Chapter 2 Dreams
At the west gate of the Ding'an Hou Mansion, Tan Yun was theorizing with the housekeeper.
"You said you were preparing a sedan chair, why did you prepare a carriage? The West Mountain is so high, how can the young lady go up? β
The housekeeper said: "Excuse me, it's not that I don't want to prepare a sedan chair for the eldest lady, but there is really no sedan chair driver who can carry the eldest lady, in case there is a mistake when going up and down the mountain...... Therefore, please forgive me, when you arrive at the foot of the West Mountain, it is only two or three miles to go up, and you can get there by walking. β
"You're talking about it easy, two or three miles away, that's a mountain road." Tan Yun was angry, whether the housekeeper meant to sarcastically ridicule Miss, she would not pursue it, Miss's situation was known to everyone in the house, not to mention walking on the mountain road, and she couldn't breathe if she took a few more steps on the flat road.
"This thing...... I can't help it. "The butler has the expression of looking at it yourself.
"No way? Can't you arrange two more palanquins? It's clearly a snub to the eldest lady. β
The housekeeper was unhappy, and put on a straight face: "Tanyun, you can eat more, and you can't talk nonsense." β
Tan Yun still wanted to argue, but Lin Yanyan said: "Forget it, just take the carriage!" The carriage is good, and the sedan chair is still panicked. β
Seeing the carriage go away, the housekeeper sneered: The eldest lady is still interesting, Lord Hou and Mrs. Hou are gone, although the fourth prince can inherit the title, but he can only inherit it after the weak crown ceremony, as far as the sick son of the fourth prince, it is difficult to say whether he can live to the age of the weak crown, the eldest lady herself looks like this, if she is not interesting, the future will be more and more sad!
Tan Yun was still angry, and complained to the young lady: "Miss, you can't be too negotiable, you see that these minions are becoming more and more presumptuous, let the sedan chair be arranged, but he arranges the carriage, and the carriage is arranged, and the three carriages in the house are arranged for the oldest and smallest." β
Lin Yanyan disagreed: "It is normal for people to go to high places and water to flow to low places." β
Isn't it normal for her, a young lady who has lost her parents and has an ugly appearance, to be despised and neglected?
"Miss, how can you say so lightly? You're the eldest lady of the Hou Mansion. Tan Yundu was dying, she didn't dare to tell Miss, Miss's fiancΓ© Zhu Gongzi of the Jinguo Mansion is now facing the second Miss, and people are rumoring that the Zhu family will definitely propose to dissolve the marriage contract, what should Miss do then?
"Tanyun, I know in my heart, you go and tell the coachman, let's not go to Lianhua Temple, go to Jingci Nunnery."
"What are you going to do at Jingci'an?" Tanyun was at a loss, Jingci Nunnery is a small nunnery, and rich and noble families rarely go there, all of them go to Lianhua Temple, where incense is flourishing.
Lin Yanyan squinted at Tan Yun: "Do you think I can go to Lianhua Temple?" Worship the Bodhisattva, as long as the heart is sincere, it is the same wherever you worship. β
Tan Yun thought about it, with Miss's body, it was impossible to climb up the West Mountain.
Jingci Nunnery is at the foot of the West Mountain, hidden in a maple forest, the stream is entwined, it is a place with excellent scenery, but because the Lianhua Temple on the mountain is too famous, so the Jingci Nunnery under the mountain seems to be deserted.
The carriage stopped in front of the hermitage, and Tan Yun carefully helped the young lady out of the car.
The master and servant entered the nunnery, and a few bhikshunis were sweeping the courtyard, Lin Yanyan stepped forward and asked, "Is Master Miaoyin here?" β
The bhikshuni clasped his hands together: "Donor, wait a minute, the poor nun will go and ask Master Miao Yin." β
Tan Yun was surprised: "Miss, you have never been to Jingci Nunnery, how do you know that there is a Miaoyin mage here?" β
Lin Yanyan had already thought of a rhetoric: "I heard my mother mention it." β
Miao Yin had just finished her morning class when she heard that someone was looking for her.
"What about people?"
"The female benefactor is waiting for the mage in the Guanyin Hall."
Miao Yin came to Guanyin Hall, only to see a fat woman kneeling down, so she waited quietly, and when the woman turned around after kneeling, Miao Yin was sure that she didn't know the female benefactor.
Lin Yanyan recognized Miaoyin at a glance, Tao Siyu's aunt Tao Huiru. Aunt Huiru escaped into the empty door in her early years due to love, but she became the only survivor of the catastrophe of the Tao family.
