Ning Chengfeng stared silently at the storage pouch for a long while before putting it back where it had been.
He then sat down on a stone in the courtyard, his brows twisted together as he kept pondering.
“What is going on? I only practiced swordsmanship for half an hour, and I started having hallucinations?”
“But hallucinations should be fake. Everything Little Sister said was true. So is something wrong with me, or is something wrong with her?”
“Could practicing the sword trigger some kind of special ability? Did I awaken something, which is why I can hear it?”
Ning Chengfeng’s eyes suddenly lit up. He sprang to his feet, drew the sword at his waist, and began to practice again.
When Aunt walked into the courtyard, she thought her eyes were playing tricks on her.
“Fengzi, are you… all right?”
Her second nephew had decent talent, but he was not usually diligent. If he practiced for an hour a day, that was already considered good.
But today, he had already practiced for an hour early in the morning, and not long ago she had forced him to practice for another half hour.
That was more than enough to complete his daily task.
Now that she was not even here, he was practicing on his own initiative. That was not normal.
“Aunt, you are here!”
Ning Chengfeng brightened. He did not even mind her calling him Fengzi this time. He stepped forward and grabbed her sleeve. “Did you secretly drink the Top Prize Wine from Weixiang Restaurant?”
He had been curious about that for a long time. Every time he asked, Aunt denied it.
Now that he had a special ability, this was the perfect chance to ask.
At his words, Aunt’s delicate brows shot up. She put her hands on her hips. “Are you done yet? How many times are you going to ask me? You brat, do you not even believe your own aunt?”
After saying that, she gave him two solid slaps on the back.
Ning Chengfeng froze.
That was not right. Why could he not hear anything?
“Aunt, did you just see Uncle Lin? How did it go between you… ow!”
A moment later, Ning Zhishui, who was stringing beads, saw her second brother walking back with his head drooping, and behind him…
Her aunt, so beautiful it was almost suffocating.
Her clothes shimmered faintly, her whole figure radiating a gentle glow. Even every strand of her hair seemed flawless.
Her long hair flowed like a waterfall, her hands slender and pale. Her cheeks were as white as jade, though perhaps from anger just now, there was a faint flush upon them.
Although she was an elder in generation, her appearance was still that of a young maiden. Her beauty was striking.
“Why have you only strung these few beads? Zhishui, you were being lazy again.” Aunt Ren Fei raised an eyebrow knowingly.
“Aunt…”
Ning Zhishui stood up, her hands tucked behind her back as she clenched her sleeves tightly, suppressing her excitement. “It is so good to see you.”
My aunt whose beauty once crowned the continent is still alive.
Yes, this is more than three hundred years ago. Father, Mother, Eldest Brother, Second Brother, and Aunt are all still alive.
Everything can still be changed. This time, I will protect them.
After speaking, Ren Fei was about to sit down and string beads when she suddenly heard several strange sentences.
She instinctively looked up, about to ask something, only to see that Ning Zhishui was simply gazing at her quietly, joy undisguised in her eyes.
Her lips had not moved at all.
Ren Fei’s beautiful eyes turned vacant.
“Aunt, what is wrong?”
Seeing her stare blankly, Ning Zhishui asked.
“What is going on, Zhishui? Were you saying something just now?” Ren Fei asked uncertainly.
Ning Chengfeng covered his mouth. He looked at Ning Zhishui, then at Aunt, and seemed to understand something.
Perhaps the problem was not with him.
It was with Little Sister.
From Aunt’s expression, Ning Chengfeng understood immediately.
Why is she asking that again? Second Brother asked the same thing earlier.
“Um, Aunt, I did not say anything. I just said I was happy to see you,” Ning Zhishui repeated, thinking she had not heard clearly.
It is wonderful to see a living Aunt.
At this time she has not yet been harmed by that pair of scoundrels. What a blessing.
“Not that. Just now you said %&%…”
Ren Fei trailed off and froze.
“What did I say?” Ning Zhishui was completely confused.
“Ahem. Aunt, come here for a moment. I have something to tell you.”
Ning Chengfeng quickly interrupted and pulled at her sleeve.
Ren Fei was still dazed, but she allowed herself to be led away.
They are acting so mysterious. What are they planning to say behind my back?
Why do Second Brother and Aunt both seem so strange today?
Or were they always like this before, and I just cannot remember because it has been too long?
Ning Zhishui scratched her head. When she saw that the two had gone somewhere out of her sight, she withdrew her gaze.
She needed to sort through the important events that had happened when she was fourteen. Otherwise her memories would become confused and she might forget certain key moments.
“Aunt, you heard it too, did you not?”
Ning Chengfeng pulled her into the courtyard and, after making sure that his little sister had not followed, asked in a low voice.
Ren Fei’s almond eyes widened. “Could it be that you also…”
“Yes.” Ning Chengfeng nodded. “Those should be the thoughts in her heart. For some reason, we can hear them.”
“How could this be? And those words of hers were far too strange. What on earth was she talking about?” Ren Fei frowned.
What scoundrel pair, what living Aunt…
She was not dead.
“I do not understand either. But just now I asked her a question…” Ning Chengfeng told her about the private savings.
“Perhaps that was only a coincidence. Or maybe her mind is muddled, so she is normal one moment and letting her imagination run wild the next,” Ren Fei said, unable to think of a better explanation.
“Why do you not test her too? Ask her some secrets that can be verified. Then we will know whether it is real or not,” Ning Chengfeng suggested.
They immediately agreed and turned back.
“Zhishui, a few days ago you broke something and your mother scolded you for it. What was it again? I suddenly cannot remember.”
“… What thing? I cannot remember either.”
For me, that was more than three hundred years ago. How could I possibly remember?
Aunt and Second Brother exchanged a glance, their expressions strange.
What three hundred years? This was too bizarre.
Their niece and little sister were definitely not right.
“What kind of memory is that? Anyway, you had better be careful. If you make another mistake, your mother will force you to eat your least favorite food.” Ren Fei said deliberately.
Ning Zhishui stiffened. “Please do not… I will definitely be careful.”
Ugh, if it is my least favorite food, it must be Spider Grass.
How could something so ugly and foul smelling become food?
Aunt and Second Brother exchanged another look.
With that question, she seemed normal again.
After that, the two of them deliberately asked Ning Zhishui several more questions. Some minor matters she had forgotten completely, but the more significant events she still remembered.