Changsheng: Peak at the Beginning

After wandering around in the lake for four or five days, Jiang Cheng and Shi Ying were finally satisfied and returned home.

As soon as the pleasure boat approached the pier outside the Lotus Pier, Jiang Wanyin immediately received the news and came out to Jiang Cheng with a lot of resentment to ask for an explanation.

"You are such a good person... You enjoy yourself, but you make me have the reputation of being extravagant and hedonistic!"

Was Jiang Cheng afraid that Jiang Wanyin would not be able to finish his words? He just didn't expect Lan Zhan to not leave yet.

Shi Ying led Jiang Cheng off the boat. Jiang Wanyin saw that everyone around him was looking at him, so he had to hold back what he had to say for the time being. However, Jiang Cheng liked to see him look frustrated, so he smiled and teased him, "Sect Master Jiang, why don't you continue talking? If you had walked outside more often, people wouldn't have misunderstood you."

The Jiang Wanyin of today is not the Jiang Wanyin of a few days ago. He smiled and put his arm around Jiang Cheng's shoulders and led him to the Lotus Pier. He ignored Shi Ying's existence and said to Jiang Cheng while looking at Lan Zhan, "Second Master Lan has been waiting for you for several days. He is waiting for you to come back to discuss things."

Jiang Cheng had a preconceived notion that Lan Zhan wanted to ask him about Wei Wuxian. After all, the only connection between them was Wei Wuxian. He didn't expect that Lan Zhan actually wanted to ask him about Meng Yao.

The four of them sat down in a waterside pavilion. Jiang Cheng didn't rush to answer Lan Zhan's question, but looked at Jiang Wanyin first: "I remember you asked me about Meng Yao before, right? Later, you also investigated Meng Yao's biological mother Meng Shi, didn't you? How could you let Han Guangjun delay until now?"

Jiang Wanyin didn't dare to curl her lips, but her eyes showed it all. "Although I did investigate Meng Yao's biological mother, Meng Shi, there are still some things I don't know about Meng Yao."

Jiang Cheng thought about it and felt that Jiang Wanyin was right, so he looked at Lan Zhan with a little apology and said, "Meng Yao valued his biological mother Meng Shi very much. As for where Meng Shi was buried, I don't know, but there was a Guanyin Temple in Yunping City that Meng Yao secretly supported and built. The Guanyin statue in it was made based on Meng Shi's appearance. In the last world, after Meng Yao's true identity was exposed, he chose to give it a try in the Guanyin Temple, but he was one step behind, and in the end the Guanyin Temple collapsed, and he was killed by the sword spirit of Sect Master Nie Mingjue."

"Although I haven't deliberately inquired about when the Guanyin Temple was built, I think that with Meng Yao's cautiousness, it must have been built after Jin Guangshan's death. Now Meng Yao was exposed too early, and there should be no Guanyin Temple in Yunping City at this time."

Lan Zhan stood up and bowed to express his gratitude: "It is great to know that Yunping City is very important to Meng Yao. Thank you for your help, Mr. Jiang."

After some polite exchanges, Lan Zhan left Lotus Pier in the afternoon. When Jiang Wanyin saw him off, she couldn't help but tell him Wei Ying's whereabouts.

Looking at Lan Zhan's departing back, Jiang Wanyin asked quietly, "What do you think, is Lan Er heading to Yunping City or heading south?"

Jiang Cheng didn't care about Jiang Wanyin's weird little mood. He had already noticed that Shi Ying seemed to be in a bad mood. He didn't have time to care about Shi Ying, so how could he care about others?

When there was no one around, Jiang Cheng came over to sit next to Shi Ying and asked him with concern, "Why are you suddenly not in a good mood today? Did you suddenly think of something?"

Shi Ying had been staring at Jiang Cheng's expression since the beginning of the morning. Seeing the worry and concern for herself in his eyes, she couldn't help but hold his fingers tightly and then she breathed a sigh of relief.

In response to Jiang Cheng's question, Shi Ying hesitated for a moment and decided to confess: "I have carefully observed the Second Young Master Lan. He seems to be different from what we saw before."

Ok?

Jiang Cheng didn't understand what Shi Ying meant at all. "When did you mean by 'before'? Was it at the mass grave, or a few days ago?"

Jiang Cheng didn't notice that Lan Zhan was not right. Shi Ying felt a little secretly happy in her heart. "It was when we were traveling on the boat a few days ago. At that time, the Second Young Master Lan was very cautious towards everyone. He might be grateful to you because you saved Wei Wuxian, but he was not familiar with you after all."

"But when I saw Second Master Lan today, I felt that he had been observing and paying attention to you."

Jiang Cheng was still confused. "Even in my own world, Lan Zhan and I don't have much in common."

But Jiang Cheng also believed that Shi Ying's feeling must be correct, so there must be something wrong with Lan Zhan.

However, Lan Zhan's matter had little to do with them, so Jiang Cheng smiled and comforted Shi Ying, saying, "No matter what Second Young Master Lan meant, as long as it doesn't get in our way, that's fine."

Shi Ying also felt that what he said was right, but her face flushed slightly because of her overreaction just now. "That's true. Nowadays, there are very few times when we need to take action. Let's just do what we want to do."

As he spoke, Shi Ying looked at Jiang Cheng expectantly, wishing he could urge Jiang Cheng to go out again. "We have become thoroughly familiar with the pleasure boat these past few days, and now we can finally go out properly—"

As for how the future will go, Shi Ying is now too close to Jiang Cheng, and even if he uses all his skills he still can't predict it for sure, so while many things are about to be settled, he thinks Jiang Cheng can't always hang around Wei Wuxian and the others, and should live his own life.

Shi Ying had a good idea, but Jiang Cheng had lost many of his memories, and even her memory as Jiang Cheng had become a lot more blurred. Now he didn't even remember that he had a small world-like space on his body. He thought he had mastered some kind of martial arts and opened up a space similar to the Dantian in his body to store things.

Even though he rarely held the sword San Du in his hand before, he has now become accustomed to holding the sword San Du in his hand all the time like everyone else.

On the surface, this situation seems to be in line with the real situation of reincarnation and tribulation. However, Shi Ying has seen too many examples of immortals descending to the mortal world and reincarnating and tribulations. Thinking of the fact that almost half of the immortals who descended to the mortal world in those years could not return to heaven smoothly, he was also worried that Jiang Cheng had been in this world for too long and his character had been affected, and he would never have the chance to return.

However, Jiang Cheng did not understand Shi Ying's hidden worries. After thinking it over, he felt that he had done almost everything he could for Wei Wuxian and Lotus Pier, so he simply agreed to Shi Ying's request to go out and travel as soon as possible.

Today, the Jiang family is still nominally a family-run dynasty, but in fact it has begun to develop into a sect. All the various skills and secret manuals that the Jiang family once collected have been classified and stored away. Recently, Jiang family disciples have secretly gone out to search for many good children of the emperor, and almost all of them, both boys and girls, have been brought back to the Lotus Pier.

These forty or fifty people will be the backbone of the Yunmeng Jiang family in the future.

As for those disciples who have reached adulthood, Jiang Cheng suggested that Jiang Wanyin let them freely choose among sword cultivation, talismans, formations, and medical cultivation. The skills and secret manuals are provided layer by layer, and the focus is on their contribution to the Jiang family.