It is not a secret that Guan Duwei Wang Xu taught Shangguan Qing martial arts in the imperial mausoleum, Xiao Heng heard about it a long time ago.
It's just that he didn't expect that one day he would pretend to be Shangguan Qing.
The hidden danger of Wang Xu must be solved, not to say that he should be killed so that he can't come out and disrupt their plans.
Gu Chengfeng pouted and patted his chest.
With such an important matter, who else can do it besides him
"You remember to give me the silver! You... take it in your hand first! I'll ask you for it later!"
Gu Chengfeng emphasized that after his two taels of silver, where did he find it, and where did he find it.
The martial arts are not very good, and the Qinggong is really a must, and it did not disturb the dead warriors in the National Master Hall.
"Remember to take the clearance." Xiao Heng said, looking at his back.
Xiao Heng watched Gu Chengfeng's back linger in the air for a while, as if gritting his teeth and complaining about him, and then disappeared in the National Master Hall with a grudge.
The house was quiet again.
Don't look at so many things that have happened, time has not actually passed for a long time.
In just half an hour, he completed his identity change from Xiao Heng to Shangguan Qing, met the monarch, and confronted the prince.
There is no way out. Once today is over, he will put himself into the vortex of Shengdu's power, and everyone will know that he is back.
There is more than one force secretly watching them.
But the vortex in Shengdu is destined to grow bigger and bigger, until all those who have hurt them are swallowed up to the bone!
…
The Duwei Mansion is located in the outer court of the Dayan Palace. From the outside, you have to pass through the three checkpoints of Gaomen, Fengtianmen and Duanmen in turn.
Gu Chengfeng lingered outside Gaomen, secretly wondering whether he was sneaking in or just waiting here.
"I just forgot to find out whether Wang Xu is in the court or not. If he has already left, then whether I sneak in or wait for him outside, it will be fruitless."
"No, he should be there. The monarch met with Xiao Heng. From what I know about Xiao Heng, there is nothing strange about the injury of the ex-wife, and Xiao Heng will also make a difference! Since the monarch trusts Wang Xu so much, he must Wang Xu will be sent to investigate the case."
"And the crime scene is in the harem!"
Gu Chengfeng was deeply amazed by his wit: "How did I become so smart? As expected of me!"
Wang Xu was indeed investigating the case in the harem, but there were no clues in the investigation. The scene was very clean. Except for the traces of Shangguanyan's fall, it was the footprints left by her little maid when she came to look for it.
In addition, there are several kinds of footprints belonging to the eunuchs who came to move Shangguan Yan.
Their suspicions have been ruled out.
"It seems that he is a master, and he can do it lightly."
Wang Xu stood on the hillside, looked at the place where Shangguan Yan had fallen, and jumped.
This is a steep slope, but the walls of the slope are covered with vines, and even a random scratch can catch one or two.
Wang Xu carefully checked the scene for half an hour, and finally left with a sullen face.
He is a foreigner. Although he was ordered to enter the harem to investigate the case, he could not walk in the harem privately. He was accompanied by Li Sande of the Hall of Central Harmony.
Li Sande didn't say much, just followed silently.
When the two were about to leave the harem, a eunuch in his early thirties suddenly approached.
"Yo, isn't this Lord Wang and Eunuch Li? It's such a coincidence." He greeted with a smile.
Li Sande bowed slightly, and said very politely, "Eunuch Xu."
This person's surname is Xu and his name is high, and he is a popular person beside Han Guifei.
Xu Gao glanced at Wang Xu with a smile, and chatted and said, "Master Wang is here to investigate the case? I wonder if Master Wang has any features?"
"Not yet." Wang Xu said.
A trace of loss flashed across Xu Gao's eyes: "Is that so."
Wang Xu said: "It's not necessarily man-made, maybe it's just an accident."
Xu Gao sighed: "That's right, the harem is important. If you want to come to an ordinary assassin, you don't have the guts or the ability to come in. In any case, I still hope that Lord Wang will find out the truth as soon as possible, so that the former wife will not be injured in vain."
Wang Xu said: "It's nothing, I'll go first."
Xu Gao smiled and said, "Lord Wang, walk slowly."
Wang Xu left the harem.
