Chapter 275
The old lady is a Buddhist, but she also has a sense of awe for Taoism, especially after her grandson came back and told her about the help that Taoist Priest Yuan Jing had given him along the way. After she ate the lotus seeds he brought back, she slept better at night and became more energetic. So when she heard that someone was coming, the old lady stretched her neck and waited.
When the people were led in, the old lady saw clearly the young Taoist priest and the monk who came in, and she put her hands together and started chanting Buddhist scriptures. It was obvious that the two young men were full of spiritual energy, which made people love them so much that she asked her grandson to bring them forward for a closer look.
"Good! Really good! You can tell at a glance that he is different from the children of ordinary families. My grandson is a naughty boy. Fortunately, the young Taoist priest does not despise him and is willing to take care of him along the way."
The old lady had kind eyes and benevolent features, and Yuan Jing was happy to say nice things to cheer her up. Looking at her face, one could tell that she would be rich and happy, with filial children and grandchildren. The old lady saw that Funeng was also very kind, so she pulled him over and asked about his master. The old lady had also heard of Guiyuan Temple and the Buddhist name of Master Jingkong.
"Your master is a great monk, and I'm sure you will be great in the future. It's a pity that Guiyuan Temple is a bit far from the capital, otherwise I could go there often to listen to Buddhist teachings."
Funeng smiled and said, "The White Horse Temple in the capital is also a good place to go."
In addition to the old lady, Yuan Jing and Funeng met several other masters of the Ningyuan Marquis' Mansion, including Ji Jinghuai's mother, the Ningyuan Marquis' wife, and Ji Jinghuai's brother and sister-in-law. However, this brother was born a bastard, so Yuan Jing paid special attention to his features.
The old lady wanted to ask them to stay in the mansion for a few more days, but they declined. The old lady had no choice but to let her grandson send them out of the mansion and take good care of the two masters during their time in the capital.
After the two said goodbye, they left the house with Ji Jinghuai. On the way, Yuan Jing frowned slightly. In addition to thinking about Ji Jinghuai's half-brother, he was also thinking about the slight strange look on the face of the marquis's wife when she saw him for the first time. If you don't observe carefully, it would be difficult to notice.
Yuan Jing thought to himself that the reason why the Marquis's wife looked strange when she saw him was probably because of his face. Could it be that his face looked like someone? This was not impossible. After all, even if he had no blood relationship with the Jiang family, he was very likely from the capital.
Ji Jinghuai asked in a low voice: "Is my family all right?"
Funeng looked up at him and said, "The old lady looks like she will live a long life, and the Marquis' wife is in good health. But your half-brother, is he really okay?"
Ji Jinghuai was shocked and asked quickly, "What's wrong with my elder brother?"
Funeng said: "Junior Brother Jing should be able to see it more clearly than me."
Yuan Jing nodded: "He must have come into contact with ghosts."
Ji Jinghuai tripped when he heard this and almost stumbled and fell, his face full of shock. Obviously, Ji Jinghuai didn't think about his family at all. Maybe he thought that the previous encounter with ghosts was just an accident, but now it might be man-made, and someone wanted to harm him.
Finally, he rubbed his face hard to restore his normal color. Yuan Jing had no need to deceive himself on this matter. Besides, Master Funeng also saw that there was something wrong with his elder brother. He smiled bitterly and said, "Thank you both. I will investigate this matter carefully."
He sent the two out of the house and agreed to visit them another day. Then he returned to the old lady, who was talking with the Marquis's wife. The old lady was full of praise for the young Taoist priest and the young monk. Seeing that her daughter-in-law was a little absent-minded, she patted her hand and asked, "What are you thinking about?"
Madam Hou came back to her senses and said, "Didn't the old lady notice that the young Taoist priest looks like a human being?"
Ji Jinghuai stepped in and asked in surprise, "Mother, who does Yuan Xiaodao look like?"
The old lady thought for a moment and said, "He looks familiar, but my memory is not very good."
Madam Hou said, "Old lady, do you remember Miss Wen from back then? Tell your daughter-in-law to look, that young Taoist priest is exactly Miss Wen from back then, reincarnated."
The old lady slapped her thigh immediately and said, "Now that you mention it, I remember it now. Isn't it just like Miss Wen back then? The face is exactly the same, but Miss Wen is not..."
