Chapter 32 Side Branch
When I left the pharmacy, the sky was even darker. The moon had set, and the stars were almost swallowed up by the night. Only the lanterns that swayed under the eaves tried to glow.
Shi Manman followed behind the little hooked snake, looking preoccupied, and didn't care where he was at all.
"Find a way to get out." The little hooked snake suddenly stopped, turned back to Shi Manman, and said.
After the stone vine came back to his senses, he found that he had been taken by the small hooked snake to the corner of the city wall.
"Get out?" Shi Manman looked at the city wall of more than ten meters and thought about how to climb it.
"Well, that smell is out of town." The little hooked snake climbed back into the hands of the stone vine, and this kind of physical work was handed over to the stone vine.
Stone vines were enveloped in the shadow of the city walls, and in the dimly lit environment, the tall walls were like monsters blocking their way. Shi Manman looked around and saw that there was a stone staircase not far away that connected to the city tower, but there were two soldiers guarding outside the stone staircase.
"Eh, you take it easy. The head saw us sleeping on guard, waiting to be punished. One of the soldiers reminded softly.
"Don't worry, the girl who is hugging Lou Yafang will have a spring dream. Don't bother me, I'm dreaming of my mother-in-law. Let me continue. Another sleepy voice rang out. Just a few breaths, the sound of sleepy snoring sounded rhythmically.
"Your uncle, you can fall asleep standing up. I'll make it easier for you, you can watch it first. The first voice faded away, and the other voice snore again and again with a confused "En".
A gust of cold wind blew past the sleeping soldier, and he shivered, hugging the halberd that supported his body a little tighter.
"Mortal alertness." The little hooked snake that had gone up to the castle tower looked down at the soldiers leaning on the halberd, his eyes full of disdain.
Shi Manman stood on the city tower and looked at the buildings that were trapped in the city, and she saw clearly that the place where human beings lived was like a huge circle, voluntarily enclosing herself in this stone-made monster, and then adding all kinds of restraints, all kinds of rituals, and all kinds of rules to herself.
She suddenly didn't understand what the obsession that the fairy in red left on her was for. In the world, there is no freedom of Kunlun, no beauty of Kunlun, and no simplicity of Kunlun.
"How to go down." The little hooked snake struggled to reach forward, its tail wrapped tightly around the wrist of the stone vine. Although he can't be killed if he falls, it still hurts.
The little hooked snake's words pulled back the distant thoughts of the stone vines, and she looked under the city wall in the same way as the little hooked snake. I thought about how to reduce the minimum damage by jumping down, after all, my body was only a little stronger than that of mortals now.
"Who is it?" The shouts in the silent night were as loud as thunder, and a man in disheveled clothes was stepping out of the tower.
The stone vine that had already stood on the edge of the city wall turned around when he heard the voice, "It has been discovered." Shi Manman held the little hooked snake in his hand, and he didn't have time to think about what method to land without injury. She jumped slightly, and the wind tugged at her like a feathered fairy.
The man was stunned, and the woman in front of him, who didn't look like fireworks in the world, flew up in front of him. Did he meet a fairy? Just a thought flashed, and he fell to his knees and worshipped.
Later, what Shi Manman didn't know was that the next day there were rumors about the fairy descending to earth in Shicheng.
Not far from the city walls, the canopy of a dense tree crackled with the cracking of branches, and a black shadow fell on the soft ground with the scattered branches.
If the worshipping man saw this dark shadow, he would surely recognize it as the woman he called himself a fairy.
Shi Manman felt that his internal organs were about to vomit out, and it seemed that he was back to when he was thrown out of the territory by a powerful demon beast when he was in Kunlun, and he was in such pain now.
"Crushed me." The little hooked snake pulled out its tail that was pressed by the stone vines, and lay on the ground softly. Obviously, the fall just now also hurt him.
"It's almost dawn, we need to hurry." Shi Manman estimated that An Ge, who was knocked unconscious by himself, would wake up soon, thinking that if he failed to threaten himself, it might be unfavorable to Xiao Lei.
She stood up with her hands on the trunk, and her dress was cut by the branches. There were abrasions on the exposed skin, and there were no broken ribs or other bone injuries.
"Do you still smell it?" Shi Manman picked up the small hooked snake that was soft and glutinous into a hanging rope and asked. Although she is a demon, her essence is a stone illusion, and although her sense of smell is sensitive, she can't compare to the little hooked snake that transforms into a demon.
The little hooked snake wilted and spat out the letter and pointed in one direction. Shi Manman endured the pain of falling into the city, and jumped to the nearest tree, and then jumped on another branch with the help of her strength, her movements were like agile elves in the dense forest, gradually advancing into the depths of the forest.
Shaw House.
"Master, Mrs. Mu promised to deal with Lei'er's matter according to the charter." Liu Yemei, who had been with Mrs. Mu for half a day, looked a little tired.
"Hmm." Xiao Yuan answered, looking at the yellowed old ledger in his hand.
"Master, Lei'er is now in prison and I don't know when she will be able to come out, why do you still look at old accounts." Liu Yemei saw that after Xiao Yuan came back from the county office, he didn't know what to tell Steward Zhang, and after a while, the next people brought a lot of old account books one after another, and Xiao Yuan didn't even eat dinner and saw it now.
A Qianqianyu hand reached out in front of Xiao Yuan and closed the ledger in his hand. Xiao Yuan was about to get angry, but he met Liu Yemei's worried and anxious gaze, and his anger was extinguished in a flash, leaving only ashes.
He pulled Liu Yemei to sit down and said, "Although Lei'er is not born to you, I know that you treat him as your own." The Xiao family has today's achievements, and your credit is indispensable. I have always been relieved to hand over the Xiao family to you, and I will work hard. But after Lei'er's incident, I realized that it was as simple as I thought. ”
"What do you mean, sir?" The more Liu Yemei listened to Xiao Yuan's words, the more pale her face became. By the end, there was no trace of blood on her face.
"I suspect that Lei'er's matter is related to the Xiao family?" Xiao Yuan also had great difficulty stating this fact.
"No, it can't be." Liu Yemei shook her head in disbelief.
Xiao Yuan didn't answer again, with years of understanding of Xiao Yuan, Liu Yemei was sure that Xiao Yuan would not speculate.
"Who is it?" Liu Yemei felt that her throat was dry, and the words she said were no longer the sound of the previous swallow warbler, but like an angry old man.
"I remember that after Xiao Lei disappeared, there were a lot of side branches in the clan, and the group of people who were sent by you when they said they wanted to live in the Xiao family." Xiao Yuan sneered.
Liu Yemei was stunned after listening to Xiao Yuan's words, and her eyes flashed with a hint of fierceness. "How can you not remember, a pack of greedy wild dogs." What kind of thing can make Liu Yemei, who has always been dignified and self-controlled, say such a thing.