Chapter 34: Staff (Catching Bugs)
Lu Fei didn't understand what Jian An Ning meant by her seemingly meaningful words.
However, this did not prevent him from capturing the crucial words, "recalling the dusty memories."
Lu Fei could feel a voice in his ear telling him that he really needed this.
He still has no memory of anything before coming to Qingyun Sect.
So Lu Fei decisively changed his stance and said to Jian An Ning, "Can you give me some?"
Jane Anning showed a look of horror on her face. She hugged her gourd in her arms and said, "Absolutely not!"
Lu Fei: ...
Is she worried that he has a bad drinking habit? Lu Fei thought.
Jian An Ning didn't explain in the end, she just said, "I just taught you not to drink, and now you're asking for it. Do you still want to save your face as a teacher?"
So the group turned their attention to looking for an inn, and soon they found it.
The innkeeper looked to be about forty or fifty years old and at the foundation-building stage, but she still wore makeup and flowers in her hair, and wore a very gorgeous dress.
She received them warmly and asked, "You must be from outside Yingzhou Island, right?"
Jian Anning was a little curious about how the shopkeeper knew this. After all, they had been wandering around the street for a long time and no one had noticed anything unusual.
"It's the temperament. I've been running an inn in Silver Moon City for almost a hundred years. I can tell the temperament of people on and off the island, inside and outside the city at a glance."
The shopkeeper spoke with considerable pride, then added with a touch of melancholy, "By the way, do you know where the Qingyun Sect is? My daughter is seeking the truth there."
"It's been a hundred years since she came back. I wonder how she's doing."
Jian An Ning was slightly stunned, and in a flash she came up with a guess.
And the hand that grabbed her wrist faster than the sound transmission confirmed her guess.
Jiang Tan sent her a message, "Don't tell her I'm back, because I might die in the competition with Jiang Qing."
"I don't want her to worry."
Jian An Ning thought to herself: She is in charge here, how could she let her apprentice die?
But she still respected Jiang Tan's opinion and only said to Jiang Fuyue: "We are from the Qingyun Sect. Which cultivator in my sect do you want to know about?"
Jiang Fuyue's face immediately showed joy.
Jiang Tan subconsciously pinched his palm.
Master will help keep it a secret, right?
Jiang Fuyue actually didn't pay much attention to the person behind Jian Anning, let alone Jiang Tan's subtle reaction. She only said, "My daughter's name is Jiang Tan. Have you heard of this name? What's she like?"
"I asked a fellow tribesman who also went to Qingyun Sect to seek the truth to look after her, but he rarely sent me any news afterwards, and I couldn't leave Yingzhou Island..."
Jiang Fuyue became more and more frustrated as she spoke. Her face was beaming with joy just now, but now it drooped. She said softly, "As a mother, I am really worried."
Jian Anning was a little curious about why Jiang Fuyue couldn't leave Yingzhou, but this did not prevent her from performing well.
She touched her chin and said, "Jiang Tan, I know her. She's a young genius from the Qingyun Sect. She's become a disciple of a Nascent Soul Stage master. She has a promising future!"
"Really?" Jiang Fuyue's face showed joy again, and joy was on the corners of her eyes and eyebrows.
"Of course, I never lie!" Jian An Ning patted his chest and made a promise, then said with a slightly embarrassed look, "It's just that my recent ranking in the Qingyun Competition is not ideal. I need to keep working hard."
After saying that, she secretly glanced at Jiang Tan with a serious expression.
Jiang Tan: ...
Master, is you still thinking about this?
But Jiang Fuyue didn't care about that. She just said, "The Qingyun Competition also involves fighting, right? Tan'er has never wanted to admit defeat since she was a child. She must have worked very hard for this. If you have the chance, please tell her for me that as long as she stays healthy and doesn't get hurt, nothing else matters."
Jian An Ning was stunned and looked at Jiang Fuyue with her head tilted.
She thought that this woman was just an ordinary person among the countless people. After the publication of "Qing Jue", with the support of the Jiang family, she barely reached the foundation-building stage after more than two hundred years. Her talent was really mediocre to the extreme.
Jiang Fuyue should not be the one favored by heaven, but Jian Anning felt that there was something warm and soft about her that made her like her a little.
"Yes," Jian Anning replied softly to Jiang Fuyue, as if it were some kind of secret and solemn promise, "Your daughter Jiang Tan will definitely be safe."
Jiang Fuyue didn't notice anything. She just slapped her head and said to Jian Anning, "Look at me. I only cared about myself and didn't even arrange rooms for you guys."
"I'll arrange some rooms for you guys."
Jiang Fuyue did what she said, took out the jade token that served as the room key from the counter, and led Jian Anning and his group upstairs.
On the other side, Jiang Qing returned to the Jiang Mansion and quickly summoned the two off-island aides he had recently recruited.
"Why is the Second Young Master so anxious? Aren't things going according to plan?"
A man and a woman walked in. If Jian An Ning and others were here, they would be shocked, because Jiang Qing's staff were none other than Murong Jing and Fan Shiliu who had escaped from Buyeo before.
"Jiang Tan is back and wants to fight me to the death."
