Rebirth: Traveling To Ancient Times As A Companion Reading Chapter 52

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The news that the carriage of Princess Lin and the governor’s wife returning to the capital from Jiangzhou fell off a cliff in the surrounding mountains spread like lightning throughout the capital.

The carriage passed through the streets of the capital, and the sounds outside fell on the ears of the people in the car, making people feel uncomfortable.

“Hey, have you heard? Someone saw a carriage at the foot of the cliff of Lingwei Mountain this morning. It is said that it is the carriage of Prince Lin’s Mansion.”

“More than just hearing it, my husband saw it this morning.”

“Your husband is the one who discovered the carriage and went to Prince Lin’s Mansion to report the news?”

“Not only my husband, but also several people went together. You don’t know, when my husband came back to talk to me today, I still didn’t believe it. I didn’t expect that it would really be the carriage from Prince Lin’s Mansion.”

“Then do you know how the people inside are doing?”

“Tsk, you don’t know. My husband told me that the carriage fell down at some point and broke into pieces at the bottom of the cliff. The people inside are probably dead a long time ago.”

“Oh my God!”

“That’s the carriage from Prince Lin’s Mansion, isn’t the person sitting in it…”

“This is too sinful. How could such a good person become like this?”

When Joey heard these words coming from outside, he couldn’t stop looking at the people next to him.

“Your mother and my mother will be fine.” Joey knew that it was useless to say more at this time. He could only reach out and hold Lou Ling’s hand, hoping to calm Lou Ling’s emotions as much as possible.

Joey’s comforting words lingered in his ears. Lou Ling held Joey’s hand with his backhand and slowly closed his eyes. He knew that these words were impossible.

In the end, only two bodies were brought back from the bottom of the cliff in Lingwei Mountain.

Qiao Yunlan did not perform any adoption ceremony for Joey during his lifetime, nor did he allow Joey to be included in the Qiao family’s genealogy. Therefore, when Qiao Yunlan died, Joey lost any identity.Therefore, Joey was not even qualified to attend Qiao Yunlan’s funeral, let alone the wake.Except that he saw Qiao Yunlan’s body from a distance when he was leading the mountain, there was nothing else.

And after transporting the two bodies back to Beijing.When the Queen Mother in the palace heard the news of Qiao Yunlan’s death, she almost cried and passed away without even a breath.She didn’t believe that Qiao Yunlan was really dead and insisted on sending the body to the palace, so it was difficult for Joey to even see Qiao Yunlan’s body again.

Although Joey and Qiao Yunlan have not been mother and son for a long time, it is undeniable that Joey can indeed feel Qiao Yunlan’s feelings for him, not to mention 10%, but at least 70% or 80% true, not to mention that a large part of the reason why Qiao Yunlan came back this time is also because of him.

Joey was lying when he said he wasn’t sad, but now he didn’t even have the right to feel sad for Qiao Yunlan.

With a long sigh, Joey looked up to the sky and wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes. When he came down again, the corners of his eyes were already red.Joey quietly looked at Bai Ling in front of him, which was almost integrated with the snow around him. He was speechless and just moved forward in silence.

Joey slowly walked to the mourning hall where Lou Mengli’s coffin was placed. Lou Ling had been waiting in front of Lou Mengli’s coffin for five days without touching it.

Today happens to be Lou Ling’s birthday.

Joey stood outside the mourning hall, looked at the people inside, sighed again, and then took the food box from Zhu Qing’s hand.

“You guys go down first.”

Joey slowly walked into the mourning hall, knelt in front of Lou Meng’s glass coffin, and put down the food box in his hand.

Lou Ling’s wheelchair was right in front of Lou Mengli’s body.

Joey didn’t speak, but silently took out all the food in the food box.

“Eat something,” Joey said.

Lou Ling shook her head slowly and said hoarsely, “I’m not hungry.”

It’s weird if you’re not hungry.

Joey looked at the obvious weight loss on Lou Ling’s face these days. He wanted to say something, but he didn’t know what to say, because he seemed to have no position to persuade. After all, the mother-child relationship between Lou Mengli and Lou Ling was completely different from that between him and Qiao Yunlan.

For Lou Ling, the person who died was really his mother who had grown up with him for more than ten years. No matter how mature his mind was, he was only an eleven-year-old child, so how could he not be sad.

