I am imprisoned in Kaifeng Mansion

The question did not wonder how long.

Half an hour later, the Shenzhou Zhending government office servant hurriedly came to find Cui Mao to report, and there was an urgent case suddenly in the government office.So far, ten families have reported missing children, all aged between six and eight, including six boys and four girls.

Most of the parents of these missing children left their children to play in the yard when they were making breakfast, and when they turned around, the children disappeared, and they couldn't find them when they searched nearby.Three witnesses who lived in the alley said they saw a man running out of the alley in a hurry holding a child who seemed to be sleeping.Because he lowered his head when walking, and some children covered half of his face, it was difficult to distinguish his appearance.However, based on the descriptions of these men's stature by eyewitnesses, it can be concluded that there are differences in fat, thin, tall and short, and they were not committed by the same man, so there are at least three men who committed the crime.

Actually hijacking innocent children to threaten them, the means are really vicious.

Han Qi looked at the letter in his hand with a grim expression, "It can't be that simple."

Cui Tao read the line on the letter again.

It is indeed impossible to be so simple. The letter does not agree on the time to meet, who will go, and how to deal specifically.This is not as simple as making an appointment with someone alone. What she has to face is the government. It is impossible to not mention any demands or take precautions after calling the location.

I'm afraid--

"Something happened!"

Another yamen servant ran over in a hurry, blushing and panting, with sweat on his forehead, which showed that the matter was very urgent, and looking at the fear in his eyes, he knew it was not a good thing.

"The bodies of two children were found."

Cui Tao's face darkened, and he and Han Qi exchanged glances, both of them looked unhappy.

"Did she do this?" Cui Mao turned pale with shock, flustered and irritable, and spun around in a hurry, "Why is she so vicious! How can she do anything to the child! I'll go see her!"

Cui Lao just comforted Mrs. Cui and asked Mrs. Ma to help Mrs. Cui go back to her room.He turned his head and turned back, and when he heard the news, he was stunned and stood there for a while.Fortunately, the old lady was persuaded to go away now. The news of the arrest of ten children just now made her dizzy with anger. If she knew that the two innocent children had died, she would probably die of anger.

"If father goes to see her, he will definitely be tricked by her again." Cui Tao sneered, and asked Cui Mao how it felt to give birth to a beast with a poisonous scorpion.

Cui Mao was stunned for a moment, and when he looked back at Cui Tao, his lips moved. After all, because of guilt, he hung his head guiltily and remained silent.

"The most important thing for us now is to quickly solve the problem and save those children who are still alive. This matter cannot be more serious. Our Cui family cannot bear the lives of so many innocent children!"

Cui Lao knew that the people from Dizang Pavilion were the ones who did the evil, they were the culprits, and they were the ones who should be killed the most, but after all, this matter had something to do with the Cui family.As a big family in Anping, the Cui family should be benevolent and righteous in their conduct, and should not implicate innocent people, let alone their children's lives.

But he didn't know how to deal with it, so he looked at Han Qi begging for help, begging him to help.All the people in the Zhending Mansion, including him, Cui Mao and other officials, will cooperate and act at will.

"Autopsy first." Han Qi said.

Han Qi and Cui Tao then came to the scene of the body dumping, which was at the entrance of the alley beside the main road.

It's not out of the way here, nor is it noticeable.There happened to be a vendor selling breakfast on the side of the street. He remembered that before serving wontons to the customers, he saw that the alley was empty and no one was lying down.After serving the wontons, from his angle, he could see two children sitting there with their feet next to each other.Later, after entertaining two guests, he found that the two children had been sitting on the ground in the early morning, not afraid of catching cold.The vendor went over to inquire about the situation, only to find out that the two children had died!

Because there are people coming and going on the street, and there are more people onlookers, they are covered with straw mats for the time being.The two victims were a boy and a girl. When Cui Tao checked the bodies, he found that the tears in the corners of the eyes of the two children were still there, and the body was still warm. It was obvious that they had just died.The murder method was to twist the neck to death, and the cause of death was spinal cord rupture caused by dislocation of the cervical spine.This method of death will cause the victim to have respiratory depression, and at the same time lose control of the body due to motor nerve blockage, without any struggle.

