The Journey Ahead (VII) (Part I)

When Xinjie came in, Lao Zhang Touer was asking some details about Princess Cha Ying. Seeing him come in, Mo Lan was a little excited. She was about to say something soft to him, and ask him to detoxify her Gu poison, when she suddenly saw a ruddy-faced man walking into the light, and after countless people, she suddenly understood what he was going to do when he disappeared at this hour. She lowered her head, her bangs blocked her quenching eyes, and the handkerchief in her hand was so clutched by her that she almost snapped her fingers.

She didn't surprise Xinjie when she stopped, he just said to Lao Zhangtou'er: "I want to know the details of Cha Ying and Wu Yilu's life, their habits of dressing and eating, their habits of women, and some of their habits, including the matter with women." Old Zhang Tou'er was stunned for a moment, raised his eyes and looked at the most mysterious grandchild of the Tang family, and quickly nodded. He instantly understood his purpose, that he might have a special identity unknown to the outside world, that was not in the usual thinking of someone like him. And he did as he was told.

Mo Lan suddenly raised her head and squinted her eyes: "You want to stuff women around them?" Brother Xinjie, tell me, in your eyes, are women just tools? Including the women around you are just tools for your pleasure? She looked at him wistfully, and she very much wanted an affirmative answer from him. If women were his tools, then the lady was the same as she was to him. When she was humble, she felt very happy to see that her rival was as humble as herself.

He glanced at her coldly and didn't speak. Just continued to say to Lao Zhang'er: "Ask all the things about Ruojin Silk." ”

She said that her mother left her kung fu, and her mother taught her kung fu. It's just that her mother thinks that women still don't pay attention to martial arts, and focus on literary talent and female popularity, so she doesn't put much effort into it. ”

"Then she just said that she got it after going to Prince Zhi's Mansion?" Xinjie frowned slightly.

"Brother Xinjie, you tell me the truth, you and that woman, you're just playing with her, aren't you? You tell me the truth, and I tell you about the golden thread. ”

"You have no right to intervene in my lady's affairs."

"Your mother, you are not married."

"There are no such cutscenes, she is my wife, she is, and she will always be. That's the truth. Now it's your turn, what's the matter with the golden wire? ”

Mo Lan's eyes were full of tears, sad and sad, very pitiful, but it was a pity that several people present were indifferent: "Do you really only identify her?" If nothing happened to my brother, and my brother wanted you to propose marriage, would you agree? ”

"No, you're just the sister of a friend of mine, that's all. If you don't want Uncle Zhang to touch those guys, you'd better tell me the truth about your golden wire? ”

Mo Lan looked at the ruthless man, then at the old man, closed his eyes, and continued to cry, but he had to speak: "I didn't lie before, my brother and I did teach my mother's kung fu. I never thought that I would marry into a high-ranking family in Beijing, and these efforts were useless in the boudoir, so I never paid attention. Later, something happened, and my little three-legged cat kung fu couldn't stop the evil people with intentions, otherwise I wouldn't be so miserable and disgusted by you. As she spoke, she opened her eyes and looked at Xinjie.

"If I have someone to protect me, I will be ruined in the military prostitute camp. If someone protects me, what is the use of being tormented by poison? Ever since the accident, I've been struggling to keep my brother alive. Just a few months ago, not long after I arrived at the Lord's side, one night an old nun came to my room, and she said she was my mother's biological mother, my maternal grandmother. I don't believe it, my maternal grandfather's family is a family in Beijing, and my maternal grandmother is also from a high-ranking family in Beijing, how can there be an unknown maternal grandmother. But the old nun said that she was my grandfather's original match, and my grandmother was a stepmother, not my mother's biological mother, but because she was afraid of her, she kept saying that her mother was her daughter. She said that in the past few years, she has been unable to take care of her mother for some reasons, and even the kung fu she can teach her is limited, so she will marry an incompetent squire, and she can't protect herself if something happens. She rushed back to the capital after the Mo family's accident, and she was looking for us everywhere, until I went to Beijing and went to the county lord, she had some clues, and finally found me in the palace of Prince Zhi. She gave me a piece of gold wire, and she agreed to teach me kung fu every six months. I studied five times before and after, and then I came to Kansai with the county lord, and I haven't seen her since. ”

"How do you get in touch with her?"

"She said she would come to see me sometime. If there is an emergency, send a letter to the owner of the underworld shop at the corner of Waifucheng Street and Pulp Street. ”

"Did she send someone to look for you after you came to Kansai?"

"I sent a letter to her before I left the capital, and seven days ago she asked someone to send a message, asking me to find out the whereabouts of the fourth lady of the Tang family, who is your aunt Tang Xiaoxiao."

