Chapter 279 Dye
Two bodies were found in the cold palace. One of them was Rong Que's younger brother, and this younger brother was unknown to everyone. So when the bodies were transported out, Ming Lu found two large boxes and took the bodies back to the imperial study away from anyone's sight.
The coroner went back with the body for further examination.
Cold Palace.
After Minglu took the body away, Rong Que's gloomy face was like a storm, "You just said there is a bed in the back room?"
Su Qingqing nodded and looked at Rong Que worriedly. Rong Que held her hand and said, "I'm fine."
The voice is very hoarse.
Su Qingqing said nothing and let him lead her, and the two of them walked towards the back room.
When walking through the hallway, Rong Que suddenly said, "My brother died when he was four and a half years old."
He took the initiative to speak, and Su Qingqing's heart was relieved a little.
What happened today was such a huge shock to Rong Que that Su Qingqing was afraid that he could not bear this sudden blow. But now that he was willing to bring up the matter, it showed that he had already untied the knot in his heart. At least, it was not a dead knot.
Holding Rong Que's hand, Su Qingqing listened to him talking about the past in a low voice.
"My mother had been in poor health since she gave birth to my brother. At that time, there was a lady in the palace named Concubine Yu who was very close to my mother. My mother was worried about the wet nurse arranged by the Queen Mother, so she often sent my brother to Concubine Yu.
I am only one year older than my brother, and I don't remember much about him. Before just now, I couldn't even recall what he looked like.
That year, I accidentally fell into the water. You know, it was he who jumped into the water to save me.
I was five and a half years old and he was four and a half. He had just learned to float, and it was the cold winter. I still can't forget the way he gasped for breath as he struggled to drag me to the shore.
It was like, gasping for air right in front of me. It was wheezing and panting, without a breath, as if water was pouring into the lungs.
Speaking of this, Rong Que's eyes turned red and the veins on his neck bulged.
"I can actually swim, but for some reason that day, I just couldn't muster any strength at all. He paddled in the water and desperately shouted for help. I never thought the fish pond in the Imperial Garden could be so dark.
On normal days, there were always palace maids coming and going, but that day , we felt like we were in an empty city, as if there were only the two of us in the entire imperial garden and the entire palace.
My eyelids are heavy and I just want to sleep.
I couldn't hear the sounds outside clearly, and couldn't see what was happening outside clearly. I could only hear him shouting.
later……"
Speaking of the latter part, Rong Que's voice suddenly paused.
Su Qingqing closed her eyes.
She could guess what happened next!
Later he woke up and his brother was gone.
After a long while, they had walked through the corridor and were about to reach the back room. Rong Que suddenly spoke again.
"I got sick right after I came out of the water, and it took about half a month for me to recover. Everyone told me that Concubine Yu had returned to her hometown and took my brother with her.
My father said so, my mother said so, and the palace maids and eunuchs also said so.
I searched the entire palace for a long time but couldn't find it. At that time, I really believed what they said.
My younger brother is my biological brother, and my mother’s biological son. My mother can’t lie to me.”
But in fact...
Su Qingqing felt Rong Que holding her hand particularly tightly. They stopped at the door of the back room. Rong Que looked at her with red eyes. Su Qingqing stood on tiptoes and kissed Rong Que at the corner of his eyes.
I took a bite and it tasted wet, salty and hot.
Su Qingqing hugged Rong Que around the waist and patted his back gently, "If you want to cry, cry for a while."
Rong Que hugged Su Qingqing and held her in his arms. At first her body was shaking, followed by sobbing, and then, suppressed and frustrated cries roared out.
"I didn't know he was here, I really didn't know, if I knew, why wouldn't I save him, I really don't know!
Does my mother know?
Why did my mother lie to me?
That's her own flesh and blood!"
Su Qingqing patted Rong Que's back and coaxed him softly, "Your Majesty may not know that the Empress was poisoned not long after the death of the young prince."
Rong Que paused for a moment, then said hoarsely, "Half a year later, on that day, it will be my birthday."
The queen was confined to her room at the birthday banquet.
Soon, he was hacked to death by the suddenly attacked nanny.
What kind of childhood shadow memories are these?
Su Qingqing rubbed the back of Rong Que's head with heartache. She wanted to say that it was all over, but she couldn't utter a word.
Is it over?
make life difficult for!
Rong Que's life was saved by his brother!
What happened back then that could have resulted in such a small child being imprisoned in that well?
"Is Concubine Yu a member of the Baro tribe?"
When Rong Que's emotions had stabilized a little, Su Qingqing asked.
Rong Que shook his head, "I don't know. I was too young at that time. Afterwards, my mother got into trouble. I lived in fear every day. I had no energy or thoughts to think about my brother and Concubine Yu. I even envied my brother at that time. I envied him for being taken away. I didn't have to live in fear every day."
In the first few years after the Queen passed away, Rong Que didn't dare to sleep at night.
I’m afraid that once I close my eyes, I’ll never wake up again.
He didn't dare walk by the river or pond, only ate food that others had touched, and never spoke to unfamiliar eunuchs or palace maids. He lived every day with caution.
"Later, it was Master Qin who showed me a way to survive."
Tutor Qin, Qin Wanru's father.
"He told me to go to the imperial mausoleum to guard the coffin of my grandfather and give up the position of crown prince."
Rong Que didn't want to talk about the sad past. He sighed, calmed down, and pushed open the door next to him.
With a creaking sound, the door of the back room was opened.
Jixiang followed the two masters in silence all the way. When he saw the layout of the back room, he was so shocked that he blurted out "Fuck!" and cursed , "What is this... this is... this is..."
She trembled several times and didn't dare to say the word she was thinking.
Su Qingqing knew what she wanted to say.
Ghost marriage.
The layout of this room looks exactly like a ghost marriage, and a group marriage at that.
Pairing thirty-six women with one man, who needs such a scene!
Thirty-six big red wedding beds were placed there end to end. The first time Su Qingqing came, she didn't dare to come in. This time, following Rong Que, she stepped over the threshold and walked in. With the help of the sunlight coming in from outside, she could see everything clearly.
The so-called bright red color on the bed is simply the color of dried blood.
The rusty red color no longer had any bloody smell, and it just lay there flatly, exposed to the light and dust.
How did the blood get on here? What kind of blood could stain the entire quilt and sheets?
