Queen Flower

"How is it now, it seems that she doesn't know the inside story." Jiang Lan asked him.

Xiao Yan pondered for a moment, "Many people came out to testify against me, I'm sure I don't know most of them, but there is an old couple, I know." He sighed, "I knew them when I was a child, and later I often Go see if they need anything, but..."

"They all decided that you are a spy of the southern barbarians?" Jiang Lan asked suspiciously. Everyone has feelings. How can someone so familiar be so cruel to slander them?

"That's not true," Xiao Yan shook his head. "They just came out and said with certainty that my biological mother, who cared for an orphan on her deathbed, was by no means a Chinese."

"So, why don't we ask again?" Jiang Lan suggested that if it's a lie, if it's a lie, it will make a mistake if it's repeated a few times, but if it's not wrong a few times, it must be a pre-planned lie. It's been decades, and no one can remember it so clearly.

The two went to the old couple's house overnight, and Xiao Yan was familiar with the road and arrived soon.

The two old men woke up in the middle of the night and found two masked men in black, with only their eyes exposed, standing in front of the bed. The two were quick-witted and hit their acupuncture points respectively, making them immobile and unable to call for help.

"Don't be afraid of the old man." Jiang Lan felt a little uneasy in his heart. It was a sin to frighten the old man in the middle of the night. But if they were really instructed to do bad things, they deserved it.

She cleared her throat, "We are Xiao Yan's friends, we are here to ask you something, as long as you tell the truth, we will not embarrass you."

After getting the approval, Xiao Yan untied their acupoints.

The old man glanced at the tall Xiao Yan, with tears in his eyes, he wiped the corners of his eyes, comforted his wife and told her not to be afraid, and said, "I didn't know this would hurt A Yan, A Yan is a good boy."

Jiang Lan was a little angry and said angrily: "Then you want to harm him, who told you to say that?"

The old man shook his head, "No one instructed me, but I really didn't lie. Ayan's mother is indeed not from the Celestial Dynasty."

He looked at Xiao Yan and said, "More than 20 years ago, several wars between the Celestial Dynasty and the Southern Barbarians and the Zun Kingdom just ended. One day there were many people fleeing here, and there were people from various places. At that time, there were natural disasters, man-made disasters and wars Not only that, everyone doesn't care, among them is you, oh no, it's A Yan's mother." He wiped his face and continued: "At that time A Yan was still very young, and she entrusted A Yan to him before she died. The master, I remember clearly, she also gave him a small package, the cloth for that package is only produced in the southern barbarian country, and there is absolutely no Tian Dynasty. And her accent and behavior, I can also be sure that she is definitely not Celestial women."

The old man sighed, and the tears stayed again, "I didn't expect them to say that A Yan is a spy. If I knew this, I would never have said it."

The two left the old man's house, Xiao Yan looked bleak and very lonely.

Jiang Lan patted him on the back and comforted him: "This way, you can't be sure that you are from the Southern Barbarians. Even if you are really not from the Celestial Dynasty, you can't conclude that you are a spy." She herself is not from the Celestial Dynasty. Could it be a spy? Discriminating against people based on geographical location is truly unacceptable and hinders social development.

"Maybe I'm really a southern barbarian. No wonder my uncle wants to kill my relatives righteously." Xiao Yan's expression was gloomy. As a person who grew up in Xiangcheng, he understood one thing very well. Since this is a city in the southern border of the Celestial Dynasty, it is far from the southern barbarian country. Recently, every time the two countries fought, whether it was an invasion of the Nanman by the Celestial Empire or a sneak attack by the Nanman on the Celestial Empire, the people of Xiangcheng would always be affected, and the young and middle-aged family members would be drafted into the army to fight, either dead or injured, so he could understand. The hatred in the hearts of the people here.

"Forget it, let's get out of here." Xiao Yan said.

Is this the end? It's really a heroic shortness of breath, Jiang Lan said in her heart, but also, her own affairs are not yet clear, so it is better to part ways. She still has to go to find the golden branch, so far there is no clue at all.

Xiao Yan looked at her with a sad face, thinking that she was worried about herself, and took her hand, "Follow me." With his feet a little, he performed light work and flew away.

