The carriage continued to move forward, and Lin Xixue sat on the carriage, silently remembering Niu Zhuang's movements of driving the horse and the tunes he blew in his mouth.
After all, Bai Qing is not here right now, and if she wants to continue traveling at night, she will need to take turns, so she started learning in advance.
Seeing her concentration, Niu Zhuang advised her, "You'd better go in and rest as soon as possible. After all, you were in a coma for more than ten days before you woke up."
I've been unconscious for so long?
Memories from before she fell into coma flashed in her mind, and she recalled the jade album that had been smeared like waste paper, and the "pink nosebleeds mixed with white debris" that flowed from her nostrils.
She couldn't help but feel flustered. Could this be it?
No matter how calm she was, it was impossible not to be nervous at the thought of something like this happening to her.
This sense of confusion that she clearly knew something was wrong with her body, but when she woke up from a coma and everything was normal, gave her an indescribable sense of fear.
For a moment, she lost the mood to continue learning to drive horses. She silently returned to the carriage, took out the jade album from her sleeve robe, pressed the cover, and hesitated whether to open it or not.
She closed her eyes, raised her head, pressed her back firmly against the wall of the carriage, took several deep breaths, and finally mustered up the courage to flip open the jade book.
The jade album, which was originally full of smeared outlines, was splashed with a very thick layer of gold paint, covering up the messy smear marks. However, even the original rank of the Immortal Official was covered up.
The gold powder in the paint was reflected by the noon sun, but the gold powder did not solidify. Instead, it flowed under the paint surface. It was similar to the flowing gold powder mobile phone case she had seen in her previous life.
Very similar.
The gold powder gradually gathered into a pile of strange symbols that looked like knives and hooks, but unlike before, this time Lin Xixue was completely unable to discern what the symbols meant.
She frowned. Although she didn't understand why the jade album had changed like this, she still wrote down the strange symbols for the time being.
Then she tried to see if the weird gold paint could be scraped off, but her attempts were fruitless and she had to give up.
She felt that this change was probably related to the weird wooden fish. Who would have thought that this wooden fish was so evil that it could swallow gold nuggets by itself and make noises without knocking.
She became a little worried. Something had happened to the jade book. So could the magical powers she had obtained before be still used?
With a thought in her mind, she reached into the void with her right hand, retrieved the Split Light and Broken Night, and then used her fingers to levitate the pillow in the carriage.
Seeing that her previous magical powers were not affected, she relaxed a little.
Holding the horizontal knife in her hand, she felt an inexplicable sense of courage and security for no reason, and her heart that had been hanging in the air finally slowly relaxed.
After her emotions calmed down a little, she took back the Spectral Light Duanye, took out the Sanqing Mask, spread it out in her hands, and thought to herself.
Since Bai Qing has already set off to go back to the City God's Temple to inquire, he might as well start preparing the materials for the Seven Emotions Mask before she gets a definite reply.
First, prepare the materials yourself, so that if Bai Qing gets a positive reply from the temple, she won't have to collect the materials in a hurry, and will only need to rush back to Xin Liangcheng as quickly as possible.
The material of the complete Seven Emotions Mask is divided into two parts. The main material is the face of a woman born in the lunar month of the yin year, and the auxiliary material is the facial features of a vicious person.
The main material, Lin Xixue, didn't have much of a clue for a while, but the auxiliary material did have a very clear direction - there were many murderers imprisoned in the death row in the towns under the jurisdiction of Yunzhou Prefecture.
I only need to guide these murderers to express seven emotions: joy, anger, sadness, joy, fear, fear, and thought, and then remove their five senses at the right time.
Moreover, these people are already on death row. Although it is inhumane to do so, it is not harmful to nature.
Moreover, Niu Zhuang needed to go to the city to rest and change horses, so he could take advantage of his break to sneak into the death row and collect materials.
After she calmed down a little, she sat out again and began to learn how to drive a horse.
In the evening, Lin Xixue generally learned how to raise a whip and whistle, and the carriage drove into the city again.
However, this time there was no letter from Bai Qing, so he could not get assistance from the Yunzhou government, so he had to pay for food and accommodation at his own expense. But gold and silver had no meaning to Lin Xixue, they were just numbers.
After all, there is an inexhaustible mountain of gold above the East China Sea.
While Niu Zhuang went to hit the target, Lin Xixue quietly covered her face with the Sanqing mask in the guest room.
The moment the mask was placed on the face, it seemed to be alive, rapidly growing and spreading throughout the body, as if another layer of skin had grown on top of the original skin.
Then she felt that all the muscles and bones in her body were being pulled by this new layer of skin, and her height suddenly increased by three or four inches. In just a few breaths, she transformed into a rather frail scholar.
The scene in front of her suddenly changed, and she instantly arrived at the site where the results of the provincial examination were released.
Wearing a round-neck gown that had been soaked for so long that it was a little blue, she looked for her name on the list with great concentration.
Her eyes scanned the gold list line by line, but her name could not appear. She held the folding fan in her hand and tried to look calm, but her palms were already covered in cold sweat.
【Song Qi】
Two small characters came into view.
She felt hot blood rushing into her brain, her whole face turned red from suppressing it, her body was hunched over and breathing heavily like a bison, and her whole body felt an indescribable ecstasy.
"Oh, okay, I got it!"
"Pah!" A crisp slap hit her face, and she woke up.
She rubbed the coarse robe on her body and touched her face. Her figure at this moment was really the same as that of the scholar Song Qi.
The unspeakable ecstasy from before still echoed in my heart, but this time it was different from the illusion that Tianzun had constructed before that was difficult to distinguish between true and false.
I can clearly distinguish who I am, but my emotions are affected by the memory of scholar Song Qi without any resistance.
I knew very well that I was Lin Xixue, but I felt ecstatic because a scholar I didn't know, Song Qixue, was selected for the exam. The two people's emotions seemed to have some kind of connection that transcended time and space because of this mask.
What a weird feeling
She stood up, and her field of vision became taller as her height soared by three or four inches, which made her feel a little uncomfortable for a while.
She walked around the house for a few times, getting used to her new body shape, and then jumped out of the window in a flash, naturally blending into the flow of people on the street.
She had been to Yunzhou Mansion in the city before, so she naturally knew where the death row was.
Go over the wall, avoid the eyes and ears of the mansion, and come to the back of the dungeon entrance.
There were two people on duty at the entrance of the dungeon, taking turns without interruption. Lin Xixue picked up two stones from the ground and flicked them hard.
The two guards immediately rolled their eyes and were knocked unconscious by her.
She quickly stepped forward, gently lifted up the two guards, and dragged them into the blind spot behind the house. Then she seized the time, climbed through the window, opened the secret passage and entered the death row.
However, the situation inside the death row shocked her and left her speechless.