Chapter 52 The Mountain God Makes a Snowman Lu Jingchuan, It’s Snowing
The snowstorm in the snow-capped mountains stopped, and the mountain god pinched the little snowmen with a cold expression. After a while, he piled up little snowmen of strange shapes on the table.
Qin Yuqing slowly opened her eyes. This time she slept particularly comfortably. Her whole body was warm, as if she was sleeping in a constant temperature device. The quilt was soft and fragrant, and the air purifier was constantly running. She slept comfortably and soundly.
"You're awake, are you still feeling unwell?" The mountain god was sitting opposite Qin Yuqing. He didn't look up while speaking, but pointed his finger above one of the little snowmen. The next moment, a small crack appeared on the stone table, and the little snowman fell in to fill the gap.
Qin Yuqing stood up and walked to the stone table. She nodded and said, "Thank you, Senior Mountain God, for your help."
The mountain god shook his head, pointed to the seat opposite and said: "You are the man of destiny, and destiny will protect you." As he spoke, snowflakes appeared on the tops of three or four little snowmen with strange movements, and soon the little snowmen were frozen into ice sculptures.
"Let me first thank the mountain god for saving my life on behalf of the people of Yanyun City." Qin Yuqing recalled what happened before she lost consciousness. She knew that her life was slipping away rapidly at that time, but why was she not only full of energy and blood now, but her body was also much fuller than before?
"I want to know what happened while I was in a coma. Did anyone exchange my life for medicine?" Qin Yuqing asked back. There were some things she wanted to know clearly, rather than living in confusion.
It is obvious that the nursery rhyme is a trap to lure her to the snowy mountains, but it is also a way to save Yanyun City.
The note in the paper ball was a way to abandon the entire Yanyun City and save her alone.
The mountain god shook his head. He placed a snow-covered stone not far from a group of snowmen, and then swept the snow off it with his fingers.
The snow seemed to have its own consciousness and rushed towards the snowman, and the snowman was covered by the snow on the stone.
"I can't tell you." The mountain god glanced at Qin Yuqing, then lowered his head and continued to fiddle with the little snowman on the table. He then said, "What is this? If you guess correctly, I'll tell you a clue."
Qin Yuqing put away her tentative look, lowered her head and thought seriously. What she knew clearly was that the mountain god had no ill will towards her. At least the mountain god wanted to protect Yanyun City, so she calmed down and thought carefully about what she had seen and heard in the past few days.
Whether it was General Xiao's words or in Yanyun City, everyone was saying that the snow-capped mountains would block some of the bandits, combined with the irregularly arranged corpses frozen in the walls seen in the cave before.
His eyes fell on the table. These snowmen were dealt with in different ways by the mountain god. There was only one possibility.
"These are bandits."
But who would have thought that the mountain god shook his head. His eyes were cold and his whole body merged into the snowy mountain. His tone of voice was devoid of any emotion. “Half right.”
Qin Yuqing was silent. What did it mean to be half right? Could it be?
"Are there any people from Dayin here?" Qin Yuqing asked. She suddenly remembered that in the letter from Lu Zhong brought by General Lu Lian, it was written that the second prince and the young master of the Yu family were colluding with foreign enemies.
What is uncertain now is who the young master of the Yu family is, but it is very likely that it is Yu Bingyan.
"No, not all of them." The mountain god casually drew a talisman in the air with his finger, and it fell on all the snowmen. Then his voice spread to the other side of the snow mountain.
"The way of heaven is running, and the laws are strict and cannot be violated." The mountain god's voice was cold and ruthless. At this moment, Qin Yuqing actually had a sense of déjà vu that it was the incarnation of the way of heaven. He just pointed his finger downwards, and all the snowmen on the table turned into pieces.
"Those who disobey shall be punished."
Qin Yuqing was so shocked that she couldn't speak. Her mind was working fast, and in a trance she seemed to have connected everything together.
She has a huge imagination. Her modern best friend once told her the concept of if-line, which is the same people and things, but with completely different choices at key nodes, leading to different chain reactions.
