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Chapter 247 - Wife in the Next Life
Chapter 247 - Wife in the Next Life
Chapter 247 Wife in the Next Life
Half a year later, with the help of Bai Yangbai, He Danggui got refined internally and externally, and became Zhu Quan’s favorite concubine and assistant in one fell swoop. Besides, together with Bai Yangbai, she became the “shadow” of Gezhu (the head of an organization) of Wuying Tower. In addition, she accidentally discovered the agerasia secret of Bai Yangbai and asked him to help her maintain appearance. In those days going like the water, she engaged in the battle of wit, bravery and eloquence with Bai Yangbai, and was never tired of it.
Suddenly one day, Bai Yangbai said, “Girl, follow my surname.” She sneered at it and thought his was joking again.
Suddenly one day, Bai Yangbai said, “Girl, the thing I regret the most in my life is what I did when I first met you.” She thought he regretted saving her, so she punched him and said, “It’s too late to regret. I don’t want to die anymore.” She also tentatively asked the identity of the strange man in the dream, but when he mentioned the matter, his face was cold. Even if she was insensitive, she could feel his unhappiness. She guessed that his friendship with that person had deteriorated, so he didn’t want to mention that person.
Suddenly one day, Bai Yangbai said, “Girl, let’s run away together after finishing this mission. Although you are Quan’s concubine, he will not fall out with me for you. I am sorry for him, so I will try to make up for him. He has hundreds of women, and you are not so important for him. But I can’t live without you.” She touched his forehead and said, “Old man, you are drunk. What kind of drama do your beautiful lines come from?” He beat the wall and cursed, “I am a lunatic., I am a fool. I am the biggest fool in the world. Why am I still alive? I want to live again. I want to start living ten years ago.” She panicked and asked, “Old man, what bothers you? Are you short of money?”
Suddenly one day, Bai Yangbai said, “Girl, I haven’t finished the marriage divination that year. In fact, we will have a marriage relationship in the next life. It is better to die together.” She nodded and said, “Okay, you die first and I will follow.” He yelled fiercely, “What I said is true, and I figure it out by my knowledge. It’s okay that you don’t believe me, but don’t you even believe Marriage Plate?” She sneered and said, “How can a broken plate speak? At that time, you used ventriloquism, right? You hang the plate with colorless silk thread beforehand and then pull it in your hand. The room was so dark that you could do whatever you wanted. These tricks are not new anymore. Old man, you are outdated.” Bai Yangbai jumped angrily and said, “Girl, I am not old. I am strong and longevous. I definitely live longer than you. Believe me this time. This time I really do not lie to you.” She comforted him, “I know that you have a long life. Don’t get angry. Anger hurts your liver and liver injury reduces life expectancy.”
Suddenly one day, Bai Yangbai said, “Girl, you are pregnant again, right? Then I can’t help you maintain appearance in the future. That bath is forbidden for pregnant women. Don’t come to my house to find me again in the future. I’m going out.” She hurriedly asked, “What about Yingying Powder? Can’t pregnant women also use it?” He said slowly, “That is available. Girl, you love Quan, right? You are very nervous about your child, right?” With the splendor of “future mother”, she chuckled and said, “Originally, I thought that there will be no more children in my early 30s. There was no child in the past when I prayed for it, but now when I don’t pray, I suddenly have it. Master Bai, help me predict that whether this baby can be delivered smoothly.” Bai Yangbai nodded and then shook his head. He finally said, “I can see you holding a baby on the banquet when the baby is one month old, but I can’t see you on the baby’s first birthday banquet.” She asked nervously, “What does that mean? Bai Yangbai, don’t scare me.” Bai Yangbai shook his head and said, “I don’t know what that means. Maybe I have been drinking too much wine recently, which has affected my third eye.” She expressed her concern, “Old man, drink less. Beware of the joint pain in old age.”
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After giving birth to her daughter a few months later, He Danggui felt a little uneasy because her husband showed less special favor to her. He hadn’t rested in her room for more than a month and was obsessed with a 16-year-old girl from Jiangnan recently, who used to be a maid.
