Zhang Ru fell ill upon returning to the palace. When Xuanyuan Hao came to visit, she stared at him blankly, her eyes following him as if trying to understand something, but she subconsciously avoided any contact or approach from him.
After asking the five princesses what happened at Tianyuan Temple, Xuanyuan Hao was completely baffled. Three more princesses? Where did they come from? Why were they so ill over such a fabricated incident?
She was about to call the two little monks who were talking nonsense to question them. Zhang Ru had no choice but to say, "You can call them. I will ask them. Your Majesty is very powerful. Don't scare those two children."
His Majesty summoned the abbot of Tianyuan Temple and the two young monks. The two young monks lowered their heads and looked listless, probably knowing that they were in trouble.
Zhang Ru had snacks and tea served, then dismissed the attendants. She gently comforted the two young monks, "Don't worry, this illness has nothing to do with you two."
Then he asked, "How do you know there are three princesses?"
The little monk looked at the abbot.
The presiding abbot said, "Monks do not tell lies. Speak."
The young monk said, "I can see them and hear them talking. Every time the fifth princess comes, the three of them follow her."
Zhang Ru asked, "Did you see anything this time? Is he still following the Fifth Princess?"
"Not this time. The fifth princess changed her position, and after the temple enshrined the eternal lamp, their presence has faded."
Zhang Ru smiled and called the maid to take them downstairs for some snacks. She then gave them a purse and said, "Go down and play."
Zhang Ru asked the abbot, "Master, why can't the three vengeful spirits find their mother, but can still haunt the five princesses?"
The abbot said, "When a baby dies, only the spirit remains. When the baby died, its mother had someone stab it blind and cast a spell on it. That's why the vengeful spirit can't find its mother."
"Blind both eyes?"
"If not, how could we use the young girl's plight to stir up the wrath of the people? Kill two birds with one stone."
"Master, may I ask, have all these things really happened?"
The abbot said, "Not to the current donors."
Zhang Ru asked, "Where did these three vengeful spirits come from?"
"I'm blind. I've lost my way and don't know the way."
Zhang Ru stared at the abbot in amazement: "Have they gone back now?"
The abbot said, "Transformed by the three thousand Buddhist chants, guided by the three years of eternal light, all resentment has vanished, and I have returned to the earth."
Zhang Ru asked, "If I feel fear and doubt, and resentment rises within me, what should I do?"
The abbot said, "If you have a little kindness between your eyebrows and a sincere heart, you will be free and truly free."
“Only by being truly at ease can one attain great freedom?”
The abbot continued, "If the donor has an unusual opportunity, then there must be an unusual cause and effect. Yesterday's cause produced yesterday's result, and today's cause produces today's result. The flowers of this spring and the fruits of this autumn are before your eyes and in your heart. There is no need to be obsessed with the flowers and fruits of last year."
"Thank you, Abbot."
Zhang Ru seemed to have figured things out at this moment and felt better, but at night she was still troubled by the knot in her heart and had nightmares all the time. She drank bowl after bowl of calming soup, but it seemed to be completely useless.
Zhang Ru looked exhausted, and Xuanyuan Hao was anxious. He posted an imperial edict to summon the strange doctor from Guiguzi.
After hearing this, Zhang Ru remembered the dream in which he summoned a strange doctor to save Huang Mengling, and couldn't help but sigh: That would be great, if only we could invite the strange doctor from Guiguzi to take a look at Lingyi.
But the money-loving Ghost Valley Doctor has not appeared. He treats the rich and powerful, his relatives and his friends, and now the imperial edict has spread everywhere, and His Majesty has offered a huge reward for the Empress, but he has not appeared.
Zhang Ru wondered: Could she have passed away? The moment Huang Mengling received the diagnosis from the Ghost Valley Doctor in her dream was about half a year after she brought her to the palace.
Now, more than a decade has passed since Ye Zhou "favored his concubine over his wife" and "knelt in winter as punishment." The last time the Fifth Princess saw the strange doctor in real life was when she was very young. Perhaps the Ghost Valley Strange Doctor is really no longer in this world.
The little girl, the high priestess of the Gu tribe, came again and sat opposite Ye Zhou: "You have three concubines, why don't you have a wife?"
Ye Zhou looked at Helan Cheng and said, "Hurry up, hurry up."
The little girl said, "Send a team to take me to Kyoto."
Ye Zhou: "What?"
Helan Cheng: "Maybe to become a wife?"
Ye Zhou: You are speaking now.
The little girl said: "I'm going to see the queen."
Ye Zhou and Helan Cheng: "Are you the Ghost Valley Strange Doctor?"
Little girl: "No."
Ye Zhou asked, "Can you treat illnesses?"
The little girl thought for a moment and said, "I know how to grow Gu."
Ye Zhou and Helan Cheng started to do their own things.
Wang Lingyi felt that she might have messed up, so she brought the old lover of the skinny Yangzhou horse back from Yangzhou and asked him to take the man back.
This skinny horse from Yangzhou pretended to agree to go back, but deliberately arranged to wait for his lover on the road that Wang Suwen had to take when he returned home from court.
As soon as the man arrived, Shouma saw Wang Suwen's carriage coming from afar, and he started to change his mind. He started to provoke the man with all kinds of words and started to beat his old lover.
The man was scolded and beaten by her. He was not a good person to begin with. This time he became ruthless and started to beat the skinny horse to death.
He grabbed her hair in the street, slapped her twice, then kicked her in the chest, stepped on her arm with one foot, and kicked her head and face with the other foot.
The skinny horse held her head with one hand, trying to protect herself, but the man kicked her in the stomach again, and the skinny horse screamed.
Someone nearby went up to stop him.
The man said, "This is my wife. She cheated on me with another man. When I was out, she stole everything in the house and ran away with that man. No one can stop me!"
The crowd around him retreated, "There must be something hateful about a pitiful person."
Wang Suwen's servants and the coachman rushed forward, rescued the woman who was beaten black and blue, and pinned the man down.
The skinny horse looked up at Wang Suwen, tears rolling down his face.
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