Chapter Sixty-One
Before Li Shaobai could recover, he handed the broken silver he had just obtained to the little girl. The little girl weighed it and was about to speak when she saw two young monks walking towards her with big brooms.
"Dad, the monk is here, run away!"
The little girl dragged Li Shaobai to the despair and ran away. The father and daughter have been living in front of Guangji Temple for many years, knowing everything here well, and in a blink of an eye, they ran away without a trace.
Hua Jingyao immediately asked someone to go to Xianghuo Hutong to see if anyone rented a house. After a while, the person sent by Shi Yi came back and brought back an exciting news.
There are many people who rent houses in Xianghuo Hutong, but there is only one unique courtyard. The one who paid a month's rent of 500 cents, but it is not yet the day to pay the rent next month.
The landlord and aunt lived in the next yard, which was a large courtyard, and there were five families including the landlord. According to the landlord, the small courtyard with a single family was originally owned by the landlord's family. Last month, a man dressed up in the mansion came to call himself Chen Hong. Chen Hong said that his master was in Tai Sui this year, and it happened to be July, so he came to the temple to avoid it. He usually eats and lives in the temple, and rents a yard in Xianghuo Hutong to store things. After all, there are rules in the temple and cannot be covered like at home.
The rich families are very particular. The landlord and aunt have also heard that those old vengeful kings would bring their usual hand stoves, incense burners, and even tea sets, bowls and chopsticks from home.
Chen Hong's owner had to live in the temple for a month and rent a house outside the temple to put things in. It was reasonable.
The landlord and aunt were careful and wanted to see how rich such a particular person was. However, for more than twenty days, only Chen Hong came here occasionally and never saw anyone else.
It was not until yesterday that the landlord saw the lock of the yard door opened. She waited for a while before she saw a man coming through the crack of the door. He was wearing a delicate silk squid and looked like a scholar. After the man left, the landlord went out and saw that the door of the next yard was locked again. The man must have come out from here.
"Two people come in, one person comes out? Mrs. Chen must be still inside. Shi Yi, are your people still staring there? Let them go in and take a look." Hua Jingyao said.
Shi Yi agreed, turned around and left. At this moment, the guard who had been guarding in the temple ran back and said, "Girl, Madam You saw the little one and knew that the girl was coming. Please go in and rest."
"Okay." Hua Jingyao was more worried about the third princess than the missing Miss Chen.
She only brought Xiaoli and Shi Ding into Guangji Temple with the guards. She said to Shi Ding: "Did you take Xiaoli to see if the two children in the Chen family get better? Xiaoli knows him, please let him take him."
When Princess Zhaoyang saw Hua Jingyao, she pulled her to her side, took a round fan to fan her, and asked the maid to fetch water to wash her face. After watching her wash her face, she said to Xueli: "Please apply the snow-skin cream to her and look at her face, it looks like a Guan Gong."
Hua Jingyao grimaced at her and said with a smile: "Since I look like Guan Gong, then I will stand beside my mother with a big knife, protect her, and prevent you from bullying."
"Nonsense, Zhou Cang is carrying the big knife, and Guan Gong is not there." Princess Zhaoyang said, taking the snow cream from Xueli's hand, digging a piece of it evenly applied to Hua Jingyao's face, looking at it carefully, and sighing.
"Mom, what's wrong with you?" Hua Jingyao asked.
Princess Zhaoyang stretched out her fingers with konjac and lit Hua Jingyao's nose: "Why do you follow me with your nose? She obviously followed me when she was a child...ah!"
"I followed my father when I was a child, right? Why should I follow my father? I'm not a man. I look pretty good like this, and I look like my mother." Hua Jingyao smiled.
The mother and mother talked for a while, and then Hua Jingyao asked about the third princess. Princess Zhaoyang looked helpless and said, "Master Abbot said it was soul-free disease. He couldn't cure it. He wanted to ask the uncle of the master to take action. When I was a child, I heard the queen mother talk about the uncle of the master, but no one mentioned it again for 10 or 20 years. I thought he had already been sitting in the back mountain, but I didn't expect that he had been in seclusion and recuperation."
"Soul-leaving syndrome?" Hua Jingyao's heart sank, and she was indeed seen through.
"The third princess is so young, and she is another princess. How could you let the old monk take her to the back mountain and hand it over to the uncle of the master? Concubine Gong Hui knew, and she was afraid it would be a mess." Hua Jingyao picked up the round fan and shook it whirred.
Princess Zhaoyang said quietly, "Oh, I don't want to do it either. When she was taken over, I felt so painful that my heart was stolen, but there was no other way. Master Fang and his uncle were both great monks. I asked Qingchun to go with me, and I wanted Qingchun to come back and tell the whole story to those in the palace. Since Master Fang also said it was soul-leaving disease, if Concubine Hui insisted on pulling it on the fifth girl, I had no way to go with her. I want to see if her concubine, who had no descendants, could she still make trouble in the palace?"
At this time, Zixuan came in from outside and said to Hua Jingyao: "Girl, Shi Yi is back."
"Okay, I'll go out to see her." Hua Jingyao turned around and blessed her to Princess Zhaoyang, saying, "Mom, I'll just stroll around the temple or outside the temple, I won't go far."
"Let's go, take an umbrella to protect the sun, don't be exposed to the sun anymore, look at your face..."
"Okay, remember."
The last word floated in from outside, and Hua Jingyao had already run away.
"Girl, the little one climbed over the wall and went in to see it. Whether it was the yard or the room, it was all empty and there was no one." Shi Yi said.
"No one? Is there no corpse?" Hua Jingyao asked.
"Corpsy?" Shi Yi didn't know why his girl thought of the corpse. Did she think that Mrs. Chen was killed by Juren? How could that Juren Chen just was a scholar with no power to tie a chicken? How could he kill someone without knowing it? Besides, if he killed someone, the corpse would be moved out. The landlord and aunt clearly saw that he was the only one who walked out from here.
"Yes, what I'm talking about is the corpse, the corpse of Mrs. Chen." Hua Jingyao said.
Shi Yi shook his head: "I didn't see the corpse, there was no one. We even looked for it under the bed and in the cabinet, not to mention humans or corpses, there was not even a mouse."
While they were talking, Shi Ding and Xiao Li came back.
"The two children are not fully recovered, but the little master who cares for them says it's fine." Shi Ding said.
Chapter completed!