Chapter 724: What Are the Consequences of Wanting to Expose It?

"Don't copy? Okay, I won't beat you either. Let's ask your father to judge."

"Don't, don't tell father!" Rong Qing said hurriedly.

Liu Xiaoli looked at Rong Qing with a calm look on his face.

Rong Qing knew that there was no way to escape, so he could only swallow the tears in his stomach. He sat silently in front of the chair and looked at Liu Xiaoli with an aggrieved face.

Liu Xiaoli's response to him was to throw him a pen, then take his top, wave his whip, and play around in the room.

Rong Qing knew that the end was over, and the tip of his nose felt sore, but the man did not shed tears easily. He wiped his face, but bravely grabbed the brush and dipped his trembling fingers into the ink.

As soon as I got the ink on my face, I heard Liu Xiaoli's voice from behind me: "Remember to imitate my handwriting. Do you remember my handwriting?"

Thinking that this man had painted turtles and written big characters on his and his two brothers' faces, Rong Qing pursed his lips and tears of humiliation finally fell. If he had known this, he would not have pretended to be sick. He might as well have Going to a school to study is at least better than copying these things at home.

The teacher will not assign so much homework.

Now that she has something to "play" with, Xiao Li no longer pesters her mother.

Liu Wei was so happy that she locked the door, spread out the scrolls, and read them one by one.

And this time, I really found something suspicious.

In "Spring Hunting Picture", a stalwart man in a dragon robe stands among the courtiers. The man holds a curved bow, his eyes are sharp, and when the bow string shakes, he just hits a big eagle.

The eagle fell down, the ground was stained with blood, and the courtiers were full of joy, all smiling.

Liu Wei could guess the plot in this picture. It was roughly that Concubine Min accompanied the emperor on a spring hunting trip. The emperor was hunting in the hunting ground. He shot an eagle and missed it. The arrows were not missed. His majestic appearance was still the same. All the officials were congratulated and delighted. Glory.

At first glance, the painting looked like nothing, but Liu Wei discovered that among the crowd around him, there was a woman wearing Western costumes and even a gold-leaf headdress. From that look, she was not from China.

Liu Wei looked at the inscription next to it and understood that it was painted by the princess of the Western Regions when she came to pay homage to us in a certain year. It was spring at that time, and the ceremonial supervisor had prepared a hunting ground, which could be considered as a fun for the visitors from the Western Regions.

Putting this painting aside, Liu Wei took out another one.

This is a work and rest picture, the picture is called "Flower Viewer", the picture is also a scene that Min Fei saw, but it is not in Changyang Palace, but in Zhaoning Palace, Zhaoning Palace in the painting Although the plaque is a bit blurry, it can still be vaguely discerned.

There is a guest in the Zhaoning Palace. The face of the guest cannot be seen clearly. What can be seen is that the queen is meeting several daughters of princes. All of those women are beautiful, dressed in luxurious clothes, and they are full of magnanimity. One of them is , Liu Wei also recognized that it should be Yu Wenqian, Yu Wen Minxin's aunt. Liu Wei had met the aunt in the Wen family several times.

The perspective of the scroll is a bit like peeping.

But these are also outside the scope of Liu Wei's attention. What Liu Wei is interested in is the flowers planted outside the courtyard of Zhaoning Palace in this picture.

I don’t know whether it was intentional or not, but the flower was painted larger than a person, and it was clear. Liu Wei knew all kinds of plants and flowers, and he recognized it at a glance, and it was Manzhu Shahua.

Manzhu Shahua, also known as Bianhua, or dead man's flower, grows in the Western Regions and is called Huangquan flower by local people. Therefore, the flower usually grows on graves or cemeteries, and when it grows, it becomes a bright red, as red as dripping blood. It is known as The ominous flower is also regarded as a medium between people and hell.

Many spiritual people or eminent monks in the Western Regions will use this flower as their main use. Whether it is to ward off evil spirits or perform sacrifices, it is considered a wonderful thing.

