Jin Tingjiao

Chapter 481 Inside the Chamber of Secrets ([-])

She didn't think that she should be loved by everyone, and she was not a gold ingot, and there were many people who hated her.But Bi Shangyun even collected two of her paintings without any interaction with her, which inevitably makes people think a little too much, so Xiao Huai's reaction is reasonable.

And even if he said that he hated her, she wouldn't be too surprised, because after all, it was a fact that he helped Wen Chan to murder her, and he had murderous intentions towards Xu Jing.

But he says it's neither...

"What is the relationship between a teenage girl in the boudoir and the Taifu?" Xiao Huai followed his words and asked everyone's doubts: "If you are talking about Zhang Xie from Yanjing's Zhang Mansion and Qin Yongding from Qin Yongding's reign?" Zhang Ying, the daughter of the first assistant, so as far as I know, the Zhang family controls her daughter very strictly, so Mr. Deqi should not be allowed to commit the crime of exterminating the family and the country.

"Furthermore, Mr. Qi is not one of the county kings on the roster of Prince Cheng's Mansion. It is said that he would not have any intersection with Ms. Zhang. What the old man said is puzzling."

Mr. Qi's voice was as shocking as a stone breaking the sky, and finally a crack was blown on Bi Shangyun's leisurely face.

The sharp light in his eyes danced together with the candlelight, and he held his breath for half a moment before recovering.

"So you've remembered." He looked at Shen Xi, "That's good."

After tearing through the window paper, Shen Xi said bluntly: "I remember that the bloodlines of the Helian royal family were rarely disrupted. Although there are occasional precedents of the clan's children leaving pearls outside, but It is very rare to bring you directly to the palace like Prince Cheng. I don’t know where the relationship between Mr. Qi and Prince Cheng’s residence came from?"

Nor did she expect him to answer.

Right now, he blocked them here, naturally he was a bit pretentious, and he was the one who started the conversation first, so she obviously couldn't justify it if she didn't ask.

Bi Shangyun smiled and said: "The dwarf doesn't talk about his faults in front of him, but Shi Zifei is exposing the old man's faults."

Shen Xi also answered casually: "Mr. Qi has the winning ticket, now the three of us have almost become your Monkey King at the foot of Five Fingers Mountain. I hope you will give me some advice."

Bi Shangyun laughed again, and said, "As expected, you are worthy of being the young lady of the Zhang family. With your calmness, I also respect you three points."

Shen Xi twitched the corner of his mouth.

He said: "Since you recognized me, you should remember that there was another person who entered the mansion with me back then. I called her my aunt, and her public identity was also a distant relative of the old concubine. In fact, what happened? I don't need to say more.

"As for why we came to the palace," he paused and looked over at this point: "Speaking of it, I have to thank your father."

"Father?" Shen Xi narrowed his eyes.

"Yes. Your father, Zhang Xie." He said, "You have been known as a talented woman since you were a child. You must have heard about what happened in the first year of Yongding."

The first year of Yongding... Shen Xi's thoughts immediately flew back to that year.

She was seven years old in the first year of Yongding. Although her grandfather was not in good health, he was still alive at that time.

Mr. Zhang is concerned about the country and the people, and takes revitalizing the Qin family as his duty. He is deeply worried about the increasingly sharp ethnic conflicts. He chooses the person he likes and gives up, but when he has free time, he often talks about the political situation with his brothers and sisters in the form of gossip.

So even though she was young at that time, she still remembered what happened in the court.

That year, Emperor Yongding—that is, her cousin-in-law had just ascended the throne. The emperor was kind-hearted and sympathetic to the people. As soon as he took office, he brought Zhang Xie, who was the Minister of Dali Temple at that time, into the cabinet, and jointly promulgated a series of laws, including A decree encouraging intermarriage between the Tuoba and Helian ethnic groups to ease the conflict.

For this reason, he even issued a decree to bestow marriages among several noble families.

Most of the Helian nobles among them were families on the verge of decline, and they didn't care so much about being able to be used by the emperor now.

But at that time, there were still some courtiers in the court who supported another younger brother of Emperor Yongding to take the throne. Although the action failed in the end, seeing the emperor's kindness, they privately instigated Wu Guogong's government who was offering marriages to obstruct the reform.

Naturally, they did not dare to fight against the court openly, but privately used their marriage to make things difficult for the other party.At the beginning, the opponent was tolerant, but after several times of making things difficult, it finally developed into a confrontation with force.

On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival of that year, only half a year before the emperor ascended the throne, twenty or so people were killed in the west city gate, including the groom himself.What was supposed to be a good wedding event turned into a funeral, and the other party's old lady died because of it. That night, the other party's family united with other forces to break into Wu Guogong and commit murder.

Although Wu Guogong's mansion had been prepared for a long time, it also suffered heavy losses.

Emperor Yongding was furious in the early court. Undoubtedly, this dispute made the conflicts among the various ethnic groups more intense, so he decreed that the Duke of Wu should be cut off, and then he ordered Zhang Jie to appease the other party himself.

The next few months were tense.

Until Zhang Xie invited the emperor to promulgate a new decree, ordering the intermarriage of the three clans to start with the clan's children. To set an example, each prince's house must have at least one child who is married to a foreign woman. The situation is difficult to control after the dragon's veins are too messed up, so the palace has not yet accepted a foreign woman as a concubine.

However, the nobles did not enforce the decree, but the turmoil gradually calmed down due to their own volition.

At that time, the Zhang family also took the initiative to propose marriage to the senior generals of the Tuoba clan for Zhang Yu. He was willing to blatantly take advantage of the Zhang family, so he thought that Mr. Zhang was still young, so he should not be impatient and politely refuse, so he only entered into a marriage contract with a branch of the Zhang family.

"It is precisely because of the decree that Zhang Xie advocated that the clan should lead by example and must choose a child to intermarry with a foreign race. That year, the Prince Cheng's Palace made the decision to choose the second daughter Chiyan Princess Qi Weifeng to marry. The decision to go to the Tuoba tribe. It is precisely because of this decision that I was doomed to the path I will take later."

After a moment's pause, Bi Shangyun spoke again.

During that pause, he seemed to have returned to the past, and his tone was full of obvious vicissitudes.

Qi Weifeng is the second daughter of Prince Cheng, born to Concubine Liu, she is a lively and delicate girl.

"Qi Ziyu is a prostitute, and she was already engaged to the noble son at that time, even if it wasn't like that, she certainly wouldn't marry the 'lower class' whom she despises, and Princess Cheng wouldn't let her marry her." .But Concubine Liu is not a fuel-efficient lamp, she dared not confront Princess Cheng, and then found us."

Shen Xi was slightly surprised: "How did Side Concubine Liu know of your existence?"

(End of this chapter)