she has golden eyes

Chapter 51 Darkness
In the middle of the night, Qingzhou City finally calmed down. On the tall wooden building, two men in black wearing face scarves stood together, one tall and one short.

Shen Qingyang raised his hand, pointed to a large house in front and said:
"After the princess returned to Beijing, the main courtyard was empty, with only a few women on duty at night. I can make them all fall asleep in about two quarters of an hour. You just wait at the corner gate and don't move around until I go back to pick you up. "

Mei Xue nodded, and followed Shen Qingyang quickly down the wooden building.

Miscellaneous peanut trees, at the corner gate of the remote garden, Mei Xue squatted in the flowers and waited for a short time, Shen Qingyang turned back and led her all the way into the main courtyard.

The yard was pitch black, and Shen Qingyang turned on a small corner lamp after closing the door and window of the main room.

Starting from the bedroom, then to the main hall and the study, Mei Xue checked all the items carefully, but found nothing abnormal.

Not even the slightest unusual smell.

Shen Qingyang unlocked the door of Princess Chenyang's private warehouse in the main courtyard, and took Mei Xue in to check it out.

But still nothing.

Shen Qingyang frowned, extinguished the corner lamp in his hand and left the princess mansion with Mei Xue.

It was almost daylight, and they could not stay any longer.

Mei Xue didn't feel depressed. After returning to the inn, she cleaned her hands and sat down at the table. After thinking about it, she said to Shen Qingyang:
"Look for an opportunity and see if you can let me visit Cai Yu's room."

Shen Qingyang looked at Mei Xue, thought for a while and said:
"It's easy. I'll go find Yuan Hao and ask him to invite Cai Yu to drink."

Mei Xue let out a "hmm", and ignored Shen Qingyang, just sat silently by the window and closed her eyes, and went through all the details in the princess mansion just now in her mind, but still found nothing.

Shen Qingyang stood at the door of the room, looked at Mei Xue for a while, and then went out quietly.

In the evening of the next day, Shen Qingyang took Mei Xue out. Not long after it got dark, they entered Cai Yu's study in the outer courtyard.

They are all precious calligraphy, paintings and utensils, which are arranged in an orderly manner.

Holding the small corner lamp, Shen Qingyang followed Mei Xue slowly, inspecting all the places carefully, including every corner of the bedroom and clean room.

But still nothing, not even the slightest suspicious sign.

Shen Qingyang put the lamp on the table, and whispered to Mei Xue:

"Why don't you go back today, and then find a chance to look at the rooms of those concubines and those who can serve the princess up close."

Mei Xue shook her head, her eyes turned to a picture of fishing in the Han River on the back wall.

Shen Qingyang stopped talking, and walked to Mei Xue with a lamp in his hand.

Mei Xue stretched out her hand to touch the painting, and said in a low voice:

"The things in this study are all high-quality goods, only this painting is too ordinary, but it is hung in such an eye-catching position."

Mei Xue's fingers slowly slid to the blank space of the frame, her voice was still very low:

"The blank space in this painting is too wide."

Shen Qingyang raised his eyebrows, and immediately handed the lamp to Mei Xue, then stretched out his long arms, and took the painting off the wall.

A narrow wooden door suddenly appeared on the wall.

Shen Qingyang gritted his teeth and said to Mei Xue:

"Stay here and wait for me. I'll go in and have a look. If there is a situation, run if you can, and hide if you can't. Don't worry about me."

While talking, Shen Qingyang gave Mei Xue a gold token, took the lamp from her hand, turned around and entered the secret passage.

Seeing Shen Qingyang walk into the dark room, Mei Xue pursed her lips and smiled silently, then closed the wooden door, stepped on the chair and hung the painting on the wall.

After wiping off the marks on the chair, Mei Xue walked to the corner of the wall and waited quietly for Shen Qingyang in the shadows.

The moonlight is cold. Compared with Luoyang, the weather in Qingzhou already has the chill of winter.

Mei Xue looked at the flower shadows outside through the window, gently rubbing her thumbs with her fingers hanging in her sleeves.

Maybe tonight, in two or three days at most, the truth will come out.

How many crimes are hidden in this prosperous world?

Involving Princess Chenyang and the angry Emperor Mingde, a bloody storm is inevitable.

After more than an hour, there were two light knocks on the wooden door.

Mei Xue stood on the chair and took off the frame, Shen Qingyang pushed open the wooden door and walked out.

Just by the dim light, Mei Xue could see that Shen Qingyang's expression was extremely unhappy.

He didn't say anything, the two followed each other and left the princess mansion quickly after tidying up the study without any flaws.

As soon as he returned to the inn, Shen Qingyang tore off the face scarf angrily, and fell to the ground in resentment.

Mei Xue glanced at him, walked over to pick up the face towel and put it on the table, ignored him, went to wash her hands, then sat at the table and poured a cup of tea and drank slowly.

