Miss Meng was scornful of heaven and earth. A woman who behaved in such a cool and unrestrained manner actually fainted from the carriage.
After taking a pill, Meng Shizhao finally looked better. He rinsed his mouth with a water bottle and nodded to Lu Anran: "Thank you."
Wu Fang took Meng Shizhao's maid Jinse to set up the tent again. Lu Taotao walked around with his hands behind his back and pointed. This time he simply moved over and the two carriages stopped together.
Lu Anran asked Meng Shizhao to rest in front of his tent. When the curtain was completely opened, he lit a bonfire.
Meng Shizhao's face was particularly pale after being illuminated by the firelight, and there was sweat on her forehead. Lu Anran asked her if she needed to go in and rest for a while. She shook her head and refused, "The tent will be ready soon, I won't disturb you."
After several encounters with Lu Anran, I felt a bit like Meng Shizhao's character, and there was no force. Neither of them was a talkative person. Lu Anran ate some dry food, while Meng Shizhao had no appetite. Occasionally, he would pick up a dead branch and throw it into the fire. .
"This is what you eat in the wilderness?" Lu Taotao came back and sat down on the ground.
Lu Anran threw a piece of cake to her, "You said it yourself. It's in the wilderness."
Lu Taotao stared at the cake, looking left and right, and sighed: "No matter how good Chun Miao's craftsmanship is, it will be difficult to make use of such unpalatable food."
After taking a bite, my nose wrinkled up, "It's dry and chewy."
Lu Anran could have managed it, but the tempting smell of meat wafted not far away, and the cake in her hand instantly turned into stone in her eyes.
"Hahaha~" Lu Taotao patted his thigh, "You can't eat anymore!"
Lu Anran put the cake back into the bag and asked Wu Fang for water, "We should be there in three or four days."
Lu Taotao looked at the dark mountains ahead for a while, then his eyes suddenly lit up, "I'm going to catch two pheasants and roast them."
"Be careful of Yaksha eating people." Mo Yan came out of nowhere and startled everyone present.
Lu Taotao wiped her nose with her thumb, "I thought I was you, idiot."
Yun Qi came over gracefully, his clothes were white and brighter than the moonlight, but he held two large skewers of barbecued meat in his hands and his behavior was not very young, "I have to give warmth to you."
Lu Anran raised his eyes and glanced at the flesh, "Where did it come from?"
Yun Qi lifted up his clothes in a very handsome manner and sat down, "Don't look so weird in your eyes."
Lu Anran's right brow moved, with an expression that he didn't quite understand.
"It's like looking at a body and wondering where to start."
Wu Fang took the two large pieces of barbecue, cut them into small pieces with a dagger and put them in the utensils they brought, "They are indeed corpses."
Lu Taotao held his chin and raised his head, "Suddenly I lost my appetite."
Lu Anran was not affected at all and said silently in her heart: The meat is still delicious.
Wu Fang also handed one to Meng Shizhao. She had a poor appetite. On the contrary, the interactions between these people made her a little curious.
Regarding the eldest son of Prince Yun's Mansion, the most rumored thing in the royal capital is not only his dissipation and lack of discipline, but also his beauty. There are few men in the world who have such appearance but are not feminine at all. He is stunningly beautiful and handsome. He looks like an immortal when he doesn't smile, and like a demon when he smiles.
Lu Taotao's mouth was stuffed with meat, and his cheeks bulged like a frog. He said to Meng Shizhao: "Don't eat if you can't eat it. Don't eat it and vomit later. It will affect others."
Yun Qi and Lu Anran looked over at the same time. Meng Shizhao put down the meat in his hand and said, "Did you just say that Yaksha cannibalizes people?"
"Yes, Yaksha, with his green face, fangs and wings on his back, has already eaten several people." Mo Yan put his hands behind his head and leaned his back against the tree, "We have already reached the boundary of Huaiqing Mansion. Maybe Yaksha is hiding behind there. Mountain."
Meng Shizhao was stunned, "Isn't this just a story we heard when we were children?" How come there really is a Yaksha?
"I remember, Lord Meng is the governor of Licheng. Miss Meng grew up in Licheng, right?" Another voice added.
Lu Anran tilted his head. Nangong Zhi and Qi Shang both came over, and it was the former who spoke.
Meng Shizhao nodded: "Those legends are all stories that adults listen to before coaxing their children to go to bed. They are similar to the story of goblins seducing scholars in ruined temples in the middle of the night."
Lu Taotao blinked: "Has your child been listening to emotional dramas since he was a child? No wonder you are precocious."
Meng Shizhao: "..."
Lu Anran had read the geographical annals, and Huaiqing Mansion was under the jurisdiction of the city. "Could it be that there were rumors of Yaksha here in the past?"
The others were either from the royal capital or were far away in the north and did not know the local customs, so they all looked at Meng Shizhao.
The maid Jinse made a pot of tea for everyone with boiled water. Meng Shizhao drank two mouthfuls of hot water, and the medicine began to take effect. The nausea of motion sickness gradually disappeared, and his face looked much better.
"But the stories about Yaksha that I heard when I was young are not quite the same as what you described." Meng Shizhao held the tea bowl in both hands and said: "Yaksha does not distinguish between men and women. He comes from the ghost world. His hair has green flames. He is several feet tall. , burning like a candle, one of his eyes is on the top of the head and the other on the chin, some are triangular and some are half-moon shaped."
Lu Taotao opened his mouth wide, "If you spill the soup while eating, won't it fall into your eyes?"
