After running around all day, Shen Ling was physically and mentally exhausted, but he couldn't sleep when he was lying on the bed tossing and turning, and his mind was full of pictures of Jing Xi when the city gate fell, so that Shen Ling's face was very ugly when he got up the next day.

Taojuan, who had ordered breakfast, looked at Shen Ling's face and asked, "Madame didn't sleep well last night?"

"Well, the bed." Shen Ling pinched her eyebrows, and casually found an excuse to send Taojuan away.

Taojuan slandered in her heart, she had never seen this kind of fatigue on Shen Ling's face when she was in Chaoguang County before, but Shen Ling didn't want to say more, so she didn't ask in detail, Taojuan still had this kind of eyes.

Luo Yuheng woke up this morning, and she was also sitting at the dinner table at the moment, and she called Mrs. Shen Ling with the name of the peach juan.

"Madame rescued our two sisters from the sea of suffering, which is a great favor to us, but unfortunately Yuheng has no long things and nothing can repay Madame, so I can only say thank you here cheekily."

Shen Ling waved her hand casually, her mood was not very high, "It's just easy, you don't need to thank you."

Luo Yuheng looked at Shen Ling's reaction again, and saw that she was not in a state, so he didn't say anything.

After breakfast, Shen Ling went out to buy something, and Luo Yuheng and Du Juan went back to the room.

Luo Yuheng leaned on the side of the bed and looked at Shen Ling's distant back downstairs, his eyes thoughtful.

Momo Juan leaned over and looked down at her, "Sister, what are you looking at?"

"Madame doesn't seem to be in a good mood, did something happen during my sleep?"

She had nothing to repay Shen Ling, so she could only find a way to solve Shen Ling's problems.

Taojuan retracted her gaze, thought about it carefully, and then replied, "Nothing happened."

Hearing this answer, Luo Yuheng's eyebrows were slightly raised, and he asked, "What accident did we encounter when we went out of the city gate that day?"

With Luo Yuheng's questioning, Taojuan's thoughts returned to the day he left the city.

Although she had been sitting in the carriage and had not come out, she still heard the voices of Song Lingyuan and Jing Xi.

"Speaking of accidents, there are ......."

Then Taojuan carefully told Luo Yuheng what happened that day, and Luo Yuheng will see things very thoroughly.

She said leisurely, "It seems that this national teacher has a lot of weight in Madame's heart."

"Really? But when the county lord was treating the national teacher, he said he would leave, and there was no reluctance or regret at all." Taojuan was puzzled, knocked on Luo Yuheng beside him, and hugged the person, "If this is me, I would rather die myself than save my sister back, and how would I be willing to leave."

Luo Yuheng smiled at the corner of his mouth, and gently tapped the forehead of the peach cuckoo in his arms, "What kind of stupid thing are you talking about."

She left from the window with the peach juan, "That's it, everyone has their own karma, and the county lord also has her ideas, so let's not interfere."

On the other side, Shen Ling, who had left the inn, was preparing materials to make a mask.

In the past few days, some of the medicines and medicinal materials in her hands have been used, and she can also replenish a wave by the way when she comes out this time.

After telling the pharmacy the medicinal materials he needed, Shen Ling waited patiently outside.

There were a few young people grinding medicinal herbs, sitting on the side and gossiping.

A man in blue bumped into the arm of the woman next to him, "Eh, Xiaolian, have you heard? The teacher is sick."

Xiao Lian didn't care, and continued to bow his head and grind the medicinal herbs in his hand, "If you are sick, you will be sick, who in this world is not sick."

The man in blue shook his head, "That's different, you don't know, there is a drought in Muyang County, which is not too far from here, and the local county officials are inactive, all thanks to this national teacher, the people of Muyang have not starved to death, otherwise, I estimate that our side will not live in peace like now, and there will be a lot of refugees."

Xiao Lian didn't react, and said lightly, "Sick and cured, what's all the fuss about."

Seeing that Xiao Lian didn't answer, the man in blue sighed heavily, and at the same time sighed for the rumored national teacher.

"Ugh."

"What kind of sigh?"

The man lowered his head and grinded the medicinal herbs, and his tone was a little low, "I heard that the Holy Lord has sent the Son of the World down to quell the drought today."

Xiao Lian was puzzled, "Isn't it a good thing that there are royal people to help maintain the drought?"

"You don't know anything," the man glanced at Xiao Lian with resentment, "On the first day of his arrival in Muyang County, the prince took over the affairs of the national teacher, and on the same day, the news spread that the national teacher was seriously ill, who knows if there is anything greasy in this."

Saying that, the man leaned over to Xiao Lian and whispered, "And I heard that the illness of the national teacher is related to the son, not only that, but the prince refuses to let the doctor treat the national teacher."

Shen Ling stopped the words of the two in his ears, thinking of Jing Ci's illness, his heart was shaken, and he had the idea of going back to help him see a doctor.

At this time, the medicine boy who gave Shen Ling the medicine packed the things Shen Ling wanted and sent them over.

"Guest, the medicinal herbs you want."

Shen Ling's thoughts were interrupted, and he left after taking the medicinal herbs.

On the way back, Shen Ling heard many people talking about Jing Xi, saying that he was seriously injured and was targeted by Song Lingyuan.

Shen Ling was silent, and quickened her pace with the medicinal herbs, trying in vain to keep the voices of those discussions away from her.

Finally returning to the inn, Shen Ling locked himself in the room without saying a word and began to make a mask.

She has to stay away from the county seat for a while, so that she can escape from Song Lingyuan's people, and secondly, she can listen to less news of Jing Xi, lest she listen too much and be soft-hearted.

No one made a fake mask for Zhu Qing, Taojuan and Luo Yuheng, so Shen Ling called the three of them over.

"This is not far from Muyang County, Song Lingyuan's people may come over at any time, you see if there is anything to buy, go to the market today and buy it quickly, tomorrow we will set off to the deep mountain village for a while."

Taojuan was very surprised when she took the mask, "I didn't expect the county lord to have this kind of craftsmanship."

Zhu Qing looked at the lifelike mask in his hand and asked suspiciously, "Since it is said to be a human mask, is this made of human face?"

Luo Yuheng smiled slightly, and took the initiative to explain, "The human mask is just a name, and it is not necessarily really made of human skin."

As she spoke, she raised the mask and sniffed it lightly at the end of her nose, "If it is a mask made of human skin, it will smell bloody, but the mask given to us by the county lord only has a faint medicinal fragrance, and it should be made in other ways."

"Sister?" Zhu Qing forgot to ask Shen Ling and tried to verify it.

Shen Ling bowed his head silently and agreed with Luo Yuheng's statement.

Although Shen Ling did learn how to make a mask out of human skin, she felt disgusted at the thought of wearing someone else's skin on her face.