Chapter 479: 325. Xie Xiao Niangzi Yunmeng has a Yunmeng Yuanjun, Wu Yue have a Great Flood Dragon

325. Xie Xiao Niangzi Yunmeng has a Yunmeng Yuanjun, Wu Yue have a Great Flood Dragon

"Why do these Xie Xiao Niangzi Yunmeng Marsh female cultivators insist on obstructing the Donglin Buddha?"

Before Magistrate Ouyang Rong could speak, Chenjun Xie Chenjun Xie Lingjiang asked the question, hitting the nail on the head.

Li Su Xian pondered for a moment and said slowly:

"Is it because they also feel that our Holy Zhou didn't give them a heads-up, breaking the tacit old agreement, and acting dishonorably?"

"Or perhaps, they might really hate Buddhism? I remember that in the history of the Southern Dynasties, there were many emperors who were obsessed with Buddhism, building Buddhist temples and squandering a large amount of national wealth on Buddhist affairs, affecting people's production."

"Xie Xiao Niangzi Yunmeng Sword Marsh witnessed that period and might have deep hatred for it, especially for emperors obsessed with Buddhism."

As soon as these words were spoken, the dining table fell into a strange silence for a while.

Especially upon hearing the four words "emperor obsessed with Buddhism," everyone had an "unprovoked association." It was truly familiar.

Li Su Xian, who had been sent by the Empress Mother to supervise the Donglin Buddha, realized something belatedly, covered his mouth, coughed, and said no more.

"Makes sense."

Li Su Guoer, however, snapped her fingers crisply and responded.

Everyone looked over and saw her use a silver spoon to scoop a mouthful of meat soup, carefully sending it into her red lips and sandalwood mouth. After drinking this mouthful of soup, just as she was about to speak to everyone again, she frowned slightly.

Li Su Guoer seemed to have kicked away the "sneaky" creature that was rubbing against her lower leg under the table.

She picked up a piece of pastry from the plate on the edge of the dining table with two fingers and threw it at her feet.

After sending it away, she continued:

"Besides, they aren't saying something like 'the Empress's belongs to the Empress, and the Yunmeng Yuanjun's belongs to the Yunmeng Yuanjun'? They had an old agreement with our Li clan before. I reckon they have always regarded this land of Wu Yue and the old land of the Southern Dynasties as their own backyard."

"How can one allow others to snore beside one's bed? Do they not want the Yunmeng Yuanjun majesty they've maintained for a thousand years? To some extent, the flourishing Buddhist incense in Jiang Nan will definitely affect them."

"There are only so many believers. If Buddhism gets one more, they get one less. And everyone only has so much time every day. If they take it to burn incense and worship Buddha, where would they have time to look at their Xie Xiao Niangzi Yunmeng Yunmeng Yuanjun?"

"It is obviously a struggle for interests. As Father said, they hate the emperors obsessed with Buddhism in the history of the Southern Dynasties. I reckon it's the same logic. If the Southern Dynasty emperor wasn't obsessed with Buddhism but with their Yunmeng Yuanjun, then it would be fine."

"In the final analysis, it is still a naked struggle for interests. It is the same everywhere under heaven. How big do you think the pattern can be?"

"Grandmother sent us to build the Donglin Buddha in Jiangzhou this time, which almost indicates that the Buddhist incense in Jiang Nan will be even more prosperous. Presumably, there will be more people worshipping Buddha."

"This is simply digging at their roots in broad daylight, although it won't happen overnight... Rather than being replaced and waiting to die slowly, it's better to fight for a chance, destroy the Donglin Buddha, and beat the grass to scare the snake. This also fits the personality of that legendary Xie Xiao Niangzi Yunmeng Great Xie Xiao Niangzi."

"And Grandmother and the Wei clan's two Princes building the Great Zhou Praise Virtue Axis and the Four Directions Buddha is actually not specifically targeting their Xie Xiao Niangzi Yunmeng Sword Marsh or Tiannan. The world is so big, the Four Directions Buddha statues are to be placed in the four directions. How could it only be focused on this one place in Jiang Nan?"

