AWB Chapter 1004: What is the purpose of living again?
Chapter 1004: What is the purpose of living again?
The woman was wearing a plain willow-green skirt with only a few clumps of bamboo embroidered with silver thread on the hem. She had a moon-white silk sash tied around her waist, as plain as the grass in spring.
She faded the calculating look between her brows and looked harmless and innocent.
When the woman heard Shi Anxia say that she wanted to give her the "Xia Shi Yuan", she raised her head and waved her hand to refuse, "No, I just said that. Your Yuan, you can't control it without a strong fortune, I don't have that kind of luck."
Shi Anxia turned her head and looked at her straight in the eye, thinking to herself, if you had such a simple and indifferent mind earlier, why would you have to suffer all those pains in your rebirth?
But he didn't say it out loud, leaving her some face. "This time, I have to thank you, Sister An Rou."
That’s right, this woman is Shi Anrou who is left to fend for herself.
In the past few days, Shi Anxia always unconsciously said thank you softly with a gentle voice.
There was a rare warmth in Anrou's eyes as she looked at him, and even the corners of her eyes softened a little.
If Shi Anrou had not come to find her on the day she arrived in Beijing and knocked on the door with the drawings of the Six Gods Temple, Tang Chujun would have died in that dark alchemy room.
Who could have imagined that the four great families would join forces to enter the capital and hide Tang Chujun in the long-abandoned Temple of the Six Gods?
The temple had been abandoned long before the defeat of the Empress Dowager Jiqing, and the secret chamber had been destroyed. Everyone thought it was just a useless temple overgrown with weeds.
In fact, the Temple of the Six Gods was exquisitely built, with a dark room under the main hall and a secret room inside the dark room.
It turned out that there was a medicine room in the secret room that was sealed with a dragon-breaking stone. Tang Chujun was locked in the medicine room, so much so that Longjiang couldn't find him even after digging three feet underground.
Not only that, the Six Gods Temple was actually equipped with a self-destruct mechanism when it was built. If Shi Anrou hadn't told him all this, Shi Anxia would have been holding Tang Chujun's body and regretting it for the rest of her life.
In this matter, Shi Anrou played a great role. Shi Anxia remembered her kindness and wrote off the past.
At this moment, when Shi Anrou heard the voice of "Sister Anrou", she was so frightened that her heart trembled with pain.
When she raised her eyes, she met Anxia's smiling eyes. At that moment, her heart was like a spring tide, and her ears were suddenly stained with rouge. "I was worried that you didn't believe what I said..." She lowered her head and fiddled with the silk ribbon around her waist. Her voice was as light as falling peach petals, and there was a little grievance. "You never believed me."
If it were in the past, Shi Anxia would have been cold and stern, and might even have said to her, "How can I trust you?"
But at this moment, she just reached out and pulled Shi Anrou's sleeve, and said softly, "How can I not believe it? You even brought the blueprints of the Six Gods Temple, and you can tell me the whereabouts of your mother."
The news of Tang Chujun's disappearance was kept secret. If you didn't know his whereabouts for sure, how could you tell it?
Those words should be spoken lightly, but they sounded heavy to Shi Anrou's ears. So this is what it feels like to be trusted by others?
Shi Anrou lowered her head, feeling extremely regretful when she thought about all the lies she had said in the past.
She sobbed, "Xia'er, I was wrong."
Even at the end, when she said she had forgotten her past and present lives, she was also lying to Shi Anxia. She was afraid of being sued, so she lied again.
It turned out that they were so powerful that they didn't care whether she forgot or not, and just let her fend for herself.
After she had a miscarriage that year, she found out that Shi Anxia really had no intention of taking her life, so she returned to Ganzhou.
But in Ganzhou, those tribesmen only bullied her and never treated her well. Some tribesmen even wanted to sell her for money, so she ran away overnight and ran back to the capital.
