"Sister Xue Ning, I want to go back to the palace. Zijin was still thinking about his mother and the palace where he lived, he frowned, almost wanted to cry, begging Xue Ning, wanting her to send him back.

"Silly boy, you can't go back, there are bad people in the palace, they have done many terrible things, hey, how can I tell you?" Xue Ning knew that Zijin was young and didn't know too many things, not to mention that in a hurry last night, she turned him into a little carp who was unconscious with a high fever, which aggravated his confusion. Moreover, even if he was told the truth, it would only make him sad and weeping, distressed, and uneasy, so it was better to make up a lie to deceive this ignorant child who had no mother.

Thinking of this, Xue Ning pondered and said, "Brother Zijin, my sister told you the truth, don't be distressed, from now on, you have to listen to your sister obediently, can you do it?"

The ignorant Zijin blinked his dark eyes and nodded as if he didn't understand, "Sister, I listen to you." ”

"That's good, good. Xue Ning lovingly stroked Fuzijin's head and said, "There is turmoil in your kingdom, and your father and queen mother and many soldiers have sent troops to quell the rebellion.

Zijin, in the days when your father and mother are not here, you have to listen to your sister obediently, and you must always follow your sister, so that you can ensure your safety, you know?"

"I know, I have written down everything my sister said. Zijin replied obediently, probably he hadn't figured out what terrible things happened in the palace last night, or maybe he had experienced a high fever or metamorphosis that made him forget some important things, in short, Zijin didn't act sad.

After Xue Ning's persuasion, the young child soon calmed down his nervous, sad and depressed mood, and played with Xue Ning, who pretended to be relaxed, in the jungle by the river.

In order to make the little guy happy, Xue Ning deliberately tore a strip of cloth, covered Zijin's eyes, and said to Zijin, "Brother Zijin, let's play hide and seek, I'll hide, you come and catch me, if you catch me, my sister will pick wild fruits and roast bird eggs for you to eat, do you care?"

"Okay, good!" Zijin applauded.

Xue Ning coaxed Zijin to play, while vigilantly looking at the situation on the bank of the river, she waited anxiously and waited, looked in the direction of the market a few times, but she couldn't see the figures of Sister Ziyan and Brother Zimo, and she couldn't help but be restless and scared.

First, she was worried that her sister and Zimo would meet bad people in the bazaar and something unexpected would happen, and secondly, she was worried that Zijin was tired from playing and begging for food, and she couldn't solve this problem alone.

When Xue Ning was waiting and waiting anxiously, she finally saw two familiar figures rushing towards this side from a distance, and when she saw the familiar figures, she wanted to scream immediately and catch up, but she was afraid that there would be a dangerous situation, so she patiently pulled Zijin and hid in the forest and watched vigilantly at the comers.

It wasn't until the two figures got close and anxiously called for Xue Ning that Xue Ning ran out of the forest with Zijin to meet them.

Zi Mo was holding a large ceramic jar in his arms at the moment, all the way, running all the way with a red face, sweating on his forehead, as soon as he saw Xue Ning, he said excitedly, "Sister Xue Ning, the jar has been bought, we bought the largest one, in one step, so that the little guy will not suddenly eat fat and grow Goldman Sachs." ”

Xue Ning looked at the big jar and only thought it was funny.

Zimo and Ziyan quickly noticed Zijin hiding behind Xue Ning, and they were stunned there, a little stunned and incredulous.

"Little brother has changed back? Hey, is it that the jar is redundant, this jar was bought for a lot of silver. Zimo said regretfully.

"It's good to change back, what do you do to pity the altar?" Ziyan saw the cute Zijin, and hurriedly took his little hand affectionately and asked him, "Zijin, are you hungry?"

"Hungry" Zijin nodded and said, Ziyan heard Zijin say that he was hungry, and hurriedly took out the roast chicken hidden in his arms, opened the wrapped lotus leaf, tore off a big chicken leg and handed it to Zijin's chubby little hand.

Seeing this, Xue Ning drooled greedily, but soon she swallowed her saliva restrainedly.

While Zijin lowered his head and nibbled on the chicken legs, Zimo had already put the jar on the ground, and together with Ziyan, he quietly came to Xue Ning's side, and asked curiously, "Sister Xue Ning, how did this villain come back?"

