Chapter 84 Chapter 84 Chaoyao Peak.
The Nine-Star Reverse Wheel was opened and closed for no reason, which means that the Yin-Yang Key appeared briefly on the mountain and then disappeared.
Everyone in the Tianshan Sect was arguing endlessly over who had the Yin-Yang Key.
The mountain conference was held all day long. The elders unanimously asked Gu Huaijin to stay in the discussion hall, work day and night, search all the disciples in the mountain, and check every room. They would not give up until the truth was found.
Gu Huaijin turned a deaf ear and left a sentence "If the elders want to investigate, Gu agrees". A few days later, he and Nan Qiongshuang moved to Chaoyao Peak.
Nan Qiongshuang didn't expect that Gu Huaijin would let go so easily. Wasn't he the one who took responsibility for everything in the past, and took the consequences, good or bad?
Gu Huaijin was silent for a long time. "Jiaojiao, in fact, Yi Haichuan wasn't the only one there when you fell into the waterfall. A dozen or so disciples were drinking and discussing swordsmanship by the waterfall. They all heard the noise you made, but no one came to help."
"Those disciples had all received my kindness in the past. Even though they were wary of the Hengshan Sect, they ultimately stood by and watched them die without helping. I'm a little disappointed."
Nan Qiongshuang also sighed and went to pull his sleeve.
"Besides, if they want to investigate, I'm not unwilling to let them do so. Whoever takes the lead will make the arrangements. If anything happens, just report to me at the summit. Do you really want me to spend my entire life in the Discussion Hall?"
After hearing this, she remained silent: "Then, let's go to Yaofeng. Maybe you will be happier."
Not long after Heng Huang came down the mountain, she and Gu Huaijin moved to Chaoyao Peak.
Chaoyao Peak was a forbidden area for the Gu family, connected to Yuxiao Peak and Hanxue Peak by three iron ropes. The terrain was steep and isolated. Gu Huaijin took her up the ladder from the upper peak, and it took a full day to reach their residence on the peak, Mingyue Pavilion.
Mingyue Pavilion had been renovated and cleaned, now bright and spacious. Because the peak was higher than the ground below, and it was already midsummer down there, the flowers on the peak were just beginning to bloom. Cherry blossoms covered the mountain, and the breeze sent petals scattering in a haze.
Gu Huaijin was putting something aside while Nan Qiongshuang stood at the open window, looking out. Beyond the window, she saw a vast sea of clouds. Rows of cranes, a dot of red on their heads, flew back and forth through the mist. A gust of wind blew, and the cherry blossoms fell like snow, blowing into the clouds and out of sight.
It is truly a paradise-like place.
Glancing over, I saw a monkey sitting on the upturned eaves, its light-colored eyes rolling around.
"Hey, there's a monkey."
Upon hearing this, Gu Huaijin walked to the window, leaned over to take a look, and his eyes met with the monkey for a moment.
"Stay away from it." He stroked the long hair on her back. "Chaoyao Peak is not often inhabited. The monkeys are very wild and are not afraid of people."
She turned around: "Where's the sugar?"
Song Yaojie had asked for this before she left, so she brought the white cat with her. However, she had never liked cats or dogs, so even though she brought it with her, she simply left it to Gu Huaijin, leaving it to him to take care of.
"I put it on the ground when I came in just now. I don't know where it went. Cats are timid, so it takes time to move to a new place. Maybe it's hiding."
Gu Huaijin hadn't put away all his things yet. He opened his bag and took out the items one by one. He smiled and said, "I also brought up the things I prepared for you when you were going down the mountain. These are the hairpins you like."
She pointed casually and said, "Put it there." After looking around, she didn't see Bai Tang and muttered, "Where is it? Where's the cat? It's so high up, don't let it fall to its death by accident."
Gu Huaijin was busy putting things back in place and didn't answer.
There was a balcony on the sunny side. She walked onto it and saw the snow-white cat, tiptoeing between the railings, its head tilted up alertly.
Two monkeys were squatting on the railing, staring at Baitang.
She asked, "Do cats and monkeys fight?"
Gu Huaijin glanced over here, shook his head, walked over with two pieces of dried fish, and waved to the cat.
The two monkeys immediately locked onto the dried fish, staring at it with shifty eyes.
Nan Qiong Shuang suddenly felt something was wrong, "Wait a minute——"
Before he finished speaking, two brown shadows came running towards him like lightning, stepped on the ground with all fours, ran in front of Gu Huaijin, stretched out their hands and grabbed two small dried fish, and ran away.
Bai Tang was so scared that he meowed and all the hair on his body stood up.
Gu Huaijin rubbed his brows. He had originally wanted to coax Bai Tang back, but now he had no other choice and forcibly picked up the cat. "Look. So, be careful and don't get caught."
Holding the shivering cat, he turned back.
Suddenly, Nan Qiongshuang grabbed his sleeve again.
Nan Qiong Shuang shivered, grabbed his arm and leaned against him, hiding her face in his arms, pointing at the railing: "Huai Jin..."
He was startled and turned around to look.
The two monkeys divided the dried fish equally in harmony and friendship, and one of them squatted on the railing and picked his feet.
A monkey squatted nearby, obviously a male monkey, with his head down, playing with his...
She rubbed her hands together and looked at him nonchalantly.
Gu Huaijin's head buzzed.
She couldn't help laughing, and covered her face and got behind him, "Look, look at what they are doing, Huaijin..."
Gu Huaijin pulled her back and covered her eyes: "Jiaojiao, don't look."
His face suddenly turned red.
She couldn't stop laughing. The upper half of her face was covered in his palm. Her eyelashes fluttered in his palm, tickling him unbearably. "Stop looking at me. What are you laughing at? Go back to the house."
