"I don't know who they are, but I know they must be using me as a hostage to threaten my father and ask for some big secret. My father refused to agree at first, so I had two fingers cut off," said Qin Chong. He stretched out his left hand, which was missing his little finger and ring finger. Although the cut surface was healed, it was still red. It looked very scary. Mei Ya couldn't help but step back and took a breath. Qin Chong, on the other hand, had a blank expression on his face. He put down his left hand and continued. "Later, my father must have been upset. He told the big secret to those people. Not long after that, I was released. But as soon as I got out, I learned that the Qin family had been wiped out. For me, this was like a bolt from the blue. I knew it was definitely not as simple as the rumor that they were slaughtered by bandits. It must be because my father leaked the secret that the family was wiped out. But looking around the capital, who has such a big power? It goes without saying, so I didn't dare to show up. I knew that if I was recognized, I would be dead, so I disguised myself as a beggar and wandered around the city. Finally, one day I sneaked into the Qin Mansion under the cover of night."
"There is a tree of Albizia australis in the Qin Mansion. It was planted by my father the year I was born. There is a tree hole the size of a copper coin on the trunk. When I was a child, my father and I were angry and ignored each other. I was always the first to lose my temper, but I was never willing to make peace first. So I always wrote letters to my father and stuffed them in the tree hole to ask for peace. That was a secret between my father and me." When he said this, Qin Chong's nose was sore and his eyes were full of tears. He took a deep breath and forced the tears back. Then he continued, "That night, I found the letter my father wrote to me in the tree hole for the first time."
Gu Qingtong listened to Qin Chong's hoarse voice and saw his face full of grief. Her heart was also clenched with his. She silently took out the handkerchief and handed it to Qin Chong. Qin Chong held the handkerchief in his hand, glanced at Gu Qingtong, and gently pursed his lips. Then he turned around and continued to talk to Zhong Mingwei and Mei Ya: "Father knew that he had revealed the secret, and he was afraid that the Qin family would come to an end. He and mother were not afraid of death, but they could not let me go. Before he died, he left me this letter to tell me the whole story."
"The Queen Mother was worried that too many princes would threaten the power of the Xu family, so she ordered my father to give His Majesty drugs. As a result, although His Majesty was in good health, he only gave birth to four princes. His Majesty was not vague. In order to completely overthrow the Xu family, and because he always hated the eldest prince, he ordered my father to give the eldest prince the secret medicine Huanqingsan from the Turkic royal family." Qin Chong paused here, he looked at Zhong Mingwei's tense face, lowered his head again, and then continued, "On the one hand, the emperor's order is hard to disobey, and on the other hand, the Xu family took me as a hostage. My father My father had no choice but to be caught between the Queen Mother and His Majesty. He suffered like this for nearly twenty years. Seeing the Xu family fall, the Queen Mother also passed away, and I was kidnapped by unknown people, my father became more and more worried that the truth would be revealed. Later, in order to save me, my father had to reveal His Majesty's secrets. From then on, he was even more uneasy day and night. After discussing with my mother, he decided to do his best to save my life before he died. On the one hand, he ordered his confidant to send my personal jade pendant to southern Xinjiang to fake the scene of my falling off the cliff and death, and on the other hand, he left me this letter, asking me to follow Prince An in the future. "
"Why does Qin Lu want you to follow me?" Zhong Mingwei asked coldly.
"In reply to Your Highness, before his death, my father vaguely sensed the change in His Majesty's attitude towards Your Highness, and felt that Your Highness had a better chance of success than Prince Rong. Secondly, my father felt guilty towards Your Highness, and hoped that I could serve Your Highness on his behalf to atone for his past sins." Qin Chong said in a deep voice.
"So Qin Lu's people followed us to show their good will to us," Mei Ya whispered to Zhong Mingwei, sighing softly, "Then a few days later, the Qin family was massacred. It seems that Qin Lu's whereabouts were discovered, and they were afraid that Qin Lu would get close to us and tell us these old secrets, so they killed the Qin family."
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