Cold Palace’s Abandoned Consort

"It's you."

When I finally spoke this sentence, I do n’t know why. The whole person seemed to be hollowed out at this moment. There was no expected pain and no easiness in imagination. I just opened my eyes a little bit empty, Looking at this equally calm but hollow man in front of me.

My husband, sharing the same bed with me, is my husband for so many years.

The person I should believe most.

It's you.

I'm sure the wrong person, but not him, but you.

He didn't seem surprised or surprised when he heard these two words, but just looked at me motionlessly: "Me?"

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"You said it was me?"

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"why?"

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Instead of answering his question, I asked instead: "Well, tell me, who was your sister, the eldest princess Pei Yuanzhen, who killed?"

He froze for a moment. It seemed that it was not until this time that his dark eyes suddenly had light again, flashing constantly, as if he was in a state of uncertainty. After a long hesitation, I watched his lips slightly open. Alas, as if to say something, but before he spoke, I said calmly, "Yuan Xiu."

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"Do not lie to me."

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His lips slowly closed again.

I seemed to hear his breath silent, and after a long silence, he said, "Do you already have an answer?"

"I've met Gu Ping."

After saying this, I saw that his eyes suddenly burst into light, as if something had been pierced. When he looked at me again, the whole person's breath was condensed, and I calmly followed. Said: "Don't go to him. After I saw him in the afternoon, I had warned him to let him leave Jinling and leave this place."

"……why?"

"I know, after that, he should have been killed, but his relationship with me was not ordinary. If he died for no reason, I would not give up easily, I would follow up to the end, in order to Don't let me find some clues, so you didn't kill him. "

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"Yuan Xiu, if you still take care of our marital relationship, I beg you not to look for him, he-already very pitiful."

Thinking of Su Su said before, he was drunk and troubled in the restaurant; even if I summoned him in the inner court, he asked Cao Hu to protect me, but he dared not come to see me; until today, when I asked Cao Hu to call him When the courtyard saw me, he seemed to finally understand that some things could not be covered, and then he finally appeared in front of me—the original spirited young man was so thin that he became another person. When he saw me, in his eyes The heavy sense of guilt overwhelmed the whole of him, and the look of impending collapse made me heartbroken.

Pei Yuanxiu has not spoken, but his face is paler than it is at a moment. Under the faint candlelight, his face is almost transparent, and his emotions can no longer be seen.

Maybe, I never saw it clearly.

After a long time, he asked, "How do you know, it's him?"

I was silent for a while, and slowly pulled out the fisted hands in the quilt, spreading out in front of him.

A heavy silver lock rested in his palm.

Even at the beginning, while in Jixiang Village, Liu San'er went to the town to customize it for her after the birth of Miao Yan. It even engraved with the names of the three of us--

Lightness

Liu San

Do not leave.

When I went across the river to find Liu Qinghan asking for the apocalyptic poem as a divorce book, I once gave Gu Ping something wrapped in a red cloth on the bow, that was this silver lock. I just told him not to take it apart in front of me. I was afraid I could n’t bear it, because this silver lock recorded my happiness with him, our past, all good memories, which I left, the only, There were traces between me and him.

It was only then that I promised to marry Pei Yuanxiu and say goodbye to my past, although I was reluctant to do so.

But I didn't expect that this silver lock would tell me a fact today many years later.

I said, "This silver lock was given to Ping'er before I married you, but today, Liu Qinghan dropped something from his hand on the execution ground, but this silver lock."

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"Why do you think this thing came into his hands?"

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"What do you think I should think?"

Pei Yuanxiu's face slowly sank.

At this time, I finally realized that in the new house full of blood that night, I was clearly arguing with Han Ruoshi, why Liu Qinghan must plead guilty.

That night, when he was sitting in the new house with Pei Yuanzhen's body covered in blood, he kept holding Pei Yuanzhen's hand. He didn't say a word from beginning to end, until-until Wen Fengxi looked at them. His hand seemed to find something, and when he was about to ask, he suddenly confessed.

Because he got this thing from Pei Yuanzhen.

And on this, clearly compiling my name!

