Golden Knife 17 years

"Reporting to Commander Zhou, this box should be the one made for the Golden Pavilion 30 years ago. It contains a whole fine iron box. If you want to open it, you'd better find the original key. If not, open it rashly and touch the mechanism of the box. I'm afraid It's going to hurt what's inside."

Zhou Shen returned to the Golden Pavilion, searched through Zhou Kun's former study, but found nothing, only found the general pattern of the key in the records of the Golden Pavilion.He suddenly thought that Zhou Kun's accidental death six years ago was the overall situation of the Golden Pavilion presided over by Han Huaizhang, and maybe the key was in Han Huaizhang's hands.

Standing in front of Han Huaizhang's study, Zhou Shen looked at the three big characters Huaixuexuan on the plaque, as if something flashed in his mind, and then disappeared soon.He pushed open the door, Han Huaizhang was a very tidy person, the house was tidy, and he searched for it, but found nothing.

When Han Liuxian heard that Ru Jing said that Zhou Shen came to see her, he hesitated. He didn't know whether he should see her, but Ru Jing simply said, "If Miss doesn't want to see her, I'll go back to him."

Han Liuxian shook his head: "Let him come in."

Zhou Shen followed into the mirror and entered the yard. He used to come to this yard often. When his father brought him to play, he asked Mrs. Han to take care of him. Mrs. Han was married and had no children for many years, so she liked Zhou Shen very much. Finally had a child, but went crazy again.

Han Liuxian greeted him in the living room, with an awkward smile on his face: "Brother Zhou Shen, you haven't been here for a long time." Zhou Shen hummed, which was his answer.

Han Liuxian asked Rujing to serve him tea, and said, "Brother Zhou Shen, I've asked the kitchen to make some of your favorite Xiang Luoxue, and I'll bring it up later."

Zhou Shen hasn’t eaten Xiangluo Xue for a long time, it’s not his favorite snack, it’s Zhong Xianchen’s favorite, every time he enters the palace with his father, when the emperor asks for a reward, he says he wants to make it fresh Xiang Luoxue, everyone thought that he liked to eat it later.

"No need." Zhou Shen took out the pattern from his sleeve and showed it to her, "Look, did your father give you this?"

On the pattern was a key in the shape of a maple leaf, Liu Xian shook his head.

Zhou Shen put away the pattern, stood up and wanted to leave, Liu Xian smiled bitterly: "Brother Zhou Shen, don't you even want to drink my tea?"

Zhou Shen said that he was busy with business, and bid farewell to her, turned around and left.

Liuxian sat on the spot and smiled wryly at herself, when something flashed before her eyes, she stood up abruptly, lifted her skirt and ran towards Mrs. Han's yard.

When Zhou Shen returned to the Zhou Mansion, Amuya was running and crying in the yard, and was chasing after two maids carrying bowls. When the two maids saw him coming back, they hurriedly saluted him. Zhou Shen frowned and asked: "What's going on here?"

The servant girl said in embarrassment: "This young lady won't let us touch her, and she won't eat... We wanted to feed her, but she ran out."

Zhou Shen stretched out his hand to them: "Give me the bowl."

Amiya still had an impression of Zhou Shen, and was very afraid of him. Zhou Shen stirred the glutinous rice balls in the bowl and said, "If you don't eat, your sister won't come back." Looking at him helplessly, Zhou Shen scooped up a glutinous rice ball and brought it to her mouth: "Eat, your sister will be back." Amiya obediently opened her mouth to eat the glutinous rice balls, and then stuck to him.

When Zhou Shen returned to the house, Amuya followed him, wherever he went, Amuya followed him.Zhou Shen couldn't just sit and wait for death. The emperor's illness was getting worse day by day, and the box couldn't be opened. He didn't know what Zhang Shijie gave his father back then. He had an intuition that the box was definitely related to his father's death.

If he could find the person who killed his father, maybe... Zhong Xianchen could be found.

If Han Liuxian had no clues, he could only send Han Huaizhang's portrait.Zhou Shen was drawing a portrait of Han Huaizhang in front of the table, and Amuya leaned beside him in a murmur, and when he finished painting, Amuya also leaned over to look at it. After a look, she hugged her head and yelled like seeing a ghost up.

