108 Return home
"It's not important how I am, but Ping An must not be wronged." Yueniang raised her head and looked directly at the Duke of Chu.
The Duke of Chu glared and said, "Qingqing is my daughter and the direct daughter of my Chu family. Who dares to wrong her? Madam, don't you believe me?"
"I believe in the general, but I still want the general to promise it personally." Yueniang refused to give in.
How could Shiyi live a comfortable life on his own, only to have his mother be wronged? He took her mother's hand and said, "Mom, since we are so wronged, we can live a good life if we don't go back and find a place with beautiful mountains and clear waters."
"Qingqing." Duke Chu was anxious and annoyed, but more importantly, he was heartbroken, "You can't trust your father either? In the past, the war was busy and your father was away from home for many years, which indeed caused your mother to suffer a lot of grievances, but this time your mother How can we go back to the past? No one can touch a single hair of your mother and daughter."
Yueniang looked at her daughter, a smile appeared in the corner of her eyes. The daughter now is different from before, "Let's go back."
Eleven doesn't even remember this father, let alone any grievances he suffered in the past. It doesn't matter whether he goes back home or not. If his mother wants to go back, she will go back with her. If they want to make her mother suffer, she won't be polite. The worst is. After a while, I took my mother and left.
Without further ado, he followed his parents out of the inn and got into the carriage.
In the car, the Duke of Chu asked what happened to their mother and daughter during the funeral. Qing Yi was obviously dead, so why was she still alive? Where had their mother and daughter been for more than a year, and why did they not return home.
Moments before his daughter's funeral, he received an urgent order to kill the gangsters who had sneaked into the capital. He could not attend the funeral in person because he did not want to cause trouble to the entire funeral procession of his daughter.
People nearby said that the entire road was blocked and no one was allowed to pass.
But they could hear the miserable screams, it was clearly a massacre.
When he arrived at the scene, he found not a single dead body, not even a trace of blood. It was so clean that no trace could be found. However, no one from the entire funeral procession came back, including his wife Yueniang.
There are two types of people who can handle a scene with a large number of corpses quickly and skillfully.
One is a well-trained army, and the other is a large and extremely organized gang.
The former often use this method to kill enemy people, clean up the scene as quickly as possible, and then disguise themselves as enemy troops for further operations.
The latter is to avoid leaving clues for officers and soldiers to trace.
But no matter which one it is, a large number of corpses have to be buried.
However, the Duke of Chu sent people to search a hundred miles around, but could not find a single body.
This thing is really weird.
Regarding the massacre, Yueniang did not go into details. She only said that she suddenly encountered a large number of bandits and killed everyone on sight.
The daughter Qingyi was not really dead, she just held her breath and passed away. When the coffin was thrown to the ground, she woke up with a shock.
The family tried their best to protect their mother and daughter from escaping.
In a panic, they entered a forest, fell down a waterfall, and were swept into the Snake Kingdom's Albizia Julibrissin forest by the undercurrent, contracting the miasma of the Albizia Julibrissin forest.
Fortunately, the Snake King loved the spices she prepared, so the Queen of the Snake Kingdom spared the lives of their mother and daughter.
But they were poisoned by miasma and could not leave the Snake Kingdom, so they could not return to Yan.
This time the Snake Kingdom was forced by Pingyang Hou's army and sent many beauties to the Yan Kingdom. Because these beauties were the daughters of everyone, they all brought their servants to serve them.
The Snake King is dead and she is of no use anymore.
The mother and daughter were assigned to serve the daughters of these noble men, but Qing Yi was clever and found an opportunity, allowing the mother and daughter to escape.
He never mentioned his daughter's identity as a dead soldier and her inhuman life in the Snake Country.
No one in the court knew that Marquis Pingyang was asking for beauties from the Snake Kingdom.
But there are very few people who have seen Eleven's true appearance.
Eleven knew that her mother did this to completely erase her identity as a dead soldier.
Otherwise, the Yan State would never tolerate her just because of the generals she killed.
Although Yueniang was speaking hastily, the Duke of Chu was frightened when he heard this, knowing that the mother and daughter had suffered a lot of frights and hardships this year.
In addition, no one who has been poisoned by the acacia miasma can live without the spring water of the acacia forest, so I have no doubts about Yueniang's words.
I felt pity in my heart, and even more guilty for almost burying my daughter who was not seriously dead. I was silent for a long time.
After a long time, he sighed and held his wife and daughter tightly, "It's all my fault that you two have suffered. In the future, such a thing will never happen again, and I will never let you two suffer again." suffer."
Although Eleven lost his memory, he couldn't help but his heart was surging at this time.
Just a little confused.
As a high-ranking official of the Yan Kingdom, his father would not be unaware of the seriousness of the Snake Kingdom's miasma, but he did not express much concern about the miasma poisoning their mother and daughter. He was not worried, nor did he feel any pain or headache.
Although she had doubts, she didn't want to bring it up at this time and cause trouble for her parents who had reunited after a long separation.
Yan army camp.
There is a transparent jade bottle containing an unknown liquid on the desk.
Pingyang Hou held an extremely thin, bendable hollow gold needle, sucked the liquid in the bottle into the needle, and carefully inserted it into the skin along the hair temples until the end of the needle, then released the fingers blocking the needle hole, and followed The golden needle is slowly drawn out, leaving the liquid evenly on the face.
Each of his automatic movements seems very slow, but the whole process is extremely fast.
