Half blood

After returning from the Ren medicine shop, in the aisle in front of the wing, someone bumped into him suddenly. Li Xuan raised his eyes and saw that it was a dull-looking inn clerk.Li Xuan didn't pay attention at first, but when he was about to open the door and enter the room, the man stuffed something into his arms.Li Xuan looked down and saw a square envelope. When he raised his eyes again, the person had disappeared.

Li Xuan hurriedly returned to the house, closed the door, and opened the envelope to see that what was contained in the envelope turned out to be the invitation to the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet in the White House that Li Xuan had been planning every day for the past few days.

Li Xuan was startled first, the thing suddenly thrust into him by someone he didn't know couldn't be something good, so this invitation must be an invitation for Hongmen Banquet.Li Xuan took this post and read it several times, but he didn't see any tricks or mysteries.He didn't want Li Xiuqi to know what he was investigating, because if that guy found out, he would definitely whisper in his ear again not to let him go.So Li Xuan was heartbroken, put the invitation into his clothes, and waited for the night of the full moon.

Bai Yuan has five daughters in total, none of whom are married.On the Mid-Autumn Festival, Li Xuan was placed among Bai Yuan's three daughters.What's more coincident is that Li Xiuqi was also invited to attend, sitting opposite him, surrounded by Bai Yuan's other two daughters.

Li Xiuqi shook his head at Li Xuan, as if to say: "I can't go back to Your Highness..." Li Xuan returned Li Xiuqi with a confident smile, as if to say: "Don't worry, everything is going according to my plan."

Li Xuan had a good drinker, and the three women would not pour down the wine when they persuaded them together. He raised his glass and said with a smile: "This sister is Lord Bai's two thousand pieces of gold, right?"

The woman who was asked smiled shyly and said, "Yes."

Li Xuan then said: "Seeing once is worth hearing a hundred times. I heard that Lord Bai's daughters are all shameless flowers. I didn't expect to know how beautiful they are in the world after seeing them today."

The second daughter of the Bai family was so praised that her face turned red and she was overjoyed.Today their father explained that the status of these two distinguished guests is extremely noble, and they must be able to climb up, but now this one is fascinated by him, so it should be considered successful.

Li Xuan pinched the back of another delicate girl's hand, and said, "Where is this girl? Why hasn't she spoken all this time? Are you shy?"

The second daughter of the Bai family said: "She is not shy anymore, she loves to play tricks of refusal and welcome!" As she said, she gouged out her third sister, who did not dare to show weakness and glared back at her second sister. sister.Li Xuan hurriedly acted as a peacemaker, and said: "The two sisters are really real sisters, otherwise how can one be like Xi Shi and the other Mao Qiang?" After finishing speaking, Li Xuan laughed dryly twice.

Bai Yuan has already started to raise his glass to toast to everyone present.Li Xuan grasped the delicate hand of the second girl of the Bai family, and asked, "Sister, I want to ask you something."

The second girl of the Bai family lowered her head shyly, and said, "Master, you ask."

Li Xuan thought about it in his heart, how to ask this question is more natural without being suspicious, and said: "I listen to my sister's accent, it doesn't look like a native southerner."

The second girl of the Bai family replied softly, "It's true that they are not from the local area, they came from the north."

"Really?" Li Xuandao: "It's a coincidence, I'm not from the south, I'm also from the north, where is my sister from the north?"

The second girl of the Bai family seemed to be hesitating a bit, and she smiled delicately for a while, but said nothing.Li Xuan felt a little strange, but he was just asking where his ancestral home was, but concealed it like this. Could it be that the ancestral home of the Bai family came from a place that could not be said.

The girl of the Bai family counterattacked and defended, instead of answering Li Xuan's question, she asked instead: "Where did the master come from in the north?"

Li Xuan then replied: "Jingcheng, my sister hasn't answered my question yet? Could it be that I can't say it?"

"Of course not." The second girl of the Bai family quickly waved her hands and said, "It's just a small place, so I don't think I even know about it."

Li Xuan said: "Let's listen, maybe I know?"

The second girl of the Bai family lowered her eyebrows and thought for a while before saying, "It's near the capital."

This answer is very vague. What is the vicinity of the capital? The capital is adjacent to several towns, and the range of a single neighborhood is too big. "

At this time, the eldest girl of the Bai family interjected: "What are you two talking about privately?"