"No one has ever come, it was he who changed back by himself, and about an hour after you left, I was talking to him, and all of a sudden, I felt a flash of golden light in front of me, and I found that he had changed back into a human from a small fish spirit. ”

"Oh, I see, this is really good, if you carry a big jar on your back all the way, it is really inconvenient, it is very good for him to change back. Zimo and Ziyan looked at each other and smiled, and they both said happily.

"Sister, why did you buy a jar for so long?" Xue Ning looked at the smiles of Sister Ziyan and Brother Zimo, and always felt that something was wrong.

"I,...... We just turned around and bought a roast chicken. Zi Mo said insincerely.

"You lie, Brother Zimo, every time you lie, the roots of your ears will turn red, I know this too well, sister, what happened to you in the market?" Xue Ning asked reluctantly.

"Hey, it's hard to say," Ziyan saw that her sister was smart and clever, and it was difficult to deceive, so she had to reluctantly preach, "Xue Ning, it's okay for us to tell the truth, but what we say to you, you must keep it secret, and you can't tell Zijin." ”

Next, in order to prevent the young Zijin from overhearing their conversation, Ziyan and Zimo told the terrible things that happened in the bazaar in their fox clan's unique language.

It turned out that when Zimo and Ziyan rushed to the market, suddenly, a group of soldiers sounded the gong and opened the way to make noise on the street, shouting that the common people should go to the city gate to watch, saying that last night, the national teacher in the city took the sergeant and caught a man-eating monster hidden in the palace for many years.

As soon as the people in the bazaar heard that there was a bustle, they immediately blew up the pot, and they all lost their business and rushed to the city gate to watch.

It's just that this doesn't matter, when they came to the city gate, the two covered their faces with veils, looked towards the high city tower, and were shocked and surprised to find that the person hanging on the city tower was none other than Zijin's mother: the queen mother.

At this moment, the woman who had unfortunately died, her eyes were closed, her hair was scattered in the wind, and the phoenix crown that she had worn to show her identity was gone, and only a thin layer of shame was wrapped around her long and beautiful body, but to the surprise of the onlookers, the dead queen was covered with colorful scales from the neck down, and these scales shone brilliantly under the noon sun.

The people who saw all this strange scene were talking one by one, "The notice says that the queen mother is a man-eating fish demon, and the innocent people who died in the imperial city recently have been captured and eaten by the queen mother." ”

"The queen looks so gentle and beautiful, I look like a fairy, where does she look like a man-eating goblin, most of the goblins mentioned by ordinary storytellers are blue-faced and fanged, very scary, but the queen doesn't look like a murderer and evildoer. ”

"Yes, you say that, I also feel curious, besides, the queen mother gave birth to two princes for the emperor, both of which are quite normal, isn't it "dragons give birth to dragons, phoenixes give birth to phoenixes, and mice give birth to burrows in the ground", if the queen mother is a goblin, then his child will not become a little goblin?"

"Also, this happened so strangely, what happened last night? In the past, we haven't heard of a national teacher in the palace, why did a national teacher emerge overnight?"

The few people standing in front of Ziyan and Zimo looked at the remains of the queen mother, and discussed with doubts in their ears.

The suspicions and discussions of the people, Ziyan and Zimo all listened to them, and the two of them looked at the plain dignified, beautiful, kind and amiable queen mother, the biological mother of the third elder brother and the little elder brother died innocently and tragically, and they were trampled on like this, hanging on the city tower in the wind and sun, it was really miserable, and they couldn't bear to look at it again.

Zimo lowered his voice and said to Ziyan, "Sister Ziyan, I don't believe the words in the notice when I am killed, I always feel that there is something strange here, and I don't know where the third elder brother has gone now? ”

While they were talking, the people talked again, "I heard that the body of this queen mother was left on the city gate in order to lure out the escaped third elder brother to appear, that child is a chivalrous and extremely filial child, and he will definitely bring someone back to snatch his mother's body and bury it properly." ”

"Hey, I'm afraid that the third elder brother will fall into the ambush of these sergeants after rushing to rescue his mother and not knowing the truth. "As the people, as spectators, they can't bear to talk about it anymore when they think of the reputation and legend of the third elder brother in the capital.

They sighed, they couldn't bear to see the tragic situation of the queen mother again, and they crowded to disperse one by one.

