Chapter 555: Retribution
The next day, Xie Xianzhi went to Bao'en Temple again to visit his eldest sister Xie Yinghui, and at the same time, he also accompanied Ma Ergongzi and participated in the grand consecration ceremony.
This festival will be held for seven days, and during these seven days, if there is no accident, the eldest princess of Yongning will stay in the Bao'en Temple, and her children Ma Ergongzi and Ma Yurong will naturally accompany each other. In order to pass the time during the dull festival, Ma Er Gongzi asked Xie Xianzhi to be his companion, and Ma Yurong also felt that with Xie Yinghui to chat and relieve boredom, life would be more comfortable. The two little girls live in the front and back yards, often coming and going day and night, avoiding people, and talking less scruples.
Xie Xianzhi quickly learned from Xie Yinghui what happened in Bao'en Temple on the day the Queen Mother came.
He told Xie Mulin that Miss Xue Si was once in the spotlight on that day, because she had gained the blue eyes of the Queen Mother.
Somehow, she knelt in a side hall to pray for blessings, which happened to avoid the clearing action of the monks in the temple, and happened to be seen from a distance by the passing queen mother. It seems that because of the way she dressed that day, the Queen Mother had a good impression. The Queen Mother specially summoned her to interrogate, and learned that her parents were dead, and she had planned to pray for her deceased parents in the Bao'en Temple, but she happened to encounter the Fa, so she had to avoid people to worship the Buddha alone, and she didn't intend to alarm anyone, nor did she want to join in the excitement of the nobles, so she was a little moved.
The Queen Mother praised Miss Xue Si for being a filial child, and took her with her, visited most of the Bao'en Temple, and participated in the ceremony of the Fa. During the period, Xue Si girl was very devout to the Buddha in her words and deeds, and comforted the Queen Mother, saying that the eldest princess who died early was in her dream because she was attached to her mother, and she just wanted to sleep with her, but she was definitely unwilling to let the Queen Mother worry about being sad, and persuaded the Queen Mother not to be too sad. When the Queen Mother heard these words, she was even more moved, and expressed her willingness to enshrine the Buddhist scriptures copied by Xue Si in front of the Buddha, and asked her if she had a marriage match.
And then there was no then.
Miss Xue only had time to say that she was not yet married, and the young fourth prince came to disturb her situation.
The four princes dragged the palace people to wander around the temple, and accidentally found that there was an official eunuch who was talking to the monk in a panic. She obviously just went to ask for a sign, but in the Bao'en Temple where people come and go, she can still disappear! That's a bit weird. Although her family trusted that the monks of Bao'en Temple would not do evil things, they were worried that the powerful people in the temple would gather on this day, and if any of the gentlemen saw his girl and had a bad heart, it would be bad!
The four princes are innocent and kind, where can you see such a thing? He also had no manpower to help search for the missing girl, so he naturally had to go back to the Queen Mother for help.
The Queen Mother was also very worried when she heard this. She had doubts in her heart that if this matter was related to the monks of Bao'en Monastery, the puja she held for her deceased daughter could not be entrusted to such an unreliable monk. But if this incident was provoked by the powerful children who came to the temple to curry favor with her, and dared to do evil at the puja she held for her dead daughter, it is no wonder that she was angry!
With the queen mother's speech, the monks in the Bao'en Temple were also anxious to prove their innocence, and immediately sent people to search around the temple, just for the sake of the girl's reputation, not explicitly saying that they were looking for her, but using the safety of the queen mother and the princes as an excuse, prohibiting anyone from entering and leaving the mountain gate, and strictly investigating the unknown people in the temple.
Xie Yingrong was blocked from the mountain gate, and it was almost this time. At this time, Miss Xue Si failed to retain the attention of the Queen Mother, and the Queen Mother did not continue to ask about her marriage match, it is estimated that she is in a hurry, right? Because she was also suspecting in her heart that the missing girl was likely to be the one Xie Yingrong asked her to deal with. Unexpectedly, the cycle of cause and effect was actually repaid on her own head. She may also regret it a little, she knew that this was the case, it was better not to provoke that girl.
