The hall suddenly fell into an eerie silence, and everyone's eyes seemed to fall on Luo Jinyan instantly.
Khenbura also stared hard at the young man in front of him who made him hate him from the first sight. If Luo Jinyan was not a member of the Luo family, he might have killed him when they first met. Unfortunately...
Khenpo La, who felt extremely sorry for Luo Jinyan's identity, may not have known that if he were not the eldest son of the most powerful leader of the Furukawa tribe in southern Xinjiang, he might not still be able to sit here peacefully.
Therefore, no matter what your status is in this world, you still cannot completely do whatever you want.
The hall was too quiet, but Luo Jinyan's expression remained calm as usual.
His slender fingers turned over the jade pendant in his hand, but his eyes fell lightly on Khenpo La's face.
After a long while, Khenpo La suddenly burst into laughter.
He said loudly: "It's just a joke. Why should Mr. Luo take it seriously? As for what Mr. Luo said about the leader of the Southern Xinjiang League... I cannot afford to take the responsibility. It would not be a good thing if these words spread."
He was not even the leader of the Guhe tribe, so Luo Jinyan directly came to be the leader of the Southern Xinjiang alliance. If these words were spread back to Southern Xinjiang or the ears of his brothers, wouldn't he be looking for trouble for himself?
Luo Jinyan said calmly: "I'm just joking, you don't have to take it seriously."
Khenpo La's eyes flashed slightly, and he raised his hand and waved to the few southern Xinjiang people at the door.
The few southern Xinjiang people looked at each other, then took a few steps back respectfully, no longer staring at the hall.
Khenpo La slowly relaxed his body and leaned back against the beautiful woman sitting next to him. He looked at Luo Jinyan and said, "Okay, the thing is in Mr. Luo's hands. You have the upper hand. You can tell me what price you want. I'm here for this trip."
When I came to Dasheng, I didn’t want to quarrel with the imperial court.
This is true."
Luo Jinyan did not comment on his words and still asked: "What's the use of this?"
Khenpo clicked his tongue and said, "I did not lie to you just now. This thing is indeed not the property of the Xiao family, but the property of our southern border."
"What evidence is there? How come the things from Southern Xinjiang are in the hands of the Xiao family?" Luo Jinyan asked slowly.
Khenpo glanced at him and said with a half-smile, "Because... the Xiao family has blood from southern Xinjiang."
As soon as these words came out, Luo Jinyan had no reaction. Luo Yi, who was standing behind Luo Jinyan, was startled.
Do the Xiao family members have Southern Xinjiang blood? What nonsense is this Khenpola talking about?!
You know, the Xiao family is well-known as a wealthy family in Dasheng. The Xiao family is to Yangxin what the Yao family was to Xinzhou. Although the Xiao family has been very low-key since the end of Dongling, it was even more low-key at the beginning of the founding of Dasheng.
Almost all of them withdrew from the court. At that time, Taifu Su was a disciple of the late Mr. Xueyang, and the Xiao family also owned Xueyang Academy, one of the three major academies in Dasheng.
Such a family would wish they could marry only the right family for generations. Even the royal family members may not take a fancy to them. How come the Xiao family has Southern Xinjiang blood?
"Kenbura." Luo Jinyan looked at Khenbura and said, "You must know the influence of the Xiao family in Dasheng. If you slander them...even your father can't save you."
Khenpo La sneered, as if he didn't care about his words, "Of course I don't dare to deceive Mr. Luo. What good will it do to me? If Mr. Luo hadn't been meddling in other people's business, I would have just taken the things quietly and left.
.They do have Nan
They have Xinjiang blood, but... no one is looking forward to their return."
"Tell me about it." Luo Jinyan said.
Khenpo looked at him with a half-smile but said nothing. His appearance was not very good-looking, and making such an expression would only make people more reluctant to look directly at him.
But he obviously didn't care, his eyes just fell on Luo Jinyan's right hand.
Luo Jinyan said: "If this thing is really from southern Xinjiang, it would be okay to return it to you. However, I must ensure that it is harmless to Dasheng."
The implication is that if you don't explain its ins and outs, don't even think about taking it away.
Khenpo La sighed and seemed to have given up on his plan to confront Luo Jinyan.
Anyway, he couldn't kill Luo Jinyan no matter what. If he robbed it forcefully, not to mention the possibility that Luo Jinyan destroyed the jade pendant in a rage, even if he robbed it, he would still have to face being rounded up and hunted down by the Dasheng court.
It's really not a good deal.
After thinking for a moment, Khenpo said: "It's okay to tell you. Anyway, this is not a big deal for Southern Xinjiang and Guhe tribe. The previous mistress of the Xiao family was a saint of Southern Xinjiang. This jade pendant came from her from Southern Xinjiang.
