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In the long night, a single lamp.

Baili Mingyan sat at the table with Lin's mother, and Lin's mother said this: "Miss Jingwan was brave and kind all her life, she never hurt anyone and made many mistakes, the only mistake was falling in love with someone she shouldn't. Beloved person."

Baili Mingyan didn't speak, only listening to Mother Lin sighing and saying slowly: "Miss Jingwan was rescued by the Patriarch. She was just ten years old at that time. She was seriously injured when she first came to the Lin's House. The Patriarch tried his best to save her." The medical treatment finally pulled the young lady back at the critical point of life and death, and since then she has been adopted as an adopted daughter, and I was arranged to take care of Miss Jingwan at that time..."

As early as when he learned that the fourth lady of the Lin family in Yanshan might be his biological mother, Baili Mingyan had doubts about an obvious question—why Lin Huang and Qian Yuhan, both of the Lin family’s blood, had night vision ability, while he had no No?It is precisely because of this reason that he has always doubted that his biological mother is Miss Lin's fourth.

Of course, there is an unspeakable reason in his heart. He doesn't want to become cousins ​​with Qian Yuhan. Qian Yuhan only has one role in his mind, and he doesn't like to know about any kind of kinship.

At this time, Mother Lin finally said something that made him worry. The reason why he didn't have night vision ability was so simple that Baili Mingyan didn't even think about it.

"The Yanshan Lin family doesn't have a so-called fourth lady at all." Qian Yuhan once said this.

Qian Yuhan was not wrong, the Yanshan Lin family did not have a so-called fourth lady, and Baili Mingyan’s biological mother, the Miss Jingwan mentioned by Lin’s mother was not Lin Jingwan, the fourth lady of the Yanshan Lin family, because she was the adopted daughter rescued by the head of the Lin family. , is not surnamed Lin at all.

"Miss Jing Wan has been raised in Yanshan since then, and six years have passed since then. Until that midsummer night when she was 16 years old, she met the person who changed her life..."

Through the flickering candlelight, Baili Mingyan seemed to see such a kind-hearted and beautiful girl, who often sat at the end of the corridor with a pipa in her arms and fiddled.She is so shy and timid, and she trembles when she speaks to unfamiliar servants and maids, but she falls in love with a boy on Midsummer Night when her 16-year-old family entertains and communicates.

There was a lot of voices, cups of wine were intertwined, and she walked over to the high-spirited young man after crossing the crowd, and timidly asked his name.The young man lowered his head and glanced at the well-dressed young lady of the Lin family, and saw the waves in the eyes of the young girl who had just begun to fall in love, so he smiled politely and said softly: "The second son of Xia Qijue Villa, Baili Chen, dare to ask the girl's boudoir name?"

The starlight in the boy's eyes made the girl completely fall for her, so far she has secretly promised the second son.

"Later, Miss Jingwan told me secretly that she liked a young man, and he was the second son of Baili in Qijue Villa." Lin's mother showed sadness in her eyes, and she slowly shook her head, "At that time, I didn't know what kind of person he was. , if I had known earlier that I would never encourage Miss, it would be all my fault for not stopping her..."

Baili Mingyan stretched out his hand and patted the woman's skinny and trembling hand as if comforting, and said in a low voice, "That's not your fault..."

Lin's mother wiped her tears and continued: "A year later, the two officially fell in love. Every time there is a banquet exchange lady from a famous family, she will beg the master to take her there, just to be able to see more of the one I love. People. But after three years of being so vaguely involved, Bai Lichen has never intended to marry the young lady. I am a few years older than the young lady, and I am afraid that the young lady will be bullied, so I keep reminding and urging the young lady not to be deceived by others. Miss Jing Wan obeyed my words, and finally expressed her thoughts to Bai Lichen during a meeting, but..."

Mother Lin's voice was a little choked, she took a deep breath, and said: "Miss didn't come back until evening after going down the mountain that day. I was waiting for her at the mountain gate and found her red eyes from crying. She threw herself into my arms and sobbed. "He...he is already married, the eldest lady of the Duanmu family, they...they already have children..." At that moment, I regretted that I didn't inform the Patriarch at the first time. If it was the Patriarch, he would definitely know Regarding these matters, it’s not like persuading Miss earlier than being stuck in a quagmire a few years later.”

