"Xiao Jiu, in the past half a year, I have seen that you have worked very hard, and you have also learned the three major techniques of soul dementoring, water summoning and fire summoning in turn, as well as the leg method of the vajra leg. Now that you can take charge of yourself, do what you want to do! I've got you out of the house! ”

Su Heng knew Xiao Jiu's thoughts, and what he wanted to do, although it was dangerous and abnormal, the disciples he taught knew that now with Xiao Jiu's strength, it was enough to conquer most of the martial arts. Even if he can't pick Luo Li alone now, he still has the ability to protect himself.

"Xiao Jiu, thank you for the success of your ancestors."

Don't look at the two of them always bickering on weekdays, but at this moment, Xiao Jiu can't say a word of joke.

After saying goodbye to Su Heng, Xiao Jiu went to Qingshuiju again and said goodbye to Yan Tong and Fang Ying.

"Xiao Jiu! Take care! ”

"Hmm."

A thousand words are not as good as a look.

In order to make it easier to travel, Yantong specially gifted Xiao Jiuyi a sweaty BMW.

Out of Lichuan, Xiao Jiu rode all the way to the north.

After a few days of driving, Xiao Jiufang passed through the village he had passed when he came in the direction of Lichuan.

Remembering that he passed by the family where he settled a year ago, Xiao Jiu hurriedly led the horse and searched for it one by one.

Just as Xiao Jiu was hesitantly looking at the gate of one of the houses, an eight-foot-tall man walked out from inside.

"Who are you looking for?"

The man was full of anger, and when he saw Xiao Jiu, he looked puzzled.

"Ah, this big brother, let me ask you, are those two old men still living here a year ago?"

"What?"

The man was stunned for a moment, and before he could speak, a familiar rickety figure appeared behind him.

"Son, who are you talking to? Come and help! ”

Xiao Jiu's eyes lit up, and he blurted out, "Uncle! Do you still recognize me? ”

Hearing this, the old man raised his head, squinted at Xiao Jiu for a long time, and waved his hand

"I don't know, I don't know!"

"Uncle! You're taking a closer look at me! A year ago, when I passed by here, I drank a bowl of tea from your house! ”

The old man remembered in a trance.

"Oh! I remember! Old woman! Come out! That...... The Grace Father is here! ”

After the old man shouted, the eldest lady in the room also hurriedly walked out.

"Oops! O Grace Gong! It's really you! ”

"It's down there. I haven't seen you for a long time, how are you old? ”

"Good! Fast! Please sit in the room. ”

Xiao Jiu politely returned the salute, led the horse and walked in.

After a few words of greeting, Xiao Jiu briefly took a look at the furnishings in the room, which had changed slightly from the same year ago, and the big hole in the past was also blocked.

"Engong, you left in a hurry at the time, and you forgot all the baggage on the kang, or my wife, who followed you all the way! Do you remember? ”

"Remember, auntie, you are such a good person!"

Xiao Jiu smiled and held the eldest mother's hand affectionately.

"Then Engong can find out, did he lose anything?"

"I didn't ...... not

What? ”

Xiao Jiu scratched his head and said.

The old woman didn't reply again, but silently walked to the back room, "Daughter-in-law, bring the dagger." ”

"Yes, mother."

A moment later, I saw a beautiful eldest sister walking out with a child in one hand and a dagger in the other.

"Eun Gong, here you go."

Xiao Jiu suddenly realized, "Oops! Isn't this exactly my golden-sheathed dagger? ”

This is a gift from Master to me on my birthday!

blamed myself for being too careless, and I didn't even know that I had lost this.

"Engong died in our house at sunset, drank a bowl of tea from us, and left a silver ingot. Seeing Engong again today, he is already heroic, not as if he was down. ”

The old woman talks extraordinary, but Xiao Jiu's eyes light up.

"The grace of dripping water, when the spring reciprocates, that little nine only sigh and give less, ashamed and ashamed."

The old woman just shook her head faintly.

"A silver ingot is enough to prove that you are a person who knows how to be grateful. If I call you 'Engong', my wife and son will definitely have something in return. Daughter-in-law! Go, get the old body's box. ”

"Yes."

"There's no need to repay it, Xiao Jiu came here today, but he just passed by here again, visited the second elder on the way, and left in a hurry."

Xiao Jiu saw that the old woman was grateful, and immediately excused himself.

"Since you're here, it's because you have a relationship with this thing, and I ask you to stay with your son."

Seeing that this old woman's behavior and speech were very different from before, Xiao Jiu couldn't believe her eyes.

It seems that this person is not simple!

Sure enough, when the woman holding the child came out of the back room again, she already had a purple and gold box in her hand.

"This thing is the world's most treasure, called 'Dongzhu', this treasure is quite spiritual, the son is in danger, please bring this thing."

"Dongzhu?" Xiao Jiu was stunned, he couldn't imagine that his small actions back then would have such a big return, "No, no, no!" I can't stand it! Please take it back, auntie! ”

The old woman just pursed her lips and smiled, and opened the box.

"Childe, look!"

Xiao Jiu looked at it as he said, and saw that the beads in the box were crystal clear and extremely clear, and there was a light pink halo around them.

"This bead ......"

"Childe, this pearl is produced in the Boyue country, eighteen years ago, the envoy of the Boyue country Dahamer led people to transport this thing thousands of miles to the capital, dedicated to the emperor. Unfortunately, on the night of the offering, this bead disappeared. ”

The events of that year were still in front of her, and the old woman's eyes were suddenly full of hatred.