Ji Jinghuai was anxious: "Grandmother, mother, who is this Miss Wen you are talking about? Is there a family with the surname Wen in the capital?"
The old lady reached out and poked him on the forehead: "How can you remember much about your early years? Even I, your grandmother, would have forgotten about the people in the Wen Mansion if your mother hadn't reminded me. To be honest, both the Wen Mansion and Miss Wen are pitiful people."
"This is a long story..."
Next, the old lady told Ji Jinghuai a story about the grievances between the Wen family, the Jiang family, and the Cheng'en Mansion of the past. The reason why it was the Cheng'en Mansion of the past was because the entire family of Cheng'en Mansion had been raided, the former queen was deposed, and died miserably in the cold palace, which made people sigh.
"The Wen family is a family of scholars. Miss Wen was well-versed in poetry and literature, and she was also very pretty, so there were countless families who proposed to marry her. The most prominent ones were the prince of Duke Cheng'en's mansion and Jiang Shiming, who is now in the mansion of Minister Jiang. In the end, the prince of Duke Cheng'en's mansion won and married Miss Wen back home as he wished. But not long after the marriage, something happened to the queen in the palace. A witchcraft disaster implicated the queen, Duke Cheng'en's mansion, and the Wen mansion. Some of the clan members died, some scattered, and even if there were some who survived, their whereabouts are still unknown."
When it comes to the late queen and the witchcraft case, Ji Jinghuai knows about them. In this major case, the Wen family seems so inconspicuous, so it is no wonder that he can't remember which family the Wen family belongs to.
Ji Jinghuai asked: "Could it be that the young Taoist priest is the descendant of the Wen family, or the descendant of the Cheng'en Mansion?"
The Marquis's wife was puzzled and said, "But according to the time when the incident happened, Miss Wen had only been married to Duke Cheng'en for more than three months, and then she was imprisoned with him. She didn't have time to give birth to her child with the prince. She was the prince's wife, and she was executed together with the prince. Alas, she is also a pitiful person."
The Marquis's wife had a lot of contact with Miss Wen at that time. She shed a lot of tears when Miss Wen and the Crown Prince were beheaded together. She felt that Miss Wen was just an innocent victim of the disaster. If she had not married into the Duke Cheng'en's Mansion, she would not have ended up like this.
The old lady sighed and said, "Forget it. It's sad to talk about these things. People are similar. Maybe I just look like Miss Wen."
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law no longer mentioned the matter, but Ji Jinghuai kept it in his heart. After returning to his own yard, he thought about it for a while, then found an excuse to leave the Marquis' Mansion and go to the inn to find Yuan Jing.
He remembered that Yuan Jing said he came to the capital for important business, and he wondered if one of them was to find out his background. In his opinion, it was impossible for young Taoist Yuan Jing to look like Miss Wen for no reason. Considering his age, he would fit the bill.
Yuan Jing and Funeng planned to go to the Jiang Mansion after dark to investigate, as they might not be able to see everyone during the day. Unexpectedly, Ji Jinghuai showed up.
After sitting down, Ji Jinghuai held the cup of tea but did not speak. He just stared at Yuan Jing's face in a daze. He thought that if he looked like Miss Wen, one could imagine how beautiful Miss Wen was back then. It was a pity that such a beauty was involved in a witchcraft case because she married into the Cheng'en Mansion and ended up dying.
Fu Neng flicked his finger, and the dazed Ji Jinghuai screamed and covered his forehead. How many times had he been flicked on the forehead today? Was it unfair?
Ji Jinghuai looked at Funeng aggrievedly, and Funeng knocked on the table impatiently: "If you have something to say, just say it. Are you here just to be in a daze?" Still staring at Yuan Jing's face in a daze? Funeng's hands were itching, and he wanted to beat someone up.
Yuan Jing smiled slightly and said, "Is it because of who my face looks like? Master Ji must have come here for this matter."
Ji Jinghuai gave a thumbs up with admiration: "Young Taoist priest is indeed very smart. He even predicted my intention."