Zhou Shen didn't know why, thought she had a headache, and wanted to break her hand to check.As soon as he touched her hand, Amuya yelled even more impatiently, and cried while crying, Zhou Shen had no choice but to let her go.

The sun in the morning was a bit dazzling, coming in from outside the door, Zhou Shen stood with his back to the light, and Amiya saw that morning again in a trance, the sun came in from outside the tent, and Hadan took her father and Erjier all in the sun. Killed her, and dragged her sister out. There was another person in the tent, standing beside Hardan and watching with a smile.

Amuya rolled her eyes and passed out.

Zhou Shen looked at Amuya, then at the portrait of Han Huaizhang on the table, and suddenly had a terrible idea in his heart.

Mrs. Han was desperately avoiding Han Liuxian, and Han Liuxian begged her: "Mother, let me see your hand, mother, I will just take a look."

Mrs. Han pushed her away rudely: "Go away! Don't touch me!"

Han Liuxian had practiced martial arts after all, so he grabbed Madam Han while she was pushing him, and forcefully opened Madam Han's palm—as expected, there was clearly a maple leaf-shaped brand mark on Madam Han's palm.

"Mother Chen, how did you do this?" Han Liuxian asked while supporting Mrs. Han's nanny, who looked at Mrs. Han with a distressed expression: "It happened six years ago, and Madam didn't tell me, just squeezed her hands and hid it." After two days, when I opened it later, it was suppurated, poor lady!"

"Is there something in the palm of her hand?" Han Liuxian asked, rubbing Mrs. Han's palm. Such a big burn showed that she was grabbing something red with her bare hands, how painful it was.

"No, I don't let anyone see her. She's hidden. Here, she's hidden in this pillow." Mother Chen coaxed Mrs. Han like a child, and Han Liuxian stared at that pillow. See Mrs. Han hugging this pillow and never leaving her hand.Han Liuxian said silently, I'm sorry, and quickly stretched out his fingers to touch a few acupuncture points on Mrs. Han's body. Seeing that Mrs. Han's body softened, she fell asleep.

"Miss, this is it!" Chen's mother was startled, and Han Liuxian looked at her apologetically: "I just let my mother sleep soundly, and she will wake up in two hours."

Han Liuxian returned to the room with the pillow in her arms, and began to dig out things. There were a few stones, a pair of earrings, and a pair of flattened tiger-toe shoes. When she looked at it, it was the key that Zhou Shen had shown her, but the surface of this key had been melted by the fire and was not as delicate as the key on the pattern.Han Liuxian stuffed the key into his sleeve, looked at the pillow, suddenly curious about what else was inside, stretched out his hand and reached under the pillow, this time, she found a piece of paper, she carefully pulled it out, it was yellowed The paper is slightly brittle.

Han Liuxian recognized this kind of paper, it was the paper pattern of the Golden Pavilion tracing registration. She looked at the words on the paper, and there were two words at the beginning, Zhouji.

Zhou Ji is Zhou Shen's younger brother. She knew that he was stolen when he just turned one year old.Han Liuxian sighed, and when he looked down, his eyes widened suddenly—a black mole behind his right ear, three red moles on his left shoulder, and a half-inch scar on his right calf.

Han Liuxian's hands trembled, more and more trembling, the paper trembled in her hands like a frightened bird.She gradually began to tremble all over, put down the paper and staggered to the mirror in the room, and began to take off her clothes one by one. The conspicuous mole is now pierced into her eyes like three arrows.She lifted up her trousers again and looked there, she knew there was a whitish scar there.Han Liuxian collapsed in the middle of a piece of clothes, suddenly his eyes lit up, and he shouted towards the door: "Enter the mirror! Enter the mirror!"