So Joey knew that no matter how much he said at this time, it would be useless. He could only let Lou Ling slowly get over the pain.

Joey sighed silently and didn’t say another word to persuade him. Instead, he chose to stay quietly beside Lou Ling, looking at the coffin in front of him, where Lou Mengli’s body lay.

After an unknown amount of time, Joey’s legs were numb from his knees and he was so sleepy that he almost fell forward into the brazier in front of him.

Joey forced himself not to fall asleep, but because of human physiological instincts, it was useless no matter how hard he tried to resist.

Joey rubbed his face helplessly, trying to wake himself up.

However, before the person was rubbed awake, a hand as cold as ice touched Joey’s face.

“?”

Joey turned around, thinking something was wrong with Lou Ling, “What’s wrong?”

At this time, the two of them were sitting and kneeling. Joey was half a body shorter than Lou Ling, so he had to look up when he looked at Lou Ling.

Lou Ling lowered her eyes and looked at Joey’s eyes that could barely open but still managed to keep them wide. He raised his hand and gently touched the dark circles Joey had suffered from over the past few days. He didn’t say anything for a long while.

Joey thought Lou Ling was also sleepy, so he reached out to hold Lou Ling’s hand on his cheek, and then rubbed it, but it was so cold that he almost lost his teeth.In disbelief, he stretched out his hand to test the temperature of Lou Ling’s hand, “Why are your hands so cold?”

Without waiting for Lou Ling to answer, Joey got up and went to fetch Mrs. Tang. He forgot that his legs were still numb and limped out.

“How can it be so cold? It’s really…”

Before Lou Ling could even speak, Joey’s figure had already disappeared into the mourning hall.

As soon as Joey left, only Lou Ling sitting alone in a wheelchair and Lou Mengli’s coffin in front were left in the mourning hall.

Snowflakes were still falling outside the house, and only the faint candlelight flickered in the mourning hall. The flickering light hit Lou Ling’s pale face, making him look like a real person, like an evil ghost walking out of the Palace of Hell.

Her dark eyes looked at the coffin in front of her quietly, not knowing what she thought of. Lou Ling lowered her head, looked at the hand that had just brushed Joey’s cheek, and moved slightly.

When Joey came back, he was holding Tangbaozi in his left hand, a black cat in his right hand, and a food box on his arm.

While putting down the food box, Joey stuffed Tang Pozi and Hei Pa into Lou Ling’s arms, “It’s windy and cold here, and just one Tang Pozi is not enough, so I brought Hei Pa over by the way.”

Lou Ling lowered his head and looked at each other in confusion with Hei Pa, who was forced into his arms.

The black cat was obviously reluctant, with a pair of green eyes full of displeasure and resistance to the person in front of him. However, due to Joey’s power and oppression, it had to huddle on Lou Ling’s lap obediently.

“Be good.” Joey obviously felt the same as Hei Pa, but he had no choice but to coax, “Just this time.”

“Meow.”

Just this time, it won’t happen again.

Joey stuffed a small fish into Hei Pa’s mouth and said without hesitation, “Of course.”

Lou Ling was used to watching the interaction between one person and one cat, and didn’t feel anything was wrong.

“By the way.” Joey didn’t forget what he had done just now. He took out a bowl of noodles from the food box he brought, “Today is your birthday. When I went to the kitchen just now, I asked them to make you a bowl of noodles. Although I know you can’t eat anything, but no matter what, if you want to continue to watch the princess here, you have to eat something. Just treat it as for the princess, and you will eat this bowl of noodles, okay?”

The last tone was as gentle as coaxing a child.

As Joey said this, he handed the face to Lou Ling and looked at him expectantly.

Lou Ling lowered her head and stared at the noodles in Joey’s hand without saying anything or making any move.

Joey wanted to give some more advice, but unexpectedly, Lou Ling actually reached out and took it this time.

Inexplicably, Joey breathed a sigh of relief. He hadn’t eaten anything for almost three days. Fortunately, he was finally willing to eat this time. His trip was not in vain.

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After seven days of vigil, Lou Mengli’s coffin will be sent to the imperial mausoleum.

