In the secret passage, Ji Erlan stood quietly, a horizontal stone above his head was pulled down, and Cui's voice came from there. "Hong'er, you have to remember that your foreign family is not only the Boling Cui clan, but also the Qinghe Cui clan!"

Whether it was Hong Yan in front of Cui's eyes, or Ji Erlan in the secret passage, they were all deeply shocked by her words! The Boling Cui clan is a famous family on the same level as the Lanling Xiao family, and it is still standing after hundreds of years of wind and frost. Until the emperor was ruthless, he would rather bear the infamy than uproot it! This made the Boling Cui clan annihilate in the long river of history, and there was no trace. And the Lanling Xiao family has been able to survive until now because of the old relationship with King Duan.

The Qinghe Cui clan is even older and larger than these two major families, and it is an existence beyond the reach of Da'an's imperial power, and the power it has is difficult for anyone to easily shake even in Yasukuni!

"Mother, what do you mean by that?"

Cui Shi took out a dagger inlaid with gold and jade from under his soft couch, rolled up his sleeve to reveal his left arm, which had a faint white scar. Under Hong Yan's puzzled gaze, she cut her flesh and skin along the scar without hesitation.

"Mother? What are you going to do?! ”

Hong Yan tried to stop it, but Cui Shi shook his head calmly, wiped a handful of cold sweat oozing from his forehead, pulled out a thumb-sized jade pendant from his bloody arm, and said, "This is the secret that Yan Shicheng has always wanted to know from my mouth. ”

Hong Yan looked at the jade pendant with blood stains in astonishment, and was speechless for a long time.

Cui Shi took out a handkerchief from his bosom and wrapped it around the wound, as if he didn't feel pain. She said: "The Boling Cui clan was originally a branch of the Qinghe Cui clan, but due to differences among the clan, they broke up, and they no longer interacted with each other, and each made a living. But our Boling Cui clan has a secret talisman handed down from our ancestors, and if we want, we can hold the secret symbol at any time to order the entire Cui clan. ”

Hong Yan couldn't sort out his thoughts for a while, so he took the jade pendant and put it in front of his eyes to look at it carefully. In the crystal clear oval jade, there seems to be a gold filament slowly flowing in it, Hong Yan couldn't help but pick up the jade pendant and look at the candlelight, but there was nothing, as if it was an illusion.

Cui continued: "The Boling lineage is valued by the ancestors, and the Qinghe lineage has always been wary of us, and when we learned that the ancestors had passed down the secret talisman, we tried their best to seize it. Our head of the family was indifferent and took refuge in Da'an in order to avoid trouble. Who knows, in the end, it was calculated by others, and the clan was destroyed. ”

Although Cui Shi brought a few words about the past, Hong Yan's mind could completely guess the danger at that time. Since the Qinghe Cui clan is ambitious, even if the Boling Cui clan takes the initiative to hand over the secret talisman, it will not be able to save the lives of the clansmen, and there is no possibility of reconciliation at all if they can only resist or evade. And the Boling Cui family didn't want the Cui family's bloodline to kill each other, so they chose to hide. "How did Mother have this talisman?"

Cui said: "This is my brother, that is, your uncle, who secretly handed it over to me when he learned that the Cui family was about to fall. At that time, I was already married to your father. I originally thought that I could take you to save my life, but I didn't expect that Yan Shicheng forced your father to kill me after the Cui family collapsed. ”

"And so it was!" Hong Yan's face was gloomy, and he had already guessed about it.

"Your father's persuasion was useless, so he had to threaten his own life in an attempt to save our mother and son. He is Yan Shicheng's favorite eldest son, and Yan Shicheng can't let him die in vain, so he pretended to agree. I know that Yan Shicheng will not give up so easily, and because of his brother's entrustment, he does not dare to be careless, and must leave a trace of blood for our Boling Cui clan, so I dare not fully believe in Yan Shicheng's old fox, and let Uncle Hu take you out of the capital overnight. ”

"When your father found out, he did not blame me on his face, but he certainly resented me in his heart that I did not believe him. I asked me the reason several times, but I didn't talk about it, and he was disappointed in me after all, and there was a gap between us, and we were taken advantage of. Yan Shicheng took advantage of his absence in the house to tie me up and put me in a secret room, and said to the outside world that I was seriously ill and died. When he returned, the white flags were already hanging all over the house. ”

"Your father had a big quarrel with Yan Shicheng, saying that he would rather sneak around with me for the rest of his life than marry again, and immediately declared that he would guard me for three years." Cui Shi said, with a smile on his face, and said, "Your father is dedicated to me, and I have been satisfied in this life." ”

After saying so many words, Cui's face became more and more pale and haggard, Hong Yan wanted to stop her from continuing, but she waved her hand and said, "Let me finish, otherwise, there will be no more chance......"

Hong Yan got up and poured a cup of tea and handed it to her, Cui Shi took it with relief, took a small sip and moistened his lips, and continued: "Since the words of the three years have been spoken, it is impossible for the son of the Yan family to go back on his word, so Yan Shicheng let him do whatever he wants." Your father is sincere and simple, where can he calculate Yan Shicheng. Three years have passed, and the guard in his heart has long been relaxed, and Yan Shicheng designed him to achieve good things with the daughter of the Shangshu family of the military department at that time. ”

"That's why my father was forced to remarry another one?"

