The Spirit World

Chapter 987 Shadow Falling (Twenty-three)
A day ago, the moon was bright and the stars were sparse. Black geese were flying southward, and the lights on Bailing Mountain were dim and no shadows could be seen.

"I still don't understand..."

Chang Yinglan hugged her legs and sat on the bed with a bitter face. There was no trace of time on her young face. The clean moonlight made her skin look delicate and lustrous. Xiao Lan's whole body was cast with a faint blue light on her face, and her face was also noticeably white.

"What don't you understand?"

Xiao Lan smoothed her black hair again and again. It was late at night and she had to go to bed eventually. However, Chang Yinglan was still upset because of what happened during the day and refused to go to bed for a long time. Xiao Lan could only help her straighten her hair.

Even though she enjoyed it.

With such beautiful hair, no one can resist touching it, including fish.

"I don't understand why that guy named Ning Ji cares about me so much..."

Chang Yinglan's voice was very soft, and she spoke slowly and leisurely, as if she were singing.

"I can feel that he cares about me... It's strange... I feel... a little strange... But I can't explain the feeling... It's like... There are ants crawling on my heart... It's itchy... It makes me very irritated... And I'm inexplicably anxious... It makes me want to find out why he cares about me..."

Chang Yinglan couldn't describe her feelings.

She didn't know what love at first sight was, and it was impossible for her to fall in love with a little boy at first sight. There was no physiological reason that made her feel that Ning Ji was special.

"I have to go find Brother Xiuyuan. I can't stay here for too long!"

She tried to stand up, but Xiao Lan pressed her head again.

"Oh! It's so late... Where are you going? No matter what, we have to talk about it tomorrow! As a human being, you are still growing and you need to rest!"

Xiao Lan would definitely not let her run around.

She looked at Chang Yinglan's worried eyes, pouted her lips and muttered: "What is there to think about... That boy is too attentive to you, there must be a reason for it, there must be something fishy! You have to be careful of him!"

She is like Chang Yinglan's best friend in the boudoir, always thinking about her well-being.

"Really... If Chu Yue hadn't been nagging him during the day, he would have come to nag you a long time ago!"

Chang Yinglan was not enlightened, and her confusion did not disappear. Instead, Xiao Lan held her head down and she didn't know how to answer.

The only two words she could utter were "but".

"But……"

There were faint owl calls outside the window.

"No buts...Okay! Now go to sleep! When the sun rises tomorrow, we can leave here!"

Xiao Lan seemed to be confident that they would leave, but in fact, they could not leave immediately. This made Chang Yinglan even more anxious.

At this moment, she might be thinking of thousands of reasons in her mind, but what she was facing was indeed only the light of a single glowing crystal lamp and a small bed for outsiders to sleep on.

Such an empty room was quite deserted, as if her back would whiz by when a cold wind blew.

She had no choice but to grab the quilt and cover herself with it. Xiao Lan screamed and was buried in the quilt.

"We may not be able to leave tomorrow... From what that person said, it seems that we have committed a serious crime and need to be locked up in the most severe cell..."

All day long, Ning Ji told Chang Yinglan like a madman that if she didn't behave herself, she would soon be taken to the Tongtian Viper Prison, where the horror was immeasurable for a cultivator.

In order to avoid being locked up there, Chang Yinglan had to stay here quietly, not going anywhere and doing nothing.

But this is really too exhausting...

This is a situation that shouldn't exist...

"That was just a trick from that bad guy!" Xiao Lan disagreed.

"Can……"

"Nothing but..."

Xiao Lan spread her hands indifferently: "Think about it, we haven't done anything from yesterday until now... We haven't even left the house. If they want to investigate us, there's no way they can accuse us of doing nothing, right?"

Xiao Lan flew into the air with disdain and said sternly: "There is no such logic. I know your human logic is strange, but to be honest, we are not afraid of our own flaws. We are not afraid of their investigation at all. The more thorough the investigation, the more it can prove our innocence, don't you think?"

Her logic is clear and she has a special kind of confidence.

This confidence comes from a kind of innocence and also from her own innocence as a spiritual animal.

"That's right..."

Chang Yinglan is the daughter of the city lord. She has not seen many unjust, false and wrongful cases, but the incident that she remembers the longest was from a very simple matter.

A wealthy businessman wanted to seize a farmer's land, so he wantonly destroyed the farmer's crops and sued the farmer for stealing his rice in a very bad manner. When he was discovered, he became furious and destroyed the rich businessman's rice in his own fields.

The city lord did not immediately judge who was right or wrong, but first detained the defendant, that is, he arrested the farmer first, and then asked the rich businessman to appear in court to identify whether the rice destroyed by the farmer was his own.

The rich businessman insisted that the rice belonged to his family, and he burst into tears during the trial. He cursed the farmer and picked up the rice while crying.

The city lord sentenced the farmer to the crime of stealing and destroying rice. He was required to return all the stolen and destroyed rice to the rich businessman, compensate the rich businessman and be locked up in a cell for half a month.

In the end, the rich businessman not only got the rice and money, but also the whole piece of land. The unlucky farmer lost not only the rice, but also his family and children.

It was just because her father, the city lord, received a large sum of money from a wealthy businessman.

Rich businessmen have money, so naturally they have the support of forces like her father.

[Those who were upright and honest received the punishment they deserved]

She knew about this only because her mother passed by the rich businessman's field and her mother carefully told her how the rich businessman came to own the field.

Her mother kindly warned her to be careful with this person and not to be coveted by her or show inappropriate emotions.

More importantly, I have to follow my mother closely in this field.

The current situation is very similar to what my mother said. She definitely doesn't want to mention this matter again in her life, because she's scared just by thinking about it.

She was clearly innocent, but she ended up going to jail.

It's not miserable.

If Ning Ji, or someone who manages the Tongtian Viper Prison, accepted money from others like her father, the city lord, and wanted to throw her into prison with everything revealed, then she would have to be shrouded in the shadow of that for the rest of her life.

Such a thing obviously sounds absurd, but the rich businessman is always more clear about his innocence than the farmer.

Then this thing happened extremely realistically.

It became a false and wrongful conviction.

It seems natural that it is the accused, not the accuser, who is the one whose family is destroyed.

But the truth is frightening.

Chang Yinglan's feet were cold from the fear she felt, but she couldn't convey her feelings to Xiao Lan, so she could only lie in bed with her eyes wide open, feeling upset and sleepless.

(End of this chapter)