Seeing that palm carrying a fierce wind was about to hit his head, Xiao Canglan said quickly: "I have a way."
Venerable Nan saw the little girl pulling another older girl, and the two of them pushed a wooden cart carrying rice and vegetables from the yard outside the big kitchen.
After all, besides the master, there are so many servants in this mansion who also need to eat. This is the cart used for shopping and delivering goods on weekdays.
The two men first worked together to put the grindstone on the cart, but they couldn't move the millstone together.
The two little girls discussed it in a whisper, and found a long bench and a wooden board in the big kitchen and yard, propped them up on the ground, and placed the other end on a wooden cart. Then the two little girls used a wooden stick to pry the millstone, and stood the big round millstone up. Then they pushed together to roll the millstone, set up the wooden board along the slope, and pushed it onto the wooden cart.
After doing all this, the two girls were sweating profusely. They looked at Master Nan and asked, "Can we go now?"
Reverend Nan thought: These two kids are quite smart. If I let them go, I won’t be able to lift the Tianhe Boundary Monument myself, so I have to let them push it to the demon clan.
I also thought that there is not enough demonic energy in the world nowadays. It is said that the demons were once glorious and prominent. At that time, the world was full of hostility, resentment, sorrow and anger, and the demonic energy was nourished and filled freely in the world.
Therefore, the entrances to the demon world and the human world were opened and closed almost at the will of the demons, and were everywhere in the human world. However, the demonic energy in the human world was too weak to support the opening and closing of the demon gates. It was no longer like the legendary days when there were entrances everywhere for demons to enter and exit the human world freely.
Now the entrances opened by the four venerables are either in the deep mountains and forests or in the depths of lakes and rivers. Alas, the scenery is no longer as it was before.
The Demon Clan’s Venerable Nan said, “Push the cart and follow me!” Once these two little kids delivered the Tianhe Boundary Monument to the Demon Clan, it wouldn’t be too late to kill them with one palm.
Venerable Nan cast an invisibility spell, and two little girls pushed the cart while he followed behind.
Shi Canglan looked at his great-grandmother coming towards him, accompanied by many servants, hurrying past him, as if no one could see him. He wanted to shout, but found that his mouth was silent. He could only hold back his tears and leave the house step by step with this bandit.
Shi Canglan has been missing for three years.
Three years ago, shortly after Xiao Canglan disappeared, Shang Huaitang asked Shi Yue if he wanted to take a position at the Ministry of Revenue. Because his daughter had just disappeared, Shi Yue declined.
Originally, the Shi family was worried that their wealth and power would attract kidnappers, so they kept the matter a secret and waited for the kidnappers to come and demand money. They were afraid that if the matter got out of hand and attracted everyone's attention, the kidnappers would end up killing the hostages.
So Shang Huaitang didn't know that such a thing had happened in the Shi family. After thinking about it, Shi Yue told Lord Shang about Canglan's disappearance and the concerns of his family.
Shang Huaitang said after hearing this: "It's been almost a month since the two little girls were kidnapped and no one has contacted the owner. I'm afraid there's something fishy going on.
Your master's family has been rich and powerful for a long time, and it has become even more powerful since your wife took over the family. However, neither the black nor the white world dares to touch anyone from your master's family.
Because your grandmother had benefited countless local farmers and refugees, she was willing to empty her granary and spend money to save them. And in troubled times, heroes emerge. Of the tens of thousands of refugees back then, and the number of refugees is untold, three underworld bosses have publicly admitted to surviving as refugees, eating full meals for three to five days in the Shi family's resettlement house. I suspect some are now officials or military officers, but for the sake of face, they won't publicly acknowledge it. But I'm afraid they still acknowledge this sentiment.
So this isn't just a simple kidnapping. If the killing was done out of spite, then judging by the horrific injuries you described on the body, the person who took your daughter is fully capable of wreaking havoc in the Shi family.
If it's for money, even if there are jealous people, breaking the rules of the underworld and attacking the Shi family, it's not right that no one has contacted you for almost a month.
Why not spread the news a little? In such a big world, maybe someone out there knows something."
Shi Yue went back to discuss the matter with his family. To avoid any accusations of supernatural powers, he had concealed two things from Shang Huaitang. First, the family was missing only a wheelbarrow for transporting vegetables, a whetstone, and a millstone. He feared that Shang Shang was right and that it wasn't about money.
Secondly, according to the servants who escaped alive, the "thing" that killed the servant was not a human being, but probably some kind of monster.
After listening to Shi Yue's retelling of Lord Shang's words, Sun Yannan said, "Then let's try it as Lord Shang said. After all, if time goes on for a long time, I'm afraid it won't be concealed anymore."
After the news was released, although the person was not found, many well-intentioned letters and messages were received, including about a dozen influential people with big names in the black, white and gray circles.
Old Mrs. Shi and Sun Yanan never thought that the Shi family was really being secretly protected by someone.
The Shi family had been searching for three years, and had finally accepted the fact that Canglan would never return. Since neither the official nor the underworld had heard a word, even if someone had done it, with these dozen families helping to investigate for three years, there wouldn't be any clues left.
Three years later, Shang Huaitang once again handed the transfer order from the Ministry of Revenue to Shi Yue: "Now it's not time to ask for your opinion, just issue the order directly and go to Kyoto."
As his mother-in-law had predicted, his father-in-law, Master Chongwen, took a concubine, but he never had a child. The concubine didn't cause any trouble either.
The five cavalry teams have increased to eight, making considerable profits every year. They go deep into King Guanghuai's territory in the name of traveling merchants, bartering goods among the people while signing a contract with King Guanghuai for the annual sale of new rice.
However, seeing that everything was fine, more and more merchants came in to trade with Prince Guanghuai's fiefdom.
Shi Yue and Sun Yanan were going to take the old lady to Kyoto. Shi Chongwen thought that Guan Yongquan of such a big Shi family would finally fall into his hands.
Unexpectedly, Sun Yanan thought about it for a long time and finally decided to temporarily hand over the management of the Shi family to the married woman Shi Wei.
Father-in-law Shi Chongwen had lived a comfortable life for too long, and actually didn't want to worry that much, but he was unwilling to let Shi Chongwen lose face like this. Originally, he wanted to stay in Pingchang County with his concubine, but Shi Wei refused to give him the power of housekeeper, so he said that they should go to Kyoto together.
Sun Yannan thought about it and decided to take them all with him. Leaving them here might cause trouble for Shi Wei.
The family of Lord Sun, the Imperial Censor of Kyoto, is beaming with joy as his daughter, Sun Yannan, who has been married far away in Pingchang County for twelve years, is about to return to the capital.
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