Chapter 878: Falling Flowers Have Intentions But No Heart
"Now that everyone is here, let's open the ancestral hall." Xu Shiyun stood beside Lu Chaochao with a firm expression.
Everyone looked at Lu Chaochao and nodded in agreement.
The process of opening the temple and worshipping ancestors is very complicated, but Lu Chaochao does not find it boring.
Instead, it felt somewhat familiar, as if I had done it many times before.
She even vaguely remembered that while everyone was paying homage to their ancestors, the little girl secretly pulled a chicken leg and stuffed it into her arms.
Lu Chaochao couldn't help but let out a faint smile.
She had lived for a very long time, so long that she could no longer tell how long she had existed.
But the only time she became Lu Chaochao and Xu Shiyun's daughter was when her memories were extremely vivid.
When the ancestor worship was over, Lu Zhaoyang's daughter was already registered under the names of Xu Shiyun and Rong Che.
Xu Shiyun was in a good mood and had already set up a banquet at home to entertain relatives and friends.
Everyone couldn't help but feel shocked when they saw Xu Shiyun keeping Lu Chaochao by her side all the time.
The old lady of the Xu family clapped Lu Chaochao's hands with tears in her eyes.
"Just call me Grandma."
"Since you have come to this house, you can live here with peace of mind. The Lu family are all kind people... This is also your luck."
"Take good care of your mother." Old Mrs. Xu couldn't help crying.
Although she was not Xu Shiyun's biological mother, she doted on Xu Shiyun the most among the many children in the mansion.
Xu Shiyun was raised in her care since she was a child and was loved and pampered since she was little. The only setback Yunniang encountered in her life was meeting Lu Yuanze.
But what is gratifying is that although Lu Yuanze is not a good guy, the three sons and one daughter he has are outstanding.
Lu Chaochao curved her lips and said, "I know everything. Thank you, grandma."
Old Mrs. Xu gently pushed the emerald green bracelet on her wrist to her hand. Lu Chaochao did not refuse and took it with a smile.
Thanks to the longevity charm she received back then, Mrs. Xu has become a rare centenarian.
Although he was still in good spirits, he looked a bit tired after working on the family tree for a whole day.
Only after Xu Shiyun sent the guests away did the Lu family return to their former peace.
Lu Chaochao stood in the night, and Ci Mu looked at her quietly.
No matter when she looked back, he was always behind her.
Tick...tick.
Bean-sized raindrops fell on her shoulders. Lu Chaochao spread out her hands, and before the raindrops fell on her hands, a green oil-paper umbrella appeared behind her.
"Chao Chao, come back soon!" Xu Shiyun hurried out and even wanted to come out to look for her.
Lu Chaochao knew that she was weak, so she held up her skirt and went back to the corridor.
"Are you okay? Are you hurt?" Xu Shiyun panicked and grabbed her little hand and turned it over, then carefully examined her exposed cheek.
Lu Chaochao couldn't help but said helplessly: "Mom, it's just raining."
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard the little maid's painful whimpering in the rain.
I saw the little maid who was accidentally caught in the rain, blowing her arm with red eyes, seeming to be in unbearable pain.
"Girl, this is no ordinary rain."
"This rain..." Dengzhi's voice was bitter.
"This rain is God's punishment for our disobedience." The tone was slightly sarcastic and contemptuous, as well as heartbreaking.
"This rain is called acid rain and is corrosive."
"In the past six years, there have been three acid rains. One time during the spring planting season, the seeds that had just landed on the ground were corroded and rotted. One time during the autumn harvest season, the heavy ears of grain were corroded by the acid rain, and no grain was harvested. Countless people starved to death."
Dengzhi still remembers the tragedy at that time, when people rushed to the farmland like crazy, trying to protect the ripe crops.
They howled like crazy, their flesh burned in the acid rain, and many died in the fields. There were also many people whose faces were blood red, and the whole world was like hell.
Emperor Xuanping made no secret of his disgust for the divine world.
He dragged his sick body and asked the Imperial Observatory to prepare the ceremony of offering sacrifices to the sky.
In front of all the people in the world, he stood on the high platform for offering sacrifices to heaven and pointed at the sky and scolded. He cursed all day long without using any curse words, until his throat became swollen and hoarse and he could not utter a word, and then he collapsed on the altar.
That day, there was thunder in broad daylight, and the thunder roared in the clouds.
It took Bei Zhao two full years to recover.
"This year is considered lucky. When the first snow fell, the fertile fields had already frozen and the grain had been stored in the granary. People rarely go out and are all hiding in winter." He breathed a sigh of relief, finally escaping a disaster.
Lu Chaochao narrowed his eyes slightly, with a hint of viciousness in his eyes.
Ci Mu sensed her emotions at the first moment, took a step forward, and gently held her slender, cold hand.
Big hands hold small hands, and the hands are clasped together.
Xu Shiyun? ! ! ! ! !
Her eyes widened, her breathing became rapid, and the hair on her body stood up. The look in his eyes when he looked at Ci Mu was almost spitting fire! !
Is she, the daughter she had waited so long for, going to be taken away? ? ?
Xu Shiyun suppressed her emotions, unconsciously squeezed in between the two of them, and forcibly separated their hands.
Before Lu Chaochao noticed, Ci Mu stared blankly at the empty big hand, pursed his lips, and then clenched his fist to hold the remaining warmth.
"Mom, can you sleep with me tonight? We haven't slept together for a long time." Xu Shiyun looked at her daughter sadly.
How could Lu Chaochao refuse her? He immediately took her arm and went back to the room affectionately.
Ci Mu was like an abandoned puppy, looking at her figure pitifully.
At night, Lu Chaochao leaned against her mother in her underwear, breathing shallowly.
Xu Shiyun, with her hair loose, leaned lightly against her chest, listening quietly to her heartbeat. One, two, three, four...
She counted them one by one.
As I counted, my eyes became red.
"My son's heartbeat is so good. I can tell it's different from others." It's beating so fast and full of vitality. It feels so good.
Lu Chaochao couldn't help but smile: "What difference can my heartbeat make? Mother loves me and everything about me is good."
Xu Shiyun looked at her seriously, her eyes sincere and pure: "My Chao Chao, the best in the world."
The mother and daughter were leaning against each other intimately, and Lu Chaochao originally thought that she was feeling uncomfortable.
But when I really leaned in my mother's arms, my heart felt a peace I had never felt before.
She had traveled through mountains and rivers and covered thousands of miles, but her heart had never been as calm as it was at this moment.
"Chao Chao, can mother find a son-in-law for you in the future?"
"You are my only daughter, and I can't bear to see you get married. In the future, if you want to find a husband to marry into your family, I can help you make the decision."
"If you like, we can recruit a few more and hire the ones that look good."
"I just don't know if Young Master Ci Mu is willing?" She glanced at her daughter's expression cautiously.
But Lu Chaochao just looked confused.
"What's there to complain about? All the people I like are around me. They have daddy, mom, brothers and sisters-in-law..." She opened her round eyes, looking very cute and confused.
Xu Shiyun asked carefully: "What about Ci Mu? Did he go home with you?"
Lu Chaochao smiled and said, "Ci Mu is my best friend. Wherever I am, he should be there too."
Xu Shiyun felt sad, and the bitterness of Ci Mu weighed heavily in her heart.
She said without hesitation that wherever she was, Ci Mu would be there, and it seemed that the two had a close relationship.
But then I thought to myself, wow, my daughter hasn’t gotten the point at all.
That guy's insistence is like talking to a deaf person.
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