Volume 1: The Newlyweds Chapter 54: The Keeper Is Actually a Dog
late at night.
Yun Ni took the consort back to the princess compound with the man who broke into the princess's house last night, and relayed the same words to the princess with the same disbelief.
Luo Junyue didn't really believe it on her face. After all, there were too many relatives in this big family, but I had never seen anyone who was a relative of the royal family.
She took a careful look at the man named Feiyun in front of her. He seemed to have introduced himself as her cousin just now. Not to mention, he looked somewhat similar.
"Do you have any evidence to prove that you are my cousin?" For the sake of the prince-in-law, Luo Junyue still frowned and asked.
Feiyun just wanted to mention the jade pendant, but was stopped by Xue Junyou with a smile on his face.
Xue Junyou raised his head and looked at Anyang with an extremely firm look in his eyes: "Yes, princess, I can testify that her mother's real surname is Gongsun, and her name is Gongsun Ruoxia."
After saying that, Xue Junyou did not forget to whisper to Feiyun beside him in a very low voice: "Don't talk about the secret, the princess doesn't know yet."
"There are many people named Gongsun."
Seeing the two of them whispering in private, Luo Junyue said with some displeasure on his face: "You couldn't have been threatened by him for something, right?"
Although it was not considered a threat, Xue Junyou did have something to hide from Anyang. Just when he didn't know how to answer, Feiyun spoke.
"I have evidence."
Feiyun took out a jade pendant from her arms. It was not only in the shape of morning glow, but also engraved with Gongsun Ruoxia: "I knew no one would believe my words alone, so I stole it from my mother in advance when she wasn't paying attention."
A jade pendant that has been kept in a secret compartment beside the bed."
"What, your mother also likes to put things in a secret compartment beside the bed."
Xue Junyou was greatly shocked. It turned out that both sisters liked to hide in one place. When he was in Ning'an Palace, Concubine Gongsun also hid things in a secret compartment beside the bed.
Luo Junyue ignored what they said, and just took the jade pendant and looked at it carefully. It was indeed the same workmanship as the jade pendant that her mother and concubine had been wearing before, except that the piece of jade pendant that her mother and concubine had been wearing was made of auspicious clouds, and she kept it next to her father.
.
"Have you been busy all day?"
Luo Junyue was dubious and turned to look at Xue Junyou: "Let's have some midnight snack first, I'll ask the kitchen to stew some chicken soup."
"I'm really hungry."
Xue Junyou touched his belly, but raised his eyes towards Anyang and glanced at Feiyun beside him: "What should he do?"
"My mother's jade pendant is not with me."
Luo Junyue returned the jade pendant, but she didn't feel disgusted with this person in her heart: "I'll go to Father to confirm the material first. Since I've been busy all day, let's have a midnight snack first."
"Can."
Feiyun nodded, with a smile on his face: "Then where do I live? After all, except for my father and mother, I haven't seen any relatives since I was a child."
Luo Junyue immediately understood the meaning of the words, and then was stunned. What happened to this person? Didn't he know how to avoid taboos?
But what he said was a bit pitiful. Although Luo Junyue didn't deal with her sisters, at least she had the crown prince and her brother to protect her, and the cousin in front of her seemed quite lonely.
But he was a strange man after all, so he had to be on guard against others, so he replied: "You should live in the same room with the consort first, and try not to act alone in the house, especially don't break into my place casually, otherwise you will disobey the palace."
Standard."
"Okay, I understand, cousin." Feiyun said.
Luo Junyue sounded a little uncomfortable and just nodded lightly.
Not long after following Xue Junyou back to his yard, someone brought out steaming chicken soup. Judging from the color, it had obviously been cooked for several hours.
After a busy day, he was starving. Xue Junyou immediately divided the bowls and scooped out a full bowl of chicken soup for himself and Feiyun.
"What's wrong?"
Xue Junyou saw that Fei Yun seemed to be thinking, so he asked, "So absent-minded."
Feiyun frowned: "I feel like my princess cousin doesn't like me very much."
"nonsense."
Speaking of this matter, Xue Junyou felt uneasy: "You said that your identity has not been fully confirmed and you have to live in someone else's house. But anyone with a brain should be careful about whether you are a flower picker, right?
"
"Then shall I go?"
"Forget it, we're all settled here, and didn't you promise to help me find your Feijue token?"
"Okay." Feiyun nodded in agreement: "Anyway, you are not afraid of shadows."
"anyway... ..."
Xue Junyou seemed to remember something, took a sip of chicken soup and asked: "Listening to what you just said, did you come to find the princess without telling your mother?"
"Yes." Feiyun replied.
"Why? Does your mother disapprove of your association? Or she has a grudge against Concubine Gongsun."
"Probably not... I have always felt that my mother hid a lot of things from me. After my father died, he never said a word about the past."
"How did your father leave?" Xue Junyou asked again.
"have no idea."
Feiyun shook his head and put his hands on the edge of the bowl: "So I said there are many things that my mother is hiding from me."
"There's something I think you might not know either."
