First Concubine

Chapter 117 The mystery of life experience (2)

Concubine De's hands clenched into fists, her eyelashes trembled in an irregular rhythm, and her cheeks also trembled unnoticeably, but she still squeezed out a faint smile: "That's it, I follow the Queen's instructions. I'm here to do something, but I can't reveal the specifics. You just have to believe that without the Queen's approval, I don't have the guts or ability to leave the palace!"

If Shui Linglong hadn't bumped into her meeting with Zhuge Liuyun again and again, she would probably have believed her story. Shui Linglong showed an "I see" expression: "Oh, the third princess doesn't know, right? Just now she asked me who the unfamiliar little **** next to Xiao Anzi was?"

Concubine De's heart tightened, and the color on her face instantly faded: "You...how did you answer?"

Shui Linglong lied without changing her expression and without her heart beating: "Me, I said I would ask her later."

Concubine De couldn't tell whether Shui Linglong had lied for a while. Her intuition told her that the third princess was not so clever, but Shui Linglong looked innocent and didn't seem to be lying. The most important thing was that she had sneaked out behind the Queen's back. , feeling extremely guilty, his judgment plummeted, and Xiao Anzi was not much better. The two of them just looked at me, and I looked at you, falling into a strange silence.

Shui Linglong noticed that the two of them were still hesitating, and quickly added a handful of firewood: "I...I'm not good at lying, what should I do? I blush when I lie. How will I answer when the third princess asks me about it later? Or I'll still be there …Can I just go back to my house? But if I do this, I will offend the third princess... Will the consequences be miserable? I’m a little scared..."

Concubine De panicked: "Linglong, your mother...is actually from Mobei, right?"

Shui Linglong's eyes lit up and disappeared in an instant. When Concubine De looked at her, there was only endless surprise and panic in her eyes: "Your Majesty...I..."

Seeing her frightened look, Concubine De felt a little at ease. She was just a little girl after all, so she said, "You don't have to hide it from me. As far as I know, that special lily of the valley fragrance is only One person knows how to make the recipe, but I asked her for the recipe several times, but she wouldn’t give it.”

“Mother, do you know my mother? Are you from Mobei too?” Shui Linglong’s eyes widened!

Just as Concubine De was about to speak, Xiao Anzi interrupted: "The Concubine is really good at joking. How can there be so many people from Mobei in the capital? It is true that I am from Mobei, but the empress has only lived in Mobei for a while, so I know her." Just some Mobei dignitaries."

 A powerful person, so to speak, her mother’s status is not low!

Shui Linglong blinked and decided that she must ask to get to the bottom of things today, "Empress De Fei, do you really know my mother? It's impossible, right? My mother has always used the identity of a Jiangnan woman, and even I don't know my mother's identity. What’s Mobei’s name?”

Seeing that Shui Linglong wanted to get close to her, Concubine De felt a little relieved and asked with a smile: "Does your mother have a crescent-shaped birthmark on her back?"

 Even Concubine De knows about such a secret thing! Shui Linglong was really surprised: "My mother has it, and so do I. Who are you? Who is my mother?"

Concubine De almost blurted out without thinking: "Your mother is..."

"Cousin!" Xiao Anzi suddenly hugged Shui Linglong, interrupted De Concubine's words, and said with tears, "Your mother is the eldest lady of the Siqin family, and her name is Siqintana, which means 'pearl'! Auntie's backside There is a crescent-shaped birthmark, and my grandfather once said that it was a gift from God to my aunt, so I will never remember it wrong! I didn’t expect that my aunt got married in Dazhou and gave birth to a daughter. If my grandfather and grandmother were still alive! You should be happy to have a spirit! My sister and I followed my aunt to the border of Dazhou to purchase new year goods, but we were accidentally separated for more than ten years... I have been looking for the whereabouts of my aunt and sister... Unexpectedly... my sister died... my aunt He passed away too... Fortunately, I found you..."

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After Shui Linglong left, Concubine De's smile faded and she said coldly: "Chi Na! Are you going too far?"

Xiao Anzi said solemnly: "Your Highness, have you forgotten the reason why King Zhenbei cooperated with you? Is it just for a treasure map?"