The method was clean and neat, without leaving any clues.

Cui Tao then found a letter from one of the dead children.

This time, the letter clearly stated the specific requirements, asking Cui Tao to bring Cui Liu alone, and meet at Qingfu Temple at Yinshi tomorrow morning, in the clean room where she was hijacked three years ago.The letter also specifically emphasized that as long as Cui Tao abides by the agreement, goes to the appointment alone, and brings Cui Liu to them intact, they will release her, otherwise the remaining eight children will be with the two murdered children. same fate.

"Mouse-hearted, cruel and despicable!"

After the bodies of the two children were transported back to the Yamen, Cui Lao read the contents of the letter and cursed violently in a trembling voice.He turned to point at Cui Mao, and cursed fiercely, because he provoked people who shouldn't be provoked, killed Cui Tao, killed Cui Zhi, and now killed two innocent children .

Cui Mao was scolded with his head down, not daring to say a word.

Han Qi kept staring at Cui Tao, and said in a low voice, "I'll send someone to spy on the situation in Qingfu Temple first, and then decide how to deal with it."

"You can't take any risks. She killed the two children to warn us that if there is any change, she will strike. If a person is so ruthless that there is no lower limit, it is impossible for a normal and conscientious person to fight against them."

After Cui Tao finished speaking, she glanced over at Cui Mao who suddenly knocked over the tea bowl.He was taken aback by himself, and he was tightening his neck at the moment, in panic.

At this moment, Cui Tao just wanted to calmly think about how to deal with it, and didn't want to see idle people, especially those who were an eyesore.So Cui Lao was asked to take Cui Maoxian to appease the families of the two murdered children. Although no matter what they did, the loss of life could not be recovered, but the compensation that could be done was to compensate them as much as possible.Of course, Cui Mao should take a good look at the serious consequences of his irresponsible and self-righteous actions back then.

In fact, in detail, Cui Mao has a partiality for Cui Liu, but he doesn't necessarily have much sincerity. Otherwise, after so many years, as his biological father, how could he not notice Cui Liu's abnormality at all?Cui Mao probably doesn't love anyone, what he loves is only his own face and feelings, he is hypocritical and prudish, and has no sense of responsibility in essence.

After the people left, Cui Tao felt more at ease.

She took a sip of tea, leaned back on the chair, and calmed down.

Han Qi looked at Cui Tao silently, and when Cui Tao finished thinking and turned to look at him, he took Cui Tao's hand.He wanted to hold her hand a long time ago, but because of the wrong occasion, he never had the chance.

The two immediately interlocked their fingers tacitly.

Cui Tao felt that Han Qi was holding it very hard.

"Haven't eaten the rare food I prepared for you."

These words were a bit of a complaint, but they played a palliative role in the continuously depressing atmosphere.

"The rarity refers to the two colorful chickens you brought?"

"That's a bird." Han Qi corrected, and said that he also brought a cook along with him to cook for Cui Tao.It's just that I didn't expect the situation to be so urgent when I first arrived.

"This rare thing is really rare enough that I can't eat it at ordinary times. I think I'm qualified to eat a bird after this important matter is resolved!" Cui Tao sighed and glanced at Han Qi leisurely.

The two looked at each other, and the corners of their lower lips curled up. Naturally, they couldn't smile at this moment. This kind of mutual encouragement, because of each other's existence, they no longer feel like they are fighting alone, and they seem to have support in their hearts.

"I don't want you to take risks."

Han Qi lowered his eyes slowly, he knew that Yi Cui Tao's temperament would definitely choose to go.But he couldn't hold back the words.

"This case has the most to do with me, let alone the lives of eight children. I know you are worried about me, but I will be fine. I'm so smart, you don't know." Cui Tao He patted Han Qi on the shoulder comfortingly, reassuring him.

"Yes, you are smart and clever." Han Qi responded quietly, and after a moment of silence, he suddenly said, "But I don't know how much blood and tears you paid for."

