Chapter 21 Chapter 21 The Secret
After several days of continuous autumn rain, it finally cleared up.
Standing in a corner of Gao Mansion was an elegant nobleman. He was dressed in white with loose ribbons, and with a smile on his lips, he opened the bamboo curtain to watch the cannas in the courtyard.Seeing this beautiful posture, the accompanying maids were dazzled for a while.Even the famous painters of Wei and Jin Dynasties would find it difficult to describe the majestic appearance of the King of Henan.
At this moment, a teenager hurried over, Junxiu's face was full of surprises, "Brother, brother, sister-in-law, she just gave birth to a son!"
Xiao Yu raised her eyes and smiled, "I guess it's a son. Now the third child has a successor! Chang Gong, look at how excited you are. If you have a son yourself in the future, you don't know how excited you will be."
Chang Gong's face turned red, "Brother, you're making fun of me again. I think you're going to step up, brother, there are so many concubines, and there's no movement at all!"
Xiao Yu smiled again indifferently, "Anyway, Chang Gong, you are getting married soon, and my Gao family is counting on my third brother to grow up with you."
"Okay, big brother, let's go see our little nephew!" Chang Gong dragged him towards Xiao Wan without any explanation.
In Xiaowan's room, the eldest princess was hugging her newborn grandson, she was so happy from ear to ear.Xiaoyun also jumped up and down beside him, anxiously looking at his younger brother.
"Lan'er, this child has delicate features, and looks like Xiao Wan was carved out of the same mold." The eldest princess said to Cui Lan who was lying on the bed with a smile.
Cui Lan smiled gently, "Mother, where is the prince?"
"This kid doesn't know what he's been up to these days. He went out early this morning, but don't worry, he will be back soon."
Suddenly there was a crystal-clear voice from the outside, "Auntie, auntie, let us have a look at our little nephew!" Hearing this voice, the eldest princess lowered her eyes and smiled, "Chang Gong is in a hurry, I will take the child first. Take it out for them to see. Lan'er, take a good rest first."
Cui Lan nodded slightly.
As soon as Chang Gong saw this little nephew with pink make-up and exquisite decoration, he fell in love with him very much, and even kissed him several times.
"Chang Gong, look, his face is covered with your saliva." Xiao Yu shook her head helplessly.
Chang Gong quickly wiped his pink and tender face with his sleeve, and stuck out his tongue embarrassingly, "Who told him to be so cute...By the way, auntie, where is the third brother? Why don't you see him for such a big matter?" what?"
"He should be back soon." The eldest princess turned to Xiao Yu again, "By the way, is there any news about A Miao?"
Xiao Yu shook her head, "I have already sent someone to look for it, I believe it will be found soon."
Chang Gong didn't speak at the side, Er Niang's maid, A Miao, has been missing for several days, although she has never had a good impression of A Miao, but this kind of thing suddenly happened, which is really unpleasant.
"Tell your mother not to worry too much, A Miao is a girl, and she won't go anywhere."
As soon as the eldest princess finished speaking, Xiaowan just stepped into the room. When she saw her son, she immediately smiled, and hurriedly hugged her and looked at her again, "Okay, okay, he really is a good boy!"
"Third brother, what are you up to, you're only here now!" Chang Gong rolled his eyes at him in dissatisfaction.
Xiao Wan also seemed to have remembered something, returned the child to the eldest princess, took out a roll of paper from her arms, and slowly unfolded it, "Look, this is the dowry list I personally drew up. According to the rules of our Daqi, the dowry gifts for princes and kings are one mouthful of lamb, one goose, one dendrobium of wine, millet, rice and noodles, and three horses of black, two horses of turkey, and ten silks that are required for the ceremony of accepting the levy. match……"
"Xiao Wan, isn't there a manager to handle these matters?" The eldest princess interrupted him from the side.
"No, no, no, this is the fourth brother's big wedding. I have to go through everything in person." Xiao Wan said and rubbed Chang Gong's hair lovingly, "I didn't expect this guy to get married too. It's really worrying."
