The uncle borrowed some merits, and the princess drew the talisman fiercely

"Shopkeeper Lu said that Lu Lao Er was invited by some merchants to go with them to find villagers in the mountain village to collect goods. If we go this way, we should be able to find the village."

Yin Yunting walked over there and looked down at the traces on the road.

"I guess there are often carriages here."

"Master brother, please go a little further and calculate whether the direction is auspicious or unlucky. I will follow A Kuo to check out the wasteland ahead."

Lu Zhaoling arranged for Yin Yunting without any hesitation.

"it is good."

Yin Yunting didn't care at all.

He walked along the road alone.

Lu Zhaoling pulled Zhou Shiyue and said, "Let's go and take a look at that wasteland."

Zhou Shiyue led her forward.

"The reason I came here is because someone said they saw messy horse hoof prints here, so there must be a lot of people coming here."

Zhou Shiyue explained everything to her as they walked.

"The army didn't send anyone out that day, so it's a bit strange that more than ten horses appeared."

"Then, could it be that they are merchants like Lu Laoer and others who go somewhere to buy mountain products?" Lu Zhaoling asked.

"will not."

Zhou Shiyue shook his head. "Because merchants have to come out to collect mountain products, many of them use mules. Horses are more expensive here. Another thing is that even if there are horses, they are mostly used to pull goods. But I have seen horse hooves, they are trimmed horse hooves, used for galloping horses."

“Is there a difference?”

"Of course."

Zhou Shiyue explained to her the differences between horses for different purposes, such as price, speed, endurance, and sometimes even age.

The horses used by merchants are different from the horses used for marching and fighting, or even for galloping and gathering news.

After hearing what he said, Lu Zhaoling looked at him and opened her mouth, but in the end, she didn't say anything.

She wanted to ask if he was lying on his stomach, carefully studying a horse's hoof print.

I didn't expect Zhou Shiyue to have such ability.

"Who do you suspect?"

"You saw it just now, right? You can see the border town from this position." Zhou Shiyue said, "So I suspect this is a barbarian spy, coming here to investigate the timing and location of the siege."

Lu Zhaoling was shocked.

"You mean they are going to attack the border town?"

"I have always suspected this. Their massacre of the village was a test. After the massacre, our army did not make any major moves. Naturally, they thought that the Great Zhou was still unwilling to fight a war casually."

"It's also possible that they heard that some of the garrison troops had changed their minds."

This is also what the emperor is worried about.

"If there are people in the army who want to suppress this matter and don't want to really fight, even if the emperor has issued an order, their passive resistance will send a signal to the barbarians. If they want to fight, they can also take advantage of the disunity of the soldiers."

Zhou Shiyue had already brought her to the wasteland.

"Here we are, right here."

For the time being, Lu Zhaoling no longer thought about the siege.

Her task now is to find out what happened to these ashes.

There is indeed a thin layer of snow here.

But now it has almost melted, with only small patches here and there, and the exposed ground is indeed a bit gray.

Even Zhou Shiyue thought it was just a piece of gray-black soil when he saw it before.

Lu Zhaoling walked over and took out a small shovel and a small box.

She squatted down and shoveled a little and put it up.

Then he stood up again, looked around, and took out a first-grade fire talisman.

After the spell was recited, the fire talisman began to burn. When the talisman ashes scattered, the black dots of ashes reacted with a hissing sound the moment they touched the ashes on the ground, and turned into tiny sparks.

"rise."

Lu Zhaoling waved her hands gently, and these dust-like sparks slowly floated up.

Because they are so tiny, the number seems large.

A piece of sparks floated up and surrounded her. In the eyes of Zhou Shiyue who was not far away, Lu Zhaoling seemed to be surrounded by sparks at this moment.

There was no wind, but her long hair and skirt fluttered in the wind.

It looks like a fairy who is about to ascend to heaven.

For a moment, Zhou Shiyue felt a little panicked.

This scene should be quite beautiful, but he felt uneasy watching it. He felt that Lu Zhaoling was a little far away from him, and if she flew away like this, he didn't know how to catch her or how to keep her.

At this moment, Zhou Shiyue couldn't help but think of what he had asked someone to find out before, about the ten years that Lu Zhaoling had spent in the countryside.

Those ten years or so really have nothing to do with the current Lu Er.

Even Yin Yunting couldn't match it.

The recognition between the two senior and junior sisters was even more puzzling.

And there is Rong Jingjing, which is even more amazing.

Rong Jingjing was originally a maid serving the Sixth Princess.

She was almost killed in front of a kid like the Sixth Princess, so how come she suddenly became their second junior sister?

Looking at Lu Zhaoling at such a wonderful moment, he couldn't help but think of these things.

Zhou Shiyue really wanted to walk over and stop Lu Zhaoling.

He didn't even want to know whose ashes these belonged to.

I don't want her to find out this way.

He can check it out in his own way.

However, if he interrupted Lu Zhaoling when she was working seriously, or for some inexplicable reason, Lu Zhaoling would probably slap him with a talisman.

He couldn't stop it.

Zhou Shiyue held back.

Lu Zhaoling moved her feet at this moment. She took strange steps and a talisman appeared in her hand.

"Guidance from the Netherworld..."

Lu Zhaoling's voice was so low that even his internal energy could not be heard clearly at this moment.

He felt that her words were a little vague, as if they were not meant to be conveyed to the human world.

After a moment, a small whirlwind seemed to appear in front of Lu Zhaoling, drawing all the small sparks over.

The sparks all gathered together and rotated.

As Zhou Shiyue looked, he seemed to see a human figure.

But there was nothing there, not even a human figure.

Lu Zhaoling was facing the small whirlwind and saying something, but he still couldn't hear it.

In fact, at this time Lu Zhaoling was asking the owner of these ashes.

The question is, she was invited up from the underworld.

Judge.

"Finally someone has discovered these ashes. If we wait for two days, there will be a strong wind and the ashes here will be blown away and scattered. By then, no one will find them anymore."

Lu Zhaoling asked, "Whose ashes are these?"

"Many years ago, the southwest garrison had a secret sentry team, or spies. Some of them went to the barbarian tribe to serve as spies."

"But three years ago, this team was suddenly called back and killed in secret."

Lu Zhaoling was shocked.

"You mean?"

"Yes, these ashes are theirs. Their bodies couldn't be discovered, so they were burned and their ashes were scattered here."

"Who killed him?" Lu Zhaoling asked through gritting teeth.

"This is your worldly business, you can't make things difficult for me."

Lu Zhaoling waved his hand.