The knuckles of Baili Mingyan's clenched fist turned white, as if he had exhausted all his strength to restrain his emotions. He lowered his eyes and couldn't see his expression clearly.

"Unexpectedly, a few days later, Baili Chen had the audacity to bring a dowry to Yanshan to ask Miss to marry him, but you should have guessed that he wanted to take Miss as his concubine." Mother Lin sighed: "Master Patriarch is very happy." Opposed, under the stalemate, the young lady rushed out suddenly and agreed to the marriage in person, in order to let the head of the family let go and say in front of everyone that they have privately agreed for life."

"There was no blessing, no ceremony. Miss Jingwan only brought a small box of jewelry from the third lady as a dowry, and married to Qijue Villa. I was worried about Miss, so I forced her to be a dowry girl... Life in Qijue Villa is not good It was very dull and boring. In order to avoid conflicts with the eldest lady, Baili Chen arranged us in the courtyard at the northwest corner of the villa, and visited the young lady almost once a month. Three years later, the young lady became pregnant and gave birth to you. Perhaps it was because of the support of the Baili family. Bai Lichen was very happy to add a male, and allowed the young lady to go out of the village to visit relatives, and then the young lady would often take you to Yishui Qian's house to meet with the third young lady."

Baili Mingyan smiled mockingly, shook his head and did not speak.

Lin's mother continued: "Later, I was betrothed by Miss to a family, and I left Qijue Villa. I thought that even if Baili Chen didn't love Miss anymore, he would at least make her poor for your sake. Worry about a safe life, but unfortunately I was wrong."

Hearing this, Baili Mingyan finally opened his mouth and said, "Why was the Yanshan Lin family destroyed? Even the third lady who married into the Qian family was not spared?"

Mother Lin's cloudy eyes slowly lowered, her brows were knit into a ball, and she said: "Because I'm already married, so the following things are all based on my inquiries in the next few years, combined with one thing I know. guess."

How keen Baili Mingyan was, he immediately realized that the "one thing" that Lin's mother said must be the key to the destruction of the Yanshan Lin family.

"whats the matter?"

Mother Lin said: "Do you know that you actually have an uncle, who is the elder brother of your father Bai Lichen, and his name is Bai Litao."

Baili Mingyan nodded: "I heard a little."

Mother Lin said: "From the whining and complaints that Baili Chen made every time he came to see the lady, we can tell that in fact, your grandfather was the old owner of Qijue Villa in the beginning, and he actually preferred Baili Tao to be the owner of the villa, but Why did Baili Chen become the owner of the villa later?"

Baili Mingyan frowned slightly, but he already had a judgment in his heart.There are two reasons: either Baili Tao did something that touched the bottom line of the old owner's principles, which made the old owner furious or lost his trust in him; or Baili Chen did something that forced the old owner to Choose him as the young master.

Mother Lin didn't wait for Baili Mingyan to answer, and continued on her own: "Bailitao was assassinated and attacked when he went out, but at that time, Bailitao was the young master with Qijue's protection, and he wanted to get rid of Qijue. Killing people by hand is not easy. Baili Tao's assassination attempt failed, and soon after that, the Yanshan Lin family was attacked, his wife was killed, and three days after his wife died, the Yanshan Lin family was wiped out."

"So, the Yanshan Lin family was wiped out in two steps. The first time only Mrs. Lin was killed, and the second time the Lin family was wiped out." Baili Mingyan suddenly asked: "But you are just a How does the married maid know about the checkpoints?"

Mother Lin seemed to have guessed Baili Mingyan's question a long time ago, and said calmly, "Because I happened to be at the Lin family when Mrs. Lin was killed." Mother Lin recalled with a faint look of pain on her brows: "Because before that, I went to Qijue Villa to visit Miss as usual, but that time I accidentally discovered that Miss was abused, and there were welts all over her arms and neck, which had never happened before. After I found out, The young lady cried and told me that it was Bailichen, and that her true identity had been exposed. Bailichen forced her to hand over those things... I was really worried about the young lady, so I went to Yanshan Mountain after leaving Qijue Villa, thinking I beg the Patriarch to save Miss..."

Clap!The teacup in Baili Mingyan's hand was crushed suddenly, he panted heavily, and it took him a long time to calm down, he took a deep breath and said, "Since Baili Chen abused your mother, how could he easily let you into the villa?"

