Chapter 563 They Are Gone? A Small Hall Attracting Little Pilgrims!
The girl was really rude, so Yujie and Qu Le got angry. Yujie said impolitely, “You are the strange one, Miss. Obviously you bumped into us and fell. We didn’t even touch you. How could you blackmail us?”
“How dare you say that? Let’s go and ask someone to judge it’s your fault or my fault!” the girl said, trembling in anger. She came over, dragged Qu Le and Yujie with each of her hands and left aggressively.
A few more people appeared at the corner. Seeing what was going on here, one of them suddenly shouted, “Hurry up, Miss is here. She’s bullied by others.”
“Who dare to bully our Miss! Go there and beat them!” There came another female voice.
Yujie and Qu Le were in a terrible situation. Yujie handed the painting in her hand to Qu Le, and then winked at her. When the girl dragging them became overjoyed, Yujie struggled hard to shake off the girl’s hand, took Qu Le’s hand, turned around and ran away.
A resourceful man knew to avoid a disadvantageous situation close at hand. The girl obviously had brought plenty of maids and old maids. If they stayed, they would probably lose the two paintings in their hands even if they managed to give an explanation. Their master had instructed them to take the paintings down the mountain for mounting, so they couldn’t lose the paintings.
Yujie was a strong girl. Although Qu Le was a little inferior to her, she was not an ordinary maid and had done a lot of work in her childhood. With her hand taken by Yujie, Qu Le ran rapidly with Yujie. They had gone away after turning a few corners.
The girl shouted behind them, followed by her servants, but didn’t catch up with them in the end.
Seeing that no one came after them, Yujie and Qu Le changed their direction and came out. This time, both of them were very cautious, for fear that they would encounter the rude and unreasonable Miss again. Fortunately, the two of them had lived in the Yuhui Nunnery for a long time, so they were familiar with some paths and shortcuts. This time, they specifically chose those remote paths.
Yujie was worried, so she specially sent Qu Le to the gate of the nunnery. After watching Qu Le go down the mountain, she went back to the nunnery and went to Mingqiu Nun’s place.
Mingqiu Nun had accepted another two disciples, Huixian and Huiding, in the Yuhui Nunnery. Both of them were the members of the Hui generation. Huixian, who was older, was the senior, and Huiding, who was younger, was the junior. They helped Mingqiu Nun manage the affairs on the mountain.
Just as Yujie arrived at the courtyard, she saw Huixian and Huiding standing at the door of the courtyard with a worried look. Yujie hurriedly stepped forward and asked, “Reverend nuns, I heard that someone came to visit Mingqiu Nun. Has he left now?”
“He hasn’t left yet. I don’t know what’s going on and why he hasn’t left yet!” Hearing Yujie’s question, the younger Huiding Nun, who was impetuous, reached out to point to the yard and said.
Yujie cautiously approached the door of the courtyard and looked inside. When she saw what was going on inside, she almost burst into laughter.
The man sitting at the stone table in the yard was indeed the Doctor Qi she knew. However, Doctor Qi, who had always been graceful, looked a little embarrassed now. He was wet all over, as if someone had poured a basin of water on him. He did look in a mess.
However, dressed in such wet clothes, he was still in the mood to enjoy the tea and talk towards the silence room from time to time.
The door of the silence room was tightly closed, as if there were no one inside.
“Is, is Mingqiu Nun inside?” Yujie blinked her eyes, retracted her head and asked. She found it amusing, but she couldn’t show her emotion and could only pretend to be curious.
“Yes, Mingqiu Nun has been annoyed to death by him. I don’t know where he comes from. He’s brazen and shameless,” Huiding Nun said angrily.
“Junior Sister, don’t talk nonsense!” Huixian Nun rebuked her in a low voice.
“Senior Sister, look at this man. We’ve told him that master is going to meditate, but he refused to leave. He is really… What will others say about our master if they see the man…” Huiding stamped her feet and angrily. Looking at the little nun, Yujie suddenly thought of her experience on the mountain and felt Huiding dear to her.
Nevertheless, she had never encountered such an annoying thing when she was in the Jingxin Monastery.
“Can you ask the abbess to drive him away?” She thought for a moment and reminded them with a smile.
“No, I have told the abbess, but the abbess said that he’s a distinguished guest and we can’t drive him away!” Huiding said in an increasingly angry tone. She remembered that when she went to tell the abbess about it, the abbess didn’t meet her and just instructed a senior sister to reply. The abbess meant that they couldn’t mess with the distinguished guest.
Therefore, she couldn’t drag him away even if she wanted to.
“Let me go and have a look!” Yujie was going to leave, but she suggested after thinking for a while.
“Okay, okay, sorry to bother you, benefactor Yujie!” Huiding was overjoyed and thanked Yujie with her palms put together devoutly.
The two nuns knew Yujie and that she was the personal principal maid of the Fifth Miss of Duke Xing’s Mansion and had a good relationship with their master. Besides, it was said that she came from Jiangzhou like their master, so they must have a deeper connection. It would be best if she came forward to negotiate with the man. No matter who was the man inside, Yujie had Duke Xing’s Mansion and Rui’an Great Elder Princess’s Mansion as her backing anyway.
