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Chapter 177 Investigate the truth, his mother is imprisoned(1/3)

Xue Shenzhi left Qinzheng Hall, and Emperor Jin of Yuan Dynasty made his doubts worse and worse.

Emperor Jin of Yuan was worried that he knew something that he shouldn't have known.

These things are about his mother.

The Empress Dowager said that his mother once liked her very much, so she became the favorite concubine. So, his mother had a close relationship with the Empress Dowager and should have a very good relationship with Emperor Jin of Yuan Dynasty?

Why did Emperor Jin of Yuan Dynasty be so secretive about his mother's affairs?

Could it be that his mother's death is inseparable from Emperor Jin of Yuan Dynasty?

If it was Emperor Jin of Yuan, all this abnormality of Emperor Jin of Yuan would make sense.

Xue Shenzhi also had a suspicion in his heart. The murderer was Emperor Jin of Yuan, why did the empress dowager tell him the truth?

Or did he guess the wrong direction?

"Be careful."

A crisp sound sounded in front of him. Xue Shenzhi looked up and saw Shang Zhi wearing a white bottomed narrow sleeve, dark flowers and yellow half of his arms, and a lake green skirt on his hem. He was wearing a simple bun and a magnolia hairpin, which was beautiful and charming, with a graceful smile. He was pretty under the osmanthus tree, looking at him with a smile on his lips.

Xue Shenzhi paused and looked slightly surprised. In just a moment, he walked towards Shangzhi.

"It happened suddenly today, and I didn't have time to send someone to tell you, which made you worry." Xue Shenzhi's eyes were burning. Shang Zhi appeared in the palace at this time because he was worried about him and went into the palace to find him. At this moment, when he could see Shang Zhi, Xue Shenzhi felt a heavy mood and was slightly relieved, "I'm fine."

Shang Zhi learned from Concubine Wen that Xue Shenzhi was invited into the palace by the Empress Dowager, and then left Ci'an Palace and was invited to Qinzheng Hall by Emperor Jin of Yuan. She had to stand on the road leading to the palace gate to wait for Xue Shenzhi.

Shang Zhi touched his beating eyelids and carefully identified Xue Shenzhi's breathing and expression, and confirmed that he had nothing to do, so his heart completely fell.

"The eyelids are pounding very hard today, and I feel panicked. You happened to be invited into the palace. I was worried that you had something to do, so I wanted to enter the palace to find out your whereabouts. I know where you are, and I feel a little more at ease." Shang Zhi asked Xue Shenzhi, "Your Majesty hasn't made things difficult for you, right?"

Xue Shenzhi's way: "No."

"Did I think too much?" Shang Zhi thought of Concubine Wen's words, and suspected that she was too close to Xue Shenzhi, so she was not in his whereabouts. She was panicked, rather than feeling his danger. "Do I have too tightly controlled you? Wherever you are and what you are doing, you want to know. Once there is no news about you, you will be in a state of urgency."

Xue Shenzhi stood beside Shangzhi, and the breeze swayed as the branches and leaves of the osmanthus tree swayed. Little golden flowers fell between her, and raised his hand to brush the golden osmanthus on her bun, "No, I think this is great."

"Really?" Shang Zhi looked up at Xue Shenzhi. His eyes were filled with smiles, and his expression was very serious. He said with a pout: "We are newlywed now. Over time, won't you think I'm annoyed?"

Xue Shenzhi smiled and said, "This should be something I'm worried about."

Shang Zhi was stunned, reacted, glared at him, turned his head, and left on the ground with Jin Gui.

Xue Shenzhi stepped forward and held her palm, "I won't let you have a day to bother me."

Shang Zhi snorted.

Xue Shenzhi turned his head and looked at Shang Zhi, looking at the corner of her slowly rising mouth, and couldn't help but pursed her lips and smiled.

The afterglow of the sunset lengthens the two figures, which actually gives people a very warm feeling.

Shangzhi's voice slowly rang, "This year's golden osmanthus, I think it's particularly fragrant. I'll be fine tomorrow. I will pick some golden osmanthus and make osmanthus cake for you."

"Okay." Xue Shenzhi said: "I need another bowl of wine-making osmanthus rounds."

"Well. I went to Su's house on Tongque Street the day after tomorrow and happened to send some to my mother and brother." Shang Zhi calculated that Gong Mansion, Qin Mansion, County Prince's Mansion and Su Mansion had to send some to him, and there was a lot to do, "Do you have something to do tomorrow? If there is nothing to do, let's pick osmanthus together."