Maybe he tried to protect me because this silver lock was already the most direct proof; maybe he couldn't let Han Ruoshi's testimony go deeper; maybe he also realized that peace in the south and the north was temporary, Jinling An excuse for a war is urgently needed, and once I have been accused of killing the princess, it may be the most direct excuse for Jinling to start a war ... all of this may be his consideration.

So he pleaded guilty.

I felt sore in my heart for a while, but I was still under pressure at this moment. I looked up and looked at Pei Yuanxiu and slowly said, "The night you were married, there was no Gu Ping in the guard you arranged. Although I was a bit surprised, I was not too I care, after all, when Miaoyan and I were in Yangzhou, it was because of his ineffective protection that he was injured. You do n’t send him. You can reasonably and logically understand it, but today I just realized that his protection is weak. The punishment hurt me, and he felt guilty. All this became an excuse for you to send him to carry out this plan. "

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"And that night, Han Ruoshi originally said that she was ill and didn't come with us, but then she ran back by herself. I didn't care about it at the time. I just thought she wanted to embarrass me, so I didn't think of anything else. . But today I know that Gu Ping was on her ship and only approached the red boat, and later, the river lantern of that river attracted everyone, and it was also at that time that he had a chance Get on board. "

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"He accompanied me and Miaoyan to the Yangzhou government and spent an entire afternoon. Of course, he had seen the defense of the Yangzhou government guards, and those guards on the red boat were transferred directly from the state government. They changed shifts. The law must be the same as in the state capital, so he can seize the opportunity, and the **** sneaks into the new house without knowing it ... "

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He had been listening to me calmly. At this time, there was still no trace of movement, and he only asked, "How do you think that all this is what I ordered?"

I looked at him and said with a stunned voice: "Yuan Xiu, that night, when I wanted to go to the garden behind the cabin to find some wonderful words, you kept pulling me."

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"If I didn't guess wrong, then Ping'er was killing Pei Yuanzhen, right?"

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"You keep pulling me, you don't want me to meet Gu Ping, nor do you want me to see that scene."

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"After all, you and Han Ruoshi are different. She wants me to die, but you are not."

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"But I didn't see that scene, but I did see the wonderful words."

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"Because that night, in order to congratulate her uncle on getting married, she specially prepared a gift for Pei Yuanzhen. She was going to give it to Pei Yuanzhen at that time. She would be scared like she is now because she saw Murder! "

No, not only because she saw it all, but also because she saw her brother, Ping, who was close to her, who would persuade her slowly with her beauty when she and her mother were in conflict, holding them in danger Her elder brother will actually kill!

When it comes to here, my voice trembled, and tears kept rolling in my eyes, making my whole body tremble.

I can almost imagine how shocking and painful the wonderful words were at the time!

At this moment, a hand stretched out and gently held my cheek. His fingers were as strong as usual, and his palm was as warm as in the past, but at this moment, it only made me feel pain. I was holding his face, looked up at him, and heard him say dryly: "If I say, all this-I don't know?"

I looked at him for a long time and finally choked, "Impossible."

"why?"

"Because you killed Pei Yuanzhen."

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"Yuan Xiu, after all, Pei Yuanzhen has been your brother and sister for so many years. If Han Ruoshi started, she wouldn't have any scruples."

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"She cares about you, so she won't touch your former sister easily."

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"So this matter was planned and directed by you from beginning to end. You have to kill Pei Yuanzhen. Although she married Liu Qinghan, it is good for you and me, but once they become married, Pei Yuanzhen opens the government in Yangzhou. She And Liu Qinghan will further closer the relationship between the court and Xichuan, the court and Jiangnan. You have been arming and increasing troops in Jinling. You cannot let her be the first obstacle to your northward journey, so you are in the evening when she became married Kill her! "

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"But you let Gu Ping do it after they worship, not before that."

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"Because even if she dies, you have to let Liu Qinghan marry her first!"

When I finished this sentence, I heard him take a long breath.

Then, his tight shoulders collapsed completely, as if any burden that had been on his shoulders for a long time was finally put down at this moment. I saw a relaxed expression on his face, although at this time, it was somewhat Feeling helpless, also a little stunned.