Cui Tao was stunned, and suddenly there was a sense of sadness in her heart, but he was the only one who saw through the price and sadness behind her self-confidence.

Cui Tao blinked her eyes lightly twice, for some reason she couldn't meet Han Qi's eyes, so she just lowered her eyes.

Han Qi tightened his interlocking fingers with Cui Tao again.

"This matter is not that simple. Just because you go alone, the exchange will be carried out as stated in the letter. Bianjing sub-helm capsized, Jiaogu died, Cui Liu was captured by you, and she became more angry. I will settle with you."

Cui Tao agreed, "I know, but there is no other way now, and I am confident that I can protect myself."

Cui Tao once again comforted Han Qi not to worry, she really can.

"You don't have three heads and six arms, and you are not a god, but you can come and go without a trace. There must be tricks in Qingfu Temple. You disappeared there three years ago, and now she invites you there again." Han Qi said, "You can't be brave in this matter."

Cui Tao froze for a moment, opened her dark eyes suspiciously, and tilted her head to look at Han Qi, "Could it be that Liu Lang thought of another way?"

"As you said, people with a conscience can't fight such vicious people like them." Han Qi said, "Then we have to find a way to deal with them in the same way as others. go alone."

"Who?" Cui Tao asked.

"Han Zong."

Cui Tao was stunned for a moment, and then thought that Han Qi's thinking was very reasonable.No matter how clever she is, no matter how good her lightness kung fu is, and no matter how sharp her reaction is, if she falls into the net that has been woven for at least three years, it is indeed difficult to escape.However, Cui Tao still felt that the Qingfu Temple was not a closed place, and she could take the opportunity to observe the surrounding environment on the way to the appointment and adapt accordingly.She still has the confidence to deal with it, at least for her, it should be no problem to get out.

But Han Qi didn't know how much she would be, but if he knew, he would inevitably be worried about himself, otherwise he wouldn't be considered a lover, and it would be normal to be worried.

Since there is an opportunity that can increase the probability of success, it must be seized.

Cui Tao asked unsurely, "Is it in time?" Han Zong is not in Shenzhou now.

"In the past few days since you came home, I have been secretly investigating Han Zong's life experience. There are traces of the birth of the eldest son of a wealthy family. If there is no trace, there will be a problem. He may have been prepared in this regard and sensed that I was investigating He has been secretly observing my actions recently, and now that I have come here overnight, I think he will not just sit and wait for death in Bianjing."

Cui Tao nodded, feeling that Han Qi's analysis made sense.

"The letter only asks you to go to the appointment alone, but it doesn't say that you are not allowed to release the news. I will let Han Zong know the news and take the initiative to go to Qingfu Temple to find you."

Han Zong is indeed a candidate to restrain the owner of the Dizang Pavilion, but Han Qi is not sure what effect Han Zong will play in the end, so he tells Cui Tao to be cautious and not to trust anyone easily.

"Anxin, it's really all right. You asked the cook to pull out the bird's feathers, and wait for me to come back to eat it." Cui Tao knew that Han Qi might feel guilty because he couldn't bring someone to intervene in this matter, so he half-joked Talk to him lightly.

Little did he know that Han Qi had already made up his mind that after this incident, he would use all available means to wipe out Dizang Pavilion completely, leaving no one behind.

……

It's still dark, and it's still some time before dawn.

Cui Tao took Wang Siniang and Ping'er to the pharmacy to get the medicines, and the three of them ground each medicine into fine powder together.

Cui Tao put seven kinds of medicinal powders in different dosage order, put them into a small pot and boiled them, and finally boiled the rest.Cui Tao then took medicinal materials, made a few small pills, put them in small porcelain bottles and sealed them.

When it was midnight, he prepared a carriage and prepared to go to Qingfu Temple.Cui Tao wanted to drive alone, carrying Cui Liu.

When Cui Liu was brought out, seeing this scene, she immediately understood that her biological mother had come to save her.So before getting in the car, she deliberately smiled at Cui Tao proudly.Cui Tao took the opportunity to stuff the big pill she made earlier into Cui Liu's mouth, but refused to give her water, forcing her to swallow it dryly.

