Mistress

Chapter 75

Qing'er blushed, "I'm a little chilly today, so... I wore a little more." In order to hide more valuables, she purposely wore loose clothes, and then wrapped a lot of gold and jade gadgets around her body.

Only the first layer of the three-layer food box is dedicated to offerings, while the second and third layers are all precious jewelry and treasures from the Chengyuan Palace.

Qi'er took the bag off Qing'er's shoulders, "You can't take it down, I'll help you with this." Qi'er inadvertently squeezed the bag with her hands, "Why do you need to bring clothes when you go to Ziyin Temple?"

Qing'er had already thought of a reason, "If the empress accidentally soiled her clothes outside, shouldn't she change it?"

Qi'er listened and smiled, without any doubts.

Li Yan sat in an eight-carriage sedan chair, while Cui Mama, Qi'er, and Qing'er walked on both sides of the sedan chair, followed by two lines of teams.When they came outside the palace city, they got into the carriage, Li Yan asked Qing'er to sit in the same carriage with her, and Nanny Cui and Qi'er sat in the carriage behind.

After Qi'er got into the carriage behind, she said with some taste: "Your Majesty seems to be very close to Qing'er these two days, does your Majesty not like me anymore?"

Mother Cui didn't take it seriously, "How could it be, the empress valued you more before, but you will soon be the wife of the Great General Protecting the Nation, and the empress thinks it's not good to use you as a palace maid anymore, the empress thinks highly of you. "

After hearing this, Qi'er felt reasonable and felt much more at ease.

Ziyin Temple is located on the outskirts of the capital, although it is not too far away, but the carriage moved forward slowly, and did not run, so that it was already half morning when we arrived at Ziyin Temple.

After getting off the carriage, Qing'er became nervous, sprained her foot while walking, and almost dropped the big food box to the ground.Li Yan was sweating from her shock, but fortunately Ma Xing had already arrived, so Li Yan asked Ma Xing to follow her into Ziyin Temple with a food box.

Qing'er felt uncomfortable with empty hands, so she took the bundle from Qi'er's hand.Qi'er didn't care, thinking that Qing'er was upset because she almost dropped the food box just now.

After entering the Ziyin Temple, Li Yan offered incense and kowtowed devoutly. She just silently begged the Bodhisattva to protect Xu Jing's soul, and she didn't mention her own affairs at all. In addition, she asked Qing'er to stuff two Golden curly.

The abbot next to him saw Huang Cancan's golden scorpion, and was very excited. Knowing that he had met a nobleman, he treated Li Yan with extra enthusiasm, asked her to sit in the backyard, and said that he would personally place a lottery for Li Yan to draw. And I would like to explain the signature for her in detail.

Li Yan told Nanny Cui and Qi'er to stop, and only let Qing'er follow. Ma Xing placed the first layer of offerings in front of the altar, then slipped to the backyard door with the big food box, and completed all the joint matters .

Although he felt that the food box was unbelievably heavy, he didn't dare to open it to take a look. It was the empress's stuff, how could he just open it and look at it at will.

The abbot's enthusiasm was a bit too much, and he walked around for a long time while explaining the signing language to Li Yan. It was indeed a detailed explanation, but Li Yan didn't care to listen at all.

When Qing'er was beside her, her face was flushed, her chest heaved and fell, her little heart was so nervous that it was about to jump out.

After finally waiting for the abbot to finish explaining, Li Yan told the abbot that she wanted to go out from the backyard, and the front door was too noisy. After hearing this, the abbot kindly took her to the small door in the backyard.

Seeing Ma Xing and a carriage, Li Yan and Qing'er hurried up.

Li Yan took out two letters from her cuff, "Ma Xing, the yellow envelope is for the father-in-law, and the white envelope is for Su Bai. You should go back after noon and find a way to deliver the letter to Mr. them."

"Don't worry, ma'am, I'm now the deputy admiral of Chengtian Mansion, and these two letters can be delivered easily. Huh? Madam, it's understandable for you to ask me to bring a letter to the father-in-law, but Su Bai is in the palace." Here, isn't it easy for you to talk to him?" Ma Xing was still thinking that the empress must want to go out and play for a day or two, and her mind became confused after being excited for a while.

Li Yan smiled slightly, "Just send the letter well, don't ask too much. If you ask again, then I won't betroth Shuang'er to you."

Ma Xing smiled stupidly, "Yes, ma'am."

In front of the carriage, besides a coachman, there was also a policeman with a knife arranged by Ma Xing to protect Li Yan and Qing'er.

The coachman swung his whip and said "drive", and the horse ran forward.Li Yan said to the coachman through the curtain: "Hurry up the carriage!"

The coachman was still thinking, why is he in such a hurry just to go out for a drive?After thinking about it, he still whipped a big whip, and the horse galloped out.

Qing'er looked at Li Yan and wanted to cry, "Madam, once we leave, we will never..."

Li Yan covered her mouth and said: "I'll be back after two days of playing, and I just went to see my cousin. I don't know how she is doing recently."

Qing'er knew that Li Yan was afraid of suspicion from the coachman and the police, so she didn't let her speak.

Li Yan lifted the curtain and looked at the scene outside, gloomy, "Could it be raining?"

Qing'er couldn't control it, her eyes filled with tears, "Ma'am, this servant forgot to bring an umbrella, if it really rains, how can we do this?"

