Chapter 231 Falling off a Cliff
"Miss." Xin'er looked around and walked up and whispered two steps forward, "I see that the mansion is a little strange recently. A few days ago, the fourth wife of the Quan family of my wife often came to the mansion and sent her maids to secretly observe the woman. There are rumors in the mansion that the wife wanted to betroth the lady to her nephew, but there was no movement in the past few days. There is also a lady. I saw her passing by yesterday, and the eyes looked at her here were very strange. Has something happened? You must be careful. If you don't say anything else, you can't eat anything randomly."
Listening to Xin'er's series of concerns, Su Yiqing secretly laughed at herself, saying that if others blame her, it was even more strange to them. The situation of their master and servant fell into the eyes of those who are interested, and then said, "The relationship between the legitimate mother and the concubine's daughter is very strange. The wife is not a good wife and mother. It is normal for me to be dissatisfied with the marriage because of the interests of the marriage, or if the people of the Quan family observe it, they will naturally be a little dissatisfied. Don't be too suspicious."
"No, Miss, I just think the lady's eyes looked at this side were murderous intent." Xin'er said hurriedly when she saw Su Yiqing not taking it seriously.
"It's even more normal for the legitimate mother to die in the illegitimate daughter. *summary* said, however, it's not a crime to think about it." Su Yiqing's eyebrows and eyes were still motionless, and she still looked careless.
"Miss……"
"Okay, I'm tired, I need to rest for a while. You go out first. Don't disturb me if you have nothing to do." Su Yiqing raised her hand and swept a strand of hair on her temples, and lazily ordered.
"Yes, Miss." Xin'er also knew that the relationship between the two was very sensitive now, so she stopped saying anything. She bowed and went out.
The next morning, before dawn, Dou's mother said that it was the wife who asked the lady to prepare and wanted to take the lady to the temple to burn incense and pray for blessings. She said that she was asking Su Yiqing to prepare, but immediately ordered a few little maids to help Su Yiqing comb her hair and change her clothes. She quickly cleaned up and helped Su Yiqing out. When she arrived at the door, another woman said that the lady was a little uncomfortable. She asked the lady to go first, and the lady would come later.
Su Yiqing said that she would go to see Mrs. Meng first. If Mrs. Meng was really unwell, she would go to burn incense another day. But Dou's mother hurriedly held Su Yiqing onto the carriage. The Grimage Temple, whom she was going to, was a famous temple. It was very effective. You have to go earlier to try to get incense. Only in this way will the Bodhisattva bless you. If you delay or change the schedule for a small matter, the Bodhisattva will be unhappy. If you are really worried, it will be more useful to send a few more incense sticks to the wife in the temple and ask the Bodhisattva to bless her in health?
Dou's mother's words like shells gave Su Yiqing no chance to refute. She was forced to get onto the carriage. As she spoke, the carriage started. She suddenly discovered that although there was a carriage behind, there was only Mother Dou in the carriage except the coachman. This seemed to be in line with the rules of everyone's travel. The carriage was not very small, why was she a servant without a maid?
It is obviously meaningless to ask. At this point, the reason is actually not important. Looking at Dou's mother who pretended to be calm, but had obvious uneasiness in her eyes, Su Yiqing was secretly alert and touched a sharp silver hairpin in her sleeve.
The car left the city and became more and more remote. Through the curtains that were occasionally blown away by the wind, she knew that the carriage was walking on the mountain road, and it was a rugged mountain road. There were dense trees around, and the sound of water could be heard faintly, as if there were streams at the foot of the mountain.
This scene seemed a bit familiar. Su Yiqing thought about it briefly and immediately remembered that this was when she wanted to escape from the marriage with Zhao Boyang, but she didn't want to implicate the people in Yuanping Bo's Mansion. She thought about how to escape quietly. One of the methods was to find such a place, pretending to be a carriage and fell off the cliff. Later, she thought it carefully and felt that it was full of flaws and was not feasible. Then she gave up. She had never encountered such a place in her days when she was wandering outside. She never thought that after many years, she had already forgotten this matter, she would actually go to such an ideal place.
Looking at the increasingly uneasy Mother Dou next to her, she knew what this kind of place was most suitable for doing. She really didn't know whether she should be happy. Maybe this was an opportunity. Following their wishes, everything could end. But she felt a little unhappy. If the people from the Meng family discovered that she was not Meng Xiaofu, then she had nothing to say to kill herself, but if not, she was really unfair.
Su Yiqing looked at Dou's restless mother, and her lips curled slightly and said, "Mom, what kind of temple is this Thanksgiving Temple?"
Mother Dou, who was thinking about her worries, was startled by Su Yiqing's sudden voice and her body shook suddenly. However, she thought that her psychological quality was quite high and she quickly returned to normal. She smiled and said, "The Gratitude Temple was established by a monk who was enlightened in the previous dynasty. In order to thank the Bodhisattva, she asked believers to burn incense and fulfill their vows. Although it is not as long as those thousand-year-old temples, it is particularly effective. There are so many good men and women who go to worship every day."
