Jiu Zhang Ji: The Daily Life of the Reborn Daughter

Chapter 72 The Awkward Little Girl

Caiwei ordered Caiqi and Caixing, the two carriage drivers and guards, to go to the most prosperous street in the imperial city and walk from east to west.

The crowds of people were bustling about. Qiao Lili looked out through the half-open window of the moving carriage. The scenery outside the window entered her field of vision as if framed by a picture frame. Each scene seemed like a static painting. She thought of Zhang Zeduan's "Along the River During the Qingming Festival". Was she swimming in the painting?

What Qiao Lili didn't expect was that she saw Zhao Luxi, whom she had just separated from, here.

She was arguing with a woman with an angry expression and was almost on the verge of crying. Qiao Lili couldn't hear what she was saying, but she felt that the back of the woman arguing with her looked a little familiar.

The carriage moved forward and the woman's front face slowly appeared. It was Bai Rouer. It was true that we meet everywhere in life.

Originally, Qiao Lili didn't want to meddle in Zhao Luxi's affairs, as she seemed stingy and stupid, but since the other party was Bai Rouer, that was a different matter.

Another point is that the reason why Zhao Luxi came to the academy to deliver snacks was because the two siblings had lost their mother. It was not easy for her to make a living under her stepmother and take good care of her younger brother in the academy, who was more attentive than herself. It was said that she went to the academy to deliver snacks more often than others, so she must be a kind and friendly girl.

The same experience made Qiao Lili feel more sympathetic towards her. She should not care about those little thoughts of young girls. With her heart that had been scarred through two lifetimes, how could she not tolerate the little quirks of a teenage girl?

"Stop the car." Qiao Lili asked Caiwei to open the door curtain and said to Zhao Luxi, who was about to cry, "Miss Zhao, do you need help?"

It was fine when Qiao Lili didn't ask this question, but when she asked it, Zhao Luxi saw that it was her and burst into tears immediately, like a bullied child who finally saw her own adult and no longer had to hold back on her grievances, and vented them all out.

Obviously Qiao Lili is younger.

"She, she wants to blackmail me." Zhao Luxi said with sobs. At this time, Cai Qi had already jumped out of the car and separated her and Bai Rouer.

When Bai Rouer saw that it was Qiao Lili who got out of the car, she didn't know what expression to use. Would it be useful if she tried to please her at this moment?

Now that she has hooked up with the Third Princess, Qiao Lili is discussing marriage with the Sixth Prince. It's useless. Even if she tries to please Qiao Lili, she won't give up the Sixth Prince to her.

After weighing the pros and cons, she chose to turn hostile, "Qiao Lili, you bitch, my brother broke off your engagement, you should have died quietly, how dare you go out in public?"

When Cai Qi heard this, she slapped Qiao Lili twice without waiting for her to give any instructions.

Qiao Lili held her forehead and said, "Okay, another girl who learned to answer questions quickly. But she did a good job."

"Broken engagement, you are so shameless. It was your mother who stole the engagement letter, it was a scam, how can you break off the engagement? The current emperor has already clarified this matter in the palace. What, do you want to question the emperor's order?"

"Your brother was demoted from a seventh-rank captain to a guard at the city gate. Don't you know why?" Qiao Lili got off the carriage with the help of Caiwei and Caiqin. She was not angry at all, and her eyes were full of provocative smiles.

Looking at Qiao Lili's brocade dress and the golden crabapple hairpin on her head, Bai Rouer covered her swollen cheeks with her hands, her eyes were full of anger. Her brother was now an eighth-rank official, and his annual salary was not enough to buy the hairpin on her head.

Qiao Lili walked up to Zhao Luxi, took out a handkerchief and wiped the tears from her face, "A pretty girl will look ugly when she cries." Qiao Lili spoke in a parent's tone, which did not look out of place with her serious face.

"What's going on? Can you tell me?"

Zhao Luxi was almost broken by Qiao Lili's words. She finally managed to hold back her tears and laughed, "She said I soiled her clothes and asked me to compensate her with fifty taels of silver. Obviously, the basket in my hand didn't even touch her clothes."

"Fifty taels?" Qiao Lili looked Bai Rouer up and down. Not to mention whether she had soiled her dress, her whole body from head to toe was not worth fifty taels.

"Are you unable to eat? You're trying to extort money like a gangster. Bai Rouer, I really underestimated you." Qiao Lili's contemptuous tone was very obvious.

"Qiao Lili, you fickle bitch..." She had just said half of the sentence when Cai Xing rushed forward and slapped her twice.

After the beating, he had more to say: "Can't you learn a lesson? Watch your mouth. If you don't speak properly, it won't be solved by two slaps. I will break your teeth one by one."

Qiao Lili, this girl not only has hands, but also a mouth, not bad.

"Aunt Qiao, I've been slapped by her, and I've been slapped by her. She's been slapped like a prostitute." Cai Qi and Cai Xing were both martial arts girls, so their hands were very strong. They slapped Bai Rou'er so hard that her cheeks were swollen and she couldn't even speak clearly. (Qiao Lili, I'm asking her to pay me back, how can I bother you? Why do you mind my business?)

Qiao Lili didn't understand, so Caiwei quickly translated for her: "Miss, she said she wanted money from this lady and didn't want you to meddle in her business."

"Tsk, blackmailing in the street, you really have grown up! I'm afraid your father, Lord Bai, will climb out of his coffin and strangle you to death."