Li Xuan raised his head and smiled slightly, and said: "I was just asking where this younger sister came from, but she hesitated for a long time and refused to tell me, only willing to say that she was near the capital, which made me suddenly curious. "

The eldest girl of the Bai family's face changed slightly when she heard this, she gouged out the second girl's eyes, and smiled at Li Xuan, "Oh, it's a small place, I'm sure the master would be happy to know, let's continue drinking." A glass of wine was served.

Li Xuan lowered his head and silently took a sip.The more they cover up, the more suspicious they are. The Bai family members are so unwilling to say where they come from, so there must be another dark secret behind them.And secrets must be bad. If it was really a good thing, it would have been spread thousands of miles with drums and gongs. How could it be hidden like this.

Li Xuan thought about it for a while, and then asked: "Is there anyone else in Miss Bai's family besides Mrs. Bai? Why haven't you seen Mrs. Bai?"

The eldest girl of the Bai family breathed a sigh of relief, and said with a coquettish smile: "Apart from our sisters, there is only my father in the family. My mother died early, and Fifth Sister fell ill and died when she was so tall. "Speaking symbolically, he gestured to Li Xuan.

Li Xuan nodded, and said: "Madam Bai has spirits in the sky, she must be very gratified to see the younger sisters come out and come out like this."

The second girl of the Bai family seemed to be told something sad by Li Xuan, her eyebrows were slightly frowned, and the corners of her mouth collapsed, and she said, "If we hadn't insisted on coming here, Auntie wouldn't have died."

After hearing this, the eldest girl of the Bai family hurriedly kicked the second girl under the table, and smiled at Li Xuan: "Hey, every family has such a sad thing."

Li Xuan's eyes sank slightly, he took a sip of his wine, and said with a smile, "It's really sad to leave my hometown. I'm alone in the south now, and I'm not afraid of the jokes of my sisters. In the dead of night, it's no wonder I'm homesick."

The second girl of the Bai family listened, smiled sympathetically, and said, "Yes, we were not used to it when we first came here, especially the fifth sister, she is the youngest, she hides in the quilt and cries every night, she thinks we don't know Afterwards, Auntie left, and we took care of each other. Gradually, we got used to this place, but sometimes we still miss the food in our hometown, especially apricots, which are yellow and have no fluff, so we can’t eat them anywhere. arrive."

Li Xuan smiled slightly and said, "Really?"

He probably already guessed where the Bai family came from. The yellow apricots without fluff in the mouth of the second girl of the Bai family are Li Fei's favorite fruit. This kind of fruit grows well in the dry desert. Yu Jin There is only one place in the country that can produce this kind of thing, and this place is quite far from the capital, so it is not considered to be near the capital at all. The second girl must have told a casual lie to perfuse him.

Li Xuan had a clue in his heart, so he said: "So my sister likes to eat apricots, and I like to eat this stuff too."

The big girl at the side didn't notice anything wrong, she smiled and filled Li Xuan's cup again.Li Xuan stretched out his hand and pinched the back of the elder girl's hand, and said, "My good sister, I drank too much for a while, excuse me, my sisters are waiting for me here..."

The ancestral home of the Bai family should be Su Huang.Suhuang had a big case decades ago, which involved many people and killed many people. This case was so famous, so even though Li Xuan was not born at that time, the grown-up Li Xuan was in the palace. Still have heard a few words about this matter.

Decades ago, hundreds of armors and weapons were found from the Suhuang county magistrate's house. This was a serious crime of conspiracy to rebel, and the county magistrate was killed directly.Then Li Xuan's grandfather Tai | Zu followed the vine and found several officials in the mansion who had hidden armor and weapons.Most of these officials were killed, and some were demoted to the frontier.Although it is said to be demoted, there is no one who has actually lived to be demoted.As for what happened to this group of people on the road, no one knows.Several years after this incident, everyone knew that this was the prelude to the Four Kings Rebellion.

Now Li Xuan can be sure of Bai Yuan's identity, not only because of Bai Yuan's daughter's specious and veiled words, but also because of his intuition.At this time, people should trust their intuition, because intuition is often the result of calculations by collecting information that they have never noticed. This kind of subconscious calculation is often more accurate than waking thinking.Li Xuan can feel that there are many secrets hidden in this mansion, a secret that is bigger than he expected, and he can feel that he has stood on the edge of this secret fog, and he will be able to see the truth immediately .