When the agreed time arrived, Ling Xiao took A Wu on the road early in the morning.

She didn't care much about the gatherings of dignitaries in the capital.

This is because she is not in the same mold as the ladies in the capital.

In the previous world, she had the opportunity to witness with her own eyes the living habits of ancient nobles.

Because the original owner was an aristocratic man and there were differences between men and women, she did not know much about the lives of aristocratic women.

This world is full of women, but the Tao family is somewhat separated from the life of the powerful, so it is still a little different.

If you want to get a closer look at the lifestyle of top aristocratic women in ancient times, you still need to enter the circles of the capital.

After arriving in the capital, she did not think about breaking into that circle, because now her body was not qualified, and the Tao family was completely in decline.

There are not many clan members left in the entire Tao family. Even those who are officials are minor officials, and they will immediately enter the state of Ding You. When they finish Ding You, they will find that their previous resources are gone.

Those Tao family members who had mastered the personal connections basically died in the flood. As soon as people left, the tea went cold. The personal connections they had mastered were destroyed, and everything had to start all over again.

In addition, Ling Xiao also knew that the Tao family fell directly out of the scope of the aristocratic family. In fact, it was not bad. At least some land should belong to the Tao family.

Even if it has been washed away by water, a lot of land can still be reclaimed and there is still a place to stand after the water recedes and is tidied up.

However, after many members of the Tao family died suddenly, their power was also greatly damaged. The Tao family may not be able to protect so much land.

As expected by Ling Xiao, the Tao family later had no money and had to sell a lot of land at a low price.

As a junior, Ling Xiao didn't care about this matter. Anyway, the land of this branch was greatly reduced later on.

After knowing the situation in the capital and the general trend of the world, she didn't care about the shrinking land issue at all.

Once chaos breaks out in the future, it will be even more dangerous for landowners who have no power to protect themselves.

It doesn't matter whether you have more or less property or whatever, it's all about living first.

Sitting in the carriage pulled by the old horse, Ling Xiao was thinking about a question.

Why did so many Tao people die this time?

It can be said that few Tao family members in the entire clan escaped.

Some of the bodies were washed downstream and were later recovered one by one.

Most of these people's bones cannot be identified and can only be identified based on their clothing.

There are still some that have not been found. They may have been taken away and used for other purposes, or they may have become unknown corpses.

The original owner's grandparents could not find their whereabouts, so in the end they could only set up a tomb, which also led to a ghost house.

Ling Xiao asked after receiving the news. She had some preconceptions and cursed the original owner's grandparents in her heart.

I feel that they are all pig teammates, the kind of idiots who are not clear-headed and refuse to leave. They are simply unreasonable people.

But after Ling Xiao learned about the situation, he discovered that the reason for this was mainly because they did not believe there would be any big flood.

Everyone had this idea. After asking the remaining Tao family members, she found out that the original owner's grandfather and grandmother's ideas were actually shared by most of the Tao family.

Those people simply didn't believe that there would be floods there. When Ling Xiao heard about it for the first time, his first feeling was to scoff at this idea. Why couldn't there be floods?

You must know that according to the memory of the original owner, it did rain for several days in a row, and the tribe also has a large river, so the possibility of floods is relatively high. Why are all of them with old gods around and don't want to leave at all?

people?

After thinking about it like this, she couldn't help but want to take a breath of air first. Although she still didn't know what was going on, she knew there must be some problem.

Just imagine, it is a normal reaction for people to be afraid of the river embankment bursting when it keeps raining, but the Tao family is so calm and thinks that everything is fine here.

If we change the place, I am afraid that if everyone feels that the situation is not good, they will take action early and go to higher ground with their families, and the Tao family will be fine.

It is a pity that they did not believe in the danger and did not leave home. As a result, when the disaster came, few Tao family members escaped from the flood.

So the question is, why are the Tao family so stubborn? It’s as if they feel from the bottom of their hearts that the Tao family’s territory will be fine.

Mysterious self-confidence! You must know that this is a natural disaster and cannot be controlled by humans, so why are they so confident?

What confidence do the Tao family have? What kind of confidence and trump cards allow them to face danger without hesitation?

This makes them not afraid of possible floods at all, which is not in line with normal people's thinking.

Then there is only one possibility, unless they truly believe that nothing will happen.

How could they have this idea in their minds? It’s impossible, right? emmmm!

Humanity today is a defenseless weakling in the face of natural disasters.

Or did they have any special preparations? So they were not afraid of floods at all?

But it turns out that the Tao family were all mortals and died when the flood came.

It was impossible for them to do it without any damage, and something went wrong in the middle.

No matter how much he thought about it, Ling Xiao felt that something was not right. He wanted to find evidence but lacked certain information.

This world now belongs to ancient times, transportation methods are extremely underdeveloped, and horse riding represents the fastest transportation method.

