Chapter 176:
She realized that Li Sanmao had already made her dependent on him, and that wasn’t good, not good at all!
This wasn’t her husband!
She saved him only because he was Miaomiao’s Father. After she left, Miaomiao couldn’t be without a father!
No one could hurt her. Having figured all this out, Luo Zhi’er felt much more relaxed.
She immediately changed into a set of light and convenient clothes and comfortable shoes. She had to strive, go up the mountain to find new business opportunities.
Li Sanmao saw his wife come out after a short while, which was not like what he thought—that she would be heartbroken and sad for a long time.
She had changed into a set of clean and neat clothes. “Wife, what are you going to do?”
“Go up the mountain for a stroll.”
“I’ll go with you!”
“No need, I like going out alone.” She didn’t even bring Miaomiao.
Miaomiao immediately ran over: “Mother, what’s wrong? Why are you suddenly ignoring Miaomiao?”
“Mother, please don’t be angry, okay?”
“Mother isn’t angry and isn’t ignoring Miaomiao. She just figured some things out. Stay home obediently with Father. Mother is going up the mountain for a stroll and will be back in the afternoon.”
“Mother, Miaomiao wants to go too!”
“Next time I’ll take you. Today Mother wants quiet, just to be alone for a while.”
Miaomiao was a bit disappointed but still said obediently, “Okay, Mother, go early and come back early.”
Li Sanmao wanted to say something but stopped. Seeing that expressionless face which gave him no sense of security, he decided to give her space and time.
His wife seemed to have returned to how she was before toward him—cold and indifferent.
Luo Zhi’er climbed up the back mountain to the place where she had previously made a fire with Miaomiao to cook food.
She sat down to rest for a bit, then continued climbing…
She climbed to some unknown place where there was a pile of cogongrass as tall as a person sitting down.
So she sat down again!
Thinking that unknowingly it had been almost a month and a half, nearly two months since she came here, she lay on her back and rethought and planned her life.
Doctor Du had said she had at most a little over three months of life.
It had been about a month since she went to the clinic. She had at most two months left.
Should she just wait to die like this? Maybe she could return to the modern era.
But she had been hit by a car and sent flying. Wasn’t her body already dead?
Atop the mountain peak, she looked down below, feeling like everything was small, with vast sky and thick earth.
Her mood brightened a bit.
With blue sky as blanket and earth as bed, exhausted in body and mind, she unknowingly fell asleep.
“General Hua, General Hua, wake up.”
Why was there a hazy woman calling her in front of her eyes? Li Xi’er opened her eyes wide. Why was she walking through the fog?
…Not far away, there was a very fat woman with her back to her. That figure looked very familiar…
“Excuse me, young woman, who are you?”
The woman suddenly started sobbing, crying more and more sadly…
“Hey, young woman, don’t cry!”
“Sigh, Xi’er, I am you, and you are me!”
“What?”
Li Xi’er was a bit confused.
“General Hua, please look!”
Li Xi’er opened her eyes wide and rubbed them. The woman with her back to her turned around.
Huh, how identical? “Who are you? Why…?”
Looking closely, her demeanor and mannerisms were actually different from hers. “Are you Luo Zhi’er?”
Li Xi’er suddenly understood!
The woman nodded.
“Then are you here to swap back bodies?”
“General Hua, we can’t go back. Everything can’t go back. There’s no time. I can only meet you here for half a quarter-hour. Let’s make it short.”
“What do you mean?”
“It means you have to live on here in my place. We swapped space-time. I am now called Li Xi’er, living your university life!”
“What? You mean you took my identity in the modern era?”
“That’s right. Grandmother is doing well. I will take your place and take good care of her. After your car accident, she was very worried. After I woke up, she took care of me the whole time.”
Speaking of Grandmother, her eyes reddened. If there was anyone she worried about in the modern era, it was her grandma. Making a white-haired person send off a black-haired one—that blow might be too much for her to bear. “Is Grandmother okay?”
“She’s doing well. Don’t worry, I didn’t tell her I’m Luo Zhi’er!”
“Thank you!”
“You don’t need to thank me. I also need to thank you. Thank you for taking care of Miaomiao so well! I’m not fit to be a mother, and I let down San Mao! I failed him!”
“Don’t say that. You were young and ignorant, desperate about life.”
“Hehe, thank you for comforting me. Actually, compared to going back, I prefer life now. I have direction, found a different me…”
“I want to live freely. I feel happy, feel free, no longer a walking corpse. I have dreams and a hopeful future!”
