After rebirth, the eldest sister voluntarily abdicated and gave way to the wise.

Chapter 613 Old Friends Among Locust Blossoms

Two young people who had just moved to the foot of the mountain were getting married!

Upon hearing the news, neighbors came to offer their congratulations and help. Some helped them buy red silk and double happiness characters, some helped them cut paper-cuts, and some helped them buy wedding candy and dragon and phoenix candles—only the couple's wedding dress and wedding attire were not handled by others.

They were all made by one person—Xu Youan.

Jiang Liqian originally wanted to embroider her wedding dress herself, just like the women in the mortal realm. Unfortunately, when she and her mother were stranded in the mortal realm, she was too young and had never learned any needlework. On the contrary, Xu Youan seemed to be very familiar with these things.

Jiang Liqian wanted to ask him where he learned it, but when she looked at him carefully embroidering the phoenix on his wedding dress by the window, she suddenly didn't want to ask anything anymore.

No time has she felt more peaceful and serene than now.

Although life in the mortal realm was dull and monotonous, she found it precious. If she and Xu You'an could truly be a mortal couple here, she would genuinely feel that it would be wonderful, and that this was exactly what she hoped for.

They set the wedding date in a hurry, just seven days from now. In the meantime, they also had to find time to go to the town market to choose jewelry for their wedding.

Jiang Liqian had her eye on a jewelry shop and had just stepped inside when she was greeted by a group of young women with their hair in buns. The women seemed to be the shopkeepers and were introducing the jewelry to their customers when they looked up and saw Jiang Liqian, and they stared in surprise for a long time.

Jiang Liqian and Xu Youan are both exceptionally beautiful, rare beauties even in the cultivation world. They are often surrounded by onlookers at the market and have become accustomed to it.

But Jiang Liqian felt that the woman's gaze was not one of infatuation with her beauty, but rather a different kind of indescribable feeling: nostalgia and shock.

I miss them... Did they ever meet?

Jiang Liqian was full of questions.

"Excuse me," the young woman said, snapping out of her daze, her eyes shining brightly as she took two quick steps forward and ran up to her. "Excuse me, are you an immortal?"

"..." Jiang Liqian and Xu Youan exchanged a glance.

Xu Youan stepped forward slightly, with a friendly and polite smile on his face: "Madam, we are just ordinary people, why do you praise us like this?"

The woman shook her head and excitedly tried to take Jiang Liqian's hand, but Xu Youan frowned and subtly blocked her away.

"Madam, you have overstepped your bounds!" His face darkened, and he became wary.

The woman quickly waved her hand to indicate that she meant no harm.

"I, I..." She was so excited that she couldn't finish her sentence.

Jiang Li tugged at Xu Youan's sleeve and walked up to the woman.

"you know me?"

Xu Youan looked at her senior sister, who had asked the question, with a puzzled expression.

If the two knew each other, why did the senior sister act as if she had never seen her before?

Unexpectedly, the woman actually nodded. She swallowed hard, grabbed Jiang Liqian's hand, and turned to run towards the backyard of the shop.

Xu Youan was startled and quickly followed.

The woman led Jiang Liqian through the backyard and side rooms, until they reached a small ancestral hall at the very back.

Pushing open the ancestral hall door, the woman released Jiang Liqian's hand, lifted her skirt, and hurried forward. When she reached the offering table, she anxiously tiptoed to reach something behind a memorial tablet.

Jiang Liqian was hesitating whether to help her when she returned carrying a small wooden box.

"for you."

Jiang Li looked puzzled.

The woman stroked the surface of the wooden box fondly, her eyes shimmering with a pale, lake-like light.

She took a deep breath and looked at Jiang Liqian: "Immortal, I don't know you, but I have seen you before. To be precise, my great-grandmother saw you."

great grandmother?

Jiang Liqian blinked, still not quite understanding.

The woman solemnly opened the wooden box, and inside was a delicate and elegant locust flower hairpin.

"My great-grandmother told my grandmother, and my grandmother told my mother and me, that when she was a child, she lost both her parents overnight and was in unbearable pain. When she was preparing to find a sturdy big tree to look for her parents, she saw a fairy landing under a huge locust tree. When the fairy saw her, he gently waved his hand and sent down a beautiful rain of locust blossoms for her. She could never forget it in her life."

"My great-grandmother said that if her descendants ever had the chance to see this immortal again, they should give him this locust flower hairpin, which she had made herself and put countless efforts into, to thank him for the kindness of the locust flowers. It was this rain of locust flowers from the immortal that gave her renewed hope for life, and that's how this shop came about."

“My lord,” the woman lowered her head shyly, “my great-grandmother painted a portrait of you, which was passed down to my grandmother. I saw it when I was a child, but my child accidentally tore it up. Isn’t that a great disrespect to you? If, if I am guilty, could you please punish me for my great-grandmother’s sake? Please understand the feelings of a mother…”

After hearing her words, Jiang Liqian was stunned and lost in thought for a long time.

She remembered. Yes, it happened. On that day, she was filled with despair and preparing to end her painful life at her mother's grave, but she first saw a little girl with timid eyes.

On a whim, she showered the little girl with a shower of locust blossoms, intending to amuse the child, but unexpectedly it gave her life and the courage to be reborn.

Jiang Liqian never imagined that her simple act of kindness would receive such a precious sentiment years later.

Her thoughts were incredibly complicated, and for a moment she didn't even know what she was feeling.

I felt a mix of emotions: a desire to cry, a desire to laugh, and a profound sense of melancholy.

The person from the past returned, but the one who had been waiting with all his heart was no longer there, not for many, many years.

"How could I be guilty..." she murmured in a daze.

As she left, the woman took out the most valuable phoenix hairpin and jewelry from the shop and gave it to Jiang Liqian. Jiang Liqian did not refuse, but instead hung a small jade bottle around the neck of the baby the woman had taken from the back room.

"Do not remove it before this life is over, so that you may live a long and peaceful life."

The woman, grateful and respectful, saw Jiang Liqian and Xu Youan out the door.

After leaving the shop, Xu Youan, who had been holding back, finally couldn't resist and cornered Jiang Liqian at the entrance of an empty alley.

"Senior sister, you knew that the child had an unusual appearance, so why did you still give her the Yuan bottle containing the longevity talisman?"

Jiang Liqian said calmly, "There is a protective magic artifact in the bottle that can keep that child safe."

Xu Youan was furious and gripped her wrist tightly: "You know perfectly well that I wasn't asking about the Yuan Bottle! Senior Sister, you know better than me that interfering with the lifespan of mortals and disrupting the order of destiny will be punished by heaven."

Jiang Liqian was silent.

He then looked up into Xu Youan's eyes and said, "It's just a slight reduction in lifespan, I can afford it."

"Senior sister!"