After the little cannon fodder was reborn, he chose the villain childhood sweetheart

Xie Lan admitted generously, "Yeah."

Jiang Wan raised her eyebrows, "We live under the same roof, and there are so many little secrets hidden. Xie Lan, you are quite scheming."

Xie Lan couldn't help but laughed, "Aren't you the same?"

Jiang Wan knew that Xie Lan had become suspicious of her identity, so she decided to go all out and confessed everything.

"You already knew it, so what's the secret? I don't know anything about you, so that's the secret."

Looking at Jiang Wan's lively eyes and eyebrows, Xie Lan's gloomy mood also brightened.

"Okay, I was wrong."

For no apparent reason, he suddenly admitted his mistake, leaving Jiang Wan at a loss.

"Don't talk about these nonsense, my secret is only this one, and you haven't finished telling yours yet, hurry up and tell it!"

Xie Lan did not ask Jiang Wan what her secret was. He did not want to force it. He wanted to wait for the day when Jiang Wan would tell him voluntarily.

"The second one is the cause of my parents' death."

"What……"

Jiang Wan was full of curiosity one second, and froze the next.

"The cause of death of my aunt and uncle..."

"Yeah." Xie Lan looked bleak, and said, "My parents died accidentally falling off a slope. The county yamen hastily closed the case, but I always feel that their death was not just an accident. Over the years, I have spent a lot of money to find out why my parents went to Pingzhou and who they were looking for. I used the reward from Mr. Liu and the money you paid back to get information."

Jiang Wan suddenly realized.

No wonder Xie Lan spent the two or three hundred taels of silver so quickly and even asked her to borrow some. It turned out that he had used it to investigate the cause of death of Xie's father and mother.

"No, didn't you pay me back two hundred taels a few days ago? Why did you pay me back so quickly? Aren't you going to continue investigating?"

Jiang Wan asked the doubts in his heart.

Speaking of this, Xie Lan's expression became a little serious. He said, "Originally, I still had fifty taels left, but Hunter Wang told me that there is a Lingxi Pavilion in Pingzhou that specializes in gathering information and can help me get the information I want. But the people at Lingxi Pavilion asked for two hundred taels, so I had no choice but to borrow another one hundred and fifty taels from you."

He paused and continued, "I gave the two hundred taels to Wang the Hunter and asked him to go to Lingxi Pavilion in Pingzhou to do some work. I didn't expect that when he came back a few days later, there was not a single piece of good skin on his body, his whole body was bruised, and one of his legs was even broken."

"This……"

Jiang Wan was shocked and asked hurriedly, "Is Hunter Wang okay?"

Xie Lan shook his head, his expression grim, "His life is not in danger, but he may have a limp in the future."

"What on earth is going on?!" Jiang Wan said angrily, "Could it be that someone from Lingxi Pavilion beat us up? To take the 200 taels from the hunter king?"

“That’s what I thought at first.”

Xie Lan frowned and said, "Later, Brother Wang told me that Lingxi Pavilion took money to help him get information. Two days later, Brother Wang passed by a remote alley, and suddenly four masked men with strong martial arts skills jumped out. Those men didn't give Brother Wang any explanation, and they punched and kicked him, breaking his right leg. Before leaving, those masked men threatened Brother Wang, saying: If you keep asking about things you shouldn't ask, next time it won't be your legs that are broken, but your life."

"Afterwards, Lingxi Pavilion sent someone to return the two hundred taels to Brother Wang, saying that they couldn't get the information he wanted and would not accept the money. They also told Brother Wang not to go to Lingxi Pavilion in the future."

He finished slowly, his tone mixed with annoyance and guilt.

If he hadn't done things for him, Hunter Wang wouldn't have been beaten so badly and had his legs broken.

Jiang Wan sensed the gloomy aura emanating from him and advised, "Don't blame yourself too much. After all, none of you expected to encounter such a disaster. It's a good thing that Brother Wang was able to save his life. As for his leg..."

She pursed her lips and said, "It's okay even if Brother Wang has a lame leg. We will just help him in the future. It must be inconvenient for him to live alone at the foot of the mountain. You can bring him over later. There are so many rooms in the house, and the place is big. Anyway, we can leave him a place to sleep."

Xie Lan was quite moved, and looked at her with an indescribable emotion in his eyes.

Jiang Wan looked away and pretended to be calm, "Don't be too moved. I'm not saying this for you, but for Brother Wang the Hunter. He helped my father with his medical treatment before, and now he's in trouble, so what's wrong with me helping him?"

Xie Lan smiled, hiding the tenderness in his eyes, and said, "Okay, I'll listen to you."

In order to liven up the heavy atmosphere, Jiang Wan changed the subject and asked, "So when you returned the money to me that day, you were in a bad mood and got angry with me?"

"I'm not angry."

Xie Lan was somewhat helpless, "It's just that I wasn't ready to tell you everything at that time, so my attitude towards you was a little lacking."

Jiang Wan knew that he was not lying. She mentioned this on purpose to change Xie Lan's mood.

"Forget about last time, but don't keep little secrets to yourself anymore, otherwise... otherwise..."

Jiang Wan wanted to say it, otherwise she would leak Xie Lan's affairs.

But when she thought about it carefully, the two secrets Xie Lan told her were both very important and not something that could be casually mentioned as a joke.

So she kept saying "no" for a long time, but couldn't think of a good way to threaten him.

Xie Lan smiled and said, "Or will you fine me for the money I owe you?"

"This is good!"

Jiang Wan agreed very much, "If you keep a secret, you owe me fifty... one hundred taels! If I find out, you have to pay me immediately!"

Otherwise, why do people say Xie Lan has a smart brain?

Knowing that she likes money, use this as a bargaining chip.

It can both make Jiang Wan happy and put the matter behind her.

Xie Lan didn't say anything, just pursed her lips and smiled.

After a while, Jiang Wan sighed and said, "Xie Lan, according to what you said, isn't it possible that my uncle and aunt were deliberately murdered? And the status of the person behind the scenes is very high, so high that he can wipe out all traces and make it impossible to track down. As long as someone has the intention to track down, they may be killed to silence them?"

Xie Lan looked heavy-hearted, and said, "I was just guessing at first, but after what happened to Brother Wang, I am sure that there was something fishy about the cause of my parents' death."

He added: "You are right. The strength of the person behind this is unfathomable and his identity is elusive, so I don't want to ask anyone to take the risk of helping me find out information for the time being."

"Is that the end of it?"

Jiang Wan was unwilling to give in.

Although Xie's father and mother had never gotten along with her, in the original owner's memory, they both loved her very much.

Just because of how good they had been to the original owner, Jiang Wan couldn't just stand by and watch.

There was a struggle in Xie Lan's eyes, but when he thought of the miserable plight of Hunter Wang, he immediately suppressed the struggle.

Now, he is surrounded by people he cherishes and loves, and he doesn't want to see anyone in danger or harm.

Until he is strong enough, he cannot gamble with anyone around him.

After taking a few deep breaths, Xie Lan's eyes became clear, and he looked like he had made a decision.

"Well, that's it."