"Shigu (a respectful term for a female elder in the martial arts world), look what Yu'er has brought for you!"
Song Jinyu rushed into the medical hall excitedly. Her shigu, Lin Wan, was writing a prescription.
She wore her hair in a high bun and always dressed in a gray Taoist robe. With a gentle temperament and delicate facial features, she was the beloved daughter of the previous sect leader.
For some unknown reason, she was over thirty and still unmarried.
When Song Jinyu came to the mountain, she had already become a Taoist nun.
"You little nuisance. What do you want from shigu this time?" Jinyu held Lin Wan's arm. Her eyes sparkled as she held a food wrapped in dried lotus leaves in one hand.
"I baked some sweet potatoes. Let shigu have a taste." Song Jinyu liked her shigu very much. When she was a child, she often had nightmares for a while, and her shigu would accompany her to sleep.
"Shigu, do you know Lady Jinhua?" As the two sat down to enjoy the fragrant roasted sweet potatoes, Song Jinyu suddenly asked.
"She used to be the daughter of the great leader of the Miao region,"
Although Lin Wan didn't understand why Jinyu suddenly asked about Lady Jinhua, she told her everything in detail.
"Later, after she met your master, she pestered him all the time. However, your master was determined to revitalize Tianmen Mountain and refused her." When mentioning Miao Yunshen, Lin Wan's eyes dimmed.
So there was such a past between her master and Lady Jinhua? Jinyu propped her head up and urged Lin Wan to continue.
"Seeing that your master had no intention of her, she married Ouyang Long." In Lin Wan's heart, Lady Jinhua was also a ruthless woman. Since she couldn't marry the man she loved, she married his friend.
"Before, she had a very good relationship with your mother in Liuzhou City."
Mentioning this, Lin Wan felt a little regretful. She rarely went down the mountain, but she had heard of the most beautiful woman in Liuzhou City back then.
As for why Miao Yunshen had never married, Lin Wan didn't want to tell Song Jinyu. She didn't want her to think blindly and worry unnecessarily.
It was getting late. Lin Wan sent Song Jinyu to deliver several sets of medicinal soups to her master.
Walking around the corridor, many Tianmen Mountain disciples greeted Jinyu along the way, but she gradually immersed herself in her own world.
Combined with her own speculation, the past events might gradually unveil their veils.
When Song Jinyu entered her master's courtyard, her master wasn't meditating as usual. She searched all the way in. The attendant boy had just gone off duty. She entered the inner room and saw her master in a daze in front of a painting.
"Master!"
Song Jinyu's voice pulled Miao Yunshen back to reality. He hurriedly came out. Song Jinyu caught a glimpse of the painting from the corner of her eye. It was a beautiful woman, almost identical to herself.
"Yu'er, why are you here?" Miao Yunshen called her over. Song Jinyu handed over the medicinal soup and stepped forward to feel her master's pulse.
Miao Yunshen smiled and pushed her away. "Your pulse - feeling skills were taught by me!"
"Master, your health has always been poor. You must take more care!"
"I've just caught a cold."
"Yu'er, you're growing up." Miao Yunshen looked at this girl who was almost carved from the same mold as Qiu Shuixin.
He sighed slightly in his heart. If he hadn't taken over Tianmen Mountain back then, would their child be this old too?
"Jinse has come to propose marriage again," Miao Yunshen looked at Song Jinyu playfully. He thought that Ouyang Jinse was actually a good boy, but with such a mother, he was not a good match after all. Moreover, Song Jinyu was the daughter of an official, and her marriage couldn't be casually arranged.
"What!"
Ouyang Jinse. Song Jinyu frowned. After the last incident, she had rejected all of Ouyang Jinse's gifts, all his letters, and even always turned him away.
The Crown Prince had ruled the incident as a bandit robbery to quell the dispute between the two sects, but it had damaged Song Jinyu's reputation after all.
The Jinshui Palace, the initiator of this incident, had received no punishment at all.
Moreover, it was very likely that his mother was related to her mother's death. So, she warned herself to stay away from Ouyang Jinse. Thus, Song Jinyu completely broke off with Ouyang Jinse!
"Master, Yu'er doesn't want to."
Song Jinyu's rejection was within Miao Yunshen's expectation.
"I've already rejected him for you." He had rejected Ouyang Jinse on the grounds that Song Jinyu was not yet of marriageable age.
Ouyang Long had died young, but his son was so outstanding. However, this boy had inherited his mother Lady Jinhua's paranoia and seemed determined to get what he wanted.
"Don't worry. Let's just put this matter aside for now. Take this book and study it carefully. I'll test you on the first day of next month!"
Ah?
Song Jinyu came out of her master's courtyard with a bitter face. She lowered her head and sighed as she walked.
Yan Fei had just returned from down the mountain, carrying many small trinkets. Seeing her frowning, he pulled her to their secret base and managed to make Song Jinyu happy again.
Seeing her happy, Yan Fei remembered meeting Ouyang Jinse down the mountain and told Jinyu about it.
The three of them used to play together often. At that time, Jinyu was in a bad mood when she first came to Tianmen Mountain. It was Yan Fei and Ouyang Jinse who cheered her up, and she often played tricks on them.
Now that the relationship with the Jinshui Palace was on thin ice, they were getting further and further away from Ouyang Jinse.
"He asked me to give you a message." Yan Fei hugged his flying chain with both hands.
"From now on, the Jinshui Palace will no longer be your enemy."
This sentence represented a promise and Ouyang Jinse's intention. Although Song Jinyu was a little touched in her heart, she didn't care anymore.
"This token is from him!" Yan Fei was an upright person. Even though he was in love with his junior sister just like Ouyang Jinse, he still chose to tell Jinyu about Jinse's affection.
Yan Fei knew that his junior sister hated most to be betrayed by those close to her.
A delicate silver token with the words "Jinshui Palace" engraved on it.
This was the silver token symbolizing the highest power in the Jinshui Palace. There was no second one in the martial arts world.
Yan Fei handed it to her with a sour feeling in his heart. It was getting late, and the two of them didn't say a word.
Song Jinyu took it and looked at it carefully.
Suddenly, a flash of inspiration came to her. With this token, she could enter and leave the Jinshui Palace without any scruples.
Maybe,
it was time to go and see Lady Jinhua in person.
The Crown Prince had achieved his goal. He had both admonished the Jinshui Palace and deterred Prince Yu. So he left, but Shen Yingyun fell ill.
The Crown Prince said with a fake smile to Zhongli Mingye, "Take good care of her. Return to the capital after she recovers."
Shen Yingyun also said weakly, "I'm afraid of passing on my illness to the Crown Prince."
Thus,
there was an extra delicate young lady recuperating in Prince Yu's Mansion in Liuzhou City.