Yuan Jing put down his teacup and explained, "I didn't calculate it, but I saw it. When the Marquis' wife saw me in the Marquis' Mansion, she looked a little strange. Plus, you stared at my face in a daze when you came over. Isn't this telling me that there is something wrong with my face?"
Ji Jinghuai looked as if he had realized something. It turned out that it was not calculated but seen. Why didn't he see it?
He quickly told Yuan Jing what he had heard from his mother and grandmother. Yuan Jing tapped the table with his fingers. Could it be that he was not of the Jiang family's bloodline, but the child of the prince of Cheng'en and Miss Wen? And was the witchcraft disaster true? Yuan Jing was very skeptical.
Yuan Jing thought for a while and said, "Thank you, Master Ji, for coming to tell me these things. One of my purposes for coming to the capital is to find out my life experience. Although I am a little beggar picked up by my master, I have remembered my early life in the past two years. In my early years, I lived in a wealthy family in the capital and was deliberately abandoned. What Master Ji told me also gave me a direction to look for."
Ji Jinghuai waved his hands: "No need to thank me, I didn't do anything. But according to my mother, Miss Wen was executed more than three months after she married into the Cheng'en Mansion. So..." Then Yuan Jing couldn't be the child of Aunt Wen.
Yuan Jing laughed and said, "Is it really me who was beheaded?"
"Uh..." Ji Jinghuai was speechless. Although he was a bit naive, it didn't mean that he didn't know some of the private tricks.
After Ji Jinghuai left, Funeng stroked his chin and said, "Junior Brother Jing, whose child do you think you are?"
Yuan Jing asserted, "Miss Wen who was executed was swapped, and someone else cooperated to send her to the Jiang Mansion. This way, I was born in the Jiang Mansion and was given the title of Jiang Mansion bloodline. This matches my fate of being a star of misfortune. All my relatives died before I was born."
"This is not your fault." Funeng quickly grabbed Yuan Jing's hand and said.
Yuan Jing glanced at Funeng's hand, secretly laughing in his heart, but said on the surface: "I'm not sad. Didn't I say that my fate was changed by someone? In fact, it's not the fate of a star of misfortune. I believe that the witchcraft disaster back then was also a frame-up, and it is probably related to Lingxiao Demon Dao and the Jiang Mansion."
He thought for a moment and said, "The former queen gave birth to a prince, who was then made the crown prince. The queen was deposed, and the crown prince was also deposed, and then sent to guard the imperial mausoleum. I think after we go to Jiang Mansion, I will go to the imperial mausoleum to look for the deposed crown prince, who might be my cousin."
"Okay, I'll go with you."
Yuan Jing figured out his life story on the first day he arrived in the capital, and Mu Yinghai, after asking many people, finally found a prince's mansion. He stood far away and looked at the wall, with his fists clenched tightly in his sleeves. He found out that his father had inherited the mansion, but he had already married and had children. His father did not miss his mother as much as he thought after she left, and he had other children besides him.
Mu Yinghai was furious and wanted to rush into the mansion and kill everyone there. How could his father be worthy of his mother's love? His mother even died because of him!
But Mu Yinghai did not do so. Once he did so, his identity would be exposed, and that evil Taoist would never let him go. He would also find that evil Taoist to avenge his mother.
After calming down the anger in his chest, Mu Yinghai turned around and left. He was in a very complicated mood and didn't want to go back to the inn, so he wandered aimlessly on the street. Just like that, Mu Yinghai, walking on the street, bumped into a figure, and a soft body fell into his arms.
Mu Yinghai immediately came to his senses and quickly stepped back to let go of the person who had bumped into his arms: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry..."
"You were so blind when you walked that you bumped into our lady. Miss, are you hurt anywhere? Miss, why are you crying?"
Hearing the scolding, Mu Yinghai looked up and saw a petite and beautiful woman with a red nose and tears in her eyes. The maid wiped her tears, but they still fell. The maid became even angrier and pointed at Mu Yinghai and scolded, "Don't run, little thief. You can just say sorry if you hurt our young lady? Let me tell you, our young lady is the niece of Princess Cheng. If you hurt our young lady, your life won't be enough to compensate!"
"Okay, stop talking. This young man didn't mean it. I was in a hurry and didn't look where I was going, so I bumped into him." The young lady pulled the maid who was talking more and more unpleasantly and told her to shut up.
