The person in that carriage was... Wuxin?

Shen Xinghe's face turned green. No wonder they couldn't be found. One was dressed as a woman, and the other as a man. How were they supposed to find them?

Also, before she spoke, her face was unfamiliar to him, but after she spoke to him, her face became familiar to him.

"Why...do you want to see me?"

Shen Xinghe just wanted to get these two away as soon as possible so that the princess wouldn't see them.

Ali said with feigned sadness, "As you know, my wife and I have been married for many years but still don't have children. I heard that the Buddhist temples here are very effective in granting children, so I thought I would take my wife up the mountain."

Seeing that Ah Li seemed to believe what she was saying, Shen Xinghe pressed his temples and said, "Okay, I'll take you up there."

Ah Li clasped her hands in thanks and said, "Thank you, General Shen."

"It was just a small favor."

Shen Xinghe walked towards the carriage, and Wuxin nodded to him and moved back a little.

However, Shen Xinghe did not get into the car, but instead stood there watching Ah Li.

Ah Li obediently came over, led the carriage, and followed the people.

Shen Xinghe only started walking slowly after he saw Ah Li move.

Ahri followed behind him; the two didn't seem to know each other very well.

The princess's men watched from afar, and seeing that everything was normal, they went back to report.

The scholar was of average appearance, and the woman in the carriage was also a country bumpkin; neither of them looked like a Buddhist monk.

He must have been a down-on-his-luck scholar desperately seeking a son, who traveled a great distance to burn incense and pray to Buddha.

With Shen Xinghe leading the way, Ali and Wuxin made it up the mountain without any problems.

Shen Xinghe followed behind the two, watching Ah Li tenderly supporting Wuxin's hand, saying from time to time, "Don't worry, as long as we are sincere, the child will come."

He glanced around cautiously without thinking, and said, "Hmm."

There was no one else around, just Shen Xinghe with him, but he still felt inexplicably uneasy.

It felt like being kept as a mistress and finally meeting the wife.

Wu Xin shook his head. Enough. He'd been taken by Ah Li to listen to storytellers lately. What had he been thinking about?

Soon, Ah Li led Wu Xin into the main hall, where they knelt before the Buddha and worshipped with great devotion.

Shen Xinghe stood guard outside, and he could still hear Ah Li shaking the divination sticks.

I also heard the fortune teller say, "Whatever you ask for, you will get."

Ah Li said gratefully, "Thank you, Master."

Ah Li helped Wu Xin out, but Wu Xin's gaze didn't fall on Shen Xinghe. She looked just like a married woman who didn't dare to look at other men.

"General Shen, I would like to take my wife here for a vegetarian meal."

"Can."

Shen Xinghe, with a cold face, led his men to the dining hall.

With him there, the soldiers guarding the Buddhist temple wouldn't come up to question him.

Upon entering the dining hall, Wuxin grasped Ah Li's hand tightly, and he saw his master.

Wuxin's master also saw Wuxin. He put his hands together and said a scripture that no one could understand, which was roughly: "When fate brings people together and when fate separates them, do not ask about the future. There is no need to say goodbye. Just follow your heart. Go."

Without needing to say it casually or ask, he knew what he wanted to do.

Wuxin almost knelt down, his knees buckling, and he silently called out, "Master."

He broke the precepts and failed his master's teachings.

He still remembers his master leading him, a young boy, along a mountain path, listening to the chirping of insects and birds, feeling the breeze rustling the leaves, watching the clouds drift by, and asking him if he had any insights.

When he was given the title of a Buddhist disciple, his master was neither happy nor sad, only saying, "You can't escape it, you can't avoid it."

Now he understands what that means.

The unintentional master shook his head slightly, picked up his own vegetarian meal, and left.

Wuxin's eyes reddened as he watched his master's retreating figure, and he cried.

Ahri helped the person up and said, "Let's go sit over there."

Shen Xinghe followed behind Ah Li and asked, "What do you want to eat? I'll go get it."

Ah Li looked at Wu Xin, whose face was full of sorrow. Did he even have the appetite to eat?

Wuxin lowered his head and said in a muffled voice, "Anything is fine."

"Then I'll go get it."

Ah Li stood up, but Shen Xinghe didn't move. He even glanced at Ah Li.

The meaning in his eyes shouldn't be too obvious; he didn't want to go with her to get the vegetarian meal.

Ah Li touched the tip of her nose and didn't let Shen Xinghe go with her; she went to get it herself.

She went and got three bowls of noodles.

When she returned, Ah Li noticed that Shen Xinghe's face was even darker, and he gave her a murderous glare.

At this moment, Wuxin grasped Ah Li's hand. He changed his previous somber tone and said, "My sister at home also misses her husband. I am willing to live peacefully with my sister and share one husband."

Ahri's hand trembled slightly, so, while she wasn't around, they made this decision together?

Also, Wuxin, how could you say that so naturally?

Shen Xinghe took a bowl of noodles from the table with a sullen face. He picked up his chopsticks and started eating, but his gaze was fixed on Ali. The noodles he was eating seemed not to be noodles, but to be her.

Wuxin also took a bowl of noodles and began to eat slowly.

Ah Li looked at the remaining bowl of noodles and began to question her life. She had only wanted to steal a bandit chieftain and break someone's heart, but how did both of them end up agreeing?

?

Just now, when Ah Li went to get the noodles, Wu Xin spoke first. He lowered his voice and said, "I want to return to secular life and be with her."

As Shen Xinghe gritted his teeth, he said again, "You like her too, don't you?"

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