"I'll always accept you no matter what. Even if I regained my memories, I am sure I would still say the same thing."
My feelings surged and I cried. I wanted to cry on him, to have someone hold me, but I knew that because his body is not real, I would only go through him. It was pity that when I saw, I wanted him, yet, fate had obscured me like this, along with him. Like he said, he was going to stay with me even after regaining his memories. I was happy, happy like never before.
After crying my eyes out from happy feelings, I told him how I wanted to take a tour in town for a while. My beauty was a bit too much for public view, so I used a satin hanker-chief to hide half of my face and I also used a veiled hat to cover my whole entire head. My form was something I couldn't hide, but it didn't matter, if there was someone trying to harass me, I could simply break their hands.
As for Wei Qiang, I couldn't think of an idea on how to cover his face because I can't even touch him. After making my thinking face for a long time, he started laughing at me in amusement.
"What is so funny?"
"Haha! Your face is very cute when you're thinking."
"Eh! Stop staring at my face then and start thinking about how to hide your face. The less attraction the better."
"I already thought of one, but your face was just too cute for me to tell you."
"Xiao Qiang!"
"Alright, I'm sorry. Haha! Don't worry about me covering my face. I can go invisible."
Ah, right! How could I forget that he is even more powerful than me. "Okay, then let's go. Since coming to this world, I haven't had a chance to explore it at all."
"Mm... Lead the way."
We both flew out of the cave and into a city. The big board had said Pang'an. When we entered the city, it felt familiar to me somehow. Like if I already knew this place. Then after some realization, I finally remembered that this was the same city that the prince lived in. I started to berate myself thinking, why couldn't I pick another city other than this one? But it getting crowded in our area and I was scared that Xiao Qiang we would be separated, so I moved further into the city where it was less crowded.
I would not be as scared if I could use telepathy, but unfortunately, to use telepathy with a soul was impossible. Even me who is able to do the impossible can't do something as simple as talk with souls using telepathy. It had to be a direct message physically.
We quietly walked in the big city together side by side with me looking around at the different shops and stalls around. There was a stall selling some jewelry and another selling some pork buns. The smell of the pork buns was able to draw me there and I bought 5 pork buns. Although it was practically pork buns, there was also cabbage in there. It really enhanced the taste of the bun. This was the first time I had such good buns.
No matter how many I've eaten in the past, these 5 that I was eating, definitely topped the list.
Wei Qiang was staring quietly at the girl eating. Every time he stared at her, he would get this lovely feeling. He was saying to himself the whole time, we were a couple really in love. If that wasn't it, how could he still have the feelings for her even when forgetting about her. In silence, he made a pledge to hurry up and regain his memories. She had already regained hers, so it was only right that he hurried to do the same for her.
He felt that when he does regain his memories, his feelings for her would double or even triple that of what he was feeling now.
After walking for a while, Xia Lin walked passed what should be a children's school. The children there was all so cute and she couldn't stop herself from walking into the school unauthorized. When she had finally walked in, it seemed as if she had disturbed the children's learning. The teacher, who seemed to be in her teenage years, then asked her, "Miss, is there something here that you need?"
"No. I just saw you teaching the children and thought they were really cute." Taking off her veiled hat, she asked a question to the teacher in a bright smile, "My name is Xia Lin, would it be alright if I watched you teach the students?"
The teacher was a female herself, yet when she saw Xia Lin's face, she couldn't help but to admire the beauty. Her face had been half covered, but that didn't hide the beauty from her eyes at all. In fact, it seemed to have enhanced the beauty of her doe like eyes. Including the students. They were all in awe when seeing Xia Lin's half-covered face.
All the students started to beg the teacher to let the sister stay and watch them learn. The teacher had no choice but to accept, but she saw no harm in letting Xia Lin stay and watch them, so her original thoughts had been passed forward.
"There is no need for this sister to ask. Please stay. The children seem to have also taken a liking to your stay also."
"Thank you very much! This sister wonder how should she address you?"
"Ah! I'm very sorry, you can call me Teacher Liu."
Xia Lin then greeted the girl in front of her, "Teacher Liu, it is nice to meet you."
Xia Lin then went to stand on the side to not bother the students from learning. The students were currently learning how to read and write. Xia Lin really thought that their learning faces was cute. She really wished to have children of her own seeing their faces.
After staying at the school until it ended, she suddenly thought of something that disturbed her mind and peace. The building was only okay at best, but it wasn't good enough to be considered great. There wasn't enough for the students learning from the paper to the ink. They didn't have enough food either and brought only a little bit of food. They were still young, they needed to be nourished. Not only that, it was bad to learn on an empty stomach.
Another thing that disturbed her was how the building seem to be running downhill. The walls seemed to be needing another patch and the floor needs to be repaired in many places. Above that, the children's learning desks, seemed to be about destroyed as with the chairs. The garden didn't supply enough inspiration at all. Seeing all of these things, she decided that she would come to this school daily from now on and help with everything here.
