Chapter 38, Part 3...
Chapter Thirty-Eight
Yao Anhui was dreaming, and she knew very well that she was dreaming.
Because she could walk freely in the palace, yet no one could see her.
Everywhere you look, there is white mourning clothes. The palace maids and eunuchs all have solemn expressions on their faces. The huge palace is completely silent.
Yao Anhui secretly wondered what time it was.
She wouldn't be so arrogant as to think this was the moment she died. She was merely a concubine, not at that level. She imagined that the Empress and others who considered her an enemy would be laughing all the way to the bank. How could her faction possibly grieve for her death? They'd be laughing while they were still grieving…
Huh? Isn't that Hongmei, the Empress's head maid? Why does she also have a blank expression? Could it be that something happened to the Empress as well?
Well, there is another possibility.
When Yao Anhui thought about how she had tricked the dog emperor before she died, the empress really couldn't laugh.
Thinking of this possibility, Yao Anhui happily walked towards the Empress's Kunning Palace, eager to see her results.
Yao Anhui ultimately did not go to Kunning Palace, because she already knew the reason on the way.
Yao Anhui had only been out for a few minutes when she unexpectedly encountered Peony, the head palace maid she trusted most. At this moment, Peony's eyes were red and swollen, filled with grief, but her spirit was still good, and she had not lost her vitality.
Yao Anhui followed Mudan all the way to the Zichen Palace, where she met Qi Mingzhe. The eighteen-year-old boy had grown very tall, and his still somewhat immature face already possessed the majesty of an emperor.
Yao Anhui immediately understood that her backup plan had come into play.
Furthermore, Qi Mingzhe performed exceptionally well with her second move.
Yao Anhui merely left a few loyal spies around the emperor and empress, so that they could pass on certain information to their enemies after her death.
However, Yao Anhui overlooked their loyalty. After her death, her people were unwilling to accept that Yao Anhui had been murdered while her enemies were living happily. So they killed all her enemies. Her adopted son, Qi Mingzhe, was even more ruthless. He directly caused the emperor to have a stroke and be bedridden. While the emperor was unable to move, he sent him and his beloved to retire so that he could ascend the throne.
Yao Anhui was also surprised that Qi Mingzhe could be so ruthless, after all, they were his biological parents. At first, Yao Anhui thought that he was good at hiding his ambition, and now he quickly revealed it when he got the chance. She never expected that Qi Mingzhe was really avenging her.
A Buddhist hall was built in a side hall of the Zichen Palace, where a fierce-looking Vajra Bodhisattva was enshrined. Qi Mingzhe knelt on a prayer mat, holding prayer beads, and was praying devoutly.
"Bodhisattva, if you have a spirit in heaven, please bless my uncle and aunt, and bless the Imperial Concubine!!!"
Then Yao Anhui listened as Qi Mingzhe rambled on and on about everything he had to say.
The information Yao Anhui received from Qi Mingzhe left her feeling completely confused.
It is known that the world of the post-70s generation is a real world derived from a novel. Hua Fangling is the female protagonist of this novel. In this story, the original owner of the body died, and Lu Yuanqing was injured and discharged from the army to make way for the male protagonist.
Then, Hua Fangling, the author of the novel, transmigrated into the book. Yao Anhui also inexplicably died and was resurrected in the original body. Then, Yao Anhui didn't die, Lu Yuanqing wasn't injured, she and Lu Yuanqing even got married and became a family. Lu Yuanqing was promoted and adopted Qi Mingzhe, the son of Lu Yuanqing's adoptive brother.
Yao Anhui had a dream in which she realized that Qi Mingzhe was the same Qi Mingzhe adopted by Lu Yuanqing and Yao Anhui, and that the reason Yao Anhui was able to be reborn into the original owner's body was because of Qi Mingzhe.
Qi Mingzhe of Daqi is a time traveler. Before his time travel, Qi Mingzhe was Yao Anhui's adopted son. Qi Mingzhe time traveled because Lu Yuanqing and Yao Anhui died to save him during an earthquake. Qi Mingzhe was seriously injured and eventually died. Then, Hua Fangling's husband, Shen Wenkang, was promoted to regimental commander.
Then Qi Mingzhe was lucky enough not to die, because Yao Anhui in this world once gave Qi Mingzhe a jade Guanyin (men wear Guanyin and women wear Buddha). After Qi Mingzhe was injured, his blood flowed onto the jade Guanyin, which caused Qi Mingzhe to transmigrate to the Great Qi. Because Yao Anhui looked like the original owner, Qi Mingzhe secretly planned to get close to her and successfully became her foster mother and son again.
Then, Yao Anhui died, which devastated Qi Mingzhe.
Qi Mingzhe deciphered the secret of the Jade Guanyin: as long as he accumulated enough merit, he could return to the time before his transmigration. In order to return, Qi Mingzhe finally returned when he was thirty years old.
Yao Anhui frowned. If each time is counted as a lifetime...
That first life was the world in Hua Fangling's book. The original owner died, and Lu Yuanqing was implicated and retired from the army due to injury to make room for the male and female protagonists.
In her second life, Yao Anhui didn't die and married Lu Yuanqing. She adopted Qi Mingzhe and died during the earthquake to save him, making room for the male lead.
In his third life, Qi Mingzhe, who obtained the Jade Guanyin, traveled to the Great Qi Dynasty and was adopted by Yao Anhui. Qi Mingzhe worked hard to accumulate merit and returned. When Qi Mingzhe returned, he also brought Yao Anhui, who was covered in golden light of merit.
