Chapter 57: The Nunnery Searches for a Girl
The small Sheng family, within half a day, was accompanied by the arrival of the Marquis of Dingguo and the Wujing Palace, which really made the Sheng family frightened and panicked.
If Mei Zijin came to the Sheng family to find Shui Qingqing, then how could the high-ranking Wujing Palace, which has never had anything to do with the Sheng family, come to the door?
For a while, the imperial physician Sheng Fang and his wife Huang changed their faces, and they couldn't care about Shui Qingqing anymore, so they hurried to the front hall to welcome the people from Wujing Palace.
Although there are Sheng family couples staying together, even the real Sheng Yu is 'warm' to keep her, and is even willing to let her continue to be Sheng Yu, but Shui Qingqing has made up her mind-
Even if she can quietly escape the capital with Yun'er in another seven days, she still has to go to the nunnery to stay temporarily in these seven days. In this way, Mei Zijin can completely die to herself, and the old lady can rest assured......
Moreover, deep down, she has already seen the world thoroughly, even if she takes Yun'er away in the future, she is willing to lead the practice......
There were people from Wujing Wangfu at the front door, Shui Qingqing carried the package, refused Xiaoxi's follow, and walked silently from the back door of the Sheng family while the sun had not yet set......
In the front hall of the Sheng family, Sheng Fang and the Huang family led their families to kneel in front of Princess Wuning, who was covered in green veil, and they were so frightened that they didn't dare to raise their heads.
Princess Wuning waved her hand to let everyone get up, and her tearful eyes anxiously looked for the female dependents, but she couldn't see Shui Qingqing as she wished, and she couldn't help but become more and more anxious.
It turned out that Princess Wuning asked Aunt Lian to go to the Dingguo Marquis Mansion today and give Shui Qingqing a pastry made by her. After Aunt Lian arrived at the Dingguo Hou Mansion, she didn't see Shui Qingqing, but she saw Mrs. Hou, and only then did she know that Shui Qingqing had committed an accident in the Hou Mansion and was sent back to the Sheng family.
Although the old lady Hou did not tell Aunt Pian in detail what Shui Qingqing had done, Aunt Pian was observant of people, and looking at the resentment between the old lady's expression and words, Aunt Pian realized that the situation was unusual, and immediately went back to tell Princess Wuning.
Knowing that Shui Qingqing was actually sent back to the Sheng family by the Hou Mansion overnight, Princess Wuning couldn't sit still for a moment, and immediately went to the Sheng family to find Shui Qingqing in person.
Princess Wuning was anxious all the way, but when she arrived here, she couldn't see her in the crowd of Sheng family daughters, and Princess Wuning was even more anxious when she was worried about the way.
Aunt Pian knew that she was in a hurry, and said straight to Sheng Fang, who looked panicked: "At the annual banquet of the Three Princes' Mansion a few days ago, my princess was fortunate to meet a little friend who fell in love, and knew that she was Sheng Yu, the daughter of your mansion. I happened to pass by here today, so I stopped by to see her, and by the way, I wanted to invite her to participate in the apricot blossom banquet in Wujing's palace after the beginning of spring. β
The palace of Wujing is in the suburbs of Beijing, Huiyan Mountain, there is a garden covering an area of 1,000 acres, which is a garden given by the emperor to the king of Wujing, who has made outstanding achievements in war, to recuperate. Princess Wujing likes apricot blossoms, King Wujing has people plant all kinds of apricot trees in the garden, every year when the flowering period comes, Princess Wujing will invite the ladies and ladies of the capital to go to the garden to enjoy the flowers.
But since Princess Wuning's face was destroyed, Princess Wujing was afraid of seeing things and thinking about people, and she was too sad, because Princess Wuning's boudoir name was called Xingyao. Princess Wujing handed over the apricot blossom banquet to her daughter-in-law, the princess of Wujing Palace. Princess Wuning never appeared at the Apricot Blossom Banquet again......
