"What happened to grandma?" Qu Moying took the sachet, but didn't rush to open it. She looked at the lady and asked.
She knew the lady and felt there was something wrong with the Buddhist beads hanging in her hand.
"It's nothing, we just collided with a carriage. Fortunately, nothing happened." The lady smiled and explained.
"How did they bump into each other? Was it our family that bumped into someone else, or someone else's?" Qu Moying asked hurriedly, pulling the old lady's hand, worried that something might have happened to her and he was not paying attention.
"It's ours." The lady sighed.
When talking about this incident, the lady still feels scared. She had no idea that her carriage would suddenly lose control and crash into the carriage diagonally opposite. Fortunately, the carriage diagonally opposite was not going fast, and her carriage only lost control for a moment, otherwise it would have been a real accident.
The day after Qu Moying's wedding, the lady finally breathed a sigh of relief and wanted to fulfill her wish.
What happened on the day of delivering the dowry scared the old lady half to death. She made a wish alone in the small Buddhist temple in the mansion, and kept saying that if Qu Moying got married safely, she would go and fulfill her wish.
Look, on the first day after getting married, the lady was thinking about this matter. She felt that she had told the Bodhisattva that she must fulfill her vow, and it was better to do it sooner rather than later.
In order to fulfill a vow for Qu Moying, the lady originally wanted to go to Dabei Temple, but was persuaded by Qu Zhizhen, who said that Qu Moying had just gotten married, and it would not be good for the lady to go to Dabei Temple in such a high-profile manner, as there were a lot of rumors outside, so it would be better to keep a low profile at this time.
He also said that if she really wanted to go, she had to find someone to accompany her. Qu Zhizhen was worried about her going alone.
The lady thought about it and realized that this made sense, so there was no need to go to the Great Compassion Temple. It was enough to just show her intention to the Bodhisattva.
So I found a temple that was closer to the city gate. Although that place was not as good as the royal temple of Dabei Temple, it was also very famous in the vicinity. I also heard that it was also a branch of Dabei Temple. Monks from Dabei Temple would come from time to time, and the incense was very prosperous.
For some people living nearby who don't want to travel so far to the Dabei Temple, this is the best place to go.
As for the selection of candidates, the Madam originally wanted to bring Mrs. Luo, but unexpectedly Mrs. Luo had something to do that day, so she asked Miss Zhou Er to accompany the Madam on this trip.
So the lady took my nanny and Miss Zhou Er and went there early in the morning.
Because there was an old lady in the carriage, Qu Zhizhen repeatedly reminded the old lady to be careful and to drive the carriage slower when he saw her off.
Later, when the two carriages collided, no one knew what happened. After the lady came to her senses, the coachman had already stopped the carriage, but the carriage on the opposite side was knocked to the ground.
There was a pair of sisters in the carriage. The older one hit her head on the wall and fainted on the spot. The younger one was only eleven or twelve years old and cried helplessly.
I asked them and they said they came to Beijing to live with their relatives, but they couldn't find any relatives at the moment and were thinking about where to stay temporarily, but they didn't expect to encounter such a disaster.
The lady felt sorry for the two sisters and brought them home as the incident was their own fault.
"In our house now?" Qu Moying asked in surprise.
"Yes, in our house." The lady nodded and sighed, "It's pitiful. There are only two of them. Both their parents are gone. The elder one has never married.
She was about 20 years old and good looking, what a pity."
"Then... what should we do next?" Qu Moying raised his eyebrows and asked.
"What else can we do? Let them recover from their injuries. Anyway, we have many courtyards in our house. We can lend them a place at the back door for them to stay temporarily until they find their relatives." The lady was quite helpless. "The older one has injured his leg. It will take a while for him to recover."
"Is the injury so serious?" Qu Moying asked in surprise.
"It's very serious. It will take a hundred days to heal the broken bones. And the younger one depends on his sister." The old lady was also helpless. She didn't want this to happen. It's not that she was unkind, but sometimes such things were really hard to say. There were already enough things going on in her own house, so it's better to have less trouble than more.
If they hadn't been knocked unconscious, the lady wouldn't have brought the two sisters to her house.
"Did grandma get this string of Buddhist beads at that time?" Qu Moying's gaze fell on the Buddhist beads in the old lady's hand. The faint sandalwood scent showed that they were not new.
"I went to a temple to ask for it. There happened to be a famous monk staying there, so I went to listen. It made a lot of sense. After talking to the monk for a while, the monk gave me this string of Buddhist beads and this amulet, saying that he had visited many temples and had many monks bless them."
The lady finally showed a hint of smile on her face and pushed the amulet towards Qu Moying again, "Open it and have a look."
Qu Moying opened the small incense bag and took out a peace amulet from it. There were some incomprehensible symbols drawn on it. It was very small against a brown background.
