My image
Hearing this, Qin Jiuyan slowly turned her head. The smile on her face disappeared for a moment, and her gilded eyes looked at Jiang Jingyuan, as if some ancient ferocious beast opened its eyes calmly, without sadness or joy, but inexplicably making people instinctively feel a chill down their spines.
But the next moment, she smiled happily again and said, "Yes, Qin Gejue and I are the only ones who come in and out of here."
Jiang Jingyuan's dark eyes paused, then he nodded.
No wonder Niaoniao Terrace was so mysterious. Whether she was away from home or heard news from the Rong family, she had never heard anything about Niaoniao Terrace. It turned out there were only two people...
Jiang Jingyuan suppressed the countless chaotic thoughts in his mind that had not yet been clearly expressed in words. Seeing the red dress fluttering in front of him, he raised his feet and followed.
It seems like a small pavilion stands above the boundless pool of water.
The thin white gauze fluttered in the wind, covering the slightly curled red lips when it flew up, and when it fell down, two more figures stood in the pavilion.
"Please sit down."
A gentle voice sounded, and the woman who had been sitting in front of the stone table waiting for who knows how long raised her hand towards the opposite side, palm facing up.
At the same time, the black and white crane beside her slowly raised its neck and placed its lower jaw on her left shoulder. It glanced lazily at the two people in front of it and closed its eyes with disinterest.
Two people, one in red and one in white, sat down.
Jiang Jingyuan raised his eyes.
The woman in front has a gentle temperament. She is wearing a white dress embroidered with or attached with emerald bamboo leaves. In addition to her elegance, she has a delicate small fan made of gold pinned to her collar. When the small fan is unfolded, the emerald jade beads strung between the two tassels hanging from the fan handle make a clean and clear crisp sound when they collide.
"I'm Qin Gejue." The woman's face was full of gentleness and tenderness. She looked at the girl in front of her, curved her gilded eyes, and said, "Qin Jiuyan has already told me about the matter, so now...
"Let's discuss the terms."
Jiang Jingyuan nodded seriously, "Okay."
However, Qin Gejue in front of him did not say anything for a long time, but just smiled gently with his lips pursed.
Jiang Jingyuan looked at her with a little confusion and surprise.
The next moment, the gentle woman in front of her suddenly turned gloomy and distorted. She suddenly looked at Qin Jiuyan who was sitting next to Jiang Jingyuan and said, "Go play somewhere else!"
“???”
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Jiang Jingyuan's face was filled with shock, and she almost subconsciously turned to look at the figure in red beside her.
Qin Jiuyan was staring at a long jet-black flying feather in her hand with boredom. Upon hearing this, she turned the jet-black flying feather between her two fingers. Qin Jiuyan raised her eyes nonchalantly, and there was a hint of innocence in her expression.
Jiang Jingyuan turned back blankly and looked at the black and white crane in front of him.
As expected, the tears in the eyes of the sturdy crane could no longer be held back. While crying, it pointed at Qin Jiuyan in front of it and screamed as if it was accusing Qin Gejue of something.
Qin Gejue's face regained its gentle smile, though it was slightly distorted. She nodded slightly at Jiang Jingyuan and said in a gentle voice, "Excuse me for a moment."
Jiang Jingyuan nodded blankly?
Then the next moment, she saw the man and the bird in front of her suddenly stand up. Qin Gejue reached out with a distorted face and grabbed Qin Jiuyan's collar. The three figures disappeared in front of Jiang Jingyuan in an instant.
Immediately afterwards, there were "bang bang bang" sounds in the distance, and cheers of "wow wow wow".
Jiang Jingyuan sat in the small pavilion with a dazed look on his face.
Another blink of an eye, and Qin Gejue appeared in front of her with a gentle smile and a crane dozing with its head resting on her shoulder. Jiang Jingyuan turned her head and saw Qin Jiuyan still holding a long black flying feather, even sneering... Everything seemed to have never changed.
Jiang Jingyuan suddenly felt a sense of regret for walking into a den of thieves.
"Please believe..."
Qin Gejue seemed to understand what she was thinking. He leaned forward, clasped his two fair hands over his heart, and looked at her with tenderness and determination in his gilded eyes. He said softly, "I am the world's top weapon refiner. Please believe me. You will never regret the deal between us."
Jiang Jingyuan felt calm instantly, and was about to nod...
"Heh." A disdainful sneer suddenly sounded beside him.
Jiang Jingyuan: "..."
The smile on Qin Gejue's face froze: "..."
Qin Gejue smiled, took a deep breath, and said to Xianhe, who had his head on his shoulder, "Go play with her."
The dozing crane suddenly widened its eyes in fear, raised its neck, looked at Qin Gejue and shook its head frantically——
No no no no no no, my king, my king, think twice, my king! My king, don’t do that!!
Qin Jiuyan saw this and said with disdain and sourness, "I feed it delicious food and drink every day. In all these years, I have only seen it in these few days."
Jiang Jingyuan: "..." Why don't you put down the feather in your hand before saying this.
The crane suddenly burst into tears, stretched out its wings with a few feathers missing, pointed at Qin Jiuyan in front of it, and cried to Qin Gejue loudly.
"Oh right." A strange smile suddenly appeared on Qin Jiuyan's face. She turned her head and said to Jiang Jingyuan, "That fairy crane spirit beast is it."
Jiang Jingyuan and Xianhe suddenly turned their necks stiffly and looked at each other.
When their eyes met, the man and the bird's eyes seemed to be pierced by something sharp. They turned their gazes away abruptly with panic expressions.
