sanno

"The sun is almost setting, why haven't you come back?" Aunt Mei was sitting in the hall in the East Wing, frowning at Amao and Linger, "Where did she go?"

"I wasn't in the yard in the morning, and Linger was watching her." Amao looked at Linger beside him suspiciously.

Ling'er was unmoved, and rolled her eyes to look at the ceiling.

"Ask you something!" Aunt Mei slapped the table anxiously.

Ling'er lowered her eyes and looked sideways at Aunt Mei, feeling very troubled in her heart——

That little fox had a whim, and left as soon as he said he wanted to, and just left her behind, which made her very annoyed, but anyway, this matter was a secret between the two of them, Ling'er felt that she should show some loyalty and save her. Sono kept it secret.

Therefore, she still shrugged indifferently, expressing that she did not know where Sanno was going.

Aunt Mei frowned even deeper, hesitated for a while, then got up and went out, wanting Uncle Fei Lianming and others to look around.

Uncle Ming was still working outside, and Fei Lian Ximo and others had just returned, and they were in Zunshang's house, reporting the ghosts and disasters outside the mountain.

Seeing that the sky was getting dark, Aunt Mei couldn't wait any longer, walked in the door lightly, found a chair in the corner and sat down, anxiously waiting for Fei Lian to finish his report.

As Fei Lian was talking, he saw Aunt Mei staring at him eagerly from the corner of the eye, and he couldn't help wondering what trouble she had encountered.

With this distraction, the words in his mouth began to tie up.

His Majesty raised his hand to signal him to stop, looked sideways at Aunt Mei who was sitting in the southwest corner, raised his chin, and said helplessly, "Tell me, what's the matter?"

Aunt Mei stood up gratefully, and said anxiously: "Sang Nuo hasn't come back yet! It's almost dark, I'm worried that something happened to her, and I want Fei Lian to help her find her in the mountains."

His Majesty picked up the tea with downcast eyes, and said calmly: "She has been bored in the room for a long time, walking around is not a bad thing, Ling'er is a red bird, she will not get lost."

Aunt Mei said anxiously: "She didn't go out with Linger..."

Hearing this, His Majesty suddenly raised his eyes to look at her: "Then with whom?"

Aunt Mei replied: "No one followed, she went out alone with Dudu in her arms, and she hasn't come back yet, so I don't worry!"

Jiang Xueshi put down the teacup, stood up abruptly, and asked her, "When did you go?"

Aunt Mei wasn't sure either, so she just replied, "At the wrong time in the afternoon, the person disappeared."

Jiang Xueshi was shocked, paused, and then said in a panic: "Chuan Linger come here!"

"Yes!" Aunt Mei took the order and turned around. Just as she was about to go out, she heard a yell from the elder behind her: "Forget it, don't pass it on! You just obey!"

Fei Lian and the others were terrified by the scolding, and hurriedly bowed and replied: "The subordinate is here!"

"Starting from the foothills of Shannan, search in three directions!"

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Ling'er felt that she had caused a lot of trouble because the lord was angry.

This is actually a very rare thing. She used to think that His Majesty would not jump in anger like their rough mountain monsters. Even when threatening the Eighth Princess, His Majesty was polite and calm, and would not Any gaffes.

But it turned out that she was wrong, His Majesty just got angry and asked her if she forgot to bring her brain when she left Qingqiu Mountain.

Ling'er was very sad, the beautiful image of Zunshang in her heart was broken.

She felt very aggrieved, no one had ever reminded her and Sang Nuo about the disaster of Guisha, how could she know to cover for Sang Nuo, just to send Sang Nuo to die?

In order to make amends, she joined the search team for Sang Nuo, and together with Xi Mo, she searched for villages and towns in the southwest direction.

Ximo asked her to fly high in the sky to help search for living creatures on the ground.

Ximo didn't let her participate in the battle, but reminded her that if she found danger, she should fly to the mountains, don't stay on the ground, and don't look back for him.

When it was getting dark, she saw a large group of villagers gathered in a small forest, and there was a river not far away. The group was motionless and lifeless, but they were all standing.

She felt that something was wrong, this group of people might be the rumored demon possessed, so she immediately swooped down to report to Ximo.

