Jiu Zhang Ji: The Daily Life of the Reborn Daughter

Chapter 146: Life is fragile and easily vanishes into thin air

The two tomb-raiding captains were indeed very skilled, and they dug up Wen Xi's coffin in just two hours.

Qiao Lili and Qiao Peng asked Shang Zhen to take the tomb robber out of the tomb and keep him under good care, while the brother and sister entered the tomb themselves.

Even though they knew there was a high probability that their mother was not in there, the brother and sister still burst into tears when they saw the coffin emitting a sad and dark light.

The three heads knocked to the ground, and Qiao Peng and Qiao Lili used the tools they brought to open Wen Xi's coffin.

The moment the coffin was opened, Qiao Lili closed her eyes. It had been more than six years, and she was afraid that what she would see at this moment would be a skeleton.

"Lili, Lili, no, no." Qiao Peng called him stutteringly, with unconcealable joy in his voice.

Qiao Lili opened her eyes, and in the dim light of the night pearl, she saw that there was only one gorgeous dress in the coffin. She remembered this dress very clearly, because she had put it on her mother herself. The ten-year-old girl cried while washing her mother's body and putting on the clothes layer by layer. It was not a funeral dress, but her mother's favorite dress.

The grandmother was also heartbroken that her daughter-in-law had passed away in her prime, and she couldn't bear to let her wear those ugly burial clothes, so she agreed to let Qiao Lili wear her favorite dress, just as she had when she was alive. The dress was a birthday gift from Duke Dingguo on her birthday. He designed and drew the pattern himself, and invited a dozen embroiderers from Jiangnan to quietly make it in a month.

The mother's eyes were closed and she was not breathing, but her skin was still soft and elastic, as if she were alive.

Now the dress was neatly placed in the coffin, but her mother was gone. "Brother, it's really like this, it's really like this." She cried with joy. This time her tears were the same as the previous ones, yet completely different.

Qiao Lili touched the gorgeous dress with trembling hands. If she wore this dress, in six years, her beauty would turn into withered bones, but the dress would still be as gorgeous as new. It was true that life was fragile and could easily disappear.

Qiao Lili touched the dress from top to bottom. This was the dress that her mother had once worn, and perhaps it would retain her mother's last breath.

Suddenly, her hand stopped at the waist of the clothes, and there was something under the clothes.

Qiao Peng saw his sister's hand suddenly stop and felt something was wrong. "What's wrong?" he asked in a low voice. Suddenly he understood something and grabbed his sister's hand: "Let me do it." There are still certain risks in unknown things, so it's okay for him to do it.

He reached his hand under his clothes and quickly took out something. He spread out his palm, and the brother and sister saw an oval piece of jade, which was translucent and had ancient and complex patterns on the surface. Qiao Lili felt that the pattern was inexplicably familiar, as if she had seen it somewhere.

Seeing his sister's expression, Qiao Peng seemed familiar with the jade, so he said, "Sister, you keep it."

He stuffed the jade into Qiao Lili's hand, carefully grasped the collar of the clothes with both hands, and lifted the clothes out of the coffin. There was nothing under the clothes. He checked the clothes inside and out, even pinching the corners, hoping to find a letter or a note, but he was disappointed.

There was nothing left except that piece of jade.

If there is no one, then there is no one. It is great news that the mother is not in there.

After so many days of heart-wrenching speculation, it finally came true and the dust settled.

The brother and sister came out of the tomb and restored everything to its original state.

*

Yu Jingyan arrived at Dunhua Ancient City with Kuai Lai Kuai Qu.

Yesterday, my mother sent me a letter saying that my eldest brother-in-law Qiao Peng has returned to Beijing, and urged him to hurry back to Beijing to propose marriage and set a date for the wedding. If he goes back too late and the other party goes back to the border, it will be hard to say when he can bring little A-Li home.

He worked all night again last night and finally finished all the work. The last sluice gate is also under construction. From now on, his role will not be very important. The on-site work will be handed over to Chang Lu, the Minister of Works, and Fang Hong, the Director of the Water Conservancy. These two people are professionals and, in a sense, more suitable than him.

It's time to go back to Beijing, but I can't go back empty-handed. My brother-in-law is still here. The last time he came here with Ali, he was short of money and it was Ali who spent all the money. Now that he has money, he wants to bring Ali many gifts to make up for his stinginess last time.

The secret guards rolled their eyes in disdain. The only reason you have money is because of us. We sent a letter to Yunmeng Island and we hid the banknotes when you wanted to spend money. Otherwise, you, the Sixth Prince, would be a pauper again, and you might not even have enough money to buy gifts or to return to the capital.

Yunmeng Island sent a box of banknotes to Yu Jingyan, and Yu Jingyan became arrogant. Before the money from the court was allocated, he wanted to use his own money to make up for it. As for the fact that the money should be used for its intended purpose and could only be used by Qiao Lili, he did not forget it, but now that the money was his, he had the final say.

He can just wait for the money from the court to be allocated and then take it back. Besides, if these gates are built earlier, he can return to Beijing to see Ali earlier. Isn't this also a disguised way of giving Ali some help?

The first time he used the banknotes, the secret guards did not have time to react. When he wanted to use it for the second time, he found that there were only some loose change left in the box containing the banknotes, and the large-denomination banknotes were gone.

Yu Jingyan asked quickly, but no one knew. He blew his jade whistle quickly, wanting to ask the secret guard if he knew who stole his banknotes.

As a result, his lips were almost swollen from talking too much, and the secret guards didn't show up. He suddenly understood where the banknotes had gone. This was embezzlement.

The secret guards put the banknotes back into the box only when they knew that the money from the court had been allocated and Yu Jingyan no longer had to pay out of his own pocket.

However, the silver notes that Yu Jingyan took out were never returned. How could it be possible to return them? The silver given by the court was not enough. He used the silver here and there to improve the food of the soldiers who were building Dou Zha, buy each of them an extra pair of waders, waterproof tents with thick mats, and so on. Anyway, the silver was gone.

Emperor Yong'an was not a foolish emperor who deliberately withheld money used to manage the Gan River. Nor was he extravagant. His food, clothing and daily expenses were simple enough to be no different from those of ordinary well-off people. If he lived in Yunxiao Palace, he would basically be a freeloader.

But he was too poor. Years of famine had emptied the national treasury, and he wished he could spend the little tax money he collected every month on his own.

The secret guards knew it was like this. Fortunately, we were careful.

Look at the one who is strolling around Dunhua Ancient City, the silly grandson of the landlord, he wants to buy everything he sees and bring it back for his sweetheart. Can ten horse carriages carry all the things he bought in the morning?

Hey, you were too considerate. You should have left him less banknotes.

There is a lot of drama about the secret guards this time.

Yu Jingyan......