Chapter Fifty-Seven: Dongli Kingdom
The curtain was already prepared, but she still chose not to tell Ghost Night, after all, this matter should not involve him.
Qingxuan told her that she had escaped from the country of Dongli, and that she had heard about this country in ancient books, it was an island country, rich in resources, and an extremely rich country, but that country was very religious, and they were so pedantic that every year they would elect a young girl, make her a holy woman, and perform a burning ceremony to give heaven and earth for peace in the coming year.
Qingxuan told her that because of the continuous wars in recent years, Dongliguo thought that his sincerity was not enough, so he would burn a girl every month, and in the end, there was no need to elect at all, as long as it was a girl who had not done anything, no matter how big or small, all of them were arrested and burned.
Now the women of Dongli Kingdom are dying and fleeing, and there are basically no women, and they will buy some women from outside for the burning ceremony, which seems to be for the country and the people, but in fact it is inhumane.
The first step in the idea of the curtain is to start from the eastern kingdom......
She asked Qing Xuan to accompany her to eat, but fortunately, Qing Xuan didn't have any thoughts, and she didn't suspect that she suddenly invited her to eat together.
She cautiously walked up to the guards, she knew that these guards were all arranged by the haunted night, and she couldn't hide from them.
"The curtain girl told me to go out and buy some things, you get out of the way!" She tried her best to learn Qing Xuan's tone.
The guard looked at her and asked cautiously, "What are you doing with your veil?"
Mu Tianyang laughed a few times: "I ate something on fire, I have some acne, I don't want adults to see it, you have to take care of it!"
Those guards knew this Qingxuan's intentions for the ghost night, and they didn't ask too much, and when they thought that she was going to procure it for the curtain again, they didn't dare to hinder her too much, so they let her out.
Soon after she left, the guards wondered, "Why did Qing Xuan's voice become so thin today?"
"And she's never called a curtain girl."
"Not good!"
They all rushed towards the curtain and the room, and then they saw Qing Xuan lying on the ground in an ecstatic sleeping posture.
"Chase!" As soon as they ran out of the house, they were stopped by a dark shadow descending from the sky.
They knelt down in unison, their faces pale: "My lord, the curtain is tilted and pretending to be Qingxuan...... Fled. ”
Ghost Night snorted coldly: "I know, I can't do this little thing, what else can you do!"
"Subordinates and others will go and arrest her back immediately!" The ghost envoys gritted their teeth, and they couldn't imagine that they would be put together by a little woman.
But the ghost night on the side suddenly turned dark, and his tone was cold to the bone: "Catch?"
Those ghost envoys reacted immediately, and hurriedly added: "It's looking for!" Get it back! ”
Ghost Night waved his hand: "No need...... She wanted to leave, but no one could keep her. ”
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Mu Tianyang hired a carriage, all the way to the west, straight to the Dongli country, and soon arrived at the legendary island country, but there are still dozens of miles to go, the coachman told her that the Dongli country is not allowed outsiders to enter at will, they can't go to the island, helpless, she can only get down and walk.
After walking for a long time, she barely reached the territory of Dongli Kingdom, but the city gate was heavily guarded, she ran around for a few days, and she was already tired to prostration, and a group of refugees happened to come, so she hid among the refugees and lay down for a while.
A woman with a child beside her, seeing her light veil, couldn't help but hide to the side, and then the people around her moved away from her one after another.
She had no choice but to take off her veil and explain: "I'm not sick, don't worry."
The woman looked her up and down, and when she saw that she had no symptoms of infection, she sat down next to her with confidence, and she said with a red face: "Girl, now this situation, I have to guard against it, don't you mind!"
"I understand, auntie, what are you doing here?"
The woman sighed and patted the hungry yellow child in her arms: "Wait for a mouthful of food, otherwise the child will really die!"
Mu Tianyang glanced at the child in her arms, skinny as wood, only a faint little breath, she couldn't help but ask, "Where did you come from?" Was there a serious plague? ”
"We are from Daxing back to Xinjiang, a few months ago, the god of war Mu Chenyu was demoted to return to Xinjiang to garrison, life is not allowed to return to the court, I don't know why, after he came, some small countries in Yanbian have repeatedly violated the border, but they were all surrendered by the shogun, and then there were people carrying the plague mixed into Huijiang, trying to retaliate, the plague came badly, and Huijiang almost became a dead city......
Mu Tianyang's heart skipped a beat, and he couldn't wait to ask, "What about Mu Chenyu?"
"The shogun also contracted the plague, and Princess Zhaoyang personally took him back to the court, and I heard that there was a peerless divine doctor who cured him."
The curtain tilted his hanging heart slowly let go, the emperor intended to suppress the curtain family, the life of the curtain Chenyu can be kept, and the military power can never be left, in fact, sending the curtain Chenyu back to Xinjiang is a way for the emperor to protect the curtain Chenyu, after all, the curtain Chenyu is not afraid of the earth, and there are many enemies in the court, and there will only be villains to frame him if he stays.
But he must have suffered a lot when he returned to Xinjiang, but Mu Tianyang also believed that with Zhaoyang, Mu Chenyu would not suffer any big losses.
"Girl, where are you from?"
The woman suddenly asked back, and the curtain was stunned before replying, "I came from the village below, and I heard that the saint was chosen here, so I came to take a look."
When the woman heard this, her face changed: "Girl, this can't be helped, this holy woman of Dongli Kingdom seems to be beautiful, but in fact, she is going to die!"
As she spoke, the city gate suddenly opened, and the refugees rushed up like crazy, and just as she was about to reply, the woman beside her disappeared, and she looked from afar and saw that she was desperately squeezing into the crowd.
She also walked over slowly, and saw that at the end of the refugees, there was a woman with a light veil who was making steamed buns, and there were a few maids beside her, all of whom were disgusted, and she still did not shy away from it, one by one with steamed buns, the refugees gradually dispersed with steamed buns, and the curtain was still standing in place and still looking at the girl.
The woman came to her with a steamed bun and handed it to her, "Take it."
Mu Tianyang glanced at the steamed bun and then at her, and laughed: "You are a saint?"
Legend has it that the holy woman of Dongli Kingdom is covered by a veil, dressed in a silkworm robe of the Nine Xuan Immortals, and wears a silver bell to show the dignity of the saint, and the person in front of her is dressed like this.
The woman's eyebrows were filled with some grief, and she stuffed the steamed bun into the arms of the curtain dumper: "Eat it quickly."
As soon as she turned around, she was stopped by the curtain and said, "I can help you!"
The woman paused and did not look back: "Girl, be careful to be seen by them for someone of your appearance, otherwise no one will be able to save you."
She had just taken a few steps, but she was stopped by the curtain tilt, and she turned her head for some reason.
"I said I could help you, and if you didn't want to die, do as I said."