Xie Shuning was walking quietly behind Mr. Song, but when she heard these words, her eyelids jumped.

Before she had time to think about it, she called out: "Mother."

Mrs. Song and Mrs. Seven heard this and turned around together. Ms. Song asked: "What's wrong?"

"Mother, I don't want to listen to the scriptures..." Xie Shuning deliberately blushed, and waited until Ms. Song came closer before whispering in her ear, "I originally thought I wouldn't refuse Aunt Seventh's invitation, but now I have to.

Some of you feel sleepy. Wouldn't it be embarrassing if you fell asleep while listening to the abbot's sermon later?"

Ms. Song chuckled and lightly tapped her forehead, "You!"

Then she told Yue Bai: "Send the young lady back quickly to rest. It's still raining outside, so don't go out."

This sermon will have to last at least an hour. If she feels sleepy now, she will probably fall asleep later. Losing her composure in front of the Buddha is disrespectful. Mrs. Song herself is fine, but Mrs. Seventh

Here we are. The seventh wife is Xiao Wan's cousin. If she talks about it in front of Xiao Wan, it will be a loss of Xie Shuning's reputation as a good friend.

The more such a family is, the more important it is about status and conduct.

Especially for women, life is not easy, so how can we not be cautious at all times?

However, Mrs. Song loves her daughter, and people from Jiangnan tend to pamper their daughters, so she will try her best to satisfy Xie Shuning if she can. This time, she just refused to listen to the scriptures. Of course, she agreed without thinking.

Seeing Xie Shuning turn around and leave, Mrs. Seven became confused and turned to ask Mrs. Song: "Where are you going, Ah Man?"

"I'm afraid I won't understand it because I'm young and the Dharma is profound. It's better to go back and use this time to copy a few more scriptures to pray for my great-aunt." Mrs. Song shook her head slightly and explained with a smile.

Xie Shuning was indeed copying scriptures and praying for the eldest lady. Mrs. Song was not talking nonsense about this, so her tone was affirmative and there was nothing unusual about it.

After hearing this, the seventh wife nodded heavily and praised her: "Aman has been more sensible than others since he was a child. It turns out that the sixth sister-in-law taught her well."

Mrs. Song hurriedly said a few words of humility.

The two of them talked and slowly walked with other pilgrims to the monk Jie Ai.

On the opposite road, Xie Shuning's footsteps became more hurried step by step.

Yuebai was confused and asked her urgently: "Miss, what happened?"

After following Xie Shuning for several years, Yuebai finally got to know her somewhat, and when he saw this, he suspected something was wrong.

"We'll talk when we get back." Xie Shuning didn't answer, but urged her to walk faster.

This time when they came back to offer incense, everyone only brought one or two accompanying maids and women. There were very few people. After all, it was a temple, everything was kept simple, and it would be more inconvenient to have more people. Therefore, even the three old ladies were not around.

He only brought Chunping and Qiuxi, who was already a daughter-in-law.

Aunt Jiang was resting in bed, and Mother Gui was supposed to come with her. But Aunt Jiang thought she was useless, so she asked Mother Zhuo, who was next to Xie Shuning, to come with her. This time, she would wait for Mrs. Song first.

Therefore, the only person Xie Shuning can use right now is Yuebai.

The two of them quickly shuttled between the verandahs.

The raindrops gradually became denser and were blown by the wind and hit the two of them. Yuebai helped her block it.

Xie Shuning didn't care, and gradually started to jog with her skirt in hand.

The sky is slowly getting darker, and it won't be long before it gets completely dark.

Approaching the wing, Xie Shuning's steps slowed down.

Yuebai was caught off guard. He almost bumped into her back, but managed to steady his steps. "Miss, it's raining heavily."

Xie Shuning said "hmm", but looked around in the dim light. Since there were many people from the Xie family, there were not many pilgrims staying in Puji Temple at this time. Only the Xie family lived in this house.

Several pilgrims from that time all lived in the old wing of Puji Temple.

In this area, the Song family's house is at the very beginning, but the three old ladies live at the other end. The lights in the two rooms are not on at this moment, it is pitch dark inside, and nothing can be seen clearly. The remaining rooms

It's all dark, and I'm afraid everyone will rush to the front, even Chen will not be an exception.

It was really deserted, the moon was dark and the wind was high.

Suddenly, the door of the third old lady's house was opened a small crack.

Xie Shuning hurriedly grabbed Yuebai's sleeve, and the two of them hid in the shadows around the corner.

Fortunately, looking out from this position, the field of vision is still wide. Xie Shuning stood in front, and Yuebai hid behind her, so it was difficult to see the scene outside clearly. She couldn't help but lower her voice and asked: "Miss, what happened?

thing?"