Shen Qingyang sulked for a while before saying in a low voice:

"The secret passage is very long, and the other end leads to a big house on another street. There lives a woman, several children and servants in it."

When Mei Xue first heard it, her first guess was that Concubine Cai raised a concubine outside.

But since Princess Chenyang is willing to take several concubines for Consort Cai and has given birth to several children, why doesn't Concubine Cai take this woman into the mansion justifiably?
But looking at Shen Qingyang's face, Mei Xue felt that things were definitely not as simple as she thought.

Sure enough, Shen Qingyang went on to say:
"That woman looks at least over 50 years old, and her appearance is very ordinary, like an ordinary village woman."

Mei Xue was really surprised, she stared blankly at Shen Qingyang, speechless for a long time.

If it is said that Concubine Cai secretly raised a beautiful concubine in order to vacate Princess Chenyang's position and cruelly murdered her, then it is somewhat reasonable, but what is the situation now?
Only two days later, Shen Qingyang found out everything.

It turned out that Consort Cai's loss of his wife was a scam. Not only was his original wife alive and well, but she also lived across the street from the Princess Mansion.

I have lived here for nearly 20 years, and have raised several children, and my eldest daughter is already married.

The people who are now living with the original spouse are two sons and several grandchildren.

And the husband in name of the original partner turned out to be a down-and-out classmate of Concubine Cai's when she was studying.

Mei Xue was so shocked that she never thought that this drama-like thing would actually appear in front of her eyes.

Shen Qingyang sneered, grabbed the broken cup in his hand, gritted his teeth and said:

"Whether Cai Yu poisoned the princess or not, he will surely die."

When Princess Chenyang was tormented by illness day and night, Concubine Cai's family was happy and happy, enjoying the generous life provided by the Princess Mansion.

But what Mei Xue thought was that the poison that Princess Chenyang was poisoned was probably caused by Cai Concubine.

His original wife is likely to be involved as well.

The sons and daughters are grown up and the family is rich. They don't need Princess Chenyang now.

No, it was the couple who had been plotting Princess Chenyang's life from the very beginning.

The next day, Shen Qingyang asked one of Yuan Hao's subordinates to lead two teams of soldiers under the pretext of arresting robbers. He and Mei Xue joined them pretending to be ordinary soldiers, and successfully searched the courtyard where Consort Cai's former spouse lived.

Mei Xue found a box from her original partner's bedroom, which contained more than half a box of crushed yew leaf powder, all packed in small porcelain bottles.

Mei Xue opened a small porcelain bottle and smelled it, then looked at the woman opposite and said:

"I don't know where Madam got so much of such an expensive medicine? It cost Prince Cai a lot of money, right?"

The woman turned pale, but still insisted:

"I don't know Concubine Cai at all, this medicine... this medicine...is for me to treat illnesses."

Mei Xue smiled, ignored her, let a soldier hold the box for her, and left.

People always have to pay the price for their own greed. How many heads will be killed after more than 20 years of deception and involving the murder of the princess?
Mei Xue was packing her things in the inn and preparing to go back to Luoyang, when Shen Qingyang walked in, sat at the table for a while and said:
"The Princess Mansion has been sealed off, and all those involved have been imprisoned. Do you want to meet Cai Yu?"

Mei Xue did not answer him, but asked:
"Where are the children in the princess mansion?"

The original spouse and her descendants will undoubtedly die, but the children born to these concubines have called Princess Chenyang "mother" for many years. As long as Princess Chenyang is willing to intercede, even if they are Cai Yu's children, they can probably survive .

Shen Qingyang said silently:
"They're all in prison, and they're going to be taken to the capital together to obey His Majesty's instructions."

Mei Xue had nothing to say, after thinking about it, she followed Shen Qingyang to the prison in the Qingzhou government office.

She is really curious about such a strange person in the world.

As Li Jinzhi said, Cai Yu was very ugly, not to mention the sharp-mouthed monkey cheeks, his face was scorched yellow, his eyes protruded outwards, and his sparse beard made him look more like a mouse.

But just looking at the appearances of Emperor Mingde, the brothers of King Shu, Li Jinzhi, Li Jinyu and others, one can infer how beautiful the young Princess Chenyang would be.

But most of a woman's life was ruined in the hands of this dirty man in front of her.

Mei Xue looked at him, feeling completely speechless.

Cai Yu knelt on the ground and wept bitterly, and begged Shen Qingyang hoarsely to let him see Princess Chenyang. Shen Qingyang was so angry that he grabbed his neck through the gap between the prison gate pillars and said:

"Bastard, you will never see the princess again. Remember, even if the princess is willing to leave you a whole body, I will make your life worse than death first."

Cai Yu was so pinched by Shen Qingyang that she couldn't breathe, her feet hung in mid-air and kicked non-stop.

Mei Xue gave Cai Yu one last look in disgust, then turned around and walked outside.

(End of this chapter)