Damn, my image... Xianhe's pupils trembled, and he shrank his head behind Qin Gejue, not daring to look at the stranger who suddenly appeared in front of him.
I...did I see something I shouldn't have seen... Jiang Jingyuan had a tense face, but her eyes couldn't help but wander.
Qin Gejue smiled: "..." Qin Jiuyan, you have done all kinds of bad things.
Under the exquisite and simple pendant beads covering her face, the corners of Qin Jiuyan's mouth were wildly raised. She pinched the long ink-colored flying feather and turned it in front of her face. She was obviously trying to hide her smile, but it inexplicably gave people a feeling of provocation.
"Let's not talk about this." Qin Gejue raised his waist and retracted his upper body. He smiled at the girl in front of him and said, "Let's talk about the terms."
As soon as they talked about business, Jiang Jingyuan calmed down instantly. He looked at her calmly and seriously and nodded, "Okay."
Jiang Jingyuan took out a brocade box, placed it on the stone table and pushed it towards the gentle woman in front of him.
Qin Gejue took it and opened the brocade box. He lowered his eyes to glance at the intricate and simple silver jade bracelet inside. He raised his eyes to look at the girl in front of him, smiled and nodded, and said, "I understand."
As the brocade box opened, Jiang Jingyuan calmly glanced at the silver jade bracelet—time had passed, and her desire to repair the bracelet wasn't as pure as it had been at the beginning...
No……
Jiang Jingyuan's mind drifted off for a moment, and then, a sudden realization mingled with a complex bitterness. She seemed to remember that her thoughts and actions hadn't always been pure, but had only intensified over the years, giving her a vague sense of who she truly was.
For her, pure emotion or purpose without any deliberate calculation is too difficult. It is something she cannot do even if she wants to.
Sensitive and suspicious, weighing the pros and cons, and finally making a slight embellishment, this is the unchanging tone of her soul.
Jiang Jingyuan immediately put away all his thoughts after he understood. He looked at Qin Gejue in front of him calmly and indifferently, waiting for her next words.
Qin Gejue glanced at Qin Jiuyan in front of him, then turned to Jiang Jingyuan and said seriously, "The reward I want is the same as what Qin Jiuyan said."
Jiang Jingyuan listened quietly, thinking, "This is also good. It can solve the hidden danger of the Plum Blossom Sleeve Arrow and settle the reward... uh..."
Jiang Jingyuan paused for a moment, then calmly analyzed the situation: "Doesn't this also mean that this matter is extremely difficult?"
But she showed no reaction and asked, "What do you need me to do?"
"Going out to sea." Qin Gejue said these two words softly. There was no smile on her face, but she was full of seriousness and solemnity. "Have you heard about the ghost ship going out to sea in two months? I hope you can go to the fairy mountain with us."
Going out to sea… Jiang Jingyuan paused, then asked with a hint of doubt: "Ghost ship? Fairy mountain? Can we really find the fairy mountain on the trip in two months?"
"Yeah," answered the bored Qin Jiuyan, twirling a feather in her hand, as she casually said, "It's an unmanned tower ship. Legend has it that riding on a tower ship can lead to the immortal mountains. Three hundred years ago, Emperor Huan of Yuan, Emperor Ming of Lin, and Prince Le sailed on it. Twenty years ago, Prince Yi of Yuan also sailed on it. And now... someone has once again observed the traces of that unmanned ghost ship, and it's predicted to reach the southwest waters of Yuan in two months."
"As for whether we can find the immortal mountain," Qin Gejue took over her words, smiled at Jiang Jingyuan, and said lightly as if he was just stating a fact, "Yes."
Could it be that the Immortal Mountain actually existed? Jiang Jingyuan's heart trembled as he thought, "Then what did Emperor Huan see on the Immortal Mountain that caused him to seclude himself for so many years after returning?"
"He..." Jiang Jingyuan couldn't help but think of the rumors and speculations he had heard over the years. He felt a tremor in his heart. "Has he found the way to immortality?"
Suppressing the chaotic thoughts that kept popping up in his mind, Jiang Jingyuan raised his eyes and asked again: "Do you need me to go to the fairy mountain to get something for you?"
Surprisingly, Qin Gejue shook his head and said, "I just want you to go to the Immortal Mountain."
What does this mean? Jiang Jingyuan was stunned for a moment and looked at her in confusion.
Qin Jiuyan, who was standing next to him, explained, "There's a barrier deep in the Immortal Mountain. The plum blossom sleeve arrow will invisibly guide you into the barrier. Just go in and out, and you'll be fine."
What? Jiang Jingyuan was stunned for a moment, and then his mind instinctively turned rapidly:
"The key is the Plum Blossom Sleeve Arrow, but if the only requirement is the Plum Blossom Sleeve Arrow, why don't they just take it and enter the barrier themselves? Either there's something special in the barrier, or the Plum Blossom Sleeve Arrow isn't the only requirement for entry, and that's a requirement they absolutely can't fulfill...
"Don't you want me to take anything? Not even the things I gained from that barrier? I just need to go in and out. Is it true that after I leave the barrier, something irreversible will definitely happen? And this is exactly what they want."
"And, and..." Jiang Jingyuan thought a lot in an instant, "Entering the barrier and getting out is definitely not as simple as they say. Since the Plum Blossom Sleeve Arrow can invisibly guide me into the barrier, does it also mean that once I enter the barrier, it won't be so easy to get out? It definitely won't be as simple as stepping into the barrier and then stepping back out..."
Jiang Jingyuan raised his eyes and looked at Qin Gejue in front of him.
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