It was the first time Meng Shizhao encountered someone with such a strange brain circuit. He pursed his lower lip and decided to communicate with other normal people, "It is said that Yaksha often flies in the air. Since he has lived in the underworld for a long time, he can only appear at night. He especially likes to catch people. Children. Because children have bright eyes, they are most likely to attract Yaksha, but if the child closes his eyes and goes to sleep when the lights are turned off, Yaksha will not be able to sense it easily and will not be captured."
Everyone twitched, who made up this story? It was too targeted.
Nangong Zhi smiled and said: "The hearts of parents in the world."
Yun Qi tapped the palm of his hand with the handle of the fan, "But now Yaksha really appears."
Mo Yan nodded heavily: "I ate quite a few people."
Meng Shizhao frowned slightly, "This has never happened before."
"Who told you to use Yaksha to coax your children every day? Now you have brought it out." Lu Taotao gloated, "But I'm quite curious. I grabbed one and put it in the room, which saves a candle."
Everyone here is talking about Yaksha, and there is also a group of people gathering not far away.
"They seemed to be chatting happily." Princess Ding'an curled her red lips and smiled a little coldly.
One of the women in pink clothes said: "They seem to be discussing some yaksha. I heard from the maid today that there are yakshas in Huaiqing Mansion who eat people, and several people have died."
Princess Ding'an raised her eyebrows, "Yaksha cannibalism?"
"That's right, Princess, haven't you heard? It's scary. It's better not to run into the mountains and forests at night, otherwise the yaksha might arrest him."
Princess Ding'an's eyes moved slightly, with a hint of calculation flashing through them.
The moon is rising in the sky, and the stars are shining brightly.
Meng Shizhao couldn't hold on anymore and went to rest first, while the others talked for a while and prepared to go back to their camps.
Qi Shang turned his ear and asked, "Did you hear it?"
Yun Qi: "Huh?"
Nangong Zhi's face became serious, "I heard it too."
Mo Yan stood up straight and rubbed his arms with both hands: "Oh my god, isn't that evil?"
Wu Fang said to Lu Anran, "There was a woman crying."
Lu Taotao stepped on the ground and leaped into the air, "I'll go take a look!"
Nangong Zhi praised, "Good body technique."
Qi Shang jumped on the horse next to him, pulled the reins, and said, "I will take people to investigate." He waved his hand, and more than ten guards immediately followed him.
Nangong Zhi thought for a moment and went to fetch a horse. Just as he was about to step on the stirrups, Yun Qi said with a smile, "Young Master, will you take me for a ride?"
Mo Yan covered his eyes, the eldest son of his family was becoming more and more blind.
Lu Anran looked at him with a look that said - Yun Qi had a twitch?
Mo Yan turned around and said as if he couldn't hold it back for a moment: "Su Ji said that last time Nangong Zhi stole the crown prince's limelight, the crown prince was always thinking about him and making him sick."
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Insects chirped in the grass on a summer night, the sound was like music, but in this mixed music, there were intermittently faint moans.
When Wu Fang led Lu Anran to arrive, he first smelled the strong smell of blood, which was not good.
Qi Shang and Nangong Zhi squatted next to the injured woman and roughly checked, "The injury is on the neck. There is a lot of bleeding. Take it back immediately for treatment. Maybe it can be saved."
"Wait a minute." Yun Qi stopped her and pointed her fan at the person on the ground. "She is a woman. It's not appropriate for you to hold her in her arms. We can't let her go."
Wu Fang wonders when Yun Qi became so particular about it. When it comes to defense between men and women, one has to distinguish the right moment. When it comes to saving lives, being too particular will only waste time.
When Yun Qi retreated, he calmly patted Lu Anran with his fan and gave her a look.
"You can't touch her now." Lu Anran stopped her and asked everyone to look at the woman's feet. "She used a silver needle to pinpoint the white point to stop the wound. Otherwise, the wound would have been so big at this location. Just now If you waste time, you will already be dead."
Nangong Zhi was stunned, "No wonder there was no blood when we came, even though there were blood stains."
Yun Qi clicked his tongue and said, "She is a smart and calm woman."
It's dark, and it's hard for anyone to notice a tiny needle. As for the shoe that fell off one foot, it's easy for people to subconsciously think that she dropped it in desperation when she ran away.
Lu Anran glanced at Yunqi out of the corner of his eye. This man was quite attentive.
"Can Miss Lu cure it?" Qi Shang broke off a thick branch nearby, wrapped it in a layer of coarse cloth, and lit it with a fire stick.
Just as Lu Anran took a step forward, she heard Nangong Zhi say: "There are specialties in the art industry, so I'm afraid it won't be convenient for Miss Lu, but there are all students from the Medical Sect here, so why not call one over."
Lu Anran was sure of such trauma, but...
Yun Qi shook his head gently at her. Since Nangong Zhi had thoughtfully blocked it for her, why bother to wade through this muddy water.
Qi Shang went back to call for help, while Wu Fang and Lu Anran laid down the unconscious woman. When they looked closer with the torch, they saw that the huge wound was like a black hole, with a hideous opening.
"Miss Lu, I don't doubt your ability, but the dead are different from the living. If I offended you, I apologize to you." Nangong Zhi said.
Lu Anran looked back, "Master Shaofu said something serious, and what you said is true."
While waiting for someone, Yun Qi covered his mouth and nose with a folding fan, lowered his voice and said to Lu Anran: "This is just a small wound, you don't need to take action."
Lu Anran looked at Yun Qi's beaming eyes. In fact, she didn't mind others' slights or misunderstandings, but Yun Qi's words still warmed her heart.
