The Virgin Mary in the Book: I Decide My Life with Two Swords

Cang Yue Kingdom——Outside Nanlai City

When they were returning from Xiawa Village and not far from the city gate, Ye Ling stopped and said, "Jingchuan, I'm going to Shaoyang Mountain and will be back in the city by March 29th at the latest."

"Then we will each go about our own business. See you on the 29th," said Xue Jingchuan. Although he was not Nangong Chen's subordinate, he also had to be reliable. So before Nangong Chen arrived, he still had a lot of preparations to do and could not always hang out with Ye Ling.

"Goodbye," Ye Ling said, bowing, and then whipping the horse: "Go..."

Jiuyou and Qianqing hurried to catch up. They were both very happy that they had finally gotten rid of that damn plaster.

Xue Jingchuan stood there for a long time, until Ye Ling disappeared from his sight. He then rode back to the city. As soon as he entered the Tianlai Guest House, the shopkeeper came up to him and said, "Master Xue, the master's secret letter has arrived."

Xue Jingchuan took the secret letter and said, "Find me some reliable brothers. I need them to do something."

"I'll arrange it later."

Xue Jingchuan checked the letter: "The bodies of the Northwest Twin Devils were found by Lu Xun's men."

"What should I do?"

"Your Highness deliberately let him find it. These two people alone can't move Lu Xun at all, so we can only let him take action again, and then we can find the flaw and try to capture him in one fell swoop."

"Great, Your Highness is finally going to move this thing. What should we do next?"

"Everything remains the same, but we must send more people to monitor Lu Xun."

"Yes, I understand. I'll go find some brothers right away," said the shopkeeper.

"I emphasize again, we must keep a close eye on Lu Xun. Moreover, as for those professional killers in the underworld, let the brothers confirm their movements as soon as possible." Xue Jingchuan was afraid that Ye would be hunted again.

"Yes," the shopkeeper bowed and left.

At 2:15 in the afternoon, Ye Ling arrived at Shaoyang Mountain. Several people left their horses with a farmer's family at the foot of the mountain. The farmer took the money and happily raised the three horses for them.

After about half an hour, Qian Qing became more and more worried: "Miss, where are we going? This place is full of trees. We will get lost if we go in. Besides, there might be wild beasts."

"Shut up!" Ye Ling muttered inwardly: Mengmeng, am I on the right path? I don't have many memories of your former master!

"Master, don't worry. Mengmeng won't remember it wrong. This is the path. You can go forward with confidence!" Mengmeng said.

Ye Ling was still a little worried: You said it, if I can’t find the place later, I will deal with you.

"Mengmeng is very smart and won't make a mistake." Mengmeng is quite confident in her memory.

"Miss, there is no way," Jiuyou in front spoke.

"Master, the third big tree on the left is fake. It is mentioned in the book," Mengmeng said.

"Follow me." Ye Ling walked tentatively towards the third tree. Sure enough, just as it was written in the book, she successfully passed through.

Jiuyou and Qianqing were shocked and hurried to catch up. After passing through, Qianqing turned around and said, "Miss, there is clearly a tree here!"

"This is a naturally formed reflection barrier. Most people can't see it at all. Let's keep going. We're almost there," Ye Ling explained. He was also surprised by this natural miracle.

"This road... doesn't look like it's for humans to walk on," Jiuyou said.

"Of course, only two people knew this road before, and now there are two more," Ye Ling said as he walked.

"You and your master?" Jiuyou guessed it easily.

"Right." As they were talking, they came to a pile of rocks. Ye Ling raised his hand to signal them to stop. "There's a formation here. If you take a wrong step, it will trigger the mechanism. Master's giant gate formation, few people in the world can break through it."

"How scary!" Qian Qing looked around in fear.

"Follow me." Ye Ling started walking in front, following his memory and Meng Meng's instructions, step by step through the stone formation: "Jiuyou, have you memorized it?"

Jiuyou nodded. He memorized all the locations in just one go.

"Miss, I can't remember it," Qian Qing was worried.

"I didn't expect you to remember it. Let's go, we'll be home soon." Ye Ling was inexplicably a little excited.

After walking for less than a quarter of an hour, I came into view of a small, idyllic courtyard. The courtyard wasn't very large, and the main house had two floors, each with a single large room. To the left of the entrance were two small bungalows, and to the right, next to the main house, was another small room. In front of it was a small staircase leading to the second floor. By the right door was the kitchen, equipped with a stove, a cooktop, and various utensils. Outside, there was an open-air stove with an extended roof. In the middle of the courtyard was a stone table surrounded by four stone benches.

Ye Ling looked at the weeds in the yard and said, "Master is really not coming back!"

"Miss, it seems like no one has lived here for a long time," Qian Qing said.

"No one has been here since my grandfather took me away." Ye Ling walked slowly into the yard, and a sense of familiarity came over her. She remembered that it was written in the book that Feng Qingyang asked Ye Ling in the book to stay here and spend the rest of her life, but she was taken away by Leng Ruxue and then lost her life. This time she had to listen to her master and stay away from power struggles. This was the way to survive.

"Miss, I like it here." Jiuyou expressed his opinion for the first time. He felt that this place was very comfortable.