"Third brother..." Chang Gong lowered his head a little touched, it turns out that third brother has been busy with her affairs these days...
"Xiao Wan, it's time to visit Lan'er, she just gave birth to a son for you." The eldest princess gave him a reproachful look, "Hurry up and visit her."
"Oh, that's right," Xiaowan just walked a few steps inside, then turned around, "Yes, Chang Gong, in addition to the wedding car that is needed at that time, the prince Wang Baicheng, I plan to collect some Turkic dragon horse, this is even more majestic..."
"Okay, okay, third brother, don't worry about me, go and see third sister-in-law, it's not a big deal for me." Chang Gong hurriedly pushed him.
Xiao Wan frowned, and said casually, "Why isn't it a big deal? Nobody's business can be bigger than my fourth brother's business."
Xiao Yu smiled slightly, "That's true, I haven't seen the third brother work so hard for anyone before."
"Brother, are you making fun of me again?"
"Third brother, go in quickly!"
The lively voices outside came to Cui Lan's ears. The joyful feeling of having just given birth to Linzi has already slowly fermented and released a bitter smell. A certain corner of the heart seemed to be viciously pulled out by a certain force. Sharp and abrupt.There is only one sentence spinning in my mind.
No one's affairs can be bigger than my fourth brother's...
nobody……
When dusk was approaching, someone suddenly came to the palace, saying that the emperor had urgently summoned King Lanling for something very important. Seeing the dignified expression of the palace man, Chang Gong hurriedly followed him into the palace without asking further questions. After entering the Zhaoyang Palace, the palace attendant pointed in the direction of the Imperial Garden, "My lord, the emperor is waiting for you there." The imperial garden was surprisingly quiet, Chang Gong didn't take a few steps, and saw Gao Zhan leaning on a corner of the pavilion with his eyes slightly closed, he seemed to be asleep.A leaf of red maple floated down quietly and landed beside him.There is not even a breath of wind in the sky, and he probably doesn't want to disturb such a fairy-like person.Therefore, only occasional birdsong in the distance and the ambiguous and lingering sound of friction when fallen leaves touch the ground can only be heard occasionally.Then, another red maple leaf hovered and fell, against the clear autumn sky, there was a kind of stunning and poignant beauty. Chang Gong took a few steps forward, quietly looking at the sleeping face, his indescribably beautiful face was unusually soft and calm, the corners of his thin lips exuded a rare clarity, and his body was faintly radiating. It smells like a mixture of musk and borneol. "Like a child." She muttered, picked up the robe that was put aside, and covered him carefully, a strange tenderness came like flowing clouds, gently, gently flowed through her mind. Suddenly, his body moved slightly, his thick and long eyelashes trembled slightly, and his brown eyes slowly opened.At that moment, when she saw his eyes, she was confused.There was pity, love, joy, sorrow, sighs, and innumerable things that she couldn't understand, but in the end, it slowly settled into the coldness she was familiar with. "Chang Gong, you're here." He sat up and coughed a few times. "Uncle Jiu, why did you fall asleep like this? Look at you coughing again." Chang Gong stepped forward and patted him on the back, "You are not a child anymore, why don't you take care of your body so much? What if I accidentally catch a cold again? Uncle Ninth, are you feeling unwell..." Hearing her chatter, his mood suddenly improved, "It's nothing, just a little dizzy." "Are you dizzy? Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, Chang Gong will massage you." She walked behind him with a smile, and stroked up with a pair of slender and soft hands. Acupuncture points for live veins. Feeling the warmth of her fingertips, he was in a trance for a moment, almost forgetting what he had to tell her today.However, that matter...it's okay to talk about it later...just let her be happy for a while... Thinking of this, he whispered, "Chang Gong, do you still remember that when you were young, you often did this when I had a headache..." "Why don't you remember?" Chang Gong bent his lips, "However, Uncle Jiu's head seemed to hurt more and more the more he pressed it several times." "Hehe, did you press it? It's