His Peasant Wife: Yao Ling [Part 1]

Chapter 1: Will You Marry Me? Part 3&4

Maybe her prayers were answered by God, she regained her strength and slowly tried to move up her hands.

Trembling softly, but she gripped the hairpin tightly. When she put on the hairpin, she smiled happily.

Her job is done...

"Be happy, Ling-er..." After saying that, she lost all of her energy. She let go in content and her smile was growing bigger.

Yao Ling heard a loud bang sound and she turned around in a hurry. There... she saw her mother falling down. "Mother... mother..." She shouted in panic. "Yao Ying... Yao Ying... please help me!"

Yao Ling heard the door was being opened from outside, she found his presence. "Help me put my mother on the bed! She fainted!"

After touching Jiu Lan, Yao Ying understood one thing. He couldn't find her breath.

She was gone. He helplessly looked at Yao Ling. She didn't realize that her mother was gone. Yao Ying still helped her put Jiu Lan's on her bed.

Yao Ling touched her mother and she felt no pulse from her wrist. Her whole body was shaking. Her heart is broken. "Yao Ying... why can't I feel her pulse? I... I... I can't feel it. She's not dead, isn't she? She won't leave me alone, right?"

Yao Ying looked at her sadly. 'What should he do?' He thought to himself.

She was in pain and yet he was lost. He hugged the girl in front of him. "Yao Ling... listen to me... She's gone.... Mother is gone!" He couldn't bear to hear her heartbreaking cries, but he had to be cruel.

Jiu Lan was gone. He always thought of her as his mother too, but his sadness couldn't compare to the girl in front of him.

Suddenly, it hit him. She has no one, but him. He wouldn't go back on his own promise to himself.

He will protect her! This life, he belongs to her and her only.

"Should we... bury her?" Yao Ying asked softly, trying to wake Yao Ling out of her reverie.

For a few days, she just hugged Jiu Lan's body – not moving at all. She still wore her hairpin ceremony outfits – once a simple and clean red dress, but now messy.

Her hairpin was still there, the last memory of her mother put it on her keep replaying in her mind.

Yao Ying sighed when he didn't hear any answer.

He already tried a lot of soft ways coaxing her, but she didn't budge. It might be the days when he spoke the most. He finally decided to try the hard way.

He yelled loudly, "Yao Ling! Wake up! Do you want your mother's body to rot? You should send her away when she's beautiful! Do you think Mother would want to see you like this?"

Yao Ling jumped at his loud voice, crying loudly. Yao Ying hugged her and started to coax softly again, "Please be strong! Don't you want your mother to look beautiful when she's gone? She wants you to be happy, so you should send her away with a smile. Don't you think she won't rest in peace if she sees you like this?"

Yao Ying's words started to get into her and she nodded softly.

After that, both were trying to tidy Jiu Lan up and Yao Ling put light make up on her. Jiu Lan looked beautiful and serene.

"Mother told me she wanted her body to be burnt and throw her ashes into the ocean," Yao Ling explained sadly.

Yao Ying just nodded and he prepared everything. After done preparing, they brought Jiu Lan's body to the beach and put her on a wooden ship which full of branches.