Jun Qinglan gently closed the family tree and flipped it over. I opened the back cover of the last page and leaned into the candle flame.

"Lord Wang, please take a look."

The light of the candle flame penetrated through the back cover, absorbing most of the light, leaving only a faint halo to shine through, but it did not affect Li Congyao to see that there was a jumping carp on a complete seawater cloud pattern in the middle of the back cover. When the lights were removed, the sea water and the carp were gone, leaving only the old navy blue furry back cover.

Jun Qinglan's fingers slowly brushed over the place where the mark had just appeared: "The sea is wide and the fish jumps, this is the family crest of our Qin family." On all the important objects of the Qin family, there are such dark patterns of family crest, which outsiders will not know. ”

"Books are not fake, but they can be faked inside."

"It's not possible." Jun Qinglan said: "Every page on the family tree is inlaid with such dark lines. ”

She took out the paper that had just written the thirty-sixth year of Taihe, and looked at the lamp, and sure enough, she saw the dark lines of the saltwater carp.

Jun Qinglan didn't speak again, this is what she found strange.

The genealogy is true, the paper on each page is also true, and there are no errors or omissions in the records, why is it that there is only one Taihe year on this page, but there are no errors in the records next to it?

"Your Qin family, there must be internal thieves." Li Congyao said slowly but firmly.

The genealogy of any family is a fairly private thing, and it is generally offered in the Jongmyo Temple. Only when Tian Ding is imported, the red and white ceremonies will be taken out to change the records, and outsiders will not have the opportunity to contact the family tree at all. Moreover, the words of the thirty-sixth year of Taihe appeared in an extremely secret location, and even those who had access to the genealogy would not easily find it. Genealogy is nothing else, and who would take it and flip it over and over again?

However, Huang Zhong not only knew the secrets in the genealogy, but also turned to that page as soon as he came, obviously prepared. The person who told the whistleblower must be quite familiar with the genealogy, except for the Qin clan, he doesn't think about it anymore.

"There's no reason for them to do that." Jun Qinglan shook her head: "The previous dynasty was a year old, and others conspired against it." Once this incident happens, it will be a big crime of the Nine Clans, and none of the Qin clan will be able to escape, and there is no such fool in the world. ”

"But in the end, it's not just the Jiedu family that dies?"

Jun Qinglan didn't speak, and this was indeed the case. The emperor's initial sentence was indeed the Nine Clans, and it was the tragic death of Qin Yu's family that made him feel compassion and pardon the blame of the side branches. But this is just an accident, and no one can weigh the treasure on chance.

Unless......

"Maybe someone has planned everything a long time ago, and the Jiedu Embassy will inevitably be destroyed by fire."

Li Congyao's words are what Jun Qinglan thinks in his heart. If someone had already thought about everything and used the emperor's gratitude to the ancestors of the Qin clan to get away with it, then he could indeed report it first, and then set fire to the Jiedu Embassy. In the end, the people next to the Qin family were indeed unharmed, this is a fact.

"It's unlikely." Jun Qinglan said: "Even if that person is familiar enough with the Qin family, it is impossible to find out the emperor's thoughts. It is too risky to try to bring down my father and brother, but to use such a way as rebellion. ”

"Has the person who reported it been found?"

"Nope." Jun Qinglan shook her head: "That person only left a letter to the county guard, and he never showed up. To this day, no one knows whether it is a man or a woman. ”

"What kind of enemies does your father and brother have?"

"Not either." Jun Qinglan said firmly: "My father has taught me and my brother to be considerate of the people and not to bully the weak. Moreover, the Qin family draws money from their own treasury every year to open an office school, and allows everyone to come to study and learn calligraphy. In the entire Guanzhou Mansion, no matter where the father and brother go, they are always very loved by the people. ”

What Jun Qinglan said is known to everyone in the world, Qin Yu is different from all the big families in Northern Xia. They never stood tall on the top, and even ate and lived with the people at the bottom, and they used to be good officials recited by everyone in Northern Xia.

Such a person would rebel, but it shocked the whole world back then.

In this way, the evidence is conclusive. There seems to be no possibility of overturning the case. ”

Jun Qinglan took a breath: "Look at the matter, it's true." But I believe that just because the person who reported it has disappeared, there must be something ulterior in this matter. ”

Li Congyao didn't speak, took the family tree from Jun Qinglan's hand, and looked at it page by page. His speed was much slower than Jun Qinglan's, and the long night passed like this at his fingertips. There was a rumbling sound of the fourth watch in his ears, and Jun Qinglan frowned fiercely.

"It's the fourth watch!"

"Yes." Li Congyao slowly got up and stuffed the Qin clan genealogy scroll in front of him directly into the wide sleeves of his robe: "Let's go." ”

Jun Qinglan's eyes widened, and her whole body stiffened. staring at Li Congyao's cuffs, he seemed to be crazy. He...... Took away the genealogy?

Li Congyao glanced at her: "Borrow." ”

Jun Qinglan swallowed. Isn't that stealing? How do you make such a sense of borrowing so justified?

"Perhaps." Li Congyao half-squinted his eyes: "You don't think it's important?" ”

"Important!" Language is much faster than the brain, and Jun Qinglan has no time to stop herself from telling the truth.