"However, Grandmother and the others must never have expected that the reaction to building statues would be the most intense here in Jiang Nan Circuit and Lingnan Circuit, and that there would still be a group of unruly Xie Xiao Niangzi Yunmeng Yue women in Tiannan who don't submit to management."

Li Su Guoer shook her head, picked up the silver spoon, scooped another mouthful of hot soup, pursed her sandalwood lips, and blew gently into the spoon.

Magistrate Ouyang Rong ate quietly, picking up food constantly, listening silently to the analysis of Li Su Xian and Li Su Guoer during this time.

He didn't speak immediately.

In fact, this construction of the Great Zhou Praise Virtue Axis and the Four Directions Buddha was entirely proposed by the Wei clan. Apart from the Empress, only the Wei clan and the Astrological Bureau assisting them knew the specific details.

At first, they completely kicked out the "Baoqian" faction in the court and didn't bring the Prince's Mansion along at all.

Their Prince Xunyang Prince's Mansion was able to participate because that Empress opened her golden mouth.

But they could only act as local executors. The specific details were hidden and guarded by the Prince of Wei, the General Supervisor, and the Astrological Bureau, who were cautious.

For example, the "damaged face" golden Buddha head in the Prince Xunyang Grottoes now—Magistrate Ouyang Rong hadn't been close to it many times. Every time he went, Song Mama accompanied him, so naturally, he couldn't take a close look.

If Magistrate Ouyang Rong and the Prince Xunyang Prince's Mansion were just purely trying to take the credit for completing the Donglin Buddha to return to the capital, then they could indeed not worry about it...

"I just feel it's not that simple."

Everyone turned their heads and saw it was Magistrate Ouyang Rong who spoke. He was chewing his food, and his words were a bit slurred:

"The reaction of Xie Xiao Niangzi Yunmeng Sword Marsh this time is too intense, coming out directly and opposing the imperial court. This is not a wise move. That Great Xie Xiao Niangzi is unruly, yes, but there must be wise people in the Xie Xiao Niangzi Yunmeng Sword Marsh's Nujun Hall. It's impossible for there not to be."

He sighed lightly:

"However, what the Princess said is not unreasonable. It might also be one aspect of the reason."

In fact, Magistrate Ouyang Rong had another detail of deduction he hadn't said.

It was also something Li Su Guoer, Li Su Xian, and the others didn't know.

That was that Xie Xiao Niangzi Yunmeng Sword Marsh might not hate Buddhism that much.

At least, they weren't disgusted by the Lotus Pure Land Sect Buddhism represented by the Donglin Buddha.

The reason for this conclusion was the former Lotus Tower Alliance.

From the last words left by Master Zhong Ma in the Pure Land Underground Palace, it was known that during the Southern Dynasties, the relationship between Xie Xiao Niangzi Yunmeng Sword Marsh, Donglin Temple, and the sword-casting family, the Longcheng Mei family, was not bad.

It was because of this that, under the leadership of the Southern Dynasty imperial family, Xie Xiao Niangzi Yunmeng Sword Marsh was willing to hand over a tripod, let the Longcheng Mei family cast a sword, and at the same time allow the Qi-refining monks of the Donglin Temple lineage to serve as sword-wielders.

Although later, judging from the sword-offering practice of the old sword-caster of the Longcheng Grade-A Sword Furnace, the Lotus Tower Alliance had not yet been completed.

The Donglin Temple lineage and the Mei family sword-caster lineage were all destroyed by some kind of retribution curse.

But Xie Xiao Niangzi Yunmeng Sword Marsh wouldn't go so far as to not allow the Donglin Buddhism to spread in Jiang Nan because of this.

After all, looking at the actions of the old sword-caster and Master Zhong Ma, the successors of the two forces had tried their best to fulfill the alliance... although neither succeeded.

Anyway, Xie Xiao Niangzi Yunmeng Sword Marsh and the Donglin Buddha itself, which promoted the Lotus Pure Land Sect Buddhism, should have no hatred or resentment.

Then the problem could only lie with the imperial court's Astrological Bureau and the Wei clan.

"I agree with Senior Brother's point of view."