However, Lin Yanyan pretended not to know, smiled slightly, and asked, "Are you Master Miaoyin?" β
"It's the poor nun."
"Master, I would like to ask you about the lighting of the lantern in the nunnery, can you take a step forward?"
Miao Yin secretly thought, the matter of lighting the lantern can be said here, why take a step to speak? The woman was afraid that something else was going on, so she said, "The donor comes with the poor nun." β
Lin Yanyan turned his head and instructed Tan Yun: "Tan Yun, you worship all the Bodhisattvas in this nunnery for me, be sincere." β
Tan Yun responded, Miss is too obese, and it is very difficult to kneel and get up, so she can only do it for her, hoping that the Bodhisattva will not be surprised.
Lin Yanyan followed Master Miaoyin to a secluded incense room.
"If the donor has something to say, say it!"
"Master, I am Lin Yanyan, the eldest lady of Ding'an Hou Mansion, a few days ago, a sister named Tao Siyu gave me a dream, saying that only a mage in this world can save me, at first I didn't believe it, but that sister dreamed several times, and said that the master was her aunt." Lin Yanyan thought about it, and it was most appropriate to say that it was a dream, after all, the idea of rebirth was too shocking.
Miaoyin's face changed suddenly: "Who did you say gave you a dream?" β
"Tao Siyu."
Miao Yin closed her eyes, twisted the Buddhist beads in her hand, and kept chanting the scriptures in her mouth, so as to suppress the ups and downs of her heart.
She thought that she would never hear the name of the Tao family in her life, and her poor niece was so talented that she could have become a famous doctor for a generation, but she innocently became a ghost under the knife.
She didn't doubt this Miss Lin's words, the Tao family had never had anything to do with the Ding'an Hou Mansion, and no one knew about her ordination here except for the eldest brother and Siyu, maybe it was really Siyu's death that was too wronged, and her soul refused to disperse, and she was still wandering in the world, so she said that she had a dream.
After a while, Miao Yin opened her eyes: "How do you want the poor nun to rescue you?" β
Lin Yanyan stretched out his right hand and lifted his sleeves, revealing his plain white wrist.
Miao Yin hesitated for a moment, stretched out three fingers and put them on the inch.
After diagnosing the pulse, Miao Yin looked at Lin Yanyan with a complicated expression: "Recently, do you often feel tightness in your chest and panic?" β
"Yes."
"You're not sick, you're poisoned." Miao Yin told the truth.
"Poisoned?" Lin Yanyan pretended to be surprised.
Miao Yin sighed secretly, Ding'an Hou died on the battlefield three years ago, judging from the pulse, this Miss Lin has been deeply poisoned, it should be that Ding'an Hou died not long after she was drugged, it seems that the undercurrent of Ding'an Hou's Mansion is surging!
"Please save me, the mage."
"This poisonous poor nun can be cured, if you can trust the poor nun, the poor nun will help you prepare the antidote."
"Of course I believed."
"Well, you'll come back in seven days."
"Can it be three days? Six days later, I will attend the Peach Blossom Banquet at Princess Xinyang's Mansion. β
This is her first appearance on a formal occasion after her filial piety, and some people want her to make a fool of herself at the peach blossom banquet, but she is not as they like.
Miao Yin pondered for a moment: "Three days is fine." β
Lin Yanyan breathed a long sigh of relief: "Then it's bothering the mage." β
In fact, she can solve this poison herself, but the preparation of the antidote involves a variety of medicinal materials, and it is impossible not to alarm the Yao family, there is Yao's eyeliner in the Moyuan Pavilion, so she can only come here to ask for help from Aunt Miaoyin.
Lin Yanyan paid ten taels of silver for the diagnosis, and Miaoyin accepted it unceremoniously, the capital required to prepare the antidote, Jingci Nunnery was deserted, and the nuns here were very poor.
Miaoyin was afraid that she would be sick in the past few days, so she gave her a small porcelain bottle: "If you have chest tightness and shortness of breath, take one under your tongue." β
Lin Yanyan opened the porcelain bottle and sniffed it, a cool breath only rushed to his head, and he suddenly felt refreshed.
This is the secret medicine of the Tao family, which is made of Sichuan Qiong and borneol, which is a miraculous medicine for qi and blood activation, blood stasis and pain relief.
Lin Yanyan was overjoyed and thanked him repeatedly.
Miao Yin hesitated and asked, "Miss Lin, did Siyu Tuomeng say anything else?" β
"I haven't said anything else for the time being, maybe when the poison in my body is resolved, she will fall asleep again."
Miao Yin was a little disappointed: "That...... Lighting the lantern ......"
"The ever-bright light is naturally the point."