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Chapter 21: The Road and Left Meet

Shen Lang's juren was admitted to Yongzhou, but he was easy to find out. There were many people who were active in the government in Lianshan City in the same year. He had already passed the imperial examination for the title of Jinshi and became a high-ranking official in the county government.

This man also had a little impression of Shen Lang and told everything he knew: "I don't know Brother Chen. He is a bit withdrawn. He just studied on weekdays. Everyone asked him to go out to drink, but he never shouted him. After a few times, no one called him. After the scientific examination, he left quietly, and no one knew where he went."

Except for the fact that drinking is quite different, the rest overlap with the father I remembered. Shen Yuanjing was silent for a while before asking: "However, senior, can you tell what's wrong with his accent?"

The man thought for a while and said, "There seems to be nothing wrong with Zhongzhou accent."

"Hmm? Zhongzhou accent, shouldn't it be Taizhou accent?" Shen Yuanjing was a little confused.

When the other party heard this, he hesitated for a while before saying, "I remembered that his Zhongzhou accent is a bit strange, unlike the authentic imperial county accent I heard when I went to Zhongzhou for scientific research. If it is mixed with some Taizhou accent, it is really possible."

Shen Yuanjing frowned. Things were a little troublesome. No matter what explanation it was, the clues were pointed to Zhongzhou, but what he could not go the most now was the territory of the Li family in Zhongzhou.

After leaving this person, Shen Yuanjing walked towards the inn and sighed in his heart that the clue was broken and the other side was not progressing well. He had too big a goal and it was difficult to find it in person. He had to entrust a spy from the Wang family to inquire in the city. It took him a few days to find out that the Lan family had already died many years ago.

When the Black Emperor died, he told him that he had hidden maps and other objects in the Lan family's ancestral land, the burial place of a certain generation of ancestors. Shen Yuanjing only got the only clue, and searched openly and secretly, but he could not find a trace of the Lan family's ancestral land. In just twenty or thirty years, the family seemed to have disappeared overnight.

The power that can do something to such an extent in Yongzhou is self-evident. Shen Yuanjing was unwilling to alarm the enemy, so he could only follow the clues left by the Black Emperor before and prepare to go to Xingzhou to inquire.

...

When you go west from Lianyun City, you will still have undulating mountains along the way. Unlike the Yunzhou Mountains, there are towering peaks around you. When you are in it, you feel like you have accidentally entered the territory of a giant.

Lianyun Mountains are already the highest in Yongzhou, and Shen Yuanjing's road was also sparsely populated, which is as low as a hundred feet from the ground, and as high as a cloud. He walked for more than ten days, but he was still halfway through.

He still had to spend this night in the wilderness. Fortunately, the famous Yangyan Mountains in Lianyun Mountains is in front of him. After passing this place, the road ahead is a little easier.

It was already the second half of the night, and there was no moon or starlight in the sky, so I could hardly see the road. Ordinary people would not choose to rush to the road at this time. It was a fire that suddenly appeared in the head before, which made him alert.

He was a master of art and bold. He walked straight to the front and realized that it was Xiao Fengxian. The man leaned against a big stone, closed his eyes and rested. He seemed to hear the sound of him coming. He opened his eyes and shot out two rays of light, saying, "Brother Chen is a little slower than I imagined."

Shen Yuanjing felt a stern and asked, "You are waiting for me?"

Xiao Fengxian reached out to signal him to sit down, nodded and replied, "I've been waiting for you for three days." Without waiting for the other party to ask, he said, "Is the treasure left by Lu Yunxiao in Yaozhou?"

Shen Yuanjing was shocked, but his face remained silent and said, "How could I know?" He sat cross-legged on the stone and asked, "Why did you ask like this?"

"Haha." Xiao Fengxian used the branches to twirl the fire to make it brighter, and said, "Brother Chen has been in Lianyun City for several days to find out about the old things in the Lan family. How could it be that we could get out of our eyeliner?"

Shen Yuanjing sighed inwardly, but he was still careless. He thought that twenty or thirty years had passed, and the Xiao family should not have focused on this small matter for a long time, but he did not expect that someone still remembered a small family back then.

Naturally, he would not admit it and said lightly: "It turns out that Brother Xiao is talking about this matter, but he is just a entrusted person. Why, Brother Xiao knows the situation of the Lan family? I hope to tell you one or two so that I can fulfill my wish for my friend."

Xiao Fengtian chuckled lightly, without saying a word, reached out to take out something from his arms and threw it over. Shen Yuanjing took it and opened it, but it was a piece of velvet. He only looked at a few lines and frowned.

It turned out that this letter was left by the second disciple of Grand Master Lu, telling the story of the battle that year. The disciple surnamed Feng accused the eldest brother of disobeying his master's will and privately hiding the treasures left by his master, entrusting his descendants to practice martial arts, and regaining the fallen leaves sword technique and treasure map from the Lan family as soon as possible, and inheriting the will of the ancestor.

After reading this letter, Shen Yuanjing knew that it would be meaningless to cover it up again, and said, "It seems that the last snow-puffing sword technique left by Grand Master Lu is in your hands. How did you find it?"

Xiao Fengtian nodded and said, "Of course it's in my hands. It's a long way to tell me the reason. When I spoke, the Lan family was targeted for no reason. When I asked the Xiao family, I happened to be responsible for contacting it. After repeated verification, I found out that a certain ancestor of the Lan family was Lu Yunxiao's eldest disciple. He was guilty of possessing a treasure, but he had the ability to protect treasures. No wonder he was killed."

He paused and said, "Just after I intervened, the murderer disappeared, and even the Lan family's ancestral objects were left. At that time, I was only about fifty, and I was the first in the human list and hoped for the earth list, so I didn't care much about this treasure."

Shen Yuanjing raised his eyebrows and didn't say anything. He listened quietly to him and continued: "Originally, even if this matter was over, but after a few years, suddenly, everyone in the Lan family was silenced overnight. After searching, it was the Feng family who did it.

Back then, the ancestor of the Feng family obtained three secret books by Lu Yunxiao. He was afraid that the ancestor of the Lan family and other junior brothers would chase him to various overseas countries. This time, the descendants felt that their martial arts were successful, so they came back to seize the treasure, but they didn't ask who the Lan family's backer was. In this way, such a letter and secret book fell on me.

At that time, I was failing to break through and felt depressed. This letter gave me great hope. After several investigations, I was unfortunately unable to get any clues. I had to completely cover up the affairs of the Lan family and set up a net to wait for someone to take the bait."

Xiao Fengtian looked at Shen Yuanjing calmly and sighed, "But this has been waiting for twenty years, and I almost forgot about this matter."

Shen Yuanjing then suddenly realized that everything was a coincidence. But he knew in his heart that after putting such great efforts, he would definitely not give up.

While weighing the pros and cons, Xiao Fengtian said strangely: "I originally thought the arrangement was too deliberate back then, which made people see the clues. The man who coveted the treasure did not dare to come here for twenty years. Now it seems that there is something else."
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