Silent Lover 2 (Tanhua) - Chap 37
Chapter 37 Put Song Liqing in prison
“Master! Hu Nu’er stayed in Xinglezhai all day long, and I have never even seen your father’s face. How can I poison him with all my hands and eyes? I can swear by my Yili people. If I lie, call me The bloodline of the family is cut off…”
Hu Nuer kept crying and defending, with tears in his eyes.
Jun Qiyu was worried about Emperor Xuan, and couldn’t feel any mercy.
“He was poisoned because he ate the birthday peaches you made, who else but you?! If it wasn’t for his father’s blessing, he would have already…”
“Shou…Shou Tao?”
Hu Nu’er lowered her head and flashed a hint of disappointment when she heard “Fu Da Ming Da”.
He wiped away his tears, got up from the ground, and grabbed a birthday peach from the fruit plate.
“Master, you watched me making birthday peaches with your own eyes this morning. This plate is left over. If it is really poisonous, Hu Nuer is willing to be poisoned to death together!”
After speaking, he quickly stuffed the birthday peach into his mouth and swallowed it all.
Jun Qiyu watched coldly until Hu Nuer swallowed all the birthday peaches.
But it turned out that he stood there safe and sound.
“Master, do you believe me now?”
Jun Qiyu’s thoughts were already confused, Hu Nu’er’s self-proof, although he did not completely dispel his suspicion, but it seemed that he was indeed innocent.
Seeing that he was silent, Hu Nuer knelt down on the ground and said, “If Hu Nuer poisoned your father, why didn’t you run away? Still waiting for you to come back? I am sincere to you…”
“Um.”
Jun Qiyu finally responded.
“Get up, I blamed you.”
Jun Qiyu clutched his forehead, and the people at the longevity banquet flashed past one by one, but he couldn’t think of who else was the murderer.
Hu Nuer came to his side.
“Master, you might as well think about it, that box of longevity peaches is not poisonous in the Qilin Mansion, and it has been sent to the Holy Master, who passed by on the way?”
Jun Qiyu shook her head.
“No one else! Song Liqing and I brought it into the palace, and dedicated it to the emperor’s birthday with our own hands. No one else has touched this food box…” Jun Qiyu suddenly shrank his pupils, and muttered, “…Song Liqing ? No, he won’t.”
Hu Nuer probed: “Why do you think he can’t?”
Jun Qiyu said firmly: “Father is his backer, harming him will not do Song Liqing any good. Besides, father has always favored him and treated him well. In terms of emotion and reason, Song Liqing would not do such a thing.”
“The purpose of the victim is always beyond reason…”
Hu Nuer read a sentence softly, quietly observing Jun Qiyu’s expression.
“Shut up!” Jun Qiyu said annoyed, “I don’t have time to pay attention to your petty jealous thoughts, it can’t be Song Liqing!”
Jun Qiyu didn’t know why she was so sure.
He just subconsciously felt… Song Liqing shouldn’t be such a person.
Now that Hu Nuer has also been cleared of suspicion, Jun Qiyu will not stay in the Qilin Mansion, there must still be a lot of mess in the palace.
Just as he was about to leave, Hu Nuer knelt down and kowtowed heavily.
“Master! Hu Nuer didn’t intend to provoke the relationship between you and the princess, but…but such a big thing happened, Hu Nuer really dare not hide it from you!”
Hu Nuer was crying, as if she was forced to do so.
“What’s the matter with you?”
Jun Qiyu cared about the safety of Emperor Xuan, so he had no time to break up with him.
Hu Nuer raised her head, her face trembling with fear.
“Princess, he…he…” Hu Nuer flinched, “He is the… heir of the former emperor of the Central Plains!”
“What?” Jun Qiyu frowned, “What nonsense are you talking about? If you splash dirty water and stir up trouble, I will cut your tongue off!”
Hu Nuer said in fear: “Master… Hu Nuer dare not speak nonsense, I really can’t bear to let you be kept in the dark by them and your relatives suffer, so I dare to speak out! The emperor’s heir!”
Jun Qiyu was annoyed at the murder of Emperor Xuan, when he heard the news, his first reaction was to pull out a knife hanging on the wall, and with a golden sound, the blade had already rested on Hu Nuer’s neck.
“My lord said, if you talk nonsense again, your tongue will be cut off!”
“You… Even if you kill me now, I will say the same.” Hu Nuer said with tears, “If I can use my life to pay for the truth of the Lord, Hu Nuer is worth it!”
Hu Nuer made such an oath, Jun Qiyu felt relieved, weighed it for a moment, and then slowly put away the knife.
Hu Nuer hurriedly said: “Prince Princess, he is not General Song’s biological son at all!”
“Nonsense.” Jun Qiyu said impatiently, “He was adopted by Song Qing since he was a child. You are from Yili country, thousands of miles away, what do you know?”
Hu Nuer said cautiously: “It is precisely because I am in the desert that I can meet that woman…”
“What woman?” Jun Qiyu asked.
“I don’t know her name. I only know that the Central Plains changed dynasties. In the year when Emperor Xuan ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, many people from the previous dynasties were assigned to border regions. She was one of them. I only found out later that she was the harem of the former emperor. She was pregnant when she was exiled to the desert, and her belly was already big. That year, Yili and Jing were at war, and the baby in her stomach was born during the war. She was born by our Yi Li country’s army captured, but the baby didn’t die… was later brought back to the capital by General Song to raise him, and later became Tan Hua Lang, your current princess… Song Liqing!”
