Obsessively Raised by My Doll 144

Chapter 144

For the Crown Princess of the Chaoying Kingdom to be so good to his cousin, to have even given her such a precious horse without a word, Lu Er could only express his silent envy.

What else could he do?

Originally, when he had been preparing a gift for his Third Aunt these past few days, he had also thought about whether he should try to persuade the other to return to the Shan Kingdom when he visited.

After all… that was their homeland.

No matter what, it was a fact that women in the Shan Kingdom had a naturally high status.

Lu Er had also envied women. Sigh, if only I were a woman.

In that case, he would have received a little more of his grandmother, the Empress’s, attention from birth, and his official career would not have been so difficult.

At the very least, he would still have the title of a princess, and would not have had to be this thankless envoy.

However… these emotions had long since passed.

Ever since he had been to the forbidden land and had been trapped in the illusion formation, Lu Er had felt that it was all just a big dream.

The methods left by the immortals were truly strange. They had allowed him to achieve enlightenment in a single day, to no longer be entangled in the things of the past, and to truly start thinking about what kind of life he could live.

At that time, he had been in the illusion formation all along, but his cousin and the Crown Princess should have had other gains. Lu Er knew this in his heart.

It was just that they had not taken the initiative to say it, and he also knew better than to bring it up. He would just pretend that he knew nothing.

“Cousin, tomorrow I can have an audience with the sovereign of the Chaoying Kingdom. After that, I will not be returning to the Shan Kingdom. In the future, if there are any other matters, it will probably be my other brothers and sisters who will come. You and the Third Aunt must take care.”

Lu Er said his goodbyes in advance.

Lu He felt that it was a little fast and was subconsciously reluctant.

After all, this nephew was the first member of her maternal family to have visited her in so many years.

“Why are you leaving so soon? Why not stay in the Chaoying Kingdom for a few more days?”

Lu He tried to persuade him to stay.

She and her husband were quite fond of this child, Lu Er.

Although she and her husband did not plan to return to the Shan Kingdom immediately, it did not mean that they would never go back.

After all, it was hard to leave one’s homeland. It was just that for a moment, they did not know what kind of attitude to have when they went back…

For so many years, did Lu He not have any resentment in her heart? Of course, she did.

Especially when she thought of her daughter shrinking in the Chaoying court, living so cautiously, her heart would ache.

Presumably, the life Lu Er had lived in the Shan Kingdom was much better than Qingqing’s?

“I won’t be staying. The sooner I leave, the more at ease I will be,” Lu Er politely declined the Third Aunt’s invitation to stay.

The small courtyard was lively for a while, and then it finally returned to its usual tranquility.

When Lu Er said his goodbyes, Lu Dieqing just watched quietly. To this day, her attitude towards this cousin was also a little different from before.

Perhaps it was because she had accepted the puppeteer’s legacy. She knew that in the future, she would see a wider world. When she looked at the things she had been indignant about for her mother in the past, she had a few more traces of understanding.

After all, of the people living in this world, how many could have everything go their way?

Seeing Lu Er walk away, Lu He only then told her daughter what had happened today.

“He told me some things about the current situation in the Shan Kingdom. Sigh, it’s been so many years, and it’s still those old stories. No matter how much they make a fuss, they can’t get past the few words of fighting for power.”

Lu He was cooking red date congee. While she was fanning the small fire with a cattail leaf fan, she spoke to Lu Dieqing.

Lu Dieqing sat at the table, her small hands propping up her chin, obediently listening to her mother.

Sister Zuo Manzhi was going to join the army, and Lu Er was going on a long journey to other small countries.

Then, what about her?

Lu Dieqing couldn’t help but start to ponder this question.

Now that her parents had no intention of returning to the Shan Kingdom, it just so happened to give her time to think carefully.

“Mother, I’m going to cultivate,” Lu Dieqing suddenly said.

She felt that she had been thinking in the wrong direction. Clearly, the puppeteer’s legacy was in her own hands, yet she was still looking at what path others were taking.

Lu He only turned her head to add some firewood to the stove, and Lu Dieqing had already run off.

“This child…” she laughed.

The moment Lu Dieqing returned to her room, she sat cross-legged, cultivated, and circulated her spiritual power.

She held a spirit stone that Ningning had given her in her hand.

With the help of the spirit stone, her speed of acquiring spiritual power was much faster than before.

Of course, compared to the island in the forbidden land, this speed was still far from being comparable.

Lu Dieqing couldn’t help but have such a thought. In the future, if she and Ningning became powerful, would they also be able to have such an independent small world?

She wanted to put her parents in it as well, and then find some medicinal pills that could prolong their lives, so that her parents could live a long life with her.

