Chapter 27 Can you gather spiritual energy?
"Master Supervisor, I need talisman paper, cinnabar and a quiet room."
Qiao Niannian made a request, and Wang Xuanzhi immediately asked someone to prepare a stack of talisman paper and cinnabar.
As for the quiet room, Wang Xuanzhi took the initiative to give up the place where he usually drew talismans.
Qiao Niannian was about to turn around, Xia Rongyu took the initiative to step forward and took the tablet and the heart-protecting mirror: "Why don't I send someone to send these things back to the mansion!"
Qiao Niannian thought this suggestion was good and thanked him immediately.
After Qiao Niannian entered the room, Xia Rongyu took a lot of talisman paper and cinnabar from Wang Xuanzhi and asked his men to send them back together.
Wang Xuanzhi didn't say much, after all, these things were what Qiao Niannian wanted.
Xia Rongyu arranged everything and turned to enter the room, but was stopped by Wang Xuanzhi.
"Prince, drawing talismans requires concentration, you'd better not go in."
Xia Rongyu straightened his robes and said in a neutral voice: "I will naturally not disturb Master Qiao from drawing talismans."
After that, he was about to go in.
Wang Xuanzhi glared, that's fine.
Then you can go in, and I can go in too.
Thinking of this, Wang Xuanzhi wanted to follow in.
Xia Rongyu saw his action and looked disgusted.
"You want to go in too, can you gather spiritual energy on your body?"
"No!"
"Then what else can you do except get in the way?"
After that, Xia Rongyu pushed the door and walked in.
He can gather spiritual energy, which is very useful to Qiao Niannian.
Wang Xuanzhi: ...
your changed fate, which worried the Imperial Master so much that he went out to find a solution, can it turn into an advantage one day? !!!
He was not convinced.
It was just a spirit gathering array set up by the Imperial Master!
If it weren't for the spiritual energy nourishing the purple energy in your body, your fate would have been stolen long ago.
Wang Xuanzhi would never admit that he was jealous.
The more Xing Zhong looked at Wang Xuanzhi, the more he felt something was wrong. Wang Xuanzhi was a supervisor after all, and he was a master of Taoism. Now he looked like a running errand boy.
He asked curiously: "What is the origin of this Master Qiao? You have never been so attentive to the emperor before."
Wang Xuanzhi rolled his eyes: "What do you know? The emperor is the son of heaven, of noble status, but he does not understand Taoism. Master Qiao is different. He is a benefactor..."
Wang Xuanzhi's voice became lower and lower, and Xing Zhongqiu did not hear it clearly.
But he did not care what Wang Xuanzhi said. The most important thing at the moment was to solve the problem of the snake demon.
The emperor and the old tutor were waiting for news in the palace!
If they did not solve the problem and bring the old tutor's granddaughter back safely, the emperor would come to solve them without waiting until tomorrow.
"Then you wait here for Master Qiao and the prince, I will arrange the staff and set off at any time."
Wang Xuanzhi did not refuse.
At this moment, the palace.
The emperor finally appeased the old tutor and took time to see Marquis Mingyuan.
Emperor Jing'an looked exhausted.
"My dear, what urgent matter is there that requires you to see me at this time?"
The old tutor's granddaughter had been missing for two days and had been crying in his palace for two days. The crying made Emperor Jing'an physically and mentally exhausted. He didn't want to see Qiao Chushan at first, but he remembered that Qiao Chushan was Qiao Nian Nian's father.
Emperor Jing'an dragged his tired body to see him. Marquis Mingyuan
knelt directly on the ground.
"Your Majesty, I have found some things. Please take a look."
Qiao Chushan had been investigating the loss of the batch of grain and grass for two consecutive days.
But time was too tight, and two days could only find out what happened at that time.
Qiao Chushan was not sure about convincing the emperor to transport grain in two routes.
But for his son, Qiao Chushan tried his best.
"Your Majesty, I think the loss of grain last time was too strange. We also took this route to transport grain in previous wars, but nothing happened. Why did the barbarians rob the grain this time?" "
And these barbarians have never been involved in transporting grain for so many years."
The barbarians often make some small moves, and from time to time they go to the border villages to rob food, but they always walk in the border areas.
The transportation of grain is to a location deeper in the territory of the Great Xia Dynasty.
This location has never been reached by the barbarians for so many years.
In other words, this location is more dangerous. If the barbarians come here and the Great Xia Dynasty gets the news and rushes over there, the barbarians will not have time to escape.
Therefore, they dare not go deep into it easily.
Even if they go deep, they may encounter people escorting grain and grass. It will take at least an hour and a half to go back and forth.
But these barbarians seemed to have calculated the time accurately. They quickly killed the people escorting grain and grass. They did not fight and directly left with so much grain and grass. It only took an hour in total.
The whole team was not in a panic at all, as if it was planned.
Emperor Jing'an unfolded the map, which clearly marked the distance, time, and the routes where the barbarians often moved. They had indeed never appeared in the area where the grain and grass were escorted.
"This line is close to the border, and all this may be just a coincidence."
"Based on these speculations, I can't believe you."
Going by water is easy to say, but it is very difficult to do.
Going by water requires building large ships, which will increase the cost, manpower, and time. Doing so will only make the soldiers at the border hungry for a few more days.
Originally, the food and grass were gathered, and he was planning to let Qiao Chufeng quickly bring people to escort the food and grass back, but Qiao Chushan came to him and made a guess.
No one else would believe what Qiao Chushan said.
Qiao Chushan insisted on his opinion: "Your Majesty, what if, I mean what if this is true, if so much food is robbed by the barbarians again, what should the soldiers at the border do? Please think twice, Your Majesty."
He knew that the emperor would not believe him based on his own ideas.
But he could not tell his daughter's thoughts.
Now he had no choice but to make a death-defying remonstrance.
If the emperor did not agree, he would kneel down and never get up.
Emperor Jing'an thought it was ridiculous.
He did not want to say more to Qiao Chushan, but just when he was about to refuse, he suddenly changed the subject.
"Does your daughter think so too?" Marquis Mingyuan's
mind was full of death-defying remonstrations, and he was a little confused when he heard Emperor Jing'an's words.
Daughter?
Are you talking about Nian Nian?
Nian Nian has nothing to do with this matter. "Your Majesty, my daughter just misses her elder brother too much, but this matter..." He hadn't finished saying the three words "it has nothing to do with it