"The 'fiancée' who replaced you is a guest in the Fu Mansion. ”

"Well, now that Gao Liwen is nowhere to be found, and the Fu and Gao families can't tear their faces at this time, it is natural for the Gao family to release hostages in the Fu family to show their sincerity. ”

"Do you really don't know, or do you pretend not to know?" "Seven" obviously didn't believe Gao Ran's innocent and ignorant appearance at the moment, and couldn't help but raise his eyebrows and look at her slightly provocatively.

"Well, what do you know? I only know that the Fu family took advantage of this opportunity to pick their favorite candidate in the Gao family and brought it back to the Fu family; I only know that the 'sister' who is the same age as me, her father 'happens to be' the confidant of Yu Ying, the prime minister of the dynasty; not only that, but it also happens that if it weren't for the Fu family's proposal first, I am afraid that this 'sister' should have made a marriage contract with Yu Ying's only son, Yu Qiwen; and coincidentally, not only Yu Ying is the henchman of the emperor of the current dynasty, but even his son Yu Qiwen is also the confidant of the emperor's favorite third prince Yun Zhen......

"Hehe, it's really hard to say, is this Fu family's choice really just such a coincidence, or is it clearly deliberately testing the Gao family's determination?"

While speaking, Gao Ran didn't look at "Seven" at all, but stared intently at the cup of tea in his hand that rippled due to her shaking, playing with interest.

"So, aren't they in love?"

"Two lovers?"

"Two lovers?"

Amu didn't expect that his casual muttering would provoke the unanimous voice of "Seven" and Gao Ran.

Seeing that the two of them looked at him so "hot", Amu had no choice but to silently put down the dishes and chopsticks in his hand and confessed to them: "I still don't know what Gao Ran said just now......

As he spoke, Amu looked at Gao Ran meaningfully.

When Gao Ran received his gaze, he immediately understood that the implication of Amu's words was: these days, just being busy seeing Gao Liwen in person and returning to contact her as soon as possible - this journey has exhausted almost all of his energy. And his understanding of the Fu family's recent situation was only two days after he arrived in Qingli Town, and he began to investigate it in person. In addition, in order to meet Gao Ran as soon as possible, he deliberately chose to settle in the inn controlled by Tiange, so it was inconvenient to easily contact his own intelligence network, which also led to the superficial and one-sided information of the Fu family that he now had.

However, fortunately, he didn't know much about the current reality of the Fu family, so he could pay more attention to the appearance that the Fu family deliberately created that was easy for outsiders to misunderstand, and not like "Seven" and Gao Ran, because he already had a seventy or eighty percent understanding of the Fu family's reality, he had an insight into the possible true intentions hidden by the appearance at a glance, but he couldn't remember it very well, or paid too much attention to the various specific details of the appearance that was deliberately created.

And after Amu's unintentional reminder, Gao Ran suddenly realized the flaw in the contradiction that she and "Seven" almost missed, but it should have been the most obvious.

"I understand!" Realizing his omission, Gao Ran immediately interrupted Amu's words, but still expressed his unfinished meaning for him: "You mean, now not only is the Fu family deliberately trying to create an alliance with the Gao family, but even Fu Wenxuan and my 'sister', they themselves, want others to mistakenly think that they are in love?"

"At least, before I heard what you said, the two people I saw during my exploration in the past two days would indeed make me mistakenly think that they were two people who were in love with each other and loved each other......"

"Huh. Gao Ran sneered unconsciously, then turned to look at "Seven" and asked, "I suddenly became a little curious about my 'sister'." Supposedly, she's only about ten days younger than me, what's her name?"

"Seven" frowned and thought about it. After all, it was his job to memorize important information, and besides, his position was different from Gao Ran's, so he had to remember the names of people Gao Ran didn't intend to remember, but they weren't completely unimportant. It's just that, because before that, he didn't expect that this person, who originally thought he didn't need to pay too much attention, turned out to be so important...... As a result, the impatience interfered with him in recalling the person's name.

After pondering for a while, he finally remembered the woman's name: Gao Yu.

"Gao Yu?" Gao Ran thought for a moment, and then instructed "Seven": "I will repair a letter immediately, and you will send a reliable person to the capital as soon as possible for me." Remember, it must be delivered to Yu Qiwen, the only son of Yu Ying, the prime minister of the dynasty. I need to confirm one thing with him personally. ”

"Seven" listened to it, and roughly guessed what Gao Ran might want to confirm, but he didn't expect that she would use such a direct way to try to get his confirmation from Yu Qiwen. But he also knew that Gao Ran would never do anything that he was not more than eighty percent sure of, and he now knew that Yu Qiwen had lived with Gao Ran in that hermitage for two years, so it was not difficult for him to guess that Yu Qiwen and Gao Ran might have an extraordinary friendship.

Even, because he had seen with his own eyes how Gao Ran tried to keep Qiao'er in her way, it was not difficult for "Seven" to think of a possibility: even, perhaps, Yu Qiwen may have promised Gao Ran that he would take care of her when she was unable to protect the people she cared about......

Thinking of this, "Seven" looked at Gao Ran's eyes and flickered unconsciously, but the next moment it returned to normal, and he responded to her orders very cooperatively.

"Alright, then we'll split up now. 'Seven' go with me to my room, and when I have finished writing the letter, you will go and finish the matter for me first, and then go back to the inn and wait for me to return. ”

"Seven" listened, but only nodded his head, and did not raise any objection to her temporary change of the original plan that she had promised yesterday that she would take him to the Fu Mansion with her.

