Chapter 312 She is a Cloud
The daylight grew brighter.
The leaves and flowers in Tingyuxuan are bright and beautiful.
Beams of light streamed into the house, making it very bright.
Su Zhizhi walked into the main house.
Ren Dong returned to the house and hurriedly poured water for Su Zhizhi:
"Little Miss, drink some warm water."
There is no tea in Tingyuxuan, only clean, ordinary water.
Rendong was pouring water in her hands, but her eyes were always glued to Su Zhizhi.
Su Zhizhi briefly explained it to Rendong.
Honeysuckle finally managed to calm down from her extreme joy and sorrow.
The lady is gone.
But there are still little ladies in the world.
The pain like a needle prick is mixed with relief and joy.
Rendong looked at Su Zhizhi's profile, eyebrows, nose, chin, and figure.
Her facial features don't look like a young lady, but more like a lady. However, her expression, every frown and smile are very much like a young lady.
So she would subconsciously and ridiculously think that this was the young lady's reincarnation.
Su Zhizhi took the warm water and said, "Auntie Dong, just call me Zhizhi. Everyone around me calls me Zhizhi."
"Okay, Zhizhi," Honeysuckle smiled with red eyes, "Just call me whatever the young lady says."
Su Zhizhi looked around the room.
The floor, chairs, tables and the tablets on the altar are all very clean and spotless.
There were incense burning and two porcelain plates placed in front of the tablet.
There were a few fruits on one porcelain plate and a handful of golden osmanthus flowers on the other.
There is also the fragrance of osmanthus in the house.
Su Zhizhi also placed the trumpet creeper she had just picked on the osmanthus plate:
"Aunt Dong, don't be too sad. My mother is buried in Lingnan, and my grandparents, uncle and aunt are also there. They are all together, so they are not alone."
"There are all kinds of flowers and fruits on the mountain all year round. I will pick flowers and fruits to visit them."
Rendong nodded repeatedly: "Okay, let's be together. When the young lady was in the palace, she missed the lady very much. Let's be together..."
Rendong took Su Zhizhi to walk through every corner of Tingyuxuan and introduced them one by one.
The scene from more than ten years ago is still as vivid in her memory as yesterday:
"This is the young lady's desk. She didn't like writing when she was young, but later she wrote all the time in the palace. She said writing calms the mind..."
"This carved wooden couch was Miss's dowry, brought from the Pei Mansion. Miss likes to sleep on the couch during the day. Miss... Zhizhi, come and sit on it..."
"There's a window here. When you sit on the couch, you can open the window and see the flowers and plants in the yard. These trees and flowers were planted by the young lady. They were small before, but now they're big..."
As Su Zhizhi listened to Rendong's description, she seemed to see a very lively woman, sometimes taking a daytime nap on the couch, sometimes planting trees in the yard, and sometimes writing at the table.
The yard and house are very neat and beautiful.
But no matter how beautiful it is, it is just a yard surrounded by walls.
No matter how big the palace is, how can it be as big as the vast mountains and rivers outside?
"After the incident with the Pei family, my mother was confined to the mansion. Was it difficult for her?"
"Alas, such a big thing has happened, and the young lady is naturally very sad, but she is not depressed."
Honeysuckle continued to reminisce in a rambling manner.
After the Pei family was exiled, Pei Xuan cried for a few days, but then she cheered up.
She said she also wanted to go with her parents, but she couldn't leave. She had to stay in Beijing and find out the truth.
During the years of confinement in the palace, Pei Xuan was mostly energetic and rarely showed any sadness.
She said that she was only confined to the palace, but as the queen and with her martial arts skills, no one could bully her.
She said that if she felt uncomfortable like this, then her elder sister who was trapped in the deep palace must be in an even more difficult situation.
Pei Xuan believed that the Pei family would be vindicated one day, and then their family would move back to the Pei Mansion and never be separated again.
