Not long after the three of them walked, Chen Yi saw the tree in front of the orphanage.

This tree is the only surviving tree within a radius of several miles, and the mother named it Hope, the full name of which is the Hope Tree.

The big tree was planted by Chen Lan when she was in her thirties, when the orphanage was successfully built, and the small tree has become a towering tree.

Looking from afar, it is like a huge umbrella, where the wind blows, the leaves rattle, and when winter comes, the leaves fall off, but there is a feeling of vicissitudes.

The first thing that every orphan introduced to the "Hope Orphanage" by his mother is to make a wish, make a wish to this tree, write it on paper, bury it in the ground, and when he leaves the orphanage, he can only dig it up and take it away with Chen Lan's consent.

Under the big tree stood a man, slightly chubby, wearing a white handmade hat and old dark blue clothes, smiling.

This person is none other than the director of the orphanage, the mother of all orphans, Chen Lan.

Qin Xingmin ran to the dean: "Mother, they are here." ”

Chen Lan saw Chen Yi and Qin Xiling coming hand in hand, and smiled slightly: "Yi'er, Lingling, you haven't been back for a year." ”

"Yes, Mother. Chen Yi blushed a little.

"This kid knows he's embarrassed. Get on in. Chen Lan was the first to enter the orphanage.

Chen Yi was one of the first people to be raised in the orphanage. As the earliest group of people, people leave every year, and over the years, the only people who really came back to the orphanage to take root are twin sisters, one is called Xiao Liu, and the other is called Xiao Li, who is only six years older than Chen Yi.

Over the years, some new faces have appeared in the orphanage, the youngest is only 3 years old, and the oldest is about 5 years old.

Chen Yixiao looked at Qin Xingmin and Qin Xiling like two big sisters, one cutting the cake and the other sharing the cake to the new brothers and sisters, and a feeling of unborn feelings rose in his heart.

"Is it worth it?" The brothers and sisters who go out from here every year, although they occasionally come back to take a look, but the ones who really dedicate themselves to the orphanage and do not ask for anything in return belong to the pair of Xiao sisters in front of them.

Xiao Liu pointed to the group of children who were eating cake and said, "You see how happy they are." ”

Xiao Li continued: "Whether these children can return here in the future or not, at least, they are innocent now." ”

Yes, perhaps, when Chen Lan took in these children, she didn't think about reciprocating at all, as long as she looked at their innocent smiles and heard their unscrupulous smiles, this happiness would be contagious, spread to everyone's hearts, and spread to every inch of the orphanage, so that the orphanage would not be too lonely.

......

"Hmph, stingy guy, I buy this kind of bargain for people every time. Qin Xingmin said angrily with a pen and a notebook.

"You are almost a college student at Jinjing University, I will give you a pen and a notebook, the purpose is to make you make persistent efforts, not to get carried away because of your ambition, although Jinjing University is not a lot of study, but in the future, you can not relax. "Chen Yi is a serious way.

"Hmph, a stingy ghost is a stingy ghost. Qin Xingmin pouted.

"This pen and notebook, as well as the birthday cake I bought for you, cost me nearly a hundred yuan, a hundred yuan, and you still call me stingy? Besides, why have I never seen you give me a gift on my birthday?" Chen Yi was depressed, and he thought that the gift was not that it was not, it would be good to have it.

"You are so ungraceful, I really don't know that my sister has taken a fancy to you. Qin Xingmin struck.

"You ......" Chen Yi was angry.

"Okay, okay, you two, you've been arguing since you were a child, and now you've grown up, and you're still like this, and you're not afraid of being embarrassed in front of your younger brothers and sisters, are you enemies in your previous life, or how can you get together and ......," said her mother, Chen Lan.

The two were counted down by Chen Lan, bowing their heads and not daring to squeak.

"Alright, let's eat, let a bunch of little ones watch you. Chen Lan gave an order, and the people hurriedly went to the table to eat.

Why are those little brothers and little sisters so fierce, I haven't eaten a bite yet, you are so young, can you make less food, and that little sister, how old are you, at most 3 years old, you should be drinking milk at this age, how can you take a bowl bigger than mine, you can't put down the dishes......

"At nine o'clock in the evening, a few of you will come to my room. Chen Lan said suddenly, and continued to bow her head to eat after speaking.

"Oh!" Chen Yi, Qin Xiling, Qin Xingmin, and the Xiao sisters replied.

......

Around nine o'clock in the evening.

"Mother, I don't know you called us, but you have something to say. After Chen Yi and the five came to his mother's room, his mother kept her eyes closed and remained silent for half an hour, and Chen Yi was the only man among the five, so she asked.

"Xiao Xiao, has the key been dug out?"

"Here I am. The Xiao sisters said together, and suddenly, two keys appeared in their hands and handed them to the dean.

