Detective in the Red Chamber

If it can be operated by merchants in three or two years, it can be exchanged for a hundred miles...

"Have I ever tried to fool you with empty words?"

Seeing that he was already tempted, Sun Shaozong further revealed, "What's more, this transaction also involves a senior official of the second rank. If you manage it properly, you must not be stingy to be a favor."

A member of the second rank? !

Cheng Rixing's eyes sparkled, and he suddenly bowed and said, "Your Dong Weng values ​​you so much, how dare the student repay you with all your strength?!"

Seeing that he agreed, Sun Shaozong heaved a sigh of relief, as long as the role of overseeing the overall situation was decided, the person who would assist him would be easy to arrange.

"Mr. Cheng has been tidying up his house for the past few days. I guess it will be in the middle of the month..."

"Uncle, uncle!"

Sun Shaozong was telling Cheng Rixing the date of going south, when he suddenly saw Sun Chengye running in in a panic, and said in a trembling voice, "There is news from the house arrest that a nun is going to have a miscarriage!"

Miscarriage is premature birth, which was also an extremely dangerous thing in ancient times.

But Sun Shaozong didn't want to be flustered because of the life and death of an obscene nun, so he calmly asked, "Is it the older one, or the younger one?"

For those who are older, the expected date of delivery is the end of May. It is said that it is a miscarriage, and the risk is not too great.

The one with the younger month will not be due until the beginning of July, and now it is more than two months away, so the risk is much higher.

"This……"

Sun Chengye was at a loss for words. As soon as he heard that the female prisoner in the house arrest was going to have a miscarriage, he came over to report in a panic. How could he bother to ask about these details?

Still lacking exercise.

Sun Shaozong shook his head helplessly and said, "Don't be so flustered when you encounter problems in the future, ask the matter clearly before talking about it."

As he spoke, he ordered again, "Send someone to notify Zhou Da, and ask him to go over and watch in person, and try to save the mother and child safely—if there is danger, protect the child first."

The two lewd nuns on the left and right were all sentenced to behead the prisoner. Even if they saved their lives temporarily, they would still die after the autumn, so they naturally chose to save the children.

When Sun Chengye took the order, Cheng Rixing reminded him, "My lord, shouldn't I inform Qacui'an and Fayuan Temple? After all, after this child is born, it will be handed over to them."

tsk~

I don't know if Miaoyu is willing to adopt these evil species after going through the scare at the beginning.

Chapter 352

Changcui Temple.

The third lady, Jia Tanchun, carefully folded up her sleeves, revealing Bai Shengsheng's bright wrist, then grabbed the Xuancheng Zihao, and wrote a poem "Xijiang Moon" in an instant. .

Seeing that the ink was full, thick and coagulated, and there was a faint fragrance, Tanchun poured some warm water into the brush washer, and praised, "I heard that you are a master at combining incense, but I didn't expect that you can even make ink like this." Such accomplishments."

"My master is an expert in this field. I've only learned some superficial things. Now I can barely pile up a few usable pieces just because I'm willing to use good materials."

Miaoyu said indifferently, then stepped forward to look carefully at Jia Tanchun's calligraphy, and suddenly shook her head after a long while and said, "You have often come to my nunnery recently, why the depression and anger in your heart not only did not calm down, but became more and more serious. thick?"

Jia Tanchun froze while washing his pen, but then he laughed as if nothing had happened, "I went to Qingxu to watch an opera yesterday, and it was a noisy whole day, didn't my mind become impetuous?"

Seeing that she was unwilling to speak out her heart, Miaoyu sighed secretly, and didn't ask any more questions.

In the Rongguo Mansion, fourth miss Jia Xichun was the one who had the most contact with Miaoyu, followed by Daiyu, Baochai and others—and Jia Tanchun and her could only be regarded as nodding acquaintances at most, and had no contact with her on a daily basis.

It wasn't until after the "five ghosts and nightmares" incident that Aunt Zhao was locked up in a small ancestral hall to recite sutras for atonement, that Tanchun suddenly became interested in Quicui Temple, and came here almost every day, and Miaoyu also They gradually became acquainted.

It's really hard for her to say that her biological mother has done such a thing, not only has Madam Wang's attitude become more alienated, but the people below have increasingly taken her seriously, but Tanchun is a strong one, and she absolutely refuses to be in front of others. Lou timid...

Thinking of this, Miaoyu couldn't help sighing secretly again, took out a wooden fish made of red lacquer and red sandalwood from the closet, sat cross-legged on the bright yellow futon, and greeted, "I'm going to recite the 'Pure Heart Mantra' for a quarter of an hour. ', do you want to come together?"

"Naturally..."

"Miao Yushi Taike is inside?"

Jia Yingchun was waiting to answer, when she suddenly heard a woman shouting at the top of her voice, she felt a little surprised, "You are here, how can there be ordinary people looking for you?"

