Although it was very cold in the yard, everyone's interest was very high. It seemed that the people who were so sleepy that they couldn't open their eyes and were so tired that they didn't even want to move a finger were not them at all.
The guards of the Duke's Mansion moved quickly. Under the leadership of Mei Lin and Mei Zhu, they set up the barbecue rack and lit the fire in the courtyard in less than a cup of tea. In order to prevent everyone from freezing, Jin Miaomiao specially ordered them to set up a few more charcoal basins. Not only that, she also told those guys who had a whim to wear more and thicker clothes, so as not to wake up the next day and sadly find themselves sick.
Everyone sat around the fire, lighting the fire, choosing their favorites from the ingredients Jin Miaomiao brought, and putting them on the rack to bake.
Song Jue and Song Qiyun had a quarrel over a string of fish balls. Bai Meng pretended to watch the excitement, and saw the right moment, snatched the food from the tiger's mouth, and took the fish balls for himself. The Song brothers instantly united their stance, grabbed the leader, and scratched his crotch for a long time. Seeing him rolling on the ground with laughter, breathless, and begging for mercy, they mercifully let him go. .
Jin Miaomiao heated the wine for everyone, and when she saw the three people making a fuss, she shook her head helplessly. If this spread, who would believe that the mainstays of Daxia are actually a bunch of childish ghosts in private!
Shen Cha held a cup of pigeon soup that was stewed to a crisp. She drank half the cup and felt a little full. She saw that Shen Haolin next to him had already finished his portion, so he stuffed his own into his cup. in hand.
"Miaomiao, come!" Shen Cha waved to Jin Miaomiao, "I have a question to ask you."
"What?" Jin Miaomiao sat over and touched Shen Cha's hand first. It was not as cold as expected, and he was relieved. "Is it about the poisonous insect on the old lady?" Seeing Shen Haolin and Shen Cha nodding together, she sighed, "You want to know why Aunt Xue and her brothers and sisters were not affected by the poisonous insect, but instead It’s His Highness Prince Ning who has been tortured for so many years, right?”
"Yes, does the Gu insect have its own ideas and choose its own people?"
"It's not that magical, it's just..." Jin Miaomiao glanced at the Song brothers and Bai Meng who came over after the chase, and Jin Miaomiao sighed again, "What I say next may be a little offensive. To your Majesty’s ancestors, please forgive me.”
"What you said is the truth. There is nothing offensive." Song Jue took a bite of the freshly baked fish balls and said vaguely, "I can probably guess what you are going to say. You want to talk about the poison on my grandmother." The worms were actually fed with the blood of the Song family. Only when the Gu worms meet the Song family can they have such an effect, right?"
"Yes!" Jin Miaomiao nodded and took a sip from the small wine glass. "The imperial concubine who was found to be Xizuo is actually a witch from their tribe. She is very good at using poison to control others. The position of the old lady's natal family It was consistent with Daxia. The witch probably thought that they were traitors to the tribe, who had defected to Daxia and betrayed their own people for the sake of glory and wealth, so she used this relatively vicious method. Once the old lady's natal family had The girl becomes the imperial concubine again, and the prince she gives birth to will either die young or be like His Highness Prince Ning, which can be regarded as a kind of revenge."
"Although I don't know much about this thing, it shouldn't be possible to raise this Gu insect overnight, right?" Shen Cha frowned and said, "She should have started raising this when she came to Daxia and married into the palace. ?”
"That's for sure." Jin Miaomiao nodded towards her, "As far as I know, it will take at least ten years from the time she marries the royal family to the time she is found out..." She looked at Song Jue , "If I remember correctly, it should have been fifteen years."
"Seventeen years and three months." Song Jue finished eating a bunch of fish balls, then took a duck leg from the shelf and gnawed on it. "The records in Zongzheng Temple's files are clear. Such a long time is enough. .”
"Brother Huang also suspected before that the poisonous insects on my grandmother's body were planted by the imperial concubine?"
"Yes!" Song Jue nodded, poured himself a glass of wine, and took a sip, "The time is right, but my grandmother was still very young at that time, only two or three years old. That person If you put the poison on her body, aren't you afraid that she will miss or fail?"
"No, I'm just the right age." Jin Miaomiao turned over a few strings of fish balls that were being grilled on the shelf, and placed a small soup pot on top with some vegetables boiled in it. "His Majesty said before, Emperor Chongyi The Queen Mother once objected to the old lady marrying into the palace, and when choosing a concubine, she was directly eliminated without any reason. This should be the reason."
"I think so too, so my grandfather did not resist, but acquiesced to Empress Dowager Chongyi's doing this. My grandmother also knew why she couldn't be with my grandfather, and she married her with peace of mind." Song Jue used the hand in her hand. The bamboo stick tapped the grill lightly, "The next question is, they all know that two people can't be together, let alone have children. So, why did Uncle Ning appear in this world? Why should he endure this? What about the pain and suffering?”
"It's a last resort, there must be reasons for it." Shen Haolin pondered for a moment and looked at Song Jue, "With all due respect, His Highness Prince Ning was probably used by them to get rid of... to be precise, it should be to break free from something. , that is to say, he has been a tool to be used since he was born, and he himself knows this very well, so he can feel the sadness, determination, and even desperate aura emanating from him."
"I agree with what my brother said." Shen Cha felt a little cold, wrapped her cloak tightly around her body, and rubbed against Shen Haolin, "Mr. Bai and Uncle Bai are dissatisfied with the old lady, and father and mother deliberately alienated Aunt Xue. It should all be for this reason." She looked at Song Jue, who was silent in thought, "What cruel truth is hidden behind that so-called big secret? Several generations have spent their whole lives trying not to find out, and this The key point should be His Highness Prince Ning. That’s why the old lady is so desperate. She would rather His Highness Ning suffer a lifetime of pain than to let him be born in this world. Similarly, only this can explain what we found before Why do those things make us feel weird and unreasonable? He..." she sighed, "is fighting his own destiny."
"I agree, he is not only fighting on his own, he even drags us in. In other words, we have been part of this game from the beginning, but we just don't know it." Song Jue smiled bitterly, "So, no matter what Whether it is his own case or his aunt's case, it is all a trap to draw us into the situation. And Uncle Ning has connections with Uncle Dai Wang, Uncle Qingruo, and even many important ministers in Xijing. He has no idea what Xijing and what we have done. He knows everything very well, even in the imperial mausoleum, he can guide us to investigate, and what he finds is what he wants us to know, and what he doesn't find cannot be known to us for the time being."
"Brother Emperor, do you mean that the case between him and his aunt was actually a foreshadowing for us to investigate the so-called shocking secret?" Seeing Song Jue nodding, Song Qiyun looked horrified, "What kind of secret is it? , you can actually use human life to make a game?"
"I don't know. Judging from the way they are facing a formidable enemy, their opponent must not be easy!" Song Jue smiled at Shen Haolin, "And Haolin, there is something you said that is not particularly accurate. Not only Uncle Dan Ning is Tools that are being exploited, so are we.”
