The night was getting darker and it was soon midnight.
Xie Yao stayed alone in the room and shunned all the palace guests, leaving only Ziqing and Wu Peiya beside her.
At the same time, she also made complete preparations around the house. Even if more than 300 rats suddenly attacked, she could deal with it calmly.
"Mother, are those rats really coming tonight?" Although Wu Peiya is not afraid of rats, she still feels a little tight on her scalp when she thinks of the black rats.
Zi Qing was okay. After all, with some skills in her body, ordinary men are not afraid, let alone a group of rats. "Don't worry, Madam! If those rats dare to hurt you, I will be the first to let you go!"
Xie Yao gave Top Gun's Zi Qing a funny look and said, "Okay, if something goes wrong with the mice, I'll leave you to deal with the more than three hundred of them."
Hearing this, Zi Qing's face turned bitter, "My dear, please stop teasing me. The ones you have arranged, let alone more than three hundred rats, even if the rat spirits come, they may not be able to rush over."
She and Wu Peiya arranged the things around them together, so they naturally knew their power.
"The rat spirits can't even get through, why should you deal with them?" Xie Yao said to Zi Qing, and then turned to Wu Peiya, "Xiaoya, you heard it. Even the rat spirits can't get through, so you don't have to worry about them."
She could feel Wu Peiya's nervousness, not because of fear, but simply because she was nervous about the rat species, especially there were more than three hundred of them!
Wu Peiya felt a little relieved when she thought of the things she had just arranged, "Don't worry, Madam, I'm fine. If the mice are really disobedient, Sister Ziqing and I will destroy them together!"
Xie Yao's lips curved slightly and she looked outside.
It's already midnight, and I don't know if the rats will show up tonight.
The three of them chatted wordlessly, and time passed by unconsciously.
In the blink of an eye, the midnight hour has passed, and in a little while it will be the ugly hour.
It was quiet outside, even the chirping of cicadas and birds was much rarer. Only the gentle breeze blew through the window and made a faint rustling sound.
Because it was already a little late, the three of them yawned a few times one after another.
Xie Yao glanced at Shichen and raised her eyebrows slightly. Was it just a coincidence that the rats left during the day? Didn't they understand her words?
During the day, I thought I might have supernatural powers, and I was still a little excited, but now it has faded a lot.
Zi Qing has been with Xie Yao for many years and felt Xie Yao's emotional changes, so she said, "Mother, I think those mice know exactly what time it is."
She didn't want to disappoint the empress, but there wasn't even a mouse around, so she wouldn't be able to change.
"Mom, the crawling movements of mice are very soft, and it's hard to hear them even at night. Maybe those mice are watching us secretly." Wu Peiya also noticed it and said something.
Xie Yao saw through their thoughts at a glance, and slowly raised the corners of her lips, "You don't have to comfort me. There is not a single mouse around the house now."
For some reason, her hearing was very sharp tonight, and she could clearly hear any disturbance outside. She could even detect the thirty-three cicadas on the tree in the yard.
But not a single mouse.
Just as I was thinking about it, my eyebrows suddenly moved, and there was movement!
It's a mouse!
But the next moment, she withdrew her attention again.
There was only one, maybe it was passing by by chance, maybe it was a fish that slipped through the trap of catching mice before.
Anyway, she didn't take it seriously.
She glanced at the clock again and saw that it was about to be ugly time. She directly ordered: "Zi Qing, Xiaoya, you all go to rest, we won't wait tonight."
It seems like it's all coincidence.
After saying that, Xie Yao got up and planned to go back to sleep.
In order to wait for the mouse, I stayed up until midnight. If I told anyone about it, I would probably make people laugh to death.
Seeing this, Zi Qing and Wu Peiya also sighed secretly. With no other choice, they got up together and prepared to help Xie Yao sleep.
Wu Peiya was about to close the window, but subconsciously glanced in the direction of the door, and was immediately startled, "What a big rat!"
After shouting, he realized something was wrong and immediately made a defensive posture, protecting Xie Yao behind him.
Such a big mouse is as long as two ordinary mice!
Xie Yao paused, looked back, and saw a big rat lying at the door. It was the fat rat from the day.
At this moment, there is only one mouse, Fat Mouse. Apart from him, there is no other mouse.
Ziqing frowned when she saw the fat rat. Such a big one could almost be regarded as a rat spirit!
"Are you here to find me?" Xie Yao took two steps forward and once again felt Fat Shu's emotion, eagerness.
"Squeak! Squeak!" The fat mouse barked several times, then turned around and ran away, getting out of a hole in the corner of the door.
Xie Yao understood, he was telling her to follow him.
Without thinking, she opened the door and chased after Fat Rat.
Ziqing and Wu Peiya set off quickly, following closely behind.
One mouse and three people were running forward in the night without attracting anyone's attention.
After running a long way, until Xie Yao saw the towering palace wall from a distance, the fat mouse slowed down and slipped in through a dog hole in the corner.
Xie Yao glanced at it, saw a door, and pushed it open.
As soon as she entered the door, she stopped.
The yard is completely dark. Except for the fat rat, the remaining 344 rats are here!
They are in a passive defensive situation because they are surrounded by a pack of feral cats!
What surprised her most was that at a glance, there were at least three hundred wild cats in the group!
There are more than 300 wild cats and more than 300 mice, occupying this very large yard.
This group of wild cats must have regarded these mice as a delicious meal and wanted to swallow them, but it was obviously not that easy.
Because the mice were so dark, she couldn't see clearly whether the mice were injured, but then the moonlight revealed that the wild cats came in all colors, and she could see more clearly that some of the cats had scratches on their bodies and faces!
Cat and mouse are one-on-one, but the cat can't beat the mouse?
It was out of fear of natural enemies that the rats did not act.
But it can also be seen that the cats are no longer afraid to attack.
Xie Yao looked around and understood.
When the rats are in danger, the fat rat goes to him for help.
In this case, she would do her part.
Picked up a torch from the edge, lit it with a fire stick, and walked towards the group of wild cats.
The wild cats were already hesitating whether to attack, but when they saw humans and torches appearing again, they immediately retreated.
Zi Qing and Wu Peiya were stunned when they saw so many wild cats, but they quickly picked up torches and followed Xie Yao.
The three of them moved forward together, but the group of wild cats couldn't resist and fled in all directions.
Xie Yao glanced at the group of wild cats that had fled and frowned slightly. Where did so many wild cats come from?
If they were all in the palace, there would be no way there would be so many rats.