Thinking of her mother's current situation, Su Yun'an became worried: "If Mother really is the Empress of Western Liang, has her throne already been usurped by someone else? Will she be in danger if she returns to Western Liang now?"
My mother has been missing for over a decade. Even if she were the Empress of Western Liang, without returning for so long, her position would likely have been usurped long ago. Those who replaced her would know she's still alive and would certainly target her; her situation in Western Liang is unlikely to be good.
Seeing Su Yun'an's worried face, Su Xuening hugged him and patted his face reassuringly: "We can't reach our mother's level yet, and we can't help her. The only thing we can do now is to protect ourselves and not let our mother be distracted because of us."
To be honest, she was also very worried about her mother, but right now they could do nothing to help her except worry. The most important thing now was to protect themselves first, otherwise they would not only be unable to help, but would also become a burden to their mother!
"Mm." Su Yun'an nodded very seriously, clearly taking Su Xuening's words to heart.
My sister is right. They can't help our mother, but they absolutely cannot be a burden to her.
He must study martial arts diligently so that when he has enough ability in the future, he can protect his sister and help his mother!
"Yun'an, do you know? The phoenix on your mother's shoulder is the Vermilion Bird totem, and also the mark of the Western Liang royal family." Su Xuening continued to tell the secret she wanted to reveal.
Su Yun'an was a little confused. He already knew that his mother was a member of the Western Liang royal family.
Seeing that he didn't understand, Su Xuening added, "Your brother-in-law also has a Xuanwu totem on his shoulder, which is the mark of the Eastern Chu royal family."
Su Yun'an was stunned again upon hearing this; it turned out that her brother-in-law also had a totem on his shoulder.
The Vermilion Bird totem is the mark of the Western Liang Dynasty, while the Black Tortoise totem is the mark of the Eastern Chu Dynasty...
Totem? Mark?
What images flashed through Su Yun'an's mind?
It's the Azure Dragon totem on my father's shoulder!
Su Yun'an suddenly looked up at Su Xuening, and said excitedly, "Father also has a totem on his shoulder, it's a blue dragon totem, then Father..."
Seeing that he finally realized what was happening, Su Xuening pursed her lips and said, "Your brother-in-law and I suspect that Father might be a member of the royal family of Northern Wei."
"The Northern Wei royal family?" Although Su Yun'an had already vaguely guessed what was going on, hearing her sister say this still made her head spin: "Sister, are you sure you're not mistaken? Mother is the Empress of Western Liang, and father is a member of the Northern Wei royal family?"
Is he dreaming?
Otherwise, how could such a dreamlike thing suddenly happen?
My mother suddenly became the Empress of Western Liang, and my father became a member of the Northern Wei royal family?
He really wanted to pinch himself to see if he was hallucinating or if he was really dreaming.
Su Yun'an thought this way and did this, directly reaching out and pinching his own face.
His actions really broke Su Xuening's heart: "What are you doing?"
Su Xuening quickly pulled Su Yun'an's hand down. Seeing his jade-like face reddened from being pinched, Su Xuening felt even more sorry for him: "Look, it's all red. How are you? Does it hurt?"
"It hurts!" Su Yun'an nodded blankly. He really felt the pain, which meant he wasn't dreaming.
Su Xuening was defeated by him and said with a playful laugh, "If you're in pain, why are you pinching yourself!"
Su Yun'an grabbed Su Xuening: "Sister, is Father really a member of the Northern Wei royal family?"
Su Xuening couldn't confirm it either: "This is just a guess by your brother-in-law and me; there's no concrete evidence to prove it yet."
Actually, she didn't know if their guess was right or wrong, but seeing how certain Xuan Yuanzhan seemed, it might be true!
Su Yun'an gradually calmed down and immediately realized something was amiss: "But Father is a native of Eastern Chu, and he has brothers and sisters in Eastern Chu. How could he possibly be a member of the Northern Wei royal family?"
If the father, like the mother, suffered from amnesia and came from outside, then that's somewhat possible.
But my father was born and raised in Eastern Chu, so how could he be a person from Eastern Chu?
Su Yun'an thought of the Azure Dragon totem again: "Father once said that the Azure Dragon totem on his shoulder and the Vermilion Bird totem on Mother's shoulder were a pair. Could it be that Father saw the Vermilion Bird totem on Mother's shoulder and wanted to match it with her, so he specially got that Azure Dragon totem, which just happens to be the same as the mark of the Northern Wei royal family."
When he was a child, he argued with his father more than once about wanting that mark, and his father said that he was old enough to get married and would have it.
So that mark definitely wasn't natural; it must have been added later.
Su Xuening hadn't really thought of this possibility before, but thinking of what Xuan Yuanzhan said, she felt that what Yun An said was unlikely to be true: "I remember that my father's Azure Dragon totem was not tattooed or painted. That totem, like my mother's totem, was printed on with something."
Su Yun'an nodded: "Yes, Father's and Mother's totems are very similar!"
Their totems are neither tattoos nor paintings; they have a raised, textured surface, so the way the totems appear must be the same.
"Your brother-in-law's Xuanwu totem was imprinted using the Xuanwu sword, the national treasure of Eastern Chu, and it was imprinted right after he was born. Based on this, your father and mother must have done the same; they were imprinted with such totems by some national treasure of Northern Wei and Western Liang right after they were born."
After Xuanyuan Zhan told her about the totem, she carefully observed and touched the Xuanwu totem on his shoulder, and it was indeed the same as her father's and mother's totems. Moreover, imprinting a totem from childhood is different from imprinting it when one grows up. If the totem is imprinted from birth, it will grow along with the person, but if it is imprinted when one grows up, the totem will not change.
Xuanyuan Zhan and his father and mother all have growth marks on the totems on their shoulders, so they must have been imprinted with the totems from childhood.
Su Yun'an was stunned, and stammered, "So the fact that we don't have a totem on us means we don't have a national treasure?"
Su Xuening hadn't expected him to care about these things, and said with a wry smile, "That's for sure. Another reason is that they don't know the secret of their own totem either."
So let alone give her and Yun Anyin any totems. They don't even understand their own totems yet.
"Could it be that we're overthinking things, and that things aren't actually that complicated?" Su Yun'an still couldn't quite accept that his parents had suddenly become so distinguished.
Su Xuening knew he was having a hard time accepting it, and in fact, she herself initially thought it was unlikely.
"Do you know? Father's Su family army has not yet been incorporated into the Emperor's army. It's not that the Emperor doesn't want to, it's that he can't subdue the Su family army. The Su family army is still Father's private army. If Father is really just a country bumpkin, then where did his 300,000-strong Su family army come from?"
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