Lu Jiaojiao subconsciously hid the doll in her hand behind her back and stammered, "It's...it was given to me by an older sister."
"What sister? Where is she now?" Xiao Youling asked urgently.
Lu Jiaojiao looked at her mother strangely. Why did her mother seem so anxious? Could it be that there was something wrong with the toy that her sister Qingqing gave her?
Seeing her daughter staring blankly at her without saying a word, Xiao Youling calmed down and patted her daughter's head, saying, "Jiaojiao, is it inconvenient for you to say?"
"Hmm...not really...it's just that I don't know how to say it," Lu Jiaojiao said sweetly as she nestled into her mother's arms.
"It's alright, if Jiaojiao doesn't want to talk about it, then don't. Tell your mother when you want to," Xiao Youling gently pinched her daughter's fair and tender little face.
She was simply too shocked to react because she suddenly saw something that only existed in her previous life's world.
She has been in the cultivation world for over two hundred years, and it is thanks to the cultivators' photographic memory that she is able to remember things from her previous life.
Xiao Youling had been searching for other time travelers over the years, but she had never found any trace of them. She never expected to find clues with her daughter.
But her daughter clearly didn't want to tell the truth, and Xiao Youling didn't want to force her.
Lu Jiaojiao secretly glanced at her mother's face and noticed that her brows were furrowed involuntarily. She immediately reached out her little hand to help smooth them out: "Mother, don't be unhappy, I'll tell you."
Xiao Youling, who was lost in her own thoughts, immediately snapped back to reality: "Mother isn't angry. If Jiaojiao doesn't want to talk, she doesn't have to force herself."
“I wasn’t forced. Actually, it was just the day before yesterday when my senior brothers and sisters and I went down the mountain for training…” Since Lu Jiaojiao had decided to tell her mother the truth, she simply told her everything about the system.
After hearing her daughter's words, Xiao Youling's expression became somewhat strange.
When she first transmigrated to this world, she desperately hoped she would have a cheat code, but the transmigrator really didn't give her anything.
If it weren't for the fact that this body had decent spiritual roots, and that she was lucky enough to be saved by her master, she would have been dead long ago.
What she heard was that her pampered daughter, who had only gone down the mountain once, had become bound to a system that she had always longed for but could never obtain.
Xiao Youling didn't know whether to be happy about her daughter's good luck or sad about her own bad luck.
Seeing that her mother didn't react much to what she said, Lu Jiaojiao excitedly took out everything Xia Qingqing had given her from the system's inventory:
"Mommy, all of these were given to me by Sister Qingqing, they are super, super delicious!"
When Xiao Youling saw these snacks, a look of longing appeared in her eyes. How long had it been since she had eaten these junk foods?
When Xiao Youling transmigrated, she was only 20 years old. Every day, besides attending classes, she thought most about what to eat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Her small cabinet in the dormitory was filled with all kinds of snacks.
Lu Jiaojiao obediently peeled a White Rabbit milk candy and stuffed it into her mouth: "Mommy, try it, this is really delicious."
"Hmm, the taste is indeed quite good," Xiao Youling agreed, a look of enjoyment on her face.
Lu Jiaojiao smiled sweetly and playfully shook her sleeve: "Mother, please don't tell Father that I ate snacks, or he'll scold me again."
Xiao Youling looked at her daughter with a half-smile. There was no need for her to tell her; her husband had probably already overheard their conversation.
Lu Jiaojiao suddenly came to her senses and slapped her forehead hard: "I was being silly. Father has always been inseparable from Mother. He's probably watching you with his divine sense right now."
Oh dear, if I had known, she wouldn't have shared all the delicious food with her mother.
"Be good, your mother is here, your father won't dare to touch you," Xiao Youling affectionately rubbed her daughter's head.
"By the way, Jiaojiao, could you open that interdimensional trading system you just mentioned and show it to your mother?"
Lu Jiaojiao immediately nodded: "Okay."
As she finished speaking, a virtual system panel appeared in front of her. She pointed to the panel with her slender finger and said, "Mom, look, this is it."
Xiao Youling's vision was empty. She shook her head with a wry smile: "Mother can't see. It seems that only you can use this system."
She had originally planned to benefit from her daughter's influence and see what the system was like.
"Ah, okay," Lu Jiaojiao pouted, somewhat disappointed.
Suddenly remembering something, she tugged at Xiao Youling's sleeve and said, "Mother, Qingqing just said she wanted to use a spirit-testing stone to check if she has any spiritual roots. Could you lend me the spirit-testing stone?"
“Of course,” Xiao Youling said, her fingers flying across the paper, and a fist-sized, crystal-clear stone immediately appeared in her hand.
Lu Jiaojiao chuckled: "Then I will send the spirit-testing stone to Sister Qingqing."
"Wait a minute, Mother has a good impression of the Qingqing you mentioned and wants to give her some gifts. Can you help me give them to her?" Xiao Youling took out some jade bottles from her bracelet space.
These porcelain bottles are filled with pills that Xiao Youling herself has refined, with various functions.
Considering that Xia Qingqing is an ordinary person, the pills she chose were of relatively low grade, and after dilution, they could be consumed by ordinary people.
Lu Jiaojiao didn't think there was anything wrong with what her mother was doing. For her mother, refining pills was much easier than cooking, and these pills were worthless in her eyes.
The door was suddenly opened from the outside, and a tall figure slowly walked in: "Ling'er, I asked you to call Jiaojiao for dinner, but you started chatting with her right away."
"Father," Lu Jiaojiao glanced guiltily at Lu Xingzhou, seemingly worried that he would lecture her again.
Fortunately, Lu Xingzhou simply gave a faint "hmm" and his gaze fell on Xiao Youling.
Lu Xingzhou knew everything that had just happened in the room, including that his daughter had been bound to something strange called a system.
What bothered him most was that his wife seemed very familiar with this thing.
Lu Xingzhou had learned by chance a long time ago that Xiao Youling was not from this world. At first, he was very worried that one day Xiao Youling would return to her original world, and this almost caused him to develop a demon in his heart.
Later, it was Xiao Youling who saw through his hidden thoughts and made many promises and even made a vow to his inner demons before Lu Xingzhou was able to put his worries at ease.
The system that appeared in his daughter's body at this moment once again made Lu Xingzhou feel threatened. He was worried that this thing would rekindle Xiao Youling's longing for her original world.
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