HCB Chapter 131 Canglan Ferry (1)
Chapter 131 Canglan Ferry (1)
Quick Transmigration Division.
Yan Zhen cautiously pushed the door open a crack, carefully peering through the crack to observe the corridor and make sure no one was lying in wait before slipping inside and sneaking along the wall.
Xiao Qi, perched on her shoulder, was also affected by Yan Zhen's overtly secretive behavior. It unconsciously shrank its neck and asked softly, "Master, what are we doing?"
"Shh!" Yan Zhen whispered, "Keep your voice down, don't let Jing Chen hear you."
Otherwise, he would come looking for me to settle accounts.
Before Ming Yiwei's body died, she had originally planned to come back and meet with Jing Chen to talk things out, so that this matter wouldn't remain unresolved in her heart.
But when she actually returned to the Quick Transmigration Division, she felt awkward again.
Forget it, I'll try to avoid it for as long as I can. If I can't avoid it anymore, I'll deal with it later.
Xiao Qi blinked her beady green eyes: "You mean the God of Mirror Calamity? He's not here."
Yan Zhen paused: "Where did he go?"
"Going to perform the task."
Yan Zhen immediately straightened up as if nothing had happened and swaggered towards the office.
Xiaoqi: "..."
Once inside the office, Yan Zhen sprawled out on the bed and let out a long sigh of relief.
Xiaoqi squatted in front of the computer, using its sharp beak and claws to type on the keyboard and start writing a task report.
"You earned 61 points for this mission, just barely passing," Xiao Qi said. "Master, your performance this time was below par."
Yan Zhen closed his eyes for a short rest: "It's not that I'm not up to par, it's just that I don't want to indulge idiots. Besides, we don't lack those points."
Xiao Qi knew her personality and didn't say much.
Yan Zhen took a nap, intending to use it to recover her energy, but as many times before, once she returned to the Quick Transmigration Division's spiritual space, she had frequent dreams and couldn't sleep soundly.
Yan Zhen woke up after only two hours of sleep. She sat on the bed in a daze for a while and then asked Xiao Qi, "Has Jing Chen come back?"
"not yet."
"It's just bad luck," Yan Zhen said, spreading his hands. "I wanted to apologize to him in person, but he wasn't here, and I was in a hurry to go to the next world to do a mission, so I couldn't wait for him."
Xiao Qi glanced at her sideways.
Yan Zhen could see the disdain in its little bird face, as if to say, "If I didn't know what kind of person you are, I would almost have believed you."
She wasn't ashamed at all: "But you're right, running away isn't a solution. How about this, you pass on a message to him for me."
"What message?"
"Just say I'm sorry about what happened before, and ask him to be magnanimous and not hold it against me."
Xiaoqi asked, "What if he takes it to heart?"
After all, the way he came to settle scores with his master that day in a fit of rage didn't seem like he didn't care.
"Then have him leave a message about what kind of compensation he wants. As long as it's within the range of my points, I'll try my best to meet his needs."
After instructing Xiao Qi to relay the message, Yan Zhen had no desire to stay in the Quick Transmigration Division any longer and urged Xiao Qi to teleport her to the next mission location.
After Xiao Qi activated the teleportation and Yan Zhen's figure disappeared, the office door was suddenly pushed open from the outside.
Xiao Qi was so startled that the tuft of hair on her head stood on end: "Who the hell is that?! I was so scared!"
The man standing outside the door was tall and thin. He had the face of a young man in his thirties, but his hair was completely white, and he exuded a heavy aura of death.
It took Xiao Qi three seconds to realize that this was Zhou Rang!
Why is he here?
Zhou Rang, clearly having run all the way here, asked breathlessly, his chest heaving, "Where is she?"
As soon as he opened his mouth, Xiao Qi jumped.
That voice belongs to the Mirror God!
Zhou Rang is the main god of Jingchen!
Realizing this, Xiao Qi immediately stood up straight, folded her wings at her sides, and put on a very serious expression: "Master has already set off for the next world to carry out a mission."
After saying that, it added, "But she asked me to give you a message."
"Say!"
After Xiaoqi relayed Yan Zhen's apology and willingness to make amends, Jing Chen's expression not only did not soften, but became even uglier.
His hands, hanging by his sides, were clenched into fists, the knuckles cracking.