Xue Shenzhi said: "I will be at home tomorrow and I will go to the Prince's Mansion."

"Is it urgent?"

"No hurry."

"When I prepare the osmanthus cake, will you take the pastry to the Prince's Mansion?" The two of them got on the carriage, and Shang Zhi looked up at Xue Shenzhi.

Xue Shenzhi's eyes fell on her lips, lowered her head and held her kiss, and stopped her taste. Her slender fingers pointed at her shiny lips, and she laughed in a low voice: "I want to eat osmanthus jelly tomorrow." It was soft and sweet, just like the taste I had just tasted.

Shang Zhi's white face flew over two intoxicating red clouds, lying on his lap, without answering Xue Shenzhi's words.

When I returned to the mansion, the dishes on the table were already cold.

Chen Qiuchuan went to the kitchen to warm up, and a few of them made do with a meal of supper.

Shang Zhi went to the pharmacy and thought of what she promised Gao Yingyue, she planned to try making rouge powder, but these prepared things should be essential oils. There are two ways to extract essential oils. One is the liposuction method and the other is the soaking method. The liposuction method is relatively complex, costly and time-consuming. Shang Zhi directly chooses the soaking method, which can quickly extract essential oils.

She wrote the steps in the booklet. This soaking method is suitable for myrrh, sandalwood, and frankincense essential oil. Shangzhi plans to make myrrh essential oil because myrrh essential oil has several major effects. First, it is sterilized and has strong disinfection, which can inhibit skin inflammation, and has therapeutic effects on eczema on the face. It is also very beneficial to treat gums and can quickly cure oral ulcers. Second, it can moisturize the skin and prevent cracks and frostbite. It has anti-wrinkle and anti-aging effects, which can make the skin firm and elastic. Third, it can relax muscles and promote blood circulation, remove blood stasis and relieve pain, and develop muscles. If you soak your feet in ginger water, add a few drops of myrrh essential oil to remove athlete's foot.

The next day Shangzhi got up at dawn and prepared breakfast. She went out to extract myrrh resin, put it in a jar, and then took it home.

Xue Shenzhi and Chen Qiu had already stood up, and after breakfast, they even picked the osmanthus flowers.

Shang Zhi looked at the four baskets of osmanthus full of osmanthus flowers in surprise and said in surprise: "Did you go picking flowers so early?"

"It's Qiu Tiger now. There will be sunshine later. It's still very hot. The lady is going to work hard. Lord Xue and I will pick osmanthus first. You can make pastries directly when you come back." Chen Qiu looked at the big jar in Shang Zhi's hand, "What did the lady go out to do?"

"Pick resin." Shang Zhi held up the jar in his hand, "It took a lot of time to fill a jar of resin. I calculated half an hour before, but I didn't know that it took two hours. I thought you would wait for me to pick osmanthus flowers together. Although the sun was so fierce at noon, the osmanthus flowers were even more fragrant after the sun shining on it."

Shang Zhi grabbed a handful of osmanthus with dew, and the fragrance was very intoxicating. "Chen Qiu, go to the stove to make a fire and boil water in the pot." She put the myrrh resin back into the pharmacy, and the osmanthus had already been mentioned to Xue Shenzhi to clean the osmanthus.

Strap the apron on the Shangzhi, scoop a few scoops of glutinous rice flour and japonica rice flour, add white sugar, and knead it evenly with clean water. Just as the water on the stove is boiling, then steam the mixed cake flour in a basket for about a quarter of an hour. Shangzhi takes clean silk cloth and wet it. The cake flour steamed by the beads, keep turning and kneading until the dough is smooth and the cake flour is delicate. Then press the cake flour flat, pull it into strips, apply vegetable oil, sprinkle with dried osmanthus, cut it into squares, piece it on a plate, and put it on the table.

Chen Qiu looked at the yellow and white osmanthus cake on the plate, which was evenly yellow and thin, with a strong osmanthus aroma. She picked up a piece and took a bite and chewed it carefully. The osmanthus cake was moist and soft, soft, soft and delicate, sweet but not greasy, and also had a hint of coolness.

Shang Zhi brewed her a pot of Longjing tea, and Chen Qiu took a sip of the tea, and felt that the taste was delicious.

Chen Qiu didn't talk much, Shang Zhi looked at her with her eyebrows and eyes stretched out, and her expression was filled with joy, and she was obviously very satisfied with her.