It was enough to make the “distinguished guest” inside not dare to offend her.
Yujie nodded and turned into the courtyard.
Doctor Qi was still talking in the courtyard when he heard someone behind him call, “Doctor Qi!”
He looked back and didn’t recognize Yujie at the moment. After looking her up and down a few times, he only felt that she looked a little familiar. He asked, “Which mansion do you work in? How do you know me?”
As Chu Liuchen’s personal doctor, he seldom got out of the mansion and met guests. Even when he went out, he only did his business as an ordinary servant of Prince Chen’s Mansion, so very few people knew his true identity.
“Doctor Qi, great wits have short memories. I’m a maid serving the Fifth Miss of Duke Xing’s Mansion. I have met you with my master before!”
Yujie bowed to him and said with a smile.
“The Fifth Miss Shao’s maid?” Doctor Qi asked. He certainly knew who the Fifth Miss Shao was and heard from Xiao Xuanzi that she was the internally decided Princess Chen. He had met her more than two years ago, but she was very young at that time. It was said that this time his master came to the Yuhui Nunnery for her.
“Exactly!” Yujie said with a smile.
“Does the Fifth Miss send you here?” Doctor Qi asked with a smile. He, who was drenched all over, acted as if he didn’t know he was in a very embarrassing situation and stirred a strand of hair on his forehead backward.
“I’m not sent here by my master, but come here because I happen to need to talk to Mingqiu Nun. Doctor Qi, you actually don’t look very good at the moment. Mingqiu Nun is quite straightforward. If you insist on staying here with this look, she will definitely become increasingly angry.” Yujie reached out to point at Doctor Qi’s wet clothes and said.
“You stay here with this look. Those aware of the situation think that you don’t want to change your clothes, but those unaware of the situation may think that you intend to frame Mingqiu Nun by drenching yourself. If the pilgrims see this, it will be disgraceful and tarnish Mingqiu Nun’s reputation. She just puts up at the Yuhui Nunnery for a short stay, so she, who came from Jiangzhou is less close to the original nuns in the nunnery. If you insist on doing this…”
Yujie reached out to cover her nose with a handkerchief in some disgust and took a step back. She didn’t finish her words, but had made her thought clear.
Doctor Qi was stunned for a moment. It seemed that he didn’t expect Mingqiu Nun to live such a difficult life in the Yuhui Nunnery. He hesitated for a moment and stood up.
“Junior Sister, I’m leaving now.” After saluting towards the closed door of the silence room with joined hands, he reluctantly turned around and walked out.
Despite his wet clothes, Doctor Qi became the arrogant man Yujie had seen in Prince Chen’s Mansion again. At the sight of this, Yujie blinked and said to herself, “Junior Sister?”
As her master expected, there was something between Mingqiu Nun and Doctor Qi. She had been Mingqiu Nun’s disciple for so many years, but she had never heard Mingqiu Nun mention that she had a senior brother. Was Doctor Qi Mingqiu Nun’s senior brother?
Seeing that Doctor Qi finally left, the two nuns at the door were overjoyed. They hurriedly came in and pulled Yujie back to the door, for fear of disturbing Mingqiu Nun. After that, they thanked Yujie profusely.
Looking at the tightly closed silence room, Yujie knew that Mingqiu Nun might not want to meet anyone at this moment. So she didn’t disturb her, and left after chatting with the two nuns for a while.
Without Qu Le around and a painting in her hand, Yujie didn’t hide herself and went to the place, where the girl had fallen, naturally. Along the way, she inquired about whether there were any pilgrims falling. However, every nun she met shook their heads and said that there was no such thing.
When she came to the place, where the girl had fallen, it was very quiet with no one else around.
She looked around, only to find a small hall. In fact, it was located around the edge of the Yuhui Nunnery. Large halls were located on the axis of the periphery of the Yuhui Nunnery. Only some small halls, where some little known Buddhas were worshiped, were located around the side gate.
The small hall didn’t attract as many pilgrims as those large halls and was located at the edge of the nunnery. People seldom come there, so it was a remote place.
Yujie and Qu Le were just maids and found it convenient to take a shortcut, so they often liked to go out through here.
In this small hall was a statue of a Buddha, whose name even Yujie couldn’t tell. When she was in Jingxin Monastery, there was definitely no such statue.
Yujie walked in, only to find a small Buddha statue and an altar with some incense and candles on it. The incense was lit up, while the candles were not. Obviously because no one came here, they didn’t light up the candles in case of a waste of candles.
A young nun in the Yuhui Nunnery had told Yujie that it was enough to light up a few sticks of incense in such small halls and there was no need to light up candles.
Yujie raised her head to look at the statue. It was a ferocious-looking statue with an object seeming like a writing brush or a fork in its hand stepping on a creature seeming like a fish. Besides these, she could see nothing else.
After looking at it for a while, Yujie went out and walked back. It was an accident, and she didn’t take it seriously. It was just that an insolent Miss blamed others for her falling and was too embarrassed to make it significant later because she couldn’t find them.
Unexpectedly, she thought it just an ordinary encounter, but in fact, it was not…