When Yin Rongrong changed from a stupid girl to a shrewd and capable girl, the good days of those Fusang onmyoji came to an end.

Yin Rongrong took advantage of the weakness of human nature and let those onmyoji enter the net one after another.

Fei Xuechun trained this girl well, and the idiot-like white-eyed girl disappeared.

Now there is only one powerful professional woman left, such a woman has made a move against the onmyoji under Tang Zhaozong, and those onmyoji have not had time to show their skills, and they have fallen into the net that Yin Rongrong has arranged.

In order to find out how his onmyoji disappeared mysteriously, Tang Zhaozong sent his henchman, Zhou Nanheng, a person from the rivers and lakes, to inquire about the situation.

Jack heard the kid crying," Ellen explained, "and he was walking to the river, to a place on the north side, where you could shoot a duck with a stone, if you could shoot it right." He didn't know what to do, so he ran home and called me. But as we were walking along the road, we saw a priest riding a tamed horse with the baby in his arms. ”

Tom said, "I've got to find him—"

"Don't worry," said Allen, "I know where he is. He turned a fork in the road, not far from the grave; A path leads to a small monastery hidden in the woods. ”

"Babies need milk."

"The monks have goats."

"Thank God," Tom said warmly.

"I'll take you there when you've got something to eat," she said, "but ......," she frowned, "don't tell your children about the monastery yet." ”

Tom looked at the other end of the clearing. Alfred and Martha were still asleep. Jack had already run over to where they were lying, and was looking at them with his blank look. "Why not?"

"I don't know...... I just thought, it would be wiser to wait. ”

"But your son will tell them."

She shook her head. "He saw the priest, but I don't think he understood anything else."

"Well," said Tom, feeling solemn, "if I had known you were nearby, you might have saved my Agnes' life." ”

Alan shook her head, her dark hair fluttering around her face. "There's nothing you can do but warm her, and you've done that. When a woman has massive internal bleeding, either the bleeding stops and she is fine, or the bleeding can't stop and she has to die. Tears welled up in Tom's eyes, and Alan said, "I'm sad. ”

Tom nodded.

"But the living have to take care of the living, and you need something hot to eat and a new coat," she said. She stood up.

They woke up two children. Tom told them that the baby was alive and well, and Alan and Jack saw a priest take him away; Tom and Alan were going to find the priest later, but Alan had to give them something to eat first. The two children were calm when they heard the shocking news: there was nothing to shock them now. Tom was still in a daze. For him, life was going too fast for him to accept all these changes, as if he were riding on a galloping horse: everything happened so quickly that there was no time to react to events, he could only stay firmly on the horse and try to stay awake, and there was nothing else he could do. Agnes gave birth in bitterly cold nights; The baby was miraculously born healthy; Everything seemed to be going well, but then Agnes, Tom's soul mate, died of blood loss in his arms, and he was not in his right mind; Babies are left to die because they are left to die; Then they tried to find him, but they couldn't find him; Then Ellen appeared, and Tom mistook her for an angel, and they had sex as if in a dream; She said the baby was alive and well. Can't life slow down and allow Tom to think about these terrible things?

They set off. Tom had always thought that the robbers lived in filthy places, but with no signs of sloppiness in Alan, Tom couldn't imagine what her home would be like. She led them along a winding path through the woods. There was no road on the ground, but she never hesitated, and went straight across the stream, over the branches, over the frozen puddles, over bushes, and over a huge oak tree that had fallen to the ground. Eventually, she walked towards a bush of thorns, which seemed to disappear into it. Tom followed her, and unlike what he had remembered, he saw a narrow path that winded between the trees. He followed her. Thorn bushes crisscrossed his head, and he found himself in a half-light and half-dim. He stood still, waiting for his eyes to adjust to the gloom. He gradually realized that he was in a cave.

The air was warm. There was a fire in front of him, shining on a hearth made of stone slabs. The smoke keeps going up, and there's a natural chimney somewhere. He was flanked on either side by animal skins, a wolf and a deer were nailed to the wall of the cave with a stake, and a large smoked deer leg was hanging from the roof of the cave facing his head. He saw a homemade box filled with sour apples, a corduroy candle lit on the ledge, and dried reeds on the ground. There is a pot by the fire, which is no different from ordinary people's; Judging by the smell, it was the kind of thick soup that everyone eats the same - vegetables and meat bones with seasonings. Tom was amazed. Such a home was much more comfortable than the quarters of many slaves.

On the other side of the fire there were two floor bunks, made of deerskins, probably filled with reeds; Each bunk is neatly rolled with a piece of wolf fur. Alan and Jack slept there, with a fire in the middle and a hole outside. Deep at the bottom of the cave was a formidable pile of weapons and hunting gear: a bow, some arrows, a few nets, a rabbit trap, several chilling daggers, a finely crafted wooden spear with a sharp and quenched tip; Among all these original tools are three books. Tom was dumbfounded: he had never seen a book in a house, let alone in a cave; Books belong only to the church.

The boy Jack picked up a wooden bowl, reached into the pot, scooped out the soup, and drank it. Alfred and Martha looked at him greedily. Alan looked at Tom apologetically and said, "Jack, when there are outsiders, we have to give people to eat first, and then we will eat again." ”

The child stared at her, feeling inexplicable: "Why? ”

"Because it's a sign of politeness. Give the two kids some soup. ”

Jack didn't figure it out, but he obeyed his mother. Alan brought Tom some soup. He sat down on the ground and drank. The soup has a meaty flavor that warms him inside and out. Alan draped a piece of fur over his shoulders. When he had finished drinking the soup, he scooped out the vegetables and meat with his fingers. He hadn't tasted meat in weeks.

(End of chapter)