Chen Lan took the key in his hand: "Chen Yi, Xiao Liu, Xiao Li, what I want to say next involves too much, originally, you shouldn't know about this matter, but you are the person I trust the most, I want you to swear to me now, keep what I say next absolutely confidential, and use your life to protect the things I give you." ”

The three of them knelt on the ground and swore an oath: I, Chen Yi (Xiao Liu, Xiao Li), swear to the sky, and use my whole life to protect what my mother will give me next, if this matter leaks out of my mouth, I, Chen Yi (Xiao Liu, Xiao Li), am willing to be hit by five thunders, fall into eighteen layers of hell, and never be reborn.

The dean looked at the three kneeling people with satisfaction.

The Qin sisters were very strange: "Why are only the three of them need to swear......?

"When you hear me, you will understand why. Chen Lan stopped.

Chen Lan slowly took out a black wooden box, and there were holes on each side of the box.

Chen Lan carefully placed the box on the table, inserted the two keys into the front and back holes, rotated one of the keys to the right, and the other key to the left, the box clicked open, a golden light flashed, and the lights in the room looked much dimmer under the golden light.

What is it? Such a strong aura fluctuation, Chen Yi was secretly surprised. He cultivated the Heaven and Earth Cultivation Method, absorbed the spiritual energy of heaven and earth for his own use, and deeply understood the pitiful pity, and now the things in the box, the spiritual energy emitted seems to be much higher than the spiritual energy existing in heaven and earth, if this is used for cultivation, it is only a matter of a short time to break through the earth.

As soon as Chen Yi thought of this, his heart was agitated, and it was so dark that it was not good, so he hurriedly retracted his heart and asked, "Is this what you want us to protect, Mother?"

Chen Lan nodded, seeing that everyone was puzzled: "This is the legendary Western Regions Heavenly Bead." ”

"Western Regions Dzi, is it a Dzi that can bring people back to life and cure all kinds of diseases?" Only Chen Yi had heard of the name of Dzi, and Qin Xiling had never heard of it.

"Do you see the tree of hope in the orphanage? There is not a tree in a radius of several miles, why is there a tree alive in front of the orphanage? Do you know why?"

"Is it because of the dzi?" Chen Yi said in surprise, he asked Chen Lan when he was a child, and at that time, Chen Lan would smile slightly, saying that children will understand when they grow up.

"It's because of the key. Xiao Liu covered her mouth and said, she didn't believe it, because the two keys were dug up by her and her sister Xiao Li under the big tree before.

"Yes, because these two keys have been stained with the spirituality of the dzi and have become extraordinary. Chen Landao.

"It's just the key on the dzi box, it will have such a miraculous effect, then the original effect of this dzi is not more powerful, it is rumored that dzi can cure all kinds of diseases, and if you wear it on your body all year round, you can prolong your life, these should not be exaggerated. Chen Yi sighed.

Chen Lan said: "Dzi is the iceberg holy relic of the Western Frontier, during the Warring States Period, Qin Shi Huang in pursuit of the art of immortality, to the Western Regions to ask for this dzi thing, the Western Regions monks can not stop it, and Qin Shi Huang promised to use the dzi after the completion of the dzi, it will be returned to Zhao, the Western Regions monks will dedicate the dzi to the first emperor. ”

"Mother, what are you ......" Qin Xiling seemed to realize.

"Today is Seongmin's eighteenth birthday. I say this because I promised your father to give you the dzi when Xingmin was eighteen years old. ”

Qin Xiling and Qin Xingmin were stunned, although they grew up in an orphanage, they had a father, and they came to see them regularly, but a few years ago, their father didn't know what he didn't come again.

Chen Lan said again: "According to legend, Qin Shi Huang had five strategists under him, and these five people practiced the Five Elements Spell, and each cultivated one of the gold, wood, water, fire, and earth. If the five people set up the Five Elements Great Array, with the dzi as the guide, each master one side of the vitality, and prolong the life of Qin Shi Huang. However, when the five people cast the spell, the dzi suddenly burst open, one was five, and fell into the hands of the five, and from then on, one dzi was five. After that, Qin Shi Huang failed because of the spell, his own life was approaching, Qin Shi Huang had the intention to take back the dzi and return it to the Western Regions, but the five monks thought that the first emperor was going to kill them to vent their anger, and each of the five ran away with a dzi. When Qin Shi Huang was dying, he recruited his henchmen, gave him the surname Qin, gave him the name Fei, and ordered Qin Fei to track down the whereabouts of the dzi. ”

"Qin Fei?" Qin Xiling and Qin Xingmin were taken aback, because their father, every time they came to the orphanage, they would give them a gift, this gift was not a toy, not a snack, but a genealogy - Qin family tree, Qin Fei's name is the first ancestor in the Qin family tree, Qin Fei's name, which is very familiar to the two sisters who have been familiar with the family tree since childhood.

