It was as if, before they arrived, they already knew that the True Dragon Token and the King of Ten Thousand Phoenixes had some inevitable connection with Si Fengwu.
Si Fengwu sensed something from Lu Qingwan's words and squeezed the hand around her waist, "What are you thinking?"
This unspoken understanding made Lu Qingwan genuinely happy.
She looked at Si Fengwu with her eyes curved, "In the past, we were always led by the nose by our enemies, and we never seriously investigated the impact of the King of Ten Thousand Phoenixes and the True Dragon Token appearing in our lives.
We always took a step forward when pushed by the enemy.
Now that I think about it, is there a possibility that the problem isn't with us, but with the person who gave us the King of Ten Thousand Phoenixes and the True Dragon Token?"
Si Fengwu stopped walking, "Explain your thoughts in detail."
"Don't stop, you don't feel the cold in this bitter weather."
Lu Qingwan urged him on before slowly elaborating on her thoughts.
"Think about it, the King of Ten Thousand Phoenixes aside, I didn't know how important this thing was at first, and many people saw me wearing it.
But the True Dragon Token, only you, I, and the abbot of Xiangguo Temple have seen this thing, right?
Even Li Su and the others don't know, how did the enemy know this thing was in your and my hands?"
Lu Qingwan, fearing she couldn't convince Si Fengwu, said earnestly, "I really recalled very carefully. After retrieving the True Dragon Token from Xiangguo Temple, I really put it in the space laboratory and never showed it to anyone.
Since the problem isn't on our side, then the problem must be on the side of the person who gave us the True Dragon Token."
Lu Qingwan's guess stunned Si Fengwu for a long time.
After a while, he spoke in a daze, "The King of Ten Thousand Phoenixes was left to me by my father and mother. It's unlikely there's anything wrong with my father and mother's side.
As for the True Dragon Token, I asked the abbot of Xiangguo Temple, and he indeed did not know when the True Dragon Token was placed in that sachet.
If there really is a problem with the person who gave us the True Dragon Token, then our clue will be completely broken."
"How is it broken? Didn't the letter say, to find Sansheng Tower?"
Lu Qingwan looked at him with a smile, clearly plotting something mischievous.
Si Fengwu blinked, deliberately not answering, "Do you know where Sansheng Tower is?"
Sansheng Tower, like the Samsara Palace, was an organization that only existed in legends, and it was even harder to find than the Samsara Palace.
Lu Qingwan silently pulled out Da Bai and placed it on her shoulder, pretending it was a fur scarf, "Do you remember where we put the True Dragon Token the first moment we got it?"
How could Si Fengwu forget?
The True Dragon Token was so important that they put it into the space laboratory as soon as they got their hands on it.
Thinking of Da Bai's powerful search function, his eyes also lit up, "You mean, Da Bai can help us find the location of Sansheng Tower?"
Lu Qingwan puffed out her cheeks, neither confirming nor denying.
"I don't know if we can find Sansheng Tower, but the material of the True Dragon Token is special, and anyone who has touched that thing will definitely leave some traces on them.
Following the vine, finding Sansheng Tower should not be a problem, right?"
Although it wasn't a direct way to find Sansheng Tower, at least it wasn't a complete mess anymore.
"Then let's try it first."
As they spoke, the two returned to the main camp.
After a bitter victory, the soldiers' emotions were not overly excited.
Most of them were still stationed in Jiuyuan City, while the rest were cleaning up the battlefield or taking care of the wounded. Seeing Si Fengwu and Lu Qingwan in a hurry, they did not approach them.
Rarely having some alone time, Si Fengwu settled Lu Qingwan in a warm seat and, after some mental preparation, hesitantly spoke.
"There's something I should have told you earlier. We haven't met, and we've been delayed by other matters, so it's been pushed to now.
I didn't intend to hide it from you, you... don't be angry, okay?"
He even gave a preemptive warning?
Lu Qingwan's clever little brain immediately perked up, and she wouldn't fall for this.
"Tell me what it is first, and then I'll decide whether to be angry."
Si Fengwu gave a wry smile, knowing that his little princess was not so easily fooled.
Based on the principle of facing the music, Si Fengwu summoned his courage and said, "You already know about the desecration of my father and mother's tomb, right?"
"Yes, Li Su has already told me."
Lu Qingwan's expression did not change, "Is this what you wanted to tell me?"
She was quite angry when she first heard about it, but so much time had passed that any anger had subsided.
Seeing Si Fengwu's secretive demeanor, Lu Qingwan always felt that he was hiding more than just this one thing from her.
As expected, Si Fengwu looked at her guiltily, "What I wanted to tell you is that after the enemy desecrated my father and mother's tomb, our people rushed over and found that the tomb of my father and mother was empty."
Crack!
Lu Qingwan's fingers were so tightly clenched that her bones made a sound.
Si Fengwu's face contorted in pain, and he quickly appeased Lu Qingwan, "Don't get agitated, A'wan, don't get agitated, your fingers are going to break!"
The last shred of Lu Qingwan's rationality made her remember that she was holding her man's hand, not a weapon.
Barely loosening her grip on Si Fengwu's fingers, she asked in a deep voice, "What's going on? Were my father and mother's remains stolen, or did they..."
Lu Qingwan hesitated for a moment before uttering the terrifying speculation, "Or did they not die at all?"
She stared at Si Fengwu with unblinking eyes as she spoke. Meeting his dark pupils, Lu Qingwan knew that what she had said was exactly what Si Fengwu was thinking.
"Is it possible?"
Si Fengwu remained silent, and Lu Qingwan was momentarily unsure.
"Emperor Gengshi said he personally killed my father and mother. Can he even mistake the person he most hated?"
Lu Qingwan didn't know what Crown Prince Cheng'an and the Crown Princess were like back then.
But over the years, the King of Youzhou and Si Fengming, so as not to let Si Fengwu forget his parents, had told him almost every detail of Crown Prince Cheng'an and the Crown Princess's past over and over again.
Si Fengwu was very familiar with his parents, whom he had never met.
It was fine to have only suspected it privately before, but now that Lu Qingwan had also revealed information in this regard, he couldn't help but take it seriously.
"Others might not be able to escape from such a predicament, but if it were my father and mother, it would be possible."
Si Fengwu's words almost confirmed that Crown Prince Cheng'an and the Crown Princess were still alive.
The couple were alive, yet they had not come out to see their son for twenty-five years.
And on her side, the real Liu Hanyan and her biological father who gave her the True Dragon Token had also not appeared for eighteen years.
Whether from Si Fengwu's experience or her own, both sets of parents were not the heartless kind who gave birth but did not raise.
Lu Qingwan gradually calmed down.