After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the weather is much cooler again. Sitting in the gazebo, cooking a pot of tea, eating a few dishes of snacks, and setting up a chessboard, the days are very pleasant.
Qiao Wei and Fu Xueyan sat playing chess, Qiao Wei's chess skills were not as superb as Fu Xueyan's, but after a period of time, she improved a lot, and occasionally she could draw with Fu Xueyan.
On the empty grass in the small garden next to it, Jing Yun and the leader were happily training the golden eagle to take off, because the golden eagle's feet could no longer bear the force, but Jing Yun couldn't bear to deprive it of the right to fly, so he begged his second uncle Think of a way, it's right not to look for your own father to look for your second uncle at this time, after all, the leader is not good at anything else, but he is very good at making tools.
The leader made a foot hoop for the golden eagle, which can help it bear the force. At the same time, there is a mechanism at the bottom of the foot hoop. As long as its bird claws are slightly retracted, it can trigger the mechanism and exert force. It popped out with the whole body of the bird.
It's just... Don't control the strength, you must do the same as the push force of the other foot, otherwise you will lose your balance.
The leader adjusted the tightness of the mechanism over and over again, and the result was—
The golden eagle was bounced off.
The golden eagle was bounced off.
The golden eagle was thrown away...
Zhu'er was still in the sunny place, sitting in a wheelchair with Master Huo and Brother Changjian basking in the sun, while brother Liu and Wang Shu chased Dabai and Xiaobai to know where they went.
Everything seemed surprisingly peaceful, except... Xiuqin ran over in a panic.
"Miss!" Xiuqin walked up the steps and walked into the gazebo.
Fu Xueyan dropped a white piece and asked softly: "What's wrong?"
Xiuqin's eyes flickered slightly, she glanced at Qiao Wei, she hesitated to speak, Fu Xueyan said: "They are all of us, there is nothing we can't say."
Xiuqin let out a cry, and then told Fu Xueyan about what happened on the street. It turned out that Fu Xueyan wanted to eat chestnuts early in the morning, but at this season, the capital only had processed chestnut powder. Where can I find fresh chestnut kernels? But since Fu Xueyan wanted to eat, Xiuqin decided to go out and try her luck.
Unexpectedly, as soon as she walked to the street, she ran into the envoys of the Huns entering the capital. The streets were cleared, and she had to avoid it. Luo's bodyguard!
Qiao Wei blinked her eyes in confusion: "Wait, you said there are Yeluo people among the Huns' envoys?"
She knew about the visit of the Xiongnu envoys. She heard Mingxiu mentioned that the northern border was a little turbulent earlier. It was either a provocation or a misunderstanding. If it was a provocation, the two sides would immediately go to war; if it was a misunderstanding, the Huns would soon visit.
The Xiongnu envoys really came, but why did they bring the Yeluo people with them
Not to mention that the Huns have already colluded with Yeluo, how could they have colluded and brought the other party into the capital? Is this cheating teammates or cheating teammates
Fu Xueyan's focus seemed to be different from Qiao Wei's. She asked Xiuqin, "Whose bodyguard?"
Xiuqin lowered her head and said nervously and embarrassedly: "I was rushed away by the crowd after just one glance... I didn't see everything clearly..."
Fu Xueyan said: "Then tell me who you saw."
Xiuqin said: "Sister Qiaoling."
"Who is sister Qiaoling?" Qiao Wei asked.
A trace of complexity flashed across Fu Xueyan's eyes: "The queen's personal bodyguard."
Qiao Wei was startled: "Is Ye Luo's queen coming?"
What is this all about? Isn't it just that Mu Qiuyang was arrested and Fu Xueyan was "under house arrest"? Actually attracted Ye Luo's queen!
…
In the side hall of the Golden Luan Hall, the emperor dismissed the palace staff, leaving only himself and Ye Luo's queen, sitting on a mahogany official hat chair separated by a square table, tea has been served, but no one took it .
Queen Yeluo sat quietly without looking sideways. The emperor turned sideways and looked at her without blinking.
Like, too much like!
It was as if his Zhaoming had come back to life!
"I thought you were dead."
The emperor's self-proclaiming has changed, "I didn't expect you to be alive. I should have guessed that you were alive. When I knew that Mingye was still alive, I wondered if you were also used the same way... I guess By the way, they stole you."
Queen Yeluo's expression became a little uncomfortable.
On the Golden Luan Hall, she was an elegant and graceful queen, but when she was sitting here alone, she looked more like a little girl who was a little nervous because of the emperor's fright.
She grabbed the handkerchief and pulled it again and again.
Seeing that he seemed to have frightened her, the emperor hurriedly raised his hand and pressed it soothingly: "Don't be nervous."
