klisemfg Chapter 875 The Cui Family's Secret 1 and 2
Chapter 875 The Cui Family's Secret 1 and 2
When Xiao Yining heard the old eunuch's words, her mind almost went blank, but fortunately she reacted quickly and quickly connected the previously scattered melons. Then she asked, "Doctor Shangguan likes Lady Zheng?"
Pei An: ...
The old eunuch sighed and said, "I am really old. My eyes are dim and my ears are useless!"
Xiao Yining: →_→, that was a close call, I almost thought Doctor Shangguan was a good person before!
Old eunuch VS little kid: lost!
The room fell into silence for a moment, with only the gurgling sound of boiling water in the copper pot.
However, a moment later, there was a chaotic sound of footsteps outside the wing room, and several servants appeared at the door carrying a stove, a hot copper pot, and a mountain of vegetables.
Pei Yi glanced at the old eunuch slyly and waved to his friends, "Let's go eat hot pot with our master, so that he won't feel lonely here."
As soon as these words were spoken, cheers in the room exploded instantly, becoming extremely noisy.
Pei An: (?? ?), kids are really annoying!
The old eunuch VS the four little ones: total defeat!
On the other side, in the cold dungeon
Wang and Lin finally arrived at Shangguan Guiqing's cell.
The two exchanged a knowing look and glanced at the small window of the cell door.
Shangguan Guiqing was seen withered, curled up on a moldy straw mat, his eyes dull and lifeless, staring blankly ahead. His blue-gray prison uniform, covered with blood scabs, shone black in the dim light.
The two old men looked at each other and understood that this man had already made up his mind to die. The reason why he was still holding on was naturally for his grandson who was not far away and his son who was outside.
Lin Yuzan knocked lightly on the prison door twice, making a dull sound. He spoke in a relaxed tone, "Doctor Shangguan, your grandson has already led Shangguan Yiyang out. He will be able to reunite with you here in a few days."
Before he could finish his words, there was a violent slamming sound from the prison door. The next moment, Shangguan Guiqing's fingers, which had once been rejuvenated, were stuck in the bars. He roared at the top of his lungs, "Lin Yuzan, I have never wronged you. Why did you kill my entire family?"
The sound of panting mixed with the smell of blood and decay hit them in the face. Wang and Lin took a step back at the same time, staring coldly at the rusty prison door.
From the other end of the dungeon came Shangguan Wenyuan's miserable sobbing: "Grandfather..."
"Wenyuan...it's all your grandfather's fault!" Shangguan Guiqing responded sadly.
Wang and Lin couldn't help but shake their heads, waiting tacitly for the grandparents and grandchildren to calm down.
After an unknown amount of time, the crying finally subsided and there was a brief silence, but then Shangguan Guiqing's cell door began to shake wildly, making the entire dungeon buzz.
The shrill and terrifying roar echoed in the gloomy dungeon for a long time.
"Lin Yuzan, come back here, come back here, are you lying to me? It's impossible for Yi Yang not to recognize his own seed, you are lying to me..."
Wang Cheng glanced sideways at his old rival who was covering his nose, and said slowly, "Doctor Shangguan, you should know that we have other helpers. It will be easy to make Shangguan Yiyang believe it."
"Cui Xiangyang, impossible, impossible, how dare he, how dare he..." The cell shook again, and the bony hands grabbed the iron cage to vent the owner's anger.
Wang Cheng took the opportunity to add fuel to the fire: "Doctor Shangguan, don't forget what your grandson did to Miss Cui. She is obsessed with your grandson and will believe anything he says. Lord Cui is powerless to stop him. He hates your grandson, but he dares not take action because of his concerns. Doctor Shangguan should know that he is afraid of you, not your son and grandson."
At this time, Lin Yuzan's voice also slowly rang out: "Doctor Shangguan, your master is about to start a rebellion. It is time for Master Cui to make a contribution."
From the other end of the dungeon, Shangguan Wenyuan's anxious cry came, "Grandfather, you must not listen to them. Yaoyao would never harm us, and the same goes for my uncle-in-law. He always said that he was as close to you as a brother. Grandfather, you must not be deceived by them."
On the other side of the prison door, Shangguan Guiqing's cloudy eyes flashed with surprise and doubt, but the moment his grandson said "as close as brothers", he instantly burst into anger and murderous intent.
At this moment, Wang Cheng's voice was heard from outside: "Doctor Shangguan, my brother-in-law and I should leave now. His Majesty is still waiting for our report."
After saying that, the two old men walked out without looking back.
Shangguan Guiqing's voice rang out from behind, trying to persuade him to stay: "Lin Yuzan, Wang Cheng, I'll make a deal with you. In exchange for Wen Yuan's survival, I'll learn the Cui family's secrets."