According to Joey’s status, he was not qualified to accompany him to the funeral.But Lou Ling’s condition was too worrying, so Joey had no choice but to follow Lou Ling and send Lou Mengli’s coffin away together with the funeral procession.

The wind in the imperial mausoleum was so strong today that even if a person was kneeling on the ground, he would still be blown almost to the point of falling over.

Watching Lou Mengli’s coffin being carried into the imperial mausoleum, Joey somehow suddenly remembered Qiao Yunlan. He had not seen Qiao Yunlan since he brought the body back that day, and he was not even qualified to attend the funeral.

After knowing that Qiao Yunlan’s body was sent back to Qiao’s house from the palace, Joey didn’t think of going to Qiao’s house to see her and offer her some sticks of incense, but every time the people in Qiao’s house stopped him from entering, even using the power of the palace to intimidate and pressure her was of no use.

Joey didn’t understand. It was just for offering incense. Although he was not from the Qiao family, he didn’t even have the qualifications to enter Qiao’s house to offer incense.

“My mother…” Recalling what happened before, Joey paused, and his voice even started to choke, “Has she also been sent to the mausoleum by this time?”

Lou Ling tilted her head and looked at Joey, whose eyes were already red.

Joey tried his best to keep his tears from falling. He knew he shouldn’t cry at this time, but the sudden emotion made him unable to bear it.

Suddenly, a piece of white appeared in front of Joey’s eyes.

Joey was stunned and found that his whole body was surrounded by Lou Ling.

“Cry, it’s okay, I’m here.”

Lou Ling’s deliberately lowered voice rang in Joey’s ears, making Joey unable to bear it any longer.He buried his whole face in Lou Ling’s arms, grabbed the corner of Lou Ling’s clothes and cried heartily.

This cry was not only for Qiao Yunlan, but also for Joey himself.

Joey was only in his twenties when he died in his previous life. The sudden death and rebirth caused him to leave his parents and go to a strange world where he was unfamiliar. Except for a cat who accompanied him at first, Joey no longer had any familiar people.

It is impossible to say that there is no fear and confusion.

If he hadn’t met Hei Pa, if he hadn’t had Qiao Yunlan, Joey might have died for the second time in Jiangzhou.Now Qiao Yunlan’s death was like a needle popping a balloon. The emotions that Joey had squeezed in his heart from the beginning finally burst out at this moment. Like a sudden flash flood, he couldn’t stop it even if he wanted to.

Finally, after an unknown amount of time, Joey vented his inner emotions.When he looked up again, his eyes were swollen, as if he had been stung by a bee.

Lou Ling looked into Joey’s eyes, as if helpless, and raised her hand to touch it.

Joey’s hand was still holding the corner of Lou Ling’s clothes. He said in a dumb voice what he chose to say after hesitating for a long time.

“Lou Ling, why don’t you let me go.”

Lou Ling paused, “Why?”

“You know, I’m just an ordinary person. If it weren’t for my mother… Qiao Yunlan, I might never have been able to step foot in the capital in this life. Now that she’s gone, I don’t have any identity or qualifications to stay here.” Joey seemed to pause for a moment. “And you know, I’m not Qin Yi, and I don’t belong here. If I continue to stay here, it’s equivalent to a stupid dog mixed with a group of wolves. If I have no ability or power, I will die here.”

Joey looked at Lou Ling expectantly.

Lou Ling didn’t answer, but gently tucked Joey’s loose hair behind her ears.

Joey just thought Lou Ling was thinking about it. He made no move and quietly looked up at Lou Ling, waiting for his answer.

“You can’t leave.”

Suddenly Joey heard Lou Ling’s answer.The wind was a bit strong, and Joey wondered if he had heard wrongly. He leaned closer and said, “What did you say?”

Lou Ling’s hands circled around Joey’s neck and whispered softly into Joey’s ear.

Joey was stunned when he heard clearly what Lou Ling was saying.

The voice was as cold as a demon’s voice coming from hell, and it made Joey shiver unconsciously.He looked into Lou Ling’s bottomless black eyes, feeling a little confused. For some reason, he suddenly felt as if he was really getting to know the person in front of him for the first time.

“Bang!”

It seemed that something had been blown away by the wind, and something hidden underneath had begun to poke its head out.

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