The Jade Guanyin was a portable storage space. Qi Mingzhe put all the things Yao Anhui gave him inside. However, when he returned, the Jade Guanyin had lost its function, and the things inside had all scattered. This is why Yao Anhui was able to find the wooden box at the recycling station.
Is this already the fourth incarnation? Or have they returned to the second incarnation?
No, regardless of whether he returned to his second life or not, he should be in his fourth life now, because Qi Mingzhe's rebirth is already a change, and it can't be the same as before.
However, what Yao Anhui urgently needs to figure out now is whether it was the original owner of the body or herself who married Lu Yuanqing in the second life. This is the most important thing to her.
After careful consideration, Yao Anhui realized that the second Yao Anhui was herself, not the original owner, because the original owner would have died of illness without her arrival.
It has to be said that Yao Anhui is now at ease.
Now there is one last question, which is also the most important question in Yao Anhui’s opinion: do she and Lu Yuanqing really have to make way for Shen Wenkang? Can they get through their ordeal?
Even after Yao Anhui sobered up, she still hadn't figured out this problem.
However, Yao Anhui had a guess.
Because Qi Mingzhe's current state is not like that of an adult. Even though Qi Mingzhe sometimes acts very mature, he is still a child, a child who is much smarter and more mature than other children his age.
Moreover, why did Qi Mingzhe's jade Guanyin break? It seems that his merits have also disappeared, and Yao Anhui can't feel any merits on him.
If this is the price of time travel, why are her merits still there, and why has her jinx been upgraded?
Yao Anhui speculated that Qi Mingzhe might have used the Jade Guanyin and all his merits to ensure Lu Yuanqing and her safety.
Yao Anhui felt it was necessary to verify this.
Yao Anhui woke up groggily for a moment, then drifted back to sleep. This time, however, she didn't dream, but instead drifted off into a deep and peaceful dream.
Lu Yuanqing returned home at noon, only to find the house quiet and deserted, as if no one was home.
Looking around the house, Lu Yuanqing only found Qi Mingzhe squatting on the vegetable garden picking eggplants. Due to the angle, Lu Yuanqing hadn't noticed him earlier.
"Xiao Zhe, where's your aunt? Did she go out?" Lu Yuanqing asked.
"After breakfast, we went to deliver cold noodles to Aunt Hua next door. Later, my aunt drank some rice wine and got drunk. She's still at Aunt Hua's house now," Qi Mingzhe said clearly.
"I'll go pick her up." Lu Yuanqing turned and went next door.
At this moment, Yao Anhui was half-awake, leaning against the sofa, feeling uncomfortable all over.
"Huihui." Lu Yuanqing went to Yao Anhui's side immediately: "Xiao Zhe said you were drunk, are you feeling unwell now?"
"It's uncomfortable, it feels so itchy." Yao Anhui squinted her eyes, but her hands scratched her body, leaving several red marks.
"Don't scratch if it itches. I'll take you back and give you a bath, then it won't itch anymore, okay?" Lu Yuanqing held Yao Anhui's hand to stop her from scratching, speaking soothing words.
"Brother Qing~" Yao Anhui, who was drunk, was a bit spoiled.
The beauty's coquettishness, half-drunk and half-awake, was incredibly alluring. Not to mention Lu Yuanqing, whose heart and soul were completely devoted to her, even Hua Fangling, a woman herself, found it unbearable and wished she could take Lu Yuanqing's place herself.
"Sister-in-law, thank you for your help today. Huihui isn't feeling well, so I'll take her home first. I'll treat you to dinner another day," Lu Yuanqing said to Hua Fangling.
"Oh dear, I thought you didn't see me." Hua Fangling clicked her tongue, the sweet smell of romance still lingering. "I thought I wasn't short at all, how come you couldn't even see me, An Hui?"
Perhaps their blindness is so unique that they can only see what they want to see.
"Sorry." Hua Fangling's teasing made Lu Yuanqing blush deeply, his face and ears turning bright red. "I'm sorry, sister-in-law, I was in such a hurry that I forgot..."
"Okay, stop it. I've been through this before, you know." Hua Fangling had never seen a man blush so much before, and she just wanted to tease him a little.
Lu Yuanqing carried Yao Anhui back home, prepared bathwater for her (the sensible Qi Mingzhe had already lit a fire after returning home, so there was hot water now), gathered a change of clothes, and then personally bathed his wife.
That's right, more than half an hour had passed by the time Yao Anhui came out of the bathroom.
Although he didn't do anything lewd during this trip to the bathhouse, Lu Yuanqing still took the opportunity to take advantage of Yao Anhui, washing her thoroughly clean from head to toe.
However, Yao Anhui had just come out of the bathroom and hadn't even had time to go back to her room when Hua Fangling rushed in.
"Commander Lu, I just remembered something. Could An Hui be having an allergic reaction?" Hua Fangling's footsteps came to an abrupt halt in the courtyard, but her words contained a lot of information.
"What allergy?" Lu Yuanqing frowned. The word "allergy" was not a good one. Lu Yuanqing had never looked at a female comrade so seriously before (except for Yao Anhui). Lu Yuanqing stared at Hua Fangling, hoping that she would take back what she had just said.
“I just suddenly remembered that An Hui had the beer duck I made before, and I used a lot more beer than I used this time. It doesn’t make sense that she was fine that time, but this time she got drunk after only a little bit of fermented rice. And just now An Hui said she was itchy. These symptoms seem a bit like an allergic reaction.”
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