In the study room, the two Dragon Scale Guards stood in awe. When they saw them, they all knelt down to salute, and then presented a dossier, which recorded all of Shen Miaoqi's experiences from birth to the present.
Yu Pinyan took it and flipped through it expressionlessly.
Being able to fall from a wealthy businessman's daughter to a servant girl, he had already guessed that the Shen family was in a catastrophe, but he didn't expect that there was his own pusher in it.
It turned out that the Shen family was considered a wealthy family in Lingnan back then, and the history of Shen's father's fortune was quite legendary. He was originally a master of tomb robbing and gold digging, and he used the antique business to cover up his shady sideline business. Later, Mrs. Shen gave birth to a son and a daughter. In order to accumulate blessings for his children, he stopped doing the immoral thing of digging people's ancestral graves.
Before Shen Miaoqi was ten years old, the wind was going smoothly, she was well-clothed and well-fed, but when she was ten years old, she went to Luoyang with Shen's father to collect antiques, and happened to meet the prince who was recuperating at the post station. Shen Miaoqi failed to offer herbal medicine but was arrested as a spy. Shen's father took seventy-eight out of ten of his property to redeem her, and then the family fled back to Lingnan in embarrassment.
And it was Yu Pinyan himself who ordered the arrest. From then on, the Shen family began to decline. No wonder Shen Miaoqi still remembered him after four years, and shouted words such as 'resentment, revenge' when they met, fearing that she would blame him for all the crimes, and kept grudges and curses every day and night.
Thinking of this, Yu Pinyan curled his lips into a sneer and continued to look down.
After returning to Lingnan, Shen's family gradually failed to make ends meet. In order to prevent his children from suffering, Shen's father had to return to his old business. Just at this time, an old customer came to the door and asked him to go to an ancient tomb to steal a gilt statue of Zhunti Buddha buried in the main cave, and paid half of the deposit first.
Because the reward was really generous, it just happened to save the depressed Shen family. Even though Shen's father was moved, after consulting many documents, he was sure that there was such a Buddha statue in the tomb, so he rushed over overnight.
After a near-death experience, Shen's father took the Buddha statue home, and then fell into a coma for three days and three nights. But during these three days, Shen Miaoqi opened the box containing the Buddha statue out of curiosity, and accidentally broke a Buddha's hand. Because she often saw Shen's father repairing antiques, he was self-taught, so he glued the bergamot back with transparent glue, and put it back in the box.
After Shen's father woke up, he quickly notified that person to come and pick up the goods. Both of them were too excited to complete the transaction without checking. After returning home, the man played with it carefully until he found out that he had been fooled. Because he had longed for this Buddha statue for a long time, he hated Shen's father who destroyed the treasure and cheated the money. in jail.
In the end, 10% of the family property was used to make atonement, Shen's father yelled that he was wronged and died at the door of the prison, and Shen's mother also fell ill. As for the concubines of the Shen family, they stole the family property and ran away with their concubine children.
Shen Miaoqi also has an older brother named Shen Yuanqi, who has been responsible for the family's livelihood since then, signed a death contract with a large local family to become a servant, and rented a small house for Shen's mother and younger sister to live in with the money from selling herself.
Shen's mother was critically ill, just when she needed care the most, but Shen Miaoqi stole the only ten taels of silver left at home one afternoon and ran away. When she went out, she only brought a few clothes and a swaddle. Presumably Shen's mother told her her life experience because she couldn't bear the guilt in her heart, but in exchange she treated her so heartlessly and determinedly.
Shen's mother couldn't find anyone and couldn't find the silver, so she immediately vomited a few mouthfuls of blood and left within a few days. The Shen brothers and sisters have parted ways since then.
Shen Miaoqi buried her head and walked towards the capital, met a caravan on the way, and spent two taels of silver to ride their carriage, but she didn't want to be robbed by bandits, and the people in the caravan were killed or injured. Shen Miaoqi hid under the car, and was rescued by Zhao Anshun's family who went to Beijing to report when she was about to be in distress.
