After leaving the checkpoint, Huangfu Yue hurried west.
According to the route to Lingping she had learned from Feng Maoyuan, she needed to head south, but now she had to travel west first, to return to the mountain she climbed this afternoon, and then head south from there.
Huangfu Yue rushed and finally arrived at the mountain she had climbed that afternoon. She immediately changed direction and headed south.
Along the way, she had encountered several checkpoints guarded by soldiers, but because she was underground, she was not discovered and passed through the checkpoints smoothly.
"Master, where are you?" Xiao Hei's voice suddenly came.
"I'm on my way, what's wrong? Did something happen?" Huangfu Yue quickly replied, asking with some concern.
"Nothing happened, I just wanted to ask where you are now, what you're doing, and if you handed over those men in black at the checkpoint." Xiao Hei said.
"I arrived at the checkpoint long ago and handed the men in black to the person in charge of the checkpoint. He said I needed to report to the Dali Temple. I told him to go to the capital to report to the Dali Temple. With the Dali Temple handling this case, there's no need to worry." Huangfu Yue said.
"I am now rushing with all my might, hoping to leave this sealed area within five hundred li of the capital as soon as possible."
"Master, you've worked hard." After speaking, Xiao Hei, afraid of disturbing Huangfu Yue's concentration on her journey using the earth-遁 technique, fell silent.
Xiao Hei remained silent, and Huangfu Yue did not chat with it further. She focused all her attention on her journey.
After traveling all night, as the eastern sky began to show a fish-belly white, Huangfu Yue successfully left the sealed area of five hundred li and arrived in front of a county town.
"Fumin County." Huangfu Yue emerged from underground, looked up at the three large characters written on the county town's gate, and softly read them aloud.
After traveling all night, she was also a little tired. She would return to the space to sleep for a while. After waking up, she would bring her grandmother and others out of the space to find an inn in Fumin County to stay, and then make plans based on the situation.
Having made up her mind, Huangfu Yue returned to her room in the space and found that Xiao Hei had not slept yet.
"Master, you're back!" Xiao Hei was very happy to see Huangfu Yue and immediately flew in front of her. "Did everything go smoothly? Have you left the sealed area within five hundred li of the capital now?"
Huangfu Yue nodded, "Everything went very smoothly. We have now left the sealed area within five hundred li of the capital, so there's no need to worry."
"That's great." Xiao Hei was very happy.
"I'm a bit tired and want to go to bed and rest. We'll talk after I wake up," Huangfu Yue said.
"Okay. Master, please rest well." Xiao Hei immediately nodded.
Huangfu Yue immediately went to the bed, took off her shoes, and fell onto the bed to sleep soundly. She slept very well. When she woke up, it was already the hour of the snake.
Xiao Hei had been staying in her room. Seeing her sit up on the bed, it immediately flew to the bedside. "Master, did you sleep well?"
"Very well. Do you know what time it is now?" Huangfu Yue asked as she got up and put on her shoes.
"Yes, it should be the hour of the snake now... We crows are very sensitive to time and can feel how much time has passed and calculate the time," Xiao Hei replied.
Huangfu Yue curved her lips. "Your crows are quite amazing!"
"Have my grandmother and the others woken up?" Huangfu Yue asked.
Xiao Hei replied, "The old madam woke up at the hour of the rabbit, quarter past the hour. She came here to see you and knew that you had finished your journey and successfully left the sealed area within five hundred li of the capital.
She knew you were making up for lost sleep after traveling all night, so she told me not to disturb you or wake you, and to let you sleep well. She then returned.
I also went to check on the others. Except for your second sister-in-law, who is still sleeping, everyone else has woken up."
After speaking, Xiao Hei couldn't help but complain, "It feels like your second sister-in-law really likes to sleep in! She's still not up at this time, and unlike you, Master, she didn't stay up all night."
A flicker of helplessness flashed across Huangfu Yue's face. This second sister-in-law really had many things to complain about.
"Xiao Hei, you crows all sleep during the day. I'm awake now, so you don't need to keep watch over me. Go to sleep with peace of mind." Huangfu Yue gave Xiao Hei a gentle smile.
She knew that Xiao Hei had been staying here because it wanted to watch over her. The reason it had left earlier to specifically check if others were awake was also because it thought she would want to know after she woke up.
"Thank you, Master." Xiao Hei hadn't slept yet at this hour and was a bit sleepy, wanting to sleep. So, it nodded and then flew to the top of the bed curtains in Huangfu Yue's room.
The top of the bed curtains looked very comfortable.
It lay down on top of the bed curtains and fell asleep. It knew that Huangfu Yue would not forbid it from sleeping on the bed curtains, so it did not ask Huangfu Yue if it could sleep there.
Huangfu Yue looked at Xiao Hei, her lips curving slightly. The little crow was quite good at choosing a place to sleep!
Huangfu Yue intended to open the door immediately and call Ying'er to serve her to wash up, but she suddenly remembered that it was this time and she needed to feed the puppet gu quickly.
Therefore, she first went to get chicken to feed the puppet gu, and only then went to find Ying'er...