What started out as the return of a small object ended up directly changing everyone's fate, just like the butterfly effect.
Could this world be the product of the original book's if-line? And she corresponds to the original book's heroine, because different ideas and choices lead to different world operations, which is also the modification of the original book's plot in the system task.
But if you think about it carefully, there are some contradictions in this idea. In the original book, what did the heroine say to Yu Bingyan? What did it mean that the soul was destroyed? What did it mean to break free from control?
There are too many strange places in this world. After everything in the south is finished, I must go to the west to take a look. Then I will bring the twins with me and find out their life stories.
But one thing she could be clear about was that the Heavenly Dao of this world and Yu Bingyan were in opposition. At present, the Heavenly Dao could still restrict Yu Bingyan, but she didn't know how long this restriction would last.
"You are half right, so you should have half the clue." The mountain god used his slender fingers to mold small peaks out of the snow, and when he was done, he casually placed them on the table.
"You are twins."
What? Who is the twin? Me? Qin Yuqing was confused. The mountain god would not lie to her about such a thing, so Qin Yuqing did not choose to question it. Instead, she was shocked in her heart and felt incredible.
What on earth is this world?! Isn't she from a book?
[I have detected that the host doubts the reality of this world. I reiterate that this is the world of the novel "The Empress."]
For some reason, Qin Yuqing felt that the usually cold mechanical voice seemed a little weak at this moment. After hearing the words of the system, Qin Yuqing suddenly became curious about the relationship between the system, Tiandao, and Yu Bingyan.
[Without the host's permission, the system has no right to answer, but please rest assured, as long as the host completes the task conscientiously, the system will not take action against the host. This is the system's rule.]
The system answered directly the moment before Qin Yuqing opened her mouth.
Although she knew that the system would monitor/eavesdrop, Qin Yuqing subconsciously felt relieved when she heard the system's voice at this moment. At least the system and she were on the same boat.
While Qin Yuqing was thinking, the mountain god pinched the last small peak and placed it in the center. The next moment, a snow-capped mountain rose up next to the temple.
"Return to the original position, restore the source." The mountain god's fingertips flashed with a white light. His fingers quickly formed seals, and the light turned into delicate rays, forming a magic circle. "Arise."
A small magic circle landed on the stone table, surrounding all the fabricated small peaks. The entire snow mountain trembled for a moment, and then a breeze blew through the valley, and soft snowflakes fell intimately on the shoulders of the mountain god.
At this moment, Qin Yuqing seemed to feel that the entire snow-capped mountain was like a child waiting for his relatives, happily telling them something.
"It's getting late. We shouldn't stay here for long." The mountain god waved his finger gently, and a ray of blue-gold light fell on Qin Yuqing's forehead. He looked at Qin Yuqing with indifferent eyes, and then saluted Qin Yuqing.
"The guardian of the southern snow mountain, the mountain god returns to his position."
Qin Yuqing was about to say something when she saw herself floating up and sitting on a huge snowflake, then flying towards Yanyun City.
"Don't worry, I have erased the insignificant human memories."
Qin Yuqing watched the figure of the mountain god getting smaller and smaller. At that moment, Qin Yuqing discovered that the temple was actually suspended in the snow-capped mountains, and it seemed like it was floating in the wind in the snow-capped mountains.
Gradually, the temple was hidden under the snow-capped mountains and disappeared without a trace. Finally, the road leading to this place was also covered by wind and snow.
Qin Yuqing understood that this was the snow mountain's protection of the mountain god. If anyone could find the mountain god, the world would soon be in chaos.
Qin Yuqing landed on the grass and looked at the snow around her that had returned to normal. Just when she was about to say something, someone hugged her.
"Princess, if something happens to you, what should I do?" Shen Yanqing hugged Qin Yuqing, her voice full of self-blame, "Lu Jingchuan will tear my skin off."
"He won't." Qin Yuqing patted Shen Yanqing's back and said with a smile, "From now on, just call me Qin Yuqing. Your Highness, Sixth Princess is too distant."
