The real daughter died tragically and was reborn, and the whole family cried and begged for forgiven

Surprise flashed across Aunt Zhang's face. "Young lady...are you serious? But weren't you eager to return home to visit the general and his wife before? Why are you suddenly not in such a hurry now?"

Li Qingluo had indeed been very eager to meet his biological parents.

The sudden change in attitude is indeed suspicious.

Li Qingluo sighed and said, "To be honest, I just had a dream."

"In my dream, I seemed to see an old man with a white beard holding a whisk. He first scolded me, saying that I was ungrateful and stupid! Although I was able to clear my name and return to my family, I had forgotten the source of all this credit."

"I'm really terrified. I just woke up and I'm still feeling a lingering fear... Mammy, blame me for being so confused before. I was so anxious to find out my own past."

"But I really should have visited my grandmother first. Without her, I'd still be just a wild girl in the valley. I'm afraid in two months they'd sell me off to a crippled, blind man, and end my miserable life! How could I be here today?"

Li Qingluo's words finally moved Aunt Zhang.

She smiled and nodded. "Qingsong Temple is not far from here. We'll be there in about an hour. If you want to go, young lady, I can take you there to pay you a visit. But I can't guarantee whether the old lady will be willing to see you."

Although the steward and the servant had some objections, it was obvious that Nanny Zhang's status was not low, so they could only obey orders to turn the carriage around and temporarily change lanes to head towards Qingsong Temple.

It was not until the carriage stopped outside Qingsong Temple that Li Qing got off the carriage and looked at the Taoist temple in front of him, and he finally felt something real in his heart.

This life, from this moment on, will no longer be the same.

However, the old lady really refused to see her, which was something Li Qingshi had not expected.

"Miss, the old lady said that she knew you had been here, and that she was already kind enough to ask me to take you back to the Li family, to help you get to know your family, and to take you to live in the mansion for a while. I will come back when everything is settled."

After hearing this, Li Qingluo was very surprised!

In her previous life, Aunt Zhang did not accompany her into the mansion!

Not to mention giving her some advice in the mansion and waiting for some time!

Unexpectedly, she had only come to the Taoist temple, and before she even met anyone, the old lady had already shown her such kindness...

This old lady is really different from the other people in the Li family.

Since Li Qingluo is coming, how could he give up so easily?

She immediately made her position clear: "Madam Zhang, I will not go back. I have come here sincerely to pay my respects to Grandmother. If she refuses to see me, then I will wait until the day she is willing to see me. Please help me with the arrangements, Madam Zhang. I will be staying at the Taoist temple for a while."

Li Qingluo turned sideways and bowed to Nanny Zhang. Although it was done in a sloppy manner, the meaning was there.

This surprised Aunt Zhang very much.

This stubbornness, unwillingness to give up easily, and unconcerned with details, is somewhat reminiscent of the old lady when she was young...

I just don't know if I can hold on for a few days.

Li Qing stayed at the Taoist temple. The manager and the servant were obviously getting restless.

Early the next morning, the manager went back to Jinling, saying he was going to report, but he left the servant here to guard.

Li Qingluo sneered.

What? If she doesn't rush back, the drama of Li Qingzhu's self-immolation can't go on?

In the previous life, Li Qingzhu left a suicide note on this day and then burned herself to death.

She burned more than a dozen rooms in the Li family's house, leaving behind several charred maids and her own body...

The entire Li family was in excruciating pain and suffered terribly.

In this life, Li Qingluo is not in a hurry to go back. It depends on whether Li Qingzhu is in a hurry to burn herself to death.

Li Qingluo asked Cui'er to help keep an eye on the movements in the city, while he himself stayed in the Taoist temple with peace of mind.

However, for three consecutive days, the old lady showed no intention of seeing her.

Moreover, the old lady's residence was behind a quiet bamboo forest, and there were several old maids guarding the door, so Li Qingluo could not rush in by himself.

She had no such rash intentions.

Aunt Zhang came to see her once a day.

Li Qingluo borrowed some paper and pen, and forced himself to sit quietly in the room for an hour every day, and then practiced writing in a crooked manner.

Her handwriting is really ugly.

Nanny Zhang secretly hid one and took it back to show the old lady. After seeing it, the old lady's brows were deeply furrowed.

