Since the death of the second prince, the eldest prince was imprisoned, and the officials of the two princes' factions were purged by the emperor, the whole Kyoto has been full of rumors.

Just when people were panicking, a good thing happened in the Zhenguo Mansion.

The old Guogong, who was unconscious from the poisoned arrow at the border pass and was sent back to Beijing, woke up from the coma, and the Zhenguo Mansion finally showed a long-lost smile.

It wasn't long before everyone noticed the anomaly.

Although the old man woke up, he couldn't speak, and his body couldn't move.

Mrs. Tai asked the housekeeper to take the name card and invite the head of the hospital again.

After some examination, the hospital only said that it was caused by the virus, and as for when it would return to normal, he was not sure, but re-prescribed a prescription for Lao Guogong to continue to take medicine to recuperate.

After listening to the hospital's diagnosis, everyone's joy was reduced.

After the courtyard was leaving, Mrs. Tai announced one thing, that is, let all the ladies in the house and the girls in each room copy a few Buddhist scriptures for the old man, and ten days later, all the female dependents set out to Ciguang Temple again to burn incense and pray for the old man.

As soon as Mrs. Tai's decision came out, everyone responded.

Although Xiao Jinyue didn't think that burning incense and worshiping Buddha could make Lao Guogong's body recover, she didn't want to go against everyone in this kind of thing.

After returning to Shi'an Garden, she asked Fennel to go out of the house to buy a few Buddhist scriptures for her, and Xiao Jinyue took the four treasures of the study room to copy the scriptures every day when she was free.

Although Xiao Jinyue's calligraphy is okay, but she usually writes not much, after this Buddhist scripture is copied, it is to be offered to Ciguang Temple to pray for the old man.

In the first two days, Xiao Jinyue wrote slowly, and she felt that she was not satisfied with her writing, so she always wrote and threw it away, and then wrote again.

Worried that he would not be able to finish copying when the ten days were up, Xiao Jinyue would sometimes copy for a period of time at night before going to sleep.

After dinner that day, she went to the study of Shi'an Yuan to continue copying.

Afraid of disturbing the princess to copy the scriptures, the maids would usually leave the study and let her copy quietly alone. Fennel prepared the four treasures of the study room and Buddhist scriptures for her, and deliberately lit several lamps before retreating lightly.

Xiao Jinyue was concentrating on copying, when suddenly Chi Yan jumped in from the window and lightly jumped onto the bookcase.

She casually glanced at it, ignored it, and continued to write.

But Chi Yan pressed his chubby paws on the rice paper, and said mysteriously, "Girl, girl, don't write it, I'll tell you a secret." ”

The rice paper was held down and couldn't be written, Xiao Jinyue put down the brush in his hand, took Chi Yan's paw away, patted its head and warned, "Don't make trouble." ”

Seeing that she didn't take it seriously, Chi Yan was so anxious that she jumped to her feet.

Xiao Jinyue shook her head amusedly, picked up the brush again, and then asked casually, "What secret?" ”

"Girl, that man is a fake!"

"What's really fake, Chi Yan, you can't just make up lies just to cheat meat and eat it."

Seeing that Xiao Jinyue didn't believe its words, Chi Yan was so anxious that he jumped to his feet again, "Girl, I'm not lying." ”

"Okay, you go to play with Xiaobai, don't bother me to copy the scriptures." Xiao Jinyue waved her hand casually, lowered her head and continued to write.

Chi Yan snorted, ran out of the window in a huff, and left.

Xiao Jinyue glanced at its back and didn't care.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he wrote a few words, Chi Yan swished and ran back.

Xiao Jinyue raised her head when she heard the movement, and just wanted to reprimand it, but Chi Yan proudly threw the thing on his paw onto the bookcase.

"Look, girl, I'm not lying."

Xiao Jinyue's eyes fell on the bookcase, and her eyes suddenly froze.

Putting down the pen in her hand, she reached out and gently picked up the things on the bookcase, first carefully examined them for a while, and then carefully unfolded them.

After seeing what it was, Xiao Jinyue, who had always been calm, changed his face.

After looking at the things in his hand silently for a long time, Xiao Jinyue turned his head and asked Chi Yan.

"Where did you get this from?"

"I took it from her room."

"Has anyone caught you taking this?"

"Nope."

Chi Yan looked proud, its ability to hunt for treasures is the best in the world, who can find it.

In order to reward Chi Yan, Xiao Jinyue took a few secret pieces of meat from the space, "This thing is left with me, and without my orders in the future, you must not go to her room again, otherwise it will be discovered, and I will not be able to save you." ”

Xiao Jinyue felt that the thing in his hand was simply a hot potato, and wanted Chi Yan to send it back quietly. can see that this thing has been soiled by Chiyan's claws, and sending it back will undoubtedly make the other party find out that her secret has been exposed.

She wanted to give this thing to Lu Chengting, but he hadn't been out for two days and hadn't returned.

After thinking about it, Xiao Jinyue had no choice but to put this thing in her space and give it to him when Lu Chengting came back.

Seeing her frowning, Chi Yan comforted her disapprenorovingly, "Don't worry, girl, there are a lot of these things, and they won't be discovered." ”

Xiao Jinyue smiled bitterly, this matter was too important, and she couldn't guarantee that the other party would make any amazing moves after the secret was exposed.

Putting aside the scriptures and scriptures that had just been copied, Xiao Jinyue took a piece of paper again, wrote a letter, and waited for it to get dark, so that Chi Yan could quietly send the letter back to Xiao's mansion to her father.

The next day, Xiao Jinyue did not say anything, and continued to copy the scriptures as if nothing had happened.

She wanted to wait for Lu Chengting to come back and hand over the hot potato to him, but who knew that he went out this time and never came back. Only asked Dongli to bring her a letter, saying that he was busy with something and would return home after a while.

On the ninth day, Xiao Jinyue hurried and finally finished copying the scriptures.

On the tenth day, I got up early, and after breakfast, Mrs. Tai set off with a lady to Ciguang Temple to burn incense and pray for blessings.

Xiao Jinyue took Bai Guo into the carriage and wandered all the way to the foot of the mountain.

In order to show her sincerity, Mrs. Tai asked everyone to get off the carriage and climb the stone steps to the Ciguang Temple on the mountain.

On the top of the mountain, Xiao Jinyue found that Song Chuyao, the concubine of the Ningguo Mansion, also brought a maid to burn incense and pray for her family.

After the two sides greeted each other, Mrs. Tai led everyone into the Daxiong Treasure Hall. Under the guidance of the abbot, the sutras are offered to the Buddha, and then they begin to burn incense and bow down.

I also listened to the abbot recite the prayer scriptures for most of the hour.

Mrs. Tai asked the grandmother next to her to donate a large amount of sesame oil money, so that everyone went to the wing room to rest.

In the afternoon, after listening to the abbot reciting a prayer scripture, Mrs. Tai said to the girls, "There is a spiritual spring water in the mountain behind Ciguang Temple, and I heard that it is very beneficial to the body. You juniors are young and have good physical strength, go and get some mountain spring water to go home to the old man, maybe he can recover faster. ”

This is a good opportunity to show filial piety, and the girls in the third room all nodded obediently.

Mrs. Tai nodded with satisfaction, and when she saw Xiao Jinyue standing aside, she said, "We adults are tired, so stay here to rest." The princess is young and in good health, so you can follow them to fetch mountain spring water, lest these girls take care of playing and forget about business. ”

(End of chapter)