Therefore, when he heard that Princess Wuning, who had not been revealed for a long time, suddenly came to the door to invite Shui Qingqing to participate in the apricot blossom banquet, Sheng Fang was shocked, and sensitively noticed something unusual about things.
He vaguely felt that the 'daughter' he had rescued by mistake from the lake was only afraid that her identity was unusual, wasn't it......
Thinking of the speculation in his heart, Sheng Fang couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat-
If her identity is really related to the Wujing Palace, then the Sheng family made her replace Sheng Yu as the Hou Mansion Chongxi Lady, and now she is even more out of the Sheng family, I am afraid that she will cause a big disaster......
The more he thought about it, the more scared Sheng Fang became, his body couldn't stop trembling, his face turned pale, cold sweat trickled down his forehead, and his lips trembled for a long time, but he couldn't answer.
Looking at his appearance, Princess Wu Ning's heart tightened, and she couldn't help but urge: "Where is Miss Sheng now, why don't you see her come out?" β
Seeing that Princess Wuning personally asked Shui Qingqing's whereabouts, Sheng Fang's heart jumped to his throat, and he could only say that Shui Qingqing was driven out of the Hou Mansion and then cut off by Mrs. Hou......
The words 'falling out of the house' exploded in Princess Wuning's heart like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, making her suddenly distraught and unable to believe that she heard it.
"What do you say...... She was, she was a widow...... Why, what did she do wrong, and the Hou Mansion wanted to punish her like this......"
Princess Wuning got up out of shape and rushed to Sheng Fang, and asked silently. Aunt Lian was also shocked by such news, worried that Princess Wuning would not be able to withstand such a blow, so she hurriedly supported her and asked the frightened Sheng Fang: "Where is the girl now?" Is it still in the house? Can you please take us to meet her? β
When Sheng Fang and the Huang family came out before, Shui Qingqing was still in the West House, they didn't know that Shui Qingqing had left the house through the back door at that time, and hurriedly led Princess Wu Ning and Aunt Lian to the West House.
Along the way, Princess Wuning's heart was like a knife, and it was even more sad to look at the remote and simple Westhouse where Shui Qingqing lived.
The group came to the West House, pushed the door and went in, Sheng Fang was about to call Shui Qingqing out to meet the princess, but the entire West House was empty, and there was no longer Shui Qingqing's figure, only Xiao Xi guarded Shui Qingqing's bag of broken hair and shed tears sadly.
Princess Wuning knew Xiaoxi, and knew that she was the maid beside Shui Qingqing, and at this moment, seeing her crying alone here, her heart ached, and before Sheng Fang could speak, she had already stepped forward and asked Xiaoxi: "Where is your master?" Where is she now? β
It was the sad Xiaoxi, who didn't expect Princess Wuning to come here, thinking of the Yingluo she had given to Shui Qingqing, knowing that she had a good impression of Shui Qingqing, she couldn't help crying even more sadly: "Miss, she cut off her long hair...... I went to the hermitage......"
Princess Wu Ning looked at the bag of broken hair on the table, her face under the green veil was already full of tears, and when she trembled and stroked the cold hair, her heart seemed to be torn apart piece by piece, and her eyes were dark, and she almost fell.
Aunt Pian has been carefully supporting her, for fear that she will faint and fall to the ground if she can't withstand this series of blows, and has been whispering in her ear worried and persuading: "Don't be sad, the old slave accompanies the princess to find the county lord and come back......"
After that, Aunt Pian looked back at the Sheng family, afraid that they would see something different, and covered it up: "The princess is compassionate, and she can't see such a thing, plus pity the girl's good age, it's a pity...... It's just that I don't know which nunnery the girl went to practice? β
Sheng Fang and the Huang family looked at each other, they didn't know where Shui Qingqing went, only Xiaoxi cried: "Miss asked the slave maid before, where is the most remote nunnery in the capital?" I guess I went to the most remote Satsuki-an......"
