Lin Wanwan looked at a ring in the brocade box that was carved like nature. There was a huge gemstone embedded in it, and the color was blue with some purple tones.
Even under the dim light in the cabin, it is difficult to conceal the brilliance of this object. You can tell it is extraordinary at first sight.
She was stunned for a moment, then slowly put the ring down.
Gu Feng gave himself a priceless ring without saying a word, so he must have been entrusted by someone else. After all, he and Gu Feng had no friendship at all, and the only significant connection was with Xiao Chong.
Just why did Xiao Chong ask Gu Feng to give him a ring quietly? What's the significance of this ring? It definitely doesn't mean modern things.
Lin Wanwan looked at the woman in front of her who claimed to be Liu Ruyan, and asked: "Since you know the brocade box, you must also know the origin of this ring? Tell me, Hongo-kun is also very curious."
Unexpectedly, Liu Ruyan knelt down and saluted Lin Wanwan: "Your Majesty, please accept Liu Ruyan's bow."
Lin Wanwan raised her eyebrows slightly: "Your Majesty?"
Liu Ruyan raised her eyes and looked to both sides, it was about to be played secretly.
Lin Wanwan held the pistol in her hand and played with it. She pondered for a moment, waved her hand and said, "Everyone except Ah Jing and Ah Li, please step aside."
The two mute women were the best kept secret, because they could neither read nor speak. If someone spoke to them with their backs turned, they would not be able to hear and could only read lips.
Although everyone was worried, after all, the weak woman in front of them, who looked weak and unable to take care of herself, was a knight-errant who could catch a sword with her bare hands during the night battle a few days ago.
But in the end, fate was in jeopardy. Seeing that Lin Wanwan had made up her mind, they had no choice but to retreat outside the cabin.
A-Li and A-Jing stood apart in tacit understanding, lowering their eyes and not looking at their faces.
As long as they avoid looking, they will naturally not be able to read lips.
When Liu Ruyan saw that everyone had left, she explained in a low voice: "The ring in the master's hand is a token of the leader of our Zongheng family and the Xingluo sect. For the past ten years, Sect Master Xiao has been serving concurrently.
This time I received a secret order from Sect Master Xiao, saying that our new leader of Xingluo has appeared, and asked me to wait in Luoyang."
"Wait a minute, you mean, Xiao Chong is from the Zongheng family?" Lin Wanwan's focus was a bit strange.
Liu Ruyan knew everything and said: "Back to my lord, yes. Sect Master Xiao is the 307th generation successor of He Zong Jiu Dao. He was personally selected by the previous sect leader when the world was uncertain at the end of the Sui Dynasty."
Lin Wanwan murmured: "No wonder that guy is so sinister and scheming, he turns out to be a strategist!"
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, one of the nine top ten strategists, the Strategist Family, specialized in providing counselors to the Qin Dynasty, Qin Dynasty, and Chu Dynasty, who traveled around the world and played tricks on the world.
However, they prospered quickly and lost quickly. After the unification of our ancestor Qin Shihuang, there was no room for politicians to cause trouble.
By the time of Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty, some people began to advocate the elimination of hundreds of schools of thought and the sole respect of Confucianism.
Because the Confucian concept of benevolence and the ethics of monarchs and ministers are conducive to centralization of power, they are very popular with monarchs. By the Sui and Tang Dynasties, they were completely established.
In today's world, there are not many stories that are still being circulated by various people. Most of them have gone underground or in the arena. Unexpectedly, Xiao Chong is one of them.
No wonder he said at the beginning that he was uninhibited by nature and loved freedom. Sure enough, he was really out of touch with the mainstream. I don't know if other people in the Lanling Xiao family knew about it.
Lin Wanwan then asked Liu Ruyan a few more questions. This woman was also very sensible and told everything she knew.
He is as patient with his immediate boss as if he were first in love. He is definitely a person with high emotional intelligence in the workplace and can make his boss feel comfortable.
Lin Wanwan actually understood what Xiao Chong meant. He secretly gave himself this ring that represented power because the Lin family had little background and he could not recruit any masters, so he sent this group of female thugs.
If he hadn't asked, these women from the Xingluo Organization would have used other reasons to follow him and protect him secretly. Now that he had asked, they would have taken refuge in him openly.
Whether to accept them and let them cross the bright road, or wander around in the world, the decision has been given to Lin Wanwan.
However, how can I accept this ring if I have no merit and no reward?
Lin Wanwan had already made up her mind. After returning to Luan County, she would return this star-falling ring to Xiao Chong, together with the set of top-quality mutton-fat jade ornaments given to her by Empress Xiao.
Before that, Lin Wanwan would naturally not let Liu Ruyan's group of women in the Xingluo organization go out of their way. Let them continue to use the excuse of weak women who went to Jiangnan to seek refuge with relatives after losing their husbands. That was good.
Liu Ruyan was obviously a little disappointed when she was not accepted by Lin Wanwan.
However, this disappointment is limited. After all, women in the world are accustomed to coming and going freely. It would be quite boring to be a guard, maid, etc. for aristocratic ladies.
This group of people were all selected by Xiao Chong from the children of the Xiao family.
As a woman, and born as a domestic slave, she was originally destined to serve people at the bedside, cook, and tail all her life.
But after they were singled out by Xiao Chong, their fate was different. Although studying was harder when they were young, they also gained a lot.
Compared with ordinary slaves, they are too free, not to mention food and housing.
Having experienced the taste of freedom, most of them now don't even think about getting married.
Because once you get married, you will become your husband's accessory, which is hard to accept.
For those born from humble backgrounds, their fate has been largely determined since they were born. It is difficult for them to marry someone they can like and fall in love with.
In the Tang Dynasty, the good and the lowly did not marry, so they could only be the concubines of good husbands, or be assigned to vulgar domestic slaves, servants and tribesmen. This kind of marriage was not suitable for them who had learned too much and understood too much.
Saying that is tantamount to being self-destructive, and it would be better to be single forever.
This is the contradiction between their low status in reality and their increasing IQ, which cannot be reconciled.
Although they are enlightened and have many troubles, no one will regret that they were chosen in the first place.
The reason why all the selected girls can become talents when they grow up is also due to Xiao Chong's discerning eye.
Xiao Chong has a very strong ability, which is to recognize people. He can tell with just a few glances whether a person is worthy of being reused, whether he has abilities and a future.
Pei Shouyue also had this ability when he grew up, and it was a bit of a talent.
Pei Xingjian later wrote a book on war, which recorded this skill of recognizing people.
It is a pity that the book was taken away by people sent by Wu Zetian after Pei Xingjian died. Because it was kept secret, the book was lost in the long river of history. Naturally, this amazing skill of identifying people was also lost directly.
Not to mention Xiao Chong, he disappeared from history too early.