Jiang Qing gritted his teeth as he spoke, resentment flowing from the corners of his eyes and eyebrows. He added, "Why didn't she just die outside? That would have saved me a lot of effort."
"The old man said he would help me, but who knows what he will do in the end?"
After hearing this, Murong Jing realized that Jiang Qing was unsure.
After all, his talent was not that high. Even with the Jiang family's investment of a lot of cultivation resources, he was only at the peak of the foundation building stage. Moreover, he could clearly sense that Jiang Tan was at least at the Golden Core stage.
So isn't it natural that he would worry about his own life?
But Murong Jing seemed to be confident. He produced a leg bone staff from nowhere and tapped Jiang Qing's heart with it, saying, "Isn't this exactly the purpose of our preparations?"
Murong Jing's voice seemed to contain a hint of bewitching intent, "Second Young Master, you should view this as an opportunity. If you can seize it, you can clear away obstacles and even obtain the Jiang family's inheritance ahead of time."
Jiang Qing didn't know what he was thinking about, but the anxiety in his expression eased a lot, and he said to himself: "She brought this upon herself."
Suddenly, there was a noise outside the door.
A woman in gorgeous clothes and with her hair adorned with pearls and jade rushed in, ignoring Murong Jing and Fan Shiliu, and went straight to Jiang Qing to check on his condition.
"Qing'er, are you injured anywhere?" The woman looked distressed.
Then he said with resentment: "The old man said that he regarded you as his only heir, so why did he let Jiang Tan go so easily?"
This woman was none other than Jiang Qing's mother, Jiang Chengyao.
Jiang Qing was very puzzled as to how his mother was so well-informed. He was certain that his father, who was in charge of the Jiang family affairs, must not have known that Jiang Tan had returned.
"Mom, don't worry," Jiang Qing said with a smile on his face, "I have a foolproof plan for dealing with this."
Jiang Chengyao's expression softened considerably, as if she had thought of something. She added, "Mother has also made arrangements on Yingzhou Island over the years to ensure your life is safe."
Jiang Qing thought, his mother has always been an outsider in the Jiang family. How could she know that the battle for succession to the Jiang family is a life-and-death struggle?
He couldn't have died, so the one who died must have been Jiang Tan.
In the inn, thanks to Jiang Fuyue's hospitality, each of Jian Anning and his group was assigned a separate room.
Jian An Ning sent her apprentices away, sat at the table, and supported her chin with one hand.
A candlestick emitted a flickering light, and she took out the thread-bound book and bronze mirror that she had hidden in her arms.
Even though the candlelight did not fully illuminate Jane Anning's face, her complete and clear image appeared in the bronze mirror.
But this time, the person in the mirror had nothing on his temples, while the person outside the mirror had a peach blossom pinned to his temples.
Jian An Ning sighed softly, picked up the gourd that had just been filled, poured a few sips into her mouth, and then said to the person in the mirror, "Do you want some?"
The person in the mirror seemed to be laughing, and his laughter looked wild, but there was no sound.
Jane Anning was a little reluctant to remove the restrictions on the voice of the person in the mirror, because she knew that the other person would definitely say something she didn't want to hear.
However, those things that cannot be told to others seem to be something that can only be said to the person in the mirror.
She thought about it and finally lifted a corner of the sound restriction.
In just a moment, she heard an extremely shrill laugh, and then a voice that sounded exactly like hers, saying to her in a sarcastic tone that she never used: "I know what you're thinking."
"In the end, aren't you still a heretic in the world?"
"Aren't you still..."
"Dongdong"
Just at this moment, there was a knock on Jian An Ning's door. Jian An Ning decisively blocked the sound of the bronze mirror, put away the book and the bronze mirror, and then asked the person outside to come in.
The person outside the door was none other than Lu Fei.
He quietly glanced at Jane An Ning under the candlelight. The peach blossoms on her temples added a few more highlights to her already brilliant beauty.
The stone that had been hanging in the air for him finally fell to the ground.
"What's the matter?" Jane Anning asked.
Lu Fei was actually fine, but when he was meditating and practicing martial arts just now, he suddenly felt something and felt unprecedented anxiety in his heart.
Many things emerged in his mind, but in the end they all turned into one thought.
He had to see Jane Anning.
Lu Fei himself didn't know what he was worried about, just like when Jian An Ning asked him the question, he looked normal.
However, he seemed to have some extraordinary intuition telling him that this was not the case.
So even though the voices shouting "danger, stay away" almost never stopped running through his mind, he still came, approached Jane Anning directly, and sat down opposite her.
Jane Anning was a little confused.
"I'm worried..."
Lu Fei wanted to speak directly, but he saw that Jian An Ning's face was even more confused. That expression clearly asked, what is he worried about?
So much so that Lu Fei really couldn't say that he was worried about Jian An Ning.
In an instant, Lu Fei gritted his teeth, stamped his feet, lowered his eyes and said to Jian An Ning: "It's me, I'm scared."
These words made Lu Fei feel completely ashamed, and the blush spread from her cheeks to her neck.
Eh?
Jian An Ning always thought that Lu Fei was the kind of person who would never show weakness in front of others at any time, and judging from his expression, those words were not sincere.
So what is it for?
Jian Anning actually found it a bit amusing, so she smiled at him and said, "Then let's sleep together?"
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