"It's you...???       "

When I finally said this sentence, for some reason, I seemed to have been hollowed out at this moment, without the pain as expected, nor the ease I imagined. I just opened my eyes empty and looked at the same calm but somewhat empty man in front of me.

My husband, who has been with me for so many years, has been with me for so many years.

The person I should trust the most.

It's you.

I am sure that the wrong person is, but it is not him, but you.

Hearing these two words, he seemed to be without surprise or shock, but just looked at me motionlessly: "Me?"

“…”

"You said it was me?"

“…”

"Why?"

“…”

Instead of answering his question, I asked back, "Then tell me, who killed your former sister, Princess Pei Yuanzhen?"

He was stunned for a moment, as if there was a light in his dark eyes suddenly flashing again, as if he was in a daze inside. After hesitating for a long time, I watched his lips slightly open and close, as if he was about to say something, but before he spoke, I said calmly: "Yuan Xiu."

“…”

"Don't lie to me."

“…”

His lips slowly closed again.

I seemed to hear his breathing silent. After a long silence, he said, "Do you already have the answer?"

"I've met Gu Ping."

After saying this, I saw the shiny light suddenly popping up in his eyes, as if something had been pierced. When he looked at me again, his whole breath became solemn. Then I said calmly: "Don't go find him. After I saw him in the afternoon, I have warned him to leave Jinling and leave this place quickly."

"……Why?"

"I know that after that, he should have been silenced, but his relationship with me is not ordinary. If he dies for no reason, I will definitely not give up easily and will definitely track it down to the end. In order not to find some clues, you did not kill him."

“…”

"Yuan Xiu, if you still take into account our husband and wife's relationship, I beg you not to find him, he - he is already very pitiful."

Thinking of Su Su's previous words, he was drinking and causing trouble in the restaurant; even if I summoned him in the inner courtyard, he asked Cao Hu and the others to protect me, but he would not dare to come to see me; until today, when I asked Cao Hu to call him to come to the inner courtyard to see me, he seemed to finally understand that some things could not be covered, and finally appeared in front of me - the young man who was originally energetic was thin and haggard and turned into another person. When he saw me, the heavy guilt in his eyes almost crushed him, and the look on the verge of collapse made me heartbroken.

Pei Yuanxiu didn't say anything, but his face was paler than the other moment. Under the faint candlelight, his face was almost transparent, and he couldn't see his emotions.

Maybe, I've never seen it clearly.

After a long time, he asked, "How do you know that it's him?"

I was silent for a while, slowly pulled out the hand clenched into fists placed in the quilt and unfolded it in front of him.

There was a heavy silver lock in his palm.

It was when Liu Saner, when she was still in Jixiang Village, went to the town to customize it for her after Miaoyan was born, and even the names of the three of us were engraved on it.

Light

Liu San

Never leave.

When I was crossing the river to ask Liu Qinghan for that lovely poem as a divorce book, I once gave Gu Ping something like red cloth on the bow of the boat, which was this silver lock. But I told him not to open it in front of me, I was afraid that I would not be reluctant to leave it, because this silver lock records my happiness and his happiness, our past, and all the beautiful memories, which are the only traces that have existed between me and him.

But at that time, I promised to marry Pei Yuanxiu and say goodbye to my past. Although I couldn't bear to leave it, I could only do this.

But I didn't expect that this silver lock would tell me a fact many years later.

I said, "This silver lock was given to Ping'er before I married you, but today, Liu Qinghan fell something from his hand on the execution ground, but it was this silver lock."

“…”

"Why do you think this thing is in his hands?"

“…”

"What do you think I should think?"

Pei Yuanxiu's face slowly calmed down.

At this time, I finally understood that in the new house full of blood that night, I was already debating Han Ruoshi why Liu Qinghan had to plead guilty.

That night, when he sat in the new room with the blood-covered body of Pei Yuanzhen, his hand was holding Pei Yuanzhen's hand, without saying a word from beginning to end, until Wen Fengxi looked at their hands and seemed to have something appeared. When he was about to ask, he suddenly pleaded guilty.

Because, he got this thing from Pei Yuanzhen.

