Jiu Zhang Ji: The Daily Life of the Reborn Daughter

Chapter 123 Dream

"Ah, stop coming. I'll tell you everything. What do you want to know?" Lou Xinyue fell to the ground and screamed. She wanted to cover her burned face with her bloody hands, but she didn't dare to touch it.

"If you want to say something, just say it. If you don't want to say it, then don't say it. I have so many toys, I have to play with them all." Shang Zhen pointed at the various torture instruments on the wall. These were all found by Qiao Lili based on her memories of her previous life. It was scary to look at them.

"I'll tell you, I'll tell you everything I know. Please don't torture me anymore." Lou Xinyue couldn't stand it any longer. It wasn't even an hour yet. How could it be compared with the five years she had experienced.

"I am a member of an organization called Flame Extinguishing. I was captured and trained when I was four years old. Because I have good looks, the organization focused on training me to be an oiran."

"Originally, my purpose in going to Xiguan City was to seduce Duke Dingguo and his son or the people around him. I wanted to seduce them and do something specific to them, and then I could let them know. But no one else took the bait, and I only hooked Bai Junzhe."

"When they found out that Bai Junzhe was engaged to the daughter of Duke Dingguo, they changed their strategy and stopped me from managing the military camp. They told me to go back to the capital and make sure Bai Junzhe obeyed me and get married to Qiao Lili as soon as possible."

"Is your target Qiao Lili or the Duke Dingguo's Mansion?" Shang Zhen asked.

"Qiao Lili has always been Qiao Lili." Lou Xinyue said. "Originally, I wanted to start with his father and brother, but then Bai Junzhe appeared. He is obviously easier to control than Qiao Lili's father and brother, so I wanted to control Qiao Lili through him."

"She is a teenage noble lady living in the backyard. What use is she to you?" Shang Zhen used to think that the young master dealt with the Bai family because he hated Bai Junzhe. Later he learned that it was because Bai Rushue might have killed the wife of Duke Dingguo. He had always been puzzled as to why such a severe punishment was used on a woman like Lou Xinyue who was not a big shot.

Now I understand that this woman is indeed not simple, and she is coming for the young master.

I was too slow. The young master had already handed the knife to my hand, but I didn't know who to kill. Fortunately, I was obedient and did whatever the young master asked me to do. Otherwise, if I really delayed the young master's business, I would be guilty of this.

"Looking for something her mother left for her." Lou Xinyue said.

"What is it?" Shang Zhen asked.

"I don't know. The higher-ups didn't tell me. Maybe they'll tell me after I control Qiao Lili."

Qiao Lili recalled the scene when they interrogated her in her previous life. They had always been asking her for something, but from beginning to end, they never said what it was in five years.

Now it seems that either the higher-ups didn't tell Lou Xinyue what it was until the end, or they themselves didn't know exactly what it was, and just wanted her to figure it out on her own.

Qiao Lili initially thought that they wanted her mother's dowry and the business her mother founded, but when Qiao Zhen got into trouble, she gave it all away. But they kept asking for it, even when they cut off her hands and feet, but she never said what she wanted until her death.

This is really puzzling. Qiao Lili had a hunch that this thing must be related to her mother's death. So what was Bai Ruxue looking for on the day she found her birth certificate by accident? Was she also looking for this thing?

Qiao Lili was about to go back. She came out with an excuse that she was going to deliver snacks to Qiao Zhen at the academy. She told her grandmother that she had an appointment with Zhao Chengxi's sister Zhao Luxi, and that she would go for a walk after delivering the snacks.

Qiao Lili has seldom socialized since her mother's death. She only took her to a few banquets when Bai Rouer begged her to. She wore plain clothes and ate vegetarian food every day and didn't look like a little girl. Now she can take the initiative to date girls from other mansions. How could the old lady of the Duke not support her?

When Qiao Lili left the farm outside Beijing, Bai Junzhe was still lost in a dream and couldn't get out.

He dreamed that he was awarded the title of Fourth-Rank Loyal and Martial General at a grand court meeting, and was in charge of the defense of the capital. He was also rewarded with a thousand taels of silver, silks, gold and silver jewelry, and many other things. When the Ministry of Internal Affairs sent them to Bai's house, the cart was full.

Everyone knew that the emperor was poor, but when it came to generals who returned from battle with merit, he would empty out his entire family fortune as a reward.

He became the youngest fourth-rank official in the Great Yan Kingdom and was the most famous person for a time.

It only took him and Qiao Lili two months to complete the three books and six ceremonies and they got married smoothly.

He dreamed that Lou Xinyue was jealous and pestering him, not allowing him to sleep with Qiao Lili. Because of the bright future Lou Xinyue promised him, he lied to Qiao Lili that he was not fully recovered from his injury and could not sleep with him.