"Like it?" Shang Zhi couldn't help asking.

Chen Qiu nodded, chewed it slowly with the osmanthus cake. He tried this taste, but he was afraid that he would swallow it whole and it would disappear without having enough taste.

Shang Zhi couldn't help laughing. Chen Qiu was a man of eating. For her, the food was like a cow chewing peonies. No matter how delicious the food was, it was the same for her. It was rare for her to taste it carefully.

Xue Shenzhi ate two osmanthus cakes and drank a bowl of wine-stewed osmanthus rounds. He didn't have to eat lunch anymore. He took the osmanthus cake prepared by Shangzhi to the Prince's Mansion of Jiajun.

The Princess of Jia County happened to use up lunch. When she heard that Xue Shenzhi brought the snacks made by Shang Zhi, she couldn't help but eat two pieces. Although she was full in her stomach, she still felt greedy. But honeysuckle put away the osmanthus cake.

Princess Jia County was still unsatisfied and said: "Zhizhi's craftsmanship is good. If I had known that she had brought me snacks, I would not have had lunch."

Xue Shenzhi disagreed: "Zhizhi said that you are old and your stomach is not as good as young people. This kind of sticky snack requires appropriate amounts, otherwise the stomach will be uncomfortable."

Princess Jia County looked unnatural. She touched her slightly swollen belly, and sat on tiptoe into the chair, straightened her back and leaned against the back of the chair, so that her belly felt a little more comfortable.

Seeing this, Xue Shenzhi knew that she was overeating.

Princess Jia County looked at Xue Shenzhi's eyes with helpless expression. She took out a bottle of digestive pills from her sleeve and poured out only one, and the bottle was empty.

"Does Zhizhi have this digestive pill? I don't have it anymore." Princess Jia County held the sweet and sour digestive pills and rubbed her stomach with her stomach. She felt that if she took a few more, her digestive pills would be dissipated.

Xue Shenzhi pursed his lips, "Zhizhi gave you ten bottles of digestive pills, and there are twenty one bottle. You have finished it in less than half a year?"

Princess Jia County coughed twice, holding her solemn image, "Zhizhi said that it is okay to eat it. I am old, and bloating is not something that happens frequently? I have only used up ten bottles for half a year, so it is already very efficient to use it."

Xue Shenzhi was speechless.

One bottle of twenty, ten bottles of two hundred, two at a time, it should be done with one hundred times. It only takes more than three hundred days a year, and less than two hundred days a year, she often takes it!

When Honeysuckle came back, he happened to hear the words of Princess Jia County, and immediately exposed her: "I often see Princess taking the Pills of Cure as snacks." However, there is also an advantage, "After this Pill, Princess of Cure will no longer eat other greasy and sweet snacks."

Xue Shenzhi was careful that the side effects of Xiaoshi Pills would have. He kept this matter in mind and asked Shang Zhi after he went back, what harm would it do to his body if he took too much.

Princess Jia County glanced at Honey Dong with a sideways glance, feeling that she had lost the dignity and majesty of her elders in front of Xue Shenzhi. She moved her body, moved her butt, and changed the topic: "What's wrong with you here today?"

Xue Shenzhi's face turned solemn, pondered, and then asked: "Yesterday, the Empress Dowager invited me to the palace and mentioned my mother's childhood. My mother was very close to her when she was a child, so she became the favorite concubine. However, from her eyes, I saw that the Empress Dowager did not like her mother, and even showed a hint of disgust."

Xue Shenzhi was observing things in detail. When the Empress Dowager talked about Zhu Jingwan, her face was complicated, and she didn't like it more than she liked. Her indifferent and hard tone did not seem to talk about a person she had gotten along well before.

Xue Shenzhi felt that other things must have happened, and there were other hidden things.

Princess Jia County tightened her fingers and suddenly looked at Xue Shenzhi, "Has she told you anything else?"

"The Queen Mother mentioned the cause of her mother's death. She said that it was not a burial of fire, but a body that was thrown away after being murdered." Xue Shenzhi looked at the face of Princess Jia County with a sad expression, with tears in her eyes, pursed her lips, and said hoarsely: "Can you tell me what happened back then?"

Princess Jia County held the armrest of the chair tightly, her fingers were white, and she still felt sad when she mentioned Ning Ya again. However, the empress dowager's words hit her with a blow, killing her? Who killed her? Did Zhu Che?

