After Chuan Shu died, the four apprentices turned black

Chapter 34 The Scary Sheep

Because Yueying was worried about the dinner, she just ate some to fill her stomach. Nangong persuaded her a few words, seeing that she really couldn't eat, so she couldn't force her anymore.

Yueying could feel that there was something on his mind, and she wondered if it was similar to what she thought.

After the meal, she returned to the room, and she saw that the window had been repaired. The broken wooden strip was replaced with a brand new one. The color was different from the surrounding ones, and the window that was originally dusty and could not be seen outside was also cleaned by the way. After reading it again, you can now see the sheepfold under the post station through the window.

I can't help but sigh at Morida's efficiency. As the person in charge of the station, she is indeed not just a vase.

She was lying in front of the window, looking at the white sheep that were still more conspicuous in the dark night, which reminded her of the lonely sheep she saw on the grassland today. Although she had said many words of comfort to Nangong, she was still a little depressed.

Shaking her head and not thinking about it anymore, she forced herself to fall asleep quickly.

The next day, she still got up early in the morning to go to rain. Before she left, she saw Morida standing by the sheepfold and counting sheep.

"Morida," she said, approaching, "are you counting sheep?"

"Yes, Your Highness, there are 23 big sheep and four lambs, and none of them are missing."

She answered, explaining her actions to the lay princess:

"Counting one's own lambs every day is one of the things that shepherds must do. In fact, I counted them after hearing what you said yesterday. It is indeed not my sheep."

Yue Ying understood, nodded and said:

"Thank you for helping to mend the window."

Morida was stunned for a moment, she didn't expect that the princess would thank her for such a trivial matter, and she was in a delicate mood for a while:
"It should be... By the way, Your Highness, there is also a celebration in the village today. Are you interested in coming?"

Do you mean the nearby military camp?

Yue Ying didn't hesitate, she also wanted to see the situation there: "Okay, if there is still time when I come back."

"I will prepare the clothes for you." Morida smiled brightly.

After getting into the carriage, Nangong said doubtfully:

"What are you talking about?"

"For tonight's celebration banquet, you can go with me! I didn't go last time, so I can't miss it this time." Yueying was in high spirits, approaching the deserted grassland where there are few people. Sleeping is really boring, and it's rare to have some fun.

Nangong's complexion was not very good when he heard about the banquet, but seeing her high spirits, he didn't want to disturb her interest, so he reluctantly nodded in agreement.

When Master Xu heard their conversation, he was a little surprised and said:

"There is another celebration banquet, is it because of a coincidence or because the battle situation is really optimistic?"

Yueying: "Is there any question, Mr. Xu?"

"Your Highness also knows that although they are called a village to the outside world, they are actually a military camp, but you may not be aware that the so-called celebration banquet is not an ordinary banquet for fun, but a banquet held after a victory in a battle, including the distribution of spoils, To deal with matters such as battle axes and rewarding soldiers, we participated in the celebration banquet the day before yesterday, why is there another celebration banquet today?"

"Two victories in three days is a good thing, but are the battles so frequent?" Yueying also realized the seriousness of the matter.

"But don't worry, Your Highness. According to what we saw last time, it should be a small-scale conflict. Each time, the casualties on both sides did not exceed three. As long as we act carefully, there will definitely be no problems."

"I hope so."

Maybe it was the reason for the heavy rainfall yesterday. This grassland is obviously more vibrant than the first time I saw it yesterday. The plants in the desert always have tenacious vitality. When it is rare to encounter rainfall, it absorbs as much water as possible for storage. The meandering river doesn't look so rough anymore, it finally looks like a "river".

It's another heavy rain...

Yue Ying was holding the umbrella in a daze, staring aimlessly at the front, changing directions from time to time, until she saw a trace of familiar white in the misty rain.

"Sheep?" she whispered with wide-eyed eyes.

Nangong Yuheng was the closest to her, attracted by her vague voice, opened his eyes and looked at her:
"What did the master say?"

"That's the sheep from yesterday!" Pointing excitedly at the white sheep in the distance, she raised her voice and repeated to Master Xu and the others who were guarding not far away, "Look quickly, is it the sheep from yesterday? , it is still alive!"

Everyone's eyes were attracted together, and the same thought rose up at the same time—how is it possible?

"Master Nangong continues to rain, I will take them to see the situation."