Princess Wuning couldn't bear such grief any longer, so she immediately took the bag of broken hair and went to Xiaoyue Nunnery with Aunt Lian to find Shui Qingqing......
On the other side, the news that Shui Qingqing left the Sheng family alone and went to the nunnery reached Mei Zijin's ears as soon as possible.
At that time, he knelt in the ancestral hall with his back straight, and his palm, which was stabbed by silver scissors, was dripping with blood, and a pool of red blood stains dried up on the green bricks beside him.
But compared to the pain in his heart, what is this pain in his hands......
After Mei Zijin came back from the Sheng family, he threw the bloody silver scissors and broken hair in front of the old lady, his deep eyes were dead silent, looking at the old lady's gradually pale face, he gritted his teeth and sneered: "I never knew that my mother was so cold and hard-hearted......"
The old lady looked at the bloody silver scissors in front of her, as well as the few strands of broken hair, and her heart was suffocated, but her face was indifferent and said: "For you, for our Hou Mansion, I can do anything!" β
Mei Zijin smiled sadly and mocked: "But my mother doesn't know that it was your son who first fell in love with her regardless of her reputation and the reputation of the Hou Mansion, and it was also your son who pestered her without skin and face and refused to let go." And she asked me to go back to the building, just to persuade me to break off my feelings for her and let her go......"
The old lady's whole body trembled, and her body staggered.
Mei Zijin gritted his teeth and said again: "What did she do wrong?!" She didn't do anything wrong, it's your son who is wrong. But why do you want to do this to her, drive her out of the house, and force her to leave the house?! β
And in response to Mei Zijin's voice, the old lady said coldly: "No, I know everything." β
Mei Zijin looked at her mother in disbelief, "Since my mother knows everything, why should she put all the faults on her, is it fair to her?" β
If you don't, will you be willing to let go of this sinful relationship? Are you worthy of your dead big brother? β
The old lady looked at Mei Zijin with a desperate and painful look with a firm look, and finally landed on his blood-dripping palm, her heart ached, but she continued to say coldly on her face: "Who swore to me that he would never be emotional or do anything unethical to her......"
"But she is not the wife of the eldest brother, and their marriage is uncountable! What's wrong with me liking her?! β
The old lady looked at Mei Zijin with a resolute face, trembled with anger, and said sharply: "Son, there are so many women in the world, why do you like her?!" Even if you don't think about yourself, you have to think about the Hou Mansion and Yun'er. What kind of face do you make Yun'er have when she grows up......"
The more the old lady talked, the more angry she became, and in the end, she couldn't get up in one breath and almost fainted.
When Mother Ye saw it, she hurriedly stepped forward to persuade Mei Zijin and pleaded: "Master Hou, you have been busy and tired for three days, and the old lady has not closed her eyes for a few days, Master Hou will go back and rest first, and talk about it when you calm down later." β
Sanshi was worried about the injury on Mei Zijin's hand and wanted to ask the government doctor to help him bandage it, but he went straight to the ancestral hall and knelt in front of the ancestors of the Mei family.
Sanshi looked at his bloodshot red eyes, and said bitterly: "Master, let's go back to the house and rest first......"
"Send someone to the Sheng family to protect her secretly, from now on, I won't let people hurt her again!"
Thinking of the broken hair that fell to the ground, Mei Zijin still felt like a knife.
She was right, it was his selfishness that hurt her.
He only knew to give her love, but he didn't think of the harm she would endure, and he wasn't ready to bless her. In the end, I could only watch her being injured to the ground......
Mei Zijin felt guilty and sad. He has always been confident and firm in what he does, and for the first time he is confused about the road ahead and right and wrong.
He knelt in the ancestral hall and asked himself over and over again, did he really do something wrong when he fell in love with her?
After Sanshi received the order, he returned to the ancestral hall after a while, and told Mei Zijin that Shui Qingqing went out of the house alone to the nunnery.
With a trembling heart, Mei Zijin asked, "Do you know which nunnery she went to?" β
Sanshi hesitated: "She hired a carriage on the street and asked the coachman to take her to the most remote nunnery, and her subordinates have sent someone to follow her all the way." And ......"
