Taihe Iron Ore.

The steps that were about to take were stopped when I heard these four words. I stood still and slowly turned around and looked at him: "You said, Taihe Iron Mine?"

"Yes."

“…”

I thought for a while, and then said, "If I remember correctly, you followed the teacher to Beijing and met the prince for the first time, you gave him a dagger on his behalf."

Qinghan nodded: "That's right, it's the dagger made of iron from Taihe Iron Mine."

I thought about it, walked back to the room and sat next to him, and said, "Why did you do that at that time?"

He smiled: "You forgot, I said the reason at that time. Although the knife comes from Xichuan, the handle is in his hand." At this point, his smile gradually faded, and a solemn expression appeared on his face, and he said: "Xichuan is a powerful weapon."

"Yes, Xichuan is a powerful weapon. If it weren't for this, Pei Yuanhao wouldn't have sent the prince to Xichuan at this time."

Speaking of this, I couldn't help but chuckled: "The teacher seems to have a pair of eyes to see the future. At that time, when the relationship between Xichuan and the court was still incompatible, he seemed to have already seen what was going to happen now."

"So, he is a teacher, and we are students."

I turned to look at him and said with a smile: "Then, you are his most proud student. After studying for so many years, what have you learned? What can you see?"

“…”

He thought quietly for a while and said, "I think that dagger may be the key to the problem."

I was slightly stunned.

The iron-forged dagger from Taihe Iron Mine? He just said that Taihe Iron Mine produces green ore, and this ore is not suitable for forging weapons, but why did Fu Badai give such a dagger to the prince Nianshen? He said that the key may be this dagger, and what does it mean?

Seeing that my brows were frowning, Qinghan said, "I just remembered something."

I hurriedly looked up and asked him, "What's the matter?"

"The teacher asked me to give that dagger to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, but - that was also given to him by someone else."

"who?"

"Madam Yan." At this point, he paused for a moment, looked up at my sudden wide open eyes: "To be precise, it should be your mother."

I froze for a while, and then said for a while, "Did my mother give that dagger to the teacher?"

"Yes." He nodded and said, "When he was invited to the capital by several emperors, the teacher was preparing to give him a gift to the crown prince. Then, he found this dagger. You know, the teacher lived in Tianmu Temple at that time, and his eyes were blind and could not see anything, so his room was very messy. Many things were thrown today and tomorrow, but only this dagger was hidden in the shelf, and he took it out at that time."

“…”

"I thought it was strange at the time, so I asked him the origin of the dagger, and he told me that it was given to him by Mrs. Yan."

“…”

"At that time, I thought it was Mrs. Yan. Now I think he had no relationship with Mrs. Yan. The one who gave him this dagger should be your mother, Mrs. Yan."

“…”

I couldn't help but take a deep breath.

After saying those words, Qinghan looked up at me, saw that I was thinking in a daze, and said softly: "Qingying, do you know the origin of this dagger?"

"..." I hesitated for a moment and said, "I, probably know."

Just as I heard the things he recalled, another scene slowly emerged in my mind.

That is, in the backyard of the Tiejia Money House, Tie Yushan told me that the first scene when he and my mother met was on a New Year's Eve storm night. My mother first appeared in front of him, asking him to forge a dagger. Tie Yushan said that the dagger was very difficult to forge, so he made it all night.

Could it be that the dagger my mother gave to Fu Badai and Fu Badai gave to the prince was the dagger my mother made when she first saw Tieyushan?

If this is true-

This dagger has a long history.

But what is special about a dagger made of iron from Taihe Iron Mine? Why did my mother ask Tieyushan to forge it? Why did she give it to Fu Badai? What special intention did Fu Badai give it to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince?

Will Xichuan be like that dagger, a special weapon?

I was silent for a long time, then slowly raised my head to look at Qinghan and said, "If you say that dagger may be the key to the problem, then - who is now, want to buy Qingmine?"

“…”

"What is his purpose?"

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When I went back tonight, this question kept churning in my mind. When I woke up the next morning, I saw Miaoyan holding two dark circles. I hurriedly asked, "What's wrong with you? Didn't sleep well?"

I came back so late last night, so she was so obedient that she didn't bother me at all. She immediately went to bed as soon as I came back.

She looked up at me and said, "Mom, you chuckle all night, why did I sleep well?"

I immediately touched her face apologetically: "I'm sorry, I'm disturbing you."

She didn't complain anymore, but just opened her dark eyes wide and looked at me. After a while, she asked softly: "Mom, why are you upset about something?"

Looking at her serious questioning expression, although nothing was solved, I felt a little relieved.

However, it was useless to tell her this kind of thing, and my daughter should not be involved in this situation, so I smiled gently: "It's okay." After that, I got up to put on my clothes, and took off her clothes and dusted them off, preparing to let her get up as well.

"..." Miaoyan still knelt on the bed, looked at me quietly for a long time, and said, "Mom, are you--"

"Um?"

I looked up at her, but saw that she wanted to speak but stopped. In the end, I just shook my head: "It's nothing."

I smiled and said, "Get up soon."

After a while, breakfast was served in the kitchen, and there were still porridge and some side dishes. However, I don’t know why there was a large plate of yellow scrambled eggs more than yesterday, which seemed particularly attractive in such a table of vegetarian food. Miaoyan stared at the plate of scrambled eggs and couldn’t move it away, but he still asked me very sensible: “Mom, don’t you want to eat vegetarian food? Is this OK?”

"Eggs are vegetarian and can be eaten."

I picked up a large piece for her and put it in the bowl. After thinking about it, I looked up and asked the maid: "This is--"

"It was ordered by the Emperor."

"Oh. The emperor is also fasting in the mansion today?"

"No, the emperor went out early in the morning."
Chapter completed!