At noon, the door of a living room in the Lin Mansion was closed, and four people sat around the long table, waiting for the protagonist to arrive.
With a "crunch", someone pushed open the door and walked in. The person who came was Lin Yuan who had just arrived from Lin Weiyang's courtyard.
After closing the door again, before Lin Yuan could take a seat, Lin Weiyang and Lin Sanli mobilized their spiritual energy out of their bodies at the same time, wrapping up the room tightly.
Lin Yuan walked straight to the narrow side of the table, where there was a chair prepared for him.
However, Lin Yuan did not sit down in a hurry. He put his hands on the table and glanced around the people around the table.
Lin Weiyang, Lin Sanli, Mo Qingcheng and a fat cook, Uncle Wu, all stared at Lin Yuan, waiting for him to speak.
"Xiao Yuan, Sanli and I have taken care of the room as you requested. Now no one outside can hear our conversation." Lin Weiyang supported her face with one hand, and the other hand playfully placed on the back of her little brother's hand. Drawing circles on it, she continued to ask: "So, what important thing did you call us here to do?"
Now that he was ready, Lin Yuan turned his attention to Lin Sanli.
"Sanli, tell me about the situation." Lin Yuan said.
The so-called situation is that the two thieves caught on a rainy night a few days ago were provided with delicious food and drinks in the past two days in order to make them relax their vigilance and take advantage of today's thunder to build momentum to seize Feng Wu's heart. Lin Yuan early in the morning They told Lin Sanli to let them go on purpose. Only then did they dare to run back to their "home" safely amid the chaotic crowd.
When the prey comes out of the cave, it's time for the hunter to appear.
Lin Sanli, who was sitting in the corner, looked at Lin Yuan. He slowly said, "The one I was watching escaped back to the Lu family."
After Lin Sanli finished speaking, it took Uncle Wu, who was napping next to him, to react for a long time. Uncle Wu straightened his fat body and said: "Oh... I'll run into the Immortal Falling Tower. Yes, I've been staring down there for a long time, but that person didn't come out..."
Thinking that Uncle Wu had finished speaking, Lin Yuan frowned and said to himself: "It's Falling Immortal Tower again..."
Seeing Lin Yuan deep in thought, Uncle Wu didn't know whether to interrupt him or not. He could only raise his hand in embarrassment and whispered: "Um, little benefactor? There is one more thing..."
It's a pity that Lin Yuan didn't hear it, he was still immersed in his own thoughts.
But Lin Weiyang heard it. With a playful smile on her face, she placed two fingers on the back of Lin Yuan's hand and pinched her nails.
"Hey, sister, why are you pinching me!" Lin Yuan's thoughts were interrupted by pain.
Lin Weiyang didn't say anything. She just smiled and pointed at Uncle Wu opposite.
Lin Yuan looked in the direction of his fingertips and saw that the fat cook's hand was still shaking in the air.
"Uncle Wu, what's wrong?" Lin Yuan asked.
The fat cook put his hand into his arms, and while taking out things, he said: "The little thief didn't come out again, but the shopkeeper of Zhuanxian Tower personally sent an invitation and asked me to hand it over to my little benefactor. .”
As soon as the sound fell, Uncle Wu's fat palm took out a pressed and wrinkled invitation and handed it to Lin Yuan.
Lin Yuan took the invitation and opened it with suspicious eyes. When he saw it, he went straight to the signature.
"Shangguan Linshuang?" Lin Yuan exclaimed.
When she heard this name, the first person to react was Mo Qingcheng. She opened her mouth in her signature manner and said with a look of surprise: "The head of the Falling Immortal Tower? Is she also in Beiliang now?"
Not only Lin Yuan, but everyone except Lin Sanli looked at the little girl in the corner in surprise.
"Sister, do you even know this?"
It’s no wonder that Lin Weiyang was surprised. Although Falling Immortal Towers were spread throughout the city-states of the Northern Jin Dynasty, their background was not simple, and the person behind them had never been publicly revealed. On the surface, Falling Immortal Tower is just a restaurant, but in fact it not only hides intelligence transactions, but also involves the hiring of killers. Except for some families who need to be careful or have requests from Falling Immortal Tower, generally no one will investigate or provoke this terrorist organization. Therefore, the master behind it has always been hidden in the undercurrent.
But it's really not easy for such a weak-looking little girl to know such secret things.