Ru Jing ran in, and saw Han Liuxian sitting on the ground, only wearing a bellyband and underwear. Han Liuxian's hands were shaking uncontrollably, and she couldn't get her hair straightened after several strokes. Take a look, is there a mole behind my right ear?" Although Jin Jin was surprised by Han Liuxian's behavior, he obediently walked over to help her straighten her hair: "Miss, what's the matter with you? I told you before , the mole behind your ear is the best, and you must be a noble lady in the future!" Looking at Han Liuxian slowly covering her face, her shoulders twitched violently, she was startled and quickly squatted down Support her: "Miss, are you okay!"

Han Liuxian's hand was shaking so much that she couldn't hold it in the mirror, she had only one hope now, she held the hand in the mirror and said in a hissing voice, "Call...Call Douer from the kitchen!"

Douer came out of the palace, and when he entered the mirror, he was stunned: "Miss, why do we call him? He is an eunuch."

Han Liuxian's eyes were already red, and he yelled desperately at the mirror: "Call him!!!"

When she entered the mirror, she was taken aback and didn't dare to delay, so she hurried to the kitchen to call Douer, Han Liuxian's teeth were trembling, and she fell on the ground shaking like a dying fish - she asked her father, and his father said that it was just a child He accidentally got burned from time to time, so she didn't need to worry about it. He forgot that the four or five-year-old child had already remembered. After the nanny said the knife wound that day, she pestered the nanny to ask when she was sleeping at night. The nanny was sleepy, so she couldn't stop her, saying Miss You don't understand, all the father-in-laws in the palace are like this.

It's just that the nanny died the next day, and her childhood memories became damn clear at this moment.

When Dou'er came into the room, Han Liuxian turned pale, and called into the mirror to go out, and then told Dou'er to take off her pants. Dou'er was so frightened that she knelt on the ground, she didn't have the heart to explain to him, and stared at him with red eyes: "You don't take off, I'll take it off for you."

Holding a glimmer of hope, Han Liuxian looked down Dou'er's body and subconsciously bit her finger. When she saw the scar on Dou'er's lower body that was very similar to hers, she bit her mouth full of blood.

Dou'er was so frightened that she immediately got dressed, and shouted for sister Rujing to come in quickly.

Looking at the blood in Han Liuxian's hands and mouth, Jin was so panicked that he quickly took medicine to bandage her. She held onto Han Liuxian's bare shoulders. She covered her face with her hand - what kind of Miss Han is she? Mrs. Han is right, what is she and who is she?

She should have wondered before, why she was different from others since she was a child, why her hands are so big, why she likes to practice martial arts, why she still has no monthly letter, why she has such ugly scars on her body , she thought she was Han Liuxian, she thought she was a girl, but after living for 18 years, she didn't know that she was an eunuch, but why was she, why was she the only monster like this, who would treat her like this?

Han Liuxian put down her hands, and was taken aback when entering the mirror. Tears were all over Han Liuxian's face, and big teardrops rolled down one after another, but she was laughing, laughing hoarsely, and fell to the ground laughing, although entering the mirror I don't know why she laughed like this, but looking at it, she just felt her nose sore and cried out.

Zhou Shen was waiting for Amiya to wake up, he disguised Zhou Cong as Han Huaizhang, he was betting on a possibility.

When Amiya woke up, she first saw Zhou Shen and smiled at him, then she turned her eyes slightly and saw the second person in the room, she saw his face clearly, and immediately called out again Get up, this time she yelled out a word: "Sara! Sara!" Zhou Cong was afraid that she would yell again, so he immediately left the room. Amuya was still yelling, Zhou Shen reached out and tapped her acupuncture points, and Amuya's body shook. Stiff, immediately fell asleep.

Zhou Shen sat beside Amuya and meditated. Many things in the past now have answers, but the answers are too cruel.

Han Huaizhang, who disappeared two months ago, if he guessed correctly, is inseparable from Zhou Kun's death six years ago. The woman who died in vain for Zhong Yuan years ago, some did not forget her, and some were by their side, taking revenge for the 17 years of hatred.

If anyone is willing to avenge her, Xu Yunya is the only one. Then what they have faced over the years is not Han Huaizhang at all, but Xu Yunya who disguised himself as Han Huaizhang.