Seeing that the emperor's hand was about to touch her, she avoided it slightly.
The emperor's hands froze in the air.
Queen Yeluo didn't know if she realized that she had chilled this man's heart, her eyelashes trembled, but she still stubbornly grabbed the handkerchief. If the honorable officials who witnessed it just now saw it, they might be stunned. The eyeballs are gone.
Not for anything else, it's really... This is too childish.
The emperor suddenly laughed. He remembered that when Zhaoming was angry and ignored him in the past, he always pulled the veil like this: "You are Zhaoming, aren't you?"
"No." She said.
The emperor was taken aback.
She continued: "I am the queen of Yeluo, not your princess of Daliang. I grew up in Yeluo."
The emperor hurriedly said: "You grew up in Daliang. When the first emperor brought you back, you were only a few months old."
She looked at the emperor seriously and said, "You have misunderstood the person, I have never been to Daliang."
"Impossible... It's impossible for me to admit my mistake, Eunuch Fu!" The emperor shouted.
Eunuch Fu walked in carelessly: "Your Majesty, are you called a slave?"
The emperor ordered: "Go and get Zhaoming's portrait!"
"Yes." Eunuch Fu secretly glanced at Queen Ye Luo, she looked so similar, no wonder so many old ministers fainted from fright just now in the hall.
Eunuch Fu came back quickly, put the seven scrolls on the square table between the two of them, and then retreated very tactfully.
The emperor anxiously opened the portrait: "Look, this is when you were thirteen years old and you were reading a book; this is when you were fourteen years old and you were fishing in Taiye Pond; this is when you were fifteen years old..."
Queen Yeluo looked at the woman in the portrait, reached out her hand suspiciously, and touched the face of the person in the portrait.
The emperor's eyes lit up: "Did you remember?"
Queen Yeluo said: "It is indeed very similar, but it is really not me. I have never done the things you said."
The emperor's eyes dimmed: "Zhaoming..."
Queen Yeluo interrupted him, took a breath, seemed a bit embarrassed, but still said bravely: "I came here this time to ask the emperor for mercy, please let my nephew go." son and son's fiancée."
The nephew, the emperor, can understand that King Mu is the younger brother of King Yeluo. Isn't his son the nephew of King Yeluo and the queen? But what about the son
When the emperor was puzzled, there was a loud noise outside.
"Third Highness, you can't go in, the emperor is talking with the queen."
It was Eunuch Fu's earnest voice.
"Let me in! Who knows what the emperor of your Daliang Dynasty has in mind? I want to see my mother!"
Accompanied by a young, furious voice, a young man dressed in a crescent white fur robe rushed in murderously, holding a sword in his hand!
Eunuch Fu's face was all white, he hurriedly chased after him and said, "Your Majesty, this servant can't stop..."
"Queen!" The young man took three steps at a time and walked over to Queen Chao Yeluo, pointing his sword at the emperor while saying, "Queen, are you okay? Did this man treat you well?"
Eunuch Fu's legs went limp from fright, but the emperor didn't have the slightest hint of reproach in his eyes, he just looked at the boy fixedly, as if he wanted to see a flower on his face.
The young man was impatient to see, so he gave the emperor a hard look and said, "What are you looking at?"
The emperor smiled slightly: "How old are you?"
"Eighteen! What's wrong?" the boy asked with a frown.
The emperor's eyes lit up a little more: "The age is also suitable."
The young man gave him a strange look: "Mother, this person is so strange, you should stop talking to him! Leave the matter of the savior and Yan'er to me, and I will rescue them!"
Queen Yeluo didn't know if she had heard it, she stood up holding her son's hand, and bowed politely to the emperor: "Farewell."
The emperor called anxiously: "Zhaoming!"
Queen Yeluo ignored him, and walked out of the side hall holding the boy's hand.
…
Outside the Jinluan Hall, on the long white marble steps, Ji Mingxiu stood quietly in the wind, and the autumn wind rolled up his dark purple court clothes. At first glance, it was like the brightest autumn colors in the deep palace.
Queen Yeluo walked over with the boy hand in hand, Ji Mingxiu looked at them fixedly, they also saw Ji Mingxiu, but their eyes were very strange.
"That's the Prime Minister of the Liang Dynasty." The young man said disdainfully.
Queen Ye Luo nodded slightly as a polite greeting.
Ji Mingxiu didn't move, he just looked straight at her face.
The young man probably didn't like it. Ji Mingxiu always stared at his queen mother, so he changed his position and stood on the other side of the mother queen, separating Ji Mingxiu from Queen Yeluo.
Ji Mingxiu watched the two of them pass each other, a pleasant fragrance floated in the air, faint and familiar.
