Exile with Storage Space: Family Fortunes in the Barren Lands-Chapter 826 - 762: The Grand Finale (Part 2)

The family couldn’t go looking for food; they could only gather some roots and wild fruits on the mountain and catch small animals. How could they ever get full this way?

Later, Princess Consort Luling was on the brink of death.

These days were unlivable!

If she didn’t find money and food soon, she too would starve to death.

She picked up Guoguo and Jingjing, lied saying she was going to find food, and quietly sold them to the villagers for thirty taels of silver.

Guoguo sold for ten taels, Jingjing for twenty taels.

With the children gone, Li Xingmao would surely ask questions, so she quietly escaped.

On and on she walked, not knowing how long until she realized Guoguo had grown up.

Decked out in gold and silver, looking very affluent.

People called Guoguo "Young Madam Baili."

She happily called out to Guoguo, "Guoguo, let’s go back to how things were, let’s reconcile as mother and daughter."

Now that Guoguo had money, she wouldn’t starve to death.

But Guoguo pointed at her and scolded, "There’s no going back, Xue Family! The moment you traded me and Jingjing for money, there was no going back! You colluded with the Yu Wen Family and got the Li Family killed, and you still have the face to come find me? Get lost, you wicked woman!"

Wicked woman!!!!!!!

The voice echoed endlessly in her ears.

Xue Family woke up terrified.

She opened her eyes; where was the grown-up Guoguo?

She realized she was lying on the ground, right on the street near Jiafu Palace.

Her head hurt terribly; what was she hit with? It hurt so much.

Someone pointed at her head and said, "It’s bleeding! Wrap it up quickly."

Xue Family was dazed, unable to come to her senses for a long while.

Just now...

Did she have a dream, or... was that Guoguo’s past life?

She recalled her days with Guoguo; the child never smiled at her, and now upon meeting, the older Li Jing didn’t recognize her, yet Guoguo did, and the words spoken were not like those of a child; the tone was just like an adult’s.

Could it be that Guoguo...

Xue Family felt unsettled and thought the whole affair was too bizarre.

If Guoguo had been reborn, she certainly wouldn’t let her go!

In that dream, Guoguo was gritting her teeth and scolding her wicked woman, demanding she get lost!

Get lost!

She should just get lost; Guoguo wanted to kill her, Li Xingmao wouldn’t spare her, she would die in the Capital.

As for Li Jing’s matter, she didn’t want to worry about it anymore.

She only wanted to survive now.

Xue Family, frightened by the strange dream, hastily left this place.

She ran back to her rented place, packed up her belongings, and drove her rickety horse cart, leaving the Capital.

No one knew where she went.

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A few days later, the new Emperor Li Boxuan officially held the accession ceremony and changed the era name to "Zhengyuan," officially adopting the new era name the following year.

The Empress Dowager was conferred the title "Ren," and was titled the "Empress Dowager Ren’an."

The former Empress Cui Yinglei, had her title of Empress removed, to differentiate from the title of Empress Wei Family, and was instead conferred as Lady of Chu and granted a fief.

Cui Yinglei entered the palace to express her gratitude but did not reside in the Capital, moving to her fief in Chu.

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After Xue Family disappeared, Chai Eying and Li Xingmao led a peaceful life.

Although Li Xingmao took good care of Chai Eying, never letting her meet the eccentric Empress Dowager, and Wei Family was very accommodating towards her, and the children were obedient.

But Chai Eying still found she couldn’t adapt to life in the Capital.

It wasn’t that she couldn’t handle the noblewomen of the Capital, nor that she didn’t understand the palace rules, but that the daily pretense of courteous greetings and false smiles with the noblewomen exhausted her.

At the end of the year, Chai Eying discovered she was pregnant again.

With the pregnancy, coupled with the demands of greeting noblewomen, Chai Eying couldn’t hold on any longer and fell ill.

Li Xingmao canceled all her social engagements and even postponed some of his own governmental duties to stay home with her.

But Chai Eying’s body, instead of gaining weight, kept losing more.

She often lay on the bed with vacant eyes, silently shedding tears, with no desire to eat.

This scared Li Xingmao terribly, and he hurriedly called for Li Yuzhu.

Li Yuzhu checked Chai Eying’s body, puzzled, "Sister-in-law is two months pregnant, and she should be gaining weight, why is she getting thinner? Her body doesn’t seem to have any other ailments?"

"Are you sure you checked thoroughly?" Li Xingmao anxiously asked.

"I checked, checked everything." Li Yuzhu frowned, "Her body has no ailments, could it be her heart is troubled?"

Li Xingmao patted his forehead, "Am I not spending enough time with her?"

But when Li Xingmao stayed with Chai Eying day and night, without leaving, Chai Eying’s body got even thinner.

Li Xingmao grew even more anxious.

As they approached New Year’s Eve, which required full attendance at the family’s important banquet, and on the first day of the New Year, they also had to enter the palace.