The Grand Secretary’s Pampered Wife

Chapter 728 Mother and Son Recognize

It is no secret that Guan Duwei Wang Xu taught Shangguan Qing martial arts in the imperial mausoleum, Xiao Heng had heard about it a long time ago.

It's just that he didn't expect that one day he would pretend to be Shangguan Qing.

Wang Xu's hidden danger must be resolved, not that he should be killed so that he cannot come out and disrupt their plans.

Gu Chengfeng curled his lips and patted his chest.

Such an important matter, who else can do it besides him?

"Remember to give me the silver! You...you hold it in your hand first! I'll ask you for it later!"

After Gu Chengfeng emphasized his two taels of silver, where did it come in, and where did it go out.

Martial arts are not very good, but lightness kung fu is really excellent, and it didn't alarm the dead soldiers of the National Teacher Hall.

"Remember to pick up the clearance." Xiao Heng said looking at his back.

Xiao Heng watched Gu Chengfeng's back froze in the air for a moment, seemed to grit his teeth and complain about him, and then disappeared into the National Teacher Hall with a deep resentment.

The room fell silent again.

Regardless of the fact that so many things have happened, time has not passed for a long time.

In just half an hour, he completed the identity change from Xiao Heng to Shangguan Qing, met the monarch, and confronted the crown prince.

There is no way out. Once today is over, he will put himself into the vortex of Shengdu's power, and everyone will know that he is back.

There is more than one force secretly spying on them.

But the vortex in Shengdu is destined to get bigger and bigger until it swallows up all the bones of those who have hurt them!

...

Duwei's Mansion is located in the outer court of Dayan Palace. From the outside, you have to pass through three checkpoints: Gaomen, Fengtianmen and Duanmen.

Gu Chengfeng wandered outside Gaomen, wondering whether he should sneak in or just wait here.

"Just now I forgot to ask whether Wang Xu is in the court. If he has already left, no matter whether I sneak in or wait for him outside, it will be fruitless."

"No, he should be here. The monarch and Xiao Heng met. Based on my understanding of Xiao Heng, there is nothing wrong with the injury of the former princess, and Xiao Heng will make something strange! Since the monarch trusts Wang Xu so much, he must Wang Xu will be sent to investigate the case."

"And the scene of the crime is in the harem!"

Gu Chengfeng was deeply amazed by his wit: "How did I become so smart? It's me!"

Wang Xu was indeed investigating the case in the harem, but after searching and searching, there was no clue.

The scene was very clean, except for the traces of Shangguan Yan's fall, it was the footprints left by her personal maid when she came to look for it.

In addition, there are several kinds of footprints that belonged to the eunuchs who came to move Shangguan Yan.

Their suspicions have all been ruled out.

"It seems that he is a master, and he will do light work."

Wang Xu stood on the hillside, looked at the place where Shangguan Yan had fallen, and jumped.

This is a steep slope, but the slope is covered with vines, even if you grab it randomly, you can catch one or two.

Wang Xu inspected the scene carefully for half an hour, and finally left with a sullen face.

He is a foreigner, although he is ordered to enter the harem to investigate the case, he is not allowed to walk in the harem privately, and he is accompanied by Li Sande from the Hall of Zhonghe.

Li Sande didn't say much, just followed silently.

When the two were about to leave the harem, a eunuch in his early thirties suddenly walked up to them.

"Hey, isn't this Lord Wang and Eunuch Li? Such a coincidence." He greeted with a smile.

Li Sande bowed slightly, and said very politely: "Grandpa Xu."

This person's surname is Xu, his first name is Gao, and he is a celebrity around Concubine Han.

Xu Gao glanced at Wang Xu with a smile, chatted and said, "Master Wang is here to investigate the case, right? I don't know if Mr. Wang has any clues?"

"Not yet." Wang Xu said.

A hint of disappointment flashed across Xu Gao's eyes: "That's it."

Wang Xudao: "It may not be human-made, maybe it's just an accident."

Xu Gao sighed: "That's right, the harem is important. I think ordinary assassins have no guts or the ability to come in. No matter what, I still hope that Mr. Wang will find out the truth as soon as possible, so that the former princess will not be injured in vain."

Wang Xu said: "It's nothing, I'll go first."

Xu Gao smiled and said, "Master Wang, go slowly."

Wang Xu left the harem.