Li Sande sent him out of the Meridian Gate.
Walking on the bluestone path of the previous dynasty, Wang Xu slowly spread out his palm.
It's a hooked thread.
It was found in the thorn bushes on the hillside, and there were no footprints of the palace servants in that place.
If this thread is not from Shangguanyan's clothing, it must belong to the murderer!
…
Gu Jiao slept for a long time, but Shangguan Yan woke up first.
The effect of the anesthetic has faded considerably, and her sanity has returned to her senses.
She opened her eyes and looked at the unfamiliar tent in a trance, not knowing where she was for a while.
"woke up?"
Xiao Heng came over, looked at her and said.
Today's Xiao Heng did not wear a mask, and showed his face as he was.
Shangguan Yan stared straight at him, her mouth couldn't close.
After a long while, she closed her eyes: "I'm dreaming."
He was someone she could only see in her dreams.
Xiao Heng sat down beside her bed and looked at her fixedly: "Does the wound hurt?"
"It hurts?" Shangguan Yan was stunned, "It hurts."
She was in pain all over, this was not a dream.
She opened her eyes and looked at Xiao Heng with light.
Xiao Heng smiled lightly.
Shangguan Yan suddenly became embarrassed, she couldn't move, only her eyes were rolling around in their sockets.
Then, her ears turned red at a visible speed.
Eh
Xiao Heng was slightly stunned.
It wasn't like this when you were in Tianxiang Pavilion. You are not ashamed to see me and Jiaojiao like this.
I think you are as deep as my father.
Shangguan Yan was injured in more than one place. She was wrapped like a zongzi, and she moved her fingers.
Xiao Heng saw it and asked her, "What are you going to take?"
"Paper," she said.
Xiao Heng asked strangely, "What are you doing with the veil?"
Shangguan Yan said sternly: "Cover your face, I'm shy."
Xiao Heng: "..."
"Jiaojiao and the national teacher performed an operation on you. The operation was successful. Is there any discomfort?" Xiao Heng asked.
"No." Shangguan Yan said, looking at Gu Jiao on the cot.
Xiao Heng followed her gaze: "She fell asleep."
Shangguan Yan lowered her voice: "Then let's speak more quietly."
Xiao Heng smiled: "Okay."
Shangguan Yan looked at his flashing smile, and there was a glimmer of light in his eyes.
However, suddenly, she realized something, and her expression changed slightly: "This is the National Teacher's Hall? You... How can you come to the National Teacher's Hall?"
Xiao Heng said calmly: "I have seen the monarch, and the crown prince. I told them that I am Shangguan Qing."
Shangguan Yan opened his mouth wide.
Xiao Heng continued: "I saw the portrait of Shangguan Qing."
In an instant, countless complicated emotions flashed in Shangguan Yan's eyes. She stared at Xiao Heng in a daze, she hesitated for a few times, and finally turned into a cautious test: "You... do you know?"
Xiao Heng nodded: "Yes."
Shangguan Yan was stunned: "Know-what?"
Xiao Heng said: "Life experience."
Shangguan Yan's eyes flashed with shock again, but she quickly calmed down: "How did you know?"
"I guessed it." Xiao Heng said truthfully.
Her actions in Tianxiang Pavilion that day can tell everything, plus the various encounters he has been through, the news revealed by Ye Qing, and even the "His Royal Highness" that Zhang Dequan called out that night. Getting closer and closer to his own life.
And when he saw Shangguan Qing's portrait, this question finally had an answer.
He is Shangguan Yan's child.
It's just that he wasn't completely sure about his relationship with Shangguan Qing.
"Who is Shangguan Qing? My brother?"
"Um."
"Twin brother?"
"Hmm!" Negative tone.
Xiao Heng opened his mouth: "Then he is—"
Shangguan Yan bit her lip and whispered after a while, "Xiao Qing."
Xiao Heng was not too surprised by this answer. There was no other reason. Shangguan Qing's birthday was Xiao Qing's birthday.
At that time, Xiao Heng and Xiao Qing were poisoned at the same time in their infants, and there was only one antidote. In order to let Xiao Heng get the antidote, Shangguan Yan hid Shangguan Qing and told Marquis Xuanping that she had killed someone.