 No, of course not! More than ten years ago, Prince Pingnan and Prince Zhenbei were stationed at the Mobei border at the same time. Zhuge Yu and Xun Feng, who were just children at the time, quietly crossed the border, sneaked into the little princess's tent, and stole the little princess's luminous pearl. Later, the little princess The secret guard beside her noticed that the little princess ordered them both to be beaten to death with sticks! Zhuge Yu escaped and Xun Feng was captured. Later, Zhuge Yu returned to the camp to rescue Xun Feng, but both of them fell into the poisonous claws of the secret guards. If Princess Nuomin hadn't appeared in time, the two of them would have died long ago.

 Because of Nuomin's life-saving grace, Zhuge Liuyun looked at her differently...

Concubine De raised her head and pushed tears back from her eyes: "But she is Nuo Min's only flesh and blood, and she is also my only remaining relative in the world besides the eleventh prince."

Xiao Anzi's eyes sharpened and he said: "Your Majesty! It's precisely because she has royal blood flowing in her bones that you can't recognize her! If King Zhenbei knows that Princess Nuomin has a daughter, and this person is scheming, She became his daughter-in-law by mistake. Will he help the unrelated eleventh prince to restore the country, or will he let his grandson become the new king of Mobei? "

Concubine De closed her eyes, tears streaming down her cheeks...

But it was said that Zhuge Yu drank a lot of wine with Guo Yan at the banquet, and got Guo Yan, who was not very good at drinking, drunk. He avenged Guo Yan for blocking their door that day, and then walked towards the second door with satisfaction. , Shui Linglong left for a while, and he felt uncomfortable.

Not long after he left, Shui Lingxi caught up with him!

Shui Lingxi had obviously dressed up specially today. She was wearing a rose-red waisted skirt, lined with a transparent gold-embroidered peony gauze. Her **** were slightly open, revealing a plain white ruby-encrusted tube top. The graceful femininity of women was vividly displayed. reflected. She wears a Yaotai bun, a red pomegranate gold hairpin, and a pair of broken jade fan-shaped flower earrings, which echo with the pearl earrings, and further complement her icy muscles, jade bones, and perfect eyebrows.

 “Brother-in-law!”

Zhuge Yu stopped and turned around in shock. After seeing the person clearly, a cold light flashed in his eyes, but his tone was as usual: "Second Miss, do you have a problem with me?" Logically speaking, Shui Lingxi called him "brother-in-law." He should call her "sister-in-law" or "second sister", but he picked it so cleanly, which made Shui Lingxi severely disappointed.

Shui Lingxi raised a smile that confounded all sentient beings: "Oh, that's the case. I want to ask about Fifth Sister. Fifth Sister has lived in the palace for more than a month. I miss her a little!"

Under normal circumstances, she would have replied, "If you miss her, take the time to go and see her." However, Zhuge Yu said indifferently: "Fifth sister is very good."

 Look! When I call Shui Lingqing, I call her Fifth Sister, but when I call her, I call her Second Miss! Moreover, did he not understand her hint or something? The frustration in Shui Lingxi's heart surged like a tidal wave, but she smiled softly and said, "Well, my grandmother and mother both care about my fifth sister. I want to find an opportunity to go to the palace to see my fifth sister. I don't know what my brother-in-law wants." How about next?”

Zhuge Yu put his hands behind his back and said expressionlessly: "It's better for you to ask your eldest sister about this kind of thing. She usually makes the decision. I'll say goodbye." After saying that, he turned around and left without any delay.

Shui Lingxi almost drowned when she heard this because of Zhuge Yu's deep love for Shui Linglong. How much must Zhuge Yu love Shui Linglong before letting Shui Linglong make the decision in everything? If this is left to the Shangshu Mansion, my father will definitely decide the matter with just one sentence and will not even bother with what my mother wants! Zhuge Yu is indeed different! Shui Lingxi looked at Zhuge Yu's stalwart back, and the scene of Zhuge Yu kissing Shui Linglong could not help but appear in her mind. Her cheeks turned red. She really wanted to become Shui Linglong...

After Shui Linglong said goodbye to Concubine De and Zhi Fan, she headed towards the second entrance. She and Zhuge Yu said she would be back in a while, but now she has been away for a long time.

Unexpectedly, as soon as she reached the back garden, Guo Yan rushed over with a hurried expression: "There is news from Jin Shang Palace!"

Shui Linglong’s eyes lit up: “So fast?”