Brought out of Xinjiang."
Luo Jinyan frowned slightly, thought for a while and said: "The previous mistress of the Xiao family was Mr. Xueyang's mother. I remember that she was the legitimate daughter of the Huang family in Luohe. How could she be the saint of Southern Xinjiang? The Saint of Southern Xinjiang
Can a woman be a non-Southern Xinjiang person? If so, the Xiao family can’t be considered a Southern Xinjiang ancestry, right?”
Khenpo smiled and said: "The saintess of southern Xinjiang can naturally only be the purest woman from southern Xinjiang. That saint came from the Hongshan tribe in southern Xinjiang. It just so happened that...my mother is the daughter of the chief of the Hongshan tribe, and that saint
...is my mother's great-aunt. As for how she is
How do I know that I am the daughter of your prosperous family?"
"I will investigate this matter." Luo Jinyan said.
Khenpo said: "This jade pendant is a token of the saint of southern Xinjiang. As long as an unmarried woman from southern Xinjiang gets this jade pendant and enters the holy land of southern Xinjiang to test it out, she can officially become a saint."
"So, even if you get the jade pendant and fail the test, you can't become a saint?" Luo Jinyan said.
Khenpo said: "Without this jade pendant, we would not even be able to get in. There has been no saint in southern Xinjiang for a hundred years."
Luo Jinyan nodded, because he had indeed never heard of such a thing as a saint in southern Xinjiang. The various ministries in southern Xinjiang worked on their own affairs and did not obey anyone, which was beneficial to the court.
Therefore, the imperial court did not want any alliance leader or saint to appear in southern Xinjiang.
"If this thing is really so important, why are you looking for it now?" Luo Jinyan asked.
Khenpo La said calmly: "Not everyone hopes that another saint will appear in southern Xinjiang. There are no less than a hundred tribes in southern Xinjiang, but the saint will only come from one of the six major tribes in southern Xinjiang. Who will be happy with the remaining tribes?
?What's more, when the Saint suddenly disappeared, no one knew her whereabouts. Many people thought she must have died in an accident. After that, the Southern Xinjiang Alliance broke up and the tribes attacked each other. Who has the time to take care of this? I
It was also by accident that I found a notebook left by the saint from that time from my maternal ancestor's house, and deduced that she came to the Central Plains. It took me secretly for nearly three years to target the Xiao family."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! As he spoke, Khenpo La made a gesture to the people outside.
After a while, a middle-aged man walked up to Luo Jinyan holding an old book.
Luo Jinyan stretched out his hand to open it, but Luo Yi reminded him from behind: "Master, be careful." People in southern Xinjiang are good at using poison, who knows what methods they will use?
Luo Jin said: "No problem." He raised his hand and opened the booklet.
This is a very rough and old book. Even the paper is far less delicate than the paper written by people from the Central Plains. It is a kind of paper unique to southern Xinjiang.
The paper has a sallow color and looks aged, but due to the characteristics of this paper, it does not appear fragile.
The front of the booklet was written in Southern Xinjiang script. Luo Jinyan was also proficient in Southern Xinjiang script, but he had only briefly scanned it. What was recorded in it was just some daily life of the daughter's family in Southern Xinjiang, mixed with some understanding of poisons and medicines.
in the second half of the booklet
At the same time, the Chinese characters began to appear with immature handwriting. It was obvious that the person who wrote them was a beginner and could not write any sentence-like articles. There were also a lot of southern Xinjiang characters mixed in.
Luo Jinyan turned to the last page, which showed a woman's reluctance and guilt for her parents in her hometown, but her determination could also be seen.
After that it's all blank.
Luo Jinyan read the book very quickly, but after a while he closed the book and gave it back to the middle-aged man.
Khenpo said: "Master Luo has also seen it. I did not forge this to deceive you. If you don't believe it, you can send someone to investigate, but I hope you can hurry up and don't waste our mutual time."
Luo Jinyan said: "If what you say is true, I can give you the jade pendant."
Hearing this, Khenpo La's expression softened a little, and then he heard Luo Jinyan say: "But not now."
Khenpo La's face darkened again, "Are you kidding me?"
Luo Jinyan said: "You have been in Shangyong for so long, so you can see that you are not in a hurry for three or five days."
Khenpo La took a deep breath and asked: "When can I get the jade pendant? The Holy Land in Southern Xinjiang only opens in March every year, so I don't have much time. If I miss it, I will have to wait until the next year."
Luo Jinyan said: "After the Xiao family left Shangyong."
Khenpo La didn't know about Mrs. Xiao's illness, but he said a little irritably: "Suddenly it snowed so heavily. If they have to wait until the snow melts before leaving, who knows when?" It doesn't snow in southern Xinjiang.
