Mrs. Mingsan closed her eyes and clasped her hands, kneeling in the altar.
The dim light of the candlelight shone on her face and on the face of Empress Xuannu. The expressions of the two were surprisingly similar.
I don’t know how long it took, but the door of the altar was pushed open.
"Why didn't you copy the scriptures today?" asked a calm male voice.
Mrs. Mingsan opened her eyes, but did not look back: "Waiting for you."
The male voice paused, slightly mocking: "It's really rare." He took off his robe and threw it aside, "As soon as I came back, I heard that Xiao Qi was well. What's going on? The Xuannv Empress you worshiped has appeared?
"
"Yes." Mrs. Mingsan replied lightly. She couldn't tell whether it was true or not.
"Then you're waiting for me because you want to talk about Xiao Qi?"
"right."
The man sneered softly: "Looking at you like this, are you planning to end your relationship with me?"
Mrs. Mingsan did not answer.
"That's right." The man picked up the tea cup and said quietly, "You have endured the humiliation for so many years, isn't it just for Xiao Qi? Now that she is well, she can get married normally, why do you have to endure it any longer."
The warm tea melted away the coldness of the night, and the man continued: "However, you have just begged me to go to Xuandu to ask the immortal to come and collect the evil spirits. Now you are turning against me. Don't you think it is too urgent?"
Mrs. Mingsan was silent, bowed her head to Xuannv, and finally stood up and walked to him, looking directly at him: "So, I want to talk to you."
The man put down his teacup and an inexplicable smile appeared on his lips: "Oh?"
"Three months, I will give you three months in the end."
The man was noncommittal: "What then?"
"We are both clean." Mrs. Mingsan said quietly, "After so many years, this ridiculous thing should come to an end."
The man was silent.
Mrs. Mingsan sneered: "You don't think we can live like this for the rest of our lives, do you? What's more, I'm old and no longer young, so what's the fun?"
The man raised his gaze and landed on her face, as if he couldn't help but reach out his hand to touch her face.
As soon as she touched it, Mrs. Mingsan put it away.
The man smiled softly and retracted his hand: "That's okay. Since you want to end it, I can only help you. But, the conditions..."
"Three months!" Mrs. Mingsan said resolutely, "This is my bottom line. If you refuse, I will fight to the death and defeat you, and I will never let you get your wish again."
"Haha..." The man chuckled, "You misunderstood me."
"you……"
The man looked at her: "You don't have to accompany me anymore. I will even help you settle the matter with Lao Liu. Tomorrow I will send a letter and ask my eldest brother to ask the immortal from Xuandu Temple to come over. As for you, help me with the last step.
Just one thing."
This condition was too generous, so Mrs. Mingsan hesitated: "Just one thing? What kind of big deal is it?"
The man took a sip of tea and said casually: "Just do it as before. As for who it is, I will tell you when the time comes."
He put down the tea cup and stood up: "Okay, I won't come again in the near future, and you don't have to worry about Lao Liu. Just feel free to get along with Xiao Qi."
The door to the altar was pushed open, and the man's figure quickly disappeared into the night.
Mrs. Mingsan stood silently for a long time, then turned around and knelt down in front of the statue.
"Empress Xuannv, please bless the faithful girl and get her wish..."
Mingwei slept until midnight when he suddenly woke up and touched his side. Although there was still warmth, the person was gone.
She sat up and was about to call Duofu when Mrs. Mingsan came in from outside.
"Xiao Qi is awake?" She took off her coat and shook off the cold air on her body. "Are you going to wake up or drink water? It's just the third watch, so go back to sleep when you feel better."
Mingwei shook his head and asked her: "Mom, where have you been?"
Mrs. Mingsan said softly: "Mom, I can't sleep for a while, so I went to thank Empress Xuannv. I can't stop offering incense when you are well, otherwise Empress Xuannv will be angry."
"Um……"
Mingwei's hand tightened. She felt another weak breath from Mrs. Mingsan's body, which quickly disappeared.
Mother and daughter fell asleep again, this time sleeping soundly all night until daybreak.
…
Seeing the breakfast spread all over the table, Mrs. Mingsan couldn't help laughing: "Why are there so many today? Do you want to feed the pigs?"
Su Jie's face was full of joy: "Congratulations, Miss, you are cured! Each of us cooked one dish, but that's not all."
"Yes, yes!" Bing Xin picked up the small and exquisite crystal bag and put it in Mingwei's bowl, "Miss, eat this. I got up before dawn. I have been doing it for a long time!"
"It turns out this was made by Bing Xin. No wonder I always feel it looks a bit ugly."
"Madam!" Bing Xin stamped her feet.
Mrs. Mingsan pursed her lips and smiled, then took one herself: "Okay, okay, let's have a taste of your craftsmanship."
"Mine, and mine!" Su Jie brought the golden silk cakes as a treasure, "It's fresh out of the pan, and it's so fragrant. When I made it just now, the smell was so fragrant that I couldn't help but eat two pieces...
"
"Miss," Duofu quietly moved over a small bowl of bone soup noodles, "eat this, the soup has been simmering all night!"
Aunt Tong also came to join in the count and pointed to the bowl of wontons with a smile: "This bowl was made by a slave."
With so much food, how could the mother and daughter eat it all? So, everyone had a full breakfast.
After removing the bowls and chopsticks, Mrs. Mingsan sighed: "It hasn't been this lively in many years."
Aunt Tong said: "It's better to be a young lady. It will be more exciting in the future!"
Mrs. Mingsan shook her head and smiled: "She is old too, how long can she be lively? In a few years, she will go to someone else's house."
Mother Tong said, "What's so difficult about this? My wife wrote to my uncle and told me that in the future I would go back to the capital and buy a house next door, and I would still be with my young lady every day."
These words made Mrs. Mingsan quite moved. The agreement with her brother was impossible to do in the early years. Now that Xiaoqi is well, she cannot turn away from her. Besides, the Ji family has a good tradition and it is a good marriage.
If you can live next to your brother, wouldn't you be able to stay with your relatives and keep your daughter by your side?
"Mommy reminded me, Xiaoqi has resolved this matter, and it's time to write a letter to let my elder brother know." After that, he said to Mingwei, "Go and write a letter to uncle for your mother. You and Duofu go for a walk to eat."
Mingwei nodded and left the house with Duofu.
"What a blessing."
"exist."
"Mom just said that, did I have an engagement with my uncle's family?"
Duofu said: "I heard my grandma mention it. She seemed to have told my uncle about this in the early years, but I didn't write a marriage letter and didn't exchange tokens. Doesn't it count?"
Ming Wei thought to herself that this must not count. Although she took on the identity of Miss Ming Qi, she was a ghost that did not belong to this world.
People are born with a destiny star, and her destiny star will be in a few decades. In other words, she is a lifeless person in this era.
In this case, you should not have too deep entanglements with others, lest it affect the fate of others.
The marriage has not been mentioned yet, so let's press it for now. She needs to find out first what kind of monsters and monsters there are in the Ming family.
"Duofu, let's play a game?"
"What do you want to play, miss?"
Mingwei squinted his eyes and looked at Yu Fangyuan in the sun: "This game is called, Find Friends."