After the fiancé was cut off by the county owner

On the fifth day of August, Mrs. Gu sent a message to Mrs. Qi and Qi Tanying, inviting them to visit Zhongyonghou Mansion.Qi Tanying first went to Qi's house in Anpingfang to pick up her mother, and then went to Zhongyonghou's mansion together with her.

When they arrived at Zhongyonghou's mansion, the two first went to meet Mrs. Zhongyonghou, and after exchanging greetings for a while, they followed Mrs. Gu to the second room's residence.

After sitting down and drinking a cup of tea, Mrs. Gu proposed to introduce a guest to them.

Qi Tanying showed curiosity, and Mrs. Qi seemed to have guessed something, and tightened her hand holding the silk handkerchief.

Mrs. Gu and Mrs. Qi looked at each other, and then called out to the room, "Pingping, take your sister Bei out."

As soon as the words fell, Gu Pingping's crisp voice came from inside, "Come right away."

After a while, Gu Pingping came out with a young woman wearing a veil. The young woman was tall and slender, dressed in plain white clothes, and dressed as a layman.

As soon as she came out, her eyes fell on Qi Tanying who was sitting under Mrs. Gu's head, her eyes were scrutinized and explored without any concealment.

Qi Tanying frowned, why did this woman keep staring at her?
Just when she was about to ask Mrs. Gu, Mrs. Gu stood up and pulled the young woman to Madam Qi and Qi Tanying, "Come, let me introduce you."

"Her name is Bei Yuan. She comes from Bei's Sanfang in Mingzhou. She just arrived in Kyoto a few days ago."

When Mrs. Qi heard the words Mingzhou Bei's, she became nervous, "Is she Ru Niang's daughter?"

Second Madam Gu nodded.

Madam Qi stood up when she heard the words, and said to Bei Yuan, "Son, can I see what you look like?"

Bei Yuan nodded, and then lifted the veil.

Madam Qi was stunned, she stared blankly at Bei Yuan, and couldn't help but look at Qi Tanying who was beside her, her eyes moved back and forth between the two similar faces, she couldn't say a word for a long time.

Besides Madam Qi, Qi Tanying was also shocked.

She looked at Mrs. Gu in surprise, and asked, "Aunt Cui, what's going on here?" Why does this girl Bei from Mingzhou look so similar to herself?

Mrs. Gu asked Bei Yuan to put on the veil, and then she said, "Are you surprised? When I saw you in Changxing Palace, I thought A Yuan had come to the capital."

She smiled and said: "I think you also know that your mother has a distant cousin and close friend, Ru Niang, who married Mingzhou many years ago, and A Yuan is Ru Niang's daughter. She heard Pingping talk about a new acquaintance. My sister looks similar to her, so I want to see her in person."

It turned out to be the case.

I have to say that she is so similar to this Bei girl. If she didn't know that her mother has only one daughter, she would have thought that what she saw today was her long-lost sister.

She guessed that maybe this coincidence happened because Bei Yuan's mother and Mrs. Qi were distant cousins.When I was in Wuzhou before, there was a clan sister who looked very similar to my cousin.

She looked at Bei Yuan and wondered which one was older, she or herself?
So she asked Bei Yuan, "How old are you this year?"

Bei Yuan smiled at her: "I was born in May of the third year of Yuanhe, exactly one year and eight months younger than you."

Qi Tanying calculated silently in her heart that Bei Yuan was one year and eight months younger than her, which meant that she was exactly 17 years old this year.It's just a pity to abandon the world of mortals at this young age.

Madam Qi agreed with Qi Tanying. She asked Bei Yuan, "Son, why did you become a lay Buddhist at such a young age? Was it because you were persecuted?"

After asking, he stared at her intently, as if if she just said that she was forced, she would stand up for her.

Bei Yuan looked at the excited middle-aged woman in front of her, and suddenly understood why her mother made such a choice back then.She shook her head, "Aunt Yun, no one forced me, it's my own choice to be a layman."

The word "Aunt Yun" made Madam Qi's eyes blush.

"Ayuan, since your mother married to Mingzhou, I have no contact with her anymore. In fact, I still miss her in my heart. I always think that one day we can meet again in the capital, but who would have thought she would..."

Before she could finish the rest of her sentence, Madam Qi was already sobbing.

Qi Tanying quickly comforted her mother.

The Second Madam Gu also sighed, "I have been in Mingzhou for ten years, and I have been close friends with Ru Niang. Madam Qi, she left so suddenly, I am as sad as you are."

As he spoke, he glanced at Bei Yuan, "She has been married to Bei's family for so many years, and she only had one child, A Yuan. In the future, for her sake, taking care of her child a little more will be considered as the end of our friendship." .”

Mrs. Gu's words made Madam Qi less sad, nodded and said: "You are right."

She looked at Bei Yuan, "A Yuan, come and stay with me at Qi's house for a while today." She pointed to Qi Tanying, "Your sister A Tan has left the cabinet, I live alone in the house, it is very clean. "

Faced with Mrs. Qi's invitation, Bei Yuan shook her head, "I appreciate Aunt Yun's kindness, but I will leave the capital soon and travel around with Master."

Mrs. Qi looked at Mrs. Gu after hearing the words, and Mrs. Gu nodded to confirm the matter.

"There are so many female temples in the capital, you can just find a famous one, so why run around?" Mrs. Qi frowned, "Why do you have the same temperament as your mother? When she was young, she also liked to run around with her elder brother. , and often stay away from home for several months.”

If she was willing to stay at home all the time, the following disasters would not have happened.

These words were a bit harsh, but Bei Yuan didn't show any annoyance on her face: "It is precisely because I am my mother's daughter that I have a temperament like her."

"My mother once said that the happiest time in her life was when she was unmarried, free and unrestrained. The cage of Bei's family cut off her wings, and made her never experience the joy of soaring into the sky. .”

"She doesn't want me to repeat her old ways, and I don't want to be locked up in the back house all day. I want to go out and see the beautiful rivers and mountains of Dayong, and walk the way my mother once walked."

Madam Qi was powerless to refute her words. It really was her daughter, Mother Xiao, who was equally stubborn and stubborn.

Fortunately, her A Tan is different.

She sighed: "Since you have made up your mind, I won't stop you. But you must remember to be careful when you go out."

Bei Yuan agreed.

Madam Qi thought, women are not as free and easy as men when they go out, so they should prepare more money for emergencies.

After returning, I prepared some banknotes and broken silver for her, and bought some necessities.When she delivered these things to Zhongyonghou's mansion, she was told that Bei Yuan had left Beijing with her master.

Only then did Mrs. Qi believe what Mrs. Gu said in her letter earlier that Bei Yuan really came to the capital just to see A Tan.

Looking at the baggage that he didn't have time to send out, he couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

If Ru Niang hadn't encountered such a heart-wrenching experience back then, she would not have married far away in Mingzhou.Alas, it's useless to talk too much, I just hope that her spirit in heaven can bless her daughter with no disease or disaster, and a smooth life!