When Liu Wei was in modern times, he went to Tibet and saw Manzhushahua. He found it interesting at the time and asked the locals if he could give a pot as a gift or buy a pot and take it home to raise.

The man said that Bianhua cannot live without the land here. Once it is separated, even with the best flower soil, it will not be able to grow.

Liu Wei even said with a smile that someone had obviously raised her.

The man only said that the ones he raised must not be purebred Manzhushahua, but had been bred together. If you like it, you can go to the flower market to buy it.

But pure Manzhu Shahua must grow in the Western Region, and it coexists with this land.

The man's words were so mysterious that Liu Wei only listened to them as a joke, but because of this, after Liu Wei returned, he carefully checked out the strange flower.

Later, Liu Wei did buy a pot of flowers and found that although the two flowers were similar, they were somewhat different in size, color, or petal shape.

The flower died after Liu Wei raised it for a few days, but now, looking at the unparalleled beauty of Manzhu Shahua in the picture, Liu Wei seemed to think of the Tibetan flower fields in full bloom.

The Manzhushahua here is purebred, Liu Wei can almost confirm it at a glance, but why does Zhaoning Palace have this kind of flower? How is it grown?

Liu Wei looked at the signature in the corner of the scroll again and found that the date was exactly seven days after the Spring Hunting Picture. In other words, the envoy from the Western Regions should not have left at that time. So, could this flower be a gift from the Western Regions?

Not knowing what happened to the flower later, whether it died or what happened to it, Liu Wei put the painting down again, and then picked up the third painting.

The last one is what Liu Wei thinks is the most important, because there is Xiang Yi on it.

This painting is called "Don't Ask Where You Go". The content of the painting is that in the Changyang Palace, the palace is decorated with white flags. In the evening, the sky is red like blood.

Eunuch Xiang Yi stood in the doorway with his head lowered so that no one could see his expression clearly.

The content of this painting is as simple as this. One person, one room, white lanterns, and white curtains declare that this place is where people have died.

Liu Wei didn't expect that this palace was Changyang Palace, because there was no plaque, but he saw the memorial tablet in the house, shrouded in candlelight, which was almost invisible.

There is a name written on the tablet, that is Concubine Min's name.

This is a painting made when Concubine Min entered the funeral ceremony. The painting only shows the lonely palace that has lost its owner, and an eunuch who once served in this palace.

It's like a companionship and a kind of mourning.

However, the person painting the painting cannot be Concubine Min.

The signature under this painting is also Min Fei's name. However, how can a person paint again after he is dead?

Someone deliberately used Concubine Min's seal to see her off in this painting, and the person who painted the painting, Liu Wei thought, must be the only living person in the painting.

Xiang Yi.

Liu Wei rolled the name around on the tip of his tongue, thinking to himself.

The person behind the scenes may not be Xiang Yi.

But the person behind the scenes connected Xiang Yi's feelings for Concubine Min through the two paintings "Spring Appreciation" and "Don't Ask Where I'm Going Home".

Moreover, whether in the painting or in the recent murder cases of palace residents, the people behind the scenes have specially brought out the "Western Region".

The picture traces back to the fact that envoys from the Western Regions once came to Kyoto, and less than a year after that, Concubine Min died. At the same time, Xiang Yi had a lot of affection for Concubine Min, which was a bit weird and excessive.

What are the consequences of this series of antecedents and want to expose?

Liu Wei had a guess in his mind, but it was just a guess.

The only thing that can be determined now is that the murderers in the recent cases are indeed seeking justice for Concubine Min, who lost her life many years ago.

But, it’s been so many years, why choose this time?

Liu Wei thought of Concubine Chang.

The younger sister of Concubine Min and the new owner of Changyang Palace.

So, it was Concubine Chang's death that stimulated the murderer, causing him to reopen the case of Concubine Min in a fit of rage?

In this case, the relationship between the murderer and Concubine Chang must be very close?