All night

When the Earth Lord came back, he was holding a baby in his arms, sleeping peacefully in his arms, with a small wrinkled face, and his small fists were tightly clenched next to his head.

He handed the baby in his hand to the tea shop owner's arms, and said, "Just hand over this when the time comes, and hide your son well. It's best not to keep him by your side when he is young."

The boss couldn't help being dumbfounded, and it took Xin Wan a long time to say a word: "Where did you steal it from?"

The Land Lord gave a "shh" and said, "It's not stolen. I still have some things to do tonight. Will the two children come to help?"

As expected, the place where the Lord of the Land lived was in an abandoned Temple of the Earth. The ground in the temple was in a mess, full of sawdust, carving knives, soil and other messy things, and there was almost nowhere to go.

The Land Lord hummed an unknown song casually, and kicked away the things on the ground, and finally cleared an open space. He sat on the ground in the middle by himself, and enthusiastically said to Lu Changying and Xin Wan: "Please sit down."

"..."

Fortunately, neither of them was particularly particular about people, so they finally sat down.The land lord turned left and right, and picked up two wooden boards from the ground. The wooden boards were hollow, and he filled the hollow part with soil. fat clay figurine.

Lu Changying said, "Excuse me, what kind of operation is this?"

The Earth Lord seemed to hesitate for a moment, bit his own finger, and dotted a drop of blood on the clay figurine's forehead. The blood quickly melted into the dark mud, and the blood on the clay figurine flashed, and instantly turned into a tender, wrinkled snow. A baby with a small face.

"..."

The Land Lord looked at the faces of the two of them, and said: "Don't be so surprised, I think you two should also be people who cultivate immortals and understand magic arts, so you are asked to help. Have you never seen a blindfold?"

seen.Lu Changying and Xin Wan looked at each other, damn it, I've never seen such a suffocating one.

The Lord of the Land stretched his waist and said: "I have done the calculations, Xiaorong is on the edge of the capital, although it is prosperous, but the place is small, the population is not large, and the leader deliberately released the water, the babies who were taken away from each house tonight are counted. There are 23 of them, but I still can’t make so many in one night, so I took the time to make a mold.” He paused and said, “The tea shop owner’s baby has been seen by others since it was born. They all look similar, but just in case, I squeezed one specially for him. The other babies were taken to the county office at will, so they shouldn't pay special attention to their appearance."

Lu Changying said: "So you want to drop the bag."

The land is fair: "That's right, we cultivators should not confront the government head-on. The clay figurines I made and my blood can cover up eyes for twelve hours. I predict that these babies will be executed tomorrow. It should be enough." gone."

He put a pile of mud in front of the two of them, and said, "Come, help me with the mud."

"..."

At dawn, the Earth Lord finally made 23 clay figurines. Xin Wan said, "Is there one more?"

The Earth Lord glanced at the clay figurine that had turned into a baby, and said, "That's fine, that's for you to have a look at."

Xin Wan couldn't help laughing. Seeing that the land lord rolled up all the clay figurines and wrapped them into a bundle, she understood what he meant, and said, "It is indeed much more convenient to take the clay figurines with you than to take the baby. Does the county government need us to go together?"

He didn't mean to be worried about the land lord's ability, but he just wanted to break into the county government office. He didn't know if he needed help, and he didn't know if he only planned to act alone so as not to startle the snake.

"You don't need to go to the county government office, why don't you help me do another thing." The Lord of the Land thought for a while and said, "It's unlikely that others will see through my deception. The only person I fear is the National Teacher. It is said that this person does things. I am extremely cautious, I am afraid that he will personally come to Xiaorong to inspect and confirm whether these babies are dead."

He squatted down, wrote and drew on the ground with a carving knife, and pointed out: "From the capital to Xiaorong, there are three roads, one is a pass road, two are small roads, and one of them has a river in the middle. The spells you practice are more fire-friendly than water, so you probably won’t choose this one, so the possibility of the remaining one is very high.”

Lu Changying said: "Where is it better to set up barriers on this road?"

The Land Lord glanced at him, with some approval in his eyes, and said: "Here. There is a dense forest here, which is an excellent hiding place. Ordinary mountains, rocks and forests can't stop the national teacher, but luckily I am not I want him to never get over it, but I want him to get over it temporarily. Guess why he would rather take the risk of being scolded by the world, and kill all the babies born tonight...yesterday?"

This point is actually not difficult to guess. Both Lu Changying and Xin Wan had some ideas, but they were still not sure. When asked by him at this moment, they couldn't help but say in unison: "Twenty-seven days!"

The Lord of the Land nodded and said: "Yes, it must be that the [-]th day is weird. He probably believed that there would be a child that would greatly hinder his birth on the [-]th day, but he didn't know which one it was, so he would rather kill thousands of people by mistake. Bai, you can't let this person grow up. Do you think, if someone shows him a vision related to 'Twenty Seven' on the way he must pass to Xiao Rong, will he stop and investigate?"

Lu Changying said: "I understand, this is not difficult to do, let's go now."

Xin Wan thought for a while and said, "Okay, then be careful...there are 23 babies, can you steal them back by yourself?"

The Earth Lord took out a small kit from his bosom, shook his hand, but before he made any movement, the big package wrapped in the clay doll had disappeared. "This is called swallowing the sea sac. The 23 babies should be put down for the time being. Don't worry."

Xin Wan and Lu Changying looked at each other, and Xin Wan wanted to ask Lu Changying if there were several of them, but it was too inconvenient for him to introduce another issue at this moment, so he had to give up and asked instead: "I don't know senior... Gao's last name?"

The land is fair: "I don't need to say my name. I wear a mask because I don't want to be recognized by acquaintances and old people. You just think of me as a land man. You see, I can make clay to make people. I am quite a land man."

Xin Wan was amused by him, and said respectfully, "Okay!"

The Lord of the Earth waved at them, and found a sword from somewhere. Xin Wan saw the sword very familiarly, but when he wanted to take a closer look, he had already left with the sword.

Lu Changying said, "Let's go too."

Xin Wan said: "It can hold up to three hundred catties, is there several?"

Lu Changying pondered for a while, and said, "As far as I know, there is only one."

Xin Wan said: "I think it's also... such a rare thing, if there are several, it's not reasonable. Then look at the one in the hands of the land master..."

Lu Changying was silent, and then said: "I have a bold idea, but it's hard to say now."

This sentence was said by the two of them when they came out of Bai Zhize because of the troubles of the snake formation, but now it sounds different.Xin Wan smiled and said, "Okay, you think about it first, I'll wait for you to tell me."

Lu Changying had been hanging her head in thought just now, walking faster and faster unconsciously. When she heard Xin Wan say this, she reached out to hold him, only to realize that he was no longer by her side, and turned her head in panic for a moment. His expression was startled, and he said, "What's wrong?"

Lu Changying let out a sigh of relief, shook her head and said, "It's nothing. Stand up and let me see you."

Xin Wan didn't understand what he meant, but she walked up to him and asked him to hold hands.At this time, the sun was rising, and the warm orange sunlight shone on the two of them.This was the first time Lu Changying saw him in the sun after escaping from the fishwife's cave, and she suddenly felt a world away.He looked at him quietly for a while, then brushed his loose strands of hair behind his head, and said, "You haven't changed from before. Let's go."

Xin Wan was taken aback for a moment, realizing that the "before" he mentioned was the time when he strayed into Bai Zhize.After coming to the mortal world, the two of them didn't mention the previous things again. It was only at this moment that he really felt that Lu Changying, who remembered himself and those days, had really returned.