Chapter 495 Secret Room
During the past six months in Yan Mansion, Yun Chen was like a tabby cat that loved freedom but was forced into a cage.
She often walked around the mansion, toured the place, and ran around from room to room. She was very familiar with the Yan mansion inside and out.
There was no place in the entire Yan Mansion that she didn't know.
Of course, there is no place that is locked all year round, gloomy, heavily guarded, and looks like it is hiding some big secret.
Therefore, when Yun Chen saw a secret room suddenly appear in front of him, his curiosity was immediately aroused.
Hehe, it turns out that Yan Shijiu also has a little secret!
It just so happened that I was going to elope with Anian. When entering and leaving the city, we would inevitably encounter customs inspections. I had to imitate his notes, forge a warrant to allow me to go out, and also find my own marriage records to be safest.
Muttering these words, she tiptoed into the dark room, fumbled around in the darkness for a while, and lit the lamp on the wall.
To be honest, before the lights came on, the most common image in her mind was -
Will there be a room full of bottles and jars and all sorts of hideous, yellow, and bubbling things next?
After all, Yan Shijiu usually behaves in an unruly manner.
However, she was very surprised when the lights came on.
The secret room in front of him was not big, only three meters square. Apart from an ebony wooden table full of official documents, there were two rows of low shelves full of letters.
The light smell of pine oil outside becomes the strongest and most pungent here.
She pinched her nose and looked around, but without exception, they were all memorials and the like, all covered with a layer of pine oil. She couldn't understand what they were for.
It was as if she had discovered the secret of a bad student studying hard in secret. She felt funny in her heart. It was really hard to imagine that Yan Shijiu, with his tall and strong body, pretended to be a playboy during the day, and had to sneak into this small secret room from time to time at night, hanging his head on the beam and pricking his legs with a needle?
So the requirements for being an emperor's male favorite are so high? Not only does he have to be good-looking, but he also has to understand state affairs?
The more she thought about it, the funnier it became. After searching around, she didn't find any record of her marriage to Yan Shijiu. So she sat down at the table, pulled out a document, and prepared to imitate Yan Shijiu's handwriting to write herself a warrant to facilitate her travel.
She carefully looked at Yan Shijiu's handwriting, which was clumsily traced on the letter paper. She was only concerned with the shape of the characters and did not read the content carefully.
It was not until his eyes fell on the national seal at the end of the letter that he finally realized something was wrong.
Isn’t this the national seal of the Nan Kingdom?
Yun Chen served as Prime Minister Wu for a while. Although she did not handle much paperwork and did not pay attention to the details of official seals on a daily basis, she remembered that the national seal of the Nan Kingdom was a nine-dragon seal, not in the shape of a flaming cloud pattern.
The blazing cloud pattern... seemed to be the mark of Dongyan? She had seen it before when she stole the wind-burning grass from Dongyan.
She was a little confused. She looked at the neatly stacked piles of official documents and found that none of them were in the format of memorials from the Kingdom of Nan. She suddenly felt an inexplicable panic in her heart. She flipped through the letters on the low shelf one by one, and finally saw the private seal at the end of a secret letter sealed with wax.
Beneath the familiar Yan-style arrogant brushwork, she clearly saw two words:
Fire punishment.
What's the meaning?
Is Yan Shijiu Yan Xing? The tyrant Yan Xing of Dongyan, who was said to have murdered his father, brother, and the entire royal family to ascend the throne?
Are you kidding? It would be more realistic to say that Yun Chen is the Goddess Nuwa!
She laughed at herself, but her pale face and trembling fingers betrayed her inner panic.
She wanted to leave the secret room as soon as possible, not look at anything else, and not touch the unknown and terrifying darkness. But when she reached the door of the secret room, her hand involuntarily closed the door.
She took a deep breath, sat down, and began to open the first letter on the shelf.
All of them were state affairs, big and small, related to Dongyan, including reports, spies, orders, and decisions.
Every memorial was marked with Yan Shijiu’s red pen and stamped with the national seal of Dongyan.
