We three didn't talk much as we led Sanfu back home. Although there was a smell of raw meat in the package, it was on Sanfu's body after all. Sanfu had dragon energy in his body, that is, the energy of the dragon master, so those wild beasts didn't dare to attack easily. But it would take a long time to walk back like this. We probably walked back to the post station when it got dark.

After returning to the post station, I had to ride Sanfu to retrieve the backpack of food that I had given to Bailu from the earthen tower before, and then I was ready to set off. However, Yunwen didn't plan to stay alone with Bailu, so she followed me to the top of the mountain, and I asked Song Bailu to prepare all the food at home.

On the way up the mountain, I said, "Yunwen, it's only a month. If she is not pregnant, it can be seen. If there is no crisis outside, then she has nothing to do with me and can no longer threaten me with those reasons. Then I can send her away. What do you think?"

She sighed and said, "How can she be driven away so easily? In fact, I saw a lot of clues at that time. When we were flirting in the house, she just happened to barge in. How could it be such a coincidence? I'm afraid she has been listening to me for a long time, so she deliberately chose that time to come in and cause a conflict. She knew that I was soft-hearted, so she would definitely let you chase her. That's why she went to the hillside instead of going to the forest to deliberately make you lose her. If you find her again, we will feel sympathy for her and will often use this trick later. She knows people's psychological weaknesses very well, and she has done it again and again, so it should be difficult for us to drive her away again."

"That's true. As the saying goes, weakness overcomes strength. She always uses this to control our right and wrong and guide us. So what should we do now?" I asked.

"We can only take one step at a time. After we go back, we will set rules and try to have less contact with her. I will be careful about her use of medicine to prevent similar situations from happening again. The aphrodisiac is not easy to mix. She prepared it a long time in advance. It seems that she had planned it for you. I will try my best to urge her. On the other hand, you should also hurry up to investigate the situation of the White Fox Fairy. It would be best if you can clear her name. In this way, when we confirm that she is not pregnant, we can eliminate her excuses. By then, she will have gotten over the sadness of Yingchun's death, and then we can send her away without any problem." Yunwen said.

"So, what if it's confirmed that she's pregnant?" I asked.

I was embarrassed when I said this, and Yunwen sighed for a moment and said, "Then there is nothing we can do. We can't drive your flesh and blood away, right? Wouldn't that make me a sinner? If that's the case, I can only keep the mother and son and take good care of them."

When they came back from getting the things, it was completely dark. Bai Lu had cut all the meat. Some of it was soaked in water, some was hung up, and some was planned to be eaten tonight.

Bailu was stewing beef bone soup in the kitchen. When she saw us come back, she immediately helped to prepare it. She cut the beef on the ribs into slices and then stewed potato cubes and black fungus with the beef bone soup. She adjusted the seasoning and added about three or four potatoes, five or six fungus, and some wild vegetables. It was basically a pot of fresh beef bone soup, and the method was somewhat similar to hot pot.

I remember the last time we had hotpot together, there were four of us, but now there are only three of us left. This meal no longer had the joyful atmosphere of the past. Although the food in the pot was hot, it felt a little lonely for some reason.

After a tiring day, after finishing the meal, I said a few words about rules, which were nothing more than some warnings, which roughly meant not to make trouble, not to do anything treacherous, and to firmly resist her going upstairs again. Then we left the table. Yunwen and I went upstairs, while Bailu stayed downstairs. She was cleaning up the dishes, and her back was desolate.

In the days that followed, Yunwen and I would occasionally talk, but we mostly avoided Bailu. The two of us also tried our best to avoid her and not give her any chance to play tricks. She also understood and became very quiet from then on. Sometimes I only heard her mumbling downstairs as if she was talking to Song Yingchun, but I rarely heard her talk on weekdays.

