"You're talking nonsense, you're talking nonsense, we didn't ignore Ah Yao." Chen Ayuan jumped up in anger and roared at the top of his lungs. His face was twisted and ferocious. It seemed that Han Changmu's words had touched a sore spot in her, and the wound on her arm also hurt again. It collapsed and bleeds gurglingly.
"Ayuan, you're bleeding again." Qi Minghui exclaimed and hurriedly helped Chen Ayuan cover the wound. While kowtowing to Han Changmu and confessing, he whispered to Chen Ayuan: "Ayuan, Ayuan, Ayao now Her whereabouts are unknown, and we cannot rescue her based on our abilities."
Chen Ayuan rubbed his neck unconvinced, and was about to speak, but when he met Qi Minghui's tearful eyes, she suddenly fell silent and lowered her head silently.
Rong Sulan stretched out her hand, and her thin and rough fingers fell tremblingly on the back of Chen Ayuan's hand.
Chen Ayuan felt the coldness and roughness in her hands. Her heart twitched and her expression became even more lonely.
Qi Minghui let go of Chen Ayuan's arm, took a deep breath, and kowtowed to Han Changmu, who seemed to be respectful, but the words came out aggressively: "I wonder what your Excellency wants to know?"
Han Changmu's expression was indifferent. Even though he was very worried about Han Changyun's whereabouts, he did not show any worry at all. He only said two words casually: "Everything."
Qi Minghui sneered: "If you are so greedy, aren't you afraid that if you know too much, you will die too early?"
Han Changmu said nothing, only picked up a cup of tea, took a slow and silent sip, and looked at Qi Minghui playfully.
Qi Minghui's heart sank inch by inch. She opened her mouth, but Rong Sulan held her back.
"Ming Hui." Rong Sulan shook her head slightly in panic.
"Sister-in-law, there is no time. Ah Yao can't afford to wait." Qi Minghui lowered his head in despair, tears rolling down drop by drop, leaving shallow pits on the ground, and a little dust flying out.
Although Li Zheng's house is the largest in the village and the main room is the best, it is still a bit crude and dilapidated compared to the mansions in the capital.
What is lit in the room is not a candle, but an oil lamp. This kind of lamp is much cheaper than candles and is commonly used in ordinary people's homes. The light is as bright as a bean, and the smoke is extremely heavy after it is lit. Even if it is such a cheap lamp, it is not very bright. Ordinary people would not dare to light more oil lamps in their homes.
Especially in this kind of farmhouse, it is completely dark. If you have nothing to do, you will turn off the lamp. If you can do things in the dark, you will never waste the oil in the lamp.
At this time, the oil lamp in this room had been burning for a long time, and the oil in the lamp had bottomed out. The light was dimmer than before, but the smoke was more smoky than when it was first lit.
Seeing Qi Minghui's hesitation, Han Changmu did not rush to urge him. Instead, he slowly added a spoonful of oil to the lamp and trimmed the wick.
The lights suddenly brightened a little, but the expression on Han Changmu's face was particularly solemn.
Qi Minghui looked at Chen Ayuan and Rong Sulan with scruples, and then at Han Changmu.
Han Changmu understood in an instant and ordered Jin Yu: "Take Chen Ayuan and Rong Sulan down."
Chen Ayuan and Rong Sulan looked at each other and were about to say something, but Jin Yu no longer allowed them to speak and dragged them down.
I heard the two men's mournful but not tragic screams.
Qi Minghui knew that the two of them had not suffered, but they just didn't want her to tell the secret. She breathed a sigh of relief and kowtowed: "What do you want to know, sir? Just ask, and I will tell you everything you know."
Han Changmu lazily raised his eyelids and saw the same two words: "Everything."
Qi Minghui grinded his teeth, hesitated for a moment, and finally made up his mind and said: "My lord, I know that this slave is the wife of Chen Yuying, the censor who was convicted and exterminated sixteen years ago, and A Yao is Chen Yuying's youngest daughter."
Han Changmu did not show too much surprise. In fact, he had already made some guesses about the matter. After all, after the tragedy in the first year of Yong'an, the surname Chen, like Fang, became the two most unmentionable people in the Jing Dynasty. The surname is a taboo that cannot be touched.
The surname Fang was not bad, and he was also known as a loyal man.
But Chen's surname has become a traitor that everyone can punish.
During that time, people with the surname Chen, whether they were related to Chen Yuying or not, were busy changing their names to clear their relationship.
It seems that the surname Chen has become the original sin of human beings, and everyone is afraid to avoid it.
But these four people dared to risk the world's disapproval and used the surname Chen on the household registration list. They were no longer obsessed with this surname.
If there is anyone today who is so obsessed with the surname Chen, it is none other than Chen Yuying's tribe.
In the past 16 years since Chen Yuying's entire family was convicted, members of the tribe who escaped have jumped out every year to cry out for injustice.
They always believed that Chen Yuying was wrongly accused back then, and that the crimes that were enough to wipe out the nine tribes were all fabricated by Luo Weaving. They were the cunning methods used by Emperor Yong'an to scare others and shock the people of the world.
