In the real world, in the Pei Mansion.
"What's going on? What happened?"
Pei Hong looked up at the sky in astonishment. Pei Hong, who had just woken up from his sleep, grabbed a servant next to him and started questioning him loudly.
"This, this, this... I don't know either!"
Responding to Pei Hong's question with a mournful face, the servant who had also just woken up from his dream sounded full of fear.
Whether it was the sudden appearance of a hole in the sky or the sword light coming out of the hole, it was far beyond the servant's knowledge.
Before the stick of incense, everything in Pei's house was as normal as before.
But ever since that sword light broke through the sky, everything that was originally normal began to become "abnormal".
First, the streets outside the mansion became a mess at some point, and then there was the "falling dragon incident" that the people nearby were clamoring about...
Not to mention the confused servants, even the most knowledgeable butler in the house was a little panicked.
"Where is the old man? Where is the second lady?"
Seeing that he could not ask for specific details, Pei Hong pretended to be calm and asked in a low voice.
"Where are they now?"
As the eldest son of the Pei family, Pei Hong knew that at this time, he could not be chaotic.
"The master is in the Buddhist hall at the back..."
"The second lady has disappeared for the time being. The maid who served her said that she never saw the second lady leave the room tonight."
After barely regaining some composure, the servant told Pei Hong everything he knew.
"Look! Find me the second lady immediately!"
Suddenly clenching his fists, Pei Hong suddenly felt an ominous premonition in his heart.
"In addition, immediately send someone to the government office to report the case..."
"Just say that our home has been robbed. No matter what, we must call the government officials to block the street."
Pei Hong knew very well the behavior of those government officials. If they just reported to the government, even if they used his father's name, he would not let them go out in the middle of the night.
Only by making the situation more serious will those lazy government officials take action.
And as long as this street is blocked, no matter what happens in the house or where his sister goes, there is still room for recovery.
"Master, what about you?"
With Pei Hong's "reassurance" in place, the panicked Pei Mansion finally regained some order.
"Me? Of course I'm going to the Buddhist temple!"
Pei Hong strode across the noisy crowd and answered without looking back.
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"father?"
Pushing open the closed door of the Buddhist hall, Pei Hong ignored the majestic Vajra Buddha statues on both sides and walked straight towards the innermost side of the Buddhist hall.
"Dad! Are you okay?"
In front of the altar in the innermost part of the Buddhist hall, an old man with gray hair and a resolute face was sitting cross-legged on a tuanfu. His mood was not affected by the panic from the outside world at all.
"Why panic? If the sky falls, there will still be someone tall to hold it up!"
Slowly opening his eyes, the old man opened his mouth with a stern rebuke.
"How many times have I told you, the more you panic, the more chaotic things will become. At this time, the more calm you have to be."
After simply scolding Pei Hong, the old man continued to ask.
"Have you figured out what happened?"
Facing his father's question, Pei Hong just shook his head in embarrassment, and then spoke.
"Not yet, but that girl Hui'er is missing."
As soon as he said this, the old man suddenly stood up from the tuanfu, and even the calmness on his face disappeared in an instant.
"Second girl is missing? Why didn't you tell me such an important thing earlier?!"
"Has anyone sent someone to look for it?"
"Quick, report to the officials immediately and ask them to block the streets and city gates!"
He quickly made the same judgment and choice as Pei Hong, and the old man's worry was palpable.
"Dad, I have asked my servants to do these things."
"Don't worry, they will be able to find Hui'er."
However, in the face of Pei Hong's comfort, the old man opened his mouth without saying anything, with a slight dejection in his expression.
"Dad? Are you hiding something from me?"
Pei Hong, who was keenly aware of the change in the old man's expression at that moment, and had already sensed some hidden secrets, immediately asked.
"Is what happened tonight related to Hui'er?"
Although Pei Hong has the style of a feudal patriarch and is a complete fan of officials, his concern for his family has never been mixed with any water.
It was okay when he was young, but once he got a little older, Pei Hong realized that his family's situation seemed a little abnormal.
The second sister who doesn't go out all year round but seems to know everything about the world...
The third brother was sent away by his father when he was young, but has never been forgotten by anyone...
Pei Hong was also deeply impressed by his father's inexplicable sighs from time to time.
"Alas, have we finally come to this point?"
Sighing softly, the old man just closed his eyes again with a melancholy look on his face.
"Obviously, as long as we wait a few more hours, Wende can go home..."
"But you chose to leave at this time. Did I really do something wrong back then?"
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"Wrong? You didn't do anything wrong."
In a suburb far away from Changsha County, Pei Hui, who was wearing a long white dress, seemed to hear the old man's sigh, and murmured expressionlessly.
"To exchange a stillborn child for the safety of a family is a common thing in anyone's eyes."
"It's just that neither you nor I expected that the stillborn baby actually survived and grew up successfully under Lingyou's care."
The voice paused for a moment, and Pei Hui suddenly turned her head and glanced in the direction of the eastern suburbs of Changsha.
Those sharp eyes seemed to span hundreds of miles and saw the dragon that had fallen outside the eastern suburbs.
"What you owe me has been repaid enough."
"But I have just begun to repay what I owe Wende."
"This is a cycle of cause and effect, and it is also a disaster on my path to enlightenment."
Before she finished speaking, Pei Hui suddenly waved her sleeves, and Xuan Jue's figure suddenly appeared in front of her.
But compared with the cold and unruly image before, Xuan Jue now looked embarrassed and unbearable, and even his usually tidy crown had become disheveled.
"Ahem, Your Majesty..."
He raised his head with difficulty and saw bright red blood flowing out from the wounds on Xuan Jue's body, and then soaked into his clothes bit by bit.
"Needless to say, you are very lucky to survive Zhao Guizhen's full blow."
"Leave the rest to me, just go and take away Wulin Shui!"
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