Chapter 424 – Hua Hua Returns
After breakfast, Jiang Yixi was in a hurry to go to the Temple of the State of Retribution to pick up Hua Hua.
Meng Zhimo took a look at her thick dark circles under her eyes and said, “Hua Hua has been busy for so long, she definitely needs to rest as well. It’s still early in the day, so you should get some sleep first.”
Jiang Yishi thought about it.
As soon as her head hit the pillow, she sank into a dream.
Opening her eyes again, she saw that the windowpane was already colored red by the setting sun.
Jiang Yishi sat up at once.
Sister Wu, who was sitting by the side doing needlework, almost turned her back in shock, and got up and snapped, “Aigoo, Great Grandma, you’re still pregnant.”
Jiang Yishi gasped, “I’m going to pick up Hua Hua, why didn’t he wake me up? Where’s Meng Zhimo?”
Due to her anger, she called him by his name for the first time.
Sister Wu’s eyebrows wrinkled so much that they could pinch a mosquito, “Great Grandma can’t say that, people will say you’re not virtuous.”
Meng Zhimo walked in and smiled, “The Retribution Temple sent someone to send a letter over, asking you to go see Master Yu He tomorrow. It also said to reassure you that they are all fine.”
Jiang Yixi’s heart immediately blossomed, and she had the heart to care about something else.
“How is it there?”
She was asking about the Emperor and Ping Wang. There were outsiders in the room, so it wasn’t good to say it explicitly.
Meng Zhimo knew what she meant and laughed, “It’s good, Ping Wang personally went into the palace to give the scriptures he copied yesterday to the Empress Dowager.”
Jiang Yi shi got up, listed a long list of food that Hua Hua loves to eat, and had the ingredients prepared, so that tomorrow Hua Hua would come back and make it for it to eat.
She also put the pretty little quilt, pillows and dolls that she had made for Flower Flower on its little bed.
He also said to Meng Rimo, “When Hua Hua comes back tomorrow, if it wants to sleep on my bed, you can sleep in the side room.”
Meng Zhimo nodded, “Good, whatever Flower wants to do is up to it.”
The next day, Jiang Yixi got up at Yin hour to make vegetarian snacks and boil vegetarian soup. When the day dawned, with six boxes of vegetarian dishes and two cans of tonic soup, and secretly brought a small copper tube of tear water for the master to replenish the body, Jiang Yishi and Meng Ruimo took a soft sedan chair and went to the Newspaper State Temple.
Cun Cun and Yin’er know that today father and mother are going to pick up flowers, both woke up early in the morning, did not whisk away, but also instructed them to make sure to bring back the flowers.
When they came to the front of the Zen garden, it was still Ring Seven guarding the door to the garden. He stopped Meng Zhimo and the others, and invited Jiang Yishi alone to enter. He also called two monks to bring in the snacks and soup.
Ring Ten stood guard outside the door of the meditation room and smiled with his hands together, “Amitabha Buddha, poor monk master and Hua Hua are both inside.”
This was the first time Jiang Yishi had seen him smile, and the scar on his face didn’t look hideous anymore.
Jiang Yishi bowed to him and returned the favor, hurrying into the house.
When he came to the side room, he saw Master Yu He leaning against the large welcome pillow on the kang, holding a cat in his arms.
It was also a civet cat, extremely similar in size and looks to the original Flower, but Jiang Yi Yi could still tell that this cat was not the previous Flower.
Despite being mentally prepared, Jiang Yi Yi’s eyes were still red.
With a flash of black shadow, the cat jumped into Jiang Yishi’s arms at once. Meowing, it called out, “Mother, I your is Flower, I’m back again.”
Jiang Yishi’s tears fell, but she smiled exceptionally happily.
“Great, my baby is back again.”
She kissed the little thing a few times and looked at it carefully for a few more moments, smiling. “Baby is so beautiful, just as beautiful as before.”
This compliment made Hua Hua smile, her little head coming up to lick Jiang Yishi a few times.
One person and one cat made out for a while before Jiang Yishi looked at Master Yu He.
Compared to before, the old monk’s body was thin, his cheeks were sunken, and his face was gaunt, as if he had suffered a serious illness. Only his eyes were full of compassion as always.
Jiang Yishi placed Hua Hua on a chair, bowed with her hands together and said, “Thank you, Master, for returning Hua Hua to me, and even more so, thank you, Master, for saving the entire Jinhe Dynasty.”