Xue Junyou suddenly remembered that Feiyun's mother was the sister of Concubine Gongsun, so she had an idea and said: "Actually, I have been investigating the cause of Concubine Gongsun's death. Maybe it is related to one of the things your mother hid."
"Didn't my aunt pass away due to illness?"
Feiyun raised her head in confusion: "At that time, His Majesty the Emperor also granted the title of Empress of Great Entropy to my aunt, and even held a state funeral. Although I was still young, I still remember everything clearly."
"Actually, it's poisoning."
Xue Junyou responded bluntly: "I have found some evidence and even clues about the poisoning, and I feel that your Majesty, when he asked me to be the deputy director of the Crime Department, also wanted me to find out the cause of the death of Concubine Gongsun Huang."
"Then what are you going to do?"
Xue Junyou sighed softly, drank the bowl of chicken soup in front of him, looked at Feiyun and said: "I plan to see what Concubine Gongsun left in the secret treasure first, and then make any plans...
..It would be easy to say if the mastermind really points to Donglinghou, but if Concubine Gongsun died in a palace dispute, then letting the princess know may not be a good thing."
"You really think about your cousin." Feiyun's lips curled up slightly.
"Don't be afraid that my cousin is long and my cousin is short."
Xue Junyou frowned. He didn't know why, but when he heard Anyang being called so affectionately, he felt a little uncomfortable: "The royal family has royal family rules. Even if you are really her cousin, you still have to call her princess... " ...Yes
Yes, I just took you around the house to see if you could find Fei Jue’s token."
Feiyun shook his head: "I haven't seen anything close to the theory of Yin and Yang."
"Didn't you say you recognized him at a glance?"
"Then I want to see it too. This princess mansion is so big and I only have two eyes."
"so what should I do now... ..."
Xue Junyou sighed lightly and frowned tightly: "With so many things happening today, I guess a lot of things will bother me in the future. But speaking of the assassination of the princess, even if His Majesty doesn't come to me, the Nine Infants Protectorate will be there tomorrow.
Will find me."
"Don't worry yet."
Feiyun looked at him and seemed to have thought of something: "By the way, cousin... Apart from the piece of jade pendant left to her by her aunt, does the princess have anything else left by her aunt?"
"a dog."
Xue Junyou said casually and asked, "Is it possible that you still use living animals for your secret tokens? How is it possible? If the dog dies, then future generations will never be able to open it."
"No."
Feiyun seemed to understand something immediately and explained:
"We, Feijue, do use living creatures as tokens, because we, Feijue, have a secret medicine passed down from our ancestors. After soaking the secret medicine in living creatures for seven or forty-nine days, it will remain in their bodies forever.
Even if we produce offspring, we will inherit the secret medicine."
"And this kind of medicine?"
Xue Junyou's expression changed slightly. He couldn't be so cruel. He had gone to great lengths to sneak into the Feijue Palace. He never thought that the token was in the princess's palace. He had seen it at first.
When Xue Junyou heard about this secret medicine, the more he thought about it, the more something was wrong.
Having said that, when he was taken to the bamboo forest by Yun Ni and met the snow mastiff that day, he was too nervous and did not observe it carefully, and he simply skipped it in his memory afterwards.
If you think about it carefully now, it seems that the Snow Mastiff does have different eyes... one blue and one red, which is indeed consistent with the theory of yin and yang.
Thinking of this, Xue Junyou immediately asked: "What are the characteristics of half of the tokens turned into living creatures?"
"There are many characteristics, such as appearance, pupils, teeth, skin color, hair, etc."
Feiyun explained to Xue Junyou:
"But the characteristics are not important. The reason why the secret key and token are needed to open the secret room is because the most important part of opening the secret room door is to pour the blood of the token or the quenched liquid into the dark side of the door.
in the trough.
At that time, the secret medicine at the other end of the secret trough will react with the liquid taken out of the token, and then open the first door of the secret chamber, and then the innermost secret door will need a secret key."
"You just said you need blood for the token?"
Xue Junyou remembered that the snow mastiff was left by Concubine Gongsun to Anyang. If he killed it, he would definitely hate him to death...
"Do not worry."
Feiyun seemed to see Xue Junyou's worry: "As for living creatures, taking a certain amount of blood shouldn't kill them."
"That's good, that's good."
Xue Junyou breathed a sigh of relief. Seeing that Feiyun had eaten and drank enough, he stood up and suggested: "Then I will take you to the bamboo forest to see if the dog has opened the secret room door.
Required tokens.”
"Wait! Now?"
Feiyun was a little puzzled. He looked at the crescent moon outside the window and saw that it had begun to sink: "Why are you so energetic? Don't you need to sleep?"
Xue Junyou's face darkened, he ignored Feiyun, pulled him up and walked out of the door, saying: "You don't know how powerful that snow mastiff is, the first time I saw it that day, I almost didn't get caught by it.
.. … …So it was late at night when it was in a daze, and we drained its blood first, and then we went to Feijue tomorrow."
Feiyun was puzzled: "But if you wake it up, and it sees you and you bleed it, I'm afraid it will hate you even more... "