Chen Lan nodded: "The Qin family has been pursuing and protecting the Dzi for generations, and your father is the fifty-second generation disciple of the Qin family. ”

"Could it be that this is the bitterness in his mouth, and this is the real reason why he kept us in the orphanage?" Qin Xingmin shouted.

Chen Lan sighed: "Yes." However, your father said that Qin Fei's direct bloodline will only leave you two daughters in your generation, and the other Qin family collateral lines have forgotten the Qin family's mission many years ago, and he hopes to completely complete the search and protection of the dzi in your generation. ”

"How did my father die?" Qin Xiling said with a frown, although she didn't have much affection for her father who hadn't seen him much, however, she felt that her father's death didn't seem to be so simple, and his death was most likely related to the dzi.

"His vocation is to find and protect the dzi, and he has long been mentally prepared for his death. Chen Lan sighed leisurely, tears flashing in her eyes.

"Is it for a so-called order, for a so-called task, that even one's own daughter can be 'abandoned'?" Qin Xingmin roared, in her heart, she once hated her father, once upon a time, she didn't understand the so-called hardship, and now, when she learned all this, she only felt very funny, this is the bitterness in her father's mouth?

"Xingmin, calm down. Chen Yi frowned, pressed Qin Xingmin's trembling shoulders, and looked at Qin Xiling, but it was not as fierce as Xingmin, and he actually yelled at his mother.

Chen Lan looked at the two sisters with some gloom, "Now, I will hand over the dzi to you, and you can dispose of it no matter what." ”

Chen Lan carefully put her hands into the box, took out the dzi, and held it in her hand.

As soon as the dzi came out of the box, Chen Yi felt that there was a lot more aura around him, and he felt that the dzi was magical.

Qin Xiling took the dzi with both hands, Chen Lan took out a dzi from the box again, and said to Qin Xingmin: "Child, take it!"

Qin Xingmin took the dzi and said sarcastically under the light of the dzi: "Such a beautiful thing, no wonder he is so cruel and can't bear to abandon us." ”

When Chen Yi heard this, he was depressed, this dzi was also like a pearl of the night, shining, it was really beautiful to say that it was beautiful, but the most rare thing was the aura it emitted, how could people who did not cultivate feel it?

Unexpectedly, after Qin Xingmin finished laughing, he slammed the dzi in his hand to the ground, only to hear a bang.

Chen Yi looked at the ground, and the flat floor was smashed into a small circular hole by the dzi, and the dzi had sunk into the floor, and there was no trace of it.

Seeing Chen Lan's gloomy eyes, Chen Yi knew that Chen Lan was sad, so he immediately bowed down and took out the dzi in the floor, and said sharply: "Xingmin, don't go too far." ”

For Chen Lan, Chen Yi regards her as a real mother, and she doesn't want to see Chen Lan feel a little sad, even if it's ......

"It's something the man left behind, and I don't want it. Qin Xingmin said loudly.

"Xingmin, you don't want this thing, I don't force you to ask for it, I just did what I had to do, if you want to lose this dzi, you can lose it. After Chen Lan finished speaking, she got up and walked out of the room.

Chen Yi glared at Qin Xingmin and chased him out with the dzi, and the Xiao sisters also followed Chen Yi out, leaving only Qin Xiling and Qin Xingmin in the room.

"Mother, this dzi ......" Chen Yi said embarrassedly, he was afraid that his mother would be sad, because he could see that Qin Xingmin didn't want dzi and had hurt his mother.

"Xingmin doesn't want it, you can take it first!" Chen Lan said.

"But ......" Chen Yi was just about to speak, Chen Lan interrupted: "It's nothing, there are five dzi in this dzi, the Qin family finally collected three, and when their father died, he lost another one, and it may not be a good choice to hand over the dzi to them." ”

Chen Yi silently put away the dzi and said, "The person who killed my uncle should be the descendants of the five strategists of the Qin Dynasty, right?"

Chen Lan nodded: "Who doesn't want to get the original magical effect of the dzi, but there are very few people who know it, once it is discovered, the person who holds the dzi will inevitably be implicated, so when you are in the room, you are asked to swear that what you hear will be kept absolutely secret." ”

"Mother, I'm afraid that if we don't go looking for the dzi, those who have intentions for the dzi will also come to us. Chen Yi worried, there is no impermeable wall in this world.

"The matter of the dzi beads involves too much, if the five beads are one, the effect may be more magical than the rumors, if it falls into the hands of good people, it is fine, if it falls into the hands of unrighteous people, the consequences are unimaginable, so you must not lose it easily. ”

"Mother, don't worry, I will protect this dzi with my life, and never let it fall into the hands of the villains. Chen Yi assured.

Chen Lan nodded with satisfaction: "You, Xiao Liu, Xiao Li were brought up by me, and you must unite in order to overcome the difficulties in the future." ”

"Yes, Mother. Chen Yi nodded.