Mo Qingcheng seemed to realize that what she said casually was not a simple matter. She hurriedly covered her red lips, and her innocent eyes wandered between the Lin siblings.
Although Lin Yuan was surprised, he didn't show it too much. He just smiled and shook his head and sighed: "As expected of General Mo's daughter, she has a wide range of knowledge!"
It was originally a pure compliment, but in Mo Qingcheng's ears, it had a different taste.
The girl looked at Lin Yuan blankly, her eyes instantly occupied by fear and panic.
Mo Qingcheng put down her hands covering her mouth, lowered her pretty head, and said in a deep voice: "Did you...have known about it for a long time?"
Lin Yuan did not hear the worry in the girl's words. He smiled and said: "In the past few years, I asked a lot about things in the mountains to find clues about my father. I didn't find what I was looking for, but I learned a lot about other worldly affairs."
"Coupled with this time of getting along, Miss Mo, your knowledge is really different from that of ordinary children, and you have been deliberately avoiding Yun Fei today. It is difficult for me not to see through your identity, but I have never said it clearly. " Lin Yuan finished saying this with a smile, and didn't even notice that Mo Qingcheng's head was still hanging down.
Turning his attention back to the invitation, Lin Yuan quickly read through ten lines at a glance.
The owner of the Falling Immortal Tower actually invited him to go to the Falling Immortal Tower to taste food tomorrow, and allowed him to take as many people as he wanted.
Although the drunkard was definitely not interested in drinking, Lin Yuan had always adhered to the principle of being a fool not to take advantage of it. It just happened to save the money of treating the old man to dinner tomorrow, so why not do it.
In this case, let’s go to the appointment tomorrow!
Seeing his younger brother put away the invitation, Lin Weiyang asked: "Why did Shangguan Linshuang send you an invitation?"
"You just invited me to taste the food, don't worry." Lin Yuan replied.
"Could it be the Hongmen Banquet? How about I accompany you?" Lin Weiyang said.
"It's okay, you can do your housework. The Lin Mansion has delayed a lot of things because of me in the past two days. It's just a dinner party. I can handle it. Besides, there will be free guards here tomorrow."
The younger brother said so, so Lin Weiyang naturally couldn't refute it. She just said "be careful in everything" at the end and waited for Lin Yuan to continue.
The attention in the scene was once again focused on Lin Yuan, only Mo Qingcheng still had his head hanging down.
Lin Yuan first put the matter of Falling into the Immortal Tower aside. He took out the prepared fire excerpts and the letter hidden in the ground, and handed the letter to Lin Weiyang who was standing aside.
"Sister, the content in this letter is not the real news that dad wants to convey!" Lin Yuan said seriously.
Everyone was shocked. Even Mo Qingcheng tilted her head and looked at Lin Yuan in surprise.
While Lin Weiyang hurriedly opened the letter, Uncle Wu suddenly stood up holding his stomach. He looked serious and said, "Since this matter is involved, it's better for us to avoid it."
The "we" that Uncle Wu said naturally refers to Mo Qingcheng, Lin Sanli and himself.
He pulled Lin Sanli up and kept gesturing towards Mo Qingcheng opposite him.
At this moment, Lin Yuan put his palm on Uncle Wu's shoulder. He pressed hard and pushed the fat cook back into his seat. Seeing Mo Qingcheng stand up, Lin Yuan hurriedly waved to signal that Mo Qingcheng did not need to avoid it.
"We have known each other for so long. We are all one family. There is nothing to avoid." Lin Yuan chuckled.
These words really hit Uncle Wu's heart.
But for Mo Qingcheng, they had only known each other for a few days, so Lin Yuan's words probably meant that he needed to avoid him.
Standing up lonely, Mo Qingcheng was about to take steps when he heard Lin Yuan's dissatisfied voice.
"Hey! You stubborn girl, you said you don't need to avoid it. Where are you going?" He didn't guess the girl's thoughts.
Lin Yuan's "ferocious" tone made Mo Qingcheng dare not resist, so he had to bite his red lips and sit back.
While the three of them were talking, Lin Weiyang took a closer look at the letter, but still found nothing as before.
Casting doubtful eyes on his younger brother, Lin Weiyang asked: "Are you looking for my happiness?"
Being questioned by his sister, Lin Yuan blew the fire stick in his hand with a mysterious smile. He did not rush to answer his sister's joke, but asked Mo Qingcheng: "Miss Mo, may I ask if you have heard of it?" 'Ji Qiao Tang'?"