Cui Liu coughed after swallowing the pill.

"What did you give me?" Cui Liu screamed and questioned, trying to cough up the medicine.

"Don't worry, if you can't spit it out, it will dissolve in your stomach. The poison may have seeped into your bone marrow." This is of course an exaggeration, but as long as it can scare Cui Liu, it is a beautiful statement.

"You gave me poison?" Cui Liu was even more shocked, and then she wanted to yell, but Cui Tao immediately blocked her open mouth with a torn rag, so she couldn't make any sound.

"It's good to enjoy the comfortable feeling now. You won't be so comfortable after a while." Cui Tao pushed the tied Cui Liu into the compartment, said goodbye to Han Qi, Cui Lao and others, and drove away directly.

Cui Mao remained silent from the beginning to the end, with his head lowered, he had no face to look at Cui Tao, and Zhang waited for the carriage to leave before he looked up.

"You still have the face to see!" Cui Lao spat at Cui Mao angrily, "If there is anything wrong with my precious niece, I will make the decision later and remove you from the Cui family tree!"

When Cui Mao heard this, he begged Cui Lao to forgive him.

Han Qi didn't want to hear this, so he summoned Zhang Chang and whispered a few words, and then went away with his hands behind his back.

Cui Tao met Han Zong when he arrived at the foot of Qingfu Temple.

Han Qi was so predictable, Han Zong really came.

Han Zong was standing by the side of the road, leading the horse alone, holding a lantern.He was dressed in coarse and plain clothes, and he was very plainly dressed, which was a little bit different from the brocade clothes he used to wear.

As soon as Han Zong saw Cui Tao, he looked Cui Tao up and down with concern to confirm that she was safe and sound.

"Why are you here?" Cui Tao deliberately asked loudly.

"I heard that Han Tuiguan came to Anping overnight to look for you yesterday. He was worried that something might happen to you here, so he came too. After I arrived, I heard that Dizang Pavilion threatened you with the lives of eight children and brought hostages to Qingfu Temple. I’ll be here waiting for you.” After Han Zong explained, he asked Cui Tao if he really wanted to go to the mountain alone to meet the appointment, “There must be a conspiracy here, it’s too dangerous for you to be alone.”

"It doesn't matter, if I die to save people, I will die well." Cui Tao turned to look at the carriage, "Besides, I am not alone, there are still people in this car."

Cui Tao immediately pulled Cui Liu out. The moment Cui Liu saw Han Zong, her eyes widened, and she wanted to say something, but she couldn't say it.

Cui Tao guessed that she should be looking forward to Han Zong being able to save her.

Cui Tao saw through and didn't tell the truth, and didn't take off the cloth from Cui Liu's mouth, but just asked Han Zong, "Do you know each other?"

Han Zong lowered his eyes and said nothing.Since Cui Tao has found Cui Liu, and also destroyed Jiao Gu and the Ruyi Garden sub-rudder set up by Jiao Gu in Anping, he should be able to find or seriously suspect him.

"Su Yuwan is your biological mother? The master of the Dizang Pavilion?" Cui Tao asked again.

Han Zong remained silent.

Cui Tao was not in a hurry for him to answer. She took a bamboo stick and tied the noose around Cui Liu's neck, warning her to walk slowly and not to run fast, otherwise the noose would get tighter as she struggled. .

Then, Cui Tao shouted loudly to the surrounding open mountains and forests: "I fed her poison, and only I know the antidote. However, in order to prevent you from sneaking up on me and knocking me out, and arresting me for questioning, I still have to be on guard." If I hear any abnormal noises around here, I will immediately pull the rope and break her neck first, just like how you broke those two children!"

After Cui Tao finished speaking, she threw out the other end of the rope, which happened to wrap around a tree trunk by the roadside, which was as thick as the mouth of a bowl.Unexpectedly, when her slender arms pulled back slightly, the tree trunk collapsed and fell.