Mother Lin said: "Actually, after I got married, when I went back to the villa to visit the young lady, I secretly bribed the guard at the gate. It was the small gate on the northwest side of the villa, and Baili Chen didn't often go to the lady's courtyard, so he didn't know that after I got married. I also came to visit Ms.

Baili Mingyan nodded, convinced half a dozen points in his heart, and then asked the question he was most concerned about: "What is my mother's real identity? What did Bailichen ask her to hand over?"

Lin's mother paused for a moment, as if she had lingering fears in her heart. She couldn't stop trembling even though she clasped her hands tightly. After a long time, she said slowly: "Your mother...Miss Jingwan, her full name is Dugu Jingwan, Nanban Dugu."

There was a loud bang in Baili Mingyan's head, and in an instant the earth was overturned and the sky was struck by lightning, which made Baili Mingyan unable to recover for a long time.

Dugu... Dugu respects Wan!How could he not know about the Dugu Clan of the Southern Barbarian Evil Clan that made the martial arts in the Central Plains frightened? !

Dugu is the royal surname of the Nanman Evil Clan, and the Dugu Clan is also the representative of the Evil Clan, the nightmare of the Central Plains martial arts.

Although the Southern Man and the Northern Wilderness are both foreign races on the frontier, they are different from the Northern Wilderness Wu Clan's attitude that they have nothing to do with themselves. The Southern Man Evil Race is completely opposed to the Central Plains Wulin.Back then, the five famous martial arts schools in the Central Plains suffered disasters one after another. At first, they were all suspicious of the Nanman Evil Clan. It was not until it was found out that the Evil Clan had no trace of invading the Central Plains that the suspicion gradually faded away, but there were also some people who continued to doubt.After all, there were many things they did in the Central Plains to slaughter famous families and bloodbath families in the early years.

It turned out to be that Dugu!

In the blink of an eye, Baili Mingyan seemed to have caught something.

At that time, Bai Lichen was not valued by the old owner, and he tried his best to help the old owner, and finally made the old owner look up to him.But if the old owner of the villa knew that he had married a Dugu family of the Nanman evil clan as a concubine at this time, he would be completely ignored or even kicked out of the villa. , is not impossible.

And Bai Litao was assassinated before, could it be because he knew the secret and threatened Bai Lichen, so after Bai Lichen knew the identity of his mother, he immediately sent someone to assassinate Baili Tao?

Thinking about it further, apart from Bailitao, the Lins and his wife must know about the identity of his mother. Then Mrs. Lin was assassinated first, and then the Yanshan Lin family was wiped out overnight. Could it be that Bailichen was trying to cover it up? Mother's true identity?

Baili Mingyan covered his eyes and shook his head slowly.No, this is too crazy, not to mention that Bailichen was only the second son of the villa back then, and there is no such powerful force that could wipe out one of the five famous families overnight.But if he said that Bailichen had nothing to do with all that year, he couldn't believe it anymore...

"Then what happened later..." Baili Mingyan raised his bloodshot eyes to look at Lin's mother, and continued to ask: "What happened after the Yanshan Lin family was wiped out? How did you escape? What happened to my mother?"

"Later, that's what I heard..." Lin's mother said: "After the Yanshan Lin family was destroyed, Yishui Qianjia, Wushan Huo's family, Yunxi Duanmu and even Qijue Villa had accidents one after another, but in the eyes of outsiders, Qijue Villa is just Lost some belongings outside of the body, although they are valuable, they are not bloody. But in fact, Qijue Villa also..."

Mother Lin stopped talking suddenly and dared not speak any more.

Baili Mingyan said lightly: "It was my mother, she was killed at that time..."

After a long time, Mother Lin nodded slightly.

……

There was only half an inch left in the wick, and the light of the fire began to become unstable. After Lin's mother left, Baili Mingyan sat at the table blankly holding the already cold Mrs. Tang.

The charcoal fire was burning brightly, but he had never felt a colder night than tonight.

If Qian Yuhan was here at this time, he would have turned off the light and gone to bed. After all, Qian Yuhan would never waste time and energy on letting his emotions break down. If so, Baili Mingyan would have to go to sleep.But at this time, in the cold winter night, there was only a cup of tea in front of the table, and when he looked sideways, there was no one he wanted to see beside him.

Since the mountain is not coming, I will go to the other side of the mountain.Thinking so, Baili Mingyan quietly turned off the lamp.