Chapter 31: Confirming Her Name as a Disaster Star
A voice came from the side of the alley.
Su Rui quickly looked over and saw that the lady of the Fan family next door immediately covered her little daughter's mouth and dragged her into the carriage with a horrified look on her face.
He didn't even make eye contact with Su Rui.
"Do you want to check it out?" Xier asked.
Su Rui waved her hand. The Fan family was also a fourth-rank official, so she couldn't let Xier break in.
Besides, it's just a casual talk.
Putting it aside for the moment, Su Rui got on the carriage.
Today, all officials and ladies with imperial decrees will enter the palace. Young masters of noble families like Su Ye, who have no meritorious official positions, can only wait outside the palace gate for the bell to ring before burning scriptures and praying for blessings.
As a servant of Yun Ji, Su Rui is also considered a member of the Fahua Temple.
Therefore, the carriage could be parked at the parking lot just like the Yong'an Marquis.
After getting off the car, Yongning Hou only told Su Rui to be cautious and then left. Su Rui waited for a while and then met an old acquaintance.
Huiming, wearing a blue-gray monk's robe, was very conspicuous among the crowd of people in gorgeous clothes. He was the shortest and ran over like a little ball.
"Female...female donor." Huiming called out while panting.
"Did Mr. Yunji send you here?" Su Rui asked.
Huiming shook his head. "No, I asked the master to let me come pick you up. I owed you a favor last time, so I'm here to show you the way today."
owe?
Su Rui recalled for a moment and remembered that he was talking about the first time he fed Black Bodhisattva.
She had just been joking with him, but she hadn't expected the little bald guy to take it to heart.
I guess he's worried about it, and if he doesn't pay her back, he's afraid she'll cheat him, and he can't sleep well at night.
It turns out that this Buddha cannot be cultivated. The more you cultivate, the more stupid you become.
Seeing how stupid he was, Su Rui stopped making things difficult for him and nodded, letting him lead the way.
Although Su Rui was from the Fahua Temple, she was a woman after all, and unmarried, so she could not walk through the main hall. She could only walk along the West Long Street that led from the harem to the Imperial Garden with the other ladies of honor.
When Su Rui and Hui Ming walked onto West Chang Street, they happened to meet a group of noble ladies who invited them to come in from another palace gate.
They bumped into Su Rui and saw that it was her. Everyone stopped in their tracks.
Unlike in the past, even if people disliked her, people who saw her would first look at her to see what she looked like as the legitimate daughter of a marquisate who had returned alive from a remote military camp to Shengjing.
Today everyone avoided looking at her, as if something would happen if they just looked at her.
'She is the disaster?'
The words she heard before leaving the house rang in her mind again. Su Rui reached out and grabbed Huiming's sleeve, signaling him not to leave.
Although Huiming entered the palace every year on Buddha's birthday, he always followed his master. This was the first time he came out alone, and he was walking through the harem, so he was not familiar with the rules of the harem.
Su Rui wouldn't let him go, so he naturally chose to trust someone he was familiar with.
Seeing that Su Rui refused to leave, a group of noble ladies became anxious, as they were in a hurry to pay their respects to Queen Lin first.
But they were afraid of Su Rui's power. On such a good day, no one wanted to be unlucky or have bad luck.
"You know what a nobody you are, yet you're still deliberately blocking my way. How unlucky!"
Someone in the group complained.
Then someone whispered, "Why are you messing with her? She's a natural disaster, and has killed so many people. If she holds a grudge against you, who knows if you might get some strange disease too."
"She won't leave, and is standing in our way. Isn't that deliberately trying to harm us? This is already our nemesis."
When this was said, many people agreed.
It really is a disaster star. I will be unlucky once I meet it.
Everyone was annoyed, but no one dared to chase them away. After all, their lives were not that easy, and today was Buddha's birthday.
And Su Rui also understood the general idea.
It seems that someone spread the rumor among the inner courtyard of the aristocratic family that she was born to be a disaster.
The rumors she instigated were only among the people. Although they were widespread, they were just public opinion.
The roles played by the female circle within the inner courtyard are different.
In just two days, Lady Liang was able to make all the noble ladies in the palace believe in her words so much. Su Rui couldn't figure out what kind of rhetoric she used.
Just as the ladies were in distress, the sound of galloping horses approached rapidly from behind.
“Get out of the way!”
A shout was heard right behind my ear.
Su Rui reached out and immediately pushed Huiming to the side, but she was a step too late to dodge. The horse hit her left shoulder and knocked her out. Her shoulder hit the palace wall and she heard the sound of bones breaking.
"Whoa!" Holding the reins, Chang Ning turned around and angrily cursed, "Didn't you hear me tell you to get out of the way? You even scared my Snow Dragon Horse."
"Female donor! Where are you injured? What... should I do, little monk..." Huiming wanted to check Su Rui's wound, but there was a difference between men and women. He was so anxious that he waved his hands around, and his bald head was covered with sweat.
"It's okay." Su Rui covered her shoulder and uttered two words through gritted teeth.
"I thought someone was blind, but it turns out to be the Su family's legitimate daughter." Chang Ning leaned over and looked down, his eyes full of sneers. "The Japanese princess suffered so much the past few days because of you."
Su Rui didn't believe that Chang Ning had just seen her and was clearly coming towards her with a clear purpose.
But due to the difference in status, Su Rui could only accept her words and bowed with pain, saying, "I have never harmed the princess."
"You still dare to quibble? You were born with a calamity. Your mother was seriously ill when you were born and passed away four years later. The first year you went to the border, there were floods, the second year plague, the third year drought, the fourth year famine. And the fifth year you returned to the capital and won two battles on the border. And this princess got a strange itchy disease just by seeing you. Aren't you the one who harmed me?"
So that's how it is.
However, the first year's floods in the border areas were caused by river diversion, the second year's floods were caused by well water pollution after the flood receded, the third year's floods were caused by the blockage of the river after the first year, and the famine only came into being in the fourth year.
The so-called victory five years later was nothing more than the Rong tribe on the border being forced to invade after they suffered a locust plague and had no harvest this year.
But the women who lived in the deep house of Shengjing City and lived a life of luxury would not know these things, nor would they imagine them.
They only think about things that are closely related to themselves, such as whether it will bring bad luck to themselves and their families if they have to offer sacrifices and pray together with the disaster star today.
After what happened today, if anyone present got sick or the family suffered bad luck, it would definitely be blamed on Su Rui, solidifying her reputation as a calamity star.
"How are you going to make amends for harming this princess?" Chang Ning's eyes were close, like a long knife against Su Rui's throat.
"If you believe in the stories of gods and ghosts, you can report it to the emperor and order the death of my daughter." Su Rui gritted her teeth and stood up to face Chang Ning.
No matter what, she is now the emperor's personal appointee.
This is also what Changning hates the most. He can't touch her. Just like last time, he knew that she was the one who made him itch all over his body, but he couldn't produce any evidence to accuse her.
Now he calls her a lowly slave and dares to shout at her in public!
She insists on...
"Cousin!"
When Changning's eyes showed murderous intent, a hurried female voice sounded from behind the long street.
A pure and innocent woman, about seventeen or eighteen years old, wearing a peach-pink palace dress, trotted over. She looked a bit like Changning, but without any domineering aura.
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