Chronicles of the Modern Empress Dowager

Chapter 507: old friends

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The two good sisters had been separated for thirty years, and now they finally met again. They were excited and filled with emotion.

The old sisters held their hands tightly together, and Liu Chunzhi said: "I really didn't expect to see you again. Later I heard that you went abroad. Are you okay out there?"

Qi Jingzhen said: "I have no worries about food and clothing outside, and I can live a contented life, but I am lonely inside. I was much happier when we were working together. Maybe it's because as we get older, we always like to think of the past. , I’m finally free here, I feel like I have to meet my sisters after being separated for thirty years, so I can’t help but come and take a look.”

As soon as Qi Jingzhen said this, she saw Li Minghua's portrait on the cabinet. She suddenly choked up and said, "Why did Brother Minghua just leave?"

Liu Chunzhi sighed: "He was not in good health, and something happened to Weiwei before. He was very anxious, and then he left."

Qi Jingzhen also sighed: "You and your wife are both good people, why can't you live longer? I also wanted to see him and say sorry for what happened before, but I came a step too late." Later, he complained again. Jian Bo: "Jian Bo is not good either. Brother Minghua left and he didn't even say a word to me."

Liu Chunzhi quickly spoke for her adopted son: "Things were so chaotic at first, and Weiwei was unconscious, so he really couldn't care about that much. Sister Ah Zhen, don't blame him. Life and death are determined by fate, and you can't control it at all."

Sisters meet each other with infinite emotion. Li Wei's eyes were moist when he saw her, and the simple friendship could last for many years. At this moment, she thought of Princess Dun, the person who was worthy of being her sister. It was this woman who had the elder sister but the shorter sister who betrayed her in the end. In Daqi, she didn't even have a close friend. Here she has suffered betrayal from Xiang Hailan, but she still has a lifelong friend like Chen Yashi.

Yang Man pulled Li Wei aside and asked quietly: "Is that Jian Bo's biological mother?"

"Yes." Li Wei nodded.

Yang Man immediately added, "Oh, she looks so young. Those who knew her said she was my mother, but those who didn't knew thought she was my older sister."

Li Wei laughed when he heard about it: "If you saw the second brother and his aunt, you would say this even more."

Yang Man added: "This rich man knows how to take care of himself. He does look young. Compared with her, our mother is obviously more than ten years older. The days of wealth are really enviable."

"That's because my sister-in-law only sees her elegant and leisurely side, but doesn't know what kind of state she is in when she is busy. What kind of person is Aunt Qi? She shows herself as a strong woman. To be honest, I really envy her. A woman can To be so powerful is all achieved by my own hands, I really admire you.”

Yang Man said: "However, not everyone can be a strong woman. Most women cannot become such a talent. I am afraid that such a person may not be even one in a million."

Li Wei suddenly felt that this kind of love was meaningless. It would be nice to live a free and easy life like Aunt Qi. When distinguished guests arrived, Liu Chunzhi said that she would personally cook some special dishes to entertain Qi Jingzhen. Li Wei went to the resort hotel over there to find Jianping. On the way, he explained Qi Jing's true story. Jian Ping asked doubtfully: "I left so happily at the beginning, and I thought I would never have contact with him again. Why did I suddenly find him again? Do you have any ideas?"

Li Wei said: "What can Aunt Qi think? Brother, please don't make random guesses. You should be polite to Aunt Qi when you meet her later. After all, she is also the second brother's mother and a distinguished guest of our Li family. If she hadn't been there in the first place, Even with the hundreds of thousands of dollars given, our family doesn’t have the conditions we have now.”

Jian Ping smiled and said, "Weiwei, do you think I'm a three-year-old child who doesn't know what's important? Of course I know what's good and what's good. By the way, why didn't Jian Bo come back with you?"

Li Wei told him truthfully: "The mother and son are still at odds, and the second brother said he was busy with work, so he refused to come back together. It's hard to persuade me to be in the middle. You also know the stubborn temper of the second brother."

"That's true. We can't get involved in the conflict between mother and son."

The brother and sister said and walked all the way home. Qi Jingzhen was visiting this small hotel under the leadership of Yang Man. Although the hotel was small, it was well-equipped. After walking around, Qi Jingzhen said with a smile: "Although the area is not large, the pavilions and pavilions are quite interesting. There are many It’s very rare that you can come up with such a retro style.”

Yang Man said: "I heard that these architectural decorations were designed by Weiwei. She also painted the paintings on the walls herself."

Qi Jingzhen was a little surprised when she heard this: "Oh? That little girl is quite capable."

When Qi Jingzhen saw Li Jianping, she recognized him immediately: "This is Jianping, he looks just like your father when he was young. He has become a young man in a blink of an eye. Do you still remember me?"

When Qi Jingzhen went to the countryside to Yongning, she lived with Li's family for a long time. Qi Jingzhen also taught Jianping to recite some simple nursery rhymes, ancient poems, and even taught him to count and read. Although it only lasted a few months, in The imprint was engraved on Jianping's young mind.

"Aunt Qi, of course Jianping still remembers you, and you still remember how you taught me to recite poems. I still remember when we were beating beans in the drying field, you taught me to recite the "Seven Steps of Poetry", am I right?"

"It seems that I haven't forgotten it. It's just that time passed too fast. In the blink of an eye, it was more than thirty years ago."

When people reach middle age, they will always lament that time flies and the years go by so quickly. For Qi Jingzhen, more than half of her life has passed, and she doesn't know how many more years she has to live. Looking back on the bitterness and glory of this life. Her most impoverished days were when she went to the countryside in Yongning. At that time, she was alone with her little Jianbo, and she didn’t know how much she had to look down on. But she finally met the Li family again. Li Minghua and his wife were a simple and kind-hearted couple. They accepted her and let her live in their home. At home, everyone works in the fields and herds cattle in the mountains. She pulled Jianbo alone. Later, her life took a turn for the better and she was able to return to the city. But at that time, she was still an unmarried woman with a two-year-old son by her side. She was bound to encounter many obstacles with her. In desperation, she had no choice but to leave Jian Bo behind and asked the Li family to help take care of him, and promised to pick him up after a while. That was perhaps the biggest lie she had ever told and the wrong decision she had ever made. Once she left, she never came back.

Later, I moved overseas, and it was gradually impossible to keep in touch with this place. Thanks to meeting Li Minghua and his wife, they raised Jianbo so well and educated him into an outstanding man.

(End of chapter)