I was favored by the evil god, and I became a white-bone bodhisattva.

I, how did I provoke him? I couldn't provoke him even if I wanted to!

"I......"

As soon as Xie Lingyun opened his mouth, someone put a knife to his neck.

"It's your fault that you didn't transport the Marquis's convoy well, Miss Xie, just consider it your bad luck."

As he spoke, Li Zhuo looked at the little girl who had a confused look on her face and seemed to have not yet realized what was going on.

"Poor, pathetic."

Shaking his head, Li Zhuo gave an order, and the remaining guard easily tucked the little girl under his arm.

"You, why are you trying to catch Tangtang?" The little girl felt very uncomfortable being suspended in the air, so she kicked her legs wildly to try to break free from the man's grip.

"I have my reasons for arresting you"

"What's the point?"

Unexpectedly, the little guy was so serious. Li Zhuo said calmly: "The Marquis's treasure was damaged by you. Now I want to capture you and ask you clearly."

So that’s how it is. Tangtang was shocked.

"Tangtang didn't break anyone else's things. You must have recognized the wrong person. Let Tangtang down. Tangtang will go back and explain everything to you."

Since it was a misunderstanding, the girl thought it would be fine to go back with them and explain it clearly.

Li Zhuo pondered for a moment, looked at his guard and nodded.

............

After a long journey to Chuncheng, we successfully completed the mission and gained unexpected rewards.

All he paid for was a precious jade pendant.

Li Zhuo thought the result was pretty good. Since he was not in a hurry, he decided to have a good rest in Chuncheng for one night and set off tomorrow.

Inhale, inhale——

In the dim woodshed, Xie Lingyun, who was tied up, couldn't help sobbing.

It's not as simple as going through so much trouble to capture them and interrogate them. There is a high probability that they will die!

"Sister Xie, why are you crying?"

Because she behaved quite honestly, the girl was treated well by Li Zhuo - she didn't have to be tied up and was given a steamed bun to fill her stomach at night.

"No, I, suck—"

After sniffing, Xie Lingyun said with red eyes: "It's okay, it's just that half a steamed bun is not enough to satisfy my hunger."

Hearing this, Tangtang immediately ran to the door and knocked.

"Thank you, we are hungry. Let us out. We want to go out and eat something delicious!"

"Tangtang, I'm not hungry. I'm just sleepy. I'm crying because I'm too sleepy." Fearing that the little girl would anger Li Zhuo and get abused, Xie Lingyun immediately closed his eyes and pretended to sleep.

"..."

Sister Xie must be hungry, so Tangtang has to find something for her to eat.

............

There is a water tank in the woodshed, and the water in it is relatively clean.

There was plenty of firewood in the woodshed, but his fire starter had been taken away.

Water and firewood, these two things alone don't seem to be enough to cook anything.

Tangtang was feeling worried when suddenly a small creature crawled past her with a grunt.

Looking closely, I saw that the little thing was a mouse.

The reason why it was crawling so loudly was that the mouse was extremely fat, and its entire body was as round as a small ball.

"Hello"

The little girl likes round things because her sister, Meatball, is also round.

"..."

The fat rat was small in stature and was frightened when he heard Tangtang's voice.

Seeing it panting even more as it crawled towards the rat hole in the corner, the little girl smiled and helped.

"Don't be afraid, Tangtang won't bully you."

He crawled into the hole and soon poked half of his body out.

"Squeak-"

"You're welcome, let's help each other."

"Well, you want to help Tangtang too?"

The little girl thought for a moment and said, "Tangtang needs a fire starter, a pot, and some rice."

"squeak!"

The fat rat went into the cave, and about two incense sticks later, it came out again with a fire lighter in its mouth.

Before Tangtang could praise it for its cleverness, the fat rat took out half a tile, and now it had the pot.

Finally, at the fat rat's signal, the little girl reached her hand into the mouse hole.

The mouse hole seemed to be filled with grains of something, it was millet!

Chapter 026 This is not my granary

Xie Lingyun was pretending to sleep, but after squinting her eyes for a while, she fell asleep unknowingly.

My body is not tired, but my heart is really tired.

Having fallen from the clouds to the mud in one day, she urgently needed a good sleep to soothe her wounded heart.

call--

Suck--

call--

It seems like there is some fragrance.

Sniff, it smells really good, it’s rice porridge!

Xie Lingyun, who was soundly sleeping, was aroused by her appetite, mainly because she was too hungry. Even a steamed corn bread in front of her would be a supreme delicacy, not to mention the fragrant rice porridge.

