Chapter 59: When no one is frightened in the middle of the night
"Okay, Sister Xue Ning, I can see that you are a bold and careful girl, you can lie alone, if you are afraid or have something at night, you just have to ask your sisters to get up and help you. Ah Zi admonished.
That night, Bing'er and Ah Zi chatted happily for a while, the two were extremely tired and fell asleep, leaving Xue Ning alone, tossing and turning, unable to sleep after all.
Xu encountered a homicide a few nights ago, was stimulated, or the biological clock was interrupted, Xue Ning tossed and turned, and always couldn't sleep, lying alone like an ant on a hot pot.
She couldn't sleep, and she felt hungry. Because of the recent panic and escape and imprisoned in the prison, has not been concerned about hunting, at this time, in the dead of night, there is a faint feeling of hunger in the stomach, that is as a fox demon, not eating meat for many days caused by the feeling of weakness and hunger.
Xue Ning, who was tormented by these feelings, simply got up quietly, in order to avoid waking up the two big sisters, she simply secretly applied a little bit of her fox demon skills to the two of them, so that the drowsiness of the two would be sweet again, and they would not wake up.
Xue Ning held her breath, tiptoed, opened the window a crack, and then changed her body and suddenly ran out.
In the lonely deep palace, at this time, the night is quiet, and a cold full moon hangs in the sky, although the full moon is full, but it does not bring a trace of warmth and comfort.
Xue Ning quickly climbed to a large tree in the courtyard and looked around to observe the movement.
The tree was tall enough and dense enough for Xue Ning to hide her little white fox body in the bushes, staring around with a pair of watery eyes, and at the same time, her keen ears did not sit idle, but listened carefully to the movements around and in the distance.
There was silence all around, and at this moment, even the palace guards and guards were temporarily quiet.
At this time, Xue Ning quickly slipped down from the tree and quickly climbed the high wall of the palace garden along the rockery.
She didn't know where there was her favorite in this huge palace, during the day, she had heard that the place where the emperor and queen and concubines in the palace cooked was called the imperial dining room, which should be full of rare game, but where the specific imperial dining room was, she was really confused.
Afraid of losing herself in the deep palace, she had to carefully mark and remember the route she traveled.
Xue Ning breathed a sigh of relief, jumping lightly on the roof of the palace, running, looking for a place where she could feast.
In an instant, she climbed over several more walls from the palace where the queen lived, and came to a unique place.
Although this courtyard is not as luxurious as the palace where the queen lives, it is also full of carved beams and paintings, which is beautiful.
The flowers and trees in the garden and the rockery fountain and the swing frame are all boutiques, although the scenery is artificially carved, but the overall look is natural, beautiful and delicious.
Xue Ning lay on the high roof, condescendingly looking at the charming scenery in front of her, she couldn't help but be stunned, she seemed to have forgotten the purpose of her night trip for a moment.
Although the scenery was good, but it could not fill the stomach, just when Xue Ning was lazily lying on the roof, looking bored, he noticed that the door of a house in the courtyard suddenly opened, and then, a tall and majestic man flashed out of the house.
When the man came out of the room, the door was quietly closed, and the man who came out stretched comfortably, straightened his robe, and prepared to leave.
I don't know why, when Xue Ning saw the man in front of her for the first time, she couldn't help but feel a sense of fear in her heart, this feeling was so familiar, and it made her tremble so much that Xue Ning, who was lying on the roof, was frightened and almost rolled off the roof.
The man vigilantly checked the movement around him, and when he saw that there was nothing abnormal, he roared at the full moon in a low voice, and suddenly changed his figure.
In the next second, like a big dog, he crawled on the ground and quietly ran towards the rockery in the far side of the courtyard.
Looking at the figure in the distance, Xue Ning was nervous and didn't dare to come out, she could already see very clearly, where was the shape of the body that changed just now, what kind of dog it was, it was clearly a wolf, a wolf demon who could eat people.
The figure that changed under the full moon was exactly the same as the wolf demons who chased and killed the demon fox father and sisters by the river that night.
Although the sky was dark, she couldn't see the man's appearance clearly, but just looking at the transformation action and the shape of the wild wolf, she knew that in the inner courtyard of this palace, at some point, the wolf demon had been lurking.
At a young age, Xue Ning was not familiar with the environment in the palace, and at this moment, she couldn't tell where she was, so she could only vaguely recognize the name of this palace with her good eyesight, but she couldn't call the specific name, because she was illiterate.
In desperation, she had to try to memorize the strokes of the words, so that she could meet Zimo and Chenhua another day, and it was not too late to ask the two of them.
