Chapter 1 Lin Xiaoyan
Lin Xiaoyan is very stupid, even she knows this. Maybe it is a bit inappropriate to describe a girl in her teens. In short, she is prone to being confused and slow to react. She often does stupid things and can't figure out the clues about slightly complicated things. Sometimes when she hears others tell jokes, she has to wait until others finish laughing before she asks what's funny just now. Then, after she understands it, she giggles alone like a stupid little hen.
Her mother died of illness before she remembered. She grew up in the escort agency. Although General Lin and other escorts liked her very much, they could not replace her mother. She would not be a female hero, nor did she have the thoughts or ideas that a girl should have. She was like a small tree without any external force, but she just grew up slowly with everything she had in her own essence, so what she expected and wanted never exceeded her life. What she liked most on weekdays was to go fishing in the stream behind the escort agency in her spare time, catch shrimp, occasionally go to the market and eat two strings of candied haws.
With other small things and watching the show, she would have been happy for several days. The thing she spent the most time was to save some money from the monthly expenses and expenses of the escort agency, and save some money to make some new clothes for her father and herself. Her biggest luxury was that the escort agency's business would be better, safer, save some money, and buy dozens of acres of paddy fields behind the escort agency. Like Tian Xiucai's family in the town, he could collect some rent steadily every year, so he would not have to worry about the escort agency's business and the settlement expenses of the escorts.
In other words, she is actually very happy because everything is in the place where she can see and touch. Even if she saved the young man by the river five years ago, she suddenly had an existence called A Xiao in her life, and what she thought, liked, and hoped for was not changed much. At most, she would add a "with A Xiao" in the middle of these.
Axiao has a very talented swordsmanship, so good that even the head of a famous sect - in Lin Xiaoyan's eyes, the Penglai Sword Sect is already a very famous sect - is coming to accept Axiao as his disciple, and the people in the escort agency are very happy. She is also very happy. When President Lin asked her to pack Axiao's luggage first, she remembered that Axiao was about to leave the escort agency, and then she cried sadly. But after crying, she was not too worried, because even though everyone in the escort agency congratulated Axiao on her about to join the Penglai Sword Sect, she knew that Axiao would never leave. It made no sense, and she couldn't think of any reason. She just clearly felt this.
A Xiao really didn't leave. He was taken away by the head of a sect as a disciple. This was a great thing for everyone in the escort agency, which was like the top scholar among scholars. However, the boy refused, because he was used to staying in the escort agency and no longer wanted to go anywhere else. When Lin Xiaoyan asked him privately, the cold boy said, "When I left, no one would accompany you to fishing and shopping?"
Lin Xiaoyan shouted happily and hugged the boy in front of her. After a while, she suddenly felt flushed as if she was awakened, but she was not embarrassed for long. However, her wish to save money to buy land and collect rent was added with an additional suffix - these paddy fields can be left for her and Axiao's sons and grandsons in the future, so that they can fish and go shopping with peace of mind.
Not only did she think so, but the others in the escort agency basically thought so. Since this indifferent and weird-looking amnesia boy was unwilling to go anywhere else. He would rather stay in this small escort agency, then the burden of the chief escort will naturally fall on him from now on. Although Chief Lin did not say it clearly, he looked at the young man who picked it up from now on from the perspective of his son-in-law.
Even though the escort agency is still in difficulty and has difficulty supporting it, the future is bright in their eyes and hearts. Even though the secret escorts sent to Baishi City this time killed them several escorts, and the losses were heavy, the escorts were finally sent. All the suffering and worries seemed to have ended, at least in the eyes of General Lin and several other escorts.
But Lin Xiaoyan didn't feel relaxed at all. From the beginning of this secret dart, an inexplicable shadow had been circling in her heart. After arriving in Baishi City, the shadow finally solidified. She knew that something bad must have happened.
"Ah Xiao. Let's go first, just let dad and the others collect money here."
"No, how can you leave President Lin's head and others alone? Look at the many people in Baishi City. If anything happens, everyone can take care of each other when they are together."
In just half a day, this is the seventh time that Lin Xiaoyan has said this. But the answers she got are almost the same. She is almost crying.
"I'm really scared, it seems that something is bad."
"What's wrong with it? Our mates have been delivered."
"I don't know either... but I just know that something bad is wrong... Ah Xiao I'm so scared... Woo woo woo woo..."
"Don't be afraid, I'm here. I'll be with you all the time."
The pat from his shoulder, Lin Xiaoyan, who was crying, looked up. In the hazy tears, the young man in front of him seemed to show a tenderness that had never been before, and his tone and voice were unprecedentedly nice. Although from this to Baishi City, he seemed to have become a little weird, and even talked a lot more than usual. Something seemed to be leaping deep in the cold eyes, but at this moment, Lin Xiaoyan knew that he was not lying, just like her other feelings that she didn't know why. She knew without reason now that he would really stay with her.
"Yeah." Lin Xiaoyan wiped her tears and made up her mind to feel at ease. Anyway, A Xiao would always be with her, so it doesn't matter what it is.
After thinking about this section, Lin Xiaoyan was no longer worried. She held the boy's arm tightly and focused on the scene in Baishi City. Mr. Lin and his team were still waiting for the consignee's final payment. They came out to relax. Before they knew it, they were also a little hungry. Lin Xiaoyan rubbed her red and blocked nose, sucked some of the snot that flowed out, and planned to find a place to taste the famous snacks in the north first and fill her stomach before talking. But suddenly a smell penetrated into her nose, which made her scream.
