Tang riddles

October [-]th of the second year of Chang'an, the day of Xiayuan Festival, was the day I regret the most in my life.I will never be able to shake off the shadow brought to me by this day, and what happened on that day has completely pushed me on a road of no return.

Since the Martial Emperor's Thousand Autumn Festival in July, sister Yu has changed. She has become taciturn and hardly talks to others.Even his most beloved wife, Qin Lian, seldom had a few words with her.She didn't stay at home almost all day, and her board and lodging were settled in the Secretary's Department. She spent the whole day in the mountains of books and papers in the Secretary's Department, not knowing what she was busy with.And Princess Taiping, who always lingered on her, also stopped suddenly in a strange way, and she was never seen blocking sister Yu at the gate of the secretary's province, or delivering letters to Yin's mansion.

The days passed quietly like this, but the atmosphere above Chang'an seemed to be getting more and more oppressive.Three months have passed, the laughter from the former Yin's residence is gone, and sister Yu's strange behavior has already been noticed by the family members.Almost everyone tried to chat with her, wanting to know what happened from her mouth, but she always had a smile on her face, and in the end, she still didn't say anything.

My father felt that sister Yu might have suffered setbacks when she first entered the officialdom, or maybe she was under too much pressure.I also study every day how to configure some refreshing and nourishing medicinal meals, so that she can eat more easily and energetically.But I have always been brooding over the matter of being fainted in the palace that night.I know how much I drink, that glass of sake will never make me drunk, I know I have been drugged.And it is absolutely impossible for me to be drugged for no reason, and no one in the palace will target me, who is of low status.There is only one reason, they are targeting my master - Yin Yu.What happened to Sister Yu in the palace that night?I tried to talk to her about it several times, but she interrupted me, and she sternly warned me not to speak about it, even to those close to my family.The doubts in my heart became more and more intense, and I could no longer bear Sister Yu's reticent and ambiguous attitude.At that time, I was still young and full of vigor, so I left home willfully and went hunting alone in the outskirts of Chang'an. There was a mountain villa of a friend of mine. From October [-]th to [-]th, I lived in that villa. for five days.Until I received the carrier pigeon from Qianyumen, there was only a short line in the letter, but it made my scalp explode:

The lady has an accident, come back quickly!

The letter was written by my father, and there was only one woman in his mouth——Qin Lian.

I don't even know how I rushed back to Chang'an City, I just remember that after receiving the news, I rode my horse and ran back to the city overnight. It took me less than an hour to finish the half-day journey, and finally my male was paralyzed at the gate of the city. , dropped me and sprained my arm.

Enduring the severe pain in my arm, I ran back to Yin's residence, but what I saw was a scene that made me extremely desperate.Qin Lian lay paralyzed on the bed, with thick bandages wrapped around his body from head to toe, he couldn't even see his face clearly, his breathing was weak and seemingly absent, and he was already unconscious.I eagerly asked what happened. My father suppressed his grief and told me everything that happened.

Because Xiao Chishi's first birthday is approaching, on October [-]th, the Yuan Festival, Qin Lian plans to go to Longchang Temple to pray for a long-life lock that has been opened for the child. A cup of the most famous bean paste soup in the temple is brought home for family members to eat.When she went out, all the servants at home followed her.Originally, it was safe to go in and out of the temple, but when passing by Dongshi, they were blocked in front of the restaurant, and there were many people gathered near the restaurant, scrambling to buy the new bean paste from the restaurant.Since Qin Lian's carriage was blocked back and forth, he couldn't move for a while.She was not in a hurry, she got out of the car, squeezed through the crowd all the way, and sat in the teahouse opposite the restaurant.

At that time, Qin Lian was accompanied by two people, a coachman and her personal maid Xiao Yuan.The coachman had to watch the carriage downstairs, there were still a lot of things in the carriage, so as not to be taken away.Xiao Yuan originally went to the teahouse with Qin Lian, but unexpectedly the teahouse was also full, and there was not even a place to sit.Qin Lian was at peace with the situation, so he took Xiao Yuan up to the second floor, leaning against the railing on the second floor, watching the dense crowd downstairs and the extremely busy owner of the restaurant among the crowd.

Looking at it, Qin Lian became interested, and asked Xiao Yuan to go downstairs to queue, and also bought three or five bean curds, which she wanted to take home to eat.Xiao Yuan complied and left.But what she never expected was that just after she went downstairs, before she squeezed into the crowd, the lady suddenly fell down from the second floor.Moreover, the posture of the fall was very bad, the fall was head-on, and the fall directly injured the spine. Without even making a sound, everyone passed out on the spot.The most tragic thing is that during the fall, the iron pot with boiling water on the first floor of the restaurant shop was overturned, and all the boiling water in the pot was poured out. It bloomed immediately.

Xiao Yuan was so frightened that her face paled and she was at a loss. Seeing that the unconscious woman was bleeding from her nose, she only breathed out but not in. She almost collapsed at that moment.Fortunately, the coachman rushed over, immediately found a few helpers to set up a personal stretcher, carefully lifted Qin Lian into the carriage, and then drove the carriage back to Yin's residence as quickly as possible.

Clan's mother-in-law and father rushed to the rescue immediately, and it took two full hours to barely save Qin Lian's life.However, she is still in a precarious state and has not yet escaped the danger period. If she cannot survive the next three days, her life will be in danger.When I rushed back, it was already the second day, and there was still one more day to be sure if Hades would accept Qin Lian's life.