This encounter with the wolf demon on the roof made Xue Ning very frightened, and her stomach, which was so hungry a second ago, was completely healed at this moment.
Xue Ning was afraid of wolf demons, and when she saw those damned animals and demons, she was nervous and out of breath.
Because her fox demon mother and several sisters died under the devil's claws and fangs.
Xue Ning's friend, Zi Mo's family was also killed by this terrifying goblin, so when Xue Ning saw this terrifying wolf demon again, the first thing she thought of was to hurry up and find an opportunity to meet Zi Mo.
She wanted to secretly tell Zimo that this palace compound was not as safe and warm as she imagined, because she accidentally saw a wolf demon here, so for the sake of safety, she had to find a way to persuade Zimo to escape quietly with her.
After making up her mind, Xue Ning, trembling hands and feet, slowly took advantage of the unpreparedness from the roof, followed the marked route, and returned to the queen's bedroom.
It was only when she hurried back to the courtyard, ready to rush into the room through the slightly open window, that she saw a surprising scene.
At some point, there were a lot of poisonous snakes and other things around the open window.
The terrifying creatures had their heads held high, their mouths wide open, and their scarlet tongues spitting out, trying to crawl up the cracks in the walls and slip into the room.
The scene in front of her made Xue Ning unable to close her mouth in shock, she really couldn't figure out where so many poisonous snakes came out of this deep palace at once.
Fortunately, she rushed back in time, otherwise, let these ugly things sneak into the room, the consequences are unimaginable.
Xue Ning stretched out her palms and used her spiritual power to eliminate all those hateful and ugly poisonous insects, only to see a burst of white light flash, and those reptiles immediately stiffened their bodies and fell to the ground one after another.
Xue Ning was afraid that the corpses of these poisonous snakes would be piled up under the window and found the next day, causing unnecessary panic, so she had to think of burying the corpses of these poisonous insects under the bushes in the garden.
When she crept in through the window and gently closed the window, it did not alarm the two sisters, Ah Zi and Bing'er.
Xue Ning lay down in the quilt again, thinking of the strange and terrifying thing she had just encountered, her heart was full of doubts, but she couldn't answer it, so she had to temporarily forget her fear, worry and hunger, and fell into a deep sleep.
Fortunately, the next day, Zimo, who was worried about her, took advantage of the end of school in the Third Elder Brother School, so she pestered Chenhua to take him over to find Xue Ning.
Xue Ning picked up a vacancy and quietly told Zimo what happened last night.
It's just that after Zimo heard it, he didn't show any special shock.
He also told Xue Ning a strange thing that he had just learned.
"Sister Xue Ning, I heard from the third elder brother that his uncle accidentally encountered a new homicide case when he sent someone to help us find our relatives. ”
"Homicide? What's so strange about this, in a huge Kyoto, there will always be some black sheep to do bad things, how normal is this, the two of us have only been in this place for a few days, and we have been unlucky enough to encounter a murder and be imprisoned as murderers, I think if I am not mistaken, there are still many innocent prisoners like us in this prison. Xue Ning drew the portraits of the fox demon father and his sisters from memory, and at the same time told her own opinions.
"Sister Xue Ning, I heard from the third elder brother that the murder case encountered by his uncle this time is by no means an ordinary case, and it will implicate his uncle's life, and even more so the safety of the entire family of his mother's mother's family. ”
Zimo quietly told the latest news from the third elder brother.
"Ah, what is the matter, it can be so serious, the queen mother is kind-hearted, and her younger brother, who enforces the law impartially and never wrongs a good person casually, is a rare clean official, how can they implicate themselves and their family's safety because of the murder in the capital?"
Xue Ning was puzzled and asked blankly.
At this moment, the third elder brother had already greeted his mother, and after seeing his chubby and cute sleeping little brother, he walked to Zimo and Xue Ning.
He stared intently at Xue Ning and Zimo and asked, "Say, what are you two whispering? Is it about the gossip in the palace?"
Zimo shook his head honestly, and hurriedly got up to give up his seat to Chenhua.
"Third Highness, no, Xue Ning and I are just discussing the portraits of our relatives, I think there are some places where my memory is not accurate enough, and the sample drawings drawn are not enough to rely on, let's take Xue Ning's pictures as the end of it.
"Oh, that's very good, but it's a pity that my uncle was innocent and suffered this catastrophe, this matter is really worrying, even I don't dare to tell my mother about this unfortunate thing on the uncle's stall. ”
The third elder brother sighed, but the sigh was a sigh, but he refused to tell Xue Ning what terrible things his uncle had encountered.
In the end, it was Zimo who took the time to avoid the third elder brother and briefly told Xue Ning about the strange things that Dali Siqing encountered during the investigation of the case.