Even though Yu Tang had thousands of guesses, this was not the time to think about them. They soon arrived at the courtyard where Gu Xi lived. Yu Tang then discovered that the door of the main room was half open, and maids carrying rags and water were coming in and out, which showed that Mrs. Shen had indeed left.

Several people suddenly fell silent.

He Xiang, who came to greet the guests, also had a moment of embarrassment on her face, and hurriedly explained in a low voice: "Our young lady originally wanted to go down the mountain with Mrs. Shen, but firstly, she suddenly fell ill, and secondly, Mr. Shen came to pick up Mrs. Shen in person, and our young lady was afraid that Mr. Shen would lose face, so she couldn't go forward, so she had to let me see Mrs. Shen off." After saying that, she sighed deeply, and said with a worried look on her face, "I don't know what to do in the future? Should she visit Mrs. Shen as often as before? Or should she be a little more distant from now on? Our young lady doesn't feel disgusted, but she is afraid that Mrs. Shen will see our young lady and make her uncomfortable."

Isn't this just giving up?

If he really didn't mind, why did he say all this? Even if he was lying in bed and couldn't move, he could still let the maids and the old women carry him to see Mrs. Shen off - even if Mrs. Shen was uncomfortable, didn't she still have Mr. Shen? A companion should not be abandoned. Mrs. Shen accompanied Gu Xi to Lin'an, and even if Mrs. Shen did something wrong, Gu Xi should see Mrs. Shen off out of both emotion and reason.

In his previous life, Yu Tang had always admired Gu Xi for her understanding and generosity, but now it seemed that was not entirely true.

Perhaps it was because she looked up to her more often and felt guilty towards her more often in her previous life. By the time she felt that she could look Gu Xi on an equal footing, Yu Tang had already left the Li family and stood on the opposite side of Gu Xi.

Yu Tang curled his lips in disgust.

The third young lady lowered her eyelids and said nothing. The second and fourth young ladies smiled and talked to He Xiang: "This can't be helped. No one expected that Mrs. Shen, who usually speaks and acts cautiously, would lose control for a moment, and Sister Gu was also implicated." Then she asked her: "Sister Gu, are you okay? Did you take the medicine?"

He Xiang replied respectfully.

The fifth young lady looked left and right, seeming to be hesitant to speak.

Yu Tang stepped forward and took her hand, whispering, "What's wrong?"

Miss Five hesitated for a moment, and when she saw that her sisters had walked ahead of her, she whispered, "Sister Yu, I heard that Sister Gu was frightened... but I think she should go with Mrs. Shen... If it were me, I would definitely feel embarrassed to stay in someone else's house in this state..." As she spoke, her face turned red, and she was surprised that she had spoken out of turn, so she spoke hurriedly, "I don't want her to not live in our house, I just think that she came here with Mrs. Shen after all, and Mrs. Shen must be very sad now, so she should go and comfort Mrs. Shen..."

Yu Tang wanted to pick up the little girl and give her a kiss. Although the little girl couldn't explain the truth clearly, she was kind-hearted and instinctively knew what she could and couldn't do.

"I know." Yu Tang also whispered to her, "Everyone has a different personality and handles things differently. We should take care of ourselves first."

The fifth young lady nodded with a smile on her face, and in a cheerful mood she caught up with the fourth young lady, and took her arm in with her into Gu Xi's room.

Gu Xi probably had received the message. She wore a half-new green jacket with a peony pattern. Her long black hair was casually tied into a bun. She wore no jewelry, only a white headband tied around her forehead. She looked haggard and had a bitter smile. She came out of the inner room and greeted them: "You are here? Why didn't you send the maids to tell me first, so that I could prepare tea and snacks earlier. He Xiang, go and make a pot of the Xinyang Maojian tea I brought from home, so that Miss Yu and the sisters can have a taste and see if it tastes good or not."

He Xiang smiled and left.

The second young lady took two steps at a time and went forward to help Gu Xi, complaining: "Since you are not feeling well, please don't get out of bed to entertain us. Sister Yu, the three sisters and I came here because we thought you were alone and worried that you would be lonely and have wild thoughts during your illness, so we wanted to chat with you to relieve your boredom. We didn't expect that you would be tired of entertaining us. If we had known this, we should have gone directly to Sister Yu's place and let you rest well."

Gu Xi smiled and looked at Yu Tang, saying, "I'm not tired. I would have been lying down even if you hadn't come. As you said, I would have had wild thoughts. Now that you're here, I'm having a lot of fun. It makes me feel better knowing that my sisters don't dislike me."

"How could we dislike Sister!" The fourth young lady said immediately and cleverly, "We all feel sorry for Sister. Mrs. Shen is Mrs. Shen, and Sister Gu is Sister Gu. We are not the kind of people who don't know right from wrong. Sister Gu, you can rest assured. The most important thing is to take good care of your body."

Gu Xi nodded repeatedly, looking very moved.

Yu Tang turned his head away, not wanting to see Gu Xi acting pretentiously there.

Gu Xi has a strong personality. If she really feels sorry, she will not apologize verbally, but will try to help you in private. If she thinks she did the right thing, she will apologize and give you compensation for free, and she will tell you as much as you want to hear.

At this time, Gu Xi obviously didn't think he had done anything wrong.

He Xiang brought in some tea and snacks.

