Last night, Murong Hao personally tore off a talisman on the window to play with the cat.
Thinking back now, Murong Hao still felt a little confused. On the one hand, he didn't understand why he had a brain seizure at that moment, but on the other hand, he felt that he had done nothing wrong.
What's wrong with such a cute little cat wanting to play with a spell? What kind of little cat doesn't like to play? However, facing the real person's question, the couple didn't dare to tell the truth. Madam Murong could only say: "Maybe it was blown away by the night wind."
The room was silent for a moment, and the atmosphere was awkward.
"Master, please take a look at Jiaci first?" Murong Hao quickly changed the subject and asked worriedly, "I wonder if Jiaci can be saved?"
Old Madam Murong on the bed was put back into a lying position, breathing barely a breath.
Her face became paler, her lips were faintly tinged with a dark purple color like deathly gray, and even dark purple scars began to appear on her wrists and the backs of her hands.
Shangqing Zhenren flicked his silver whisk again, and with a bit of compassion and a bit of detachment, he walked to the bedside, glanced at Madam Murong from head to toe, and said with a sigh: "The old lady of your house is on the verge of death."
It means that the person is dying.
The two maids who were serving the old lady trembled and lowered their heads in dismay. If something happened to the old lady...
Madam Murong's face changed drastically, and she hurriedly asked, "Master, do you have any other way to save my mother-in-law?"
Murong Hao also stared at Shangqing Zhenren without blinking, his whole body tense, with extremely complex emotions churning in his pupils, including tension, uneasiness, sadness, and a hint of fear.
"Forget it, let's send the Buddha to the west." Shangqing Zhenren said as he walked towards the large desk in front of the window.
His Taoist boy immediately took out talisman paper, wolf-hair brush and special talisman ink and placed them on the table. At the same time, Madam Murong dismissed all the servants in the room.
The room was completely silent, except for the talisman remaining on the window, which was rustling in the wind.
Taoist Shangqing took up his brush and dipped it in ink, and drew an extremely complicated new talisman as smoothly as flowing water. Then he told the Taoist boy to slap the talisman on Madam Murong's chest.
The talisman seemed to be alive, and ripples appeared on the talisman paper, making the winding runes on it exude a strange and mysterious aura.
Murong Hao and his wife stared at the old lady on the bed almost holding their breath.
The next moment, Madam Murong's breathing became visibly clearer, and her nose twitched slightly.
Her eyes were still tightly closed, her eyeballs trembling beneath her eyelids, and the corners of her wrinkled mouth were pursed into a stiff arc, as if she was enduring an inhuman pain.
"This talisman can protect the heart meridian and temporarily preserve the old lady's life for three hours." Shangqing Zhenren said slowly, with no joy or sadness on his face.
When Murong Hao and his wife heard the first half of the sentence, they felt slightly relieved, but when they heard the second half, their hearts suddenly tightened again.
Thinking that Shangqing Zhenren might have a trick up his sleeve, Murong Hao bowed to him respectfully and asked, "Please enlighten me, Zhenren."
Taoist Shangqing did not look at the couple, nor did he speak. He looked at the rising sun outside the window with a dim gaze and counted with his fingers.
The faint morning light outside the window illuminated half of his face, while the other half was hidden in the shadow of the corner, making his temperament seem deep and mysterious.
A few fallen leaves were blown in by the morning breeze, but they automatically avoided Shangqing Zhenren.
After a while, he lowered his eyes, put down his right hand, and said in a calm tone: "Two believers, the only solution now is to let the second son of your family get married immediately today, consummate the marriage, and then use the blood of the bride's essence to lend him life."
His tone was neither light nor heavy, neither fast nor slow. His words revealed the detachment of a hermit, and his wise eyes were calm.
Arrange the wedding today?! Murong Hao and his wife looked at each other, first shocked, then embarrassed.
They had just agreed with the Gu family yesterday to set the wedding date of Murong Yong and Gu Yunzhen on New Year's Eve. Today was the day when the Gu family would deliver the dowry.
The Gu family was easy to talk to and agreed to the "bridal ceremony". If they moved up the wedding date...
"This is too hasty..." Murong Hao said with difficulty. He was not sure whether the Gu family would agree.
Taoist Shangqing waved his sleeves casually, with their cuffs fluttering in the wind. He looked like an immortal. He turned his face towards the couple, with an unusually bright light shining in his pupils.
He added: "I just made a divination. In three years, your second son will be very successful and rise to prominence!"
"Whether it is true or not is up to the two believers to decide. I am an outsider and I am just doing my best."
Murong Hao and his wife could no longer listen to the last words of Shangqing Zhenren. They looked at each other again with burning eyes. The moment they thought of the four words "soaring to the sky", their blood began to boil.
Their efforts at this moment are all worth it! Three years, as long as the old lady can hold on for another three years, their Murong family can rise! Murong Hao respectfully and piously stretched out his hand to the Shangqing Zhenren and said, "Please sit in the main hall first, and let me discuss it with my family."
Then, the couple escorted Shangqing Zhenren out of the inner room and went to the main hall outside, leaving Madam Murong and a housekeeper to temporarily entertain the Zhenren, while Murong Hao himself went to the outer courtyard to discuss the matter with his two younger brothers.
In fact, the three brothers didn't discuss it for long. They had already held on for several months and had finally made it to this point. There was absolutely no way they would give up like this.
So, after a stick of incense, Madam Murong personally prepared a cart full of valuable gifts and hurried to the Dingyuan Marquis' Mansion.
It was only the beginning of the morning.
Because they were going to worship their ancestors today, Mrs. Gu got up earlier than usual.
Who would have thought that someone from the Murong family would suddenly visit at this time, so she asked Nanny Li to invite them to Cihetang.
"Madam, please forgive me for coming here without telling you. This is really a matter of utmost urgency."
"My old lady was not feeling well this morning, so my family specially asked Shangqing Zhenren to check on her again. Shangqing Zhenren said that if we want to save her life, we must have a happy marriage as soon as possible."
"I know this is very presumptuous, but I can only beg Madam Tai to bring forward the wedding date of our two children to today."
Madam Murong kept a very humble attitude, fearing that the Gu family would not agree.
"..." Madam Gu's face turned unhappy when she heard this.
The Murong family has been pushing forward the wedding date again and again, which is really asking for too much. They don't take the Gu family seriously.
However, thinking of Gu Yunzhen's disobedient behavior yesterday, Madam Gu's eyes flickered, her face darkened, and she slowly twisted the Buddhist beads with her fingers, weighing the pros and cons.
(End of this chapter)
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