My stepmother is here, all the rebellious sons and evildoers should kneel down!

"Miss, Aunt Chen said that she had never heard of anyone who could tame beasts on the other side of the mountain. I'm always worried. Could it be that we were really fooled? Miss, why don't we just not go? It's not worth it to owe someone a favor, but it's not worth it to lose our lives."

Xinyi followed the young lady closely, carrying some beef tongue snacks.

Die Jiu panted heavily, holding onto a big banyan tree, and looked up at Wen Qiqi: "Miss, Xinyi is right. This Aunt Chen has lived in this place for nearly 70 years. She said that the beast taming is just a rumor!"

Wen Qiqi stopped and looked back at the two of them with an unusually firm look in her eyes: "Rumors? Didn't you see with your own eyes that masked man luring the turtledoves with the sound of the flute? How can it become a rumor if you saw it with your own eyes?" Die Jiu swallowed her saliva: "I did see it with my own eyes... But Aunt Chen said that she had only heard that there was a mysterious man who could tame beasts in East City, but she had never seen him. Miss, think about it, there is only a mountain between us, if there really is a person who can tame beasts, wouldn't Aunt Chen not know about it?"

She now even suspected that the masked man was a liar.

"Maybe, he doesn't live here at all... He's just passing through."

"He showed up three days in a row, how could he just be passing by?"

Wen Qiqi looked at Die Jiu, who nodded and sighed, "He told me that he passes by here every evening. How about we wait here, and when we see him in the evening, giving him the things will be considered an apology."

"No!" Wen Qiqi had made up her mind. Today she had to see if the masked man really lived on the other side of the mountain...

Seeing that the young lady was so determined, Die Jiu and Xinyi said no more, but followed the young lady closely. It took them almost an hour and a half to climb to the top of the mountain!

This mountain is really very steep. Standing on the top of the mountain, you can actually see thousands of military tents where the Thirteenth Prince and the Fourteenth Prince are stationed with their troops...

"I don't know how the battle between the Thirteenth Prince and the Fourteenth Prince is going?"

Wen Qiqi frowned and said to herself, "As long as the tent is still there, everyone is safe."

"Miss, don't worry! The Thirteenth and Fourteenth Princes are blessed with good fortunes!"

Xinyi blurted out the words, and Diejiu quickly gave her a look. Xinyi then realized that she had said the wrong thing, and she looked at Diejiu with a grin in fear.

"Miss, your thoughts... your heart is too big, you just say it casually! General Ye is not unlucky or unlucky, it's just... just..."

Die Jiu tried hard to think of words to comfort the young lady. She didn't want to hear Qi Qi retract her gaze and looked down the mountain: "Time has passed, what's the use of being sad? Now I just want to know whether the man who tames the beast lives in this mountain cave..."

Beast Tamer, General of the Night!

Wen Qiqi has firmly linked these two words together.

"If he lied to us, then he must be hiding something... We have to be careful next time. If he really lives here, I was too worried. We should go and apologize!"

"Yes! I will listen to you, young lady."

"Let's go...it's noon. It's hot!"

It was much easier for the three of them to go down the mountain than to go up. Although there was not much easy road to walk on, they jogged down along the bushes on the edge of the cliff and soon reached the dense forest in the mountains.

This is a large pine and cypress forest. The green pine trees are as tall as the sky, and the air is completely blocked. The forest is also pitch black.

Apart from the occasional strange bird calls, the only sound was the rustling of pine branches underfoot.

"This is cool..."

Xinyi looked around and couldn't help but hold Wen Qiqi tightly: "Miss, why do I feel that this place is so dark and gloomy?"

"This is probably a cemetery! Miss, look, there are only mounds of earth over there. Although there are no tombstones, they look like some old graves."

Die Jiu looked at Wen Qiqi: "Miss, don't be afraid! This is normal, Xinyi, don't make a fuss. I heard that most cemeteries in the countryside are located in pine forests... This place is flat and windy, so it is naturally the first choice for a cemetery." She comforted herself carelessly, but Xinyi's face was tense and her eyes were full of fear.

Die Jiu also subconsciously looked towards those dirt mounds again...

"But this is really too many! There are at least thousands of graves! Whose cemetery can bury so many people? Miss, this is not a cemetery, this is simply a mass grave! I... I'm scared..."

Xinyi has always been afraid of ghosts. Even if he wanted to protect the young lady today, he has become a coward.

Wen Qiqi and Die Jiu supported her and held her hand tightly. Only then did she muster up the courage to continue walking down the mountain...

The size of this pine forest was beyond the three people's imagination. After half an hour, they still hadn't walked out!

What shocked the three even more was that the further they went, the more graves there were. There were not just a few thousand, but tens of thousands...

"Miss, this place is sparsely populated, and I'm afraid that only a few hundred people have died in a few hundred years. I dare say that the people buried in this cemetery are definitely not from the village!"

As soon as Die Jiu finished speaking, she heard a dog barking!

The three of them were horrified at first, but then they smiled: "Great! Where there are dogs barking, there must be houses!"

"Miss, maybe that masked man didn't lie to us!"

Sure enough, deep in the pine forest, at the end of the cemetery, a thatched house suddenly appeared.

The house was extremely dilapidated, made of thatch and yellow mud. The windows were supported by pine sticks and covered with old fishing nets, which served as a protection against mosquitoes and poisonous snakes.

There are two water tanks and a large iron pot for outdoor cooking in front of the house!

Next to the iron pot is a fenced chicken coop, which houses a dozen pheasants...

There were fishing nets drying on the fence, and an octogenarian was sitting under the nets!

"Miss, I finally saw a house that is even more shabby than Old Lady Chen's."

"Me too! There's no yard in front, and there's a cemetery behind! There's no village in front and no shop behind. It must be very exciting to sleep in this house late at night!"

Die Jiu and Xin Yi were talking to each other, Wen Qiqi glared at them and said, "Don't be unreasonable!"

The two girls stuck out their tongues and said, "Miss, we are not joking, we are speaking the truth!"

"Miss, let's go over and ask for directions..."

As Die Jiu was speaking, she had already run towards the old man. The old man closed his eyes tightly and sat straight. Without waiting for Die Jiu to get close, he suddenly raised the stick in his hand and pointed it in her direction.

"who?"

Die Jiu was startled and quickly explained: "Uncle, we are not bad people... We just want to ask you for directions."

The octogenarian's face was covered with dark spots and deep wrinkles.

He carefully distinguished Die Jiu's voice for a while, then suddenly turned his head to the side and said fiercely:

"Here, there are dead people all around, and there is no way for the living."