Hearing Lin Yuan's question, Mo Qingcheng put aside her aggrieved mood for the time being, and replied without hesitation: "Is it from Tianyicheng?"
Lin Yuan flexibly turned the sparkling fire fold between his fingers. He smiled and said, "That's right. Does Miss Mo understand?"
After thinking about it for a moment, Mo Qingcheng told what he knew about the situation.
"The 'Ji Qiao Tang' in Tianyicheng can be said to be a relatively alternative Jianghu sect. They believe in a strange man called 'Wuhou'. All the sects do not focus on cultivating and seeking the Tao as their main goal, but specialize in research and inventions." All kinds of magical objects. According to legend, the "Wuhou" they admired invented a crossbow that could fire continuously to help their lord win many battles. This expert invented many strange objects in his life. Some are even still in use today. The 'Ji Qiao Tang' is a sect that has grown and developed based on this. There are no less than hundreds of magical creatures born in their hands. The only difference from the 'Wu Hou' is that, Jiqiaotang' cleverly integrates Lingqi and these inventions, making them more convenient for ascetics to use."
Mo Qingcheng's explanation was not much different from what Lin Yuan himself understood in the book.
After Mo Qingcheng stopped speaking, Lin Yuan also stopped holding the fire folders one after another. The flames had already ignited at the mouth of the fire, illuminating several people's faces in the relatively dark room.
Lin Yuan smiled and gave Mo Qingcheng a thumbs up, then he said to Lin Weiyang: "Sister, try to inject spiritual energy into it."
Regarding her younger brother's words, Lin Weiyang was determined to comply. After fully injecting spiritual energy into the letter, Lin Weiyang winked at Lin Yuan to indicate that everything was okay.
Lin Yuan didn't hesitate, and directly put the almost inch-long fire snake on the letter paper under the surprised gaze of everyone.
Lin Weiyang would be lying if he said he wasn't nervous. After all, this is the only relic of their father. If it is burned like this, there will be nothing left to look back on.
But Lin Weiyang did not stop Lin Yuan. She held her breath and chose to believe in Lin Yuan's approach. Even if the flames had spread to her fingers, Lin Weiyang still did not let go.
Soon, the flame burned Lin Weiyang's fingers, but she didn't feel a trace of heat.
Before Lin Weiyang could ask curious questions, she had already discovered the problem that Lin Yuan had discovered that morning.
This paper was actually just wrapped in flames, with no trace of being burned at all?
What happened next was exactly the same as what Lin Yuan saw that morning. First, the font turned into flames and separated from the paper, and then began to arrange and change in the air to form the six large characters.
Everyone looked at what was happening in front of them with their mouths open. When they saw the real information in the letter, Lin Weiyang's eyes were red, Uncle Wu was inexplicably excited, Lin Sanli was still indifferent, and Mo Qingcheng, He looked at the siblings with some sympathy.
When the flame extinguished and turned into ink and returned to the paper, Lin Weiyang grabbed the letter and stood up and walked to Lin Yuan, asking excitedly: "Dad...Is dad really still alive?"
Lin Yuan smiled and said nothing. He took out the two bamboo sticks and handed them to Lin Weiyang and said, "As Yun Fei said, if it were her, she would definitely carry these two things with her."
Jinchan and Qianyue Yuyi are two excellent weapons that can help people escape from death.
Lin Weiyang had also heard of these two strange objects. Her hands holding the two bamboo sticks were shaking a little, and she lost control of them and dropped them to the ground.
"Then why...after so many years, my father has not even thought of coming to see us...why!" Lin Weiyang's last two words were hoarse, but she did not cry, just weak. He leaned on Lin Yuan.
Lin Yuan didn't have this idea in the morning, but what the old man said could only be told to Lin Weiyang after he was sure there was no risk.
Reaching out and stroking his sister's long hair, Lin Yuan comforted him: "Maybe dad has some last resort reason. Maybe he will kill us when he appears, but I always feel that now dad should He's looking at us from a corner in Beiliang, but we can't recognize him because Qianjie Yuyi is next to him."
Looking at his trembling sister in front of him, Lin Yuan reached out and held Lin Weiyang in his arms. He thought to himself: "Damn dad, you'd better be alive, otherwise Sister Weiyang will be sad and I will tear down your tombstone! "
Lin Weiyang calmed down for a moment and stood up again. She no longer had the same emotion as before.