After the sound of the tree falling to the ground, there was silence in the forest, only the sound of the night wind blowing the leaves.

Han Zong was surprised when he saw this scene, "You, when did you become so strong?"

"I used to be angry and suffer a lot, so I saved it."

Cui Tao beat Cui Liu with a bamboo stick, driving her to move forward, but after walking a few steps, she immediately lifted the rope in her hand, Cui Liu screamed and covered her chest with both hands. Neck can hardly breathe.

"Southeast, probably less than ten feet away, be honest with me, I heard you." Cui Tao yelled at Lin Zi.

The secret guard of the Dizang Pavilion who was lying at the place Cui Tao mentioned was suddenly sweating.He was about to leave and report the situation here to the pavilion master, but he really didn't expect that Cui Qiniang had such sharp ears that he could detect his actions.This is how to do?I can only endure and lie in place.I can't just watch her kill Cui Shiniang, but does she dare to do it?Didn't she come here to save those eight children?

"Don't think that you can threaten me by taking the lives of eight children. I came today to settle old scores. Even if something happened to those eight children, I didn't kill them. And you killed two first, It shows that people like you are inhuman, unreasonable, and have nothing to do with me. Killing more civilians and more innocent people will only speed up the court's efforts to destroy you. How can you be so stupid? Do you want to kill yourself?"

As Cui Tao spoke, she looked at Cui Liu's head with a bamboo pole, telling her to keep walking at a consistent speed, "Slow again!"

Cui Liu only felt that Cui Tao was very scary, and the feeling of being strangled by the rope just now was not good, so she could only be obedient and walk up the mountain at a consistent pace.

Han Zong looked at Cui Tao's behavior with complicated eyes, and after a long silence, he admitted to Cui Tao that Su Yuwan was indeed his biological mother.

"Now can you tell me the truth?" Han Zong had lied a lot to her before, just to cover up his life experience and his relationship with Di Zang Pavilion.Now that everything has been investigated, there is no need for him to lie and cover up.

"Three years ago, someone secretly sent me a letter, telling me that my biological mother was not my aunt Wang. I didn't believe it, and I didn't want to answer it. Later, when I was out for fun, she showed up and told me in person that she was The past with my father. One is a wandering dancer who sells herself as a performer. The other is a son of a wealthy family. He fell in love with her at first sight and spent a lot of money. The two swore each other and wished to stick together. My father was away from home every day. Later, she She was pregnant with me. When my aunt learned about this, she wanted her to leave my father. She put forward a condition, asking her to promise to give me the status of a aunt.

She said that for the sake of my future, she chose to abandon me painfully.She has been thinking about me all these years, and she didn't want me to honor her when she recognized me, but she wanted to leave to me the property she had worked hard all her life.She told me a lot about the sad past, and the pain in her heart over the years.After all, she is my biological mother, connected by blood, and she has tried so hard to arrange for me, how can I be unfilial?Later I met Cui Liu, recognized my sister, and promised her that I would see her every year.

Six months after that, I was invited to Jiaogu's Ruyi Garden, and I met you there. "

There are two Ruyi Gardens, the main rudder is in Dengzhou, and the sub-rudder is in Anping, which was built later.Jiaogu will continue to take care of her grandson for three or four months of the year, and come to Dengzhou to assess and accept the results. The rest of the time, the subordinates she trained in Dengzhou Ruyi Garden are responsible for teaching the selected girls.

Han Zong still remembers the scene when he first met Cui Tao, with disheveled hair and bruises on his arms, as he desperately tried to escape the punishment of Ruyiyuan's teacher.Han Zong saw Cui Tao hiding in the bushes, and the teacher came to look for her aggressively with a few guards. Just when they were about to find her, Han Zong was moved in his heart, lied for her, and sent those people to him. Lie away.

Later, when he rescued Cui Tao, Cui Tao was a little delirious, crying for his mother, saying that he wanted to go home, and then passed out.Han Zong placed Cui Tao in his room to take care of him. When Cui Tao saw Han Zong after waking up, he mistakenly thought that he was the nursing home of Ruyi Garden, and was very scared at first.Han Zong couldn't explain his identity, so he agreed, but promised not to hurt him.From then on, Cui Tao gradually became acquainted with Han Zong.

