Seeing Hong'er's tragic look, Lin Xixue quickly guessed that there were actually many people around her who had the same idea as her.
The reason why she said she was the only one was because she didn’t want me to pursue the case further and make everyone suffer together.
"Finally, let me ask you a question. If there is a town in this world, people are not asked about their origins, only talents are promoted. In droughts, water is diverted to make canals. In wars, there are high walls to guard against bandits. Are you willing to give up your status as a slave in Yunzhou Prefecture? Go to this city?"
"Is there such a place in the world?" Hong'er frowned tightly.
"No, I'm just saying it, I'm just listening to it." Lin Xixue smiled lightly and shook her head.
"Miss, it's better not to take pleasure in this slave." Hong'er's calm voice contained some hint of disappointment.
Lin Xixue kept this disappointment in her heart, but did not speak any more.
She did have ideas, but she didn't want to make empty promises. She wasn't sure how long she would survive, so why would she use these unrealistic promises to give people unrealistic hopes?
After taking a bath, Hong'er helped her put on a cyan-colored floral woven gold skirt and a hyacinth and purple cloud-patterned gauze jacket, which was extremely gorgeous.
However, Lin Xixue still prefers the torn skirt she sewed herself. After all, when she draws her sword, she can stride farther with one step.
The banquet was quite sumptuous, and Bai Qing and Lin Xixue naturally didn't eat a bite. Xu Zhiyi didn't eat much because she had lived in the Xu Mansion before and was used to fine food and clothing.
But Niu Zhuang usually didn't even see much meat. Never had he seen so much delicious meat. He immediately grabbed the elbow and beef and started to feast on it, making his mouth full of oil.
Two hours passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye, the cups and plates were in a mess. Niu Zhuang looked at the leftovers on the table with some reluctance, scratched his head, and asked innocently: "Can these be packed?"
Bai Qing was chatting with the Yunzhou government office not far away. When she heard Niu Zhuang's words, she said calmly: "Okay, let's pack it up."
Niu Zhuang smiled broadly and said, "Thank you so much, Master Baixian!"
After a while, the three of them entered the carriage. Niu Zhuang followed closely behind carrying a large bag of food wrapped in oil paper. He drove happily and continued to drive under the moonlight.
In the carriage, Xu Zhiyi said with some confusion: "Sister Bai, why do you need to pack it? We have brought a lot of food. If we don't finish it, it will be spoiled."
"If we are besieged by refugees again, it would be a good idea to use these scraps to get rid of the trouble, so as not to bleed again, which is bad luck." Bai Qing turned her head away, her voice cold.
"I see, Sister Bai is really thoughtful!" Xu Zhiyi suddenly realized.
Lin Xixue saw Bai Qing's awkward expression, and thought of her previous return to find the children digging Guanyin soil, and guessed her true intention of packing the leftovers.
But she didn't expose it, just showed a meaningful smile.
Bai Qing took out the wolf tail from before, tied it with a red rope, threw it to Niu Zhuang, and said: "Put this on the trailer, and ordinary evil spirits will not dare to approach it easily."
Hearing that this thing could ward off evil spirits, Niu Zhuang naturally followed it immediately.
"Sister Bai, why can hanging this tail ward off evil spirits?"
"You were asleep last night, so you don't know that I cut off this tail from a mountain spirit called the Wolf Girl last night."
"This wolf girl has some Taoism. She built two tails. After I chopped off her body, she used a hundred years of Taoism to die for her, so she kept the tails."
"The purpose of hanging this tail is to tell all the mountain spirits that the wolf girls who are stronger than you have lost their ways. If you dare to advance again, you need to think about yourself first. Therefore, when most of the spirits see this tail, they will not You dare to make mistakes easily."
After all, Xu Zhiyi has a girlish nature. She immediately became interested when she heard the talk about the mountain spirit. She grabbed Bai Qing's arm and asked, "Sister Bai, sister Bai, what kind of monster is this wolf girl? What is her origin?"
"I don't know the origin of this wolf girl, but the most widely circulated story about this monster is probably the time when a wolf girl sneaked into the capital of Yunzhou and ate the family of an important member of the dynasty. .”
"Oh? It stands to reason that Yunzhou's household registration checks are quite strict. How did this wolf girl sneak into Jingyun City, which is the most heavily guarded city?" Lin Xixue became curious after hearing this story.
"At that time, the son of this important official was assigned to work as an official in another place, so he got to know this wolf girl. Not only was this wolf girl as beautiful as a flower, but she was also extremely good at disguise, and she finally succeeded in marrying the son of this important official."
"At that time, the son of an important official had completed his term in other places. When he returned to the capital to face the saint, the wolf girl was not suspected as his family member, so she naturally infiltrated into Jingyun City."
"Not long after, more than seventy people in this important official's house were eaten by this wolf girl overnight." Bai Qing paused, and then added: "Even the livestock in the house were not eaten. Spared."
"It stands to reason that such an important case should have shocked the entire Yunzhou, but why hasn't any news been released before?" Lin Xixue was puzzled.
"The Yunzhou royal family will naturally not talk nonsense about such strange power and chaos. The world only knows that Yunzhou's national religion is from the lineage of Shenxiao, but they ignore the Confucianism that has already penetrated into the secular world."
"There is a saying, 'You don't say anything about strange power and chaos of the gods.' This is the warning of the Confucian sage to the Yunzhou royal family. Therefore, the Yunzhou royal family has always been very taboo about such strange power and chaos of the gods. Since then, Don’t spread it randomly.”
Lin Xixue touched her chin and quickly noticed something unusual: "That's not right. Logically speaking, this lineage of Shenxiao can be considered a Taoist sect. Since the Yunzhou royal family is taboo about these strange powers and chaos, why do they still declare Shenxiao as the state religion? "
Bai Qing's face condensed: "Ahem, just pretend that I didn't say anything. These things have little to do with you. Just listen and enjoy them."
"Okay, let's ask something else. Since the Yunzhou royal family blocked the news at that time, how did you know?" Lin Xixue changed the starting point and continued to ask.
"Hehe", Bai Qing smiled quite proudly, "Of course it was because the bulls in Shenxiao couldn't handle this matter, so the Yunzhou royal family had to ask us, Lantau Island, to solve it! It was my senior brother who came out at that time , it only took more than ten days to capture this wolf girl."
When Bai Qing mentioned her senior brother, her eyes first filled with admiration and admiration, but the stars in her eyes were quickly overshadowed by a gloomy look.
"So, since you are hiding in Lantau Mountain, how did the Yunzhou royal family know about your existence? And why do you want to help the Yunzhou royal family solve the problem?"
Lin Xixue asked another rather critical question.
"Hiss..." Bai Qing took a breath and wrinkled her nose, "It's really boring to chat with you. It's just gossip in the boudoir. You insist on getting to the bottom of it. You keep asking questions. It’s a secret."
Lin Xixue gave a bitter smile and did not refute. Who knows that she doesn't know any information?
Without enough information, effective inferences cannot be made, and the next step of planning cannot be made, which makes her have an instinctive desire to seek unknown information.
The atmosphere in the carriage fell to freezing point again. The carriage continued to move forward, and the wheels made a harsh "squeaking" sound...
