Yang Jinqiao stood at the door, looking at me calmly.

"You're here."

"Um."

I had just met at the birthday party, and I wouldn't be surprised to meet again at this time, but I was still at a loss, as if I was timid in my hometown. When I saw her dark pupils, my heart was still beating like thunder. And she didn't seem as calm as the expression on her face. I could feel her breathing was a little disordered.

She slowly walked into the house.

Only then did I see that she was holding a plate of dessert in her hand, steaming with the sweet fragrance of osmanthus. After putting it on the table, she turned around and looked at me: "Do you want to eat a little?"

"Caiwei--"

"I let her go down and rest."

"...It's good." I looked at her with a smile. It seemed that she was the same as I thought. At this time, I didn't want anyone else to disturb me.

Her upright and indifferent face still had a lack of smile. When she held the edge of the table and slowly sat on the stool on the side, I remembered some scenes when I was in Shangyang Palace. She was like this at that time. After so many years, there seemed to be no change.

She sat there, looking at me calmly, and said, "I know you have many questions to ask me. Tonight, I will answer all of them."

“…”

"You can ask whatever you want."

“…”

She seemed to be planning to be honest and honest without any tricks. After I looked at her silently for a while, I asked heavily: "Is it you who assassinated Pei Yuanxiu in Jixiang Village?"

She seemed to have known for a long time that the first question I asked must be this question, so as soon as I finished speaking, she nodded calmly: "It's me."

"Why?"

"Why did you say?"

She looked at me coldly, with a hint of coldness and sarcasm in her eyes: "Why do you think I want to kill him?"

I clenched my fists slightly, only feeling the coldness of my fingertips: "Is it for, for Yang Yunhui?"

Yang Jinqiao's eyes flashed - that name, like a stone, was thrown into her originally stagnant heart lake, and ripples made her eyes and breathing become quiet.

I just felt my chest getting heavier: "It's really for him?"

“…”

Yang Jinqiao glanced at me, and his eyes were not only cold, but also a bit of deep hatred and murderous intent.

Could it be that Yang Yunhui's death is really related to Pei Yuanxiu?

I felt a little suffocated, my legs were weak and I barely walked to the other side of her with my feet on the edge of the table, and fell on the stool.

She looked at my pale face and said in a cold tone after a while: "It's hard to believe it, right? It's not just you that it's hard to believe it. I didn't even doubt him at the beginning."

I looked up at her: "Then why are you - why is it sure it is him?"

I still remember that Alan and I were intercepting the officers and soldiers on the official road. Later, it was the people sent by Yang Jinqiao to "rob" me, and I finally saw the "resurrected" her. At that time, I remember that she told me a lot, talked about her relationship with Yang Yunhui, and talked about the transaction between them and Pei Yuanhao. She even told me that Yang Yunhui's death was extraordinary because when Pei Yuanhao was sent to Xichuan to investigate some things, he passed on a letter to her, saying that when the matter in Dongzhou was finished, Yang Yunhui would give up all his responsibilities and retire with her.

Of course, he didn't wait until that day.

At that time, when I learned about this, Yang Jinqiao and I had the same guess. We were almost certain that he knew something that he shouldn't have known, so he was silenced.

But--

At that time, Yang Jinqiao didn't point the finger at Pei Yuanxiu at all. She didn't even involve this person in her conversation with me. Why did she suddenly set up a trap around me after I left her and returned to Jixiang Village?

I looked at Yang Jinqiao and felt a chill behind me: "When did you start? I know it's his?"

Yang Jinqiao said coldly: "Yes, I didn't doubt him at the beginning, what I doubted was-" She paused for a moment, and did not finish the sentence, and then continued: "But, I knew that the rebellious leader of Jinling was him, and the old man who rebelled from Xichuan, I understood."

My brow frowned: "What does it mean?"

She looked at me coldly: "Do you know, what is the emperor sending Yun Hui to Xichuan for?"

"have no idea."

"The emperor asked him to go to Xichuan to investigate the life experience of the 'Crown Prince'."

"What?!"

"The emperor asked him to investigate what happened when the Queen Yin was still in Xichuan before entering the palace."

“…”

"What do you think Yunhui found out?"

“…”

My face was as paper as my face was covered in cold sweat.

I probably know what he found out.

Pei Yuanxiu is not the biological son of the Supreme Emperor, but the illegitimate son of Empress Yin and Yao Lao. When I went to Jinling and married him, this matter was no longer a secret to me, but for many people, including those in Jinling, it was still a fantasy.