Han Zong once proposed to Jiaogu that he wanted to bring Cui Tao back to Bianjing.

However, Jiaogu rejected Cui Tao on the grounds that Cui Tao's status was special, and that she had just entered Ruyi Garden and was not taught enough rules.

But because Jiaogu saw that Han Zong missed Cui Tao, she offered to take care of Cui Tao and asked Han Zong to visit him often.In this way, Su Yuwan often had the opportunity to get in touch with Han Zong, which further deepened the relationship between mother and child.And Cui Tao has been treated preferentially because of Han Zong's protection, and has not been severely reprimanded, but she still learned some techniques to please men and kill people.

Han Zong would visit Cui Tao whenever he had time, bring her food and play, and take special care of her.Every time Han Zong leaves, he goes out on a mission as a member of the Dizang Pavilion.

"You never know my true identity."

After taking care of Cui Tao for half a year, Han Zong exchanged love with Cui Tao during the Dragon Boat Festival two years ago.It is agreed that if one day they can escape from the control of Jiaogu and Di Zangge, they will become husband and wife.Han Zong swore again and again that he would arrange everything and try his best to 'redeem' Cui Tao out.

After that, Han Zong has been working on arranging Cui Tao's new identity, and wanted to give her a big surprise by marrying Cui Tao as his wife in a dignified manner as the second son of the Han family for legitimate reasons.

But his calculation immediately aroused Su Yuwan's objection. After all, Cui Tao's identity is Cui's daughter. If she appeared in the official circle of Bianjing with the same face, her identity would probably be found out.What Su Yuwan meant was that Han Zong could keep Cui Tao as a concubine and keep it with her forever.Han Zong insisted on marrying Cui Tao, so he had a big fight with Su Yuwan.Su Yuwan was afraid that the mother-child relationship she had accumulated so hard would be broken again, so she had no choice but to continue to object.

After that, during the period when Han Zong returned to Bianjing for scientific research, Cui Tao had an accident in Kaifeng Mansion.

"I planned to wait until after high school, and while my parents were happy, I proposed to arrange for you, Cui Tao, to marry you. So after I finished the imperial examination, I immediately left for Dengzhou to bring you back. I didn't want you to be away. , the people in Ruyiyuan said that you were given a task to do things. When I rushed back to Bianjing, I saw a portrait of you that was offered as a reward by Kaifeng Mansion, saying that you lost your memory. Died by the guillotine."

"Then you asked Jiaogu for an explanation?"

Han Zong's eyes were red, and he took a slow breath to control his voice from choking, "I said that I want to arrange a task for you, a very simple task, after you have received the task and completed it, you can recover your freedom from Ruyi Garden in a legitimate way Let me arrange it. Ruyi Garden has strict rules for training women, if you don’t do any tasks, just let you go, it will definitely cause dissatisfaction among other disciples, and broken rules will be difficult to establish.”

Cui Tao didn't believe this reason either, so she didn't bother about it, and asked Han Zong again: "Then I don't have a Gu on me, is it your help?"

"The female disciples taught by Jiaogu are divided into three classes, upper, middle, and lower. The upper class is the most loyal, but also the fewest, almost one in a hundred. Only the upper class can get the antidote after being planted with Gu, and you are the lowest class."

"I'm so stupid?" Cui Tao instinctively expressed surprise.

"You're not stupid, it's precisely because you're smart, you were punished for disobedience, and you were classified as inferior because you weren't faithful enough."

Han Zong told Cui Tao that she had taken Gu poison when she first entered Ruyiyuan, but he secretly gave her the antidote and asked her to take the antidote.

"But you didn't know it. I didn't have time to tell you my true identity, so I told more lies because of one lie. The longer I get along with you, the more I can't open this mouth. I'm afraid you will find that I am your last The hated son of the owner of the Dizang Pavilion, will ignore me in a fit of anger, and will do something stupid, I am afraid of losing you. I want to wait for my imperial examination to solve your identity problem completely, and give you a surprise. I'll make an apology to you later."