like kneading dough, can I bear it?" He recalled the previous scenes and couldn't help laughing. "But every time you still obediently let me pinch." "Aren't you allowed to make it? I wonder if you will come up with more tormenting tricks then." Chang Gong couldn't help laughing out loud, and Gao Zhan also laughed softly. How many memories of the past, it seems that only a little warmth can be entwined into happiness that has been chewed for a long time, inch by inch, just like this quietly, soaking in each other's hearts. "By the way, Uncle Jiu, why are you calling me in such a hurry?" Her movements suddenly stopped. Gao Zhan didn't answer her, but stood up slowly and said, "Come with me." Suspiciously, Chang Gong followed him through several long corridors, and after many turns, he came to a very secret room.This is a place she has never been to. The room is gloomy and cold, the curtains are long and the light cannot enter, and the eyes are completely dark.In the empty room that was cut off from sunlight, miasma was like a tide, piled up heavily, permeating the entire space, and still vaguely mixed with the smell of blood. "Uncle Jiu, where is this?" Although she didn't feel scared, this eerie feeling made her feel very uncomfortable. Gao Zhan looked at her with a complicated expression, "It turns out that the Empress Dowager Lou has been sending people to protect that little He, but perhaps because of the death of the Empress Dowager, those who protected her also left one after another, and the people I sent found her trace." Chang Gong only felt his heart constricting bit by bit, like a thorn in his back, his heart was hanging like a string, and he felt uncomfortable all over his body. "What about her? What did she say?" Gao Zhan lowered his eyes, "Unfortunately, when we found her, she was seriously ill and her life was hanging by a thread, but this time it was not all fruitless, she said a person's name before she died. " "who?" Gao Zhan didn't say anything, but slowly opened the curtain, and it turned out that there was an inconspicuous iron door behind the curtain. "Squeak—creak" the harsh sound rang in Chang Gong's ears, she couldn't help frowning, and the uneasiness in her heart spread more and more with the sound of the iron door opening. If it was said that her uneasiness came from this strange and strange environment before, then the scene piercing her eyeballs now is absolutely horrifying, making her feel like a thunderbolt!
I saw that the room was full of all kinds of horrific instruments of torture. A dying young woman was hanging from the beam. Silent, looking like poisonous snakes with their heads up and spitting out letters, Chang Gong was startled. Perhaps because of hearing some voice, the woman suddenly raised her head slowly.Chang Gong was even more shocked when he saw her face clearly! That woman is indeed—A Miao who has been missing for several days! "Uncle Jiu, what's going on! Why do you treat her like this?" Chang Gong just asked, but suddenly thought of another possibility, "Could it be that she—" Gao Zhan looked at her with a complicated expression, "Chang Gong, you listen to me calmly, the name Xiao He said before she died is—her." Chang Gong stood there in a daze, his back seemed to be covered with ants, feeling numb and itchy.That feeling flows back to the heart with the quiet blood, and then flows throbbingly throughout the body. Inexplicable fear. Could it be that everything is really related to Erniang? "I can't see that this woman is still a hard-headed person. She has tried all kinds of torture tools, but she refuses to say anything." Gao Zhan walked up to her, reached out and took off the bit in her mouth, sharply The eyes stared at her closely, and the pupils suddenly constricted, "I know you are eager to protect the Lord, why, are you still refusing to say anything?" She struggled to open her eyes, looked at Gao Zhan with almost empty eyes, breathed weakly, "I...I don't know anything, you...you just kill me." Gao Zhan sneered, "You still don't know? Well, it seems that these instruments of torture alone still can't make you speak..." "Uncle Jiu, don't go to prison anymore, there will always be another way..." Chang Gong couldn't help interrupting him. "I'm not going to be executed today, but I just brought her some news," Gao Zhan signaled Chang Gong not to speak yet, Gao Zhan half-closed his eyes, as if he was sizing up something, his ice-like blade