She looked at Xue Shenzhi with heavy eyes and shook her head, "Shenzhi, it's not that my grandmother doesn't say it, but that the matter has been over for many years. God has sent you to me, and I am very grateful. When I made a wish in front of the Bodhisattva, if I send you to me, I will let go of everything in the past and live a good life."

She lost too much and endured too much pain. She finally got Yaya's child. How could she tell Xue Shenzhi about the past and let him take revenge?

His power is too small, just hitting the stone with an egg!

She could not bear the pain of losing her close relatives again, so she would give up her revenge on Yaya just to make Xue Shenzhi live safely!

It’s not that she doesn’t care about Yaya, but that life is too difficult and she wants to make choices in it.

She believed that Yaya also hoped that she would protect Xue Shenzhi and not push him into the abyss that would never be restored!

When Xue Shenzhi saw that Princess Jia County was unwilling to say it, he felt more and more serious in his heart, and felt that things were extraordinary. He put down the teacup in his hand and said slowly: "Before this, the Empress Dowager ordered Aunt Yue Ci to take me to the cold palace and run into the Emperor and Eunuch Liu. I could clearly feel the emperor's murderous intention towards me. Later, the Empress Dowager mentioned my mother's life and death, and the Emperor came to interrupt. The words were threatened to the Empress Dowager, and the Empress Dowager changed the words he had originally wanted to say."

"After I left Ci'an Palace, the emperor invited me to Qinzheng Hall. He asked me what the Empress Dowager said. At that moment, I felt the oppression and murderous intent from the emperor. He seemed to be very secretive about his mother's affairs. Grandma, it's not that you can protect me if you don't say it, but as long as my mother is Ning Ya, the past is like a net, trapping me in it. I know nothing and cannot deal with their means to me."

"If I know everything in my past life and they want to hurt me, I also know their purpose and can be resolved well." Xue Shenzhi sighed: "Grandma, some things can be avoided by avoiding them, but they will cause another tragedy. Sometimes, facing things that you think are a mantis arm blocking a car may also gain a glimmer of vitality from them. Because I know the whole story and can seek benefits and avoid harm."

Princess Jia County was defeated by Xue Shenzhi's words, and she said without a clear expression: "When the Empress Dowager prays for the Great Zhou Kingdom, was it after the Empress Dowager summoned you?"

"If I was not wrong, the Empress Dowager's behavior angered the emperor, so she would be sent to the national temple. It was a blessing on the surface, but in fact it was a house arrest." Xue Shenzhi realized that the matter was not simple because the Empress Dowager was suddenly sent away!

Princess Jia County pondered for a long time before she finally made up her mind to talk about the past with Xue Shenzhi. "The story still needs to start twenty years ago. Your father was sent to the post and your mother went with him. At that time, your mother was about to give birth, so she invited your father's close friend. Zhong Ming, an imperial physician from the Imperial Hospital, to take care of him all the way. She was worried that he would be exhausted all the way and get angry. When they went there, they encountered robbers. Your parents and Zhong Ming fell to the bottom of the turbulent cliff. It was a few days later that they were salvaged. We all thought they were dead. Until you went to Beijing to take the exam, met you, and confirmed your life experience, and knew that your mother was still alive at that time until you gave birth to you."

"This is not an accident." Xue Shenzhi affirmed.

His mother was still alive, but she would send her "body" to the Prince Jia's Mansion. Obviously, she would use her fraud to hide her, so that she would have the chance to give birth to him. As for the person behind her, why did she do this, Xue Shenzhi didn't know, and she still needed Princess Jia to continue talking.

"Yes, it's not an accident, but a deliberate murder!" Princess Jia County pinched her fingers into her palms, and said in a very old voice: "Before I passed by, your grandfather accepted a room, gave birth to Zhu Chun, and left his mother to keep his son. After I passed by, he adopted Zhu Chun to raise him. At first, I thought it was Zhu Chun who blamed his biological mother for his death, and set up an ambush on the road to kill them while your parents took office. Later, I vaguely learned that Zhu Chun's original intention was not to kill Yaya, but to kill your father. Because he knew the thought of Emperor Yuan Jin and used this to please Emperor Yuan Jin. Later, for some reason, your mother disappeared. Emperor Yuan Jin tried to please us in every way. I thought he had a little conscience. When he knew that their mother and son were not favored, Yaya felt guilty about her kindness to them, and then she wanted to make up for us."
To be continued...
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