Neverland

Yan Cen found Song Xueyao's small study.

For Yan Cen, the "study" is a more private existence than the "bedroom".Because anyone can enter the bedroom, servants, servants, and even couples who seem to be in harmony with each other, are the most privacy-free places in the world.But the study is different. This kind of environment that carries the "spiritual world" in a disguised form usually won't let others set foot in it except for the confidants. It is a very trustworthy pure land.

Yan Cen closed the door with his hand back, and first stood at the door for two or three seconds, closed his eyes to gather himself, cleaned up all the small thoughts that popped up in his head, and then looked around the study.

Song Xueyao's small study is not big, about [-] to [-] square meters. There are several bookshelves, and the top is full.Song Xueyao's desk is on the side facing the sun, on the right hand side of the door.Directly opposite the desk is the hollowed-out window. Now is the time of the future, and the sunlight just slanted in from the window, and it happened to fall ten centimeters away from the desk.

Yan Cen did not rush into the more private space on the right, but went to the left first.

There are more things like bookshelves and lockers on the left. The locker near the door contains some tea leaves that will not damage the books, and things like ink sticks and rice paper for daily use.Yan Cen didn't move to look through it, he only looked at it twice and then looked away.

The bookshelf next to it is full of Song Xueyao's books. It can be seen that Wei Wenxuan respects her. In addition to the books and poems and songs read by ancient women, there are also some official histories and some mountains and fields that have a stronger meaning of the previous dynasty. Anecdotes, etc., of all kinds.

Yan Cen roughly glanced at the books above, lacking interest.He didn't search for clues like Xu Muzhou, who took down everything he saw and looked at it. He just walked around the room and finally stopped in front of a locked cabinet.

There are three locks hanging on the outside of this cabinet, which is two meters high. It is more like a wardrobe than a bookshelf. The wooden door is carved with a whole leaf, which looks very content.

Yan Cen stood silently in front of the cabinet for a while, then pried open all three locks without any psychological burden.

There are only three layers in this heavy solid wood cabinet, and there are booklets that are ten centimeters thick one after another.Yan Cen frowned, reached out and took a book from each of the three layers.

After looking through it like this, he found that the uppermost layer of the cabinet contained the harem's sleeping records, the middle layer contained the lists of concubines, including their entry time and general family background information, and the lowest layer contained the harem management office. account books.

Yan Cen put aside the account books on the upper and lower floors for the time being, and opened the book on the second floor.He had a clear goal, so he went to find the "Concubine Shu" first.However, this account book was searched by Yan Cen and he didn't see the other party. It was not until Yan Cen went to the cabinet to change to the third account book that he found such a person.

As expected, Concubine Shu's concubine, Meng Wanqing, came from the two countries as a couple. At that time, Wei Wenxuan and the Xiongnu fought hard, but they also had the upper hand.The battle lasted from the winter of the first year to the winter of the second year, and the Xiongnu finally found it difficult to continue, so they decided to make peace and sent Shan Yu's youngest daughter to marry him.

Meng Wanqing was named Zhaoyi when she first arrived, and was promoted to Concubine Shu seven days after entering the palace. She lived in the palace for three years and nine months, and finally died 27 days ago.

This kind of brochure that only contains the information of concubines is cold, and the words and sentences are just stating that so-and-so has been promoted today and downgraded tomorrow, entered the palace in which year and month, and died in which year and month—— It's like a cold machine that only records the situation.

Moreover, Meng Wanqing was suddenly moved to the palace by Wei Wenxuan one month before her death, from the main hall of the original Changning Palace to a small side hall near the Leng Palace.This hall doesn't even have a plaque, and only the words "Xibian Hall" are written on the materials.Logically speaking, this is very wrong, there is a clear distinction between superiority and inferiority in the palace, even though Meng Wanqing is from a foreign race, but she bears the title of concubine Shu, she would never live in a run-down bungalow.

This has nothing to do with whether Wei Wenxuan likes her or not, but the "rules" derived from his status.

But what is interesting is that Meng Wanqing's status has not declined, and she is still the "Concubine Shu" when she dies.However, this can probably explain why Meng Wanqing's aftermath was so shabby, because although she had a title for nothing, she should no longer be called "Concubine Shu" in the last days of her life.

The information did not mention how Meng Wanqing died, but only said "sudden death" in an understatement, but according to Yan Cen's experience, generally "sudden death" can basically be unconditionally equated with "insider information".

But the booklet in Yan Cen's hand did not describe these royal secrets, so Yan Cen put down the book for now, and only kept this matter in his heart.

Yan Cen had read the sleeping records before, but he only had a three-month copy in his hand, which was used daily to confirm the royal blood.But Song Xueyao's is not. Song Xueyao's servants here have a monthly book, and the upper shelf of the cabinet is full, and they are all arranged according to the date. It is simply a capitalized record of Wei Wenxuan's prostitution.

