Glory all the way

Chapter 147
"Siran is the one who is truly blessed."

In the east side hall of Yongle Palace, Lin Zhimei looked at the small clothes, hats, shoes and socks spread out on the bed, and there was some lingering sadness in her eyes, and her words were mixed with endless envy.

She used to sew these small clothes and shoes for the child in her belly, but now they are no longer needed, so she plans to give them to the sixth princess.

"You are still at a flowery age. There will always be children. Just relax and take good care of your body. Don't think too much. No one in this huge palace knows His Royal Highness's love for you. Therefore, everything depends on the future That's right."

Bai Yingluo was sitting by the bed, holding a small shoe in her hand and playing with it.Seeing what Lin Zhimei said, Bai Yingluo persuaded her softly.

Lin Zhimei broke into a smile and nodded to Bai Yingluo, "You are right, everything depends on the future."

After that, Lin Zhimei pointed to the things on the bed and asked Bai Yingluo, "Tell me, would it be unlucky for her to give these to Si Ran? Shall I sew a few more?"

The implication is that these little clothes in front of him were all prepared for his previous child, but that child died young, and it was a bit unlucky to even carry these things.

Bai Yingluo shook her head and smiled, "You think too much. It's not like you don't know the Sixth Princess' temperament. She is the most free and easy, so she doesn't think so much. Knowing that you sewed it by yourself, it's too late for her to be happy. .”

Tilting her head and thinking for a while, Lin Zhimei nodded in satisfaction, turned around and folded up each piece, and handed it to the maid beside her to put it away.

After talking for a while, Bai Yingluo left the palace.

In the blink of an eye, it was already April, and Bai Yingluo checked the prepared gifts several times, and secretly worried, should she ask her aunt to pass a sign into the palace, so that she would have the opportunity to bring the things into Ninghua Palace, so that Yao Huabang sorted it out by himself, and handed over all the chariots and horses of the House of Internal Affairs to the Sixth Princess when they went to Da'an in the future.

Before Bai Yingluo could think of a proper solution, the servants of the East Palace came to deliver a message, Concubine Lin invited Bai Yingluo into the palace to talk.

Taking this opportunity, Bai Yingluo was able to hand things over to Yaohua.

The carriage swayed, and Bai Yingluo leaned against a corner of the carriage, remembering what Lin Zhimei had said to herself just now, she couldn't help but sighed a few times.

In June last year, Lin Zhimei had a miscarriage, and it has been more than ten months since now.

But every time she mentioned that miscarriage, Lin Zhimei felt lingering fear.

Seeing that she was in a bad mood, Bai Yingluo even comforted her that there would be many children in the future, but Lin Zhimei shook her head with a light smile, and said, "Whether it's a legitimate son or a legitimate daughter, it should come from the crown princess." It's right to be on your knees."

At that time, she felt that Lin Zhimei had already realized how powerful the princess was, but when she thought about it now, Bai Yingluo suddenly realized that Lin Zhimei didn't want any accidents when she got pregnant again.

Although it is rare for concubines/concubines to give birth smoothly, if they are pregnant before the empress of the palace, the risk of miscarriage will undoubtedly increase a lot.

Just like Lin Zhimei's previous miscarriage, everyone in the capital knew that the incident probably had nothing to do with the princess, but there was no evidence, even Lin Zhimei herself could only knock out teeth and swallow blood. I think I am unlucky.

But now, she has really thought it through. From the day she was hired as the side concubine of the Crown Prince of the East Palace, she was doomed not to be ahead of the Crown Princess in everything, especially the matter of the heir.

In a few days, I heard that at the night banquet in Shoukang Palace, the Crown Princess said something that offended the Crown Prince. The Crown Prince immediately turned cold, saluted the Empress Dowager and then left the main hall, giving the Crown Princess shame in public.

Whether this matter had anything to do with Lin Zhimei, Bai Yingluo didn't know, but the next day, she heard that Lin Zhimei had invited her to the Qingning Hall to worship the Buddha and meditate, and copied Buddhist scriptures to pray for the Empress Dowager.

Whether it was the Crown Princess' warning, or Lin Zhimei's self-protection method, since that day, Bai Yingluo has never heard any news about Lin Zhimei, and Beiningbo Mansion has become quiet for an instant.

However, after several visits to Jing'an Hou Mansion, Mrs. Beining's complexion is still as good as before, and Old Madam Bai and Mrs. Xue are also relieved.

On the twelfth day of the fourth lunar month, a group of chariots and horses drove out of the palace, out of the city gate, and headed towards Da'an Kingdom.

In the Lanxin Pavilion, Bai Yingluo was sincerely happy for the sixth princess when she thought that in a month, the sixth princess would receive the longing for her and the expectation of the newborn from everyone in the capital.

Yawning, Bai Yingluo was about to turn over and sleep for a while, when there was a sound of footsteps in the yard, and then Liusu came in and said, "Miss, the old lady invites you to come over."

At lunch time, I saw my grandmother looking a bit sleepy, and now hearing her transmission, Bai Yingluo's expression couldn't help becoming flustered, and as she got up and dressed, Bai Yingluo asked eagerly: "What's the matter? How is grandma's health, did you invite a doctor?"

"Miss, please don't be in a hurry. Sister Qiuwen said that it's nothing to do. The old lady wants to go out of the house to relax, so she sent you over. Maybe she wanted to take you with her."

