SEC Chapter 35 Water Falls
Chapter 35 Water Falls
Li's mother, "was sick but had no money to treat it. If she had delayed treatment for too long, she would have died."
"Qing'er, why are you so stupid? You would rather die of illness than look for me. Do you hate me so much?"
"It's normal to have three wives and four concubines in this Great Sage Dynasty. I was just bewildered for a while. How could you be so cruel and leave me like that, causing us to be separated forever."
"I have said everything I need to say, and it is time for me, an ugly woman, to go back." Mother Li rolled her eyes silently in her heart. She did something wrong and yet she blamed me for being cruel. Men really can't be trusted.
"Wait, does she have any other children alive in this world?" Prince Qi asked when he saw that Li's mother was about to stop her.
Mother Li, "Oh! By the way, she asked me to tell you something. Look at my brain. I just don't remember things when I get old."
Prince Qi, "What are you talking about? She regrets leaving me."
Li's mother shook her head, "On the contrary, she said that if there is a next life, she would rather never have seen you, but the fact has already happened, so let's just part ways and be happy."
After saying that, Li's mother left without looking back.
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Su Kee Restaurant
"Your Highness, please drink slowly. Although the alcohol content of this wine is not high, it will easily make you drunk if you drink it too quickly."
"Brother Li, please help me persuade the prince." Gu Niannian wanted Li Jing to help persuade him as well.
Turning around, he saw that Li Jing was drinking as much as the prince, "Why are you drinking too? You two grown men, I can't carry you."
"Your Highness, you don't have to carry him. He has his entourage." Li Jing picked up the wine glass and drank it all.
"Then I can't carry you alone!" Gu Niannian said helplessly.
"I told you if you can carry it, then you can carry it."
"Alas, Li Jing, when did you become such a scoundrel?"
In the end, Prince Qi was so drunk that he couldn't even get up, so he was arranged to rest in Su Ji Restaurant.
Gu Niannian had no choice but to carry Li Jing back to the Li family
"Oh, you're back?" Seeing her tall and strong son pressing on Gu Niannian's thin body, Li's mother hurried over to support him.
"Auntie Li, why are you dressed like that today?" Gu Niannian couldn't help but ask when she saw Mrs. Li dressed as usual.
"Well, Your Majesty, you must dress more formally, so I will put on the most expensive clothes and hairpins in my home, so as not to embarrass my son!" Mother Li put her son on the bed, took off his boots and
"Although you don't like being bound by rules, I can see that you understand the rules better than anyone else. There must be something else behind what happened today!
"And that crispy pork belly was clearly your own idea. You are Ye Ranqing, right?"
Gu Niannian didn't beat around the bush and asked directly
Mother Li paused while covering Li Jing with the quilt, and continued what she was doing without saying a word.
"When Prince Qi took out the portrait, I saw the person in it. To be honest, I didn't think of you at all. They looked completely different. How could they be the same person?"
"Then I looked at it carefully again. There was a teardrop mole under the eyes. You don't have that. But the eyes are so similar. A pair of phoenix eyes, heroic yet charming, which is perfect for the face in the portrait."
"It's just normal on my face!" Li's mother replied.
Gu Niannian shook her head and said, "It's not ordinary, it's just that the face doesn't match it."
"Actually, this isn't enough to convince me that you are Ye Ranqing. After all, only the eyes look similar..."
Mother Li, "Then where did I reveal my flaw?"
"You dressed up like that to meet Prince Qi, put on thick eye makeup, and acted like that. I think this was all to hide the fact that you were Ye Ranqing, to prevent Prince Qi from recognizing you!"
"Let's go, let's talk outside, don't wake Jing'er up." Mother Li opened the door and invited
Mother Li sat on the swing in the yard and said, "Last time I went there, I saw your mother also had one in the yard, so I asked Jing'er to make one and come sit on it with us."
The swing seat was long enough for three people to sit on, and Gu Niannian sat on it easily.
"Brother Li has such skills! If I had known he had this skill, I would have asked him to do it with the one at home," Gu Niannian said in surprise after fiddling with the swing.
"Song Zhixing, also known as Prince Qi in your mouth, and I, when the new emperor ascended the throne, had just been given a fiefdom in the west. We met on the way to his fiefdom. He was only fifteen years old then, so young! Tsk tsk, even younger than you are now." Li's mother sighed.
"But who wasn't a young and beautiful girl a dozen years ago? I was only seventeen then, working as a cook at the government post station. Because my cooking was so delicious, more officials stayed at the post station than at other posts."
"I think it's not just because your cooking is delicious! It has nothing to do with your appearance." Gu Niannian said with a smile
"I stay in the kitchen and rarely go to the front of house. The food is delicious, so few people ask to see the chef. This isn't a movie script." Li's mother realized she had said the wrong thing and quickly corrected herself.
"What did you just say? What are you acting?" Gu Niannian caught the topic
Mother Li waved her hands and said, "Nothing... I spoke too fast, you heard it wrong."
"You mean TV?"
"You are not from this era, right!" Gu Niannian jumped off the swing and said excitedly
Li's mother was equally surprised. "How...how do you know I'm not...? Could it be that you also..."
Gu Niannian nodded and said, "Well, I came here from the 21st century. I am so lucky to meet an old friend here in a foreign land."
"No wonder... you know how to use peppers and cook with them. It turns out you also traveled through time." Mother Li suddenly realized.
"I traveled through time with my entire body. I've been here for over twenty years, so I can be considered half a Saint Dynasty person."
Gu Niannian, "Then you must have a much harder time than me. At least I still have my parents and brother."
Mother Li looked at the wooden table in the yard and said, "Yes! I can't do anything, and my thinking seems out of place in this dynasty. Fortunately, my family is in the restaurant business, and I have been around in the kitchen since I was a child, so I have good cooking skills. I found a job as a cook, otherwise I would have starved to death"!
"I want to ask you something." Mother Li turned to look at Gu Niannian again.
"You said, tell me everything you know." Gu Niannian now finally understood why meeting an old friend in a foreign land was one of the four great joys.
Mother Li, "You just said you have a brother. Did your mother give birth to two sons?"
Gu Niannian took off her hair crown without hiding it, "I am a girl, a twin with my brother, and we have looked exactly the same since we were young."
"So... so you're joining the government for your brother?" Mother Li's tongue was a little knotted with excitement.
Gu Niannian said, "Well, my brother has suffered from heart disease since childhood. Now he has met a master who has retired to treat him. I will be the county magistrate for him for five years, and after five years, he will come on his own."
“You can do so well”
"In the future, I will be a village official. I have some experience, but I just copied and applied it. I can't say it's very good." Gu Niannian touched the tip of her nose embarrassedly after being praised.
"Oh! Don't talk about me anymore, just continue telling me about your past with King Qi."
Mother Li looked at Gu Niannian lovingly and said, "You are such a gossipy child."
"This is not something shameful, so I will continue to tell you and satisfy your curiosity."
"Because Song Zhixing was young at the time and had never traveled far, he couldn't adapt to the climate and couldn't eat. When he arrived at my Qingfeng Station, he was extremely thin."
"He looked so pitiful, so I cooked some millet porridge to warm his stomach. After a few meals, his complexion improved a little, so I cooked some appetizers. After ten days, he was almost recovered and could have continued his journey west."
"But he was being childish and insisted on meeting me, the cook, and thanking me in person. I didn't think it was a big deal. So he went to meet me! Maybe there would be a reward, so why not?"
"I didn't expect that the child stayed for another twenty days just because of that." Mother Li smiled, with indescribable tenderness in her eyes.
Yes! No matter how unbearable it is, the first encounter is always beautiful.