Jingmen Fengyue

Chapter 211 Visiting (3)
Xie Fanghua nodded, "Where's my brother?"

"The son is at the old master's place, and he sent a servant to spread the word earlier, saying that when the lady wakes up, he will go to the old master's place for dinner." Shi Mo said.

Xie Fanghua nodded, and said to the two, "Get water! I'll go to grandpa after I wash up."

The two nodded immediately, Shi Hua went out to fetch water, and Shi Mo helped Xie Fanghua find new clothes to change.

Not long after, Xie Fanghua finished washing, and changed into a new pink silk skirt, the skirt trailed the floor, and the gauze was embroidered with begonias, standing in front of the Linghua mirror, her temples were loosely rolled up, her eyes were calm, and her posture was elegant , like a person walking down a picture scroll, soft and delicate, quiet and beautiful.

Shi Hua and Shi Mo were stunned for a moment, and they all lowered their heads.

Xie Fanghua picked up the veil and covered it, then turned and walked towards the door lightly, and the two hurriedly helped her out of the room, one on the left and the other on the right.

On the first day of the first lunar month, people in the mansion were as festive as yesterday.

When the maids and servants saw Xie Fanghua, they all greeted Xie Fanghua with polite smiles.

Through the veil, Xie Fanghua also had a warm smile on her face.This is her home, the home where she hasn't spent the New Year here for eight years.For eight years, every spring, she could only look at the capital from afar from the top of the unnamed mountain, and now she finally stepped on the land called home.

Not long after, we came to Rongfu Hall.

Shi Hua and Shi Mo stopped at the door.

Aunt Fu came out from inside with a smile, opened the curtain, and invited Xie Fanghua inside.

Xie Fanghua stepped into the threshold and saw his grandfather and brother sitting at the table drinking tea and chatting in Rongfu Hall. She smiled and called out, "Grandpa, brother!"

Zhongyonghou let out a "hmm" and looked up at her, "Are you awake?"

Xie Fanghua nodded, walked to the table and sat down.

"Since Miss is awake, I'll go down and serve food!" Aunt Fu smiled and walked out of the room.

"Where did you go last night?" Zhongyong Hou asked in a deep voice.

Xie Mohan poured Xie Fanghua a cup of tea and looked at her.

Xie Fanghua took the tea poured by Xie Mohan, took a sip, and said in a low voice, "I went to Fafo Temple!"

Zhongyonghou frowned suddenly, and reprimanded, "It's Chinese New Year, what are you doing there?"

Xie Fanghua lowered his head and said calmly, "Go find the "Heart Sutra" that Nan Qin refused to copy from the master for 20 years."

Zhongyonghou's complexion changed, "What are you looking for?"

Xie Mohan heard the words and immediately said nervously, "Last night, I knew that the emperor sent his personal guards out of the city to Fafo Temple, but the emperor's people found you?"

Xie Fanghua took a look at Xie Mohan. After all, his elder brother is the eldest son of the Marquis Zhongyong, and he can't hide any news from the capital.She shook her head, "I didn't find me."

"Did the emperor send someone to Fafo Temple last night?" Zhongyong Hou obviously didn't know about this, and looked at Xie Mohan.

Xie Mohan nodded, "The emperor secretly sent people out of the city, and his actions were very secretive. If I hadn't arranged people near the city gate, I wouldn't have been able to get the news in time." After a pause, he said to Xie Fanghua, "Just because I know the emperor I also sent people out of the city, so I was worried about you, but I didn’t dare to take any action to send people to find you, for fear of being discovered by the emperor’s people monitoring Zhongyonghou’s residence.”

Xie Fanghua put down the teacup, and explained slowly, "When I was out of the city last night, I met Li Muqing. We went to the Fafo Temple together. On the way, we met the people sent by the emperor. We hid and didn't meet each other. Then we took the shortcut and took the lead. When I went to Fafo Temple, I got the "Heart Sutra" first."

