"Master Huiming is still doing her homework, please wait a moment." Master Zhike nun Huimiao Heshi said with a smile.
She laughed and said, "I wonder if I can go see the temple master?"
"This... Almsgiver Cao knows that now that the senior sister has inherited the position of the temple master, she can decide whether she can meet the old temple master Miaolian. The poor nun really doesn't know."
She was not surprised. Master Huiming not only inherited the position of the temple master, but also inherited the position of eighth-rank monk official in the Senglu Department. She took the money to support Zhike Ni, and Master Huimiao was also in her forties.
, but if you look closely, you can see that she was very charming when she was young. After all, she was also a maid in the Yuan Palace.
Two charcoal pots were placed in the living room. Zhikuni collected the money and went to arrange tea and snacks.
Liu Ruhai saw from the side that she was very familiar with Zhike Ni Huimiao, but because he was an outsider, there was no trace between the two.
Are you an old member of Yuangong? He also vaguely inquired about the origins of the nuns in this temple.
But it seems that only by following her into the temple, the truth in Chengfu Temple is slowly revealed.
The temple slave carrying the charcoal basin retreated, and there was only the sound of snow falling outside the eaves. She drank two cups of warm tea and said, "I have stopped taking medicine for ten days. It's still like this..."
He was startled and reached out to touch her pulse gate again. He checked the pulses on both wrists and he frowned in thought.
"What was it like when you were on the street just now——?"
She nodded. She just waved for the car to stop. In fact, she was already in the same posture as half a moment ago. She was frozen there. Her hands and feet were stiff. She raised her hand in a hurry. As a result, she couldn't move her hand.
At that time, there was a sudden snowstorm, pedestrians were in a hurry, and it was difficult to find a car. Thanks to Liu Ruhai's car, it stopped.
"I'm afraid I'll need another round of acupuncture today. I'll have to take two more pills." Liu Ruhai called someone and asked the temple slaves to get the medicinal materials and medical utensils. "Fortunately, the necessary medicinal materials are available in the temple.
He laughed and said, "So you want to come here?"
"That's right." She hurriedly lowered her head and took out the money and gave it to the temple slave. In fact, she still remembered the bet and wanted her to meet Master Miaolian. But it was not easy to meet Master Miaolian in such a hurry, and she even
clear.
He looked at her again with a smile, "It's best to stay in the temple for a day and then go back. I will take one patch at midnight tonight and another patch in an hour."
She thought for a while and just told her: "Then you have to go back overnight after eating. You can't stay overnight."
He looked at her sideways, and she couldn't help but explain: "I have an enemy."
She was not afraid of spending the night with him. She told him not to be afraid.
He smiled and said nothing. She also smiled and looked at him.
She had greeted him and asked him to stay with her at the cemetery. But he was so timid that he cried and ran away.
Can she still be afraid of him?
Zhikuni accepted her advice and said with a smile: "The yard is booked, but it doesn't matter."
After leading them into the back temple, they saw a courtyard with black tiles and snow walls in the heavy snow. The temple actually arranged a large, first-class courtyard with a two-entry layout, and there were seven large and small courtyards inside and outside.
Eight rooms.
Hui Miaohe smiled and said: "This is the courtyard that the Sixth Master and Mr. Liu came to book for the Marquis Mansion last time. We are coming tomorrow on the 12th, but I guess I won't be able to come. Cao Shi mainly recuperates from illness, and there is no way to come."
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She could see the pear trees and apricots in the courtyard, and the snow and frost beating down on the branches and leaves. As she looked through the window, it was getting late.
She ate a bowl of plain noodles, sat cross-legged with him on the Kang table, and played chess out of boredom. She yawned when she was sleepy, and he pushed the chessboard away with a smile. He talked about the recent engagements in the Xungui Mansion in the capital.
She immediately cheered up and found out which family they were from. Then she secretly asked the young masters of these families and whether they were raising wives behind their backs. How many girls were there and whether the father-in-law already had a bastard?
He kept it secret from his wife's family.
