Shen Haolin was sitting outside, looking at the small pot on the tea stove. Inside the small pot was the white fungus soup that Jin Miaomiao had ordered to prepare in advance.
While he was fiddling with it, he saw Jin Miaomiao helping Shen Cha come out of the room. He quickly stood up and walked over, supported the weak Shen Cha, and sat down slowly.
"How do you feel now? Do you feel uncomfortable?" Shen Haolin reached out and touched Shen Cha's forehead. The heat had subsided. "You took the medicine, right?"
"Drank it."
Shen Cha nodded and leaned crookedly on Shen Haolin's body. She became very clingy and coquettish when she was sick, but only those closest to her could see this side. She squinted as Jin Miaomiao went to ask someone to clean up the inner room. When they left, Jin Miaomiao sat opposite her, and then she cleared her throat.
"Brother, I just told Miao Miao." She leaned towards Shen Haolin, "During the period of sleep, I dreamed about my father, mother and Master Huilan. They said something, maybe Can provide us with some help.”
"Dream of father, mother and master?"
Shen Haolin was quite surprised. He had never dreamed about his parents and master since they passed away. He missed them very much, but as time passed, he had suppressed this longing in his heart. . Only in the dead of night, when people are alone, will my thoughts come up from the bottom of my heart. Even Shen Cha has never seen such a fragile feeling.
He also once wondered whether his father and mother did not come to see them because they knew that they were one of his biggest weaknesses and in order to make him stronger and shoulder heavier and more responsibilities. If this is the case, he also feels that they have done the right thing. As the leader of Jiaping Pass, he needs to ensure that the border is not lost, that hundreds of thousands of people will not die or be displaced, and he is even responsible for the peace of the entire Great Xia. Peace and stability, he who is responsible for such a large number of people must be rational and calm when facing anyone and anything, and cannot let his temper run wild.
However, now that he heard Shen Cha say that he dreamed about his father, mother and Master Huilan, the longing that had been suppressed in his heart for many years started to stir up again. He suppressed them as much as possible and stayed calm and peaceful as much as possible.
"Yes." Shen Cha glanced at Shen Haolin. She and her brother had grown up together, and her brother's little thoughts could not be hidden from her at all. Seeing the restraint beneath his calm surface, she smiled lightly, " First of all, I want to express my father, mother and master’s greetings to you. They miss you very much, but due to various reasons, they cannot come to see you, and I hope you can understand.”
"This doesn't sound like what my father or mother said." Shen Haolin raised his eyebrows slightly, "It's more like your tone."
"Now that you know it, don't expose it. Although dad and mom didn't make it clear like this, the meaning is indeed this. It's good that brother understands." Shen Cha took a few breaths, looked at Jin Miaomiao, and continued. , "I have told you what the master said, you understand, right?"
"Understood!" Jin Miaomiao nodded, "I just want to eat less stuffing and don't stay in Yaolu all the time. I understand!"
"Then, next is the point I want to tell you. After you listen, you can decide whether to tell Brother Xiaotian."
"Is it related to him?" Shen Haolin shook his head gently, "No, it should be related to Uncle Xue and Aunt Xue, right?"
"Brother Yingming is indeed related to them, but to be precise, it has nothing to do with the past events of the Xue family."
"What happened to the Xue family in the past?" Shen Haolin and Jin Miaomiao looked at each other, "When the Xue family was in Xijing City?"
"It's the empress in the palace." Shen Cha thought for a while, organized his words, and explained the Xue family's past events as clearly as possible. After finishing speaking, she looked at Shen Haolin and Shen Cha, "That's what father, mother and master said, but we have never seen what they said in any files, right? Even Xiaotian Brother didn’t mention what happened when the lady was at home, right?”
"He didn't mention it, simply because he had never experienced it at all! He had never seen the empress until her death, right?" Jin Miaomiao looked at Shen Haolin, "I remember the second year after the empress passed away, Hou I was just born, right?"
"You remember correctly, there is only half a year difference between us." Shen Haolin nodded, "Don't say you haven't seen it before, I haven't seen it either."
"To be disrespectful, the late emperor's harem is really..." Jin Miaomiao shook her head gently, "It's just a mess of words. It includes girls from the Xue family, Aunt Xue's natal sister, and Shen family. Miss, this is embarrassing the people around you."
"This is the custom. It's generally like this. It's not just the late emperor who did this." Shen Haolin chuckled lightly and looked at Shen Cha, who had half-closed eyes. "You can't blame Xiaotian for not saying it. He I have never met that empress, nor do I know that empress, so there is no need to say anything."
"Besides, what the empress did should be regarded as a family scandal of the Xue family, right?" Jin Miaomiao sighed, "Family scandals should not be made public, and you can't tell the juniors about the faults of the elders, right? Mr. Hou doesn't know, but he is also sentimental. Excusable.”
"Then have you ever heard the master mention that the empress really has a bad fate, or did someone do it deliberately?"
"For things like destiny, whether you believe it or not, it doesn't exist. It's not a big deal. But if the empress was very lively one day and fell ill and dying the next day, it definitely has nothing to do with destiny. Nine times out of ten it’s…”
"It's being plotted, right?" Shen Cha suddenly realized, "Is this why the old monk from Daxiangguo Temple and the old Taoist priest from Tianning Temple are helpless?" Seeing Jin Miaomiao nodding, she sighed softly. , "I want to ask you what you mean, do you want to tell Brother Xiaotian about this matter." She took the bowl handed over by Jin Miaomiao and took a sip of the white fungus soup, "I'll tell you what I think first, then This empress should be the source of everything, I mean the original source of these things that happened in Daxia. If you want to truly and completely defend Aunt Xue, I think Brother Xiaotian still needs to know."
"I agree." Shen Haolin nodded, "Having no feelings will not make him have bad feelings."
"I agree too." Jin Miaomiao also agreed, "But you have to be careful with your words and take care of our Marquis's mood. It's not easy for our Marquis. If we knew that the source of these came from the Xue family, we would be much more certain. How sad and guilty!”
