After rebirth, the empress was spoiled by the emperor's uncle like a little girl

But over the years, the ancient fragrance of this string of wooden Buddhist beads has become increasingly faint.

It was so faint that she could hardly smell it.

Concubine Wen, who had withdrawn from the past, continued to deeply hide the old memories that belonged to her alone, and only spoke softly.

"Abao, you mentioned in your letter that the King of Qin was being plotted against."

"Over the past few years, the King of Qin has been imprisoned in an underground cave in the western border, using humans as sacrifices to kill monsters."

Concubine Wen suddenly realized, "In fact, when I was traveling in Western Xinjiang, I saw Yuan Qi trying to enter Tangdou City and find the secret passage to the underground palace of Tangdou City, but he never found the way and failed again and again."

"Now that I think about it carefully, maybe he was asked by his good friend to find the King of Qin."

"Unfortunately, he had other important matters to attend to at the time, so he had to leave Western Xinjiang first."

Concubine Wen felt very sympathetic, and Abao suddenly had an idea.

"Mother, did you hear that hunchbacked old man..." After a pause, A Bao remembered the burn scars all over the hunchbacked old man's face. It was obvious that Yuan Qi had suffered inhuman pain. Not wanting to touch Concubine Wen's pain, she changed the topic and said, "Did you hear Yuan's subordinates mention that important matter? What is it?"

Seeing her daughter's nervous expression, Concubine Wen, who wanted to help, naturally recalled more carefully: "When we parted in Xijiang, he said that his friend's son would have a fatal disaster. A few years ago, in order to find a solution, his friend was defeated by his enemy and died tragically. Seeing that it was the Gengjin month again, he had to return to the Peach Blossom Valley to find a solution for his friend and save his son."

Hearing this, A Bao sighed, it was indeed so.

Ninety-nine percent of the time, the good friend Yuan Qi mentioned was the deposed Queen Qin.

It seems that the deposed Queen Qin, who faked her death and left the palace, originally planned to go to the Guihu Sea in Chuyue to salvage the ancient shipwreck of Emperor Ling and find the "Yuzhilu" left by Queen Qi Jiang.

But after many twists and turns, they finally arrived at the Peach Blossom Valley in the northern border.

As his mind raced, A Bao suddenly remembered that Yuan Qi had told Concubine Wen -

Several years ago, a good friend was tragically killed by his enemy while trying to find a solution.

If Yuan Qi’s best friend was the deposed Queen of Qin.

So... according to what Concubine Wen said just now, the deposed Queen Qin died tragically in Peach Blossom Valley in the northern border?

"Who is the enemy of Yuan officials?" A Bao said coldly.

"I've never heard Yuan Qi mention this person before." Concubine Wen was helpless, but after thinking about it, she frowned and murmured, "Since she is a strange person who can find a way to break the death catastrophe, the person who killed her must have a very high level of attainment in the secret art of Qimen."

Otherwise, even Yuan Qi would not have been involved.

Concubine Wen felt bitter.

The handsome scholar she met in the ancient Bodhi Temple in Jiangnan.

After many years of separation, he finally became the hunchbacked old man with white hair in Abao's mouth.

What had happened to him that even his face was burned?

Seeing that Concubine Wen looked depressed, A Bao couldn't help but ask with concern: "Yuan Shuguan, he died in the Peach Blossom Valley in the northern border three years ago."

"Who told mother about this matter at the Imperial Observatory that day?"

That person must at least be aware of how cruel the news of Yuan Qi's death was to Concubine Wen, which is why he deliberately mentioned it.

And what effect was that person secretly planning to achieve through this?

Concubine Wen, who understood Abao's worries, stroked the wooden Buddhist beads on her wrist and said, "It's not that someone deliberately planned it, but I heard it by accident."

"For some reason, Your Majesty suddenly brought up the incident from three years ago."

"Back then, the one who rushed to the northern border to take you back to the palace was the commander of the Taiji Palace's personal guards, Wei Ji."

"When Wei Ji recounted everything he had seen and heard in Peach Blossom Valley in Northern Xinjiang, he casually mentioned that when you were found unconscious in Peach Blossom Valley, next to you was the corpse of a hunchbacked old man with white hair."

"Wei Ji said that he specially examined the body and found no evidence to identify the body, except..."

"On the back of the corpse, there are the thorns of an ancient golden tree that was mostly burned."

After a long silence, Concubine Wen broke the gloom beside the bed and looked at her daughter tenderly.

Her daughter was clearly secretly relieved, and even a little disappointed.

"Abao, what are you thinking about?" Concubine Wen was confused and worried.

Hearing this, Abao shook his head repeatedly.

It couldn't be said that among her many guesses, one of them was that her father was jealous and killed his love rival...

As it turns out, it’s not.

Thinking of this, A Bao changed the subject: "I just think of the danger at that time. Just as mother said, that man killed the deposed empress of Qin and officials of Yuan Dynasty. They were all masters of strange and secret arts. I think that man is definitely not an ordinary person in the way of secret arts."