Taking advantage of Grandma Lou's words, Ye Jintang found a reason to get up and prepare to have breakfast.
When she came to copy the scriptures, she only ate one roasted sweet potato. She was really hungry after working on it for so long.
Just when Ye Jintang was about to stand up, her legs suddenly went weak and she almost fell to the ground. Fortunately, someone caught her in time, otherwise she would have fallen on the small table.
"Sixth girl, be careful."
Jiang Zhi's voice was a little anxious.
"Master Jiang?"
Looking at Jiang Zhi in front of him, Ye Jintang couldn't help but be a little surprised.
When the two came to the capital from Xingnan, she thought that they might never have any intersection in their lives.
But in the days that followed, they always met.
We met by chance again at White Horse Temple. What a wonderful coincidence.
"As soon as I entered the gate of White Horse Temple, I heard that a very filial girl came to the temple and was kneeling in the main hall to copy scriptures. I didn't expect it to be the sixth girl."
"But my legs are numb from kneeling, can I walk now?"
"It shouldn't be a big problem."
Ye Jintang tried to pull her arm back without leaving a trace, but Jiang Zhi's hands were like iron claws, and she couldn't pull it back at all.
"girl."
Liuli followed Grandma Lou into the hall, and when she saw Jiang Zhi supporting Ye Jintang, she hurried forward.
"I'm fine, but my legs are a little numb. Please help me back to the dormitory."
As he spoke, Ye Jintang saluted Jiang Zhi again, thanking him for helping him just now.
Seeing Ye Jintang's distant yet polite look, Jiang Zhi felt inexplicably irritable.
"Master, let's go now. General Shi is still waiting for us."
Seeing Jiang Zhi staring blankly in the direction where Ye Jintang disappeared, Lechuan whispered a reminder.
"Well, let's go."
On the way to the dormitory, Grandma Lou couldn't help but murmured, "You must not go to the main hall to copy scriptures tomorrow. You only need to stay in the east wing."
"There are so many people coming and going in the main hall, it's really not a good place to copy scriptures."
"Mom Lou, are you the master, or am I the master? I just explained the reason to you. There is a lot of incense in the main hall, so it is naturally much better for me to copy scriptures in the main hall than in the east wing."
"If you are not satisfied with me copying scriptures in the main hall, then I will not copy the scriptures and let Grandma Lou do it for me."
Ye Jintang sneered, she was too young to play tricks on her.
"Sixth Miss, this old slave is doing it for your own good. According to the old lady's instructions, and to show the girl's piety, the girl will fast for three days starting tomorrow."
"During the fast, she only eats 81 grains of rice for each meal. After the fast, the girl has to bathe and change clothes every time she copies the scriptures, and then burns incense and writes the scriptures."
"If it snows recently, girls cannot drink water from the temple. Instead, they have to collect snow water themselves."
The latter one was a trick that Aunt Lou came up with herself. Although she was a slave, she still had some respect in the Hou Mansion. Ye Jintang always reminded her from time to time that she was a slave, which made Aunt Lou hate her extremely.
This would give her an opportunity to torture Ye Jintang to death.
"Auntie Lou, are these things ordered by the old lady?"
"yes."
"Very well, I will start fasting tomorrow."
Ye Jintang left these words and took Liuli back to the house. Grandma Lou and Hexiang wanted to go in to serve, but they were all kicked out.
Such a big event happened in the temple today. Grandma Lou hesitated for a long time, feeling that it would be impossible to wait.
"He Xiang, you should go back to the capital now and tell the old lady what happened recently."
"The matter is a bit big today, and I don't know if it will spread to the capital. You go back and give the old lady a warning in advance."
"Okay, I'll leave now."
Hexiang was just a maid, and she didn't have a carriage. In addition, the road was slippery in the snow, so she had already been delayed for most of the day when she came down from the mountain to find a carriage to return to the capital.
She was walking halfway, and for some reason, she suddenly felt a severe stomachache.
"Uncle, let's go to Guanning Alley."
Hexiang entered a small courtyard in Guanning Hutong.
"Guizhu, hurry up and call the second young master. Just say that I'm sick."
Guizhu is Hexiang's younger brother, who is about 13 or 4 years old. When he saw that Hexiang's face was not good, he said yes and ran away.
Ye Rui was confused when he received the news. Didn't Hexiang go to Baima Temple? Why did he suddenly return to Beijing and go to Guanning Hutong?
He didn't dare to delay and immediately came quietly to see He Xiang.
As soon as he entered the room, he saw Hexiang lying on the bed with a very pale face.
"Guizhu, hurry up and call the doctor. Your sister is ill."
Ye Rui and He Xiang have a very special relationship, and seeing her lying in bed sickly makes her heartache.
"Hexiang, what's wrong with you?"
"I feel sick in my stomach and it hurts so much that I can't stand up."
Hexiang felt so uncomfortable that Ye Rui couldn't ask any more questions. Soon the doctor came over to check her pulse.
"Congratulations to both of you. Madam has a happy pulse. It has been more than 2 months. Madam must have caught a cold just now and moved her fetus. I will give her a dose of medicine to soothe the nerves and nourish the fetus. Drink it for two days and you will be fine."
The doctor's words made He Xiang and Ye Rui dumbfounded. Neither of them thought that they would suddenly have a child.
After sending the doctor away, Ye Rui asked the woman waiting in the yard to boil the medicine.
He sat on the edge of the bed in silence.
Seeing that there was no joy on his face, He Xiang immediately guessed that he didn't want the child in her belly.
Ye Rui hasn't married yet. If the eldest son of a concubine is allowed to come down, it will be very difficult for him to marry a noble girl in the future.
No woman wants to have an extra child on her knees as soon as she enters her husband's house.
"Second Young Master, don't say anything. I don't want this child."
He Xiang, who was usually strong, bit her lip to prevent herself from crying.
She is a slave, and it is not easy to have the opportunity to be an aunt. How dare she ask for the eldest son of a concubine.
"Don't cry. Just drink the anti-fetal medicine and nurse yourself back to health. We'll make other plans."
He Xiang nodded and stopped talking, just shedding tears silently.
Soon Guizhu brought the medicine. Hexiang drank the hot decoction and took a nap. When she woke up, her stomach no longer hurt much.
"Hexiang, what do you want to do when you return to the capital?"
"Well, something happened to Miss Six in the temple. I want to come back and ask the old lady for instructions."
Hexiang told Ye Ruiyi about the reason for her return. She glanced out the window and saw that the sun was already heading west.
"I can't delay any longer. I have to return to the Hou Mansion as soon as possible."
"How are you doing? Can you do it?"
"You have to do it even if you don't. I'm afraid I'll be scolded by the old lady if I go back too late."
At this moment, even if the lotus fragrance flies to Mrs. Ye, it is too late.
The pilgrims who went to White Horse Temple to offer incense in the morning had already returned to the capital, and the story of Ye Jintang kneeling in the main hall and copying scriptures had also spread.
Before Mrs. Ye had lunch at noon, Grandma Sun told her the rumors outside.
"How dare you, Sixth Girl?"
The old lady only felt a severe pain in her chest after listening to half of it. She was not sick, but she was made sick by Ye Jintang's anger.
Ye Jintang knelt down at the main hall of White Horse Temple. The reputation she had accumulated over half her life would be destroyed in one day, and she might even have a reputation for treating her granddaughter harshly.
