Chapter 40: Returning at Night
In the middle of the night, the snow gradually stopped, and at this time, the door of the East Courtyard was gently pushed open, making a "creaking" sound, which was a very slight sound, but it attracted the attention of the new female guest in the East Courtyard.
When the two ladies in the room heard this, they opened their eyes together, and the waitress quietly jumped to the door, and leaned her ears behind the door to listen carefully to the movement.
I only heard that after the courtyard door was pushed open, a small sound of footsteps walked into the courtyard, the maid quietly opened a small crack in the door, and opened her eyes outward, the person did not light the lamp, and the image of the person alone was a female nun, because the night was too dark, I could not see this person's appearance carefully.
Looking at the direction in which the man was walking and listening to the footsteps, the nun seemed to be walking towards the two locked clean rooms, and there was a sound of unlocking, and the man entered the room, and after closing the door, there was no more sound.
The maid frowned, and wanted to close the door, when she heard the sound of the courtyard door of the west courtyard being pushed open, and after a sound of footsteps entering, there was another sound of the door being pushed open.
In the middle of the night, I don't know which two came back so late, but I don't know what to do.
"Master, the footsteps of the West Courtyard are estimated to be the nun named Jing Zhen, and in the evening, I didn't see this person in the West Courtyard." After the waitress quietly closed the door, she turned around and said to the woman surnamed Zhao on the bed in a low voice.
"The voice of our East Courtyard just now, maybe it was the owner of the nunnery, didn't we see the owner of the nunnery come back? The locked room was probably hers. The woman surnamed Zhao also said softly.
"It's just that there are too many people in this hospital to inspect them one by one." The waitress sighed.
"We can't startle the snakes, if they are alerted, the rest of the matter will not be easy to handle, and it seems that this matter needs to be slowly figured out." The woman surnamed Zhao said.
There was no word all night, and at dawn, the sound of snow sweeping sounded in the courtyard, and the waitress opened the door and walked into the courtyard, only to see that Jingkong Xiaoni was already sweeping the snow in the courtyard with a broom.
"Morning, little master of the quiet sky." The waitress said hello to Ni.
"The donor got up so early." Jingkong put the broom aside and saluted with his palms together.
At this time, another door was opened, and a person walked out, and the waitress hurriedly looked back, but it was the owner of the "Xiangyin Nunnery", and the clean room she came out of was not the two locked rooms yesterday.
"Master is early." The quiet sky called again.
The maid also turned around and said hello to Na Yin, secretly saying that her master had guessed correctly, this nun slept so late last night, but got up so early today.
After fasting in the morning, the sky was clear, and the snow had not fallen again, and the nuns had gone to the front to do their homework, and the master and servant saw that there was no movement in the courtyard, and hurriedly opened the door and walked to the courtyard, and the maid still went to inspect the bedroom of the cause, but fortunately the door was not locked today.
When you open the door, there are two rooms, inside and outside, and in the middle of the outer room is an offering table with a Buddha statue on it, and a futon on the ground. After a closer look, the waitress found that the futon was quite new, and it didn't look like it had been kneeling for a long time. There are one or two seats on the left side of the table against the wall.
There was a curtain hanging on the door of the inner room, and the waitress walked over and lifted the curtain, but there was a large bookcase against the wall in the inner room, almost the entire wall lined up, and there were books on it. She walked over and pulled out a book, but it was a scripture, and another was a medical book, and there were some miscellaneous books.
She was secretly surprised, and said in her heart that this nunnery master has a wide range of knowledge, if the nun owner has read all these books, this nun must really be regarded as erudite.
Putting the books back, she glanced around, only to find that in this room, in addition to the books, there was only a couch and a desk, which could be regarded as simple.
She pushed the bookshelf, as if she didn't move, and looked at so many books that even if there was a mechanism, she didn't know which one it was, so she had to give up. Seeing that nothing else was found, the maid came out again and spoke to her master in a low voice. The two cleaned up, walked to the front Buddhist hall, and prepared to say goodbye.
At this time, there were more than a dozen nuns sitting neatly on the ground in the Buddhist hall, but the one in the front was the owner of the nunnery, whose morning service was about to end, and the two of them did not disturb and stood quietly.
