Chapter 3199: Accomplishment?
Nan Yan took a deep breath before looking up at him.
She whispered: "Your Majesty, I——"
She stopped just after saying these few words. Because of her impatience, her voice was hoarse like a knife sharpened on rough sand and gravel.
Besides, I really don’t know how to continue.
Fortunately, she was facing Zhu Feng.
Zhu Feng looked at her pale face and red eyes, reached out and gently stroked her cold cheek, and said, "I know what you are going to say."
Nan Yan took a few deep breaths and finally swallowed the heat in her heart. Then she looked up at Zhu Feng and said softly in a somewhat bewildered tone: "I still have relatives...?"
“…”
"She, she might be—"
"Maybe your sister."
Zhu Feng took over her words and said calmly: "Also, if you have a sister, it proves that you, your parents, the Marquis of Bowang and the Imperial Concubine of Emperor Gao, are still alive."
Perhaps only Zhu Feng, the emperor, would dare to say this.
Because in the Central Plains, anyone involved in this fact, or even saying such a word, may end up having his entire family executed and all nine generations of his clan wiped out.
Nan Yan's mind was in a mess, but at this moment, it seemed as if there was a thread that strung some useful things in her scattered thoughts into a string of beads.
Marquis Bowang and Concubine Qin...
Everything started from the negotiation when Emperor Gao traveled to the Kingdom of Dan. Judging from the painting that Wu Yingqiu hung in the Golden Tower Villa, Marquis Si Boyan of Bowang attended the negotiation. And from Nanny Su, who had been serving Concubine Qin, Nan Yan knew that Concubine Qin also accompanied the emperor, and before leaving, she left her certificate of immunity from death to this loyal servant who had always served her.
After that, Marquis Bowang's whereabouts became a mystery.
Although the Si family set up a tablet for him, because they still did not know his true situation, even the tablet was covered with a layer of black gauze.
Concubine Qin "died" in a foreign land, and Emperor Gaozu erected her monument on Xingluo Lake.
One year after that, Si Zhongwen, Nan Yan's nominal father, brought the infant Nan Yan back to the Central Plains and named her after a wisp of smoke rising in the south.
Later, Concubine Li Fengshu told Nan Yan that when she was young, she had met Marquis Bowang while wandering in the Western Regions.
The favorite concubine of the Parthian Empire, who was younger than herself and looked almost exactly like her.
It is easy for them to connect these things one by one and come to a conclusion.
But Nan Yan suddenly didn’t dare to think about it.
Seeing her sitting in front of him, but her whole body was curled up, and even her thin shoulders seemed to be trembling. Zhu Feng's hand, which was originally caressing her face, moved to her shoulder again.
He said softly, "What's wrong?"
Nan Yan looked up at him, and after a long while, she asked softly, "Your Majesty...are you not angry?"
You know, the most irritating fact in this whole thing is the relationship between Si Boyan and Qin Xixi. In the words of the common people, these two people "had an affair" and cuckolded Emperor Gao.
Zhu Feng is a member of the royal family after all. When he suddenly learned of this fact, I wonder if he would be angry with his father.
Zhu Feng also glanced at her, and after a long silence, he gave a wry smile, "Do you think I should be angry?"
“…”
"Do you take your father-in-law for a fool?"
"ah?"
Nan Yan was stunned.
Seeing that she was indeed like this, Zhu Feng reached out and rubbed her hair vigorously, saying in a deep voice, "I know now that I am the emperor. It is naturally difficult for me to know about the trivial matters in the harem. If you women want to use any tricks, I don't want to ask about it, and I don't have the time to intervene."
“…”
"But the concubine is having an affair with a marquis, do you really think the emperor is stupid?"
Nan Yan looked at him in surprise: "Your Majesty means that the Emperor Gao knows?"
Zhu Feng said, "You said before that the people over at Xingluo Lake told you those things, and together with what Shi Tianlu said later, everyone knows that when Luo Xingwen was connecting with Emperor Gao's forces, Concubine Qin and Marquis Bowang secretly fell in love. How could Emperor Gao not know about this?"
“…”
"Although Concubine Qin later married Emperor Gao for the sake of the greater good, this matter will not be forgotten just like that."
“…”
"If that's the case, how could Emperor Gao, if he cared, take both of them with him on his trip?"
“…”
Nan Yan's breath was held for a long time.
After a long moment, she took a deep breath and said, "The Emperor, the Emperor means that Emperor Gao knows all this, and he wants to fulfill it?"
Nan Yan said the last two words so loudly that she could hardly hear them herself.
Because it's too difficult to understand.
Even if it was an ordinary man, even if he married a woman he did not love, she was his woman after all, so how could he let her go so easily? What's more, he was already the emperor of Yan at that time, and Qin Xixi was the imperial concubine. Qin Xixi's departure with Si Boyan was related to the face of the royal family. If it was discovered, the face of the royal family would be lost, not to mention the dignity of the emperor, and even the dignity of a man would be lost.
Is this possible?
Zhu Feng glanced at her and said, "Then, tell me, is there anything else you can explain?"
“…”
"Concubine Qin's death in a foreign land may be a forgotten event from decades ago, but to Emperor Gao at the time, it was a corpse before his eyes. Wouldn't the coroner perform an autopsy on Concubine Qin? Wouldn't they send her back for burial under strict protection?"
“…”
"As for Marquis Bowang, he held a high position of power and influence. At least at that time, he was a close and trusted minister of the Emperor Gao."
“…”
"His whereabouts have suddenly become a mystery, and the Emperor Gao has forbidden anyone in the country to mention him again. Doesn't this explain the situation?"
Nan Yan took another deep breath.
Put it this way, it seems to make sense.
However, she still felt a little uneasy in her heart, as if something was always hanging.
At this time, Zhu Feng said again: "But I think you should not think too much about this matter."
Nan Yan looked up at him: "Why?"
Zhu Feng sighed and reached out to rub her shoulder, gently, as if trying to relax her. Then he slowly said, "If the favorite concubine of the King of Parthia is really your sister, and she has no idea of your existence, and can't even speak the language of the Central Plains, what do you think this means?"
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