How did the long-distance marathon come about in later generations? Legend has it that someone ran more than 40 kilometers in order to report their victory.

He was exhausted after telling the news of victory. This shows how inconvenient information exchange was in ancient times.

The fastest way to communicate information is to have those who report the news ride horses and change horses every time they go to a place. This is the fastest speed.

This leads to a problem. It is not easy to check all aspects of information in ancient times, and it is even more impossible to obtain information about those places.

There is absolutely no Du Niang at this time. If you want to find out the situation, you can only know some information by looking at the local chronicles of this place.

The problem was that she had to send someone to investigate. Ling Xiao wrote down this issue and waited for the opportunity to talk about it in the future. There was no evidence, and everything was just fantasy.

Maybe in the eyes of others, this is just a conspiracy theory thought up by Ling Xiao, but she takes it very seriously. If there is really a problem with the Tao family, will the original owner's family be an eyesore to others?

The reason why it looks like this is that Ling Xiao feels that it would be okay if Sanlang and Wulang never show up, but if they stand out, will it attract more targets because someone wants to target the Tao family?

Ling Xiao was not sure about this at all, but she had to be careful. Sometimes hatred came out of nowhere. And if there was no defense, it would only make the person involved suffer. Ling Xiao decided to let Sanlang and Wulang

Be careful and be sure to check it out.

Fortunately, Ling Xiao has understood the rules of this world over the years, and this trip to the Weiyuan Hou Mansion is a test, and it is also the first time that Ling Xiao has close contact with the ladies of the top powerful men in ancient times.

By the way, I also wanted to take a closer look at the Twelve Niang of the Hou Mansion. What was going on? Why did she have a special interest in him? Ling Xiao had already discovered this.

Why do you say that? There is also a reason. No one from the Hou Mansion ever came to the other courtyard, but Ling Xiao found that every time Xiao Taozi came home, he would appear near him.

Xiao Taozi tried her best not to observe deliberately, so others might not notice her attention. Ling Xiao was much better than ordinary people in areas such as the six senses.

After many years of visualizing the Tree of Life and the Tree of Anti-Life in Kabbalah, her six senses have become stronger, allowing her as a mortal to see further and hear things more clearly.

The original owner's body was powerful in every aspect, far from being a weak woman, so Ling Xiao went to see Twelve Niangs with many questions.

After arriving at the place, Ling Xiao got off the carriage. Some people saw the old horse and thought it was an autumn wind hunter. Fortunately, there was an invitation from the Marquis Mansion.

Even so, he was not invited in immediately. Those people looked at this late guest with curiosity and surprise.

Because the clothes Ling Xiao was wearing were too ordinary and he had a mask on his face, the people in the Hou Mansion almost refused to let Ling Xiao in.

Ling Xiao didn't care much. She didn't care at all. She wanted to let people in and see the excitement as much as possible, but not let anyone in or leave.

Fortunately, Twelve Niang sent someone to see why Ling Xiao hadn't arrived yet before letting him in.

In order not to embarrass the original owner, Ling Xiao used the most normal method to meet the twelve mothers.

And the maid who brought her in was also very well-behaved and quiet along the way.

Before turning the corner, he informed Ling Xiao that there were too many people today.

There is no need for her to visit the elders of the Hou Mansion for the time being.

Just go directly to Twelve Niang's boudoir.

Ling Xiao knew the reason as soon as he heard it.

Her identity was not in the hearts of the people of the Hou family.

It's just a young lady from a down-and-out family who doesn't have an official position.

Of course those noble people would not take Ling Xiao seriously, he was not on the same level.

After Ling Xiao found out, she didn't pay much attention. She just came to see the excitement and watch from a close distance.

She didn't even think about having anything more to do with the Hou Mansion, even she knew that it looked like Xungui was living a good life.

In fact, it is also difficult for noble families like them. At this point, it is very difficult to take a step forward, and taking a step back may cause problems.

Most of the time, prosperity and wealth are all in vain, so why care about their attitude towards her? She doesn't need to be angry at all.

And she also saw traces of those noble people. Those people in gorgeous clothes walked very slowly, with small steps, which looked really beautiful.

The disadvantage is that their walking speed is too slow, emmmm! No wonder the ladies, all the ladies are inactive. This kind of gait tests people after all.

After watching it, she felt that the movement speed was extremely slow. She calculated the corresponding time and found that if a lady took one step, she should have already taken three or four steps. She could pretend to be a lady for a while.

But considering that it would be too tiring to keep pretending, she would not do such stupid things at all. She was too lazy to maintain any friendship with those noble ladies. It seemed that she was being taken for granted or wanted to take advantage.

It made her feel very unhappy.

Just like the maid who was leading the way just now had this idea. She probably wanted to send them there quickly. The little maid's walking speed did not slow down all the way. If Ling Xiao was like other ladies, I'm afraid she wouldn't be able to keep up with this.
To be continued...