Chapter 437 Oh, what a show
Xiaoying came back, but Qiao Yihuan was wearing night clothes.
"Miss, what are you doing?" Xiaoying was puzzled. It was already dark, where were you going instead of sleeping and wearing a nightgown?
Qiao Yihuan said, "You stay at the door to keep watch for me. I'm going out for a while. If anyone comes, tell them that I've gone to bed and don't want to see anyone."
Jingxin never took the initiative to look for her during the day, and she guessed that Jingxin was trying to avoid suspicion.
But I have something to say to him. I want to ask, even though I have been promoted to a high position, what about Qiao Wanyan?
Yanran said that Qiao Wanyan killed Abbot Jingxin's master. Doesn't Jingxin want revenge?
Now it's dark, if Jingxin doesn't come to find me, then I will go to find him.
Just after leaving the meditation room, she saw a fire rising not far away, and the young monk Mi Ba raised his second voice.
It seems like there's a fire?
Thinking of this, Qiao Yihuan quickened his pace and walked towards Jingxin.
The news of the fire in the temple soon reached Jingxin's ears. The first place where the fire broke out was next to the Zen room where Qiao Wanyan lived, and the fire broke out was only separated by a wall from where Qiao Yihuan lived.
Jingxin waved her hand and asked people to put out the fire with all their strength, but she was thinking in her heart that the fire was most likely set by Qiao Wanyan.
But what does she want to do?
If he wanted to set fire to himself and Qiao Yihuan, why didn't he set fire directly in the room where he and Qiao Yihuan lived, but set fire next to himself?
Things were too strange, but he could now confirm one thing: Qiao Wanyan really wanted to kill him and Qiao Yihuan.
This fire must have been aimed at him and Qiao Yihuan.
Right now, I should be with Qiao Yihuan to avoid her harm!
So when Jingxin went to look for Qiao Yihuan, he happened to run into Qiao Yihuan who was looking for him.
"Abbot Jingxin!"
He is coming in this direction to find me!
Sure enough, he was trying to avoid suspicion during the day. At night, he was also planning to come find me.
He looked at the flames rising to the sky in the distance with a calm mind, "Has the fire reached your meditation room?"
Qiao Yihuan shook her head. "It wasn't there when I came out, so how could it have been a fire?"
Jingxin frowned, "Something is not right at the moment. You and I should stay together to ensure safety. The county lady is of noble status and there is a difference between men and women. I'd like to trouble you to go with me to the Great Hall to wait for the news that the fire is out."
The main hall will definitely not be affected and caught fire.
What's more, the Main Hall is guarded by soldiers from the Tianshu Camp.
This was the order he had requested from the empress dowager not long ago, using the excuse that thieves were causing chaos and that Huasheng Temple was a national temple. If a vicious person accidentally broke in and destroyed the Buddha statues, it would be a crime, so he invited people.
Jingxin took Qiao Yihuan to the Main Hall. The lights in the hall were on so people outside could see what people inside were doing without much effort and there was no need to worry about rumors arising.
"Abbot, is there a fire in the backyard?"
Jingxin said: "It was an accidental fire. I have sent people to put out the fire. In order to avoid any accidents, please stay here and protect the Buddha statue."
The guard nodded, "Yes, Abbot Jingxin."
Jingxin nodded slightly, "The county lady was frightened and knelt down to pray to the gods and Buddhas for peace of mind, the county lady please."
When the guards heard this, they understood and didn't think much about it.
Qiao Yihuan nodded slightly and walked into the hall, but suddenly felt a little hot. In this midsummer, it was still very hot at night. I don't know when autumn will come.
Qiao Yihuan knelt before the gods, the door was open, and the second guards outside the hall saw her sincere prayers. Although Qiao Yihuan couldn't see whether those people were looking at her, she felt like she was being watched by everyone.
Jingxin stood aside and watched her, his expression calm and without any fluctuations.
"How do you plan to treat Qiao Wanyan? You should know that she is not here just to pay respect to the Buddha. She is here for the two of us."
The candlelight reflected in his pupils, but one could not see the kindness and warmth that a Buddhist disciple should have.
"I am an orphan. My master picked me up by accident and raised me. To me, he is like a second father. No matter what he has done, he is the most important person to me."
Qiao Yihuan didn't open his eyes to look at her. "So, she killed your master, the person most important to you. How are you going to take revenge on her?"
Jingxin didn't say anything else. Back then, she had decided to kill her master just because of a word from him, and she did it cleanly and efficiently.
Since she cares so much about her reputation, let's destroy the most important thing to her first.
Qiao Yihuan was a little worried that as a Buddhist disciple, he would not dare to do anything more cruel. "Even if you join the Buddhist sect, you must not forget the kindness your master showed you. That's all I have to say. Think about it carefully."
Jingxin did not answer her, but asked, "Why do you hate her so much? Is it just because you have always lived under her light?"
Qiao Yihuan slowly opened her eyes, "It's not that I live under her light, it's that she has taken away my things one after another."
The status of the eldest daughter, the title of the eldest daughter of the Qiao family, the Little Marquis, the Tenth Princess, and Her Royal Highness!
She took away so many things from me.
If it weren't for Qiao Wanyan, I wouldn't be nameless and anonymous in Beijing, and others would ignore my kindness as if they didn't see anything when they saw me.
The fire burned very slowly. Qiao Wanyan ran out of the meditation room. She seemed to be too anxious and ran towards a cloak. Her face was pale and she was obviously frightened.
She grabbed two young monks who were putting out the fire and asked them what was going on. The monks just said they didn't know what was going on and asked her to hide in the main hall so that the fire would not spread there. Then they and Ziyuan hurried over there.
She went to the Main Hall, not because she had a strong purpose in going there, but because the young monk asked her to go there to hide.
When the guards of Tianshu Camp saw her coming, they immediately asked, "Are you Miss Qiao Er? What happened?"
Looking down, the hem of the skirt seemed to have been burned and stepped on, and it was all black.
Qiao Wanyan was shaking with fear, her delicate face, as bright as a lotus, was pale as a mirror, a sign of weakness created by the powder she had applied in advance.
In the eyes of the guards, she was so weak and pitiful that it made them hate whoever had set the fire. If they caught him, they would surely shoot him to death with thousands of arrows through his heart.
Zi Yuan, the instigator of the fire, said distressedly, "The fire in the backyard happened to be next door to my young lady. I don't know how it happened, but a fire broke out in an uninhabited place, and it almost burned our young lady. On the way, I asked the monk Mi, and he asked us to hide in the main hall."
The guards understood and were about to escort the master and servant inside when they saw Qiao Wanyan holding her chest and looking ahead with an extremely shocked expression.
The guards looked back and saw through the window that two people inside seemed to be...
Lingering?
One of the guards immediately turned around and stretched out his hand to cover Qiao Wanyan's eyes to prevent her from seeing such a filthy scene.
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