The old monk said, “Amitabha Buddha, the Buddha of Universal Sustenance, suffers infinite suffering on behalf of all beings, and is of great joy.” His eyes turned to Hua Hua, and added, “The least of these is the little thing, it came back in this skin because it didn’t want Master Jiang to be sad. However, the little thing has cultivated great merit, it will surely have its heart in the right place.”
Speaking breathlessly, he even gasped a few times in between.
Jiang Yishi didn’t dare to disturb him anymore, took out the small cylinder of copper and placed it on the kang table, saying, “Master rest well, I’ll take Hua Hua back.”
Seeing the small copper cylinder, Master Yu He revealed a satisfied look, “Lao Na’s body has consumed a great deal of energy and will be in seclusion for a year, so from time to time, Master Jiang will send some vegetarian snacks and tonic soup over.”
Jiang Yishi agreed and picked up Hua Hua and left the zen room.
After leaving the Zen garden, Meng Zhimo and Sister Wu, Mei Xiang, Shui Cao, Shui Ping and a few guards greeted them with quick steps.
Seeing so many people come to pick themselves up, Hua Hua was very happy.
Sister Wu added, “Dagui’s daughter-in-law gave birth to a son, and it’s not even a full month yet. Because she couldn’t come to pick you up, she was crying.”
Dagui’s daughter-in-law is Shui Ling.
Flower meowed a few times to show that it appreciated Shui Ling’s love.
Flower had been away for more than a year, and this skin bag was very similar to the previous one, so except for Jiang Yishi, who had the most contact with Flower, no one else had noticed that Flower’s skin bag had changed.
Meng Zhimo first had some doubts, but when he saw the unusual cat’s expression and behavior, but it was not his family’s little Rogue, he again dispelled his previous doubts.
Jiang Yishi thought that Shuiqing, who had served Hua Hua for the longest time, could definitely see the difference, but fortunately, Shuiqing could not enter the house without special circumstances.
Jiang Yishi went to the main hall to pay homage to the Bodhisattva, thanking him for blessing Hua Hua’s safe return. Meng Zhimo had injuries and couldn’t worship, so he waited outside the hall with Flora in his arms.
Without fasting, he rushed back to Duke Cheng’s residence with Flora.
In the sedan chair, flowers lying in the ear of Jiang Yishi said his choice.
“People are in a difficult situation. I want to be a human being, I want to be my mother’s real son, I want it so much. However, being mother’s son can only live until twenty years old, I can’t let mother be sad, so I can only continue to be a cat.”
Jiang Yishi was so moved that she wanted to cry. She was also certain that if Hua Hua became her son and left at the age of twenty, losing both her son and Hua Hua at the same time, she would cry to death.
Flower had actually given up her biggest dream for her.
Jiang Yishi hugged Hua Hua tightly, unable to speak.
All the words of gratitude or touching at this moment paled in comparison to Hua Hua’s actions.
Suddenly, she thought of Master Yu He’s words, “The little thing has cultivated great merits and will surely accomplish what it wants.”
She asked, “What did you think about the most on the days when you were away from Mother?”
Hua Hua said, “Being mother’s true son.”
Jiang Yishi laughed, Yu and Master Yu’s hints were already obvious.
The little thing was sometimes smart and sometimes naive, not hearing the strings of that sentence.
The master had his own reasons for not saying anything. Jiang Mashie also dare not say broken, afraid to say broken will lose that destiny.
I hope that in the next life they can become a real mother and son.
The mouth said, “Baby is now also mother’s true son. Oh, and Mother is pregnant again, so you’ll have another brother or sister next year.”
Hua Hua stretched out its paw and touched Jiang Yishi’s flat belly, if it had chosen to be a son for Mother, would it have already burrowed in?
It thought of another problem, “Mother is pregnant, you can’t get too close to kittens.”
After saying that, it even shrunk its neck.
Jiang Yishi hugged it a few points tighter, “No matter, today we’re going to get close as a mother.”
Hua Hua was lying in her mother’s arms, her little expression happy.
One of the guards had already ridden a fast horse back to the mansion to report the news. When they arrived at the second gate, there was a butch of people standing inside and outside the second gate, including Master Meng Liu, An Ge’er, Meng Xiu, Huang Xin, Cun Cun, Yin’er, Yi Ge’er, and someone had carried Jojo over as well.
When Hua Hua saw that so many people had come to greet her, even Jojo, she was overjoyed. She jumped off the ground and rushed into CunCun’s embrace, her small body instantly pinched into many small claws.
Only Jojo was not happy, shouting with Zheng Ji s special voice, “Roll, go home, sticks to serve ……”