There is also a small mark at the corner, which looks like some Buddhist symbols. It looks like a word but not a word, and like a symbol but I can't understand it. The difference is that in the last stroke, the color changes from black to dark brown, and then to an inconspicuous dark red.
This is a shallow talisman. I don’t know if there is some special reason. Qu Moying took a look at it but couldn’t see anything.
"Just hang it around your neck. I heard this amulet is very good." The lady looked at the amulet with satisfaction.
"Grandma knows this is great?" Qu Moying asked in surprise.
"I have heard of this monk before, but he is not always in the capital. He goes to other temples from time to time. There are legends about him in the capital, but it is rare to actually see him. He may be there today, but not necessarily in the same place tomorrow. He often does not stay in a temple for a long time."
Talking about this monk, the lady felt much better.
"This monk was originally from the capital, and then left the capital several times?" Qu Moying became more and more curious, his long eyelashes fluttering twice, and continued to ask.
"Yes, there are always some differences between a master who has attained the Tao. I heard that he comes back every few years. Some say he lives in the capital, while others say he is from the Jiangnan area. It's hard to say, but many people know him." The lady introduced him to her granddaughter with a smile, "I didn't expect that I would have the fate to meet a master when I just went to a temple. I'm really lucky."
"Just wear this amulet! The master said he only has a few of these amulets, and he gave me one because he and my grandmother got along so well."
"Thank you, Grandmother." Qu Moying said with a smile, "I troubled Miss Zhou Er that day. I hope Miss Zhou Er wasn't scared?"
"Why weren't you scared
, I was also scared. You young people are not very brave. Miss Zhou Er was the last one to get off the carriage. She was also very tired when she arrived at the temple. I asked her to rest in the incense room. Then I took my nanny out for a walk and met the monk. "
The lady was glad that she did not rest with them at that time, otherwise she would have missed it.
The eminent monk did not preach for long, and he took a break not long after he entered the temple. Later, the young monks in the temple also said that the eminent monk would leave in two days, probably to stay in another temple. As for where he would go, the master did not say, and the young monks did not know either.
Just go with the flow. If we meet again, it is fate. If we don’t meet again, it is karma.
"Ms. Zhou Er is so enthusiastic. Did my aunt encounter any unexpected incident that day?" Qu Moying smiled and looked at Luo, who had calmed down by now.
"What the princess said is true. I was supposed to go with your grandmother, but something happened with your eldest brother before that... Miss Zhou Er happened to be there, so I asked her what she thought. Miss Zhou Er also wanted to go and worship the Buddha, so she went with your mother."
Luo explained hurriedly, her words were a little vague, and when she saw Qu Moying looking at her, her smile was a little forced. At just one glance, Qu Moying knew that there was something wrong.
But now is not the time to talk about this. Since the aunt is unwilling to say it directly, she must not want her to know. For now, she can only pretend that she knows nothing.
When she entered the mansion just now, she had already brought Nanny Miao in. Now she should go and chat with her "old sisters". When she was in the mansion before, Nanny Miao was the one who was best-informed.
It was a bit strange. She had just married into Minister Qu's mansion, and in just three days, many things seemed to have happened that she didn't know about. How could it be such a coincidence
After chatting with the lady for a while, he ordered the meal to be served. Since there were only a few people and they were all family members, there was no distinction between men and women.
Directly at one seat.
There are three in the big room, two in the second room, plus the lady-in-waiting and Pei Yuanjun, so one table is just right.
Pei Yuanjun behaved very gently today. His movements were calm and his lazy smile was a bit languid, but he was a little more domineering. However, he was very respectful to the old lady. The old lady became more and more satisfied as she watched him. She would ask a few more questions from time to time, and Pei Yuanjun's answers were always to the old lady's liking.
The lady had been worried that Qu Moying would feel wronged when she entered the Prince of England's palace. At that time, she had guessed that she would be at most a concubine. Unexpectedly, she is now not only the principal wife, but also the Prince of England seems to love his little granddaughter very much. She couldn't help but feel very happy and drank a little wine while being so happy.
After a while, he couldn't handle the alcohol anymore.
Qu Moying and Luo accompanied the lady downstairs to rest, and Qu Minghui also found a reason to leave. Although this brother-in-law did not look murderous, he could not bear his aura. He always felt that the pressure was too great, and he even had difficulty breathing when sitting next to him.
He just left the table and went to see the lady. She was already asleep and there was nothing for him to do. He was worried and had nowhere to go for the moment, so he simply turned around and thought of going to the study. Unexpectedly, just after turning around a rockery, he saw a young girl with a maid coming towards him. She had dry eyes and looked very pitiful and beautiful.
When she saw Qu Minghui, her eyes lit up, she turned around, and greeted him with surprise: "Cousin, are you... coming to see me?"