Even After My Death

Chapter 718: Chapter 616: Qi Xingzhou Arrives

Jiang Ning walked on the mountain with Xiao Hua.

It was only then she realized that there had been multiple landslides on the mountain the previous night.

However, these landslides were small and didn’t threaten the cave where Jiang Ning and Xiao Hua rested, hence the system reminder.

The mountain had completely changed overnight.

Countless trees lay across the ground, blocking their way, along with the soil and rocks sliding down from above.

Even as Jiang Ning led Xiao Hua out, she had to cautiously avoid the occasional rocks falling from above.

Having never experienced such things, Xiao Hua felt subconsciously afraid when she saw the scene before her.

The path Jiang Ning had taken into the mountain yesterday was blocked by obstacles, and places that had collapsed could possibly collapse again.

Jiang Ning asked the system to calculate the most suitable descent route, and found that the shortest one still exceeded yesterday’s path by a wide margin.

Jiang Ning, while guiding Xiao Hua around the obstacles, talked to her to divert her fear: “Xiao Hua, why weren’t you with your grandma yesterday? Did you go mushroom picking alone?”

“No. I came with grandma…,” Xiao Hua answered honestly.

From her words, Jiang Ning understood the process of how she got lost.

It had been raining recently, and many mushrooms sprouted on the mountain.

But mushrooms don’t grow in clusters; they’re scattered, with one here and another there, rarely forming a dense group.

Over ten villagers came to the mountain to pick mushrooms, not just from Sanwan Village, but from nearby villages as well, so to ensure efficiency and individual harvests, everyone typically searched alone.

Xiao Hua was originally not far from her grandma.

But being young, her legs worked faster than her grandma’s. Upon discovering a large bunch of mushrooms, she got excited, forgot to inform her grandma, and rushed to pick them.

Moreover, she seemed extraordinarily lucky, not only finding a large bunch of mushrooms but also spotting a wild chicken!

could be sold for money, and immediately wanted to

chicken noticed

ensued a chase between person and chicken,

how long she had been running, and when she couldn’t catch the

alone in the mountain, crying while looking for

little dummy, if she had stayed put after chasing the chicken, she probably would have been found. Instead, she went the wrong direction, straying

the fallen leaves were slippery. Xiao

up a stick for her to use as a cane, but

feeling embarrassed

Xiao Hua would develop

didn’t know how long

she heard someone calling her name,

loudly responded in the direction of the voice: “Over here!

appeared before Jiang Ning, led by Qi Xingzhou, who quickened his pace upon seeing Jiang

steadily as

clothes drenched in sweat and dew, shoes caked with sticky mud, and his pants dirtied,

sense that he was

Xingzhou

stepped through the dirt in those filthy shoes toward Jiang Ning, focusing entirely on her and the

promptly took Xiao Hua off

Xingzhou and the others arrive, Xiao Hua, who had been clinging to Jiang Ning,

rescue them, Xiao Hua was

unfamiliar big brother

the big brother looked handsome, she

sensitive, and Xiao Hua vaguely sensed that this big brother’s attitude toward

out to hold her, Xiao Hua gripped Jiang Ning tightly, unwilling

frowned and spoke

his usual attitude toward anyone other than Jiang

made Xiao Hua more frightened than when he didn’t

held Jiang Ning’s

Qi Xingzhou, smiling as he spoke to Xiao Hua,

also said, “Xiao Hua, it’s okay. They’re

passed to

Xiao Hua was nine years old, after carrying her, the man found it easier