But Yang Jinqiao -

Seeing that I looked at her nervously, Yang Jinqiao sneered: "He can deceive others by those tricks, but don't treat everyone as a fool. That old man has been working for Xichuan all his life. Why do you rebel against Xichuan for a person who has no relatives and no reason, give him all his forces in Jiangnan, and rebel with him? Is there such a cheap thing in the world?"

“…”

I was silent for a while and said, "Did you conclude that he killed Mr. Yang Yunhui and silence him?"

Yang Jinqiao said coldly: "At that time, after I separated from you, I was very worried about your safety, so I followed him into Yangzhou. I originally planned to find you and then think of a solution, but I didn't expect that I actually saw the official search for your article in Yangzhou. Yangzhou was already the outpost of the rebellious forces in Jinling at that time, and they would actually look for you, of course, it was an order from the people in Jinling. So at that time, I began to doubt."

“…”

"Until later, not long after, he accompanied you across the river."

I subconsciously took a breath of air conditioning - I took Gu Ping across the river to find his mother and sister, and Pei Yuanxiu accompanied us across the river to Yangzhou.

I said, "At that time, you knew that he was the head of the rebellious forces in Jinling, that is—"

"Just guess what he has to do with that old man."

“…”

"He is not the emperor's biological son, but he used his identity as a prince to recruit soldiers in Jiangnan. Yun Hui must have found out about Queen Yin and the old man in Xichuan. In order to silence him, he colluded with the people from Shengjing and killed Yun Hui!"

“…”

I didn't say anything.

Before, when I had always suspected Pei Yuanhao, this was something I couldn't understand. Pei Yuanhao and Yang Yunhui were considered to have a deep friendship and had no conflict of interests. There was no need for him to kill him. Besides, even if he really had a conflict with Yang Yunhui, there were many ways to kill him. Using the method of letting him fall into Shengjing can be said to be the most unstable, because Luo Shi was not controlled by Pei Yuanhao at all. Even if he caught Yang Yunhui, it was still unknown whether he would really kill him.

But if Pei Yuanxiu asked Yang Yunhui for his life—

In the battle between the court and Shengjing, Huang Tianba fell into Luo Shi's hands, and Yang Yunhui's death was more like Luo Shi's intentional act.

At that time, Pei Yuanxiu had just left Shengjing not long ago, and he and Luo Shi were in an alliance!

If he really finds that Yang Yunhui must be killed, then while Luo Shi captures Yang Yunhui, as long as a news is transmitted back, Luo Shi will certainly not be stingy with such a stingy effort.

Looking back on that day, the blood spurted out from Yang Yunhui's chest almost dyed the whole world red. When I held his gradually cold body and watched his eyes slowly disappearing, at this moment, there seemed to be a blunt knife in my chest cutting my heart.

Could it be that it is him?

It was really him who killed Yang Yunhui in order to conceal his life experience?

I already knew that he was not as simple as I saw him. In addition to his gentleness and consideration, he also had too many faces, too many strangers to me, and even made me feel scared. But I saw too little, but I really never thought that he did such a thing.

If this is true - then what was that night in Jixiang Village, what was that arrow to me?

At this moment, I was burned to death, but Yang Jinqiao calmed down instead.

There was a deliberate indifference in her pupils, as if everything was frozen into ice after extreme pain. Only in this way can she be less painful.

She said slowly: "After I figured out that, I wanted to kill him, but it was too hasty at that time and I didn't have the chance to start. After all, people like him have many guards around him. If one blow fails, it will be difficult to kill him again."

"So, you're waiting?"

"right."

"When he took me back to Jinling, I later left Jinling."

"I've always had someone guard you."

“…”

"Because I know that for you, he will definitely cross the river again. He will definitely come to see you again!"

“…”

She said, her voice also became hoarse. When she looked at me, a trace of guilt and helplessness seemed to flash in her eyes: "But I didn't expect that the arrow shot his heart, but did not shoot him to death. And you, you later-"

I choked and couldn't speak.

It turned out that even Yang Jinqiao knew that he would cross the river for me, and he would not let go of me so easily, but I naively thought that as long as I left him for a longer time, he would definitely forget me and give up on me.

In the end, that arrow...

I smiled bitterly.

There are some things that may have been arranged in the dark, so it is probably destined to reach this point today.

However, for some reason, I still feel something is wrong in my heart.

It seems that something is wrong.
Chapter completed!