Riding the Pheonix Chapter 12: Broken

It is quiet at night.

Mrs. Mingsan closed her eyes and clasped her hands, kneeling in the altar.

The dim light of the candlelight shone on her face and on the face of Empress Xuannu. The expressions of the two were surprisingly similar.

I don’t know how long it took, but the door of the altar was pushed open.

"Why didn't you copy the scriptures today?" asked a calm male voice.

Mrs. Mingsan opened her eyes, but did not look back: "Waiting for you."

The male voice paused, slightly mocking: "It's really rare." He took off his robe and threw it aside, "As soon as I came back, I heard that Xiao Qi was well. What's going on? The Xuannv Empress you worship Appeared?"

"Yes." Mrs. Mingsan replied lightly, unable to tell whether it was true or not.

"Then you are waiting for me because you want to talk about Xiao Qi?"

"Yes."

The man sneered: "Looking at you like this, are you planning to end your relationship with me?"

Mrs. Mingsan did not answer.

"That's right." The man picked up the tea cup and said quietly, "You have endured the humiliation for so many years, isn't it because of Xiao Qi? Now that she is well, she can get married normally, why do you have to endure it any longer."

The warm tea melted away the coldness of the night, and the man continued: "However, you just begged me to go to Xuandu Temple to ask the Immortal Chief to collect the evil spirits. Now you are turning your back. Don't you think it is too hasty?"

Mrs. Mingsan was silent, bowed her head to Xuannv, and finally stood up and walked to him, looking directly at him: "So, I want to talk to you."

The man put down his teacup, an inexplicable smile appeared on his lips: "Oh?"

"Three months, I will give you three months in the end."

The man was noncommittal: "What then?"

"We are both clean." Mrs. Mingsan said quietly, "After so many years, this ridiculous thing should come to an end."

The man was silent.

Mrs. Mingsan sneered: "You don't think we can live like this forever, do you? What's more, I'm old and no longer young, what's the fun?"

The man raised his gaze and landed on her face, as if he couldn't help but reach out his hand to touch her face.

As soon as she touched it, Mrs. Mingsan left it alone.

The man smiled softly and retracted his hand: "That's okay. Since you want to end it, I can only help you. But, the conditions..."

"Three months!" Mrs. Mingsan said firmly, "This is my bottom line. If you refuse, I will fight to the death and defeat you, and I will never let you get your wish again."

"Haha..." the man chuckled, "you misunderstood me."

"You..."

The man looked at her: "You don't have to accompany me anymore. Even Lao Liu, I will help you settle the matter. Tomorrow I will send a letter and ask my eldest brother to ask the immortal from Xuandu Temple to come over. As for you, help me Just do the last thing."

This condition was too generous, so Mrs. Mingsan hesitated: "Only one thing? What kind of big deal is it?"

The man took a sip of tea and said casually: "Just do it as before. As for who it is, I will tell you when the time comes."

He put down the tea cup and stood up: "Okay, I won't come again in the near future, and you don't have to worry about Lao Liu. Just get along with Xiao Qi in peace."

The door of the altar opened and the man's figure quickly disappeared into the night.

Mrs. Mingsan stood silently for a long time, then turned around and knelt down in front of the statue.

"Empress Xuannv, please bless the faithful girl and get her wish..."

Mingwei slept until midnight when he suddenly woke up and touched his side. Although there was still warmth, the person was gone.

She sat up and was about to call Duofu when Mrs. Mingsan came in from outside.

"Xiao Qi is awake?" She took off her coat and shook off the cold air on her body, "Are you going to wake up or drink water? It's just the third watch, so go back to sleep when you feel better."

Mingwei shook his head and asked her: "Mom, where have you been?"

Mrs. Mingsan said softly: "I can't sleep for a while, so I went to thank Empress Xuannv. I can't stop offering incense when you are well, otherwise Empress Xuannv will be angry."

"Well..."

Mingwei’s hands tightened. She felt another weak breath from Mrs. Mingsan's body, which quickly disappeared.

The mother and daughter fell asleep again, this time sleeping soundly all night until daybreak.

……

Seeing the breakfast spread all over the table, Mrs. Mingsan couldn't help laughing: "Why are there so many today? Do you want to feed the pigs?"

Su Jie looked happy: "Congratulations, Miss, you are cured! We each cooked one dish, but that's not all."

"Yes, yes!" Bing Xin picked up the small and exquisite crystal bag and put it in Mingwei's bowl, "Miss, eat this. I got up before dawn. I have been doing it for a long time!"

"It turns out this was made by Bing Xin, no wonder I always feel it looks a bit ugly."

"Madam!" Bing Xin stamped her foot.

Mrs. Mingsan pursed her lips and smiled, picking one up herself: "Okay, okay, let's have a taste of your craftsmanship."

"Mine, and mine!" Sujie brought the golden cakes as a treasure, "It's fresh out of the pan, so fragrant. When the slave made it just now, it smelled so fragrant that she couldn't help but eat two Block..."

"Miss," Duofu quietly moved over a small bowl of bone soup noodles, "Eat this, the soup has been simmering all night!"

Mother Tong also came to join in the count and pointed to the bowl of wontons with a smile: "This bowl was made by a slave."

With so much food, how can the mother and daughter eat it all? So, everyone had a full breakfast.

After removing the bowls and chopsticks, Mrs. Mingsan sighed: "It hasn't been this lively in many years."

Mother Tong said: "Young lady is the best, it will be exciting in the future!"

Mrs. Mingsan shook her head and smiled: "She is too old~IndoMTL.com~How long can it be lively? In a few years, it will be time to go to someone else's house."

But Aunt Tong said, "What's so difficult about this? My wife wrote to my uncle and told him that in the future, he would go back to the capital and buy a house next door, and he would still be with the young lady every day."

These words made Mrs. Mingsan quite moved. The agreement with my brother was helpless in the early years. Now that Xiao Qi is well, he can't turn his back on her. What's more, the Ji family has a good family tradition, which makes it a good marriage.

If I could live next to my brother, wouldn't I be able to be with my family and keep my daughter by my side?

"Mommy reminded me, Xiaoqi has resolved this matter, and it's time to write a letter to let big brother know." After that, he said to Mingwei, "Go and write a letter to uncle for mother, while you and Duofu take a walk to eat. Go."

Mingwei nodded and left the house with Duofu.

"What a blessing."

"Here."

"What I said just now, did I have an engagement with my uncle's family?"

Duofu said: "I heard my grandma mention it. It seems that I told my uncle about this in the early years, but I didn't write a marriage letter and didn't exchange tokens. Doesn't it count?"

Ming Wei thought, this must not count. Although she took on the identity of Miss Mingqi, she was a ghost who did not belong to this world.

Everyone is born with a destiny star, and her destiny star will be in a few decades. In other words, she is a lifeless person in this era.

In this case, you should not have too deep entanglements with others, so as not to affect the fate of others.

The marriage has not been mentioned yet, so I will press it for now. She had to first figure out what kind of monsters and monsters there were in the Ming family.

"Duofu, let's play a game?"

"What do you want to play, miss?"

Mingwei squinted his eyes and looked at Yu Fangyuan in the sun: "This game is called, find friends."