She was surprised when she learned she was pregnant, and then one day she said to Honeysuckle:
She dreamed that she had a baby girl in her belly. The baby girl fell out of her belly and ran all over the mountain. She herself flew into the sky, floating like a cloud, and watched the baby girl running on the mountain.
Pei Xuan was sure that she was pregnant with a daughter.
She said that she would take the child back to Pei Mansion in the future, teach the child how to use a whip, and send the child to her second brother's yard to learn how to write and study.
She said she hopes her child will love to laugh, eat vegetables and not be picky about food, like flowers and plants, and have a body as strong as she was when she was a child.
"When the young lady was pregnant with you, she said she had found clues, but hadn't found the evidence yet. Once she found solid evidence, the Pei family would be able to return soon. She wanted to go back to the Pei family to give birth to you and let you live in her old courtyard... The young lady was really happy during that time... But before she found the evidence..."
Honeysuckle wiped her face with a handkerchief and was unable to speak for a while.
Osmanthus flowers flew in from the window.
"My mother dreamed of me." There were a few small yellow flowers in the palm of Su Zhizhi's hand, and her voice was vague like a dream talk.
When she was a child, she felt that everything in the world was tangible.
Wu Yingniang and Hao Ren told her that the dead would be in heaven, so she really believed that there were people living in heaven.
That's why she has always said since she was a child that she has a mother in heaven and another mother on earth.
The mother on the ground would take care of her and spank her. She was a fierce yet gentle person.
And her mother in the sky lay on a cloud and followed her, appearing on every cloudy day.
So when she was a child, she would always draw a huge cloud on the mountain. On the cloud were villages and houses, which was where the people in heaven lived.
The year that Ache first went up the mountain, she and Ache went to pick wild fruits together. In the hottest weather, there were often one or two clouds covering their heads, casting a shadow.
Zhizhi told Ache that it was their mother in the sky holding hands and shading them from the sun.
Later, when Zhizhi grew up, he would still look up at the clouds in the sky from time to time, but he knew in his heart that clouds were just clouds.
Now, she heard Honeysuckle talking about the past, saying that her mother had dreamed of her running all over the mountains.
An incredible feeling arose in her heart.
It was as if her mother had really been watching over her and accompanying her in heaven all these years.
"Auntie Dong," Su Zhizhi held Rendong's hand, "Has my mother ever written to me?"
Honeysuckle was stunned for a moment:
“It seems not.”
"But the young lady left behind some of her old writings, which I still have hidden."
When Honeysuckle thought of this, she put down the handkerchief and squatted in the corner.
Su Zhizhi also followed: "Where is it hidden?"
Honeysuckle was prying the floor tiles in the corner with a small shovel. "It's under here. I hid it well. No one has touched it."
But because no one had touched it, it was difficult to pry the honeysuckle out.
It was Su Zhizhi who took action and pried up the floor tiles.
There was a small pit under the floor tiles, not deep, about half a foot. Inside the pit was a golden box.
Su Zhizhi asked, "Why is there a hole under this floor tile? Did you dig it out there to hide something, Aunt Dong?"
Honeysuckle: "I used to dig this with my young lady. She said she wanted to dig a tunnel to the outside, away from people. But when we actually started digging, it was too difficult. We only dug half a foot and gave up. She said it would be more convenient to just climb over the wall. This pit is perfect for hiding things, so I put them here."
The golden box that had been sealed for a long time was wiped clean and then opened.
There were several notebooks inside, all written by Pei Xuan himself.
Some of them are written by adults, while others are written by children.
"When the young lady was little, she didn't like to write or read. At that time, the teacher hired by the Pei family asked her to write down her daily experiences. Gradually, the young lady developed a habit and often wrote down some things."
Honeysuckle pointed at the booklet with childish and slightly crooked handwriting:
"This is the earliest one. It was written when the young lady was a child, and she brought it with her when she got married."
Su Zhizhi's heartbeat quickened. She carefully opened the booklet and saw the words written on the first page:
I don’t want to write a diary.
【My second brother is a big turtle.】
[Sir, so is he.]
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