Jiapingguan Chronicle

Chapter 2303 This World is Really Small

"General, are you sick?" Ning Cheng looked at Shen Cha with a worried look on his face. He looked him up and down and said seriously, "You don't look sick. You just don't look very well and look a little tired."

"Don't worry, I'm not sick. I just had a lot of things to do these past two days, so I didn't sleep very well."

"You guys just take advantage of your youth and don't take your health seriously." Madam Ning took a sip of tea, sighed softly, and said, "In fact, it was the same when we were young. It wasn't until we got old that we realized that what the adults at home said was true." She tapped her leg, "You also know that my leg is not very good. I just asked my elder brother to see it. I have old cold legs. Do you know why I got it?"

The children shook their heads gently and looked at Madam Ning, hoping that she could give them an answer.

"Here!" Madam Ning pointed at Ning Cheng, "It's so cold, I like to wear single clothes and pants. I don't like thick cotton or velvet, because they are cumbersome to wear."

"You can't wear just one piece of clothing and one pair of pants, not to mention the cold weather in the north where spring has just begun, even in the south of the Yangtze River right now." Merlin frowned and pinched Ning Cheng's arm. "If you get frozen, it will be terrible."

"I'm a boy, I'm not afraid!" Ning Cheng grabbed Meilin's hand, "My hands are much warmer than Sister Meilin's. Sister Meilin should wear more clothes, but I don't."

"Did you hear that?" Madam Ning spread her hands. "I was also so confident when I was young. Unfortunately, when I got older, I started to make trouble."

"That's right!" The Third Master looked at Shen Cha and smiled at Old Madam Ning, "The illness you contracted when you were young will only show up when you are old." He looked at Shen Cha again, "Did you hear that? You know your own situation very well, so..."

"I promise I'll be honest." Shen Cha glared at Xiao Fengqi and Qi Zhifeng who were laughing secretly, then smiled at the Third Master, "Don't worry."

"You have to be really honest!"

Shen Cha pouted and said that she would be good. Only then did the Third Master let her go and stopped nagging her.

"Uncle, when we first came in, we saw the two of you talking happily, it didn't look like you just met."

"We can have a good chat even if we just met."

The Third Master looked at Shen Haolin, Shen Cha, and Xue Ruitian sitting below him, while Jin Miaomiao pulled Hongye to run to Xiao Fengqi and Qi Zhifeng.

He just took a close look at Hongye's condition and she should be completely well. He finally put his heart at ease. When he returned to Linhuang Prefecture, he would have an explanation to Yelu Nan and Yelu Lan.

"You two don't look like you just met."

"That's true. Although we haven't seen each other for decades, it's true that we have just met."

"I really have seen him before!" Shen Cha was stunned, "I was just joking, actually..." "Are you surprised?" The Third Master picked up the teacup, took two sips, and said, "We two, one in the south and one in the north, actually met each other many years ago. Isn't it amazing?"

"This is not so magical. When you were young, didn't you travel with the master?" Shen Cha looked at the Third Master and then at Old Madam Ning in confusion. "A few days ago, the two of you were studying the sea map together, but you didn't recognize each other?"

"Well," Madam Ning smiled embarrassedly, "I really didn't recognize him. If we weren't free today and we couldn't talk about it, I wouldn't have remembered it. It was a long, long time ago, decades ago, when we were still children and met in Jiangnan."

"This world is really small. After going around in circles, there are always people you would never meet, but you will meet them because of fate."

"Xiao Cha is right. It is fate. But..." The Third Master looked at Shen Cha, Shen Haolin, and Xue Ruitian, "When you just came in, you looked so worried, as if the sky was about to fall. But now you are free and in the mood to listen to other people's past? Have you solved your own problems?"

"It's not solved yet, but there's no rush to solve it. It's just my obsession." Shen Cha thought for a moment, looked at Xiao Fengqi, and smiled, "Wait a minute, I need to talk to Master Xiao about it."

"Happy to accompany you!"

"Hey, Uncle, Madam Ning, they can talk about theirs, and we can talk about ours. Why did you two meet each other back then? If Uncle had traveled with the master, he should have learned everything, right?" Xue Ruitian looked at them. "Madam, is she looking for a doctor?"

"It wasn't me. It was just a coincidence."

Before Madam Ning finished speaking, she heard bursts of laughter coming from Xiao Fengqi and the others.

When Xue Ruitian heard the voice, he looked over and saw Xiao Fengqi and Qi Zhifeng surrounding Jin Miaomiao and Hongye and asking them questions. He raised his eyebrows slightly and reached out to tug at Shen Cha's sleeve.

"When did they become so close? They can even get together and talk in private?"

"Brother Xiao Qi has always liked Xiao Ye, otherwise how could he know that she was sick and be so anxious?" Shen Cha shook his head gently at the Third Master who was looking over, smiled, and said, "Don't look at them, or listen to the story of Uncle and the Old Lady. I am quite interested in this. Uncle, if I remember correctly, you were not very old when you traveled with the master, right?"

"Yeah!" The Third Master nodded gently, "It's true that we weren't that old. The first time we went out, we were probably about ten years old. At that time, my brother was about fourteen or fifteen years old. However, we didn't go to many places the first time before we were taken back by the master. A few years later, we went out for the second time. This time we stayed for a long time. My brothers and I became a little famous, but there were some minor problems at home, so I returned to Linhuang Mansion." He looked at Madam Ning, "When I met the old lady, I was about fifteen or sixteen. I was young and hot-tempered. I didn't submit to anyone and almost got into a fight with the people the old lady brought with her.

"When we were young, we were all similar. We all liked to fight and be aggressive, and we all wanted to gain the upper hand, right?" Old Madam Ning smiled, "I remember the first time we met was when I followed my brother to the Huo Mansion." Seeing the children's confused faces, she explained, "The then prefect of Yangzhou Prefecture, Lord Huo Huaizhi."

"Oh, I remember now. It's that Lord Huo!" Xue Ruitian sneered and said sarcastically, "So it's him. I didn't expect that the old lady has a relationship with Lord Huo?"

"My Lord, your tone..." Ning Cheng looked at Xue Ruitian curiously, "Why is it so strange? Did this Lord Huo offend you? That shouldn't be the case. Didn't Lord Huo pass away a long time ago?"

"He can't offend me, but the way this Lord Huo behaves is really despicable!"