After a while, he turned and strode away.
As soon as he left, Xiaoqi felt completely exhausted and slumped down in front of the computer, wiping away a cold sweat.
It needs to quickly tell its master that Zhou Rang is the main god of the mirror.
On the other side, Jing Chen walked while mobilizing his divine sense, transforming "Zhou Rang's" physical form from head to toe back to his original appearance.
Upon arriving at another office, he knocked twice symbolically, and without waiting for a response, pushed the door open and entered: "Zhou Yanqing, do me a favor."
The man, who was working at his desk, looked up: "Hmm?"
Jing Chen stepped over the desk, reached out and took off Zhou Yanqing's ID card from his chest: "I'll lend you the identity of the deceased for now, and I'll do the next mission for you."
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When Yan Zhen woke up, he was lying in the grass at the foot of a valley.
The valley is filled with lush grass and birdsong, the sun shines brightly, and wildflowers of all colors bloom in competition, filling the air with fragrance. A bamboo basket sits nearby.
The early spring sunshine was warm and inviting, making people feel drowsy.
Yan Zhen sat up, making sure she was unharmed and there was no danger around. The original owner was just sunbathing and taking a nap here. She lay back down in the grass and began to check the walkthrough.
The original owner's name was Jiang Li, a herb-gathering woman who lived in a secluded mountain valley.
The valley is called Canglan Valley, and its hundreds of residents are descendants of a family of doctors who fled here hundreds of years ago to escape war.
Jiang Li lost both her parents and grew up with her master and mistress. She learned to collect and make medicine from a young age and has a deep understanding of beauty techniques.
At the age of seventeen, she found a young man who had fallen off a cliff and was injured in the valley, and took him back to the valley to treat him.
The man's name was Pei Wangzhou. He had a handsome appearance and a dragon-like demeanor. During his recovery, Jiang Li and he developed feelings for each other.
Spring passed and autumn came. After a year of recuperation, Pei Wangzhou recovered from his injuries. The two were married in the presence of their master and mistress. Afterward, Pei Wangzhou took Jiang Li away from Canglan Valley.
Upon arriving in the bustling capital, Jiang Li learned that Pei Wangzhou was the eldest son of the Duke of Dingguo and was already married with a wife.
The principal wife was Yan Jinhe, the eldest daughter of the Grand Tutor of the current dynasty. She accepted the marriage without any objection when her husband disappeared for a year and brought back a woman from outside, wanting to take her as a concubine.
In old-fashioned time-travel novels, Jiang Li's situation would definitely be considered the female lead's script.
As the plot unfolds, the next step is a power struggle within the household. She wins over the people of the Duke's mansion to serve her own purposes, uses her extraordinary medical skills to thrive in the circles of power and wealth, achieves success alone, and brings the Duke's entire family to prominence. In the end, she defeats the first wife and monopolizes the male lead.
But reality is often the opposite. Although Jiang Li has made a name for herself in the capital by using her beauty skills and has gained a lot of connections for the Duke's mansion, she is simple and straightforward and is no match for Yan Jinhe, a noble lady from a prominent family.
After a year in the Pei household, she not only lost her baby due to Yan Jinhe's instigation and scheming, becoming a "rude, unruly," "jealous," and "vicious" barbaric woman in the eyes of everyone in the household, but she also fell out of love with Pei Wangzhou and argued with him whenever they met.
That same Mid-Autumn Festival, Pei's mother brought the anti-aging cream developed by Jiang Li to the palace to present to the Imperial Concubine. After using it, the Imperial Concubine's face was ruined and disfigured. It was discovered that the anti-aging cream had been poisoned, and the entire Duke's mansion was held accountable.
Even though Jiang Li tried her best to explain that she hadn't poisoned him, Pei Wangzhou, in order to protect the Duke's mansion, still reluctantly pushed her out to take the blame. She was strangled to death in prison with a white silk ribbon.
After her death, Yan Jinhe was unwilling to give up the enormous benefits that cosmetic surgery could bring, so he ordered his family to infiltrate Canglan Valley, intending to capture a few disciples with good medical skills for their own use.
But the people in the valley refused to surrender, and in their anger, the Yan family killed everyone, looted all the pharmacopoeias and elixirs in the valley, and finally burned the entire Canglan Valley to the ground.