The rebirth of the first daughter is not easy to mess with

Chapter 876 The Weird Old Woman (Deciphered Again)

Under the bright yellow veil, a face like a dead wood was facing Shangguan Ning. On the wrinkled face, a pair of ancient well-like eyes were so dark that they seemed to have experienced hundreds of thousands of lifetimes. vicissitudes.

Shangguan Ning tried her best to calm down her mood, and then looked carefully, and found that the owner of this face was an old woman, because the room was not very bright, and the old woman was wearing a black robe, so Shangguan Ning was not able to enter the gauze tent for the first time Discovered its existence for a while.

This old woman should be very old. Shangguan Ning had never seen such an old person in her two lifetimes, but what was this old woman doing hiding in the gauze tent without resting in the middle of the night?
Who is she?
Why did it appear in this place that looks like the emperor's bedroom?

"Mother-in-law?"

Having already met, Shangguan Ning naturally wouldn't plan to hide anymore.

The old woman didn't seem to hear Shangguan Ning's words, her eyes were still the same as before, looking straight ahead, Shangguan Ning secretly thought that maybe the other party was too old and her hearing had deteriorated, so she didn't hear her own words.

"Mother-in-law?"

"Old lady, my ears are very good, noisy!"

The old woman seemed very unhappy, and her tone was extremely impatient. Shangguan Ning did not expect the old woman to have such an attitude, and was stunned for a moment, not knowing how to speak.

"You little girls just like to run around, no matter whose bedroom it is, just come in if you want to come in, go play somewhere else, don't disturb the old lady."

The old woman turned around, and her voice was very loud, but what Shangguan Ning heard from the old woman seemed to be the dialect of Dayong County, and listening to the old woman's words, are there many people coming from this place?
"Mother-in-law, it's my fault for disturbing your rest. It's just that I, a new maidservant, came out to relieve herself at night, but she lost her way and came here after detours. Can mother-in-law tell me where this is?"

Shangguan Ning lied, otherwise how would she explain why she suddenly appeared in front of this old woman?And listening to the old woman's words, it seems that her head is not very clear.

"Don't lie to my old lady, which maidservant in this palace dares to come to this place in the middle of the night?"

The old woman snorted coldly, and had no intention of believing Shangguan Ning's words at all.

"Grandma, what I said is true, you don't think I'm a bad person, do I?"

"Hmph, it's hard to paint a tiger with skin and bones. Knowing people and faces doesn't know the heart. Would the bad guys still write the word "bad guy" on their faces?"

Shangguan Ning was so choked by the old woman that she didn't know how to reply. The old woman had a very hot temper, and she spoke directly, without any reservation. Such directness made Shangguan Ning momentarily uncertain of the old woman's temper.

"Grandma...".

"Troublesome, longwinded, get out of here, old lady, I'm going to rest!"

The old woman pulled the veil and wrapped herself directly, covering her face. Shangguan Ning was at a loss by the old woman's strange behavior. She had never been treated like this in two lifetimes. I can't express my mood for a while.

But her intuition told Shangguan Ning that this old woman was by no means an ordinary person, and there might even be secrets in this old woman that she wanted to know.

Shangguan Ning sorted out her mood, rolled her eyes, and thought about it.

"This snow iris is really fresh, and it smells good, but it's a pity, a pity...".

Shangguan Ning lifted the veil and walked out, but she didn't go far. What she said was just enough for the old woman to hear.

While talking, Shangguan Ning paid attention to the movement behind the veil, only to see that as soon as she finished speaking, the hand that was holding the veil stopped still. Although she didn't make a sound, she was obviously waiting for Shangguan Ning's next words.

"Unfortunately, although Xueyuan is good, it cannot be kept in the house. There is a poison called 'Jiaorong' in the flower stamen of Xueyuan. It will cause confusion, insanity, and even madness, how can someone put this kind of flower in the house?"

"You girl, what are you talking nonsense, how can flowers be poisonous?"

The old woman didn't show up, but she opened her mouth. Shangguan Ning smiled slightly, not afraid that the fish would not bite the bait if she couldn't catch the fish. It seemed that she had guessed right. The old woman had probably been cleaning and tidying up the house all along.