He Danggui thought that her beauty was declining. When she took the mirror to look at it, the person in the mirror was youthful and beautiful, but her eyes became old and unfamiliar. As a result, she began to think of Bai Yangbai’s agerasia bath again. So, she ran to his house to find it, where he had disappeared and everything was empty. And the huge luxury house was full of dilapidated dust. She used Wuying Tower’s special channel to contact him repeatedly and asked him to send her some medicinal materials for agerasia. After waiting for a long time, she received only a thin letter. She hurriedly opened the envelope and only found a blank sheet and a piece of air-dried mulberry leaf inside.
He Danggui studied the blank sheet but didn’t find any prescriptions. After realizing that Bai Yangbai was so mean that he only sent a real blank sheet to her, she was so angry that she ran to his house and smashed it. For a moment, she felt that someone was peeking at her in the crack of the door. Those bright eyes were as familiar as her own eyes that she saw in the mirror. That person must be Bai Yangbai, but after she kicked the door open, it was empty outside the door and there was no one.
Three months later, He Danggui was framed by Consort Zhou and Luo’s Family. Zhu Quan ordered her to be imprisoned in a dark and cold water dungeon. Her throat was burned by hot coals, and she became a mute. Her daughter was bitten to death by a poisonous snake, which was set by Sun Meiniang and Luo Baiqiong. She dipped in the well water with frostbitten fingers to divine on the stone wall. However, the result showed it was a dead end. But she didn’t want to die. If such a bloody grudge was buried in a water prison and sealed in the ground, she would not have the intention to reincarnate and continue her next life. Since there was no joy in her life, she wasn’t afraid of death.
She was not afraid of death because death was liberation. But she was afraid of death, because death was the end, the end of enmity and vengeance. She could not die because she wanted to revenge!
He Danggui suddenly thought of Bai Yangbai. She suddenly remembered that many years ago, when she participated in leading the assassination for the first time, she hid behind Bai Yangbai in a panic and said, “If we fight like this, I may be killed in the end. I don’t want to die. I just found the joy of being alive.”
Then Bai Yangbai comforted and said, “Don’t be afraid, girl. As long as I am here, you will never die. You can live as long as I live.”
She was still very scared. She shook her head and said, “The arrow has no eyes. If I’m shot to death by an arrow shot from hiding place suddenly, you will be powerless, won’t you?”
Bai Yangbai’s voice became rarely gentle. He said, “You still don’t know what I am capable of. In any case, I always have a way to prevent you from dying, and I can save you if you die, because you are my wife in my next life. If you are dead, am I going to be a bachelor for two lives?”
He Danggui was amused. She smiled and said, “It doesn’t make sense. How can I be your wife in the next life if I don’t die?”
Bai Yangbai pulled up her sleeves and walked into the arrow formation. He said in a casual way, “Come on, girl. Let’s die in love and reborn as childhood sweethearts together.”
He Danggui in the water dungeon remembered these past events, so she looked forward to Bai Yangbai’s rescue. She hoped that he could take her out of the mansion, heal her throat, frostbite and joint pain, and then make plans to avenge her. However, after several months of suffering in the ice water, she did not see Bai Yangbai. She was worried about whether his news was blocked, and he still didn’t know that something happened to her. Besides, she also thought pessimistically that Zhu Quan’s relationship with him was closer. Although he and her were friends, some friends were close and some were distant. In order to help his good student, Zhu Quan, keep the shocking secrets, he would not come to save her.
In the end, Bai Yangbai really did not show up until she breathed out the last warm breath and closed her desperate and angry eyes. At the last moment, she hated many people, including Bai Yangbai. Therefore, when she first saw him in this life, she treated him as a half enemy, coveting his secret recipe of agerasia. However, after she got along with him, her resentment towards him was dispelled by his gag, and then she treated him as the best friend again like previous life. She was close and defenseless to him.
In Qi Lu Yard, she heard something that shocked her-
Qi Xuanyu spoke like telling a story. Since it was called the forbidden magic, it could do what the immortal could do but mortals could not. A corresponding price must be paid if mortals did it. The soul fragments entrapped in the thorn star were probably the price they paid for sending that thing. If Taoist Sage was willing to pay the price of losing his soul, he could do such a thing.