Qiao Lili searched everywhere for famous doctors and good medicine for him. He and Lou Xinyue took it as a tonic, while laughing at her stupidity.

She also went around asking for the miracle doctor Feng Wuzui, hoping that he would come and treat her. He and Lou Xinyue took advantage of the fact that Qiao Lili was only concerned about her own illness and had no time to care about other things, and searched through all the dowry she brought, and even searched her boudoir when she returned home.

But they didn't find the special thing they talked about. Not even a clue.

Two years later, her father and brother died in the battlefield of Western Turkestan, and were said to have collaborated with the enemy and committed treason. Later, evidence of his treason was found in the study of Duke Dingguo's mansion.

Qiao Lili's father and brother were killed from behind by their own people on the battlefield. That person was bribed by Lou Xinyue's people, and the evidence of treason was also forged by them and placed in the study of Duke Dingguo's mansion through the divine nightmare channel.

Because they couldn't find that thing, they wanted to imprison Qiao Lili for interrogation, which was impossible while her father and brother were alive. Only when her father and brother died, the Duke Dingguo's Mansion collapsed, and Qiao Lili lost her protection, could they do whatever they wanted.

As soon as the news of Qiao Lili's father and brother's death came, Lou Xinyue used Bai Rou'er to give Qiao Lili a bone softening powder and locked her in a dungeon. In order to prevent her from escaping, she also locked her hands and feet with black iron chains. The dungeon was dug before she married in, and it had been prepared for her for two years.

The mansion of Duke Dingguo was ransacked, and the old wife of the Duke died on the spot. No one collected her body and it was thrown into a mass grave. Qiao Zhen became a beggar and was caught by him and sold to the Nanfeng Pavilion. He also told the madam there to start receiving customers as soon as possible.

Because this little thing never treated him as his brother-in-law and had no respect for him at all.

One of her two maids was killed and the other was raped to death. Lou Xinyue even wanted to let a beggar rape Qiao Lili, but he did not agree. It was not because he had good intentions towards Qiao Lili, but because Qiao Lili was his legal wife and was listed in the Bai family tree. If she became unclean, he was afraid that his ancestor would crawl out of his grave to find him.

Lou Xinyue tortured Qiao Lili almost every day, whipping, cutting, and even cutting off one of her ears. She let snakes bite it, and let mice bite her toes until only two thumbs were left. The nails on her ten fingers were pulled out countless times and would never grow back. She used long needles to pierce her stomach, and her face was repeatedly burned with an iron. She had become as scary as a ghost.

Bai Junzhe felt disgusted every time he saw it, but Qiao Lili wouldn't say anything. He hated her so much and hated her for blocking his path to success.

She can do so many things for him, why not give her the secret that Lou Xinyue wants? It seems that everything Qiao Lili did was just pretend. When it comes to the real things, she, Qiao Lili, can't bear to give it up, so he became more and more angry with her.

In five years, Qiao Lili was tortured to the point of being unrecognizable, but she refused to give up and kept the secret.

Finally, he heard that the Sixth Prince Yu Jingyan was returning from the border. In order to avenge the Qiao father and son, he purged the traitors in the army and spent five years to destroy all 25 small countries in Western Turkestan, making Western Turkestan a part of the territory of Dayan.

He was afraid that Yu Jingyan would get into trouble if he couldn't find Qiao Lili when he came back. Qiao Lili couldn't face people in this state, so he could only kill her and lie that she died of illness. He asked Qiao Lili one last time, but she still didn't say anything. He wanted to strangle her to death with his own hands.

Because as long as he gets that secret, that special thing, he will become the regent of Lanna, whose power is second only to the emperor.

Lou Xinyue said that she was the princess of Lanna, and as long as she could get the secret out of Qiao Lili, she would take him back to Lanna. He would be the most honorable son-in-law of Lanna. Since Lanna had no prince, he would also become the regent equivalent to the crown prince.

When the King of Lanna passed away, he would succeed to the throne and become the new King.

But Qiao Lili refused to tell the secret. Since he couldn't become the emperor, he let her die.

He ordered her hands and feet to be chopped off, and she would soon die of blood loss. He didn't want to look at her again, so he left the dungeon. At the door of the dungeon, he heard Lou Xinyue cut his tongue and dug out her eyes again.

He felt very happy.

Just when he wanted to call Lou Xinyue to come up quickly and let Qiao Lili fend for herself, he woke up.

It was pitch black all around, and the walls he touched were cold and damp. Is this a dungeon? He was puzzled. Why was he in the dungeon? Shouldn't it be Qiao Lili?