The punishment of the female imperial court

Chapter 253

A gust of wind blew by, and Yu Qiansi seemed to hear the sound of fighting outside the imperial mausoleum, but it seemed like everything was an illusion.

She stood there in disbelief, but her hand subconsciously reached for the dagger: "Are you from the Lan family?"

Su Niang noticed Yu Qiansi's movements, and took advantage of her position of half leaning against the tree trunk to pull out Yu Qiansi's dagger before her.

Yu Qiansi immediately leaned back and turned around to draw his sword and point it at Su Niang, but saw that Su Niang had put the dagger across her own neck. Because her hands were shaking, her neck was scratched and blood was flowing down.

"What are you doing?" Yu Qiansi was completely dumbfounded. What kind of drama was this, where someone was holding himself hostage?

Su Niang maintained the posture of committing suicide and said in a panic, "Master Yu, although I am a member of the Lan family, I have never lived in the imperial mausoleum since the day I was born. Only one person in the Lan family knows my life experience. I just want to live for myself. I beg Master Yu to listen to what I have to say before deciding whether to kill me."

Seeing that blood was flowing from her neck and she looked panic-stricken and about to collapse, Yu Qiansi turned away and put away his sword, but still kept a safe distance from her.

Although Su Niang did not know kung fu, she noticed that Yu Qiansi no longer had the chilling coldness and solemnity she once had. She then let go of the dagger, leaned against the tree trunk as if exhausted, and pressed the wound on her neck as she spoke.

"Master Yu must have heard the saying, 'Men from the four families cannot serve as officials in the court, and women cannot enter the palace as concubines.'"

Yu Qiansi naturally knew about this matter. Although he felt it was unreasonable, he never paid any attention to it.

Seeing that Yu Qiansi did not answer her, Su Niang turned her head and smiled at her, which touched the wound on her neck and she felt more sticky blood flowing out, which made her feel inexplicably refreshed.

"Everyone knows this royal ancestral precept, but no one knows that this sentence is directed at the Lan family."

"My father was a man of great talent and pride. He was unwilling to accept the ancestral motto and the fact that the Lan family had been kept like livestock in the royal mausoleum for generations, so he hid his identity and wanted to participate in the imperial examination. When he was discovered by the then acting clan leader, he was imprisoned in the dungeon and wanted to be executed."

Yu Qiansi frowned, somewhat confused.

Judging from the Lan family's actions, they are also quite dissatisfied with the royal family, but why do they still prevent the young people in the family from finding other ways out?

"My mother was pregnant and about to give birth. In order to save her husband, she forced labor. She thought it would be twins, a boy and a girl, so that she could save her husband. Unfortunately, it didn't go as she wished. Although she gave birth to twins, they were only two girls."

At this point, Su Niang seemed to suddenly remember something, paused, and laughed at herself, "I'm sorry, I was a little confused. Because the twins from the Lan family were the ones who assisted the founding emperor of Dasheng, the Lan family attaches great importance to twins. If a family member gives birth to twins, they will generally be trained to be the next clan leader."

She took a breath and continued the story: "So, for the sake of her husband, she risked exchanging one of her daughters for the son that her own elder sister had just given birth to, and announced to the public that she had given birth to twins, a boy and a girl."

The Lan family had not given birth to twins for several generations. Under pressure from the clan, the acting clan leader had no choice but to let the father of the twins go.

But her mother died not long after due to excessive worry after giving birth.

She had lived with her aunt and uncle since she was a child and had always believed that they were her biological parents.

Every three months, when she was in great pain, her aunt would stay by her side all night long, accompany her with tears, and sing lullabies to comfort her.

Every August 17th, her aunt would take her to burn paper in front of an isolated grave.

The blinding white light and black lines of the paper money being devoured by flames, and the inexplicably pleasant smell of paper wax in her nose, made her fall into old memories.

There was a gleam in his eyes, as if he saw again the pile of paper money that had been stacked and burned year after year.

Yu Qiansi understood, "So, you have a younger sister. And Lanshu is your aunt's child."

Knowing this did not solve her confusion, but made her more confused. "What happened between the Lan family and the royal family? How did you become the Jiang family's slaves? And one by one--"

"Poisoned?" Su Niang took over the conversation. "After all, Lord Yu is a descendant of the Yu family. He must have noticed Lan Shu's abnormality a long time ago." "Lan Shu was indeed poisoned, but the rest of the Lan family was not."

Su Niang put the hand covering the wound to her mouth, licked it lightly, and swallowed it. The taste of rust in her mouth immediately penetrated into her internal organs.

That's right, it was this familiar smell that made her disgusted but unable to escape.

"The Lan family cannot live alone without the royal family. Because, long before the twins helped the Jiang family's ancestors conquer the world, they were already poisoned by the Emperor Gaozu."

The blood parasite in southern Xinjiang depends on the mother and child for a period of three months, causing unbearable pain.

Only the emperor who is pregnant with the mother poison can relieve his heart bleeding.

The cold wind passed through the gaps between the trees, like a silk thread, wrapping Yu Qiansi in it, her clothes fluttering in the wind. The fragments in her mind gradually came together.

She had heard Yu Linyi mention that not long after the founding of Dasheng, a civil war broke out in Southern Xinjiang, after which the royal family of Southern Xinjiang was massacred. Many precious spiritual herbs and poisonous substances were left unattended and grew wildly on the land of Southern Xinjiang. This is why there is a natural poisonous miasma in Southern Xinjiang that ordinary people cannot easily pass through.

If all this was done deliberately by the ancestors of the Jiang family just to prevent the blood parasite from being eliminated, it would make sense.

She had seen the blood parasite in the Yu family's classics.

That is the most powerful poison in the world, and only the mother poison's heart blood can alleviate it.

If a person infected with the Zi Gu gives birth to offspring, the offspring will still be controlled by the Zi Gu.

Yu Qiansi's eyes flashed with the old wounds on the emperor's chest during the autopsy in the imperial mausoleum.

No wonder Jiang Jiqing also had a similar wound on his chest.

Thinking of this, something suddenly flashed through her mind, and the thought was too fast and too heavy.

She held her breath and tried to look for it, but the night wind blew again, and the fallen leaves in the sky disturbed her thoughts. She was unable to grasp anything, but her breath became disordered involuntarily.

She closed her eyes, put aside all distracting thoughts, adjusted her breathing, and asked the biggest question in her mind.

"But why did the Jiang family ancestors spend so much effort to trap you?"

Su Niang shook her head in a daze, and the wound that had just begun to heal began to bleed slowly again.

It looked like a dark necklace, or also like a poisonous snake, slowly seeping into the collar of Su Niang's winter clothes and taking root and settling down there.

“That’s what I can’t know.”

The secret of the Lan clan, which is only told to successive clan leaders by the previous clan leader, is the reason why the royal family tried every means to trap them.

Every patriarch of the Lan family would commit suicide after telling all the secrets.

"No wonder there seem to be so few members of the Lan family." Yu Qiansi figured out the secret.

After all, it is the emperor's blood, even if it is taken once every three months, the amount is limited.

I guess they have their own way of choosing.

Only those who are useful to the royal family and the Lan family are qualified to get the blood and survive.