Eight-year-old Princess: Phoenix Reborn

Mrs. Guogong looked at Yunshang with a slight expression, with a bit of surprise in her eyes: "Why do you know her?"

When Yunshang heard Mrs. Guogong say this, she knew that she must recognize the woman, so she quickly took Mrs. Guogong's hand and said, "Grandmother, tell me who that woman is? Her identity is for me and for Qingyan." , very important."

Mrs. Guogong didn't know why Yunshang said that, but she suddenly fell silent, took a piece of pastry from the plate and took a bite, after a long while, she sighed softly and said, "If I'm not wrong, the person you mentioned , should be one of the Cao family sisters."

"Cao's family?" Yunshang was a little surprised, Yuqin said that the unfavorable talented person was surnamed Cao, could that woman have something to do with that talented person? But it should be related, otherwise, how could he deliberately place the woman in Cao Cairen's palace.

Mrs. Guo nodded: "The Cao family, in a dynasty, there are always some families that were once very prosperous, but lost very quickly, and the Cao family is one of them. The Cao family is the hero of the ancestors when they founded the country. The Xia Dynasty has a pivotal position, especially when Emperor Wenzong was alive, and the empress of Emperor Wenzong is the Cao family."

Yun Chang was slightly stunned, and for a while, he didn't remember who the Emperor Wenzong was talking about in the mouth of Mrs. Guo.

Seeing her expression, Mrs. Guo knew her doubts, and explained with a smile: "Emperor Wenzong is the father of the Supreme Emperor."

It was only then that Yunshang suddenly realized, but since Yunshang came to Xia Kingdom, she had never heard of the Cao family. Presumably, as Mrs. Guo said, it declined rapidly after its peak.

The Duke's wife continued: "At that time, the queen belonged to the Cao family, and the crown prince married the queen's niece, who was also a daughter of the Cao family. The daughters of the Cao family were all extremely beautiful, and each of them was as beautiful as a charmer. At that time, all the ladies in Jincheng were proud to befriend the daughters of the Cao family. And the daughters of the Cao family all had a unique skill, that is, playing the pipa, and they also had one thing in common, each daughter had a mole of tears under her eyes."

"If you say that twenty or thirty years ago, the person who was good at playing the pipa must have been the daughter of the Cao family. Among the daughters of the Cao family of that generation, except for Cao Wenxi, who married the prince at that time, she still had two One is called Cao Yarou, the other is called Cao Qianming. I just don't know which one you are talking about?"

When Yun Chang was asked such a question by Mrs. Guogong, she made a difficult situation. She had never seen the portrait, so she couldn't tell Mrs. Guogong the specific appearance of the woman.

Seeing that Yunshang didn't speak, Mrs. Guogong smiled again and continued: "People with moles of tears are all bad for their lives. None of the three daughters of the Cao family escaped such a demon. Although the eldest daughter Cao Wenxi married The crown prince at that time, but because of this, the Cao family stood on the side of the crown prince. After the Supreme Emperor seized the throne, he uprooted the Cao family from top to bottom, but none remained. A good century-old family, It’s gone like that.”

Yun Shang was startled, and then suddenly remembered that although Xia Huanyu finally ascended the throne, he was not the prince. His country was won by killing his father and brother.

But according to what the Duke's wife said, that woman should be the daughter of the Cao family, but if it was the daughter of the Cao family, she would definitely not stay with Xia Huanyu according to Xia Huanyu's temperament. She had seen Xia Huanyu's cruelty with her own eyes. of. Could it be that the story is really as legendary as that sung in the play, one of the three daughters of the Cao family escaped and met Xia Huanyu, and the two became acquainted with each other and even secretly conceived each other. But Xia Huanyu didn't bring her into the palace because she was the daughter of the Cao family.

Yun Shang only felt a little confused in her mind, didn't Xia Huanyu like Hua Ling from the beginning to the end?

Yun Shang was a little disturbed by these inexplicable guesses, so she didn't want to think about it, but only thought in her heart, although she still doesn't know which daughter of the Cao family she is, but she also knows the general identity, which can be regarded as a Harvested. As long as you follow this clue, you will find the truth soon.

Thinking about it, Yunshang smiled at Mrs. Guogong and said, "Thank you, grandma."

Thinking of Hua Ling, Yunshang remembered that Mrs. Guogong was still Hua Ling's mother, and Mrs. Guogong should take her to see Hua Ling after she finally entered the palace. Thinking of this, Yunshang turned around with a smile, and said softly: "The queen mother should be reading a book now, grandma might as well go to the Taihe Palace with me to sit down."

Mrs. Guo didn't hesitate, she stood up with a smile, and walked to the Taihe Palace with Yunshang.

After the Duke's wife left the palace, Yunshang left Taihe Palace and walked towards Weiyang Palace, sorting out the current clues in her mind. It is almost certain that the beauty in the beauty picture is Xia Houjing's biological mother, and that woman stayed in the harem during her pregnancy, living in Luoxue Pavilion of Cao Cairen. That woman is the daughter of Cao's family, and Cao Cairen is also surnamed Cao. And Yuqin said that Cao Cairen was also extremely beautiful, and the reason why he was not favored was because of his family background, which was probably related to the Cao family.

