Chapter 55 The Altar Goddess is back, you once were

From the letter sent by His Majesty, he was indeed unaware of everything that happened in the south. Whether it was the fact that he was deceived as an emperor or the suffering of the people that he did not solve in the first place, he was very angry about this matter.

At the same time, he realized that the people around him had been infiltrated. After careful consideration of Qin Yuqing's previous proposal, he decided to reuse the Lu family. Lu Jingchuan would become his external contact in the capital.

But he couldn't show all this in public. There were undercurrents in the court at the moment, and the current delicate balance could not be broken.

After the emperor negotiates with the Lu family, he will continue to target the Lu and Shen families openly, but secretly he will cooperate with the Lu and Shen families to eliminate the black sheep in the court.

Qin Yuqing was very satisfied. He knew his adoptive father very well when it came to matters concerning the country and the people of the Great Yin Dynasty. He was a good emperor who listened to advice.

After finishing everything, it was already late. Qin Yuqing hurriedly washed up with Chuntao's help and went to sleep.

In a dream.

This time the dream was very strange. Qin Yuqing found herself in a water dungeon. There was nothing else except the sound of dripping water.

There seemed to be a person sitting in the middle of the water, with his hands and feet tied up with iron chains, and the chains extended to an unclear place.

At this time, the person opposite raised her head, and Qin Yuqing took a step back in disbelief. Her facial features looked extremely like her mother, but she had never heard her mother say that she had a sister who looked similar.

When the woman saw Qin Yuqing, a hint of surprise flashed in her eyes, as if she didn't expect Qin Yuqing to appear here, but when her eyes saw the ring on Qin Yuqing's finger, she smiled knowingly, shook her head at Qin Yuqing, and said gently.

"It's still early, you can't come here yet."

"Who are you?" Qin Yuqing shouted loudly, but the next moment the water dungeon began to shake violently, as if it detected someone who did not belong in the dungeon and issued a strong alarm.

"Shh." The woman exerted force on her wrist, grasped the chain in her hand, and pulled it hard, "What? Have you been so scared by locking me up?" The next moment, the water dungeon returned to stability. The woman shook her head again and signaled Qin Yuqing with her eyes not to speak anymore.

"The West has everything you need to know."

"Leave, child. Now is not the time."

Qin Yuqing found that her body was floating up uncontrollably. She wanted to open her mouth to speak, but found that she could not make a sound.

"It seems this guy treats you very well. I was right about him." The woman smiled, her eyes full of satisfaction. "Qin Yuqing, you will not forget this time. Use your existing memories to piece together the lost ones."

"Get back the you that you once were."

Qin Yuqing opened her eyes suddenly. She recalled everything that happened in her dream. The touch of the water dungeon was very real, and there was also a person who looked extremely similar to her modern mother. What kind of place was that place?

Is there such a place in Dayin?

At this time, there was a knock on the door. Chun Tao stood at the door and said, "Princess, it's time to change your clothes."

Qin Yuqing got out of bed, opened the door and saw the sleepy Chuntao and the energetic Shen Yanqing: "Isn't it a little early now?" Qin Yuqing sat at the table and asked herself in the bronze mirror.

"No, the ceremony in Yanyun City always starts when the sun shines on the snow-capped mountains." Shen Yanqing took the wooden comb from Chuntao's hand. She looked around the room and asked with a smile, "Lu Jingchuan is gone. He hasn't been here for long."

Qin Yuqing looked at the bronze mirror. She had looked at Shen Yanqing around her at least five times since she entered the room. She reached out her hand, dipped a little lip balm in it, and smeared it on her lips: "Even if you look at me here, Lu Jiu will not show up."

Shen Yanqing's eyes flickered, she picked up the clothes on the table and said, "What are you talking about? Change your clothes first."

Qin Yuqing raised her eyebrows, stood up and stretched out her hand, letting Shen Yanqing and Chuntao play with it.

This set of clothes was very complicated. By the time all the accessories were put on, Qin Yuqing had fallen asleep and was playing chess with Zhou Gong in her dream.

"Princess, wake up." Chuntao gently patted Qin Yuqing's shoulder.

Qin Yuqing hummed a soft "hmm", rubbed her eyes and sat in front of the bronze mirror again, waiting obediently for Shen Yanqing to fiddle with it.

"We're afraid we won't be able to take care of you today." Shen Yanqing carefully painted Qin Yuqing's eyebrows, her tone full of worry for Qin Yuqing. "Pu Qinghe told me that Ah Qing had learned martial arts in the capital, but after all, the situation tomorrow will be chaotic, and there's no guarantee that someone won't take advantage of it."

Qin Yuqing patted the back of Shen Yanqing's hand, and with confidence in his fox eyes, he said: "As long as you have weapons in hand, although one person cannot resist thousands of troops, it is more than enough to protect yourself and escape."

Shen Yanqing thought back to the Wenshan competition. From Qin Yuqing's posture of drawing the bow and arrow, she could tell that she had been practicing archery since she was a child. The body's subconscious reaction would not lie, but she could also see that Qin Yuqing did not have any martial arts skills at the time.

But now, she could feel that the aura in Qin Yuqing's body had become much stronger, and her steps seemed less frivolous and more solid.

"It seems I was worrying too much." Shen Yanqing looked at Qin Yuqing who had finished dressing up, and her eyes flashed with amazement, "Aqing, you are the most beautiful altar goddess I have ever seen."