Li Sande sent him out of the Meridian Gate.

Walking on the bluestone path in front of the court, Wang Xu slowly spread his palms.

It's a hooked thread.

It was found in the thorn bushes above the hillside, where there were no footprints of palace people.

If this silk thread did not come from Shangguan Yan's clothing, it must belong to the murderer!

...

Gu Jiao slept for a long time this time, but Shangguan Yan woke up first.

The effect of the anesthetic had faded significantly, and her sanity had recovered.

She opened her eyes and looked at the strange tent in a daze, not knowing where she was for a moment.

"woke up?"

Xiao Heng came over, looked at her and said.

Today's Xiao Heng didn't wear a mask, showing his face as it was.

Shangguan Yan stared straight at him, her mouth couldn't close.

After a while, she closed her eyes: "I'm dreaming."

He was someone she could only see in her dreams.

Xiao Heng sat down beside her bed and looked at her steadily: "Does the wound hurt?"

"It hurts?" Shangguan Yan was startled, "It hurts."

She is hurting all over, this is not a dream.

She opened her eyes abruptly, and looked at Xiao Heng with bright eyes.

Xiao Heng smiled lightly.

Shangguan Yan suddenly felt embarrassed, she couldn't move, only her eyeballs were spinning around in their sockets.

Then, the bases of her ears turned red at a visible speed.

Eh?

Xiao Heng was slightly taken aback.

It wasn't like this when you were in Tianxiang Pavilion, you didn't feel ashamed at all when you saw me and Jiaojiao doing this and that.

I think you are as deep as my father.

Shangguan Yan was wounded in more than one place, she was wrapped up like a rice dumpling, she moved her fingers.

Xiao Heng saw it and asked her, "What do you want to take?"

"Paper," she said.

Xiao Heng asked strangely: "What are you doing with the handkerchief?"

Shangguan Yan said seriously: "Cover your face, I'm shy."

Xiao Heng: "..."

"Jiaojiao and the national teacher performed an operation on you. The operation was successful. Is there any discomfort?" Xiao Heng asked.

"No." Shangguan Yan said, looking at Gu Jiao who was on the small bed.

Xiao Heng followed her gaze and looked: "She is asleep."

Shangguan Yan lowered her voice: "Then let's speak softly."

Xiao Heng smiled: "Okay."

Shangguan Yan looked at his flickering smile, and a gleam of light flashed in his eyes.

But suddenly, she realized something, and her expression changed slightly: "This is the National Teacher Hall? You...how can you come to the National Teacher Hall?"

Xiao Heng said calmly: "I have met the monarch and the prince. I told them that I am Shangguan Qing."

Shangguan Yan opened her mouth wide.

Xiao Heng continued: "I saw the portrait of Shangguan Qing."

In an instant, Shangguan Yan's eyes flashed with countless complex emotions. She stared blankly at Xiao Heng, hesitated to speak for several times, and finally turned into a cautious probing sentence: "You...you know everything?"

Xiao Heng nodded: "En."

Shangguan Yan was stunned for a moment: "Know—what?"

Xiao Heng said: "Birth experience."

Shock flashed again in Shangguan Yan's eyes, but she quickly calmed down: "How do you know?"

"I guessed it." Xiao Heng said truthfully.

Her actions in Tianxiang Pavilion that day can explain everything, plus all kinds of experiences he has been through, all kinds of news revealed by Ye Qing, and even the "His Royal Highness" that Zhang Dequan yelled that night, all made him Getting closer and closer to my own life experience.

And when he saw the portrait of Shangguan Qing, he finally had the answer to this question.

He is Shangguan Yan's child.

It's just that he is not completely sure about his relationship with Shangguan Qing.

"Who is Shangguan Qing? My brother?"

"Um."

"Twin brother?"

"Hmm!" Negative tone.

Xiao Heng opened his mouth: "Then he is—"

Shangguan Yan bit her lip, and after a while she whispered, "Xiao Qing."

Xiao Heng was not surprised by this answer, for no other reason, Shangguan Qing's birthday was Xiao Qing's birthday.

The infant Xiao Heng and Xiao Qing were poisoned at the same time, and there was only one antidote. In order for Xiao Heng to get the antidote, Shangguan Yan hid Shangguan Qing and told Xuan Pinghou that she killed him.