eyes were undisguised Falling on A Miao's face, "I heard that there is a younger brother in your hometown. Your parents passed away early, and you don't want anything to happen to your only younger brother, do you?" As soon as his words fell, Ah Miao's whole body shook as if she had been stabbed in the vitals, and her face turned pale with shock, "You, what did you do to my brother?" Gao Zhan laughed softly, "If you want to know how your brother is doing, tell me everything you know." The atmosphere suddenly froze, and the air seemed to freeze again in an instant, and the dimly lit secret room was now as frightening as a sprawling tomb. "I say!" Ah Miao's slightly distorted face was ferocious like a terrifying beast, her eyes were a little slack, and she blurted out madly, "I can say anything, as long as you don't hurt my brother!" "My mother's death is really related to Er Niang?" Chang Gong couldn't hold back any longer, and strode forward to grab her skirt. A Miao looked straight at Chang Gong. In a daze, Chang Gong seemed to feel her resentful light piercing into the depths of his soul through her lost pupils: The resentment pointed directly at himself sternly and silently! "It's...it's all because of your mother, your father left the second lady in the cold. If it weren't for this, the second lady, how could the second lady be with Emperor Wenxuan..." Chang Gong's heart trembled, and in his mind, he suddenly remembered the conversation between Gao Yang and Erniang who had overheard a long time ago, and blurted out, "Could it be that my father's death is also related to Erniang?" A Miao spat out the blood in her mouth, and smiled grimly, "If it wasn't for the second lady, how would Emperor Wenxuan know where your father was going that day? When that cook Lan Jing entered, your father had already died under the knife of Emperor Wenxuan." , ha ha... Lan Jing, no... just a scapegoat!" Chang Gong took a deep breath, intending to calm the sudden pain in her chest, but the frantic breath was still flowing freely in her body, and the piercing pain stirred her whole body, as if it wanted to turn her internal organs. Dad... Dad... died under Gao Yang's knife... How could it be, how could it be... "Then, what about my mother? Why did Gao Yang kill her!" Chang Gong desperately suppressed the overwhelming pain, and asked word by word. A Miao seemed a little surprised, "You, how do you know that Emperor Wenxuan killed your mother?" "You know, you must know! Say it quickly!" Chang Gong's dark pupils were gradually covered with a layer of blood-red ice, and the flames seemed to spurt out a fiery blade. A Miao also seemed to be returning to the light at this time, and she was extraordinarily energetic, "Your mother is to blame, if she didn't murder Emperor Wenxuan, how could the first emperor strangle her to death in a fit of rage..." "If Mrs. Cuirong wanted to kill Emperor Wenxuan, she could have done it long ago. Why wait two years later? The reason for this must have something to do with you." Gao Zhan said expressionlessly from the side. A Miao showed a very strange smile, "The emperor is the emperor... yes, Gao Changgong, it was the second lady who told your mother the truth about your father's death, and your mother naturally wanted to kill the late emperor in her grief. It's a pity, how could she be the late emperor's opponent..." Chang Gong's body trembled slightly, and the blood hit every tiny corner of his body, causing vivid pain. There was an inexplicable joy in A Miao's eyes, and she continued, "Gao Changgong, if it weren't for wanting to protect you, how could your mother endure for two years? Do you know what your mother spent those two years?" During the days, I heard from the court ladies that every night I could hear the voice of the late emperor torturing your mother, that terrifying voice..." "Shut up!" Gao Zhan shouted sullenly. A Miao suddenly smiled miserably, "Your Majesty, I have said everything I need to say. For the sake of my younger brother, I have done unfaithful things. I am sorry for the second wife. I can only apologize with death..." The last few words Suddenly, her voice dropped.Gao Zhan's expression changed slightly, he pinched her chin to look, and saw a trace of blood flowing down the corner of her lips... "I didn't expect her to kill herself by biting her tongue..." Chang Gong stood there like a statue, in a trance, suddenly many messy memory fragments poured into