Past events are like smoke
"How did you get up here?" Jiang Yingyue's face was immediately filled with worry. After all, she had managed to grab the vine by bleeding herself, and she was naturally worried that these two people would do the same.
"Moon, did you get the Nine Heavens?" Ji Yinglei asked from a distance, and his expression finally softened when he saw the bow in Jiang Yingyue's hand.
Ye Qingzhu rushed over and hugged Jiang Yingyue. "The wind suddenly stopped down the mountain. I knew it was you. You really got the Nine Heavens." She was very excited, and tears were welling up in her eyes. Then Ye Qingzhu gently took her right hand and whispered, "It seems that it has healed your injury as well. That's great. Your soul can finally be stabilized."
Now, Jiang Yingyue looked at Ji Yinglei again and said, "It seems that there will be no more evil winds causing trouble on Rifeng Mountain in the future."
“In that case, let’s get back to Hangzhou as quickly as possible.” Ji Yinglei received the message, but Jiang Yingyue shook her head: “I want to see the girl who stopped us from going up the mountain.”
When the group rode back to the town, everyone was astonished. They had never seen anyone come down from Rifeng Mountain alive in all these years, let alone Jiang Yingyue carrying that dazzling Nine Heavens Bow.
Ah Xin was drinking tea by the roadside when she saw the three figures and almost dropped her teacup. She even wondered if she was seeing the ghosts of the three people.
Jiang Yingyue returned the stone plate that A Xin had given them, and the group sat together. A Xin still looked suspicious and couldn't quite believe that these people were still alive.
"So, what's the mountaintop like?" Ah Xin asked tentatively.
“Since there’s no wind on the mountain, Miss A-Xin, why don’t you go up and take a look for yourself when you have time?” Jiang Yingyue replied with a smile. Not far away, many townspeople peeked out and secretly watched them.
Ah Xin carefully examined Jiu Xiao, afraid of missing a single detail: "Well, you've finally gotten the Jiu Xiao you've been longing for. I don't know what use it will be to you, though. I thought it would be even more magnificent."
"Thank you so much. By the way, what's your name, young lady?" Ye Qingzhu asked, and the other two realized that they hadn't told each other their names.
Ah Xin was amused: "My surname is Ning, and my name is Ning Xin. Just call me Ah Xin."
“Thanks to Ah Xin’s stone slab, otherwise we wouldn’t have been able to even make it halfway up the mountain. I am Ye Qingzhu, and these two are Jiang Yingyue and Ji Yinglei.” Ye Qingzhu introduced the people to Ah Xin, and Ji Yinglei nodded in acknowledgment.
However, Jiang Yingyue seemed to be deep in thought. She muttered a few names to herself before asking, "Miss, your surname is Ning. Do you know Ning Huachao?"
Ning Huachao was one of the four people who went to sea with Jiang Yuan, as Ji Wushuang had described.
Upon hearing this name, Ah Xin's expression immediately changed: "How did you know?"
"She... I heard about her from my mother."
Ah Xin suddenly sighed: "She is my aunt."
"So that's how it is," Ye Qingzhu's expression changed instantly, and she almost spat out the tea she had just drunk: "She is... cough cough, is it really such a coincidence...?"
"What's wrong?" Ah Xin asked, puzzled. She seemed unaware of what her aunt had done in the past.
“Our fathers once sailed in the same crew, and Ning Huachao was one of them,” Jiang Yingyue replied. “I only made the connection because Miss Axin mentioned that your surname is Ning. I didn’t expect that we were actually related.”
After hearing this, A Xin sighed, her eyes filled with the melancholy of the past: "My father said that our Ning family has been guarding Rifeng Mountain for generations, for two reasons: first, to prevent the incompetent from going to their deaths, and second, to prevent those with ill intentions from taking over the Nine Heavens. My grandfather had high hopes for my father and aunt, thinking that they could definitely guard the mountain well, but she didn't want to spend her whole life in this place."
"So...she left?" Jiang Yingyue was all too familiar with this. She chose to leave directly to escape her responsibilities, but she knew that it would most likely be an idea she would regret for the rest of her life.
Ah Xin took a sip of tea: "Yes, she left without even leaving a farewell letter. Grandfather was furious, and not long after..." Ah Xin paused here, and continued only after seeing that the three of them were listening attentively, "My father took over the responsibility of guarding the mountain, and also took over the hatred in Grandfather's heart. The sentence he said to me most often was: Don't be like your aunt."
“I know nothing about her, and I don’t know how she met your father,” Ah Xin said. “My father wasn’t very healthy. He developed a cough after my grandfather passed away. Later, a man came here to see him. I don’t know what they talked about that day, but three days later, my father hanged himself.”
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