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After Mingyue and the others left, Mingdai went with them. The others winked at Xie Li and Xie Juan, trying to get Mingjin to be more open-minded. The rule of the Xie family is that if you say one thing, say one thing, and if something goes wrong, say two things.
After all, this was not a conspiracy between Liniang, mother and son. If it had been planned by Xie Yuan back then, he had already made a promise. Even though the family bloodline should not be confused, it would not lead to direct expulsion from the family.
However, they also knew that the trouble was that Xie Zhipuru was a concubine, and a concubine was also a concubine, so whether it would have some influence on Ming Jin's position as Shaozong in terms of etiquette and law.
If this is the case, it is reasonable for the family to make arrangements, but...after all, they are children who have been raised since childhood. Although Liniang's origin was occasionally arranged internally in the past, but after watching it for a long time, she has feelings for her. If they are really expelled like this, Lin and Xu
Both his wives couldn't bear it.
But the others never had the courage to speak in front of Ming Jin, so only the two uncles Xie Li had some respect.
Wait until everyone is gone.
"Ajin, I think..."
As a result, before the two of them spoke, Ming Jin turned back to look at them. At that glance, both of them were inexplicably palpitating.
Majestic and cold, irresistible.
Vaguely like a person.
After all, the two of them couldn't say anything and left the ancestral hall. As soon as they left the ancestral hall, they found that they were surrounded by heavy guards.
The entire Xie family is under guard.
After leaving the ancestral hall and entering the garden, Xie Li still felt something was wrong after much thought, so he decided to go back and talk to Ming Jin, but was pulled back by Xie Juan.
"Second brother?"
"She is now the Young Clan. What you and I say is of no use to her. The family rules have changed again. Besides, when have you ever seen the people in the eldest family change their attention because of other people's words? From father to eldest brother, as well as Ming Jin, it has always been
They all say the same thing.”
Xie Li looked troubled, "What should we do?"
There are too many things going on recently, mainly Xie Yuan is away...
"Tell me, is Mingjin's move... is there something wrong with the elder brother?" Xie Li suddenly remembered what Mingjin said in Wuling.
Xie Juan's eyes were dark, "I don't know, but you and I have to take care of our families first."
Xie Li nodded, but he was so worried that he didn't even notice that Xie Juan left.
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Everyone else had finished leaving, and Ming Jin stood lost in thought in front of countless ancestral tablets arranged high up.
Uncle Yun came forward and handed over the handkerchief.
Ming Jin came back to his senses, turned his face, revealing slightly red eyes, but did not take the handkerchief. Seeing this, Yun Bo could only retreat, lowering his head and saying nothing.
But Ming Jin suddenly realized something because of the handkerchief. She spread out a hand and looked down at the blood in the palm of her hand after the skin was broken.
When she looked down, tears fell down on her palms, diluting the bright red blood.
No one knows.
I don’t know how long it took before Yun Bo heard Ming Jin say: “Has he been here often lately?”
"Yes, my lord has stayed here for a long time several times."
"Is there a memorial tablet for Xie Qing?"
Uncle Yun's expression changed slightly, and Ming Jin looked at him, "Father has told you how to answer if I ask Xie Qing."
Yun Bo lowered his head, "My Lord, I only asked this old slave to tell you, Young Master, that in the Xie family's ancestral hall, every tablet represents everyone's life, including the glorious ones, the paranoid ones, and the secret ones."
Ming Jin turned to look at the tablets, "But two people are not there."
Yun Bo: "Whatever is not there is also in other people's lives."
Ming Jin was thoughtful, went forward, took her great-grandfather's tablet first, opened the secret box under the tablet, and took out a silk scroll.
She opened it and read it. When she saw the text in the middle, it mentioned "Emperor Jing was assassinated, the queen died, and the Zixun clan was involved. Emperor Jing ordered the Xie family to take the lead in killing the Wen family. Later, the Wen family was destroyed, the Xiao family declined, and only the Xie family remained."
, the following year, all the defenders of Lincheng in the border area died in battle, and Lincheng was massacred."
Ming Jin looked indifferent and opened the door one after another to the ancestors who accompanied him in the battle. There was a reason.
Die in battle, die in battle, die in battle.
"I remember that when Linzhou was defending the war, food and supplies could not be supplied. My great-grandfather and the others were trapped in the city for a month, and then died of exhaustion."
Uncle Yun still choked up when he thought of those past events, "Yes, Miss Zhi once wrote a secret letter home and asked the secret guards to take them to Linzhou City, but they all fell into the sea like mud and even the secret guards never returned. Later, Miss Zhi knew that there must be something strange in it.
They just closed their doors and closed their clans. Not long after, the city of Linzhou was destroyed, and there were only three Xie family members left. At that time, there were people from the Imperial Supervisory Office and the Ministry of Criminal Affairs and Military Affairs. It was extremely difficult to interrogate people for crimes.
day."
Ming Jin lowered her eyes, put the tablet up, moved her fingers down, and landed on her grandfather's tablet.
