Seeing Hong'er's tragic expression, 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 the punishment together.
"Finally, let me ask you a question. If there was a town in this world, people were not asked about their origins, only talents were promoted. In times of drought, water was diverted to make canals. In times of war, there were high walls to keep out bandits. Would you be willing to go?"
"Is there such a place in the world?" Hong'er frowned tightly.
"No, don't just say it, don't listen." Lin Xixue smiled 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 does have ideas, but she doesn't want to make empty promises. She's not sure how long she can survive, so why should she use these unrealistic promises to give people unrealistic hopes?
After taking a bath, Hong'er helped her put on a cyan 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, so 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 well-dressed and well-fed.
But Niu Zhuang, the driver, usually didn't even see much meat, but he had never seen so many delicious things. He grabbed the elbow and started to feast on the beef, 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, and asked naively: "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 chuckled and said, "Thank you so much, Master Baixian!"
After a while, the three of them entered the carriage, and Niu Zhuang followed closely behind carrying a large bag of food wrapped in oil paper. They 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 can't finish it, it will be ruined."
"If we are besieged by refugees again, it would be a good idea to use these scraps to get rid of them. This will save us another bloodshed and bad luck."
"I see, Sister Bai is really thoughtful!" Xu Zhiyi suddenly realized.
Lin Xixue looked at Bai Qing's awkward expression, then thought of the time when she went back to find the children who were digging the 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, so that ordinary evil spirits will not dare to approach it easily."
Niu Zhuang naturally followed suit 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 them off, she used a hundred years of Taoism to die in her place, so I 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, most of the spirits will not hesitate when they see this tail.
You dare to make mistakes easily."
"Sister Bai, Sister Bai, what kind of monster is this wolf girl? Where does it come from?" Xu Zhiyi suddenly became interested.
"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 the most heavily guarded Jingyun City?" Lin Xixue also became a little curious when she heard 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. The wolf girl also pretended to be very clever and successfully married the son of this important official."
"So when the son of an important official's term in another place expired and he returned to Beijing to face the saint, this wolf girl, as his family member, was not suspected, so she naturally infiltrated into the city."
"Not long after, more than seventy people in this important official's house were eaten clean 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 the Yunzhou state religion is of the lineage of Shenxiao, but they don't know that it has already penetrated into the secular Confucianism."
"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. From then on
Don’t spread it randomly.”
Lin Xixue touched her chin and noticed something unusual: "That's not right. Logically speaking, this lineage of Shenxiao can be regarded as 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 to them and enjoy them."
"Okay, let's ask something else. Since the Yunzhou royal family blocked the news at that time, how did you know?"
"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 were soon covered up 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 have to get to the bottom of it. You keep asking questions.
The secret is spicy."
Lin Xixue gave a bitter smile and did not refute. Who knows that he 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 once again fell into freezing point. The carriage continued to move forward, and the wheels made a harsh "squeaking" sound...