Chapter 125: Is the Nine Heavens Phoenix Fate real?
Xie Xiangxiang was unaware of the bloody situation in Chang'an. She was staying in an inn in the small town.
Looking at the moonlight in the sky, I feel sad.
On the day when Xie Yanyan won a great victory in controlling the locust plague, Xie Xiangxiang went to the Zhenshen Pagoda Temple in Chang'an.
Xie Yanyan did not die by hanging herself. She did not feel that Xie Yanyan was a threat to her. He was just a stepping stone for her, and it was only a matter of time.
But the prince was not dead, and Zhou Shaoyu was not dead either.
What’s even more bizarre is that Xie Yanyan has a special relationship with these two people, and no one knows what kind of magic he used this time to be able to cure the locusts so thoroughly.
She felt uneasy, could it be that Xie Yanyan was also reborn?
But, even if she were to live again, she, Xie Yanyan, was just an inconspicuous girl in the mansion, who could barely read or write. How could she have such extraordinary abilities?
The Zhenshen Pagoda Temple had received favor from Governor He, who sent his deputy general to accompany her to the temple.
The abbot saw that her brows were dark and her eyes were red, so he asked someone to bring her a bowl of calming soup.
"Master, there is something I don't understand. I would like to ask you to help me predict this person's fate."
She handed Xie Yanyan's birth date to the abbot.
The abbot looked at the eight characters and made a deduction using his fingers.
After a while, he shook his head and said, "My life span is limited. I am afraid I will die young."
Xie Xiangxiang said: "That's what's strange. Someone had calculated her fate before and said she would die young, but -"
She told the abbot that Xie Yanyan had hanged herself a few months ago, but not only did she not die, she seemed like a different person, and asked tentatively, "Did she have a miracle?"
The abbot deduced again and shook his head.
"As the saying goes, those who survive a great disaster will be blessed in the future. This girl must have been blessed by God. Her previous disasters have been eliminated, and she will be blessed from now on. Since she is a relative of the donor, the donor should be happy for her."
Xie Xiangxiang couldn't say anything else, so she thanked him and said goodbye.
When he left, the abbot said, "Donor, everything is determined by God's will. You can't force it. It's best to let everything take its course."
After leaving the temple, Xie Xiangxiang glanced at Caiyu.
Caiyu secretly returned to the temple and saw the abbot standing on the steps in front of the pagoda, talking to another young monk beside him.
"Yuan Zhen, the world is going to be in chaos again. This woman might be a variable."
"This woman is blessed with a great destiny. She is well-respected for her good deeds. Heaven sent King Wen to establish a foundation for her, and she has been rich and noble for eight hundred years. If she is willing to take on the responsibility of governing the country, it will be a blessing for the people of the world."
Without further ado, the two entered the inner room.
Caiyu came back and told Xie Xiangxiang the original words.
Xing Er curled her lips in dissatisfaction: "How can a fugitive be involved with the world? I think this must be referring to Madam Xiang."
This sentence reminded Xie Xiangxiang, and she asked Caiyu: "Did they say it was the fate of the third young lady?"
Caiyu shook her head: "When I arrived, I saw them standing on the high steps, looking out the gate, and said a few words."
Xing Er was immediately delighted: "Need I say more? Our Lady Xiang is good at fortune-telling, full of talent, and can assist King Xi. This will definitely benefit the people of the world."
After hearing that, Caiyu also felt that it looked similar.
As for Xie Yanyan's control of locusts, they speculated that it was Xu Wenrong's credit. After all, the Xu family of Suizhou was a hidden clan, a family of great Confucian scholars, and had produced many imperial tutors and great scholars.
"Why did Master Xu give the credit to Xie Yanyan?"
"The Xu family is Xie Anfeng's maternal grandfather's family. They want to help Xie Anfeng get rid of the crime and give this great achievement to Xie Anfeng."
As for why they chose Xie Yanyan instead of Xie Anfeng, they felt that Xie Anfeng wanted to use this method to elevate Xie Yanyan's status, to escape punishment, and to find her a good marriage.