his mind like a flood, and without any warning, he opened the dusty memory for a long time... so shocking... so shocking... so chilling! The nightmare in Chang'an City... Before her eyes, she quickly walked through many scars that had long been buried in the deepest part of her memory... That harsh, thick, fishy-sweet smell lingers on her facial features like poison ivy... She flickered, and suddenly rushed forward, shaking her vigorously, "It's Erniang, she and Gao Yang conspired to burn down my house in Chang'an, she took my mother away, and she did all of this." Yes, right!" A trace of doubt flashed across A Miao's face, and she spat out a few words with her last breath, "What... set fire?" Then she tilted her head and died. "You said it!" Chang Gong shook her vigorously, "Don't die, don't die!" "Chang Gong, calm down, she's dead." Gao Zhan grabbed her, only to feel that she was trembling all over. "The Mrs. Gao who set the fire must also be her, and she..." Chang Gong murmured and repeated, then suddenly pulled out the long sword from his waist with a swipe, turned around and walked out. "Chang Gong, what are you going to do!" Gao Zhan quickly stood in front of her and met her pair of dark eyes. At this moment, the two clusters of angry flames passing by in those black eyes were like burning in the snow. A torch that burns everything it encounters in an instant. "What for? Of course I killed that bitch Song Jingyi to avenge my parents!" The cold light of resentment shot out of her eyes was like poisonous vines, wantonly growing wildly. "Wait a minute, Chang Gong, don't be impulsive. You listen to me..." "Uncle Jiu, why are you stopping me? I'm going to kill her! If it wasn't for her, how could my parents..." When Chang Gong thought of the tragic torture his mother suffered in the palace, his heart-wrenching feeling filled his heart. The pain in the whole body flooded in like a tide... But in an instant, another thing flashed through his mind very clearly: Song Jingyi is also the mother of the elder brother, if she was killed, how would the elder brother feel?Thinking of this, the sword in her hand fell with a bang, squatted down and curled up in a dark corner in pain, buried her face deeply in her knees, wrapped her arms around her knees, and only her long hair remained like a rainstorm Covered the whole body.As if to expel everything around, escape into the endless abyss. Gao Zhan looked at the tears in the corner of her eyes silently, and felt the pain of suffocation coming from his heart, as if being entwined by a slippery poisonous snake.Unable to control his emotions anymore, he suddenly stepped forward and stretched out his hand to pull her into his arms, holding her trembling with all his strength, trying to say something, but his voice was choked, and he said nothing He couldn't come out, but felt that her tears kept falling on his shoulders, as if with a fire-like temperature, which made him throbbing in his heart. "Chang Gong, listen to me and be patient for a while. Letting her die like this is not taking advantage of her. Do you know what is more terrible than death? That is——life is worse than death." Chang Gong's body stiffened for a moment, but he didn't raise his head.Therefore, she didn't see that at this moment, Uncle Jiu's brown pupils were like a sharp dagger shining with blood-thirsty light...
When dusk was approaching, someone suddenly came to the palace, saying that the emperor had urgently summoned King Lanling for something very important. Seeing the dignified expression of the palace man, Chang Gong hurriedly followed him into the palace without asking further questions. After entering the Zhaoyang Palace, the palace attendant pointed in the direction of the Imperial Garden, "My lord, the emperor is waiting for you there." The imperial garden was surprisingly quiet, Chang Gong didn't take a few steps, and saw Gao Zhan leaning on a corner of the pavilion with his eyes slightly closed, he seemed to be asleep.A leaf of red maple floated down quietly and landed beside him.There is not even a breath of wind in the sky, and he probably doesn't want to disturb such a fairy-like person.Therefore, only occasional birdsong in the distance and the ambiguous and lingering sound of friction when fallen leaves touch the ground can only be heard occasionally.Then, another red maple leaf hovered and fell, against the clear autumn sky, there was a kind of stunning and poignant