Chapter Ninety-Seven: Hide, Hide, Hide
It seems that today is really not a coincidence. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć infoThe White Lotus Society has always been very particular about this, if it weren't for the fact that I respected the master of this place and said "Master", a holy place like the Holy Lotus Hall would not have allowed women to enter or leave.
I lowered my head a little dejectedly, but then I thought, wasn't it the same last time? As long as I don't get discovered by that Grandmaster surnamed Wu, wouldn't it be fine? Anyway, those Grandmasters don't stay with Master for a long time every time, and maybe Grandmaster Wu will go back early tomorrow morning.
And Daddy is also inside, if it is discovered, I will say that I am with Daddy.
It's all at the door, I don't want to go back without seeing anyone, and it's not easy to run back and forth.
I didn't move my feet, and said to Senior Brother, "Senior Brother, wouldn't it be better if you opened the side door and secretly let me in?" ā
He hesitated for a moment and said, "This Sect Master Wu is not an ordinary person, if he is allowed to watch, Master's situation in the White Lotus Society will be even more difficult. ā
Master's situation in the White Lotus Society was originally a bit embarrassing, and this embarrassment came from the disagreement between several Grandmasters on the teachings of the White Lotus Society, and it was precisely because of this disagreement that some of Master's styles of behavior were considered by them to be out of line with the canons. Several other grandmasters lived elsewhere, and the master lived alone in the mountains, and there was not much contact on weekdays.
I looked down and didn't say anything.
The senior brother said again: "In this way, I'll go and ask the master to see how the master arranges, if the master thinks it's okay, I'll bring you in." ā
I nodded and said, "That's fine, whether it's appropriate or not, Master must have an idea." If Master says let me go back, then I'll go back, okay? ā
Senior Brother took me to a relatively secluded place, and then said, Let me wait there first, and then come to me after asking Master. He said so, and departed.
The cloudy night came early, and I leaned back on the carriage and squinted for a while, and when I woke up, it was all dark all around. I lifted the curtains, and there was only a dim light outside.
Suddenly, there was a loud slap in front of me, followed by a complaint from the coachman, "Why are there so many mosquitoes on the mountain?" After a pause, he said, "Young lady, let's go to an open place, there are many mosquitoes in the corner, beware of biting." ā
"Didn't my brother come before?" I asked.
"Nope." The coachman replied.
I lowered the curtain and said, "Let's wait here." ā
Mosquitoes like to burrow into corners, and after a while, I felt a few itches on my body.
About a quarter of an hour later, footsteps sounded outside the carriage.
I lifted the curtain in front of me and vaguely saw that it was the elder brother.
I got out of the carriage, walked up to him, and asked, "What does Master say?" ā
He didn't reply to my question directly, but said, "Don't blame me for coming late, blame that Sect Master Wu, he has too many words." Then he said, "Master said, let me take you in." ā
"Master said yes?" I said happily.
"Well, I said you came to see him, and he said let me bring you in."
"Let's go." He said again.
The elder brother led the way, and I walked in the middle, followed by the coachman.
Turning to a small wooden door, the senior brother stopped and said, "You wait here, I'll go in and open the door." Then he explained to me: "Your second senior brother can't leave, so you can't ask him to come over and help." After that, he left.
I was a little annoyed and urged, "Senior brother, hurry up." ā
After waiting outside the small door for a while, there was a sound of the deadbolt pulling out, and the elder brother let us in, but he didn't let us go.
He took us around for a long time, arranged the driver's quarters, and then walked me around for a while, and took me outside the house where I had been staying before.
"Don't run around, I'll take you to Master later." The elder brother admonished.
"Yes." I nodded, watched him walk out the door, and closed the door.
The room was pitch black, and I fumbled to take down the mosquito-repellent grass cake from the shelf and put it in the incense burner to burn, and then took a puff fan and shook it.
After sitting for a while, the door opened, and the elder brother said, "Why don't you light a candle?" ā
I didn't talk. Seeing his cautious appearance, he didn't say that I should light the candles, so I was a little afraid to make my own decisions.
The elder brother walked over to the candlestick and tinkered with it for a while, and then the room was lit up.
He said to me again: "Master said that Grandmaster Wu will go back tomorrow, and when Grandmaster Wu leaves, you will go to see him again, and don't go out tonight." If you need anything, just tell me, and I'll send it to you. ā
I leaned back in my chair and said, "There's something I really need." Then he sat up and looked at him and said, "Senior brother, I haven't eaten yet." ā
"Yes," he replied, "the noodles are in the pot, and I'll bring them to you in a moment." Then he walked out.
There was light in the room, so I went to the bookshelf and looked around, then took a book called "The Beginning of the Sect" and flipped through it.
There was no sound in the courtyard except the chirping of insects.
I was reading and was reading when I suddenly heard a knock on the door.
I guess it was the elder brother who brought the noodles over. I didn't move, I shouted directly to the door, "Senior brother, you just come in." ā
But there was no movement outside the door for a long time, I was a little curious, and while walking towards the door, I said, "Senior brother? ā
There was still silence outside, and I was a little scared, and said, "Who?" As soon as I finished speaking, I was alert and covered my mouth.
The noisy chirping of insects seemed to be mixed with the sound of hurried footsteps. I didn't dare open the door, and it took me a while to muster up the courage to open it.
There was nothing outside the door. The candlelight in the house was cast in the courtyard, and a vague figure came in the distance, and I vaguely recognized the person who came as the senior brother.
He walked up to me with a food box in his hand and rebuked me in a low voice, "What are you doing with the door open?" ā
I had a lingering feeling and asked him, "Did you let someone else come to me?" ā
"Looking for you? Do what? The elder brother entered the house and closed the door.
I said, "I heard someone knocking on the door, thinking it was you, and asked him, but he was silent. I opened the door, and there was no one again. ā
"I didn't let anyone come to you." The elder brother said, frowning and placing the food box on the table.
"Did you hear me wrong?" He said again.
I was silent for a moment and said, "Did I really hear it wrong?" Then he said, "But it was really scary just now, I felt that someone was outside, but he didn't make a sound." ā
The senior brother opened the food box, held a porcelain bowl with blue and white on a white background on the table, and said, "You better eat first, when you are done here, I will go to the master again." ā
I sat down at the table and ate a bowl of clear noodles very quickly. There's no way, Master's food here has always been so plain.
After washing up at night, I bolted the door firmly before falling asleep. (To be continued.) )