Two days later, Wang Chaoyuan and a guard brought the embarrassed Lu Nanny in front of Xiao Yi and Nangong Yue, and knelt on the ground with a "plop".
Because she bit her tongue and could only feed through a tube, she lost a lot of weight, and there was a deep shadow under her eyes. Obviously, she must have been tossing and turning day and night these days.
Xiao Yi's eyes paused on her for a moment, and then he made a gesture, and the guard took off the gauze stuffed in Lu Nanny's mouth.
Facing Nanny Lu's cloudy old eyes, Xiao Yi's deep eyes glowed with a dark and stern light, and there was a half-smile at the corner of his mouth. But Nangong Yue could already feel the depression in his heart from his straight back, so she said lightly: "Nurse Lu, believe it or not, even if you bite your tongue a hundred times, I will take it back for you?"
Wang Chaoyuan stared at Nanny Lu coldly. They would never give Nanny Lu a chance to bite her tongue where Princess Lao needed to take action!
"Slave... slaves don't dare." Nanny Lu said inarticulately.
She respectfully kowtowed to Xiao Yi and Nangong Yue: "Your maidservant... I have seen... Shi Ziye, Shi Zifei."
"Nurse Lu, you are no longer a servant of the palace." Xiao Yi casually brushed off his sleeves, "I can't bear it."
Lu Nanny's face froze for a moment, and she hurriedly said: "I am grateful to... the former princess... for your kindness, I dare not forget."
The smile on the corner of Xiao Yi's mouth deepened, but it was icy cold, and he said straightforwardly: "It turns out that the way you don't forget your kindness is to poison my mother and concubine!"
Nanny Lu's round body trembled violently, she kowtowed heavily and said, "Master...why did you say that?! I am wronged by your maidservant!... Please enlighten me!" She kowtowed again, once again Another hit, and within a few hits, his forehead was bruised, looking pitiful.
Xiao Yi raised his eyebrows, "If you are innocent and have a clear conscience, why would you bite your tongue and kill yourself?"
"Master Lu!" Nanny Lu raised her bruised face and said with tears running down her cheeks, "Your maidservant... misunderstood, thinking that she was taken captive by... evil people..."
It seems that this Nanny Lu is so heartbroken that she doesn't see Huang He, and her mouth is hardened. A cold light flashed in Nangong Yue's eyes, and she saw a silver light passing by Nanny Lu's neck, and then it nailed to the threshold with a bang.
And there was a line of blood on Nanny Lu's neck, and the next moment, bright red blood overflowed from the wound and slid down her loose skin...
Nanny Lu felt her neck was chilly, and she couldn't move her whole body. She stared blankly at Xiao Yi in front of her. The other party's twinkling peach eyes were shining brightly, and she was playing with a flying knife in her hand with a smile. The silver blade shone Looking at her in a panic, like a crazy woman...
Just now, as long as the blade of the flying knife was a little deeper, there would be more than this small wound on his neck.
She suddenly realized that although the other party's appearance looked like a dandy second-generation ancestor, just like the more venomous the poisonous snake, the more gorgeous the patterns on the body surface, Xiao Yi is a fearsome killing god on the battlefield!
Nanny Lu gritted her teeth and said: "One day is a slave, and a lifetime is a slave. My son... If you want to kill slaves, slaves will not..."
Her words were interrupted again, another silver knife flashed, and then, there was a bloodstain on the other side of her neck.
"World… "
This time, she just uttered a word, and a third line of blood appeared on her neck...
Nanny Lu only felt that the hairs on the back of her neck were standing on end. She was not afraid of death, so she could resolutely bite her tongue and kill herself, but she didn't realize that she was not as fearless as she thought. so scary...
Suddenly, Xiao Yi stopped playing with the knife in his hand, and Mammy Lu shrank her pupils reflexively in fright.
But Xiao Yi's flying knife didn't make a move. He looked straight at her, his eyes were so sharp that they seemed to penetrate her heart, and his voice became colder: "I don't want to hear another nonsense, you'd better think it over before answering! If you You are so innocent, why did you quietly pour the dregs of the medicine under a magnolia tree in the back garden?! You want my son to call Pinellia to confront you, and then bring those dregs?!"
Pinellia? ! Nanny Lu stared wide-eyed, and vaguely remembered that there was a third-class maid named Banxia in the yard of the former princess, who was sold by herself because of a crime... Now that I think about it carefully, this Banxia was sold. The time is indeed a bit delicate, could it be that...
Nanny Lu almost went limp, her back was mostly wet.