Zhou Shen tightly pinched his palm—then, three years ago, it wasn't Han Huaizhang who mistook his clothes to chase Zhong Xianchen. The clothes that day were prepared by Han Huaizhang. Zhong Xianchen was robbed underneath!

Zhou Shen couldn't sit still anymore, and took Zhou Cong to go to the palace again, and he wanted to check the events of the year again.They met Han Liuxian in the yard as soon as they went out. Although Zhou Shen was burning in his heart, he couldn't help looking at her in surprise. Zhou Shen looked more like him. Seeing that he was about to leave, Han Liuxian raised the food box in his hand and said, "Brother Zhou, can we have a meal together today? I made some dishes."

Zhou Shen was thinking about Zhong Xianchen, not in the mood to eat with her, shook his head and started to leave, Han Liuxian grabbed him, took out the maple leaf key from his sleeve and handed it to him: "Thank you for finding the key." Li, let's have a meal."

Zhou Shen was really not in the mood, so he hardened his heart and said against Han Liuxian's expectant eyes: "Tomorrow, I will definitely be with you tomorrow."

Han Liuxian opened the food box, took out a piece of wild rice stem with his chopsticks, and fed it to his mouth: "Brother Zhou, you only have to eat the rice I cooked once."

Zhou Shen hesitated for a moment, but still opened his mouth and ate it, Han Liuxian asked him, "Is it delicious?" Zhou Shen nodded and left, then suddenly turned back and said to Han Liuxian, "I came back from the palace to look for you. "

Han Liuxian smiled at him: "Okay, I'll wait for you any night."

Zhou Cong and Zhou Shen went out, Zhou Cong stared at Zhou Shen all the time: "Master, why do I feel that Ms. Han wants to be my mistress?"

Han Liuxian entered the second door of Zhou's house, she looked around greedily, this was supposed to be her home, and there was supposed to be her here.

Mrs. Zhou hasn't seen a foreigner for a long time. When she heard that Miss Han even brought food herself, Mrs. Zhou came out. She couldn't be too rude.Mrs. Zhou was very old compared to her peers. Han Liuxian looked at Mrs. Zhou, his eyes became hot, and he held back his tears.

"You came to see Shen'er, I'm very happy, but you are too polite, and you have to bring your own food." Mrs. Zhou pulled Han Liuxian to sit down in the living room: "Today you also try our food, see Let's see if it's delicious."

Han Liuxian opened the food box, brought out a few plates of side dishes and put them in front of Madam Zhou: "Ms. Zhou, I can't cook well, try it." Han Liuxian gave Madam Zhou chopsticks, Madam Zhou looked at Han Liuxian, the more she liked it , she felt that she was born to be close to this child, and she still looks so much like Zhou Shen, no wonder Zhou Kun told her every day when he was alive that there was a child who was married to Zhou Shen. , Just like two brothers.

Thinking of the two brothers, she thought of Zhou Ji, and sighed again.

"What's the matter, aunt?" Han Liuxian was picking up vegetables for her, and seeing her sigh, he asked, "Is the food not to your liking?"

Mrs. Zhou put down her chopsticks and looked at her blankly: "If my Jier was here, she would be as old as you by now."

"If he is still alive, he must be very smart."

Han Liuxian said in his heart, no, he's a bit stupid.

"If he is still there, I don't know what he looks like."

This is what it looks like in front of you.

"If he is still here, I don't know what he likes to eat?"

I like to eat everything my mother makes.

"I don't know if he will miss me."

I have been thinking about you for 18 years.

Han Liuxian gritted her teeth and forced the tears back into her eyes. She couldn't cry, she wanted to make Mrs. Zhou happy, and the two of them wanted to have an intimate meal. Care for Mrs. Zhou until she is old.

Li Zhaoxu was too tired. The imperial physician said that he would bleed the emperor. Although it might hurt his vitality, this would be the quickest way to heal him. Jiang Baizheng kept telling him to wait. His son had already invited Lord Yao back, and he was only a little away from the capital. away.Li Zhaoxu was unable to quarrel with him, but Jiang Baizheng used filial piety again to oppress him, and he left as soon as he got angry. Tomorrow the table will definitely be full of references to him, saying that he, as a prince, ignores filial piety and is not professional in governing the country.