Miaoyu also frowned, then got up unhurriedly, took the whisk and went out, seeing the woman looking out, she clasped her palms together and said, "The benefactor called the poor nun to come out, what can I tell you?"

"Don't dare, dare not."

The old lady returned the gift in a hurry, rubbed her hands and said with a sneer, "Where can the old lady have any advice, Master Sun from Shuntian Mansion sent someone to say that the merit you calculated in advance will be born soon."

When it came to words such as 'merit' and 'birth', the woman was in awe again, obviously thinking that it was some kind of gods and ghosts.

When Miaoyu heard the words, she suddenly realized that she must be the prostitute in the house arrest, and she was about to give birth to a child!

In an instant, the image of Zhishan holding the aborted fetus and forcing it into her arms appeared in her mind, and mixed feelings suddenly appeared on the face that was originally calm.

After finally suppressing the urge to vomit, Miaoyu reluctantly saluted the old woman, "Thank you benefactor for coming to pass the message."

"Don't dare to be, dare not be!"

The woman was shaking the cattail fan with both hands, seeing that Miaoyu had nothing to say, she obediently said goodbye and left.

When the woman came out of the courtyard, Jia Tanchun came out of the Buddhist hall, looked at Miaoyu's tangled face, and whispered, "Either you don't go, serving the child's dirty things, you don't like that." How can a Xijie person endure it?"

Unexpectedly, Miaoyu's heart became firm after hearing her words, she shook her head resolutely and said, "The word 'compassion' is also attached to the false compassion, if I can't even do this false compassion, what kind of Buddha do I still cultivate? What do you ask for?"

As he spoke, he resolutely turned back and packed up, and hurried out of Changcui Temple.

Jia Tanchun watched her go away from outside the door, then looked back at the Quicui nunnery which had concealed the temple door, and could not help muttering, "Even if you are committed to Buddhism, how can there be any purity at all? After all, you still have to stay here. Tired of running around in the world."

"Girl, girl!"

She sighed faintly and went back to Qiushuangzhai, who knows that after walking a few steps, she saw the big maid, Shi Shu, hurried up to greet her, and said anxiously, "Go back and have a look, the third master is arguing to let you go." Go to rescue my aunt, the servants said a few words casually, and he smashed the things of those guys in our house, and he couldn't stop them!"

Tanchun stomped his feet angrily when he heard the words, and said angrily, "This bully is afraid of the hard, he dare not say a word to the master and wife, but he only comes to bully me!"

As she spoke, she turned around and ran towards the bushes next to her.

Under the incomprehensible eyes of the servant, Tan Chun broke a thorn and held it in his hand. He ignored the white palm, which was almost pricked by the wooden thorn, and said ruthlessly, "Let's go! Auntie will let you go!" Huan Lao San knows what it means to be an elder sister like a mother!"

Not to mention how Tanchun attacked Jia Huan in Qiushuangzhai.

It is only said that Miaoyu arrived at the gate of Shuntian Mansion by car, and was waiting for the little nun who accompanied her to inform her of her identity, but a subordinate official came up to her and said loudly, "But Master Miaoyu from Changcui Temple is here. ? My lord has told you that if you arrive, you can go directly to the house arrest and wait!"

After saying this, Miaoyu ordered the driver to go around to the back street of Fuya, and when she entered the house of house arrest, she saw four big monks guarding a kind-looking old monk, reciting scriptures in the corner .

Miaoyu looked at the great monk very familiarly, but couldn't remember who he was.

Just as he was hesitating whether to go up to say hello, he suddenly saw the bamboo curtain of the gatehouse next door raised. Sun Shaozong came out from inside, raised his chin to the old monk, and explained, "That's the head master of Fayuan Temple, you should Have you heard of his name, too?"

Zen Master Liao Chi of Fayuan Temple is a well-known eminent monk in the capital, so Miao Yu naturally knew about it.

Seeing Sun Shaozong's calm and breezy appearance, as if the harsh comments at the beginning were not from him, Miaoyu couldn't help but sarcastically said, "If Zen Master Chi hadn't come in person, Miaoyu might not have been able to do so." Fortunate to see Lord Sun's respectful face here, right?"

This was what she was talking about, how could Sun Shaozong come to visit in person just because a prostitute nun gave birth prematurely?

The reason why he appeared here was because of the foolish monk's face.

Sun Shaozong was not annoyed when she exposed her 'snobbish eyes', he just smiled slightly and said, "I haven't seen you for a long time, but my little teacher has more self-knowledge."

This is insinuating that Miaoyu's status is not enough, and she is not worthy of his personal greeting.

If it was changed before, Miaoyu would definitely continue to confront him for a few words, but now she just snorted coldly, and then asked with palms together, "But I don't know where the pregnant woman is now? What's so dangerous?"