Xi Mo raised her index finger to her lips: "Hush, keep your voice down."

Ling'er said: "Let's look elsewhere, don't lure those ghosts here."

Xi Mo shook her head, and pointed down at the mud on the ground.

Ling'er lowered her head and saw a line of deep and shallow footprints.

"This is Sang Nuo's footprints. She may be among those ghosts. If she is possessed, there is still time to rescue her." Xi Mo said.

Ling'er nodded a little anxiously.

Ximo asked her: "How many people are there? Can you estimate it for me?"

Ling'er Xiuran turned into a bird and rushed to the sky.

Although the black crowd was huge and complex, fortunately they didn't move at all, counting them row by row, it was probably not difficult to estimate them.

Soon, she fell back to Ximo's side and said, "More than 500 people, less than 600 people."

Ximo pondered for a while, determined to get rid of this group of ghosts and find Sannuo's whereabouts from them.

He let Ling'er fly away, checked the terrain in the woods by himself, and then single-handedly launched a sneak attack on Guisha.

The attack continued until nightfall.

The red bird has the problem of night blindness, Ling'er has been circling the forest, fearing that it will be too late, she will not see Ximo's figure, she landed on the branch of a big tree, waiting quietly.

The waiting in the dark was always infinitely longer than usual. After an unknown amount of time, she heard Ximo say, "Come down."

Ling'er listened to the sound and identified the position, and flew to a place three steps away from Ximo more accurately.

"Sang Nuo is not among these ghosts." Ximo's voice was a little hoarse: "But that footprint must be hers, let's look for it along this river."

Ling'er stretched out her hand to him: "Then you lead me away."

Xi Mo frowned: "I'm on business, can you not do this?"

Ling'er rolled her eyes: "I'm night-blind, I can't see the way, and I'm on business, can you stop thinking about it?"

Xi Mo blushed and did not answer.

Ling'er stared at the looming figure, groped over, and took his hand, but felt a hand wet with water.

"Huh? Why are your palms sweating so much?" Ling'er blinked her half-blind eyes.

Unable to hear Ximo's answer, she raised her hand and smelled the water stains on her fingertips, and found a rust-like sweet smell. She opened her eyes wide, "Is it blood? Are you injured?"

"It's okay, skin trauma." Ximo wiped the blood from his hands on his clothes, bit the bullet, and took Ling'er's hand.

His face was burned to the base of his ears, panting heavily, he turned around and pulled Ling'er along the river bank.

Linger was a little worried, because of night blindness, she couldn't see if Ximo was really slightly injured, if he died halfway, she would have to stay in this dark and strange place all night, it was terrible.

Ximo was very moved by the worry on Linger's face, and repeatedly stated that she was only bitten a few times, but Linger still looked anxious.

Although this girl behaves dissolutely, she has a kind heart, Ximo thought.

The two walked all the way downstream, and Xi Mo finally stopped, took out a small torch from his pocket and lit it, pointed towards He Zhong, and shouted: "Is that you? Sang Nuo!"

On the small raft floating downstream, lay two figures, one large and one small, curled up and hugging each other.

Dudu had already fallen asleep, but San Nuo still had his ears pricked up, paying attention to the movement around him.

Just now when he heard the rustling footsteps in the distance, San Nuo immediately grasped the oars and prepared to fight, until Xi Mo's voice came to his ears after a few battles, and his hanging heart relaxed.

When Sang Nuo was dragged ashore with Dudu in his arms, it was already close to five o'clock.

Ximo didn't take her back to Tianyu in a hurry, but went to the nearest village protected by an enchantment.

These days, Fei Lian, Uncle Ming and others have been opening up a safe area outside the mountain, expelling ghosts into the wild, and doing their best to protect the safety of most of the villagers.

But after all, manpower is limited, and the protection area is not wide at present. The villagers cannot farm the land, and they are all eating last year's surplus grain.

But when the villagers see Fei Lian Ximo and others, they will bring out the best stored food in the family to entertain them. Even if they tighten their belts and starve for a few days, they will not treat their benefactors badly.

