Chapter Twenty-Three: The Dusty Past

"If the words are good, don't worry about it." Yan Lan finally showed a smile that she hadn't seen for a long time, although she didn't know how true or false it was hidden in her smile.

"We are going to Wuyi to do something, and Ruoyan specially asked us to come and see if the two old people are healthy." Sheng Lingyun lied seriously on the side.

"This kid, since he has a heart, why didn't he come back."

The aunt wiped a handful of tears, and the uncle next to her saw that she was rude in front of outsiders, and said angrily: "The flame knife is not a small portal, and I have to serve so many people every day, where can I have time to come back."

"Alas, I think the last time this kid came back was a year ago, and this day is really fast." The aunt thought about it again, and felt sad again.

"When the flame knife is done with this time, I will let Ruoyan come back to accompany you two old men." Yan Lan felt something and made a promise to the second elder.

At this time, a little boy jumped out of the back room, shaking the rattle, and asked happily, "Is Aunt Ruoyan coming back, can she take me to play?"

"Qi'er, come on." The aunt beckoned the child into her arms.

"Where are you going?" Yan Lan lowered her head and coaxed him.

"Aunt Ruoyan said that she would take me to the beach to take a boat, it was beautiful there."

Qi'er's immature voice was so harsh, the smile on Yan Lan's face froze for a moment, and Sheng Lingyun was also stunned, and his heart was full of doubts: If you say it, if you say it, you keep saying that it has nothing to do with immortals, but you have a messy relationship with it, what secret are you hiding?

"Oh, the child is talking about Ning Yuan, our hometown, Ruoyan went to worship her father and mother when she came back a few years ago." The aunt saw the two of them pause, thinking that they didn't know what Qi'er was talking about.

"I've never heard Ruoyan talk about her parents, what's wrong with them?" Yan Lan stopped teasing the child, straightened up, and pretended to be concerned.

"Alas, this child has a miserable life. When he was 12 years old, his parents crashed into a reef and died when they were shipping on a ship. The uncle was worried that his aunt would cry again when he talked about this past, and he couldn't say it clearly, so he preemptively said.

"Since it was an accident, the person who undertook the merchant ship should be responsible for compensation, why did your family end up here?" Sheng Lingyun was puzzled, according to common sense, Ruoyan's family background was not bad, judging from the many things she knew, it was because she had been exposed to learning since she was a child, but Ruoyan was reduced to selling herself as a maid, which is really unacceptable.

"Providence makes people, Ruoyan's parents contracted a batch of ships from Ningyuan Xiandu to carry the goods that year, and they themselves are the person in charge, so after the accident, everyone came to the door to ask for compensation, if the Yan's family has enough savings, they would have taken it to the goods a long time ago, and they are looking forward to making money from this transaction!" My uncle choked up a few times, thinking that he remembered those difficult days.

"We can't bear to say that a little girl faced all the hardships and sold the family property for her, and sold it together with our family, so that we could barely compensate the workers who were killed and return part of the Xiandu." The uncle had red eyes, and the aunt had already secretly wiped her tears on the side, only Qi'er was innocently shaking the small drum.

"Uncle and aunt are really good people." Sheng Lingyun sincerely admired the second elder as a person, and he was also very distressed about his life experience.

Yan Lanxi's lips moved, wanting to say something, but she didn't speak.

After being silent for a long time, Sheng Lingyun asked for him, "Is the debt owed to Xiandu finished?"

"How can it! We moved here with my family to escape our debts. The uncle scratched his head embarrassedly, "Later, if she became more sensible, she said that she must not do such a bad thing, and she will definitely do her best to repay the debt." If this stupid child is as stubborn and righteous as her father, she is willing to suffer any hardship, and she will not let my two old children help her. ”

When the two old men talked about Ruoyan, they were both distressed and loving. "Fortunately, I met Qin Dashan, Ruoyan finally doesn't have to get up early to earn that little money, and now he has moved to your door again, last time Ruoyan came back, I heard her say that the money owed to Xiandu will be cleared immediately." The aunt showed a relieved smile on her face, as if she had finally unloaded the heavy burden in her heart.

