Chapter 387: Chapter 387: Granny Chen Met Shen Siyi

Grandma Qin lifted her head, her white hair shimmering in the sunlight.

"Our Ningning is in the city saving people. As her grandmother, of course I have to do my part."

"Besides, don’t underestimate an old woman like me. My body might be even stronger than yours."

Grandma Qin knew what she was talking about.

She spent every day on the mountain, eating food from the Immortal Realm with Shen Ningning and drinking Spiritual Spring Water.

Even during the worst of the winter disaster, she hadn’t fallen ill, aside from her usual old leg problems.

The crowd couldn’t dissuade Grandma Qin, so they finally had to agree.

The old village chief arranged everyone’s tasks in an orderly fashion.

He even remembered to add, "If any family has a new case of the illness, send them to my house immediately. Don’t hide it. That’s no good for any of us."

The old village chief’s home had already become a temporary residence for the sick.

Fortunately, his courtyard was large. The side room next to the woodshed housed Granny Chen and four other village women, while Uncle Deng and the remaining villagers stayed in the main house.

The house was packed to the brim. As soon as Grandma Qin and the others stepped inside, they heard a chorus of pained cries rising and falling.

As far as the eye could see, everyone was burning with a high fever, their skin as red as boiled shrimp.

Moreover, someone had just vomited blood—or perhaps they all had. Everyone’s clothes were covered in a layer of filth mixed with bloodstains.

A foul stench filled the air.

Grandma Qin frowned and backed out of the room.

She said to the old village chief, "This won’t do. We’ll all collapse before they even have a chance to get better."

"I have an idea," Grandma Qin suggested after a moment’s thought. "Let’s open the doors and windows. Sanhua, you go boil the spring water I brought and splash it on the floor. Liu Family’s Sister-in-law, you go brew the medicine."

"Chen Ye, you go outside and ask the villagers to lend us some quilts and clean clothes so we can change them."

The old village chief quickly instructed, "Everyone, don’t just stand there. Do as Grandma Qin says."

The villagers were incredibly generous. Although they couldn’t come to help care for the sick, upon hearing that Grandma Qin’s group was short on supplies, they quickly sent over items from their own homes.

The three men—the old village chief, Uncle Liu, and Chen Ye—took charge of changing the clothes of the patients in the main house and laying out fresh bedding.

While Dong Sanhua and Sister-in-law Liu were busy, Grandma Qin went into Granny Chen’s side room by herself.

The other village women weren’t as severe, but Granny Chen was vomiting blood ceaselessly.

When Grandma Qin entered, Granny Chen was leaning against the side of the bed, coughing and spewing bloody foam.

Suddenly!

Granny Chen started convulsing. Grandma Qin exclaimed, "Oh no! This is bad!"

Grandma Qin rushed over, held Granny Chen steady, and quickly pulled the hairpin from her own hair, placing it in Granny Chen’s mouth.

A moment later, Granny Chen’s convulsions finally stopped, and she began to cough violently.

Grandma Qin quickly used her own waterskin to give her some Spiritual Spring Water.

"COUGH..." It took a long while for Granny Chen to recover. She opened her lifeless eyes and groggily saw the person caring for her. "Grandma Ningning, it’s you... I’m sorry, I’m causing you trouble even on my deathbed."

Grandma Qin wiped her blood-covered hands with a handkerchief, shaking her head and sighing.

"Don’t talk nonsense. You still have a long life ahead of you. Now that I’m here, you can rest easy. Ningning will be back soon. You can be saved, don’t be afraid."

Grandma Qin was afraid of worrying Granny Chen, so she didn’t tell her that Chen Ye was also here, caring for the sick.

Even at her advanced age, Grandma Qin was still hale and hearty. She opened the windows for ventilation and changed the clothes and bedding for all five of the sick village women, including Granny Chen.

Afterward, the Liu Family’s Sister-in-law came in with the brewed medicine, and Grandma Qin helped feed it to them.

After that flurry of activity, the white-haired old woman was already panting, sitting on a chair to catch her breath.

Granny Chen’s eyes welled up as she watched.

Grandma Qin was a good person; Granny Chen knew this well.

Otherwise, back when Aunt Qin used to bully the grandmother and granddaughter, Granny Chen wouldn’t have been the only one who couldn’t stand by and watch.

She would always end up arguing with Aunt Qin on behalf of Grandma Qin and Shen Ningning.

"Grandma Qin, there’s something I want to tell you." Taking advantage of a moment of clarity after drinking the medicine, Granny Chen propped herself up.

Grandma Qin hurried forward and placed a pillow behind her back.

