Chapter 19: Meeting a Thief While Offering Incense at Lingguang Temple
The opportunity to leave the house was agreed by the old lady. If the maid wants to leave the house, she needs to find the steward in advance to make arrangements.
If Yun Qiao was a concubine, all she had to do was tell the housekeeper of the Marquis's Mansion.
After all, this concubine only serves the Marquis and is not assigned any other tasks.
Leaving the mansion went smoothly. She had chosen a good day, with a beautiful day and the sun shining brightly. The two of them left the mansion and rode in a dusty little carriage, heading directly to Lingguang Temple.
Lingguang Temple is not far from the city, and it only takes an hour to get there.
Today's opportunity to leave the Marquis' Mansion is a rare one. I'm afraid there will never be such an opportunity again in the future. Yun Qiao cherishes it very much. She packed up last night and went out with a basket full of things as soon as the sun rose.
Yun Qiao is a member of the Marquis' Mansion and the Marquis' concubine. The Marquis' Mansion will naturally not let her go out at will. If she goes out, someone must follow her.
The purpose of following is to keep an eye on Yun Qiao.
When you leave the house for a day, there are regulations on when you go out and when you come back, and both times must be registered.
The driver of the car is the person in charge.
The carriage was parked at the foot of Lingguang Temple. Yun Qiao and her maid carried the things up the mountain and agreed to come down in two hours. The coachman was waiting at the foot of the mountain. Yun Qiao would not let the coachman wait in vain, so she gave him some change and asked him to buy some things at the foot of the mountain.
Whatever he wants to eat and drink, he can do it as he pleases.
Lingguang Temple is on the mountainside. Although the temple is not big, it is quite popular. Therefore, there are many small shops and peddlers selling goods at the foot of the mountain, making it very convenient to buy things.
"Girl, slow down. You're panting so hard..."
Yun Qiao wiped the sweat from her forehead and panted, "It seems I really lack exercise. It's not good to be a parasite in the Marquis' Mansion for too long."
At this moment, Yun Qiao was thinking to herself, she refused to lie down, refused to be a lazy fish, and she had to exercise.
Otherwise, she would either be a fat person or a sick person who would gasp for air after walking two steps.
I am weak, how can I live a long life in the future?
Xiao Tao listened to Yun Qiao's words and smiled, "Miss, you're clamoring to exercise now. But when it comes to exercising, you lie down and cry out in exhaustion."
Yun Qiao's thoughts were touched upon, and she continued to crawl forward with a smile.
Fortunately, the halfway point of the mountain was not difficult to climb, and we reached the temple in less than half an hour.
After entering the temple, you first wash your hands, burn incense, and add money, and then the little monk will take you to the room where the tablets are enshrined.
Yun Qiao knelt on the cushion.
It seemed like he was just chatting with his friends.
"I'm doing pretty well now. I've found a job with free food and accommodation, and the salary is pretty good. I can barely support myself and save a little. When I've saved enough, I'll quit this job and rent a house, or even buy a small yard in the countryside, which would be great."
"Now I no longer work so hard to make money as I did before. It's a pity that I still can't have my own child. But if I adopt one in the future, it will be able to take care of me in my old age. You don't have to worry about me anymore."
Xiao Tao knelt on the other side, listening to the girl mumbling, and couldn't help feeling distressed.
The girl says she doesn't like children, but she still wants her own child in her heart. Look, isn't she saying that now?
"Girl, don't be sad. In the future, Xiaotao will give birth to more children and teach them to be filial to you."
Yun Qiao pursed her lips and smiled, "You've been very good to me, but not to this extent."
"These are all things of the past. Burning incense today inevitably brings some of them to mind. I didn't want to have children in modern times, and now, there's no chance. This is fine..."
She suddenly remembered those modern things.
She has never been married or had children in modern times, so her grandparents have always been concerned about her.
It’s better now, but in ancient times people still couldn’t have children...
Xiaotao couldn't understand what Yunqiao said.
"Miss, what you said is so strange. I don't understand."
What is modern, past, present and this life? She doesn't understand, but she can feel that the girl still wants to have her own child.
Yun Qiao smiled and said, "It's just a nagging. It doesn't matter whether you understand it or not."
"Put your things in place and let's leave."
If you go down the mountain and back to the city early, you can always stroll around for a while longer.
Xiao Tao responded and placed the tributes in place.
He begged a few more times.
"I hope the spirits of the master and the mistress in heaven can bless the girl to be healthy and safe, and live to be a hundred years old."
Yun Qiao looked at her and said jokingly, "My parents are not the King of Hell, how can they control people's lifespan?"
"Everyone has his own destiny. This sentence means that people's fate is in their own hands. If they want to change their existing living environment, they can only rely on themselves."
Xiao Tao seemed to understand, but she never thought about these more profound questions.
Anyway, whatever the girl does is definitely right.
After packing up the bamboo basket, the master and servant went down the mountain. Halfway down the mountain, Xiao Tao reminded Yun Qiao that the paper ingots and clothes they brought for the master and mistress had not been burned yet.
The two of them went straight into the grove halfway up the mountain, found a place to burn the paper ingots and clothes to avoid burning other places.
After Yun Qiao finished, she wiped her hands with a handkerchief and suddenly saw blood on the ground beside her. She was naturally scared because she had heard that there were bandits in the mountains besides temples.
Is she going to die here today...
It was just as I was thinking about calling Xiaotao away quickly.
Suddenly, two men in black were seen holding Xiaotao hostage.
"Miss, hurry up and leave..."
Xiao Tao just shouted when she was hit on the neck, but she did not faint. Maybe it was because she had been beaten so many times that she was a little resistant to beatings.
"What do you want to do? In this bright and clear world, are you still going to kill people?"
"I can only say that you are unlucky. Lingguang Temple is so big, why do you have to come here when you can go anywhere else?"
The men in black were wearing black masks, so Yun Qiao couldn't see what they looked like.
Just when the two men in black were about to take action, they heard a scolding coming from not far away.
"Less trouble, get out quick."
"Young Master, these people..."
Yun Qiao looked in the direction of the young master and met a pair of black eyes. It was so strange that his eyes were extremely similar to those of the Marquis.
"Let him go."
"But……."
They saw the place where they buried the bodies. If they left and reported to the police, it would definitely be extremely disadvantageous to them.
Yun Qiao immediately said decisively and quickly: "Don't worry, hero, we have never been here."
The man stared at Yun Qiao, a hint of interest flashing in his eyes, but he quickly ordered his subordinates to leave quickly.
In a moment of panic, the man in black disappeared.
Yun Qiao's legs went weak and her eyes stared at the freshly turned soil not far away. She guessed, no, not guessed, she was sure that there must be a body buried there.
It turns out that you can’t enter the small woods of Lingguang Temple.
Seeing the man in black leave, Yun Qiao hurriedly pulled Xiao Tao out. She didn't even notice that her handkerchief had fallen off, and she was just focused on going down the mountain.
After experiencing such a thing, Yun Qiao no longer dared to hang around outside.
Then he returned to the Marquis' Mansion.
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