Jiang Lan hurriedly accelerated, the two jumped and flew on the eaves, and finally stopped far in front of a private house. He looked around and stayed where he was, waited quietly for a while, and then threw a small stone. Seeing that there was no movement, he took her hand and jumped into the yard.

"This is my house." Xiao Yan opened the door and pulled Jiang Lan in.

Jiang Lan looked around curiously. This was the first time he had entered the home of a martial arts leader. He didn't know what was the difference. It doesn't look like much, just like all single men who practice martial arts, simple or even rudimentary, and it is a world away from Wei's house, and it is not as good as his master Wen Daolin's home. There are not many things in the house, but it is still tidy. She glanced around and found that there was not even a kitchen. It is estimated that this person never started a party at home. If he wanted to drink water in the middle of the night, wouldn't he have to set up a shelf in the yard to make a fire?

Xiao Yan touched his head and felt a little embarrassed, "I don't usually stay at home. I'll let you arrange our house in the future. You wait a moment, and I'll find something."

Jiang Lan ignored him, this person is too fond of her, so it's better to take a rest. Fortunately, there are chairs and teapots. After shaking it, there was no water. After sitting on the chair for a while, she saw Xiao Yan walked out with empty hands and a depressed face.

Sitting in his chair, he was angry and a little puzzled.

"What's wrong, what baby is gone?" Jiang Lan asked.

Xiao Yan shook his head and said, "It's not a treasure, it's just my mother's relic. I was going to take us and leave Xiangcheng, but now it's gone?"

"Is it very valuable? What?" Jiang Lan's curiosity came, and faintly felt that the focus of the matter had begun.

"It's not an important thing, because it's my mother's relic. I was going to give it to my daughter-in-law. It's a small tube, and it's exquisitely done. There is a beautiful flower print on it, which seems to be called a golden branch. Yes, it's not actually gold, I think it's gilded." Xiao Yan explained slowly, and saw Jiang Lan's eyes light up in front of him, as if he suddenly saw a golden mountain.

Jiang Lan wanted to pat her thigh, but when she heard the words "Golden Branch", she suddenly understood everything, and she said how could she have saved this hero by such a coincidence, the real reason is here . Since she is looking for it, it proves that this is really a treasure. There is an antidote for Zunguo in the golden bottle, so what will be in this golden branch? Perhaps, this hero was persecuted for no reason, precisely because of it.

Jiang Lan felt that he had stepped on a key point. People died for wealth, and birds died for food. The relationship here is big. She stared at Xiao Yan and asked, "Who else has seen it except you?"

"It's not a big deal, has anyone seen it?" Xiao Yan frowned and thought for a long time, then he said, "No one has seen it, and I don't usually take it out. By the way, Shu Ying met with me once. Yes," he glanced at Jiang Lan and said with a bit of difficulty: "She asked me to ask for it, and I said it was my mother's relic and I wanted to leave it to my daughter-in-law. Later, my uncle asked me to marry Shuying. , but she was rejected by me, I have always regarded her as my sister, really."

"Okay, let me ask you, did your uncle fall in love with you before, or did he fall in love with you after your baby was exposed?" Jiang Lan asked, this is the crux of the problem.

"Uncle Shi has always treated me very well, but he has always opposed his daughter's association with martial arts people. This marriage was later." Xiao Yan said with great certainty, "Shortly after I refused, there were those documents. , I've become a spy in the South."

After he finished speaking, he was also silent, things would not be so coincidental. Before, he had a vague understanding of Shu Ying's mind. The two could not just avoid seeing them when they grew up together, but he didn't mean it, so he could only play stupid. Anyway, he knew that his uncle was very disgusted with his daughter and martial arts people. contacts, including yourself. Therefore, when Uncle Shi suddenly proposed to marry Shu Ying to him, he was completely surprised. Uncle Shi insisted again and again, and he repeatedly refused, and finally broke up unhappy. So much so that Xiao Yan felt a little ashamed when his uncle took out the document to kill his relatives righteously.

However, a few days after he "died", the house was stolen, and the other property and banknotes were still there, but the golden branch disappeared, and there was no trace of burglary in the house, as if it disappeared out of thin air. If he died after entering the mountain this time, no one would find his mother's relic missing again.

The two looked at each other and both understood the truth of the matter. It seemed that they had to visit the Wei Mansion tonight.