Less than half a pillar of incense had passed since the masked man had been discovered, everyone had gathered on the deck, staring at the swaggering purple sails on the top of the palm trees.

The masked man on the shore didn't say a word, and the purple sail behind him explained his identity. An Qing finally put forward a conjecture that Lan Zhouzi was hiding on the boat, but it was overturned in a blink of an eye, and she immediately wanted to dig a hole in the board of the boat and drill down.

The merchant ship was still some distance from the shore, so Annan shouted to slow down the ship, and finally brought it to a stop about ten feet from the beach.

The water near this beach is so shallow that with little observation with the naked eye, you can see that there are no reefs that are large enough to wreck. However, after many years of sailing, Annan has maintained a very high vigilance against Jingzhou, whether it is for this sea area or Lan Zhouzi on the other side.

"Anchor. After Annan finished instructing, he immediately instructed, "Go to the two with great strength, and once the situation changes, immediately raise the anchor." ”

Several guys looked at each other a few times, nodded tacitly, and left without saying a word.

Annan turned his head to look at Zhao Wu'an, and said with a wry smile: "Zhao Jushi, this selection is really not very good. The closer we get to our destination, the more relaxed we become, and we don't know anything about this place. I've done what I can, and now it's up to you. ”

"It is inevitable that Lan Zhouzi will choose to appear at this time, even if we want to go, I am afraid that we will not be able to go far. Zhao Wu'an said unshockedly, "Since we have met, you might as well ask him what conditions he has." Li Huang, what do you say?"

No matter how many times he had thought about it before, when the person he thought about that day and night was on the other side, Li Huanglai was still a little unable to react for a while. It wasn't until Zhao Wu'an called his name that he woke up like a dream, and a look of nervousness appeared on his face.

Duan Taoli stood behind him, a little unbearable, and said: "Anyway, he is also a manly husband, if you don't pass this level by yourself, do you still have to wait for others to go?"

was choked by the lover of his dreams, and Li Huanglai also felt that he was too timid. There are still so many people standing behind him, and Lan Zhouzi on the other side is far away, not to mention, at best, he is alone, can he have any magical power to kill him from such a distance?

Besides, even if he died, Lan Zhouzi would lose more than he gained.

Li Huanglai cleared his throat and said loudly, "Your Excellency is Lan Zhouzi?"

The people on the shore were silent, only nodded lightly.

After receiving the confirmation, Li Huanglai felt a little more calm in his heart, and raised his voice: "Your Excellency asked me to meet at sea, but you want to discuss the treasure stolen from me?"

Lan Zhouzi nodded again, only this time he spoke: "Your Excellency's treasure, I stole it, and it took a lot of effort. It's a pity that I can't open your lock, and this thing is a piece of scrap metal to me, and it's not worth a penny. ”

"But to me, it's a priceless treasure, and Huang Lai is willing to exchange anything for it!" Li Huang saw that there was a play, and struck while the iron was hot.

Lan Zhouzi stretched out the sleeves of his robe and took out a long wooden cylinder from it, which looked like the armory blueprints stolen from Li Huanglai.

"I, Lan Zhouzi, am a thief, a thief steals things, and I don't have an empty hand. Since Mr. Li wanted to get this thing back, he had to exchange it for something of equal value. ”

Li Huang came to the right color and said: "That's true!"

Lan Zhouzi pondered for a moment, then stretched out his hand and pointed at a person on the boat.

"Then, give me the jade pendant on her body. ”

Everyone looked at him with a look of surprise, and even the person who was pointed at was puzzled: "Jade pendant?"

"The jade pendant you wear on your waist, the heirloom jade pendant of the Valan Kingdom, is a priceless treasure, I want it. Lan Zhouzi said.

Duan Taoli then moved his gaze to his waist.

That's right, since she left the palace, she has indeed always carried this jade pendant engraved with an obscure ancient character.

This jade pendant has been worn by the king of Valan before, when he went to Jiuda Temple to seek scriptures, he once untied it and handed it to Duan Taoli, and instructed that this thing is a national treasure of Valan and should not be discarded.

Unexpectedly, as soon as King Valan returned, his temperament changed drastically, and he no longer mentioned the matter. Rather, it is the King of Valan who died in the Jiuda Monastery as early as possible, and the one who returned home was just a puppet.

Duan Taoli clenched the jade pendant in his palm tightly, and frowned and looked at Lan Zhouzi on the shore in the distance.

"This jade pendant is a national treasure, how do you know that you are a Han Chinese?"

Lan Zhouzi raised his eyebrows: "So, are you not happy to give it?"

Duan Taoli pursed his lips.

Successive generations of the Valan royal family have regarded this jade pendant as a priceless treasure.

Few people know that the thing that the lord of Valan regards as a national treasure is a piece of jade pendant that he carries with him. Among the countless luxurious ornaments on King Valan's body, this jade pendant is quite inconspicuous, far from its value. It's not so much a national treasure as it is a secret of the Duan family.

Jade, in the final analysis, is only a symbol of national glory, not the national fortune itself. If you can't recover Valan smoothly this time, so that others will be kings, this jade pendant will be just an ordinary jade pendant, without the slightest value. Perhaps in the end, it will be used as an insignificant souvenir of that departed dynasty, and with the burial of Duan Taoli, it will disappear in the long river of ancient history, and no one will think of it again.

Bartering, whether it is a profit or a loss, is obvious to Duan Taoli, and obviously there is no need to think about it. Lan Zhouzi wants this Valan National Treasure with an empty name, which should be regarded as her Duan Taocarp's luck.