The process of convincing Marquis Xuanping was not easy, and Shangguan Yan was reluctant to mention it.
Even Shangguan Yan's own deceitful death almost killed him.
Shangguan Yan looked at Xiao Heng with a nervous and uneasy look: "Do you think I'm too cruel?"
In order for his son to get the antidote, Xiao Qing was deprived of the chance to live.
It was hard to say who was right and who was wrong in those days. He wasn't her, and I didn't know what kind of struggle she was going through in her heart.
She just wants her son to live. Over the years, she has been owed to Xiao Qing and Xinyang, and she is also saddled with thoughts of her own flesh and blood. Maybe anyone in this world can accuse her of being cruel, but only relying on her cruelty Xiao Heng who survived was not qualified.
"No." Xiao Heng said, "How did you think of taking Xiao Qing away?"
Shangguan Yan said in a low voice: "I want to take him back to the National Teacher's Hall to see if the National Teacher's Hall can cure him. You may ask me why I didn't take you away and see if the National Teacher's Hall can cure you. In fact... even if Knowing the current situation, let me do it all over again, and I still make the same choice as before."
The National Teacher's Hall is a retreat, not the best way.
She would rather be blamed by thousands of people, would rather be infamous for the rest of her life, and still want to be this selfish mother.
All the guilt and suffering should be borne by her, her A-Heng just had to live a good life.
"Aren't you afraid that Princess Xinyang will kill me to avenge her son?" Princess Xinyang is not a weak woman, and she is also very decisive. Of course, he is not accusing her of being naive, just wanting to know more about what she has experienced. what.
The good, the bad, the dangerous, the ones who struggled hard, and the ones he missed all these years.
Shangguan Yan said, "Marquis Xuanping will not let her know that her son was killed by me."
You really know my dad.
He did lie to Princess Xinyang, saying that Xiao Qing died at the hands of an assassin.
Only later Princess Xinyang found out under the instigation of someone with a heart.
She didn't succeed in killing me though, and at the last minute she carried me out of the fire.
Shangguan Yan blamed herself: "It was me who attracted those assassins, otherwise it wouldn't have poisoned the two of you."
Xiao Heng hesitated for a while, but decided to tell her: "Those assassins were not brought by you, but left by the late emperor's people. The person who poisoned me and Xiao Qing back then was the dragon shadow left by the late emperor of Zhao Kingdom to my mother. Wei, the person they really wanted to poison was Xiao Qing, and I was poisoned because they were careless."
This tragedy has nothing to do with Shangguan Yan, and if you want to blame it, you can only blame the late emperor.
And in a sense, it is fortunate that Shangguan Yan took Xiao Qing away, otherwise they would continue to kill Xiao Qing.
At that time, Long Yi was not there, so Xuanping Marquis and Princess Xinyang did not suspect Long Yingwei's head. It was really hard to prevent.
Shangguan Yan has been living with guilt towards Xiao Qing all these years. When she heard the news, she couldn't believe it: "Are you deliberately making up stories to comfort me?"
Xiao Heng shook his head: "I don't have it, I can't make up this story."
The brain circuits of the late emperor and the King of Dayan were both crazy and ruthless.
Princess Xinyang married the Marquis of Xuanping in order to prevent him from rebelling.
Once he was rebellious, Princess Xinyang would immediately let Long Yingwei kill him.
The late emperor knew that Princess Xinyang couldn't get along with men, so he was not worried that Princess Xinyang would fall in love with Marquis Xuanping, but the two were husband and wife after all.
Who can guarantee that Princess Xinyang will not be soft-hearted because of the child
So the late emperor gave Long Yingwei an order that even Princess Xinyang didn't know about - Princess Xinyang and the Marquis of Xuanping's children should not be kept.
According to Xiao Heng's observations over the years, Princess Xinyang was not soft-hearted towards Marquis Xuanping at all, so she now stabbed Marquis Xuanping with a knife without even blinking her eyelids.
The emperor really thought too much.
Since ancient times, emperors have been suspicious, harming others and harming themselves.
And there is another point that the late emperor also misunderstood, that is, the two of them did use the force, but the one who was forced was Xuanping Hou.
Forget the past.