She voluntarily sold herself to Miss Zhao's family as a slave, with the idea of following up with Beijing together.
I thought I could finally sit back and relax, but I didn't expect that Zhao Anshun offended Shangfeng because he was too upright, and the chance of promotion that he had waited for eight years was awarded to another colleague.
After receiving the letter from Shangfeng, Zhao Anshun had no choice but to turn back halfway and continue to be the magistrate of Yunzhou. Shen Miaoqi not only did not approach the capital, but went further and further away. She was scared out of her wits by the bandits at this time, so she dared not go on the road alone, so she had to stay at Zhao's house and wait for the opportunity.
This wait is four years.
Because Zhao Anshun has been working in remote and cold places like Yunzhou, he has nothing to do with any major forces in Beijing. The hundreds of catties of charcoal had been transported to the Taoist temple half a month ago, and the Zhao family was still on the way. Shen Miaoqi just added a charcoal to the fire when the Crown Princess appeared, in fact, there were thirty or forty people who added charcoal to the fire that day, only Shen Miaoqi was the most unlucky.
After closing the file, Yu Pinyan didn't speak for a long time.
The two dragon scale guards silently presented a piece of swaddling clothes. Now that Shen Miaoqi's experience has been found out, they naturally know that Mrs. Shen and Mrs. Hou gave birth together in the cave. Afterwards, Shen's father covered his whereabouts all the way back to Lingnan, and avoided doing business with the dignitaries in Beijing. The two already had guesses about certain things , and when she saw this swaddle and thought of the words Shen Miaoqi yelled in prison, everything became clear. No matter how rich the Shen family was, they couldn't get the tribute from the palace.
The Dragon Scale Guard is the most powerful knife in the hands of the emperor, holding many secrets that officials cannot tell outsiders. If the mouth is not reliable, it will not last long.
Yu Pinyan dared to ask them to investigate, so he was naturally not afraid that they would find out, so he took the swaddle and looked through it briefly, and finally threw it aside casually.
Seeing that he was in a bad mood, one of the Dragon Scale Guards hesitated for a moment before reminding him, "Dutong, this Shen Yuanqi is Shen Yuanqi, the No. Shutong, after seeing him a genius, he thought about it. Not only did he get rid of his slave status, but he also recognized him as a foster son for him to study, in order to help him in the future. This year he was indeed the top student in high school. In recent days, he has been inquiring about Shen Miaoqi and the second It's about Miss. Do you want to... "
He made a knife with his hand, and drew it on the neck. When something like this happened, it was natural to kill people to silence the reputation of the Marquis Mansion. If Shen Yuanqi made trouble at the door, wouldn't the Hou Mansion become a joke? Second Miss, who was protected by Master Hou like his lifeblood, was the first to suffer...
Yu Pinyan pondered for a moment and then waved his hands, "I have my own plan, so don't act rashly. Go down."
Not daring to disobey, the two bowed down to salute and exited the study.
Shen Miaoqi moved from the dungeon of Baiyun Taoist Temple to the dungeon of Longlin Guard. The place is spacious, but the scene is even more frightening. Long Linwei does not avoid people during torture, but likes to tie all the prisoners to watch the torture.
Or skinning and deboning, or gouging eyes, or cutting tongue... Shen Miaoqi was frightened and fainted several times that day, and sometimes even suspected that she was no longer in the world, but in the eighteenth level of hell.
She vaguely heard from the prisoners in the prison that the handsome young man who interrogated her that day was the leader of the Dragon Scale Guard, and his methods were a hundred times more cruel than these people. Prince Yu, who rebelled back then, was captured alive by him and brought back Under the emperor's behest, Empress Jing personally executed Ling Chi to death. She had to cut 3,600 knives before letting Prince Yu die, which shows his killing skills.
The enemy who had cursed tens of thousands of times in her heart turned out to be so powerful and ruthless, Shen Miaoqi knew she was afraid, and desperately prayed that her family would find her as soon as possible.
It seemed that a lifetime had passed, but in fact it was only twelve hours. When the prison door opened again, Shen Miaoqi felt as if she had passed away.