But I heard that it seems that every year in the Central Plains
It snows, so people from the Central Plains sometimes don’t go far in winter.
Luo Jinyan stood up and said, "It shouldn't take long, if there are no deaths in the Xiao family recently. I'm sorry to bother you today. I'll say goodbye."
Seeing Luo Jinyan turn around and walk out, Khenpo behind him said: "Wait!"
"Any other advice?" Luo Jinyan asked, tilting his head.
Khenpo said coldly: "The person Xiao Hong wants to kill is his elder brother."
Luo Jinyan raised his eyebrows slightly, but the look on his face was not surprising.
Khenpo La said with some disdain: "I heard that in the Central Plains, only the eldest son can inherit the family business. Xiao Hong seems to be very dissatisfied with his elder brother. When I went to find him, he wanted a colorless and odorless poison that can kill people invisible."
Luo Jinyan said: "You lied to him. The Gu insect you gave him was just a failed semi-finished product. It can't be colorless, tasteless or invisible at all."
Khenpo La looked at Luo Jinyan and said: "I heard that the regent's palace has poison masters, and they are indeed quite capable. But you guessed one thing wrong. I gave him the medicine a long time ago. Those little bugs do not belong to me or him."
The content of the transaction can only be regarded as an added bonus."
Luo Jinyan frowned slightly and looked at Khenpo La steadily.
Khenpo smiled and said: "He didn't really believe in the medicine I gave him or he didn't dare to poison his brother himself. I originally told him that if he didn't dare, my people could do it for him, and it would definitely be cleaner than him doing it himself.
But he refused. Who knows what he was thinking? I had to tell him that if those bugs grow up, the poison they produce will not only be colorless and odorless, but also last for a long time, and even the imperial doctor will not be able to detect it.
, it will only happen once at least three months later, and no one will suspect him by then. And those few bugs have the effect of detoxifying hundreds of poisons. With these, what can't he do? Compared with that
This is something that works quickly, and he is obviously more interested in this. It’s just that these gadgets have a weak point."
Luo Jinyan raised his eyebrows, and Khenbu said: "It's very expensive to raise. If Mr. Luo is interested, you might as well check the account of Mr. Xiao, it should be quite interesting." He seemed to feel very proud as he said that, and laughed loudly.
.
Luo Jinyan looked indifferent, nodded and said: "Thank you, I will do it. One more question, since you are in a hurry, why did you trick him into raising Gu poison?"
Khenpo smiled and said: "Master Luo, will you just wait for others to trade with you?"
Luo Jinyan thought for a while and understood that from the moment Xiao Hong agreed to make a deal with Khenbura, the direction of events was actually out of his control.
If Xiao Hong had not fallen into Luo Jinyan's hands, he would have been blackmailed or controlled by Khenpo La by now.
Luo Jinyan had no more questions to ask, so he said to Khenpo: "Thank you for clarifying my doubts. Also...someone told me that if you can't grow your voodoo bugs, they will all die in a few days at most, and the effect won't be as good as you hoped."
Degree."
Khenpo's laughter stopped, and Luo Jinyan continued: "Even so, I don't want to see unnecessary poisoning incidents in the Central Plains. Khenpo, no matter what your ambitions are, you'd better try to ensure that you can come back alive."
To southern Xinjiang. I guess, at least for now, your ambition is not in the Central Plains."
Khenpo La had a cold face and said in a deep voice: "Thank you, Mr. Luo, for reminding me. I will remember it."
"Farewell." Luo Jinyan nodded slightly, turned around and walked out.
Khenpo La watched Luo Jinyan's master and servant go out with a cold expression. The middle-aged man standing outside the door came in and said reluctantly: "Master, are you going to let them go like this?"
Khenpo La glanced at him coldly, "Otherwise, what else can we do?"
Seeing a look of displeasure on the middle-aged man's face, Khenpo said: "We are here to retrieve things, not to provoke the Dasheng people. Luo Jinyan is easy to deal with, but behind him there is the Luo family and the Regent's Palace.
And the whole Dasheng.”
The middle-aged man nodded in agreement, but he still couldn't help but said: "This guy named Luo is so arrogant just because we can't do anything to him!"
Khenpo La was not angry because of this, he just narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "Who wouldn't be?"
He couldn't take action against Luo Jinyan because of his identity. Similarly, Luo Jinyan and Xie Yan also didn't take action against him because of his identity. Otherwise, the dignified eldest son of the Luo family wouldn't have had to visit him alone.
Everyone knows each other well so that such a balance can be maintained.
Dasheng doesn't want to cause chaos in southern Xinjiang now, and they... facing Dasheng's soldiers and horses now will not do them any good.
Khenpo lowered his eyes and suppressed the anger in his eyes.
