Chapter 488 Who still remembers that needle—the embroidery needle from Dongfang Bubai?
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Li Shiyue, who was on everyone's mind, did not sleep well tonight. Around midnight, she suddenly opened her eyes on the kang (a heated brick bed).
Li Shiyue's original plan was to lead her troops to Jian'an first, and then send someone to bring her mother and the others over after she had established herself in Jian'an the following year.
So, she planned to stay at the Li family's house for one night, retrieve the gold and silver hidden in the mountain cellar and the supplies in the paper mill warehouse, and then check the loyalty of Sun Xiaoliu and the others before taking the horse and Sun Xiaoliu back to the Sanshan County garrison.
She had planned to do another thing after returning to the garrison, something very important that she had to do before leaving Jinzhou.
But plans can't keep up with changes. She's stayed an extra day in Lijiatun, so what she originally planned to do after returning to the village will have to be done tonight.
Tonight, Li Shiyue will still be sleeping in a room by herself. Dana, the Turkic girl whom Li Shiyue sent back to the Li family, has been taken back to Gu Lanzhi's home.
This was done with Li Shiyue's consent, and Li's mother also felt that this was the best course of action.
There are three reasons. First, the Li family has Shi Tou, a strong man.
Even though Dana is still a young girl, and even though Stone is a simple-minded person who doesn't understand anything about matters between men and women;
Dana and Stone are not siblings after all, and all this coming and going is ultimately bad for Dana's reputation.
As for Gu Lanzhi's family, Li Wuji has now joined the army and is serving in the garrison. He usually doesn't come home.
If Li Wuji goes home, then let Wuji come to Li's house and spend the night with Shi Tou.
Secondly, Dana was still learning Chinese, but no one in the Li family knew Turkic.
While gestures can be used for everyday communication, they are ultimately inconvenient for learning Mandarin.
Gu Lanzhi lived among the Turkic tribes for more than ten years. Not only could she speak fluent Turkic, but she was also a Han Chinese woman who could read and write.
It would be most suitable for Dana to learn from Gu Lanzhi.
Thirdly, Li's mother told Li Shiyue, "I asked Gu Niangzi, and she has no intention of remarrying. She said she just hopes to live a peaceful life."
Dana was, after all, a Turk, and she couldn't reveal that she had killed the Khan.
Sending her to school would still be difficult, even if Jiang Huai were willing to teach her.
Therefore, it would be better to let Dana stay with Madam Gu. The two of them can live together like this, with Madam Gu taking Dana to work at the horse farm on weekdays. I've seen that Dana is happy with that.”
Li's mother's words made sense, so Li Shiyue agreed.
Thus, apart from the day she accompanied Gu Lanzhi to the Li family to see Li Shiyue, Dana returned to the Gu family with Gu Lanzhi.
However, this did make things easier for Li Shiyue.
She still lives alone in a room.
She got off the kang (a heated brick bed), dressed herself, and then took out a high-tech, full-face mask from the system—a mask that looked like a mirror and could fit her facial skin—and put it on.
Li Shiyue opened the door lightly and went out of the house. She quickly stood up in front of the doghouse in the yard and stroked the heads of each of the big dogs wagging their tails.
Then, without any help, she simply walked to the corner of the courtyard wall, climbed over the high wall, and got out.
When she reached the riverbank, she jumped onto the boulder where she had once lay gazing at the stars, and then she called for the golden eagle.
Li Shiyue stood on a giant rock on the riverbank, reaching her hand upwards. A huge golden eagle swooped down from the night sky, its sharp talons precisely gripping her specially made arm guards, and carried her into the sky.
The night wind howled, making Li Shiyue's robes flutter loudly.
The cold wind high in the sky felt like a knife cutting into her face, but fortunately, Li Shiyue had this mask from the high-tech world, which shielded her from the wind.
Li Shiyue looked down and saw that the outline of Lijiatun looked particularly small in the moonlight.
Following her instructions, the golden eagle headed west.
What is Li Shiyue going to do?
What's to the west?
About half an hour later, the golden eagle began to swoop down.
Li Shiyue was successfully carried by the golden eagle to the Black Mountain in the west.
As soon as her feet touched the ground, Li Shiyue immediately crouched down, using the shadows of the trees as cover to observe her surroundings.
This is a huge mountain, but it's actually all graves.
Whose cemetery can occupy such a vast area?
That would naturally be the highest-ranking official in Andong—the Prince of Zhenbei.
Yes, this is the burial place of the deceased Prince Liu Cong of Zhenbei, his wife Zhao Changying, and the former heir Liu Shu.
Li Shiyue came to retrieve the embroidery needle that she had obtained from the dog system when she killed Liu Shu—the one she had shot into Liu Shu's brainstem—from Dongfang Bubai!
This thing is truly a deadly assassination weapon!
Although Li Shiyue has more than one trump card after the system was upgraded to a free trading system.
But I must say, the embroidery needle is really useful!
If things come to a head in the future, this thing can still be used as a backup plan for Li Shiyue.
At this point, the golden eagle placed Li Shiyue on a secluded hillside and then flew back into the sky.
Li Shiyue hid behind a tree, shook her arms a couple of times, and rubbed her slightly sore and numb forearms. She couldn't help but sigh in her heart: "With Xiao Jin, it's truly a magical artifact!"
In less than half an hour, they traveled from east to west, that's incredibly fast!
Li Shiyue went down the hillside and ran resolutely in one direction.
There was an unspeakable connection between that embroidery needle and Li Shiyue.
This feeling is hard to explain, but it can be understood as Li Shiyue being able to sense the approximate location of the embroidery needle within a certain distance.
It can be said that the closer the distance, the more accurate the positioning.
Therefore, with the circulation of internal energy, Li Shiyue arrived at a small hill in no time.
It was a mysterious feeling, but Li Shiyue knew that Liu Shu's coffin was located two zhang down this earthen slope!
Taking a deep breath beneath the mask, Li Shiyue raised her hand and took out a fist-sized black sphere from the system space.
This thing isn't a product of a future technological world, but rather a product of a cultivation world.
It was a self-defense item that Bai Zixuan gave to Li Shiyue when they made a deal in the past.
In Bai Zixuan's words: "Although I am a sword cultivator, I also know a little about weapon crafting."
This is called Mountain-Breaking Thunder. Its power is controllable, it doesn't require spiritual energy to activate, and it can accurately blast targets without causing widespread destruction. Just press here and throw it out.
Here, I'll give you ten. Throw them around for fun.
If Li Shiyue knew the art of tomb raiding, she could find the tomb entrance and enter, but how could she possibly know any of that?
Moreover, she didn't have the time to do that, so using this "mountain-breaking thunder" was the best solution.
Li Shiyue stepped back two zhang (approximately 6.6 meters), pressed down on the protrusion on the black ball, and threw it accurately towards the earthen slope.
The black sphere in the air emitted a faint red light, and then with a loud "boom," a hole was blasted into the earthen slope.
But that "boom" was really too loud!
Li Shiyue's face under the mask turned black. She thought that next time she traded with Bai Zixuan, she would have to tell him that this "Broken Mountain Thunder" was super loud!
If she had known it was so loud, she wouldn't have needed it!
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