Yan Cen originally only wanted to see the emotional relationship between Song Xueyao and Meng Wanqing and Wei Wenxuan, but he didn't want to find a surprise.

Concubine Lu, Liu Yingying, hadn't been given a title a few months ago, but she was suddenly granted a title with the word "Lu" three months ago, changing from Concubine Liu to Concubine Lu.

Giving a title is originally a way for the emperor to express his liking, and it can probably be equivalent to a half-level promotion.But the status of a noble concubine is already very sensitive, why Wei Wenxuan suddenly raised her status again.

Yan Cen frowned, and picked up the list of concubines that he had seen halfway before.It was early for Liu Yingying to enter the palace, and he found her in the last third of a booklet after flipping through more than half of it.

——Then he strangely found the reason for Meng Wanqing's ending in Liu Yingying's picture.

The peace between the Huns and Wei Wenxuan lasted only three years. Six months ago, Wei Wenxuan once again went to war against the Huns—this time he initiated it.

This battle was fought very quickly, and it was over before the end of the year.Until four months ago, Duke Feng won a complete victory in the last battle with the Huns, leveled the grassland, and drove the remaining sporadic aliens across the mountain pass.

Liu Yingying, as the daughter of the Duke of Feng, was also granted a seal because of the great achievements of the Duke of Feng.

Wei Wenxuan didn't care about Meng Xueqing's face, and mercilessly slaughtered her mother's family, realizing a part of his grand ambition of being an emperor.

Yan Cen didn't even need to put himself into Wei Wenxuan's position to know what he was thinking - for these people in high positions, they would not even feel that they had hurt someone's heart, everything they did was It is a matter of course.

Is there any king in the world, Wei Wenxuan wants to get rid of it once and for all, never to be harassed by the Huns again, from his standpoint, it seems to be right.

— but only "from his point of view."

Just like when a person's wealth is hundreds of millions, hundreds of dollars and thousands of dollars are the same in his eyes.

There are countless paths to achieve goals in life, but people like Wei Wenxuan have too much, so they don't bother to think about the more perfect path at all. He just chooses the fastest and most relieved path to walk. up.

Wei Wenxuan didn't even think of Meng Wanqing in Changning Palace at the moment when he swung his troops northward—maybe he thought of it, but he didn't care.For people like them, the human heart is just one of the resources he has, especially the women in the harem who can only rely on him to live, so don't pay too much attention to it.

——How arrogant, Yan Cen sneered.

Yan Cen closed the booklet and probably understood the relationship.

But the problem now is that Wei Wenxuan completely flattened the grassland four months ago, and it was more than two months before Meng Wanqing was moved to the palace.More than two months in the harem was not short, which at least showed that Wei Wenxuan had no intention of attacking Meng Wanqing in the beginning.

Not only was Meng Wanqing still taking care of her Concubine Shu with peace of mind, Wei Wenxuan even met Meng Wanqing several times during the past two months.

Although there was no bed attendant, the possibility that Wei Wenxuan didn't deal with Meng Wanqing because he didn't remember it was ruled out.

——Then what happened two months later made Wei Wenxuan suddenly change his mind.

Yan Cen was silent for a moment, then closed all the open books in his hands one by one, put them back in the original order, put the padlock back, turned and walked to the other side.

On the other side of the study is Song Xueyao's desk. Yan Cen has been here for a long time, and the sunlight outside the window has begun to slant to the west. rays.

There are not many things on the desk, and the bookshelf behind the desk is used to put Song Xueyao's copybooks.On the ground on the right side of the desk is a painting jar, in which there are about six or seven painting scrolls.There are still a few sheets of calligraphy hanging on the wall, most of which are poems. Song Xueyao's calligraphy is not completely dignified and noble, and there are two sheets of Lin's running script, which are also very impressive.

Song Xueyao is the daughter-in-law of a family of civil servants. Naturally, she is good at piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. It is normal for the study to be well-furnished.But Yan Cen's eyes fell on his feet, and he didn't understand why Song Xueyao spread a blanket under the desk.

Yan Cen has never seen anything like a blanket or blanket here. The thing under the desk is not so much a "blanket" as it is more like a thin mattress. Yan Cen bent down and touched it, and found that there was a Also stored a layer of cotton.

——Put it in this nondescript.

There was a stack of rice paper on Song Xueyao's desk, probably she hadn't finished writing it before and hadn't had time to put it away.

Yan Cen glanced at it, but suddenly saw some slight wear marks on the corner of the stack of rice paper. The wear marks seemed to be from bottom to top, and the top few pages of rice paper did not show any traces of contamination.

Yan Cen frowned, reached out and opened the stack of rice paper, and finally found a framed painting on the third last sheet.

The painting shows the back of a woman in red. She stands under a peach blossom tree with scattered peach petals at her feet.

In addition to the painting, there is also an inscription on the upper right corner of the rice paper.

——God's will pity the grass, and the world is full of evening sunshine.