Jiu Zhang Ji: The Daily Life of the Reborn Daughter

Chapter 58 Two Machines

In fact, the emperor was overthinking it. Most of the time, the imperial concubine was not around.

She was busy doing her own thing.

She was not here today either. She and Qiao Lili were sitting in a comfortable carriage on the way to the Jokhang Temple.

Qiao Lili handed a small note to Concubine Yun: "Aunt Yun, this is the letter sent back by Brother Ayan."

"You got a reply so soon?" Concubine Yun asked after taking the note.

Qiao Lili lowered her head, feeling a little embarrassed, and said shyly: "When he left, I gave him a carrier pigeon."

Concubine Yun smiled. That was great. She also wanted such a childhood sweetheart relationship. But what should she do? She felt so angry when she thought about the old men in the palace. They were liars, big liars. It was all her fault for being young and ignorant.

"Can I really see it?" Concubine Yun teased, holding the note.

Qiao Lili rolled her eyes mischievously. Concubine Yun was so fond of her that she hugged Qiao Lili and kissed her twice. She often kissed Qiao Lili like this when they were children. She hadn't kissed her like this for six years. She had been craving it for a long time and finally got the chance.

After this kiss, Qiao Lili became even more shy. She nestled in Concubine Yun’s arms and refused to look up.

Concubine Yun opened the note and took a look at it. It contained just a few words to report safety.

Concubine Yun cursed in her heart, "You stupid boy, writing such words is worth a pigeon flying around, you are so stupid."

Little did he know that Yu Jingyan was thinking a lot. He guessed that the pigeon was specially raised by someone in the Duke Dingguo's Mansion. He was afraid that if he wrote something else in the letter, it would fall into the hands of the person who trained the pigeons and affect A Li's reputation. He wrote this letter just to throw out some ideas. If he didn't release the pigeon, how could there be a reply?

Qiao Lili's reply was: "Two pieces of looms, childhood sweethearts are reluctant to leave each other, long pavilions and short pavilions tell of their separation. Small words on red paper, flying slaves come and go, brocade letters are sent from afar." Ajing, after A Li finished writing nine pieces of looms, shouldn't you come back?

Although she expressed disdain, Concubine Yun still read the letter from her eldest son over and over again. After all, it was his first time going out on business, and she was thinking about him.

Qiao Lili nestled in Concubine Yun's arms and suddenly missed her mother very much. It would be so nice if her mother was still alive. If her mother was still alive, in her previous life, she would not have married into the Bai family and would not have died so miserably.

Thinking of her mother, she actually felt that Aunt Yun's embrace was as fragrant and soft as her mother's. She couldn't help but shed tears. Concubine Yun also felt Qiao Lili's shoulders twitching and knew that she was missing her mother Wen Xi.

She held Qiao Lili's shoulders and pushed her away from her arms. She looked at little Ali's eyes that were as red as a little rabbit's. "Ali, have you ever thought that your mother might not be dead?"

Qiao Lili was frightened by these words. She was already sobbing, and now she started to choke.

"Hey, Auntie, what did you say?" Qiao Lili was so anxious that tears fell down.

"Little Ali, do you know where your grandmother lives?" Qiao Lili thought about it. She really didn't know. She asked when she was young, and she was told that other children went to their grandmother's house to play. Mother, why didn't you take Lili to your grandmother's house?

At that time, my mother said that her grandparents’ home was too far away and she could only go there when she grew up.

But before she grew old enough, her mother passed away.

Qiao Lili shook her head.

Did grandma know? Qiao Lili thought carefully, has grandma ever mentioned her grandparents' home, even a few words, but no.

"Your mother is the heir of the Langshan School, and the martial arts of the Langshan School are unrivaled in the world. I know your mother's martial arts are very powerful, possibly even better than your father's. How could a person like her die so easily?"

Yun Fei knew Wen Xi's martial arts the best. Over the years, the two were evenly matched. She was from Yunmeng Lake, where martial arts were superior to those of all other sects, and her martial arts were ranked among the top three in Yunmeng Lake.

"It is possible that your mother's martial arts skills are second to none in the Great Yan Kingdom. Can she go there easily?" Although Wen Xi had not kept the appointment for six years, she was not too worried about her. She just thought that she had gone somewhere else and never thought that she would die.

Because this is so incredible.

Qiao Lili thought about it and told Concubine Yun the results of her previous investigation and deduction: "Aunt Yun, I guess my mother might have been poisoned by the Wuxi barbarians."

Is it a poison? It may not be incurable.

The two girls under her command who are from Yunmeng Lake are: Azhu who is good at medicine and poisons, Azi who is good at martial arts, Mingyue who is good at cooking, and Caiyun who is quite talented in business.

Ah Zhu seemed to have mentioned this poison and said that someone had once solved it.

"Ali, I never thought your mother would die because, in the last letter she wrote to me, there was a note with only four words on it: Take me home. She asked me to deliver the note to a place called Wuxiang Grocery Store."

"Aunt, have you sent it?"

"I delivered the letter the same day I received it. There was only one deaf old man in the Wuxiang Grocery Store, and I gave him the letter."

Qiao Lili knew that Aunt Yun and her mother were friends, and neither of them was willing to impose their own status on the other, let alone investigate each other because of some secret matters, so sending a letter was simply sending a letter.

"So, your mother didn't show up for the appointment. I just thought she went back to your maternal grandparents' home."

Qiao Lili opened her eyes wide, "But, Auntie, I saw my mother's lifeless body with my own eyes, changed her clothes with my own hands, watched her burial, watched her coffin being buried, and buried the first handful of earth with my own hands."

Concubine Yun knew a kind of medicine that could put a person into a state of suspended animation. This state of suspended animation could especially inhibit the harm of poisons such as Gu poison to the body. Is it possible that after she found out that she was poisoned, she took the suspended animation medicine, and then she sent a message to someone she could trust, who took her body away and went to a certain place to detoxify.

She didn't tell her relatives, thinking that the person who poisoned her might be someone close to her, so she became defensive.

Maybe he was afraid that if she didn't die, people around her would continue to be harmed, so he faked his death to get away and then make plans. But six years have passed, if she went to detoxify, hasn't the poison been cured yet? Why hasn't she come back yet?

If you want to know whether Wen Xi is really dead, just open the coffin and take a look, but this seems difficult to do.

While Concubine Yun was thinking, Qiao Lili was also thinking about the scene when her mother passed away. For others, it was six years, but for her, it was a lifetime. She should not remember many things very clearly, but that was not the case. She remembered every little thing clearly.

After returning to Beijing, she went to Wuxiang Grocery Store to ask to see if she could get any useful information.

Perhaps guessing what Qiao Lili was thinking, Concubine Yun said, "One year I set up a porridge stall on the street next to Wuxiang Grocery Store to give out porridge. Because your mother didn't show up, I suddenly wanted to go to Wuxiang Grocery Store to take a look."

"But I found that the place had become a ruin, and not even a brick could be seen."

"I asked people around here, and they said that a few years ago, this grocery store suddenly caught fire in the middle of the night. The poor deaf old man was also burned to death, and his body has not been found."

"I inquired about the exact time of the fire, and it was only three days away from the time I delivered the letter."

Qiao Lili bit her lips tightly, and blood was already seeping out from under her teeth. Concubine Yun pinched her chin and gently patted her face, "Ali, little Ali, open your mouth, listen to your aunt, open your mouth."

Qiao Lili opened her mouth mechanically, and after a long while she burst into tears, "Aunt, that day was the day my mother was buried."

"Is my mother really still alive?"

Too many coincidences are not coincidences. Can we open the coffin?