"Afterwards, His Majesty held all the people who handled this bead accountable one by one, and finally punished Shi Ru, who was a second-grade female secretary, and dismissed her and returned home, never to be used again!"

"That's it...... Just for this one bead? ”

Xiao Jiu couldn't believe that this Dongzhu would be more important than the official title of a Zheng Erpin adult.

"Yes, it's important! This pearl is the only one in the sky and on the ground! ”

"But, how could it be inexplicably lost

What about loss? ”

Xiao Jiu was a little curious. Since it is a treasure, many people will be sent to guard it, so why would it be lost for no reason?

"Hey! Everything is framed by thieves! Nine Princes, do you remember the teahouse shopkeeper you met a year ago? ”

Kankan recalled, Xiao Jiu seemed to have some impressions.

At the beginning, it was the shopkeeper who pointed out a clear path for himself and let him go to Lichuan, and he once regarded him as his nobleman.

"Remember, I don't know if the eldest lady and that noble person are familiar or not?"

"He's the old part of the old body."

Xiao Jiu reacted with hindsight, "It turns out that you are Shi Ru, the female secretary who guarded Dongzhu back then?!" ”

Xiao Jiu suddenly remembered that he had read in a legendary historical record in the Hexagonal Pavilion in the past, about Shi Ru, the only female secretary in the Eastern Continent.

Shi Ru, at the age of twenty-three, entered Beijing for the scientific examination, and was despised by men, because he had the idea of not admitting defeat, he once stopped the first emperor's carriage and horse in public, and begged the first emperor to allow him to take the palace test with the man. In the end, after a month, he won the first place, and for a while, it caused a sensation in the entire Eastern Continent.

"It turns out that you are Shi Ru's senior!"

"It's the old body. It's just that he was blamed by thieves back then, which angered Long Yan and was demoted to this point! A year ago, my old ministry found me, saying that the capital went to a ninth son, and the Xue Mansion was very close, and after careful investigation, I found out that you were actually the owner of the old Meng Village, but it is a pity that the owner of the Meng Village had a good relationship with the Xue family during his lifetime, and the old body has always been difficult to get close. Later, my subordinates told me about everything that happened in the Xue Mansion on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve. The old body knows that there must be something wrong in this, which leads you to Lichuan. ”

It turned out that Shi Ru's predecessors had known all this for a long time.

"That senior...... The thief in your mouth should be Xue Yuanwai's family, right? ”

Xiao Jiu is also a smart person. If the thief was not Xue Yuanwai's family, the seniors would not have said it, and it would be difficult to get close to the old owner of Meng Lao.

"You're really smart!" Shi Ru was very pleased. "This Dongzhu, hand it over to you, and the old body will be relieved."

"It's just that the juniors don't know something, how did the seniors find Dongzhu later?"

Xiao Jiu scratched his head and wondered.

"Huh! When the old beast of Old Lady Xue was alive, he deliberately designed to frame the old body, he first bought off the guards, and finally insisted that Dongzhu was stolen. When His Majesty learned about it, he wanted to hold me accountable. In the end, it was the old body who sneaked into Xue Mansion at night and found it in the Treasure Pavilion of Xue Mansion! ”

"Then why don't you go to Your Majesty to report it?"

Xiao Jiu was really puzzled.

"Hey! I told you that you wouldn't understand. In fact, before that, the new emperor had a lot of dissatisfaction with the old body, but because he was afraid of the previous emperor's Yu Wei, he didn't dare to move the old body. This matter just gave His Majesty a proper reason for him to remove the old official! ”

"I see."

Xiao Jiu nodded knowingly.

For eighteen years, Shi Ru has never told anyone about this past.

is also by mistake, she met Xiao Jiu, and the two had a common enemy, so she dared to be so favoritistic

Showing your heart.

"You maybe, until now, you still don't know what happened on Chinese New Year's Eve a year ago, right?"

Shi Ru's words made Xiao Jiu feel a little chill down his spine, and carefully recalled the details of that night.

"That night, my enemy found me, and I ran away desperately, but later, when the girl heard my call, she ran out of the room, and helped me resist the enemy's poisonous needle, and in the end, the smile was poisoned and died."

When he mentioned this matter again, Xiao Jiu was still sad.

If she hadn't been so cowardly and wasteful, the smiling girl wouldn't have died to save herself.

Just as Xiao Jiu was immersed in that painful memory, Shi Ru asked loudly

"Actually, have you ever wondered why your enemies would find you so accurately? Why is it on New Year's Eve? ”

Xiao Jiu heard the words and carefully recalled the situation that night.

I still remember that when he was at the dinner table, he was drunk by Xue Yuan, and then he was helped by several subordinates to the rockery in the backyard.

Then, the Assassins were at that time.

At the same time, the people who carried themselves to the backyard quickly fled.

Recalling this, Xiao Jiu suddenly realized.

"It was Xue Yuanwai who leaked my whereabouts to the people of the Xuan Lingyi faction!"

"Not bad!" Shi Ru immediately looked at Xiao Jiu with an appreciative gaze, "This matter was only known to the old body many days after the fact." ”

He ...... Why? ”

"Because you are the catastrophe of Xue Yanxiao's fate! If it weren't for Xue Yuan's help, I'm afraid Xue Yanxiao wouldn't have died so quickly! What a sin! ”

(End of chapter)

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