However, this sound could not make Wang and Lin stop.
Just as the footsteps of the two were about to fade away, Shangguan Guiqing's unwilling pleading voice finally rang out from behind: "The Cui family's ancestral secret medicine was mixed with... the heart blood of the True Dragon Emperor..."
The two old men finally stopped.
Pei Mansion
Pei An closed his one eye, and in the mist, he put his chopsticks into the boiling copper pot, and then he heard a calling voice in his ears.
"Eunuch Pei, do you want to eat meat? I'll give it to you!"
He lowered his eyes and glanced at the little girl, who was chewing meat with a smacking sound and holding up a small porcelain bowl of meat.
Pei An smelled the aroma of meat and replied expressionlessly: "Thank you for the reward, Princess. I'm old and can't eat..."
Before he could finish his words, the meat in the porcelain bowl was poured into his bowl.
Pei Yi pulled the little girl back and stuffed another long leek into her mouth.
Seeing the little girl trying hard to put the food into her mouth, he raised his eyes to look at the old eunuch with a stern face, "Master, if you don't eat meat, it won't taste good."
Pei An stared at the slices of meat rolling in the copper pot for many times. Once it was thrown into the pot, it had no chance to get out.
He snorted sarcastically before resignedly picking up the mutton from the bowl and putting it into his mouth.
At this moment, a regretful voice came to his ears.
"These leeks must have been sent by Miss Yu. Yesterday, when Miss Yu heard that Miss Cui was missing, she told me not to go out to sell vegetables, and she wouldn't come out. Last night, four young ladies were missing from their homes. Miss Yu might have to return to her hometown overnight."
Lin Yinhu looked at his little cousin's pursed lips and said with melancholy.
With that, the cheerful atmosphere among the other three little ones faded a lot.
Little Yining raised her head and asked her fellow villager, "Uncle, can you really find Sister Cui and the others?"
Pei Yi patted her little head and comforted her, "Sister Qing, how could you forget? Your cousin is always willing to take risks. The people he kidnapped will definitely come back."
As if to prove his words, steady footsteps were heard outside the room.
Soon, Ah Da appeared at the door and reported, "My lord, Doctor Zhao has taken advantage of the young lady he abducted last night and abducted two more young ladies in the downtown area. Their fathers both work in the Ministry of Rites."
"Keep watching." Pei Yi responded lightly.
Xiao Yining: ⊙▽⊙
The little kid looked at Ah Da in astonishment as he left. He then looked up at his fellow villager with a bewildered look on his face, and exclaimed in disbelief, "Uncle, so you knew everything! Then Sister Cui..."
Pei Yi shook his head honestly, "I didn't know Doctor Zhao would kidnap Cui Zhiyao, let alone other young ladies. I only knew what he did because I watched him in advance."
"I think... this person has two purposes. One is to use this to hold the officials hostage for his master's benefit. The other is that he has run out of candidates for medicine women, so he uses this to fill his position."
"But no matter which one it is, we can't fight head-on. Jiang Li said that this person is full of poison and cannot be touched."
After hearing this, Xiao Yining was about to say that he could shoot the man, but then he heard the fellow villager say with a headache: "He can't be killed yet. We have to get the information about the place where he made the medicine woman from him and completely destroy it to prevent future troubles."
"I hope your father and Brother Chengzi have a smooth trip. If we can get some information out of Doctor Shangguan, we won't have to go through so much trouble."
Xiao Yining also felt sad and couldn't help but sigh.
Pei An listened silently to the conversation between the two little ones, glanced at the other two who were still eating hard, and disdain slowly revealed in his brows.
"Boy, you think a child like you can overturn the adults' careful plan, or that you can do whatever you want among the adults just because you get the upper hand from me? You are so shameless. Don't worry, you will die in the end."
Little Yining turned around, glared at him angrily, and firmly defended, "Pah, pah, pah, my cousin will live to be a hundred years old! Longer than you."
Pei An didn't refute, and murmured: "That's inevitable. All my old friends have left, and I'm almost there too."
When the little girl heard this, she pursed her lips, too lazy to argue with the dying old man. She snorted in a fierce voice and looked at her two friends.
Ignoring Wang Gungun, she looked at her cousin in surprise and asked, "Brother Hu, why didn't you react?"
Lin Yinhu scratched his head. "I'm afraid of causing trouble for Uncle Pei, Uncle Xiao, and Uncle Chengzi. Yesterday, when I returned home, the teacher told me to talk less outside these days to avoid being framed."