It was a rare occasion that Gu Huaijin spoke to her in a harsh tone. She didn't get angry, but only found it amusing. She took his hand away and saw that he was red with embarrassment. She teased him even more: "What are you doing? I don't understand."
She shook his hand and begged him in a sticky voice, "Huaijin, tell me about it."
"I..." Gu Huaijin took a deep breath, unable to defend himself. "What am I talking about? Stop messing around and go back to the house!"
She loved to see him angry, especially when he was angry while being shy. She continued to pretend to be wronged, "What? I was just asking you, why are you so fierce?"
As soon as she felt wronged, he stopped talking immediately. After a while, he was exhausted and sighed: "...No, why am I being mean to you? Be obedient, it's cold outside."
"Then why are you reacting so strongly?" She stood up from his arms and looked over his shoulder at the monkey behind him.
The monkey still didn't stop, and looked at her calmly. She didn't know how it could remain so calm.
She couldn't hold it in anymore and burst out laughing.
Gu Huaijin turned her around with a dark face, pulled her back into the house, and closed the door carefully.
"They are all evil beasts. Jiaojiao, you..." He took a deep breath and considered for a long time, "...you must not look at me inappropriately."
"Monkey! Monkey, are you going to use Confucius's methods too?"
Gu Huaijin was really speechless. Seeing her laughing so happily, he also realized that she was deliberately teasing him. He laughed angrily, picked up the sugar, hung it above the bed, and looked at her demonstratively.
Her laughter stopped immediately.
"You dare." She sneered in disbelief, "I told you, I'll raise it, but I won't let it sleep on my bed."
"Then stop laughing." He didn't let go.
She couldn't hold it in anymore and laughed, but continued to act aggrieved, "What? I just asked you a question, and you didn't explain, and you're still like this... You know I hate things that shed hair the most."
Whenever she acted coquettishly, Gu Huaijin felt like he was punching cotton.
He helplessly put the sugar on the ground, pretended to be calm and closed the window. He looked through the gaps in the carvings and saw that the monkey had finally calmed down. He breathed a sigh of relief.
He walked back, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, opened the bookcase, and checked to see if the Buddhist scriptures and writing brushes, ink, paper, and inkstone he had requested were all there, saying:
"Let me call two more people up from below. One maid for you and one servant for me. Otherwise, if you open the window, you'll see flower petals all over the floor, and you won't like it again."
"Well... whatever you want." She lay flat on the couch, staring at the ceiling idly.
"Sometimes, I might need to go downstairs for a meeting. Then, I might be away all day, and you'll need someone to accompany you when you're alone."
"A whole day?" She looked at her nails absentmindedly. "Chaoyao Peak is steep, why go back and forth in a single day? Don't force yourself."
He took out another book, looked at the words on the back, and put it back. "Don't you miss me?"
"It's only been a few days, what are you thinking about?"
He lowered his eyelashes and remained silent for two moments.
"When are we getting engaged?" he asked calmly.
Nan Qiong Shuang blinked and slowly sat up.
He continued to look at the books in the bookcase one by one, as if he was just asking casually.
"My parents are long gone. So, it's up to you."
"Then, next month." He blurted out the words without much thought, and it was obvious that he had been thinking about it for a long time.
She answered easily: "Okay."
Gu Huaijin seemed to be relieved. He walked to the couch and sat down, hugging her tightly, clasping his hands on the back of her head and stroking it.
He always relied on her, and Nan Qiong Shuang was used to it. She reached out and patted him gently on the back: "...Okay. Now that we're at Chaoyao Peak, are you feeling happier?"
"Yeah." He said softly. The person in his arms was so soft that it made him feel uneasy. He hugged her, unable to control the strength he kept exerting. "I feel much more relaxed when I can't see those people down the mountain. Now I get annoyed when I see people."
She smiled and rubbed his head. "Actually, I've never understood how you could devote yourself to this for ten years. I saw it from the first day I went up the mountain. Even though Huide treated you so well... you didn't complain."
"I don't mind." He buried his head in the crook of her neck, snuggling up to her like a little animal. "It's all for the mountain. Carrying this burden, I naturally have to do more than others. It's okay for me to suffer a little injustice. But..."
She knew what he was going to say and rubbed his back soothingly.
"But... everyone treats you harshly. I protected you so much, and Huide saw it, but he still hurt you anyway." He sneered, "You respect him as your uncle, but you dare to ride roughshod over the Gu family. He's forgotten who gave him his status."
"And Song Yaojie," he said, "We've been in the same school for over ten years. I always thought that although she was a bit strict and sometimes used her seniority to bully others, she wasn't a bad person and wouldn't hurt anyone. I never thought she would actually want to use Heng Huang to kill you."
"He has a very sinister mind. He knows that he can exploit Heng Huang's temper, so he uses a knife to kill someone and clears himself of all charges." His voice became more sinister, and every word was almost squeezed out from between his teeth:
"I was looking for you, turning the whole mountain upside down, and then I found her. Somehow, I always felt that you were behind her secret room. You don't know how I endured it at the time - I originally planned to kill her by opening the secret room, stabbing her to death with a sword."
She wanted to get out of his arms and look at his face. She didn't want to be held by him and unable to move.
"I just realized that when I try to be good to everyone, everyone treats me like a soft persimmon." He chuckled and played with her long hair at the back, smoothing it down strand by strand. "So this is what happens when you're a good person."
She didn't say anything.
These days, he seemed to be extremely disappointed with the people in the mountains and was disheartened. He used to be wholeheartedly doing good for others and was happy to see others doing better than himself, but now he looked listless whenever he met anyone.
She sighed, "Huai Jin, there's something I've wanted to say for a long time."
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