…
Ji Mingxiu returned to Ji's house. Qiao Wei was waiting for him in the upper room early. Seeing him coming in, she stepped forward to undress him. Picking it up, she asked, "Xiuqin said she saw Queen Yeluo's guards, has Queen Yeluo really come?"
"Here we come." Ji Mingxiu's voice was a little hoarse.
Kui Yeluo can think of a woman as an envoy!
Qiao Wei undressed Ji Mingxiu, took out the regular clothes she had prepared and put them on for him: "The queen is here to return Mu Qiuyang and Fu Xueyan, right? They are so courageous, they are not afraid of meat buns beating dogs, Did you go and never return? You said that if we capture Ye Luo's queen, will Ye Luo submit obediently?"
"I can't catch it." Ji Mingxiu said.
"Why?" Qiao Wei asked puzzled.
Ji Mingxiu's deep eyes showed a gloomy emotion: "She may be my mother."
It's not that she looks like my mother, but that she may be my mother. These two sentences seem to have similar meanings, but they are quite different when they come out of Ji Mingxiu's mouth.
He was not fully sure that he would never be fooled by a look, which is why when he saw Feng Qingge, he was not moved at all, because he clearly understood that, apart from that face, there was nothing else in Feng Qingge's body. There is nothing similar to Zhao Ming.
But today's Queen Yeluo, her small demeanor, the scent on her body, the way she walked, and even the feeling of being connected by blood, made Ji Mingxiu hard to let go.
Qiao Wei frowned and said, "You can imitate your small demeanor, you can also imitate the way you walk, the aroma..."
Ji Mingxiu said: "That kind of fragrance is not made of spices. Do you remember the fragrance on Mingye's body? My mother also has it."
Qiao Wei nodded, there was a faint fragrance from Xiao Erhuo's body all the year round, people with insufficient willpower would blush and heartbeat after smelling it too much, she even secretly laughed that Xiao Erhuo is a little Xiangfei, I didn't expect it to be a family inheritance : "Could it be the sister of the princess? Your aunt?"
Ji Mingxiu nodded: "This possibility is not ruled out."
Qiao Wei said: "Wait, I'll ask Fu Xueyan."
…
Fu Xueyan had just had lunch and was about to take a nap when Qiao Wei came uninvited. Qiao Wei knew her schedule, so she must have something important to do when she came here at this hour.
Fu Xueyan put on her clothes and met her in the room.
"Mingxiu came back from the palace. He just saw Ye Luo's queen. I think you may have guessed why I came here."
Fu Xueyan sighed slightly: "I had expected such a day, but I didn't expect it to be so soon."
Qiao Wei looked at her, and suddenly her eyes turned cold: "You have something to hide from us."
Fu Xueyan lowered her eyes: "I can't find a suitable opportunity to talk to you."
Qiao Wei said: "Now is the opportunity."
Fu Xueyan struggled: "I don't know where to start..."
Qiao Wei said bluntly: "Is Queen Yeluo the mother of meditation?"
Fu Xueyan pondered for a moment: "I also doubted it."
Qiao Wei caught something wrong: "What do you mean you have doubted? You have seen the princess before? What is the relationship between you and the princess?"
Fu Xueyan squeezed her fingers: "She... she is my aunt."
Qiao Wei was almost overwhelmed by this explosive news: "What did you say? Say it again, you and Mingye are cousins?!"
You two have incest? !
Although in ancient times, marriage between close relatives was legal, but as a doctor in the 21st century, I am really worried about the child in your womb!
Fu Xueyan said softly: "There is no blood relationship, but they are all from the ancient family. In terms of seniority, I will call her aunt."
Qiao Wei's little heart, which was almost frightened, slowly shrank back.
Fu Xueyan said: "There are two factions in the Gu family, Nangu and Beigu. My aunt is the last daughter of Nangu. After her, Nangu disappeared. When I was very young, my aunt visited Yeluo once. We lived in our house for a while, and I actually don’t have much memory of it, but my father said that my aunt was very kind to me.”
He also gave me a golden eagle.
"My family has a portrait of my aunt hugging me, and my impression of my aunt started from that portrait."
Qiao Wei said thoughtfully: "She is Nan Gu's last daughter, so does she have no sisters?"
Fu Xueyan shook her head: "No. So when I saw the queen for the first time, I was also very surprised. I ran home and turned out the portrait. I looked at it carefully and thought about it carefully. It was so similar. .I asked my father, is she my aunt? My father said no, after that, I asked the same question as you, is she my aunt's twin sister? But my father also said no."
Qiao Wei coughed lightly and said, "You believe what your father said?"