Mei Zijin said coldly: "What else?" β
"Today, Princess Wuning sent Aunt Lian to the house to deliver pastries to Miss Sheng, and learned that the girl was sent back to the Sheng family, and then, just now, Princess Wuning went to the Sheng family in person, and after hearing that Miss Biao left home, she chased all the way to ......"
Mei Zijin frowned - is it really as he guessed before, Shui Qingqing's real life experience is related to Princess Wu Ning?!
But he still has doubts in his heart -
If she is really the daughter of Princess Wuning, why didn't Princess Wuning directly recognize her after seeing her in the Three Princes' Mansion that day, and the entire Bai family and Wujing Palace's Mansion did not react at all?
But if not, why did Princess Wuning go to the Sheng family today and chase her to the nunnery?
The more he thought about it, the more confused he became.
But no matter what, he hoped that Princess Wuning, who chased after the nunnery, could persuade Shui Qingqing to put away the idea of becoming a monk......
The sun is setting in the west, the night is shrouded in the four fields, and the sky and the earth are added to the twilight with a touch of desolation!
On the path out of Beijing, Shui Qingqing leaned on the simple carriage, there was no stove in the carriage, and the rough carriage was leaking on all sides, so cold that her lips were white.
She hugged her frozen body and looked at the dark sky outside the window in a daze, and suddenly remembered the scene when she first entered the capital more than a year ago.
At that time, she was also alone, from the distant Western Desert to the capital by the carriage of a business traveler, along the way, although there was apprehension, but more was full of hope, hoping that she could find her biological parents, and from then on forget everything unbearable in Wangjia Town, and start a new life with her children here with her parents......
But the moment she stepped into the capital, she stood on the long street, looking at the bustling streets in front of her in surprise, and the crowded flow of people with no end in sight, only to suddenly realize that the capital is so big and there are so many people, but how can she find her parents?
And now, even if she knows the origin and origin of the rouge box, she still hasn't found her parents......
Unconsciously, Shui Qingqing took out the box from her arms, held it in her hand again and looked at it silently, and smiled bitterly in her heart-
At the beginning, it was with such a box that he gave birth to the great courage to search for relatives, should he say that he was stupid or naΓ―ve?
And if he hadn't come to the capital to look for relatives, he wouldn't have lost his child, and he wouldn't have entered the Hou Mansion to know him......
Thinking of the lonely figure when he left abruptly with silver scissors and broken hair, Shui Qingqing's heart ached like a pinprick, tears flowed, and she couldn't help choking.
It was a middle-aged couple who drove her to the nunnery. When the couple saw the headscarf on her head, and then heard that she was going to the nunnery, they knew each other well. I didn't know if she had become a monk at a young age, whether she was willing or forced, but now when she heard her crying, the woman guessed that she was forced, and couldn't help but kindly persuade: "Girl, don't cry, the nunnery will be there soon." Since you are here, you can stay in the nunnery for three or five years with peace of mind, and then let them pick you up when the family's popularity is gone. β
Shui Qingqing felt pain in her heart, thanked the woman softly, wiped away her tears, put the rouge box into her arms again, took the package and prepared to get out of the car.
After a while, the carriage stopped steadily, Shui Qingqing got out of the car and took a look, only to see that at the foot of the mountain surrounded by green mountains, there was a quaint nunnery, and the stone plaque at the door was inscribed with three words.
It turned out that Shui Qingqing originally planned to go to the farthest nunnery from the suburbs of Beijing, and after the carriage went out of the city, she suddenly thought that she would come to the city to pick up Yun'er during the Lantern Festival seven days later.
In addition, she also deliberately concealed her whereabouts, and didn't want to be found by Xiaoxi and them, so she temporarily changed the route and asked the coachman to send her to the nunnery near the city......