And on this, my name is clearly engraved!

Perhaps, in order to protect me, this silver lock is already the most direct proof; perhaps, he cannot make Han Ruoshi's evidence of me deeper; perhaps, he also realized that the peace in Jiangnan and Jiangbei was temporary, and Jinling urgently needed an excuse to start a war, and once I was accused of killing the eldest princess, it might be the most direct excuse to start a war in Jinling... All of this may be what he was considering.

So, he pleaded guilty.

I felt a sense of sorrow in my heart, but I still pressed down at this moment, looked up at Pei Yuanxiu, and said slowly: "On the night they got married, there was no Gu Ping in the guard you arranged. Although I was a little surprised, I didn't care too much. After all, when Miaoyan and I were in Yangzhou, they were injured because of his poor protection. It was reasonable for you to not send him, but today I realized that his protection was not effective and he would be punished and hurt me. He felt guilty. All this became an excuse for you to send him to implement this plan."

“…”

"That night, Han Ruoshi originally said that she was in poor health and did not come with us, but later she came here by herself. I didn't care at that time, just thought she wanted to embarrass me, so I didn't think about anything else. But today I realized that Gu Ping was on her boat and approached the red boat. Later, the river lanterns attracted everyone, and it was at that time that he had the opportunity to board the boat."

“…”

"He accompanied me and Miaoyan to Yangzhou Prefecture and stayed there for a whole afternoon. Of course, he had already understood the adjustment of the Yangzhou Prefecture guards. The guards on the red boat were transferred directly from the provincial prefecture. Their shift patterns must be the same as those in the provincial prefecture, so he could seize the right opportunity and sneak into the new house without knowing it..."

“…”

He kept listening to my words calmly, but at this time, he was still not moved at all, and just asked, "How do you determine that all this is my command?"

I looked at him and said sadly: "Yuan Xiu, that night, when I wanted to go to the garden behind the cabin to find Miaoyan, you kept pulling me."

“…”

"If I was not wrong, then it was Ping'er who was killing Pei Yuanzhen, right?"

“…”

"You kept holding me, because you didn't want me to meet Gu Ping, and you didn't want me to see that scene."

“…”

"After all, you are different from Han Ruoshi. She wants me to die, but you are not."

“…”

"But I didn't see that scene, but Miaoyan saw it."

“…”

"Because that night, in order to congratulate her third uncle on her marriage, she specially prepared a gift for Pei Yuanzhen. She took advantage of that time to give it to Pei Yuanzhen. She would be scared to this now because she witnessed the murder!"

No, not only because she witnessed all that, but also because she saw Brother Ping, who was once close to her, was a gentle and slowly persuading her when she had a conflict with her mother. She would actually kill someone when she hugged her in danger!

When I said this, my voice trembled, and tears kept rolling in my eyes, making me tremble.

I can almost imagine how shocking and painful Miaoyan was at that time!

At this moment, a hand reached out and gently picked up my cheek. His fingers were as powerful as usual, and his palms were as warm as before, but at this moment, it only made me feel pain. I was held by him, looked up at him, and heard him dryly saying, "What if I say, I don't know all this?"

I looked at him for a long time and finally choked and said, "Impossible."

"Why?"

"Because you killed Pei Yuanzhen."

“…”

"Yuan Xiu, Pei Yuanzhen has been a brother and sister with you for so many years. If Han Ruoshi had started, she would not have had any scruples."

“…”

"She cares about you and will not touch your former sister easily."

“…”

"So, from beginning to end, you planned and instructed me. You want to kill Pei Yuanzhen. Although it will be good for you and me to marry Liu Qinghan, once they get married, Pei Yuanzhen is in Yangzhou, she and Liu Qinghan will further bring the relationship between the court and Xichuan, the court and Jiangnan. You have been in Jinling's defense and increasing troops. You can't let her be the first obstacle to your northwards, so you killed her on the night she got married!"

“…”

"But you let Gu Ping take action after their chapel, not before that."

“…”

"Because, even if she dies, you must let Liu Qinghan marry her first!"

When I finished saying this, I heard him breathe a long sigh.
Chapter completed!