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Chapter 3 Good Causes and Good Results
As the sun slanted slightly, Xu Chunjun packed up his things and prepared to leave Pudu Temple.

She bid farewell to Mrs. Jingfan, put her palms together again and thanked: "It is thanks to Mrs. Lu's help this time. Mr. Chun is very grateful. This little bit of incense is really not enough to repay in case, but it is also a little bit of mine. Kindly, please accept it."

Ziling next to her was holding a silk bag in her hand, which contained 20 taels of silver.

"Miss Xu doesn't need to be like this," Jing Fan refused to accept, "The reason why I help you is not for this, but to end a relationship."

After hearing this, Xu Chunjun couldn't help asking: "Mr. Chun doesn't understand what the teacher said, so please explain it clearly."

Jingfan smiled slightly, with the unique indifference on his Qinghuang face: "It's okay to tell you. My lay surname is Niu, and my father was the magistrate of Mingzhou. He was punished for dereliction of duty back then, and it was just in time for the implementation of the New Deal. Many people advocated severe punishment. , and even sent all of us female family members into the army. Only Xu Shangshu said that dereliction of duty should be severely punished, but the disaster is not as good as his wife and daughter. Therefore, only my father was punished, and the rest were demoted to civilians. This is how we escaped. I remember this kindness, that's why I let you stay here and wait for my wife to come. It's not a poor nun boasting, and I would not even bother to promise gold and silver mountains if someone else did. So you don't have to be grateful, I just still It's just a favor from the Xu family."

This was really beyond Xu Chunjun's expectation, and he said slowly: "So that's how it is! The kindness returned by the wife has really helped my family a lot. Although it is the good cause planted by my grandfather, it is only because of your compassion that we can get married. Bring forth good fruits."

No matter what, she will always be grateful to Mrs. Jingfan.

"Miss Xu, you guys still have to go out of the city, so I'm not in vain." Jing Fan's brows were indifferent, with nothing to worry about.

"Master, please take care too. I will definitely come to see you again when I finish my work." Xu Chunjun bowed deeply, and all the servants behind her also bowed before leaving Pudu Nunnery and took a carriage out of the city go.

They wanted to go to Jialan Mountain, forty miles outside the city, before dark, so as to complete the first thing Mrs. Lu asked.

Xu Chunjun's two personal maids, Lvyu and Ziling, both followed her to Beijing this time, and Cheng's mother also came with her.

Mama Cheng is from Xu Chunjun's third aunt, Xu Lang's house. She is originally from the capital. Although she has been away from Beijing for ten years, she is more familiar with the capital than others, and she is stable and worthy of entrustment.

Lvzhen was simple-minded, but asked curiously: "Girl, I didn't ask many questions in the nunnery just now. Then why does Mrs. Lu want you to go to pray for Bodhisattva? Is this thing really effective?"

"It's Moyunding," Ziling corrected her softly: "We're going to stay at Jialan Mountain tonight, and we have to go up the mountain early tomorrow morning. We don't care if the thing works or not. In short, she asked the girl to ask, and we have to do it .”

Ever since Madam Lu asked Xu Chunjun to go to Moyunding to ask for Bodhisattva, Mother Cheng showed a sad face.

"Mother Cheng, what are you worried about?" Xu Chunjun asked her.

"Girl, do you know how to seek the Bodhisattva at Moyunding?" Mother Cheng couldn't help but sighed.

"I don't believe in Buddhism, so I really don't know." Xu Chunjun laughed.

"There have always been two roads to the Zhengguo Hall in Moyunding. One is the three thousand steps that go straight up and down. You can walk or take a sedan chair sliding pole." Cheng's mother said: "There is also a road of asceticism, which is a winding mountain. They are all vertical cobblestones, with a total of 99 steps."

"Since that's the case, let's pick up the ones that are easy to go," said Lvzhen, "Go early and ask Bodhizi to go down the mountain."

"Silly girl, I wish it were so easy," Cheng's mother sighed and shook her head, "If you want to seek Bodhi, you can only walk asceticly, and you must go barefoot. This is an old rule, and no one can change it."

"Then..." Ziling became anxious when she heard it: "How can it be done?! Our girl..."

She wanted to say how Xu Chunjun could endure such hardship, but she swallowed it in half.Because Xu Chunjun came out this time to save the second master Xu Daoan, this is a matter of life and death.

What's more, Cheng's mother is in the third aunt's room, so she should avoid suspicion.

"That's easy! I'll go for the girl." Lu Po said: "In short, just ask her for the bodhi seed."

"This matter is my responsibility, so naturally I have to go." Xu Chunjun was not in a hurry or annoyed. Although she was young, she was very clear-headed: "Although I didn't know that the road to Moyunding was so difficult, I thought I also know that this is definitely not an easy thing to do.”

"Girl is too honest, even if I go pretending to be you, who would know?" Lv Shu said.

"Don't give birth to such thoughts. Don't say that this matter is related to the safety of the second elder brother. You can't be careless. Just say that I have agreed to the affairs of Mrs. Lu's family, and I should fulfill my promise." Xu Chunjun also knew the way up the mountain. It must be a lot of suffering, but the opportunity to seek it from Mrs. Lu is even more rare. .

She must not come up with other ways to deal with it just because she is afraid of suffering and pain. All she can rely on now is the integrity of the seeker and Mrs. Lu's compassion.

"Then Mrs. Lu is very likely to secretly send someone to watch us, do you think she won't guard against us?" Zi Ling said.

"It's no wonder our aunt wanted to send the fifth girl out," Cheng's mother was very impressed: "It's just this insight and responsibility that no one else can compare."

"Is this Mrs. Lu the grandma of Hades who gave birth to her? Her heart is too cruel." Lu Shu couldn't help crying: "She is afraid of pain, so she refuses to go, so she asks our girl to go."

Ziling held Xu Chunjun's hand, without saying a word, just bowed her head and wept.

"Fifth Miss, I really fell in love with you." Cheng's mother felt very sorry, even though the Xu family was no longer the high-ranking Xu family, Xu Chunjun was still the master and miss.

People who go to Mount Yunding to ask for Bodhi seeds have to peel off their skin. This kind of pain is not comparable to being beaten or punished to kneel for several hours.

"She said she wanted our lady to complete three things, and now the first one is just tormenting people like this, and I don't know what the remaining two are!" Zi Ling was worried. Think more.

Mrs. Lu said that if she was to save Xu Daoan, Xu Chunjun had to accomplish three things, but she only explained the first one today, and did not say the rest.

In her words, if you can't even do the first thing, there is no need to know what the second and third things are.

At the foot of Jialan Mountain, there are people who come to worship Buddha all the year round, so there are also many inns. There are always twenty or thirty large and small on both sides of the street.

Xu Chunjun and the others chose a fairly clean place to live in, where only vegetarian dishes and rice were sold, so everyone ate steamed buns and vegetarian gluten for dinner, with side dishes and porridge.

Because they had to get up in the middle of the night, they all went to bed early.

(End of this chapter)