Just after dawn, Yun Chu woke up.
Xie Shian came to say hello early, and then went to Huade College to study.
He will probably continue to study at Huade College for a few more months. By September in the autumn, he will be able to directly enter the Imperial College and become classmates with the princes and nobles.
When he walked out of Shengju, Yunchu could see that his back was high-spirited.
She smiled. Xie Shian was still too young after all. If he were replaced by Mr. Xie from the cabinet more than ten years later, she would definitely not be his opponent.
Not long after, the aunts and brothers and sisters from the backyard came. Xie Ping was dressed in bright red, with a gold hairpin on her head, a pair of pearl earrings on her ears, and two crystal clear jade bracelets on her wrists.
"Isn't the eldest lady going to Qing'an Temple with my wife?" Aunt Tao looked at her, "Would it be disrespectful to the Buddha to dress like this when going to the temple?"
Yun Chu's expression was calm: "There are many believers looking for marriage who also dress like this, so it doesn't matter. There are too many jewelry, so just take out two pieces."
Xie Ping secretly glared at Aunt Tao.
She asked the maid to take off the gold hairpin from her hair, and put all the jewelry on her ears and wrists into the maid's hands.
Yun Chu stood up: "Let's go while it's still early."
Xie Ping walked out behind her.
Aunt He opened her eyes to see each other, and her heart seemed to be thrown into a frying pan. She clasped her hands together and kept praying in her heart.
A carriage had been prepared at the gate of Xie's Mansion. Yun Chu and Xie Ping got on the carriage one after another, and the carriage slowly drove towards the city gate.
At the city gate, the carriage stopped.
Xie Ping asked anxiously: "Mom, aren't you going to Qing'an Temple?"
"Mrs. Ji and I have made an appointment to go together." Yun Chu said with a smile, "You also know Mrs. Ji. We met at the Yun family's spring banquet last year."
Xie Ping felt jealous in her heart.
Mrs. Ji is the eldest daughter of Lord Du, Minister of Punishment, and is married to the eldest son of Lord Zhan Shiji of Zhan Shifu. Although such a family is not as good as the royal family, it is already a large family in the capital.
My mother probably knew all such noble ladies.
If nothing happened to her maternal grandfather's family, then she was born into a high-ranking family, and the people around her were also wealthy daughters...
Xie Ping was thinking wildly when she heard Shuang's voice coming from outside: "Madam, Madam Ji is here."
Yun Chu raised the curtain and looked at the carriage opposite. A bright smiling face also appeared in the window of the carriage: "Mrs. Xie, long time no see."
Yun Chu also smiled. Counting from the previous life, she and Du Ling had not seen each other for more than ten years.
After the two of them greeted each other, the carriage drove out of the city. After walking for about half an hour, they finally arrived at Dayan Mountain outside the city. Qing'an Temple was built halfway up the mountain.
After getting off the carriage, Du Ling walked towards Yunchu and snorted: "Since you got married, I have dated you so many times, but you refused every time. Even the last time we met, it was because of Yun Jiachun. Yan, after all, I am the eldest young lady of Zhan Shifu, and you, Mrs. Xie, really don’t give me any face."
Yunchu liked her vibrant appearance.
After marrying into the Xie Mansion, she lost her child and was unable to have children. Her husband also treated her coldly. She gradually lost hope in her life and had no intention of seeing her old friends.
"Ling Ling, please stop mocking me with the word "Mrs.
The sound of Ling Ling brought the two of them much closer. Du Ling sighed: "Chuchu, the Guanyin Guanyin in Qing'an Temple is very effective. Many women can conceive children after they go back. Let's go in."
Du Ying stood in front of Yun Chu and said: "Sister Yun, do you want to learn the pomegranate knot? It's very simple. I will teach you later."
Yun Chu smiled and thanked him.
Du Ying was good at women's knitting, and even the queen would praise the pomegranate knot she made, so she wrote to Du Ling on the pretext that she wanted to learn the pomegranate knot.
The meaning of the pomegranate knot is to have many children and good fortune. She knew that Du Ling felt sorry for her childlessness and would definitely bring Du Ying to the appointment.
Xie Ping followed them, the jealousy in her heart getting stronger and stronger.
Now that her mother was just the concubine of a fifth-rank official, Mrs. Ji was still so close to her mother. Such friendship made her jealous.
The ladies she usually knew were all the daughters of officials of fifth, sixth or seventh rank. She was too lazy to make friends, so she didn't have a single good friend around her.
A group of people walked in.
Qing'an Temple is the most popular temple near the capital, with an endless stream of devotees coming to worship.
After arriving at the entrance of the temple, they had to queue up to enter. Yun Chu donated two hundred taels of incense money, and the young monk took them in directly.
Incense was curling up and the Buddha was solemn. Yun Chu knelt on the futon and kowtowed sincerely.
She is not begging for a child, she is begging for the Yun family to have a smooth life, and for her two children who died young to be reborn into a good family...
Xie Ping silently prayed in her heart that everything would go well. She had only done this bold thing in her life, hoping that the Buddha would help her...
After the kneeling ended, the four people stood up. Yun Chu smiled and said, "Ling Ling, let's have a fast meal before leaving."
Du Ling also had many things to say to Yun Chu, so naturally he nodded hurriedly, and the four of them followed the young monk to the backyard of the temple.
Qing'an Temple receives many pilgrims from noble families all year round. The backyard is very spacious, but there are two guards guarding a doorway on the east side of the corridor.
Du Ying asked curiously: "It seems to be a palace guard. Which noble person is here?"
Du Ling shook his head.
With her status, of course she knew who lived here, but if the younger sister knew that King Anjing was punished to live in Qing'an Temple, her heart would be broken.
Xie Ping glanced twice and secretly made a note of this door.
A group of four people walked to the side room arranged by the young monk. As soon as they entered, Xie Ping said: "I saw that there are a lot of peonies blooming in the backyard. Miss Du Er, why don't we go and take a look?"
Du Ying was two years older than Xie Ping, and he was also a child. He couldn't sit still in the side room, so he immediately nodded and followed Xie Ping to the backyard to enjoy the flowers.
"Xiaoying must be fifteen years old." Yun Chu asked, "I wonder if her marriage has been decided yet?"
Du Ling said: "Two years ago, the emperor asked my father to take Prince Anjing to the Ministry of Justice for training. Therefore, Prince Anjing often visited the Du family. After going back and forth, Xiaoying somehow fell in love with Prince Anjing... But I heard It is said that the prince's serious illness is related to King Anjing, so he was sent to Qing'an Temple. Now that the emperor is still in his prime, these troubles have occurred. I don't know what will happen in the future. Concubine De tested my mother a while ago and wanted to let the little girl When Ying married into Prince Anjing's palace, my mother pretended to be stupid and fooled her around. I didn't dare let Xiaoying know about this, otherwise she would definitely make trouble..."
Yunchu sighed.
It is said that parents cannot defeat their children, and it is true. No matter how much Mrs. Du objects, Du Ying is determined to get married.
Around June or July this year, Concubine De would ask the emperor for a marriage. However, before Du Ying could marry to Prince Anjing, something happened to the fourth prince in the autumn hunting paddock.
That day the emperor was assassinated, and the fourth prince who was the most suspected disappeared. When he was found a few months later, he was already a dead body...
Du Ying did not believe that the fourth prince would assassinate the emperor, and she could not accept that her fiancé died like this. She bumped into the fourth prince's coffin.
Yun Chu couldn't understand how Du Ying, just a man, could let Du Ying abandon his parents and the entire family and die in love at a young age...