"This is our home. Go straight out the small side door on the left side of the toilet." Ye Ling waved his sleeves, and a lot of food appeared on the stone table. "Let's eat something first, and then we'll divide the work before it gets dark. Jiuyou will be responsible for cleaning the yard, and I will clean the main house on the second floor, which is where I used to live. Qianqing will be responsible for cleaning the two rooms on the left. From now on, they will belong to you and Jiuyou. Eat, and then get back to work."

"Yes," the two replied with a smile, and Qian Qing then added, "Miss, you don't need to help, I can do it alone."

"How can that be? Eat quickly and then everyone can do their job."

After filling his stomach, Jiuyou fetched two buckets of water from the nearby creek. Qianqing lit the stove outside to heat water for washing the furniture. Yeling pulled out various tools from his space: sickles, hoes, shovels, bedding, candles, basins, rags... everything he could possibly need.

"Miss, you used to buy things wherever you went. It turns out you were stockpiling!" Qian Qing finally understood.

"Stop talking nonsense and get to work!" Ye Ling said as he went up the small stairs, took three steps in the corridor, and gently pushed open the door. Because no one had lived there for a long time, there was already a strong musty smell.

The second floor was spacious but sparsely furnished. To the right of the door was a plain wooden bed without a roof or curtains. Near the front window was a dressing table, and against the inner wall was a wardrobe. To the left was a bathtub, unobstructed by anything. In the middle was a round table with only one stool.

After looking around, Ye Ling was not satisfied with everything in the house. Fortunately, she was prepared. With a wave of her hand, she put all the things into the space, planning to put them in the yard later and chop them all up to use as firewood.

"Miss, I brought you a bucket of warm water." Qian Qing was stunned when she entered the room: "Why is there nothing in this room? There's not even a bed? How can anyone sleep at night?"

"Put down the bucket and go clean up your and Jiuyou's room," Ye Ling said.

"Jiuyou said he wants to live in the room next to the small staircase, close to you. He is afraid of danger at night."

"You guys can take care of it yourselves. The first floor of the main house is the master's room and you can't live there. You can arrange the rest yourself," Ye Ling said as he started cleaning.

"Yes." Qianqing ran downstairs.

Ye Ling rolled up her sleeves and began to clean her nest. Jiuyou immediately replaced all the lanterns in the yard with new ones and filled them with lamp oil so that they could be lit when it got dark. Then he began to use shovels, hoes and other tools to clear the weeds in the yard.

Ye Ling was the fastest because she didn't have to clean the dust from the furniture. She just had to sweep the floor, then use a homemade mop to mop the floor clean bit by bit. Finally, she went out to clean the corridor on the second floor so that the floor in the room could dry.

"Miss, you're too fast, aren't you?" Qian Qing came out from the room under the stairs: "I just finished cleaning this room."

"Take out all the bedding inside. I have new ones here. We'll take the old ones out and throw them away tomorrow," said Ye Ling.

"Okay." Qian Qing went back and moved all the things off the bed.

Ye Ling dragged herself down the stairs and went into Jiuyou's room, taking out bedding and three sets of clothes for him. Then she returned to her room on the second floor. The floor was dry now, and it was time to take out the bed, wardrobe, dressing table, nightstand, bathtub, screen, a round table, and four stools she had bought in advance.

Looking at the brand new room, Ye Ling smiled with satisfaction, put a soft cushion on her bed, and hung up a purple privacy curtain. Everything was done.

After about half a minute, Ye Ling took a stool and went out to sit on the second-floor corridor to rest. Looking at Jiu You who rolled up his sleeves to work in the yard, he said with a slight smile: "Jiu You, you look so sexy like this!"

Jiuyou looked up at Ye Ling, obviously not understanding what he said.

Ye Ling smiled and said, "You look like a married man."

"Miss..." Jiuyou's face turned red instantly.

"You are already twenty-two, why are you blushing? Other people get married and have children at the age of sixteen or seventeen," Qian Qing said as she came out of her room.

"That's right," Ye Ling agreed.

"Miss, I...will not get married," Jiuyou said and continued to work.

"Nonsense, it's normal for men and women to love each other, get married and have children. If you meet a woman you like in the future, you can bring her back," Ye Ling said.

"There is no future." Jiuyou still lowered his head and worked.

Ye Ling shook his head, stood up and went down the stairs, came to Qianqing's room, put bedding and clothes for her, then went out, went to the kitchen, and began to help Qianqing clean the kitchen.

"Miss, you don't need to help this time. I can do it alone." Qian Qing didn't want Ye Ling to work.

"It's okay, you clean up the inside, I'll go wash the outside, and by the way, take a look at our married Jiuyou," Ye Ling said with a smile.

Outside, Jiuyou had already cleared the weeds in the yard and began to reinforce the surrounding fence walls and patch up the damaged areas.

Ye Ling also took out the items originally in her room from the space and placed them at the gate of the courtyard: "Jiuyou, you will have time tomorrow to chop them all into firewood."

"Yes, let Qianqing clean it up and you can take a rest for a while," Jiuyou said.

"This will be our home from now on, how can I not help? We're all exhausted today, and we can only have snacks or something tonight. Let's make a good lunch tomorrow."

"It's all up to you"

"It's getting dark. Light up all the lanterns in the yard. There's plenty of lamp oil, so don't worry about wasting it."

"Yes," Jiuyou responded and began to light the lanterns.