Chapter 652 The Missing Princess of Dian
When Nan Yan heard this, her brows knitted into a knot: "What do you mean by this?"
Arslan did not answer her, but turned around and walked down the mountain.
"Come with me."
“…”
Nan Yan frowned.
But, he still followed quickly.
Almost no one had ever been to this side, so there wasn't even a road. He had to walk in front, reaching out to clear away the surrounding grass and thorns. Nan Yan followed behind him, and the further he walked, the heavier his mood became.
What other secrets are there here?
Something related to yourself?
After walking for a while, they arrived at a remote place. Nan Yan almost suspected that Arslan had tricked her here and killed her.
Throw stones here and no one will know.
Just as her brows were getting more and more furrowed, Arslan, who was walking in front of her, stopped.
Nan Yan also stopped immediately and cautiously.
Then he turned around and said to himself, "You, look."
Nan Yan was puzzled and looked forward in the direction of his finger. She saw a stone tablet lying in the wild grass in front of her that was almost taller than a person!
I don’t know if it stood in this place and was eroded by wind and rain and fell down, or if it was thrown here by someone.
There's actually a monument here?!
She opened her eyes wide in surprise, walked over slowly, and said, "This is—"
"We discovered this by accident after we arrived on the island."
“…”
"Don't you want to see whose monument this is?"
“…”
“Who erected it again?”
Of course I do.
Now that I have come here and seen a stone tablet on a deserted island with few people, if I don’t satisfy my curiosity, I will probably not be able to sleep for the rest of my life.
However, for some reason, Nan Yan's steps became heavy.
She felt vaguely uneasy.
It seemed that the stone tablet contained a dangerous message, and once it was cracked, something terrible would happen.
Just when she was having trouble taking her heavy steps, Arslan said again: "If you don't want to watch, I can take you back anytime."
“…”
It's impossible not to watch it.
Nan Yan took a deep breath and walked forward.
It can be seen that this stele has gone through a long time. It is even older than the stone stele of Concubine Qin seen on the top of the mountain.
Due to wind and rain, some places are badly worn.
Nan Yan walked forward, gently brushed off the fallen leaves on Saul's tombstone, and also pushed aside the surrounding weeds and wiped off the mottled dirt on the tombstone.
Gradually, some words appeared on it.
However, Nan Yan gasped at the first glance, before she even recognized what was written.
Because, that was actually the writing of the Neng Kingdom!
This island is where the royal family members or the heroes who made great contributions to Emperor Gao were buried.
Why did a stone tablet appear with characters of the Dang Kingdom engraved on it?
Could it be someone from the Neng Kingdom?
Why was a monument erected in this place?
For a moment, countless doubts and speculations kept churning in his mind. For a moment, Nan Yanju even felt that his head was about to explode.
Then I heard Arslan's voice behind me.
"Do you know the writing system of the Neng Kingdom?"
“…”
"Do you know him?"
He took a step forward, as if to point it out to her.
But Nan Yan said, "I know him."
The person behind him took a deep breath.
He seemed a little surprised: "Do you know him?"
"Yes."
“…”
“My grandmother taught me that when I was little.”
Arslan said in amazement: "That old man is also a strange man."
“…”
Nan Yan didn't say anything.
Her eyes, including her entire mind, were drawn to the words on the stone tablet. She squatted down, wiped off the dirt and dust, and revealed the true appearance of the words one by one.
Princess Tana.
Just these four words were enough to make Nan Yan stunned.
She turned her head stiffly. Arslan had obviously seen the words above a long time ago, but when he faced it again, his expression was still solemn.
The two people looked at each other in silence.
After an unknown amount of time, Nan Yan's voice became a little hoarse: "This is—your princess?"
“…”
"The princess of the Kingdom of Dian?"
“…”
"Princess Tana?"
"Yes."
Arslan stood with his hands behind his back and said slowly, "This is Princess Tana of our Neng Kingdom, the pearl of the grassland."
“…”
"A pearl that has been missing for decades."
“…”
“But here, I saw her monument.”
Nan Yan was speechless.
She had only heard that the jade seal of the Dian Kingdom was missing, but now she found out that the princess of the Dian Kingdom was also missing.
After a while, she whispered: "She is——"
"She's my aunt."
“…”
"However, I haven't seen her since I was born."
“…”
"Her disappearance, until now, remains a mystery."
“…”
"Of all the clues, there is only this one."
Nan Yan turned around and saw him holding out his hand with the jade pendant in his palm.
That was the jade pendant that he had shown him before when he came to the Si family. Later, when he went on a diplomatic mission to the imperial palace and negotiated with Zhu Feng before leaving Jinling, he took the opportunity to take a look at it again.
Nan Yan has also deeply engraved this jade pendant in her mind.
At this moment, she frowned and said, "So, you came to Yan Country before to find her whereabouts."
Arslan said, "I guess so."
"Then why did you come to the Si family?"
"What do you think?"
Nan Yan took a deep breath: "What can I say?"
“…”
"What relationship does she, your princess, have with the Si family?"
Arslan said, "Although I haven't seen her since I was born, we, the people of Dian, have never given up searching for this pearl of the grassland over the years. Because we can't let our princess disappear for no reason."
“…”
"And now there are some clues left, that she had some dealings with someone from your Si family."
"who?"
"Who else?"
Nan Yan just felt like she was in a nightmare again.
Maybe everything is not true.
She said in a daze, "Is it true or false?"
Arslan said: "In fact, I also had doubts before. After all, several decades have passed."
“…”
"But this time, I am sure of it."
"Oh?" Nan Yan frowned and looked at him: "How can you be sure?"
Arslan stared at the stone tablet and said, "Why don't you finish reading the words on it?"
Finished reading?
Nan Yan turned around in confusion and took a look. It turned out that in the lower right corner of those words, there was another line of small words. Because of the passage of time, it had become so rotten that it was almost unrecognizable.
She frowned and could only reach out and trace the inscriptions on the stone tablet with her fingertips, slowly making out the words -
Si Bo Yan was established.
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