"And I thought to myself, I just reduced the amount of concentrated feed, and the rest of the roughage remained the same... Who knew it would be so serious... It's all my fault. Mom is angry, you can beat me and scold me, but don't let anger make you sick."
As Cai spoke, she helped Mrs. Gu sit down and gently massaged her back.
No matter how angry Mrs. Gu was, she couldn't show it now.
"You've always been smart. Even if you want to be frugal, you have to know where you can save and where you can't! In our house, apart from the second young lady's courtyard, which one is easy to get along with? How come you can't understand this?
Now, you've been kicked out of the second gate, and the lady won't let you in to serve her. If it weren't for my face protecting you, you would have been beaten to death, do you know that?
"Mother, I just feel sorry for you. After all, you've been with Madam for so many years. I made a mistake and I'm punished. I admit it, but I shouldn't have implicated you. Madam is so heartless..."
"Shut up! Don't talk about my wife."
"yes."
Mrs. Gu turned around, saw Cai's face, and sighed softly.
This face is indeed too good-looking, otherwise my son wouldn't be so obsessed with it.
Alas! Madam is right, beauty is the root of trouble! But after hearing what her daughter-in-law said, Mrs. Gu couldn’t help but feel angry. Madam is really too heartless.
"That's fine. At least you're following my son, so just live your life well. If there's a next time, I won't be able to protect you!"
"Yes, thank you, mother."
"Forget it!" Mrs. Gu walked away with her umbrella, leaving Cai with a slight smile on her face.
She didn't care about the background of the maid who came to deliver the order. She was willing to accept it if someone wanted to use her as a knife to stab Mrs. Gu to death.
Anyway, she doesn't mind seeing Mrs. Gu being beaten to death by the Madam. If that day really comes, what does it matter even if she loses her own life?
On October 3rd, after only three days' rest, Xu Yixing couldn't wait to ask his father for permission to visit the temple. Why not ask Gu? Ever since returning that day, Gu had refused to leave the house, feigning illness in the courtyard. Father Xu had no qualms about gods or ghosts, so he readily agreed.
Xu Yixing rode in a small carriage, swaying up the mountain. The carriage was very ordinary, without any Xu family markings, and the horse was also the most ordinary gray horse with mixed hair, not good-looking at all.
But if there is an expert who knows horses, he will be able to recognize by looking at the horse's hooves and limbs that this is an absolutely good horse, but it just looks average.
Xu Yixing only brought Siqin and a young coachman with him today. Fortunately, Gu pretended to be sick, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to travel with so few people.
Siqin made the jade pendant into a long forbidden step and hung it on Xu Yixing's skirt. Looking at it this way, she really looked like a young lady from a poor family, going into the mountains to worship Buddha.
After entering the temple, the coachman parked the carriage far away at the foot of the mountain gate, waiting for the young lady to return after burning incense. Xu Yixing and Siqin walked up the mountain step by step with a pious look on their faces.
Xu Yixing visited all the statues and temples, big and small, in Jingxi Temple, which made Siqin wonder what wish the young lady had made.
In fact, she didn't make any wishes. Xu Yixing didn't believe in gods or ghosts. Even if she were to come back to life, she wouldn't believe it.
If ghosts and gods really exist, why didn't Yi Yan's mother come to claim her life from Gu and Gu Po, and instead let them bully her only daughter?
It can be seen that gods and Buddhas are not real.
She bowed so carefully because she was afraid that the jade pendant she was wearing was not obvious enough and that the shadow guards would not see it.
When they reached the last hall, a young novice monk finally came over, clasped his hands together, and bowed to the two of them:
"My two benefactors, I have just observed you for a long time. I saw that you have worshipped every Buddha statue. I wonder what unfulfilled wishes you have?"
Seeing that the child was only eight or nine years old and looked very mature, Xu Yixing imitated him and said, "It's nothing, actually. I bow like this because I want Pusa to see my sincerity."
The young novice monk shook his head. "It's not that whoever worships the most Bodhisattvas is more sincere. There are five hundred Arhat statues in the underground palace. If the donor kowtows to each one, won't he be worshipped to death?"
"There is also an underground palace? Then please ask the little master to take me to see it." Xu Yixing put on a smile. He didn't really want to kowtow five hundred times, but he didn't want to miss the underground palace.
The young monk shook his head and said, "There are so many fools in the world. Bodhisattvas have to bless this and that, so they don't have that much time." Although he said so, he still took Xu Yixing to the underground palace.
Once inside, they were served tea. Xu Yixing didn't dare drink the strange water, but Siqin, thirsty, drank it all in one gulp. Then she sat at the door, waiting for the young lady. She didn't want to kowtow to them. But once she sat down, her eyelids drooped and she fell asleep.
Seeing this, Xu Yixing felt bad and pretended to sit down to rest. He put his hand into his boot and felt for the dagger. He didn't know if Xu Yiyan's body could support his moves. If he couldn't hit him, he would be in trouble.
The young monk seemed to have seen through Xu Yixing's plan and sneered, "I advise you not to do it, benefactor. If you do, you will surely die."
"Who knows." Xu Yixing suddenly jumped up and rushed to the door of the underground palace, apparently trying to escape.
The young monk also tried his best to catch up with her and caught up with her in just a few steps.
Xu Yixing had already run to the door, but suddenly turned around and, with a feint, stabbed the man under the left armpit. Unfortunately, the man was agile and only scratched his clothes, but no blood was drawn.
Xu Yixing knew that his plan had failed, so he rushed forward hard, hoping to knock the man out of the underground palace. Unfortunately, the man dodged again.
He wanted to attack again, but saw a cold light flashing in the man's hand, and he was afraid that he was going to use a weapon. Xu Yixing quickly hid behind an Arhat statue, while paying attention to whether Siqin at the door was hurt.
The young monk held a weapon in his hand, but did not attack. He just spoke to the air: "Young lady, since you are here to look for someone, why do you want to attack? The dagger is poisoned. Such a sinister method is not fair."
"Bah! You're the kind of person who poisons other people's food, and you still have the nerve to criticize me!"
"I didn't poison your tea, and you didn't drink it, so how do you know it's poisonous?"
Huh? Is that so?
The young monk continued, "Just now, I saw you looking so anxiously, I thought you were in big trouble, so I knocked out the person next to you. Who knew you would repay me with evil?"
Ah... Is that so? It turned out that I was so anxious, afraid the shadow guard wouldn't see me. Who knew he'd misinterpreted me as a hostage, a desperate situation, and so anxiously kowtowed to every Buddha statue. That's why he took action to eliminate this "kidnapper" beside me.
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