Chenjun Xie Chenjun Xie Lingjiang nodded, lowered her eyes to pour a cup of wine for Magistrate Ouyang Rong, and said in a crisp voice:

"This kind of hidden sect that has stood for a thousand years is not that simple. The key to its existence for so long lies in the two words 'hidden sect.' They rarely intervene in worldly disputes, and their tolerance shouldn't be that small, otherwise, Buddhism wouldn't have existed until now..."

"And once they really intervene in worldly affairs, there must be something serious they have identified, and they have to enter the arena."

Being politely refuted by the two, Li Su Guoer's face didn't show any annoyance.

A thoughtful look appeared in her eyes, and she asked curiously:

"You two mean... apart from the pros and cons above, it also involves some things we don't know, such as the level of Qi-refiners?"

"If that's really the case, then it's indeed beyond our understanding."

Magistrate Ouyang Rong narrowed his eyes and didn't speak. Unconsciously, the bronze short sword carved with a painful evil dragon, which had been taken away by Xie Xiao Niangzi Historian Rong, appeared in his mind again.

What exactly was Xie Xiao Niangzi Yunmeng Sword Marsh seeking?

If they were greedy for worldly power, why would they collectively retreat into Xie Xiao Niangzi Yunmeng, stand by and watch the secular world for a long time, and settle down as a hidden sect?

If they were without desire and without demand, only pursuing Qi-refining and longevity, then why would they issue something like the Xie Xiao Niangzi Yunmeng Order, which clearly had an organized color, to coordinate the scattered Qi-refiner forces in the Tiannan underworld to oppose the imperial court and resist the Donglin Buddha?

Looking at it from another angle, do Xie Xiao Niangzi Yunmeng female cultivators pursuing Qi-refining and longevity need secular Qi-refining resources?

Not necessarily. In terms of resources, there are many undeveloped places in Xie Xiao Niangzi Yunmeng Marsh that hide strange things, so they shouldn't lack Qi-refining materials.

Then what about faith? Faith is actually a kind of expensive resource.

The folk faith cultivated by Xie Xiao Niangzi Yunmeng Sword Marsh in Jiang Nan and Lingnan Circuits is almost entirely concentrated on "Yunmeng Yuanjun." Many simple people in the land of Wu Yue actually only know "Yunmeng Yuanjun" and only know that there is such a goddess living in the vast Xie Xiao Niangzi Yunmeng Marsh in the legend, but they don't know about Xie Xiao Niangzi Yunmeng Sword Marsh, and they don't know that the "Yunmeng Yuanjun" of Xie Xiao Niangzi Yunmeng Sword Marsh is, in most cases, the generation of Yue Yue Chu Zi in the Nujun Hall.

Xie Xiao Niangzi Yunmeng Sword Marsh painstakingly creates and maintains such a folk faith of a "goddess." Not to mention anything empty, just looking at it from the perspective of a Qi-refiner, is it possible to gather some kind of "Qi" to supply this goddess?

Looking at it this way, Yunmeng Yuanjun's Qi-refining cultivation should not be low. Could it be a legendary top-three-grade Divine Land Celestial? Or, to be bolder, is "Yunmeng Yuanjun" a certain grade name of the top three grades of the Yue female lineage, which needs the "Qi" of faith to supply...

Currently, only this conjecture can slightly explain why Xie Xiao Niangzi Yunmeng Sword Marsh is high and aloof, hidden and independent, cold and watching the secular world, while at the same time issuing the Xie Xiao Niangzi Yunmeng Order and maintaining the "Yunmeng Yuanjun" faith in the old land of Wu Yue for thousands of years.

However, there is a small problem here. Does the Great Zhou imperial court not know?

Judging from the imperial court's reaction and preparations before and after the collapse of the Xingzi Lake Buddha... Shenjing Luoyang should have been caught off guard.

When the plan for the Four Directions Buddha statues to assist the Great Zhou Praise Virtue Axis was first determined, they didn't expect such a strong backlash from Xie Xiao Niangzi Yunmeng Sword Marsh in the Tiannan underworld. At that time, the Empress and the Wei clan's two Princes, who were far away in Shenjing Luoyang, were only busy cleansing the stubborn opponents inside.