After the prisoners in the prison were emptied, Yu Pinyan walked slowly to the girl who was curled up in a ball. He didn't help her up, and didn't say a word of concern, and he didn't care about what happened to her in the past twelve hours, and only bent slightly. He bent down and stared at her filthy face.
This face is full of Lin's, and it really can't arouse the slightest bit of affection from him. Although this person is his sister who is connected by blood, he is just a stranger in his heart. His sympathy has long been worn out in one bloody killing after another.
Shen Miaoqi struggled for a long time before getting up under his coercive power, walked over to her knees and grabbed the hem of his clothes, and shouted, "My lord, I was wronged. I really have nothing to do with the premature birth of the princess. I am not a maid, but Miss Fu, please help me find my family members. In the future, I will definitely tie a knot to repay your kindness!"
Yu Pinyan looked at the crimson robe with a few black fingerprints on it, frowned and took a step back, and when she finished speaking, she wanted to kowtow to herself, and stretched out her toes to touch her forehead that was about to touch the ground.
"Don't kneel to me, I'm your elder brother. Your surname is Yu, and you are the daughter of the Yongle Hou Mansion who has been lost for fourteen years." He narrated slowly, without the excitement and joy of finding his relatives on his face, as if he was indifferent. Say something unimportant.
Shen Miaoqi raised her head and looked at him blankly, it took a long while to digest the words. The person who caused her to be imprisoned twice was actually the relative she had been looking for for four years, her brother? She just didn't know what expression to make.
She felt that she should laugh a few times to express the joy in her heart, or cry bitterly to show the grievances she had suffered during these few hours. But facing the young man's dark and indifferent eyes, she could only quickly lower her head and ask in a trembling voice, "You, are you really my brother?"
Yu Pinyan didn't answer, and beckoned to two dragon scale guards, and ordered, "Take her down and clean it up."
The two agreed, and lifted Shen Miaoqi, whose legs were weak, to walk out of the cell.
An hour later, Shen Miaoqi was wearing a blue-gray black dress and sitting on the rickety carriage. Yu Pinyan was holding an embroidered spring knife in his hand, and sat opposite her with his eyes closed.
Shen Miaoqi had a bad guess in her heart, and said softly, "Brother, why did you let me wear this dark clothes?" Could it be that he didn't intend to recognize me, but instead forced me to become a monk, just because I was thrown into prison and lost... His face? Yes, he is so cold-blooded and ruthless, what can't he do
The hatred that had just disappeared in Shen Miaoqi's heart began to churn violently again.
Yu Pinyan had already killed people in his twenties, and he was most sensitive to human malice, so he suddenly opened his eyes and looked at her.
Shen Miaoqi was startled, she quickly lowered her head and grabbed the hem of her clothes, veins popped out on the back of her hands. The more she gets along, the more afraid she feels of this elder brother. There was no emotion in his eyes except indifference, as if she was not his blood-related sister, but an insignificant stranger.
A deadly silence spread in the car, and it took half a quarter of an hour before Yu Pinyan spoke slowly, "You and Xiang'er are twins, and because you are weak, you may die at any time, so you have to be sent to Shuiyue Nunnery for foster care. Wait until the fourteen-year-old life and death catastrophe is over before taking him back to the Hou Mansion. Remember these words."
Whether Shen Miaoqi loves or hates him is irrelevant to him, it's just an extra mouth to eat.
It was to protect his reputation. That's right, just take it back so hastily, let people know her past as a slave, and she will be ashamed to see others in the future. Shen Miaoqi nodded obediently, secretly remembering the word 'Xiang'er'.
When talking about Xiang'er, she clearly saw a trace of softness in Yu Pinyan's cold eyes. That person must be the daughter of the Shen family who has occupied the magpie's nest, right? Fourteen years of getting along day and night, did you really have some feelings? She took away her noble status and enjoyed the glory, wealth, and fine clothes that should belong to her. And I have suffered for her for fourteen years and still haven't received the slightest pity from my brother. Why didn't God open his eyes
Thinking of this, strong unwillingness and resentment welled up in her chest.