Beauty helps me achieve immortality

Qinghuan stared at her mother's tearful smile.

But I didn't feel relaxed or happy at all. Instead, I was filled with confusion and helplessness.

Although she herself often lay in her master's arms, crying and laughing, she had never seen her sister show this attitude...

In her impression, her sister has always been a hot-tempered person, and she always does and speaks in a hurry.

Now, this gentle smile made her feel that the tense string in her sister's heart... had broken.

She was suddenly filled with fear.

If the master abandons me, then I will die.

But my sister was not abandoned, but she struggled for decades with a lifelong resentment.

In her early years, she didn't know the truth about the mother-daughter relationship, and she only heard her sister cursing all men in the world.

But now...

In the quiet bedroom, Gu Qinghuan's eyes were filled with distress and worry. He slowly stroked the tear marks on the beautiful woman's face and peeled her hair away from her lips one by one.

"mother……?"

Li Qingci chuckled and stared at her daughter. She casually pushed her arms away, then raised her head to wipe away her tears. While fixing her hair, she scolded with a smile, "How can you even coax me!"

The beautiful woman smiled contemptuously, raised her hands and held her daughter's face tightly, looking her up and down seriously.

But Qinghuan knew that this time, her sister... was not looking at her.

She slowly closed her phoenix eyes, which were filled with crystal. She pursed her red lips and put her hair behind her, allowing her sister to find the shadow of another person in her.

"Gu Qinghuan."

The beautiful woman's voice was a little cold and tired, and when she called her daughter's name, her tone was full of frivolous smiles.

"Has anyone ever told you that you look like me?"

Qing Huan, with her sister holding her chin, raised her head slightly and whispered softly, "Qing Huan was born by my mother, so naturally she looks like her."

"Xiaoyi often said that when Mom was young she must have been much more beautiful than Qinghuan."

"Humph!"

Li Qingci snorted disdainfully.

"You look like your father, both are tall."

Qinghuan felt relieved upon hearing this. She felt that her sister didn't seem to regret marrying Yanliu, nor was she as desperate as she had imagined.

She tried to counsel her sister and help her through this painful time.

"If he knew about my sister's current life..."

Li Qingci glared at him and cursed, "What about him?!"

"You deserve to die!"

"Get over here!"

Gu Qinghuan: ...

At this moment, she felt that her sister seemed to have returned to her old temper, being arbitrary and overbearing towards her, not letting her say a word...

Qinghuan slowly bent down and lay in the woman's arms, accompanying her silently.

Li Qingci held his daughter's body, fiddling with the crumpled paper in his hand unhappily. After glancing at it for a few seconds, he cursed again, "He really deserves to die."

"You dare to go to the river to rob the official salt? Not only will you be caught in the autumn tide, you will also deserve to be killed!"

"Turn his women into whores and sluts, dead things that can't even be seen!"

"He's even asking for medicinal food. What could be wrong with him?"

"You're a piece of shit who can't even take care of your own woman!"

"Stupid thing..."

After cursing for half an incense stick of time, Li Qingci gradually stopped talking. He just hugged his daughter tightly and kept breathing heavily.

Qinghuan then hugged her mother gently and patted her back with her backhand to help her regulate her qi.

The bedroom fell into dead silence again.

I don’t know when.

The beautiful woman sighed deeply, dragged Qinghuan's body and let her rest her head on her shoulder, tilting her head to rub her cheek intimately and dully.

Another line of tears flowed across her face, soaking Qinghuan's hair.

Li Qingci wept softly, "Just pretend this person doesn't exist... Even if he were alive, he wouldn't recognize you as his daughter. The two of us are enough."

Qinghuan remained silent, and slowly interlocked her fingers with her mother's.

In fact, she knew very little about Gu Haozhi.

In the early years, her elder sister had always lied to her, saying that they were sisters from the Gu family, Gu Qingci and Gu Qinghuan...

"Little bitch?" The beautiful woman wiped her tears with a wrinkled piece of paper, threw it on the ground, and then called softly.

Qing Huan looked up in surprise and met her sister's gaze: "I'm here."

"Have you ever thought about leaving Zhao Qing with children?"

Hearing this strange question, Qinghuan's mind suddenly stopped.

Give birth to offspring for the master?

She shook her head slowly and whispered softly, "No."

Li Qingci sighed softly, "Aren't you afraid that he'll get tired of you?"

Qing Huan turned over and lay in her sister's arms, looking into her lost eyes, and said softly, "If I didn't have my daughter, mother would have died with her lover."

The beautiful woman's eyes turned cold with tears: "You die if you want to, you bastard."

Gu Qinghuan ignored him, and there was even a hint of smile in his eyes.

She knew that her sister was even more stubborn than herself.

If she hadn't wanted to raise a child for that man, she would have jumped into the river and ended it all in despair.

"If Shuyue and Sihe have children in the future, they will be no different from Qinghuan's own flesh and blood."

"Qing Huan will follow my master for the rest of my life and be a quiet slave..."

Gu Qinghuan's speech gradually slowed down and he felt a little depressed.

She just wanted to live her life like this, with everything she had belonging to her master.

If she had her master's child, she would have to take care of it... She was afraid that she would be tied down and unable to be with her master through life and death.

Li Qingci's eyes were slightly cold as he stared at his daughter and said disdainfully, "Stupid thing."

"You were born a cheapie too."

Qinghuan stood up with a smile, rubbed her sister's shoulders, and combed her messy long hair.