"My great-grandfather and his wife's posthumous documents were written by my grandfather. But my grandfather's remains were written by my father?"
"yes."
Ming Jin took it out, read the handwriting, and confirmed that it was Xie Yuan's handwriting. However, when she saw the words on it, she was suddenly stunned.
Because there is only one line of words on it, six characters.
"Xie Zhi, Xie Qing, Xie Yuan."
A person's life can be summed up in three people?
Ming Jin was thoughtful, but found that there was a key under the remains.
She thought for a moment and asked Yun Bo to go out and tell Tuo Ze and Bi Shiyi to lock the ancestral hall tightly and not allow anyone to come in.
Finally, Mingjin walked to the back of the memorial tablet and opened a hanging picture. He inserted the key into the secret hole and clicked it.
The entrance to the secret room on the ground opens.
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Ming Jin held the candlestick and walked down the secret room. The secret room was filled with dust, but she looked down at the shoe prints on the floor of the passage and knew that someone had been there before, not long ago.
Judging from the pattern of the shoe print and the size of the shoe, he is definitely her father.
What is he doing here? Could it be that he has something to leave for her?
Ming Jin sent the candlelight forward and was suddenly startled, frowning slightly.
It turned out that this was what he left for her.
A dusty white skeleton.
He sat on the chair, tilted his neck back, looked up at the sky, and grasped the rope wrapped around his neck with both hands.
He was motionless.
After Ming Jin palpitated, he walked closer and placed the candlestick on the table. The table was not empty. There were also some rotten bowls and chopsticks and two wine glasses.
A man drank with the deceased here and... poisoned him.
Ming Jin swept his sleeves, and the wind blew away the dust on the bones, revealing the black color on the bones.
This is a symptom of poison entering the body.
Ming Jin checked his pubic bone and determined his age.
"Ye Qing."
It turns out that the missing person from the Xie family is here.
Dead, and dead for a long, long time.
In his most beautiful years.
Being poisoned.
During the poisoning, he was also strangled to death.
Who can appear here and kill him like this?
"grandfather."
Ming Jin held his forehead and murmured slightly.
Previously, she told Xie Zhipur that the Xie family had many taboos, and it came true so quickly.
However, Ming Jin took out a letter from where Xie Qing's heart was stuck on his ribs.
The letter was stuck there casually, as if one could imagine Xie Yuan appearing here not long ago, leaving it behind, waiting for it to fall into her hands.
But there was more than just paper inside the letter, there was also a token.
The texture of sapphire cold iron is simple and elegant.
Ming Jin touched the token and seemed to go back to her childhood. At that time, she had just lost her mother. She had a dull temper, hid her worries and refused to talk to others. Ming Rong was afraid that she would be sad, so she came to accompany her in person.
She read and wrote and flew kites with her.
But at that time, his grandfather brought a man to the house, a dignified and cold man. He saw her, his eyes were very strange, he called her over and asked her many things.
She knew that the other party was a very distinguished guest, so she did not dare to neglect and answered all questions. Later, he came often and wanted to see her every time.
As time went by, she became somewhat familiar with this person, but later on, his temper became more and more gloomy, and the way he looked at her became more and more strange. He was often in a daze, as if he was looking at another person through her.
She had always been sensitive and felt something was wrong, but her father was really busy at the time and she didn't know how to tell anyone...
Later, the man gave her a token.
She refused and dared not accept it.
"You are very smart, like her, and you probably know who I am. Then, who in the world can refuse my gift?"
"If I give it to you, you must take it."
She finally picked it up, and when he came later, he would often bring a young man with him and encourage him to fly a kite for her...
Recalling the past is like a white paper turning yellow.
Looking down at the token, Ming Jin's eyes turned red and he murmured to himself.
"Later, when you finally returned home, I handed this token to you and told you about it. I remember that your face looked particularly ugly. You asked me if I had told my grandfather about this. I said no, and you relaxed a little.
"
"But then, you changed. You became unscrupulous, vicious and cunning. You became strange and scary to me."
"Have you started to protect me from that time on?"
No one could answer her, and all that was left to her besides this cold token was a letter.
Ming Jin opened it and looked at it. Her fingers trembled, her body staggered, and she held on to the table with difficulty. She seemed to be in disbelief and in great pain.
The candlelight flickered, and her painful sobs could be heard faintly.
And there were words like this on the letter that fell to the ground with trembling fingertips.
——Xie Zhi, when the family was in danger and almost destroyed, he took risks to help the late emperor Chu Zheng ascend the throne. Fearing the late emperor's thoughts, he decided to retire to protect the safety of the family. However, in fact, he did not successfully retire and instead disappeared. Five years later, Xie Qing found out who Xie Zhi was.
Zhi Nai was kidnapped and raped by Chu Zheng and imprisoned for several years. She died tragically and was pregnant at the time of her death.
Xie Qing was brought up by Xie Zhi, whom he regarded as a god. In pain, for revenge, he colluded with people in Linzhou and Jiaocheng's internal affairs, collaborated with the enemy and betrayed the country, and eight years after dozens of Xie family members died in the battle, he personally brought down Linzhou.
