"Why?"

After Xiao Zhan heard these words, he was stunned and then retorted.

"Father, regretting the marriage is a small matter, but if the Nalan family becomes angry because of this, the Xiao family cannot afford it now."

"I know."

Xiao Lin raised his eyebrows and glanced at Xiao Zhan, then lowered his head, leaving the people below wondering what he was planning.

"Just do it if I ask you to do it. Don't worry, the Nalan family won't be angry. Besides, even if he is really angry, won't I still be there?

Okay, I’ve called you here, just to talk to you about this matter, dispose of this person’s body, and go back.”

At this moment, Xiao Zhan did not dare to speak any more.

Because even a child can tell that Xiao Lin is not in a good mood right now.

Could it be because of this assassination?

Obviously not.

The three elders looked at each other once, as if they were verifying their guesses.

After their eyes intertwined with each other, they all fell on the body lying on the open ground.

The moonstone on the top of the cave cast a faint light, which shone on the corpse, making it look particularly strange.

They have all lived to this age. Although they are not strong enough, their brains are more flexible than anyone else.

Xiao Lin used to be close friends with the old patriarch of the Nalan family. This time the Xiao family was expelled from the Holy City, and the Nalan family did nothing.

The three elders had resentment towards the Nalan family, but they never showed it.

A dragon swims in shallow water, but a tiger falls in the sun. Sometimes, you can only tell who your friends are in the face of adversity.

Now it seems that the Nalan family not only failed to help them, but also played a trick to add insult to injury, which made the old patriarch so sad.

When the three elders guessed the Nalan family, Xiao Zhan had already lifted the body according to Xiao Lin's instructions and left the cave with the three elders.

…

Xiao Lin is actually not as sad as he appears on the surface.

Most of the heaviness he showed was just acting.

The remaining small half was because he really felt that the Nalan family was a bit dangerous.

The idea of ​​asking Xiao Zhan to send someone to return the engagement contract was not something he had just thought of, but had been speculated on for a long time.

The previous sieges on the Xiao family were normal. It was possible that the original owner had offended someone and they came to take revenge. But if it wasn't a big revenge that would wipe out the clan, just taking revenge once would be alright.

In that siege outside Wutan City, if Xiao Lin had not appeared, the Xiao family would have been completely wiped out.

However, Xiao Lin tested the memory of the original owner and asked Xiao Zhan, but he did not find any family that had such a deep hatred against the Xiao family.

This is a very strange thing.

Especially those families with Dou Wang, they only have some business dealings with the previous Xiao family, and there is no enmity.

Those families are all old families. Even if the original Xiao Lin has a bad temper, he will not take the initiative to offend them.

The only person with a deeper relationship with the Xiao family is the Nalan family. Before Nalan Jie, the old patriarch of the Nalan family, broke through to the realm of Dou Wang, he had an excellent relationship with Xiao Lin. The two of them were at the peak of Dou Ling, and even

A marriage contract was also made for the child.

Later, Nalan Jie broke through to the realm of Dou Wang, but Xiao Lin did not, so the existence of this engagement was a bit embarrassing.

Then Xiao Lin fought with the enemy, failed and died.

Until the Xiao family left the Jiama Holy City, the Nalan family did not make any statement. After all, the Nalan family was one of the three major families in the Jiama Empire. If they had expressed their intention to protect the Xiao family, the Xiao family would not have fallen to this.

But they made no move.

Xiao Lin had been guessing whether the Nalan family was the one who secretly besieged the Xiao family, but he had no evidence after all. The three great fighting masters who died earlier could not provide any substantive evidence pointing to the Nalan family.

.

But this time the killer provided Xiao Lin with such evidence.

According to the killer's memory, he accepted a hire and came to the Xiao family to kill a child.

That child is Xiao Yan.

When things have developed to this point, the story line has become clear.

There is no other reason. In the final analysis, the crux is still the marriage contract.

This engagement is used as a story at the beginning of the original work, starting Xiao Yan's magnificent life.

When he was reading in the past, Xiao Lin once thought that Nalan Yanran's break-off of the engagement was just her personal behavior. After all, at that time, Nalan Yanran was the disciple of the Yunlan Sect leader, and had a noble status, so it was naturally impossible for her to marry a loser.

But is this really the case?

Xiao Lin doesn’t think so.

After he actually came here, he found that there were still many strange things about this matter.

The problem with this engagement is Nalan Jie.

The essence of the marriage contract is the contract between Nalan Jie and Xiao Lin.

Nalan Yanran's behavior destroyed this contract through the child's unreasonable behavior.

But if there was no connivance from Nalan Jie behind this, Xiao Lin didn't believe it.

Judging from these two sieges, the cause was actually that engagement.

Nalan Jie is a person who values ​​​​face very much. He can ignore the down-and-out Xiao family because there are many reasons for not doing so. He can find any excuse to excuse it, but he can't do such a thing as asking the Xiao family to break off the engagement.

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Because it was his granddaughter and Xiao Lin's grandson who made the engagement, and they had nothing to do with the Nalan family.

If he took the initiative to regret the marriage, it would damage his face, which Nalan Jie would never accept.

So he changed his mind to another aspect. If one of the people in this engagement died, wouldn't it be automatically voided?

After having this idea, the siege and massacre of the Xiao family outside Wutan City was naturally launched.

But that time, Xiao Lin stopped him during the siege.

Of course, without Xiao Lin, the Xiao family would have been able to escape.

After all, the Xiao family was faced with a cat-and-mouse scene at that time, and the great fighting master opposite did not directly take action.

And if the Xiao family is destroyed there, then the subsequent story will not be able to unfold.

Xiao Lin's appearance saved the Xiao family's troops and prevented other people who might have helped the Xiao family from appearing.

In short, the Xiao family was saved.

However, Nalan Jie did not give up.

Since the Xiao family cannot be eliminated at once, then it is also possible to only eliminate Xiao Yan.

However, perhaps the place of assassination was different.

Without Xiao Lin, the assassination might have happened elsewhere, and in the original story, Xiao Yan's mother Bai Yao probably died like this.

Bai Yao used his own life to save Xiao Yan.

The story is simple and clear.

After her death, Xiao Yan quickly showed extraordinary talents, which made Nalan Jie think that this engagement might not be a bad thing, so he stopped taking action.
Chapter completed!