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Chapter 195 Secret text

Datetime 2025-04-03 11:28:50

Chapter 195 Secret text
As night went, the candles in Chengqian Hall had been turned off, and only the cold moonlight fell to the ground through the window lattice. Xie Tingji lay on the bed, his eyes closed, his brows frowned slightly, and he fell into a nightmare.
In his dream, he saw a soft little boy being held in his arms by a gentle and beautiful woman. The woman tapped the little boy’s head from time to time, her eyes full of doting.
"Ji’er, this is your name. "She said softly, pointing her slender jade fingers at the handwriting on the rice paper.
Xie Tingji suddenly felt a sharp pain in his heart, and his right hand unconsciously pressed his chest, and deep attachment and nostalgia still flashed in his eyes.
"Who? "He called in a low voice, with unconcealed fatigue.
He slowly stretched out his left hand, as if he wanted to grasp the short-term warmth. However, when he took his steps, everything in front of him dissipated like smoke, leaving only a gray piece.
Xie Tingji breathed a sigh of relief, his eyes returned to calm, and he slowly moved forward in the darkness, not knowing where he was going.
"Swish—"
He suddenly opened his eyes, and the emotions in his eyes were difficult to tell. After quickly sitting up, he was shrouded in indifference and grief. Even he himself would forget that he had warmth before.
"Ha——"
I didn’t know what I thought of, a bitter mockery cursed at the corner of his lips. If it weren’t for those people, why would he have to drag his broken body to survive in the world? !
Word?
Perhaps it was the dream that awakened his sealed memory and he suddenly remembered something. When he was young, the woman enlightened him with a special word. That text is exactly the same as what my allies gave him today!
It seems that as long as he cracks the special characters on the painting, he can uncover more secrets of the Ye family back then.
He stood up and came to the desk, and the moonlight shone on the desk, reflecting his cold side face.
It seems that he must go to Fengxi Palace.
After changing into night clothes, Xie Tingji avoided the palace guards and took a shortcut to Fengxi Palace where the queens of Daye have lived.
The closed palace gate not only separates the inside and outside, but also separates his happiness and misfortune.
He looked up at the three big characters “Fengxi Palace” on the door, and then looked away.
As the memory gradually became clear, he remembered the secret door that the woman had built. It was originally built to take him out of the palace to play, but now it has become a passage for him to sneak into Fengxi Palace.
Following the memory, Xie Tingji found the location of the secret door. He squatted down slightly, adjusted the short knife around his waist to a convenient position, and then reached out to push the stone door in the secret passage.
"Cruff——"
The secret door made a slight sound and slowly opened.
Xie Tingji held his breath and listened to the movements outside. After confirming that no one noticed it, he quickly flashed into the door and closed it.
Turning around and looking, my eyes suddenly became clear.
The moonlight is like water, sprinkling in the courtyard of Fengxi Palace.
Xie Tingji looked around and found that everything here was almost the same as he remembered. However, the once prosperous and lively palace is now only deadly silence.
Perhaps it was because people cleaned all year round, and there was no trace of dust in the hall, nor any trace of dilapidation.
He walked into the main hall with his hands and feet, and the moonlight shone on the ground through the window lattice, reflecting mottled shadows.
His eyes fell on a portrait in the hall, which was a portrait of the woman. The woman in the portrait has picturesque eyebrows and smiles on her lips, but there is a hint of sadness in her eyes.
He stretched out his hand, his fingertips trembled slightly, as if he wanted to caress the portrait, but stopped in mid-air.
The woman he should have called “mother” has long disappeared!
The moonlight shines on the ground through the windows, adding a bit of desolation to the empty inner hall.
Xie Tingji withdrew his hand and walked into the hall.
Everything in the hall remained the same: the neat dressing table, the bed, and the soft couch that he had sat and heard countless stories, all lay there quietly, as if waiting for the return of his master.
His eyes did not change at all, and he was still calm and calm. He quickly walked to the desk and began to search for the book book with special characters left by the woman.
However, he searched everywhere on the shelf, but he couldn’t even find the shadow of the book.
Over the years, the vicious woman in the Gu family has not found the characters on the portrait, which means that no one knows the booklets left by the woman except herself.
The sound of footsteps of guards patrolling came outside the hall, and there was not much time left. But where exactly will the booklet be?
For some reason, Chu Qingyuan’s figure appeared in Xie Tingji’s mind. If it were her, would she think where would the booklet be hidden?
Her figure seemed to appear in his eyes. He followed her and actually came to a small bed – the place where he slept when he was a child.
It turns out that a woman who has insight into everything but is about to lose everything is his son in the end!
He seemed to be able to see the woman’s despair and worry before her death – worried about the suffering her three-year-old son was about to suffer, but he had to leave him to die.
Xie Tingji felt that there were countless ants in his heart eating his heart, which made him feel very painful. He let out a long sigh and began to search for possible clues on the small bed.
"Dongdong——"
Xie Tingji knelt in front of the bed, tapping the bed board with his fingers, and an empty echo echoed in the quiet room.
He moved his heart, immediately held his breath and listened carefully.
“Dongdong–“
He trembled his hands, slowly lifted the mattress, and stared at the bottom of the bed.
In the dim light and shadow, a box came into view, lying quietly there, waiting to be discovered.
BoxThere is a strangely shaped groove on it, which should be used to hold the key to open it.
Xie Tingji’s heartbeat couldn’t help but speed up, but for some reason, an unspeakable complexity seemed to surge in his heart.
He carefully observed the lines on the box, and the lines seemed to tell clues.
Suddenly, his eyes stopped at a detail, and the lines were exactly the same as his childhood peace pendant.
But this peace jade pendant is not special except that it is made in the palace.
A trace of surprise flashed in Xie Tingji’s eyes, but he immediately realized that this jade pendant was the key to opening the box.
He returned to the inner room and stopped in front of the woman’s dressing table.
He gently opened the drawer, and the jade pendant lay there quietly, as if waiting for its owner.
Xie Tingji carefully but quickly picked up the jade pendant. When he placed the jade pendant on the groove, a crisp “click” sound and the box slowly opened. Fastest.