Chapter 72 My stomach aches when I see soldiers
He glanced at the Jinyiwei guarding the carriage, and the other party nodded slightly.
"Don't worry, Your Highness. I will escort Miss Pei and Miss Lu to Jingjue Temple right away."
Hearing this, Song Lingyi's back relaxed slightly.
It seems that he got away with it.
The wind and rain had just stopped, and the Jinyiwei were escorting us up the mountain, so everything went smoothly.
Half an hour later, the carriage stopped at the gate of Jingjue Temple.
When Song Lingyi got off the car, the mud on her face was wet and dry, looking very funny.
The escorting Jinyiwei suppressed a smile and bowed, saying, "Now that we have brought the three of you safely, we will go down the mountain first."
The three women knelt down and expressed their gratitude.
Only when the Jinyiwei disappeared at the end of the mountain path did Song Lingyi finally breathe a sigh of relief.
Buddhist music was heard in the temple. Song Lingyi had planned to go back to the backyard room to wash up, change clothes and then go to the Buddhist temple to look for the old lady. However, as soon as she entered the temple, she was seen by the nanny beside the old lady.
It wasn't that he immediately recognized the person with the muddy face as Song Lingyi, but he first recognized Pei Ling and Hong Ju next to her, and then looked at the clothes the woman in the middle was wearing before he realized it was his cousin.
"Oh, my God..."
"Cousin, how come you are in such a mess after coming down the mountain?"
The nanny screamed in horror and immediately called the old lady and Aunt Pei out of the Buddhist temple.
When the three elders saw their appearance, they also became uneasy.
The two people next to her were fine, their hair was just a little messy and their clothes were half dry. But Song Lingyi was different. She looked like she had rolled in a mud pit. If it weren't for her clothes, no one would have recognized her.
Those watery black eyes looked at the old lady, and her lips were pouting in grievance, like a pitiful little bird wet by the rain, so pitiful.
"What happened? How could this happen out of the blue?" The old lady was heartbroken. She held her granddaughter's hand tightly, feeling anxious and worried.
Song Lingyi told the story of encountering deserters at the foot of the mountain, how the Crown Prince intervened in time, and how the Jinyiwei escorted them back. She deliberately concealed the origin of the mud on her face.
Everyone was terrified when they heard this.
Guan turned around and bowed towards the Buddhist temple: "Amitabha, it is really the Bodhisattva's blessing that you can return safely."
The old lady's face was solemn. "Go back to your room and change clothes first. Wearing wet clothes for too long will easily catch a cold."
A group of maids and old women surrounded the three women and led them to the side rooms in the backyard.
Xiang, who had been frowning and silent all the time, sighed at this moment and told the accompanying nanny to pass the message back to Pei's house.
"Old Madam, today, in addition to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, we are also grateful to the guards of the Duke's Mansion for their desperate protection. The Pei Mansion is willing to pay a pension to comfort the relatives of these guards." Xiang said.
The old lady clasped her hands together reverently in the direction of the Buddhist temple and said slowly, "The guards are loyal to their master. I will also make proper arrangements for their funeral affairs."
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The conditions in the temple were limited, so the maids filled three buckets of hot water for the three people to simply wipe and warm their bodies to prevent the cold from entering their bodies.
By the time Song Lingyi had cleaned up, it was already dark outside.
The two aunts of the Pei family originally planned to go down the mountain today, but it was getting late and the road was difficult to travel at night, so they finally decided to stay overnight in the temple.
In the backyard room, the candlelight was dim.
Song Lingyi was lying on the bed, with her legs crossed, one hand resting her head on her head and the other holding a piece of wheat cake, looking relaxed and casual.
Hongqiu leaned against the bed, holding a piece of wheat cake in her hand.
After experiencing a life-or-death crisis today, she was extremely impressed by her cousin's fearless performance. She only felt a little strange and could not help asking, "Why did you get your face dirty today?"
Moreover, when they were in the carriage, Miss Pei was also very puzzled as to why she misled His Royal Highness the Crown Prince into thinking that the person in the carriage was the second lady, not the cousin.
"You don't understand this."
Song Lingyi rambled on without hesitation, "I have an old problem. I get stomachaches when I see soldiers, especially the Imperial Guards. You know how powerful the Pacification Division is and how murderous the Imperial Guards are. If they stared at me, I would definitely be unable to sleep for several nights!"
“…” Hongqi thought for a moment.
It turned out that she had a stomachache when she saw soldiers, so she had to go back and ask a doctor to treat her.
But she thought again and felt something was wrong: "But girl, don't you get stomachaches when you see soldiers? Why are you afraid of being seen by the Jinyiwei?"
The girl on the bed froze for a moment, then said forcefully, "It's a two-way thing for me. Whether I look at them or they look at me, I get a stomachache."
Hongqi still felt that something was wrong, but she couldn't figure it out, so she simply stopped thinking about it.
"Miss, you have this disease, why don't you tell the master and the old lady? If you are going to be betrothed to someone in the future, what if he is a military officer from the military camp? You will have stomachaches every day."
“…”Song Lingyi.
This girl is so easy to fool.
But her marriage should be settled soon.
"You don't have to worry about that. My future son-in-law will definitely not be a military general." Song Lingyi raised her eyebrows and smiled, her eyes meaningful.
"How does the girl know?"
Hongqi had just finished asking when she suddenly realized that it was a bit strange that the two ladies of the Pei family came to Jingjue Temple, and that her daughter had been alone with Pei Erlang for a while when they went down the mountain today.
"Could it be...could it be Pei Erlang?!" Hong Qi said excitedly.
Song Lingyi didn't refute, but only said: "You should keep your voice down. It would be embarrassing if others heard two unmarried women discussing their future husbands in private."
"What are you afraid of?" Hong Qi smiled, her eyebrows curved. "Pei Erlang is a rare young man from an aristocratic family who is both talented and handsome. If we can discuss marriage with him, it will be a matter of honor if it gets out. If the old Duke and the Third Lady knew about it, they would be relieved."
“…”
Why doesn't this sound right?
Pei Zhao is a good person, but she thinks she is not bad either. Since she is discussing marriage, she cannot put herself in a low position. Why should there be a distinction between high and low, main and auxiliary, between husband and wife?
However, this truth must be shocking to Hongqi.
Song Lingyi swallowed the wheat cake in her mouth and said, "We haven't even started yet. We need to get grandma's approval first."
"Of course, the old lady will agree. The Lu and Pei families are close relatives. If they can become relatives, it will be a great joy!"
Hope it goes well.
Song Lingyi looked at the ceiling of the tent, her thoughts wandering.
One can hide one's identity for a while, but not forever; it will eventually be exposed. Marrying Pei Zhao, she had the backing of the Lu and Pei families. If Xiao Mingyi wanted to settle accounts with her, he would have to consider the reputation of the Duke's Mansion and the aristocratic family.
Besides that, Pei Zhao was the only person who had shown her kindness since she came to this place and wandered for so long.
There is a saying that goes, when marrying someone, you shouldn’t just consider whether they are good to you, you have to marry someone with good character.
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