The snow in Beisu Prefecture has been falling for two days, and the sky is clear and the sun is shining.

Xiao Yizheng finished attending the regular briefing meeting in the army before starting breakfast.

Someone came to report that Old Man Bai was coming, he put down his chopsticks, got up and went to greet him.

Old Man Bai strode into the room, and greeted him heartily with a smile: "Sixth master, long time no see." ”

Xiao Yizheng returned the salute: "Bai Lao has always been good? ”

The old man Bai's name is Bai Shui, and because he is young, he often walks darts all year round, and his skin is dark and bright, which is really inconsistent with his surname.

Xiao Yizheng saw that he was wrapped in a thick fox fur, and the whole person looked much rounder, so he smiled and said: "It seems that the old man is doing well in Beisu." ”

Old Man Bai patted his stomach with his big hand, and said boldly: "Eat and drink enough, if I hadn't heard that the sixth master was coming to Beisu, I would have returned to Shuzhong a long time ago." But I'm afraid of delaying your business, so I won't wait until the war stops for a while to come and see you. ”

Xiao Yizheng invited to take a seat, and the two asked each other about the current situation and chatted casually.

Old Man Bai took a sip of hot tea and thanked him for taking care of Li Han. "Han girl asked Ding Ming to bring me a letter, saying that everything is fine in Shangdu. Recently, I often go to the palace and have become friends with the princess, and she praises the princess a lot. Although I have never met the princess, I am also happy for the sixth master. ”

Xiao Yizheng seemed to be very interested: "Oh? She has been going to the palace a lot lately? He didn't receive Qingxi's letter from home, so he could care about her recent situation from the side.

Old Man Bai smiled and nodded. "Sixth Master, I won't tell you, I'm really afraid that girl will cause you trouble. I'm afraid she won't be able to let you go. ”

Xiao Yizheng was stunned for a moment, and then smiled heartily.

Old man Bai is so straightforward in everything, and he has the style of a person in the rivers and lakes.

"Bai Lao, you, I misunderstood Li Han's friendship with me."

Old Man Bai frowned, and the furrows on his forehead were deeper, as if he didn't understand.

Xiao Yizheng considered that Li Han was still unwilling to accept Ding Ming's matter, and felt that she should not mention more about her using herself as a disguise, so he opened his mouth and diverted the topic: "Brother Ding also came to Beisu?" ”

"Yes! The girl said that she would come soon, so she instructed him to come and look ahead, saying that it must be arranged properly. I see, that stupid boy can be picked up by her. ”

Xiao Yizheng asked: "Bai Lao, there is something, I have always had some questions. ”

"Sixth Master, please speak."

"Li Han seems to be very concerned about the whereabouts of that piece of jade, I wonder if there is any other reason?"

Old Man Bai was stunned for a moment, then sighed, and slowly spoke: "Sixth Master, you know, the girl was picked up on the mountain road when I was walking darts in the northwest. At that time, there was a letter in her swaddling clothes, stating that due to the changes in the family surnamed Li, she was unable to raise a baby girl, and hoped that someone would be destined to train her to become an adult. ”

Xiao Yizheng nodded, Li Han's life experience is not a secret in Changfeng. Even, Old Man Bai has never hidden Li Han since he was a child.

Old Man Bai continued: "However, what others don't know is that in addition to the short two lines of words, the letter is also accompanied by a pattern of ornamentation, which seems to be a pattern of a jade pendant. ”

Xiao Yizheng's eyes lit up: "So, Li Han is also looking for a jade pendant?" ”

"So to speak. Although there is no text on the picture, we all think that maybe this jade pendant has something to do with her background. Old Man Bai sighed again: "The sixth master showed me your jade pendant, and I was very shocked at that time. Because the jade pendant copy attached to the swaddling clothes is seven points similar to your jade pendant. But I still feel that the jade pendant you are looking for is by no means the same as the one you are looking for, and it cannot be the same. ”

Originally, Xiao Yizheng was the sixth prince today; If the jade pendant that Li Han is looking for is from the royal family, it means that Li Han is a member of the royal family. If the royal children were not subject to the change of dynasty, how could they be left out? But eighteen years ago, when the current emperor ascended the throne for two years, there was not even a memorable incident inside and outside the court, and Li Han could not be a pearl in the sea. Moreover, the letter made it clear that the family surnamed Li had suffered an accident, and the current imperial surname is Xiao.

"I'm not exactly the same, only seven-point like." He repeated it again as if talking to himself.

Xiao Yizheng was silent, and asked for a while: "Bai Lao, can you tell me where the three points are not like are?" ”

Old Man Bai was slightly stunned, thought for a moment before he said, "Can the sixth master's jade let me take a look at it again." He felt that this matter should be taken seriously.

Xiao Yizheng shook his head: "I stayed in Shangdu." ”

Old man Bai sighed, to a little disappointed. Xiao Yizheng's piece of jade is transparent and pure white, in the shape of a half-moon, and the jade body is engraved with a hollow dragon pattern, which is absolutely the best in jade. He'd only seen it once, and he really wanted to see it a second time.

"That picture is also in Shuzhong, otherwise you can also show it to the sixth master. I remember that the sixth master's jade pendant was hollowed out and carved with a dragon pattern, and the jade pendant was carved with a phoenix pattern? He paused for a moment and raised his eyes to look at Xiao Yizheng for affirmation.

Xiao Yizheng bowed.

"Because these two tattoo cases are very special, the sixth master also deliberately said at that time that he could not look for them wantonly, so as not to be used by people with intentions."

