Chapter 23: Famous Mountain Village

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

“That’s the village up ahead. Young lady, are you here to visit your relatives?”

He had never seen this lady around before and she didn’t seem like a relative of anyone from the village. There were only so many people in the village so everyone knew everyone, and would have seen or known about any relatives of a fellow villager.

If she wasn’t a close relative, then she had to be a distant relative. After all, life wasn’t too peaceful right now. Many people from other places chose to take refuge with distant relatives when life became too difficult wherever they were from.

Although they weren’t living lavishly in this area, based on what he knew, it was already much better than many other places. At the very least, this area hadn’t been impacted yet.

When she heard that, Qin Yiling was a little surprised. She couldn’t believe it. Did she manage to reach Famous Mountain Village just by wandering around the mountains?

Indeed, her luck was extraordinarily good.

“Yes.” Qin Yiling showed a meek smile.

The man grinned and said, “I’m also from Famous Mountain village. Hop on. I’ll give you a lift on my way there.”

“Really? Thank you Sir.” Qin Yiling happily climbed onto the ox cart, finally not needing to walk anymore and getting to rest her feet.

Although she saw the smoke, it didn’t mean that she was reaching. If she were to walk from where she was, to the house that was emitting the smoke, she estimated that it would have taken about 20 more minutes. Now that she could get a ride on the ox cart, even though it was a little bumpy, at least she could liberate her feet and didn’t have to waste her energy anymore.

The ox cart started clattering again as it continued forward. The man asked curiously, “Who are you looking for in Famous Mountain Village? I know everyone in the village very well.”

“I’m looking for Yan Ze,” Qin Yiling replied directly.

Surprised, the man smiled and said, “Yan Ze? I see, what a coincidence! I’m Ze’s paternal uncle.”

After saying that, Yan Yaoguo had a belated realization. “Eh? I know all the distant relatives of our Yan family, but I don’t think I’ve seen you before. You are…?”

Qin Yiling was slightly stunned. Indeed, too much of a coincidence! A random encounter with a total stranger and yet he actually turned out to be the uncle of the person she was looking for.

However, she didn’t know much about that lady and her relationship with Yan Ze, and she knew even less about what had happened to her previously or what she had experienced. And most importantly, she had already passed away from illness.

As she didn’t know anything at the moment, it didn’t seem right to say anything rashly. Since she had agreed to deliver the letter, of course it was only right to tell that man named Yan Ze everything personally, about the letter and the lady. Who knew whether telling someone other than Yan Ze might create trouble for anyone?

Therefore, Qin Yiling smiled and said, “I’m a distant relative of Yan Ze on his grandmother’s side. I’m here for some errands.”

Since this man was Yan Ze’s uncle on his father’s side, he wouldn’t possibly know everything about Yan Ze’s relatives from his grandmother’s side, right?

“Oh, so you’re a relative from the in-laws’ side. That’s great, we can finally get in touch. After that incident back then, there hadn’t been any news from Ze’s maternal relatives for many years.” Yan Yaoguo looked very excited, as if he had heard the most joyous news.

Qin Yiling smiled awkwardly. What a huge misunderstanding she had caused!

But just as well, because this way, the villagers wouldn’t question her too much. And no matter what she said, they wouldn’t know if it was true or false.

The two of them chatted for a while more and soon, the ox cart had arrived in the village. Not long after they had entered the village, they saw many people gathered in front and seemed to be discussing something..