A sudden, hoarse voice broke the silence of the pavilion. Xie Yan looked around warily, but found no one there.
"who?"
"No need to look anymore, I'm inside your body."
"..."
"When the Xiongnu invaded, no one in Qingyuan was willing to fight them, and defeat was inevitable. But if you want to, Qingyuan will not be defeated."
Xie Yan looked around again, and only when he was sure no one was there did he believe that the voice was inside his body.
"Who are you?"
"Who I am is not important. What's important is that I can help you and save everyone in Qingyuan."
Xie Yan scoffed, "How will you help me?"
"Help me kill someone. Once she's dead, I'll tell you, this deal is a win-win. You'll gain everything: money, beauty, and supreme power. At that time, not only will you be able to deal with the Northern Barbarians, but even if five kingdoms invade at the same time, you alone will be able to handle them!"
"Kill whom?" Xie Yan's face was icy cold.
"Zhou Sisi".
Xie laughed, but his eyes grew colder. "I advise you to get out of my body as soon as possible."
His anger seemed to suppress it. Xie Yan clenched his fists, feeling increasingly strange, as if his body had become more and more erratic ever since Zhuang Rongrong died.
First, touching the copper coin would burn him, then touching the little guy would also feel extremely hot, and now someone is talking inside his body.
Could it be that he has a mental problem?
Xie Yan increasingly felt that it was a problem with his mental state. He went to the imperial physician to take his pulse, but after a long time, he still couldn't figure out what was wrong.
The sound reappeared that night when he passed by the little guy's room.
"She is now completely unprepared, and her neck is so thin that she could die with the slightest force."
Xie Yan had no desire to sleep. He leaned against a tree trunk in the yard and asked with interest, "If you want me to kill someone, you have to tell me who you are, right? What if you're just my imagination? Wouldn't I have killed the wrong person?"
The voice grew anxious, "It's not a figment of my imagination, I'm not a bad person, I've come to wake you up."
"Wake me up? Aren't I awake?"
"No, listen to me..."
The door creaked open a crack, and Sisi, rubbing her sleepy eyes, asked in a soft voice, "Fifth Brother, why aren't you asleep yet?"
The voice grew increasingly agitated, "Look, she's awake! I told you to do it, but you wouldn't!"
"You can shut up now."
Sisi noticed his mouth opening and closing. Strange, who was Wu Guoguo talking to? There was clearly no one here.
"Hey, Wu Guoguo, who are you talking to?"
"Own."
Sisi frowned and talked to herself, "Poor Wuguoguo. She was so busy playing with Baoshi and Xiaobai today that she forgot about Wuguoguo."
She stepped forward and took Xie Yan's hand, saying in a childish voice, "Wu Guoguo, I'm sorry, Sisi ignored Wu Guoguo. Sisi doesn't want to sleep anymore. Sisi wants to chat with Wu Guoguo."
Xie Yan's palm trembled slightly. He smiled faintly, "No, you need to go to sleep. Let's talk tomorrow."
"And what about you?" She tilted her head.
Xie Yan lowered her eyes and said, "I'll go to sleep too. You go first. I'll go to the outhouse and then go to sleep."
"Pinky promise." Xie Yan hooked her little finger with his, and the little girl laughed heartily, skipping and jumping back into the house.
Xie Yan looked down at the burn on his palm. Even if there was any reason, how could he bear to kill this little guy?
The city lord's mansion was running low on food. Sun Changjing had Xu Zhenzhen find out the location where the Xiongnu were currently stationed, and they planned to launch a night raid to retrieve the food.
Having not fought a war for many years, You Rong was extremely worried. "Otherwise, let's just forget about it and buy some more from other places at a higher price."
"It's not harvest time yet, and besides, the locusts ate all the wheat seedlings recently, so people in various places have nothing to eat. How can we expect to receive grain?"
Sun Changjing put on his armor and said, "Don't worry, I'm not old yet. This is a good opportunity to practice on this group of Xiongnu. If the Northern Di really can't hold back, I'll kill them all without leaving a single one alive."
"Daddy is so amazing!" Sisi clapped her hands excitedly.
Sun Changjing patted her head with his large hand, "Sisi, be a good girl at home, and Daddy will take you horseback riding when he comes back, okay?"
The little one froze; she saw something, something terrifying.
What a huge fire! Father and Xu Zhenzhen were tied to wooden stakes, and someone was burning them.
The bag was empty; it contained only straw, no grain. Father's attempt to capture him failed, and he was caught.
They want to burn Father alive!
"Sisi is a girl, why is she learning to ride a horse? You're always giving bad advice." You Rong gave her a reproachful look.
"You should take good care of your pregnancy. Hurry up and call that boy out so he can learn martial arts from me. I'm itching to learn."
You Rong snorted, her face full of sweetness, "Alright, be careful and don't rush things."
"knew."
As Sun Changjing was about to leave, Sisi suddenly grabbed his leg and cried out anxiously, "Daddy, it's dangerous!"
Before he could react, the Zhou family's expressions changed drastically. Zhou Erqian asked solemnly, "You brat, stop making trouble and tell me properly, what danger has occurred?"
"The bag is empty, there's no food. The food is in the cave. Father was captured and tied to a stake. They burned Father. It was a huge fire."
You Rong, her face pale, almost lost her balance. "Chang Jing, don't go, don't go, you can't go."
"How do you know?" Sun Changjing frowned. "I've already had Xu Zhenzhen investigate. These Xiongnu are very lazy, walking and stopping frequently. He personally saw the Xiongnu carrying grain into their felt tents."
"Lord City Lord, you are unaware of the truth." Qin recounted the entire story of the bandits and locusts to Sun Changjing.
“We all believe Sisi’s words. The Xiongnu are probably cunning. What if it’s an ambush? Lord City Lord, it would be better not to go this time.”
Sun Changjing hesitated. If that were the case, then the Xiongnu's laziness was just a prelude to catching them in the act.
If he dies, Wuzhou City will surely fall into their hands.
"Then forget it, I still want to..."
Before he could finish speaking, a servant rushed over in a panic. "Sir, there are many people outside the mansion demanding to see you. They say there is no grain for sale in the city and the people are about to starve to death. They beg you to open the granaries and release grain."
The city lord's mansion has granaries where the grain taxes paid by the people every year are stored. In previous years, the city lord's mansion would open the granaries around the New Year to give beggars and refugees a few full meals.
This year, however, locusts have ravaged the land, resulting in a complete crop failure, and there is no grain left in the granaries.
"Do they have no food left at home?"
The servant nodded. "They said there's nothing left. Some people even carried corpses outside the city lord's mansion, saying their families had starved to death and begging you to open the granaries."
"Are they trying to force us?" You Rong said angrily. "We haven't paid this year's grain tax, and there's no grain in the granaries at all. What kind of grain are they storing there for?"
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