Ziyan looked at all this, and Zi Mo was as sad as she was, she whispered to Zi Mo in the language of the fox clan, "Zi Mo, we met with the third elder brother, the third elder brother has a life-saving grace for several of us, we can't sit idly by and ignore this matter, tonight, we simply turned back here, looking for an opportunity to start, carefully stole the body of the queen mother, and took it to the suburbs for proper burial, so as to repay her and the third elder brother for our life-saving grace and kindness." ”

Zimo heard Ziyan say that his heart was on the road, and he was busy with tears in his eyes, and said gratefully, "Sister Ziyan, I just had this intention, I didn't expect you to say it for me."

Whether it's dangerous or not, we have to take a risk so that we can live up to our conscience. ”

"Okay, let's do the third watch tonight, now turn around and go to the market to buy some necessary items. The two men stopped their deliberations, and left the tower, quietly drowned in the crowd, and walked in the direction of the market.

After buying some food and supplies at the bazaar, they hurried back.

That's the way it is, when Ziyan and Zimo told Xue Ning the truth they saw and their plans, Xue Ning was so angry that she gritted her silver teeth, and on the other hand, she felt sorry for the miserable death of the queen mother, and on the other hand, she was eager to try and wanted to retrieve the body of the queen mother in person.

She pulled the corner of Sister Ziyan's clothes and pleaded in a low voice, "Sister, don't leave me alone at night, you two want to go with me." Three stinkers are Zhuge Liang. ”

Ziyan glanced at Xue Ning's pitiful little eyes, and immediately replied, "Sister Xue Ning, to rob the body of the queen mother, it is extremely dangerous, as long as we move our toes, we will think that there is an ambush there, Zimo and I will only see the opportunity to act, and you must not go with us, first, because you are young and ignorant, and the combat experience is not as rich as ours, and secondly, the little brother Zijin still needs someone to take care of it, if the three of us are gone, who will take care of the orphans of the queen mother? So, you must stay." ”

Xue Ning begged for a long time, but to no avail, she calmed down, thought carefully about what her sister said, and felt that it was not unreasonable, so she agreed to stay aggrievedly, but she was worried that her sister and Zimo would encounter danger when they went forward, so she cautiously reminded, "Sister, you and Zimo's brother go, remember to outwit, you must not act recklessly, the enemy is overwhelming, you should be careful." You and Brother Zimo had better make a noise, set fire to the house not far away, lure the snake out of the hole, and then take advantage of the chaos to steal the corpse, if you retreat, surrounded by the enemy, throw a few more tear gas smoke bombs taught to us by the fox demon father and mother's parents at the enemy. ”

Ziyan saw that although her sister was young, she was thinking about things in an orderly manner, so she happily praised her, "Sister Xue Ning, we have written down what you said, you are usually at home, your father and mother praise you for being smart and clever, we are always disdainful of being sisters, and I can't think of it, when it comes to critical moments, your ingenuity will be undoubtedly revealed, just now, my sister only thought about snatching the corpse, but I didn't think much about how to rob it, listening to you say this, my sister already knows it."

Tonight I will go to the city gate with Zimo to snatch the body of the queen mother, it is estimated that the road to the road is dangerous, you and Zijin are waiting here, if the matter is successful, before dawn, Zimo and I will return safely, if things go wrong, there are chasing soldiers to search, please be sure to flee with Zijin, don't care if I and Zimo live or die, remember, you must not live up to the life-saving grace of the queen mother and the third elder brother, and take Zijin to live, whether it is to go to a distant place to find the master to learn art, or to be an ordinary fox demon in the mountains and forests, as long as the two of you can live well, Brother Zimo and I will be very happy。 After speaking, Ziyan's handsome eyes couldn't help but burst into tears, she really didn't want to think about what her little sister would do for the rest of her life if something happened?

"Sister, don't worry, you and Brother Zimo should act according to the plan, I believe in the wisdom and ability of the two of you, Zijin and I will wait for you here, and we won't go anywhere until you and Brother Zimo come back." ”

Seeing that her sister trusted her so much, Ziyan couldn't help but hold her little sister tightly in her arms, stroked her flowing hair affectionately with her hand, and reproached with love and hate, "Silly boy, why are you so stubborn, don't worry, sister and Brother Zimo, it's going to be fine, the two of us will come back safe and sound to meet you and Zijin."

That night, Ziyan settled Xue Ning and Zijin, found a sheltered grass nest in the jungle for the two of them, and watched the two of them fall asleep, so he was relieved to leave with Zimo.