The four of them talked about Ruoyan one after another, and the two old men also told them many things about Ruoyan when he was a child, Sheng Lingyun and Yan Lan could feel their full love for Ruoyan, but it made the two of them feel a little uncomfortable.

It was nearly dusk, the two said goodbye, Yan Lan got up and took out a large bag of broken silver from his sleeve, "This is what Ruoyan asked me to bring to you, I almost forgot about it when I was happy to chat." ”

"If we talk about this kid, we can't spend so much. She also doesn't add more warm clothes to herself and take care of her body. The aunt asked Yan Lan to take it back to Ruoyan, and Yan Lan stubbornly handed it to them.

"You two elders can rest assured to accept it, I promise, the flame knife will not be bad to Ruoyan."

Under Yan Lan's persuasion several times, the two old men trembled and took the money bag, "My son pays off his debts and can reunite with us." "Auntie is another tear.

"Big brother, will you come back with Aunt Ruoyan?" Qi'er suddenly leaned over from the table and asked the two innocently questions.

Yan Lan squatted down and held Qi'er's shoulder, "When the big brother is done, I'll come back to see you, okay?" As he spoke, he took off a jade pendant from his body, which was a unique entry order for the disciples of the Flame Knife, and tied it to Qi'er.

"Qi'er has grown up and knows the way, you can also come to the big brother, you just show them this, and they will let you in." When Yan Lan spoke to Qi'er, it was the most tender moment, and Sheng Lingyun could even see tears flickering in his eyes.

It turned out that Master Yan was not so unkind, Sheng Lingyun thought to himself.

The two walked out of the alley, and Yan Lan returned to indifference.

"Is the Flame Dao disciple so profitable, he can pay off a large amount of debts in just three years." Although Sheng Lingyun was also distressed, it was his duty to find out the truth.

"Naturally not, otherwise the Flame Knife would have left Yanyu Villa a long time ago." Yan Lan's eyes showed a fierce light, obviously believing that Ruoyan was the murderer.

The two walked across the water bridge, and there was a thick weeping willow standing next to the bridge, Yan Lan swung it away, and blood beads came out of the knuckles when they landed. "The master of Jiangzhuang keeps saying that he wants to protect the style, heh, in fact, everything is planned by him, using Ruoyan's old relationship with Xiandu, to poison Ruoyan, who is proficient in pharmacology, and erode my master's body, and then the old accounts between the two will be written off, which is really a good calculation." Yan Lan trembled violently, as cold as a pool.

It's a pity that he didn't expect that he would not be able to control his emotions in the end, fall into this troubled water, and cut off his future, hehehe...... Hehehe...... "Yan Lan is like losing her soul, and she keeps sneering, which is angry.

"Master Yan, you are calm."

"Master Yan, you are calm."

……

Sheng Lingyun kept calling him, only to see that a layer of anger faded from his eyes.

"It seems to be true now, but we need to find evidence." Sheng Lingyun reminded Yan Lan, and Yan Lan let go of her tight fist and came back to her senses.

"Let's go back first, back to Shanqin Tea House." Sheng Lingyun's head was also booming at the moment, he was worried that Qiao Yiling would find out that the horse's feet were in danger, and he needed to inform Xu Yunxi quickly.

The two of them returned to Shanqin Tea House exhausted, and Qin Yongnian was startled when he saw the appearance of the two of them, "What's wrong with you two, did you fight with someone?" ”

"Oh, no, it's just that Yan Lan taught a few thugs a lesson, and he was accidentally injured." Sheng Lingyun casually took Qin Yongnian's words, and hurriedly returned to the room with Yan Lan.

Qin Yongnian saw the two of them fleeing in a hurry, thinking that they were afraid of being taught a lesson by his elders, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "Young people are hot-blooded, but they have a little bit of my heroic spirit back then."

The housekeeper next to him couldn't help laughing, "Yes, yes, the master was also brave back then." ”

Sheng Lingyun and Yan Lan returned to the room, Yan Lan took the medicine and asked, "Sheng Gongzi wants to go to the immortal capital with me?"

Sheng Lingyun lowered his head and thought about it, but did not answer.

