Grandma Lu's idea was approved. She volunteered to go back to Chang'an City to arrange the entire plan in person. Li Lijun agreed.

Early the next morning, the weather temporarily cleared up. Li Lijun asked the system to make a weather forecast based on the information collected by the drone. Knowing that there would be no heavy rain within two days, she safely sent Lin Jiulang away from the Saga Mountain Villa and returned to the hospital.

Afterwards, he packed the luggage for Grandma Lu.

While Li Lijun was living in Saga Mountain, she did not cut off contact with the Sui Palace. Every once in a while, she would send letters back to her grandfather, Prince Sui, and her grandmother, Princess Dou. She did not write a letter to her father Li Dai alone, but

In her letters to the Sui King, she would always include a greeting to him, and she would have done enough etiquette to avoid anyone finding fault. Now that she sent Aunt Lu back to the Sui Prince's house to handle matters, no one would be suspicious.

The weather has just turned cold, and from autumn to winter, the Sui Palace will make new winter clothes for every member of the family as a rule. But Li Lijun only bought new clothes made by people around her this winter, and the Sui Palace also paid for the prince's share.

Not yet. Grandma Lu just happened to go back to help her receive this benefit. At the same time, she got back the money for food and salary subsidies for the last quarter of this year and the wages of the attendants around her. Ding Wulang will also send a few guards to protect Grandma Lu when she enters the capital.

, allowing them to have the opportunity to go home to visit relatives, and also receive their brothers’ salaries. Although they have no shortage of food and clothing here in Bieye and live a good life, there is no reason to give up what they deserve.

Grandma Lu did not go back empty-handed. She brought with her a large amount of dried vegetables produced by Saga Mountain's special industry, dried mushrooms produced by the forest farm, fungus and other mountain products, as well as two pairs of pheasants and a pair of yellow sheep. After returning to Chang'an City, she also brought

Hui brought forty pieces of new silk and satin from Zhao Chenji, assembled them into four carts, and returned to the Sui Palace with great fanfare, claiming that this was a winter gift for the fourth lady, Li Lijun, to honor her grandparents and father.

This gift is probably not even one-third of what the concubine Chen used to supplement the Sui Palace when she was alive. But Li Lijun is just a little girl, and she is required to spend a lot of money to give gifts to her elders while observing filial piety, which is too much.

It's too harsh. Such a gift is already very decent. Everyone will praise the fourth lady for her filial piety. As for those who secretly say that she is unfilial, can they give such a heavy gift to their elders? They can't do it.

, what face do you have to arrange for others?!

Li Lijun told Aunt Lu to give this gift to Princess Dou. After all, this step-grandmother is now in charge of the palace of the Sui Dynasty. As for how she will distribute the contents of this gift, who will get more in the Sui Palace?

If she gets less, then there is no need for Li Lijun to worry about her children. She fully trusts her grandmother, and there is no need to prepare any separate gifts for her father or brothers and sisters.

Aunt Lu sent things back and brought things back. During this period, she also ran an account of Zhao Chenji. Adding it all up, it was normal to stay in Chang'an City for ten days and a half. Such a long time,

It was enough for her to dig a hole for the Yang family. Li Lijun also asked her to bring enough money to avoid running out of money when doing things.

Aunt Lu was so excited and confident that she took her people away from Saga Mountain. In order to find out more information, she also took Shi Qing away with her. Shi Qing learned that Aunt Lu planned to stop at Liujiazhuang in Jingyang tonight.

, thinking about going to visit the Rat King, he actively packed his luggage and followed Grandma Lu on the road.

After they left, everyone in Bieye continued to live a peaceful and comfortable life. Li Lijun occasionally went to pay homage to her mother's grave, but every time she looked from her mother's graveyard to the top of the mountain, thinking about the toad that still occupies the four terraces.

The peak made her unable to let go of her hands and feet to go up the mountain to practice sword practice, and she always felt uncomfortable.

As the day of the full moon got closer day by day, but the meteor shower in the night sky did not appear again, Li Lijun thought to herself that she really needed to prepare for the plan to eradicate the toads. Once she reached the fifth level of Qi Refining, she would

Action must be taken.

Now living in the countryside, she would occasionally hear her guards and attendants discussing gossip from the surrounding countryside. It was said that two people were missing in a village at the foot of Ertai Mountain. Witnesses suspected that they saw some huge beast coming from before their eyes.

It flew over and swept away the two people, and their life and death were unknown from then on.

Li Lijun wasn't sure whether this so-called huge beast was the man-eating toad on Mount Sitai, but there should be no other powerful monsters in the surrounding area. She had set up protective formations at the foot of Mount Wutai, Mount Sitai and Mount Santai.

, in addition to providing physical protection, it would also cause foreign enemies to subconsciously ignore the creatures in the formation and prevent them from entering. She was worried that the toad might have ignored the humans at the foot of the three mountains closest to it, causing harm to the nearby mountain villages.

If this is the case, then the sooner she gets rid of it, the sooner the people nearby can feel at ease.

It's just... the weather is so cold now, and the temperature has already dropped below ten degrees. According to common sense, the toad should start hibernating, right? Could it be that this toad evolved into a monster and changed its own habits?

If toads can't hibernate, then her original plan needs to be modified. She originally wanted to kill the hibernating toads directly, which would save time and effort, but how can everything in the world go as she wants? She kills monsters

Snake had already taken advantage once. When dealing with the gopher, the opponent didn't have much ability, and he quickly obeyed. As for the demon way? The cultivation level is not high. At most, he is just a human who understands evil methods, which is not enough.

Think about it. Now, Li Lijun no longer dares to expect to take shortcuts this time, so she should just fight the toad honestly!

It’s not like she hasn’t fought anyone before!

Since she was about to fight the enemy, Li Lijun had to make preparations in advance. She had taken a sample of toad venom from the corpse of the demon snake, analyzed its ingredients, and studied the method of detoxification. Now she cannot say that she has done so.

After researching a targeted antidote, she was able to come up with a medicinal liquid that neutralized most of the toad's toxins, which ensured that even if she was poisoned by the toad, her life would not be in danger. She would slowly adjust her condition afterwards.

, it won’t take long to completely detoxify.

At the same time, she rummaged through her storage space and found a small piece of close-fitting body armor and a pair of small leather boots that can be used at the fifth level of Qi refining, which can increase her safety and mobility in battle.

Flexibility. She also drew a lot of protective charms, not to mention other invisibility charms, breath-absorbing charms and the like.

She reactivated the little black crane and the little paper man who had been lurking outside the cave where the toad was hiding earlier to collect information about the other party. She found that the toad should still have started hibernating, but it started a little later than ordinary toads.

In recent days, she noticed that Toad no longer went to the top of the mountain to practice every night, and there was no usual movement in the cave. She took the risk and let the little paper man sneak into the cave to take a closer look, and found that there was no Toad in the cave, but there was no sign of Toad in the cave.

In a corner filled with mist, the ground seemed to have been turned over by something, making it appear more uneven than the surrounding ground.

In the corner, there were some scattered fragments of human clothing, perhaps belonging to the two missing villagers.

Could it be that... after eating and drinking enough, the toad hid under this land and began its belated hibernation?

In a hibernating state, the reaction ability and activity ability of a toad should be degraded compared to normal.

If that's the case...
Chapter completed!