My father was so anxious these days that he almost forgot about me. Later, he remembered that I was still outside. He was afraid that something would happen to Qin Lian, and I couldn't even see her for the last time, so he sent a letter asking me to come back as soon as possible.However, when I saw her like this, my heart ached.How could such a beautiful woman like Qionghua Yushu...how could she encounter such a miserable thing, fate...is it so cruel?

How did she fall from the second floor?At that time, she was not the only one standing on the railing on the second floor of the teahouse, there were many people standing there, the railing height could reach the waist of an adult man, and Qin Lian was not too tall, so it was common sense that she should never have fallen down.But what happened at that time, no matter how many times we asked the shopkeeper, we couldn't find out the truth, and we couldn't find any witnesses.

The most difficult thing for me to face is sister Yu.In those days, she seemed to be crazy, desperately looking for clues outside, she mobilized the entire Thousand Feather Sect, and turned the teahouse upside down by her, almost door-to-door in Chang'an City looking for witnesses or, however, to no avail.She was running around during the day, and returned in a hurry in the evening, staying beside Qin Lian's couch, staying up all night and sitting silently.Little Chishi seemed to feel the disaster her mother suffered. In those days, she was very well-behaved and often cried for no reason.

Finally, the fateful third day came.That day, everyone gathered outside Qin Lian's ward, but sister Yu blocked the door, and no one was allowed to enter.The only one who can be in the house, besides my father, is the clan mother-in-law who stays behind.

We waited outside the house, I don't know how long we waited, maybe a hundred years or a thousand years is only so long, until the sun was setting, sister Yu opened the door alone and walked out.

"She's gone..." she whispered, her face numb.

I remember the sound of my knees hitting the ground that day, and the wailing of relatives around me. When we walked into the door and saw her lying on the couch without a sound, I felt that the world had collapsed.

For a long time after that, I felt that the world had lost its color, I lost interest in everything around me, and I just drank and got drunk all day long.Yin's mansion hung up the white silk and began to attend the funeral.Seven days later, she was buried in Longshouyuan on the outskirts of Chang'an.There is a cemetery bought by sister Yu, and there are special gravekeepers who clean and manage it every day.

I was really disheartened, never thought that Qin Lian would pass away at such a young and beautiful age, and be buried with my heart.Her funeral was very low-key, and we did not publicize the accident, only saying that she died of a sudden illness.

I thought this incident would be the heaviest blow in Sister Yu's life, but I never expected that she would do something that I could never have imagined in just a few months.The Emperor Wu gave her a marriage with Princess Taiping, but she accepted it, and immediately married Taiping, entered the princess's mansion, and became a son-in-law.They even brought her and Qin Lian's child into the Princess Mansion, and changed the child's name to "Ziji", as if to flaunt her achievements.

I told myself to be patient, just as my father taught me.No matter what choice sister Yu makes, she is my master after all, and as a member of the Yin clan, I am not qualified to make any criticism of her choice.I imagined that she might have some difficulties, or maybe she was forced to help her, so I couldn't blame her.

But such patience and fantasies were completely shattered after I learned that Princess Taiping was pregnant with Sister Yu's child.Princess Taiping knows her daughter's identity and the mystery of Luanhuang's bloodline, and she is still married to Sister Yu under such a premise. I can accept all these.But she is pregnant with elder sister Yu's child, which I cannot accept no matter what.

She betrayed Qin Lian!

It was only a few short months after Qin Lian left, and she was able to do such a cold-blooded act of liking the new and disliking the old.

My father also seemed to be hit by this. At first he didn't believe that the child was sister Yu's child, and he went to check Princess Taiping's pulse himself. Although it was very weak, he still found out that it was a child with the blood of Luanhuang.This child is very special, my father has never seen it before, because there is either Luanhuang bloodline or not, there is no middle ground at all, but this child is a carrier of a weak bloodline.The father said that the child's bloodline is not enough to pass on, and her next generation will never be the successor of the Luanhuang bloodline.And she herself may not have the characteristics of most Luanhuang bloodline owners. For example, her life span will not be longer than the successor, and her physical fitness will not be stronger than the successor. She may not have the strange ability to attract and communicate with birds.

His father was very disappointed with Sister Yu, but his loyalty to Yin for decades made him accept all of this, and he continued to try his best to assist Yin and Sister Yu.But I couldn't bear it, this time I completely left the Yin family and Yin Yu, I was completely disappointed and chilled by her actions.It coincided with conscription, so I signed up and joined the army. Since then, I have not returned home for many years.

And I'm not the only one who left, the one who couldn't bear all this and left the Yin family was also the clan mother-in-law.She was used to being free, and she was not used to living in one place, so it was normal for her to leave without saying a word.I don't know where she went in those years.She was close to Qin Lian, and Qin Lian treated her like her own mother. Qin Lian's death hit her very hard, and Yin Yu's infidelity was also the most important reason that forced her to leave.In addition, Xiao Yuan, Qin Lian's former personal maid, also left, and I didn't know where she went at the time.

It wasn't until my father was dying that I finally took bereavement leave and went home.However, what my father said to me when he was dying has overturned my cognition for several years.That night, my father's intermittent narration in my ear made me feel light-headed and dizzy.Can't even believe my hearing.

He actually told me that Qin Lian is still alive...