"Then let's go."

Li Congyao stopped talking, and walked out of the warehouse slowly and elegantly with his hands in his hands. Jun Qinglan pursed her lips and quickly followed. When she got into the carriage, Li Congyao was already sitting upright behind the case and continued to look at the family tree.

"What's going on on this page?"

Jun Qinglan sat down, and Li Congyao opened his mouth. The man's long fingers landed on the yellowed scroll, and he became more and more dazzling.

Jun Qinglan looked sideways, and he pointed to the last page of the family tree. On the third day of the sixth month of the fifth year of Qianping, Qin Yu, the sixteenth eldest grandson of the Qin family, accepted his righteous son Chen Mobai into the Qin Mansion, and was the third son of the seventeenth generation. And that line of words was crossed out by a thick ink line.

Jun Qinglan's eyes shrank, and even his breathing seemed to be chaotic. Qingyan lingered on Chen Mobai's three words, as if he was caught in a whirlpool, unable to extricate himself.

Li Congyao frowned fiercely and closed the genealogy in his hand. He used more strength, and there was a snapping sound, Jun Qinglan's body trembled, and his eyes immediately returned to clarity.

"Explain." Li Congyao frowned, and knocked the family tree with his fingers, and a piece of paper ash fluttered with ashes.

Jun Qinglan took a breath, didn't she just leave? As for being on such a fire? She had no doubt that Li Congyao was knocking on the family tree as her head.

"Mo Bai is my father's adopted son, that's it."

"Can a person with a foreign surname casually go to the family tree?" Li Congyao said lightly: "Or is your Qin clan particularly casual in terms of genealogy?" ”

Jun Qinglan raised her eyebrows, what did she do when she suddenly spoke so meanly?

"Mobai is an orphan who has lived with us in my house for five years. He is smart and studious, and has a good temper. The Qin family liked him very much, and his father wanted to accept him as his adopted son. But....... ”

Jun Qinglan's voice hesitated slightly, and Shao Qian continued: "But he refused, so my father planned to put him in my uncle's name. Recording him in the genealogy was only expedient, and in fact it was also intended to elevate his status. It was regarded as a successor from the Qin family, and when he merged into his uncle's family, his name had already been crossed out. I don't think this has anything to do with the Qin family's case. ”

Li Congyao pursed his lips shallowly, and the storm was clearly condensed in his long, dark phoenix eyes.

"Anything that goes against common sense should be taken care of." Li Congyao said slowly, his complexion was light: "You have been doing it for so long, don't you know?" ”

"Mo Bai, there will be no problem."

"The authorities are obsessed."

"He's the only one in your family who has escaped besides you, isn't he?"

Li Congyao's voice was faint, and he didn't seem to have any anger. But it was as sharp as a sword, and Jun Qinglan was gradually speechless by him.

"Your father wouldn't elevate someone for no reason, unless that person is very important to the Qin family. is unwilling to be a righteous son, but he still has to be involved with the Qin family. The only thing left is for you. ”

Li Congyao's gaze was like a bright moon, and it suddenly shone into Jun Qinglan's heart, and the memories she had buried for a long time and thought she had forgotten for a long time were excavated little by little.

"Okay." Jun Qinglan half-lowered her eyes: "Since the prince is so persistent, I will tell you the truth about Mo Bai." ”

"When I was seven years old, there was a terrible plague in a village near the Guanzhou capital. Almost the entire village died in the plague. My dad ran into Mobai when he went to deal with the epidemic. At that time, he was crushed under layers of corpses, crawling with flies and maggots, but he lived tenaciously. My father saw that he was pitiful, and dug him out of the dead body, washed him, and asked Lang Zhongyi to check it, and found that he was actually healthy, and had not been infected by the plague. What an incredible thing this is, and the accompanying Lang Zhong are amazed at the great life of this child. Probably because my father rescued him, he was very attached to my father, like a tail, always silently following behind my father. My father saw that he was pitiful and well-behaved, and that he had no relatives and no reason, so he took him back to the house. ”

Jun Qinglan's voice paused slightly, and then continued: "When Mo Bai first came, he was just a little guy doing rough work next to my brother, and he couldn't even write his name. But he is very studious and motivated, whenever his brother reads and learns calligraphy and his father takes exams to teach him homework. He listened secretly outside until he was eleven years old and quietly took the township exam and won the show in one fell swoop. From that time on, my father exempted him from his miscellaneous labor and allowed him to go to school with my brother and me. It was also from that time that Mo Bai's talent gradually emerged, and he finally became a powerful assistant by his father's side. ”

Jun Qinglan pursed her lips and didn't speak again. In a trance, I seem to have returned to the fragrant yard when the magnolia flowers were in full bloom. She climbed the branches and picked the highest magnolia flower before Shi Shiran sat down. Haha smiled and looked at Chen Mobai under the tree.

And Chen Mobai looked at her with a smile as at any time. His eyes were bright, as if he could suck in the sun, always shining and warm. His person is also as soft as the sun, he always follows her, gently reminds her to be careful, but never stops her from what she is determined to do, and only helps to turn the tide when she is in danger.

She couldn't remember when she started, she was used to Chen Mobai's existence. That man has become an inseparable and important memory of her entire girlhood!