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Chapter 43 The Cat Said: I Was Cheated by My Master (Part )
Taxue told Xiao Yao that his master would not let him into the house at noon every day. One day he sneaked out, but found that the person lying on the bed was not his master.

Although they look similar, they smell different because their owner doesn't smell like that.

Taxue was very depressed about this. He felt that he was deceived by his master, so he wanted to run away from home and venture out into the world.

At this moment, there was a sudden puffing sound outside the window. It was the sound of wings flapping against the window paper. Zhao Shiqing looked over and saw Xiaoguai's shadow.

She lowered her voice and said to Denghua, "Lie back down!"

Denghua obediently lay back on the bed. Zhao Shiqing put down the curtain, bent down and crawled under the bed.

The sound of footsteps came closer and closer, and someone pushed open the door from outside: "Where are the people? Where are the waiters? Where have they gone?"

Then, the man walked into the inner room and saw the medicine on the small table. The medicine was already cold. The man hurriedly asked, "Sir, why didn't you take the medicine again?"

A faint voice came from the tent: "Don't waste the medicine for a dying person. Get out, all of you, get out. I don't need you to serve me anymore."

The man walked to the bed, reached out to pull open the curtain, and saw that the prince had his back to him. From his angle, he could see half of his profile.

There was a layer of death on that pale face. It made no sense to take the medicine or not.

The man gently put down the tent and said, "Master, please take a rest. The medicine is cold. I will ask someone to make another bowl."

"Don't bother. It's useless, cough cough cough." A heart-wrenching cough was heard, as if all the strength had been used up.

The man half-bowed respectfully, hunched his shoulders, backed out, and closed the door again.

A maid's greeting came from outside the door: "Mr. Cui, Gong'an."

The man scolded in a shrill voice: "You little sluts, why don't you serve the prince here and just slack off? If I find you hiding away again, I will beat you to death!"

"Eunuch Cui, it was the prince who wouldn't let us in." The maid felt aggrieved, thinking that if she could come to serve the prince, she would have the opportunity to climb into his bed. Even if she couldn't become the prince's consort, she could at least be a concubine. But who would have thought that the prince was so sick that he could not get out of bed, and his temper was very strange. Not to mention climbing into the bed, even wiping his body had to be done by the servants in the palace.

Eunuch Cui snorted coldly, "You are the only ones who can make excuses every day. Just because the prince won't let you in, you can go and slack off? Everyone, please be alert. If anything happens to the prince, you will not be able to survive."

The maids were feeling very miserable. The prince would not live long. Would they be blamed if he died of illness?
Eunuch Cui scolded several maids one by one, then walked away leisurely with small steps.

Inside the house, Zhao Shiqing hid under the bed, groping for the square bricks on the ground with her hands. To her disappointment, she did not find any mechanism.

Isn’t there a secret passage under the bed?

Why can't I find it?
Forget it, I won’t look for him anymore. When the time comes, Big Brother will come out on his own.

She simply closed her eyes, and perhaps because it was too quiet around her, she fell asleep.

Until she heard a slight sound beside her ear, she suddenly opened her eyes and saw the face in front of her.

At just one glance, she knew that this person was the real Zhao Tinghan.

The person in front of him was at least 70% similar to Denghua after her disguise, but Zhao Shiqing could still see the difference between them. The difference was their eyes. Although even the small red mole at the corner of their eyes was exactly the same, their expressions were different.

There was only sorrow in Denghua's eyes, and even though it was dark under the bed, Zhao Shiqing still saw murderous intent in the eyes of the person in front of him. This was the murderous intent that belonged only to the superior!
"Brother, I'm Qingqing." She said in a low voice and pulled out a jade Buddha tied with a red rope.

"The jade Buddha you gave me has always been with me, and so has my sister."

Zhao Tinghan's heart was beating violently. He thought his family would send someone over, but he never dreamed that the person would be Qingqing.

This little sister whom he had never seen was still a child in his imagination.

"Why are you here? It's so dangerous." Zhao Tinghan said in a low voice.

Zhao Shiqing smiled and said, "I'll go to Wanfu Temple to find you tomorrow. See you there."

Zhao Tinghan still had a lot of questions to ask her, but he also knew that now was not the time to talk about them. He nodded and said, "Let Denghua take you out of the secret passage."

Zhao Tinghan quickly got on the bed and exchanged with Denghua, and then Zhao Shiqing knew where the mechanism was.

It’s this bed!
The bed board is hollow, with a layer that only thin people can fit in, and the place where the head of the bed is connected to the wall is movable. Going out from here, there is a wall that only thin people can pass through. After passing this wall, you will reach the real secret passage.

Zhao Shiqing followed Denghua out of the exit of the secret passage and saw several large vats piled around. Then he looked again and saw that the whole yard was full of these large vats.

She walked out of the yard in a daze, and found that this was the backyard of a shop. And this shop, well, she had been here before. It was the grocery store that almost drove Dazhuang out.

"Is this shop opened by my brother?" Zhao Shiqing asked.

Denghua had already wiped off the makeup on his face in the secret passage with a wet towel that he had prepared in advance. Now, he was a handsome young man who was a little thin but looked very healthy.

“Yes, this is our own place.”

Zhao Shiqing nodded and wanted to give his elder brother a thumbs up.

At noon the next day, Zhao Shiqing arrived at Wanfu Temple on time. She wore a straw hat and a coarse cloth dress with her sleeves rolled up, revealing half of her thick black arms. Even though the straw hat covered most of her face, one could guess from her appearance that she was a poor girl who was used to doing rough work.

She was wondering how to make Zhao Tinghan recognize her, when a monk with a white beard walked towards her without hesitation and asked, "Madam donor, are you here to look for someone?"

Zhao Shiqing was stunned. Did he reveal a flaw? Otherwise, why would this old monk come directly to him?

However, she soon realized that she was the only pilgrim in this huge temple, so who else could it be if not her?
These days, Buddhist temples are having a hard time. On the contrary, Taoist temples are doing good business. The emperor has single-handedly made Taoism flourish.

She followed the monk and walked onto a small path where there were several hermitages, which seemed to have been prepared for the women who came to burn incense in the past. Unfortunately, the women from wealthy families no longer come here to burn incense.

The monk in charge of reception brought her here and refused to leave. Zhao Shiqing thanked him and walked over.

She knocked on the door and a young monk opened it. The monk looked somewhat like Denghua after she removed her makeup. If she guessed correctly, the monk was Denghua's brother Dengxin.

Unexpectedly, Dengxin became a monk.

　There is another chapter later~
　　(End of this chapter)