"Nonsense? Don't things that my mother-in-law doesn't know don't exist? Is it my nonsense that the snow iris is poisonous? My mother-in-law can find it in any medical book and pharmacopoeia. Why should I bring this up?" To deceive my mother-in-law, I was bitten by a snake because of my good intentions."

Shangguan Ning sighed, as if she was very sad at the old woman's reaction.

"Smelling too much of this flower can really make people crazy?"

"That's right, the poison of 'Jiao Rong' is originally intended to paralyze and injure people's minds. It is natural for people to become insane after smelling this smell for a long time."

"You really didn't coax my old lady?"

"Mother-in-law, believe it or not, I am a little girl, and I have no grievances or enmities with you, but I just saw this Xue Yuanhua kindly reminded me, if I know that my mother-in-law is so suspicious, I will definitely not be troublesome."

"Okay, okay, my wife blamed you!"

As soon as the words fell, the gauze curtain moved, followed by an old woman in black robes coming out of the gauze curtain, Shangguan Ning looked carefully, the old woman was as tall as a child, with a heavy load on her back , as if carrying a huge iron pot.

Reflecting the pale but dim light in the room, Shangguan Ning realized that the old woman's eyes were actually blind. No wonder she always felt that the old woman's eyes were too dark. Now that she saw clearly, she realized that those eyes had no whites. Two balls of black.

The old woman walked very steadily. She was wearing a pair of black lotus velvet cloth shoes without any pattern. Although she was blind, the old woman seemed to be able to see. She walked to the side of the vase accurately and accurately. He took the snow iris out of the vase, walked straight to the window, stretched out his hand, and threw the snow iris out, the movement was swift and crisp.

"Mother-in-law?"

The old woman seemed very angry. After throwing away the flowers, she did not forget to pour out the water in the emerald bottle, and then wiped the water off the bottle with a rag.

The movements are skillful, and it can't be seen that he is a blind person at all.

Shangguan Ning watched the old woman's movements, and couldn't understand what the old woman meant, so she couldn't speak rashly. She didn't speak again until the old woman sat on a chair after tossing about for a while.

"Does mother-in-law live here alone?"

"Do you see anyone else here besides me? Are eyes not as good as my old woman's?"

Shangguan Ning was choked by the old woman again, but after some contact, Shangguan Ning could see the old woman's temper clearly and was not angry.

"Don't blame the mother-in-law, but I saw that although the house is very rich, it is very deserted. Isn't the mother-in-law lonely?"

"Lonely? Old lady, I have been alone for decades, and I don't know what loneliness is!"

This time, Shangguan Ning could hear some desolation from the old woman's tone, there is something!

"Having been alone for decades? Mother-in-law will live a long life this year?"

Shangguan Ning asked pretending to be surprised, and sat down three or two steps away from the old woman as she spoke. She didn't sit on a stool, but sat on the floor, so that any expression of the old woman could be clearly seen. in the eyes.

"What do you want to know, girl, beating around the bush?"

I don't know if it was Shangguan Ning's illusion, but he actually felt that the old woman's face softened a lot. Although her face was covered with fine wrinkles, it was still hard to hide a trace of softness.

Pursue the victory!

"Grandma is thinking too much, I'm just curious, this house is so deserted, it doesn't look like someone lives there, and... and just now I saw that grandma slept behind the gauze curtain, so..."

Shangguan Ning spoke cautiously and hesitantly on purpose, as if she was really just an ignorant girl.

"Lonely? That's right, the old woman has been alone in this house for decades. It's no wonder that it's not deserted. You don't know where you came from, but you don't dislike the old woman, and your speech is better than those little girls. .”

The old woman didn't answer the question, but it seemed that her attitude towards Shangguan Ning had changed a lot. I don't know where the old woman's hometown is, and she was talking about a baby girl.

"Is the mother-in-law a female official in this palace?"

"Female officer? That's right, the old woman was the most popular female official in this palace decades ago. No matter who sees the old woman, she must respectfully salute, even those princes and princesses who are not in power. Do everything possible to please the old woman."

