The mudflats at midnight were so quiet that you could hear the sound of storks wading in the water. Shen Linlin's cries floated in the air, but no one responded for a long time.
Xiao Nan glanced back at Shen Linlin's somewhat distorted face, and suddenly felt a little pitiful for him.
Is there anyone in this world who can’t get in the door when returning home?
Shen Linlin himself was also very confused about this reasoning. He pulled out the whip and lashed it hard on the ground. The tip of the whip kicked up large pieces of mud on the waterlogged sandstone ground and flew accurately towards Shen Yangyang not far away.
Just before the mud was about to hit the woman, the deer under her suddenly moved, raised its antlers and gently pushed the mud aside.
"How rude." Shen Yangyang's voice was lazy, and her movements were also lazy. Her legs were leisurely crossed, and the night pearls hanging on her toes glittered in the darkness. "How can a brother speak to his sister like this? It's bad enough to say rude words, but he even resorted to violence to hurt people."
The younger brother clearly had no guilt on his face, he just regretted not throwing the sword of the big man next to him away.
"You were the one who started it. This is what Grandma instructed us to do. If we delay it, can you bear the responsibility?!"
The woman named Yangyang tilted her head to look at the people standing on the mudflat, then changed her posture and leaned on the deer's back.
"You're so stupid. The five or six people you brought back earlier weren't the right ones. And now you want me to open the door for you? If Granny investigates, who will take the responsibility?"
When the young man heard this, he became so angry that his face turned red and his neck became thick. He didn't care that there were outsiders present and started cursing on the spot.
"You lazy, despicable, stinking bitch! When Grandma asks you about it, you always take all the credit and push the blame onto me! I've been stuck in that stinking, filthy place called Yueyuan for three whole months without even a chance to shower, and yet you've been hiding out here all this time!"
Shen Yangyang didn't get angry but laughed instead. Even the herding deer under her butt seemed to find it funny and snorted twice.
"It was you who insisted on being in the spotlight and taking on this difficult job. I helped you out of kindness, but you're here to bite me back."
"If you hadn't always been instigating things, how could I have ended up like this?! It's all Grandma's fault for being so old that she was foolish enough to believe you and end up like this! If Daddy were still alive, he would definitely not sit idly by and watch!"
Because he was too excited, Shen Linlin's spit flew far away and landed on the eyelids of Xiao Nanhui who was standing diagonally to his side.
She raised her hand expressionlessly to wipe it off, and felt the muscle on her eyelid, which had been twitching due to lack of sleep, twitching even more happily.
She gave up chasing after that bastard Yan Zi and instead traveled thousands of miles to Huozhou to look for him. She must have made a huge sacrifice. Now, in the middle of the night, she couldn't sleep, but she had to stand in this mudflat with wet shoes and listen to these two siblings quarreling and bickering for no apparent reason.
Thinking of this, Xiao Nanhui couldn't bear it anymore and took a step forward.
"I don't care about your parents, parents-in-law, brothers, sisters, and younger brothers! Is it your Shen family who wants to see someone? Whether you want to see him or not, just give me a straight answer!"
Shen Yangyang finally shifted his gaze to other people, but only glanced at them lightly, as if he didn't really look closely.
"There's a ceremony going on in the mansion tonight. I promised grandma I wouldn't let even a fly in."
She could have said she wouldn't let anyone in, but she mentioned the flies.
It was not known whether these words were spoken to Shen Linlin or to her. Xiao Nanhui just felt that perhaps the person in front of him was a real member of the Shen family. Even though he was not wearing neat silk clothes or driving a luxury car, he was still full of arrogance brought by wealth and power.
She suddenly felt less contemptuous of Chen Linlin. At least he still had some of the characteristics of an ordinary young man, although in a few years these things would disappear.
If it comes to fighting, there may not be anyone present who can be a match for her and Ding Weixiang.
But in the face of power, force is merely a tool of enslavement.
If you want the powerful to bow down, you can only suppress them with greater power.
"Since the Patriarch is unable to leave, we will have no choice but to return." The man beside him spoke calmly, his tone devoid of any disrespect. "My surname is Zhongli. Please report back to the Patriarch later."
After he finished speaking, he didn't even look at Shen Yangyang again. He gently took her hand and turned to leave.
"Wait a minute!"
The deer herding girl finally sat up. She looked at the young man who made her a little confused, and seemed to be weighing something. Finally, she patted the head of the deer under her seat, whispered a few words, then untied the bell from her waist and stood up on the deer's back.
The herdsman raised its head and let out a long cry. At the same time, the bell in Shen Yangyang's hand made a dull sound. The entire herd of deer instantly withdrew their gaze and began to stir. Thousands of hooves and legs rose and fell on the sandstone ground. The slight friction between the fur mixed with the breath from the deer's noses disturbed and vibrated the air.
But in an instant, the deer split into two sides, leaving a small path leading to the depths of the fir forest. At the end of the path was a single-hole city gate that stretched between two stone mountains. Above the city gate was a lonely beacon tower. There were some flames on the four corners of the tower, casting long and sharp shadows on the rusty bronze beacon on the gate.
But Xiao Nanhui's shock at this moment did not come from the miraculous situation before him, but from a vague connection deep in his memory.
If the feeling was not very clear when Yueyuan first saw Shen Linlin driving the herd, now seeing Shen Yangyang's actions and the bell in her hand, she was more certain of the faint restlessness in her heart.
She had seen and heard the same bell once before.
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