Shen Yanqing's eyes were red, but she said without any pretense, "Got it! Ah Qing." She looked at Qin Yuqing's body carefully, and after making sure that she was okay, she said, "The lotus on your forehead is gone."
Qin Yuqing reached out and touched his smooth forehead. It was said that ever since the incident at the altar in the capital, the lotus on his forehead would appear whenever something strange happened.
Whether in the forest or in the snow-capped mountains, there are traces of this lotus.
"Let's put that aside for now. Yan Qing, can you also see everything that happened in the snowy mountains?"
Shen Yanqing admitted it generously and relayed what the mountain god had said to her, and the two of them sorted out everything that had happened together.
"Yu Bingyan is a very dangerous person. I suspect there is a prince in the court who is colluding with him."
Qin Yuqing recalled everything that had happened. Yu Bingyan couldn't take action directly, so he could only kill with a borrowed knife, and this knife must belong to someone in the court.
"Are you suspecting the second prince?" Shen Yanqing asked after thinking for a moment following Qin Yuqing's words.
"More than that." Qin Yuqing shook her head. The Second Prince was definitely not Yu Bingyan's most preferred partner, but he was definitely a partner who could be chosen.
Shen Yanqing reviewed the princes in the court and then asked, "Could it be the Fourth Princess and the Fifth Princess?"
Qin Yuqing did not deny it this time. She actually had such a guess. The fifth princess Qin Youran was too well-behaved in those few months, and the first witchcraft was her doing. Now she knew that the ultimate purpose of witchcraft was a test to determine whether Qin Yuqing was A Ruan, the heroine of the original book.
Many people participated in this test, including the Queen, the Fourth Princess Qin Qinqin, the Fifth Princess Qin Youran, and even that person who might have known about it. They all acquiesced to this happening.
Real witchcraft cannot be solved so easily. This was the doubt Qin Yuqing discovered when he was reviewing the case, but it has now been explained.
So there is only one possibility, that the only people who were deceived in that witchcraft from beginning to end were her and those insignificant palace maids and eunuchs.
So does it matter whether she is Aruan or not?
"But there is one thing. The Shen family has always been responsible for the secrets of the mountain god. So my memory was preserved by the mountain god, but why didn't Park Qinghe and Chuntao have their memories erased?"
Shen Yanqing spoke doubtfully, her confusion was exactly what Qin Yuqing could not understand.
Moreover, among the three assassinations from Xiangshan to Wenshan, only the one led by Park Qinghe was judged by the system to be extremely risky and threatening her life.
Speaking of Wenshan's assassination, Lu Jingchuan once told her that he went to seek help from someone, and that person was all-powerful and knew everything about the capital, so who was this person?
Could it be Yu Bingyan?
Qin Yuqing told Shen Yanqing about her guess. Shen Yanqing shook her head and said frankly, "Ever since I realized the crisis of the Shen family, I asked to leave the capital and went to Yanyun City alone. If it weren't for the emperor's decree, I wouldn't be able to go to the Wenshan Flower Viewing Banquet."
Qin Yuqing frowned and lowered her eyes to look at the weeds on the ground. Suddenly, snowflakes fell from the sky. Qin Yuqing raised her head and stretched out her hands to catch the snowflakes.
"Eh? Isn't the first snow falling too early this year?" Shen Yanqing wondered. "I guess it's a blessing from the mountain god. Whenever there's a major issue or a happy event in Yanyun City, the mountain god will send down snow as a symbol of good fortune."
Hearing this, icy snowflakes fell on Qin Yuqing's palms. She suddenly missed Lu Jingchuan. It must be very hot in the capital at this time. She wondered how he was doing and whether he had received the letter.
Qin Yuqing was about to retract her fingers when she suddenly saw a hand holding hers and pulling her into his arms.
A familiar plum fragrance surrounded her. Smelling the soothing scent, Qin Yuqing asked in surprise.
"Why are you here?"
But when the words came out, they were unconsciously choked with sobs.
"Sorry, I'm late again."
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