"It's okay, it may not really rain, maybe it will stop after a while." Li Yan was also disturbed by the gloomy sky. She thought it was a beautiful spring outside, and she was in a good mood, but she didn't expect to encounter cloudy rain just after leaving the palace. sky.

As soon as the words were finished, the raindrops fell and hit the roof of the carriage with a tick-tick.

Ma Xing ran to the front gate of the Ziyin Temple and told Nanny Cui and Qing'er to take all the people who followed them back, "Your Majesty wants to listen to the abbot's lecture on Buddhist scriptures inside, and you will come to pick her up in the evening."

After hearing this, Nanny Cui and Qier wanted to go in, but were stopped by Ma Xing, "My mother said, she wants to be quiet and quiet, and finally got a chance to get the abbot to teach her Buddhist scriptures in person. None of you are allowed in." Cui Nanny, I have already arranged people around here to protect my mother, so you take them and go back first."

The rain was getting heavier and heavier, so Nanny Cui and Qi'er had no choice but to get on the carriage and go back to the palace first.

After noon, Ma Xing started to deliver the letter, while Li Yan's carriage had only driven fifty miles forward. Seeing that the rain was getting heavier and heavier, the carriage couldn't run fast.

Qing'er cried and said, "Madam, what should we do, will we..."

Seeing Li Yan staring at her, she stopped crying, lowered her voice and whispered in a choked voice: "Will we be arrested, and then the servants will be beheaded, and the madam will... be locked up in the cold palace?"

Li Yan was also very anxious, she blamed herself for being too anxious and had to leave the palace today.She opened the curtain and looked out again, and saw several villages not far away, so she called to stop the driver, "Take us to that village, where I have an old friend, I can go to her to have some food." Something to shelter from the rain."

The driver and the policeman were blinded by the rain, because they were sitting outside. Hearing what Li Yan said, they rushed to the entrance of the village.

When we arrived at the entrance of the village, Li Yan called to stop and said, "Go to Ge Town and wait for us. I don't know when the rain will stop. Maybe we will stay at my old friend's house at night. Her house is small. No more than so many people, when the rain stops, my old friend will drive the donkey cart to take the two of us to Ge Town."

Li Yan and Qing'er jumped out of the carriage, and the coachman pulled up the curtain and covered himself on the roof, so that he could finally avoid the rain, and he continued to move forward, waving his whip.The policeman also jumped down, Li Yan thought he was going to sit behind to shelter from the rain, but he didn't expect him to follow behind her and Qing'er.

"Brother, don't follow us. We are all women. It's not good for you to follow alone. You and the coachman go to Ge Town and wait." Li Yan took out a silver ingot from her sleeve pocket as she said.

Although the catcher was skilled, he was not smart. Hearing what Li Yan said, he ran to catch up with the carriage and jumped on it.

The carriage left, the rain had already drenched Li Yan and Qing'er, but Qing'er burst into tears.

"Oh, why are you crying, let's go into the village quickly!" Li Yan dragged Qing'er and ran into the village.

Qing'er couldn't run with the big food box in her hand and her backpack, so Li Yan had to carry the big food box by herself.

Qing'er ran and stopped suddenly, "Ma'am, didn't you enter the village in front of you, why did you run in the opposite direction?"

"Stop talking nonsense and run with me!"

Running into a small village in the opposite direction, Li Yan saw a dilapidated earthen house not far away, which seemed to be unoccupied, so Li Yan pulled Qing'er into it.

Qing'er saw that there was not even a stool in this dilapidated room, only some hay was spread on the ground, a sense of desolation came over her, and she cried again, "Why did Madam let the carriage go, wouldn't it be great for us to go to Ge Town together?" Madam, do you really have any old friends around here?"

"You are stupid, there are old friends here, why should I drag you into this shabby house? Although I have already written to the emperor and my father, and I have written thousands of words expressively, telling them not to come Looking for me, but they may not really stop looking for me. If we have been riding in that carriage and they send people to chase after us, and they catch up in a few hours, wouldn't we be caught up in a while?"

Qing'er seemed to realize something, "Ge Zhen seems to be hundreds of miles away from here, so they will chase that carriage instead of us?"

Li Yan looked around and replied, "You're not too stupid."

"But... the coachman knows that we got off the car here, we can't walk very far now, won't we be caught back sooner or later?"

"We ran in the opposite direction. It's not so easy for them to come here to find us. But... we still have to move, it's not safe here." Li Yan took a few breaths, and then dragged Qing'er to run outside again.

There are only five families in this village, and there is a deep mountain behind. Li Yan dragged Qing'er into the deep mountain.

Qing'er was about to run away and collapsed, if it wasn't for Li Yan's pull, she would have been discouraged and didn't want to run away, so she would grab her back and chop her head off.

Seeing a small cave in front of her, Li Yan took Qing'er and hid in it together. As soon as they entered the cave, the two of them lay on their backs at the same time. dead person's.

Li Yan thought while panting, she had to move after the rest, it seemed that over the mountain was an old city with tens of thousands of people.As long as they hide in the old city, even if tens of thousands of people search the city together, they may not be able to find them.

Before the two could catch their breath, a red figure flashed in.

"Ah! Ah!..." Li Yan and Qing'er screamed in fright, thinking they had encountered a female ghost.

(End of this chapter)