"These are the clothes you were wearing before. The clothes you are wearing now were changed by my father for you. These clothes are mine. But your clothes are in tatters like this. They are probably useless. Take a look.
Well, this is everything you have on you." Yang Xiuwen put down the things and let him check them by himself.
He did indeed touch something hard inside the bag of clothes just now. He didn't know whether it was the jade pendant he mentioned or silver.
Liu Jinqiao picked up his clothes and looked through them carefully. The jade pendant was still there, as was the money bag. It was good that he had the habit of tying the money bag to his belt, otherwise these things would definitely be washed away by the water.
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Previously, because his front bag was stolen on the street, he had no money to pay back when he bought something. Later, he learned to be good and tie the money bag twice on his belt so that it would not be stolen easily.
Unexpectedly, he could still leave money and a jade pendant for him this time. Thinking of the jade pendant, he quickly touched the jade pendant around his neck. This jade pendant was put on him by his biological mother, Queen Xu. I don’t know what technique was used.
?They couldn't untie it. Even if they used a knife to cut it, they couldn't cut the rope of the jade pendant around his neck, so they had to give up.
The child they sent to the palace to replace him also had one around his neck, but that one was just the same color. The emperor paid a lot of money to make it, so it was almost fake.
It was his mother's birthday a month ago. Because she was the matron of the house, the house was very lively. At that time, he didn't come out because he was not feeling well, but he still had gifts given to him.
Although his mother didn't like him, his father was kind to him and secretly gave him many good things, asking him not to tell his mother and hide them himself.
On the day of his birthday, he had finished copying the words he was punished to copy, and wanted to put them in the main room in his mother's yard so that his mother could check them when she came back. Who knew that there was no one in his mother's yard? But there was a radical in the corner of the yard.
The lights are on.
According to Liu Jinqiao's knowledge, that corner should be the servant's room. Now the servants in the entire Houfu should be busy in the front yard. Why would anyone be lazy here?
Liu Jinqiao was curious and walked over quietly. Before she got too close, she heard a small voice coming from inside. After listening carefully, she realized that it was her mother's voice.
Liu Jinqiao felt even more abnormal. Her mother was the protagonist now, so she should be entertaining guests in the front yard. Why was she here?
Liu Jinqiao was afraid that he had heard wrongly, so he moved closer carefully and finally heard clearly what the person inside said.
But when Liu Jinqiao heard his mother calling the emperor in such a loud voice, Liu Jinqiao almost fainted on the spot.
His mother was actually hanging out with the current emperor here. This was so unconventional. What made him even more unbelievable was that he was included in what they said. His Majesty also asked his mother to find a reason for him as soon as possible and send him out.
, his throne wanted to be passed on to their son.
Their son?? This sentence shattered Liu Jinqiao's three views. At this time, Liu Jinqiao's thoughts did not diverge, but he listened to the conversation inside carefully and attentively, and still had a trace of energy to pay attention to the door.
It was only at the end that they discovered that the child they exchanged turned out to be himself. After hearing those conversations, Liu Jinqiao had no intention of continuing to listen.
He wanted to just walk away quietly, but who knew he was eavesdropping? It turned out that he was not the only one, but there was also a little maid. This maid was a little orphan girl he used to know on the street.
Because his mother didn't want him to have a maid around him, the girl was sent to her mother's place to work as an errand.
The movement just now had obviously alarmed the whole house, so the little maid directly pushed Liu Jinqiao out of the courtyard and put the matter of eavesdropping away from him.
The little girl was really shocked just now. She didn't expect these two people to be so shameless. The young master is kind-hearted, how could he meet such a disgusting person?
The little girl begged Liu Jinqiao with her eyes to tell him to leave quickly. He must not be involved in this matter, otherwise the young master would never survive.
The young master was her savior, and she could not just watch the young master being killed.
Looking at her pleading eyes, Liu Jinqiao had no choice but to leave. He knew what the little girl meant, and he couldn't risk his own life.
Sure enough, the little girl was found dead in the lotus pond the next day. It was said that she slipped and fell. In a mansion like the Hou Mansion, the death of a maid is nothing, and the matter passed quickly.
However, Liu Jinqiao felt that according to that woman's suspicious character, she would never expose her lightly like this. Sure enough, a few days later, the woman held another banquet. This time, he had to attend. He was just passing by the covered bridge.
When he was walking, he tripped over something and fell into the lake.
The lake water was bone-chilling in winter, he was wearing a heavy cotton jacket, and the woman wanted to kill him, so he soaked in the lake for a long time. It was King Chu who passed by and rescued him.
After that, he started to have a high fever. He didn't know whether he should have died or whether he should have died. The woman didn't ask him to see a doctor. He kept having the fever intermittently for about ten days and then he gradually got better on his own.
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The woman did not intend to let him go like this, but found a reason to send him to Zhuangzi to recuperate, and sent someone to intercept and kill him on the way.
That's when he was seriously injured and fell into the water. Fortunately, he had taken precautions and thought of many possibilities. As early as when he was ten years old, blood dripped on his chest because of being slapped.
After putting on the jade pendant, he can access another small courtyard that others cannot.
This small courtyard follows him wherever he goes. It can store things, but no one can enter. It is half the size of the courtyard he lives in now.
He had hidden all the good things his father and grandfather had given him in this mysterious place, and only he could get them anyway.
When he had a high fever, he put all the valuable things in his yard into this place, including clothes, bedding, shoes, and socks, and asked people outside to prepare some for him. He didn't know when the woman would take action.
So being fully prepared at all times is the only thing he can do for himself.
I also secretly went to the kitchen to smuggle a lot of fresh meals and put them in the yard.
There was something strange about his yard. He had never seen walls made of this kind of material before. The walls were smooth, white, and shiny.
It has been several years since he got this thing, and it took him more than a year to figure out how to use it. He didn't dare to ask others about this thing, for fear of being guided and trying to kill people and seize treasures.
He was confused for a few days at first, afraid of being discovered by others. But when he was sure that others could not see the yard, he started to be unscrupulous and hid all the good things that his father and grandfather had given him in private.