Zhou Cong brought him the candied haws he had always wanted to eat. Li Zhaoxu took it silently, but was stopped by the eunuch, saying that he was afraid of being poisoned. "As far as I can go, I will roll as far as I can."

Zhou Shen aligned the maple leaf key with the keyhole on the box and fastened it tightly, and he pushed it lightly again, and the box opened in response to the sound. He looked inside the box, and it turned out to be a small register. .He couldn't understand the words on the roster. It should be in Beichang'an language, so he had to find someone who could write in Beichang'an language to recognize it.He turned it over and put it back in the box.

Seeing that Li Tangdi has been sleeping for three days, during the short waking time in the middle, he would explain a few words to Li Zhaoxu, and then fell into a long sleep.

Zhou Shen told Zhou Cong to follow Li Zhaoxu, and ran towards Han Liuxian. As the night went on, his heart became more and more flustered, as if something terrible was about to happen.

Zhou Shen stopped in front of Han Liuxian's window, the lights were on in the room, but it was silent.

His premonition was getting worse and worse, and the smell of blood on the tip of his nose became stronger and stronger in just a short while.Zhou Shen stretched out his hand and slammed the door open, the bloody aura soaring into the sky made him take two steps back.

When he saw clearly what was inside, Zhou Shen immediately froze in place.

Han Liuxian's limbs were stretched apart and hung in the middle of the room. He was cut open from his chest to his stomach, and his white clothes were soaked in blood, turning into a strange dark red.

Zhou Shen heard his teeth rattling, he took out four copper plates and threw them out, the four ropes snapped, and Han Liuxian fell lightly like a rag.Zhou Shen rushed over to catch her, she bled so much that Zhou Shen only felt that he had caught a grain of snow.

After receiving Han Liuxian, Zhou Shen took a closer look, only to feel a rush of blood that made his eyes sore—Han Liuxian's internal organs were all broken, and there were pieces of broken bones inside. She was holding on and didn't know what she was waiting for.Zhou Shen tried to wrap her stomach up with trembling hands, but saw Han Liuxian's lips squirm, he leaned closer to listen, Liuxian tilted his head to look into Zhou Shen's eyes with difficulty, Zhou Shen looked into her eyes seriously for the first time , she asked Zhou Shen: "Brother... do you blame me..."

For the past three years, she has been waiting for his forgiveness.

Zhou Shen's hand holding her suddenly tightened—in the final analysis, what did she do wrong?Zhou Shen shook his head, touched her face and said, "No, Brother Zhou doesn't blame you."

Han Liuxian looked into Zhou Shen's eyes, and his lips squirmed. Zhou Shen leaned over to listen, and heard her muttering: "...don't tell... mother... when I... died long ago..." Zhou Shen will find out sooner or later, I just beg him not to tell his mother that her son came to this world once and turned into a monster with neither male nor female, and he had no choice but to die like this in the end.Zhou Ji closed his eyes heavily. He still had a lot of things to do. He had only been with Mrs. Zhou for a day. Zhou Shen hadn’t eaten his cooking well yet, and he hadn’t even used the name Zhou Ji for a day. ...

He rubbed against Zhou Shen's hand for the last time. If there is an afterlife, he still hopes to be Zhou Ji. In the next life, he will ride a white horse to find them. He will be his parents' son and grow up in Zhou's family; Riding horses and swimming across the long street with his brother, stepping on flowers to return; he will meet a beautiful girl, marry her home, and he will have an ordinary life, just like thousands of people in this world , as long as he is not Han Liuxian.

Han Liuxian in Zhou Shen's arms went completely cold.

Zhou Shen couldn't think for a while, he looked around the room and saw that Ru Jing lying on the ground had been dead for a long time.

Ru Jing was lying on his stomach in a very strange position. He put down Han Liuxian and turned Ru Jing over. He found that she was desperately protecting a piece of paper. Ru Jing had been stiff for a long time. sheet of paper.

Zhou Ji, Zhou Shen's eyelids twitched violently when he saw the first two words.