Or rather, they expected that there might be people in the Southwest who would oppose the Donglin Buddha and make trouble halfway, but they never expected that it would be Xie Xiao Niangzi Yunmeng Sword Marsh, a hidden sect, that would directly enter the arena.

The unexpected degree of this development is like you and I being neighbors. I am just greedy for small gains. One day, I quietly occupied a little more land at your door. When you saw it, you didn't say a word and immediately went home to pick up a kitchen knife to greet my head. It's hard to handle.

It makes people reflect: is this little bit of occupied land someone's ancestral grave? But they definitely didn't know beforehand.

In the final analysis, we still have to figure out whether the Donglin Buddha has any extra functions besides the Saint spreading the Lotus Pure Land Sect Buddhism.

I remember Xie Xiao Niangzi Historian Rong mentioned privately before that she was sent to Jiangzhou to supervise him and the Prince Xunyang Prince's Mansion in building the Donglin Buddha, and she occupied a special quota.

A special quota?

"Does Brother-in-law not like these dishes?"

Wei Mei asked curiously.

She had just seen Chenjun Xie Chenjun Xie Lingjiang serve a bowl of soup to Magistrate Ouyang Rong. As a result, Magistrate Ouyang Rong kept holding the soup bowl with both hands, lowering his head to sip the soup, eyes fixed on the dishes on the table in front, drinking soup all the time without picking up any food.

"Ah? No, I like them. But this soup is better, so I couldn't help but drink a bit more... Aunt's craftsmanship is still so exquisite."

Magistrate Ouyang Rong came back to his senses, put down the soup bowl, and smiled.

"It's fine, Brother-in-law, drink more. There is still some in the pot. Let the maid serve some more."

Wei Mei's face showed joy, but as if thinking of something, she sighed again, her face a bit worried:

"It's rare to get together for a meal. Usually, either Wang Qilang has something to do, or you, Brother-in-law, are too busy to come, or Su Guoer or Chenjun Xie niece are eating outside and not coming home..."

"Today is the same. Su Dalang is not here. Although even if this stinky boy were here, he would just bury his head in eating without saying a word, but... I always feel like something is missing. Hey, I don't know how he is doing in Wannian County, whether he has set off..."

Wei Mei's voice gradually became smaller as she spoke.

She discovered that Li Su Xian and Li Su Guoer beside her were both staring at her with straight faces.

"Clang..."

Li Su Xian, who had always been weak in his husband's authority, tapped his bowl, his tone rarely carrying the majestic momentum of a head of the family:

"Meiniang, eat, don't mention that boy."

As soon as Magistrate Ouyang Rong heard this, he knew it must be Li Su Guoer who had mentioned the Princess Anhui Princess incident to Li Su Xian.

Wei Mei was silent for a while, then suddenly her willow eyebrows stood up:

"What are you being fierce for? I didn't say I wouldn't let you. Besides, what did Su Dalang do wrong? He didn't learn it from you. If the upper beam is not straight, the lower beam will be crooked. You weren't much better when you were young..."

Li Su Xian patted his chopsticks: "Look at how you spoiled him..."

"I didn't spoil him. Before, you locked him in the study to read all day, and I didn't say a word. Later, whether it was a blind date with Qin Qin Xiaoniang or anything else, your arrangements for Su Dalang—when did I ever disagree?"

"Now that the child is like this, you still say I spoiled him. Wang Qilang, think carefully about whose problem it is. No matter what Su Dalang is like, you can't throw all the responsibility on him. And he hasn't made a mistake yet, has he? You are all worried."

"Now that he is outside, apart from Brother-in-law looking after him, you don't even ask a single question. You can not ask, but I can't. We are a bit prominent now, but aren't we still that family from Longcheng? What's different? It's no different from an ordinary family. Can we become heartless?"

"They say a mother worries when her child travels a thousand miles. After all, he is a piece of flesh that fell from my body. Wang Qilang, if you don't feel heartache, I do."

Li Su Xian choked and his face turned red.

"I am doing this for his own good. Meiniang, what you said... what a sin..."

Li Su Guoer picked up another piece of pastry, bent down, placed it at her feet, and lowered her eyes to remind:

"Sister Chenjun Xie and Young Master Magistrate Ouyang still have to eat."