He closed his eyes and waited for the sting of the medicine to subside. When he opened his eyes again, his originally handsome face became plain and ordinary. What couldn't be taken away was the elegance and nobility that oozed from his bones.
Ling Yun sat cross-legged opposite Pingyang Hou, playing with a green wolf ghost face similar to Pingyang Hou's.
After Pingyang Hou took away the golden needle and the flat bottle, he said, "Do you really believe what Mrs. Yue said?"
Pingyang Hou's black eyes darkened slightly, "She is a deep-seated woman and she loves her husband very much. If she hadn't really learned that the emperor had sent a killer to hide in the funeral procession, she would never have done that with me. Make a deal and ask me to save her."
Ling Feng frowned, "Those killers noticed something was wrong with Madam Yue, and took action in advance to massacre the family members of the Duke of Chu's Mansion. When we arrived, the mourners had been slaughtered to pieces, and only a few were left to escort Madam Yue's mother. Lady's loyal servant was also one of their people who lurked in the Duke's Mansion of Chu State, but was intercepted and killed by us. Judging from the scene at that time, they thought they wanted to kidnap Mrs. Yue's mother and daughter. I have always thought It doesn’t make sense, since Mrs. Yue knows too much, why don’t they just silence her?”
Marquis Pingyang frowned slightly, "This is what I want to know too, but it's a pity that Mrs. Yue is too tight-lipped, so I can't get anything out of her mouth anyway. Whether this matter can be brought to light depends on who comes from the Snake Country." Where does the spring water flow into?"
"If those spring water are really sent to the Duke of Chu's palace, then the current emperor..." Ling Yun gasped.
Last time, Lingfeng followed Marquis Pingyang's method and found out that the spring water transferred out of Beijing by nomadic traders was indeed fake, and the real spring water did stay in Yanjing.
And there are clues that the spring water is actually related to the Duke of Chu.
The Duke of Chu has never personally attacked the Snake Kingdom, so he will naturally not be infected by the miasma in the Albizia Julibrissin Forest. If he is really infected with the miasma, he is injured in the line of duty. This is a great achievement. There is no need to cover it up. He can be generous. There is no need to be so sneaky about trying to get spring water.
It was done so covertly, so it was very possible that the water was sent into the palace.
And it's not just sent to the palace all at once, but to blackmail someone.
The only person who could make the Duke of Chu spend so much effort to blackmail him could only be Emperor Yan.
Emperor Yan would rather be blackmailed than get the water. There are only two possibilities.
First, he uses the water himself; second, the most important people to him need this spring water.
The eldest brother has been in Yanjing since he was a child and has never been near the Snake Country. It is impossible for him to be infected with the miasma of the Albizia Julibrissin Forest.
Although he has many beauties in his harem, he is unfeeling by nature, and no woman can make him love her enough to be threatened by his ministers.
Unless, this Emperor Yan is fake.
Marquis Pingyang smiled, but his eyes were frozen, "We can't draw a conclusion even if we can't find out the truth about this matter."
The Ling brothers knew the importance of this matter and nodded together.
Ling Yun put on the mask, "They all thought that when you set out to conquer the Snake Country, your vigilance would be relaxed, and they should be able to find out some clues this time."
He is naturally handsome, and although he is not as handsome as Marquis Pingyang, he is not a familiar person, so looking at him like this, the fake can be mistaken for the real.
Marquis Pingyang nodded, "Although the Snake Kingdom has run out of oil, dogs bite people harder when they are anxious. You must be more careful when you go this time. I have contacted my second brother, who will secretly supervise the battle. With my second brother’s ability, this battle won’t drag on for too long, I’m waiting for your good news in the capital.”
The Ling brothers both agreed.
After lighting a stick of incense, Marquis Pingyang pretended to be a correspondent, left the barracks, and hurried back to Yanjing.
On the birthday of the noble concubine Xian, a grand banquet was held in honor of the wives of the ministers, in order to win over people's hearts.
Chu Guogong's mother, Shiyi's grandma Chu Taijun, naturally led Xiangqin there.
So the eleven mothers and daughters returned to the Duke of Chu's mansion. Neither Chu Taijun nor Xiang Qin were in the mansion.
There is no need for Yueniang and Shiyi to visit Taijun Chu.
After the husband and wife of the Duke of Chu personally sent Eleven back to her original boudoir, Yueniang asked her husband to wait outside the door. She gave her daughter a few words.
When the Duke of Chu returned his wife and daughter, he was naturally obedient to her. He told Shiyi to have a good rest and went out first.
Yue Niang caressed Shi Yi's face gently, "Ping An, your name was Qing Yi in the past. From now on, there will never be Shi Yi, only Qing Yi for my parents."
Shi Yi had remembered the name Qing Yi a long time ago. Now that he has returned to his real name, it is completely normal. He nodded lightly and said, "My daughter knows."
Since then, the eleven dead soldiers of the Yue Kingdom have died in Pingyang Mansion.
And she is Qing Yi of the Duke of Chu.
Qing Yi learned from Yueniang that this place was her past room, but looking at the tables and chairs in the room, she really couldn't remember a single thing.
The place that should be familiar turns out to be as unfamiliar as visiting it for the first time.
The parents reunited after a long absence, and they must have a lot to say, but it was not convenient for her to follow them and distract them.
Thinking about Lao Zhangtou, who took in their mother and daughter when she and her mother first entered Yanjing, she felt a little sad.