beauty. Chang Gong took a few steps forward, quietly looking at the sleeping face, his indescribably beautiful face was unusually soft and calm, the corners of his thin lips exuded a rare clarity, and his body was faintly radiating. It smells like a mixture of musk and borneol. "Like a child." She muttered, picked up the robe that was put aside, and covered him carefully, a strange tenderness came like flowing clouds, gently, gently flowed through her mind. Suddenly, his body moved slightly, his thick and long eyelashes trembled slightly, and his brown eyes slowly opened.At that moment, when she saw his eyes, she was confused.There was pity, love, joy, sorrow, sighs, and innumerable things that she couldn't understand, but in the end, it slowly settled into the coldness she was familiar with. "Chang Gong, you're here." He sat up and coughed a few times. "Uncle Jiu, why did you fall asleep like this? Look at you coughing again." Chang Gong stepped forward and patted him on the back, "You are not a child anymore, why don't you take care of your body so much? What if I accidentally catch a cold again? Uncle Ninth, are you feeling unwell..." Hearing her chatter, his mood suddenly improved, "It's nothing, just a little dizzy." "Are you dizzy? Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, Chang Gong will massage you." She walked behind him with a smile, and stroked up with a pair of slender and soft hands. Acupuncture points for live veins. Feeling the warmth of her fingertips, he was in a trance for a moment, almost forgetting what he had to tell her today.However, that matter...it's okay to talk about it later...just let her be happy for a while... Thinking of this, he whispered, "Chang Gong, do you still remember that when you were young, you often did this when I had a headache..." "Why don't you remember?" Chang Gong bent his lips, "However, Uncle Jiu's head seemed to hurt more and more the more he pressed it several times." "Hehe, did you press it? It's like kneading dough, can I bear it?" He recalled the previous scenes and couldn't help laughing. "But every time you still obediently let me pinch." "Aren't you allowed to make it? I wonder if you will come up with more tormenting tricks then." Chang Gong couldn't help laughing out loud, and Gao Zhan also laughed softly. How many memories of the past, it seems that only a little warmth can be entwined into happiness that has been chewed for a long time, inch by inch, just like this quietly, soaking in each other's hearts. "By the way, Uncle Jiu, why are you calling me in such a hurry?" Her movements suddenly stopped. Gao Zhan didn't answer her, but stood up slowly and said, "Come with me." Suspiciously, Chang Gong followed him through several long corridors, and after many turns, he came to a very secret room.This is a place she has never been to. The room is gloomy and cold, the curtains are long and the light cannot enter, and the eyes are completely dark.In the empty room that was cut off from sunlight, miasma was like a tide, piled up heavily, permeating the entire space, and still vaguely mixed with the smell of blood. "Uncle Jiu, where is this?" Although she didn't feel scared, this eerie feeling made her feel very uncomfortable. Gao Zhan looked at her with a complicated expression, "It turns out that the Empress Dowager Lou has been sending people to protect that little He, but perhaps because of the death of the Empress Dowager, those who protected her also left one after another, and the people I sent found her trace." Chang Gong only felt his heart constricting bit by bit, like a thorn in his back, his heart was hanging like a string, and he felt uncomfortable all over his body. "What about her? What did she say?" Gao Zhan lowered his eyes, "Unfortunately, when we found her, she was seriously ill and her life was hanging by a thread, but this time it was not all fruitless, she said a person's name before she died. " "who?" Gao Zhan didn't say anything, but slowly opened the curtain, and it turned out that there was an inconspicuous iron door behind the curtain. "Squeak—creak" the harsh sound rang in Chang Gong's ears, she couldn't help frowning, and the uneasiness in her heart spread more and more with the sound of the iron door opening. If it was said that her uneasiness came from this strange and strange environment before, then the scene piercing her eyeballs now is absolutely horrifying, making her feel like a thunderbolt!
