Her father had chopped the snake, and no animals made the tree hole their home anymore. It had been empty ever since.
She could not help but mutter, “Is the key there?”
It should be there, right?
An Jiuyue stopped searching inside the treehouse. She opened a window and climbed out, jumping onto the roof.
The leaves crunched under her feet as she moved.
The dense tree branches made it difficult to move. No matter how agile An Jiuyue was, she had to walk up slowly while covered in leaves.
Qian Yiyun was sitting closer to the treehouse and looked up when she heard the commotion.
“Huh?!” She stood up in fright when she saw the figure in red clothes in the tree. “Sister-in… Sister Jiuyue, what are you doing?”
Why did she climb up the tree so soon? Didn’t my brother ask her to rest in the treehouse?
Qian Jiyun heard her shouts and also looked up at the treehouse.
The person who was supposed to be resting in the room had already climbed so high. It would be terrible if she fell!
I shouldn’t have asked her to rest in the room. I could’ve made her sit by us and watch us work.
“Master, leave this to me,” Yan Nuo immediately said.
However, Qian Jiyun flew up the tree and landed beside An Jiuyue the next moment.
“What are you doing in the tree?”
“I’m looking for something,” An Jiuyue replied matter-of-factly.
Why would I come up here if I’m not looking for something?
“My father left something for me, but I never found the key. I thought it might be in the tree, so I came to look for it.”
She might not have realized it, but she was naturally relaxed in front of Qian Jiyun, and would tell him anything. She even told him about the microcosm.
“In… a tree?” Qian Jiyun was speechless.
An Tu can’t be as unreliable as An Jiuyue, right?
However, he did not dare to say this out loud. He could not live here anymore if he dared to call her unreliable.
He asked, “Do you know where exactly? I’ll look for it.”
“There’s a tree hole over there. It might be there.” An Jiuyue pointed in a direction.
They were far from the tree hole. It would take a long time to get there with her current body. The dense tree branches made it difficult for her to get closer.
“Stay here and don’t move. I’ll go look for it,” Qian Jiyun reminded her before walking quickly in the direction An Jiuyue pointed.
An Jiuyue was speechless.
How can he walk so quickly and steadily through the dense tree branches?
Indeed, comparisons were odious. She was really no match for him.
Although Qian Jiyun only wanted to pacify her and did not actually think there would be anything in the tree hole, he still searched it carefully when he found it.
However, he felt something in the tree hole when he reached in. He took it out and saw that it was a square key.
“There’s really something.” He raised his eyebrows involuntarily.
He turned around and returned to An Jiuyue quickly. He flew down with her and landed beside Qian Yiyun.
Revealing the key in his hand, he asked, “Is this what you’re looking for?”