She sat quietly on the tree, looking out over the vast wilderness.

The sound of the fight gradually became quieter, and the figure of King Lanling was a little blurred. The general stepped forward, patted the king of Lanling on the shoulder, and said a few more words to him. King Lanling turned his head sideways in response, and the bronze mask glowed with a faint green glow, looking extremely hideous in the setting sun.

This legendary King of Lanling seems to have been given death by the Emperor of Northern Qi.

Yun Yao thought in a trance, how short-lived the emperor of Northern Qi was, and he didn't know which emperor gave the king of Lanling to death, and broke the steel knife of Northern Qi with his own hands, completely pushing Northern Qi to extinction. I vaguely remember that when the king of Lanling was alive, he was almost undefeated, and his spear was invincible, and even the most rebellious Turks had to tremble under the tip of his spear.

The war in the wilderness is over. Several generals rode side by side, led by the king of Lanling. King Lanling was still in long/spear armor, his eyes were as sharp as knives, and everywhere he went, a sergeant lowered his head, not daring to look directly into his gaze.

"Shall we go to Jinyang?" One of the generals asked.

"Naturally, I'm going." Another general said, "Changgong has traveled thousands of miles to help and blocked the Turks here, so I have to fight with that county guard for two days, and complete the official document road." Otherwise—" He stopped abruptly and laughed twice.

King Lanling glanced at him sideways, and his voice was slightly hoarse: "Just follow what you say, go to Jinyang." ”

The sound of the horse's hooves went away, and Yun Yao also floated down from the tree and followed them back to Jinyang City. She only now knew that she had come to Jinyang City. The defenders outside the city sat in twos and threes, some chatting, some looking forward to it, as if waiting for someone.

"Who are the reinforcements this time? ……”

"I heard that Yecheng is here."

"It's not Yecheng, it's from Bingzhou."

"And the state? Isn't that the ......?"

"Yes, it's the king of Lanling."

The voice of the conversation gradually became quieter, and the generals who had come from afar also appeared in the field of vision. The defenders stood up in unison, and parted like a tidal wave, showing a path in the middle. The castle guard wiped his sweat and sneered, "King." ”

King Lanling looked around and saw that the military discipline was loose, and his eyebrows were twisted into deep Sichuan characters. But because he was wearing a bronze mask and riding into Jinyang City, no one noticed his abnormality.

Yun Yao floated silently to the city wall, and then quietly floated down.

The afterglow of the setting sun shone on her body, faintly glowing with a hazy color.

King Lanling was stunned, and he turned his head sideways and said two words to the deputy general.

The lieutenant general was also stunned, and then nodded in response: "The defenders in the city are indeed negligent, so they will let a weak woman go out of the city alone." The king can rest assured that after the feast tonight, he will warn them well. ”

King Lanling hummed in a low voice, his eyes slightly approving, but he didn't say much.

He rode his horse straight in. The crowd around them parted like a tide, not daring to touch the county king, or even to look directly into his gaze. The bronze mask with blue fangs was like a thick wall, separating him from the people around him into two worlds.

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Yun Yao floated back into the room silently, looking at the new furnishings in a daze.

This afternoon, the old lady personally brought someone over and replaced all the furnishings in the house, and said that after tomorrow, she would send four first-class maids and eight second-class maids to come over and serve the second lady closely. As for Atsui, she also stayed outside the house to keep vigil.

She took out the three yellow copper coins and gave the room a few hexagrams. This time, the hexagram presents a stable state of Zhongji, thinking that after the old lady personally asked, the people below no longer dare to disobey the yang and the yin. As for the stepwife...... It is said that she is still kneeling in the ancestral hall.

Yun Yao rolled over and gradually fell asleep.

But all big families will have their own set of family rules. This stepwife killed the first lady and her stepdaughter, and presumably the clan rules could not tolerate her. As for the next thing, it is not for Yun Yao to worry about.

When I wake up tomorrow, it's another sunny day.

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Two days later, the whole family cleaned up and sent the two girls to Yecheng together.

The eldest lady had nothing to do, so she talked to Yun Yao about some interesting things while chatting with her. For example, a few days ago, the Turks suddenly besieged the city, and the generals in the city were about to be unable to hold it, but reinforcements came from nowhere and repelled the Turks. For example, the support army came from the state and has never been defeated so far, such as ...... The commander of the support army is the king of Lanling County of Daqi.

Yun Yao interjected, "What does my sister think of King Lanling? ”

The eldest lady said: "My sister has never met King Lanling, but I have heard some of the sisters in the clan talk about it. It is rumored that the king of Lanling has a bad life, and his six relatives are cut off, and he has a blue face and fangs, like a ghost. If my sister sees it, remember to avoid it. ”

Yun Yao endured and endured, and finally couldn't help it, and said with a strange expression: "Fate is evil, and the six relatives are cut off?" ”

She didn't expect that the Lanling King would have such a rumor.

The eldest lady whispered: "The sisters in the clan are all rumoring, saying that the king of Lanling was born with a father and a mother, and the six relatives were cut off, and whoever wants to marry him will jump into the fire pit alive." And not only the sisters in the clan are passing on these words, but even the Cui clan, the Wang clan, and the Xie clan are also circulating. Therefore, the king of Lanling has waited until the crown and the seal, but he has never set up a princess, and he does not even have a concubine by his side. Think about it carefully, who is willing to send a good girl to the fire pit? As she spoke, her fingers flew and she made the thread delicate.

"This is what my mother taught by herself." The eldest lady said softly, "It's a pity that you were young at that time, and your brain was burned out due to high fever, no matter how your mother taught, you couldn't learn ......"

Yun Yao took the thread, feeling a little astringent. She lifted the curtain to get some air, but suddenly she froze.

- She saw the bronze mask again.