Hu Nu’er spoke in a bold and unobstructed manner, not at all like a temporary fabrication.
Jun Qiyu was left with nothing but horror, he stood there for a long while without speaking or moving.
Finally, he moved his eyes to Hu Nuer’s face, trying to find out the flaws of lying from his expression.
“How could it be such a coincidence… Neither you nor I were born at the time, so you made it sound like you saw it with your own eyes?”
Hu Nuer repeatedly waved her hand to deny: “No, no, no, I didn’t see it. It was that woman who was quite beautiful and was offered to my father. My father said that she went crazy within a few years. I know her.” When she was young, she was crazy, she called herself Empress Wen, and she laughed and cried all day long, saying that she gave birth to the emperor’s dragon species, and from then on she could be a concubine and queen, and that her child was missing, and she searched all over the world to find it. When I saw a child, I went to pick someone’s neck and said that her son had a mole on his neck… My father drove her out of the palace. In winter, the river in Yili country would freeze three feet of ice. The body was found in the ice of Sirimu Lake… I was seven years old that year.”
After Hu Nuer finished speaking, she covered her mouth and sobbed twice, then wiped the tears on her face.
Jun Qiyu murmured: “There is a mole on her neck… Song Liqing also has a mole on her neck.”
Jun Qiyu couldn’t accept it for a while, could it be that Song Liqing was really the posthumous son of the former emperor?
“I didn’t think too much about it when I saw the princess for the first time.” Hu Nuer paused and said, “It was only after I learned from my grandfather that the princess is the adopted son of General Song that I remembered this old story.”
Jun Qiyu thought about it and was horrified.
“You mean, Song Qing knows that he is the heir of the former emperor?”
“This Hu Nuer can’t be sure…General Song has been in the northwest for so many years, so he can probably find out about it.”
If this is the case, Song Qing’s purpose for adopting Song Liqing must not be pure! He secretly hid the blood of the former emperor by his side, and tried every means to get Song Liqing to marry him… It’s really heartbreaking!
Jun Qiyu didn’t dare to think about it.
“Since you know this, why didn’t you tell me earlier?”
Hu Nuer said aggrievedly: “I’m just guessing, I don’t dare to assert. Besides, you must think that I framed the princess. If such a big thing didn’t happen, your father was assassinated but the real culprit could not be found. How dare Hu Nuer mention it?”
Jun Qiyu was startled, that’s right… If Song Liqing was the son of the former emperor, he would have a reason to poison Emperor Xuan.
Back then, Emperor Xuan raised troops and overthrew the previous dynasty. This is a blood feud that killed his father and subjugated the country!
All of a sudden, all the memories about Song Liqing rushed to his face.
Jun Qiyu was dizzy, he didn’t know which was true and which was false.
He doesn’t believe anyone now!
Jun Qiyu raised her eyes, her gaze was cold.
Hu Nuer couldn’t help but shuddered, as if pierced through the heart by this gaze.
“Hu Nuer.” Jun Qiyu said every single word, “You and I… are also feuds who killed our father and subjugated our country.”
Hu Nuer’s body froze, his hair stood on end, and then knelt down on the ground.
“Grandpa…you don’t have to believe me, but you can always find clues in the file. You can go and check to see if the former emperor had a concubine named Wen concubine, and whether the time is right. If it doesn’t work, you can ask General Song…”
There is no need for him to say, Jun Qiyu will naturally go to verify.
“If you dare to make up a word, I will let you know what hell is on earth.”
Seeing Jun Qiyu’s back disappear into the darkness, Hu Nuer was dripping with cold sweat, his knees were sore, and he finally stood up.
“A risk is a risk, but I won.”
Hu Nuer talked to himself in a voice that only he could hear.
…
Jun Qiyu went directly to the Wenhua Palace, where all the files were hidden, and every detail was recorded. On the dusty bookshelf, he found the files left over from the previous dynasty.
Jun Qiyu turned the pages one by one, he was so anxious that he accidentally damaged many pages.
But the more he checked, the heavier his heart sank.
Because of the former Emperor Xiao, there was indeed a concubine Wen who had not been favored all year round in the harem. The last record about her was that Emperor Xiao got favored once when he was drunk.
As for whether she is pregnant with a dragon species, there is no way to know, because the previous dynasty was overthrown soon after the war started.
Jun Qiyu closed the file and threw it back on the bookshelf.
Hanging on the bookshelf is a portrait of Emperor Xiao.
Unsurprisingly, his face and facial features are three points similar to Song Liqing.
…
It was late at night when Jun Qiyu returned to the Hall of Supreme Harmony.
He walked into the inner hall numbly, and looked at Song Liqing who was busy back and forth. He chatted with Qi Miao for a while, brought tea and boiled medicine for a while, and brought a basin of water for cold compresses for Emperor Xuan.
Song Liqing just wrung out the handkerchief when someone grabbed his wrist tightly.
He turned around and saw that it was Jun Qiyu.
“Your Highness, the emperor’s poison cannot be removed, and he is still in a coma, you…”
Song Liqing had just said a few words, only to find that Jun Qiyu’s face was more gloomy than ever before, and the cold was piercing to the bone.
“Qiyu…”
“Come on.”
Jun Qiyu spit out an order expressionlessly.
“Put Song Liqing into the prison.”
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