It is not uncommon for people to go silent for too long. In some of the great temples and temples of the Five Kingdoms, there are often cases of eminent monks retreating and enlightening Zen, and it is said that the retreat time is as short as at least half a year and as long as three years. And when the day out of the customs, people will find that these monks will more or less have a language barrier, and even more than a year of monks do have to rest for a period of time before they can speak normally, which is a well-known thing in the world, but it is not Sima Hongyan's nonsense.

Nan Xunyan really couldn't answer Sima Hongyan's suspicions, and he was speechless for a while.

Sima Hongyan didn't ask, and continued: "The second problem I found was the package of rat and snake meat you gave me. It makes me feel grateful, but it also makes me suspicious of you. ”

Nan Xunyan listened a little unconvinced and said, "Do you think I bought it from you in advance?" Pity my bag of rations, you can't afford to be cheap! ”

Sima Hongyan said: "I don't doubt that it's Sister Nan, your inventory, I'm talking about those snakes and rats caught from this black prison?" I'm afraid not, right? Although rats often haunt shady places, this black prison is all made of large stones and is extremely tight, both the walls and the floor have been treated without gaps, and the most important thing is that if there are often snakes and rats here, there should be traces of rat hair and rat droppings. But you see that there is no trace of snakes and rats here, is there still someone who comes to clean it every day? ”

Nan Xunyan listened to Sima Hongyan's words, his eyes swept around, and it was indeed as Sima Hongyan said, this place was too "clean".

No matter what Nan Xunyan thought in her heart, Sima Hongyan continued to speak, only to hear her say: "The last thing that makes me strange is the commode in the corner, although it is not new, but it looks like it has only been used a few times recently." There is not much drinking water here, and according to the amount of secretion and excretion of the human body, it is the appearance of the last three days. So Sister Nan, you should have been sent here for only about three days, right? ”

After Sima Hongyan's three questions were finished, Nan Xunyan didn't know how to answer them for a long time. In fact, if you want to round one lie, you have to make up ten more lies, and what Sima Hongyan said is completely in line with normal logic, which is really not so easy to explain. Nan Xunyan pondered silently and found that after Sima Hongyan's analysis, he was actually full of loopholes.

Nan Xunyan felt a little embarrassed, although he knew that Sima Hongyan couldn't see him, he still had a fever on his face and felt ashamed. Especially when the lie is exposed in person, the embarrassing humiliation is really uncomfortable.

Hearing that Nan Xunyan didn't answer for a long time, Sima Hongyan sighed and said: "Actually, I don't want to embarrass you, the reason why I said it clearly is because I know that you are actually being used by others." Rather than fighting between the two of us, it's better to make the words clear. Whatever you want from me, you tell me directly, and I can tell you everything I can tell you, so that you can have an explanation. ”

After saying it himself, Sima Hongyan listened carefully to the movement on the other side, but Nan Xunyan did not respond as if he was asleep. "Looks like she needs a little more time to think about it!" Sima Hongyan thought secretly in his heart, so he didn't urge, leaned against the wall and waited quietly, and by the way, he began to think about how to get out of here.

After a while, just as Sima Hongyan was more and more clueless and a little upset the more he thought about it, Nan Xunyan on the opposite side suddenly spoke, only to hear her say: "I was born in Dongning, and I can be said to be a native of Dongning. But my mother is not, I heard my mother say that the place where she was born and raised was not actually Dongning, but Yanling. ”

Suddenly, Nan Xunyan began to tell her life experience, which was somewhat unexpected, but Sima Hongyan listened carefully and didn't mean to interrupt her at all. When it was said that Nan Xunyan's mother turned out to be from Yanling, Sima Hongyan was really taken aback, but he still couldn't help but ask.

Nan Xunyan continued: "I once asked my mother why she came to Dongning. My mother said that because she fell in love with a Dongning person, and she was unexpectedly pregnant with that person's child, that is, me, so she found Dongning. When I knew that my mother was pregnant with a child, that person not only didn't want to take responsibility for marrying my mother, but also forced my mother to beat the child. My mother was sad and secretly hid and gave birth to me, but that person somehow found out about it and sent someone to assassinate my mother and me.

In desperation, my mother secretly ran back to Yanling with me, who was less than a year old, and hid incognito. A year later, my mother got married, and I had a "father". When I was two years old, I had another younger brother. Originally, my mother thought that it would be good to live such a dull life, but that person did not give up, he tried his best to find us, and sent someone to kill us.

Coincidentally, when I was sick that day, my mother took me out to see a doctor, leaving only my adoptive father and younger brother at home, and when we went back, all we saw was a sea of fire, and the life and death of my adoptive father and younger brother were unknown. My mother was afraid to look for their bodies, so she secretly returned to Dongning with me overnight.

It may have been that the man who thought we were all killed in that fire, and then my mother and I lived peacefully for more than 20 years without any trouble. ”

Speaking of this, Nan Xunyan deliberately paused, but didn't listen to Sima Hongyan's question, she smiled self-deprecatingly, and said to Sima Hongyan: "Why don't you ask me why I want to tell you this?" ”

Sima Hongyan said: "You need to talk now, I will be a good listener, everyone has the past and sad memories." If you are willing to tell me, it means that you do not treat me as an outsider, so why should I knowingly ask to disturb your thoughts? ”

Nan Xunyan said: "You are a rare smart person who can understand the hearts of others. No wonder someone wants to arrest you and lock you up in this isolated place, otherwise with your insight, I am afraid that nothing can hide from you. ”

Sima Hongyan smiled slightly, but did not speak.

Nan Xunyan sighed and said, "I've been holding these words for too long, I can't help but want to say them, since you are willing to listen, then I will continue to say them!" ”

Sima Hongyan let out a soft "um".

Nan Xunyan returned to his memories again, and after a moment of silence, he continued: "My mother has actually always hidden these things from me in the past, and the tragedies that happened were also because I was too young to remember at all, so since I was sensible, I have always thought that we are ordinary people in Dongning, that "father" is my biological father, and my younger brother is also the younger brother of my mother's compatriots. It wasn't until that year that someone was a matchmaker for me, and I was about to get married, that something happened that changed my life. ”

At this time, Nan Xunyan seemed to be in pain, her tone became low and depressed, and there was a faint hatred, she said: "The husband's family I found for me is also an ordinary family, I have also seen that man, he is a scholar, and he has also been admitted to Xiucai, although his family background is ordinary, but he is also a scholarly family in us." At that time, I was quite satisfied, thinking that when I got married in the future, someone would take care of my mother with me, and it would be a good place to live with my husband and children in the future.

Although we live in a poor place in the countryside, my mother has taught me rules and etiquette since I was a child, and I have read some books, so we are also a family member in the village.

Everything was originally very beautiful, but I never thought that something I never cared about would become the cause of the disaster for us. It was two days before we got married, and my unmarried husband and I cleaned up and decorated the wedding room together, and the countryside people don't pay much attention to the rule that husband and wife can't meet before getting married, so we can clean up the house together and talk more to increase mutual understanding. Unexpectedly, while I was working, my husband saw a birthmark on the back of my neck.

Coincidentally, I was bending down to pick up the cloth that had fallen on the ground, and it happened that my husband was standing across from me, and he accidentally spotted me when I looked down. Maybe it was because of his face, but he didn't ask me about it, even though he saw it. ”