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

The witch doctors' eyes widened in surprise.

Song Chan ultimately caused trouble for the Miao witch!

Even now, she is still unwilling to accept the fate of the man who disappeared twenty years ago.

What's there to be so resentful about!

"Song Chan! Do you want to watch all of us Gu women perish? Back then, it was your master who taught you Gu techniques, which gave you the ability to protect yourself. And you did it all for a man..." Aunt Jiu said bitterly.

"Actually, we raise Gu to treat illnesses, not to harm people," she explained to Shen Ye.

"The reason why Song Chan helped Hong Kangwang harm people was because Hong Kang deceived her, saying that he would help her find her former lover."

"Ha! That's hilarious! This kind of vixen doesn't deserve a lover? Who wouldn't run away if they could? Are they just waiting to be ruined by her?"

Shen Ye said fiercely, "This general has no patience. I'll give you one more chance. Think carefully about how to kill her!"

If you can't figure it out, don't blame this general for being ruthless. To prevent you from causing trouble again, I have no choice but to... exterminate you!

The expressions of the witches changed drastically.

Aunt Jiu glanced at Huo Chang'an and, seeing that he didn't intend to stop her, waved her hand dismissively.

Instantly, burning rockets appeared all around.

“Ninth Aunt, out of consideration for your past help to us, I will spare your life. However, you are forbidden from ever leaving the Southern Frontier again.”

After all, a witch doctor is a really hard person to control.

A mere sorcerer was able to manipulate the emperor and ultimately destroy a country.

Calling her a demoness is truly an understatement.

Ninth Aunt now knows Huo Chang'an's identity.

People are wary of them, especially those in high positions.

She understands.

This is also why witch doctors are forbidden from participating in power struggles.

Unfortunately, the frequent disobedience and violation of the rules have led to a decrease in the number of Miao witch doctors.

"Song Chan, do you really want all the Gu women to be wiped out because of you?"

"There are few doctors in this remote place. In the future, who knows how many more people will die from illness? You are committing a sin!" Aunt Jiu advised her for the last time.

Song Chan's eyes flickered, and she finally looked at Shen Ye and Huo Chang'an.

Her eyes were no longer gloomy, but blank, as if they were empty.

Plus, she looks so young that she seems as innocent as a girl lacking experience.

"Can you help me find someone? He said he was going to deliver goods to the capital, visit his sister, and then return to Jingzhou to report to his father, so he sent someone to pick me up."

But he never came.

I went to Jingzhou to look for him, but I couldn't find him. Then I went to the capital to look for him, but I still couldn't find him.

He lied to me. Where is he really from? Where is he from at all?

Shen Ye raised his sword again.

"Luo Songtao! You lied to me! You lied to me so badly!"

"Wait!" Huo Chang'an suddenly grabbed Shen Ye's sword.

"You mean Luo Songtao? From Jingzhou?"

Song Chan's face was full of sorrow: "Luo Songtao... Luo Songtao, he said he was from Jingzhou, but I spent a lot of money and checked in every county government office, but there is no such person, no such person..."

He lied to me. Where is he? Can you help me find him? Let me see him one more time. I'd be willing to die if I could see him just once.

I want to ask him why he abandoned me.

They were clearly so in love.

He kept turning back as he left.

His eyes were so gentle, so reluctant to part.

"What's his sister's name?" Huo Chang'an asked again.

Could it be such a coincidence?

probably not.

Song Chan looked at him, and her consciousness seemed to be clearing up a bit.

She said somewhat hurriedly:

"I don't know. He once wrote a poem, but I'm not very bright, and I can't remember those things from you Han Chinese."

Later, I tried desperately to learn Chinese, but I just couldn't remember that poem.

Huo Chang'an has men; if they can help investigate, they will definitely find it.

Her eyes shone with hope.

"Pear blossoms cover the ground, obscuring the moon; the sound of pine trees on the mountainside seems like the wind."

Luo Liyun, Luo Songtao.

These are the names of Ning'er's mother and uncle.

He remembered that Momoyo had mentioned it back then.

Ning'er's maternal grandmother, like her mother, was a woman of great character and refinement.

The names they chose are all very pleasant to hear, and people can remember them after hearing them only once.

He took it to heart at the time and later sent someone to Jingzhou to investigate Luo Songtao's whereabouts.

Few people knew the truth back then; those in the business world said that Luo Songtao had been framed and killed.

But nobody knows who killed him.

No one said who he had offended.

Only one old man in the Luo family secretly recounted with tears in his eyes that when the news of Luo Songtao's death arrived, he was not even in Jingzhou.

Unfortunately, Master Luo is cold-hearted; he forgets the old for the new.

The eldest son was thus considered a stain on the family and was forbidden from being mentioned again.

That's all the information I've gathered. Huo Chang'an plans to investigate further later.

"Yes! That's it, that's it! Li Yun, Song Tao's younger sister is named Luo Li Yun!"

Song Chan was in high spirits, as if she had seen a savior.

"You know him? Where is he? Where is he?"

Shen Ye looked at Huo Chang'an with a strange expression.

Luo Songtao, who is that?

Is there something he doesn't know?

That must be someone I've known in the last year or two.

Aunt Jiu and the others also looked at Huo Chang'an in astonishment.

Huo Chang'an himself was astonished.

What a coincidence!

Song Chan is the one who harmed the entire Marquis's mansion, and she is also Ning'er's uncle's... lover?

Then her deceased daughter... wasn't she Ning'er's cousin?

What kind of relationship is this?!

However, Song Chan deserves to die.

If Ning'er were here, she certainly wouldn't protect the villains just because of a slight kinship.

"Tell me first, where is my father?"

“Your father…your father…Huo Zhennan.”

Song Chan's urgent recollection.

"He was locked in a secret room by Yan Mingyu, and then poisoned by Old Liu. Then... he disappeared one day."

Yes, he's gone. Yan Mingyu told me to use Gu to find him.

My Gu stopped moving when it arrived at the Hundred Beasts Garden.

We did not find anyone.

There are only two possibilities: either he has been dead for more than seven days, or he has covered up the smell.

However, Liu Laodu used a deadly poison that paralyzes the body. Even if the antidote is found, the person would be an idiot, a cripple, and would have no chance of escaping the palace.

So, he must be dead.

Every day, palace servants who made mistakes were thrown into the Hundred Beasts Garden; it was a pile of bones. Presumably, Huo Zhennan, in a daze, ran there and was eaten.

It got eaten!

Huo Chang'an's body trembled.

His father wasn't eaten in the northern frontier, but in the imperial palace!

That palace he knew best, the one he had walked through countless times, the one where even princes had to bow to him!

No, not possible!

Unable to bear it any longer, Huo Chang'an plunged his sword into Song Chan's shoulder.

Song Chan let out a muffled groan but didn't shout.

"I told you. Can you tell me where he is?"

I'd be willing to die, willing to atone for my sins, just to see him one more time.