"Li Muqing?" Xie Mohan looked at Xie Fanghua unexpectedly.

Xie Fanghua nodded, and explained in detail how he met Li Muqing yesterday, how he went to Fafo Temple with him, how he led him to the scripture storage pavilion of Fafo Temple, and how he got the scriptures.It's just that when he talked about coming back, he didn't mention Qin Zheng waiting at the gate of the city to listen to the sound and watch the fireworks.

Xie Mohan frowned after hearing this, "There were too many things going on in our mansion yesterday, and you ran out of the mansion again. I was so worried that I didn't pay attention to what happened in other mansions. What if the right minister's mansion lost another heir yesterday? If it was Mrs. Youxiang's hand, it is understandable for Brother Mu Qing to be in a bad mood and hide out of the house and go to the Fafo Temple."

"In Gaomen's mansion, it's not uncommon for wives and concubines to compete for favor and consolidate their heirs and status. It's not uncommon for Mrs. Youxiang to do such things alone. Which mansion's back house is not stained with the blood of a few lives and a few heirs?" Zhongyonghou snorted, and said to Xie Mohan, "Li Muqing is just like you. He is too thoughtful and too smart. As the saying goes, wisdom will hurt. If you can see it, it's not a problem. You can't see it." If you open it, you are the same, sooner or later you will have to rely on this cleverness."

Xie Mohan nodded when he heard the words, sighed, and stopped talking.

"You said that old bald Puyun gave you the "Heart Sutra" with his own hands after knowing your identity?" Zhongyonghou asked Xie Fanghua again after finishing his sentence.

Xie Fanghua nodded, "Well, it was given to me."

"Where is the "Heart Sutra" now?" Zhongyonghou looked at her.

"I threw it into the stove and ruined it!" Xie Fanghua said.

Zhongyonghou was startled, looking at her calm and silent face, his gray beard moved, as if he lost his voice for a moment.

Xie Mohan also looked at Xie Fanghua silently.

"Master Refuge has been dead for 200 years. His "Heart Sutra" is a treasure, but it is also a treasure for our Xie clan. Since it is fatal, why keep it? It is better to destroy it and worry about it." Xie Fanghua said .

Zhongyonghou was silent for a moment, then nodded with a dark face, "You're right! It's good to destroy it! It should be destroyed!"

"Sister, how do you know that the "Heart Sutra" that Nanqin refused to copy for 20 years is in the Sutra Pavilion of Fafo Temple? And it is in the hands of Master Puyun?" Xie Mohan looked at Xie Fanghua, "After the master refused to pass away, Our ancestors of the Xie family all looked for the "Heart Sutra", and many people said that it passed away together with Master Rejection at that time."

"I found out about it by accident when I was in Wuming Mountain." Xie Fanghua lowered her eyelashes.

Xie Mohan nodded, put away his surprise, and said with emotion, "Master Refu hid the "Tianji Tu" in the excerpted "Heart Sutra". Counting, it can deduce the fate of mortals. It is only natural for us to know that the refusal master was born in the direct line of our Xie family. It turns out that the emperor also knows the secret inside. However, the emperor may only suddenly know that this "Heart Sutra" has not been rejected. The master passed away, but he hid it in the Sutra Pavilion of Fafo Temple. Otherwise, according to today’s temperament, I’m afraid he would have gone to fetch it long ago. It won’t wait until yesterday.”

"It's not necessarily that I didn't know that the "Heart Sutra" was in the Sutra Pavilion of the Fafo Temple. It was just that I was afraid of disturbing our Zhongyonghou Mansion if there was any movement. Or I hadn't prepared to take action against the Zhongyonghou Mansion before. But Yesterday, Qin Zheng made a big fuss at Lingque Terrace to force a marriage, disregarding the emperor's wishes, and created an in-law relationship between Prince Ying's residence and Zhongyonghou's residence, which made the emperor really unable to sit still. Only then did he take urgent action." Xie Fanghua said.

(End of this chapter)