Qu Shang held a bowl of boiled medicinal soup and pushed open the half-open door.
"Put it on the table."
Mrs. Qu held a red candle and leaned over the desk without raising her head.
Qu Chang smiled and said, "This bowl of medicine tonight should be taken while it's hot for the best effect."
"What are you looking at, mother? She is so serious."
She put the bowl down, leaned over and took a look, and couldn't help but said in surprise, "This is the first time I've seen a map with such fine markings."
"Mom is studying the map late at night. Are you planning to open the family shop somewhere else?"
Mrs. Qu raised her head, sighed and shook her head, "You are really a hard-working person who only loves money."
Qu Shang was immediately unhappy. She bit her lip and said, "What are you saying, mother? If I don't work hard, what will happen to our family business?"
"My life is almost gone, so what do these external possessions mean?"
Mrs. Qu sighed again and suddenly said to the back room, "Aunt Pan, are you ready?"
"Miss, everything is ready."
Nanny Pan opened the door curtain and moved a few boxes out.
"It's too much, let's simplify it a bit." Mrs. Qu opened it one by one and checked, "You don't need to bring so many clothes. It's best to make more space for food and medicinal materials."
"I understand, I'll go get ready now."
Grandma Pan nodded and quickly walked out of the room.
Only then did Qu Shang suddenly come back to his senses, "Mother, what are you going to do?"
"Prepare to flee, what else can you do?"
Mrs. Qu tested the temperature and drank the medicinal soup in one gulp. A trace of blood appeared on her pale face.
"You may not know yet, but Cangyuan City is already in critical danger right now.
As long as you wait until it is possible to escape, there must be no hesitation.
Otherwise, if the opportunity passes, I'm afraid there will be no way to heaven, no door to the earth, and I won't even be able to escape."
"Why did mother say this?"
Qu Chang was full of doubts, "As far as my daughter knows, although there is some chaos outside now, when the three families drive away the bandits outside the city, everything will return to normal..."
"Back to normal?"
"Perhaps some people can return to normal, but there are still many people who will never return to normal."
Mrs. Qu smiled faintly, "How do you know that the three families in the inner city must be united to wipe out the bandits?"
"How do you know whether those warriors who are far away from Cangyuan City are alive or dead?"
Qu Shang shivered, feeling that even though she was in the steaming hot house, her whole body was as cold as if she had fallen into an ice cellar.
"Where did mother get the news?" she asked with a trembling voice.
"Aunt Pan, you should tell her."
Mrs. Qu lowered her head and began to look at the map again.
"Yes, miss."
Nanny Pan said, "This is the news just delivered by the old slave's daughter."
"Is it Auntie Xiao Zhong?"
Qu Chang was stunned for a moment, "Didn't she get sent back to the Central Plains by her mother in the summer?"
"Little miss, after Zhong Yi went to the Central Plains, he secretly joined the Green Lotus Sect by chance, and was favored by a certain deacon there. He has entered a position close to the core."
Qu Chang frowned, with a puzzled expression, "Qinglian Sect? Why have I never heard of this name? Is it related to the Red Light Society that is rising in the city?"
Mother Pan said, "The Red Lantern Society is just a branch of the Qinglian Sect, and it is also the main force behind this rebellion.
Even the Red Lantern Society believers that the young lady sees in daily life are just peripheral members that they have attracted.
Their real core members, even those above the incense master altar master, are rarely revealed to the public."
Qu Chang slowly calmed down and murmured to himself, "So, this banditry is actually related to the Qinglian Sect, and the situation has reached a critical level?"
"We don't know the specific situation. After all, Xiao Zhong only got close to a core figure, not the real core.
Her own knowledge is limited, and her actions are even more restricted.
Under such circumstances, it is extremely difficult to convey even a few words."
"Mammy, what should we do now?" Qu Shang picked up the tea cup and then put it down again, feeling confused for a moment.
Nanny Pan sighed, "That's why we pack our things and be ready to escape Cangyuan City at any time."
"It's just that it's difficult to get in and out of the city gate now, so we have to stop and wait for the opportunity."
Qu Chang fell into silence, sipping tea.
Suddenly, a burst of noise sounded in the distance.
Faintly, someone seemed to be screaming.
Nanny Pan stood up abruptly, first blew out the candle, and then quickly left the room.
Qu Chang was nervous and her palms were full of sweat.
Through the crack in the window, she saw the red light rising into the sky outside, which looked strange and alluring in the dark snowy night.
There was a click on the door, and Nanny Pan left and came back.
"The Zhou family and the Xu family were all on fire."
She said briefly, "There were fighting on both sides, but the specific scale is unknown."
Mrs. Qu put away the map and said, "Aunt Pan, prepare the carriage, we are ready to leave at any time."
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Wei Rongxing was sitting in the room, still unable to come to his senses until now.
Zheng Suyun and Wei Xin next to him looked more confused than him, and even felt a little at a loss.
Starting from the door, along the corridor to the east and west wing rooms, two rows of young people holding sharp knives stood silently.
A chilling aura emanated from them, colder than the howling wind and snow outside.
Wei Yan drank the tea in sips, and soon she felt her stomach was a little bloated.
She wanted to go to the latrine, but looking at the men in green with murderous faces, she didn't dare to go out.
I can only force myself to endure it.
But he couldn't control the tension in his heart and continued to pour cup after cup of tea into his mouth.
"Where's Brother Tao, where is my brother?"
Finally, she couldn't bear it anymore and asked the man in Tsing Yi nearest the door.
Click!
The man actually knelt down on one knee and replied respectfully, "In reply to the eldest lady, your lord is practicing in the woodshed and has asked people not to come in and disturb him."
"Oh, oh... I need to go out for a while." Wei Xin's legs felt weak, as if she was stepping on cotton.
"Please forgive me, Miss. Your Majesty has strictly ordered that it is dangerous outside, and neither you nor my wife can go out."
"I, I even want to go to the latrine, can't I?"
Her cheeks were red and she was about to cry.
At this moment, a sudden door knock came from the yard.
In an instant, all the people in Tsing Yi knelt down.
Wei Tao was only wearing a single coat, and his whole body was steaming with raging heat. The snow melted wherever he passed, exposing the ground.
He quickly came to the door of the main room, lowered his head, and showed a gentle smile to Wei Xin, "Sister, I don't dare to go out, is it because I am afraid of the dark? I will accompany you there."
Wei Yan raised her neck and stared blankly at her brother, who was nearly two heads taller than her. His body almost touched the door frame when he stood up straight. He even forgot about the feeling of abdominal distension for a moment.
She blinked her eyes and murmured to herself, "Aren't you Brother Tao? How could my brother be so tall?"
Wei Rongxing, who was sitting in the room, was even more shocked.
As a carpenter who collects herbs and builds houses, his sensitivity to length is naturally much stronger than that of ordinary people.
Just by visual inspection, you can casually tell the length, width and thickness of the furniture panels, and the error is not much different than what is measured with an ink ruler.
Wei Rongxing clearly remembered that when he went to pick him up from the Hu family's new house in the evening, Brother Tao was not this tall.
As a result, how long did it take for him to grow nearly a foot in height?