The older a person is, the more he looks like a child. Nowadays, the old lady Bai is willing to take Bai Yingluo with her wherever she goes, and she has to repeat it several times when she doesn't see her for a long time. Hou also jokingly said that the old lady no longer recognizes anyone except Bai Yingluo.

But also because of this, the second wife and Bai Yingyun babbled a lot of words with some annoyance.

Quickly rushed to Qing'an hall, in the main room, the old doctor who often came to see old lady Bai was checking her pulse, Bai Yingluo smiled at her grandmother, then walked into the inner room.

In the room, Qiuyue and other maidservants who were close to her were packing up the box.

"Where is grandma going?"

Bai Yingluo asked in surprise.

Qiuyue shook her head, pursed her lips and said with a smile: "Miss Six will have to ask the old lady later, the old lady made it up on the spur of the moment, and we refused to tell anyone who asked her, the eldest lady was in a hurry, saying that the old lady was not in good health, Unable to bear the bumps, no, the old lady asked the housekeeper to invite a doctor to check the pulse, and she is afraid that as long as the doctor says there is nothing serious, she will go out immediately."

Bai Yingluo also laughed.

After a while, there was noise in the outer room, after Bai Yingluo went out for a while, Mrs. Xue also came.

"Doctor, how is it?"

Xue looked at the old doctor earnestly and asked.

While closing the pulse pillow, the old doctor replied to Mrs. Xue: "Madam, don't worry. The old lady is fine. Maybe it's because she's been worrying too much these days and wasting her mind. It's good to rest for a few days. I Here are a few prescriptions, and it will be fine after a few days of recuperation."

"Look, I'll just say it's okay, you must listen."

Looking at Mrs. Xue resentfully, the old lady Bai turned around and asked the doctor: "Maybe you are traveling far away?"

"Distant door?"

The old doctor looked at the old lady Bai suspiciously, with some disapproval on his face, as if he felt that the old man should not run around and suffer as he pleases when he is old.

The old lady Bai explained: "It's not too far away, just go to Kuhan Temple for a few days."

"Bitter Cold Temple? That's really a good place to go. If the old lady goes there to recuperate her body and listen to scriptures to relax her mind, that would be the best."

The old doctor came back to his senses, and couldn't help but stroked his beard and laughed.

"So you plan to go to pay respects to the Buddha. The wife will send someone to prepare the chariot and horses. I will take you to the Bitter Cold Temple in the morning and come back in the evening. How about you?"

Xue Shi discussed it.

The old lady Bai waved her hand, "When I woke up early, I discussed with the old man that we would go to live in the Kuhan Temple for a while, and we will leave after taking a nap in a while, so you go and give orders, and we won't wait until tomorrow."

The old lady Bai said that once she said it, she said it once. These days, everyone in the Hou Mansion has already gotten used to it.

Seeing that the old lady had made up her mind, Mrs. Xue didn't say any more, and hurriedly went out to give orders.

After Mrs. Xue left, the old lady Bai asked Bai Yingluo with a smile, "Sister Luo, would you like to accompany grandma to live in Kuhan Temple for a while?"

As the name suggests, life in Kuhan Temple is the most difficult, but the abbot there is very good at explaining scriptures. Old people from rich families in the capital often go to Kuhan Temple to listen to his lectures. Over time, Kuhan Temple has a special hospitality for foreigners You can stay in the house and discuss scriptures with the abbots in the temple.

Although Bai Yingluo is a girl, it doesn't matter if she goes with her grandparents, but the old lady is afraid that the life there is too boring, and Bai Yingluo will not be used to it if she goes there.

Unexpected, but Bai Yingluo was very willing.

The grandparent and grandson hit it off immediately, and Bai Yingluo hurriedly ordered Liusu and Liuying to go back to the house to pack a few changes of clothes and things to bring.

At the second quarter of Shen Shi, two carriages drove out from the alleyway of Jing'an Marquis Mansion. When the sky was full of sunset, three soft sedan chairs were carried to the top of the mountain and stopped in front of the gate of Kuhan Temple.

Kuhan Temple is huge in scale, and now it seems to have become the most famous temple outside the capital.

Among them, the most unique thing about Kuhan Temple is that once everyone goes up the mountain and enters the scope of Kuhan Temple, all living beings are equal, without the complicated rules in the capital.

It is said that once when Emperor Jiayuan came to visit in disguise, although someone recognized him, the people in the temple did not come out to pick him up in fear, but treated them like any tourist who came to worship the Buddha. Emperor Jiayuan did not get angry, Before leaving, he left a poem under the bodhi tree in the temple, praising Kuhan Temple.

Since then, Bitter Cold Temple has enjoyed a great reputation in the Song Dynasty, and anyone who travels to the capital will definitely visit Bitter Cold Temple.

Outside the gate of the temple, the well-arranged stones and pines and cypresses look messy from a distance, but when you get close, you feel that every stone and tree are so harmonious, as if the heaven and the earth were created in this way.

Entering the gate of the temple, facing the crowd, is the solemn main hall, and the side halls on the east and west sides are also full of majestic or happy gods and Buddhas, but the courtyard is empty, which makes people feel a little uncomfortable .

In the main hall, there is the Tathagata Buddha with his precious appearance. Bai Yingluo followed the old lady Bai, knelt on the futon and kowtowed reverently. went, but the old lady Bai squinted at the woman who unwrapped the sign at the old abbot's place.

"Qiuwen, you go ask that lady, but she is from the He family in Lingnan?"

The old lady Bai was thinking for a long time, she seemed to have no idea, she looked back at Qiu Wen and said.

(End of this chapter)