"Altar Goddess, what is that?" Qin Yuqing stood up and looked at herself in the bronze mirror curiously. Her red eyeliner was boldly outlined, her eyeshadow was also bold and fresh in color, and her lips were a gorgeous red. She looked extremely charming.

But the clothes are chosen in the most simple and elegant colors, with white as the main color, golden dark patterns on the cuffs and collar, and a miniature snow-capped mountain range woven with blue silk thread on the chest. Just looking at the clothes gives people a sense of coolness and nobility.

The two strong contrasts did not offset each other in Qin Yuqing. Instead, they made Qin Yuqing so charming that people dared not approach her. They could only admire her from afar and not touch her.

"Every year during the worship of the mountain god, the mountain god will select a suitable altar goddess, but in fact, everyone spontaneously chooses the right candidate and hands it to me, and then I hand it over to the mountain god for review." Shen Yanqing lowered his voice and spoke into Qin Yuqing's ear.

"Ah Qing, I'm telling you this in secret. Don't tell the Mountain God. The Mountain God is actually very lazy. He always lets anyone do what they want without even a second thought. He's not responsible at all."

Deep in the snow-capped mountains, the mountain god who was pinching the small snow mountain sneezed several times in succession. He looked up at the moon that was about to set, and remembered that the worship of the mountain god in Yanyun City was about to begin. Maybe someone was thinking of me.

The mountain god hooked his finger, and a small mirror appeared on the table, and in the mirror was Qin Yuqing who had changed her clothes.

"Altar Goddess." The mountain god's eyes were indifferent. A light blue stone appeared before him and the mountain god placed it on the table. "Let's see what your fortune will bring."

In the room, Qin Yuqing listened to Shen Yanqing's complaints. In fact, this can be regarded as a different kind of down-to-earthness from the gods, right?

"So this time, it was also chosen by the people of Yanyun City? I remember you told me that they have no memory of the previous ones." Qin Yuqing asked curiously.

"This time it was chosen by the mountain god himself." Shen Yanqing took out a piece of talisman paper and quickly formed a seal with his fingers. The next moment, the talisman paper floated in the air, turned into star-like snowflakes, and gradually combined into a sentence.

"Choose Qin Yuqing as the altar goddess." As Qin Yuqing spoke, the words in the air quickly dissipated. She looked at her clothes and said, "But I'm afraid this outfit isn't suitable for me to carry a weapon, right?"

"There's nothing to worry about." Shen Yanqing clapped his hands. Chuntao came with arrow feathers and General Xiao came with a longbow. Shen Yanqing patted the longbow and said.

"There aren't that many rules in Yanyun City. Besides, every year the altar goddess shoots an arrow at the snow mountain. The farther the arrow goes, the better the fortune for Yanyun City in the coming year."

This is rare.

Qin Yuqing took the longbow and tested it in his hand, then asked, "If you need any help from within the city, please let me know."

"Don't worry, I won't be polite with you, but the number of people this time is more than double what I imagined. If they hadn't been too active recently, I might not have noticed it so quickly." Shen Yanqing's face sank. These people dared to invade Yanyun City under her nose.

"Speaking of which, these people are from Alhan." Shen Yanqing took out a piece of paper from his arms. On it was the same picture that the secret guard had shown Qin Yuqing. "This is Alhan's totem. The sun and moon represent Alhan's goddess and son of god respectively. Do you understand what I mean?"

Qin Yuqing naturally understood that it was after she brought Xiaolu to Yanyun City that these Alhan people hidden in Yanyun City began to become active, or to become active again.

As for the purpose of their activeness, neither Qin Yuqing nor Shen Yanqing had figured it out.

Arhan is a small country outside the western border of Great Yin. It is composed of many tribes. But no matter which tribe it is, they all respect the Arhan twins.

"What about the deer?" Qin Yuqing asked a little worriedly.

"We've already sent someone to guard her. Don't worry about that. Although her identity is a mystery, if she really wanted to harm you, she would have done it long ago." The moment Shen Yanqing saw the totem, he sent a large number of troops to guard Xiaolu's yard.

Although the child didn't understand, after making sure that he would not harm Qin Yuqing, he stayed in the yard obediently, just looking at the sky from time to time, holding a needle and thread in his hand, as if doing something.

"Thank you very much." Qin Yuqing thanked Shen Yanqing. Whether in the capital or at this moment, Shen Yanqing helped her a lot. She has always been clear about gratitude and grudges.

"The only problem now is that we have no idea what Alhan's people are going to do." Shen Yanqing was a little distressed.

"Do Alhan's people often attack?" Qin Yuqing asked. All the things about Alhan were not mentioned in the original book, but now it seems that there are a lot of things that were not mentioned in the original book.

Shen Yanqing shook her head, her eyes filled with confusion. "On the contrary, Arhan was the first to surrender to Great Yin and voluntarily became a vassal state of Great Yin. For so many years, everything has been peaceful, and no one has ever heard of Arhan invading."

"Don't underestimate the enemy." Qin Yuqing recalled that when she was in the snowy mountains, she did not see the Alhan totem on the arms of the parasitic people on the screen. Either they were not affected by the plague, or Yu Bingyan erased all traces.

But I think the second possibility is very small, Yu Bingyan is not the kind of person who would do something that is laborious and has no reward.

"This morning's worship of the mountain god." Qin Yuqing stroked the bow, picked it up with one hand, and made a fake pulling motion.

"Catch him alive."