Obsessively Raised by My Doll 154

Chapter 154

After breakfast, Lu Dieqing took the table, chairs, and the food box that had just held the items and put them back into her storage ring.

When she did this, her face was full of interest, as if she were treating the storage ring as another home of hers, putting everything inside.

Zheng Xuening couldn’t hold back. She pinched the girl’s cheek, then her soft earlobe.

“Little darling.”

Lu Dieqing immediately leaned into her embrace, blinked her big, sparkling eyes, and opened her red lips.

“Ningning, I’m not afraid anymore. On the contrary, I’m inexplicably a little excited, thinking that I can do something for this world. My whole person is full of spirit.”

It was so strange. If a person only paid attention to their own destiny, they would easily worry about gain and loss, and be sad or afraid because of it. But if there was a greater destiny in front of you waiting for you to challenge, it seemed that, on the contrary, an inexplicable strength would arise.

Zheng Xuening looked down at the girl’s head, her fingers stroking the cute hair whorl, and chuckled softly.

“Me too.”

“Let’s go, let’s go. I want to go find my mother and ask her if there’s anything she’s missed.”

They had agreed to meet the black dragon again at noon today, so they still had time to do something else.

The two of them rushed back to the small courtyard outside the imperial palace.

Lu He and Bai Ming had been craning their necks and waiting in the courtyard all morning. They had not rested well last night, tossing and turning with a lot on their minds.

The moment they heard the sound of horse’s hooves outside, Lu He jumped up from behind the stove.

“They’re back! I see them coming back!”

She didn’t even have time to put down the fire stick in her hand and hurriedly threw it to the side, almost hitting Bai Ming’s foot. The latter hurriedly avoided it, picked up the fire stick and put it behind the stove, and also hurriedly walked out.

“Mother!” The moment Lu Dieqing entered the courtyard, she called out crisply.

Bai Ming also came over, looking at his daughter with eager eyes.

Lu Dieqing did not favor one over the other. “Father.”

She quickly explained what had happened when she had not returned yesterday. “We’re fine. You don’t have to worry too much. I specially had the little date-red horse come back to deliver a message.”

Seeing the identical dark circles under her parents’ eyes, Lu Dieqing could imagine how the two of them had tossed and turned all night, unable to sleep peacefully, worried.

Her heart was very warm. She knew that her parents were concerned, but this also gave her more motivation to cultivate well, not only for herself and Ningning, but also to protect her parents, and to protect the countless families in this world that were like hers.

“Tell me in detail, what happened? You went to the imperial palace yesterday and didn’t come back. You made your father and me so anxious. If not for the message you sent, your father and I would have gone to the imperial palace to break in.”

Lu He took her daughter’s hand and asked her to hurry into the house and sit down to talk seriously.

Others were all concerned about the matter of the black dragon and the two fairies from the sky being all-powerful. Lu He knew in her heart that those two fairies were her own daughter and the Crown Princess.

Lu Dieqing knew that her mother was anxious, so she told her everything from beginning to end.

Since she had decided to go with Ningning to find the descendants of the cultivators in the other courts, this matter could not be hidden from her parents.

Besides… Lu Dieqing was also very curious about the origin of the jade pendant she was wearing on her neck.

Lu He was like she was listening to a storyteller in a teahouse, her emotions constantly being pulled by her daughter’s words, rising and falling, a complete rollercoaster ride.

“There’s so much to this story…” Lu He looked at the jade pendant her daughter had taken out and studied it for a while before sighing.

“This is an ancestral heirloom of our Shan court. It is said to have been passed down for five generations, and you are the sixth. Originally, it should not have come into my hands, but at that time, I was thinking that I was going to be a hostage, and I would not be able to return to my homeland in the future. I was unwilling and wronged in my heart, so I found a way to ask your grandmother, the Empress, for this item, just to keep it as a memento…”

Lu He rambled on, “Logically, it has been passed down for so many generations, and has not shown any abnormality. Your grandmother, the Empress, should not have given it to me. But she still had some blood kinship for me, so after I had knelt for half a day, she gave the order to give me the jade pendant and other tokens together…”

Lu Dieqing asked in detail, “Mother, you told me before that we had a puppeteer in our ancestry. Do you still remember who she was? Are there any other details that have been passed down?”

After obtaining the legacy from the forbidden land, Lu Dieqing understood in her heart.

A puppeteer was just a branch of the immortal cultivation method.

Lu He was silent for a while. “She… I know her, but she has long since been removed from our Lu family’s family tree. It is said that she was expelled from the court back then and cut off all ties with our line.”

Lu Dieqing’s heart was itching with curiosity, as if a cat were scratching it.

“Why was she expelled from the court? Aren’t puppeteers very powerful?”

“I don’t know the secrets of this. It’s been two hundred years. Who still knows those things? The people who knew the truth back then have long since turned to dust. It was only because I heard your grandmother, the Empress, mention it once when I was a child that I remembered.”

“A lot must have happened back then for that ancestor to leave the court, disheartened. The jade pendant I gave you was left by her. It’s just that for so many years, no one has taken this jade pendant too seriously.”

“Oh, right, there is one strange thing that I have to mention to you. The day before you and Xuening left the imperial palace, before I gave you this jade pendant, I had once lit a stick of spiritual incense.”

The day the spiritual incense was lit, the sky outside was filled with dark clouds, and there was lightning and thunder. This was very strange.

Lu He still remembered it to this day.

The moment she said it, Lu Dieqing also quickly remembered.

She was afraid of thunder and the dark. That night, she had been almost curled up in her quilt, sleeping.

So the strange celestial phenomenon that night was because her mother had lit the spiritual incense!

The mystery was finally solved!

“Mother, in that case, the reason why that black dragon came to look for me was based on the scent of the jade pendant that was activated after that spiritual incense was lit?”

Lu Dieqing turned the jade pendant in her palm over and over, but she couldn’t see anything.

Perhaps it was that her cultivation was still too shallow now. She could only see that there was spiritual energy stored in it, but she couldn’t see anything else.

Lu He was a little guilty and said sheepishly, “I didn’t know it would attract that black dragon…”

At that time, she had only been thinking of letting her daughter have a good way out. Seeing the other wholeheartedly thinking of succeeding in spiritual awakening and becoming a puppeteer, she had thought of giving it a try, to light the spiritual incense left by that old ancestor. Anyway, it would be a waste to leave it there, but if it really worked, it would give her daughter a path to the heavens.

“Mother, it’s not your fault. Don’t blame yourself.”

Lu Dieqing saw Lu He’s guilt and quickly patted her on the back, comforting her in turn.

This action of hers made Lu He freeze for a moment.

Her little padded jacket had been well-behaved since she was a child, but she had not been so considerate as to be so good at coaxing people.

Lu He subconsciously glanced at Zheng Xuening, thinking, could it be that her daughter now had a beloved, which was why she had become more sensible and considerate overnight?

With this glance, Zheng Xuening also seemed to have received some message. She got up and poured a cup of tea, handing it to Lu He.

“Auntie, have some water. Calm down.”

Lu Dieqing, seeing Ningning cooperate with her so well, couldn’t help but turn her head, showing a row of pearly teeth, her almond eyes curved, her smile bright.

Zheng Xuening curved her lips slightly, her face not showing a smile, but her eyes were filled with a pool of water, full of gentleness.

Lu He held the teacup, inexplicably feeling as if she were marrying her daughter off.

So reluctant…