CHAPTER XXIII

It's a pity that these mysteries can't be solved on Ling Zhihan and Ling Ran, they don't even know what the secret that the Ling family has been inheriting all along.

I sighed heavily and returned the page in my hand to Ling Zhihan: "Burn it, we won't tell anyone else about the things on it." ”

Ling Zhihan had just taken the pages of the book, and before he could light it, there was a noisy sound of footsteps outside, and we turned our heads to see Tian Ji retreating to the ancestral hall, and Ling Ran was standing outside with an angry face under the lights, and behind him stood full of men with swords and sticks.

Ling Ran's eyes fell keenly on the page in Ling Zhihan's hand, his brows furrowed and his eyes showed a fierce light, looking back and forth at the field chicken at the door and me and the field chicken in the ancestral hall.

"Speaking of which, what I talked about with Zhi Han, did the three of you hear it?"

The palace lord and I looked at each other and nodded noncommittally.

"Look at this posture, the surnamed Ling doesn't plan to let us go, I'm in the way, you two want to rush out." The field chicken blocking the door clenched his fists and said loudly to us.

"You are Gu Su Ling's family, these four words are an ornament, I don't know if I can keep the three of you tonight." Ling Ran glanced at Tian Ji, and his voice was cold. "But if you want to break off, you won't be able to get out, and I promise you won't see the sun tomorrow morning."

Ling Ran was saying this to Tian Ji, but I knew that he was saying it to me and the palace lord, and Ling Ran should have seen that we would not leave anyone behind and run for our lives alone.

"Dad, I don't think they have any malice, and they don't look like heinous people, they shouldn't say what they know......"

"It doesn't matter who they are, but I just believe that only the dead don't really speak." Ling Ran resolutely interrupted Ling Zhihan.

"Dad, you...... What are you going to do? Ling Zhihan was taken aback, and stood in front of us with a cane.

"The affairs of the Ling family can't be known to outsiders, they have malicious intentions to eavesdrop, this is related to the safety of the Ling family, they can't keep it, the Ling family's ancient mansion is so big, it's not easy to bury a few people." Ling Ran's whole person was even colder than his voice.

"Dad, they sacrificed their lives in the tomb to save me, and they saved my life, but they didn't do it in every way, and I can't be ungrateful." Ling Zhihan's voice was a little flustered.

"They saved you, but you are not the only one in the Ling family, hundreds of years of foundation and the safety of hundreds of people, I definitely don't worry about handing it over to the three of them, no one forced them to know the secrets of our Ling family, since they eavesdropped, they are to blame for themselves."

Ling Ran looked like a person who did more things than talked, and looking at his attitude, he knew that he really moved the killing machine, Tian Ji might be able to resist for a while, but we are afraid that it is a fool's dream to escape from the Ling family.

"I don't care about the Ling family's affairs at all, and I don't mean to eavesdrop." I stepped forward, looked at Ling Ran fearlessly, and untied the necklace I was wearing. "You recognized this necklace at first sight, I never thought it was the stuff of your Ling family ancestors, I just wanted to find out the origin of this necklace, because it is very important to me."

Ling Ran slowly raised his hand, and the people behind him immediately retreated, until Ling Ran's hand was put down, those people were discerning, Ling Ran was cautious should not want too many people to know about the necklace, he walked into the ancestral hall with steady steps, and he didn't even look at Tian Ji at the door, the more he was so calm, the more worried I was in my heart.

He was not afraid of the three of us at all, to put it simply, maybe in Ling Ran's eyes, we were no different from the three dead people now, and he was not worried at all that we would be able to leave here alive.

"Originally, I wasn't going to ask you, but since you mentioned it, I also want to know, how did you get this necklace?" Ling Ran stood in front of me and asked coldly.

"My father was handed over to me before he was killed, and he was told that he must keep it properly and not lose it no matter what." I am neither humble nor arrogant, and I look directly at Ling Ran.

"Your father gave it to you? Before being killed? Ling Ran's sword eyebrows frowned, clearly not believing my words, he linked the item from my hand, opened it very easily, and the feather dragon pattern inside appeared in front of my eyes, Ling Ran glanced up at me, and asked casually. What's your father's name? ”

"Gu Wu." I blurted out.

"Gu Wu......" Ling Ran looked puzzled, as if he was thinking about it, and finally shook his head. I haven't heard the name, what does he do? ”

"The people who carry the coffins of the dead in the mountains, because they always stand in the third row on the right, according to the custom, this position is called the five ghosts to carry the coffin, so my father is called Gu Wu."

Ling Ran smiled, revealing a cunning depth, he should not have believed my answer, perhaps thinking that I was making up a story at random.

"So, you don't even know what your father's name is?" Ling Ran asked meaningfully.

I hesitated for a moment, and suddenly realized that I didn't know my father's real name, in fact, for as long as I can remember, I heard others call him Gu Wu, and now I think about it carefully, it should have been just a nickname.

