Back in my room, I was restless and packed my things.

What's going on with the wound on Qingyue's hand? Was last night's incident really a dream?

"Yan'er!" Suddenly, someone called me.

I turned my head and saw Sister Ziling standing in the room.

"You...... You? ”

I looked at the door in surprise, the door was closed.

"Sister Ziling! How did you get in here? How did you know I was here? ”

"I'll tell you later." Ziling walked over solemnly and picked up my hand, looking at my beads silently.

"Sister Ziling! What's wrong? I asked hurriedly.

"When did this string of beads start like this?" Ziling asked.

I looked down and saw that the string of beads sent by Empress Zhou had become dull, and in some places it had even become a little dark.

"That's it after I left the capital yesterday."

Ziling groaned for a moment, reaching out and pressing my forehead.

In an instant, I felt that the spiritual platform was much clearer, and when I looked down at the string of beads, it seemed to light up.

Seeing this, Ziling's expression relaxed.

"What happened to you last night?" Ziling asked.

"Last night... I seem to have seen my mother last night, but... For some reason, she seemed like a stranger, and... And..."I hesitated.

"She wants to hurt you?"

"Yes, but it should just be a dream." I hurriedly added.

"It's not a dream." Ziling said solemnly: "You are enchanted." ”

"Enchanted?"

This is the second time I've heard this word, and Qingyue said the same thing to me in my dream yesterday.

"Yes." Ziling said to me seriously: "There are some things that I didn't plan to tell you, but you encountered such a sinister thing last night, so I had to tell you." ”

"What's the matter?" I asked, "Sister Ziling, how do you know that something happened to me last night?" ”

Ziling touched my bead string and said: "This bead string was given to her by Queen Zhou's mother, she has carried it since she was a child, and she has long had a heart for this bead string. So I rushed over overnight. ”

"I see, it turns out that this bead string is so precious, and Yan'er is here to thank her aunt for her concern for Yan'er."

"Yan'er." Ziling looked into my eyes and said, "Do you know why Queen Zhou likes you so much?" ”

"I don't know." I shook my head and said, "Queen Zhou is a generous person, she must pity me for having no father and no mother, right?" ”

Ziling shook her head, walked to the window and looked into the distance with some distraction.

"Queen Zhou asked you to call her an aunt, in fact, because she was your aunt."

"What?"

My eyes widened.

"You have your mother's last name, right?"

"Well, because...... My father denied me. ”

I pursed my lips and said a little sadly.

"Your mother is the sister of Queen Zhou, and Queen Zhou is not surnamed Zhou, but has the same surname as you." Ziling said.

"That's... Is she ...... too?"

"Yes, it is also a descendant of the Lingmao Clan, Queen Zhou and your mother both lived in the village of the Lingmao Clan, and your mother and your father left the village after they got married. Afterward... The civet clan offended the royal family of Wu and was tragically destroyed. Ziling's expression darkened.

"I know that when my mother and I went back, there were only some remnants of the village left."

"Yes, but Queen Zhou escaped by luck and saved me."

"That Sister Ziling... You... Also? ”

Ziling nodded.

"I didn't want to tell you about these things so early, but now I have to tell you for your safety."

"I understand, thank you, Sister Ziling. What happened to the queen of Zhou? ”

"Later, we hid our identities and wandered around, but we met the current emperor who was being exiled, and he fell in love with Queen Zhou at first sight, and after twists and turns, Queen Zhou suffered a lot, and now it has become like this."

"I see." I sighed.

"Do you know what the civet clan's greatest ability is?" Ziling asked.

"Transform?"

"No, it's just basic survival skills. The greatest ability of the civet clan is spiritual power. ”

"Spiritual power, I know, I sometimes use it, but it always feels like it's weak and not very useful."

"You're right. Although the descendants of the spirit cat clan all have spiritual power, they still have to go through formal cultivation before they can use the spiritual power for their own use. ”

"Then I... Is it because you haven't cultivated and become a demon? ”

"It's not." Ziling shook his head and said, "I can't cultivate, at most, I can't use it, and I can't enter the demon." ”

"And I am?"

"You've been killed!"

"Murdered?"

I stood up in surprise.

"Yes." Ziling continued: "Show me the talisman artifact. ”

"Talisman."

"Yes, after each descendant of the civet clan is born, he will be given an item as his own talisman to protect his aura and life. That string of beads belonged to Queen Zhou, but she didn't need it anymore. ”

"Why?"

"During the Battle of Restoration of the Kingdom, the emperor was seriously injured, and in order to save him, Empress Zhou had exhausted the aura in her body and lost the ability to control the aura again." Ziling said with some distress: "Where are yours?" ”

"Mine?"

I thought for a moment and pulled a bell out of my sleeve.

"But this?"

Ziling carefully studied the bell for a while.

"That's it, no wonder you're enchanted, your talisman is contaminated by something else. Has it ever left you? ”

"Well, I was once taken by a Taoist priest for a period of time, and that Taoist priest wanted to use me for alchemy, and I escaped."

"Yes, that Taoist priest should have tried to use this bell to make alchemy after you left, and a lot of things of unknown origin were injected into it."

"I'll help you hold this thing first, and then hand it back to you after Empress Zhou and I find a way to disperse the evil qi on it." Ziling said as she put the bell away.

"Hmm."

"I still have an important thing to do, I can't accompany you to the Jin Kingdom, you have to be more careful yourself."

"Yes, what's the matter with my sister? Where are you going? Always be careful, too. ”

"Yes, in fact, it doesn't hurt to tell you about it." Ziling said: "The son of Empress Zhou, the former prince, was killed by a traitor more than ten years ago, and his whereabouts are unknown. Now that Empress Zhou finally has his whereabouts, I am going to investigate this matter. ”

"Li Yi? He's alive? ”

"Yes, he's alive." Ziling smiled, and then said, "It's a long way to go to the Jin Kingdom, you must remember to be careful." Li Xuan, if you don't like it and don't force it, your mother and Queen Zhou are not ladylike, but you have to be discerning. ”

"Yan'er understands,"

"Then sister, I'm leaving."

Ziling patted me on the head, turned into an orange cat, went up to the roof along the edge of the window, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.

Goodbye sister, I thought silently in my heart.

I finally have relatives and my kind, and I can't help but cry.

I must do my best to protect Queen Zhou and Sister Ziling!

They are my relatives.

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