The old woman's eyes were calm, like a pool of black stagnant water, but there was nothing there, but Shangguan Ning only felt that the old woman's eyes were full of memories of the past.

"Girl, what year is this year?"

"Huh? It's the 13th year of Shengyuan."

"Shengyuan 13th year? Who is the emperor now?"

Shangguan Ning was shocked. This old woman has been in the palace for a long time, but she doesn't even know who the current emperor is?Is the old woman trying to get a glimpse of herself, or does she have other plans?
After all, today's name and country name can be spoken fluently by any three-year-old child in the streets.

"You girl, why are you still so procrastinating, didn't you hear what the old woman said?"

This old woman really turned her face faster than a book!
"The current sage is the second son of the first emperor, and there is a scene for each word."

"The first emperor was Emperor Qianyuan?"

Shangguan Ning was so surprised that she almost bit her tongue. Could it be that the old woman was talking nonsense, or was she mentally ill?

"Grandmother, Emperor Qianyuan is the grandfather of today's son and the father of the late emperor."

"what?"

The old woman turned her head suddenly, as if she had been greatly stimulated. Shangguan Ning was also surprised. From the beginning to the end, the old woman was very flat, no matter whether it was sarcasm or desolate sentimentality. How could she react so strongly when she heard this?
"Has it been so many years? So Concubine Shu and Concubine Jingyi are also dead?"

The old woman seemed to be asking Shangguan Ning, but also seemed to be asking and answering herself.

"As far as my daughter knows, except for the empress dowager, all the concubines in the harem are gone."

"Yes, yes, those people are all dead, only me, an old man, is still alive. It's good to die, and it's good to die. It's useless for me to keep these people in my heart for more than sixty years. What a joke!"

Sixty years?

Shangguan Ning took another look at the old woman's face. No wonder the old woman looked so old. According to the old woman, she is at least eighty years old now, and the empress dowager is only in her sixties. The Empress Dowager did not know that she was not born in that person's stomach!

Shangguan Ning tried her best to calm herself down. Fortunately, the old woman was blind and could not see the expression on Shangguan Ning's face, otherwise Shangguan Ning really didn't know how to cover it up.

Did this old woman stay in the harem for a period of sixty years, but she never went out?

Even if he hadn't walked there, didn't anyone in the huge palace find out the existence of this old woman?Just now Yan Mushang said that this is not the emperor's bedroom, what is that place, and who is this old woman?

One question after another came to mind, and Shangguan Ning didn't even know which one to figure out first.

"What's the origin of you girl? The old woman didn't hear the door, but heard the breath of a person just now. Didn't you come out of the secret path, girl?"

Shangguan Ning was taken aback by the old woman's words again. No wonder the old woman was so disdainful of her initial remarks. Ganqing knew her origin, so this old woman knew the existence of the secret way?
Thinking of the bright oil lamp in the secret passage, Shangguan Ning suddenly realized that the lamp oil in the oil lamp should be filled by the old woman regularly, so it is not surprising that she knew the secret passage, so did the old woman know that the exit of the secret passage was Shangguan Mansion?
Moreover, Shangguan Ning did not ignore what the old woman said just now. She was talking about breath, not movement or sound. Only martial arts practitioners can sense other people's breath. This old woman is actually good at martial arts?
"Since the mother-in-law asked, the little girl will not lie. The little girl did come out of the secret passage with her friends."

"Are you from the Shangguan family?"

"Yes."

Simply put, Shangguan Ning stopped covering it up. Before, she had been trying her best to get the words out of the old woman's mouth, but now the old woman turned her back on customers, and she didn't mind pushing things along. For some reason, Shangguan Ning had a strong premonition that those things that had troubled her for a long time Secret, maybe the old woman can tell herself the answer.

"Are you the great-grandson of Shangguan Congyun?"

The old woman's brains turned really fast. She didn't know the name of the country and the name of the emperor before, and even ignored a whole dynasty. After sorting out the relationship, it can be seen that this old woman seems to be very familiar with Shangguan's lineage.

"Yes, Shangguan Congyun is the great-grandfather of the little girl."

