Chapter 372 Speculations
The old man's eyes were bloodshot.
"Don't you just want to know our identities? Even if I grit my teeth and don't tell you now, when you come with the stick and the whip, I will have to tell you.
Since it doesn't matter whether I say it sooner or later, why should I suffer that unprovoked disaster and get beaten for nothing? "
The scene just now was too stimulating for him.
On one hand, he was treated with delicious food and drink, and on the other hand, he was beaten with a stick and screamed continuously. After he finished screaming, judging from the current situation, he seemed to have confessed.
Why bother!
The old man's psychological defenses collapsed in an instant.
Su Qingqing burst out laughing, "What you said actually makes some sense. If that's the case, then tell me what you know that she doesn't know."
The old man looked at Su Qingqing and said, "I know that the master will come to the Great Yan Kingdom next month. The news was only sent to me and not to her at all. The master just doesn't want her to know.
If she knew that the master was coming, she would definitely find ways to meet him. How could the master let her ruin things?
To put it bluntly, the master doesn't have her in his heart at all. She is nothing but a lowly creature born of a maid, and she wants to dream of becoming the Crown Prince's Consort."
Su Qingqing nodded.
This master is a prince, and it seems, a prince from a foreign country.
Which country?
Great Qi? Southern Liang? Zhao State?
After thinking about it, Su Qingqing said, "This, she really didn't say, but I can't be sure that what you said is true. After all, this news has no practical value to me.
This will happen in a month. If I kept you for a month just to verify the authenticity of this news, you would have had a great chance to escape. Do you think I'm stupid?"
The old man immediately said, "I'm not lying."
Su Qingqing said, "It doesn't matter whether you lie or not. What's important is that what you said is not enough to buy my life, do you understand?"
The old man clenched his fists, "So what did she say?"
Su Qingqing chuckled, "Why? Are you trying to trick me? Sorry, I'm a tight-lipped person."
Su Qingqing was about to get up and leave, and the old man immediately said, "I'm not trying to trick you. I have to know what she said and didn't say before I know what I want to say."
Su Qingqing sneered, "It's really interesting. You are about to redeem yourself by making meritorious contributions, but you still have to think about what to say and what not to say? If you have this mentality, then I advise you to give up. I would rather not have your confession."
Get up and leave.
Seeing that she was really about to leave, the old man gritted his teeth and said, "I know who the woman in the well is!"
With just one sentence, Su Qingqing was pinned down.
Su Qingqing turned around and looked at him.
The old man said, "The woman in the well is the well in the main hall of the cold palace of the Great Yan Palace. There is a woman and a child in the well. The child is your Majesty's younger brother, and the woman is the wife of General Yu Yang of the Zhao Kingdom."
boom!
Su Qingqing's head exploded.
Jixiang finished interrogating the old woman and came over to stand beside Su Qingqing. She immediately took a step forward, fearing that Su Qingqing would faint from the stimulation and she would not be able to catch her.
However, Su Qingqing was only stunned for a moment, then raised her eyebrows, smiling, "It's really interesting. The princess of Da Qi told me that General Yu Yang is not dead, and he is now living in Da Qi. You also told me that the woman who died in it was General Yu Yang's wife. How come? The generals of Zhao State and their families have to live in a foreign land."
The old man saw that Su Qingqing was obviously distrustful, and the veins in his neck bulged out. "Aren't you the daughter of General Yu Yang?"
Su Qingqing laughed, "Who should tell you or should I tell you? "
The old man choked and said, "That woman is your mother."
Su Qingqing smiled and said, "My mother is the current queen of Zhao State. Regardless of whether she is my biological mother or not, I only have this one mother. As for others, since I didn't raise them, it doesn't matter whether I recognize them or not. I have no feelings for them.
What? Do you want to keep me hanging with this identity?
We are wrong, for we who march and fight are hard-hearted. "
Jixiang stood nearby with a distressed look on her face. She could not imagine how much pain her master must have felt when she said those words, to be able to appear so calm on the surface.
The old man looked at Su Qingqing, and his original intention to confess was gone. Instead, he fiercely retracted his gaze and closed his eyes. "Since the Queen is not interested, then I have nothing to say."
Su Qingqing smiled and said, "Take him to the dungeon."
He left a word and turned away.
If Jixiang hadn't supported her, she would have stumbled and fallen headfirst. But no matter how much she couldn't hold on, she had to grit her teeth and hold on to finish the scene.
The little girl didn't confess anything, and the old woman was the same, she was very stubborn. When she was beaten the hardest with the stick, as long as she could still speak, she kept cursing. Even when she was speechless and was dying, she glared at people with angry eyes, but never gave in.
Su Qingqing checked and found that none of these three people had any martial arts skills.
Just ordinary people.
But being able to keep a secret like this is not something that ordinary spies can do. They have strong spiritual beliefs.
What the old man said just now can be considered a breakthrough.
Their master was a prince, and the little girl admired this prince.
For a girl, love makes her indestructible, but love can also make her fall apart.
It doesn’t matter if we can’t get any results from the interrogation now. As long as the prince takes action, his action will be the best weapon to pry open the girl’s mouth.
As for the woman in the well...
When the Queen Mother said that woman was her mother, she didn't believe it at all.
But she believed what the old man said.
That woman was Yu Yang's wife, her mother.
Why?
Why did the eight noble families of the Great Yan State use the wife of the general of the Zhao State when they used blood sacrifice to forcibly bind the late emperor?
Su Qingqing had a vague guess that this blood sacrifice was most likely related to Zhao State.
She had previously thought that the biggest trump card in Duke Xue's hand was the antidote to the plague, but now it seems that she guessed wrong.
Duke Xue must have something else in his hand that can restrain her, or at least Duke Xue thinks that this thing can restrain her.
What?
Obviously, it is related to Zhao State.
Her motherland was Zhao. What if the blood sacrifice of Dayan was originally proposed by someone in Zhao? What if Rong Que's younger brother who was sacrificed in this blood sacrifice was proposed by someone in Dayan?
What if the person who proposed this has an unusual relationship with her?
For example, this person is her biological mother.
If this speculation is true, then it can indeed become a powerful trump card in the hands of Duke Xue.
Su Qingqing had a severe headache. The symptoms of morning sickness in the early stages of pregnancy had clearly disappeared, but today, perhaps because she was too tired recently or because she felt guilty, she vomited violently after drinking a bowl of porridge at dinner time, scaring Jixiang so much that his face turned pale.
