The Classic of Mountains and Seas Through Ancient and Modern Times

Chapter 7 Remembrance of the Past

After letting Lu Jiaqi sit down, Mrs. Swagger ordered the maids to put on a set of tea sets, waved away all the maids, and poured tea for Lu Jiaqi herself: "My husband always said that the tea I make is unique in the world, but I always feel that he is cheating me." , you can taste it today, and tell me if it’s good or not!"

"Ma'am, you're welcome," Lu Jiaqi raised the quilt and drank it. As a modern person, Lu Jiaqi doesn't know how to drink tea, but the tea tastes bitter at first, then sweet, and then has a refreshing aftertaste.

Lu Jiaqi said directly: "I don't know how to taste tea, but this tea is absolutely delicious!"

Mrs. Zhao Yao didn't feel disappointed: "You like to tell the truth, but I also like your temperament." Just as she was speaking, a gust of wind blew, and a few leaves floated down and landed on the stone table and tray under the tree.

Suddenly Mrs. Swagger raised her hand and touched Lu Jiaqi's head to take off a green leaf, and said with a little sigh: "It's so fresh and young, why did it fall?" reaction.

Seeing that Mrs. Zhao Yao has been silent, Lu Jiaqi hesitated for a while before saying: "Mrs. Zhao Yao, what's wrong with you?"

"Oh, it's okay!" Mrs. Zhao Yao regained her senses and waved her hand, just in time for a maid to come over with snacks.

After the desserts were set up one by one, Mrs. Zhao Yao picked up a piece with chopsticks and put it on the plate in front of Lu Jiaqi: "Drinking tea alone is quite boring, Miss Lu, try it."

"Thank you." Lu Jiaqi's mouth was a little alienated, but her heart was warm.It has been seven or eight days since I came to this unknown ghost place. Although I met many people, the only person who really treated her well was Mrs. Zhao Yao.

I wanted to chat more with Mrs. Zhaoyao, but when I suddenly thought of Li Mu's warning, Lu Jiaqi felt that it was not appropriate, so she only ate a few pieces of snacks before leaving.

Seeing this, Mrs. Zhao Yao hurriedly called to her: "Miss Lu, this time you and nephew Li Xian don't know how long you will stay in Fushan, why don't I prepare some new clothes for you! It will be more convenient when you go to Fushan in the future. "

"That, no need, no need," Lu Jiaqi waved her hand immediately, "I wear these, I think these are pretty good." Although it doesn't fit well, it's much better than the maid clothes I got from Li's house .

Mrs. Zhao Yao shook her head: "These are my daughter's clothes. I think you are wearing a little too big. You should make a few more! Anyway, there is no shortage of these in the villa."

"Uh, is that so?" Lu Jiaqi was a little embarrassed, it's really not good to wear someone else's daughter's clothes, "Then please trouble Mrs. Zhao Yao."

"If you really find it troublesome, I will have time to accompany me!" Mrs. Zhao Yao sighed slightly after finishing speaking, "It has been a long time since I have been so close to anyone, but when I see you, I can't help but want to Close to you."

Lu Jiaqi was a little puzzled when she heard it: "Your daughter..."

"Her!" Mrs. Zhao Yao suddenly smiled softly and kindly, "Her! She must be doing well now."

Hearing what she said, Lu Jiaqi thought her daughter was married, so she didn't ask any further questions.

Not long after returning to the courtyard where I lived, a maid came in with a woman, saying that she was taking Lu Jiaqi's measurements.After the amount was finished, the old woman left, but the maid blessed her body and said: "Miss Lu, I am the pearl sent by my wife to serve you."

"Serve me?" Lu Jiaqi looked at Mingzhu flattered, "Isn't that good! Will it be too troublesome?" One is that she is a modern person after all, and she is used to doing everything by herself.The other is that she hasn't gotten to know Mrs. Swagger to this extent yet.

"Miss Lu, please don't say that," Mingzhu explained, "Mrs. Madam has ordered that Miss Lu will be served by servants during the time she is in Zhaoyao Villa."

"I don't need to wait on you, really!" No matter what, it's really embarrassing. She has lived alone for almost 20 years, and she is suddenly being served by someone like a lady, and no one can stand it!
I wanted to talk to Mrs. Zhaoyao again, but Lu Jiaqi didn't go because she thought of the other party's uncompromising temperament. She just didn't need the maid she gave her.

However, she greatly underestimated the degree of dedication of the servant girl. She set the meal early when eating, made the bed early when resting, put the water in the bath early, and even wiped her back for Lu Jiaqi. There is no chance.

The most important thing is that it is really embarrassing to let others rub their backs. On the second night, when Lu Jiaqi saw Mingzhu who had come to serve her early, she immediately ran out with a tingle in her underwear: No, I don’t want to go to Zhaoyao now The wife said that she might not be able to live a comfortable life in the future.

The man was running, when he saw a tall figure slowly approaching in front of him, with fluttering white clothes, black hair draped obediently behind his head, who was not Li Mu with sword eyebrows and cold eyes?

Thinking that she hadn't seen Li Mu in the past two days, Lu Jiaqi planned to stop to say hello.I didn't want to miss the road under my feet for a while, the toe of my shoe tripped over the bluestone slab on the ground, and the whole person rushed towards Li Mu.

