Chapter 5: White Lies 2

With a somewhat speechless expression, she slowly exhaled and began to speak.

"That night, didn't I faint?"

Seeing the two nodding, she continued, "That night, I had a very long dream. In the dream, my eldest sister smiled at me and said she had gone to another place where she could eat well, dress warmly, learn a lot, and earn a lot of money. She pulled me and told me to take good care of you all. I was panicked because without my eldest sister's monthly allowance, what would we eat?"

Her speech was full of ups and downs, making Xichun tighten her grip on their intertwined hands, and Yanqing hurriedly asked, "And then?"

"Then," she smiled and patted Yanqing's head, "then my eldest sister said, 'It's okay, you come with me for a while. I'll teach you some skills.' So she taught me a lot of skills. It felt like many years had passed, and when I finally learned, my eldest sister sent me back, and then I woke up. And then I realized I had only slept for one night."

With a feigned sigh, she said, "It's really like a day in heaven, a year on earth!"

Yanqing looked at her with innocence in her eyes, "Is our eldest sister really in another place? Can we still see her? Can we go find her? What about our mother? Did our eldest sister say if our mother is also there? Mother, did you dream about it?..."

Xiqiu was speechless. Kids always want to get to the bottom of things, don't they? Despite thinking this, she smiled calmly and said, "We won't be able to see our eldest sister again. She is in the heavenly kingdom. We can only reunite with her when we are old and have passed away. Our eldest sister didn't mention our mother in her dream. She said our mother has been reincarnated as a human."

The contradictory words made Xiqiu break out in a cold sweat, but Xichun listened earnestly, with a longing look in her eyes, "I really want to go to the place where our eldest sister is. Maybe my illness will be cured there!"

"Nonsense!" Xiqiu quickly stopped her from thinking this way. If she couldn't bear it and sought death, wouldn't she become a murderer?

"That place is not somewhere we can go. Only those who have reached the end of their lives can go there. If you go there without reaching the end of your life, you will be punished. Haven't you heard the old people say that? The soul reaper often takes disobedient people to hell."

After hearing this, Xichun quickly gave up the idea and shook her head, "I understand, I won't go."

Seeing that she no longer mentioned it, Xiqiu patted the bed and said, "It's getting dark, hurry up and cover yourself with the quilt and go to sleep, or you'll be hungry again later."

After hearing this, the two quickly lifted the straw and reed quilt and lay down.

Xiqiu finally breathed a sigh of relief. Dealing with these children really was exhausting! She had completely forgotten that she was just a thirteen-year-old girl now!

After the two lay down, Xiqiu took the inkstone and went to the kitchen in the main room, stacked some dry firewood in the stove, and used warm water to grind the ink.

She found a piece of hard wood and placed the rough paper on it. Dipping the brush lightly in the ink, as soon as she started to write, the ink bled through the paper and spread quickly. Feeling dissatisfied, she realized the paper was too poor in quality. She looked around and found a piece of tree branch, dipped it in ink, and drew a few strokes. Although it still bled, it was much lighter than using the brush.

Thinking for a moment, she slowly started to paint by the light of the fire...

Some things, despite the passage of time and a change in body, the familiarity of the soul still existed. She thought about the things she had learned in her past life to please men, which could now become a good skill for her livelihood.

As for the modern theories she had learned, they were nothing more than a pile of useless writings here.