Chapter 42: The Third Life
After Naruto also brought Hongling's soul back to the underworld, the scene changed, and I was standing on a street again.
In this life, Hongling was dressed in tatters and was sitting on the side of the street begging, when a woman passed by and took her back to her home.
This family is a well-known local wealthy businessman, and the woman who brought Hongling back is the lady of this family. Originally, Hongling was going to serve by the young lady's side, but not long after picking up Hongling home, this young lady got married, and she didn't take Hongling with her when she got married, so Hongling stayed in the house and helped do everything.
This young lady named Hongling, called Zhique, Zhique looked fifteen or sixteen years old at this time, and she was very quick to work, but because she looked good, she still caused disaster.
On this day, she was sweeping the floor in the courtyard, and the old man looked at her twice as he passed by, and then took a piece of candy that he had bought for his little daughter and gave it to Zhique.
I see that this old man is very familiar, and after thinking about it, I realized that this is the middle-aged version of Feng Xilang.
Zhique looked at the candy handed over by the old man in horror, and didn't dare to take it.
The old man smiled and shoved the candy into Zhiji's hand.
Seeing that the old man was gone, Zhique dared to pinch the candy and look at it, and after looking at it for a long time, he was reluctant to eat it, and put the sugar in his sleeve pocket.
The sugar general was put away by her, and the personal maid beside Madame hurriedly walked up to her, crossed her waist, and said, "Madame has piled up a pile of clothes and no one has washed them, and I see that you are very idle, so you will wash the pile of clothes."
After speaking, she rolled her eyes and added: "By the way, the material of Madame's clothes is very expensive, you have to wash it with ice water, if you don't use ice water, Madame's clothes will be washed badly, and you will look good."
Zhique hurriedly answered, and then went to the lady's courtyard to fetch the clothes.
It was the winter solstice, and the cold wind blew on the skin of the human face and had to penetrate into the bones.
The sparrow took the ice, and when he put his hand into the icy water, it hurt so much that his fingers seemed to break. She exhaled twice and dipped both hands into the icy water in one gulp. By the time she had washed the mountain-high pile of clothes, her hands were bleeding.
My hands hurt, so I took my hands into my arms and covered them, but my hands were bloodshot and turned red, which was really painful and itchy. The sparrow rolled over, picked up his clothes and hung them on the window, barely blocking out some of the wind that rushed in.
Although my hands hurt, fortunately, the house is warmer and I can always sleep.
At night, she was hot, her cheeks were red and purple, and she frequently talked nonsense and called Miss.
A man came from the cold wind, passed through the wall, and sat on the edge of the branch bird's bed, and it was Naruya.
Naruya raised his hand and stroked Zhiqi's face, then sighed, took her hand and rubbed it gently, and finally stared at her for a long time.
The sparrow snorted twice in discomfort, and her eyelids moved, as if she was about to wake up.
I thought that Naruto would wait for Zhique to wake up, and then proudly told her that he had helped her heal her injuries, but I didn't expect that when I saw that Zhique was about to wake up, Naruto actually got up and walked out of the wall as if she were about to escape.
When Zhique opened his eyes, he only vaguely saw the back of a man, and then sat up in shock. When I looked up, I saw that my hands were as good as ever. She patted her face, as if she was carefully thinking about whether she had washed her clothes with ice water today, and after thinking for a while, her face was slightly red, and she muttered, "Could it be that the master just now?"
In a blink of an eye, on Chinese New Year's Eve, Zhiqi was arranged to stand in the courtyard for vigil, which was a new rule set by the lady in order to embarrass her, but she did not dare to slacken, and stood in the snow all night.
Suddenly, she blinked, looked up at the roof, and seemed to see Naruya sitting on the roof.
Naruto should have hidden his figure at this time, but for some reason the branch finch could see him, thinking that it should be the previous life that Naruto also left two traces of divine power in Hongling's body, so the branch finch in this life can see him.
But in a moment, Naruto disappeared without a trace. Zhique lowered his eyes and looked puzzled, at this time the sky will also be bright, the old man came out of the house, handed a hand stove to Zhique, and inadvertently pinched her hand: "In the future, you will come to serve in my room."
Zhique was startled, and subconsciously raised her eyes to look at the master, and when she saw the old man smiling, she blushed, lowered her head, and responded, "Yes, master."
It wasn't until dawn that the finch moved her frozen feet, and was about to go back to the house, when Madame's personal maid rushed over and slapped her, and then Madame came up to her.
Madame's personal maid pulled her to her knees, and then threw a broken jade bracelet in front of her: "Good you cheap hoof, your hands and feet are so unclean, you stole and broke Madame's most beloved jade bracelet, even if you have ten lives, you can't afford to pay for it."
Then she beckoned to the little guy standing aside and said, "Come on, beat her to death."
Several arm-thick sticks struck her, and she almost died in pain, and when she was about to die, the master came, and made her stop beating her, and then ordered someone to carry her to the firewood room, and from then on he left her alone.
