Chapter 214 Talking about the past and gradually clearing the cause of the disaster

In May, Beijing is far away from the warmth and cold, but it is not hot and dull. Spring is late, and summer is thin at the beginning, which is the most refreshing season.

However, in Su Zhi's image, in the early summer of the sixth year of Tiansheng, the Duke's mansion was full of haze.

That year, the emperor ascended the throne for two years and had not yet changed, but the life of the old Duke Su Ting has come to an end. I still remember that just after the beginning of summer, the old Duke vomited blood again. Compared with the previous fainting, he did not wake up for two days.

The three imperial doctors in the palace gave emergency treatment step by step, and it was not easy for the old Duke to regain consciousness from his drowsiness.

Su Zhi remembered that day when the sun was clear, reflected in the white mulberry paper, sank on the green bricks, and was pale in a trance.

The old prince stood up from the couch, and every movement was dark and slow, but he looked aside, but he couldn't bear to come forward to help him.

The hair is not white, and the eyebrows are not blue, but life is gradually exhausted.

"Where's Shangyuan..." Su Zhi heard the old prince's voice already a little hoarse.

"The princess discussed the prescription with the imperial doctors." Su Zhiqiang answered sadly.

He saw that the old prince seemed to try his best to stand up, with his arms on the edge of the couch, but his knees were still weak, and he finally gave up...

A cloudy sigh——

"Bingduan, how many days do I have left?"

Su Zhi couldn't say anything, but when he saw the old Duke looking at him, there was no sadness in his eyes. As usual, he was firm: "Bingduan, I don't want to leave so confusedly. Let's talk about the diagnosis of those imperial doctors."

"Grandpa..." The man who used to fight on the battlefield and was not afraid of life and death is now suffocated by a simple sentence.

Three days, or two days, no more than five days, life has unconsciously come to an end.

Su Zhi still doesn't remember how he said that difficult sentence.

"Go to see Shangyuan and let those imperial doctors go back to the palace. I just want to be quiet..."

I still remember that after the old prince said that sentence, he seemed to have finally accumulated strength, stood up steadily, facing the brightness outside the window, and left the dark bed. His figure was still iron-boned and upright figure, which did not make people see staggering weakness.

That was the day when Mother Song asked to see her.

Su Zhi remembered that the eldest princess was persuaded by the old prince to go back to the house to rest, and asked her son Su Yi to tell the afterlife. When Mother Song came, Su Yi had just left.

Su Zhi entered the study with Mother Song.

Since the Wansi incident, the old prince has never met with the servants in the house alone for more than 20 years, without exception.

He originally thought that Mother Song was ordered by the princess, but as soon as he entered the study, he saw that Song could not afford to kneel.

"Grandpa, there is one thing that the maidservant wanted to hide all the time, but at this time... I couldn't bear to hide it from the Grandpa anymore."

Su Zhi looked at Song's crawling on the ground in surprise and choked. He subconsciously looked at the old Duke's expression, but saw that the master's thick eyebrows frowned slightly and did not mean to be avoided. Su Zhi also stood upright aside.

"A Song, get up and talk." The old father-in-law is still a little tired in his voice.

"Does the Duke still remember Wansi?"

This sentence made Su Zhi's expression change greatly, and he clearly saw that the old Duke's eyes were also sharp.

"In the ninth year of the Great March, Wansi privately contacted the maidservant, saying that she had something important to invite her. The maidservant didn't know why, so she met her in privately, and then she heard her... At that time, she was already pregnant in May... Lord, Wansi wanted to send a message to the princess through the maidservant and beg the princess to forgive her... At that time, the maidservant did not Dare to break, and the prince has followed her... The maidservant had to comfort her first and kept hiding the princess... In the twelfth lunar month, she gave birth to a *.

Su Zhi saw Song take out many things from his sleeve and wanted to present them to the old Duke. He quickly came forward to take them, but saw a jade pendant, as well as the land deeds and house deeds given to Wansi by the old country bus at that time.

"At that time, the father-in-law asked Wansi to return to Ninghai, but she found that she was pregnant, so she was unwilling to stay away and returned to Beijing. When I heard that the fetus in her womb was the father-in-law's flesh, she had to settle her down and coax her to give birth to Xiaolangjun first, but I dared not let the princess know... I threatened Wansi, if she wanted to calm mother and son. Ann, can't stay in Kyoto. Wansi cried and pleaded that she didn't want Xiaolangjun to leave with her and separated from the father and son of the prince... Later, the maidservant had to promise her to take care of Xiaolangjun and send her back to Ninghai, but she left these to the maidservant, saying that it was given by the prince on the same day as proof.

"Why did you say this now?" The old prince asked questions.

"I can't bear to make the princess sad, let alone watch the prince and the princess and her husband, but now... if I don't tell you the truth, I can't bear it."

"That child..."

"In order not to let the princess be suspicious, the maidservant had to be raised by a farmer. It was not until she was seven years old that she tried to take her back to the government and thought she had an adopted son..."

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Su Zhi said this and sighed: "Wuniang, the situation in those years was like this. The old prince is approaching, and there is no time to verify this matter, but Wansi... In those years, he did have the prince... And counting the time, Song spokeruo's son born to Wansi is indeed the flesh and blood of the prince."

Yi Jing calmed down and only felt that thousands of thoughts were messy. He couldn't help smiling bitterly: "So, my grandfather wrote a letter of recognition based on what Mother Song said unilaterally and told her to deceive her grandmother all the time?"

"Don't blame the old prince. When you are in a hurry, this is also a helpless thing. The old prince doesn't have enough time to ask for the princess's forgiveness. He doesn't want to kill in the princess's resentment at the last moment, let alone make the princess suffer." Su Zhi said in a low voice.