"Oh, it's this smell. Ah Xiao, do you smell it? This is what I told you that you can smell on the owner and the receiving place. It's this. Although it's a little different, it's this smell. You can smell it too."
It was different from what she had before, only she could smell it. Now the smell was very obvious. It was very strong, and it could be smelled by anyone who had no nose. Lin Xiaoyan looked in the direction of the smell. It was an inconspicuous small shop on the corner of the street, with a few dustpans of stones and powder at the door. The smell was exactly from one of the dustpans of yellow powder.
"Is there anyone? Is the shopkeeper here? Are you guys here? What are you guys?" Lin Xiaoyan looked and greeted the shop, but no one responded. There was only a child with a snot and no pants standing in there stupidly.
"This is sulfur." The boy's faint voice came from the side.
"Oh, Ah Xiao, you know it. Sulfur... is used for what is it?"
"It can be used to deworm, and...burn things and refine elixirs."
I don’t know if it’s an illusion. Lin Xiaoyan felt that Ah Xiao looked at the pile of yellow powder deep in her eyes, and something seemed to be burning.
"Hey, you are here. It makes me easy to find." A man came from a distance, and it was the escort who was with General Lin's escort. "The consignee said that the money was taken back, but he also brought back someone. He said that he wanted to see Miss Xiaoyan if he had something to do."
"See me?" Lin Xiaoyan was stunned.
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In the inner room of the business, the one who came back with the owner of the business was an old man. He was dressed very ordinary and looked nothing strange. However, the owner of the business was standing respectfully beside the seemingly ordinary old man, making Mr. Lin a little confused. Moreover, before paying their final payment, the old man also paid a lot of extra money, saying that he was to compensate them for the losses along the way. It seemed that the old man was the real owner of the goods.
As soon as Lin Xiaoyan arrived, she showed a look of horror on her face. She pointed to the old man and said, "It's this smell, dad, the smell on him is the same as the smell on the owner who came to our escort agency."
Mr. Lin also smelled the head of the wardrobe. It was a scent of sulfur, although it was extremely light. It seemed to have a strange feeling of being integrated with the old man and becoming a natural breath. But this was nothing. Lin Xiaoyan's headless behavior was undoubtedly rude. He quickly scolded: "Shut up. What are you talking nonsense?"
But the old man didn't care at all, stood up and walked to Lin Xiaoyan. He slowly spoke, "Is it Miss Xiaoyan? It was your grandfather who told me that if you come, I will let you meet him."
"My grandpa?" Lin Xiaoyan was stunned. She never knew she had a grandpa.
"Huh?" Mr. Lin was also extremely surprised. "Xiaoyan's grandfather? Is Afang's father? Why have I never heard Afang mention it..."
"Mrs. Lin himself doesn't know. She grew up in her uncle's house and has never seen her biological father." The old man took out a jade pendant from his arms and handed it to Lin Xiaoyan. "But your grandfather said that Miss Xiaoyan would understand when she looked at this jade pendant. It was a pair with the piece left to you by your mother."
Lin Xiaoyan took your jade pendant and took out another one from her arms. She looked at it and compared it together. It happened to fit together. Just as the two jade pendants were pieced together, a red light shone out from the originally green jade pendant, illuminating the whole room into red. Then, after slowly fading away, the two jade pendants had already merged into one piece, and the whole body became dazzling fiery red.
"These two jade pendants are divided by a thousand-year-old fire jade with a secret technique. This thing is rare in the world. If it weren't for the original body, it would be impossible for Miss Xiaoyan to believe this, right?"
"I..." Lin Xiaoyan didn't know what to do. She seemed to be happy, but she really couldn't be happy. Her head, which was already a little ineffective, was almost completely dead.
"Your grandpa has not had much time and wants to see you for the last time." The old man said lightly, with no emotion in his voice.
"Wait..." Mr. Lin's head of the escort understood something. "Xiaoyan's grandfather has always known her? He also knows that she will come with us this time? This escort goods... Could it be..."
The old man nodded and said, "Yes. The person who entrusts the escort is ours. His grandfather has always known that he just hopes that Miss Xiaoyan can be an ordinary person like Mrs. Lin, so that she has not recognized her. But now that it is at the last moment, she wants to see her own blood."
"Then... Xiaoyan's grandfather is..." The expression on Mr. Lin's face was a little nervous, and he was a little expectant.
The old man shook his head and said, "It's inconvenient to say it now. Miss Xiaoyan will naturally know when she went with me. Mr. Lin is still waiting here. The Baishi City has not been peaceful recently. There are many people on the road, and there will inevitably be some twists and turns."
"Well..." Mr. Lin nodded and looked at his daughter again. "Xiaoyan, since that's the case, you can go with this old man. After all, he is your biological grandfather, so he has to meet him no matter what."
"I...I..." Although the reason is that, Lin Xiaoyan only felt an inexplicable feeling of discomfort and fear. The originally vague and illusory shadow now seemed to be almost able to hold it in her hand. She couldn't help but turn over and hug the arm of the person beside her. "I want A Xiao to accompany me."
"This...Miss Xiaoyan...Your grandpa just wants to see you alone..."
"No! Without A Xiao, I won't go anywhere!" Lin Xiaoyan screamed. Even she herself didn't know that she would scream at people like this. She ignored the surprised look of President Lin's head of escort, and she just looked at the person she hugged. "A Xiao, you will accompany me, right? You will?"
"Of course. Didn't I say that I will always be with you." The boy's voice was very powerful, and he seemed to be shaking slightly.
"Miss Xiaoyan insists on doing this...that's OK."
The old man nodded, his face still had a calm expression, as if it didn't matter anyway.
Chapter completed!