“You take good care of yourself too…”
Luo Zhi’er was disturbed by a harsh noise and could no longer hear what she was saying!
The plump figure in front of her was also blown farther and farther by the fog, becoming more and more unclear. “Zhi’er?”
“Luo Zhi’er, come back!”
Li Xi’er lunged but hit nothing, instantly waking up. The forest around her rustled in the wind!
Blue sky, white clouds… cogongrass swaying in front of her…
Was that just now… a dream?
But it felt so real. They hadn’t even finished talking. Could Luo Zhi’er really be living her life in the modern era in her place?
But what did she mean by calling her General Hua? She hadn’t had time to ask!
And what she said about not being able to go back—did that mean she could never return to the modern era?
Oh heavens, jokes aren’t supposed to be like this. Why make a perfectly fine university student transmigrate into a married rural woman with a child?
And a fatty at that. Fatty is one thing, but also poisoned, life is not long!
What? Can’t go back?
Does that mean she has to stay here forever?
Ahhhh!
Nooo!
But she had less than two months of life left. Luo Zhi’er took her modern body. If she died, where would she go?
Li Xi’er sighed deeply!
After a while,
Eh, she could only accept reality.
She casually broke off a small branch, bit it in her mouth. Biting into a flower bag was surprisingly stress-relieving. She thought.
Was she going to become a wandering ghost?
She bit another mouthful to relieve boredom, broke off another branch, pinched something like petals, and threw it away!
“Disappear without a trace from now on!”
She threw away another petal. “Detoxify, live well!”
Counting them one by one, the last petal, “Detoxify the poison gu, live well.”
“Hehe, no deceiving. I’m taking this seriously!” Li Xi’er felt comforted. Unexpectedly, while pinching, she got a hand stained red.
Thinking of her lips and teeth, would others think she had spit blood if they saw…?
Her hands were red. This color was pretty. What plant was this?
Oh, it was Goddess of Luo Flower.
In the modern era, Goddess of Luo Flower had effects for beauty, lowering blood pressure, slimming… And she suddenly thought of the rouge shops here…
Last time she curiously went in for a look. They were all dry powders or red paper, quite inferior. When applied, they weren’t fine or natural…
Especially on the face, it looked a bit like a monkey’s butt.
The colors were only limited to red and light pink. This Goddess of Luo Flower could also be used to make rouge.
Rouge?
Humph humph! A business idea had already sparked in her mind!
Hmm… People need silver to live. With money, even ghosts can be made to push the mill!
Her only way out now was to live here. Damn it, with silver, would she fear not finding someone to detoxify the blood gu?
Then she would make lipstick. Dongli Kingdom’s first lipstick would come from her, Luo Zhi’er’s, hand!
Looking around, this Goddess of Luo Flower was everywhere on the mountain. August was exactly the blooming season. She could start now.
In the modern era, besides loving to eat, her hobby was loving to beautify. So making lipstick, perfume, aromatherapy wouldn’t stump her.
For this, she only needed a small workshop for processing and making. Recruit some people, teach them her technology, have others collect petals!
Then open a shop in town selling lipstick!
As for other colors, easy. In a few months it would be spring, various fresh flowers vying to bloom. Would she lack other colors?
This October was exactly the season when osmanthus bloomed profusely. Osmanthus could be used for pastries. In two months, she could also make perfume.
This led her to think other flowers could make perfume too, like jasmine, rose, lavender.
Exactly! Why would she waste this business opportunity?
She was going to make money, make money!
She could implement this alone, but showing her face might not go smoothly…
Speaking of which, if Old Li Tou and them were released, wouldn’t it lead to endless strife? Only taking it for oneself would end it.
To avoid alerting the enemy and reduce trouble, she decided: she would be a behind-the-scenes shareholder, provide the technology and business idea. The front-facing boss needed to be someone reliable.
After all, once her lipstick came out, it might cause a sensation. Not bragging, it would definitely suppress the town’s cosmetics shops.
If the owner was a powerless rural woman like her, she would surely attract envy and all sorts of overt and covert schemes.
But what if it was the young master of the marquis’s mansion?
At least on the surface, no trouble, and even if scheming, they would have to consider it.
Opening a shop and getting the government officials’ document was quick too. So this person had to be Ye Beiyao!
Li Xi’er’s eyes flashed, and her fighting spirit reignited.
