The Concubine's Daughter Travels Through Time and Space and Takes the Road of Confrontation

"Pa!" As soon as they met, Zhou Boli was slapped by the person in front of him.

Dashou's eyes flashed with ferocity, and he slowly withdrew his hand. "Zhou Boli, this slap is for my sister."

Liu Zi was about to speak out in anger when Zhou Boli raised his hand to stop him. "You can leave now."

Liuzi walked out reluctantly.

Qin Dashou stared at him coldly. "Where is my sister?"

Zhou Boli raised his hand to wipe the blood from the corner of his mouth, and said in a hoarse voice, "The one in the mansion is fake. I haven't found her yet."

Dashou's expression went blank for a moment, and he became visibly panicked. "How could that be? You're lying to me on purpose because you're afraid I'll persuade my sister to leave you."

Zhou Boli said bitterly to himself, "Now I just want her to come back alive. You are right, I am useless and cannot protect her."

"She has been missing for a full hundred days. During these hundred days, every time I close my eyes, I can see her dressed in red, standing alone on the suspension bridge, smiling at me. Her smile is so beautiful—"

"Within a single breath, she was swept into the dark river like a bird with broken wings, the waves high and the current swift, the cold icy cold biting her bones."

Zhou Boli's expression was numb. "There's not a night that goes by that I don't dream of her. But why, no matter how hard I try, I can't even reach an inch of her clothes?" He lowered his head to look at his open hands, then clenched them into fists, his knuckles white and veins bulging. "I'm useless."

Qin Dashou glanced sideways, his eyes red. "Don't say anymore."

Zhou Boli's eyes burned with madness. "Qin Yuanfu, you don't hate me for taking your sister away. If you can help me find her, you can take her away or whatever you want to do. I promise I will never interfere. If you break this oath, I will strike you with lightning."

In the wild valley of the sacred Mount Gongga.

Jiang Nu was already almost recovered, but her grandmother wouldn't let her get out of bed. Finally, when her grandmother told her she was going to the village to buy some household items, she finally got out of bed.

The small courtyard in front of me is not big, and a string of red bacon is hung high under the corridor of the side house.

Jiang, who hadn't exercised for a long time, suddenly felt a cramp in her calf. When she turned to the back of the house and saw the large and small graves on the hillside, she swallowed nervously.

Suddenly I felt that the cool mountain breeze at this moment was a little eerie.

Didn’t grandma always say that she lived alone? How come there were so many graves?

Although they didn't raise any livestock, there was a row of fragrant bacon hanging under the eaves of the kitchen.

Pushing open the tightly closed kitchen door, she looked inside.

Although the kitchen was simple, it was very clean. The table next to the stove was covered with knife marks, and there was a chipped kitchen knife on it.

The yellow sand of the desert, the dim inn, and the blurry scenes flashed through my mind.

"Dragon Gate Inn," Jiang Nu muttered to herself, "Have I been to this place before?"

Jiang Nu closed the kitchen door quietly and walked out of the yard. The bamboo piled in the barn without any livestock had begun to turn yellow. The ground was clean and there were no animal footprints.

Jiang Nu rubbed her hands and searched her mind carefully, but she had no idea about the livestock that ate bamboo. It was really too weird.

A little further ahead is a vegetable garden planted with fruits, vegetables and melons, and the land next to it is planted with rice.

The water in the rice fields is brought from a riverbank not far away. Standing on the edge of the field and looking from afar, the riverbank is flat and covered with smooth pebbles.

Jiang Nv subconsciously raised her hand to touch her forehead. The swelling had gone down. She must have been washed onto the riverbank by the river and was finally found and picked up by the old man.

Her thoughts gradually flew away, and Jiang Nu stared at the river in the distance in a trance.

I don't know how long it took, but suddenly an old voice came from behind me, "You kid, why are you up?"

Jiang Nu was startled. The old man kept muttering as he walked away, "The wind is strong near the water, so you're better. What if you get sick again?"

Passing by the barn, Jiang Nu couldn't help but ask, "Grandma, what are you raising in there?"

The old man smiled and said, "There are cats and bears in the mountains behind us. They are very cute. These bamboos are for them to eat. They haven't been here for a long time."

"Panda?" Jiang thought carefully, and a plump, black and white animal popped up in her mind. She suddenly felt happy. "It's really cute."

The old man asked curiously, "You don't look like a mountain person like us. Have you ever seen cats and bears?"

Jiang Nu didn't know how to explain the strange scene in her mind to the old man, so she could only say, "The name sounds like a cat-like creature. I like cats."

The old man nodded, a hint of regret on his face. "Speaking of cats, I've heard from some elders before that there are indeed big wild cats in Mount Gongga, and they are very fierce. No one has seen one for a long time now."

The two returned to the yard, and a backpack that was stuffed full and as tall as her was placed on the ground.

Jiang Nu finally realized what was wrong. "Grandma, did you carry all this back?"

The old woman paused and said, "Oh, this one? Yes, it looks big but it's actually not heavy at all." As she spoke, she weighed it in her hand and lifted it up easily with one hand.

Jiang Nu walked to the side, looked at the backpack on the ground, and slowly stretched out a hand.

The old man was about to stop him when he saw the backpack leave the ground. However, the little kid in front of him agreed with his usual expression, "It's really not too heavy."

The old man's eyes were complicated. "Kid, you really can't remember anything?"

Jiang Nv turned and looked at the "bacon" under the eaves, and asked with a hint of nervousness, "Grandma, what are these bacon?"

The old man picked up the backpack and put it in the kitchen. "Do you want some meat? This is the wild boar meat I usually hunt in the mountains. Wild boars are fertile, and the leftovers are smoked into bacon. I'll cook you a piece later and make some dipping sauce. It's delicious."

It turned out to be wild boar meat. Jiang Nu felt relieved, but her stomach was rumbling at this moment.

The old man smiled and chased her out. "You must be hungry. The kitchen is very dirty. I'll bring it to you."

Jiang Nu shook her head and sat behind the stove. "Grandma, I'll add some firewood for you."

The old man laughed and said, "How can you start a fire? Don't set my house on fire."

Jiang Nu scratched her head and said, "Grandma, I'll go to the graveyard on the back mountain and weed it. I see there's still a lot of thatch on the grave."

The old man sighed, "Whatever you want to do, just do it. We are all nameless and poor people. I have lived in this valley for more than 20 years and have picked up people seven or eight times."

Jiang Nu's eyes widened. "Did they all drift here from upstream like me?"

The old man nodded silently, and suddenly revealed an extremely proud smile, "You are the first living person I have picked up."

It was Jiang Nu's turn to be silent.

Taking the sickle handed to her by the old man, Jiang Nu walked towards the back mountain.

When we got closer, we saw a piece of land with very new soil next to the grave. It was probably the pit that grandma had dug for her, but she filled it up because she was alive and couldn't use it.

Jiang Nu bowed three times to the graves and said, "Excuse me."

He bent down and swung the sickle in his hand. With a few "swishes", a large clump of weeds was cut off at the roots.

When she heard her grandmother's voice calling her to eat in the courtyard, Jiang Nu straightened up and rubbed her aching waist. "Hey, grandmother, I'll be right there."

He threw it casually and stuck the blade face down into the soil.