Guo Yan nodded. There was an abnormal blush on his face because he was drunk: "My people have been watching her secretly to make sure there is nothing unusual about her. The transaction place is in the bamboo forest in the west of the city. The secret guard sent back the news that Jin Shang I went to the palace alone, and there was no ambush around."

Shui Linglong clenched her fists, and her eyes, as bright as the abyss and as bright as flowing waves, flashed with excitement: "Okay, give me your contact information with the secret guard, and I will take Jin Shanggong's father!"

Guo Yan took a step forward: "I'm with you!"

Shui Linglong looked at his handsome face that pretended to be mature but still childish, and shook her head with a smile: "You are getting married today, so don't leave the bride alone! Besides, you drank too much."

Guo Yan patted his chest and said: "I have said hello to the third princess, don't worry! It's just a hand-to-hand delivery, and there is no delay. It only took more than an hour to reach the top! As for the wine I drank, Hehe, I used my inner strength to force it out!"

"This..." Shui Linglong was still hesitant.

Guo Yan ignored Shui Linglong's hesitation and quickly took her hand and pulled her forward: "Go through the back door. There are too many people at the front door, so you can easily get entangled!"

The moon was dark and windy, and thick dark clouds were like splashes of ink on the sky, covering up the bright moon and stars, making the sky dark.

Shui Linglong and Guo Yan followed the tips left by the secret guards and entered a pine forest on the outskirts of the city. According to Guo Yan, all the surrounding ten miles had been inspected by secret guards. Except for the two families born and raised in Houshan, There is no one else around the farmer. For the sake of caution, when Jin Shang Palace proposed to meet at this location three days ago, Guo Yan's secret guards squatted nearby to prevent anyone from interfering with it. With such strict precautions, nothing should go wrong. But for some reason, Shui Linglong's eyelids kept twitching.

Feeling the strangeness of Shui Linglong, Guo Yan held her hand tightly and used his own body temperature to warm her coldness little by little. Whenever he thought of her dragging her broken body up and down the deserted temple, , just to fill the stomachs of his sister and himself with the two cold steamed buns he got from the foot of the mountain every day... He felt a sharp pain in his heart!

How could I not be kind to her in this life?

Shui Linglong turned around and accidentally caught a glimpse of Guo Yan's clear eyes shining with water. Her heart... inexplicably hit her. She pulled back her hand and asked, "What's wrong with you?"

Guo Yan looked at her and she still looked very wary and distant. He felt aggrieved, but on his face he said calmly: "It's nothing, there's still a long way to go, I'll carry you!"

"No, I can leave." Shui Linglong shook her head calmly. When they got married, he carried her behind with Shui Hangge's tacit approval. Now, it is unreasonable for a man and a widow to get along together. If she has any physical contact with him again, It’s really unreasonable! Even if she doesn’t actually reject it!

Guo Yan said no more and took her to the designated courtyard.

The courtyard has been abandoned for a long time. It was originally an occasional resting place for the forest guard. Later, the forest guard passed away and his son inherited his mantle and came to patrol the forest every two days, but he never lived in this dilapidated courtyard again.

In the bamboo house, Jin Shanggong had been waiting for her for a long time. She was wearing a green skirt, her hair was pulled into a high bun, and she wore a square scarf. She used darker powder on her face to make her skin dull. She paced back and forth in the room, glanced at the information on the table, and a cold light flashed past!

Suddenly, there were soft footsteps and the sound of clothes rubbing against each other outside the door. She suppressed her expression and sat down on a dusty bench.

Guo Yan pushed open the door and entered, followed closely by Shui Linglong. Another secret guard walked into the house carrying Mr. Jin who was sleeping soundly on his back. Mr. Jin took some tranquilizing medicine and couldn't wake up after a thunderbolt.

Jin Shanggong narrowed his eyes slightly: "I stole the information you asked for. My ability is limited, and these are the only secrets I have access to."

Shui Linglong looked around the room. There was a wooden bed, a square table, four benches, and simple cooking utensils in the corner. The beams were covered with spider webs. The rest of the room was covered with dirt, and even the table was not spared.

Shui Linglong withdrew her gaze and reached out her hand to get the information. Guo Yan took a few brochures in her hand before her: "I'll do it."

 Looking through it for a while, he handed it to Shui Linglong after making sure it was not poisonous or mechanical.

