The door finally opened, and seeing Yan Niang stepping out of the threshold, Zhong Zhiqing rushed forward with trembling hands and feet, "Girl, Min'er, how is she?"
” Yan Niang smiled lightly, "That thing can't come out for the time being, and Miss Zhong has already fallen asleep." ” Zhong Zhiqing exhaled heavily, and then his heart tightened, and he looked up at her again, "The girl means that the ghost bird has not disappeared, and it is still in Min'er's womb?"
” Yan Niang nodded, her fingers playing with the braids in her ears, "Only by killing Qu Zi Bird and destroying its Yuan Shen will Zi Niao disappear completely." ” Zhong Zhiqing took a step forward and asked urgently, "Where is the Qu Ziniao?"
” Hearing this, Yan Niang's eyebrows were slightly raised, her eyes locked on Zhong Zhiqing's sweaty face, and asked word by word, "Where are Lord Cheng and Xun'er?"
” Zhong Zhiqing was stunned, sweat fell, and after rolling his eyes a few times, he lowered his voice, "How does the girl know?"
Yan Niang's voice suddenly became cold, "There is more than one ghost bird in Zhong Min's belly, so her belly grows much faster than others, my talisman paper can only seal them for a few hours, if you want to continue to play dumb riddles with me, don't regret it then." ” Hearing this, Zhong Zhiqing was stunned for a long time as if he had fallen into an ice cave, and then he once again looked at the woman in front of him who he had never taken to heart, and said softly, "How do you know?"
” Yan Niang smiled, her eyes looked at the hem of his gentian blue clothes, "The matter of the salt boat is over, and the adults should go back to Bianliang with Cheng Dexuan, but what are you going to do in the canal by boat?"
” Although Zhong Zhiqing didn't understand how she knew that she had gone to the canal, when she heard this, she knew that the matter had been completely exposed, so she no longer argued, but slowly said to Yan Niang, "If I let their father and son go, you will kill Qu Ziniao and save Min'er's life?"
” Yan Niang sneered, "Lord Zhong, I'm afraid you don't have any room to bargain with me now."
Speaking of this, a cold light crossed the depths of her eyes, and her voice became much lower, "Before tonight, I want to see the Cheng family's father and son come back safely, if they are missing a hair, I will ask your daughter to bury them for them." ” After speaking, she walked to the gate of the courtyard, nodded slightly at Jiang Xixi and Xu Ziming, who had been guarding there, indicating that everything was under her control, and several people walked out along the corridor together.
The afterglow of the setting sun faded behind them, and when the last rays of daylight were about to disappear from the ground, Yan Niang suddenly stopped and looked back at the courtyard behind them.
Jiang Xixi and Xu Ziming saw that she suddenly froze, and they both turned their heads and looked at her back in surprise.
Jiang Xixi was just about to say something, when she suddenly felt a gust of wind pass overhead, and the sand and dust fell overwhelmingly, covering her eyes.
She rubbed her eyelids with one hand, and subconsciously blocked in front of her with the other hand, but at this moment, a fishy smell of burnt paste rushed to her mouth and nose, completely piercing her still Hongmeng consciousness.
"Qu Zi Bird, it's Qu Zi Bird" She shouted helplessly, and her body stumbled forward, trying to remind Yan Niang to pay attention.
But Zhong Zhiqing's scream suddenly sounded in her ears, and before long, with the sound of "hula hula" flapping her wings, a cold and stiff thing hit her waist hard, knocking her whole person to the ground.
"Miss Jiang, are you okay?"
Yan Niang's slightly flustered voice reached her ear, Jiang Xixi turned her head in confusion, and grabbed Yan Niang's arm, "Miss Yan, it's Qu Ziniao, chase quickly" Yan Niang didn't move, only reached out to Jiang Xixi's lower abdomen, and touched it carefully, and at the end, she sighed with relief, "It's actually me who is confused, your body is different from others, it can't" Speaking of this, she paused slightly, stood up neatly, and said to Xu Ziming, who was sitting on the side, "My lord and Xun'er were kidnapped by them and taken to a boat fifteen miles south of the pier, you guys quickly take someone to find them, and I will chase the beast." ” When the words fell, Qingli's figure had reached the end of the corridor, and disappeared after turning a corner.
Xu Ziming was shocked, looked at Jiang Xixi, looked out of the door again, and said tremblingly, "Miss Jiang, that bird took Zhong Zhiqing away, I saw it hook the back of his neck with its beak, like holding an insect, it's too scary, and I don't know if Miss Yan can deal with it alone." ” Jiang Xixi knew that Yan Niang had a strange technique, so she was not worried, she rubbed her sore eyes, but her mind fell elsewhere, "Brother Xu, did you hear Miss Yan's words just now?"
What does she mean when she says that my body is different from everyone else?
” The bell rang from far to near, from weak to strong, like a hammer desperately striking Zhong Zhiqing's head, waking him up from the chaos.
He held back the fear in his heart and opened his eyes: fortunately, there were no bird's eyes like paper money in front of him, only the mountain wind blowing over his head one after another, blowing all his hair loose.
He endured the stabbing pain in the back of his neck, and tried to get up with his hands on the ground, but as soon as he stood up his upper body, he heard the sound of falling stones behind him, and his heart was shocked, he turned around and looked behind, but when he turned around, he was so frightened that his hands and feet were weak, and he sat on the ground again.
Behind him is a cliff 10,000 feet high, the cliff wall is stuck in the canal like a sharp axe, intercepting the rushing water, and the waves crash against the rock wall, making a thrilling roar.
The strange black bird stood on the edge of this dangerous peak, its claws clutching a raised stone on the cliff wall, and a pair of miserable white eyes staring at him without blinking.
Zhong Zhiqing looked at it, for some reason he was a little dizzy, and a mist suddenly rose in front of him, as if what stood in front of him was not a strange and abnormal big bird, but those charred black corpses stacked together.
Sixteen years ago, when he salvaged a ship destroyed by fire, he was not at the scene, but heard in the court that he had heard about the terrible situation after the fire was extinguished: most of the burned people were unrecognizable, their bodies were charred and curled, and they were stacked on the edge of the canal, which looked like a black hill from a distance.
Over the years, although he occasionally thought of the people who had lost their lives because of him, he never really took it to heart, and he didn't even have the slightest remorse.
In his heart, there has always been a concept that people are born superior and inferior, and some people are not able to control their own destiny, they live or die, but they just serve another part of the people.
But it can be born like an ant, who is to blame?
But now, in the face of those resentful eyes, the hard shell that had wrapped around his heart suddenly cracked, and a fear that had never existed before crept in, filling his chest.