Chapter 220 The Cold Buddhist Girl and the Sinister Young City Lord 16
Cha Jiu chose to go back to Lianhua Temple first, not only to give Shen Suyuan some time to worry.
Most importantly, she wanted to try to find a way to break the curse.
When the eldest young lady sent her out of the city, she mentioned the secret of the curse.
"Although everyone knows that the two sons of the Shen family are under a curse, the source of the curse is a secret that even the city lord won't mention."
"I have only heard from my husband that this curse is extremely vicious, taking the lives of others to prolong one's own life."
Cha Jiu pondered and asked, "Who cast the spell?"
The eldest young master's wife shook her head and said, "I only have a vague understanding of it, but my husband and his family should know it, and every time I mention it, they always remain sad and silent."
Cha Jiu thought for a moment, "I think it should be someone close to him."
When they parted for the last time, Cha Jiu left the string of Buddhist beads to the eldest young master's wife, so that she could calm her mind and stay clear-headed in the future.
The latter expressed his gratitude.
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After returning to Lianhua Temple, Cha Jiu went to find Jingtan.
"Master Abbot, can this curse that devours the lives of others be broken?"
Jingtan pondered for a moment and said, "This kind of curse that harms others for personal gain is very similar to the witchcraft of the underworld. It is overbearing and unsolvable. Unless one has great merit to offset it, perhaps one can be saved."
"What is great merit?"
"Either they have the merit of saving all sentient beings and benefiting others, or they use the relics of a great monk to suppress it."
Relics are also known as Buddha's remains.
It is said that after the death of a living Buddha or a high monk, his body will be cremated to form relics, which are a symbol of the merits of their lifelong practice.
There are few people with such great merit in the world, so there are only two real relics.
One belonged to Master Yuanrong, but it had been stolen and lost long ago.
The other one happened to be in the Lotus Temple.
Cha Jiu knelt down and bowed solemnly: "My disciple is arrogant and wants to ask for this relic for Mr. Shen."
Jingtan sighed and helped her up. "Karma is reincarnation, and good deeds will be rewarded. Donor Shen has saved the lives of hundreds of people in the Lotus Temple. Now that he can use this relic, it is also a good karma in the dark."
Jingtan agreed readily.
But Cha Jiu knew what she would have to bear by making this decision.
Without the precious relic, the reputation of the Lotus Temple would most likely not be as good as before, and the incense offerings it receives would also be greatly reduced.
Cha Jiu admired him in his heart and bowed again: "I feel ashamed."
Jingtan said, "No matter how precious the relics are, they are still dead things, and their reputation is the same."
"It is because of the good governance of the Shen family that the people of Qingzhou can live and work in peace in this chaotic world. Saving the life of the young city lord is also saving the future of Qingzhou."
"Go, bring the relic to the young city lord."
Cha Jiu agreed, got up and rushed to the relic hall, but unexpectedly ran into two familiar faces.
Mr. Jiang and Mrs. Jiang.
Cha Jiu frowned: "Why are you here?"
Mr. Jiang said with a kind fatherly look: "We are here to burn incense, and we also want to see you..."
Cha Jiu interrupted directly: "This is a relic hall that is not open to pilgrims. Who allowed you to come in?"
Ji Yan came over and said quickly, "I brought them in. The two donors have been waiting for you here for a few days and it was really boring, so I took them to visit various places."
Cha Jiu said angrily: "The Relic Hall is such an important place, how can you bring outsiders to visit without the permission of the abbot?"
Now he suddenly spoke in a fierce voice, which scared Ji Yan.
"Why are you so cruel? The two donors are not outsiders, they are your biological parents!"
Ji Yan came to his senses and gradually became angry: "What's more, they donated a lot of money, and the abbot has brought many pilgrims to visit the temple before. Why don't you reprimand the abbot?"
Cha Jiu ignored her and went straight into the palace to check out the relics.
The Jiang couple said to Ji Yan, "Thank you Master Ji Yan for taking care of us these days. Now that we have seen our daughter, we are very satisfied and will return to Hengzhou first."
Ji Yan was very jealous.
What a wonderful couple! Even though they made some mistakes, no one is without fault.
They realized their mistake and corrected it immediately. They even came all the way from Hengzhou just to see their daughter.
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Ji Yan felt that Cha Jiu's cruel and ruthless attitude was excessive.
The Jiang couple was about to leave, but were stopped by Cha Jiu.
"Stop." Cha Jiu walked out of the palace and stared at them coldly: "Hand over the relic."
The Jiang couple looked at each other, and a trace of guilt flashed in their eyes.
It was Mr. Jiang who reacted faster: "What relics? We were just visiting, we didn't take any."
Ji Yan was also confused, and pointed to the relics enshrined in the glass cover in the hall and said: "Isn't the relic in there?"
Cha Jiu's Buddha Lotus Heart can sense both mundane things and spiritual things.
Although the fake relic in the glass cover looked exactly like the real one, Cha Jiu could not sense any spiritual energy from it.
It is conceivable that the relics were replaced.
The most suspicious people now are the couple who came to see their daughter for no reason.
The Jiang couple are still in denial.
Cha Jiu called out in a cold voice: "Shen Qi, find the relic from him."
She knew that after leaving Qingzhou, Shen Suyuan had always arranged for Shen Qi to stay with her.
Sure enough, Shen Qi walked out from the darkness.
He listened to the entire conversation between Cha Jiu and Jing Tan, and naturally knew that this relic could save his master's life.
So he strode directly towards the couple, intending to search them.
Mr. Jiang was forced into a corner and actually took out a relic from his arms.
Ji Yan was shocked at first, and then he was angry: "It turns out that you stole the relic! You deceived me!"
No wonder Mrs. Jiang felt unwell during the visit to the palace and asked her to sit outside the door for a while.
It turns out that this was to give Mr. Jiang a chance to swap the relic!
The couple had planned this action long ago.
That day, not long after Cha Jiu left Hengzhou, the housekeeper fulfilled her prediction and rotted away and died tragically in the mansion.
Mr. and Mrs. Jiang became even more afraid that the prophecy of "no children" would come true.
So they thought about it, repeated the process again, and invited many unconventional "masters", and finally found a solution.
That is to steal the relics and use the merits of the monk to bless the Jiang family's fortune.
Therefore, they used the excuse of visiting Cha Jiu, but in fact they were looking for an opportunity to approach the treasure hall and steal the relics.
At this time, facing the powerful Shen Qi, Mr. Jiang was both afraid and reluctant to give up this treasure that could change his destiny.
In a split second, he actually swallowed the relic alive!
Something strange happened.
The relic was only the size of a pearl, but it got stuck in Mr. Jiang's throat, choking him and turning his face blue and purple.
Mrs. Jiang was terrified. She patted his back and shouted, "Master! Spit it out!"
If Mr. Jiang vomited it out at this time, he might still be saved.
In fact, he also felt that the relic could be spit out.
But he insisted on carrying it, wanting to swallow it raw and absorb this infinite merit into his body!
He wants offspring! He wants the Jiang family to be rich!
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