Chaos on the temples: You can't escape if you provoke treacherous ministers

Chapter 149 Meeting Liniang Again
It was dark at night, and there was no way forward.

A carriage was galloping on the official road, and it had been replaced by Zijin driving the carriage at this moment.

In the carriage, Jinyan put a soft pillow behind Liu Yunxiang, seeing that her complexion was getting worse and worse, she couldn't help asking worriedly: "Girl, do you want Zijin to stop the car and let you slow down for a while?"

Liu Yunxiang's stomach tightened, and he felt nausea again and again, coupled with the bumping of the car, it was even more uncomfortable, but he still shook his head when he heard the words, "No, tell Zijin to hurry up."

Aunt Yan was sitting beside her, reciting Buddhist scriptures with her eyes closed.It seemed as if all four things were empty, and everything in the world had nothing to do with her.

The carriage dared to stop in front of an ancestral hall hidden among layers of trees in the mountains when the dawn was approaching.

In her current situation, even if she really wanted to go north to find someone, she would have to give birth to the child before she could go on her way.And once she disappears, there will be many people looking for her, some forces in the palace, Dongchang, and court, so she has to hide for now.

And the main reason why she left with Aunt Yan was because here, she was out of the control of these people, and her life and death were her own and no one else's.

The ancestral hall Aunt Zhang pointed out to them, the ancestral hall of the Zhang family, is relatively hidden because it is in the mountains and forests, with few people.And she can send some things up every now and then, and when she is about to give birth, there are midwives in their village.

Liu Yunxiang got out of the carriage supported by Jinyan, looked at the ancestral hall in front of him, said it was an ancestral hall, more like two thatched cottages.

"Girl, wait outside, I'll go inside and clean it up." Jin Yan said.

As soon as she finished speaking, she heard a bang inside.

The three masters and servants looked at each other, and Zijin went in with his sword in hand.After turning around inside, Chong Jinyan nodded.

"Maybe it's a mouse or something."

Liu Yunxiang couldn't help getting goosebumps all over his body, "Then you clean it up."

Jinyan smiled, "Yes, the servant knows."

This ancestral hall is not dirty or messy, it should be that the Zhang family came up to the mountain occasionally to worship and clean it.There are many spirit cards in the open room at the entrance, and there is a room on the west side with a kang inside. Aunt Zhang said it was for the descendants of the Zhang family who went hunting in the mountains to spend the night.

She handed over the business of the grain store to Zhang Qi, and many young and middle-aged men in the village worked with him, so they stopped hunting for a living, and everyone's life was getting better and better.

Zijin went to find dry firewood, burned the kang with smoke, cleaned the two rooms inside and outside, spread bedding on the kang, waited for the kang to heat up and the smoke dissipated, and then let Liu Yunxiang in.

There is a shed outside the ancestral hall, which is used for cooking.

I haven't been here for a long time, and I don't know if there are any cooks inside. Jinyan didn't have any hope, but when I went in, I found that there were all there, and it was very... clean.

Could it be that someone has come to the ancestral hall for dinner these two days?

Without thinking too much, Jinyan took a bag of rice from the carriage and started cooking.

The meal at noon is simple, a plate of green vegetables, a plate of pastrami slices, and rice.

The western room is warm, and the dining table is placed there, so it is convenient for Liu Yunxiang to eat with them.Although the place is dilapidated, eating here is much more reassuring than eating at home. After all, there are not so many eyeliners outside to stare at their words and deeds.

A few people were eating when they suddenly heard a cry, like a child's cry, but they couldn't hear it any more.

"Could it be...a mouse?" Jinyan raised her eyebrows.

As soon as she finished speaking, there was another cry, sharp at first, and then whimpering, as if her mouth was covered when she was crying vigorously.

Zijin hurriedly got up and walked towards the place where the sound came from. It was an east wall hung with dusty coarse cloth.Zijin opened it with his sword, and there was a secret door behind.

Zijin looked back at Liu Yunxiang, and then tapped with the hilt of his sword.

There was no movement inside, no crying.

Liu Yunxiang gave a dry cough, and said to Zijin, "Perhaps I misheard, come back."

Zijin responded, then turned around and walked back, walked a few steps, stopped, and continued to stare at the secret door.

After a while, the door opened slowly, and a woman ran out with a child in her arms.But Zijin jumped up and blocked the door.

The woman panicked and hurriedly begged for mercy: "I beg you kind-hearted people to have pity, I was living outside with my child, it was freezing cold, and I really had nowhere to go, so I stayed in your family's ancestral hall for a few days."

The child in the woman's arms was only seven or eight months old, crying in her arms, as if extremely hungry.

The woman's hair was disheveled, covering her face, but her voice was still somewhat familiar.Liu Yunxiang looked at Jinyan, Jinyan also noticed it, got up and walked towards the woman.

Walking up to him, tilting his head to look, he couldn't help saying in surprise: "Aunt Li!"

As soon as the woman got excited, she subconsciously wanted to run away, but was blocked by the quilt.

"Aunt Li, it's us." Jinyan said helplessly.

Aunt Li killed Xie Zixuan, and their girls felt sorry for Brother Dong and told her to run away with the child.As a matter of fact, Lord Hou didn't report to the officials, it was too ugly to spread the news, and the Hou's mansion was stripped of his title afterward, which caused troubles, so he only asked the guards at home to hunt him down for a few days, and it was fine if he didn't find anyone.

But obviously Aunt Li was afraid of being caught, so she fled and hid outside, and her life was really hard.

Aunt Li raised her head and saw Jinyan, she was taken aback for a moment, then turned her head to look at the West Room, saw Liu Yunxiang, she breathed a sigh of relief, and then collapsed to the ground.

There is a very narrow dark room behind the secret door. There is no sunlight in it, and it is damp and cold.Liniang spread a layer of hay on the ground, which was where she and her son lived.

Jinyan went in and took a look, it was really not a place for people to live.

At this time, Liniang was sitting at the dining table with the child in her arms, and she desperately stuffed food into her mouth to feed her son, both mother and child were very hungry.

After dinner, Jinyan told Aunt Li about the fact that the Hou Mansion did not report to officials. Aunt Li was overjoyed at first, and then cried again, holding her son and weeping very sadly.

"I was confused at the time, why did I kill him?"

"I regret it, I really regret it."

"If he was still there, my son and I wouldn't be like this."

It's really not easy for a woman to bring a child, but it's a bit sad to pin her hopes on a scumbag.Of course, she didn't sympathize with Liniang's misery, she just saw that Brother Dong was already seven or eight months old, but he was too thin and coughed all the time, so he might not be able to support him.

She is also going to be a mother, and it is really uncomfortable to watch.

"Why don't you go back to your hometown?" Liu Yunxiang asked.

Liniang wiped away tears, "It's a long journey, and I'm penniless..."

Liu Yunxiang glanced at Brother Kang again, sighed, and said to Jinyan: "Give her some money."

"Girl!" Jinyan was unwilling.

Liu Yunxiang caressed her stomach, "It should be a blessing for this child."

Jinyan turned around, took out a bank note from her inner pocket, and gave it to Li Niang with a dark face.

"How did you treat my girl before, and how does my girl treat you now? If you have a conscience, you will pray for my girl and the little master when you go to the temple."

Liniang took the banknote and knelt down to Liu Yunxiang with the child in her arms.

He said words of gratitude, but out of the corner of his eye, he caught sight of several soft little jackets piled up in the bundle on the kang.

Her brother Kang's coat was torn, his hands and feet were cold, and he cried from the cold, especially at night, crying all night.

Her heart was broken.

(End of this chapter)