"Hahaha, it's really evil fate, evil fate, after going around for decades, the first time to enter this secret path is actually a descendant of Shangguan's family!"

The old woman seemed to have suddenly thought of something funny, her bellows-like voice kept laughing, and Shangguan Ning was even worried that the old woman would lose her temper with a smile.

"Mother-in-law knows my daughter's great-grandfather?"

"I know, of course I know."

The old woman gritted her teeth, as if the words were squeezed out between the teeth. Could there be any kind of grievance between the old woman and her great-grandfather? Judging from the old woman's expression, it was obviously resentment. If there is resentment between a man and a woman, Nine out of ten it is because of the love between men and women.

"It turns out that my mother-in-law and my great-grandfather are old acquaintances. The little girl's words just now were offensive. Please don't blame her mother-in-law."

Go ahead, no matter what kind of grievances there is between this old woman and Shangguan Congyun, the more beneficial it will be for Shangguan Ning to listen to the old woman.

"You're a good-natured girl, tell me, how did you get into the secret way? What do you want to do when you come into the secret way?"

Just as Shangguan Ning was about to speak, the old woman spoke coldly.

"Don't try to deceive the old woman with any excuse of being playful and ignorant."

Shangguan Ning was slightly embarrassed. She really thought so just now. It seems that this old woman is really not an ordinary person. She is blind but sharp-minded.

"Mother-in-law is serious. The little girl entered through the secret path, and she really wanted to unravel some of the secrets that puzzled the little girl."

The old woman seemed very satisfied with Shangguan Ning's answer, so she didn't speak again. Shangguan Ning knew that it was the old woman's acquiescence and asked her to continue talking.

"This secret passage was discovered by the little girl in the Chenxiang Pavilion of Shangguan Mansion a few days ago. Originally, the little girl just went to the yard to look for the dog's head camphor tree, but she didn't want to find a secret passage under the tree. Out of curiosity, I always wanted to see this secret passage. Where does the secret passage lead to?"

The old woman listened quietly without interjecting, but her face moved slightly when she heard the words Chenxiangge and Goutouzhang, and Shangguan Ning secretly memorized them.

"To tell my mother-in-law, my daughter once visited other secret passages underground in the Shangguan Mansion. Although she didn't go to the edge, she felt that the direction led to the palace. So this matter tortured my daughter day and night, but I was worried about it. There is some secret today in the middle, so I dare not move."

Shangguan Ning's words were sincere, and what he said was both true and false.

"Today I really couldn't hold back the curiosity in my heart, so I asked a friend to spy on the secret road at night, but I didn't expect to come to this place. The daughter of the palace has been here before, but I didn't know that there was such a palace, and I offended my mother-in-law. It's really...".

"Okay, okay, you don't have to act pitiful in front of the old woman, the old woman has never seen such a big storm in the harem, your performance is not yet ready, but the old woman doesn't want to bother with you, It just so happens that no one has talked to the old woman for so many years, so today I will just be a little girl with you to relieve boredom."

Shangguan Ning is no stranger to the old woman's personality, and to be honest, she really likes the old woman's straight-forward personality, which makes her easier to get along with than those people who have to think about everything in their minds. many.

"Mother-in-law knows the secret way of Shangguan's mansion?"

"Hmph, more than just knowing? If the old woman hadn't been so lucky back then, I'm afraid that her life would have been broken in that secret passage. The bone wound on her back was left at that time."

Shangguan Ning couldn't help but glanced at the hunchback on the old woman's back. It turned out that it wasn't a hunchback, but a bone injury. How did such a serious bone injury be caused?

"Is this another exit of the secret passage?"

"Girl, the old lady knows that you want to ask why the Shangguan mansion has a secret passage leading directly to the palace, right?"

Shangguan Ning didn't ask these words, but the old woman said it herself. No matter what, Shangguan Ning breathed a sigh of relief, and seeing the old woman's appearance, she didn't seem to intend to hide it from herself. When it was uncovered, Shangguan Ning's face turned red with excitement.

　Jiu'er worked hard, and finally came to a new round of decryption, this time it's a big decryption, Bao'er, keep your eyes open!
　　
　
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