Xuanyuan Zhan nodded. He remembered her saying, "Your mother should be from the Western Liang royal family, and the Vermilion Bird should be on her shoulder."
Moreover, her mother was able to summon the Vermilion Bird, which is something that ordinary members of the Western Liang royal family could not do!
Therefore, her mother's identity must not be as simple as that of an ordinary princess.
Su Xuening nodded solemnly: "Yes, it should be Zhuque. According to our previous reasoning, she should be a member of the Western Liang royal family, but there is one more thing."
Xuan Yuanzhan looked at Su Xuening curiously, wondering what she wanted to say.
Actually, what shocked Su Xuening wasn't the mark on her mother's shoulder, but rather...
“My father also has such marks on his shoulders.”
Xuanyuan Zhan was instantly stunned: "You mean your father also has the Xuanwu mark on his shoulder? This..."
Just thinking about it made Xuan Yuanzhan break out in a cold sweat.
His father also had the Xuanwu mark, so wouldn't he also be a member of the Eastern Chu royal family? Wouldn't that mean he and Ning'er were of the same clan...?
Xuanyuan Zhan's mind went blank for a moment, but he quickly realized, "That's not right, your father shouldn't be a member of the Eastern Chu royal family!"
How could General Su possibly be a member of the Eastern Chu royal family? The Eastern Chu royal family would definitely search for such a lost child; it's impossible that so much time has passed without any response from them.
Su Xuening shook her head: "No, the mark on my father's shoulder is not the Black Tortoise mark, but the Azure Dragon mark."
"Azure Dragon?" Xuan Yuanzhan was stunned again, looking at Su Xuening in shock: "You mean your father has an azure dragon totem mark on his shoulder? Did you see it clearly? Are you sure it's an azure dragon totem?"
“Yes.” Su Xuening nodded with certainty: “It is the Azure Dragon Mark. When my father was sent back to the capital, his body had already decomposed. My mother did not believe that my father was dead. At that time, she confirmed my father’s identity by looking at the Azure Dragon totem on his shoulder.”
Xuanyuan Zhan frowned and pondered for a moment before saying, "I've heard that the Azure Dragon is the guardian beast of the Northern Wei royal family, just like the Vermilion Bird is the guardian beast of the Western Liang. If I'm not mistaken, this Azure Dragon totem should be the totem of the Northern Wei royal family. Could it be that your father is a member of the Northern Wei royal family?"
Now it was Su Xuening's turn to be stunned. She was stunned for a long time before she frowned and said, "That shouldn't be the case. My father was just a countryman. The reason he was able to become a general was because he won so many battles with his martial prowess and leadership skills."
If my father hadn't chosen the path of military service, our family might still be living in the countryside, and we might not even have been able to enter the capital. We certainly wouldn't be royalty.
Xuan Yuanzhan, however, became interested and sat back on the bed, asking, "Does anyone else in your family have such a mark? Does Su Renyi have it? Does Yun An have it? Are there any other members of your Su family with it?"
Su Xuening shook her head: "No, I don't know about others, but Yun An didn't have any marks, and neither did the dead Su Linyuan."
Upon suddenly hearing Su Linyuan's name, Xuan Yuanzhan frowned abruptly: "How do you know Su Linyuan? Did he bully you?"
How could they not have been bullied?
Su Linyuan had done countless despicable things to her in her past life, but Su Xuening didn't want to bring up the past anymore. She explained, "When I plotted against him, I had Bihe knock him unconscious from the back of the neck. To avoid being noticed, I burned the back of his neck with a burning wooden stick. I opened his collar and saw his shoulders at the time, and I'm sure he didn't have any marks. As for Yun An, I held him when he was little, and he didn't have any marks either."
Upon hearing this, Xuan Yuanzhan could already imagine her situation at the time. He also knew that she wouldn't harm anyone for no reason; she only retaliated because she saw that Su Linyuan had done something bad to her.
Xuanyuan Zhan tenderly pulled her into his arms: "Ning'er, if only we could have met sooner."
If he hadn't gone to his fiefdom so early and had grown up in the capital, perhaps they would have gotten married long ago, and she wouldn't have had to suffer alone. He could have protected her and Yun'an, and she wouldn't have had to endure so much hardship.
Su Xuening chuckled: "It's all in the past. It's already good that we can be together now."
He didn't know about their past life; they never ended up together. Even until the moment she died, she didn't know that he was the biological father of the child.
So she was already very grateful that they could be together in this life.
Xuan Yuanzhan thought for a moment and said, "If no one else in your Su family has that mark, and only your father has it, that would be very strange."
As Xuanyuan Zhan spoke, another possibility came to mind: "Could it be that your father wasn't a member of the Su family at all? Could he be a descendant of the Northern Wei royal family?"
Su Xuening was stunned. In fact, ever since she learned that Su Huiyan and Su Renyi had killed her father, she had been wondering whether her father was actually Su Huiyan and Su Renyi's biological brother.
If they are their own children, how could they be so cruel to their father!
These two beasts are worse than animals. Father treated them so well, yet they conspired to kill him. If they really have the same ancestor, then even if Su Renyi goes to the underworld, the Su family's ancestors will not let him off the hook!
And then there's Su Huiyan, who not only harmed her father, but in her past life she also tried to harm Yun An and herself, and she even personally tore Yun An apart with five horses.
If she really is their aunt, how could she do such a thing?
Su Xuening shook her head again: "I really don't know. I haven't investigated this, and my father has never mentioned it to me."
Although she had suspicions, they were only suspicions; she never actually investigated anything or had any concrete evidence to prove anything.
Xuanyuan Zhan narrowed his eyes and said, "If you want to investigate this, it should be easy. You should still have relatives in your Su family's ancestral home, right?"
Su Xuening nodded: "Yes, and there are also some collateral relatives."
Xuan Yuanzhan is right. If his father really isn't the biological son of the Su family, it should be easy to find out. After all, besides the Su family, there are other people in the hometown and the village. If there are any clues, someone will eventually find out.
Xuanyuan Zhan thought for a moment and said, "I'll send someone to your hometown to investigate tomorrow. I think your father should be a descendant of the royal family of the Northern Wei Dynasty."
Su Xuening looked confused: "My father grew up in the countryside, so it's probably not possible."
"Do you know where your father's Su family army came from? The Su family army is not under Xuan Yuanpeng's command. To be precise, they are your father's private army!" This matter of the Su family army alone is something that a country bumpkin could not have accomplished, and it is enough to prove the extraordinary identity of General Su.
Su Xuening really didn't know where the Su family army came from: "I think I once heard my father mention that when he went to the capital to seek a way out, he met many like-minded people along the way, so he formed this army."
Xuan Yuanzhan looked at the innocent Su Xuening and laughed: "Do you know how many people the Su family army has? More than 300,000! Do you think he could recruit so many people with just a random army he assembled?"
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