In the center of the lobby where the drunken Fu returned, a square platform was specially built, and the square platform was surrounded by hollow railings, and the storyteller sat in the center of the square platform with tables and chairs.

When Yan Wan entered the door, Mr. Storyteller happened to wake up the wood, and the story began.

He was talking about the story that had spread in Jinguan City a few years ago.

It is said that a long time ago, outside the castle, there was a lake called the dragon's head.

Legend has it that in the past, there was a black dragon living in Qingyun Peak outside the city, and the black dragon was seriously injured by the enemy one day, and had to turn into a small snake and hide in the mortal city, so he was rescued by a mortal woman. After being healed, the black dragon wanted to go out to seek revenge, and when he was about to leave, he looked back at the city, but was cut off by the enemy who had been prepared.

The dragon's head fell to the ground and turned into a lake, and later generations called that lake Longshou Lake.

As the saying goes, there are clouds, three miles of different winds, and ten miles of different customs.

It's normal that there are several different versions of myths and legends like this.

Yan Juan has heard of two completely different theories.

Some people say that it was the mortal woman who did not want the black dragon to leave, so she deliberately passed the news of the black dragon to his enemies, and finally killed the black dragon.

Some people also say that it was the black dragon who betrayed first, and the mortal woman was just for revenge.

"I see you've been standing in the lobby for a long time, waiting for the storyteller to tell the next story before you come to me." Zhong Ning poured himself a glass of wine and asked half curiously, "What do you think the rumored black dragon died?" ”

Yan Juan glanced at the wine jug in front of Zhong Ning, and said lightly: "It's just strange stories in the countryside, they are all stories compiled by others, what kind of encounters the people in the story have, for people outside the story, it's just to listen, you don't care why he died!" ”

An unexpected answer.

Somehow, Zhong Ning suddenly laughed, and almost failed to hold the wine glass in his hand.

It took a long time to barely stop laughing, and then said, "But I think you'll know how he died." ”

"So don't care if it's a story or something else, just tell us what you think!"

He's getting weirder and weirder.

Yan Juan found a seat and sat down, far away from Zhong Ning.

She knew early on that Zhong Ning's temperament was very weird, but because the other party had always behaved like a normal person in front of her, she was suddenly asked strange questions, which made her not know how to reply.

"Maybe I was stupid to death!"

She was perfunctory.

The words that came out casually didn't go to the bottom of my heart at all.

Without waiting for her to say anything more, Zhong Ning on the other side suddenly restrained his smile.

After a while, he sneered: "Indeed, there is no more stupid person in this world than him!" ”

It's as if there is something more than the words.

Yan Wan's hands in her sleeves were stacked together, and the temperature of her palms and the backs of her hands was gradually blending, she didn't like to guess the hidden meaning of other people's words, so she didn't see Zhong Ning's strange appearance at this time.

"Don't say anything more about those inconsequential things," she interrupted Zhong Ning's pretended deep gesture and asked directly about the rumors in the city.

"It's been a long time since the incident, and I'm only going to get to the bottom of it now, maybe it's late, but you should know it, right?"

Of course Zhong Ning knew.

If someone comes to him and asks questions, he will not only make that person pay the same price, but even the reply will be half-truthful.

The person who can be questioned is replaced by any one of Yan Juan and Xie Chen, he knows everything and speaks endlessly.

Who made him think of committing suicide by throwing himself into the river back then, it was these two people who risked their lives and saved him!

"The rumors originally came out of the mouth of the maid of the Chang family, although she changed her clothes and made a disguise, but the little maid does things, where can she be perfect, naturally people still let people see the flaws."

Zhong Ning winked at Yan Wan: "The little maid who spread the rumors is not an important role, it's just that she happens to have a fellow villager who cleans Chang Ruyi's yard." ”

Now that he has said the beginning, he is not ready to hide it for others.

Even Chang Ruyi later added fuel to the rumors, and he also said it.

"I thought that the city had been so calm lately that the people who had nothing to do stared at me alone. It turned out that someone was fanning the flames! ”

Yan Juan said complaining, but there was no surprise on her face.

Seeing that Yan Juan's attention was all on Chang Ruyi's body, Zhong Ning couldn't help but cough, letting Yan Juan's gaze fall on him.

He asked rhetorically: "Is it possible, you only know that rumors are often spread by people, and you don't want to know how she knows about you and ...... What happened between Cheng Huan? ”

The name Cheng Huan has appeared more and more times around her recently.

Such thoughts are fleeting.

Yan Juan quickly put her mind on Chang Ruyi again.

"It's probably Chang Ruyi who sent someone to buy off the people around me, and it's not like she hasn't done such a thing." She had a calm face, and suddenly looked at Yu Nong and Yu Qi behind her, "When you go back, you will change all the people in the courtyard!" ”

said that the wind is the rain, this is Yan Juan's former nature.

Since falling into the water, her temperament has become softer and softer, and only occasionally can she faintly see the shadow of the past.

Zhong Ning sighed, his hints were already so obvious.

However, some people are only willing to admit death, but they are unwilling to open their eyes to see what the truth is.

If it weren't for the fact that the person in front of him was Yan Juan, he really wanted to pick on her and let her go directly.

But who made him face this person now, it happens to be Yan Juan!

"As far as I know, Chang Ruyi went out of the city to visit relatives a year ago, and was robbed by bandits on the way, and Cheng Huan happened to pass by at that time, so he rescued her."

Yan Juan nodded: "It turns out that it's because the hero saves the beauty!" ”

She couldn't understand why Chang Ruyi was eyeing Cheng Huan before, and she also wondered if there was a reason for her, who made Chang Ruyi's favorite thing to do in the past was to rob her things!

Now it seems that the biggest reason is Cheng Huan himself!

"Wait!" Yan Wan frowned, and suddenly noticed that something was wrong, "You said that Chang Ruyi was a bandit you met on the way to visit relatives, where is the specific location?" ”

It can't be near Jinguan City!

When Mrs. Xie returned from visiting relatives, she was murdered by bandits in a place close to Jinguan City.

Since then, the government has specially sent people out to clear the bandits, and the Xie family often sends people to check outside the city.

The bandits have long been extinct near Jinguan City, where did those bandits who robbed Chang Ruyi come from?

Zhong Ning moved the corners of his mouth, as if he wanted to laugh, but he didn't really laugh.

Finally, he said: "Coincidentally, the place where she met the bandits was on the official road." ”

He added: "It happened to be the place where Xie Chen had an accident back then!" ”

Yan Juan believes that there are coincidences in this world, but things that are too coincidental are often carefully designed.

Rather than believing that Chang Ruyi was disappointed because of the hero's rescue of beauty, she is more willing to believe that Chang Ruyi and Cheng Huan's acquaintance and encounter were designed from the beginning.

And the people who designed these things, except Chang Ruyi, there is no one else!