Behind the kitchen is the back mountain, where many nuns have cleared the land and planted various crops. The nuns spend most of their time working here.
Pilgrims who come to the temple to worship Buddha usually stay for lunch, which is made of vegetables grown by them.
During festivals, there are more pilgrims and more vegetables are needed.
All the work is done by the nuns themselves.
Cooking, washing clothes, cleaning, and maintaining the halls in the temple.
Management of crops in the fields.
When the prince sent the second old lady to the nunnery, he did tell her to fetch water and wash clothes.
Although Mount Kutuo is not high, there is no well on the mountain and people have to go down the mountain to fetch drinking water.
There are many small ponds dug in the fields or on the hillsides to store water, but they are used to irrigate the fields and cannot be used for daily water supply.
Yu Yuanzheng brought Shangguan Ru to the back mountain and saw two old nuns picking vegetables in the fields. She took the initiative to step forward and say hello.
"Thank you for your hard work, both masters." Yu Yuanzheng said with a smile.
"Amitabha, why are you here? It's so messy here, your shoes will get dirty. You'd better go back to the front hall quickly."
An old nun saw a noble lady dressed so luxuriously coming to the back mountain, and hurriedly wanted to lead her back to the hall.
"Master, we are here to look for someone." Yu Yuanzheng immediately explained the purpose of their visit.
"Who do you want to find as a donor?" The old nun was confused, but she soon figured it out.
Some of these were sent by wealthy families.
Many of them will make a fuss for a while when they are first brought in, but their hosts always have a way to make them behave themselves.
When they truly reform themselves and are forgiven by their families, they will be accepted, but that number is very rare.
Most people end up being like them, doing all kinds of work.
Then after a few years, everyone devoted themselves to Buddhism.
Yu Yuanzheng was stunned for a moment. She didn't know what name the second old lady gave her when she came here.
“Master, do you know a girl named Jiang Qingqing? She should be about 60 years old. She was sent from Prince Rong’s Mansion.” Yu Yuanzheng simply said that it was a girl sent from Prince Rong’s Mansion.
This kind of person should attract a lot of attention.
Don't think this is a nunnery, where there are people there are rivers and lakes.
When the old nun heard this, her face looked strange.
That old woman wants to curse everyone she sees every day.
No one likes her at all.
She often shows off in front of these old people that she will definitely be able to leave here in the future.
Her grandson is the third prince, and her daughter is the emperor's concubine.
She even had the audacity to say that if the third prince ascended the throne, she would be the emperor's biological grandmother, and she had been waiting for that day.
䀴After she said this, it was reported to the host, who scolded her bitterly, and she never dared to say that again.
Moreover, she was given the task of fetching water.
"What's wrong? Don't you two nuns know her?" Yu Yuanzheng noticed that the two of them looked a little strange.
The two were afraid that the nobleman in front of them was here to take that old fellow back to Prince Rong's Mansion.
Since they bullied that old guy before, will they be retaliated against?
Thinking of this possibility, their faces dimmed instantly.
"Just follow this road down the mountain. You will meet him." Seeing that Yu Yuanzheng did not seem eager to see him, the other old nun felt relieved and told her.
She thought that if she was here to pick someone up, she would not come here to ask them, but would definitely go directly to the host.
"Thank you, both nuns." Yu Yuanzheng thanked them, then took Shangguan Ru's hand and followed her directions.
Shangguan Ru now knew why her sister-in-law brought her here.
Take her to meet her grandmother.
But there was no ripple in her heart, only hatred.
The person she hated most was this so-called grandmother.
If she had not discovered that her biological mother was scheming against her uncle, if she had not become ambitious and wanted to scheme against her uncle and use her son to defile her biological mother, how could she have had such a miserable fate?
Even I won't be born.
"Sister-in-law." Shangguan Ru said lightly.
Yu Yuanzheng stopped immediately.
She was a bit rash. She should have asked Sister Ru whether she was willing to meet that annoying person.
She just wanted to see how the old man would react when he saw Sister Ru. It was just a bad idea.
She actually forgot that this was a kind of harm to Sister Ru.
She really deserves a beating.
"Sister Ru, I'm sorry. It was my sister-in-law who considered it. You don't want to see her, right? If you don't want to, let's go back now." Yu Yuanzheng was very glad that it was not too late to realize her mistake.
"No, I want to see her. All this started because of her. I want to let her know who I am and break her beautiful dream." Shangguan Ru said bravely and hatefully.
Yu Yuanzheng smiled brightly after hearing this.
"It's great that Sister Ru can face the reality. You won't be afraid of any difficulties in life in the future. You are the best girl." Yu Yuanzheng gave a thumbs up and praised.
The two continued to walk down the mountain road.
Two maids followed behind, Ziyue and Zhilan also followed silently.
After walking about two miles down the mountain, they saw an old nun carrying a load on her shoulder and slowly walking up the mountain, swaying with every step.
But if you look more closely, that thing is not the second old lady.
There are so many people in the nunnery who need to eat, it should be impossible to let the second old lady fetch water alone, it is not enough.
Several people continued to walk down the mountain.
The three water-carrying nuns I met one after another were not the old one.
After walking a little longer, we finally reached the foot of the mountain before we saw the second old lady wearing a Buddhist hat, with a hunched back and carrying only half a bucket of water.
No, she had been divorced by the prince for the old prince. She was no longer the second wife, but just Jiang, who was dreaming and waiting for the third prince to ascend the throne.
Half a year passed, and she was doing the hardest work in this nunnery. She was no longer the pampered second old lady in the royal palace.
As expected, she looked much older. She no longer had the fair and smooth skin she once had, but a tanned, wrinkled face.
No wonder everyone wants to be a noble, wants to marry into a wealthy family, and wants to enjoy wealth and glory.
Yu Yuanzheng and the others did not go directly down to her, but stood about ten feet away from Jiang, waiting for her to climb the mountain step by step with difficulty.
She was swaying as she walked. The others ahead of her were carrying full buckets of water, but she only carried half a bucket.
But she looked the oldest among the few people they met.
Jiang climbed up step by step, and if she wasn't careful, some water would be shaken out.
By the time she reached the top of the mountain, there was probably only half a bucket of water left in the bucket.
Then she would not do anything all day, just fetching water was enough to keep her busy all day.
I don't know how many tasks Huizhen has assigned to her.
When she finally found Yu Yuanzheng and three others standing in front of a large stone slab, she was about to put down the bucket and take a rest, but when she looked up, she saw four people.
And there was someone she hated to the core.
"Yu Yuanzheng." As soon as Jiang saw her, she gritted her teeth and squeezed out three words.
Jiang had always had a premonition that Yu Yuanzheng would pose the greatest threat to her.
This feeling started from the moment she married into the palace and served tea.
That's why she always makes trouble for Yu Yuanzheng.
It turned out that her hunch was right.
Now when she saw someone, she put down the bucket, put her hands on her hips, and looked like she was about to start a fight.
"Yu Yuanzheng, are you here to see me make fun of myself?" Jiang could only think of this possibility.
"No, I'm not here to laugh at you. I'm here to visit you sincerely, and I've brought someone for you to meet."
Yu Yuanzheng smiled charmingly, without any intention of finding fault.
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