Li Huanglai looked at Duan Taoli in embarrassment, and said cautiously: "Your Royal Highness Princess, this ......"

Duan Taoli gritted his teeth, grabbed the jade pendant and pulled it hard, pulled the red thread on his head, and handed it to Li Huanglai, twisted his eyes away, and said word by word: "Take it." ”

How to say that it is also a relic of his biological father, so he gave it away, Duan Taoli really felt reluctant.

Although she was reluctant, she did not hesitate. Exchanging an empty national treasure for an entire armory, which is more important, Duan Taoli is very clear, it is better to say that Lan Zhouzi, who proposed this idea, has lost a lot of money.

Ling Zhixiao and Duan Hunttian stood behind and glanced at each other. Beside them, Xu Yanchen sat silently.

An Qing shrank behind Zhao Wu'an, staring intently at this scene. Annan wrapped the tobacco leaves in his hand and frowned at the masked Lan Zhouzi on the shore.

The jade pendant handed out by Duan Taoli was cold and warm. Her outstretched hand in the air seemed so resolute.

Li Huanglai sighed: "Huang came to thank you." In this life, he will help the princess recover Valan and welcome the throne back to the capital. ”

Annan interjected and said, "How about your light work? The board on my ship will be laid for you at most ten zhang, and if you are further away, you will have to tread water by yourself." ”

Li Huang turned his head back and forth, stared at the water for a moment, and said firmly: "It's okay." This depth is still difficult for me. ”

Annan's practice of not daring to sail the ship close to the shore was somewhat restrained, but it was difficult to reproach. After all, he is the owner of the ship, and Li Huanglai naturally has no way to object. Fortunately, the water here is slow, the water quality is crystal clear, not too deep, even if Li Huanglai wades through the water, at most wet his underwear, there will not be much problem.

Lan Zhouzi, who was standing on the shore, didn't know if he heard the conversation here, and he didn't say a word from beginning to end, just hugged his chest and gave a cold eye to this place.

That look, although it looks serious, always gives people a sense of absurdity. Zhao Wu'an felt a little familiar for a while, as if he had seen it somewhere.

Where is it? It must be someone who has appeared in the Jiangning Mansion, maybe passing by him, maybe it is far more than these exchanges. In short, he is very familiar with this look.

At that time, Li Huanglai thanked Duan Taoli again before straightening up and preparing to take the jade pendant from her hand.

However, his hand was halfway out, but suddenly stopped in the air. There is no other reason, just because someone copied the jade pendant first.

Li Huanglai was stunned, turned his head to look at Zhao Wu'an, his eyes were a little sharp, maybe because he finally saw the dawn after persevering for a long time, but he was abruptly interrupted again, and his heart was a little irritable.

Not only him, but also a boatload of people who were waiting eagerly didn't understand what medicine was being sold in Zhao Wu'an's gourd at this time.

Zhao Wu'an didn't care about the eyes of the people around him, and took Duan Taocarp's jade pendant and looked at it carefully, and after a long time, he said: "It's really familiar, I have seen it before." ”

Duan Taoli was stunned: "What?"

She has always worn this jade pendant on her waist, whether it was many years ago or when she met again in Jiuda Temple, Zhao Wu'an must have seen it, this sentence was meaningless.

But Zhao Wu'an pretended to sigh and said this, and it seemed that there was some extraneous sound, and Duan Taoli couldn't understand it for a while. None of the people in the same boat understood, and there was a look of confusion on their faces.

Only An Qing was stunned when she saw this jade pendant, as if she remembered something far away, and said in surprise: "Could it be that ...... at that time?"

An Qing and Zhao Wu'an have known each other for a long time, and Hangzhou and Huaixi have walked a lot together. An Qing already has no wisdom roots, and she has been following Zhao Wu'an for a long time, and she has also realized some tricks in the dark.

This includes thinking about two seemingly unrelated things together.

At the beginning of their acquaintance, after solving the murder case of Qingdi Township, Zhao Wu'an walked on the road back to the temple in the night, and was stopped by a blue-faced monster with infinite strength halfway.

The blue-faced monster is a tomb keeper who lives in the ancient tomb under the mass grave outside the village, and he doesn't know how old he is, and he can't speak for a long time. And in addition to thanking Zhao Wu'an for saving his life, he also gave him something.

It was a jade pendant. The green ghost holds it under the base of the tongue and keeps it close to the body, which is obviously extremely precious.

And on the top of the jade pendant, a word was also engraved in ancient texts that had long been lost, which was very similar to Duan Taoli.

One may just be a coincidence, but if two jade pendants with similar systems are used as a symbol of a nation at the same time, it is very likely that there is a hidden mystery.

What's more, Valan, who has always been famous for casting spices, why is the heirloom of the country an inconspicuous jade pendant?

Seeing this jade pendant, Zhao Wu'an's guess in his heart had already been hammered seven or eight points, and many unsolved mysteries before were suddenly clear, leaving only one possibility.

He handed the jade pendant back to Duan Taoli's hand, instructed her to hold it tightly, looked at Li Huang again, and said lightly: "Mr. Li, this scene is really well arranged." ”

Loud and sound.

The form took a sharp turn for the worse, and everyone present was stunned for a while, including Li Huanglai himself.

Even Lan Zhouzi by the river, no one paid attention to it at this time, and everyone looked at Zhao Wu'an who was speechless in amazement.

And Zhao Wu'an stared at Li Huanglai, his eyebrows and eyes were full of lazy atmosphere, and he was not shocked.

"I thought you were a child of a family who didn't learn and didn't know how to learn, but now it seems that I misunderstood. This scene is really worth applauding Zhao Wu'an. ”