"He told me that if a man strolling around a red-light district saw his girlfriend being invited away by a high-ranking official, he would order his servants to find those younger ones to trick them. They could tell a lot from just a little bit of their expressions. That's how many of the high-ranking officials' secrets were revealed."
Xiao Yining: (￣-￣), isn’t this what her father and uncle often remind Hu Ge’er?
The little kid subconsciously asked out of curiosity, "Brother Hu, did Uncle Qingshan tell you anything about the high-ranking officials?"
When Lin Yinhu heard this, he immediately became excited. He put down his chopsticks and started talking: "My teacher told me that some nobles are afraid of losing face, so they put drugs in their wine to make themselves happier."
Xiao Yining: (?◇?)? Golden Gun Pills?
"My teacher said that this kind of thing is not uncommon, but it cannot be revealed to outsiders, so as not to bring about fatal disaster. However, there are always some little girls who are not good enough in cultivation and are tricked into talking." Lin Yinhu continued.
The little girl suddenly realized that it was not that Hu Ge'er could not remember, but that her father and uncle were too rigid in teaching according to the students' aptitude. They should teach according to the students' needs so that he could remember it.
At this moment, Wang Gungun asked, "Brother Hu, did your teacher tell me what kind of drug they would put in the wine?"
Lin Yinhu thought for a moment, then his eyes lit up and he responded, "Get out! They're using Xiaoyao Powder."
As soon as he finished speaking, a loud shout came from outside.
"Brother Hu, what nonsense are you saying in front of Sister Qing again?" Lin Yuzan appeared at the door with a dark face.
Wang Cheng stood behind him and asked unhappily, "Brother Hu, who told you about Xiaoyao Powder? It's a banned drug and can't be mentioned outside."
Lin Yinhu immediately fell silent, then raised his eyes cautiously: "Uncle, Uncle Chengzi, Brother Hu knows he was wrong."
Seeing the two old men return so quickly, Xiao Yining hurried over with the bowl in hand and changed the subject, saying, "Dad, uncle, let's eat hot pot!"
The two old men's expressions softened slightly, and they refused at the same time: "No need, Sister Qing, don't be greedy!"
Both of them glared at the talkative young boy, then looked at the one-eyed old man at the table and bowed to him.
"Thank you, Eunuch Pei, for taking care of my children." Lin Yuzan thanked him sincerely.
Pei An raised his eyelids slightly, and this time he carefully looked at the person in front of him, and slowly commented: "Last time I saw you, you looked rather ugly, but now it seems that you are indeed delicate and tender. No wonder you can please the Queen Mother and allocate half of the secret guards trained by the late Crown Prince to you."
Lin Yuzan: (▼へ▼メ), this old eunuch, I hate him every time I see him!
"No, Eunuch Pei!" Little Yining corrected him with her round face tilted up: "It's because my grandmother's name is Lian Shu that the Empress Dowager gave it to my father!"
Unexpectedly, the wine jug in Pei An's hand fell to the ground with a breaking sound, and the wine inside spilled all over the floor.
He stumbled to his feet, holding onto the edge of the table. A strange blush crept onto his face. He opened his cloudy, single eye and trembled as he asked, "Your mother is... Lian Shu? You're Miss Lian's child?"
Lin Yuzan nodded without denying it, then asked in confusion, "Eunuch Pei knows my mother."
The old eunuch did not respond. His eyes swept over everyone present one by one, and lingered for a moment on the faces of Lin Yuzan and his daughter. Then, as if possessed by a demon, he muttered to himself, "So that's how it is, so that's how it is! It's truly God's will, God's will!"
Everyone:...
Seeing this, Wang Cheng cast a helpless look at his old rival and said silently, "It seems that this person knows a lot about Master's wife. Maybe he even knows who your biological father is!"
Lin Yuzan looked at the old eunuch silently, waiting for an opportunity to ask.
Unexpectedly, Pei An only repeated his words a few times before calming down and replying hoarsely, "Miss Lian's fame was known throughout Yanjing back then. Everyone knew about it. But I didn't expect that she would have a child who has grown up this big. Boy, do you know who your father is?"
Lin Yuzan: ...
"My father's name is Lin Fushun." Lin Yuzan replied.
"Lin Fushun?"
A trace of suspicion flashed across the old eunuch's eyes. He raised his eyes again and carefully examined the young man in front of him. A glimmer of understanding flashed across his eyes, and finally he nodded slowly: "So after Miss Lian disappeared, she has found another family. That's good! How can a woman like her live in conspiracy and intrigue? How good!"
Lin Yuzan couldn't help but purse his lips, knowing that he couldn't get anything out of this person. He looked at the four children and said, "Pei Yi, bring Sister Qing'er and the others out after they finish eating. Shu Zhi and I will be waiting for you in the front hall."