The couple immediately fell silent and turned their heads away, eating in a cold war.

Magistrate Ouyang Rong and Chenjun Xie Chenjun Xie Lingjiang buried their heads in eating, pretending not to hear.

Wei Mei stood up, walked out the door, and returned from the back kitchen after a while. She personally brought a bowl of new meat soup, stood by the table, and silently scooped a bowl for Magistrate Ouyang Rong, Li Su Guoer, and Chenjun Xie Chenjun Xie Lingjiang.

Even the creature that was sneaking around on the carpet in the flower hall, looking like it was doing parkour, had a small bowl.

Only Li Su Xian didn't have one on the table in front of him.

The creature ran back happily.

"Gurgle, gurgle..."

It buried its small cat face in a soup bowl placed on the carpet, its butt facing everyone, its fluffy white tail swinging left and right.

The sound of drinking soup was a bit loud.

Li Su Xian looked at the creature, then at his empty bowl.

Li Su Guoer pressed the corner of her mouth, stood up, and scooped a bowl for her straight-faced old father.

Magistrate Ouyang Rong, who was burying his head in eating, stretched out his foot under the table and kicked the silly cat away gently... The new name was really not taken wrong. You are truly "bold" (Youzhong). Are you not afraid of eating this meal without the next? One meal, many meals, choose one?

"Brother-in-law, you just mentioned the Restoration Army rebels. Is there one named Du Du Shuqing? Are you familiar with him?"

Upon hearing this, Magistrate Ouyang Rong's movements paused, and he couldn't help but sigh. Why did everyone ask if he was familiar with them? It was as if he were also a rebel... Wait, but the owner of the Butterfly Love Flower seemed to be a recognized rebel accomplice, hanging alongside that Zhi Shuang young lady at the city gates of almost every city in Jiang Nan Circuit.

"I've seen him before." Magistrate Ouyang Rong was curious: "Why does the Princess ask this?"

"Yesterday, a letter came from my maiden home in Shenjing Luoyang. Father mentioned this matter, and I just happened to think of it. When he was a child, I might have even gone to the Du family to visit and hold him."

Wei Mei sighed, as if touched by the scene:

"You say this Du family boy, why does he have to do this kind of rebellion when he has a good future? Hey, I feel it's not worth it for him."

Chenjun Xie Chenjun Xie Lingjiang said softly, but praised him:

"Setting aside the stance, the descendants of the Jingzhao Du clan are indeed daring to be the first, and can be considered a man."

Magistrate Ouyang Rong took another look at Wei Mei.

This aunt's family background was also not simple: the Jingzhao Wei clan.

The Wei and Du families of Chang'an were both famous Guanlong clans. Their ancestors were Jingzhao County gentry... It could be understood that their ancestors had already bought "original shares" when the Sui and Gan dynasties were founded, and their roots were correct.

If compared with the Five Surnames and Seven Clans... let's put it this way: in the eyes of the Li imperial family, no matter how powerful the Five Surnames and Seven Clans were, they were outsiders and had to be suppressed; they were not allowed to be that awesome. But the Chang'an Wei and Du families were their own people.

Both families were indeed full of talent. Not only in Sui and Gan, but also in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, descendants of the Wei and Du families had served as generals and ministers in successive dynasties. For example, in the current Great Zhou Dynasty, there was a Prime Minister named Wei in the Zhengshi Hall.

And these two families were also generations of in-laws.

People like to say, "You are so powerful, why don't you go to heaven?"

The Chang'an Wei and Du families were indeed almost in heaven. There was a nursery rhyme in Chang'an City that sang, "Wei and Du in the south of the city, one foot and five inches from heaven." They were only one and a half feet away from heaven.

Wei Mei was able to marry Li Su Xian, the former Crown Prince of Great Gan, because her maiden family was strong enough. It was not without reason that Li Su Xian was henpecked.

Therefore, according to the marriage relationship, Wei Mei and this Du Du Shuqing were indeed relatives.

Regarding Du Du Shuqing, everyone didn't chat anymore, after all, he was a rebel now.

Wei Mei was actually not familiar with this nephew, and the Prince Xunyang Prince's Mansion was not yet completely safe, so it was impossible to say anything for Du Du Shuqing in front of Magistrate Ouyang Rong.

