Chapter 350 Li Bixi goes to see Master Yuanqing
After a while, Li Bixi came in.
"Young Madam."
Li Bixiang lowered her head and looked submissive, standing in front of Lu Lingyun very respectfully and saluted her.
"What wind brought Aunt Li here?" Lu Lingyun looked at her with a smile.
As soon as she finished speaking, Li Bixi's eyes filled with tears, and she said pitifully, "Madam, Lanying's complexion has been getting worse these days. She hardly eats the food that was sent to her, and leaves it untouched. I went to check on her, and I saw that her hand, which was copying the household rules, could barely hold a pen."
"Auntie Li, are you begging me to release Lanying again?" Seeing her pitiful appearance, Lu Lingyun's face was moved. She sighed and changed her tone, "But I released Lanying on my own initiative last time, and then Lanying offended the prince again, and the prince was quite dissatisfied with me afterwards."
"After all, I didn't impose this punishment. If I had let Prince Lan Yingke go, he would have been angry."
Lu Lingyun sent her away with a few words and told her to go and ask Cheng Yunshuo for help.
Last time, she just happened to need Cheng Lanying, so she gave her a favor.
They come to her for help every time, but unfortunately she is not a compassionate and kind Bodhisattva.
"Young Madam." Li Bixi knelt down with a thud. "Of course I dare not embarrass Young Madam again. I am already grateful for Young Madam's kindness last time. How dare I dare to go to such lengths and shamelessly ask Young Madam to disrespect the Crown Prince? Lanying did something wrong, she should be punished! The Crown Prince did nothing wrong."
When Lu Lingyun heard Li Bixi say this, she couldn't help but raise her eyebrows, quite surprised.
She didn't come here for her daughter, so what was she doing here for?
"Then what are you doing here, Aunt Li?" Lu Lingyun asked calmly.
"Lan Ying used to be well-behaved, but her temperament has changed drastically recently. I suspect she has been offended by something. I beg Madam for a favor. I want to go to the temple outside the city to get a peace amulet for Lan Ying to ward off evil spirits!"
Li Bixi knelt down deeply.
After listening to what she said, Lu Lingyun thought to herself.
My good friend, I am definitely not here for Cheng Lanying, but for Cheng Yunshuo!
Everyone in the mansion knew that Cheng Yunshuo had been staying overnight in temples frequently recently. She didn't go to the temple to pray for Cheng Lanying's safety, she was obviously going to find him!
Fortunately, she could come up with such an excuse. In order to find a way to meet Cheng Yunshuo, she even said that her daughter was possessed by evil spirits.
But...
"Lan Ying has indeed changed her temperament recently. She used to be as obedient as Aunt Li, but now she has been rude to her father. I think there is something evil going on. Aunt Li is so kind, how can I not agree? Go ahead and pray for Lan Ying."
Lu Lingyun was very considerate and generous and agreed to her request.
Li Bijie felt a little uncomfortable with Lu Lingyun's sweet talk these days.
What happened to Lu Lingyun?
Why have you been so easy to talk to again and again recently?
She originally thought that today would be a fierce battle. How could Lu Lingyun's tactful mind be easily fooled? For this reason, she gave Cheng Lanying a scolding before leaving the house and told her to start pretending to be crazy. If Lu Lingyun didn't let her out of the house, she would drag Cheng Lanying out and ask them to watch.
But she really didn't expect that Lu Lingyun had been so easy to talk to recently.
Last time she asked her to release Cheng Lanying, she agreed as soon as she asked...
"What's wrong with Aunt Li?" Lu Lingyun looked down at her from above. "Didn't you just say that Lanying was attacked by an evil spirit? Why don't you hurry up and go today?"
Li Bixi came back to her senses immediately. She kowtowed three times, "Thank you for your grace, Madam! Long live the Madam!"
No matter what medicine Lu Lingyun took, since they are willing to let her leave the house, that’s a good thing!
Li Bixi quickly agreed.
After she thanked him, she quickly left.
After she left, Shuang Hong couldn't help but ask, "Young Madam, Aunt Li is going to the temple outside the city to pray for blessings. I don't think she's going to pray for the Second Miss at all. She looks more like she's going to look for the Crown Prince."
"Yes, she has been pining for the prince all day long, like a pug. She even uses her own daughter as an excuse to go look for him. Why should you give in to her wishes and let her go look for the prince?"
Lu Lingyun listened to the discussion of her maids, smiled faintly, and continued to spread out the list of betrothal gifts from the Lu family and read it.
The most important thing in this world is not to be too deliberate. Being too deliberate will only backfire.
She doesn't need to suppress Li Bixi too much on purpose. She just needs to let things develop and add some help or resistance each time. That's enough.
The rest will take its course.
If one only pursues setting up a scheme and deliberately suppressing an opponent, not to mention how tiring one's life will be, the situation that results from all this effort will probably be unsatisfactory.
Just like Li Bixiang now, everything is not going as she wants and she is confused. What good situation can she get by going to Cheng Yunshuo so deliberately?
Lu Lingyun didn't know anything else, but she knew that the matter of poisoning tea would never end.
Cheng Yunshuo suppressed the matter, but it won't disappear out of thin air. It will always be there. Li Bixiang doesn't know what's going on, so she just wants to compete for favor and seek Cheng Yunshuo's favor as before. I'm afraid that this will go against her wishes and push him further away.
A bad guy like Lu Lingyun who enjoys watching the show is naturally willing to lend a helping hand quietly.
After Li Bijie got the permission to leave the house from Lu Lingyun, she left the house directly and ordered a carriage to go directly to Guangji Temple in the suburbs.
Today she wants to see what kind of person is that old monk named Cheng Yunshuo who never comes home all day and has made her obsessed with Buddhist philosophy!
She really didn't believe it. He was just an ordinary monk!
Li Bixi arrived at Guangji Temple.
Today seems to be a big day, and there are especially many people coming to the temple.
"Young master, may I ask if there is a Master Yuanqing in your temple?" Li Bixiang asked the young monk at the door as soon as she entered the gate of Guangji Temple.
"Amitābha, you are here to find our abbot," the young monk pointed the way to Li Bixi, "our abbot is giving a sermon in the main hall today, just go straight ahead and you will arrive."
When Li Bixiang heard this, she didn't even bother to say politely and strode inside.
She climbed up the high stairs and followed a group of people up to the main hall. As soon as she entered the hall, she saw devout men and women kneeling on cushions.
In front of the golden Buddha statue, surrounded by little nuns on both sides, an old monk with a wrinkled face and long white beard and eyebrows sat cross-legged, knocking the wooden fish in front of him and chanting scriptures that she could not understand.
"Who's that in the middle?"
Li Bijie looked at the old monk and asked the young monk at the door.
"Lady donor, that is our abbot, Amitabha."
"He is Master Yuanqing?" Li Bixiang asked again.
"Amitābha, yes, lady donor."