It was then that she truly realized how generous her biological mother Tang Chujun was to others, and she also realized that Shi Anxia had done her utmost to be kind to her by letting her go time and time again.
She had done so many wrong things, but Shi Anxia still didn't kill her.
Shi Anrou was grateful, but she was too embarrassed to see Shi Anxia again.
She went to the Tong'an Clinic and begged the owner to take her in. She said she wanted to stay and do some work, chopping wood, boiling water, or pouring nightshades, no matter how dirty or tiring it was, as long as she was given food to eat and a roof over her head.
The shopkeeper agreed.
Later she learned that Shi Anxia had told the shopkeeper that if Shi Anrou came to ask for shelter, she should be arranged to stay in the room next to the medicine store.
That room faces the sun and is most suitable for treating colds.
When Shi Anrou accidentally found out that all the escape routes were silently paved for her by Shi Anxia, she couldn't help crying.
She wanted to thank him, but she was too embarrassed to face Shi Anxia, who was a princess.
Shi Anrou had wandered around the alley outside the Young Master's Mansion countless times.
When she heard that Shi Anxia was having a difficult delivery that day, she stood outside the vermilion gate from the third watch till dawn, and she did not dare to knock on the door even though her palms were broken by her fingertips.
What was she doing there? She was neither a relative who could calm people's hearts, nor a good doctor who could save lives.
The gate opened and closed, and all who came in and out were rich and powerful. But she was just a lonely ghost whose father didn't recognize her and whose mother was gone.
If she hadn't accidentally seen Tang Chujun being locked up in the Temple of Six Gods this time, and she hadn't happened to have stolen the blueprints from Prince Jin many years ago, she probably wouldn't have had the courage to look for Shi Anxia.
As they were talking, the sound of rings and pendants came from the corridor. Shi Yunqi and Wei Cailing stepped into the courtyard, startling the sparrows that had landed on the peach tree.
Shi Anrou hurriedly stood up to avoid them, but heard Shi Yunqi say softly, "Sister Anrou, please sit down. Don't worry about us."
The word "sister" was so natural that it seemed as if she had always been a recognized family member. Even Wei Cailing smiled and nodded at her, "Hello, Sister An Rou."
Shi Anrou's face flushed and she was at a loss. She grasped the corner of her clothes nervously, moved her lips, but she didn't dare to say "brother and sister-in-law" out loud.
She stood there in a daze, staring at Shi Anxia blankly.
Shi Anxia looked at her at a loss and couldn't help but chuckle, "Sit down, brother and sister-in-law won't eat you."
Shi Anrou obediently sat back in the rattan chair. On the surface, she was as quiet as a painting of a beautiful lady, but fireworks were exploding in her mind.
Oh my God! She still has such a day!
One of them is a princess, one is a duke, and the other is the duke's wife... She can actually sit at the same table with all of them!
If this happened in the past... hehe, I wouldn’t dare to even think about it.
The sun was shining warmly, and Shi Anrou gradually relaxed and began to concentrate on the plate of rose cakes in front of her. She ate one piece after another, until her cheeks were bulging, like a squirrel hoarding food.
As for the conspiracy of the four great families that those people were talking about?
What's there to listen to?
Since she couldn't understand it anyway, she might as well try two more pieces of steamed chestnut flour cake with osmanthus sugar.
We don't worry about that.
From now on, you will have food to eat, clothes to wear, and a good life to live, without any more worries... This is the life that should be lived after rebirth.
Shi Anrou secretly clasped her hands together, closed her eyes and silently chanted, "I, the believer Shi Anrou, pray for the Empress Dowager Huizheng to bless me every day in the future..."
What's the point of living a new life? Isn't it just to have enough food and clothes and be free from worries?
Shi Anxia was talking to his brother and sister-in-law about the four great families, when he suddenly saw Shi Anrou clasping her hands together and mumbling something, and couldn't help but ask leisurely, "Do you need me to find someone to carve a longevity tablet for that person of yours?"