Looking at Granny Chen’s sallow face, Grandma Qin soothed, "Whatever it is, you can tell me after you get better. The most important thing for you now is to rest."

Granny Chen shook her head. "I’m too sick. I’m often in a daze. I’m afraid if I don’t say it now, I won’t get another chance."

"Grandma Qin, actually, the house in the mountains you live in now... I went there once, thirty years ago. And I met the true owner of that mansion."

Grandma Qin was startled and looked at her. "Thirty years ago? Are you telling the truth?"

"It’s true." Granny Chen nodded, her gaze drifting out the window. It was the height of midsummer; light and shadow swayed, and the cicadas chirped.

It was as if she was transported back to that day thirty years ago.

She vaguely remembered it was a summer just like this one.

Back then, Granny Chen’s husband was still alive. He had injured his foot while working in the city and was recovering at home.

Therefore, the heavy burden of supporting the family fell on Granny Chen’s shoulders.

But she was an uneducated woman who couldn’t read and didn’t have any skills.

Her only option was to venture into Wolf Mountain to pick wild fruits and herbs to fill their stomachs.

However, she hadn’t expected to run into a brown bear.

Granny Chen was terrified and fled for her life through the woods. But in her panic, she missed her footing, stepped on air, and tumbled down the mountainside.

She thought she was done for.

But when she woke up again, she was in a magnificent mansion.

To this day, she still remembered the mansion’s splendor.

The beams were sandalwood, the roof laid with new tiles. Green vines and wisteria climbed the white walls, while lush shade pooled beneath the corridors, dappled with slanted light.

When Granny Chen stepped out of the room, she was greeted by a beautiful scene, like something from an Immortal Realm.

The courtyard was filled with trellises for grapevines, and the air was filled with a fresh, sweet, fruity fragrance.

Just as she was thinking she had died and arrived in an "Immortal Realm," the owner of the mansion appeared.

Granny Chen’s memory of the young woman’s face was a bit hazy now.

She only remembered that although the woman had simply walked over from another courtyard, she seemed to be cloaked in light, dazzling and radiant.

"She was so young, just a girl who had reached coming-of-age. She said she had saved me and driven away the wild beast. I asked her why she lived alone deep in the mountains, and she said she didn’t want outsiders to know of her."

As Granny Chen spoke of those events, she was filled with a deep sense of nostalgia.

That mansion was like a paradise hidden from the world.

Although Granny Chen had only recuperated in the mansion for half a day, she remembered what the young lady had given her.

The woman had Granny Chen drink some mountain spring water as well, then took out a strange object. She sprayed it lightly on the bruises from her fall, and a fine mist sprayed out.

Granny Chen smelled medicine and felt a stinging pain in her wounds. She flinched in fear.

But the young woman just smiled and soothed her, "It’s alright. This is called ’Baiyao,’ it’s to treat your fall injuries. You’re lucky to be alive. I happened to be planting medicinal herbs at the foot of the mountain, and you fell right into my herb garden."

Granny Chen stayed for just half a day, and she could already walk freely again.

Her injuries healed so quickly that even she herself was astonished.

When she was leaving, the woman gave her a bag full of grapes, Red Fruits, and other fruits.

"After you go down the mountain, remember not to tell anyone you’ve seen me," the woman instructed.

Granny Chen assumed she was hiding from enemies in the mountains, so after returning home, she never mentioned her miraculous encounter to anyone.

When her husband asked where the fruits came from, she only said she had picked them on the mountain.

Once her injuries were mostly healed, she took some steamed buns she had made and went to thank the young woman.

However, she found that while the mansion was still there, it was completely empty inside.

Recalling the past, Granny Chen’s eyes filled with emotion. "I think she was an immortal. I’ve long known that Wolf Mountain is a Divine Mountain, so I’m never surprised by what Ningning brings down from there."

"But your Ningning must have some connection with this female immortal. Otherwise, why can Ningning also produce similar red fruits?"

"I didn’t dare speak of this before because of my promise to that female immortal. But I have to say it now. Otherwise, this secret will go with me to my grave, and that would be of no use to anyone."

Grandma Qin, however, was in a daze, unable to snap out of it.

Granny Chen might not know, but Grandma Qin had her own suspicions.

She suspected that the young woman was no female immortal at all, but Ningning’s own mother!

’Based on the timeline,’ she thought, ’the reason she left was probably to return to the Qi Mansion. Or maybe she left Wolf Mountain after she met Chancellor Xie.’

Just then, Sister-in-law Liu’s scream came from the doorway.

"Don’t bite my husband!"

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