The woman surnamed Zhao glanced at the nuns in the Buddhist hall and found that there was a female nun sitting next to Yinyin, about twenty years old, with a beautiful appearance and a moving demeanor, her eyes slightly closed, and her mouth reading scriptures. She thought to herself, isn't this the quiet truth?
Soon the morning class was over, the master and servant hurriedly stepped forward and gave a salute to Yin, and then looked closely at the nun beside her, with autumn water in her eyes, her appearance was even more moving, but her mind was clear but faint, so that she was really a cold beauty.
The two donated sesame oil money, and were sent to the gate of the nunnery accompanied by Jingkong Xiaoni, and walked to no one's place, and the woman surnamed Zhao said, "Master Jingkong, I see that your masters in the nunnery are quite beautiful, why did they lose their hair and escape into the empty door at a young age?" ”
"The donor doesn't know that the senior brothers in our nunnery are all in this nunnery because they have a miserable life and have nowhere to stay. After all, there are three meals in the nunnery, quiet and leisurely, and you only need to do homework, worship the Buddha, and preach the scriptures every day, and you don't need to go out to show up to earn silver taels. "That quiet sky Xiaoni knows everything, quite simple.
"Why did the little master of Jingkong enter the nunnery?" The woman surnamed Zhao asked again.
"Because Xiao Ni's family was poor and his family could not afford to support these many children, he sent me to the nunnery, and at that time, the master gave my father and mother some silver taels to help them survive." Jingkong said rather wistfully.
"Just now I saw that there is a beautiful female master next to your master, but I don't know who it is?" The woman surnamed Zhao asked curiously.
"Look-alike? That must be Senior Brother Jingzhen, she is the most valued by the master in our nunnery, and according to the master, she has quite a Buddha root. Jingkong's face showed envy.
"The two donors should go out quickly, and it is best to find a carriage to enter the inner city while it is not too late." Jingkong was busy urging the two of them.
Seeing that the question was almost over, the two hurriedly thanked and said goodbye. Before leaving the door of the nunnery, the waitress wrapped a few pieces of broken silver and stuffed them into Jingkong's arms, and Jingkong dragged them and thanked them.
After the two of them left the "Xiangyin Nunnery", they did not look for a carriage or horse to go to the inner city, but entered a pharmacy, and after they walked straight into the inner room, the woman surnamed Zhao ordered to take a pen and paper, and sat at the desk to carefully describe the quiet and true appearance.
After a while, she handed over the drawn picture to a man who had been waiting here for a long time, and said, "You take this picture to Li Er, and ask him to find someone to recognize, whether it is this nun or not, I am here waiting for your reply." ”
The man bowed his head in answer and hurried away.
After a pause, the woman surnamed Zhao asked, "Zhao Yan, is my senior brother back?" ”
The maid replied, "Not yet," replied, "but the letter has already been sent, and the reply says that it will be back in two days." ”
Listening to this answer, these two people are Zhao Xian and Zhao Yan, in order to enter the "Xiangyin Nunnery", the two of them returned to the dress of women.
Zhao Xian took a sip of the fragrant tea, leaned back on the chair, breathed a long sigh of relief, and said, "If my guess is correct, that Sun Zicong died of poisoning, but this poison is quite ingenious, and it can't be found out for a while." When the senior brother comes back, he may be able to see what poison he has suffered. ”
Zhao Yan said, "There are a lot of strange things about Xiangyin'an, but because it is unfathomable, she can't find anything unusual in her room, but it makes people quite hesitant." ”
Zhao Xian smiled, "It's okay, I don't believe they can hide it from everyone." ”
At this time, someone called Zhao Yan out, and not long after, Zhao Yan entered the room and said to Zhao Xian, "Master, in the middle of the night last year, some of us accidentally found a group of people, each of these people was carrying a bag, and there seemed to be someone in the bag, and they entered a private house, very similar to the Tooth Gang I saw in Yangzhou a few days ago. ”
"Oh? It's such a coincidence, because he and Jing really returned at night in the middle of the night last night, the Tooth Gang appeared again in the middle of the night last night, and it seems that this drama is getting more and more lively. Zhao Xian raised her eyebrows and said.