Fu Xueyan said: "Of course I don't believe it, I ran to look up Nangu's genealogy, and there is indeed only my aunt with a daughter."
Speaking of twin sisters, Qiao Wei thought of another thing: "You always stare at Mingxiu, is it because he looks like your aunt?"
Fu Xueyan said truthfully: "I just want to see if he looks like, but it's a pity he doesn't take off his mask."
Thinking of something, Qiao Wei asked embarrassingly again: "Then you... saved Mingye several times, is it because you like Mingye, or because Mingye is your aunt's child?"
Fu Xueyan was silent.
Qiao Wei sighed secretly, although she is ice and snow smart, she is not as thorough as those mediocre women in some issues, maybe even she herself doesn't understand why she is so good to the little bastard, right
Of course, I hope that she really likes Xiao Erhuo, after all, Xiao Erhuo likes her so much.
Qiao Wei doesn't love and doesn't force others to be difficult, seeing that she is not willing to answer, she skipped over this: "One more thing, we went to visit the princess's tomb on Qingming Festival, and found that someone had come and put sacrifices, yes Did you let it go?"
Fu Xueyan nodded slightly.
How courageous she is, sneaking into the Princess Mausoleum, she is not afraid of being discovered by the emperor's guards. Qiao Wei sweated silently for her, and said, "Did you see us that day?"
"I see." Fu Xueyan said.
Qiao Wei was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly realized: "No wonder, I said that you always wanted to kill Mingye before, why did you suddenly start protecting him, the poor guy thought that his charm had increased greatly, so he took one of yours. Little Fang's heart has been captured."
A trace of uneasiness flashed across Fu Xueyan's face.
Qiao Wei narrowed her eyes dangerously: "The emperor of Yeluo is a thief, he deliberately sent someone who looks so similar to the princess, this is to set the rhythm of the emperor and the Ji family!"
Fu Xueyan did not speak.
Qiao Wei held her hand: "But don't worry, we won't hand you over, you can wait for the delivery at ease."
"En." Fu Xueyan nodded gently.
After that, Qiao Wei asked some more questions about the queen, and Fu Xueyan answered them all patiently.
Qiao Wei didn't mention Ye Luo's other people for the time being. Anyway, she has already identified Fu Xueyan as a woman of the second class, so no matter how many people come to Ye Luo, she will never want to snatch them from them!
It was half an hour after returning to the upper room. The three little guys went to take a nap obediently. Ji Mingxiu was flipping through the materials in the room. Qiao Wei glanced at them. They were all Ye Luowen. She read every word don't know!
"What did she say?" Ji Mingxiu asked.
Qiao Wei explained Fu Xueyan's words to Ji Mingxiu in full: "...I didn't expect your mother to be the daughter of the Gu family. This really surprised me."
There was no surprise on Ji Mingxiu's face.
Qiao Wei wondered: "You wouldn't have known it earlier, would you?"
"It's not very early." Ji Mingxiu said.
"How early is that?" Qiao Wei asked.
Ji Mingxiu paused: "At the time of Su Xinzong."
Qiao Wei was speechless: "So early is not too early? How did you guess that?"
Ji Mingxiu's eyes dimmed and said: "Since you told me that the women of Fu Xueyan's family were born to be queens, I began to suspect that my mother is also from their family. Marrying my father and having a child is actually more conducive to getting the priest sword, but those people want to kill her early."
Qiao Wei suddenly realized: "Because she was supposed to be the queen of Ye Luo, she betrayed King Ye Luo and had children with your father."
Ji Mingxiu seemed not to want to recall the past, closed the booklet and said, "You just said, how many years ago did this queen marry King Yeluo?"
Qiao Wei said: "Nineteen years ago, the year the princess died."
Ji Mingxiu pondered for a moment: "This is too coincidental."
Qiao Wei couldn't deny it: "Indeed, what's even more coincidental is that before she married King Yeluo, none of Yeluo's officials had seen her. She seemed to appear out of thin air."
This almost confirms Zhaoming's shadow even more. After all, Zhaoming grew up in Daliang, went back once in a while, and never showed his face in front of the public.
Ji Mingxiu frowned slightly with his thick eyebrows: "What about your identity?"
Qiao Wei said: "A daughter of the leader of a small tribe."
Ji Mingxiu tapped lightly on the table a few times with his index finger: "Identities can be fabricated."
"That's right."
After Qiao Wei finished speaking, the two fell silent at the same time, and then they looked at each other in a very tacit understanding, and they both saw the eagerness in each other's eyes.
The Prime Minister said casually: "Sect Master Qiao, do you dare to dig a tomb?"
Qiao Wei smiled faintly: "That's your mother's tomb. You, a son, are not afraid. What am I afraid of?"