"Pfft-"

Even the maid Ying'er beside him laughed.

"Madam, the word 'girl' is really like a caterpillar. Look, there are big ones and small ones."

The old lady angrily turned the paper over and slammed it on the table.

"Do not laugh!"

Ying'er quickly lowered her head and dared not make another sound.

But the page I memorized was not even as good as a caterpillar...it was simply a dog's crawl!

The old lady couldn't help but twitch her lips.

Nanny Zhang also glared at Ying'er, "Get out! You're such a talker!"

"Madam, I think it's very good of the girl to have such a heart. She has never held a pen since she was a child. She has only held a poker, a hoe, a sickle, and an axe. Don't you see her hands? They are worse than those of the kitchen boy!"

"She is only sixteen this year."

"This should have been the young lady's fate, but now she can't even recognize a single word. When I saw her, I tried to imitate the Taoist calligraphy on the wall. Although her handwriting was... really ugly, she didn't feel ashamed. Isn't this just daring?"

The old lady sneered, "You're good at speaking well of her. But whether you dare to risk it or not remains to be seen."

"But her handwriting is so ugly it's unbearable to be seen in public! Go and give her the elementary calligraphy copybook in my cabinet. Don't let her waste paper anymore."

Aunt Zhang chuckled, "Yes. Old Madam, you're tough on the outside but soft on the inside. You clearly dote on the younger generation and like ambitious children. That calligraphy copybook was prepared for the general back then, wasn't it? It's a pity it wasn't used all those years..."

Seeing that the old lady looked unhappy, Nanny Zhang stopped talking.

She took the calligraphy copy and immediately gave it to Li Qingluo.

Li Qingluo was flattered.

After receiving it with both hands, he made all kinds of promises to keep it carefully and cherish it.

Seeing that she was becoming more sensible, Nanny Zhang was not in a hurry to leave, but sighed deeply.

"Young lady, do you know...why the old lady has been living in Qingsong Temple all year round and never returned to the general's mansion?"

Li Qingluo had heard some of the reasons in the general's mansion in her previous life, but she knew that those were not the whole story.

So, at this moment, he naturally shook his head and pretended to know nothing.

Perhaps Nanny Zhang had also seen Li Qingluo's insistence on meeting the old lady in the past few days, so she really wanted to give her some advice, so she told her in person what happened in the general's mansion of the previous generation.

It turned out that the old lady was the daughter of the Pei family, a family of founding generals. Although she had learned literature and calligraphy since childhood, she loved wielding swords and guns more.

Thirty-seven years ago, after Pei married into the Li family, she gave birth to a son after ten months of pregnancy, who was Li Qingluo's father, Li Chaojing.

However, before the baby grew up, urgent news came from the border that Li Chaojing's father was surrounded by enemy troops and his whereabouts were unknown, and it was unknown whether he was alive or dead.

Worried about her husband and in order to save the war situation, Pei had to leave her eight-month-old baby behind, put on armor and take command of the emperor, and personally go to the border to support and rescue her husband.

Li Chaojing was entrusted to the care of the old lady of the Li family in the mansion, and was taken care of by Deng, her husband's former concubine who was later brought up by Pei herself.

Who knew that it would take five years to return.

When he came back, Li Chaojing no longer recognized Pei as his biological mother. He only wanted Deng and was completely devoted to her.

Although no one could shake Pei's position, she felt bad that her only legitimate son had turned against her.

She tried her best but couldn't win her son's true love.

If he himself was sick, Li Chaojing would come to pay his respects and ask questions, but if Deng was sick, Li Chaojing would rush around serving tea and water, personally serving her, visiting her eight hundred times a day, and even kneeling in the Buddhist temple to pray to the gods and worship Buddha.

Things like this naturally made Pei angry.

She believed that it was Deng who was obstructing Li Chaojing from recognizing her as his biological mother and treating her, a concubine, more important than his biological mother!

Pei originally planned to send Deng away personally, either letting her go to a Buddhist temple to worship Buddha for the rest of her life, or selling her off.

But Li Chaojing actually resisted by dying.

She even shouted, "If you dare to separate me from Aunt Deng, I will hate you forever! Even if you die, I will never burn a stick of incense for you!"