"Miss, you are kind-hearted. He is a grown man. I think he did it on purpose!"
Mu Yinghai was originally very guilty, bumping into a beautiful girl and making her cry, but when he heard the maid tell him about the girl's origin, his mood immediately turned sour. Why? Because his biological father was the current Prince Cheng, and the girl's aunt was the current Princess Cheng. In Mu Yinghai's view, this meant that the girl's aunt had taken away the position that belonged to his mother.
He was a half-demon with a wild temperament. Even though he was moved for a moment when he first saw the tearful girl, the feeling disappeared immediately after he learned her identity. He threw up his sleeves and said, "What else do you want? If you have the guts, use my life to compensate for your lady's nose. She bumped her nose into me herself, so why do you blame me?"
The young lady was originally quite embarrassed, but she didn't expect that the chest of the young man she bumped into was so hard that it made her nose sore and she couldn't control her tears from falling. Looking at the young man, he was so handsome, more handsome than those young men from noble families in the capital that she had seen.
But when the young lady heard the young man speak, she immediately became embarrassed and angry. What a stinky man, he has no manners at all, doesn't he know to give way to her?
The maid was also stunned by Mu Yinghai's ungraceful behavior and stood there in a daze. Mu Yinghai didn't want to get entangled with them, so he left in a rage. When the maid woke up, she couldn't call anyone back even after calling "Hey Hey". She stomped her feet in anger, thinking what kind of person was this.
"Miss, are you feeling better? I'm so angry. You look like someone from another place. You have no manners at all. Miss, we must go to Prince Cheng's mansion and severely sue that stinky man. Let him know how powerful we are."
The young lady was so angry that she went to Prince Cheng's mansion to file a complaint with tears in her eyes.
Mu Yinghai was already in a bad mood, and now it became even worse. He was in no mood to continue wandering around, lest he bump into someone he shouldn't, so he returned to the inn.
Seeing how dejected he looked, Yuan Jing kindly asked him what was wrong. Mu Yinghai was looking for someone to complain to, so he told Yuan Jing everything about what happened when he went out.
Yuan Jing was stunned. Isn't this the scene where the hero and the heroine meet? They are indeed destined to meet.
However, the heroine's life experience did cause their relationship to go through a lot of hardships, and they eventually put aside their prejudices and got together. But can it be the same this time?
When Mu Yinghai mentioned the master and servant pair he met, he only felt disgusted. How could it be seen that he was attracted to each other when they first met?
Yuan Jing didn't know that because he and Funeng did not appear in the plot, Mu Yinghai, who had just arrived in the capital and found that his father had another wife and children, was even more distraught than he is now. After bumping into the heroine, the maid was about to scold the hero, but the heroine found that something was wrong with the hero and stopped the maid. So at the beginning the hero didn't know the heroine's life experience, and only found out about her life experience after they fell in love. It only added some hardships to their relationship, but did not separate them.
Now Mu Yinghai and Yuan Jingfu know each other, and the Demon King is coming to Beijing again, so he is not as lonely and helpless as in the original plot. It is easy for him to pin all his feelings on a woman who makes his heart beat as soon as they meet. Now Mu Yinghai can go back to the inn to find Yuan Jingfu to vent his grievances and depression.
Yuan Jing asked him, "Do you still want to recognize your father?"
Mu Yinghai shook his head: "I don't know. If he has completely forgotten my mother, I would be sorry to her if I acknowledged him."
Yuan Jing patted his shoulder comfortingly and said, "You can go to the Prince's Mansion at night and test your father. Maybe he had no choice at the time."
Mu Yinghai mustered up some courage, clenched his fist and said, "Yes, Master Yuan, you are right. I will go check it out when it's late at night. If he has completely forgotten my mother, I don't want to recognize him anymore."
In the plot, in the end, it was because of the heroine that the hero accepted the family of Prince Cheng. The family lived in harmony with each other because Prince Cheng and his later Princess Consort had a good relationship. They had one son and two daughters, and no other concubines. Therefore, in the capital, many people envied the relationship between Prince Cheng and his Princess Consort.
Yuan Jing felt that the male protagonist in the plot was a little love-sick. If his mother knew about this, she would probably be so angry that she would die.
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