Chapter 122 Liu'an Temple
Shen Shixu saw the frightened look on Wu Liang and his wife's faces, so he struck while the iron was hot and asked, "If you tell me the truth, I won't mind your plot against my brother. Otherwise..."
Sometimes you can't make your words too clear, so as to leave people with endless room for imagination, especially when threatening someone.
At this time, Wu Liang and Mrs. Wu were frightened by the punishment they thought of in their minds, and they desperately searched their minds for things related to Wu Qiaoyun.
Xiao Jinyi asked Shen Shixu in a low voice, "Are you really not going to bother with them about their plot against Brother Shen?"
Shen Shixu deliberately leaned close to his ear and whispered, and the hot air sprayed on Xiao Jinyi's ears, stimulating those white jade ears as if they were cooked.
"I just said that I don't mind him plotting against my brother, but I didn't say that my parents don't mind, nor did I say that my brother doesn't mind. Besides, don't we still have you?"
Xiao Jinyi couldn't help but pinch his face and scolded him with a smile: "You clever little ghost!"
If Wu Liang was calm, he would not fail to notice that there was something wrong with what Shen Shixu said, but at this moment he was frightened by what Shen Zexi had just said, and he did not realize that there was something wrong with what he said.
Wu Liang seemed to love Wu Qiaoyun very much. Even though there were rumors that Wu Qiaoyun had been serving two husbands, he did not do anything to Wu Qiaoyun, nor did he take back his treatment. Instead, he kept everything the same as before.
Anyone who knows him would call him a daughter-slave.
But in fact, he did not have a deep fatherly love for Wu Qiaoyun. The reason why he raised Wu Qiaoyun so carefully was to use her as a bargaining chip to cling to the powerful.
He had never expected Wu Qiaoyun to marry someone else and become his wife. He had raised her to be a concubine.
The wife values reputation, but the concubine doesn't care about it at all, so he doesn't care about Wu Qiaoyun's reputation at all, and naturally he won't treat Wu Qiaoyun harshly for the sake of reputation.
Instead, he was worried that if he treated Wu Qiaoyun harshly, it would create a rift between her and the Wu family, and that if he treated Wu Qiaoyun harshly, it would lower her value.
Unlike Wu Liang who simply treated Wu Qiaoyun as a commodity, Mrs. Wu still had feelings for Wu Qiaoyun, but they were not particularly deep.
She knew Wu Liang's plan and supported it, because Wu Liang told her that as long as Wu Qiaoyun became powerful and helped their family move up a level, their son would also benefit a lot in the future.
Because of this, Mrs. Wu agreed to let Wu Liang use Wu Qiaoyun as a tool, but she felt guilty towards Wu Qiaoyun, so she indulged and doted on her.
Wu Liang didn't know what Wu Qiaoyun was talking about and couldn't answer it at this time. He looked at Mrs. Wu, hoping that she could say something useful.
Mrs. Wu did not disappoint him and actually knew something. Mrs. Wu looked at Wu Liang with a guilty look on her face, and then said to Shen Shixu, "Since Xiaoyun and Mr. Shen broke off their engagement, there have been a lot of rumors. During that time, Xiaoming was in a very bad mood and his health was not good either.
My master and I are worried that something bad might happen to her because of her depression. So she was sent to a temple to stay there for a while, where she met a monk.
After the monk’s help, Xiaoyun no longer felt depressed, but Xiaoyun…”
Mrs. Wu was unable to say the following words, so she bit her lip and finally said, "Xiao Yun fell in love with that monk. After I found out about this, I took Xiao Yun home directly.
But I was afraid that the master would know about this and punish Xiaoyun, so I didn’t tell him.
Xiaoyun was quiet for a long time after she came back, and she didn't mention anything about the monk. I thought Xiaoyun was just traumatized before and was comforted by the monk, so she became dependent on him, and now that she's back home, this dependence is naturally gone.
I didn't bother with it anymore. Later, Xiaoyun became obsessed with worshiping Buddha and donating incense money, and the place he went to most often was Liu'an Temple.
At that time, I was worried that Xiaoyun would rekindle her relationship with the monk, so I followed her twice. When I saw that there was no interaction between the two of them, I felt relieved and never followed her again.
If there is only one place Xiaoyun would go when she leaves home, I think it would be Liu'an Temple. ”
When Mrs. Wu said this, she did not notice the guilt and nervousness that flashed across Wu Liang's eyes when he heard the word Liu'an Temple.
Wu Liang asked Mrs. Wu before Shen Shixu could, "What is the name of the monk who is with Xiaoyun?"
Mrs. Wu didn't think much about it and directly reported the monk's name, "I remember the monk's Buddhist name is Huiwu!"
When Wu Liang heard the name, his face turned pale. Mrs. Wu didn't understand what was wrong with him.
Shen Shixu could see that Wu Liang knew this monk named Hui Wu and they had a close relationship.
"Then let's go to Liu'an Temple now and see if Miss Wu is there!"
Shen Shixu and Xiao Jinyi rode their horses straight to the outskirts of Minglu City. Shen Shixu grew up in this city and had some knowledge of the temples in and outside the city.
He remembered that the Liu'an Temple was fifteen miles away from the outskirts of the city. Due to its distance, the temple was not very popular. Later, a wealthy businessman thought that the scenery there was nice and it was a good place to cultivate one's body, so he became a lay Buddhist there. With his lead, slowly the temple became more popular.
And the person Shen Shixu is looking for? At this time, in the lay Buddhist residence near Liu'an Temple, the land was bought by the first wealthy businessman who became a lay Buddhist there. He built many houses and named it the lay Buddhist residence.
Many lay Buddhists either rent or buy houses there. Wu Qiaoyun bought a small courtyard here with the money she had saved over the years.
At this moment, she was sitting in the yard drinking tea with a very comfortable look on her face. After a while, a man in a grey monk's robe pushed open the gate and walked in.
When Wu Qiaoyun saw him coming back, she put down the teacup in her hand, ran towards him with a smile and threw herself into his arms.
"Why did you come back so early today? I haven't started cooking yet. What are you going to eat for lunch? I just asked someone to buy two pieces of tofu. How about I make you Mapo Tofu?
I made it the first two times and I saw that you really liked it. ”
Huiwu looked at her and smiled happily, "It's all good, as long as it's made by you, I like it.
By the way, I lit a perpetual lamp for Fener for you. ”
When Wu Qiaoyun heard this, a look of bitterness and gratitude appeared on her face, but guilt and fear were hidden deep in her eyes.
"It's the right thing to do. Without her, I can't be with you.
Please bring some incense money over for me, and then help me talk to the abbot to ask him to chant more sutras for Fen'er so that she can be reincarnated as soon as possible. ”
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