"Silence!" Xie Shuning quickly squeezed out two very soft words from between her lips and teeth.

Yuebai shut her mouth obediently, not daring to move.

In the evening, lanterns were lit everywhere in the temple.

At this moment, it was swaying in the wind and rain, and the dim light also seemed to be swaying, swaying and undulating.

A slender figure flashed out like a flying mosquito, closed the door lightly and hurriedly walked to the other side.

Xie Shuning felt a thump in her heart.

The figure whose face was unclear at first passed quickly through the dim halo illuminated by the lantern. With a quick glance, Xie Shuning could see clearly that this person was Chunping!

Since the third old lady had specially informed the seventh lady and several other people to give lectures on abstaining from anger, she would definitely not go without her. But Chunping had always stayed with her, and now the third old lady had gone ahead, but Chunping was there.

Something is going on here, something is certainly not right!

Xie Shuning stared at Chunping's figure and broke into a cold sweat.

If the seventh wife hadn't mentioned the third old lady just now, she wouldn't have thought of it at all.

Yesterday morning, a group of people arrived at Puji Temple. It had been two days since they arrived, but it had been calm all the time. Even though she kept warning herself to be more cautious, she could not help but relax a little unconsciously.

Her brows furrowed tightly, and the look on her face became colder and colder.

What does her good grandmother want to do this time?

Poison?

When she was in the mansion, she failed once, and it was difficult for her to succeed a second time. The Yuming Courtyard and her Xiaoxiang Pavilion were as tight as iron barrels. In recent years, the power of the third old lady has become weaker and weaker. If she wanted to take action in the mansion,

Too difficult.

If you think about it this way, it seems to make sense.

Why do the three old ladies want to go to the temple to take action?

Xie Shuning had a cold face. When Chunping quietly pushed open the door of Song's room and stepped in, he finally ordered Yuebai in a low voice: "Keep it down and block Chunping in the room!"

"What?" Yuebai didn't see anything just now, but when he suddenly heard these words, he couldn't recover for a moment.

Xie Shuning lifted up her skirt, walked toward Song's room, and said only one sentence, "Don't worry about it. Let's go quickly!"

Yuebai's strength is not small, and he would have no problem subduing Chunping, who is usually weak and lonely.

The two of them lowered their footsteps and moved closer quickly. Fortunately, the sound of rain was heavy, and for a while, the footsteps occasionally became heavier, but it was not very obvious.

When Xie Shuning arrived at the door, she saw that the door was closed.

At this moment, there was a soft rustling sound inside. Xie Shuning grabbed Yuebai and pushed her towards the door.

The two almost bumped into each other.

Xie Shuning saw at a glance that there was a dark figure standing in front of the incense table.

Yuebai remembered what she just said and rushed forward.

"Yeah!" Chunping turned his head and screamed, and something fell to the ground with a soft "clang" in his hand.

In this group of rooms, there is an incense table in each room, with a small Buddhist niche on top, and a small three-legged incense burner in front of it. While the two were wrestling together, Xie Shuning rushed over and grabbed it.

He picked up the small incense burner, held it tightly with both hands, shouted "Yue Bai, get out of the way", stepped forward and smashed it down hard.

It was so blind that I didn't know where it hit, but Chunping let out a muffled groan and then lost his voice.

Although the incense burner is small, it is not light to Xie Shuning, and it still took a lot of effort.

In the darkness, her breathing sounded rapid and labored.

"Yuebai, go light the lamp." She took a deep breath and tried to keep her breathing steady. While instructing Yuebai to light the lamp, she bent down to pick up something that Chunping had dropped.

When her fingers touched a box-like object, Yuebai also lit the lamp.

When she saw the scene in front of her clearly, Xie Shuning couldn't help but take a breath of cold air.

Chun Ping fell to the ground with a bloody head and was motionless.

Without enough time to regret that he had acted too harshly, Xie Shuning quickly opened the box and found a black fragrant pill inside.

After a slight sniff, there was a smell of sandalwood, but the aftertaste seemed different from sandalwood. Xie Shuning couldn't help but wonder, the fragrance of sandalwood was everywhere in the temple. Is it the smell of this fragrant pill or the scent of sandalwood that she smelled?

The original incense in the temple...

"Yuebai!" Her heart moved and she called out.

Yuebai was bending down to clean up the incense burner and the incense ashes scattered on the floor. Hearing the sound, he raised his head with panic on his face.

Xie Shuning smiled at her, handed her the box in his hand, and said: "Go and put these fragrant pills in the incense burner in grandma's house, and bury them under the ashes."

"Miss!" Yue Bai's hand that took the box was trembling, quite scared.

Xie Shuning held her wrist fiercely, "Don't be afraid of Yuebai, let's go together!"
To be continued...