After drinking some tea and eating a snack or two, they began to chatter.

Gu Xi then realized that the reason they came at this time was because Yu Tang was also sick.

The second young lady said bluntly: "If it weren't for Sister Yu's reminder, I would have almost been ready to hang around here all day."

"Really?" Gu Xi said, glancing at Yu Tang with a half-smile, and said with a hint of meaning, "I didn't expect that after I got sick, Miss Yu also got sick."

Yu Tang wanted her to punch cotton, so she just pretended she didn't hear it. Not only was she not angry, she also smiled at Gu Xi and said, "Yeah! I didn't expect that either."

Gu Xi listened and thought that Yu Tang was mocking her for faking illness. She couldn't control herself for a moment and her face darkened.

The Fifth Miss and the Fourth Miss were both very surprised. They stared at Gu Xi blankly, not knowing what to do.

The second young lady frowned and was about to speak, but was interrupted by the third young lady who had remained silent the whole time: "At that time, beads of sweat the size of beans flowed down Sister Yu's forehead, and we were all scared. My great-aunt asked for a doctor to be called for Sister Yu, and she personally read the doctor's prescription before asking the doctor to prescribe the medicine. I don't know if Sister Yu is better now?"

She sighed and looked worried.

Gu Xi and Yu Tang were both secretly surprised. The calm Third Miss usually doesn't talk much, but when she does, she's very cunning. I don't know if she meant it or not. But no matter whether it was intentional or not, Gu Xi couldn't continue. Fortunately, there was Yu Tang. She smiled and said, "I just felt a little uncomfortable for a while, but it will be fine after it passes. Didn't the doctor say it's fine?"

The third young lady just smiled and said nothing more.

But the atmosphere in the room also became a little stagnant.

Yu Tang looked towards the second young lady.

It was she who wanted to come here. If she had nothing else to do, Yu Tang was ready to leave.

She didn't want to see Gu Xi pretending to be sick here.

The second young lady probably felt a little embarrassed, so she said a few caring words to Gu Xi and then stood up to leave.

Yu Tang was more than happy to do so, and no matter how Gu Xi tried to persuade him to stay, Yu Tang would not stay any longer.

Several young ladies from the Pei residence had lunch at Yu Tang's place. Perhaps the second young lady had never had much to say to Yu Tang, or perhaps she was upset about what happened at Gu Xi's place, so she quickly left on the pretext of taking a nap. In the afternoon, the third, fourth and fifth young ladies stayed with her to play with silk flowers.

Yu Tang asked the three young ladies of the Pei family: "Why did Lao An go to Ku'an Temple? There is nothing in Ku'an Temple. What is Lao An doing there?"

The fourth young lady was shocked when she heard this: "Sister Yu, ordinary people don't know about Ku'an Temple at all. How do you know about Ku'an Temple? And you know that there is nothing fun in Ku'an Temple? Have you ever been to Ku'an Temple?"

Is it possible that we cannot go to Kuan Temple?

Yu Tang didn't have that impression.

But that was her impression a few years later.

Could it be that Ku'an Temple still doesn't accept incense from others at this time?

Yu Tang was a little unsure. She had to say, "I've only heard of it, but I haven't been there. But I think, if this Ku'an Temple is so spiritual, why is it not famous in Lin'an City? This shows that this temple is nothing special. It's better to go to Zhaoming Temple. At least we can climb the mountain in Zhaoming Temple!"

The Third Miss was laughing nearby, and she explained to Yu Tang in a soft voice, "Of course Ku'an Temple isn't famous! It's our family temple, and we don't accept incense from outsiders. My great-aunt and grandmother went there because it was almost the New Year, and my great-aunt and grandmother wanted to go there to donate money to Ku'an Temple."

ah!

Yu Tang's eyes widened.

No, since it was the Pei family temple, how could her aunt's cousin be in Ku'an Temple? And there were so many homeless people in the temple? Some women had lived in the temple for more than ten years. Didn't Ku'an Temple take her in because her aunt's cousin became a nun there? By the way, Ku'an Temple did not easily accept outsiders. Those who could enter were introduced by people in the temple. She was introduced by her aunt's cousin!

She felt confused, as if something had happened that she couldn't figure out. After a while, she finally sorted out some clues and asked Miss Three, "The woman I know, her husband died and she had no children. She was forced to marry by her family, so she hid in the temple..."

"You mean that no one in the temple is a good person?" The third lady said unhappily, "Rumors stop at the wise. This means that we should read more, use our brains more, and listen to what others say to know what is true and what is false. Ku'an Temple has taken in many homeless female lay Buddhists, but they are all pitiful and good people. We are educated people, and we can't look down on others just because they have a bad experience and are in poverty!"

Yu Tang smiled bitterly.

I never thought that one day I would be lectured by a girl who is much younger than me.

She said hurriedly, "I don't mean to look down on them. I just think that since Ku'an Temple is your family temple, why would you take in people like my aunt and cousin? What if they don't want to convert to Buddhism? Not everyone can make up their mind to abide by the Three Refuges and Five Precepts."

Her great aunt's cousin decided to convert to Buddhism after living in Ku'an Temple for almost ten years.

The Third Miss tilted her head and looked at Yu Tang, saying, "If they don't want to convert to Buddhism, then don't convert! Buddhists have a lot of things to do anyway. We took those women in just to do some good and help those women in need!"