Volume 1: The Newlyweds Chapter 6: The Secret in the Jade Pendant
There were so many things to know on the day of the banquet that it was already dark after Luo Junyue finished speaking. Before leaving, the little princess threatened with a "ferocious" face, asking Xue Junyou to keep his mouth shut and apologized before
The matter left him rotten in his stomach.
Xue Junyou remained silent. After she left, he opened the exquisite food box and found that it was filled with light and nourishing delicacies, and then he reluctantly agreed in his heart.
This night, the moon is white and the wind is clear.
Xue Junyou was lying on the couch, playing with the dragon-shaped jade pendant in his hand. He had seen such a masterpiece in a museum in his previous life. And it was such a warm and transparent jade, not to mention buried in the soil for hundreds of years.
Years ago, even if I picked up a piece of jade in my previous life, it would probably be sold for a sky-high price of several hundred million.
In that case, he would not die of exhaustion in his position as a social animal.
Just as he was thinking about it, a gust of cold night wind blew in, causing Xue Junyou to immediately return from emotion to reality.
"... This little princess, is it necessary to chop up the entire window? If you sleep like this all night, the wound will be frozen to death even if it is not infected."
Talking to himself, Xue Junyou got up, found some wooden boards and walked to the window. After enduring the pain and fixing them one by one, although the wind was still leaking, at least it was not as cold as before.
After being shielded from the cold wind, Xue Junyou washed his hands, lay back on the couch, picked up the jade pendant again, put it in his hand and inspected it carefully.
But before his body was warm, Xue Junyou immediately noticed something strange in his hand and looked at the jade pendant from a different angle.
I don't know when, but a very small part of the jade turned dark red, and you can still vaguely see the small font hidden under the dark red.
He was stunned for a moment, then sat up and looked up and fell into deep thought. He was convinced that there had been no such change just now.
Because he had been looking at this jade pendant since he finished eating.
"What's going on?" Xue Junyou turned around and looked at the boarded-up window, then shook his head slightly, "It shouldn't be a problem with the moonlight... "
Before he finished speaking, Xue Junyou's eyes fell on the copper basin where he had just washed his hands.
As if he had an idea in his mind, he walked up to the bed again, first dipped his two fingers in water, and applied it on a small part of the jade pendant - it was true! It was changing from a fine white jade to a jade pendant at a speed visible to the naked eye.
There is a deep red jade pendant, and there is even a "Jue" character clearly visible.
Xue Junyou looked confused and immersed the entire jade pendant in the water. When he picked it up again, there was a line of small text hidden in the dark red jade pendant, and the word "Fei Jue" first caught his eye.
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The night passed and the sky was dark.
Xue Junyou got up early, washed up, and walked out of the house with a copper basin. He caught a glimpse of a beautiful figure out of the corner of his eye.
There was an exquisite bronze brazier with tripod legs placed in front of the other party. His slender body was huddled against the wall beside the door. His fair little face was so full of hesitation that he didn't notice that he was coming out.
"No need to pretend to be pitiful, I'm not angry anymore."
Xue Junyou poured the water from the copper basin into the courtyard, looked at the beautiful figure and said.
Yun Ni, who was squatting at the corner of the wall, raised his head, and his hesitation instantly turned into a lively smile: "Don't you need to return the five thousand taels to the Prince Consort?"
Hearing this, Xue Junyou's face fell and he turned around to go back to the house: "Goodbye!"
"Hey, my consort, forgive me, my consort, I'm sorry, I'm in the wrong." Yun Ni quickly stood up and grabbed Xue Junyou's arm. During the pull, she happened to see a touch of jade white on his waist.
"Ah?!" After seeing it clearly, Yun Ni exclaimed, with even more disbelief on her face, and said: "The princess is giving the jade pendant given by the imperial concubine to the prince-in-law? How is it possible... "
"Your Highness?" Xue Junyou entered the room and put the copper basin on the shelf, and asked doubtfully.
Seeing that the prince-in-law's face was normal, Yun Ni secretly breathed a sigh of relief in her heart. She was originally thinking about how to apologize in order to be forgiven. It seemed that she had done something unnecessary. The prince-in-law was not a petty person who liked to hold grudges.
Yun Ni nodded immediately: "Yes, she is the princess's biological mother and concubine, Gongsun Guifei."
"It turns out it was a relic given by my own mother... No wonder I was so reluctant to part with it at first." Xue Jun thought worriedly, then remembered what the imperial doctor mentioned yesterday, and asked again: "You and the princess are so close, why?
We have been together since we were children, then have you met the imperial concubine?"
"I have seen that although the slave left the princess to practice martial arts at the age of ten, she began to serve the princess at the age of six. However... ...the imperial concubine passed away when the princess was seven years old. In fact, her health was very poor that year.
Being haggard has also become a worry for the princess."
That kind of disease will indeed leave loved ones with heartache that is difficult to heal.
Perhaps thinking of his mother who also died of illness in his previous life, Xue Junyou sighed softly and said with emotion: "Then the princess must take great care of this jade pendant, right? I'm afraid not even a drop of water will let it get on it.
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Yun Ni responded: "It's not just water. The princess will put away the jade pendant when eating, for fear that the smell will be mixed in."
Xue Junyou nodded, thoughtfully, and the little princess really didn't know about Yu Perry's hidden calligraphy.
But that line of words... seems to be the name of a certain place.
With his thoughts at this point, Xue Junyou looked at Yun Ni's face and asked casually: "Fei Jue... Yun Ni, do you know the origin of this name?"
"Fei Jue?" When Yun Ni heard this, the expression on his face was obviously knowing, and he said: "Don't you know the Fei Jue, Prince Consort? The famous study building in the imperial capital contains all kinds of rare books from ancient times to the present. It is
The place that all scholars and students yearn for is comparable to Yan Ruyu and the Golden House in their eyes."
Xue Junyou looked at her with a curious look: "Well... My family has been in business for generations and I don't know much about other things. However, I have loved reading since I was a child, so I heard about such a place."
"Oh." Yun Ni nodded, and then immediately suggested to show her kindness: "Then please take the Prince Consort with you. I have the red jade borrowing order of Fei Jue here. With this thing, you can borrow any book in the study building.
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"How come you have this thing?" Xue Junyou asked doubtfully.
"When the imperial concubine was still able to move around, she often went there, and my servant also went there once with the princess. However, after the imperial concubine passed away, this token has been kept in the storehouse of the house." Yun Ni responded.
So that’s it, now they’re right, so there must be some relic left there.
Xue Junyou thought to himself, besides that, he also had another plan in mind.
If he can really help the princess find the precious treasure left by her biological mother, she will definitely be very grateful to him. If he asks her to become an official again, she will definitely accept the official position for herself based on this kindness.
Even if he is a small official, as long as he does well and is appreciated by the powerful, he will one day join the government and participate in politics.
With this thought in his mind, Xue Junyou looked at Yun Ni's eyes, which brightened a bit, and responded with a smile: "Then I'll trouble you to take me there. To tell you the truth, I have a longing for books.