The sparrow lay on the ground unable to move, her mouth moaning in pain, and in her confusion, she saw a man come in and crouch beside her, but she could not lift her head and could not see the man's face.
Then she fainted, and when she passed out, a long sigh came, and I looked up to see Naruya squatting beside Zhiji, and saw that he frowned, and pinched and pinched his hands, and finally hung weakly at his side.
This time, he still didn't wait for the branch to wake up, and left in a hurry when the branch was about to wake up.
Zhique opened her mouth and gasped, realizing that she was alive, and she cried out, shouting "Master" in her mouth.
When Zhique was almost well, he smoothly entered the old man's room to serve.
The old man asked him to be a maid in the room, saying that he would marry her as a concubine when she was pregnant with a child, so that she would never be bullied by others again.
She naturally believed it, so she ignored the words of others and the threats of her wife, and resolutely handed herself over to the master.
When she was twenty-five years old, Zhique finally conceived a child, and it was not easy for her to conceive a child when she was old, so she immediately rushed into the old man's house and told the old man the news, but she didn't pay attention to the lady sitting in the curtain.
When she was five months pregnant, her wife said that she had stolen things, so she ordered her fingernails to be pulled out, and she was beaten up, and her fists and feet were thrown into her stomach.
Since then, she has aged ten years overnight.
But she still did not die, because on the night she was thrown into the firewood room, the master came to her rescue and healed her wounds.
It's just that she never knew that it was never the master who came to save her, but Naruya.
Because he felt sorry for her, he suffered the pain of losing her son and pulling out her armor, so he doted on her even more and let her go to bed and serve every day. It's just that this kind of favor is exchanged for the lady's revenge on her.
After another ten years, she was thirty-five years old, and she was as old as a fifty-year-old woman because she had been tormented by her wife for ten years. The lord no longer loved her, but fortunately, she was pregnant again, because the lord no longer came to see her, and the lady let down her guard, so her child was born.
The old man was very happy to have a son, and took the child over to raise him personally, but he never mentioned the matter of taking her as a concubine.
The child had never seen her a few times when he was five years old, so he was very angry with her, and one day, the child suddenly came to hug her affectionately and said that he wanted to take her to see something good.
She was very happy, and followed the child to a lake in the house, but unexpectedly, she was pushed into the lake with a palm.
She was sick at this time, as old as a sixty-year-old woman, choking on several mouthfuls of water before she could barely float up, but before she could swim to the shore, she saw her son holding a long bamboo pole in his hand, and she struggled to hit her in the water, so that she could not get to the shore, and could not swim again, and was about to sink into the water, she saw her son happily throw the bamboo pole in his hand, turned his head and ran away.
In a daze, a man pulled her out of the water, and she lay on the shore, squinting her eyes, and vaguely saw a man coming.
She smiled, raised her hand to grab the man's hand, and muttered, "Master, master......"
Suddenly, she was stunned, the hand she was holding in her hand was so young and good-looking, it was definitely impossible for her to be a master.
She was short of breath and tried to look up, and saw a good-looking young man looking at her with a frown, then turned and disappeared.
Zhiqi still remembered that the young man of Fang Cai was the black-clothed young man sitting on the roof on Chinese New Year's Eve that year. She also remembered that these hands were the hands that caressed her forehead every time she was dying.
Suddenly, she burst into tears, but her throat was hoarse, and the cry she made was strange. She tugged at her heart and cried hysterically: "It's wrong, it's all wrong......"
Later, she was kicked out along with her son Yun'er, and the reason of the lady was that Yun'er was unfilial and wanted to kill her biological mother, and she was incompetent to teach such a rebellious son.
When she left the house, she was alone, and she only brought out a sickness and a son.
It turns out that the old woman I saw just now is the third life of Zhaojun, and it turns out that Ming is not like the Three Realms rumored, and it has only been decades since she saw Zhaojun from afar in the underworld. He is there in every life of Zhaojun, and he is trying to be good to her, but the results of each life are not satisfactory.
A sigh suddenly came from his ears: "Seeing each other is like not seeing ......"
The next sentence is "How affectionate is ruthless".
My heart was so flustered that my throat choked and I couldn't control the tears in my eyes anymore.
I really felt Ming's love for Zhaojun in these three memories, and I really felt his helplessness and sadness, so when I heard that I was fighting for each other, my heart hurt beyond measure.
I felt dizzy in my head, and when I opened my eyes again, I stood next to the big rock in front of me, and when I turned my head to look, I realized that this big stone was the Sansheng Stone. Xu was because I touched the branch finch and then touched the Sansheng Stone, so I saw her three lives.
Naruya turned his head to look at me, then looked at the Sansheng Stone beside me, and chuckled, "It seems that the little sister saw it."
I raised my hand to wipe my face, only to realize that I had already burst into tears. When she opened her mouth, her voice choked: "Actually, in the third life, she ...... She's just mistaken for ......"
My nose was sour, and I cried so hard that I couldn't speak: "Zhique will never say the words of never seeing you again, Naruya, you just missed her."