Lin Yuan held his sister's pretty face and said cruelly: "Sister, now it seems that this thing..."
Without giving Lin Yuan a chance to finish, the letter in Lin Weiyang's hand turned into more than a dozen shreds of paper for no apparent reason. As it fell downwards, a burst of wind blades visible to the naked eye wrapped it up and smashed it into pieces crazily. Turned into dust and scattered on the ground.
Lin Weiyang destroyed the letter with his own hands, and the bamboo strips on the ground were naturally not spared.
She followed the same pattern, and within two breaths there was no trace of the bamboo strips.
"I know, isn't it gone?" Lin Weiyang forced a smile.
Lin Yuan also smiled back.
Then, he looked at the other three people, his expression returned to seriousness, and said: "I hope everyone is still upset about what happened today, so just pretend you didn't see anything."
"This is natural." Wu Shuhan said with a smile. For some reason, he was a little happy.
After talking about the business, Lin Yuan's stomach growled in response to the situation.
Under Lin Weiyang's doting eyes, Lin Yuan scratched his head and said: "Uncle Wu, I'm hungry..."
The eldest young master is hungry, why should he wait on an empty stomach?
After Lin Weiyang and Lin Sanli took back the spirit energy, the fat cook ran out of the door, and Lin Sanli followed closely.
But Lin Weiyang and Lin Yuan were still in the room, because that girl Mo Qingcheng still lowered her head and didn't know what she was thinking.
"Sister, we are going to eat." Lin Weiyang called.
Mo Qingcheng remained silent.
Lin Yuan sat down opposite Mo Qingcheng curiously, trying to see the expression on the girl's face clearly, but her head almost dropped to the bottom of the table. Lin Yuan couldn't see it, so he had to ask: "Miss Mo, what are you doing? What's wrong?"
She remained silent until Lin Weiyang sat next to her and asked again, before Mo Qingcheng slowly raised her head.
She bit her lower lip, as if she had made a decision, and said, "Palace Master Lin, Mr. Lin, I think... I'd better go."
Mo Qingcheng's decision left the Lin siblings a little confused. Why would they leave if everything was fine?
Lin Weiyang put her hands on Mo Qingcheng's shoulders, and asked: "Sister, why do you say this if you are so good?"
Mo Qingcheng looked troubled. She struggled again and again, and finally said: "You all already know my identity, so you should also know what happened in Pingchuan Prince's Mansion."
Seeing the girl's gaze, Lin Yuan couldn't lie, so he could only nod.
"In this case, you should know how dangerous it is to keep me here. You have already worked hard enough on your father's affairs. I can't cause any more trouble for you!" Mo Qingcheng became more and more aggrieved as he spoke, and tears the size of peas stopped. The tears couldn't help but fall from the eyes.
But Lin Yuan didn't know how to show mercy to others. He leaned over, put his hand on Mo Qingcheng's forehead, and flicked it unceremoniously.
Perhaps because she was too strong, Mo Qingcheng forgot that she was crying. She covered her forehead and raised her head, and saw Lin Yuan's smiling face.
"What are you talking about? You haven't repaid my sister's kindness for rescuing you, and you want to run away now? It's not that easy! In addition, you have been eating in the Lin Mansion for so many days, and I even bought it for you Clothes, yes! This must also be considered..."
Lin Yuan rambled on about a lot of things, and finally patted the table and said with a smile: "So, I can't let you go!"
"But... none of this is important!" Mo Qingcheng stood up angrily and looked directly at Lin Yuan.
Lin Yuan was not afraid either. He also stared into the girl's eyes and said, "Then could Miss Mo please teach me what is important?"
"If I am discovered staying here, I will most likely bring disaster upon you!" Mo Qingcheng shouted impatiently.
Faced with such an attitude, Lin Yuan not only was not annoyed, but sat down with a smile and said: "You are such a man who understands justice, are you trying to save the whole Lin family?"
"Lin Yuan! I'm not kidding you! They will really destroy the Lin Mansion!" Mo Qingcheng was so anxious that he almost jumped up!
"Snapped!"
Mo Qingcheng fell silent. She was frightened by the sound of Lin Yuan banging the table.
"Sacrificing yourself to save the world? What a high consciousness. It's a pity, Mo Qingcheng. My thoughts are not as high as yours. Let you go? Where can a weak woman like you go? Let us watch you wander. On the street? Feeling uncomfortable?" This was the first time that Lin Yuan called Mo Qingcheng by his name. He didn't expect that it would be on such an occasion.