He Danggui anxiously recalled her previous life with Bai Yangbai. The more she thought about it, the more she realized that he might really like her. He might hear about her death after she died, and he couldn’t accept it. Therefore, he used that Forbidden magic of binding the soul for 3 lives at “the price of losing soul” to make her reborn and go back to eighteen years ago. Right?
He Danggui’s chest was stuffed like a lump of cotton crammed. She wanted to go back to Qi Lu Yard to eavesdrop on more news, but she didn’t want to deal with Zhu Quan and others. After the eavesdropping was discovered by Zhu Quan just now, they must be vigilant. What should she do? Did she really owe Bai Yangbai a soul and a life? Did she really have a marriage relationship with him in this life? Should she be his wife to pay off her debts? But she only regarded him as a genderless friend, and he obviously didn’t love her in this life.
“Clash. Clash.” There were two muffled noises suddenly sounding beside the bed. He Danggui raised her eyes and saw that Meng Xuan also took off his boots and crawled onto the bed. She was surprised, “What are you going to do?”
Meng Xuan crawled with his head down over and then lay down. He politely asked, “Share the pillow with me, thank you.”
“Why?” He Danggui shrank back and said while frowning, “Meng Xuan, I told you clearly last time. Since we were both children in those years, it didn’t matter if we lay together. But now...”
“Xiaoyi,” Meng Xuan interrupted her gently while looking at her gently, “Even if there is some displeasure between you and me, we are still friends, right? So, please don’t hide from me. I am the only person in the world who won’t hurt you. Don’t be afraid. I just want to help you.” He approached while she was dazed. Then he pulled half of her pillow away and lay down facing her.
Although Meng Xuan showed her a favor “regardless of the previous things”, He Danggui still didn’t get used to that handsome face with a man’s tough lines, which was infinitely magnified before her eyes. She turned her face away and said, “Even if I think of you as a friend like Bai Yangbai, you and I are different and we shouldn’t get along like this. Meng Xuan, get out of bed quickly. Now is different from the past.”
Meng Xuan found her left hand under the brocade quilt and held her hand. He smiled slightly and said, “It’s different from when we were kids. When I was a kid, I had to share half of your quilt. Now I just lie outside the quilt and pass on the energy for you.”
He Danggui took back her hand and declined, “I don’t use it urgently. Pay me back when you leave Yangzhou City. Aren’t you going to participate in the Wulin Assembly? More energy provides more guarantee. Zhenqi I received will not hatch an egg.”
Meng Xuan clasped her left hand tightly and searched for her another hand in the quilt. He gently explained to her, “I don’t want to pay back your energy, but I want to show you a fun trick. I guarantee that you will like it. Hurry up, give me your hand!”
He Danggui handed her right hand suspiciously and muttered, “I am not a kid, and I have long lost interest in those tricks for fun. I still have things I haven’t finished waiting for me.”
Meng Xuan didn’t mind her attitude. He wrapped her snow-white and smooth small hands with a pair of big hands. He closed his eyes and was silent for a long moment. Then he asked with closed eyes, “How do you feel? Is there a hot and tingling sensation in Yongquan acupoint?” His tone was inducing, as if he was coaxing a child.
He Danggui didn’t know what he was doing. She couldn’t help but pout under the veil, “Did you make a mistake, man? You are holding my hand, not my foot. Why does my Yongquan acupoint burn? Even if you give me Zhenqi and iron all my eight meridians, it won’t reach that far.” After a layer of dryness gradually appeared in her heart, she began to regret that she just shouldn’t be excited to break the branch just now. Otherwise, she could continue to eavesdrop on the secret conversations between Zhu Quan and the brothers of Qi’s Family. There must be the information she wanted most in the conversation between the three of them. The information about thorn star, Bai Yangbai and the explanations for Zhu Quan’s abnormal behaviors were all what she wanted to know urgently.
In such an impetuous mood, she gradually felt that the Yongquan acupoint on the soles of her feet became hot, as if she was soaking in a boiling hot spring. She couldn’t help but exclaim at Meng Xuan, “What have you done? My feet are hot. It’s so limp and numb!”
Before Meng Xuan answered, Qi Xuanyu’s voice suddenly sounded in He Danggui’s ears, “My lord, have you found the eavesdropper? Do we need to summon our people and search the Qi Lu Yard?”