Rebirth After Death
Since the Dragon Boat Festival, it had been drizzling in Hanyang City. The room and clothes were wet and moldy.
Chu Huajiao was lying on the couch, his body covered with a thin sheet. Through the half-opened window, she looked at the rain dripping from the eaves.
There was no one in the room at the moment. If there was, they would be shocked to find that the four-year-old girl was staring at the rain with a sadness that did not match her age.
Of course, she was not really four years old!
She, Chu Huajiao, had regained consciousness seven days ago from a very, very scary dream.
In that terrifying dream, a cold knife stabbed into her lower abdomen. She was in pain, very, very pain, but she couldn't make a sound. She couldn't even raise her hand.
In her dream, she was in pain and her consciousness gradually faded away. However, she was not completely dead. The fire spread over and climbed onto her bed, burning her alive...
However, after regaining her consciousness, she knew that those were not empty dreams! It was the ending of her life before her rebirth!
She, Chu Huajiao, had perhaps received the mercy of the heavens. From the day she died tragically in Luocheng at the age of 20, she had been reborn to the year she fell into the water and fell ill at the Dragon Boat Festival at the age of four.
The door creaked. The maid in the green dress, Cui Zhu, carried a pot of hot water and quietly entered the room. When Cui Zhu saw Chu Huajiao open his eyes, her expression immediately became joyful.
"Miss, you're awake!" Cui Zhu put down the hot water in her hand and walked to the edge of the bed. She saw Chu Huajiao asking," Are you feeling better?" Are you thirsty? Are you hungry?"
The expression on Chu Huajiao's face, which did not match his age, had already disappeared the moment the door creaked. She smiled innocently and nodded." Ah Jiao, you want some water?"
"Good, good, good! Miss, please wait!" Cui Zhu hurriedly stood up and went to the table to get some cold water. After hesitating for a moment, she poured half of the cold water and warmed it with the hot water she had just brought in.
She first put the warm water on the side and helped Chu Huajiao sit up. Then, she took the water and held it with both hands. She brought it to Chu Huajiao's lips and said with concern," Miss, drink slowly!"
"I'll drink it myself!" Chu Huajiao stretched out his hands, took the teacup from Cui Zhu's hands, and drank it with his head raised.
The door creaked again, and Cuiyu's small head poked in from outside the door.
When she realized that Cui Zhu and the young miss were looking at her, Cui Yu's face turned red. She quickly stepped forward and bowed to Chu Huajiao. She said with a happy expression," Miss, you're awake!"
"Yeah, you're awake. Go bring the food over!" Cuizhu looked at Cuiyu fiercely and turned around to mock her." Miss, you don't know. This time doesn't count. She has already come back four times. Every time she comes back, she asks me if Miss is awake!" Why do you think she did that?"
"Sister Cuiyu must have made delicious and novel food again!" Chu Huajiao smiled at Cui Zhu and replied.
Cuiyu's face was originally green and red, but after hearing Chu Huajiao's guess, she became a little happier. She glared at Cuizhu fiercely, bowed to Chu Huajiao, and trotted out. When she came back, she brought a tray. There was nothing special about the plain porridge on the plate, but there was a pearl-sized brown ball on the other small plate. He could not tell what it was.
"Miss, finish the porridge first before eating this!" Cuiyu pointed at the dumpling.
Of course, Chu Huajiao knew what Yuanzi was. The scene in front of him was exactly the same. It had happened before. However, back then, he was a real child. Other than being happy, he was still happy. But now, he was looking at familiar people, familiar scenes, and familiar things. In Chu Huajiao's heart, something called happiness was growing crazily.
"What is it!" Chu Huajiao sniffed in surprise. Cui Zhu also looked at Cui Yu curiously.
"Young Lady found the medicine bitter. This is a method that this servant thought of. It was made from preserved fruit meat mixed with medicine. Miss, try it later. It's not bitter at all. It's very delicious!" Cuiyu said.
"Did you secretly eat Miss's medicine?" Cuizhu had already taken the porridge and fed it to Chu Huajiao. She teased Cuiyu," No way! How could you do this? If Madam finds out…!"
"Pui, who ate it!" Cuiyu's face turned red and she was very angry.
Cuizhu fed the porridge calmly as she continued to joke about Cuiyu." How do you know it's not bitter and delicious if you didn't eat it secretly?" Isn't this a contradiction? Miss!"
"I know what I made even without tasting it!"
" That might not be the case. I remember the last time…!"
“……”
Chu Huajiao smiled as he watched the two servant girls play around. She thought that it would be great if her life could always be so simple and comfortable.
Unfortunately, Chu Huajiao knew that life would not always be so pleasant.
She deeply remembered that many things would happen in the year she was four years old.
For example, the fresh Cui Yu in front of her would become a female corpse floating on the lake. Even now, she could not forget how she looked after being soaked in water.
Or the obedient Cui Zhu in front of him would be sold far away.
The most important thing that would change Huajiao Chu's fate would happen this year:
Chu Huajiao's birth mother, Madam Hua, would die prematurely this year, one corpse and two lives. Then, she, Chu Huajiao, would contract a nasty disease and be sent to the old mansion.
Thinking of his mother's premature death, Chu Huajiao panicked.
In her previous life, she had thought for a long time that her mother's death was an accident. It wasn't until later, when she returned to the Chu family in Jingdou, that she gradually learned that her mother's death was not an accident at all, but a deliberate act.
However, at that time, she had no chance to investigate the cause of her mother's death. At that time, she had already lost the battle at home. She had already been forced to drink the mute medicine and the powerless softening powder!
In this life, Chu Huajiao could guess who was the most likely culprit to cause her mother's premature birth, but she couldn't guess what kind of conspiracy it was that caused her mother's premature birth.
Because she was really four years old in her previous life, she couldn't remember the exact details of what happened on the day her mother died. What she could vaguely remember was the cold, snowy night, the bloodstains on her mother's dress, and her mother's heartbroken and anxious call," Ah Jiao, close your eyes. Don't look. Ah Jiao, close your eyes!"
Of course, Chu Huajiao still remembered that day, the 14th of the first lunar month! There were still more than eight months until that day.
"Miss, what's wrong? Are you feeling unwell again?" Cui Zhu nervously looked at Chu Huajiao, whose expression had changed slightly, and reached out to burn her forehead.
Cuiyu also came over nervously.
Chu Huajiao forced down the unusual emotions in his heart, narrowed his eyes and smiled innocently." I was just scaring you! I really scared you guys!"
Cuiyu and Cuizhu looked at each other, and at the same time, they stroked their hearts and opened their mouths wide, pretending to be greatly frightened. Their actions made Chu Huajiao's nose involuntarily sour.
She suddenly reached out and hugged Cui Zhu and Cui Yu. She thought that if possible, she would want them to live well in this life. Cuiyu, don't die. Cuizhu, don't leave either!
There was also his mother and his younger brother who had never been born into this world. Please, all of you must accompany me for the rest of my life!
She thought, I, Chu Huajiao, will never repeat the same mistake again! [I don't want to be poisoned mute, I don't want to be sent by my family to marry a dead man, I don't want to be abandoned by my family in Luocheng, I don't want to be burned alive in Luocheng…]