Sleeping on Furong Mountain When Snow Falls

(The "Chongguang" in the previous chapter was a typo and will be corrected. Some earlier text may be revised as well.)

In Ascension City, Nian Xin visited the Ning residence for the first time.

The second-in-command of the Execution Officers had come to see Ascension City's current Yin Guan.

Ning Yao stood near the former site of Dragon Slaying Cliff.

Besides Ning Yao, a girl with an ancient inkstone at her waist and a bamboo case on her back was racing around the Martial Arts Field with an innocent little girl dressed in snow-white. Together, they beat gongs and drums.

One asked how formidable her master was, and just what made him so formidable. The other answered that her dad was formidable, formidable enough to be invincible under heaven...

One asked what she would do if her mother dealt with her later. The other answered that she wasn't afraid of kowtowing; with gongs and drums in hand, she had the whole world!

The older and younger girls, who had been getting along so affectionately, suddenly fell out. One said, "Your master is my dad, so I'm closer to him." The other said, "I acknowledged him as my master before you acknowledged him as your dad. First come, first served—you're still my junior." Their "falling out" amounted to each beating her own gong and drum to see who could make the louder racket.

Nian Xin felt sorry for Ning Yao. Guo Zhujiu was already quite a handful, and now she had this "daughter" who had dropped from the sky.

Ning Yao did not seem to mind the noise. She nodded to Nian Xin in greeting.

Nian Xin came to her side and said, "Zhao Yao had a drink with Zheng Dafeng. He's left Ascension City now, and Qi Shou personally saw