The process of convincing Xuan Pinghou was not easy, and Shangguan Yan didn't want to mention it.

Even Shangguan Yan's own fake death later almost killed him.

Shangguan Yan looked at Xiao Heng with nervous and apprehensive eyes: "Do you think I'm too cruel?"

In order to let his son get the antidote, he deprived Xiao Qing of the chance to live.

What happened back then is hard to say who is right and who is wrong, he is not her, I don't know what kind of struggle she has endured in her heart.

She also just wants her son to live. Over the years, she has been burdened with a debt to Xiao Qing and Xinyang, and she has also been burdened with longing for her own flesh and blood. Perhaps anyone in this world can accuse her of being cruel, but relying on her cruelty Xiao Heng who survived was not eligible.

"No." Xiao Heng said, "How did you think of taking Xiao Qing away?"

Shangguan Yan said in a low voice: "I want to take him back to the National Teacher Hall to see if the National Teacher Hall can cure him. You may ask me why I didn't take you away and see if the National Teacher Hall can cure you. Actually... Even if I know the current situation and let me do it all over again, I will still make the same choice as before."

The National Teacher Hall is a way out, not the best way.

She would rather be accused by thousands of people, and bear a lifetime of infamy, and still want to be this selfish mother.

As long as she bears all the crimes and sufferings, her Ah Heng only needs to live well.

"Aren't you afraid that Princess Xinyang will kill me to avenge her son?" Princess Xinyang is not a weak woman, and she is also very decisive. Of course, he didn't accuse her of being naive, but just wanted to know more about what she has gone through. what.

The good ones, the bad ones, the dangerous ones, the ones he struggled with, and the ones he missed all these years.

Shangguan Yan said: "Xuan Pinghou will not let her know that her son was killed by me."

You really know my dad.

He did lie to Princess Xinyang, saying that Xiao Qing died at the hands of an assassin.

Only later, Princess Xinyang found out under the instigation of someone with a heart.

She didn't succeed in killing me though, and at the last moment she carried me out of the fire.

Shangguan Yan blamed herself: "I was the one who attracted those assassins, otherwise I wouldn't have poisoned you two."

Xiao Heng hesitated for a moment, but decided to tell her: "Those assassins were not attracted by you, they were left behind by the late emperor's people. The person who poisoned me and Xiao Qing back then was the dragon shadow left by the late emperor Zhaoguo to my mother." Wei, the person they really wanted to poison was Xiao Qing, and they poisoned me accidentally."

This tragedy has nothing to do with Shangguan Yan, the first emperor can only be blamed.

And in a sense, fortunately, Shangguan Yan took Xiao Qing away, otherwise they would continue to kill Xiao Qing.

At that time Long Yi was not around, Xuan Pinghou and Princess Xinyang did not suspect Long Yingwei, it was really impossible to guard against.

Shangguan Yan has been living in guilt towards Xiao Qing for these years, when she first heard the news, she couldn't believe it: "Did you deliberately make up a story to comfort me?"

Xiao Heng shook his head: "I haven't, I can't make up this story."

The brain circuit of the first emperor is similar to that of the king of Yan, they are both crazy and ruthless.

The reason Princess Xinyang married Xuanpinghou was to prevent him from rebelling.

Once he rebelled, Princess Xinyang would immediately ask the Dragon Shadow Guard to kill him.

The first emperor knew that Princess Xinyang could not get along with men, so he was not worried that Princess Xinyang would develop admiration for Xuan Pinghou, but the two were husband and wife after all, if Xuan Pinghou used force, let Xinyang Princess give birth to his flesh and blood.

Who can guarantee that Princess Xinyang will not soften her heart because of her child?

So the first emperor issued an order to Long Yingwei that even Princess Xinyang didn't know about—Princess Xinyang and the children of Xuanpinghou could not stay.

According to Xiao Heng's years of observation, Princess Xinyang is not at all soft-hearted towards Xuan Pinghou, if she were to stab Xuan Pinghou with a knife now, she would not bat an eyelid.

The first emperor really thought too much.

Since ancient times, emperors have been suspicious and have harmed others and themselves.

And there is another point that the late emperor was wrong, that is, the two of them were indeed raped by someone, but the one who was raped was Xuan Pinghou.

Forget the past.

