There are still some people here, though, but most of them are in a hurry and don't talk much.

Wen Qingzhu took Jiang Yuanhan and unconsciously quickened his pace.

After a while, they chose a silver jewelry shop with more people to enter.

After entering, some of them were buying silver jewelry.

However, most of them were elderly, the youngest of whom was twenty years old, and wore a different kind of silver necklace.

The boss at the counter saw them and hurriedly walked over: "Girl, why do you dare to come out!" ”

He pulled them in as he looked out and breathed a sigh of relief when he made sure there was no one.

Wen Qingzhu deliberately learned the accent here, and said a little shyly: "I just came back from Cangzhou City, wasn't Yuhua Town very lively before?" ”

Before going out, Xi'er told her all the things she inquired about.

Yuhua Town is the closest town to the Cangyun Mountains, and a hundred years ago, it was the battlefield between the Wu Clan and the Great Qi.

Later, the Wu clan was submissive, and it became a hub of exchange.

The arrival of merchants has brought a lot of life here.

The silver and ore of the Wu clan was one of the best sources of the Great Qi Dynasty.

The origin of Yuhua Town is that there is a well-known Yuhua Stone here, which can be used as a landscape stone and can also refine some necessary metal raw materials.

At least a year ago, there were still a lot of people in Yuhua Town.

The boss sighed: "This is also true, although Yuhua Town is not safe, it is much better than Cangzhou, and it is normal for you to come back." ”

Wen Qingzhu thought for a moment, it seemed that the people in Yuhua Town also knew something.

However, the boss said: "Recently, the clan has been looking for Yunying's unmarried girl everywhere, aren't you waiting to be arrested when you appear here?" ”

"Huh?" Wen Qingzhu frowned slightly, and had a not very good feeling in his heart.

The boss was about to explain, when a gray-haired old woman came out of the room.

Dressed in the traditional clothes of the Wu tribe, her face was full of wrinkles, and she was holding a black and shiny cane, and interrupted the boss: "This lady has something to ask inside, and the old woman will accompany you to say a few words." ”

The boss was stunned, looked at Wen Qingzhu, and was a little surprised: "You are already married?" ”

"Yes." Wen Qingzhu smiled shyly.

But the boss didn't understand: "What kind of girl's clothes do you wear when you get married!" ”

"Xiao Er, you take care of the business in the store first, and I will entertain this lady." The old woman interjected.

The boss nodded suspiciously and invited them in.

After going in and sitting down, Wen Qingzhu looked at the decoration in the room with great interest.

Different from the usual antique calligraphy and painting of Daqi, there are more musical instruments with Wu characteristics, as well as the fur of insects and beasts.

"Madame is from the capital?" The old woman spoke fluently in Daqi.

Wen Qingzhu retracted his gaze and said with a smile: "Yes, my mother-in-law has good eyesight, not only to see that I am married, but also to know where I am." ”

The old woman laughed silently, shook her head and said, "It's not that I'm amazing, but that the lady has the smell of the witch clan's forgetting worries, and the old woman, as a witch doctor, really can't ignore it." ”

Hearing this, Wen Qingzhu's smile retracted, revealing a bit serious.

"The status of the witch doctor in the witch clan is not low! Who are you? ”

The old woman smiled bitterly and said, "Madame, don't worry, I fled Cangzhou with my husband at the age of sixteen, and I only came back to Cangzhou more than ten years ago." ”

Wen Qingzhu didn't speak, this old woman can see through her at a glance, but it's not a simple skill.

Seeing that she didn't speak for a long time, the old woman said why she guessed Wen Qingzhu's identity: "Madam, I have also been to the capital, because of the relationship between my husband and my son, I have also seen some nobles, Mrs. has such a temperament, it is the most noble that the old woman has ever seen, so the old woman dared to guess, you are Mrs. Pingguohou." ”

Saying this, the surrounding air suddenly condensed, and in an instant, Jiang Yuanhan's eyes flashed with murderous intent.

The old woman was shocked, and looked at Jiang Yuanhan in surprise: "This, this is ......"

"Mother-in-law, tell us first what you have to ask us for." Wen Qingzhu interrupted the old woman's words.

Jiang Yuanhan lowered his head and stopped disturbing them.

The old woman looked at Wen Qingzhu with palpitations, but she was actually not sure.

This is already the third noble person she has come into contact with, if this lady can't do it, I'm afraid that Zhao'er's life will be like this.

"Madame also heard just now that Yunying's unmarried girls don't dare to go out, because the Wu clan is now looking for unmarried girls from thirteen to eighteen, and my granddaughter Zhao'er was also arrested by them as early as the beginning of the year."

When the old woman talked about this, she couldn't help but get excited.

Wen Qingzhu thought of the sacrifice in Jinzhou, and suddenly asked, "The Wu clan wants to sacrifice with living people?" ”

"Madame even knows?" The old woman was also stunned, and only the high-level Wu clan knew about the sacrifice.

She studied with witch doctors for a period of time when she was a child, and because of her good talent, she has seen many nobles.

After coming and going, I learned some of the inside story of the Wu clan.

"Let's not talk about this matter, how many girls do you need for the sacrifice? How many people are missing from them now? Wen Qingzhu took a deep breath, and Zhang Ke's letter also vaguely mentioned that the Wu clan was preparing for a sacrificial event.

As for what it was, he didn't confirm it, and he was afraid that he wouldn't tell Wen Qingzhu.

"Nine is the favorite number of the Wu clan, nine is impossible, then the most likely is ninety-nine, if it is just an ordinary girl, they are afraid that they have already carried out sacrificial activities, and now they are still arresting people everywhere, I am afraid that what he needs is a girl of the Wu clan!"