Xinye and Xinyang were a little surprised, they didn't know about the festival between Tang Xiaoxiao and the old demon. In fact, Xinjie doesn't know everything, but he knows that between his aunt and the old demon, because of his uncle's enmity, the old demon poisoned his aunt several times, although it didn't work out, but he and his aunt are very annoyed by this old witch, Everyone in the rivers and lakes has a legend that this old demon woman was chased and killed by the righteous people in the rivers and lakes, but in fact, her aunt knocked her off the boat and washed away with the water and didn't know her whereabouts. Since she was unwilling to ask her aunt for trouble, he didn't mind taking action to clean it up for her aunt, including her unknown granddaughter.

Xinjie immediately thought of another thing, if Mo Lan is the ancestor of the old demon who winds silk, then Mo Lan's mother is the daughter of the old demon. Back then, he vaguely heard that the old demon's daughter fell in love with her uncle, but the uncle fell in love with her aunt, so he angered the old demon. The old demon said that he was the main room of a certain family in the capital, and if he remembered correctly, the old lady was still alive, and she would come out and walk around during the New Year. How did the old demon leave or disappear from the family? The family of the capital, the family affairs of each family are too complicated, and he doesn't want to take care of it, but he is afraid that the old demon will still be involved with these families. Now my aunt is already an outsider, and with her cultivation, she was higher than the old demon back then, and now in the past few years of retreat and cultivation, she has made amazing progress, and she is not afraid of people looking for trouble at all. On his side, if the old demon investigates a little, he will know that he is the child who was by his aunt's side and helped his aunt beat her into the water together, he is about to take Lian'er into Beijing, if he doesn't ask clearly, I'm afraid that someone won't be able to attack him in the future, but drag Lian'er down. He glanced at Shinno, and the look in Shinno's eyes told him that he had the same concern.

Xinye paced back and forth and came to Mo Lan: "Didn't your grandmother think about how to save you from Cha Ying's hands?" As far as I know, neither this Uyilu nor his father, Cha Ying, are good people. If that person is really your grandmother, if she really cares about you, wouldn't she want to help you out of this predicament? ”

Mo Lan lowered his head and shook silently: "I don't know." But whether she helps me or not, I need to detoxify the Gu poison on my body first. ”

"The old demon was also a character in the rivers and lakes back then, and she didn't think of ideas for you?" Shinno stared at her.

"She never asked me how I got here, and I never told her that I had been poisoned."

"If your mother has no other siblings, you are her only blood relative. She should care about you. ”

"I don't know."

"Have you ever thought that she might not be your grandmother, just someone who knows about your grandmother, is familiar with her martial arts, and pretends to be her to take advantage of you?"

"No, she has the butterfly golden lock that has been passed down from generation to generation in the Oumu family. My mother has it, and I have it too. ”

The brothers glanced at each other, the Oumu family, an ancient and somewhat mysterious family in the capital. Others don't know, but the Tang family, who has a warehouse business, knows. The Oumu family is not prosperous, but they monopolize the timber business that enters Beijing all the way from Kanto. The timber business is different from other freight transport, and the timber from the Kanto region to Beijing is also different from the ordinary mountain people who put wood from the mountains and discharge them from the mountains. It can monopolize the industry, from land and water transportation, to shops, to the world and the government. The people in charge of the Oumu family are not shallow in their internal martial arts, but the two sides have never intersected, so they don't know their martial arts paths. Few people on the rivers and lakes seem to have seen the Oumu family's move. If it is a little strange to say that the old demon is from the family of the emperor and merchant in Beijing, if it is said to be from the Oumu family, it is not so amazing. If the old demon is really the Oumu family, how could Molan's mother and daughter be calculated at the beginning, and the Oumu family didn't make a move? How could the Oumu family allow their own women to enter the military prostitute camp, and then degenerate into the playthings and spies of foreign princes?

"Your maternal grandmother is from the Oumu family? Your mother should be from the Jingdong Wang family, what is the relationship between the old lady of the Jingdong Wang family and your grandmother? If I'm not mistaken, now Mrs. Wang was born in the He family of imperial merchants in the capital. ”

"The old woman is my grandmother's cousin. Although she was married to the He family in the capital, she was not the real descendant of the He family. My mother said that the old woman lived in Jiangnan for a long time because her mother was the wife of the head of the He family, but she was at odds with the master mother, and after her mother passed away in Jiangnan, she came to Beijing to seek refuge with her father, but she was not treated by the master mother. Oumu's family sympathized with her and often took her back to Oumu's house to live, and she often followed her grandmother in and out when she went to Oumu's house. When her grandmother married into the Wang family, she often went to the Wang family, and she had a head and end with the Wang family's brother-in-law after coming and going. Later, after her grandmother disappeared, she became a housemother. My mother said that if it weren't for the protection of the Oumu family's uncle, I was afraid that my mother would not be able to live out. ”

"Does your grandmother know this?"

"I don't know if she knows it, she comes and goes every time, tells me to do things, and leaves when I'm done, and never tells me anything else."

"How can you be sure that the golden lock is not a counterfeit?" Xinyang frowned and asked, his own flesh and blood relatives, it is inevitable that people will feel strange to be treated like this.