While thinking all this, it almost seemed as if she had ignored the fact that Wei Qiang existed at all.
"Lin'er, you seem to have forgotten about me." Wei Qiang didn't stay invisible anymore and it would almost seem as if a ghost suddenly became visible. A handsome ghost.
"Ah... I'm sorry, I was thinking about something. How about we go to an inn and take a break for today? The sun is setting."
"Alright. However, I want you to play Go with me for a few hours to cleanse my lonely feeling." Wei Qiang had said this with puppy eyes, that Xia Lin couldn't ignore his request. Well, it wasn't like she planned on not accepting anyways. Whatever requests he made, she be sure to fulfill it.
"Okay." Wei Qiang and Xia Lin left to find an inn near the school, but to their avail, it seemed like all the inn was full. They didn't know where to find a place to stay at this city and walked around for a while. Xia Lin was about to make a suggestion that they just go invisible and sleep at the school, but before she could, a girl's voice could be heard.
"Oh! Miss Lin, I didn't think I would be meeting you here in the middle of the night. What are you doing traveling in the night? It's not safe in the dark." Why Teacher Liu was saying this, she looked at the man beside Xia Lin and thought, "Wow... They are a match made in heaven. The most beautiful woman for the most handsome man."
"Well, I was planning on going to an inn, but they said that they were all full already and couldn't accept anymore customers. I wonder what Teacher Liu is doing here, too."
"I'm going out to find my father and my brother."
"In the middle of night?"
"Ah... Well, this is a bit embarrassing to tell, but I threw them out because they were doing a useless job in cleaning the house. I told them to not come back until I finished cleaning the house."
"Is that so? Why was there a need to throw them out?"
"They seem to be creating trouble everywhere they go to. I had just finished organizing the closet, but my father totally destroyed that and my brother... My brother couldn't even mop the floor right!"
"Hehe! Is that so? I think I would have done the same thing as you."
"Miss Lin, why don't you stay over at my house until its time for you guys to leave?"
"Really? Would that be alright?"
"Yes."
"Thank you so much Teacher Liu! You don't know how much you've saved me."
"Save?"
"I'll tell you later. You said you are searching for your father and brother right? I'll help you to thank you."
"Miss Lin! There's no need."
"No, I insist on helping. Can you tell me their names?"
Teacher Liu couldn't reject her help anymore and could only do as Xia Lin asked because she was starting to run out of ideas as to where her father and brother was at. "Liu Yan and Yu Ju. Why do you need their names to find them? Isn't it usually their appearances?"
"Hehe, I search for people differently. I just look for the souls with that name and a vision will appear before me. If that vision has the same blood as you, then that is the person I'm looking for. In a way, I use connections of blood, but at the same time, not. It's kind of confusing to explain."
"I see."
After trying her best to explain how she does her searches, she was about to use her power to do the search, but was interrupted by Wei Qiang. "What is it?"
"Don't use yours. I can do it for you."
"Are you sure?"
"If you use yours, you could be discovered easily. Remember, you are on the run. I'm a soul, too. It'll be easier with me searching by using the soul method."
"Alright."
Teacher Liu looked at the pair and thought, "Beautiful are never normal. Well, she said she would explain to me."
After Wei Qiang conducted his search, they all found out that the father and son pair had went to stay at an inn. With that, the three of them left to the Cao Inn.
Before Xia Lin and Wei Qiang could enter, one of the workers there had blocked them saying that they already told them the inn was full.
Xia Lin stared at Teacher Liu in a meaning to ask for her to speak up.
"These two are with me to look for my father and brother. The two are sleeping in this inn. Don't worry, all you have to do is let me in."
The worker was wondering hard about what to do, but the guests had just entered the inn with no care at all. Upon entering, the worker heard a loud scream from a female voice. "Father! Yu Ju! If you don't get your a** out here now, don't even think about coming back!"
After saying that, two men appeared in front of Teacher Liu. One of them looked like he was in his middle ages, this person was obviously her father. The other one had silver hair and dark eyes. He was her brother, but didn't seem to be related to her biologically. He must be adopted, Xia Lin thought. However, this family fitted well together.
"Sister, was there a need to scream out loud?"
"I spent half of the day trying to find you guys. How could I not scream out your name when it was this young couple who had helped me find you guys?"
"Haha... Alright, why don't we go back to the house? I'm sure our guest is getting tired standing."
They left to Teacher Liu's house. The outside and inside was looking rundown, but you could obviously see that this place used to have its glorious days. The big bordered plate showing the name of the place, Cheng Mansion, although seems to be threatening to fall to the ground.
They went inside to the mansion and Xia Lin thought, "The Liu Family was poor, but they lived happily enjoying their days. Cheng means an accomplished person, so the Mister Liu, must have accomplished something during his prime days and had this mansion gifted to him."