Because the distance between the two was extremely close, it was too late for Lu Jiaqi to stabilize her figure.She thought to herself that there was someone to support her anyway, so it probably wouldn't hurt too much from the fall.He didn't want the other party to watch her fall, but moved his body slightly, allowing Lu Jiaqi to fall hard to the ground.

This was unexpected by Lu Jiaqi. The collision between Qingshi Road and her body made Lu Jiaqi feel pain all over her body.The right elbow was even more numb, and when she recovered, Lu Jiaqi yelled at Li Mu before she had time to get up, "Can you be a little sympathetic?"

Li Mu snorted coldly. Although hugging a human would not increase the other's lifespan, he still didn't want to let the human take advantage of it at all.

"Ah! Miss Lu..." Mingzhu's screaming voice suddenly came to mind, and then she ran to help Lu Jiaqi up, "Miss Lu, it's all because the slaves didn't take good care of you."

Lu Jiaqi was a little speechless, she is not a child of two or three years old, why does she need someone to take care of her?Taking a peek at Li Mu, he didn't intend to say hello to him anymore.Lu Jiaqi patted the dirt on her body, but when she was about to leave, she found that her hands and feet were in severe pain.

At this moment, a gentle voice remembered, and then I saw Shangxian Zhaoyao and Mrs. Zhaoyao coming hand in hand.After seeing Lu Jiaqi who was kneeling on the ground in a panic, Mrs. Zhao Yao immediately broke free from God's hand and ran over to support her: "What's wrong?"

"Accidentally fell." Lu Jiaqi smiled awkwardly.

Upon hearing this, Mrs. Zhao Yao immediately rolled up her sleeves to check: "It's all scratched, come here, help Miss Lu back to the house." After finishing speaking, she turned her head and looked at Li Mu who had been standing here indifferently, her eyes were a little confused for a while. Complicated, and somewhat disgusting.

After realizing the other party's eyes, Li Mu just glanced at the other party rather indifferently.Then he set his eyes on Lu Jiaqi's injured arm, and sneered slightly in his heart: Human beings are like ceramic dolls, useless and fragile!
But he didn't realize that the culprit of all this was himself.

The Immortal Swagger knows how his wife feels, but he has always been conniving, so he had no choice but to say to Li Mu: "Miss Lu is injured, just let my wife take care of it, Mr. Li will stay with the old man if you don't mind it!" In the gesture of asking, Li Mu followed without any excuses.

After being helped back to the house, Mrs. Zhao Yao ordered someone to prepare medicine for Lu Jiaqi herself: "Is Li Mu usually like this?"

"I don't know, I haven't known him for a long time." Lu Jiaqi told the truth, looking at Mrs. Zhao Yao who was carefully administering medicine to her, she couldn't help but feel sad and thought of her mother, "Mrs. Zhao Yao, why are you so kind to me? Just a few days."

Mrs. Zhao Yao paused her hand, then looked up at her tenderly: "Miss Lu, you really look like Yunyao." As she spoke, Mrs. Zhao Yao raised her hand and touched her head, "My daughter Yunyao, if she If he's still alive, he's probably as old as you."

Lu Jiaqi was surprised, Mrs. Zhao Yao's daughter died?
"The age of our immortals is different from that of your mortals. Ten years is one year. My husband and I have been married for nearly 300 years. At the beginning, there were only me and my husband as the owners of this mountain. Until 200 years ago, I gave birth to our only child." Daughter Yunyao." Mrs. Zhao Yao said as she stood up and walked to the window.

As if thinking of something, Mrs. Zhao Yao curled her lips together: "She was so small when she was born, so cute. She was very sensible since she was a child, but we didn't take good care of her. That spring, a special plant bloomed under the villa. Hongyao, my husband took us down the mountain to enjoy the flowers, but I didn't expect that it was a trap set by the Baimin monster clan, and Yunyao was kidnapped by those monsters just like that."

Mrs. Zhao Yao bit her lips, and clenched her fists: "I, Zhao Yaoshan, have always been aloof from the world. If others don't provoke me, we won't provoke others. But I hate the demon clan of Bai Minguo, and I hate the demon king Chen Huang. My daughter would not have died if it had not been for his people."

"Madame Swagger," Lu Jiaqi said, "Why are you sure your daughter is dead?"

"The monster clan has always been at odds with our fairy clan. There has been no news about Yunyao for so many years. I'm afraid it's too bad." Mrs. Zhao Yao turned around, her voice choked up, "Since then, I have been ill, Husband is afraid that I will do something stupid, so he keeps accommodating me, it's not that I don't understand, I just can't let go, can't figure it out."

Seeing Mrs. Zhao Yao like this, Lu Jiaqi couldn't continue chatting.Seeing this, Mrs. Zhao Yao stepped forward to cover her with a quilt: "It's getting late, you should go to bed early!"

"Well," Lu Jiaqi nodded, and when Mrs. Zhao Yao was about to leave, Lu Jiaqi suddenly said, "Mrs. Zhao Yao, don't be too sad, maybe Yunyao is still alive? Isn't no news the best news? Besides, If madam doesn't mind, you can also regard me as Yunyao, am I not very similar to Yunyao?"

Mrs. Zhao Yao's back froze, her heart felt sore, and then she walked out without looking back: If her Yun Yao is alive, she must be as sensible as Miss Lu!

Staring at the green gauze curtain for a while, the corners of Lu Jiaqi's eyes were a little moist: she must have been so worried about her to Mrs. Zhao Yao after she hadn't been seen for so long!

(End of this chapter)