Cold Palace’s Abandoned Consort

Indeed, before the new lady entered the door, my mother should have accumulated an amazing fortune, and it can even be said that the country can be rich. But where did that money go?

Just after I said this, I saw Uncle Ai's brows frown.

I thought he was wondering about it, but the next moment, he raised his hand, and found a crimson red box from his sleeve, slowly put it on the table and pushed it in front of me.

I stumbled: "This is--"

He looked at me: "Miss, this is Madam's stuff."

As soon as I heard it, I was shocked: "My mother? My mother--"

"No, she gave it to me."

"..."

He aggravated the word "at the beginning". Only these two words gave me the bit of charcoal that was suddenly blown hot in my heart and poured cold water on his head. It suddenly cooled down, but it felt a little choked for a long time.

After a while, I slowly reached out and picked up the brocade box.

The brocade box was only the size of a slap, but it was very delicate and heavy, and it was heavy in his hands. I understand the situation of the Yan family. The box containing some important items is made of red gold on the interlayer. Even if this box is not, it is not far behind.

Open the brocade box carefully, there is only one thing in it.

A bunch of keys.

this is……

I took the key. If the key was given to him by his mother and let him pass it to me, it has been so many years, but it is still brand new. The workmanship of the key is very delicate, especially in the place where the fingertips are the size of the fingertips, but the delicate Xiangyun Jiulong is carved and lifelike, showing its superb skills.

And I recognized it almost at first glance, this key, and the dagger that Fu Bayi gave to Nianshen, and the queen of Zhaolie gave it to the emperor, and then Pei Yuanzhang gave it to Nianshen Scimitar, the same pulse!

Can't help but feel tight.

After I saw the dagger and the Biyue Scimitar, I already felt the connection between them, but now, it is a coincidence that I handed another key to my hand?

Or is someone deliberately arranging?

I looked up to look at Uncle Ai, and he stared at the key in my hand for a moment, seemingly the first time I saw it. Recalling his attitude towards his mother in the past, it is really unlikely that without permission, he would open and peep at what my mother left me.

But I still asked him, "Uncle Ai, what is this key?"

"I do not know either."

"Did you not tell you when your mother handed it over to you?"

He didn't say anything, just stared at the key and said, "Miss, please let me take a closer look."

I nodded and handed him the key. He took it and carefully looked at the key in his palm. He rubbed the pattern on it, then raised his head to look at me, and said, "Miss, this is the craft of the Iron Family."

"Iron home?"

"The iron house of the iron house money house."

"... Oh." I suddenly realized.

Xichuan's iron ore is not owned by the state. Naturally, other families have to mine and cast to supply Xichuan's external operations. Among these big families, the iron family is the most powerful one. Not only do they mine a lot of iron ore, but also the craftsmanship of cast iron, but in the early days they won the support of the Yan family and opened a bank.

I even know that the five thousand two hundred and twenty-two annual allowances for Madam Yan family were handed directly to my mother by the Tiejia Qianzhuang.

The difference between Tiejia Qianzhuang and other banks is that not only can you borrow money and store assets, but more importantly, because of Tiejia's cast iron technology, you can prepare an iron box for each customer who stores important items. The only key, only the person holding the key can open the tin box. The key also becomes the only proof that you can go to the bank to collect things.

In front of me, the key that my mother left for me was the key casting of the Tiejia Expert, and the key used by the Tiejia Qianzhuang—

I suddenly understood something.

Uncle Ai has given the key back to my hand with both hands. I took the key and looked around, and smiled, "Is that all the money my mother had originally put in the Tiejia Qianzhuang? This key, Is proof of money? "

"This, I don't know. Just--"

I watched him stop and say, "Just what?"

Uncle Ai said: "The old lady owns that money, it is a rich country, and even if the new wife comes, the money is still there."

Then he glanced at me.

I could not help but frowned.

Indeed, I was just asking him where did the money go. If the money was really the mother's deposit in the Tiejia Bank, then it was her own asset. Even if the mother did not take it out, even It is enough to take out the money, which is enough for some people to live a luxurious life for decades. Then, afterwards, we lived in Xishan so poor and even needed the help of others.

Why doesn't mother take out the money?

Could this key be taken out of the Tiejia Qianzhuang, not money?

I touched the delicate pattern on the key again with my fingertips, and then put it back into the brocade box and buckled it slowly.

The box was closed, but my doubts deepened.

Mother, what do you leave for me ...

.