Mo Qingcheng looked at Lin Yuan blankly, her eyes began to dodge, and she said softly: "I can..."
But there was no follow-up to these words. Lin Yuan looked at Mo Qingcheng with an evil smile and said, "Can't say it? Then let me tell you, do you want to say that you can compromise and marry that person you have never met?"
Mo Qingcheng didn't look at Lin Yuan's face. She bit her red lips, wanting to admit it but couldn't.
Lin Yuan looked at the girl's tangled look and continued: "Mo Qingcheng, why were you kidnapped by the horse bandits? Why did you stay in the Lin Mansion before? Isn't it because you don't want to accept your fate? You want to choose someone you like. Stay together forever, instead of ruining your future for the bullshit career of your bastard brother."
"Is that true or not?" Lin Yuan asked.
But Mo Qingcheng could only sob and did not answer.
Lin Yuan's temper rose, and he slapped the table again and roared: "Yes or no?"
Mo Qingcheng couldn't help it anymore. She broke away from Lin Weiyang's arms and shouted at Lin Yuan: "Yes! That's right! But so what!"
Mo Qingcheng's eyes were full of tears. In her blurred vision, she saw that Lin Yuan seemed to be smiling with satisfaction?
"Then stay in the Lin Mansion! It's just an extra pair of chopsticks for you, so that Sister Weiyang won't be destitute." Lin Yuan said with a smile.
The sudden turn of events made Mo Qingcheng a little overwhelmed.
She looked at the laughing young man across from her with dull eyes. Now that she thought about it carefully, it seemed that he had deliberately annoyed her just now in order to make her put down the burden in her heart and stay.
"Aren't you... afraid? That's an important minister of the royal family..." Mo Qingcheng was still a little worried.
Lin Yuan laughed uninhibitedly and said bluntly: "Look at the eldest princess coming today, am I afraid?"
Standing up again, Lin Yuan squeezed his hands on Mo Qingcheng's face with some effort, and said with a smile: "So, don't have any worries anymore, just like Dr. Wen said, they are from the same school, but we met each other. Friendship is hard-won no matter what. Since you don’t want to go back or accept your fate, it’s better to stay in the Lin Mansion than to run out and worry us.”
Lin Weiyang smiled and nodded. She had guessed what this little brother was thinking early on, so she could only watch him "bullying" a silly girl like herself.
"If you disappear, we will always be worried. When the time comes, people will be searching for you all over the city. With Xiao Yuan's temperament, he will definitely search desperately. You don't want my sister and me to accompany him in distress every day." Lin Weiyang agreed.
Mo Qingcheng fiddled with her cuffs with both hands. After struggling a few times in her mind to no avail, she raised her head with a smile and said, "But I can't live here in vain..."
"Didn't you say you were my personal maid this morning? Otherwise it would be a fake show!" Lin Yuan joked.
Unexpectedly, before Mo Qingcheng could stop getting angry, Lin Weiyang's eyes widened and she raised her hand as if to slap Lin Yuan.
Knowing that his sister would not take action, Lin Yuan still ran away, shouting, "Lin Weiyang hit someone!"
Seeing Lin Yuan running out of the room and disappearing, Lin Weiyang complained in a fit of laughter and tears: "He's still a little kid who hasn't grown up yet!"
Mo Qingcheng looked sideways at Lin Weiyang. She blinked her big tear-filled eyes and said, "You are really siblings, you all talk the same..."
Lin Weiyang didn't know Lin Yuan's evaluation of Wen Baicao, so she was naturally confused and asked doubtfully: "What do you mean?"
Mo Qingcheng waved her hands hurriedly and said, "It's nothing..."
Looking at this silly girl, Lin Weiyang thought the same as Lin Yuan. It would be too cruel to let her face the unknown dangers alone.
Touching her head, Lin Weiyang said: "You are hungry, let's go eat."
Pulling Mo Qingcheng's arm, Lin Weiyang took a step forward and found that she was still frozen in place. She couldn't help but ask: "What's wrong? Haven't you figured it out yet?"
Mo Qingcheng quickly said no. After much hesitation, she told Lin Weiyang her decision.
Stunned by this idea, Lin Weiyang took a long time to say, "Have you thought about it? You're not kidding?"
The only response Lin Weiyang received was Mo Qingcheng's firm eyes...
ps: Solve it in advance, I'm back!
