"Then please look after Hongzhou for me tomorrow, while I go to offer incense to Abbot Yuanyi."
Wanru teased Xiao Hongzhou with a toy in her hand, without looking up, and said jokingly:
"I didn't expect my sister to believe in these things?"
"No, it's just a sense of awe."
The next day, the Fourth Princess took Geng Youran in a carriage and went to Guanyun Temple early in the morning.
After offering incense, the two parted ways temporarily.
The Fourth Princess stayed there copying scriptures, while Geng Youran walked towards the pavilion on the mountain.
"Princess, is this the pavilion you mentioned?"
"Yes, it was here that Abbot Yuanyi gave me those four lines of poetry, and soon after I entered the palace."
Just as Geng Youran was about to say something more, a childish voice suddenly rang out from the side:
"Are you Geng Youran, benefactor?"
"It's me. And you are?"
“I am just an ordinary monk at Guanyun Temple. Before Abbot Yuanyi passed away, he gave me a jade pendant and told me that if I ever met a benefactor named Geng Youran, I should give her this jade pendant.”
As he spoke, the young monk handed me a nearly transparent jade pendant, a square pendant without any carvings.
"Did Abbot Yuan Yi leave me any message?"
"No."
Geng Youran was somewhat disappointed, but since Abbot Yuanyi had given her a jade pendant, perhaps it had an important purpose.
After the group returned to the residence, Geng Youran kept thinking about the jade pendant. It wasn't until dinner that Yinzhen came over and noticed that Geng Youran seemed distracted, so he asked her:
"You went to Guanyun Temple with the Fujin today? Did something happen?"
"No...no, why do you ask that, sir?"
"I noticed you haven't said much tonight, and you haven't eaten properly either."
Geng Youran quickly said:
"Perhaps it's because I got up too early this morning, so I'm a little tired right now."
There was no other way; the matter of the jade pendant had to be kept from the Fourth Prince, otherwise she and Xinyi might really be burned to death as monsters!
Upon hearing this, Yinzhen put down his chopsticks and casually said:
"In that case, let's make our arrangements as soon as possible."
"ah?"
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