However, after Princess Wuning heard Xiaoxi's words, she thought that she had gone to the most remote Xiaoyue Nunnery, and after coming out of the Sheng family, she immediately followed Aunt Lian out of the city in a carriage, and rushed all the way to Xiaoyue Nunnery.
Along the way, Princess Wuning urged the coachman to rush desperately, chasing the carriage in front of him one by one.
Every time she stopped a carriage on the road ahead, Princess Wu Ning was full of hope and couldn't wait to get off the carriage to see, hoping that it was her hard-working daughter sitting in the carriage.
However, after chasing and stopping countless carriages all the way, Princess Wuning never found Shui Qingqing.
Every time she stopped a carriage, Princess Wu Ning had a glimmer of hope in her heart, but every time she found that there was no her daughter in the car, Princess Wu Ning was desperate.
When it was getting late and there were fewer and fewer carriages on the official road, and there was no carriage to chase in front of her, Princess Wuning stood on the vast official road of loess, holding Shui Qingqing's broken hair, crying heartbreakingly.
She broke down and despaired, and after nineteen years, she actually lost her daughter again......
She regretted it so much, why didn't she recognize her the moment she recognized her on the day of the New Year's banquet and brought her back to herself. It's better for her to hate her or hate her than if she was forced to leave the house, and it's better than if she can't find her now......
Princess Wuning hugged her daughter's broken hair and cried desperately, and Aunt Pity was also full of tears, hugging poor Princess Wuning, crying and persuading: "Princess, don't worry, let's go directly to Xiaoyue Nunnery to find it, maybe the county lord has gone to that nunnery...... Even if she is not in Xiaoyue Nunnery, even if she searches all the nunnery in this world, the old slave must help the princess find the little princess......"
Aunt Li's words once again gave Princess Wuning hope, regardless of the danger of the sky and road, Princess Wuning's carriage turned onto the winding and difficult mountain road, and went to the most remote Xiaoyue Nunnery in the dark.
As its name suggests, Xiaoyue Nunnery is located in a mountain col in obscurity, the door of the nunnery is broken, the courtyard is short, there are only four or five old and weak old sisters in it, few people usually come, and several sisters-in-law rarely go out of the mountain, and the door of the nunnery is closed all year round.
So now I suddenly heard a rapid knock on the door in the middle of the night, but it startled a few sisters-in-law, and when the host led everyone to get up and open the door with a lantern, he saw two women coming to the door at night, and went straight to them to find someone.
Princess Wuning opened her mouth to ask the host with hope, and she couldn't even wait for the host to reply to her words, she was already going to find Shui Qingqing in the nunnery, but the next moment, the words of the host of the nunnery shot down her last glimmer of hope.
"Donor, don't say that today, here in the poor nuns, there has not been a woman who has come to the nunnery to practice for several years."
The whole body trembled violently, and the exhausted Princess Wuning could no longer withstand such a blow, and fainted on the spot......
The news reached Mei Zijin's ears again.
At that time, Mei Zijin was still kneeling in the ancestral hall, and the wounds on his hands were not bandaged, not a drop of water had entered, and the food sent by the old lady had not been touched.
When the old lady saw him like this, she couldn't bear it, and she was even more worried that his body would not be able to bear it, so Chaye's mother persuaded him to go back to the house to rest, but he couldn't afford it.
In desperation, the old lady personally went to the ancestral hall to tell him to get up.
In the dim ancestral hall, Mei Zijin's face was pale, and after listening to the old lady's words, she continued to kneel without blinking, and said coldly: "Mother has always said that I was wrong, and now, I kneel in this ancestral hall and admit my mistakes to my eldest brother and ancestors." β
The old lady said bitterly: "You are not admitting your mistake, you are deliberately torturing and punishing yourself for her, and you are also torturing me." β
Mei Zijin said calmly: "She left out and her mother didn't think so, and when your son knelt here, his mother was heartbroken?!" But mother should know that she also has parents, and if her parents know that she has become what she is now, I am afraid that it will be heart-wrenching! β
"What's more, she has saved Yun'er's life several times, and she has also saved my lifeβif it weren't for her, the son in front of my mother's eyes would have become a walking corpse...... My mother taught me to repay my kindness since I was a child, but now I repay our benefactor like this? β
The old lady's body staggered, her heart ached, and she finally felt guilty and remorseful.