I saw that the room was full of all kinds of horrific instruments of torture. A dying young woman was hanging from the beam. Silent, looking like poisonous snakes with their heads up and spitting out letters, Chang Gong was startled. Perhaps because of hearing some voice, the woman suddenly raised her head slowly.Chang Gong was even more shocked when he saw her face clearly! That woman is indeed—A Miao who has been missing for several days! "Uncle Jiu, what's going on! Why do you treat her like this?" Chang Gong just asked, but suddenly thought of another possibility, "Could it be that she—" Gao Zhan looked at her with a complicated expression, "Chang Gong, you listen to me calmly, the name Xiao He said before she died is—her." Chang Gong stood there in a daze, his back seemed to be covered with ants, feeling numb and itchy.That feeling flows back to the heart with the quiet blood, and then flows throbbingly throughout the body. Inexplicable fear. Could it be that everything is really related to Erniang? "I can't see that this woman is still a hard-headed person. She has tried all kinds of torture tools, but she refuses to say anything." Gao Zhan walked up to her, reached out and took off the bit in her mouth, sharply The eyes stared at her closely, and the pupils suddenly constricted, "I know you are eager to protect the Lord, why, are you still refusing to say anything?" She struggled to open her eyes, looked at Gao Zhan with almost empty eyes, breathed weakly, "I...I don't know anything, you...you just kill me." Gao Zhan sneered, "You still don't know? Well, it seems that these instruments of torture alone still can't make you speak..." "Uncle Jiu, don't go to prison anymore, there will always be another way..." Chang Gong couldn't help interrupting him. "I'm not going to be executed today, but I just brought her some news," Gao Zhan signaled Chang Gong not to speak yet, Gao Zhan half-closed his eyes, as if he was sizing up something, his ice-like blade eyes were undisguised Falling on A Miao's face, "I heard that there is a younger brother in your hometown. Your parents passed away early, and you don't want anything to happen to your only younger brother, do you?" As soon as his words fell, Ah Miao's whole body shook as if she had been stabbed in the vitals, and her face turned pale with shock, "You, what did you do to my brother?" Gao Zhan laughed softly, "If you want to know how your brother is doing, tell me everything you know." The atmosphere suddenly froze, and the air seemed to freeze again in an instant, and the dimly lit secret room was now as frightening as a sprawling tomb. "I say!" Ah Miao's slightly distorted face was ferocious like a terrifying beast, her eyes were a little slack, and she blurted out madly, "I can say anything, as long as you don't hurt my brother!" "My mother's death is really related to Er Niang?" Chang Gong couldn't hold back any longer, and strode forward to grab her skirt. A Miao looked straight at Chang Gong. In a daze, Chang Gong seemed to feel her resentful light piercing into the depths of his soul through her lost pupils: The resentment pointed directly at himself sternly and silently! "It's...it's all because of your mother, your father left the second lady in the cold. If it weren't for this, the second lady, how could the second lady be with Emperor Wenxuan..." Chang Gong's heart trembled, and in his mind, he suddenly remembered the conversation between Gao Yang and Erniang who had overheard a long time ago, and blurted out, "Could it be that my father's death is also related to Erniang?" A Miao spat out the blood in her mouth, and smiled grimly, "If it wasn't for the second lady, how would Emperor Wenxuan know where your father was going that day? When that cook Lan Jing entered, your father had already died under the knife of Emperor Wenxuan." , ha ha... Lan Jing, no... just a scapegoat!" Chang Gong took a deep breath, intending to calm the sudden pain in her chest, but the frantic breath was still flowing freely in her body, and the piercing pain stirred her whole body, as if it wanted to turn her internal organs. Dad... Dad... died under Gao Yang's knife... How could it be, how could it be... "Then, what about my mother? Why did Gao Yang kill her!" Chang Gong desperately suppressed the overwhelming pain, and asked word by word. A Miao seemed a little surprised, "You, how do you know that Emperor Wenxuan killed your mother?" "You know, you must know! Say it quickly!" Chang Gong's dark pupils were gradually covered with a layer of blood-red ice, and the flames seemed to spurt out a fiery blade. A Miao also seemed to be returning to the light at this time, and she was extraordinarily energetic, "Your mother is to blame, if she didn't murder Emperor Wenxuan, how could the first emperor strangle her to death in a fit of rage..." "If Mrs. Cuirong wanted to kill Emperor Wenxuan, she