Jiu Zhang Ji: The Daily Life of the Reborn Daughter

Chapter 25: Two people drinking together, mountain flowers blooming

Qiao Lili slept very well that night, it was the best sleep she had since her rebirth. There was no darkness, no hunger, no blood, no beating, and no death in her dream. She dreamed of her childhood with her mother.

Twice a year, she would go on a date with her mother, on the Flower Festival in spring and on the Double Ninth Festival in autumn.

At other times, they will make random appointments.

It was a valley between two mountains. The entrance to the valley was very secretive, as if no one had ever set foot there except them.

She didn't understand when she was young, but now she thinks that the fairy aunt and her mother must have set up some kind of formation at the entrance.

The terrain there is flat, with a large grassland. In spring, flowers are in full bloom, including wild peach, wild apricot, sour jujube, and redbud. The whole mountain is like a sea of ​​flowers, like a dream. In autumn, the mountain is full of autumn leaves, red maple leaves, yellow poplar leaves, and purple lilac leaves, which are more colorful than the sea of ​​flowers in spring, as if they can intoxicate everyone who breaks into it.

They called this place the Valley of Flowers.

The girl who dated my mother was a fairy. She was wearing a dress whose name she couldn’t tell. It was so graceful that every step she took seemed like she was dancing. She brought a little boy with her. He seemed a little older than her. What did she call him? Oh, in her dream, she called him Brother Ajing.

Whenever mother and fairy aunt meet, they will fight first, and their fight is so beautiful to watch. She and brother Ajing just watch from the side without blinking. Fairy aunt's martial arts are as smooth as flowing water, light and graceful, while mother's martial arts are tough and powerful, with big and wide movements. The two stunning women, one soft and one hard, the picture is so beautiful that it cannot be described in words. It is better to say that they are performing a peerless dance rather than a fight. Every movement is as graceful as a startled swan, as graceful as a swimming dragon, and magnificent.

At this time, the two little ones began to learn martial arts twice a year. Qiao Lili learned martial arts from her fairy aunt, and she felt that every move was so graceful, using softness to overcome hardness, and using little force to move a great weight, which was just right for her little body.

Born into the Duke Dingguo's Mansion, a family that relies on martial arts for survival, her mother is also a martial arts genius. Her genes are too good. Just by watching and practicing, after a few years, she has learned about 30% to 40%. Of course, her fairy aunt will also guide her.

Maybe because Brother Ajing is a boy, he prefers his mother's martial arts moves. His mother and father both learned from the Langshan School, which is a style of martial arts that is more suitable for battles between two armies. Every move is murderous and earth-shaking.

Brother Ajing is a martial arts genius and learns faster than her. She can only learn 30% to 40% of what the fairy aunt knows, but brother Ajing can only learn 70% to 80% of what mother knows. So every time when they separate, mother will shout that she is at a disadvantage.

After the martial arts competition, the two beauties discussed philosophy, talked about everything under the sun, drank wine, and recited poems. They drank together while the mountain flowers bloomed, one cup after another.

The two little girls didn't understand what was said, so they went to play by themselves. Brother Ajing took her to run wildly on the hillsides and in the valleys, picking wild fruits for her to eat. They were so sour that she cried, but he still laughed. He picked wild flowers and made a wreath for her to put on her head, saying that she looked like someone's bride.

"What is a bride?" She asked Brother Ajing, blinking her big eyes.

"I don't know either. Anyway, all pretty girls have to be brides." Brother Ajing scratched his head and said.

How old were they then, four and six? Or five and seven?

It definitely wasn’t the year when she was six years old. During the Flower Festival when she was six, her mother was about to give birth to Zhen’er, and she was unable to go to the appointment. She even asked her mother at that time, since she broke the appointment, would the fairy aunt still be waiting for her?

My mother said that when she was still able to go up the mountain, she left a letter for Sister Yun in a tree hole in Baihua Valley.

Two women met by chance, and they just wanted to know each other freely between heaven and earth. They didn't want to be bound by worldly status, so they didn't know each other's identities. When they couldn't keep the appointment due to something, they left a letter at the place where they were going to meet. There was a cypress tree that had grown for hundreds of years. There was a tree hole on the cypress tree, which was in a very hidden place that was not easily noticed.

After drinking and chatting, the mother and the fairy aunt started to torture each other's children, teaching them all the tricks they had stolen in the morning. The fairy aunt taught gently, while her mother taught in a beautiful and fierce way. Anyway, no matter which one it was, the two children had to bear everything in the end.

When the sun sets, the date ends, and they return home with their children. Once they get down the mountain, the troubles of the world will come up to these two women.

When Qiao Lili woke up from her dream, it was already the beginning of the morning hour. Thinking about everything in the dream, it was not a dream, but something she had experienced personally. In her previous life, she was so devastated by the death of her mother that she fell ill. Many of her memories about her mother were a little fuzzy, and she would have a severe headache whenever she thought of her mother. Over time, she sealed up these memories and forgot them in the long river of time.

After being reborn, I suddenly had such a dream, and many childhood memories gradually became clear.

The last time she went on a date with Aunt Fairy was during the Flower Festival when she was ten years old. At that time, Brother Jing had grown into a tall and handsome young man. He touched her head and said, "Ali, you are only two years younger than me, why are you still a little kid?"

At the age of ten, she had already grown into a graceful young lady, with long eyebrows that could be drawn and a skirt and hairpins made of lotus. Whenever she secretly looked at herself in the mirror, she would be surprised at her own growth. How come she was still a little kid in front of him? Qiao Lili pouted and turned away, ignoring him angrily.

He surrounded her, calling her "Ali, Ali" to cheer her up, and even picked various wild flowers to make a beautiful crown for her. Qiao Lili forgave him for the crown. In fact, she was never really angry. She could only see him twice a year, and it was not enough for her to be happy.

However, Brother Jing was really tall, a head taller than her. She decided to go home and eat well and grow taller, so that he wouldn't look down on her next time they met.

Brother Ajing put a flower crown on her head. She didn't know why, but she always felt that Brother Ajing was not as sincere as before during that date. He looked absent-minded and wanted to look at her but didn't dare to.

This resulted in his learning being less effective, and he ended up being badly abused by his mother.

Unexpectedly, that date became the last date between my mother and the fairy aunt. No, it was the last date for the four of them.

That summer, my mother suddenly fell ill. When the Double Ninth Festival approached, she could no longer get out of bed. The day before the Double Ninth Festival, she said to Qiao Lili, "Put the things in the drawer in the tree hole. Tomorrow, tomorrow, I will break my promise."

After saying this, her mother fell asleep. She covered her mother with the quilt, kissed her face, opened the drawer, and saw a letter together with her engagement card. The letter was addressed to Sister Yun Fei and signed by Wen Xi.

Wenxi is her mother's maiden name.

She knew that her mother wanted someone to go with her, but she took the letter and went up the mountain alone. For some reason, she didn't want other unrelated people to set foot in Hundred Flower Valley. She felt that this Hundred Flower Valley belonged only to the four of them.

She was already ten years old, and she thought she was skilled and brave enough to complete the task assigned by her mother independently, so she didn't bring anyone with her. She did complete the task, but when she returned home, she learned that her mother had passed away.

She couldn't accept the blow and fainted. After her mother's funeral, she was bedridden for a long time. Maybe because she went to deliver a letter and missed her mother's last journey, she was afraid to think about many things related to these.

After she recovered from her illness, she took over all of her mother's business stores, and also helped her grandmother take care of Zhen'er. The huge Dingguo Mansion also needed to be managed. A child of just over ten years old was as busy as a spinning top. She had no time to think about the past or the future.