These booklets partly record the list of officials who secretly colluded with Xun Feng, and partly contain the formulas of a large number of miraculous drugs, one of which is conventional contraceptive pills.

Shui Linglong compared the list of officials with some drug formulas she knew, and whatever she remembered was consistent with the records in the booklet! It's impossible for Xun Feng to know what she knows and what she doesn't know, so these things are all true!

Jin Shanggong sneered in his heart, of course the thing is real...

Guo Yan took out his handkerchief and wiped the ashes on the bench, and said with a smile: "Sit down and watch slowly."

Shui Linglong closed the book: "No, go back and take a closer look. I just made sure the content was not fraudulent." Looking at Guo Yan's action of wiping the stool, she felt like something was wrong! Where?

Shui Linglong frowned suspiciously, her probing eyes wandered around the room again, and finally landed on Jin Shanggong's sitting posture like a Buddha, and slowly followed the outline of her cheek downwards. When Shui Linglong When he saw Jin Shanggong's clean clothes unpreparedly embedded in the filthy dirt, his forehead suddenly felt cold!

It is reasonable for a person to act unusually in a critical moment, but the transaction between her and Jin Shanggong was just a bloodless transaction, and what Jin Shanggong gave was true. Jin Shanggong should not act out of character. , sitting on a dusty stool without even wiping it. You know, Jin Shanggong was originally a mysophobic person...

So, what is Jin Shanggong nervous about? Or... cover up something?

Shui Linglong’s eyebrows jumped, and she took Guo Yan’s arm: “Let’s go!”

Jin Shanggong smiled coldly!

"I'm afraid it's too late to leave, my respected Crown Princess." Following a smiling, magnetic voice, the pot on the stove was suddenly lifted, and Xun Feng jumped out gracefully, "It's earlier than I expected. A little bit."

Shui Linglong’s eyebrows twitched fiercely, but she smiled coldly: “Is Prince Xun praising me?”

Guo Yan was shocked and protected Shui Linglong behind him. How could this happen? His people had been watching Jin Shanggong's movements. Jin Shanggong entered Xun Feng's study to steal, and his people also dressed as servants and followed Jin Shanggong. Jin Shanggong had no interaction with Xun Feng at all!

Xun Feng patted the dust on his body and said with a leisurely smile, "Long time no see. I hope you are well."

Jin Shanggong stood up and walked to Xun Feng's side, giving him a deep blessing: "Your Majesty!"

Xun Feng waved his hand, and Jin Shanggong obediently retreated behind him.

Guo Yan looked at Xun Feng in front of him with a complicated expression. It was like two inexplicable undercurrents colliding with each other in his heart, which made him dizzy. In his last life, he was his good son. In this life, he just wants to protect Linglong, no matter who. You can’t have Linglong’s ideas, and neither can Xun Feng! He took a deep breath, tried hard to hold back his growing panic, and murmured: "I obviously checked the surrounding environment..."

Shui Linglong looked at the dark stove, her eyes turned cold. In order to complete the task, Xun Feng could endure even ten days of hibernation, let alone three days! Guo Yan got in touch with Jin Shang Palace and surveyed the scene three days ago, but before that, Xun Feng had already hidden under the stove.

Jin Shanggong sneered disdainfully: "General Guo, if I hadn't intentionally revealed my contact with the Crown Prince, would you have been able to doubt me based on your ability? Idiot's dream!" As early as the Crown Prince suspected Guo Yan, he had already lost it. She went out to make bait, but she didn't expect Guo Yan to be fooled!

As soon as he finished speaking, there were sounds of weapons clashing and fighting outside the yard. After several screams, Xun Feng's dead soldiers emerged from nowhere and completely subdued Guo Yan's secret guards.

"No...it's not like that..." Guo Yan couldn't believe it. He had been sending people to keep an eye on the Xun family's movements, so he finally waited until a sneaky person stepped onto Xun Feng's carriage, and he followed the man from a distance. He almost lost the carriage several times. It could be said that it took a lot of effort to see what Jin Shang Gong looked like... But now, Jin Shang Gong told him... that he had fallen into the opponent's trap from the beginning? He can't take it!

He took Shui Linglong's hand and took a few steps back, standing side by side with the secret guard. Then he grabbed Mr. Jin's neck and said sternly: "Let us leave, or I will kill him!"

 (End of this chapter)