Chapter: 5832

When they started going downhill after climbing over the second hill, Ye Chen saw that there was a winding path in front of them at the foot of the valley. From a long yellow dirt road, it changed into a narrow Y-shaped path, except for one branch, which is more than a meter wide. The river flows along the mountain valley and flows towards the low-lying areas.

The river just passes through the intersection of the three straight lines of the Y-shaped path, where someone had piled up five stone steps. The river slowly flowed through the four intervals between the five stone steps, because the stone steps blocked the flow speed, causing the water to form a buffer area on the left side of the Y-shaped path, originally one meter wide.

The path divides into two at the foot of the hill. The right branch leads deeper into the mountains, while the left branch connects to the top of another mountain on the left front, which is relatively shorter than the mountain Ye Chen and Lin Wan'er are currently climbing over.

The Ten Thousand Mountains are situated in southwestern China, and even in late autumn, the climate is still warm and humid. The vegetation here is exceptionally lush, with a verdant carpet of greenery covering the mountainsides, peaks, and valleys. Under the sunlight, everything appears pure and untainted, without any signs of modernization.

Lin Wan'er walked beside Ye Chen, gazing at the scenery before them, unable to help but exclaim: "The ancients often say that winding paths lead to seclusion, and I never thought I'd see a Ten Thousand Mountains so beautiful and serene. If we were to live here for a while, it would be extremely comfortable!"

Ye Chen smiled: "When the time comes when we no longer have to worry about the Clear Brook's deadline, I'll buy some mountains for you here. You can choose one mountain to build your house on, and use the rest to plant tea trees."

Lin Wan'er shook her head: "The climate here is not suitable for Pu'er tea trees; it would be better suited for planting green tea instead."

As they spoke, Lin Wan'er couldn't help but murmur: "Master Ye, although I do enjoy tea, I don't intend to spend the rest of my life as a hardworking tea farmer. There are so many tea trees on Erlang Mountain, and I still have no idea how to plant them in the future. If you're going to buy land for me to plant tea here, I'll be stuck dealing with tea all day?"

Ye Chen laughed: "I'm not suggesting that at all; it's just that you seem to enjoy this place, so I thought I'd offer."

Lin Wan'er blushed and smiled softly: "If Master Ye has such a thought, I shall be content."

At this moment, the two were standing halfway up the mountain, able to see the left-hand side of the Y-shaped path. A woman in gray robes was walking down from the mountain, her age appearing to be around 20. Her features were exceptionally refined, and although she had shaved her head, she still looked radiant.

The woman held a wooden tub with some clothing and a flat wooden stick inside.

Since the mountain was lower than Ye Chen and Lin Wan'er's current mountain, the girl arrived at the Y-shaped path earlier.

The girl stopped at the road junction, leaning against the left side of the Y-shaped path and squatting down beside the road. Then she took out a long robe from the wooden tub, soaked it in water, and scrubbed it with her hands before using a wooden stick to vigorously beat the fabric.

The sound of beating cloth echoed lightly through the valley.

Lin Wan'er listened intently and looked on, unable to help but say to Ye Chen: "I used to do laundry this way too, who would have thought that so many years later, someone would still be doing it like this."

Ye Chen gazed at the girl in the distance and muttered to himself: "She seems like a nun. So, the Red Wall building on the left side of the mountain should be a nunnery after all."

Lin Wan'er nodded slightly, sighing: "Living as an outcast is even harder than for many others who have taken up this path."

The two continued downward along the mountain path, and about one incense stick's worth of time later, they had already arrived at the small road junction with a Y-shaped path.

At that moment, the nun was still squatting down beside the road, washing her clothes. Since Ye Chen and Lin Wan'er had agreed to pretend to be a couple in front of outsiders, he stopped at the stone step, stretched out his hand to Lin Wan'er, and said: "Let me guide you through."

Lin Wan'er blushed and nodded repeatedly, then handed her small hand over to Ye Chen.

Ye Chen guided her across the stone step, just about to continue moving forward in the direction of the right side of the Y-shaped path, when the young nun who had been squatting on the ground suddenly stood up, clasped her hands together, and bowed slightly towards Lin Wan'er. She said: "Amitabha Buddha, this gracious patron, our abbot has been waiting for you for a long time, and would like to request that you please step into the nunnery to see them."

The young nun's words left both Ye Chen and Lin Wan'er equally shocked.

It never occurred to them that they wouldn't reveal themselves in front of Wu Feiyun, yet here at the nunnery, someone was keeping an eye on them.

So Ye Chen didn't wait for Lin Wan'er to speak before asking the young nun, his face full of caution: "Who are you? You're pretending to be a nun, making a fuss about washing clothes just to wait for us to appear?! " JrNovels.com