills, would end up with only these two mounds left.
At this moment, Qingguan felt her legs were a little weak and could not move forward. Her eyes were filled with tears. She staggered forward and before Yueniang handed over the futon, she had already knelt down with tears streaming down her face.
Grandfather, grandmother, father, mother, younger brother, uncle, second uncle...
Qingguan recited it silently, and every time he recited it, his heart was broken and his heart was broken, and his grief was unbearable.
How could she forget these names? Six years have passed, and the faces of her relatives have long been blurred, but all of them have been engraved in her heart, and she cannot forget them.
After the fire in Qian Mansion, the charred corpses were pulled into mass graves on bullock carts. After several heavy snowfalls, the north wind blew and turned into ashes and smoke, and disappeared without a trace.
He was even worse. The body was missing for no apparent reason, so the tomb was empty.
The Sheng family was beheaded and corpses were piled up in mass graves. Qian Fu found them one by one in the mountain of corpses, spent a lot of money to bring them here, set up a fire, and finally buried the ashes of hundreds of people here.
The scabs from six years ago were peeled off, the wounds that had never healed were bleeding, and the scene of the tragic death of a loved one was like corrosive pain, starting from the heart, seeping down to the internal organs, meridians and joints, and even to the hair.
Qingguan huddled up in pain and fell into Qian Fu's arms crying.
While crying, Yueniang took out the sacrifices she had prepared, placed them on the incense burner, lit candles, and even pushed away the hand extended by the silver lamp.
When everything was in order, Yueniang said in a hoarse voice: "Miss, come here and kowtow."
Qingguan tried her best to suppress her sadness, but she shed more and more tears. She took the three pillars of incense handed over by Yueniang, inserted them into the incense burner, and kowtowed three times.
Before handing over the paper with the silver lamp, Qingguan lit the paper between the candles and threw it into the basin. Her face was extremely pale in the firelight.
A few feet away, three figures fell from the tree. The leading man stood with his hands behind his back, feeling secretly horrified.
"She looked very sad."
Jiang Hongwen sneered, "There are five to six hundred people in Qian and Sheng's two houses. They are all innocent souls. How can one not feel sad?"
Zhao Jingyan looked at the thin figure in front of the grave, and her whole body was unconsciously exuding a cold aura.
Jiang Hongwen felt his harshness and sighed: "Tinglin, I suddenly feel that she is not in an easier position than us."
Zhao Jingyan felt a dull pain in her heart, but she still did not speak.
After a long while, he said calmly: "Life in this world is inherently difficult, but it is even more difficult for her."
If his elder brother can succeed to the throne, the first thing he will do is to overturn the case for Qian and Sheng Mansion, but...
Zhao Jingyan suddenly changed the subject and asked, "Hongwen, do you have any doubts in your heart?"
Where did a person who had been foolish since childhood get such overwhelming sadness and hatred
Jiang Hongwen understood the deep meaning behind these words and laughed at himself, "More than suspicious, I think she is a mystery."
"well said."
Zhao Jingyan shouted in a low voice: "Hongwen, I want to be the person who solves the mystery."
Qingguan stood up and walked between the two tombs.
Every Qingming Festival when she was a child, she would first go with her grandparents to burn paper at the Qian family tomb, and then go to the Sheng family with her father in the afternoon.
In the northwest corner of Shengyuan's house, there is a large ancestral hall. There are many memorial tablets there. In addition to birth, old age, illness and death, more of them are sons and daughters of the Sheng family who died on the battlefield.
She always clumsily hugged her father's thigh, not daring to take another look, and buried her head in his waist.
After the worship ceremony, the eldest aunt will definitely put her in her arms and say hello with a smile, "Ziqi, has the third child of the Su family come to see you recently?"
At a young age, she already knew how to be shy. She pushed her eldest aunt away and threw herself into the arms of her second aunt.
When several aunts saw this, they started chattering.
"We can't let the third son of the Su family just marry Zi Qi back casually."
"That is, we have to let him pass the threshold of our Sheng family."
The voice was particularly loud, and the person was dead. Qingguan smiled miserably, and felt a little firmness in his heart.
"Miss, King Shou is here." Chen Ping stepped forward to report.
Qingguan raised his eyes and saw that under the moonlight, a jade-like man came walking in the moonlight, followed by the same two men.
When Zhao Jingyan came closer, she discovered that the woman's eyes were red and swollen, and her palm-sized face was pale and colorless, but her eyes were still clear and lively.
"I have something to say with Miss Six, please step back a hundred meters."
The prince, who had always been a playboy, took off his mask, and his voice was so cold that it made people shiver.
Qian Fu, Yueniang and others quickly retreated. A Li let out a low whistle, and heard the rustling of leaves all around. Dozens of secret guards hid themselves in the trees, forming a crowd around them.
Qingguan was secretly frightened, and threw away all the distracting thoughts in her mind, leaving only Qingming, "Your Majesty, please speak."
"Calling Tinglin." Zhao Jingyan took a step forward, with stern eyes and a touch of domineering air around her.
Qingguan used softness to overcome strength, and said with a faint smile: "Tinglin, please tell me if you have anything to say."
Zhao Jingyan looked at her expression and couldn't help but smile. Even Hongwen said that her original face was intimidating, but she could still smile.
"Aren't you afraid of me?"
Why be afraid? She has even seen ghosts, let alone you, a prince.
Qingguan did not answer, but said softly: "Your Majesty, let's get to the point."
Zhao Jingyan has become accustomed to her coldness and calmness, and said: "Three things happened today. The first one is that the bank will open in five days. As you said, thirty-two banks will open on the same day."
Qingguan smiled and said: "Congratulations, Your Majesty, we are finally open for business."
With a hint of smile, Zhao Jingyan stroked her forehead and smiled bitterly.
If we had just followed what she said, there would be no need to wait until now for the bank's affairs, but my brother said the structure was too small. He thought that since it was rare to speak to his father once, it would be better to do something more important, so he postponed it until now. No one knew that he had been dreaming and thinking about the bank matter... Zhao Jingyan didn't want to reveal the hardships involved, so she turned her eyes and said: "The person Qingguan is looking for has already been identified. Unfortunately, this person has become an official. I followed my son to settle down in Fuzhou, a journey through thousands of mountains and rivers. I have sent people south to search for him.
try to find. "
Qingguan couldn't laugh this time. She asked him to look for someone, but within just half a month, she already had a clue, which showed that she had put a lot of thought into it.
She gave a gentle blessing and said, "Thank you very much."
"There is no need to be so polite between you and me."
Zhao Jingyan breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I want to tell you about this third matter in detail."
Qing Guan nodded and waited quietly.
Zhao Jingyan sighed softly and said: "My ancestors were afraid that the Gu family would make a fuss about your marriage, and they liked Qing Wan as a person, so they wanted to propose marriage to Hong Wen." Qing Wan frowned and looked aside silently. Jiang Hongwen.