"Pack up and close the shop. We will not see the doctor this afternoon." Looking at Xu Xian's departing figure, Ao Qingmei felt quite emotional. No matter in the immortal world or the mortal world, no one can escape the word love. She walked out of the front hall slowly. Before leaving, she turned her head and said something to the old shopkeeper at the counter, and then walked to her room. Thinking that the person her third sister liked also liked her third sister, Ao Qingmei suddenly felt very relieved. Fortunately, it was not her third sister who was hurt. She could not imagine how sad her third sister would be if Sister Bai refused to accept her third sister's feelings.
"Second Princess—" In the corridor, Hu Meiniang was waiting outside Ao Qingmei's room.
"Mei Niang? Why are you here?" Ao Qingmei was a little surprised: "Are you waiting for me?"
"Yeah." Hu Meiniang frowned slightly, as if she was troubled by something.
"Come in and talk." Ao Qingmei reached out and pushed open the door, letting Hu Meiniang in, brewed a cup of tea and handed it to her, then sat down, looked at her quietly, and waited patiently for her to speak.
Hu Meiniang remained silent and did not speak for a long time.
Ao Qingmei had no choice but to ask, "Mei Niang, are you worried about something? Is it related to my elder sister?" Ao Qingmei noticed that Hu Meiniang's hand holding the teacup suddenly tightened, and knew that her guess was correct, so she slowed down her voice and asked, "Mei Niang, what is the matter? You have to tell me, then I can help you."
As if she didn't know where to start, after a long while, Hu Meiniang finally spoke, recalling and telling, "I remember Caiyin once told me that I wasn't originally a fairy from Phoenix Mountain. It was Caiyin who found me seriously injured by the Mirror Lake one day. She begged the old ginseng fairy to save my life, and then brought me back to her own cave."
"Yeah." Ao Qingmei listened quietly, not disturbing Hu Meiniang's thoughts.
Hu Meiniang lowered her eyes, her voice floating in the room: "After my wounds healed, I found that my memory was blank. Who I was, what I had been through, who I had met, I had no impression of these. I tried to recall, but my head hurt inexplicably. The harder I tried to remember the past, the more severe the headache was. Over time, I had to give up." She took a breath without saying a word, and continued: "So all my memories are after Phoenix Mountain. Until that day when I met Sister Ningshuang by the Mirror Lake, my mood, which had long been calm, became unstable again." Hu Meiniang still remembered the inexplicable sense of familiarity that arose in her heart when she saw Ao Ningshuang that day. It was a feeling that no one had ever given her before. At that moment, she was surprised and happy, thinking that someone could finally help her recall the past. However, when she tried again to find her missing memories, she ended up being disappointed again, just like many times before. Her mind was still blank, and she had no memory of the other person at all. However, the familiar feeling was real and could not be a temporary illusion. When she asked Ao Ningshuang if she knew her, she got a positive answer.
"Do we know each other?"
"Yes! We do know each other, so I know your name is Mei Niang."
"But why don't I recognize you? You said we knew each other, but why do you remember me but I don't remember you?"
"Because we knew each other in our previous life, and this is just the first time we meet each other, so you don't recognize me."
We met in the previous life...So what was my previous life like
"Sister Ningshuang said that I knew her in my previous life." Hu Meiniang looked up at Ao Qingmei, "I can feel that she and I are more than just acquaintances, but... I don't remember it." Her eyes were covered with a faint confusion. After being absent-minded for a moment, she slowly told Ao Qingmei the story told by Ao Ningshuang. She always felt that there was some kind of connection between the woman in the story and Yu'er, and even - she was one of them. In the past few nights, she always had the same dream. The scene in the dream was almost the same as the story told by Ao Ningshuang, but no matter how hard she tried, she could not see the faces of the two women in the dream clearly, as if there was a layer of light fog between them. She could only vaguely see their figures. Every time she wanted to clear the fog that blocked her sight, the dream would fall apart and she would suddenly wake up. She really couldn't stand this torture. She wanted to find out whether what Ao Ningshuang said was just a story, so she came to find Ao Qingmei.
"Second Princess, you and the Third Princess are sisters of Sister Ningshuang. You know everything about Sister Ningshuang best. The Third Princess's injury has not yet healed, so it is not convenient for me to ask her for help. I can only ask the Second Princess to help me solve my doubts." Hu Meiniang looked at Ao Qingmei steadily, not letting her nervousness and uneasiness show on her face, but her voice was still a little tense, revealing her emotions, "Please tell me, Second Princess, am I the Yu'er in the story?"
After hearing what Hu Meiniang had just said, Ao Qingmei's original doubts were resolved one by one, and she also guessed Hu Meiniang's identity in her previous life. Her elder sister likes to be quiet and rarely steps out of the Dragon Palace. The only friend she has a close relationship with is the fairy Chang'e in the Guanghan Palace. If her elder sister goes out, she basically goes to the Guanghan Palace to visit the fairy Chang'e. There is a jade rabbit accompanying the fairy Chang'e. The jade rabbit is probably the real body of Hu Meiniang in her previous life. No wonder since hearing that the jade rabbit of the fairy Chang'e was lost, her elder sister has become full of worries and no longer goes to the Guanghan Palace regularly as before. It turns out that there are so many secrets that are not known to outsiders. As a sister, I didn't realize that my elder sister was trapped in love at the time. It's really wrong.
"Second Princess?" Seeing that Ao Qingmei didn't speak for a long time, Hu Meiniang became more and more uneasy.
Ao Qingmei looked at Hu Meiniang steadily, pondered for a moment, and stood up, "Meiniang, come with me, maybe you should look at your past life yourself." As he spoke, he walked out of the house.
Hu Meiniang pursed her lips, clasped her fingers nervously, stood up nervously and followed Ao Qingmei out of the house.
Ao Qingmei looked back at Hu Meiniang, and seeing that she had followed him, he reached out and held her wrist, saying, "Let's go." In an instant, the two of them turned into a long rainbow and flew away from Bao'an Hall.
The author has something to say: I’m in a bad mood, I will work hard to write more, and will start writing The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber soon.