There was no need for Yue Ying to speak, Master Xu took the initiative to finish speaking, quickly got on his horse, and drove away in the rain with two guards. When he came back again, he held a quiet but embarrassing wet sheep in his arms.

It was trembling all over, whether it was because of fear or the cold, it didn't know whether it was because of fear or cold, and its golden horizontal pupils stared blankly at the few people, looking a little pitiful.

Because the sheep basically look the same, and I haven't observed them at close range yesterday, so I can't confirm whether it is the one from yesterday.

"Look, Your Highness, we found this near it."

One of the guards showed some broken fur with a dignified expression. Even after being washed by the heavy rain, some fresh blood can still be seen. Being able to keep it like this in such a high temperature environment shows that the death time of this animal is not too long.

"This is……"

Grayish-yellow fur, obviously not wool.

"It's a wolf skin. It should have died yesterday."

This sentence aroused goosebumps all over Yueying's body for a moment. She looked at the quiet sheep with chills all over her body, feeling that its eyes were no longer pitiful, but quietly watching everyone like a demon. Construct some terrible plan.

"The sheep killed the wolf?"

She exclaimed, thinking of the stern wolf howling yesterday, the more she thought about it, the more frightened she became, and she wished she could stay away from this sheep.

"What is your Highness talking about? How is it possible? This is just an ordinary sheep. The wolf may have died there by chance. After all, there are many wild animals around here. The wolf we saw yesterday was just one of them. One night is enough to make you cry." Many wolves died for various reasons, and this sheep probably wasn’t the one yesterday, and it’s raining nearby, which can easily attract animals to drink water.”

Master Xu pondered for a moment and gave a reasonable explanation.

Then he glared at the guard who took out the wolf skin, and reprimanded him half-jokingly:

"Looking at what you are taking randomly, His Highness is frightened."

"Your Highness, forgive me." The guard hurriedly threw the wolf fur away, and then sincerely apologized, "I didn't think carefully."

Yue Ying also breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that she was too suspicious, and blamed the wolf for making such a strange noise yesterday. Then she thought, maybe other wolves were attracted here, and they fought for food?

No matter how she thought about it, it was impossible for the sheep to kill the wolf. She was amused by her ridiculous guess.

I can't blame her for having a rich imagination, it's really a coincidence, not to mention that before the start of this retrospective, the system reminded her of some "key plot unlocking", which made her suspicious and frightened all day long, even a sheep was suspected by her.

"Okay, don't worry, we'll take you back." She stepped forward and patted the sheep on the head friendly, and the sheep turned its head timidly.

Sure enough, looking at this sheep after letting go of worries, isn't it just a silly lamb?How can it be so scary.

"I'm sorry Nangong, the rain has affected you." She returned to Nangong and apologized slightly.

Nangong shook his head: "Master, don't worry too much. You are not feeling well recently. It will be bad if you worry too much and get sick."

"Got it." Yueying agreed with a smile.

After completing the task of raining, everyone returned the same way, but there was a shivering sheep on the carriage.

Nangong has used his ability to dry its hair, but it is still not used to it, hiding in a corner and looking like it wants to run away all the time, but this look is more lively than the dazed look at the beginning.

"I hope you don't get sick." Yue Ying whispered to it, as if treating it like a pet.

The sheep naturally didn't understand, and still stared at her blankly.

"Where did you get the sheep?" Morida was surprised and delighted when she saw the sheep, and asked puzzledly, "It can't be the one you mentioned yesterday, right?"

She is more aware of the dangers of the grassland at night than anyone here.

"Probably not, but we met at the same place and brought it back. It got wet before, how should Morida take care of it?" Yue Ying looked at Morida eagerly and got her wish. affirmative answer.

"Taking care of the lamb is a piece of cake."

She hugged the fat sheep effortlessly, and raised her chin towards the second floor of the station:

"Your Highness, the clothes I prepared for you are in the room. After changing, you can go to the celebration banquet. It's still early."

"it is good."

Yue Ying entered the room happily. There were several colorful dresses hanging on the edge of the bed, and a thin coat made of animal leather to resist the low temperature in the grassland at night.

She groped to put on her upper body. Because of her thin body, the clothes looked a bit big, but it was okay if it was tightened a little. She also specially changed the clothes to her body and tied them up. After touching her long straight hair, she hesitated whether to let it go Morida also tied a braid for her, and before she had a chance to take a good look in the mirror, she heard Ada barking loudly from below.

