Chapter 463 Life and Death

After hearing this, Qin Nian stared at the painting on the wall for a long time. After finally coming to his senses, he suddenly shook his head and said in resistance: "No, no..."

"It shouldn't be like this."

"wrong."

"Why shouldn't it be like this?" Jiujiu looked at Qin Nian who kept shaking his head in confusion.

Dijiang was also very confused.

Pei Qingning said bluntly: "Could it be that the people in the painting are a couple. Qin Nian, you are the one who is not liked, and you are the third party?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Qin Nian suddenly stretched out his hand, fiercely pinched Pei Qingning's neck, and yelled at Pei Qingning, "Shut up, shut up."

Qin Nian's sore spot was touched, so he was so excited, couldn't accept it, and was angry and embarrassed.

Pei Qingning was choked to the point of being unable to breathe, and her face flushed red. She coughed and coughed while trying to pry Qin Nian's hands loose from her neck. When she found that she couldn't pry them loose, she looked at Jiujiu for help and tearfully said to her, "Mm... benefactor... benefactor, save, save, help me!"

Woo woo woo…

I felt like my neck was going to be snapped.

If I had known this earlier, I wouldn’t have said that much.

Jiujiu hurriedly said, "Qin Nian, Pei Qingning doesn't think before she speaks, so don't bother with her."

"Talk without thinking? Haha, I think she is very smart!" Otherwise, how could she hit his sore spot with just one sentence?

"Qin Nian, please let her go for my sake?" Jiujiu was very anxious when she saw Pei Qingning's complexion was getting worse and worse and her breath was getting weaker.

"..." After struggling for a long time, Qin Nian let Pei Qingning go for Jiujiu's sake.

But he ignored Pei Qingning again. If something happened to Pei Qingning next time, he probably wouldn't help her.

Pei Qingning's words just now really violated his taboo.

Jiujiu shook her head at Pei Qingning, signaling her not to talk nonsense anymore and to follow her closely.

Pei Qingning nodded and followed Jiujiu with red eyes.

Jiujiu pretended nothing had happened and continued looking at the murals on the wall.

There are many murals on the wall, but they only looked at one just now.

The rest of the paintings are about the daily life of the Mermaid Saint and the man in blue.

Sometimes they played the piano, made tea, recited poems, painted, and flew kites together; sometimes they rode horses and killed their enemies... They lived a fulfilling life.

There are a few paragraphs of text at the end of the mural.

But it looked like it was written in blood instead of pen and ink.

"I, Ling Xiao, have only one wish in this life, and that is to marry Jiao Yan. I have only one ambition in this life, and that is to follow Jiao Yan."

"If Jiao Yan gives birth, I give birth."

"If Jiaoyan dies, I die."

"We will live and die together, and I will never regret it."

After Jiujiu finished looking at the murals and texts in front of him, he had a vague guess in his mind.

The man in blue next to Jiaoyan in the mural should be called Lingxiao. Lingxiao and Saint Jiaoyan should be a pair of lovers.

But the Saint Maiden Jiaoyan died.

As for Ling Xiao, he probably didn't survive alone either, and must have followed the Holy Maiden Jiaoyan.

As for Qin Nian, what Pei Qingning just said was right, he should be the third party between the two, the one who is loved but cannot be obtained.

Di Jiang thought so too, but he just looked at Jiujiu tacitly, communicating his thoughts through eye contact without saying it directly.

As for Qin Nian, after reading the murals and those paragraphs of text, he felt as if his whole body was about to fall apart. The spirit that he had previously retained was gone in an instant.

He suddenly became very depressed and desperate.

There was a glimmer in his eyes, and I wonder what he was thinking about.

After a while, Qin Nian suddenly turned around, facing away from everyone, wiped away her tears, and said to herself as if she had seen nothing and nothing had happened, "Let's go, don't delay here, let's continue to look for Jiao Yan's tomb."

"Yeah." Jiujiu nodded in response.

Pei Qingning wanted to say something again, but Jiujiu quickly covered her mouth for her life and reminded her, "You'd better not say anything."

[Whatever she said was not good, it was fatal.]

【What matters is her own life. 】

Dijiang: I agree.

Qin Nian didn't know what he was thinking of at this moment. Not only did he lose his spirit, but his back was not as straight as before.

He walked slowly forward with his head down and his back hunched, exuding a strong sense of sadness.

I just don't know whether he was sad because he saw the mural, or because he remembered the fact that he was never loved again.

After the group walked forward for a while, they suddenly bumped into a few people.

Judging from their attire, they don’t seem to be good people and seem to be here to dig for treasure.

As they walked, they said, "Where exactly is the main tomb of this saint? How come we haven't been able to find it after searching for so long?"

"We have been down here for three days. If we can't find it, we will run out of the dry food we brought."

"Are you going to go back in disgrace because you can't find anything?"

"You can't do this!"

"The adults will be angry."

When Saint Jiao Yan was buried, the monarch of Western Chu at that time ordered that she be buried with the highest standards for a royal woman, and many valuable treasures were buried with her, as well as some of Saint Jiao Yan's favorite jewelry and treasures.

There are a lot of burial objects.

It is said that the treasures are worth a fortune and can feed several armies.

Therefore, many tomb robbers coveted it and wanted to possess it.

However, it is not so easy to enter the tomb of the Mermaid Saint. For example, Jiujiu and the others, even if they come in through a known secret passage, there are many traps and they face many difficulties, not to mention others.

It probably cost a lot for these people to come in, and many people died.

"It's actually them." Pei Qingning was a little shocked when she saw those people.

Jiujiu said: "Why do you say that? What do you know?"

"They are from Zhongzhou Prefecture and the Supreme Alliance."

Pei Qingning recalled what happened to her at that time.

That day, she was unlucky and went out to play. When she was relieving herself in the bushes, she heard these people plotting. They said that they had found the tomb of the Mermaid Saint and they could go down to dig for treasures. After digging out the treasures, they could use them as military supplies and start an uprising.

After hearing this, she stretched her neck curiously to take a look at the conspirators, wanting to see who they were. After seeing this, she was about to sneak away, but she stepped on something and tripped to the ground, screaming and being discovered by several people.

Several people immediately sent people to hunt her down. Even though they knew she was the eldest daughter of the Pei family in Zhongzhou, they would not let her go.

As a result, she had no home to return to and was forced to flee.

She originally wanted to go to Xichu first, find Princess Yongle, talk to her about the matter, and seek a solution.

Unexpectedly, as soon as she quietly escaped from the city, she was discovered and hunted down. Fortunately, she met the princess and others and saved her life.