Mu Huagui

Chapter 18 Assassin
Wuhua Temple can be regarded as a royal temple, and the presiding officer often goes in and out of the palace to teach Buddhism to the queen mother and the emperor. Zhou Minghua, the emperor's substitute, also became a monk here.

The Chen residence had sent someone to communicate a long time ago, and someone came to receive him. A young monk who looked about ten years old followed a benevolent old monk who proclaimed Amitabha and greeted him.

Wuhua Temple is divided into several major halls, and the fourth wife and fifth wife are of course rushing to send the son Guanyin, the most spiritual person in the temple.The eldest lady took her daughter to bow down devoutly to the Bodhisattvas in the temple one by one.

Chen Jiao'er knelt with the eldest lady for a while, and then tasted the vegetarian dishes of the temple with everyone, and sat in the carriage for a long time before kneeling in the temple. Everyone was tired, and they went to the clean room that had been prepared to rest.

Mother Su urged Su Dazhuang to hire a donkey cart early in the morning, and rushed to wait in front of Wuhua Temple.Cherry waited for Chen Jiao'er to sit on the arhat bed to rest, and then went to find Su's mother at the appointed place.

After taking Mama Su back to the wing room, Cherry moved a small stool and sat in the yard outside the wing room, took out her embroidery work in the sun and started doing it.

The two talked about the past, and Chen Jiao'er sat on the Arhat bed next to Su's mother, each of them padded with pillows and talked comfortably.

"Just now Yingying led the old lady in, and almost bumped into the third miss. Fortunately, Yingying is a clever girl, so she didn't meet her face to face." Su's mother smiled cheerfully. gratified.

Although it is okay for Mama Su, who has left the mansion, to meet the original owner and come over to have a good time, but the people in the Chen Mansion are very talkative, and Chen Jiaoer does not want to cause any trouble, and she does not want the eldest lady to inquire about Mama Su's whereabouts, so she has been carefully avoiding it. .

"Oh, she didn't rest in the house, why did she run outside again?" The third lady, Chen Qiluo, was the first one who was so tired just now, why did she run out again in a blink of an eye.

Mother Su naturally didn't know, and the two of them just chatted casually and didn't take this to heart.It is very reasonable for the young lady who finally got out of the mansion to want to take a look around.

Mother Su took out a piece of silk cloth from her bosom, slowly unfolded it, and explained line by line according to the content on it, "The old lady and the family members have separately inquired about the shops that the lady asked the old lady to inquire about. None of them are in the hands of the Chen family. , only a few of them were found to be in the hands of the surname He, and he repeatedly stated that he would never sell them, and the other few couldn't even find out the name of the owner."

After Chen Jiao'er read it carefully, she handed the silk cloth to the burning incense candle in the room, and she was relieved to see the silk cloth turn into ashes.In the previous life, relying on the limited memory and the convenience of the son's father and maid in the later life, he secretly found out all the properties of his parents in the capital.It's just that before they could find out who owned these properties, they lost their lives.

"Miss, listen carefully to what mother said. These shops are all profitable businesses in Beijing, and the location is good. It is not easy to sell them with your savings." What's more, even if they are sold, she is a girl without a backer. Can't live.

Chen Jiao'er made up a reason for Mama Su to investigate the news, saying that she wanted to use the dowry to buy a shop, so as not to sit back and eat.This was a good thing, Su's mother agreed very quickly, but she didn't expect that the young lady has a big heart, and all the shops she likes are good shops.Fortunately, she is now staying in the back alley of the Wangfu, saying that she went to inquire about the shop for her master, although she didn't get any good face, and she didn't suffer any disadvantages.

"I don't know if Mother Su believes in ghosts or gods." Chen Jiao'er looked at the hand-painted portrait of Guanyin hanging on the wall inside the house. The Guanyin in the painting has a compassionate face and ethereal figure, looking at everyone in the world with pity.

"Miss" Mother Su grabbed Chen Jiao'er's hands, not knowing why Miss made such a sudden statement.

"I remember that day when I heard what Xiaowen said to Cherry, the plum blossoms in the back garden were just in bloom. Thinking of the fragrance of plum blossoms that my mother loved the most when she was alive, I took the cherry and wanted to pick a branch back. I didn't expect to fold it, and met three Young Master, he was pulling me and hitting cherries, and he pushed me against a tree and hit my head."

"If Cherry hadn't yelled at the death, they probably wouldn't even invite the doctor." Chen Jiao'er recalled the memories that didn't belong to her, but felt as uncomfortable as she felt.

"Miss..." Mother Su was already in tears.

"Lying on the bed with hot and cold, my whole body hurt like hell, I thought I must be dead. One day, I fell asleep and had a dream. In the dream, a sister who was all white came. She said that she With the same name and surname as mine, she is the young lady of the Chen family."

"What, what Miss said is serious." Mother Su became extremely nervous, staring closely at her Miss.

"Exactly, Mom knows this person." Chen Jiao'er looked at Su's mother eagerly.

"Her, her father was originally a life official in the imperial court, and married a wealthy daughter as his wife. It's just that her fate left the West early, and the daughter she left behind died on the way to Beijing." Mother Su looked at her young lady in amazement. Or she accidentally found out after entering the sewing room that she had the same name and surname as the lady, so she paid attention when she heard it, but how did her lady know that there were really ghosts and spirits.