However, this time, Ximo brought a few girls to the door in the middle of the night, and the village head mobilized the whole village to collect a handful of rice, a pot of porridge and soup, and a few hard pancakes to satisfy the benefactor.

Dudu ate with relish, Sannuo only drank a few mouthfuls of porridge and soup, and Linger was talking aside, but she didn't care.

Ximo had already gone out to play the signal flare, and Sang Nuo reckoned that His Majesty would arrive within a quarter of an hour.

This is really embarrassing, San Nuo propped her forehead with one hand, her face was slumped, after experiencing the shock before the evening, she found that it was impossible for her to escape back to Qingqiu alone.

When Dudu finished his third bowl of rice porridge, His Majesty hurried over.

Xi Mo got up and reported the rescue process, and then went out to hunt some wild game to satisfy his hunger.

The village chief didn't know Jiang Xueshi, but seeing Ximo respectful to him, he moved a chair over and bowed to leave.

There were only four people left in the room, all around the table, San Nuo turned his bruised face to one side, and the other side faced the Elder beside him.

Dudu grabbed a big pancake and gnawed it, but San Nuo didn't dare to look at the expression on his face, so he could only sip the porridge and soup with his head buried.

Ling'er starts to brag about how she guided Ximo to find Sang Nuo.

Ke Zun always looked dignified, sat at the table and didn't respond.

"Your Majesty?" Ling'er opened her eyes wide: "What's wrong with you? Is this ghost trouble very troublesome?"

Jiang Xueshi frowned and nodded slightly.

Ling'er blinked her eyes, curled her lips and said, "Where did so many ghosts come from?"

In order to break the silence, Sang Nuo took the initiative to speak up: "It must be that there are too many wicked people in this world, so there are too many wronged souls, and they become ghosts."

Jiang Xueshi raised her eyes to look at her when she heard the words, her pale golden eyes were full of sadness, and finally gave a wry smile, and said lightly: "Ghosts can't be transformed into ghosts."

Ling'er wondered: "Then what changed these ghosts?"

"It's not changed, it's made."

Linger was surprised and said: "Who made it? Who is so unconscionable! It's impossible to harm the world!"

Jiang Xueshi lowered her long eyelashes, but from the corner of her eye she watched Sannuo's expression vigilantly, and answered absently: "It's not to harm the common people. These ghosts were created, but to disturb and intimidate another force that wants to control the mortal world."

When Sang Nuo heard the words, he remembered the woman from "another world" he met on Tianyu Mountain, so he raised his head and asked curiously, "Intimidate that power? Did the people of that power do anything bad?"

Seeing her joining the conversation, Jiang Xueshi was finally able to raise her head uprightly, looked at her fixedly, and said, "They infiltrated the court, trying to confuse the emperor and implement a series of reforms."

Sang Nuo could see that His Majesty did not intend to discuss these matters with her, but he couldn't hold back his curiosity and asked, "Is it a reform that harms the people?"

"No, but it is against the normal operation of the law of heaven."

Sang Nuo asked again: "These ghosts were created to get rid of that force?"

"For interference and intimidation."

"Can't we get rid of that force?"

"No."

Sang Nuo said anxiously: "Then why don't you just get rid of them! How many people have been killed by these ghosts!"

Jiang Xueshi still stared at her eyes: "In the long run, it will be profitable."

Ling'er was already dazed when she heard about halfway. Dudu happened to choke while eating cakes, and the porridge and soup were finished, so she hurriedly picked up Dudu and went out to ask for water.

Sang Nuo was a little annoyed, and frowned, "What profit are you trying to gain? No matter what, you shouldn't have caused such a disaster!"

His Majesty stopped answering her words, turned his head slightly, and saw that Linger had walked out of the door, then stood up, walked to San Nuo in three steps and two steps, bent over and grabbed her wrist, and pulled her up!

"Oh!" Sonuo was startled, and hurriedly raised his hand to cover the bruise on his face!

This dragon cub was still talking about major mortal affairs in a serious manner just now, how could he become a tyrant as soon as he left!

Jiang Xueshi couldn't suppress her emotions anymore, a pair of pale golden phoenix eyes were filled with undercurrents, and her voice trembled a little: "Are you really going to leave like this?"