"I have some good stuff here, you two can help me check it out... Hey, what are you doing here? Setting up a stall?"
Xue Ruitian originally dragged a big box over and wanted Shen Cha and Jin Miaomiao to help identify it. But before he could say anything, he saw the things spread out on the ground and was stunned.
"What's going on? Where did you get so many things?" Xue Ruitian looked at the things here and couldn't help but gasped, "What are all these?"
"What's going on? It's just like what you saw, Mr. Hou, what else could be going on?" Jin Miaomiao sat cross-legged on the white cloth spread out, looking through the gadgets hidden in those clothes. He bared his teeth at Xue Ruitian and said, "These are rare things, Lord Marquis!"
"Well, why do I feel that the smell here is a bit sour?" No one can use it."
"If you dare to take anything else, you really don't dare to take these. If you take them, it would be treason." Jin Miaomiao snorted, "But I have to say, the Hou family's wealth is beyond my imagination. Just You can find a lot of interesting and good things in this house.”
"You can only find it here. I'm afraid you won't be able to see it at all in other places."
"That's true." Jin Miaomiao picked up the pair of inconspicuous-looking earrings and blew lightly, "Red beans grow in the south. How many branches will grow when spring comes?" She chuckled, "Who is this? For your concubine? Is it so sentimental?"
"How can you be sure it belongs to your aunt? Maybe it belongs to someone else!"
"Master Marquis, look at these opened boxes. They are all the relics of the empress. After the empress passed away, the late emperor returned them to the Xue family." Jin Miaomiao raised her chin towards the boxes, "These things But they were all dug out from these boxes, don’t they belong to the empress?”
"Let me take a look." Xue Ruitian looked at the opened boxes with his hands behind his back, at the boxes containing clothes, and then at the box containing tea sets, tableware, and incense utensils. "Good guy, this is really There’s something good! Haolin, Haolin, come on, come over and take a look!”
Shen Haolin heard Xue Ruitian yelling and walked over slowly holding a volume of books. When he saw the box that Xue Ruitian pointed out to him excitedly, he glanced at it lightly without any big change in his expression. He sat next to Shen Cha.
"Why are you so calm? These are the things in the palace. They are all good things that you can't see on ordinary days! Ah, no, things in the palace are common, but things in the harem are not." Xue Ruitian picked it up carefully He opened the lid of an incense burner and smelled it. Although it had not been used for many years, it still had a faint fragrance. "This incense burner is really well made, but it should only burn a single type of incense." He closed it. He felt it with his eyes, "Hmm... citrus, chayote, and..." He shook his head gently and handed the incense burner to Jin Miaomiao, "I don't have much research on incense. You can smell it and see."
Jin Miaomiao took it, smelled it, raised her eyebrows slightly, and showed a sneer.
"Can't the Marquis smell such a strong musk?" She handed the incense burner to Xue Ruitian, took another one out of the box, took it out and smelled it, then turned to look at the agarwood tea, "Have we found the fragrance of the finished product? ?”
"No." Shen Cha blinked. She just listened to what the two people said and yawned. "Isn't it normal that there is musk in it? It may not be the fault of the Empress Dowager, maybe it's the Empress herself."
"Why?" Jin Miaomiao looked puzzled, "Don't you want to have a child of your own?"
"She herself is a victim of the struggle between the two sides. The Xue family did not want her to give birth to a prince, and it is even more impossible for the Queen Mother to let the empress give birth to an heir for the Song family. Since everyone has the same purpose, in order to avoid more If it hurts the body, using incense is a relatively gentle method." Shen Cha sighed softly, "Besides, the empress knows that she will die soon, so..." She shrugged, "No need to make too much fuss."
"Although it's a bit indifferent, this is indeed what it is." Xue Ruitian nodded and looked at Shen Haolin, who still had no reaction to these, "Why are you not curious at all, Haolin!"
"What are you curious about? There are a lot of these things at home." Shen Haolin glanced at him, "When my mother got married, the dowry could fill the entire Wuding Hou Mansion."
"Pfft!" Jin Miaomiao laughed so hard that her stomach hurt, and she slapped Xue Ruitian on the shoulder hard, "Master Hou, are you stupid?"
Xue Ruitian snorted coldly, rolled his eyes, and looked aggrieved.
Shen Haolin smiled and reached out to touch Shen Cha's hand next to him. He felt that the temperature was okay, and then he felt relieved.
"Is it cold?"
"It's okay." Shen Cha smiled and leaned closer to Shen Haolin, "What did you find?"
"Not yet." Shen Haolin shook his head gently, "I just started to look at it, there are such things over there..." He pointed to the boxes containing clothes and various appliances, "Basically there are none."
"I also have flowers for the slips here, but not as many as my brother." Shen Cha glanced at the slips in Shen Haolin's hand and raised his chin towards the pile on the ground, "Having half as many as my brother's is good, but, I just went through all of these, and I have some understanding of them." She looked at Shen Haolin, "Basically, they are correspondence between the Xue family, the Empress Dowager, and her own family members, and some of them have been preserved by the Xue family. The secret letters between him and the Empress Dowager, and earlier, some letters exchanged before and after the Xue family withdrew from the Qinglian Sect."
"What is the specific situation?"
"I haven't watched it yet. I plan to move out and watch it again. Brother, don't watch it either. There's not enough light in here and it's not good for your eyes."
"Okay!" Shen Haolin nodded and looked at the box in Shen Cha's arms, "What is it?"
"I don't know. I haven't had time to look at it yet. I guess it's similar to those..." Shen Cha looked at the white cloth spread on the ground and the scattered little things on the white cloth. "It's about the same. There are too many scattered things here. There are too many, and just sorting them out is already a headache and takes a lot of time.”
She sighed softly, rested her head on Shen Haolin's shoulder, and chuckled.
"What's wrong? What are you laughing at?"
"Uncle is a very attentive person." Shen Cha smiled faintly, "I have sorted all the things belonging to the queen into categories."
"Why do you say that? Maybe Uncle Xue or Aunt Xue sorted it out?"
"No." Shen Cha shook his head gently, "These things should have never been opened after arriving at the Xue family, and they were brought intact from Xijing City to the border."
"I agree with Xiao Cha." Jin Miaomiao picked up a thin necklace from the white cloth, "otherwise, how could this be hidden in the middle of the clothes without being discovered?"
