Chapter 44 New Year in the Temple
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There is no New Year's atmosphere in Qingyin Temple, and you can't eat meat, and you are not allowed to drink, Dingyuan Shitai adheres to the virtue of thrift, and only two vegetarian dishes are added for the New Year, and everyone in the temple has a full meal.
After the meal, everyone gathered together to chat, the nuns are also women, and they also like to chat, most of them are children of poor families, the family is poor, there are many brothers and sisters, and the parents can't support them, so they will send the girls out, some send them to others for adoption, some send them to the nunnery to beg for food, some sell them directly, the better parents will sell their children to the rich and noble families as maids, and the greedy will sell their daughters to the brothels of the Qinglou, in order to get more money.
The female nuns of Qingyin Temple, most of them have too many children in the family, and their parents can't support them and send them to the temple, and there are also a few babies picked up by the old nuns at the gate of the temple, and there is only one outlier here, that is, the aunt Ying Fang who was sent to the Lin Mansion of the century-old family a few years ago, and she saw with her own eyes that another aunt who was also sent into the temple like her was humiliated and hanged to death, and she also died of the idea of returning to the house to be an aunt again.
Ying Fang used to be the favorite concubine of Lord Lin Mansion in the Lin Mansion, because of her lovely appearance, gentleness, and thoughtfulness to serve Lord Lin, this went from a small girl to the next level, and officially made Master Lin an aunt, known as Aunt Ying. Aunt Ying is quite skillful, she was pregnant within two years of becoming an aunt, at that time it was under the favor of Master Lin, Mrs. Lin did not dare to make a big move, and let her give birth safely, and when she was born, it was a baby girl, Mrs. Lin breathed a sigh of relief, but Aunt Ying was greatly disappointed, she just wanted to give birth to a son, and she would have something to rely on in the future, so she made persistent efforts, and it didn't take long for Aunt Ying to become pregnant again. This time, Mrs. Lin couldn't sit still, and found an unusually beautiful woman out of nowhere, and gave her to Master Lin, and the woman was still in Aunt Ying's house, Master Lin quickly forgot Aunt Ying under the woman's beauty, Mrs. Lin finally made a move, and on a dark and windy night, Aunt Ying suddenly had a miscarriage, and the six-month fetus fell out of Aunt Ying's belly bloodily, and it was actually a male fetus. Immediately afterwards, Mrs. Lin came when she heard the wind and blamed Aunt Ying on the spot for not being blessed, unable to conceive a male fetus in the Lin Mansion, and being an unknown person who should be sent to the temple for cultivation. Poor Aunt Ying was lying on the ground alone, and the servants and maids around her all stood on Mrs. Lin's side at this time, and no one stood up to speak for her. That night, Aunt Ying's mournful shouts ran through the entire Lin Mansion, but Master Lin never appeared, and Mrs. Lin sharply instructed two mothers-in-law and a few henchmen to send Aunt Ying to Qingyin Temple overnight.
Soon after Aunt Ying was sent to the temple, Su Shilang's family in Beijing also sent an Aunt Gong, who heard that she murdered the heir of the wife in charge in the Su family, so she was sent to the temple by Su Shilang. Because Aunt Su and Aunt Ying have the same fate and similar experiences, they have a sense of sympathy for each other, and they often chat together to pass the long years in the temple. Aunt Gong told her aunt that she had not murdered her wife's child, and that she would come to pick her up when Su Shilang found out everything. However, after waiting for year after year, there was still no movement. So, Aunt Gong personally wrote a letter to Su Shilang, refuting herself, and attached a piece of her own green silk. But in the end, what she was waiting for was a desperate letter from Su Shilang, in which Su Shilang directly accused the Gong family's slut for mutilating the heirs and mothers of the Su family, which was really a crime of disobedience, and such a person could not live if she was sent to the government, just because Mrs. Su had always been kind and bodhisattva-hearted, so she specially begged Su Shilang not to send Aunt Gong to the government for justice, but to practice in the temple instead, hoping that she could repent under the Green Lantern Ancient Buddha. This is a desperate letter, it is simply a life talisman, after Aunt Gong read the letter, a white silk was hung on the beam of the house the next day, and she ended herself.
Aunt Gong went, there was a panic in the temple, after all, it was a dead person, and Mrs. Dingyuan also hurriedly sent someone to the Su family to report the news, but the housekeeper of the Su family gave ten taels of silver to send away, and said that Aunt Gong was no longer the Su family, please don't bother in the future. The little nun came back with ten taels of silver, but Master Dingyuan couldn't do it, so she hastily bought a thin coffin and dug a pit in the back mountain to bury the person, and didn't even erect a monument. All this is for the corresponding aunt, who inevitably has a desolate state of mind of the rabbit and the fox, so she decided to become a nun, escape from this terrible world, and stay away from all intrigues and interests.
