allendalepharm Chapter 707 She Appears
Chapter 707 She Appears
Yan Huai asked in confusion: "Why did the incense burner fall to the ground?"
"Maybe a wild cat from the neighborhood ran in."
Jiang Ci walked towards the incense burner that fell to the ground. He originally wanted to squat down and pick it up, but when his eyes accidentally swept across the ashes on the ground, his eyes were fixed.
He saw that there was a conspicuous half footprint on the scattered ash, but he and Yan Huai had not stepped on the ash, and from the shape of the half footprint, it was obviously left by a woman.
Suppressing his wildly beating heart, Jiang Ci stood up and walked quickly to the inside of the gauze curtain to check. The woman on the bed had her eyes tightly closed and there was no sign of life on her body. Jiang Ci gently lifted up Yan Shu's skirt to check the embroidered shoes on her feet. The soles were still as clean as new. The hope in his heart was instantly extinguished, and a hint of disappointment flashed in his cold eyes.
If she hadn't come back, then whose footprints were left on the ashes?
There are secret guards on duty around the Zhaixing Pavilion all year round, and he and Yan Huai were just on the terrace outside the house, but he didn't sense any breath of living people in the house at all.
The more he thought about it, the more strange it seemed. Jiang Ci looked at Yan Shu and pondered for a moment. Then he turned to Yan Huai as if nothing had happened and said, "Come with me and walk around."
"Wei Chen takes orders!"
The two of them left the Zhaixing Pavilion together. Half an hour later, Jiang Ci sent Yan Huai away and returned. He sent the two shadow guards on duty to the Chongzheng Hall next door.
"Have you found anything unusual in the Star Picking Pavilion today?"
The two of them reported truthfully: "Your Majesty, we did not find anything unusual in the Star Picking Pavilion today."
Jiang Ci fell silent. If there was an outsider breaking in, this person not only successfully avoided the surveillance of the shadow guards, but also made him and Yan Huai unaware. How good must the other party's martial arts be?
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3rd floor, Zhaixing Pavilion
A beautiful and otherworldly figure appeared out of nowhere in the room. She looked around curiously and then walked to the bed.
"Small town, why does this woman look so much like me?"
Out of nowhere, a childish voice replied, "There are so many people who look similar, maybe it's just a coincidence. My dear Jiaojiao, don't pay attention to a dead person now, take care of your lovely town, my energy is draining too much, I'm afraid I'm going to fall into a dormant state."
The woman held up the silver lock hanging around her neck and said with a look of disdain, "How dare you say that? We agreed to go to the Nibirumu system, but you sent me to such a hellhole. How are we going to complete our mission now?"
"Don't worry about it for now. If I fall into a deep sleep, I will have to stay here for at least a few months or even a year. Then we won't be able to complete the mission that Master has given us."
The woman was silent for a moment with a cold face, then raised her hand and tried to transfer some energy to the silver lock, but only a very faint blue light appeared between her fingers.
"Oops, the spiritual energy in this damn place is too weak, and my energy has also become very weak."
"What should we do? Master said that if our apocalyptic rescue mission is successful, we can upgrade our dimension in the future. How could such an accident happen at this critical moment? Wuwuwu..."
Listening to the small town crying, the woman felt a little upset.
She sat on the ground and looked at the woman lying on the bed again, with a hint of doubt in her eyes.
Is it really just a coincidence?
She and Xiaozhenzi have been traveling to various small worlds to carry out missions for so many years. Although Xiaozhenzi is sometimes not very reliable, he has never made a mistake in the transportation mission. But now she has come to this strange world inexplicably, and it happened that she just came here to the funeral hall of this woman. What a coincidence is that this woman has a face that is 80% similar to hers.
"Crying won't solve the problem. Since we can't leave for now, we can only stay here and think of a solution. Try to contact my father. If that doesn't work, we can only go through the back door."
Xiao Zhenzi said, "I have tried to contact Master, but the dimension of the small world where Master is now is too high, and the dimension difference with this place is too big. With the energy I have now, I can't contact him at all."
The woman picked up the silver bell and shook it vigorously twice.
A voice begging for mercy immediately came from the silver bell: "Aiya, ah, stop shaking, I feel very dizzy."
"Since I can't contact my father, then I'll have to repair the lost energy and take me away from here quickly."
"Okay, I'll be in seclusion for a few days, so don't run around by yourself. We seem to have been discovered just now, so you should just hide in the space for now."
The woman ignored it, and the town soon fell silent.
Yu Nianwu stood up and sat next to the woman. She stretched out her finger and poked her cheek. Noticing that she seemed to have a foreign object in her mouth, she curiously opened her mouth to check, and suddenly a white light flashed inside.
"The Youth-Preserving Pearl? No wonder it remains intact even after death."
I wonder why this woman’s body was not buried, but instead she was used to preserve her virginity with the Beauty Pearl?
Just as she was curious, there was a sound of someone coming up the stairs downstairs. Yu Nianwu dodged and hid in the space.
Jiang Ci pushed the door open and walked in. A familiar floral scent filled his nose. His heart trembled violently. He looked around with cold eyes, but did not detect any other presence in the mourning hall.
But this familiar floral scent...
Jiang Ci's gaze fell directly on the woman on the bed, and he walked to the altar with the food box in his hand.
"Jiaojiao, I brought your favorite cakes. Today is your birthday. Eight years have passed in a blink of an eye. I wonder how you are doing in that world now? Are you thinking about me?"
As he spoke, Jiang Ci opened the food box and placed several plates of snacks on the altar.
He picked up a jar of wine, walked to the bed and sat down, opened the wine and shook it gently.
"I want to drink today, would you like to accompany me?"
Jiang Ci picked up the jar of wine and took a few big gulps, then wiped the corners of his mouth with his sleeve and took a deep look at the woman on the bed.
"Jiaojiao, there is no war in the Great Sui Dynasty now. The people live and work in peace and contentment. With the potatoes and corn you provide as the main grain, not only can every household have enough food, but they can also earn a lot of money from the crops. Now the treasury is full and the grain storage is abundant. Nanjiang and Rongdi have been destroyed by me. There is no more trouble near the Great Sui Dynasty. I believe that the Great Sui Dynasty can be kept peaceful for a hundred years..."
Feeling depressed, Jiang Ci drank wine in big gulps and talked to Yan Shu intermittently. Before he knew it, the whole jar of wine was empty. He raised the empty jar and shook it, then threw it aside with disgust. He was already a little drunk. He reached out for the edge of the bed and lay on his side on the outside of the bed. One hand gently stroked Yan Shu's cheek, his eyes full of deep longing.
"Jiaojiao, I miss you so much. I often dream about you, but every time I open my eyes, I find that it was just a dream. The feeling of loss and despair is too hard to bear. Can you please come back soon?"
After talking to himself for a long time, Jiang Ci felt his eyelids became extremely heavy. He slowly closed his eyes and soon fell asleep.
空间
Yu Nianwu sat in the small courtyard, eating fruit and cracking melon seeds while listening to the man outside chattering about his love.
"It turns out that my lover died young."
This man didn't want to accept the cruel reality, so he used the anti-aging beads to preserve his lover's body forever. Alas, they are really a pair of ill-fated mandarin ducks.
After wiping his hands, Yan Shu waited for a while, and only returned to the Zhaixing Pavilion after making sure that there was no movement outside.
Seeing the man sleeping next to the woman's body, Yu Nianwu slowly approached the bed with light steps, looking at the man's face curiously. When she saw the man's appearance clearly, a flash of surprise appeared in her eyes.
Not bad, not bad. He is a rare handsome man. But why does he have so much white hair at such a young age?