She gritted her teeth, knelt down on the ground humbly, and said with difficulty: "Your servant pleads guilty! It was my servant who was bribed and received money, so she tampered with the former princess's medicine and wanted to make her dead in two." Life… "
Xiao Yi was noncommittal, exuding a cold aura all over his body, and said with a half-smile, "Oh? So it was bought by someone..."
Nanny Lu lowered her head, her eyes rolled around, her mouth moved slightly, but before she could speak, she heard a clear female voice in front of her, calmly—
"Nurse Lu, sometimes I have to admire your Baiyue people's patience!"
Nangong Yue's understatement, like a thunderstorm on the ground, made Madam Lu's ears ring.
Nanny Lu's eyes were wide open, with an unconcealable shock on her face, and then she lowered her eyes and said in a puzzled tone: "Concubine Shizi, slave... slave is a child of the An family, how could she be from Baiyue?" …”
Nangong Yue slowly curled the corners of her lips, looking at her with a half-smile.
In fact, this is just a guess between her and Xiao Yi.
Judging from the clues they have obtained so far, the rise of the An family is likely to be supported by Baiyue behind the scenes, and the process of how Lu Mama became the wet nurse of the former princess is also quite suspicious.
This made Nangong Yue can't help guessing that Nanny Lu was from Baiyue at all, and she was one of Baiyue's spies who infiltrated into the major families in southern Xinjiang through Anjia!
Nanny Lu concealed it very well, but her expression at that moment still leaked.
Nangong Yue flicked her sleeves, changed the subject, and asked, "Nurse Lu, why are you in Zhangnan?"
Zhangnan is a wild land located on the southwestern border of southern Xinjiang. It is a place where prisoners are exiled and served to open up wasteland in southern Xinjiang. It is desolate and difficult. Except for the native people, there are basically only three types of people here. Frontier guards , exiled prisoners and relatives of prisoners. And last year, in order to reclaim wasteland and build border towns, Xiao Yi directly ordered that those prisoners who were not up to the standard of exile be sent to the prison together.
Nanny Lu was slightly taken aback. She thought Nangong Yue would continue to press herself on the question just now, but she didn't expect to suddenly ask about Zhangnan.
The Crown Princess even knows the secret that she has concealed for decades, could it be that even that matter...
As soon as the idea came up, Nangong Yue's next sentence completely broke her defense—
"I guess, you should go to meet your grandson secretly."
In the beginning, Zhu Xing sent several secret guards to visit Huaiquan Town, the hometown of Nanny Lu, but what he got was the news that an epidemic more than ten years ago had left half of the town empty. I met Lu's surviving neighbors back then, and learned that Lu's family, except for her and a newborn grandson, all died of the epidemic.
The thread ends there.
However, the dark guard did not give up and continued to investigate around Huai'an Town, and finally met an elderly nun in a nunnery not far from Huai'an Town, and learned a big secret from her.
At that time, Nangong Yue was seriously ill, and Xiao Yi had just come back. Hearing the news, he ordered the secret guards to go to Zhangnan. Sure enough, there he found Madam Lu who was doing a long-term job in the barracks of the border guards and cooking for the prisoners.
Nanny Lu trembled, and said in a stiff voice: "Concubine Shizi, how can I have any grandchildren? Ten years ago, the whole family died in a plague, and only the slaves and maids were left alone..."
Nangong Yue interrupted the other party with a smile: "Mother, don't deny it so quickly, your grandson is named Ding Cong, and he is eighteen years old this year. He is currently doing hard labor in Zhangnan. By the way, I remember that he has another A name, which seems to be the surname Ye, is called... "
Following Nangong Yue's narration, Nanny Lu's face became paler and paler, her body trembled like chaff, her mouth was slightly opened, like a fish out of water, every breath became so difficult.
There was only one thought in her mind: The Imperial Concubine really knew!
"...Ye Yinming."
These three words exploded in Nanny Lu's mind like a bolt from the blue, almost causing her to collapse to the ground.
While talking, Nangong Yue smiled so warmly and brightly, but in Lu's eyes, the beautiful woman in front of her was like an evil ghost crawling out of hell.
"No!" Nanny Lu finally couldn't hold back her words, her face lost the last trace of blood, and she almost shouted, "Concubine Shizi, stop talking!"
At this moment, she dared not take any chances.
The imperial concubine knew that she was from Baiyue, that her grandson was still alive, and even threatened her with his life!
They know everything!
The grandson is her only family member. She has been looking for him for 18 years, and she can't just watch him die!
Thinking about it, Nanny Lu completely went limp, and lost all energy in an instant.
She knew that she would die a long time ago, but she didn't realize that her real fate had already been pinched in her hands.