could have done it long ago. Why wait two years later? The reason for this must have something to do with you." Gao Zhan said expressionlessly from the side. A Miao showed a very strange smile, "The emperor is the emperor... yes, Gao Changgong, it was the second lady who told your mother the truth about your father's death, and your mother naturally wanted to kill the late emperor in her grief. It's a pity, how could she be the late emperor's opponent..." Chang Gong's body trembled slightly, and the blood hit every tiny corner of his body, causing vivid pain. There was an inexplicable joy in A Miao's eyes, and she continued, "Gao Changgong, if it weren't for wanting to protect you, how could your mother endure for two years? Do you know what your mother spent those two years?" During the days, I heard from the court ladies that every night I could hear the voice of the late emperor torturing your mother, that terrifying voice..." "Shut up!" Gao Zhan shouted sullenly. A Miao suddenly smiled miserably, "Your Majesty, I have said everything I need to say. For the sake of my younger brother, I have done unfaithful things. I am sorry for the second wife. I can only apologize with death..." The last few words Suddenly, her voice dropped.Gao Zhan's expression changed slightly, he pinched her chin to look, and saw a trace of blood flowing down the corner of her lips... "I didn't expect her to kill herself by biting her tongue..." Chang Gong stood there like a statue, in a trance, suddenly many messy memory fragments poured into his mind like a flood, and without any warning, he opened the dusty memory for a long time... so shocking... so shocking... so chilling! The nightmare in Chang'an City... Before her eyes, she quickly walked through many scars that had long been buried in the deepest part of her memory... That harsh, thick, fishy-sweet smell lingers on her facial features like poison ivy... She flickered, and suddenly rushed forward, shaking her vigorously, "It's Erniang, she and Gao Yang conspired to burn down my house in Chang'an, she took my mother away, and she did all of this." Yes, right!" A trace of doubt flashed across A Miao's face, and she spat out a few words with her last breath, "What... set fire?" Then she tilted her head and died. "You said it!" Chang Gong shook her vigorously, "Don't die, don't die!" "Chang Gong, calm down, she's dead." Gao Zhan grabbed her, only to feel that she was trembling all over. "The Mrs. Gao who set the fire must also be her, and she..." Chang Gong murmured and repeated, then suddenly pulled out the long sword from his waist with a swipe, turned around and walked out. "Chang Gong, what are you going to do!" Gao Zhan quickly stood in front of her and met her pair of dark eyes. At this moment, the two clusters of angry flames passing by in those black eyes were like burning in the snow. A torch that burns everything it encounters in an instant. "What for? Of course I killed that bitch Song Jingyi to avenge my parents!" The cold light of resentment shot out of her eyes was like poisonous vines, wantonly growing wildly. "Wait a minute, Chang Gong, don't be impulsive. You listen to me..." "Uncle Jiu, why are you stopping me? I'm going to kill her! If it wasn't for her, how could my parents..." When Chang Gong thought of the tragic torture his mother suffered in the palace, his heart-wrenching feeling filled his heart. The pain in the whole body flooded in like a tide... But in an instant, another thing flashed through his mind very clearly: Song Jingyi is also the mother of the elder brother, if she was killed, how would the elder brother feel?Thinking of this, the sword in her hand fell with a bang, squatted down and curled up in a dark corner in pain, buried her face deeply in her knees, wrapped her arms around her knees, and only her long hair remained like a rainstorm Covered the whole body.As if to expel everything around, escape into the endless abyss. Gao Zhan looked at the tears in the corner of her eyes silently, and felt the pain of suffocation coming from his heart, as if being entwined by a slippery poisonous snake.Unable to control his emotions anymore, he suddenly stepped forward and stretched out his hand to pull her into his arms, holding her trembling with all his strength, trying to say something, but his voice was choked, and he said nothing He couldn't come out, but felt that her tears kept falling on his shoulders, as if with a fire-like temperature, which made him throbbing in his heart. "Chang Gong, listen to me and be patient for a while. Letting her die like this is not taking advantage of her. Do you know what is more terrible than death? That is——life is worse than death." Chang Gong's body stiffened for a moment, but he didn't raise his head.Therefore, she didn't see that at this moment, Uncle Jiu's brown pupils were like a sharp dagger shining with blood-thirsty light...