The girl was quickly found. She and her entourage were locked up in a remote part of the monastery, the door was locked from the outside, and their master and servant were shouting loudly, but no monks heard them nearby—almost all of them were gathered at the puja, or they were maintaining order and guarding the mountain gate in various parts of the monastery, not paying attention to that remote corner. If it weren't for the Queen Mother's order for the monks to look for people everywhere, at least until the Queen Mother left and the monks returned to their original posts, no one would find out that they were being locked up there.
After the reunion with her family, her elders asked her who was holding her there, and she couldn't tell if she didn't see the main person, and when she entered the room, someone quietly locked the door behind her back. But she would go to that kind of place, and she was deceived by a little novice with a face. She thought that this little novice was a monk in the temple, but then she was trapped, and she thought about it carefully, and then she remembered that the other party's clothes were different from the clothes of the little novices in the temple, and it seemed that there was some difference, and it was very likely that he was not from the temple.
Someone pretended to be a little novice of Bao'en Temple and did evil in the temple?!
This news immediately stirred the nerves of the abbot and the royal guards. The latter didn't believe that these people had put so much effort into it, just to deal with a girl from the Zuo family, so they tried to move the queen mother back to the palace as soon as possible. The eldest princess of Yongning also persuaded the queen mother that she had already seen the festival and knew the intentions of the monks of Bao'en Temple, so she could leave with confidence, and the three of her mother and son would be staring at the festival, and nothing would go wrong.
Although the Queen Mother wanted to stay at the festival for a while, she was also worried about the danger that her two little grandsons would encounter, so she accepted her daughter's proposal.
Before driving, the Queen Mother also summoned the locked up Miss Zuo, and found that the other party was a little similar to when she was young, and when she encountered this inexplicable frame-up, she was still calm as usual, behaved elegantly in front of herself, and talked generously, so she admired the other party very much, said some words of praise, and rewarded her with clothes and jewelry, so that she had to go into the palace to talk to herself, and then moved away.
Therefore, if Miss Xue Si was the center of attention in the early stage of the Queen Mother's visit to Bao'en Temple, then Miss Zuo Siyun, the niece of Zuo Zhaozhi, the secretary of Dali Temple, attracted everyone's attention in the later stage.
She is the daughter of the imperial history, born in a noble family, her uncle is a high-ranking official, she was born beautiful, educated, and outstanding, and she is very fresh in the eyes of the powerful in the capital. What happened to her in the temple is also very interesting, but no one doubts her name, because when she was found, she was neatly dressed, elegant and dignified, her words and deeds were normal, and she smelled safe and sound from head to toe. Most people are guessing, it is estimated that someone knows that she was born a little like the Queen Mother when she was young, and they are afraid that she will have the Queen Mother's blue eyes, so they will lock her up, right?
It's not that no one suspects Miss Xue Si, it's just that she has a calm attitude and a very good attitude in front of Zuo Siyun, it's like she is going to be best friends with Miss Zuo at first sight, it doesn't seem like she has just framed someone, so no one gossips about her. The Xue family was very surprised that she would get the Queen Mother to look at her differently, but the Queen Mother didn't ask too much about her, so they didn't care very much, and only told her to pray for her parents in the future, first tell the elders, don't run to a place where no one is there to worship the Bodhisattva without saying a word.
When Xie Xianzhi said this, he exchanged a look with Xie Mulin with deep meaning, the brother and sister both knew in their hearts, Xie Yingrong and Xue Si Girl were calculating together, it must be this Miss Zuo Siyun Zuo.
Xie Mulin whispered: "I heard that before Cheng Du fell ill, he was discussing with Miss Zuo, the third sister shouldn't be killing people with a knife, right?" How did she convince Miss Xue Si to make a move? This incident alarmed the Queen Mother, if it was found out that it was Xue Si Girl's calculating person, what would she do? ”