"What my brother said is that the intention to win over my father and mother is very obvious, and it is not concealed at all."
"At that time, although the Blue Lotus Sect was declining, its strength was still there. Even if the late emperor attacked the Green Lotus Sect again and again, he still had to take into account the face of the Empress Dowager and the royal family, and always turned a blind eye. Close one eye."
"What I'm saying is that even if they are not biological mother and son, they are indeed mother and son in name. If the late emperor attacks the empress dowager, he will always be accused of being unfilial." Shen Cha sighed, "This is something we all don't What she wants to see is the support of the Empress Dowager, which is the main reason why she is so bold." She blinked her eyes and lowered her voice and said, "Fortunately... right?"
"Yes!" Shen Haolin reached out and touched her head, "Fortunately, otherwise, I wouldn't know how to get rid of it!"
"Mom and dad are very lucky, right?"
"Yes, very good." Shen Haolin sighed deeply, "They are blessed people in every sense of the word."
"Yes!" Shen Cha nodded, put down the Buddha statue, picked up an incense holder, and looked at it carefully, "Brother, what words are engraved on this?" She yawned, looking sleepy, and said, "In the evening I see too much, my eyesight is not good, and I can’t see clearly.”
"Let me take a look." Shen Haolin took the incense holder, turned it over, and touched it with his hand. There were indeed traces of engraving. He took the candlestick next to it and shined it for a while before he saw clearly that the words on it were What. “Long live the Holy Virgin.”
"Longevity to the Holy Mother?" Shen Cha touched his chin and thought for a while, "Doesn't this mean that it is only for the Holy Mother of Green Lotus? That's what it means, right?"
"That's probably what it means." Shen Haolin nodded, "It seems that we are going in the right direction, the Queen Mother..."
"The Empress Dowager is the Holy Mother of the Green Lotus?" Shen Cha thought for a moment and shook his head gently, "No, no, if we count the age, the Holy Mother of the Green Lotus should be the Queen Mother's grandmother, right?"
"Cha'er, Our Lady of Green Lotus cannot be just one person, right?"
"That's true." Shen Cha thought for a while, "There should be an inheritance, but..." Shen Cha picked up the bronze statue of Our Lady of Green Lotus on the table, looked at it carefully, and handed it to Shen Haolin. "Brother must have met the Empress Dowager, right?" Seeing Shen Haolin nod, she continued, "Does it look like her?"
"Hmm..." Shen Haolin shook his head gently, "It doesn't look like him, but if he is connected by blood with the Queen Mother, and is an elder of the Queen Mother's grandmother's generation, it is possible that he doesn't look the same. But... "
"To select a concubine for the East Palace, a lot of research needs to be done on such a relationship. If the Empress Dowager and the Virgin Mother of Green Lotus are related by blood, the Imperial Grandfather would not agree, right?"
"We didn't live at that time, and we don't know how the selection was carried out at that time and what conditions were there." Shen Haolin patted her shoulder, "Put this aside first, and then look at the others. .”
"Okay, let's look at the second floor."
Shen Cha stood up, pulled Shen Haolin to the front of the display cabinet, stood on the small stool, put the bronze statue, the incense holder, etc. back to their original positions, and returned the small pieces of paper underneath.
"What's this level below?"
"Let me see, why have I never noticed these things before?"
Shen Cha held up the night pearls and looked over them one by one. Just like the top layer, under each item there was a small note handwritten by Mrs. Shen Guogong. She couldn't help but click her tongue twice while reading.
"What's wrong? What are they?"
"It's every gift my father gave to my mother. My mother marked on it when she received these gifts and what my father's intentions were."
"Yeah?"
"Yes, but I have never seen it before, or... I haven't noticed it. It shows how much my mother likes and cherishes these gifts, and even we have never seen them!"
Seeing Shen Cha's envious look, Shen Haolin chuckled, but did not continue what she said.
Shen Cha originally wanted to make a joke, but suddenly found that after he took down all the luminous pearls on the top floor, two faint lights shot out from the Buddha statue, or to be precise, from the mechanism of the Buddha statue.
"Brother?"
"I see it."
The two people looked for the light and saw a dark grid faintly appearing on the opposite wall. The two people looked at each other.
"Father and mother are really..."
"Speak with your heart."
Shen Haolin helped Shen Cha down, carrying the small stool in front of the opposite wall.
"You stay down, I'll go up." Shen Haolin patted Shen Cha on the head, "Stand far away, be good."
Shen Cha nodded. She didn't stand particularly far away, she just took two steps back.
Shen Haolin stretched out his hand and tapped twice on the wall, touched the area where the faint light came from on the opposite side, and felt a small gap at what seemed to be the edge.
He felt that the mechanism designed by his father and mother would not allow them to open it roughly. There must be other places to open this secret compartment.
Shen Cha had the same idea as Shen Haolin. She wandered around the study and couldn't find any place to open it. Suddenly she saw the incense holder just now, thought about it, found another small stool, stood on it, and took down the incense holder.
"Brother, give it a try."
Shen Haolin took the incense holder and slowly approached the gap in the hidden compartment. When he got close to the right side, he heard a click and the hidden compartment opened. He quickly jumped down from the chair and pulled Shen Haolin. Tea took a few steps back, but nothing happened.
"Brother, be careful of overdoing it." Shen Cha chuckled, "There must be dirt, but there should not be anything else. After all, in the eyes of father and mother, no one is smarter than us."
Shen Haolin smiled and pulled her back. He didn't know why he jumped off the chair just now when his head felt hot. Now that he stood back up, he suddenly felt that his actions just now were a little silly.
"What's in the secret compartment?"
"It's a dossier."
Shen Haolin took out the bamboo slips and files and handed them to Shen Cha. He used a candlestick to shine into the dark compartment. "Wait a minute, there is another box." He reached out and took out the long box and handed it to Shen Cha. Chen Cha checked again and found that nothing was left behind. Then he closed the door of the secret compartment and jumped down from the small stool.
Shen Cha put everything else away and opened the long box he took out last. Inside was a scroll.