Slowly raising her eyelids, she saw a little girl squatting on the ground, shelling grains seriously.

"Tangtang?"

"Sister Xie is awake." The little girl turned around and said with a smile, "Tangtang cooked some porridge. I was afraid that Sister Xie wouldn't have enough, so I peeled some more grains now."

Huh?

Xie Lingyun woke up completely. She saw several pieces of firewood burning on the ground and a tile on top of the firewood. There was some rice and water in the tile. The fragrance she had just smelled came from there.

"Thanks to Rat Rat"

Hearing the little girl calling him, the fat rat came out of the hole.

"If it weren't for Rat, Tangtang wouldn't be able to cook porridge."

"squeak!"

The rat rolled around on the ground, looking very happy.

By the way, rolling is faster than crawling. This is the method Tangtang taught it.

Uh, what a fat rat, that's not right!

"Tangtang, hurry up and bring me some burning firewood." Xie Lingyun said quickly, "Help me burn the rope!"

Xie Lingyun was extremely excited when she saw the opportunity to escape right after waking up. As a result, she spoke a little louder by accident.

Well, actually it’s super loud!

squeak-

The door of the woodshed was pushed open, and Li Zhuo walked in with two guards.

"..."

"........"

A look of surprise flashed across his face, and then the man showed an expression of interest.

His eyes swept across Xie Lingyun, the fire on the ground, the tiles, the candies, the rat hole, and finally Li Zhuo focused his attention on the fat rat.

He smiled and walked towards Fat Rat. Seeing this, Tangtang immediately opened his arms and stood in front of his friend.

"Don't bully Shushu!"

....................................

Li Zhuo had no interest in bullying a fat rat. Seeing the little girl staring at him, he shook his head, changed direction and walked towards the rat hole.

He squatted down and dug into the mouse hole, and sure enough, he pulled out a handful of millet.

Li Zhuo's hands did not stop. As he dug out more and more millet, until it piled up into a small hill and he still hadn't dug it all out, the expression on his face became more and more surprised.

He gave a look to his guards. Both of them had followed Li Zhuo for many years. One of them stayed behind while the other immediately went out to check the situation.

Not long after, the guards who went out hurried back.

"There is a granary nearby. This rat must have dug a tunnel and lured the grain from the granary to its own nest!"

What a clever fat rat. But, not smart enough.

"Your own nest is broken and rotten. Instead of digging a tunnel, you might as well give up this woodshed and live directly in the granary."

Li Zhuo laughed loudly, but as he laughed, he gradually couldn't laugh anymore.

I was still laughing at this fat rat, but at least it had found the granary.

Then where is Li Zhuo's "granary"? !

To be fair, Marquis Changle is considered to be the best among all the nobles.

He was never stingy with rewards for talented people, a typical example being himself, to whom he even gave away personal jade pendants.

Therefore, many retainers gathered here, and countless of them were willing to die for the Marquis!

Not only that, Marquis Changle also listened to the advice of others. He had not planned to find any escort agency to escort the money tree, but a retainer strongly advised that he must not let his own people take part in the sacrifice, otherwise the consequences of the separation between the upper and lower levels would be disastrous.

Anyway, with the power of the Marquis' Mansion, anything that happens on the road can be easily settled. It is better to entrust this matter to outsiders and just gather the manpower!

What the retainer said made some sense, so Marquis Changle readily accepted his suggestion.

He has a noble status, is generous with rewards, and is willing to listen to others most of the time. This is the object of loyalty that most people dream of.

What to do...

"The Marquis has no ambition. Even if he has the chance to seize the throne, he will not do it."

"I, Li Zhuo, am a man of statecraft. If I don't assist the true king, how can I realize my ambitions?"

The Marquis of Changle is not a true king, and the foolish King of Wu is certainly not one either.

So, where is the true king?

Li Zhuo's expression changed, and a certain thought in his mind could no longer be suppressed.

.....................................

One hour ago, in the Vajra Sect, the underground stone temple!

Led by Ge Qiurong, the sect's top leaders all kowtowed to a headless dried corpse sitting on a cushion.

There was a small low table in front of the cushion, and the life jade of Marquis Changle was placed on it.

Suddenly, the belly of the headless mummy bulged slightly, and something mysterious, which could be called "destiny", was continuously extracted from the jade pendant.

Jade pendants are dead objects, so naturally they don't have any destiny.

But through this jade pendant, the fate of Marquis Changle is being drained away bit by bit by the headless mummy.