She had to break through to the second layer of the Qi Refining stage quickly, so that she could cultivate a secret technique in the jade slip.

This secret technique could temper her divine sense and make it stronger than before, so that she could better forge dolls.

While she was studying the jade slip, Lu Dieqing unintentionally discovered that she seemed to have a certain talent for cultivating the Spring Rain Technique.

Clearly, at the beginning, she had just wanted to casually see if she could cultivate the Spring Rain Technique.

After all, the female doll who had given them the legacy had once said that the Spring Rain Technique was suitable for dolls to cultivate and then use on humans.

But when she had tried to circulate the spiritual energy in her body according to the Spring Rain Technique’s cultivation method, she found that it was exceptionally smooth.

Her body became very transparent, as if all the pores in her body were breathing. A cool energy traveled through her body, and even Lu Dieqing’s face became a little more rosy.

The first layer of the Spring Rain Technique, she had broken through with ease.

“So magical.” Lu Dieqing had a feeling that when this Spring Rain Technique was cultivated to a more proficient level, if she used it on her parents, it could also nourish their meridians and have the effect of prolonging their lives.

This made her even more motivated for a moment.

Lu Dieqing, in one go, continued to cultivate.

She closed her eyes, and just as she had quietly circulated the spiritual power in her body for one cycle, she heard her mother’s voice from outside the door.

“Girl, come and eat.”

“Oh, I’m coming.” Lu Dieqing did not delay. After one cycle was over,

she opened the door and walked out.

However, just as she had walked into the courtyard, she saw a sudden gust of wind outside.

Black clouds gathered overhead, as if a roaring black dragon were rolling in the sky. The wind howled, looking extremely terrifying.

Lu Dieqing inexplicably had a bad feeling in her heart.

She quickly took a few steps and urged her parents to hurry back into the house.

Her family always liked to move the table into the courtyard for dinner, to watch the sunset and eat slowly.

At this moment, the table was in the courtyard, and half of the food had already been served.

Lu He had just been about to bring out the steamed egg custard when she saw her daughter blocking the door, not letting her go out.

“How could…”

Just as she had said this, she heard a loud rumble, and a huge flash of lightning streaked across the sky.

The clouds seemed to have turned into an ink bottle that could drip ink, and a torrential rain poured down.

The pattering of the torrential rain directly stunned the entire imperial city.

Lu Dieqing was also dumbfounded, because the table in the courtyard that had not been put away in time had been smashed with several “clang” large holes.

“It’s… hail!”

Lu Dieqing shouted.

It was not just a torrential rain.

Just looking at the scene of the table, you would know that if a person did not dodge in time, the hail could smash their head and take their life!

What about Ningning! What’s happening with Ningning now!

Concern leads to chaos. At this moment, Lu Dieqing’s mind was filled with Ningning, who was still in the imperial palace.

What if at this time, the other was not in the bedchamber, what if Ningning was walking on the road… what if…

Her mind was full of “what ifs.” Lu Dieqing’s heart was beating so fast it was about to burn, and the blood in her whole body was about to flow in reverse.

“Aiyo, how come it’s hailing.”

Lu He also came over to look outside.

Bai Ming had been staring at the sky all along. Only after observing for a long time did he slowly say, “I’m afraid it will last for a long time.”

His voice fell, and sure enough, he saw the hail begin to smash against the small courtyard with a “clang, clang, clang,” which made one’s teeth ache.

If they had been a little slower just now, or if they had not been pulled into the house by their daughter, they would probably not have been able to avoid the hail.

“How did the weather suddenly change… your cousin just left. I just hope he’s lucky and has avoided the hail and wasn’t hit.”

“This weather doesn’t look right.”

Hearing her mother say this, Lu Dieqing thought of Zheng Xuening, and her heart clenched.

She… “Mother, I’m going out to have a look.”

She wanted to go to the imperial palace to find Ningning.

The moment she said this, Lu He immediately pulled her back and said anxiously, “Go where? Now everyone is sweeping the snow in front of their own doors. How can we care about others?”

Although that child, Lu Er, was not bad, he was just her nephew, and a relative she had not seen for twenty years. How could he be as important as her own daughter?

Seeing that Lu Dieqing was going out, Lu He refused to let her go.

The little girl was anxious and could only tell the truth.

“Ningning is not an outsider. I want to go and see Ningning.”

She knew that Ningning had a headache problem. What if her headache happened to recur at this time…

She knew that this possibility was very small, but she couldn’t help but worry.

What if Ningning was really in danger?

At this time, in Changning Palace, Zheng Xuening had indeed encountered an accident.