"Is that right?" Su Yiqing smiled slightly, turned her head, lifted the curtain of the car, looked out, and pretended to be careless, "This mountain road is quite rugged, there is a cliff on one side, and I'm really scared if I accidentally... I'm really scared."
A seemingly unintentional word made Mother Dou’s face turn pale, and she barely squeezed out an ugly smile and said, “Miss, don’t worry, this road is spacious and there will be no danger.”
Su Yiqing smiled and said, "Yes, since the Bodhisattva can bless good men and women to get what they want, and will also protect the believers' safety along the way. If something can happen on the way to worship the Bodhisattva, who will believe in the Bodhisattva in the future?"
"What you are talking about." Mother Dou couldn't maintain her smile.
There are very few people in this world who are not superstitious. The more ruthless the more they are, the more they believe. A sneer appeared on Su Yiqing's lips: "In the past, I lived in the countryside. Most people in the country are kind-hearted, but the countryside is hard, and many people sometimes can't stand it and they will inevitably make some things. Good people will be afraid of retribution if they do anything wrong. They want to pray to the Bodhisattva for forgiveness. To show sincerity, some people even use the silver money obtained from doing evil to reshape the golden body for the Bodhisattva. I have always found it ridiculous. If you do something that hurts the heavens and harms the truth, if you pray for a few words or give some benefits to the Bodhisattva, the Bodhisattva can eliminate disasters and solve them for others and inevitably get punished. So what is the difference between this Bodhisattva and the devil? Do you think so?"
"Yes, yes." Mother Dou's face was still pretending to be calm, but her hands trembled a little.
"Then you said that people will do something that harms the will of heaven and earth, what kind of punishment will the Bodhisattva give?" Su Yiqing asked in his eyes, looking at Dou's mother's eyes.
"This... I dare not talk about Bodhisattvas absurdly. Second Miss, please don't say so much. Be careful not to be disrespectful to Bodhisattvas." Mother Dou had a ghost in her heart and did not dare to meet Su Yiqing's eyes. It happened that the carriage bounced and stopped at this time. She hurriedly said, "Miss II, I will get off the car and take a look."
After getting off the car, Dou's heart was pounding. Did the second lady feel something? But when things got to this point, it was already difficult to get rid of the tiger and didn't care about it anymore, and only gave the driver a wink.
The coachman raised his whip and the horse ran forward like crazy. Mother Dou's scream came from behind, and the carriage was shocked...
Su Yiqing in the car grabbed the edge of the car window tightly, and countless thoughts flashed through her mind. She had not yet aroused her fear at the critical moment of life and death. The first thought was ridiculous. The trick she wanted to use many years ago but found it was not feasible has been used now. Why don’t she feel ridiculous?
Should I jump off the car immediately? After a messy thought flashed through Su Yiqing's mind, the first thought that came to her mind was immediately denied. This was her opportunity, an opportunity to get rid of Meng Xiaofu's identity, as long as she planned as she had many years ago...
Time was tight, and Su Yiqing could not think too much. When she was hesitating, she heard a horse neighing. She felt that the carriage had lost its balance. At that moment, her mind was no longer useful. She jumped down from the opened car door with instinctive reaction. Because the speed was too fast, she didn't step on the foot and fell off the cliff. At this time, her eyes didn't care about what they did, but seemed to have grasped something based on her intuition, and then her hands stinged.
After stabilizing her body, she saw clearly that she was holding on to the small tree branches growing across the cliff. When she grabbed it, she slipped to grasp it. Her palms were probably covered in blood and her whole body was hurt. I don’t know where the specific injuries were.
Su Yiqing looked up and down, and couldn't see the bottom at first glance. She could only hear the sound of water flowing. She looked at it and didn't dare to look down any further. It was not very high, about four or five meters. It was difficult to climb up, but it was easy to say it was easy. It was all surrounded by thatched branches. Except for the small tree she was catching now, the others all looked soft and not very strong.
Forget it, don't think too much. If you think about it, it will only consume your energy. Now there is no other way except climbing up. Su Yiqing can only use all her strength and climb up carefully.
Fortunately, my luck was good next time. It was quite smooth to climb up one by one. It was because of the ring that I could borrow a little bit of force, but I couldn't use it too much. I couldn't use it with too much force. After I jumped up like a spring, I couldn't catch the thing and fell down. I thought that Zhao Boyang could not climb up alone back then. Now her situation is not much better than Zhao Boyang back then. However, the cliff has many shrubs and weeds, and there is a foothold under my feet. Unlike Zhao Boyang back then, there is a soft soil under my body without any place to borrow.
Just as she saw that she had reached the top of the cliff about one meter, she suddenly heard the sound of footsteps and stopped immediately, thinking that she was so careless. Mother Dou and others were still behind. If she wanted to kill her, she wouldn't come and check it out. She was so dizzy. She didn't think so much. She had known that she should have waited before climbing. However, she, a weak woman, had limited strength. After waiting for a long time, she probably wouldn't be able to climb up. I think she should have such a disaster.
What should I do now?
Su Yiqing stopped there, and she couldn't get up and down, and her mood was imaginable. (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!