The door finally opened. Seeing Yan Niang Niao Niao stepping out of the threshold, Zhong Zhiqing rushed forward with trembling hands and feet, "Girl, Min'er...how is she?"

Yan Niang smiled slightly, "That thing can't come out for the time being, and Miss Zhong has already fallen asleep."

Zhong Zhiqing let out a heavy breath, then his heart tightened, and he looked up at her again, "What the girl means is that the ghost bird has not disappeared, it is still in Min'er's belly?"

Yan Niang nodded, playing with the braids in her ears with her fingers, "Only by killing Qu Zinniao and destroying its soul, the bird will completely disappear."

Zhong Zhiqing stepped forward and asked anxiously, "Where is that Qu Zin?"

Hearing this, Yan Niang raised her eyebrows slightly, her eyes tightly locked Zhong Zhiqing's face full of sweat, and asked word by word, "Where are Lord Cheng and Xun'er?"

Zhong Zhiqing was stunned, sweat fell down. After his eyes turned a few times, he lowered his voice, "How could the girl know..."

Yan Niang's voice suddenly became cold, "There are more than one ghost bird in Zhong Min's belly, so her belly grows much faster than others. My talisman paper can only seal them for a few hours. If you want to continue playing puzzles with me, don't regret it then."

Hearing this, Zhong Zhiqing felt like falling into an ice cave. He was stunned for a while before looking at the woman in front of him who had never cared about his heart for a while, and whispered, "How did you know?"

Yan Niang smiled brightly and looked at his clothes dyed by gentian. "The salt ship is over. The lord should go back to Bianliang with Cheng Dexuan, but what should he do when he takes a boat to the canal?"

Although Zhong Zhiqing didn't understand how she knew she had gone to the canal, after hearing this, he knew that the matter had been completely exposed. So he stopped defending and said slowly to Yan Niang, "If I let them go, you will kill Qu Zinniao and save Min'er's life?"

Yan Niang sneered, "Mr. Zhong, I'm afraid you have no room to bargain with me now." Speaking of this, a cold light flashed deep in her eyes, and her voice became much lower. "Before midnight tonight, I will see the Cheng family father and son come back safely. If they lack a hair, I will ask your daughter to bury them."

After saying that, she walked to the gate of the yard, nodded slightly at Jiang Xixi and Xu Ziming who had been guarding there, indicating that everything was under their control, and the few of them walked out along the corridor.

The afterglow of the setting sun became fainter and fainter behind them. When the last ray of sunlight was about to disappear from the ground, Yan Niang suddenly stopped and looked back at the courtyard behind her.

Seeing that she suddenly stopped, Jiang Xixi and Xu Ziming both turned around and looked at her back in surprise. Just as Jiang Xixi was about to say something, a strong wind suddenly felt a passing wind pass by, and sand and dust fell down, covering her eyes. She rubbed her eyelids with one hand, and the other hand subconsciously blocked her, but at this moment, a smell of fishy burnt scent rushed into her nose, completely breaking her consciousness that was still in Hongmeng.

"Quzinu, it's Quzinu..." She screamed helplessly, and her body stumbled forward, wanting to remind Yan Niang to pay attention.

But suddenly, Zhong Zhiqing's scream came from his ears. Soon, accompanied by a sound of "Hula Hula" flapping his wings, a cold and stiff thing hit her waist heavily, knocking her to the ground.

"Miss Jiang, are you okay?"

Yan Niang's slightly panicked voice came to her ears. Jiang Xixi turned her head confusedly and grabbed Yan Niang's arm, "Miss Yan, it's Qu Zinniao, hurry up and chase... hurry..."

Yan Niang didn't move, but reached out to Jiang Xixi's lower abdomen and touched it carefully. Finally, she sighed with relief, "I'm confused. Your body is different from others, so it can't..." At this point, she paused for a moment, stood up neatly, and said, "Sir and Xun'er were robbed by them and were on a boat fifteen miles south of the pier. You guys quickly take people to find them, I'll chase the beast."

After saying that, Qingli's figure had reached the end of the corridor, and then disappeared after a turn.

Xu Ziming was still stunned. He looked at Jiang Xixi, then looked outside the door and said tremblingly, "Miss Jiang, the bird took Zhong Zhiqing away. I saw it hooking the back of his neck with the bird's beak, as if it was holding a bug in his mouth. It was so scary. I don't know if Miss Yan can deal with it alone."

Jiang Xixi knew that Yan Niang had a strange skill, so she was not worried. She rubbed her sore eyes, but her mind fell somewhere else, "Brother Xu, did you hear Miss Yan just now? She said that my body was different from others, what did this mean?"

***

The sound of the bells went from far to near, from weak to strong, and struck Zhong Zhiqing's head like an iron hammer, awakening him from chaos.

He forced himself to suppress the fear in his heart and opened his eyes: Fortunately, there was no pair of bird eyes like paper money in front of him, only the mountain wind blew over his head one after another, blowing all his tied hair away.

He endured the stinging pain from the back of his neck, and wanted to get up with his hands on his feet, but as soon as he stood up, he heard the sound of stones falling behind him. He was shocked. He turned around and looked back. However, after turning around, he was so scared that his hands and feet were weak and he collapsed on the ground again.

Behind him is a cliff that is thousands of feet tall. The cliff wall is inserted into the canal like a sharp axe, intercepting the surging river water. The waves hit the rock wall and making a thrilling roar.

The strange bird, covered in black, stood on the edge of this standing dangerous peak, clutching a raised stone on the cliff wall with its claws tightly, and its pale eyes stared at him without blinking.

Zhong Zhiqing looked at it and for some reason he was a little dizzy. A mist suddenly rose in front of him, as if in front of him was not a strange big bird, but those charred corpses stacked together.

When he was salvaging the ship that was burned by the fire sixteen years ago, he was not at the scene, but in the court, he heard people talk about the tragic situation after the fire was extinguished: most of the people who were burned to death could not tell the appearance, their bodies were charred and twisted, and they were piled on the edge of the canal. From a distance, they looked like a black hill.

Over the years, although he occasionally remembered those people who died because of him, he never really took this matter in his heart, and he didn't even have the slightest repentance.

In his heart, there has always been a concept that people are born with superiority and inferiority. Some people cannot dominate their own destiny. They live or die, but are just serving another group of people.

But being born like an ants is floating, who can I blame?

But now, when facing those resentful eyes, the hard shell wrapped in his heart suddenly cracked, and a wave of fear that had never been seen before spreading, filling his chest with it.
Chapter completed!