After two days of nightmares, Wang Lingyi decided to investigate her brother. She sent Xuan Mo and Xuan Fei to follow him for a month and discovered a woman living in the house owned by her eldest brother.
After further checking, it turned out to be Yangzhou Skinny Horse, who had just come from Yangzhou recently.
Wang Lingyi discovered that the woman had a lover in Yangzhou who was a gambler, tall, and a womanizer. After losing at gambling, he took to abusing and beating the maids. He swindled all of the skinny girl's money and then beat her, prompting her to flee to the capital.
Would my brother force his sister-in-law to death for such a woman?
Zhang Ru always felt that she owed Wang Lingyi a favor, but the Ghost Valley Doctor really had no clue what to do.
I've inquired with the Empress Dowager and the Duke of Fuguo, and they've all posted advertisements seeking treatment, offering large sums of money. The Ghost Valley Doctor is only interested in the money. The doctor sets his own treatment times, and he appears and disappears mysteriously.
He had to put it aside for the time being and brought the fifth princess to Tianyuan Temple to fulfill his vow.
Since that year, according to the instructions of the monk of Tianyuan Temple, the second princess was changed to the fifth princess, and a long-burning lamp was lit for three years. The health of the fifth princess has been getting better day by day. When she was a child, she was often dying, as if she could not be raised, but now she is well.
After Zhang Ru led the fifth princess to burn incense, they waited in the Zen room in the backyard for the master to come and preach.
But then he saw two little monks cleaning the yard outside the meditation room, and they were talking about the fifth princess.
"Why is the Fifth Princess called the Second Princess instead of the Fifth Princess?"
Another said, "Because she was originally the fifth princess. Three princesses died before her, all of them died tragically. One was an infant and the other two were children. They held too much resentment and became vengeful spirits. They have been searching for their mother, but they can't find her.
They resented the second princess, thinking that she had killed their mother.
If she doesn't change her name to Princess Five, the vengeful spirits of those who died in the untimely deaths will always target her, because the order of two, three, and four belongs to those three."
Zhang Ru was struck by lightning when she heard this.
In the dream, Huang Mengling was pregnant for the first time since entering the palace, and she had an abortion in order to frame Zhang Ru, who was hosting a spring banquet in the palace at the time.
Xuanyuan Hao hurried away upon hearing the news of Huang Mengling's miscarriage. Seeing Concubine Ming's loss, he was deeply distressed and ordered Zhang Ru to kneel at the Spring Festival Banquet, dressed in the empress's palace attire amidst the bustling crowd. Xuanyuan Hao ordered the banquet to proceed as normal, with the empress kneeling in the most conspicuous place...
Huang Mengling was pregnant for the second time in the palace, with twins. Huang thought that if they gave birth to twins, it would be a good omen. If it was twin boys, she would strangle one to death to frame Zhang Ru; if it was twin girls, she would strangle both to death to frame Zhang Ru.
Upon learning of this, Imperial Physician Ding Yang risked his life to inform Zhang Ru. However, with Xuanyuan Hao's protection, Zhang Ru was helpless. Huang Mengling wanted Zhang Ru to come to her palace and have Xuanyuan Hao deliver a message.
When Zhang Ru arrived, Xuanyuan Hao had indeed been sent away by Huang Mengling. The twin girls were dead, and Zhang Ru had no way to defend herself. Emperor Ming Zheng was furious and made her kneel in front of Concubine Ming's palace gate and slap her thirty times every day until Concubine Ming allowed her to get up.
The slap was delivered with a board. Her face was completely rotten, and her head was swollen like a pig's. It was both disgusting and terrifying (Concubine Ming laughed). But Concubine Ming, still furious, told her to rest for two days before continuing to kneel and receive the beating. It was the Princes of Qing and Yu who begged for mercy. Xuanyuan Hao asked her if she knew she was wrong, and she shook her head, blood pouring from her mouth and ears...
She had always thought it was a dream, but if there really was a fetus and two infants who died in vain, and even if the fifth princess's ranking was changed from two to five, then it means that they really existed. If they existed, then, were all of that real? Zhang Ru's face turned pale.
Meanwhile, someone in Tianyuan Temple asked in a reproachful tone, "Are you sending dreams to people again?"
A small, aggrieved voice said, "I used my own merits."
The Buddhist disciple from Tianyuan Temple asked, "How much merit did you owe for the dream you gave me last time?"
The small voice was a little uneasy: "Please calculate it for me, I will pay it back."
The Buddhist disciple asked again, "Did he also borrow the Moon God's spatial power? He changed time and space, allowing people in reality to see a scene they shouldn't have seen?"
The little head lowered: "Yes, Master."
Alas, the Buddhist sighed, how much merit must be owed? With just the effort of entering into meditation, this disciple has brought the Tianyuan Temple Buddhism into deficit.
The Buddhist disciple twisted the lotus flower with his fingers, then wondered for a moment: That incredibly long, detailed dream should have accrued a great deal of merit, practically a re-enactment. Borrowing the Moon Goddess's power was even more substantial, yet how could he check the account now and see that it wasn't owed, but rather accumulated? Why was the balance so long?
Is the arithmetic of the Heavenly Dao bad?
Tiandao: You're bad at math! Your whole family is bad at math! That dream stopped the war, ended the civil war, and prolonged the fate of a country. How many people can live well because of it? You know the hell!
Buddhist: Sorry to bother you.
As soon as he opened his eyes, the little face looked at him eagerly: "Master, how much do you owe me? This is my first time sending dreams and I have no experience. I have been doing it for a long time, so I will be very stingy this time. The sound is half and half."
Buddhist disciple: There’s no need to be so frugal. The merits you’ve earned are… I haven’t even finished counting the remaining balance yet…
Tiandao: You are not good at arithmetic!
Buddhist disciple: I didn't hear you. Those who read storybooks every day, how can you accumulate merit by sending a dream? It's unfair, the Way of Heaven... The eyes of the Way of Heaven are big and bright, always just, always fair!
Tiandao: "Hmph!"
"Master, Master!"
Buddha's son: "It's okay, if you want to give it, just give it. As a human being, the most important thing is to be happy."
The little head lowered again.
Buddhist son: I was careless. I am not yet a human being.
Heavenly Dao: There is a reason why you have so little merit!
Buddhist son: If you jump out again, believe it or not, I will poke a hole in you!
Tiandao: Sorry to bother you.
Buddhist son: What should I say?
"What storybook are you reading recently?"
The little hand reaches out—"The Cold Buddhist and the Pretty Widow—My Years with the Buddhist", "The Cute New Monk in Tianyuan Temple and His Seven Dads", "Whether the Demonic Path Will Save You or Not, the Buddhists Are Waiting Here for You—After the Demon Girl and the Buddhist Practicing Together".
Buddha's Son: ...
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