She burst into tears and said: "Mother can't help it, but if you can cut off the evil relationship with her, why should your mother be such an evil person...... The mother is willing to work as a cow and a horse in the next life to repay the kindness owed to her. But for your sake, I still don't regret doing thisβdon't you even have the slightest bit of understanding? β
Seeing the old lady crying, Mei Zijin was also sad in her heart, her tone softened, and she said in a deep voice: "I can understand my mother, but I can't forgive myself." β
Seeing that he was resolute-willed, the old lady knew that it was useless to say more, so she had to sigh and say, "If you ask for peace of mind, kneel, and your mother will stop you again." β
Before the old lady left the ancestral hall, Mei Zijin said coldly: "I have asked people to go to the Bai Mansion to pick up Yun'er, as for the Bai family, let her stay in her mother's house well, and there is no need to go back to the Hou Mansion!"
It turned out that on the way back from the Sheng family, Mei Zijin already knew the ins and outs of the whole thing, just as Bai Lingwei herself expected, although Mei Zijin resented the old lady for being so unfair to Shui Qingqing, but he knew very well in his heart that all the sources of trouble came from Bai Lingwei.
Later, I learned that she ran back to her parents' house to hide before she went home, which made Mei Zijin understand more and more that she was a thief and did not admit herself.
Dare to do it but dare not do it!
In this way, Mei Zijin was really disappointed and disgusted with her.
Hearing this, the old lady who walked to the door of the ancestral hall froze, looked back at Mei Zijin in disbelief, and said in surprise: "You are actually ...... Are you going to divorce the Bai family? β
"I didn't even bother to write the resignation letter, but it should be for Yun'er's sake and give her the last bit of dignity."
The old lady was completely shocked on the spot, she never thought that this time, Mei Zijin would be so angry!
She still had to persuade again, but looking at the tenacity of Mei Zijin's expression, she knew that before the anger in his heart was extinguished, it would be useless to say more, and she could only find a way for the Bai family in the future......
Soon after the old lady left, Sanshi came in again and told him about Shui Qingqing's visit to Wuchen'an.
Mei Zijin's heart ached, and she said in a muffled voice: "Princess Wuning didn't stop her?" β
Sanshi said: "The princess didn't know that she changed her route to the nearby dustless hermitage, and went all the way to Xiaoyue Nunnery, but she missed it-master, do you want to tell the princess that Miss Biao is in the dustless hermitage?" β
Even if there were doubts in his heart before, at this time, when he learned that Princess Wuning really chased all the way to Xiaoyue'an to find Shui Qingqing, Mei Zijin was almost certain in his heart that Shui Qingqing was the daughter of Princess Wuning.
If he remembers correctly, nineteen years ago, Bai Haoqing, who was still studying for the crown prince, had accompanied the prince and now Emperor Ming of Jin to the Western Desert, and Princess Wuning was walking with him.
And Shui Qingqing will solve the poison of the cold paralysis of the Western Desert, and it is very likely that it will also come from the Western Desert.
Therefore, this point is also extremely consistent......
Mei Zijin's dead heart couldn't help but give birth to a new hope-
If she is really the daughter of Princess Wuning, then, when she recovers her identity, she will no longer be Sheng Yu who is happy for her eldest brother, nor will she be the sister-in-law who has an unethical relationship with him.
And the identities between them are even more matched.
In this way, no one can stop them from being together!
Thinking of this, Mei Zijin instantly came to life and said to Sanshi: "You immediately send someone to quietly lead the princess to Wuchen Nunnery to find her!" β
In this way, with the help of Mei Zijin, Princess Wuning, who had been looking for her daughter all night, finally knocked on the door of the dustless nunnery at dawn......
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