Xing'er and Caiyu were talking to each other. Xie Xiangxiang put on a dignified smile and said, "If I can really benefit the world, it is also because the prince is standing in a high position and supporting me."
Xie Xiangxiang had a smile on her face, but she was wildly uneasy in her heart.
What if the Nine-Sky Phoenix Fate that the old monk mentioned is Xie Yanyan?
Xie Yanyan is the Nine Heavens Phoenix, so what is Xie Xiangxiang?
She had never thought of killing Xie Yanyan, but now she did.
It is better to kill a thousand people by mistake than to let one go.
It happened that day that Wang Zhen sent a pigeon letter, deducing that Xie Yanyan was a variable, and if he could be used by King Xi, King Xi's great cause would be accomplished.
If he cannot be used by King Xi, it is likely to be an obstacle to King Xi's great cause.
So, kill!
On that day, she secretly asked Caiyu to contact the Cross Gate and pay money to kill Xie Yanyan.
However, Shizimen refused on the spot, saying that Xie Yanyan was a great contributor to the locust disaster relief, and killing such a person would lose merit.
Since Shizimen refused to accept orders, Caiyu looked for mercenaries active on the border. They would accept any order, and as long as the money was enough, they would even take on assassinations of the royal families of the Sixteen Kingdoms.
When the mercenaries heard that the person to be killed was a little girl who had not yet reached the age of marriage and was also a fugitive, they felt that the task was a simple one and asked Caiyu for 20,000 silver coins.
Pay a deposit of 10,000 first, and then pay the remaining 10,000 later.
Xie Xiangxiang did not show up, Caiyu handled everything privately.
However, Caiyu was placing an order, and she was anxious to go to Jingchuan County to win people's hearts, so she had no time to take care of killing Xie Yanyan.
Who would have thought that Governor He actually sent her 160,000 shi of rice bran, causing her to live a life worse than death in prison.
She is unwilling to die!
When she was thrown into prison, she didn't see Xing'er and Caiyu. Now she was very glad that she was not arrested with them.
She had set fire to the prison, and the jailers and Xisi and others were all burned to death. No one knew about the humiliation she had suffered in prison.
She escaped from the prison in Jingshan County and fled eastward day and night. She stayed in the home of a farmer's widow in the countryside. She lied to the widow and said that her husband died while guarding the border and that she was driven out by her husband's family. She wanted to go to Chang'an to join her sister.
The widow took pity on her and gave her a set of coarse cloth.
Naturally, she would not return to Chang'an, nor did she dare to look for Governor He again.
As soon as Governor He sees her, he will put all the blame for the rice turning into chaff on her and will definitely kill her to silence her.
"Hei Wuchang said that my grandmother and I were born to be incompatible. I think it's true. I was exiled in my last life, and I'm exiled in this life too. Xie Yanyan was hostile to my grandmother, but now he's thriving. I'm with my grandmother, but nothing goes well. It's obvious that it's all because of my grandmother."
"They said that if I met King Xi, I would die without a burial place. Now I see that it is true. But who else can I rely on?"
She must first return to King Xi's fiefdom, find her grandparents, and take back the things that her grandfather had hidden in his hands.
He pulled out a gold hairpin from the sole of his shoe and sold it at a jewelry shop in Changwu County for fifteen taels of silver and dozens of large coins.
A bullock cart was hired.
She could play the piano, so she wanted to stay alive. She wrote a letter to Xiao Shen and sent it to the post office, asking Xiao Shen to send someone to pick her up.
Now, she was in the inn, looking at the moon in the sky and cheering herself up.
"Xie Xiangxiang, since you can be reborn, who dares to say that the Nine Heavens Phoenix Fate is not yours? When God bestows a great responsibility on a person, he must first make his heart suffer, his muscles and bones tired, and his body hungry!"
"Xie Xiangxiang, you must help King Xi ascend to the throne."
"Even if there is a conflict, so what? The ghost messengers are all on my side, and it's not certain who will kill whom. If I have a boy, at worst I won't be the queen, I can send the prince away, support my son to ascend the throne, and be the queen mother, which is also good..."
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