Xiao Lingling was a little surprised. "When did you two get to know each other and start contacting each other?"
Qin Shuxiang recalled for a long time before speaking, "It should be nine years ago, or ten at most. I don't remember the details very clearly."
"Then how long have you known the man who was sending messages between you and me? Is he in the palace every day?"
Qin Shuxiang felt a little embarrassed at this point, but still answered honestly, "He, he is a distant relative of mine. He once visited our house when I was a child.
We didn't have much contact after that. Two years before I was selected to enter the palace, something happened in their family, so they came to stay at our house for a while.
After that, he disappeared after I entered the palace. He didn't appear again until a year after I entered the palace.
He comes in every three to five days, but not every day."
So early?
Little Bell was a little surprised, and also keenly noticed something unusual.
But his experience was really limited, and even though he noticed something was wrong, he didn't think much about it, "So do you guys usually have any secret codes when you communicate?
Or, do you have any correspondence or intermediaries? Or, have you had any other contact?"
Qin Shuxiang shook his head. "Really, no more. That guy is really powerful. I have his spies around me. Oftentimes, he knows what's going on without me having to tell him, and he gives me advice in a timely manner.
He has given me a lot of guidance over the years. If I want to find him, I just need to tell my cousin, or hang a red rope on the dwarf pine pot on the windowsill and he will know.
He would usually arrange for someone to come see me within two days. So, we never communicated through letters.”
Little Lingling was so confused that she felt overwhelmed. This was no different from being clueless about anything.
"So where is your cousin now?"
Qin Shuxiang's expression was somewhat gloomy. "I don't know either. He disappeared when I woke up that day and never showed up again. I guess the emperor must have discovered him. Otherwise, we wouldn't be here."
Xiao Lingling was speechless. After all the fuss she had made, the person she wanted to come turned out to be of no use at all.
It seems that if I want to find out the person behind this, I have to go find my father and take a look at what happened to that man.
She knocked the mother and daughter unconscious. They couldn't die. She had to spare their lives until the truth came to light.
Afterwards, Xiao Lingdang instructed Deng Zhuo to detain the two men separately, and then quickly left the space.
She really couldn't sleep, so she took a carriage to the palace gate at night and waited until dawn, then she was the first group to enter the palace.
She arrived earlier than the adults who were going to attend the morning court, which scared the gatekeepers. They thought she had something important to tell them and quickly let her in.
Xiao Lingling sent someone along the way to pass on the message, and she met Su Daocheng in Fengqi Palace, who was being helped to dress by palace servants.
Su Daocheng looked at her in surprise, "Why are you here now? What happened?"
Xiao Lingdang glanced at the palace maids, and Su Daocheng understood immediately.
"You guys go down first!"
"yes!"
After everyone had left, Xiao Lingling quietly stepped forward and asked, "Father, was the man I found at Xiang Fei's place captured by you?"
After hearing this, Su Daocheng's face turned pale and blue, looking extremely ugly.
He really didn't want to agree, but he knew that Xiao Lingling would not do meaningless things, so he could only endure the irritation in his heart.
"Are you looking for him?"
As soon as Xiao Lingdang heard it, she knew the person was with him. "Yes, yes, yes! Father, there's someone behind that Xiang Fei. The poison she used and the assassins she sent to our house several times were all trained by that person.
It's true that Xiang Fei is my enemy, but the person behind it is even more so! Therefore, I must find him.
I interrogated her last night. Concubine Xiang only saw the person behind the scenes twice. Both people were wearing masks and looked very mysterious.
They all contacted each other through that man, and I guessed that he should know how to find that person, so I came.
I'm not taking him away, I just want to find out who that person is."
Su Daocheng was confused by what he heard. During this period, he tried to ask Qin Shuxiang, but every time he went, Qin Shuxiang was very stubborn.
He had not touched her before because he was concerned about the Qin family, so he really didn't ask much about these things.
Moreover, his attention was completely drawn to the two children, and he really forgot to ask about the story behind it.
Now that Xiao Lingling asked the question, his curiosity was also aroused.
"Oh? Then tell me first, what did Xiang Fei say?"
Xiao Lingdang didn't understand the twists and turns and just said what she said directly. When she heard that the man had known Xiang Fei for a long time, Su Daocheng was very angry.
Moreover, Su Daocheng quickly matched the time points inside.
The decision to let the girl from the Qin family enter the palace as a concubine was made when Qin Shuxiang was fifteen years old, which was exactly two years before she entered the palace.
In other words, the man left just after she was decided to be the concubine.
After Su Daocheng ascended the throne, in order to appease the Qin family, he took good care of Qin Shuxiang on the surface, but in fact, in order to prevent her from having children, he rarely summoned Qin Shuxiang to sleep with him.
It was not until his throne was consolidated, that is, a year later, that he slowly relaxed his guard.
And it was at that time that the man appeared again.
How could it be such a coincidence?
Afterwards, Concubine Xiang successfully conceived a child and gave birth to Su Jingyao.
But because Su Jingsheng was in poor health, most of his attention was on Su Jingsheng, and he didn't care much about Su Jingyao.
It was not until Su Jingsheng was taken to the Miracle Doctor's School that he slowly began to divert his attention to other children.
It was also at that time that the person behind Qin Shuxiang appeared.
How could it be such a coincidence?
Su Daocheng is not a naive child like Xiao Lingdang. Having been in a high position for many years, he is always thinking about countless plans and arrangements in his mind.
So he guessed something almost instantly.
He didn't care about anything else at that moment, picked up little Bell and rushed out in a hurry.
Pei Huan, who had just prepared breakfast in the small kitchen, saw their hurriedly leaving backs as soon as he came out. He was speechless for a moment.
For some reason, she always felt that a storm was about to come.
Xiao Lingling didn't understand what was going on, but looking at Su Daocheng's expression, she knew that something bad must have happened.
So she was very obedient and just hugged Su Daocheng's neck. After a while, they arrived at the dark cell.
This is actually the so-called cold palace.
No one knows that underneath this taboo cold palace is actually a dark prison where countless criminals who have never seen the light of day are imprisoned.
The entrance is in the rockery of the desolate little garden opposite the cold palace.
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