The city was destroyed by the famine, and the city was massacred in three days. Later, Xie Zong found out about this, and he was strangled to death here.
After Xie Zong strangled his own brother to death, he covered up his traces, thinking that this would protect the family. However, he later learned that Xie Qing's story was hidden in a secret letter and belonged to others. Later, fearing that the matter would be leaked, in order to protect the family, Xie Zong was reduced to
The other party's lackey was sent for him. In order to win the trust of the late emperor, he had to give up his beloved woman and marry the daughter of his employer who the late emperor specifically pointed out for humiliation was the grandmother of the Xie family. This woman was despicable and had bad conduct. She had an affair with someone before marriage. Xie Zong
He was extremely disgusted, but could not show it. He pretended to value Xie Yuan, their son. Later, he knew that someone wanted to kill Xie Yuan right away in the hunting ground. He knew in advance but did not take any action. After Xie Yuan broke his leg, he prepared to support Xie Yuan from behind.
Two sons. Later, Xie Zong conspired with that man, respected Chu Zheng's will, and planned to destroy Die Lianhua. To this end, he set up a trap for Xie Yuan and lured him to approach the Second Sword Heart... A few years later, Die Lian
Hua Mie... In order to get out of the predicament, Xie Zong saw that his granddaughter Ming Jin looked like Xie Zhi, so he brought her to Chu Zheng, intending to please Chu Zheng, and then used Chu Zheng's hand to destroy her, but failed because
Chu Zheng died soon after, Xie Zong was unwilling to accept it, and later died of serious illness.
The cold words and simple descriptions tell all the secrets of the Xie family many years before the current disaster.
One after another, mistakes are made because of the former, and mistakes are made again because of the mistakes.
It's like a road. Once you walk on it, you can't turn back.
There is also something that cannot be told, the profound pain hidden under those tablets.
And there are speculations that can spread - after Xie Zong's death, Xie Yuan inherited the Xie family and continued to be enslaved by others, just because that person had evidence that was enough to destroy the Xie family.
With the late Emperor Chu Zheng at the top and threats from the other side, the dignified first generation had no choice but to become lackeys.
Both generations of patriarchs had their minds twisted because of this and became cruel and ruthless people.
And her great-aunt, such a good person, was the person she had admired the most since she was a child, apart from Xie Shizu, but it turned out that she died in such humiliation.
Now, her father Xie Yuan is also dead.
But that person still has such evidence.
"Those years...so many years..."
Thinking of Xie Yuan's white hair and his cruelty in killing cults in Linzhou City, she never saw the slightest concern in him, as if it was normal.
Just because his cruelty and ruthlessness have been with him for many years.
But she always thought about her father who was a minor official and accompanied his mother and daughter to the countryside to see people's livelihood in a small place.
Maybe...he misses it too.
Behead, behead.
This is the path he chose for himself.
"You are collaborating with the enemy and treason, Linzhou City...that's it."
A few years ago, those dangerous speculations that always made her worried were finally verified.
Ming Jin held on to the table, her face flushed slightly, and after a while, blood started to flow from the corner of her mouth.
She was a little confused.
Xie family, can she still protect her?
But her father seems to have paved the way for her.
There are two paths to choose from.
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Ming Jin came out of the secret room and returned to the ancestral hall. When she looked at the ancient and graceful tablet that had lasted for three hundred years, her eyes were as dark as an abyss. She stayed in the ancestral hall all night.
Early the next morning.
The door of the ancestral hall was suddenly pushed open by Yun Bo in a hurry.
Ming Jin opened his eyes, turned around and saw the panic on Yun Bo's face.
Her heart sank, but she still asked calmly, "What's the matter?"
"Mingdai...Miss Mingdai is missing."
Ming Jin's already pale face suddenly fell into deathly silence. His fingers trembled slightly and then he tightened them tightly.
She hurried out. As soon as she left the ancestral hall and before walking down the steps, she suddenly stamped her feet and spoke in a cold yet determined voice.
"Where are Mingyue and the others?"
"I left home yesterday and sent secret guards to escort me secretly. According to your instructions, girl, I have asked the department to re-register the genealogy and exclude these two people."
Ming Jin took a deep breath and said, "Don't let them know about this, and don't let them look back."
Uncle Yun could see her tiredness and heaviness, so he nodded quickly, and then quickly headed to the third room with Ming Jin.
At this time, the three rooms were in chaos.
Ms. Lin was grieved and frightened. When she saw Ming Jin coming, she rushed forward and grabbed her hand, crying and begging her to find Ming Dai.
Xie Li stepped forward to hug her and looked at Ming Jin, his eyes full of begging.
Ming Jin glanced at the house, then looked at the cold body lying on the ground.
Most of these people were escorts sent by her.
But they were all killed.
Silent and breathless.
Ming Jin stepped forward to inspect the body of one of them and stood up.
Her expression changed briefly, but finally returned to deathly silence. She knew who had done it.
That person actually sneaked in.
Chapter completed!