Hearing this, Wen Qingzhu remembered that the sacrifice held by the Teng patriarch before seemed to be all from the Wu clan.

"And the map of your witch clan's interior?" Wen Qingzhu felt that since this old woman had found her, she must be prepared.

"Yes!" The old woman got up and went to the shelf.

She took an ancient sheepskin from the drawer and rolled it over, and she spread it out to Wen Qingzhu: "Madame, this is the map I brought out when I fled Cangzhou. ”

Wen Qingzhu took a closer look and found that there seemed to be traces of rubbing around the parchment roll.

She was silent for a moment, taking the map in her mind.

"Mother-in-law, I'm not the first person you're looking for, am I?"

The old woman didn't hide it, and said in a calm voice: "It's really not, there are two nobles in front of me, who are also from the capital, and the old woman has good eyesight, and provided them with the news of the Wu clan, and they promised to help me save Zhao'er." ”

"Zhao'er is just a girl, you value her so much?" In Wen Qingzhu's memory, her daughter is far less important than her son.

"Madam, our witch clan is different, sons and daughters are the same, and only daughters can become witch doctors."

When the old woman talked about this, her eyes were very disdainful.

Wen Qingzhu was slightly surprised in her heart, but she was still cautious, and did not directly agree to her, but asked, "Who are the first two nobles?" ”

"They didn't tell me my life, but they left me tokens."

After the old woman finished speaking, she went to get two more boxes, and after opening them one by one, Wen Qingzhu stood up abruptly.

What was in the box in front of it was actually the Yang family's brand!

The latter one is a paper stamped with an empty seal, and that seal is not only known to Wen Qingzhu, but also to Jiang Yuanhan and Xi'er.

That is Jiang Yuancheng's private seal, there will only be one person who can have this thing, and who is still in Cangzhou.

"I promise you." Wen Qingzhu stood up.

The old woman was about to thank her, but Wen Qingzhu held down the box, stared at the old woman and said, "But I have to take these two things away!" ”

"No!" The old woman panicked and reached out to grab the box.

As a result, before she was about to touch Wen Qingzhu, Jiang Yuanhan made a move faster than Xi'er, and took out his sword and pointed it in front of the old woman.

The old woman shrank back in fright, but she kept her eyes on the two boxes.

Wen Qingzhu looked at her: "Mother-in-law, you'd better tell me, how did these two things come from?" ”

"Madam, I really have no ill intentions, these two things were left by them voluntarily, in fact, Madame had better leave an object that she had carried with her for a year."

"Why?" Wen Qingzhu narrowed his eyes and glanced around.

The instrument is normal, but there are strange insect and animal skins and furs, and some stones that I don't know what material they are.

Something is wrong.

The old woman pursed her lips tightly, and finally she only said one sentence: "If the lady wants to take these things away, the old woman can't stop them, but no one knows whether they are alive or dead." ”

"How can you know their life and death through this thing?" Wen Qingzhu always felt that the Wu clan was a little mysterious, but there were not many people who had this ability.

The old woman simply sat down again, and didn't look at Wen Qingzhu anymore: "I won't say much else, with these two things, I can at least know their life and death." ”

Wen Qingzhu hesitated for a moment, and finally said, "You let me think about it for two days." ”

"It's up to Madame to decide." The old woman doesn't really want to choose too much.

Wen Qingzhu looked at the two things on the table, but in the end he didn't take them, but left the store with Xi'er and them.

Shortly after they left, the old woman breathed a sigh of relief and was about to put away the box when a sharp knife suddenly passed through her back and through her heart.

Blood spilled out, and the old woman slowly turned back, wanting to see who had killed her.

But the next moment, her neck was cut off.

Strangely, there was no blood, and the people in the house took the old woman's head, plus the two boxes, and disappeared into the store.

After returning to the inn, Wen Qingzhu hurriedly went back and drew the pattern of the token.

Then he sent the drawing back to the capital for comparison.

How could the Yang family's token appear in Yuhua Town?

It couldn't be Fu Lie, because Wen Qingzhu had seen the Yang family order held by Fu Lie.

According to what Fu Lie told her before, each generation of the Yang family has its own unique pattern.

She has seen the patterns of Fu Lie's generation, and it is definitely not the one in the hands of the old woman.

Could it be that there is still anyone alive in the Yang family?

After explaining the incident, someone suddenly came to report that the old woman in the silver jewelry store was pierced through the heart with a sword, and her head was cut off.

Wen Qingzhu stood up instantly, who is it?

As soon as she opened the door and walked into the hallway, she saw the door of the inn, where the previous boss was kneeling on the ground, as if begging for something.

Green Tao walked over from the staircase and said with a serious expression, "Madam, that boss wants to see you." ”

Wen Qingzhu pondered for a moment, nodded, and turned his head into the room.

After a while, the boss walked into the house with a somewhat abrupt expression.

When he saw Wen Qingzhu, he knelt down directly: "Madam, this, this is something that my mother left for you." ”

In the palm of his hand, there was a white stone.

"What is this?" Wen Qingzhu felt that this stone exuded an inexplicable warmth.

The boss's tears couldn't stop falling, and he said in a daze: "I don't know, I just know that my mother regards this thing as more important than her life." ”

"Your mother was killed in a hurry, how do you know she wants you to give this thing to me?" Wen Qingzhu felt that the identity of this old woman might not be simple.

The boss lowered his head, looked at the white stone in his hand, and said quietly: "Actually, my mother already knew that she was going to die, so she explained to me early and asked me to give this stone to the last person she saw, and the last person my mother saw was Mrs. You." ”

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