"Here, people have already moved them to the main room, and hired two stable women. Is there any danger now, but still..."

"Born, born!"

While Sun Shaozong was talking here, he saw a woman prisoner with a big arm and a round waist running out of the main room, shouting at the top of her voice, "A baby girl was born!"

"Amitabha."

Hearing that the baby girl was born, the monk Liao Chi proclaimed the Buddha's name, slowly got up from the ground, led four disciples Shi Shiran to the two of them, first saluted Sun Shaozong, then smiled at Miaoyu and said, "Dare you?" Is it the Layman Miaoyu of Changcui Nunnery?"

"It's the little girl."

Miaoyu regarded herself as a nun in front of others, but in front of this idiotic monk, she obediently called herself a 'little girl'.

"Amitabha."

Monk Liao Chi recited the Buddha's name again, and said solemnly, "Laymen are very merciful. This child can be taken care of by laymen, so I can rest assured—it's just that all living beings have their own aspirations, and laymen don't need to force her to be a monk or layman in the future." , you just need to guide her to be upright and follow her fate."

"Miaoyu would like to follow Zen Master's instruction."

Miao Yu respectfully agreed.

Sun Shaozong couldn't help but slander, "Don't worry about it", why didn't Fayuan Temple come forward to take care of the child before the Taoist priest proposed to adopt the child?

However, he also had a look of 'beneficiary a lot' on his face, He Miaoyu sent the idiotic monk respectfully, and then went back to inquire about the situation of the kinky nun and the baby girl.

Chapter 353 Baby girl

Pointy skull, reddish black and wrinkled skin, a thick layer of creamy yellow scab on the top of the head, but few hairs can be seen, instead, there is a layer of fine black hair growing on the pointy ears... …

"Ami... Amitabha!"

Seeing the appearance of the newborn baby, Miaoyu widened her beautiful eyes, and was so shocked that she almost mispronounced the Buddha's name.

After a long while, she turned her head stiffly, and said in a jerky way, "This child... this child seems to be a little... different from others, right?"

"Different from others?"

Sun Shaozong snorted disdainfully, and said, "Could it be that you have seen many newborn babies?"

Without waiting for Miaoyu to reply, he explained again, "The baby born before full term has not fully opened, and has been soaked in amniotic fluid for a long time, the skin will be a little wrinkled - even this color is due to being unable to breathe during childbirth. It’s hard to hold back your breath, and it will gradually return to normal in a few days.”

"But...but the black hair on his ears..."

"Haven't you even heard of the word 'lanugo hair'? Some children are born with lanugo hair, and when the hair opens later, it will fall off on its own."

"Then... then the white one on his head..."

"It's a layer of scab. After washing my hair a few times, it will be clean."

"But the top of his head is... is soft..."

"When many children are born, their tops are soft, and they are almost hard by the time they are one year old."

After answering many of Miaoyu's questions in a row, seeing that she was still full of confusion and didn't even dare to look at the child, Sun Shaozong sneered, "Why, do you still want to return the product now?!"

"of course not!"

Miaoyu immediately denied, "The poor nun never meant that!"

"Then why are you moaning?"

Sun Shaozong raised his eyebrows, and told the mother-in-law who was holding the baby girl, "Give this child to Mrs. Miaoyu, and what happens to her in the future has nothing to do with Shuntian Mansion."

"This this……"

Seeing the old woman approaching and offering the ugly baby in her hand, a rotten smell of blood rushed towards her face, Miaoyu had made a great determination, so she didn't hide her face and run away.

How about holding this baby girl...

Miaoyu really couldn't muster the courage.

It must have been the lifting position, which made the baby girl feel a little uncomfortable, so she closed her eyes and struggled, and her little mouth moved and muttered.

"She is..."

"Maybe I'm hungry."

After Sun Shaozong answered casually, he suddenly frowned and questioned, "Wait! Have you hired a nanny for her?"

"Grandma... nanny?"

Miaoyu's face was full of confusion.

"No way, you've been tossing and tossing for a long time, didn't you prepare anything for her?!"

Sun Shaozong was completely speechless. This woman has been thinking about adopting a child all day long, but has she never thought about how to raise her child?

"Who said no!"

Miaoyu called Qu and said, "I silently wrote several scriptures for her, which can protect her from illness and disaster in the future. I also prepared futons, rosary beads, and wooden fish for the children...

Under Sun Shaozong's mentally retarded gaze, Miaoyu's voice became smaller and smaller, and finally she lowered her head in a low voice.

This is really stupid to learn Buddhism!

Sun Shaozong didn't bother to teach her any more, sighed, and asked again, "Do you have any money with you?"

Miaoyu shook her head, but immediately took off the bracelet from her hand, and murmured, "This bracelet should be worth a few taels of silver."

"How many taels?"