"How to solve it? I am the daughter of Cui's family, but my face has not changed when I change to a new identity. How can others not recognize me? Being a regular wife is not being a child, and I will not be bored at home all the time. I have to go out to socialize." Cui Tao thought Han Zong's idea is a bit naive.

"That's why I chose the opportunity after the imperial examination. After you get married, I will immediately take you to the farthest place to become an official, and no one will know you there."

"Then why should I regain my freedom, instead of going to my biological parents, and abandoning all my relatives to follow you?" Cui Tao questioned, "Was I so willing at the time?"

"You said that when I redeem you, you will follow me wholeheartedly and wander the world with me." Han Zong firmly believed in this.

After Cui Tao heard this, she chuckled softly in her heart.She was hijacked for no reason, and was thrown into the Dizang Pavilion where women were taught to be humiliated in every way. Would she feel wronged?Would you not want to run home and ask your parents to help you?Even with Han Zong, she wasted three years in Ruyi Garden. How could she just forget about this kind of unwillingness and longing for her family? Her original identity was a noble girl.

"It was my wrong step, wrong step, and lack of courage to tell the truth; it was my indecision, indecision, lack of thoughtfulness, that hurt you!"

"I'm sorry!" Han Zong turned his back suddenly, wiped his face twice with his sleeves, and then turned around to bow to Cui Tao, making a big apology.

Cui Liu, who was on the side, heard the conversation between the two and saw Han Zong apologizing to Cui Tao like this. She stared and shook her head, trying to warn Han Zong not to be deceived.

Han Zong ignored these, and had a deep review with Cui Tao.

He was the one who was stupid back then and neglected to protect Cui Tao.This time, he will solve the Qingfu Temple matter, and he will swear to protect her to the death.

"She must be annoyed at you because of the sub-rule extermination, and Jiaogu and Shiniang. There are too many ambushes here, and you can't handle it. I will make peace and prevent her from hurting you."

"How can there be so many peace talks?" Cui Tao directly proposed a classic proposition, and asked Han Zong to answer, "Su Yuwan, Cui Liu and I fell into the water. If you could only save one person, who would you choose to save?"

Han Zong was startled, and met Cui Tao's eyes.He understood what Cui Tao meant by this question.

He knew that Cui Tao didn't like the master of Dizang Pavilion very much, no matter before or after amnesia.

But in the past three years, Su Yuwan did make a lot of efforts to restore the mother-child relationship with him.According to his various preferences, she bought him all kinds of gadgets he liked, and even sewed his clothes and combed his hair herself.Han Zong did feel the care of his biological mother.

Han Zong wondered: "Peach, I—"

"Stop!"

In fact, the answer to this multiple-choice question is not important to Cui Tao. Han Zong's "goodness" to her has never changed her past ending, nor will it change her current state.

In the final analysis, Han Zong's deep affection for her is nothing more than torture, a fragile love that is hard to tell the truth.Not only did he not dare to tell the truth when they were together, but he also didn't have the courage to tell the truth when she faced her with her original identity after she lost her memory.

She has no right to blame Han Zong for being hesitant, indecisive, and telling her forced lies.The emotional world of people is always very complicated. Apart from the relationship between men and women, there are many aspects that need to be considered. Everyone has different experiences, which creates their different three views and ways of doing things. You can't force others to abandon everything and must treat you wholeheartedly. But you can choose to leave the person who doesn't give you their whole heart.

The meaning of Cui Tao's question to Han Zong is that it will be heard by Cui Liu, and by the secret guards of the Dizang Pavilion who are dormant in the forest, so that Su Yuwan will finally know: her son was born in vain!

"By the way, what happened to that black-clothed woman named Yanzi who threatened me with your and Lu Gongbi's lives when she met me in the Town God's Temple?" Cui Tao changed the subject first.

"Yangu mentioned me as a threat to you, probably to avoid your suspicion of my identity. In fact, they are all lies, including the story that I said that you stole the map in Dengzhou, and that I rescued you and resettled the old house as Han Erlang."

