The female supporting role turns over: the prince regent's favorite

Chapter 615 The Empress Goes to the Meditation Temple to Pray

Kyoto City outside of Kyoto City.

Chu Lingyun was wearing a Taoist robe, and her face was slightly pale. Although it was early spring, the water was still icy cold. Her hands were so cold that she soaked the Taoist robe in the wooden basin, and she hardly felt it.

After finally washing the Taoist robes in a large wooden basin, a nun brought another pile of Taoist robes and put them in front of Chu Lingyun, saying: "Hurry up and wash! If you can't finish washing before evening, you don't want to have dinner!"

Chu Lingyun gritted her teeth tightly, resentful and unwilling, but did not dare to say a word, and began to wash her Taoist robe without saying a word.

She had disobeyed before, but she was beaten up and locked up in the woodshed for two days, so today she gritted her teeth and held back.

When the sky was dark, Chu Lingyun finally finished washing the Taoist robes in the two large wooden basins. She took them outside to dry in the yard, and while they were drying, she heard two nuns hurriedly said: "Just now the palace sent people to say that the queen is coming tomorrow. It is said that we will stay in the temple for another day or two to pray for blessings, and Master Xuanjing ordered us to clear out the empty rooms as soon as possible."

"Although many people in our Jingxin Temple usually believe in it, this is the first time we have welcomed such a distinguished person. Of course, we can't neglect it. Let's clean it up quickly. Be careful if something goes wrong, Master Xuanjing will not spare us. "

"That's right, let's go quickly..."

After the two walked away, Chu Lingyun stood there for a long time with the Taoist robe wrung out in his hands before returning to his senses. He hung up the remaining Taoist robe and went back to his room.

There was a bowl of white rice and a plate of clear vegetables in the room. Her hands were frozen, she reluctantly picked up the chopsticks and put the rice into her mouth. With a determined look.

She said that she won't just let it go, she will definitely return to the capital city again!
She will not let Lin Qingqian go!
the next morning.

The queen came out of the palace and came to Jingxin Temple, and Mrs. Xuanjing personally greeted her at the temple gate.

"The poor nun has seen the empress."

The queen nodded slightly, "Master Xuanjing, please, I came to Jingxin Temple today to pray for the emperor, so you don't have to be cautious."

"Yes, ma'am."

Master Xuanjing stepped back a little, and said, "Madam, this poor nun will take you to visit the Buddha statue and pray for blessings."

But the queen said: "I'm a bit tired from traveling and traveling today, so let's not go to pray for blessings first, arrange a room for me to rest, pray for blessings tomorrow and then talk about it."

Master Xuanjing was taken aback for a moment, thinking that the queen came to the Jingxin Temple impatiently to pray for the emperor, but the queen opened her mouth, so naturally she didn't dare to say more, and hurriedly said to the nun behind her: "Mingxin, quickly bring the queen The empress is going to rest in the wing, and prepare the fast food and send it there."

"Yes, Master Xuan Jing."

The nun said: "Empress, please come with the poor nun."

The queen nodded and followed the nun named Ming Xin to the wing.

The queen waved the others to retreat, leaving only poetic and picturesque sentiments in the wing room, the queen asked: "Have you brought all the things I ordered you to bring?"

Poetry said: "Your Majesty, please rest assured, the slaves have already brought everything according to your instructions, and the candles, paper money and incense have been secretly brought."

Huayi followed suit and said, "Madam, I see that there is a small pond behind the Jingxin Temple. I will accompany you there tomorrow."

The queen said softly: "No need, I can go there by myself tomorrow night, that's fine, you all go back."

"Yes, ma'am."

The queen ordered Shiqinghuayi to burn these things to the former prince. Every year, she would secretly burn some paper money to the former prince while going out to pay homage or pray for blessings.

Early the next morning.

The queen followed Mrs. Xuanjing to pray for blessings in front of the Buddha statue, and Chu Lingyun was sent to the wing room to clean up for the queen.

During the cleaning period, Chu Lingyun was extremely cautious, and even pretended not to care and asked Shiqing, "This sister, the empress and Mrs. Xuanjing went to pray for the emperor, will it take a long time to come back?"

Shiqing glanced at her, and said slightly dissatisfied: "You little nun, what do you ask these things for?"

Chu Lingyun smiled, and said: "The floor of the wing room is very dirty, I plan to wipe it again, I am afraid that the empress will come back early, and I don't have enough time."

Poetry believes it is true, "It is said that you can only come back when it gets dark, you should wipe it quickly, there will be time."

"Okay, thank you sister for letting me know."

Chu Lingyun had a flattering smile on his face, but he was extremely irritable in his heart.

It was only noon, no matter how hard she was, she still couldn't wait for the queen to come back, but if she couldn't wait for the queen to come back, it would be so easy to meet her.

Chu Lingyun wiped the floor absent-mindedly, thinking about tidying up the room again, reached for the bamboo basket covered with a cloth on the table, and was about to take it away, Shiqing immediately said: "Don't touch it! To pick up the little pond..."

The words stopped suddenly, Shiqing's expression changed, and she said: "Anyway, just don't touch me!"

"I just want to clean the table, I won't touch it."

"Well, then wipe it quickly and don't touch other things."

"Yes."

Chu Lingyun was wiping the table, at this moment, a palace maid called her, as if the empress had asked her to go over, she hurried away.

While there was no one around, Chu Lingyun secretly lifted the cloth covering the bamboo basket, and was a little puzzled when he saw the paper money and candle incense inside.

But soon she also thought that the queen was going to secretly burn it to the former prince. Thinking of the poetic words just now, she looked around, and finally stopped on the queen's embroidered shoes.

Chu Lingyun bit her lip slightly, picked up the embroidered shoes, painted the soles with wax oil from a candlestick, and then tidied it up, putting everything back in place.

The side of the small pond behind the Jingxin Temple is full of pebbles. If the queen wore these shoes, she would slip easily.

After finishing all this, Chu Lingyun returned to her own room, feeling uneasy, she was not sure if the queen would wear those embroidered shoes tonight.

After the sky darkened, Chu Lingyun got up from the bed and walked towards the small pond behind the Jingxin Temple through the moonlight.

No one is around now, she hid in a tree and hid.

Time passed quietly, seeing that no one came, Chu Lingyun was very anxious.

Won't the Queen come tonight?
At this moment, a faintly warm light lit up in the distance, and Chu Lingyun saw that it was the Queen coming with a lantern. Embroidered shoes with hands and feet.

Immediately, I was overjoyed.

The queen walked to the edge of the small pond, stepped on the pebbles, and slipped a bit, but soon she stabilized her body and did not fall down. Chu Lingyun, who was watching from the side, was a little anxious.

The queen squatted down by the small pond, and took out the paper money and candles in the bamboo basket. From a distance, Chu Lingyun vaguely heard a sentence or two, "Zi Hao... the queen mother will give you... paper money..."

After burning the paper money, the queen stood up and was about to walk back, but the soles of her feet slipped and she let out a cry of surprise, and she fell into the small pond.

(End of this chapter)