But when the two of them got up almost at the same time, Gao Ran turned to Amu and commanded:

"Amu, you can take advantage of this time to sneak into the Fu Mansion for me first, inform Fu Wenxuan, and ask him to answer me at the back door about an hour later. And told him that this time because of my embarrassing identity, and it is not suitable for me to meet with him and the Fu family master in public for the time being, so I can only secretly go to meet them in the guise of a man, so that he and the Fu family master can prepare early, and our meeting must be held in a secret place, and after that, I will leave Qingli and go to the capital.

"By the way, you also have to explain to Fu Wenxuan that because he has seen my male appearance, I am not worried that he will not recognize me. - Then he may believe your message. ”

"Okay, I'll go. ”

So, the three of them immediately went their separate ways.

After Gao Ran finished writing the letter and handed it to "Seven", she went separately from him and went to the Fu Mansion alone. When she came to the corner of an alley next to the back door of the Fu Mansion, she was suddenly taken into her arms by Amu and taken into the depths of the alley by him.

"Why don't you resist?, do you know it's me?" only when Gao Ran was taken to a secret place was enough that Amu let go of her and asked with a little puzzlement.

"Hmm. I can smell you from afar. You may not know, what about our disciples of the Medical Valley, in fact, the strongest is not the medical poison technique in the eyes of ordinary people, or the seemingly mysterious Qimen Dunjia technique that very few can master, but our five senses that are different from ordinary people. Well...... It is no exaggeration to say that it may have to fight with the five senses of those wild birds and beasts. ”

"Five senses?"

"It's the five senses of hearing, seeing, smelling, smelling, and touching. Basically, you can also understand us Medicine Valley disciples as a group of 'beasts in human skin'. Moreover, the more profound the cultivation, the more obvious the primordial beastly nature you can feel in him, especially the nature that likes freedom and hates bondage, will be more obvious. - In the eyes of ordinary people, it is easier for you to be simply mistaken for the so-called 'unruly'. ”

"Beasts, beasts, oh, this is the first time I've heard of someone comparing themselves to beasts......"

When Gao Ran heard this, he was not angry, but replied with a slight mockery: "You think that way, because of your own prejudice, because you have magnified yourself too much—the only animals you know that you have willingly defined as so-called 'beasts'—their individual habits are just part of their survival instincts." You also understand the habits that you have magnified and paid attention to according to your own wishes, and then wishfully define the beauty and ugliness of those habits, and thus wishfully devalue those 'beasts'. It seems that as long as you think like this, you can make yourself look very different from them, and use their so-called ugliness to reflect the nobility and beauty of 'people' like you. Huh!"

Amu had never heard such ridicule, and she couldn't understand why Gao Ran, who was also a "human", would comment on him and the same "person" as him?

But Gao Ran didn't give him a chance to talk back, and after sneering, she lowered her face and continued to him very seriously:

"At least, I know that there are many beasts in this world that we don't know. Each of them has its own ability to survive, and most of the instinctive habits that they can retain from generation to generation are closely related to their survival. For them, those habits, including those habits that you don't despise, have their own irreplaceable value.

"Also, did you know that in order to preserve the long-term survival of the entire population, different species will have different survival strategies?

"For example, if some fish are too weak and too many other fish can eat it, then if they want to ensure the long-term survival of the entire population, they must have more life, and their dependence on life-sustaining resources must be minimized as much as possible, and they should make up for the vulnerability to being easily eaten with extremely large numbers and strong vitality that can easily survive.

"And there are some fish, even if they are also fish, but because each individual is usually very powerful, there are few species in the world that can eat it, so they usually live in few groups of their kind, they prefer to be alone, and they will have few offspring. Usually, when they reach adulthood, they give birth to only one to three children per litter.

"Moreover, some of these fish are simply let the small fish mature in the belly before they are produced, and some even if they also release eggs, but those eggs are different from those laid by those weak fish, and the eggs laid by those powerful fish are not only more than a hundred times larger than the eggs laid by those small fish in size, but also those eggs are usually protected by a very hard shell, and few animals can bite through the egg shell and eat the eggs;

"What's more, the females often choose to lay their eggs in very secretive territories that are often found by their kind, so there are fewer other fish that dare to risk being eaten by the females to find their eggs.

"Unlike those of the weaker fish, the eggs mature very quickly, and usually they take 10 to a year to develop in the shell before they break out. But by the time they emerge from the shell, they are much larger than ordinary fish in size alone.

"So, even without the protection of the mother, they can easily eat most fish in the same area. After a few more years of development and only when they reach adulthood, they will leave the safety of the sea and go to the larger sea. But by then, they were already extremely powerful beings with few natural predators. ”

Speaking of this, Gao Ran glanced at Amu to confirm that he was indeed listening carefully to every word she said, and also thinking about the possible hints that she had not said, before she continued:

"Amu, I am telling you this, not to tell you that I actually know a lot of things that you may never have heard of, but to tell you that this heaven and earth have their own operating rules, and we 'people' are actually the same as those fish, but we are adapting to our respective living environment in our own way, there is no difference between who is superior and who is inferior, who is ugly and who is beautiful, only whether we can adapt to changes in the environment, and whether we can adapt to better differences.

"So, you can understand the word 'beast' as you like, but don't be arrogant enough to put that understanding on the birds and beasts I am talking about. How they live has nothing to do with the word you understand.

"And what I described earlier - most of our Yigu disciples are 'beasts in human skin', and the 'beasts' I refer to have nothing to do with what you call 'beasts'. Got it?"

If you ask yourself, Amu actually doesn't believe some of the survival habits of the fish that Gao Ran just described to him. After all, what she said was almost something he had never heard of, let alone seen with his own eyes, and he had great reason to believe that what Gao Ran just said was clearly making up nonsense and trying to deceive him, but at the same time, he somewhat understood what Gao Ran might want to express: Perhaps, the "beast" she referred to was indeed not the same thing as the "beast" he thought......