Chapter 280
In the living room, Anning kept her head bowed, her back hunched and her long hair hanging loose.
But the Ninth Concubine now occupied her consciousness.
Assistant He was so frightened that he crouched down on the spot. He kept insisting that he had come to take notes, yet he could not even manage to pull out his notebook.
“This junior, Chen Mo, pays his respects to Immortal Maiden Xu.”
I hurriedly gave her a cupped-fist salute, raising my hands level with my nose.
Holding a cupped-fist salute before one’s chest was ordinary etiquette. Raising it to the nose showed respect, while raising it to the forehead was reserved for deities.
“You summoned me using the methods of a folk practitioner. Are you a practitioner?” the Ninth Concubine asked.
I hurriedly replied, “This junior has only just entered the field and would not dare call himself a practitioner. I came to visit because I wished to ask you about something that happened a century ago.”
“A century ago…”