Back then, after the former concubine passed away from "illness", she was done and asked to leave the mansion. But because she already had a husband and son in Dayu, she didn't go back to Baiyue. After receiving the order to continue lurking, the family went to Huaiquan Town.
Unexpectedly, within a year of good times, an epidemic suddenly broke out in Huaiquan Town.
The husband-in-law, son-in-law and daughter-in-law disappeared one after another. Only she escaped with her two-month-old grandson who was waiting to be fed. On the way to escape, she happened to stay overnight in a nunnery, but found that she also had fever symptoms. She knew best that epidemics start with fever, and her heart sank...
It doesn't matter if she dies, what about her grandson
In desperation, she set her sights on a family who also came to stay in the nunnery. From the other party's conversation, she probably knew that it was an official's family named Ye, and the nurse was taking the two-month-old young master to return to the capital.
This trip to the capital will take at least half a month, and the children look different every day, so they should be able to get away with it!
Thinking of this, Nanny Lu became ruthless, and secretly killed the young master of the Ye family at night...
The nurse woke up in the middle of the night and found that the young master had gone. She thought she hadn't taken care of her well, and when she was at a loss, Nanny Lu "kindly" gave her grandson to the nurse. To cause trouble, the only way is to accept Mother Lu's "kindness".
The wet nurse took her grandson and continued on the road, while Madam Lu stayed alone to recover from her illness. As expected, she had contracted an epidemic and survived for half a month, narrowly escaped death. One month after she recovered, she hurried to the royal capital to find the family named Ye, wanting to get her grandson back, but she didn't think that Lord Ye was gone.
After a few rounds of inquiries, Mother Lu found out that Mr. Ye was accused of corruption and bribery, and the whole family was escorted back to the capital. Just in case, the Ye family could leave a seedling, so they secretly took away the seedlings less than two months old. The older and younger masters were entrusted to the wet nurse.
Fortunately, the fate of the Ye family was not too bad. At that time, Mr. Ye was just dismissed from his post, so the whole family returned to their hometown. Nanny Lu finally found out where the Ye family’s hometown was. However, Mrs. Ye On the way back to her hometown, she passed away from a serious illness, Mrs. Ye simply sold her ancestral house and did not go back...
Since then, Mammy Lu has lost the whereabouts of her grandson Ding Cong, but Mammy Lu has never given up. She has been looking for it for so many years. It was not until more than half a year ago that she learned that her grandson was studying in an academy in Jingzhou. In order to raise funds for the exam, I came to southern Xinjiang.
However, when she arrived in Luoyue City, she found out that her grandson had already been defrauded and sent to Zhangnan to do hard labor.
She worked so hard to find her grandson. She thought that only she should know this secret, but unexpectedly...
Nanny Lu closed her eyes and took a few quick breaths, feeling as if she heard something breaking in her ears.
She took a deep breath, opened her eyes, and there was some despair in her eyes.
"Shi Zifei...you are right, I... I am indeed from Baiyue." She said intermittently, so hard that she almost exhausted all her strength.
Anyway, she must have died, and only hoped that her only grandson would have a way out...
The moment he heard Madam Lu's confession, Wang Chaoyuan's pupils shrank sharply.
The former concubine's wet nurse turned out to be Baiyue's spy, who had sneaked into the Fang Mansion more than 30 years ago, Baiyue is really insidious and cunning...
In this way, the four great aristocratic families in southern Xinjiang, no, it should be said that there may be spies from Baiyue lurking in all the mansions in southern Xinjiang... Thinking of this, Wang Chaoyuan was almost terrified.
Nangong Yue's face was indifferent, and she could only say that the sky net was brilliant, sparse but not missing.
Mother Lu probably would never have imagined that the nanny of the young master of the Ye family, because of guilt, went to the vicinity of Huai'an Town, and became a nun in the temple where the young master of the Ye family died in vain, praying for him day and night. The dark guard not only learned from her what happened back then, but also learned that Madam Lu had returned to southern Xinjiang in order to find her grandson.
When she learned from Xiao Yi that Ye Yinming was the grandson of Nanny Lu, Nangong Yue was stunned. However, looking back, she knew that Ye Yinming was of average knowledge and misbehavior. However, in the previous life, he was selected as the number one scholar at a young age, perhaps because Lu Nanny found him, or perhaps because there were Baiyue people supporting him behind his back.
However, Ye Yinming impeached Xiao Yi, who was already in control of southern Xinjiang, for killing his father and younger brother several times in the court hall, and wrote a series of articles to provoke literati to criticize Xiao Yi. I am afraid that he did not want to avenge his sister. But for ulterior reasons...
The truth of all this is now unknown.
