Chapter 349 Back then
Su Qingqing used a dagger to cut a piece of roasted lamb from the leg, which was crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, and put it into her mouth while dipping it in the sauce on the plate in front of her.
"Zhou."
The woman who was brought back from the farm suddenly straightened her back, lowered her head, and responded weakly, "I'm here."
Su Qingqing glanced at the old lady of the Minister of Rites, and then her eyes fell on that Zhou, "Raise your head and speak."
Zhou followed his instructions and raised her head tremblingly.
Su Qingqing said, "I don't want to waste time, so from now on, it's best that everything you say to your son is true, understand?"
Zhou quickly responded, "I understand."
Su Qingqing turned the dagger in her hand, and the moonlight and candlelight were reflected on it, flashing a chilling light.
Su Qingqing held the dagger and said, "Okay, then let's first tell me what happened to your son in the palace more than ten years ago."
Next to Zhou, the illegitimate son who was raised by his father, the Minister of Rites, trembled violently. He took a deep breath, and his pupils were trembling with fear.
From the moment he was brought into the palace, he knew that the nightmare from that year would happen again.
That scene that he had tried so hard to forget for so many years was now being revealed once again in blood after years of hard work.
"In the corridor of , I saw many girls being dragged into the cold palace. They were all covered in blood, as if they had just been fished out of a pool of blood.
They struggled desperately and shouted for help, but the people dragging them seemed to enjoy the process very much.
There were many sharp stones on the ground in that corridor, and the girls were dragged from the end of the corridor to the gate of the cold palace. By the end of the drag, they had almost nothing left on their clothes.
As he said this, he couldn't help but let out tears from his eyes.
Since that day, he had nightmares every day. His dreams were filled with the girls' miserable cries and large areas of glaring red.
"Do you still remember what the person who dragged them looked like? If I asked you to identify him now, could you recognize him?" Su Qingqing asked.
The Xu family's bastard shook his head.
"Those people all wore masks on their heads, very scary masks, and wore black and white robes with blood stained on the hems. They were all the same height, weight and body shape. I couldn't see their faces or tell their shapes. They didn't speak the entire time."
Wearing a mask?
Su Qingqing and Rong Que looked at each other.
Rong Que asked, "What happened next?"
“I entered the tunnel by mistake. When I saw this scene, I was so scared that my legs went limp and I fell to the ground. Someone actually found me , but they didn’t come to take me away nor stop their behavior.
I don't know how many girls were dragged in before I arrived, but after I arrived, I clearly remember that there were thirteen.
After those girls were dragged in, I was also dragged in by two masked men.
At that time, everyone in the cold palace wore masks, but there was one person among them whom I recognized at a glance. That was my father. Although he was also wearing a black and white robe and a fang mask, I could not mistake his figure.
Because he recognized his father, Cao Min subconsciously looked at the people around him.
The person on his left should be Duke Xue, and the person on his right should be the third son of the Helian family. As for the others, I didn’t dare to look at them because the scene was so horrifying.”
"What were they doing when you went in?" Rong Que asked.
The Xu family bastard said, "Eight people sat in a circle, just like they were meditating. Each of them stretched out their left index finger and connected them with a red thread. The red thread must have been soaked in blood, and blood was dripping down.
Among them, there was a man wearing a golden dragon robe. Although he was also wearing a mask, anyone who could wear a dragon robe must be His Majesty."
Speaking of His Majesty, he suddenly shrank his neck, glanced at Rong Que, and changed his words: "Yes, the late emperor."
Rong Que didn't care about his titles and asked, "What happens next?"
"Then someone brought forward a young woman who was half in armor and half in an ordinary dress. They put a child who was about five or six years old in the arms of the young woman, and someone led them into the hall.
As for what they were doing in the temple, I have no idea. I was only outside and couldn't see inside.
But I was shocked when I heard the child started crying. I thought the child was dead because he was motionless when he was held by the young woman. I didn't expect he was alive. "
This child should be Rong Que's younger brother.
As for the young woman, she must be the one holding him in the well. The Queen Mother said that she was Su Qingqing's mother.
"Do you remember what that young woman looked like?" Rong Que asked.
The Xu family's bastard nodded and said, "Remember, that woman didn't wear a mask. She...she was very beautiful, very..."
As he spoke, his eyes fell on Su Qingqing's face, and then he was stunned and his back stiffened.
Su Qingqing raised her eyebrows, "What?"
The illegitimate son of the Xu family screamed as if he had seen a ghost.
His mother next to him subconsciously raised her hand and slapped him on the head, "Your Majesty, shut up!"
The illegitimate son of the Xu family was slapped on the head, and his howling mouth suddenly closed, but his eyes were still full of fear when he looked at Su Qingqing.
Su Qingqing smiled and said, "Why? Does that woman look like me?"
The Xu family bastard swallowed his saliva and said four words, "Exactly the same."
Exactly the same?
Su Qingqing was surprised.
She knows her own life experience.
Her father is General Yu Yang of the Zhao Kingdom. She and Princess Su Qingqing of the Zhao Kingdom are separated sisters, but her original appearance is not similar to that of her sister.
But she is exactly the same as the woman that the illegitimate son of the Xu family saw?
"Are you sure?"
The Xu family's bastard nodded desperately, "Seriously, I dare not say a single word of falsehood, it really is, exactly the same."
Rong Que turned to look at Su Qingqing, who was silent for a moment, "And then?"
The Xu family's bastard breathed rapidly and swallowed a few times, "She never came out after she took the child in, but the late emperor, who was surrounded by eight people, had a red rope tied to his finger, and the red rope was connected to the hall.
Then, some people came towards me, grabbed me, and took me to the hall where the woman and child had just entered.
There was a well in the main hall, and I was tied up and tied to a pillar next to the well. I was so scared that I fainted after being tied up.
When I woke up again, I was in a carriage, and my father was driving it."
