Raiders of the Duke and Duchess

Chapter 523 The Day the Emperor Disappeared

"How can you say prevarication..." Shangguan Chu's pupils opened slightly, and then he suddenly smiled with eyebrows and eyes bent, "When did brother lie to you?"

"I never cheated." Ji Wuyan complained lightly, "but kept a lot of secrets."

After the little girl finished speaking, she hummed again, with a bit of soft coquettishness.

Just like sitting here at the moment, Li Yanxian's restaurant is diagonally opposite, but before going upstairs, the man faced his own doubts, and only said "ah", "What a coincidence..."

What a coincidence!
Such a coincidence, instead of going to the bustling East Market, I went to the West Market to find a tea house, served the tea and held the teacup for a long time without taking a sip, it was really a coincidence, the seat diagonally opposite was Li Yanxian's The restaurant, what a coincidence...

Ji Wuyan put down the teacup in his hand, "Secretly, it's so boring."

The little girl seemed impatient, and her words were full of temper. Shangguan Chu understood, and waved to comfort her with a smile, "I will not hide this from you...sit down and sit down."

The water on the stove was bubbling, he took the tea leaves he brought, and slowly started to make tea, while lowering his head, he said, "Now your majesty liked hunting very much in the early years, and every autumn he would bring his ministers The prince went hunting in the hunting ground..."

The irrelevant topic is a bit abrupt.

Ji Wuyan raised his eyes to look at Shangguan Chu, didn't speak, just lowered his eyes to watch him make tea, and listened quietly.

"That year, I was still young, and you were not even born yet... That year in the autumn hunting, something happened. His Majesty disappeared in the hunting ground for a day and a night. All the ministers searched anxiously, but did not dare to reveal the news. The whole night until dawn, the emperor came back by himself. He told the ministers that he accidentally fell into a pothole while running. The pothole was so deep that he couldn't climb up for a while. Lord Shangguan and Lord Shen found out in time and pulled him up... Only in this way can he be regarded as rescued."

Ji Wuyan was silent for a while, met the gaze of the other party, and whispered, "Master Shangguan, Lord Shen..."

Shangguan Chu nodded lightly, pushed the teacup in his hand, motioned for her to pick it up and taste it, and then said, "Yes, Mr. Shangguan, that is your grandfather, Mr. Shen...is the father of Miss Shen who lives in your house. At that time, the incident was suppressed, and since His Majesty returned safely, not many people talked about it, even I vaguely heard my grandfather mention it, if you hadn't asked me to investigate the migration of Shangguan's family I don't even think about it."

"Although the matter was suppressed, there were not too few people who knew about it back then. Now that the situation has changed, I did a little research and found some strange things."

Ji Wuyan raised her brows slightly, but she was a little surprised, it really was...a coincidence.

I took a sip of the tea, the tea my brother specially brought was naturally excellent.She lowered her head and took a sip slowly. The little finger of the hand holding the teacup and the cup holder was slightly raised, as beautiful as if it had been carefully carved by the hand of a famous jade scripture.

The demeanor of sipping tea with his head down, reveals a sense of nobility in his bones, and his expression is gentle, "Then?"

Shangguan Chu really didn't intend to hide it this time, and his words were very cooperative, "Only grandfather and Lord Shen know what your Majesty experienced that day... But not long after this incident, about half a year, our family Just because he offended the imperial concubine, he was forced to move his family south, and that Mr. Shen..."

"The matter between Xu Siniang and Shen Dingtou was actually a good talk for a short period of time, but it was also after that incident..."

Just as he was talking, Ji Wuyan suddenly touched his lips with his fingertips, "Shh...someone is coming up."

Shangguan Chu fell silent for a moment.

In a place like West Market, wine shops with five copper coins and a large bowl are usually overcrowded, but the door of the coarse tea shop with the same few copper coins and a large bowl is empty. The two sat by the window for a long time, except for the first time. , there will be no one to patronize here.

At this moment there was a sound of footsteps, and the footsteps were slightly chaotic, there should be three people, two of them walked calmly and slowly, their martial arts are not low, they should be attendants.

Ji Wuyan withdrew his hands, sipped his tea with eyebrows drawn together.But in his heart, he had already guessed what his brother had said. Presumably Shen's father's concubine's killing of his wife began not long after the emperor's disappearance...

The emperor hunted and disappeared, Shangguan moved his family to the south, and Shen's father doted on his concubine and killed his wife. The three seemingly unrelated events have been artificially elongated to dilute the connection between them.But after careful study, I feel somewhat terrified... The emperor was very suspicious. He really would not bring a single confidant when he hunted in the paddock, but he brought his grandfather who was high and powerful at that time, and his father who had not stepped into the official career at that time. How long has Father Shen been?
During that day and night, in some corner of the paddock that no one could see, there must have been events that were deliberately erased by the emperor.An event...major enough to affect Shangguan and the Shen family for decades.

The fingertips holding the teacup tightened, Ji Wuyan frowned and meditated, but when he heard the footsteps approaching, the visitor called out with some uncertainty, "Miss Ji...Shangguan...brother? How could Brother Shangguan Here? Brother Shangguan and Miss Ji know each other?"

Ji Wuyan shook the teacup in her hand, and she slowly raised her eyes to look over, her eyes still had the undispelled depression because of the thoughts in her heart.

Li Yuqi.

Hearing the sound of footsteps just now, he thought it might be a young man in the city, but the young man who would bring his servants to this place for tea probably has a poor family, so Ji Wuyan didn't take it seriously.Unexpectedly, it was the Prince of the East Palace.

The elder brother's face was as dark as the bottom of a pot, and he was so gloomy that he was too lazy to strike up a conversation.

Li Yuqi's face turned cold, and he gritted his teeth and talked to Ji Wuyan with a non-smiling smile, "Miss Ji's identity...seems to be different from what I imagined. Can you be with Shangguan?" A merchant woman who has a relationship with her elder brother is not a simple person."

Ji Wuyan lowered her eyebrows and bowed her head, saluted with a chuckle, "No one is worth mentioning. It's just that I had the honor to have business contacts with Mr. Chu before."

"That's how it is..." Li Yuqi nodded, seemingly believing it, and then smiled suddenly, "I thought Mrs. Shangguan's maiden name was Ji, and she was from Jiangnan... I thought Miss Ji was from Mrs. Shangguan's maiden's family." What about relatives around here?"

His words were gentle, but his eyes were fixed on Ji Wuyan's slightly lowered expression, unwilling to let go of any details.

The woman on the opposite side seemed a little surprised, then laughed and shook her head, "What kind of aristocratic family is the Ji family in Yunzhou, Wuyan doesn't have such blessings..." Her surprise and her chuckle seemed just right. ...

(End of this chapter)