Sure enough, Xiao Heng stopped thinking about the entanglement between Princess Xinyang and Xuan Pinghou, and he expressed another doubt in his heart: "But, since Xiao Qing and I are not twins, why do we look exactly the same?"

As he said, he tapped the tear mole painted under his right eye, "Even this mole is the same?"

Shangguan Yan said embarrassingly: "This is because... I changed his face."

Xiao Heng and Xiao Qing are half-brothers, there is indeed a certain degree of similarity in appearance, for example, the face shape and nose of the two are very similar to Xuan Pinghou.

The eyebrows and eyes are not the same.

Xiao Qing inherited Princess Xinyang, with almond eyes and flat eyebrows, looking gentle and weak.

Xiao Heng inherited Shangguan Yan, Ruifeng eyes and slightly raised sword eyebrows, with a hint of heroism, and his smile is particularly heartwarming and healing.

That's why everyone who has met the young master of Zhaodu calls him a young man who is as gentle as jade and as refreshing as a spring breeze.

It's just that after something happened to Xiao Heng and he was living among the people, the smile on his face disappeared, and the warmth in his eyes also disappeared.

He put on a layer of invisible sharp armor.

"In the early years, I didn't pay much attention to the issue of appearance, until I heard a servant whisper that this child doesn't look like me at all. When I was young, I didn't notice it. The older I get, the more I don't look like it. I was anxious, the national teacher Dian is willing to treat Xiao Qing because he is the eldest grandson of the emperor. If people find out that he is not, he will not be able to continue to receive treatment. So I went to Zhaoguo with someone and got your portrait. Every place that looks like you is painted like you."

Speaking of this, Shangguan Yan paused, "It was that time that your identity was exposed and the Crown Prince knew of your existence."

Xiao Heng had an epiphany: "So that's how it is."

Then it all makes sense.

Xiao Heng touched the tear mole on his face, Shangguanqing drew it after him, and now that his tear mole is gone, is he imitating Shangguan Qing, or imitating himself?

It's really dumbfounding.

"What's wrong?" Shangguan Yan looked at him and asked.

Xiao Heng said: "My mole is actually gone."

In order to prevent those people from finding him easily, Princess Xinyang burned the tear mole on his face after the fire.

He has changed his face, his voice and body are different from before, and this tear mole is missing, even his own father Xuan Pinghou spent a lot of effort and went through many twists and turns to confirm that it is him.

Shangguan Yan said softly: "She is so kind to you."

The tone is gratifying, but also sad and lonely.

She still missed it after all.

In his nineteen years of life, there has never been a mark of her.

"Can I... can I call you A-Heng?"

The princess who was born to be respected, even if she was executed in public in the Golden Luan Hall, she never lowered her noble head, never made a plea.

But at this time, just asking if I can call you that, exhausted all the humbleness in my bones.

Xiao Heng said: "You can call me whatever you want."

Then can you call me—

Shangguan Yan didn't say this.

She lowered her eyes, holding back the sadness and sourness in her heart.

Can't cry.

The descendants of Xuanyuan's family shed blood but not tears, she didn't cry when she gave birth, and she didn't cry when her bones were broken.

She doesn't cry.

In fact, Xiao Heng still has many things to ask her, such as what happened last night, what happened more than ten years ago, why she became a female slave——

Xiao Heng looked at her weak body and said: "You take a break first, I'll go get some food."

"Um."

There was a choke in her voice.

She tried to suppress it.

Xiao Heng stood up and paused.

Shangguan Yan's heart skipped a beat.

Are you going to call her?

Is it?

Xiao Heng said: "I forgot to ask what you want to eat, you just finished the operation, millet porridge and barley porridge are both good."

"Oh." Shangguan Yan was disappointed, and said in a low voice, "It's okay."

Xiao Heng: "Then millet porridge?"

Shangguan Yan: "Okay."

She has no appetite.

She is a bad woman.

She is not worthy to be his mother.

Xiao Heng stepped to the door, and when he was about to cross the threshold, his steps stopped again.

"It may be a little late to say this now, but..."

He turned around and looked at her sincerely: "Thank you for giving birth to me."

"Thank you for bringing me into this world, and thank you for everything you have done for me."

"Mother."

A mother who had been waiting for nineteen years softened the years and comforted more than seven thousand days and nights of separation.

Shangguan Yan was so choked up that he couldn't speak.

—Thank you too, my son.