"The elder sister in white said that she died unjustly. She was not robbed and killed by water robbers at all, but by her nanny's family. She said that if I would avenge her, she would save my life, or let me come with her The company of the underworld." Chen Jiao'er showed a frightened expression, "Mom, I agreed to her just because I was scared for a while."

"So, what Miss is investigating is the property of that person's family, and that person told you about it." The sky was bright and the sun was shining brightly, and Mother Su still turned pale with fright.After a plop, he rolled and crawled to kneel down in front of the Guanyin statue, and licked his head heavily for a few times, only then did he regain his composure.

Turning around to Chen Jiao'er, she said, "Miss has told other people about this matter." After hearing Chen Jiao'er's affirmative reply, Mother Su breathed a sigh of relief, and said in a very cautious tone, "Miss must promise mother about this matter." It's rotten in the stomach, and you can't tell anyone."

Forced Chen Jiao'er to swear an oath in front of the Guanyin statue, Su's mother hugged Chen Jiao'er in her arms, and cried, "My poor lady, you have suffered a lot during this time. I will go back and ask someone to do the magic trick and burn more paper money." Give it to her so that she can be reborn as soon as possible."

"But I promised her." Chen Jiao'er whispered.

"Don't say silly things, miss. We can get involved in those things. Listen to mother and forget about it." Mother Su hugged Chen Jiao'er tightly, as if she would fly away if she let go.

Chen Jiao'er didn't expect Mother Su to help her avenge her with the enemy, she just used this as a pavement for the future.Thinking of this, Chen Jiao'er nodded meekly, and then Mother Su eased her face, helped Chen Jiao'er to sit back, and after a while of persuasion, they discussed the matter of setting up a shop, and then called Cherry out of the wing.

Opening the window a small slit, Chen Jiaoer watched Yingying turn around, and quietly opened the door, Yingying stepped in, and when she closed the door with her backhand, she saw Chen Qiluo's face was pale, as if being chased by a ghost. The servant girl Hongxiu also had a pale face and her body was trembling.

"Miss San, what's wrong, she seems to have run into a ghost." Cherry leaned into the crack of the door and took a look, wondering.

Chen Jiao'er frowned slightly, and suddenly said, "If someone comes to ask you something later, just tell the truth."

"What..." Before Cherry could say a word, a burst of chaotic footsteps arrived at the courtyard gate. The gate was not locked, and a group of people rushed in.

"Who is so courageous..." Chen's mother from the lady's room came out first, and was stunned before finishing her sentence.It was a group of people who looked like officials standing in the courtyard, not knowing what to say for a while.

Fortunately, the stewards of the Chen residence were resting in the outer courtyard, and they had already entered the courtyard with the officers and soldiers.Guanshi Wang bowed his hands to one of the officials who looked like officials, "This official, the family members of Mr. Chen from the Ministry of War are resting in the courtyard. Please don't disturb them."

Although the officers and soldiers rushed into the yard, none of them dared to push away the side rooms. Naturally, they knew that those who could come to Wuhua Temple to burn incense and pay their vows were either rich or noble. There is no oil and water, and if it is not handled well, you will have to go back and have a meal.

In normal times, he would break up if he beat Haha, but now that such a big incident happened, he didn't dare to make decisions lightly.Thinking that he was in a dilemma, he could only smile, and said, "It turns out that it is Master Chen's house, so I didn't dare to disturb him, but Prince Xianjun was assassinated in the Buddhist hall just now, and someone saw the assassin enter the back room, we are also doing business. Please also take care of the family for one or two."

Steward Wang took out a purse and handed it out, still smiling and said, "Please be considerate, sir, they are all female relatives in the mansion, and there are ladies who have not left the cabinet, it is really inconvenient to check."

After taking the purse and weighing it, the official smiled, "Why don't we just stand outside the courtyard, and you take your family members outside and board the carriage, and we'll check back later."

No matter what, you have to see the female relatives with your own eyes, this... Steward Wang lost his mind for a while, and couldn't help but look back at the lady's wing.

The eldest lady put her arms around her shivering daughter, she only said that her daughter was frightened by the officers and soldiers, and she still couldn't let the officers and soldiers withdraw after seeing Steward Wang report her master's name.In a hurry, he said, "Steward Wang, immediately send someone to the yamen to report to the master. How dare you falsely accuse the female family members of the official family of colluding with assassins, it is really against the sky."

This..., Steward Wang hesitated for a moment, he just came to the temple to burn incense, and he didn't bring any extra manpower, so what if he went out to invite the master here, let alone these servants can wait for the master to come and then they can't make a deal.

Chen Jiao'er also shook her head secretly in the room, no wonder the Second Madam was able to stand up to the Da Furen who held the power of the family just because of the old lady's favor.

At this time, the most important thing is to turn the big thing into a small thing, and go back to the house quickly to get rid of this matter. It's not the circle, and then you can wait for the master to move here from the capital.

Opened her mouth, Chen Jiao'er closed it again, it's better to wait at this time, if others are not in a hurry, why should she be in a hurry.Suddenly, Mother Su's voice came from outside, "Master, this old servant really came to see our young lady."

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