The beautiful woman stopped scolding her daughter and leaned back gently, resting on Gu Qinghuan's soft body.

A pair of eyes looked out the window at the quiet courtyard in a daze.

"Little Hoof barks."

Her sister always gave such instructions, and Qing Huan would softly whisper in her ear: "Mother."

Li Qingci's words were cold and full of doubt: "Where did you get your mother from?"

Qing Huan's phoenix eyes were filled with cleverness and joy. She took out her hairpin and tied her mother's hair into a beautiful bun, then smiled and called out again, "Sister."

The beautiful woman took the makeup mirror handed to her by her daughter, held it in her hand and looked at her face carefully.

But his eyes always drifted to his daughter behind him...

Gu Qinghuan's eyebrows were as dark as smoke, her face was gentle and beautiful, but the teardrop mole on the side of her phoenix eyes added a touch of enchantment, and her crimson lips were slightly pursed with a smile...

Like a tearful beauty who can never get angry.

Only able to laugh and cry.

Never angry, never resentful.

It was as if she was born without the ability to be angry or jealous... But Li Qingci knew that it was because he had not taken good care of his daughter that she became like this.

She slowly pulled her daughter's wrist, held her in her arms and stroked her hair. Her long, beautiful legs trembled gently, as if she was trying to coax her daughter to sleep.

"Originally... we wanted a son..."

……

Dingchou year, summer night.

The sky and water are intertwined.

The continuous rain has dispelled the summer heat.

The rainy night in Fulin Township is a bit noisy. The only sounds in the world are the rustling sound of the night rain washing the trees and the dripping sound of raindrops splashing in the mud... but none of them can cover the roaring sound of the Lancang River.

Rainwater seeped into the small mud house, and the bedding was so damp that water could be wrung out of it. The sound of the wind blowing in through the window and the rain hitting the broken door made a clanging sound.

But the girl who lived here didn't feel annoyed or miserable at all.

Her bright eyes were filled with joy. She straightened her slightly bulging belly and leaned against the wall, twisting the damp quilt...

"Do you think I will give birth to a boy or a girl?"

At this time, Li Qingci had grown into a graceful young lady, and her ethereal voice was filled with joy and expectation.

“Cough…! Cough cough!”

The little man stood by the stove and couldn't stop coughing. I don't know if he was choked by the thick smoke from the wet firewood or if he had caught a cold.

Gu Haozhi's cheeks were thin and pale, but he had grown very tall.

He stirred the dark liquid medicine in the pot with chopsticks and said matter-of-factly, "Of course I want a son. What's the point of having a daughter?"

Li Qingci frowned slightly, pouted slightly, and whispered in a low voice: "What if I give birth to a girl?"

"how come?"

"Ahem... I found a folk remedy, it's guaranteed to be a boy."

Gu Haozhi grinned and came closer with the bowl of black medicinal soup: "Drink it quickly."

The girl stared at the dark soup, glared at her lover, and said unhappily, "You spent all the money I earned from weaving every day on buying these?"

"How can there be any medicine that can determine whether the baby is a boy or a girl?"

Gu Haozhi chuckled awkwardly, carefully placing the porcelain bowl beside him, and then took the bedding from Xiao Ci's hand: "No... our money is for repairing the house."

"This is medicine to protect the fetus. You are weak, so drink it quickly... cough cough."

The girl snorted disdainfully: "Your health is worse than mine. You'll die sooner or later if you cough like this."

"Woo-"

Li Qingci was held in the man's arms and struggled. She pursed her lips and drank the medicine soup bit by bit. After just two sips, she drooped her pretty face and spat, "You drink it too! Don't cough yourself to death."

The little man didn't tolerate her and immediately scolded her with a smile: "You are the one who died, your whole family is dead!"

"I'm not pregnant, why should I take pregnancy-preserving medicine?"

He then turned to a gentle whisper: "The weather has been bad these days, ahem - it will be better later."

Unexpectedly, the girl was also sharp-tongued and angrily retorted: "My whole family is dead, what do you want to say?!"

Her beautiful eyes glanced at the medicine soup and asked lightly, "Where did it come from?"

"Gu Haozhi, did you go steal something?"

Gu Haozhi smiled mysteriously, humming in an unfathomable manner, "Daxi went to the county to ask the immortal master for medicine, and I got some of his share."

Upon hearing this, Li Qingci immediately laughed and spat: "Why don't you look in the mirror? Why don't you say that it was the Dragon King in the river who gave you this medicine?"

"Hey, it really is the Dragon King of the River... cough——"

The girl stared at her lover with disdain, took the porcelain bowl from his hands and set it aside, then gently patted his back: "How are you going to work at the docks in this state?"

"How are we going to support mother and son?"

Gu Haozhi's eyes lit up and he grinned again: "Want to be a mother?"

"roll!"

Li Qingci turned her head away pretentiously, picked up the porcelain bowl and gulped down the medicine soup...

But after a few bites, her brows furrowed.

"vomit--"

With a dry heave, he spat the black soup in his mouth back into the bowl.

Gu Haozhi quickly took the porcelain bowl and gently massaged the girl's back, just like Xiao Ci had slapped him just now: "Are you feeling like vomiting again?"

"Do you have a headache again?"

The girl twisted her body slightly, stared at the man angrily and cursed: "Giving birth to a child for you is really... Ugh——"

Her pretty face twisted together, and she slowly curled up in a corner along the wall, spitting out some saliva again.