The dragon and phoenix pattern is the Son of Heaven, the queen, and the queen mother can only use the pattern, so naturally it cannot be found publicly. Even the dragon-patterned jade pendant owned by Xiao Yizheng was known only to the emperor in the palace.

"So, I haven't said anything about the phoenix pattern, and I never said that I was looking for a phoenix pattern jade pendant when I secretly helped the sixth master find a jade pendant, only a jade pendant with a divine beast pattern. That's why there are so many oolongs over the years. ”

Xiao Yizheng nodded slightly, indicating that he knew.

"And the girl only knows that the jade pendant you are looking for has a divine beast pattern. Coincidentally, the jade pendant related to her life experience also had a divine beast painted on it. ”

"What is it?" Xiao Yizheng asked urgently.

"I feel like Suzaku."

Xiao Yizheng's heart was full of excitement. Although his mother gave him the dragon pattern when his life was about to pass away, and told him that there was a matching phoenix pattern in this world, there was no time to elaborate on what the phoenix pattern was. Suzaku is similar to a phoenix! If the jade pendant he is looking for is the same as what Li Han is looking for, then what is the relationship between Li Han and his mother?

Seeing that he was thoughtful, Old Man Bai was silent, his throat moved, and he said apologetically: "I don't know that Han Yatou actually wanted to think crookedly, and confused her search for the jade pendant with the matter of the sixth master, and didn't make trouble for the sixth master, right?" ”

Xiao Yizheng hummed, relieved himself, and shook his head again, indicating that it was okay.

"So there are so many oolongs over the years, and there is no jade pendant similar to Li Han's jade pendant pattern?" He asked.

Old Man Bai shook his head: "A few years ago, I asked Han Yatou if she wanted to find her biological parents, but she categorically refused. She said that she only had one grandfather, me, and that she didn't need to look for her parents. So, we never intended to look for that jade pendant. In the past few years, I have listened to this matter for the sixth master, and I have paid attention to it by the way, but I haven't paid too much attention to it in the end. It's also my negligence, I didn't think that the girl still cared. ”

The corners of Xiao Yizheng's mouth moved, and he said clearly: "She is cold on the outside and hot on the inside, how can she really not care at all." ”

Old Man Bai groped his thighs with both hands and nodded again and again.

"It's a pity, this time I got the news of Yu Pei again, and I thought about coming to Beisu to confirm it for the prince in person. It happened that the man went out and didn't return, and it took some time to wait for the sixth master. Today I learned that the man had gone far away, and I was afraid that he would have to wait a few more days. ”

"Oh?" Xiao Yizheng didn't care much, and he didn't think that the jade pendant in the man's hand would be so coincidental, it was what he was looking for, so he asked casually: "Go far away?" I don't know where I went. ”

"I heard a friend of his say that he went to Sujiang, Jiangnan."

"Where?" Xiao Yizheng asked in a loud voice.

"Jiangnan Sujiang." Old man Bai repeated.

Jiangnan Sujiang? Xiao Yizheng's first thought was that it was Ling Qingxi's hometown. How could it be so coincidental? For a while, too much information, too many coincidences, hovering in his mind, but he couldn't figure out the clue to untie a thousand knots.

Coincidental things can be one or two, and it is not a coincidence that there are four times over and over again.

Regarding the dragon pattern pendant, he once asked Xiao Zhe, and Xiao Zhe's answer was: Although he knew that there was this jade pendant, he didn't know his mother's intentions, but even if it was left to him by his mother, he kept it alive.

In his memory, his father and mother have always talked about everything. Therefore, he did not believe his father's explanation. But after asking repeatedly, this is only the answer. Therefore, about the secret of this jade pendant, he didn't ask much and didn't think about it.

Before Bai Lao told him so many things today, he didn't have much obsession with finding another phoenix-patterned jade pendant, and he didn't care if he could find it.

But after today, he had to find the dragon pendant, although he didn't know what the two jade pendants could do.

"Can Bai Lao write me a detailed copy of this person's information, I can drag a friend in Sujiang to inquire about it."

"Naturally. If it weren't for the road jam on a snowy day, I would have wanted to go to Jiangnan tomorrow to find someone. ”

Xiao Yizheng arched his hand and smiled: "You are so dedicated to doing things for me, you are already gone." There is no urgency in this matter, you can stay in Beisu for a while longer, and we can gather more. ”

Old Man Bai's smile bloomed, covering his whole face: "That's a good feeling." Speaking of which, Beisu is also the largest branch in the northwest of Changfeng, and there are many brothers, so I am very happy to come this time. He paused and continued: "Sixth Master, don't worry, I have sent a letter to the person in charge of the Jiangnan Branch. If that person really went to Sujiang, he would definitely be able to find it. ”

Xiao Yizheng nodded. Looking for someone, he has never been worried, as long as he wants to find it, there are still many ways.

The two talked about something else. Xiao Yizheng kept people for lunch, and the guests and hosts enjoyed themselves. The old man Bai went out with a round belly.

The stomach was careless and bumped into the soldier who was trotting all the way to deliver the military report, and he apologized again and again.

The little soldier felt that the old man looked imposing, but he smiled and was very cute, so he made a lot of moves.

"Kid, go and deliver the military newspaper, Bedanda called."

This sentence frightened the little soldier a lot, and he turned around and ran away without saying a word.

Although this Dan answer hasn't been called yet, I'm afraid it's coming soon.

Xiao Yizheng asked while reading the military newspaper: "Where is Major General Zeng Qidao at this time?" ”

"The major general has just come back from patrolling the border and is stationed in Beiwangshan."