Famine and exile: I brought the Spirit Spring to save the entire Marquis's mansion.

The bandits paused, suddenly feeling a chill run down their spines.

The brothers behind her ran over, laughing loudly: "So, little lady likes hide-and-seek. Well, we brothers will play with you!"

After saying that, they pounced on each other.

But then, something terrifying happened.

The woman has disappeared!

"What about people?"

"It was just here a moment ago!"

"I saw it clearly, she disappeared suddenly!"

The first bandit didn't move, so he saw it very clearly. He didn't blink and he was absolutely certain that he saw it correctly. The woman had just disappeared suddenly!

"A ghost! It's a ghost! There's a ghost here!"

"Ghost my foot! I'm not afraid of ghosts!"

One of the bandits spoke fiercely, but his eyes were wary and extremely tense.

He was brandishing a knife haphazardly nearby.

"You're just trying to be mysterious, come out here right now!"

After searching high and low, looking everywhere, there was no sign of him.

Several bandits sat down on the ground, panting heavily.

"I must be seeing things! There are no...no...ghosts here at all!!!"

Suddenly, a head with long, flowing hair appeared out of thin air!

"I've been dead for hundreds of years. Recently, there's been a famine in the underworld. We have no money and no food. Do you have any...?"

A long, eerie female voice, like someone singing opera, kept lingering in my ears.

"Wow! No, we don't have any either!"

"Really not?"

The female ghost's body gradually appeared, swaying left and right, as if it had been squeezed out of an invisible sack.

Until you are standing on the ground as before.

He suddenly stretched his hands forward, bending them into claws, and cried out in a pitiful voice, "Give it to me!"

"Wow!"

"Wow!"

After a few shouts, seven or eight pieces of silver and four items wrapped in oil paper were thrown on the ground, and the people had already scattered like a swarm of bees.

Sang Ning then brushed her hair aside and picked up the things from the ground.

The contents wrapped in oil paper turned out to be roasted rabbit meat!

Great, we have food again!

She took the things and went to find the Huo family. She saw them after walking only a few steps.

So they hadn't left after all! They were waiting for her!

Huo Jingya and Li Yuzhi looked like they were about to turn back to look for them.

"Sister-in-law, why did it take so long?"

Seeing the worried looks on everyone's faces, Sang Ning smiled at them.

"I scared the bandits away, and they even dropped some food."

"Fourth Sister-in-law, you're amazing! How did you scare her?" Huo Jingya asked in disbelief.

Those were ruthless bandits who killed without blinking an eye!

Sang Ning covered her face with her hair again: "Give me... your life... that's how you get scared!"

Li Yuzhi and Huo Jingya both shivered at the same time.

I have to say, it's really scary.

Huo Chang'an didn't believe it!

He knew that Sang Ning had a secret.

Either they possess hidden martial arts skills, or they have other abilities; in any case, it's definitely not as simple as just pretending to be a ghost.

Also, last night she left for a while while everyone was asleep, and when she came back she smelled of fresh spring water.

He was lying right next to me, and I could smell it very clearly.

An endless supply of Tai Sui meat, and sweet water...

He had no interest in uncovering her secrets, as long as she was sincere towards the Huo family.

Sang Ning took out the small amount of rabbit meat and distributed it to everyone, just like yesterday.

Yun Shuixian had to endure her grievances and dared not cause trouble.

"Auntie seems to be asleep, let's not leave yet," she said, holding her breath.

There was too little food, and she didn't have the strength to walk!

Everyone looked and saw that the old lady was indeed sleeping with her head resting on her hand.

“Mother went to bed late last night,” Li Yuzhi said.

Sang Ning frowned. She had originally wanted to go further in, fearing that the bandits were only temporarily scared and would gather more men to come in later.

But the old lady must have been really tired after such a long journey, otherwise she wouldn't have fallen asleep at this time.

"Then let's wait for another incense stick's time."