In this way, Cao Cairen and Xia Houjing's biological mother should be related, and that Cao Cairen may be the most critical clue breakthrough point.

Yun Shang thought to herself, and suddenly stopped in her footsteps: "Qin Yi, do you know where the booklets that record the family background information of the concubines in the harem are kept?"

Qin Yi thought for a while before answering softly: "I think it's very likely that I'm in the library."

Yun Shang heard the words, turned her head to look at Qin Yi and asked, "Where is the library?"

Qin Yi quickly pointed to a small three-story building on the opposite side of the lake and said to Yun Shang, "That's right there."

Yun Chang raised her eyes and looked over, then turned around and said, "Come on, let's go and have a look."

When she arrived at the library, Yunshang saw guards guarding the door, Qin Yi stepped forward and showed Yunshang's empress token to the two guards, and the two guards quickly unlocked the door of the library: "The empress can check the books and materials on the first and second floors at will, but the third floor doesn't even have a key for her subordinates."

Yun Chang responded, then lifted her foot and walked in. It's just that Yun Chang was a little dumbfounded as soon as he entered the door. The library was full of bookshelves row after row, and there were probably hundreds of thousands of books.

Yun Shang walked over one by one, but fortunately, there were labels on the bookshelves by category, which was much better than looking for them one by one. Yun Shang and Qin Yi searched for the labels on the bookshelves one by one, but the first floor is not found.

The two then stepped on the wooden stairs to the second floor. There were more books on the second floor than on the first floor, but they were also more messy. It took the two of them more than two hours to find them from the bookshelves one after another. In addition to the bookshelf that records the data of the concubines in the palace, there are thousands of books on the bookshelf.

Yun Chang frowned, she had no choice but to read book by book, but saw that it was getting dark, but still couldn't find Cao Cairen's booklet.

Yunshang and Qinyi were looking at it together, but heard the sound of the wooden stairs. Yunshang and Qinyi looked at each other, then quickly put the booklet in his hand back to the distance, and walked to another place. Standing still, he took out a book and flipped through it casually.

"What are you looking at? Are you so fascinated?" Luo Qingyan's voice came, and Yun Chang's hanging heart was relieved.

"Why is Your Majesty here?" Yun Shang looked at the book in her hand, it turned out to be a playbook, and quickly put the book back on the shelf, sticking out her tongue.

It's just that Luo Qingyan saw it very clearly, smiled and pulled out the book, raised his eyebrows and said: "I always thought that you only like to read military books and medical history books, but you don't want to read even opera books, and you don't want to read books about the history of medicine and medicine." So fascinated, to see that the sky is dark and have not yet returned to Weiyang Palace."

At the end of Luo Qingyan's words, there was a bit of sadness, and Yun Shang suddenly realized that this library was supposed to preserve good books, because there were no windows, and palace lanterns were lit on the walls of the house, so that people didn't know what was going on outside. What time is it. I was afraid that Luo Qingyan would not see her when he returned to Weiyang Palace, so he came out to look for her.

Yun Shang stuck out her tongue, looked at the stairs, and said, "Didn't Manager Liu come with you?"

Luo lightly shook his head: "What's wrong?"

Yun Shang thought for a while, and then honestly confessed: "I'm looking for information about the concubines in the Empress Dowager's palace."

"Concubine information?" Luo Qingyan frowned, "What are you looking for?"

Yun Shang thought for a while, then pulled Lalo to speak softly, made him bend down, leaned beside him and told him what he had discovered in the past two days. After Luo Qingyan listened to Yun Shang's words, he didn't make a sound for a long time, before he said, "When did you say she entered the palace?"

Yunshang thought about it carefully, and Yuqin said, then Cao Cairen entered the palace through the draft in the fourth or fifth year after Concubine Liu entered the palace. The draft is held every three years. It should be held in the first year of the new emperor's ascension to the throne, but Xia Huanyu married Hua Ling after he became the throne, and she was the only one in the harem at that time. In the second year, the harem gradually became more abundant, and at that time the first draft should be held. If Yun Shang guessed correctly, nobleman Cao should have entered the palace in the third year after Concubine Liu entered the palace, and the third year after Concubine Liu entered the palace was the sixth year after Xia Huanyu ascended the throne.

"The sixth year after the Supreme Emperor ascended the throne, it should be that year." Yun Shang replied softly.

"Where is that bookshelf?" Luo asked softly.

Yun Shang hurriedly took Luo Qingyan to the bookshelf, Luo Qingyan smiled and said: "You have been looking for so long just now, but you haven't found any patterns? On this bookshelf, there is a row of emperors. Xia Huanyu He is the fourth monarch of the Xia Kingdom, so it should be the fourth row, the fourth row..." Luo Qingyan slid his hand down and landed on the fourth row, and then continued: "The information is also based on time. Arranged from right to left, the sixth year, it should be the second draft, and it should be a bit to the right."

Luo Qingyan slowly swiped across the row of booklets, took out a booklet at random, only looked at the name written on the face, then put it back, took it four or five times in a row, Luo Qingyan said Then he raised his head and said, "But it's called Cao Shanxiu?"