Chapter 591 Lost

On this day, Feng Jingyuan and Jiang Rumeng brought Zhang Yumo and her daughter to Huguo Temple.

The temple was filled with the smoke of burning offerings, and the sound of bells grew louder as people came and went.

Jiang Rumeng said, "I heard that recently many people have come to Huguo Temple to pray to the gods and Buddhas. Everyone wants to come and pay their respects."

Feng Jingyuan sighed, “When there is a disaster in the world, more and more people will pray to gods and Buddhas. I heard from your father that Qingzhou has been suffering from disaster for several months. Now it is the autumn harvest season, but the grain has been eaten by locusts. After a year of hoping, there is no harvest at all. Everyone is very desperate, so they have no choice but to come and pray to the Bodhisattva. This winter will be even harder to get through.”

“Many refugees have also come to the capital. Let’s set up tents and distribute porridge when we get back. Every little bit helps,” Jiang Rumeng said.

Feng Jingyuan also thought the suggestion was good. "Now that your sister-in-law is better, we should do more good deeds. It must be the Bodhisattva's blessing that allowed Mo'er to get through this ordeal."

They knew that Zhang Yumo had just woken up and was still a little unfamiliar with things, so they didn't force her to act like before.

Zhang Yumo listened quietly from the side. Over the past few days, she learned that she had been reborn four years in the future. Jiang Jinyan was now the Minister of Revenue, a second-rank official, and had also been granted the title of Marquis of Wu'an. She was his wife.

Jiang Fenghua is no longer the Princess Consort of Heng; she is now the Empress. Heng has ascended the throne and become Emperor, and the Su clan has been wiped out. She just can't understand how Consort Su, who was so powerful, and how the Su family, with such influence, could be destroyed in just four years, and how Jiang Fenghua could even become Empress.

Everything was unfolding in the opposite direction of her memory, as if nothing she knew had ever happened.

According to Madam Jiang and Jiang Rumeng, she and Jiang Jinyan were very much in love. Now, Jiang Jinyan was not in Shengjing; he had gone out on official business.

Upon reaching the Bodhisattva, Zhang Yumo knelt in sincere worship. Although she did not know who had saved her, she was still grateful to the Bodhisattva for bringing her back to life.

Jiang Ruochu, with her short legs, also knelt on the prayer mat. Her two round eyes were full of questions, and she didn't understand what the adults were doing. While they were kneeling and worshipping with their eyes closed, she was attracted by the sound of a wind chime. In no time, her small body was swallowed up by the crowd and disappeared.

The maids didn't notice her either. There were many people praying to the gods and Buddhas. After they had each prayed to the Buddha several times, they came to their senses and started looking for the child.

"Xiao Chu," Feng Jingyuan called out.

Jiang Rumeng and Zhang Yumo also looked at the servants beside them, "Where is Xiao Chu?"

The servants assumed Jiang Ruochu was praying to the Buddha with the ladies and didn't pay attention. Only when they saw the crowd of people coming and going did they start to look for her.

At this moment, no matter how much they called or searched, they couldn't find Jiang Ruochu. Feng Jingyuan was so anxious that her eyes turned red. "You all split up and go look for her."

Zhang Yumo had spent a few days with her and had gained such a considerate daughter, which she liked very much. But in the blink of an eye, she suddenly disappeared.

She immediately began searching everywhere.

The group searched the surrounding area thoroughly but couldn't find the person.

Jiang Rumeng immediately sent her maid to report to the authorities. Huguo Temple had a large flow of people, so there were also soldiers on duty there.

The soldiers couldn't find her either. Knowing that she was Miss Sun from the Jiang family, everyone worked even harder, but Jiang Ruochu just disappeared.

Even sealing the temple gates wouldn't help; the place is too big, and people can come and go from all directions.

“How far could such a small child go?” Jiang Rumeng calmly analyzed: “Xiao Chu must have been deliberately abducted.”

“Xiao Chu is very well-behaved and obedient. She never runs around. How could I not keep an eye on her? How am I going to explain this to Jin Yan when he comes back? It’s all my fault.” Feng Jingyuan kept blaming herself. She thought Xiao Chu was with her mother and let go of her.

Zhang Yumo didn't pay much attention to that. Xiao Chu was quite sensible. At only two years old, she already knew how to take care of her and feed her porridge.

"I'll go find her, I'll definitely bring Xiao Chu back," Zhang Yumo said again.

Jiang Rumeng grabbed her, "There are so many people, how are we going to find her? You don't know the way, and you've lost your memory. What if you get lost too? Don't worry, Xiao Chu may be young, but she's very smart. She'll be fine."

Actually, Jiang Rumeng was also very flustered.

Zhang Yumo said, "Xiao Chu can't have gone far on her own, unless she was deliberately taken away. Does the Jiang family have any enemies?"

Jiang Rumeng didn't dare say that the Jiang family had no enemies; it would be terrible if they were human traffickers.

Jiang Rumeng said, "Huguo Temple is located outside the city, making it difficult for the government to search and control it. For now, we can only search the area around Huguo Temple first."

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After escaping Su Qingqing's clutches, Qin Yunyan had nowhere to go. In the end, she fled back to Shengjing City and lived in Huguo Temple.

She knew the Jiang family because she had been ordered by Su Qingqing to monitor them. She discovered that there were many soldiers and guards around the Jiang family, and even the area around the second young lady of the Jiang family was full of guards.

The Jiang family was very vigilant and cautious. She never expected to run into Madam Jiang and Jiang Rumeng at the temple.

The little girl next to them was very pretty, and she thought to herself that she must be Jiang Jinyan's daughter.

So she used a wind chime to lure her in, and then used a sleeping potion to knock her unconscious.

Qin Yunyan held the unconscious little girl, her eyes filled with hatred. "If it weren't for your father, our Qin family wouldn't have been raided so quickly. Blame your father, Jiang Jinyan."

Qin Yunyan always blamed Jiang Jinyan and Xiao Yu for her suffering. When her fingers were around Jiang Ruochu's neck, she suddenly couldn't bring herself to do it. She couldn't bear to kill such a young child, yet she was also unwilling to do so.

If she couldn't kill her, she would at least let the Jiang family experience the pain of losing a loved one. She decided to abandon the little girl in the wilderness and let her fend for herself.

So, she carried Jiang Ruochu and fled Huguo Temple. There were soldiers searching all around, so she chose to take a side path. Having hidden there for so long, she was quite familiar with the surrounding terrain and quickly escaped Huguo Temple.

When Jiang Ruochu woke up, she saw the stranger in front of her but didn't cry, and had no idea that she had been taken away. Seeing that she was dressed in a festive color, she asked, "Big sister, are you the bride?"

Qin Yunyan was stunned. "No, how would a child as young as you know about a bride?" She wasn't afraid of strangers at all!

“My grandmother said that a person who wears a red dress is a bride, and when I grow up, I will wear a red dress and be a bride,” Jiang Ruochu said.

Qin Yunyan thought to herself, "How did the Jiang family raise their child? The person in the red dress is the bride? What a joke!" But why was she arguing with a little kid about such things?

Qin Yunyan once wanted to be Xiao Yu's bride, but as a daughter of the Qin family, she had to think of the Qin family and marry into the palace to become the emperor's woman. Unfortunately, in the end...

Xiao Yu's love has always been for Empress Jiang; he has never loved her.