Chapter 46 Mother is Dead

What did you do to my mother?

She suddenly turned her head and glared at Minister Song, her voice trembling with sobs, her eyes filled with rage.

Vice Minister Song's face darkened.

"How dare you! Are you questioning me? I am your maternal grandfather. How dare you speak to me like that?"

Li Nanke clenched her little hands tightly, but still couldn't stop her little body from trembling.

The pool of blood on the floor terrified her.

At that moment, she had only one thought in her mind: something had happened to her mother, and she had to find her mother.

She stared intently at Minister Song, each word uttered slowly and deliberately, as if squeezed out from between her teeth.

Where is my mother?

“I already told you your mother has gone home. What are you doing, a little kid? Stop standing there and go.”

Vice Minister Song turned around, flicked his sleeves, and walked outside.

Li Nanke stubbornly blocked his way, glaring up at him.

"Give me back my mother!"

"You little brat, can't you understand human language?"

Song Shilang impatiently pushed her away.

Li Nanke staggered, her back slamming heavily against the door frame, the pain almost bringing tears to her eyes.

Seeing that Vice Minister Song was about to leave, she gritted her teeth and blurted out.

"Before I came here, I not only borrowed the Snow Eagle from Prince Xuan, but also sent my servants to Bianjing Prefecture to report that my mother had gone missing."

If he doesn't see his mother, Prince Xuan and Lord Wei from Bianjing Prefecture will arrive in less than the time it takes for an incense stick to burn.

"Does my maternal grandfather want the yamen runners of Bianjing Prefecture to search our house, or does he want Prince Xuan's guards to search it?"

"What did you say!"

Minister Song stopped in his tracks, then turned around in a fit of rage.

"What did you just say, you brat? Say it again?"

With red eyes, Li Nanke tried her best to control herself, not daring to show the slightest fear.

"If I don't see my mother within the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, Grandfather should think about how to explain this to Prince Xuan!"

"You bastard!"

Minister Song was furious and raised his hand to slap him.

Li Nanke remained motionless, her round eyes staring at him.

He shouted, "Try hitting me!"

The sound entered his eardrums, and Minister Song suddenly remembered the words on the paper hanging around Xueying's neck.

He shivered inexplicably, and stopped abruptly just as the palm wind was about to touch Li Nanke's face.

He glared at Li Nanke with eyes that seemed to want to devour her.

Li Nanke's small hands were behind her back, so nervous that her neat nails dug a row of crescent-shaped marks into her palms, but she didn't feel any pain.

She felt a terrible panic, her eyes stung and burned, and tears kept welling up in her eyes, almost bursting out, but she gritted her teeth and desperately held them back.

Xueying has already run from the ancestral hall to the back; he must have found a clue about his mother.

Before Xueying finds her mother, she must try her best to hold off her maternal grandfather and prevent him from stopping Xueying.

Even if it means death, we must not back down.

Father is in prison, grandfather doesn't care about them, grandmother is sick, and mother only has her.

But right now, she is too weak and powerless to fight against a powerful figure like Minister Song.

She could only rely on the power of Shen Cong and Bianjing Prefecture to bully others.

She glared at Minister Song, trying to convey with her eyes that what she said was true.

However, Vice Minister Song had been immersed in the court for many years and was not someone who could be intimidated by a few words.

He sneered, then suddenly squatted down and tugged at Li Nanke's collar.

"Little girl, do you think I'll be scared just because you bring up Prince Xuan and Bianjing Prefecture? Heh, your grandfather has eaten more salt than you've eaten rice over the years."

Even if Prince Xuan and Lord Wei of Bianjing Prefecture came, they could not arbitrarily search my Song family.

"Ha, since you refuse to leave, then I'll personally escort you out."

After saying that, he grabbed Li Nanke by the back of her collar, lifted her up, tucked her under his arm, and strode outside.

"Let me go!"

Li Nanke tried desperately to grab and kick, but Song Shilang grabbed both of her thin wrists with one hand.

No matter how much she struggled, it was all in vain.

Li Nanke realized once again that she was completely unable to move under the absolute strength of an adult.

Without thinking, she opened her mouth and bit down hard on Minister Song's arm.

hiss.

Minister Song, in pain and enraged, threw her away.

Li Nanke was thrown heavily to the ground, and excruciating pain shot through his elbows and back.

"Woof woof woof!"

Suddenly, a series of rapid and somewhat frantic barking sounds came from behind the ancestral hall.

Accompanied by the clear sound of copper bells, the snow eagle flew over.

Ignoring the pain in his body, Li Nanke stumbled over.

"You can smell your mother's scent, can't you?"

"Woof woof!"

Xueying used his teeth to bite her clothes and dragged her to the back of the ancestral hall.

Without the slightest hesitation, Li Nanke immediately ran after him.

Enraged, Vice Minister Song chased after him.

The back corner of the doorway.

Li Nanke and Xueying, one human and one dog, were both glaring at the old woman standing at the back door.

"Open the door."

"Woof woof woof!"

The old woman guarding the gate nervously protected the key hanging from her waist, deliberately trying to scare Li Nanke.

"The master and mistress have a rule that the side gates are locked after dark, so Miss, you should go back quickly."

It's completely dark now, and there are a lot of bad guys around. Be careful not to get caught by child traffickers.

Li Nanke glanced at the snow eagle and saw its nose twitching incessantly as it kept calling out towards the back of the side gate.

Her face was cold and stern.

I don't have time to waste arguing with an old woman.

She reached out and patted Xueying, pointing to the key hanging from the old woman's waist.

"Snow Eagle, go and snatch the key."

Without saying a word, Xueying raised its front legs and pounced directly at the old woman.

The old woman was so frightened she almost fainted; her legs went weak, and she collapsed to the ground.

The snow eagle pounced with its sharp teeth, precisely grabbing the key from the old woman's waist and pulling it down.

Li Nanke snatched the keys and quickly ran towards the back door.

"stop."

Vice Minister Song was faster, grabbing Li Nanke and lifting him up.

Li Nanke was so anxious that he kicked his legs in the air and shouted angrily, "Snow Eagle, bite him!"

"Woof woof woof!"

Xueying leaped up and pounced on Minister Song.

Just then, a loud noise suddenly rang out.

Clang!

The back door was suddenly kicked open from the outside.

The two doors swayed violently several times in the wind mixed with rain before finally stopping.

Two gleaming longswords were thrust in from outside the door, their tips adorned with drops of bright red blood mixed with raindrops, which fell one by one.

It's chilling.

Two trembling, barely recognizable old women were being held hostage by the sword, and a stretcher lay on the ground.

Song Yi lay there, her face as pale as paper, her lotus-colored clothes almost completely soaked in blood.

"Mother!"

Li Nanke screamed and struggled desperately to break free from Song Shilang's grasp.

I stumbled and ran there.

"Mother, wake up!"

She knelt down in front of the stretcher, crying and shaking Song Yi, but received no response.

The tears she had been trying so hard to hold back suddenly burst forth like a dam breaking.

"Mother, please don't scare Ke'er, okay? Wake up."

No matter how much she shook or called out, Song Yi lay quietly, her face as clear as paper, as if she were asleep.

Tears blurred his vision, and Li Nanke trembled with fear.

She wiped away her tears with her sleeve, and with trembling hands, she reached under Song Yi's nose to feel her nose.

No breathing detected!

She felt as if she had been struck by lightning, as if the sky was about to collapse!

"Mother!"