"Sheng Gongzi knows that there is civil strife in my door, and Miss Qiao is friendly with Ruoyan, if you are worried about Miss Qiao's safety, I will take her away earlier."

Yan Lan made it clear that he had always been arrogant and didn't feel the need to rely on anyone.

"I'll go to Xiandu with you." Sheng Lingyun only said one sentence.

The civil strife in the immortal capital has nothing to do with them, and he also believes that Ruoyan will not do anything to Qiao Yiling, not that she will not, but if she wants to leave safely, she must be held hostage, and since Qiao Yiling can be subdued by the flying thieves, he is naturally not an idle person.

On Xu Yunxi's side, after the charter wind left the villa, he and Xiao Ziyan had no reason to follow the charter wind back to the immortal capital, so they only dared to follow in secret, and now they are living in Ningyuan City to check if there are any traces of the Golden Lotus Sect.

Back to the day of Xiandu, the charter wind was impatient. Xu Yunxi couldn't get in, so he had to hover near the immortal capital to see where the defense was weaker.

In the middle of the night, when it was finally time for the Xiandu to take over the defense, Xu Yunxi took advantage of their slight relaxation, jumped on the dense locust branches, and blended into the Xiandu Mansion.

Xu Yunxi dodged his eyes all the way, went straight to the Xiandu lobby, and then hid on the tile beam, uncovering a brick and tile to peek at the movement of the charter wind.

The charter wind had a gloomy face, clutching the teacup tightly to suppress his anger, as if waiting for someone.

Finally, the golden snake was long overdue.

"It's so early, Golden Snake." Charter Wind sneered, every word in his throat was a displeasure against him.

"Master Zhangmen, the good person you recruited, I hid in the city for a whole day, but I still can't escape that person's tracking. If it weren't for your reputation, would I be so embarrassed? I finally let Siniang entangle him before I got out to see you, why should you be sneering and asking for hardship. The golden snake was also extremely dissatisfied.

"I'm asking for my own trouble!" The wind was furious, and the little snake in the arms of the golden snake smelled the murderous aura and became excited.

"Let me ask you, what does the Heroes Conference have to do with you, and why do you want to make a lot of trouble." Charter Feng gritted his teeth and took a step closer.

"Master Zhangmen, aren't I helping you, if you had a brain earlier, don't move Shen Shiyi, why bother with me in this matter."

"I'm guilty, and I'm guilty, but that's not a reason for you to mess with the assembly!" The charter wind takes out the majesty and scares the golden snake.

"Master Zhangmen, I don't bother with you, I just command from above...... Someone! The golden snake was about to warn the wind when he noticed that the little snake kept spitting out letters, obviously preparing for battle.

Xu Yunxi was startled, and hurriedly jumped off the beam of the room and hid in the dark.

It was inconvenient for the golden snake to swagger in the villa, so he had to leave a sentence, "Master Zhangmen, if there is any change, someone will replace you." Then he walked away.

The charter was unhappy, and he didn't know that he was about to become an outcast.

Xiao Ziyan was entangled by the poisonous Siniang, and he couldn't find out the whereabouts of the Golden Lotus Sect, Xu Yunxi was also discovered at a critical moment, and the two had no return, but fortunately, it was also determined that the Golden Lotus Sect and the Charter Feng were old acquaintances, so they had to plan the next action.

However, in the next few days, the Golden Lotus Sect disappeared.

Xu Yunxi and Xiao Ziyan hadn't figured out the trick behind this, so they met Sheng Lingyun in the city.

"Miss Qiao, why didn't I join you." Xu Yunxi saw that there were only Sheng Lingyun and Yan Lan, and he was a little worried about Qiao Yiling.

"She's in the flame knife, safe and sound, you can rest assured."

"Then how did you come here, did you find something?" Xu Yunxi knew that Sheng Lingyun was a very measured person, and everyone had agreed to divide the troops into two ways, and now there was only one possibility for him to appear here, that is, the points of their suspicions coincided.

Xu Yunxi was shocked, "Don't tell me that Shen Shiyi's death is still a ghost caused by the charter!" ”