Qi Minghui originally thought that when Han Changmu heard these words, he would retreat and stop pressing her. Unexpectedly, this man showed no sign of fear and just stared at her as usual, waiting for her to continue. The calm look.
She choked hard and was stunned before continuing: "Chen Ayuan is the younger sister of Chen Yuying, the husband of the slave family, and Rong Sulan is the widowed sister-in-law of the slave."
She had decided to tell the whole story clearly, so naturally she had to start from the beginning, starting from her own identity.
But Han Changmu was obviously impatient that Qi Minghui started talking from the beginning. He raised his hand without waiting for Qi Minghui to speak again: "After the Chen family was convicted, Qing Qian, oh no, Chen A'ao was imprisoned with you." Are you in the prison of the Ministry of Justice?"
Qi Minghui was stunned for a moment and didn't understand why Han Changmu asked like this, but she still shook her head adhering to the facts: "No."
"No?" Han Changmu raised his voice in disbelief, and it took him a while to lower his sharp voice: "The saint's will is that the entire Chen family should be imprisoned. Sixteen years ago, Chen A'ao must have been two or three years old. At that time, he was ordered to confiscate his home. It’s the forbidden army and the inner guard, and Chen Yuying is really good at it, and she was able to let a fish slip through the net under the noses of the forbidden army and the inner guard.”
Qi Minghui was a little confused by Han Changmu's words, and was obviously panicked, but she still told the truth: "The first year A Yao was born, Chen Yuying brought back a bastard from nowhere." She paused, with a feeling. Unspeakable resentment: "After A Yao was born, that bastard took over A Yao's identity. From then on, A Yao never saw the light of day again. I originally thought that A Yao would never be able to appear in front of people from now on, but Chen Mansion was convicted, Chen
But Yuying asked my Ayao to suffer in that bastard's place. I, how could I let it go? That is my daughter, a daughter who cannot recognize each other when they meet. "
Her hands tightly grasped the corners of her skirt, and her tears were like broken beads, constantly falling down, and she sobbed in agony: "The imperial army came in a hurry, and Chen Yuying didn't have time to make arrangements, so I took action first. When I got stronger, I asked my wet nurse to take A Yao out of the house, and I carried that bastard into the prison of the Ministry of Punishment."
She smiled with tears in her eyes and said sadly: "It's ridiculous that he thought until he died that that bastard had escaped."
Hearing these words, Han Changmu's heart was in an uproar. He was so shocked that he had countless questions in his heart that needed an answer. His expression was as calm as usual, and he raised his left arm: "I remember there is a piece of Qing Qian at this location. Light cyan birthmark.”
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"Birthmark, how come my Ah Yao has any birthmark!" Qi Minghui sneered at herself, crying tears of heartache: "That's not a birthmark at all, the one with the birthmark is that bastard. Chen Yuying didn't know where she got this bastard from. I don’t know what kind of identity this bastard is, but he burned off the birthmark on that bastard’s arm, but tattooed this birthmark on my A Yao’s arm.”
Han Changmu's doubts seemed to be suddenly relieved. He stared at Qi Minghui's face and asked word for word: "In other words, the person who went to the prison of the Ministry of Punishment with you is another Chen A'ao."
Qi Minghui didn't understand why Han Changmu had been entangled in this matter, but he still nodded: "Yes, that bastard used my A'ao's name and identity, so naturally he had to suffer for her. She accompanied me in She was seriously ill in the prison of the Ministry of Punishment. I thought she would not survive it. Who knew that this little bastard had a long life, but she managed to survive. Logically speaking, she would also be sent to a training workshop, but I thought Life was difficult because of the strict rules in Ye Ting, and she would definitely not survive if she entered the palace at such a young age, so I tried every means to send her to the classroom, and sure enough," she chattered, without any warmth in her laughter. , so cruel and chilling: "Ayuan has been asking about her in Yeting for several years, but there is no news about her. She really didn't survive. The sins I, Ayao, have suffered have finally been repaid to her. I just give up. It is also very happy, but I, Ayao, am innocent, she is still so young and has never had a good day, so she cannot die."
Han Changmu's eyes turned cold and his heart sank, but then he thought about it. There seemed to be a hand in Ye Ting, which wiped out Yao Yao's identity before entering Ye Ting and his experiences in the six months after entering Ye Ting. He went, and the things he saw now were left behind by thoughtful people and could be seen by others.
Even though there was no evidence on paper that Yao Yao was the baby girl of unknown origin that Chen Yuying took back, Han Changmu's intuition felt that she was the baby girl, and she was the little girl locked up in the prison of the Ministry of Punishment. It must be so.
Just to verify the identity, he still needs to see Yao Yao and then consider it carefully. If he can coax Yao Yao to roll up his sleeves and confirm whether there is a burn on his head, he can confirm Yao Yao's identity, and maybe it will be done. You can follow the clues and find out what her origin is.
He laughed dumbly in his heart, thinking about it for so many years, but he didn't expect that he would recognize the wrong person in the end, and he didn't expect that after going round and round, that person would be by his side.
It was because he was blind that he actually missed it.