Xiao Heng really stopped thinking about the entanglement between Princess Xinyang and Marquis Xuanping. He expressed another doubt in his heart: "However, since Xiao Qing and I are not twins, why do they look exactly the same?"
As he spoke, he tapped the tear mole painted under his right eye, "Even this mole is the same?"
Shangguan Yan said embarrassingly: "It's because... I gave him a face."
Xiao Heng and Xiao Qing are half-brothers, and they do have a certain similarity in appearance. For example, their faces and noses are very similar to Xuanping Hou.
Eyebrows are not the same.
Xiao Qing inherited Princess Xinyang, with almond eyes and flat eyebrows, looking gentle and weak.
Xiao Heng inherited Shangguanyan, Ruifeng eyes and slightly raised sword eyebrows, with a hint of heroism, and when he smiled, he was extraordinarily warm and healing.
That's why all those who have seen Zhaodu's young marquis call him a young man who is as gentle as jade and makes people feel like a spring breeze.
It's just that after Xiao Heng had an accident and went to the people, the smile on his face disappeared, and the warmth in his eyes disappeared.
He put on a layer of invisible armor.
"In the early years, I didn't pay much attention to the issue of appearance, until I heard a servant whisper that this child doesn't look like me at all. When I was a child, I couldn't see it. Dian is willing to treat Xiao Qing because he is the eldest grandson of the emperor. If people find out that he is not, he will not be able to continue receiving treatment. So I found someone to go to Zhaoguo, and I got your portrait and put him in the wrong place. Every place like you is painted just like you."
Speaking of this, Shangguan Yan paused, "It was that time when your identity was exposed and the prince knew of your existence."
Xiao Heng had an epiphany: "So it is."
Then everything makes sense.
Xiao Heng touched the tear mole on his face. Shangguan Qing drew it according to him. Now that his tear mole is gone, is he imitating Shangguan Qing, or is he imitating himself
Really can not laugh or cry.
"What's wrong?" Shangguan Yan looked at him and asked.
Xiao Heng said: "My mole is actually gone."
At the beginning, in order to prevent the group from finding him easily, Princess Xinyang burned the mole on his face after the fire.
He changed his face, his voice and body shape were different from before, and with the absence of this tear mole, even his own father Xuan Pinghou took a lot of effort, and after several attempts, he was confirmed to be him.
Shangguan Yan said softly, "She is so kind to you."
The tone is gratifying, but also sad and lonely.
She still missed it.
In his nineteenth life, she never had her mark.
"I… can I call you A-Heng?"
The princess who was born to be respected, even if she was executed in public in the Golden Palace, she never lowered her noble head and never made a single plea.
But at this time, just asking if it's okay to call you that would exhaust all the humility in your bones.
Xiao Heng said: "You can call it whatever you want."
Then can you call me-
Shangguan Yan didn't say this.
She lowered her eyes, holding back the sadness and sourness in her heart.
Can't cry.
The descendants of the Xuanyuan family bleed but did not cry, she did not cry when she gave birth, nor did she cry when her bones were broken.
She doesn't cry.
In fact, Xiao Heng still has many things to ask her, such as what happened last night, what happened more than ten years ago, and why she became a slave girl—
Xiao Heng looked at her weak body and said, "You take a break first, I'll go get something to eat."
"Um."
There was a choking in her voice.
She tried to suppress.
Xiao Heng stood up and took a step.
Shangguan Yan's heart suddenly raised.
Are you going to call her
Is it true
Xiao Heng said: "I forgot to ask what you want to eat. You just had surgery, millet porridge and barley porridge are good."
"Oh." Shangguan Yan lost and said in a low voice, "It's okay."
Xiao Heng: "Then millet porridge?"
Shangguan Yan: "Okay."
She has no appetite.
She is a bad woman.
She doesn't deserve to be his mother.
Xiao Heng stepped to the door, and when he was about to cross the threshold, his steps stopped again.
"It might be a bit late to say this, but..."
He turned around and looked at her sincerely: "Thank you for giving birth to me."
"Thank you for bringing me into this world and for everything you have done for me."
"Mother."
A mother who had waited for nineteen years, softened the years and comforted the more than 7,000 days and nights of separation.
Shangguan Yan was so choked that he could not speak.
—Thank you too, my son.
(End of this chapter)