I was still thinking, Uncle Ai groped for a while in the sleeve, took something out of it, and put it in front of me.

When I saw it, I was taken aback.

It was a stack of thick silver tickets, which were higher than tea cups!

"Miss."

I didn't rush to him, just glanced at it and said with a smile: "Uncle Ai, I'm doing business now and I'm not having a hard time."

Uncle Ai's eyebrows showed the unending pain just now: "Isn't it bitter?"

I laughed: "I have money."

"If you have money, you won't live in that kind of place!"

I laughed bitterly in my heart. He said he was a monk, but I did n’t see the purity of a monk at all. Instead, he was more mundane than ordinary mundane people, and laughed, “That ’s my husband ’s family.

He suddenly widened his eyes: "Husband ?!"

I was a bit surprised this time.

I am married and have a daughter, all here, I thought he came here, naturally understand my situation very well, this should be no exception. But if he has already become a monk, then it's another matter. My news came back. Yan Qingchen knew it, everyone knew it, but there was no need to tell him; He will tell me my general situation, but I will not mention some details.

Do not want to mention it.

Thinking of this, I smiled and said, "This is my husband's house."

"Your husband's family?" He seemed to be immersed in a huge shock, and murmured, "So, who is your husband?"

"Yes ..." My throat was inexplicable, but I quickly wiped it out, smiling slightly: "It's a fisherman, but now I'm an officer."

"What ?!" He couldn't believe it anymore, his face changed instantly, and it was kind of funny.

Even if I lived in this small fishing village and lived an ordinary life of food and clothing, he looked sad and heartbroken, and now he knew that I had married a fisherman, and I was afraid to pass away. Right?

Seeing that he seemed to be angry, I just thought that I couldn't make him laugh anymore, and smiled away from the topic: "Yes, maybe, you have seen my father-in-law."

"Oh?" Uncle Ai said suddenly, "Who is he?"

"Uncle Ai, do you remember the erudite conference that Mr. Fu held at Xishan College in the third year of the Apocalypse?"

He nodded. "Of course I remember, that was a big deal."

"Then do you remember, there is a reading named Liu Shizhou—"

Before the words "student" were finished, I saw Uncle Ai's face shook, and my heart moved inexplicably, and I stopped all subsequent words.

Uncle Ai didn't respond for a while, and I didn't speak, and the cabin suddenly fell into a weird silence.

However, the silence was quite short. He had already looked up at me and said, "Liu Shizhou?"

"Uncle Ai, have you ever met him?"

"Um." He nodded, as if he remembered it effortlessly, as if those three years of Apocalypse were still yesterday. He frowned slightly, and said quietly, "The scholar who was dragging his house and mouth, poor That's the case, and it's really rare to travel thousands of miles to attend the erudition conference. "

I was also a little surprised: "Do you really remember?"

"Why don't you remember that? Thanks to him, the family is so tired, and people are smart." He said, raising his head to look at me: "The teacher with you, hit it off right away, and the two of them just met each other and hated it late. It ’s almost impossible. Huh! "

I smiled.

Mr. Ai doesn't like scholars. This is what Shu Di, or the Yan family all knows. It seems that it was because he hadn't read well since he was a child. He was often beaten by a private teacher. He heard that even the tip of his little finger was interrupted. He dropped out of school and refused to touch the book. However, this man's behavior and human spirit are obviously innate. With two years of private education, he recognized a few words. Later, his family business was better than those who endorsed the private books very well. .

Even so, he still doesn't like reading people. Even I know that he hates Fu Bazhen. When two people meet, they won't quarrel, but you can't get used to me, I can't get used to you. As long as they appear at the same time, the scene atmosphere must be very bad.

It is no wonder that such a person who knows rituals but does not know books is now a monk.

However, what he said, I guessed a bit.

Even, I once speculated that my father-in-law, Lord Liu Shizhou's many actions on Jiangnan, were originally influenced by Fu Bazhen at the erudition conference. Now, listening to Uncle Ai's statement, it seems that he was not affected by Fu Bazhen. Instead, the two of them are fellow fellows at all.

No wonder, Fu Bajiu likes Qing Han so much ...

Thought of this, can not help but feel a little bit sad.

I'm not jealous, nor do I think that he values ​​others more than me. Moreover, he values ​​light cold, which is the same person in my heart ... But I know very well that the more he values, it means light cold The road will be harder in the future.

When I was secretly hurt in my heart, Uncle Ai went on to say: "So, your teacher, also recommended him to see your mother."

I was startled and looked up at him: "What ?!"