Magistrate Ouyang Rong's mind flashed with the proud orchid flower swaying in the wind on the windowsill of the Mei Forest courtyard.

Soon, tonight's Prince's Mansion family banquet ended in plainness.

Magistrate Ouyang Rong was sent out of the Prince Xunyang Prince's Mansion by Chenjun Xie Chenjun Xie Lingjiang.

Magistrate Ouyang Rong boarded the carriage.

He pondered:

"Go to Xingzi Ward."

"Yes, Young Master."

Ali responded, and the carriage started.

Early yesterday morning, he was called to the Jiuzhou Prison by Rong Zhen and Qin Qin Yanqing to deal with the captured hero Zheng Jun. During the day, Magistrate Ouyang Rong cooperated with Rong Zhen and was busy in and out of the city for a day.

In the evening, Magistrate Ouyang Rong rushed to the Prince Xunyang Prince's Mansion for dinner and didn't go to Xingzi Ward to visit as usual.

Not going for a day, he always felt something was missing. There was indeed an important person there who needed to be watched from time to time.

There was a curfew at night, especially strict today. However, Magistrate Ouyang Rong, as the Jiangzhou Jiangzhou Cishi, had a document for "walking at night," so he was unimpeded all the way and arrived at Chengtiansi.

When he arrived at Yuan Yuan Huaimin's courtyard, he didn't see Yuan Yuan Huaimin.

"Where is Brother Yuan?"

Magistrate Ouyang Rong asked Li Yu, who was sitting blankly in the courtyard.

"Registrar Yuan said there was a banquet at Prince Xunyang Tower, and a pipa master he liked was performing. Prince Xunyang Tower couldn't be without him tonight, so he told me to rest early and just leave a door for him."

"Has Member Li eaten?"

Li Yu shook his head.

"Let's go."

Magistrate Ouyang Rong waved his hand and went out first.

"Where is Young Master Magistrate Ouyang going?"

"The Zhai courtyard. It shouldn't be closed yet."

Li Yu followed silently.

When they arrived at the Zhai courtyard, it was almost closing time. The monk was originally impatient, but after seeing Magistrate Ouyang Rong, he ran to the back kitchen to serve food and dishes in a flash.

Magistrate Ouyang Rong only scooped a small bowl of white rice porridge and had a meal with Li Yu.

During this time, he looked around at this Zhai courtyard. If he remembered correctly, when he wasn't there, Sister Xiuniang also often came to eat.

Magistrate Ouyang Rong's expression was as usual.

During the meal, Li Yu looked up from time to time at this young Jiangzhou Jiangzhou Cishi who was eating with him.

After the meal, the two left the Zhai courtyard.

On the way back, they passed by the lake, just right for a walk.

Magistrate Ouyang Rong asked without turning his head:

"Brother Yuan Huaimin should have invited Member Li to go together. Why didn't you go to eat?"

Li Yu straightened his expression: "As a person who has committed a crime, how can I run to that kind of place."

Magistrate Ouyang Rong didn't commit.

At this time, there was a family living in the guest courtyard ahead. A fat child ran out of the door, squatted by the lake, and made a fuss playing with water.

An adult walked out of the door, picked up the fat child, and looked back on the road, saying to the struggling bear child: "There is a great flood dragon in the water. You just mess around. If you don't go home at night, you will be eaten by it later."

The snotty child's face turned "gray" with fright, and he became obedient and was carried home...

Magistrate Ouyang Rong, who was passing by with his hands behind his back, smiled.

Li Yu, who turned his head, suddenly asked: "When Registrar Magistrate Ouyang was a child, did you believe there were great flood dragons in the bottomless water?"

"Great flood dragon? What do you mean?"

"It means when you were a child, did any elders say that there were man-eating flood dragons in the water, warning you not to get close to the water, and not to go out mischievously when it's dark..."

Magistrate Ouyang Rong shook his head: "That's not it, but the saying where we are is that there are water monkeys in the water, which will drag people into the water to be scapegoats so they can be reincarnated."

"Haha, actually it's all the same, they are all things to scare people." Li Yu laughed happily.