Cui Shi nodded and said: "The person is married, and the house has already been rounded, Yan Shicheng has to make inches, and presses your father in the name of filial piety, so that he can give birth to a long grandson for the Yan family." Your father compromised, and the woman had a good life, and they gave birth to a pair of dragon and phoenix fetuses together. Your father told me that he had already done everything that should be done, and he no longer cared about the affairs of the Yan family, and wanted to take me away and fly away. Originally, the matter could have come to an end here, but the matter was discovered by Yan Shicheng's old thief and told the woman that he wanted to borrow her hand to get rid of me and keep your father. ”

Hong Yan was not ignorant of what happened back then, in addition to what he heard from Uncle Hu, there was also what he secretly investigated. He asked, "But why did you survive when your father died?" ”

Cui Shi smiled: "Providence makes people, the people of the Cui family in Qinghe found me and asked if the secret talisman was in my hand." On that day, by mistake, that woman killed your father by mistake...... And Yan Shicheng only learned on that day that I still have use value. ”

Hong Yan's eyes suddenly became cold, and he asked, "Did Yan Shicheng reach some deal with the Qinghe Cui Clan?" ”

"You're a smart kid, and you can figure it out." Cui Shi took Hong Yan's hand, rubbed it a few times, and said: "Qinghe Cui Shi doesn't know if the secret talisman is in my hand or yours, and he has been secretly looking for it for many years. ”

Hong Yan got goosebumps all over his body, and he suddenly remembered that he had been assassinated for the first time when he was a child. Uncle Hu died that day, he knelt in front of the grave, someone talked to him, and his words kept tempting, but he didn't know anything at all, and the other party was so disappointed that he wanted to pull out a knife and kill him. It was then that Master passed by and rescued him. From then on, he would be assassinated from time to time, and later the master took him to meet his master, and since then, no one has come to kill him.

Seeing Hong Yan's complexion change, Cui Shi knew that he had not had a good time over the years, and said: "Presumably they have already tested you, so they let me live, trying to know the whereabouts of the secret talisman from my mouth." But Yan Shicheng has never been able to do it for many years, and he doesn't dare to kill me. When I die, he will have to give an account to the people of the Qinghe Cui clan. ”

Hong Yan said: "Even if he doesn't do what Qinghe Cui explained, I'm afraid it will inevitably be implicated in other places." ”

Yasukuni and Baimeng don't know how many spies are mixed in Anguo to plot misdeeds, and even he himself wants to do things for his master, Yan Shicheng is ambitious, and he will not easily let go of the opportunity to 'hook up with Qinghe Cui'! So, if he successfully controls the Yan family, does he also have the qualifications to talk to the Qinghe Cui family? Does it also have a position of getting out of control and then turning over?

Cui's heart is stubborn, and half a lifetime of torture has not been able to make her fall, but when she saw Hong Yan, she couldn't bear to force him to take revenge: "Hong'er, you have half of the blood of the Boling Cui family in your body, this revenge, your mother will not force you to take revenge, but you have to continue this bloodline......"

"Mother, how innocent Boling is, I am your son, how can I not repay the blood feud? Without them, I could have grown up with my father and mother......"

Cui's eyes were bloodshot and red, but he couldn't hold back his tears. "Is Mother useful to you?"

Hong Yan was stunned for a moment, and then showed shame. Cui Shi understood and said: "Mother understands that you don't have to blame yourself, I am already a person who is going to die, and if I can do the last thing for you, my mother is very happy." ”

Ji Erlan in the secret room also had to admire Cui's, such a stubborn woman, living so transparently. But she never thought that Hong Yan's life experience would be so complicated. So in his previous life, he deliberately took away his identity, was it to get the power of her clan and take revenge on the Qinghe Cui clan?

But when he married him in his previous life, he shouldn't have known the inside story of his life experience, so who was he guided to control himself?

In this life, because of Ji Erlan's changes, many things have deviated from the trajectory, and the development is much faster than in her previous life, so she can't be sure when some things will happen or not. But one thing is certain, Hong Yan had the purpose of approaching her from the beginning, not because of his own blood feud, but because there was another person behind his back, and there was another purpose.

Ji Erlan had no doubt that although Hong Yan had not seen the living Cui family in his previous life, he must have learned part of the truth from Yan Xiang with his resourcefulness, and then guessed the truth of the matter. Therefore, when he knew that he was suffering from a blood feud, coupled with Tang Nian, it aroused his idea of plotting to seize Ji Erlan's identity.

Inside, the conversation between Cui and Hong Yan was nearing the end, and the mother and son stared at each other and talked about trivial things over the years. Hong Yan did not mention his situation, and the most he said was the days when he was dependent on Uncle Hu.

There was a sudden exclamation at the door, it was Mama He's voice. Hong Yan knew that it was the masked man who had returned, and immediately got up to open the door. Mama He retreated to the door and looked at the visitor in horror. Hong Yan said: "He is my friend, Mama don't be afraid." ”

He walked back to Cui and said, "Mother, get out of here with me." ”

Cui Shi did not hesitate or hesitate, nodded and said, "Okay." ”