After finishing the conversation, Ye Taotao walked out of the palace and saw Bai Xin and Xiao Yan waiting outside.
They must be very worried about him. Although they were patient and did not rush into the palace, their faces were full of worry and they were pacing back and forth.
Ye Taotao wiped away her tears, walked forward, showed a big smile to the two of them, and called sweetly: "Baba, brother!"
Both of them raised their heads at the first moment and looked at him in unison. At this glance, they subconsciously frowned.
Although the little monster had wiped away his tears, his slightly red eyes and nose could not be covered up, and his eyelashes were wet. It was obvious that he had cried.
"What's wrong?" Dad Bai Xin immediately walked forward quickly, squatted down in front of the little monster, stretched out his hand, and gently held her little face, "Why are you crying? It's with your mother-in-law.
Did you have a fight?"
"No, no!" the little monster explained quickly, "My queen is very good to me."
She hesitated for a moment, with a troubled expression on her face, pursed her lips, and said softly: "It's just... I asked the queen something about my mother..."
Bai Xin was stunned, "You..."
Ye Taotao threw herself into Bai Xin's arms, took the initiative to hug him, and said with a nasal voice: "But dad will always be Taotao's dad."
Bai Xin also reached out and hugged her.
This is enough. Even if the little monster knows that he is not her biological father, he still regards him as his father.
"What did the queen say to you?" Bai Xin gently patted the little monster on the back to comfort him, "Can you tell daddy?"
The little monster nodded, but did not tell Bai Xin everything. He just told Bai Xin and Xiao Yan that his mother might have died, but she had arranged many things for herself before she died.
, including the ghost market between Zhulijie and Netherworld, etc.
As for the fact that she was the princess of the demon clan, Ye Taotao kept it secret.
Bai Xin and Xiao Yan couldn't help but feel a little emotional as they listened.
"Although your mother is gone, I can see that she really loves you." Xiao Yan touched the little monster's head and said softly.
Ye Taotao nodded, sniffed, and said angrily: "I know my mother loves me very much..."
Therefore, she really wants to know what happened to her mother? And take revenge on those who hurt her mother.
*
The ghost soldiers sent by the wedding lady were very effective, and they quickly collected dozens of lamps similar to those described by Bai Chiling.
Putting these lamps in front of Bai Chiling, Ye Taotao urged: "Look, look, which one is yours?"
Bai Chiling checked for a long time, finally shook his head, and said with some disappointment: "None of them."
At this moment, Xiao Hong walked up to her with a troubled expression: "Actually, there is another lamp, but..."
"What's wrong?" asked the wedding lady.
There was a tangled expression on Xiao Hong's face, and he spoke hesitantly: "Because the empress wanted everyone to practice Shinto, didn't she, so the human race's wild sacrifice became a common practice, uh... that lamp was also enshrined, and it has already been enshrined.
She is starting to give birth to spiritual intelligence, but she doesn’t want to come with us, and there’s nothing we can do about it.”
"Can a lamp also cultivate spiritual wisdom?" Ye Taotao asked curiously, his eyes widening in surprise.
"Rather than cultivating spiritual wisdom, it is better to say that the people's wishes condensed into a new god, which was temporarily enshrined in the lamp." The wedding lady knew Shinto very well and explained immediately.
Ye Taotao was confused and confused after hearing this.
However, the bride in the wedding dress looked thoughtful and said thoughtfully: "Then come with me and have a look."
So he took Ye Taotao and others to the place where the lamp was found.
This is a somewhat dilapidated small village, but every household in the village has lanterns burning and hanging under the eaves.
The wedding lady hid her phoenix crown and harem, disguised herself as an ordinary woman, and walked into the village with Ye Taotao and others.
As soon as I walked into the village, I wonder if the "god" worshiped in the village noticed the arrival of the wedding lady, and all the lanterns hanging under the eaves began to sway automatically in the absence of wind.
However, the bride just glanced sideways, and all the lanterns stopped shaking, and stayed there like aggrieved children.
Boxin walked to a house, knocked on the door, and asked politely: "Excuse me, is anyone here?"
The voices in the house suddenly fell silent for a moment, and then they heard footsteps approaching the door. Through the door, the deep voice of the old man came from inside.
"Who is it? It's so late..." followed by several coughs.
"We are a passing caravan. It's late at night and the fog is thick. We want to find a place to rest for a while." Baixin said.
There are many caravans in the Netherworld. Because humans always live in one village, they need these caravans to communicate with each other between villages.
When the old man in charge heard that it was a caravan, he relaxed a little and opened the door a crack, "It's a caravan."
Bai Xin smiled at the old man and said: "The goods are sold out. I wanted to go home as soon as possible, but I didn't expect it to get dark so quickly and the fog was so thick. I really didn't dare to leave."
The old man took a closer look and saw that under the illumination of the lantern, there were shadows at Bai Xin's feet, and he was holding a little girl in one hand. He couldn't help but feel a little moved.
Ye Taotao showed a sweet smile to the old man and shouted crisply: "Grandpa, good evening."
"It's really hard to be on the road so late." Ye Taotao called the old man grandpa, and his attitude became a little better. He looked at the little girl with some pity, "Why are you still bringing a little girl with you?"
Bai Xin said: "There is only such a little girl in the family. I really don't feel comfortable leaving her behind, so I have to take her with me and go on the road with the caravan."
The old man then opened the door and invited them in: "You all come in to talk, drink some hot water, and warm yourself up."
Ye Taotao immediately smiled and said: "Thank you, grandpa."
So the group of people entered the house like this. The lantern outside the door swayed slightly, and the flame on it suddenly dimmed a little, like a child who had been bullied. It was extremely pitiful.
The old man lives with his wife and there is no adult at home. Logically speaking, strangers should not be allowed in so late at night.
But I don't know if the two old people have been lonely for too long, or there are some other reasons, so they were let in anyway.
The old man's wife, with her hunched back, brought several bowls of hot water, placed them on the table, and called to them: "Come and drink some hot water."