Nanny Lu gritted her teeth, and said with dead eyes: "Back then, I was ordered by Shangfeng to secretly replace An's family to give birth to a child. I was selected when An's family was choosing a wet nurse... and then I was sent to Fang's mansion. Became the wet nurse of the former princess." It took more than ten years to do this.
Baiyue has sent out so many spies, and some spies may be ordinary people all their lives, and live an ordinary life until they are notified by Shangfeng. Of course, Nanny Lu hopes that she can do the same.
She lived in Fangfu for more than ten years. When she thought that she might be able to live this life in peace and happiness, the late princess was engaged to the son of Prince Zhennan at that time, who is now the Prince of Zhennan. .
The moment this marriage was finalized, Madam Lu knew that her illusions had been shattered.
Since then, Nanny Lu has lived in fear every day. Others see her as the first person next to the former princess, envy, jealous, and please... But only she knows that she is walking on a narrow single-plank bridge, and there is nothing below. In the bottomless abyss, if she is not careful, she will die without a place to bury her!
Sure enough, my smooth life finally came to an end on that day—
"Nineteen years ago, I... I received an instruction from Shangfeng," the instruction after more than ten years, "Let me add medicine to the decoction of the former princess."
Concubine Xian had always trusted her very much, so she didn't have any precautions at all. In the end, Concubine Xian had dystocia and collapsed...
However, the son was born safely.
At that time, she didn't know if she should do something to the crying baby, but in the end she didn't get any new instructions until she left the house.
Thinking of this, Nanny Lu's eyelids trembled, her expression was a bit dark and complicated.
There was another moment of silence in the room, Xiao Yi clenched his fists tightly, even if he didn't speak, he could feel a storm brewing in his body...
At this time, Nangong Yue asked again: "Nurse Lu, nineteen years ago, you were sent to Fang's mansion temporarily because the two wet nurses prepared by Fang's mansion for the concubine had a rash. Why did the wet nurse suddenly develop a rash?"
Baiyue has spent so much time and effort, then every link in the whole thing must have been designed in advance, there is no coincidence at all!
Nanny Lu was startled, and honestly shook her head and replied: "This... I don't know."
In the final analysis, she is just one of thousands of spies, as humble as an ant. If she hadn't become the wet nurse of the former princess, her fate would be completely different now!
Thinking about it, Nanny Lu's expression was tangled and complicated, and her heart was full of obscurity.
In the dark, maybe there is still a wonderful force called fate, which has dragged me to where I am today step by step, and the son of the former princess is destined to avenge his mother.
Skynet is restored, sparse but not leaky.
In the end no one can escape...
Nanny Lu was taken down by Wang Chaoyuan and the others.
Even after she left, the atmosphere in the hall was still uncomfortable. Nangong Yue stood up, smiled at Xiao Yi, and stretched out her hand...
Staring at her gentle smile, Xiao Yi also got up and took her hand. The two of them walked out of the hall hand in hand without any hesitation, and went to Qiwu Garden together. Xiao Yi was silent all the way.
When the two walked near the small garden, Xiao Yi couldn't help but slow down his steps, and looked in the direction of the small garden.
"Ayi, how about we go for a walk in the small garden?" Nangong Yue suggested as she waved the hands they held.
Xiao Yi responded, and the two went to the small garden.
At this time, it was just the right time, the golden sun was shining warmly, shining on the colorful flowers in the garden, and it felt like spring was infinitely good...
A few colorful butterflies were flying and playing among the flowers, Xiao Yi suddenly burst out laughing, Nangong Yue looked at his handsome face that had turned sunny, and raised her right eyebrow slightly.
Xiao Yi said with a smile: "Stinky girl, I'm homesick."
For some reason, when he saw those colorful butterflies flying among the flowers just now, he inexplicably thought of two stupid cats at home foolishly flapping butterflies in the garden of the palace. He obviously stayed in the capital for so many years before, but he never missed Zhennan Palace...
For him, the palace at that time was not his home.
But it's different now, ever since his concubine and his stinky girl came, Bixiaotang has become his real home, where they will have children and grow old together.
"The day after tomorrow, shall we go home?" Xiao Yi said coquettishly, shaking her hand.
"Um."
Nangong Yue nodded vigorously, in fact, she didn't know why Xiao Yi suddenly wanted to go away again.
However, since she knew Xiao Yi, Xiao Yi has been such a person.
Even if he fell into negative emotions for a while, he would never let those things become obstacles in his way forward.
Those setbacks, those hatreds, those sorrows, those injustices...
It will only become the driving force for him to move forward, prompting him to go faster, farther and more steadily!
On this point, Xiao Yi has not changed, no matter in his previous life or in this life.
Her Ah Yi! Be unique!
She looked at him fixedly, her eyes were lingering like water...