Han Zong lowered his eyes guiltily.

"I thought you would be able to explain everything when you recovered your memory. At that time, in order to conceal my identity and the relationship between me and Dizang Pavilion, I made up such a lie to you. Because I knew that there was indeed a trouble in Dengzhou About the theft of the salt transportation map once, Han Zhigui will definitely ask for proof later, so that’s what he said.”

"But there's still something that can't be explained."

Meng Da and his wife were killed by Aunt Qiu. She obviously didn't kill anyone. After being arrested, she didn't cry out for injustice, and obediently pleaded guilty and begged to die.

Why choose to die when you can live?And this suicide is not to commit suicide quietly by oneself, but to wait for the Kaifeng government to arrest her, stand trial in prison, confess her guilt and die?

"Then have you ever questioned Su Yuwan, why did I choose to plead guilty and die even though I didn't kill someone?"

Han Zong: "She said that she never thought that things would develop like this. She thought that if she performed a very simple task for you, she would give everyone an explanation and let you go. She guessed that you were afraid of being punished if the task failed. The punishment for the onset of Gu poison, that's why I pleaded guilty. But in fact, you don't have Gu poison in your body long ago, it's my fault that I didn't tell you this."

"Nonsense, I lost my memory. I tried my best to survive in Kaifeng Mansion, but she still sent someone to kill me secretly and refused to let me go. There was no evidence before that the assassin must be related to Dizang Pavilion, but the Bianjing branch was wiped out a few days ago. By the time I got to the rudder, I had already identified the killer, and it was someone from Dizang Pavilion."

Han Zong frowned, becoming more and more aware that something was wrong.

"I have a guess, do you want to hear it?" Cui Tao asked.

Han Zong nodded immediately.

"There is a kind of mother who can't bear the sight of her son being so obsessed with a woman that he loses his mind and ignores his mother's orders. In addition, I am the person your mother and sister are most jealous of and hate. Cui Liu has repeatedly said bad things. , urging me to die quickly, and your mother already hates me. Do you think she will really allow you to take me away, and let the mother-child relationship she spent three years recovering be in vain? You are gone, her place Who will inherit Zang Ge's great cause? This guy is not very smart, and he is more paranoid than you emotionally!"

As Cui Tao said, she tapped the head of Cui Liu who was walking ahead.

Cui Tao then told Han Zong the results of her interrogation of the four loyal maids around Cui Liu, including the testimony of Cui Liu and Jiaogu discussing how to kill her.

"Although I don't have evidence to prove it now, I think that in the case of Meng Da, my task should not be to steal the salt transportation map. Instead, it is simpler. It is to let me die and die in the Kaifeng mansion.

Because the timing is just right, you are about to get married and take me away, but they all want to put me to death.So it's the last moment, and it's the best time to attack me while you're not around.

This method of death must be careful, if you die directly in their hands, wouldn't you be held accountable?But to justify my death as an accidental failure to perform a simple task.Because the Kaifeng Mansion arrested me, they really couldn't save me, they couldn't intervene, so they had no choice but to do anything.In this way, if I die, they will be complained by you at most, but it will not hurt the harmony of your mother and child too much. "

"What a scheming! Such a mother is worthy of your hesitation when you choose? She never takes your needs too seriously. The so-called mother-child relationship is just what she wants to control you, a puppet son. Just pick up the thread."

"Besides, I think she should have threatened me with the life of my most important person, making me have to die, just like threatening the lives of eight children now. I think it is very likely that they threatened my mother or My brother’s life came to threaten me, so I just took some personal belongings from my relatives to scare me, after all, there are people ready to help get things.”

After Cui Tao finished speaking, she pointed the bamboo stick at Cui Liu in front, because she found that Cui Liu's reaction at this time was particularly nervous.

Han Zong naturally also saw that Cui Liu's reaction was a disguised confirmation that Cui Tao's speculation just now was correct.

Han Zong had never witnessed Su Yuwan doing bad things before.