At midnight, Mu Zhongqing was awakened by a low growl of wild beasts. He rubbed his eyes, and suddenly a heartbreaking scream came from outside. Lady Du was also awakened, and the children woke up one after another. The screams from outside became louder and louder, and everyone was very nervous, thinking that a wild beast had come to eat humans. They all huddled in the carriage, silent, fearing it might attract the beasts.
The noise outside gradually subsided, and everything returned to silence, but they still didn't dare to look or leave the carriage.
It was broad daylight, the sun was already high in the sky, and there was no sound outside.
Mu Zhongqing plucked up some courage and secretly pulled up the carriage curtain, only to see that there was no one outside. The Taoist priests who had kidnapped them, their carriages, everything was gone, only the horse pulling their carriage was tied to a tree, leisurely gnawing tree bark!
