Jiu Zhang Ji: The Daily Life of the Reborn Daughter

Chapter 228 A Flame-Shaped Red Mark

"Ah." Qiao Lili couldn't help but let out a soft cry.

Qiao Lili's soft cry frightened Yu Jingyan. His heart seemed to be trembling out of his control, and fear wrapped around his body like a poisonous snake in the dark night.

What kind of person is Ali? She can command thousands of troops in the blink of an eye. Since he found her, he has never seen panic on her face. Everything seems to be under her control. At this moment, facing several corpses, how could she scream out loud?

"Ali," he held Qiao Lili's hand, which was as cold as ice, "what's wrong with you?"

Qiao Lili calmed herself down. She had really lost her composure. After searching for such a long time and walking such a long way, she finally found a clue about her mother. However, someone had tried to kill her in advance. How did they know that she had come here?

The moment she saw those corpses, she was absolutely certain that this killing move was aimed at her.

"It's okay, Brother Jing, let's go back and talk." She knew Jing was worried about her. However, this was really a long story, and it was not suitable to talk about it in this disgusting mass grave.

The two returned to the inn and changed their clothes and shoes: "Let's burn them all." They were stained with the bad smell, and wearing them again would bring back the disgusting smell from their memories.

The two washed their hands, sat down, and Cai Qi served tea. "Go and guard the door, don't let anyone disturb us."

Cai Qi felt a little uneasy when she saw that her young master and the prince both looked unhappy, but in the end she didn't ask anything and just closed the door and stood guard outside.

Qiao Lili picked up the tea bowl and took a sip. She wanted to confess everything to Yu Jingyan, but Qiao Lili didn't want Yu Jingyan to know about such an incredible thing as rebirth and the cruel experiences in her previous life. She had to bear it alone.

However, she planned to tell him about her mother and her secrets, especially after seeing the bodies of the women tonight.

"Brother Jing, did you notice the bodies of those women? The skin on their foreheads was peeled off. You also heard the conversation between those two people. They came here specifically to peel the skin off the women's foreheads and report back."

Yu Jingyan nodded. He had noticed it as well, but why did this matter make Ali so fearful?

"I think they are looking for me. This killing method of rather killing the innocent than letting the guilty go is aimed at me. They know I'm coming, but they don't know who I am." Qiao Lili said to Yu Jingyan.

"How can you be so sure?" Yu Jingyan looked at Qiao Lili with some suspicion. Was she frightened by the corpse?

Qiao Lili first took off the disguise on her face, then took out a small bottle of liquid medicine, rubbed a little on her forehead, then raised her hand and gently tore off the piece of bionic skin stuck to her forehead, revealing a flame-shaped red mark inside.

A ray of sunlight shone in obliquely, shining on Qiao Lili's face and on the mark. The mark seemed to come alive, burning and jumping like a real flame. Yu Jingyan, who was sitting next to Qiao Lili, seemed to have felt the scorching temperature of the flame.

"They should be looking for someone with this mark. My mother has it, and I have it too."

Yu Jingyan stared blankly at the flame on Qiao Lili's forehead. It was so familiar. He must have seen it somewhere. Memories surged and he suddenly remembered it.

"Ali, Ali, that dancing jade doll, Dunhua Ancient City." Yu Jingyan remembered it, and when he said that, Qiao Lili also remembered it, "Do you remember what the stall owner said?"

"He said that women in Dayan all loved to wear a flower ornament on their foreheads. The earliest flower ornament was in the shape of a flame. Moreover, the first women to wear a flower ornament were women from the ancient city of Dunhua." He grabbed Qiao Lili's hand and said, "Is there a possibility that it was because someone had a mark of this shape on their forehead at the beginning, and in order to be different from others, it promoted the idea of ​​women to paint a flame flower ornament on their foreheads."

"Perhaps because the woman with this flame-shaped mark on her forehead had a special status or was extremely beautiful, people admired her and imitated her dress, so the dress of painting flame-shaped flower ornaments came into being."

Yu Jingyan's words also triggered Qiao Lili's contemplation. At that time, she liked the jade dolls, probably subconsciously because of the flame-shaped flowers on their foreheads, but she did not realize it.

"In the City Lord's Mansion, there is also a stone sculpture of a maid with a flame-shaped flower on her forehead." When Qiao Lili heard Yu Jingyan mention the Ancient City of Dunhua, she thought of the time when her hand touched the flame on the forehead of the stone sculpture in the City Lord's Mansion. She suddenly felt a sense of strangeness, as if there was an invisible connection between them.

"Ali, who else knows about your mark?" Yu Jingyan asked.

"Only my grandmother, father and mother. Even my brother doesn't know." Qiao Lili thought for a moment and said, "My mother hid the marks on her and me very well. She told me since I was a child that this mark is very important and I shouldn't tell anyone."

"Ali, Miesha said that the saint calculated your mother's treasure. Your mother and you have the mark of inheritance. You must be the descendants of a hidden family. We are close to Panhu Man. Is it possible that the saint calculated something?"

Yu Jingyan raised his hand and applied the flame on Qiao Lili's forehead. The flame looked alive, but it felt no different from the rest of the skin around it. It was just as cool and smooth, with no different touch.

But when he took his fingers away, he felt a little pulling force, and Yu Jingyan attributed it to the glue that stuck to the bionic skin.

"A-Li, she can make a lot of women scramble to imitate her makeup, and even become popular for hundreds or thousands of years. Can she, or they, be ordinary women?"

"Ali, no matter who you are, you can't leave me." Yu Jingyan suddenly felt a sense of worry and loss. He suddenly thought that Qiao Lili's mother disappeared suddenly and no one could find her. Then Ali would be like this one day. He stretched out his arms and hugged Qiao Lili tightly in his arms.

"Ali, you have to swear, you have to swear that no matter what happens, we will solve it together, you can't disappear by yourself." He kissed Qiao Lili's cheek and earlobe and buried his face in Qiao Lili's shoulder.

He only dared to place his lips far away from the flame. He did not dare to kiss the flame. He was afraid that once he kissed it, the flame would undergo some changes that he would not be able to control.

Qiao Lili sensed Yu Jingyan's uneasiness, and she hugged Yu Jingyan back with her arms: "I promise you, no matter what happens, I will never leave you, never leave you."

She had gone through so many lifetimes to enjoy this life, how could she possibly leave brother Ajing alone?

They hugged each other tightly, Qiao Lili couldn't see her own forehead, and Yu Jingyan's face was facing behind Qiao Lili.

A strange thing happened. The flame on Qiao Lili's forehead actually jumped slightly.