The two corners of the jade lock have now been polished to be somewhat rounded. At that time, he had little experience and the two corners of the jade lock were still pointed, so he excitedly gave it to the newly born little Su Jian.
My aunt was afraid that the sharp corners would hurt Su Jian, so she put the jade lock away and never let Su Jian wear it.
He was very depressed about this, so his father specially ordered someone to carefully carve two identical jade buttons for him and Su Jian, one for each of them to wear, which made him happy.
Thinking of those old things, Liu Ziqi felt melancholy. He let out a breath and looked at the old man. "This jade lock should be in the inner room of the back house. How could you, a stable boy, steal something from the inner room?"
The old man was shocked when he heard this, "Sir, how can you know so much? Could it be that you are also an old friend of the princess's mansion?"
He thought about it carefully and shook his head, "That's not right. Princess Huaiyang's mansion doesn't have a child of your age..."
"You don't need to know who I am. When I ask you questions, just answer honestly." Liu Ziqi looked at the old man deeply.
The old man's heart was in turmoil. It was clear that all the people in the princess's mansion were dead, but this young man seemed to know a lot about Princess Huaiyang's mansion. He must be someone who often came and went in the past. How could he have happened to meet him?
"When the house was searched, the princess's mansion was in chaos. The eldest princess and her husband both... met with accidents. People in the mansion fled or scattered. I took advantage of the chaos to sneak into the inner room of the backyard, hoping to steal one or two valuable things." The old man knelt on the ground and said honestly.
Liu Ziqi frowned and said coldly, "If I remember correctly, the Jinyiwei and Dongchang who confiscated the princess's house received a secret order and massacred everyone in the princess's mansion. Later, they burned the princess's mansion to ashes. How did you survive and escape from the princess's mansion?"
Seeing that he knew so much, the old man dared not speak nonsense anymore and said, "Young Master, most of the servants working in the Princess's Mansion were killed by those people. Those who were not killed were also burned in the fire."
As he spoke, he seemed to be back in the past.
Scenes flashed through his mind: Jinyiwei were killing anyone they saw, the ground was covered with blood, and the yard was filled with cries. He stole something from the backyard and almost ran into Jinyiwei who were rushing in. He only escaped by hiding in the horse fodder.
Those people killed anyone they saw. They were all bloodthirsty devils, and their clothes were stained red with blood.
Even after so many years, he still often dreams of what happened back then, dreams that he failed to escape from the princess's mansion, and dreams that the long sword stained with the blood of countless people pierced his neck.
"I hid in the hay in the stable and avoided their search." The old man still sounded a little frightened when he talked about it now. "Later, they set a fire, and the whole princess's mansion was about to burn down, so they left. I got out through the dog hole next to the stable and luckily saved my life."
"At that time, the capital was in chaos. People who had connections with Princess Huaiyang and... the former prince's mansion were being hunted everywhere. I didn't dare stay in the capital, so I returned to the countryside in Danzhou." The old man lowered his voice subconsciously when he spoke this.
It seems that if I mention these things, I will die.
When Liu Ziqi heard these words, a hint of invisible coldness flashed in his eyes. He clenched the jade lock in his hand and said in a dry voice, "Did you...see the little princess that night?"
The old man widened his eyes, paused for breath, and quickly denied, "No, I have never seen the little princess."
Gu Yun stared at the old man with sharp eyes. Seeing his nervous expression, he unconsciously pursed his lips, blinked, and his pupils turned to the upper right. He said firmly, "You are lying!"
The old man was so scared that he lay on the ground, not daring to look up at the two of them. He said in panic, "When I went into the inner room of the back house to steal things, the little princess was not in the inner room. I don't know if she hid. Later, I hid in the hay in the stable and heard those people shouting that they found the little princess. I... I heard a child crying, I don't know if it was the little princess's voice, and then suddenly there was no sound. Those people seemed to... seemed to have thrown the little princess to death..."
Liu Ziqi became dazed when he heard this. The hand holding the jade lock piece was unconsciously clenched into a fist. The veins on the back of his hand bulged and his eyes were full of pain.
The old man quietly raised his head, glanced at his expression, then quickly lowered his head, guessing in his heart the identity of Liu Ziqi. More than ten years ago, this young man should have been only seven or eight years old, and there were only two or three young men who often came and went in the princess's mansion.
One of them is no longer with us, so...it can only be the young marquis of Annan Marquisate.
"You...are Young Marquis Gu?" the old man asked Liu Ziqi nervously.
Liu Ziqi came back to his senses. He exchanged a glance with Gu Yun and seemed to agree with the old man's guess. He did not deny it and asked, "Since you work as a stable cleaner in the princess's mansion, do you know Meng Qingyun? His name can also be called Meng Fu."
When the old man heard the name Meng Fu, his hair stood on end and his pupils shrank. He swallowed the saliva that was secreted due to nervousness and fear, and considered how to answer.
"Hurry up and tell me!" Gu Yun shouted coldly.
The old man shuddered all over, lowered his eyes and looked at the small space in front of him, "I recognize... I recognize... He is the coachman of the princess's mansion."
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