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

Huo Jingya and Sang Ning finally reached the riverbank, their bodies frozen solid.

"Jingya, I can't walk anymore. Find a way out and bring people to rescue me." Sang Ning lay on the ground, her vision blurry.

She experienced the taste of death once again.

During my period, I soaked in the river for a while, and I couldn't feel the lower abdominal pain anymore.

She felt so cold...so cold...

"That's impossible, Fourth Sister-in-law, stop talking, I'll carry you on my back."

Huo Jingya is at least a bit better than Sang Ning, how could she possibly leave Sang Ning here? Who knows if snakes and wild beasts will run out again.

"Jingya... if you take me with you, we might both die here."

"So what? If I abandon you and you die, how can I live a comfortable life for the rest of my days?"

Fourth Sister-in-law, we'll die together, we'll live together.

We've traversed such a long exile route, what's a little mountain path to us?

The cold wind was biting. Huo Jingya carried Sang Ning on her back, with only one foot wearing a shoe, and walked step by step away from the riverbank.

Sang Ning's tears flowed down and landed on Huo Jingya's thin and cold neck.

Having lived through two lifetimes, she found her family, a family that would never abandon her, even in the face of death.

She finally had a family; she couldn't die, she didn't want to die.

But my eyelids feel so heavy, I keep wanting to fall asleep.

"Fourth Sister-in-law, don't sleep. Let me tell you about Fourth Brother's childhood."

"My fourth brother was useless when he was young; he couldn't even beat me."

Sang Ning gave a weak laugh.

If Huo Chang'an heard this, he would scold her again.

"However, Fourth Brother is very attractive to girls, even more so than Eldest Brother. Eldest Brother avoids girls when he sees them, but Fourth Brother doesn't. He smiles at anyone who approaches him."

He had the girl completely smitten, so he took out a snake and a frog to scare her away.

Later, a girl was so frightened that she developed nightmares every day. The man came to her door, insisting that she marry him.

"And then what happened?" Sang Ning couldn't help but ask.

"Hehe, if Fourth Brother doesn't like someone, no one can come. That girl wasn't scared at all; she just wanted to take the opportunity to marry Fourth Brother."

Fourth Brother knelt outside their door to apologize, kneeling ramrod straight, from morning till night, refusing to leave even when it rained, no matter how much they begged him.

Third Brother even deliberately whipped him in front of the people.

The villagers all said the girl was being pretentious, that a single worm had caused her to be beaten and forced to kneel.

In the end, the fourth brother fainted, which frightened the family so much that they dared not mention the marriage again and instead sent gifts to apologize.

So bad.

Sang Ning wanted to laugh again, but she could only twitch the corners of her mouth and didn't have the strength to laugh out loud.

"Fourth Sister-in-law, Fourth Brother is a stubborn ox. Once he falls for you, there's no going back, so you absolutely mustn't get hurt..."

"Fourth sister-in-law..."

"Fourth sister-in-law..."

Where they went, they left a trail of bloody footprints.

Finally, Sang Ning heard Huo Jingya say, "Fourth Sister-in-law, I see the house! We're saved!"

But the next moment, Huo Jingya saw a lot of people running out of the rows of houses, men and women, disheveled and screaming wildly.

Behind them was a group of monks, their faces contorted with rage, wielding knives and hacking wildly.

Huo Jingya turned around and ran back.

But she had no strength left and collapsed to the ground. The men rushed over, stepping on her arms as they ran past.

My arm, which was already almost broken, was in so much pain that I couldn't lift it.

"Fourth Sister-in-law... Fourth Sister-in-law..."

Huo Jingya disregarded her own safety and quickly lay down on Sang Ning to prevent her from being trampled to death.

After the large group of people passed by, Huo Jingya looked up and saw a pile of corpses lying behind her.

The monks, their faces filled with menacing expressions, saw them and rushed over!

Am I really going to die here today?

Even knowing she couldn't escape, Huo Jingya still instinctively clung to Sang Ning.

“Huo Chang’an…” Sang Ning murmured.

"Fourth Sister-in-law, I'm sorry, I couldn't take you out..."

“He’s here…” Sang Ning said again.

Huo Jingya burst into tears: "Fourth Sister-in-law."

She's useless, truly useless. She practiced kung fu for so long and learned so many skills, yet she still couldn't save the person she wanted to save.

They couldn't save Fourth Sister-in-law, nor could they save Feng Dali.

The sound of hacking and slashing came from behind her. She didn't know how many more people had been killed. Facing imminent death, she was also afraid. Coupled with the freezing cold, her body began to tremble.

A steel-like hand grabbed her back and lifted her up.

Damn it, a scholar can be killed but not humiliated.

Her limbs were stiff from the cold, and when she was lifted up like this, she looked like a turtle rising into the air!

"You son of a bitch..."

Before he could finish cursing, he was thrown out.

She didn't fall to the ground; someone caught her.

“Jingya… this isn’t me taking advantage of you, it’s something the Lord threw at me.”

Above his head was a face that was as red as a shrimp from the heat.

"Feng Dali, you're not dead!"

"No, the Lord came and saved me."

Feng Dali smiled like a silly bear!

Huo Jingya turned her head and saw that her fourth sister-in-law was already in her fourth brother's arms, running anxiously towards the house.

He was soaking wet, having also come from the river.

They were saved just like that?

“Wah…” Huo Jingya burst into tears.

"Don't cry, don't cry. Oh, I'm sorry, we're late..."

A tremendous roar and explosion came from the mountain wall at the Ascension Platform.

Huo Jingya stopped crying. "Who's using my Thunderclap Bomb?"

"It was your elite team. The lord said that to get into the back mountain, we had to climb over that mountain wall, otherwise we would have to take a long detour, so he had someone blow up that mountain wall."

Feng Dali carried her towards the house while talking to her.

Huo Jingya didn't know what had happened at the temple. After soaking in the cold water for a long time and suffering many injuries, her head was spinning and she couldn't hold on any longer.

She unknowingly curled up in the man's arms and fell asleep.

"My lord, are there any more cotton-padded clothes?"

Feng Dali rushed into the house and shouted.

The rooms here were filthy. Huo Chang'an finally found one that resembled a tea room and had just finished changing Sang Ning's cotton clothes when Feng Dali rushed in, almost making him furious.

She glared at him fiercely with reddened eyes, but the situation was urgent, so he didn't care anymore.

"Yes, but who will change it for her?"

Yeah, who changed Jingya's clothes?

It's not appropriate for the older brother to swap with his younger sister.

"Then how about... how about I..." Feng Dali wanted to suggest that he would blindfold himself and switch places.

Huo Chang'an had already interrupted.

"There's a woman over there, bring her here!"