Qi Ling whipped away the weeds, revealing a man also wearing a robe.
Liao Jingxuan and Shen Yuyun, who rushed over, looked shocked when they saw this person.
"Who are you? What are you doing secretly on the back wall of my Liao family ancestral hall?"
Liao Jingxuan shouted angrily and was about to step forward to take someone away, but was stopped by Yan Yan and Shen Yuyun at the same time.
Yan Yan: "I recognize this person, he is from my caravan."
Liao Jingxuan was stunned.
Shen Yuyun was also surprised, frowned and asked, "Why are you here?"
The person hiding behind the grass is Ba Khanna.
Ba Khanna walked out from behind the grass and walked in front of Yan Yan and Shen Yuyun.
He respectfully performed a foreign etiquette to the two of them, and said in a calm voice: "I took the black oak spirit out to look for food. When I walked here, the black oak spirit suddenly noticed the smell of wandering souls, so I came in, but I didn't find it. It took a long time but I couldn’t find it.”
Liao Jingxuan was confused when he heard this: "My ancestral hall is a place to commemorate the ancestors of my Liao family. It has been protected by my ancestors for generations, how can there be wandering ghosts?"
Ba Khanna lowered his head quietly and said nothing.
Yanyan explained: "Bahan is an oak farmer. The black oak spirits he raises specifically feed on wandering ghosts. The black oak spirits are extremely sensitive to ghosts, so there should be no mistake."
When Yan Yan spoke, he glanced at Ba Khanna's arm.
As if he felt Yan Yan's gaze, he quietly lowered his sleeves to cover the numerous whip marks on his arms.
Yan Yan glanced at him silently, then turned back and said to Liao Jingxuan: "Since the black oak spirit in Bahan has sensed that there is a ghost here, he may be hiding in a place where we cannot detect it. Taking him with us may help us."
Liao Jingxuan was a little hesitant. After all, he had never dealt with Ba Khanna and could not trust him.
Yan Yan smiled: "Young Master Liao, please rest assured. I guarantee with my reputation that Bahan can be trusted."
Unexpectedly, Yan Yan would guarantee him, so Ba Khanna raised his head and cast a grateful look at Yan Yan.
Yan Yan nodded gently to him.
The four people climbed over the wall and jumped into the ancestral hall. The backyard of the Liao Family Ancestral Hall was very quiet, with only a few warehouses for storing sundries, and no one was there. All the servants responsible for taking care of it were gathered in the front yard, and the sacrificial hall of the Liao Family Ancestral Hall was located in the entire The middle part of the courtyard.
The sacrifices are placed in the ear room next to the main sacrificial hall where the ancestral tablets are enshrined in the Liao family ancestral hall.
There was no one guarding the front yard, so a few people arrived at the door of the sacrificial hall smoothly.
Yan Yan glanced around: "Why is there no one guarding the courtyard of such an important place like your ancestral hall? Isn't it too easy for outsiders to come in?"
Liao Jingxuan smiled and said: "What's the use of being able to come into this courtyard? Outsiders can never enter my Liao family's ancestral hall. Only direct blood relatives within three generations can enter. Even my grandmother and my mother can enter. Not coming."
After Liao Jingxuan finished speaking, he bit off his middle finger and drew a strange rune on the door. As soon as the rune was completed, he gradually floated and then completely dissolved into the wooden door like ink dripping into water.
After a while, the wooden door opened automatically.
Yan Yan was dumbfounded, and Shen Yuyun explained to her: "This is a blood relationship restriction, a commonly used type of family access control."
Yan Yan raised her eyebrows. She thought this thing was quite high-end. She didn't even need to do a paternity test. She could tell if it was her biological child just by pressing the button on the door.
If any daughter-in-law in the Liao family breaks the rules and gives birth to a child with a foreign surname, she will not even be able to enter the Liao family ancestral hall.
She was letting her thoughts wander when she suddenly heard an unusual sound behind her.
The black oak spirit that had been staying in the lightning barrel around Bahan's waist suddenly broke out and flew towards the corner of the ancestral hall with a scream.
Yanyan and the others looked over in surprise and found that the black oak spirit had been hovering around the corner of the sacrificial hall, and beneath it stood a seven or eight-year-old boy.
Mei Zongyuan?!
"Mei Zongyuan? Why are you in the Liao family's ancestral hall?" Yan Yan asked in surprise.
Ba Khanna exclaimed: "It was this child that the Black Oak Spirit was looking for just now. I didn't expect him to come into this yard."
Shen Yuyun didn't recognize Mei Zongyuan. He just heard Yan Yan call him and realized that this child was Mei Zongyuan.
He remembered that Liao Jingxuan said that Mei Zongyuan was the child of the Liao family who was used as a sacrifice last year and was secretly let go by Liao Jingxuan.
Several people looked at Mei Zongyuan with complicated expressions.
Although Yan Yan and Shen Yuyun had learned from Liao Jingxuan that Mei Zongyuan drank the holy water of the sacrifice, but unexpectedly survived, they still didn't know whether he was a human or a ghost.
However, after Yanyan carefully sensed it for a long time, he could not feel the difference between Mei Zongyuan's aura and that of ordinary people at all. Even the tonba did not pop out.
Based on Yanyan's own feelings, this is just an ordinary child.
But the Black Oak Spirit kept shouting around him.
This means there must be something wrong with this child...
Ba Khanna saw that Yanyan knew the child, so he called the black oak spirit back.
Mei Zongyuan stood quietly on the spot without saying a word, looking at several people with his big black eyes full of vigilance.
Seeing that it was Mei Zongyuan, Liao Jingxuan breathed a sigh of relief and smiled gently at Mei Zongyuan: "So it's you. After that night, I kept paying attention to the movements in the house, but I never felt your presence again. I thought it was you." You have already left."
Although he heard what Liao Jingxuan said, Mei Zongyuan's eyes were always full of vigilance, with no intention of relaxing at all.
Shen Yuyun frowned and asked Yan Yan in a low voice: "Is this child unable to speak?"
Yan Yan shook his head: "Mei Zongyuan is a good friend of Xiao Lingdang, and he even took us to visit Yinggui City. This kid is very good."
After she finished speaking the last few words, Mei Zongyuan's big dark eyes lit up imperceptibly.
He just heard Sister Yan praising him.
Mei Zongyuan subconsciously looked at Yan Yan, and the vigilance in his dark eyes finally relaxed a little.
Liao Jingxuan was afraid that he would be discovered if he delayed for too long, so he said to Mei Zongyuan: "Just wait here for now. We will go in to do some business first, and we will find you when we come out."
After saying that, Liao Jingxuan opened the door and walked inside.
Mei Zongyuan suddenly shouted anxiously: "You guys, are you here to kill the sacrifice? You can't kill the sacrifice!"
Several people were shocked by Mei Zongyuan's words at the same time.
Yan Yan reacted the fastest and asked immediately: "Are you also here to find a sacrifice?"
Mei Zongyuan stopped talking again, his big black eyes scanned around the people, and suddenly ran towards Yan Yan.
Shen Yuyun stepped in front of Yan Yan, frowned and yelled: "You dare me, boy!"
He always felt that there was something strange about this child, and he was particularly wary of him ever since he appeared.
Yan Yan patted Shen Yuyun on the shoulder: "It's okay, he didn't mean to hurt me."
Just now, the guard in Mei Zongyuan's eyes relaxed, and she noticed it.
Mei Zongyuan ran to Yan Yan and suddenly knelt down: "Please don't hurt the sacrifice, that's A Zhi's brother! Sister Yan, please save it."
Yan Yan frowned: "Who is A Zhi? This year's sacrifice is another child?"