"When I was a child, I was very mischievous and fearless. There was an elder in the family who always liked to tell us seriously that there were fierce and evil flood dragons in the water. The children around me were terrified. After growing up, looking back, don't say, this trick of the elders is really useful and works every time. It can make imaginative naughty children listen obediently, hahaha. Later, Xiao Shu was also naughty. She liked to squat on the bank and throw stones to test when she saw a water pool. She wasn't honest when sleeping at night, running from one room to another. Later, when I remembered this trick, I also used the flood dragon to scare her, and it worked every time..."

Magistrate Ouyang Rong suddenly remembered something and recited casually: "Fighting with an evil dragon for too long, this body will become an evil dragon."

Li Yu suddenly fell silent.

"What's wrong?" Magistrate Ouyang Rong looked at his face.

"Nothing, just remembered Xiao Shu." Li Yu shook his head.

Magistrate Ouyang Rong didn't say anything more and continued to walk forward with his hands behind his back.

Not long after, the two returned to the courtyard. Seeing that the night was deep, Magistrate Ouyang Rong said goodbye directly and strode out the door.

Li Yu looked at the back of the handsome young man leaving with his hands behind his back with a dazed expression. He had followed Magistrate Ouyang Rong back in silence and was prepared for his interrogation and forced palace, but the result was calm...

After walking a distance away, Magistrate Ouyang Rong looked back.

In the courtyard with the door open in the distance, the figure of the slightly fat member was still sitting alone, in the same posture as when he came.

Magistrate Ouyang Rong shook his head. At this time, a crisp sound of a wooden fish rang in his ears.

He pursed his lips.

Returning to the carriage, Magistrate Ouyang Rong immediately closed his eyes and entered the Merit Tower.

Merit: 3671

From saving Li Yu until now, it had increased Magistrate Ouyang Rong's merit value by about 400.

He sighed lightly.

Magistrate Ouyang Rong really had no trap for Li Yu, nor did he covet his merit.

However, being able to increase merit for the little wooden fish represented from the side that this person was a grateful and loyal person.

The quiet courtyard was not far from Chengtiansi. Magistrate Ouyang Rong spent about two quarters of an hour to reach the door.

There were lights in the courtyard. He walked into the door and saw the hall was empty, with lights but no one.

He walked into the courtyard quickly and took a closer look. The food on the table was cold.

"Sister Xiuniang, Sister Xiuniang?"

Magistrate Ouyang Rong shouted, but no one answered.

His heart, which was beating in his chest, instantly fell. He turned around and was about to run out the door to call someone.

"Ah..."

At this time, a weak voice came from the dark bedroom.

The person was still there.

Magistrate Ouyang Rong breathed a sigh of relief, but then frowned. Why did she act like a transparent person without making a sound? What kind of Qi-refining technique was this?

He ran into the bedroom and took a look. It was pitch black. Sister Xiuniang was sitting alone on the bed, holding the quilt with both hands.

She didn't have a ribbon on her small face, looking ahead in the dark.

"What's wrong?"

Magistrate Ouyang Rong walked over with concern.

But he saw some residual tear stains on her small face. Magistrate Ouyang Rong was suddenly flustered:

"Why are you crying again... I, I had something to do today, so I came a bit late."

Zhao Zhao Qingxiu shook her head, grabbed his hand, closed her eyes, and wrote:

It's not blaming the Young Master, I had a dream.

"Dream? What dream?"

Zhao Zhao Qingxiu was only wearing a thin, light blue bellyband, lowering her head, and writing earnestly in Magistrate Ouyang Rong's palm.

It counts as a nightmare, it's fine, I dream of it often, I'm not that afraid anymore.

Magistrate Ouyang Rong comforted her broadly:

"If you're not afraid, why are you still crying? It's fine, you can tell me..."

Zhao Zhao Qingxiu pulled back her hand, hugged her knees with both hands, buried her face deeply, and didn't write anymore.

Magistrate Ouyang Rong sat cross-legged on the side, staring at her, and didn't make a sound.

Today, I polished the detailed outline for the subsequent plot and suddenly thought of a few good points. Now I am full of motivation and want to write it out quickly! ===== CHAPTER 480 =====