I suddenly remembered that there was a photo in the hardcover notebook that my father handed me before he died, and the note had been burned by me, but I had always kept that photo by my side, so I quickly took it out and put it in front of Ling Ran.

"This is my father."

Ling Ran's scrutinizing gaze slowly wandered from my face to the photo, under the light, I saw his pupils contracting, the calmness on his face disappeared in an instant, the corners of his mouth involuntarily squirmed, his head buried forward in front of the photo, looking at the photo in my hand intently, his expression became more and more weird.

"Gu ...... Gu Yuanshan is your father!? ”

"Gu, Gu Yuanshan?" I was stunned, my expression even more dazed than Ling Ran's. "Who is Gu Yuanshan?"

It wasn't until I said that I realized that this might be my father's real name.

And......

Ling Ran actually knew my father.

Ling Ran's mouth slowly opened wide, his eyes scanned back and forth between the necklace in his hand and the photo in front of him, and finally a strange smile appeared at the corner of his mouth that I couldn't understand at all.

"It turns out that this chain was given to you by Gu Yuanshan, so it makes sense."

"Do you know my father?" I asked eagerly.

"Father? Gu Yuanshan is your father......" Ling Ran's smile became deeper and deeper, and he slowly shook his head at me. "This is the most boring joke I've ever heard, Gu Yuanshan actually has a son, hahaha."

I jumped up in anger, grabbed Ling Ran's collar, stared at him deadly, and said in a stern and low voice: "I warn you, don't make fun of my father, otherwise I won't be able to get out of the Ling family's door today, and you have to give me a back." ”

Ling Ran's gaze wasn't on me at all, he looked at the necklace in his hand, still smiling meaningfully.

"Ye Jiuqing adopted you, I understand, hahaha, you have been with Ye Jiuqing for more than ten years, didn't he tell you anything?"

I was stunned, my hand trembled slightly, and my thoughts were inexplicably flustered: "Shopkeeper, what did the shopkeeper tell me?" ”

Ling Ran's gaze fell on my face again, the smile on the corner of his mouth slowly retracted, and his expression was solemn and gloomy: "You can't be Gu Yuanshan's son, I can be sure, and Ye Jiuqing is also sure that he has been hiding from you for more than ten years." ”

I was stunned in place, I suddenly remembered the first time I saw Ye Jiuqing, I didn't care about the details at that time, Ye Jiuqing saw the necklace that fell from my body, his expression was obviously shocked, he was also the same as Ling Ran, he asked me about the origin of the necklace, and when I answered Gu Wu, his reaction and Ling Ran were at a loss.

But Ye Jiuqing was able to open this necklace, which means that he has met me since he knew me, and Ye Jiuqing really has something to hide from me.

"Also, you just said that this necklace was given to you by Gu Yuanshan before he was killed?" Ling Ran asked meaningfully.

I nodded messily.

Ling Ran's sneer made me at a loss, and he walked around me and stopped behind me: "I don't know how you made up this story, but I can tell you two things clearly, first, you are definitely not Gu Yuanshan's son, and second, ......"

Ling Ran stood in front of me leisurely, looked at me seriously and said coldly, "Second, at the time you said, Gu Yuanshan would never be killed!" ”

"Why?" My eyes widened in a bit of frenzy.

"The person you should ask is Ye Jiuqing, he adopted you for more than ten years, why hasn't he told you, and he has been hiding it from you for so long." Ling Ran smiled coldly, his voice even darker. "You don't need to know now, though, there's someone who should be able to answer your questions."

"Who?"

"Gu Yuanshan!"

As soon as Ling Ran's voice fell, his hand was raised slightly, and the people who retreated outside ordered him to rush in immediately, I didn't want to resist at all, my thoughts were completely disturbed by Ling Ran's words, and I suddenly found that I was stuck in an abyss of chaos, and I couldn't find a way out at all.

Seeing that I was standing still, Tian Ji and Gong Jue looked at each other and gave up resistance.

"In the back garden, find a spacious place, and you can't wronged them." Ling Ran turned his back and looked at the enshrined god position, and the cold voice came.

We were tied up and pushed out, Ling Zhihan suddenly stopped in front of us and said to Ling Ran: "Dad, they have a life-saving grace for me, and it is understandable that you want to deal with them for the safety of the Ling family, but I don't thank you for your kindness, I owe them a life after all, it is better to let them have a full meal, not to mention that now that the sky is getting brighter, there are many people who are afraid that the news will leak, so it is better to wait until tonight." ”

"The Ling family can't be ungrateful, what you said makes sense, lock them up in the backyard first, and then do it at night."

We were pushed out of the ancestral hall, my mind was in chaos, I only thought about what Ling Ran said, I didn't care about other things at all, Ye Jiuqing adopted me, and he had the grace of reinvention for me, I have always respected him as a relative, what did he hide from me, why did he hide it from me.

Why did Ling Ran know my father, and why did he say those words to me so surely, these questions that I couldn't answer at all were intertwined in my mind, like a fog besieging me, leaving me without the slightest clue or direction.