Every secret order was filled with Yan Shijiu's handwriting and the two words "Yan Xing".
Letter after letter gradually calmed Yun Chen down from shock.
Yan Shijiu, it turns out, is the nineteenth prince of Dongyan, the tyrant emperor who killed his father and brother to ascend to the throne.
Yanlang is his older brother.
A feeling of being deceived slowly rose in Yun Chen's heart. He frowned and was filled with rage.
She didn't understand what was wrong with these two brothers? They had been pretending not to know her for so many years. Why?
She was so polite to Yan Lang and Concubine Zhao a few days ago, but it turns out they are just a bunch of hypocritical actors!
The more she thought about it, the angrier she became. But then she walked to the next shelf, touched the envelope on it, and opened it. The contents inside immediately made her anger disappear into thin air, leaving only endless shock and fear.
It was an official document reporting on military affairs, which contained all kinds of reports on the Black Scale Cavalry's training, reorganization, weapons and food, retreat and resettlement...
The person who received the letter was Yan Shijiu, and the person who reported it to the general was Jiao Zuotai.
The most vicious and rampant Jiao Zuotai was as obedient as a little lamb in the letter, with every word he wrote being respectful and cautious, and his wording being humble.
Further back, there is a thick plan called "Destroying the Will".
She tried hard to control her hands from shaking, but the letter still scattered to the ground, mixed with the pungent pine oil and stuck together, like a dark swamp that could swallow her up.
He secretly colluded with the Yu family when it fell, and pretended to promise Yu Yangji that he could only survive if he led the Huo Gang to the border. In fact, he ordered Jiao Zuotai to lead people to attack the Huo Gang.
To provoke border friction between Nan Kingdom and Luojiang, and join forces with Touman to massacre the village and provoke war.
He has been colluding with the rebel leader Gao Junjie for many years, and using gold, silver and food to fund the rebels!
Then there was the Three Kingdoms' invasion of Nan, which lasted for several years and spread like wildfire, destroying thousands of innocent lives. All of this was caused by...
Yan Shijiu’s hand?
There is also a plan to use Han Biao to kill King Xiyan, and a conspiracy to take away everything from Huo Gannian after the triumphal ceremony, so as to bring down the Huo Gang.
Reading the black words on paper, page after page, Yun Chen was stunned. His whole body felt numb and there seemed to be thunder in his head, making loud noises.
When he saw the words "soldiers surrounded the city, human flesh was used as food, Yun Chen was captured alive and his will was crushed" and "to humiliate the daughter of the Huo family would break Yun Chen's heart", Yun Chen felt like someone had poured a bucket of ice water on him in the hottest days of summer, and felt a bone-chilling coldness that pierced his heart and lungs.
She opened her mouth in a daze, sitting among the sticky pine oil and letters on the ground, like a lifeless puppet, frozen for a long time.
The silver coin used to make the decision turned out to be a guide from heaven...
At this moment, she immediately understood what Yan Shijiu meant by "going to Dongyan for a trip" and why she and the guards of the Yan Mansion were so busy.
This secret room filled with pine oil is ready to be set on fire after departure to completely eliminate all the evil.
When she thought about how she was almost tricked by Yan Shijiu into being imprisoned forever in Yunyan without knowing it, she couldn't help but tremble with fear.
She thought she was used to seeing all the sufferings in the world and the evil in people's hearts, but she never imagined that her most trusted and sincere friend was actually the most filthy culprit in the world!
She had the illusion that the person beside her was a demon. Why was he doing this to her? Why was he trying to destroy her?
Shock, anger, hatred, disappointment...
All the dark emotions intertwined like poisonous snakes, rushing towards her with their fangs bared, biting her throat tightly and making it difficult for her to breathe.
She felt dizzy, and she piled the letters up in a hurry and stumbled out of the secret room.
A Ling also followed and obediently closed the study door with his tail, as if he and Yun Chen had never entered there before.
It circled around Yun Chen strangely.
It didn't understand any conspiracy, but it instinctively smelled a dangerous smell of impending destruction from Yun Chen.
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