As they were talking, a sudden flapping sound came from above, startling everyone.

A black object then fell with a clatter from between the branches.

Huo Chang'an held a palm-sized slingshot in his hand, staring intently at Sang Ning, his eyes gleaming as if they held something.

Sang Ning's eyes widened in astonishment.

The children cheered.

"Fourth Uncle is amazing!"

Jintang rushed forward to pick it up.

When Huo Chang'an saw Sang Ning frown, his gaze sharpened, then he lowered it, feeling secretly ashamed.

That's nothing. Jintang could shoot down a bird after a few tries. It's laughable.

"so smart."

Seeing that he seemed a little disappointed, Sang Ning still sincerely praised him.

The boy's eyelids twitched, and he pursed his lips.

Sang Ning really didn't expect that he could shoot down the bird.

She can train horses and shoot arrows, so she's not as useless as the old lady said.

but……

Why did you shoot a crow?

Huo Chang'an suddenly looked up.

crow?

"Fourth Uncle..."

Little Jintang returned, carrying the bird by its claws at the very edge, with an expression of utter unbearable discomfort.

"This looks a lot like the ominous bird described in the book."

"It's not that it's not quite right, but it is!" Sang Ning grinned in disgust.

Crows are actually beneficial birds, and in ancient times they were also called auspicious birds or divine birds because of their predictive power.

However, because it is entirely black and has a fondness for rotting flesh, it is disliked by most people and is considered a symbol of death.

It has a keen sense of smell and a fierce nature. It can smell the presence of dead or dying people in advance and start calling out nearby, waiting to eat them.

It's really hard to like her.

So why did Huo Chang'an have to shoot it down?

The whole family looked at him in silence.

Huo Jingya rubbed her arms. Fourth Sister-in-law had just played a ghost, and now crows had arrived, making the place feel even more eerie.

Jintang hurriedly flung the crow far away and then vigorously rubbed the dirt on the ground with her little hands.

Huo Chang'an: "..."

I didn't see it clearly, I really didn't see it clearly.

Sang Ning chuckled and was about to wet Jin Tang's hands when she heard Li Yuzhi exclaim in surprise, "Mother, Mother, what's wrong?!"

Everyone was startled and crowded around.

"Mother's mouth is bleeding!"

"Mother, Mother...Mother, wake up!"

Huo Chang'an's face turned pale, and he immediately thought of the crow.

Could it be?

No, no, Mother won't die!

He didn't care about anything else and crawled over using both hands.

"Mother, don't scare your son!"

"He's still breathing, don't shout!" Sang Ning naturally thought of the crows as well.

If crows are attracted to a person, it means that the person is already dead and cannot be saved.

But, but the old lady was perfectly fine before!

She's even drinking the spiritual spring water!

Sang Ning couldn't believe it either.

The others were even more shocked and burst into tears.

Sang Ning ignored it and forced the old lady to drink more spiritual spring water.

Then he took out a ginseng root from his pocket and stuffed it into her mouth to keep her alive.

"Did Mother say anything before she went to sleep?" she asked.

"He didn't say anything!" Xie Yurou cried. "He just said he wanted to hug Jinxin, but Jinxin..."

Jin Xin didn't let her hug her.

Then the old lady said, "Xiaoxin'er is blaming her grandmother! Good, it's good for a girl to have a temper, so she won't be easily bullied."

Then I went to sleep.

Could it be that Mother knew that she would…

"Grandmother... don't die, Grandmother..." Xiao Jinxin finally leaned closer, crying as she grabbed the old lady's hand.

Sang Ning felt something was wrong.

If the oil in the lamp is exhausted, why would blood flow from the corner of the mouth?

"Does Mother have any chronic illnesses?"

"No, Mother's health has always been very good. Apart from the scar on her arm from when she shielded Father from an arrow in her early years, which hurts on rainy days, she has no other ailments!" Huo Chang'an said, trembling with suppressed emotion.

"But in prison... I don't know!"