She hurried to the window and saw Ada angrily barking at Morida who was holding the white sheep. She looked very scary, but she didn't dare to approach, as if she had some scruples.

Morida reprimanded it angrily:
"Ada! You are crazy, how dare you yell at me, if you yell again, I will beat you!"

"Ada!"

After Yueying rushed downstairs, she saw that Nangong and Master Xu had also changed into similar outfits to hers.

"Master." Nangong stared at her, and was interrupted before he could say anything. He frowned and looked at Ada who still kept barking outside, "What's going on?"

"Go out and have a look." Yueying realized that something was wrong, because the Ada she knew before should be a smart and obedient shepherd dog, how could she keep barking at her master like this.

"Brother came just in time, help me hold the sheep, I'll take care of this stupid dog." Mo Lida couldn't help but hand the sheep to Nangong, Yin Ya clenched her sleeves and rolled up her sleeves to beat the dog.

Unexpectedly, Ada turned around and barked at Nangong without any fear.

Yueying narrowed her eyes to observe Ada, who was behaving abnormally. It barked so hard that its throat was almost hoarse, and its voice was a little out of tune. Even so, its normally high tail was pinched, and its ears collapsed backwards. It was so fierce, even a little frightening.

Is it afraid of Morida?
Obviously not, because Morida's feet kicked it, it didn't even change its gaze, it was still staring at Nangong...

No, it's not so much barking at Nangong, its target is more like a sheep in Nangong's arms!
"Stop calling!"

The flock was also disturbed by barking, bleating and commotion in the sheep pen, Morida's head was about to explode, and she roared violently, Ada had never been so disobedient.

"Nangong, put the sheep down!" Yueying said quickly, Nangong also realized something, immediately put the sheep down and took a few steps back.

The sheep, which had been held in the arms all this time, fell to the ground, and faced the fierce shepherd dog directly, but was not afraid at all. Instead, it bleated twice, and walked forward seemingly ignorantly.

Ada seemed to have been taken aback, and with a mournful wail, he fled trembling all over, and hid behind the sheep pen in a circle.

Everyone's faces were frozen, and they looked at the sheep in the center with inexplicable fear in their eyes.

"This sheep... what's going on?"

"The howling of wolves I heard yesterday was not an auditory hallucination." Yue Ying swallowed, and felt chills all over again.

She was almost certain that this sheep was the one from yesterday, and she dared not guess whether the wolf skin was yesterday's wolf.

"It's too weird, shall we kill it?" Morida, who has a bold and bold personality, was a little scared. She realized that she had wrongly blamed Ada. It must have seen something terrible, so she reminded her in this way. Everyone.

"Master, don't be afraid." Nangong held Yueying's hand, then looked at everyone, everyone nodded to him, so he gently embraced Yueying to cover her eyes.

With the sound of howling wind, the sheep was killed by the invisible wind blade, and no other strange things happened.

Morida frowned, walked over to tidy it up briefly, and then lit it on fire. Ada returned to normal, and ran out from the corner again, wagging her tail happily, but she still didn't dare to get close to the burning sheep. corpse.

Yueying had already been led back to the station by Nangong. She didn't see anything, but she knew what happened.

All kinds of things seemed to be an ominous cloud over her heart, lingering uneasiness.

"Are you still going today?" Nangong asked her with a normal face and a gentle voice, holding her hand for a long time, holding her tightly to comfort Yueying's anxiety.

Yue Ying thought for a moment: "Go."

If something is destined to happen, she will not be able to escape hiding in the station. Getting in touch with more things may help to uncover the predicament, complete the task earlier or unlock the plot.

"Okay, do you need to braid it?" Nangong asked again, looking at her black hair, "I saw that they braided it, and they learned it too. It shouldn't be bad. Today's one was made by myself."

After he finished speaking, he felt a little embarrassed. Although his hair was very long, he didn't usually tamper with it carefully. This time it was because Yueying accidentally praised his beautiful hairstyle.

"I want to braid my hair, just like you." Yueying nodded and smiled.

So Nangong asked her to sit down, and her slender fingers shuttled nimbly through her hair. The speed was not slow but the movements were careful, and the weaving was done quickly, without even using any rope.

(End of this chapter)