Or maybe he was interested in the dowry from his wife's family. The nobles of the two houses looked respectable, but in private they had a good quarrel when talking about the dowry and betrothal gift. So what?
"You know everything..."
"Oh, you don't understand. You're not so powerful now. I see that your parents and brothers are soft-spoken people who are easy to bully and easy to talk to. You have no one to support you. Once you get married, it will be even easier to bully!" she warned.
, the old sisters in the yamen had all taught her that if she wanted to quarrel, she had to quarrel over money. It would be easier to quarrel once they were actually married.
Liu Ruhai thought for a while: "Your mother doesn't know how to argue." Not to mention her father, who loves to save face and suffer big losses.
She nodded dejectedly, but smiled optimistically: "I'm great. Besides -" She smiled and said nothing more.
He laughed, knowing that she would probably say that it was not a problem for her to have a wife, but it was not certain who would bully whom. Or that she became a nun when she had nothing to do, and lived in Chengfu Temple to sweep the floor and worship Buddha. Besides, Su Jintian
He has been controlled by her for nearly ten years. Who is she afraid of?
The two chatted for a long time, and in the evening Liu Ruhai performed acupuncture again.
In the middle of the night, he removed thirty-six silver needles from her body.
She opened her eyes and sat up.
There was an oil lamp in the house. The snow outside the window had not stopped yet, and it looked like there was a snowstorm in Jinling City.
She thought that the first eunuch's body in the tunnel should not have been discovered.
He got off the kang, squatted in the charcoal basin, held the handle of the medicine pot with a handkerchief, poured out a bowl of medicine, turned around and handed it to her. She took it and drank it all. But she also saw something on the table in the room.
In the dustpan, there are corpse poisonous plants, and he is sorting out the medicinal materials.
"Where did it come from?"
"It's from the passage between the palace walls. I got some randomly."
"..." You are really good, she thought.
She stood up and looked at the window for a long time, seeing the snowy branches on a moonlit night, which was so cold that it penetrated her bones.
Liu Ruhai asked from behind: "Did you kill the eunuch in the palace wall?"
She turned to look at him.
The lights kept flickering on and off. The two looked at each other.
He placed the medicine bowl on the square table by the wall and was still preparing the second dose of medicine. She suspected that if she didn't answer, he would secretly poison her.
"...Well, it's me." She thought for a moment and replied, "But I only killed the first one, Fu Quan'er."
It was not her who did the second eunuch Niu Luer.
He was stunned.
What this means is that the first old prisoner must have been dead for a long time.
"At the beginning of autumn last year, before I became a cripple, I killed Fu Quan'er. My swordsmanship——"
She was about to blow a whistle when he nodded: "At the beginning of autumn, you still have the power of a sword."
She was bored and snorted: "I hid him in the tunnel ice room."
She tucked her hair behind her ears, put her hands in the sleeves of her fat gray coat, and said, "The body should not have been discovered."
"Really?" He squinted.
"What do you mean."
"Because of Fu Quan's body, Marquis Nankang was reprimanded by His Majesty." He smiled, "This father-in-law is a popular figure in the imperial court. Who would kill him if he wasn't a traitor? If not to put Marquis Nankang into trouble, then why?
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"It's not me. I don't have such a plan." She denied solemnly. Although she always wanted to go back to the cemetery, because when she was picking up bones in the cemetery as a child, she once heard the ghost talking to her about the old Yanjing City.
Weird dream - she will have to kill the king in the future.
She wanted to know the reason. But she was getting older and more like a serious person. The ghost never appeared. She knew that it was just the hallucination of a child who was too cold and hungry in the tomb passage.
Maybe she shouldn't take Su Jintian with her? She thought. She felt that Su Jintian was sinister and vicious at heart. Maybe ghosts would like him.
But there are no ghosts in the world. She has read too many secret files in the yamen and knows that such ghost stories must be conspiracy.
She looked at Liu Ruhai. If there was a conspiracy in the capital, he must be the mastermind? Maybe she should go pick up bones with him. She had always had this idea.
Maybe the ghost comes out when he sees a timid and crybaby child. Su Jintian is boring if he is too courageous.