After Aunt Ying became a nun, she wanted to be happy and peaceful from now on, and she didn't want the temple to be a muddy water, because Aunt Ying was born as an aunt, and most of them grew up in the temple since childhood, so everyone united to isolate her, and Aunt Ying still had a difficult life even if she left home. However, all this has quietly changed after a new Qian family who is said to be the aunt of the little marquis in the temple a few years ago.
Dingyuan Shitai sent Liu Sun and the two grandmothers to help under the stove, this Aunt Ying Fang also happened to be a cook in the kitchen, because of the crowd in the temple, what the most tiring and dirtiest work was thrown to her to do, she was already pampered, where can she do it, and then she still stuffed one of the remaining three golden hairpins on her body to give Dingyuan Shitai's eldest apprentice Wise Nun, let her say a few good words in front of Dingyuan Shitai, and then specially transferred to the kitchen full-time cooking. Although there are many things to do every day, and it is still very tiring to prepare meals for dozens of people, it is much easier than chopping wood, digging the ground to grow vegetables, shoveling snow or something, and the most important thing is that you can eat enough and not go hungry. In addition, when it was time for the meal, there were two new little nuns to help out.
Since Liu Sun and Liu Sun were assigned to the kitchen, the two little nuns did not come, so Ying Fang and Liu Sun got together, cooked together every day, and gradually became familiar with each other in small talk.
Ying Fang may have suffered a lot of losses, and people have become a little scheming, she first probed some news from the mouths of the two grandmothers, and then secretly went to the gate of Hansong Courtyard to look and see the Qian family. When she saw Qian for the first time, she suddenly had a thought in her heart, perhaps, she is my nobleman, I want to hold her firmly, I want to go out. Ying Fang's desire is very strong, because she has a daughter, now in the Lin Mansion, since she left, I don't know how her daughter is doing, when she was still in the Lin Mansion, her daughter was quite happy, now the biological mother is gone, and she is a concubine who is less than ten years old, the more Ying Fang thinks about it, the more she feels that she should go out, at least to know whether her daughter is doing well.
Ying Fang knows the little marquis of Anxin Houfu, she often hears people say, the little marquis of Anxin Marquis is young and handsome, outstanding in martial arts, and he was appointed as the commander of the Beijing Guard at a young age, the most important thing is that although the little marquis is a military officer, but he is literary and romantic, many nobles in Beijing are looking forward to marrying, but unfortunately he has already married, and the person he married is Shi Huiyun, the second daughter of Shi Guan, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites. Cui Xiaohou's backyard is so clean, many nobles and officials want to send beauties to him, but they are all refused, he only needs the two girls who have been serving him since he was a child and the two girls given by his mother, Mrs. An Xinhou as concubines, it is really a rare person with affection and righteousness. This time this Aunt Qian, it seems, is extremely beautiful, and she is pregnant, in the mouths of Liu Sun's two grandmothers, Cui Xiaohou seems to be very fond of her, if he follows her, it must be much better than now! The British side was thinking in their hearts.
Ying Fang slowly got along with Liu Sun and the two grandmothers for four months, because she was not like the other nuns in the temple who treated Liu Sun and the two with a contemptuous attitude, and her temperament was gentle and polite, and the two grandmothers gradually became skilled with her. Seeing that Qian's belly is getting bigger day by day, it has been six months, and the arrival of spring has also made the temperature on the mountain rise a lot, and the winter snow has begun to melt. Ying Fang privately heard the wise nun say that when the Qian family gave birth to a child, she would be taken away by the grandmother sent by Mrs. Houfu, and as for the Qian family, she didn't say what would happen. Ying Fang thought to herself, what else can she do, it's just to leave her son and go to her mother, it seems that this Qian family is similar to her, but now she is still betting that Cui Xiaohou has some sincerity. I have also gambled, but if I lose the bet, the man is still more negative. This time it depends on how he chooses, the current situation, he can't speculate at will, if Cui Xiaohou is ruthless to this Aunt Qian, she will probably end up worse than herself, but what if Cui Xiaohou really loves her? At night, Ying Fang sat alone in her small dark room for a night, and before dawn, she finally decided that this was her only chance, no matter what, in order to go out to see her daughter, she gambled.