Yijing pressed her eyebrows with her palms, and there were all kinds of complex and indisputable emotions in her heart. She vaguely felt that the cause of all the disaster may be because of her grandfather's letter of child recognition. Mother Song was sure that she had long been affection for her grandfather, but she could not ask for it. She had been deeply jealous of her grandmother. She had endured for many years and wanted to win the state for her adopted son Song Yi. All of.

"Grandfather trusts Mother Song so much."

"In those years, not only the prince, but also the old slave believed that the Song family acted like this, all because of the loyalty and maintenance of the princess... Wu Niang, you have not experienced those years. The Song family once lived and died with the princess. The old slave still still remembers that in the battle of Cangshan, the princess captured the Dongming and understood that the Dongming army wanted to ambush Qingguguan. It was the Song family who risked nine deaths and handed the news to the cavalry that made the old Duke avoid the disaster.

However, just because Mother Song hid her evil heart and was confused and stupid, she not only killed the innocent son, but also ended up being afraid of sin and taking poison.

Yijing thought helplessly that in the end of the time, I don't know how many disasters Song will happen after killing himself.

But these words can't be questioned.

"What's going on with that Wansi and her grandfather?" Yijing's intuition is that the hidden feelings are not simple, and it is still impossible to determine whether Song spoke is his grandfather's flesh and blood.

"Wansi was originally the maid beside the princess. In the eighth year of the Great March, the former emperor conscripted and naturalized. The old prince led the troops and won the nine years of the Great March and recovered the 18 cities around the naturalization. The former emperor called the old prince back to Beijing and held a palace banquet to celebrate. At that time, the princess gave birth to the third master, and it was less than a month... The old prince drank at the palace banquet. Seven or eight minutes drunk, and stayed in the study that night. The princess could not serve in person, so she asked Wansi to cook sobering soup... Wansi, which was a little similar to the princess when she was young... and with her intention... The old prince... After waking up the next day, the old prince regretted and warned Wansi not to talk nonsense and discussed with the princess on the excuse of Wan Si gave it to the pawn as his wife, and the princess asked Wansi if she was willing to do it, so she agreed. The old man told the old slave to prepare a field house in Ninghai and wanted to send Wansi far away. At that time, the old slave entrusted a businessman with a good friendship. Because he happened to go to Ninghai, he asked Wansi to go with him.

"But the maid turned back halfway?" Ijing didn't really praise his grandfather's "drunk and chaotic" matter, and only asked about the afterth.

"Because a few months later, the former emperor set up his own expedition and called the old prince to follow him. The old slave also went with the army and no longer paid attention to Wansi's matter. Until Song confessed the truth before the old prince's death, the old slave also asked the merchant. Sure enough, in the middle of the year, Wansi asked Lang Zhong to diagnose his pulse because she was not feeling well... The merchant also knew that Wansi was pregnant at that time. Seeing that she insisted on refusing to go to Ninghai and return to Kyoto, he didn't know the secret, so it was naturally difficult to force it.

So, it's true that Wansi was pregnant in those years.

"But my grandfather also has doubts in his heart, otherwise, he will not ask A Weng to investigate carefully." Ying said again.

"Indeed, although the old prince believes in Song's loyalty to the princess, he also knows that she is decisive and should not let Wansi go, and then... Those house deeds are indeed given to Wansi by the old prince, but he has never entrusted her with jade pendants as a letter."

Yi Jing was surprised: "But Mother Song said that the jade pendant was given to Wansi by her grandfather?"

"Therefore, the old prince suspected that Wansi should have deliberately said so because she was aware that the Song family wanted to be unfavorable to her. He stayed behind, but he did not know what the truth was. Therefore, although the old prince felt that Song was innocent and wrote a letter of recognition and delivered it to the old slave, he repeatedly told him that if the princess was alive, it could not be announced, if it could not be detected. Songfu's life must not be announced. If the old slave is alive, he can't find out Wansi's whereabouts. It is confirmed that Songfu is the flesh of the old prince, and the confession letter will be destroyed before his death.

That is to say, if the eldest princess is still alive when Su Zhi dies, the identity of Songfu will not be recognized.

"The old prince could only do this for the princess at that time, but he always apologized to Song, so he told the old slave to take care of his life."

"Aweng, but you are fully prepared for Mother Song's mother and son now, and why?" The beautiful scenery frowned slightly.

"These years of old slaves have been looking for Wansi without any results, so they have suspected that she has been killed, but they have never been sure of Song Shi's life. When they returned, they heard that Song's mother and son wanted to trap Mother Yang in injustice, and they suspected that she was becoming greedy because of the long time. Some people heard from their family that since Songfu was blamed, Song's family repeatedly came to the door, so they went to see her. On the one hand, she actually threatened the old slave. If she didn't help Songfu return to the government, she would confess this to the princess.

So it is...

Mynae Song couldn't help it.

"The old slave told her that if she was determined to do so, the old slave should deny it. Song gritted his teeth and claimed that Song spoke was the flesh and blood of the Duke of the country anyway. He wanted to persuade the old slave to come forward to prove it. Of course, the old slave refused, and the more he suspected she had no intention." Su Zhi said.

"Avon, I don't think it's appropriate to hide your grandmother all the time." Yijing sighed and thought that since her grandfather passed away, although her grandmother had not expressed her grief in front of people, she was often stunned and felt sad. She couldn't imagine that when her grandmother learned that her grandfather had betrayed...

"But I agree that if we don't find out the matter, it's better to hide it for the time being." Ying said again.

"Wuniang, the old slave knows everything, so please tell me all the strangeness of the Song family." Su Zhi invited again.

After thinking about this, I can get the help of A Weng, and I can more closely defend the Song mother and son, so I will no longer hide it and carefully inform Mother Song of those "good things".