The time she talked the most was seven days later. She wanted to burn something for Yingchun, so she rode Sanfu to Yingchun's grave that day. Before that, she carved an inscription on a relatively flat stone, with Yingchun's name on it. After arriving at the cemetery, she placed the stone there, and collected fresh flowers and placed them on the grave. She also dug a hole, burned some paper, and placed some freshly picked fruits on the grave, as a gift for Song Yingchun on the seventh day.

She muttered something about asking Yingchun to come to her in her dreams, and then after she went back with me, she became quiet again.

Yunwen and I followed the plan. We were on guard against her and noticed if she was pregnant. At the same time, we spent some time to find out some information in the castle. Yunwen always felt that Hu Lingshang might have been wronged. If we wanted to find out if she was wronged, we had to look for other clues and information about Yingchun's death. However, there was nothing nearby. I remembered that when Yingchun died, there was a cut on her chest, and it was pierced from the back. Either the white fox's tail formed a cone, or it was some kind of magic, or a sharp weapon pierced through her chest.

But if it was a sharp weapon, it would have left behind blood-stained tools, but Yunwen and I have searched the area of ​​several hundred meters and found nothing, so Hu Lingshang is the most likely suspect.

However, during the search process, we did discover some secrets in the castle. For example, in the third room on the second floor that Song Yingchun used as the master bedroom, which was located in the center, I discovered a dark room after listening to the sound. There was another staircase in the dark room. Going down, we could find a dungeon. Yunwen and I saw some copper furnaces and the like in the dungeon. There was a pool in the dungeon, and the pool emitted a foul odor that made people feel nauseous.

But here, the iron cage in the dungeon has been opened, and there are many scratches near the cage, as if scratched by fingernails. The door of the cage was opened by the door lock. It must have been opened by someone. There was only one thing in the cage, that is, the iron chain and the iron ring. Obviously, someone had to untie it.

When I touched the scratches on the iron cage, I found that some of them were very fresh. They didn't look like they were made hundreds of years ago, but rather recently. If what I speculated was true, then the thing that was released might have recently broken free, and it might have been Yingchun who did it. But if the other party was a living creature and had lived for five hundred years, and there was no food or supplies down there, that would be a bit scary.

There is also a strange formation on the left and right of Yingchun's copper furnace. She said before that she knows some Taoist magic. Although I don't know what she is doing, it must be related to this. You can tell by the talismans stuck on the copper furnace.

This is what Yunwen and I discovered. Although we don’t know if it is related to Yingchun’s death, we did find some clues. We also noticed something strange, but the air there was too bad, so we quickly left.

During this period, in addition to the trivial matters mentioned above, Yunwen and I often went to the beach together to get some fine salt for Bailu to pickle food. We also went together to collect fruits, get milk, climb mountains, etc. Anyway, we were often not at home, both to intentionally avoid Bailu and to go out to relax. Of course, Bailu would not do all the work, but it was also shared equally.

But I said that apart from food, clothing and daily necessities, I would not give her anything else. I guess she understands what I mean now.

In the blink of an eye, a month passed. During this period, we had both meat and vegetables, and the wheat had a good harvest. It was all prepared in the same way as before. After being exposed to the sun, beaten with flails, and the bran removed, it was then sorted out with a stone mill to make flour for consumption. As for the pickled meat, we would eat some in each meal, and keep most of the vegetables. It would be no problem to eat them for a month or two, so there was basically no problem with the food.

While eating these, they also planted a new batch of potatoes. This time they planted a large amount, and when the harvest comes, the amount will be more than twice as much as before. In this way, they will have food and seeds, and they will be able to prepare enough food for the winter, so there will be no famine again.

That night, we were sitting around eating a meal, which was a plate of cold black fungus, stewed beef and wild vegetables, and some pickles that Bai Lu had made herself, when there was a knock on the door.

The three of us looked at each other in bewilderment. Who else would knock on the door besides the three of us? Could it be that Song Yingchun's ghost had returned?

As we were thinking about this, a voice suddenly came: "A friend has come from afar, why do you turn him away?"