At Jiang Feng's command, two servants carried Zhu Xianzhi straight to a secluded place on the west side of the Lin Mansion.

As soon as the wooden door that had been abandoned for many years was opened, a foul smell of decay wafted out, making people's noses and eyes feel sore.

When Lin Luoling was young, she liked to raise ducklings and mandarin ducks. Lin Tingxu and He Jinchun doted on their daughter so much that they built a duck house here.

Two or three years later, the ducks died one after another. Lin Luoling cried sadly and buried the ducks' bodies in the yard of the duck house.

Since then, the duck house has been abandoned.

Pushing open the door of the duck house, dust and willow-like spider webs fell from above.

Jiang Feng waved his hands a few times and looked carefully. The dry straw in the duck house was rotten, and weeds and wild mushrooms were growing in some places.

Jiang Feng stopped walking and said, "This is a great place. Let the son-in-law have a good rest here."

After hearing what Jiang Feng said, the two servants did not dare to ask more questions and put Zhu Xianzhi on the dry straw.

Unable to bear the stench in the duck house, he hurried out.

One of the servants asked, "Butler Jiang, it's cold here. Do you need to get some blankets for the son-in-law? It's cold at night. If the son-in-law gets frozen, how will we explain to the master and his wife?"

In fact, he wanted to say, whose son-in-law would be thrown into the duck house to sober up after drinking too much? The new son-in-law of the common people would not be treated like this.

Jiang Feng scolded: "Where are the dirty beddings in our Lin Mansion? Can't you pick some of the straw for your son-in-law to keep warm?"

The servant dared not disobey, so he held his breath, went back into the duck house, and threw the rotten straw at Zhu Xianzhi.

No one had cleaned this place for many years. Not only was the dry straw rotten and sticky, but it was also mixed with dried duck droppings.

The servant retched a few times, then gritted his teeth and threw a layer of dry straw on Zhu Xianzhi, then hurried out of the duck house.

Jiang Feng locked the wooden door of the duck house, hummed a little tune, and walked towards the main gate of the Lin Mansion with his hands behind his back.

Two servants squatted by the lake, washing their hands for a long time. The skin on their hands was almost rubbed off by them. They put the hands to their noses and sniffed, and it seemed that they could still smell a bad odor.

"Butler Jiang rarely makes enemies with others. How did our new son-in-law offend Butler Jiang? Do you think that if the master and the mistress knew about this, would they punish Butler Jiang?"

"Shut your mouth, keep this to yourself, especially don't let the two little maids Hualian and Xiangjin hear about it. Those two little maids are obsessed with our young lady. If the young lady knew about this, she would definitely tell the master and the mistress.

Butler Jiang has been very good to both of us. Our parents and brothers have benefited greatly from Butler Jiang. My parents often say that among the wealthy families in Xuzhou, there is no other family that can treat its servants as well as the Lin family. "

"Yes, yes, yes... I will definitely not tell anyone a word."

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Hundreds of years ago, Jingfu Temple built a nunnery in Nanshan, Xuzhou, Beijing, and took in several women with tragic life stories. The women were disheartened and turned their backs on worldly affairs.

At first it was very small, with only three thatched houses.

It was expanded several times afterwards, but it was not very large.

I heard that ten years ago, the abbot of Jingfu Temple was replaced and the temple was expanded several times.

In the past two or three years, because the divination, fortune-telling, and prayers for children at Jingfu Temple have been very effective, the women and girls of high-ranking officials and nobles, as well as many girls from ordinary people's families, have all come to Jingfu Temple to burn incense and worship Buddha.

A team of two carriages stopped in front of the gate of Jingfu Temple. The servants placed footstools in place, and the maids and servants all reached out to support the passengers.

He Jinchun got off the car first.

As soon as Chen Yin bent down and walked out of the carriage, she saw Hua Lian reaching out to help her.

Chen Yin waved her hand and said, "I don't need you to serve me. You haven't seen your master for a while. Just serve her well!"

After saying that, Shen Yin stepped briskly on the footstool and got off the carriage.

Lin Luoling walked down slowly with the support of Hualian.

Everyone in the group, whether they were the masters or the maids, knew that they were coming to Jingfu Temple today, so they all dressed very simply.

Even so, it still attracts people who come here to burn incense to stop and look.

Lin Luoling had just walked to He Jinchun's side when he heard a guard shouting not far ahead: "Prince An is here to burn incense and pray for blessings, everyone else please stay away."

More than twenty guards wearing white robes and silver armor, holding long swords, rode on maroon horses and stopped in front of Jingfu Temple.

The scene frightened the common people so much that they retreated one after another. Even He Jinchun whispered to Madam Qi to have the carriage from the Lin residence move back a little so as not to block Prince An's way to the temple to pray.

"Don't try to scare me. I've been trapped all day and finally came to play with my cousin for a while. I like to be surrounded by people, but you scared me away. What am I looking at?"

A female voice like a crisp bell was heard. Lin Luoling took a quick look and saw a woman wearing a red dress, holding a red whip in her hand, riding a slightly short pony, shouting loudly.

The woman had a pair of lively doe eyes, a delicate nose and red lips. She was about fifteen or sixteen years old and very lively. She jumped off the horse, wearing red embroidered riding boots, and rhythmically hit the whip on her palm, looking sideways at Jingfu Temple.

He said with great emotion: "Although it is not grand, it is elegant and unique!"

There was a silver bell hanging on the handle of the woman's whip. When she spoke, the bell swung, accompanying her crisp voice, just like hearing the singing of a lark in an empty valley.

The woman turned her head and shouted at the carriage that had just stopped, "Cousin, hurry up. I see this nunnery is very big and it's almost noon. Let's go in and have some vegetarian food so I can go around and have a look."

Upon hearing this, Lin Luoling immediately knew that this woman must be the daughter of Emperor Deshun's younger sister, Princess Chang'an, Princess July.

Princess Chang'an married General Wu Gedi, who was in charge of the Southern Expedition. When Wu Gedi was killed in the Battle of Gunan, Princess Chang'an was furious and led her troops to fight in person. In less than three months, she slaughtered two enemy cities in the south to avenge her husband. People all said that Princess Chang'an was a heroine.

When they returned triumphantly, Princess Chang'an fell ill and died. Emperor Deshun was heartbroken. He held Princess Chang'an's only daughter, Wu Yu, and suspended court for three days. He named Princess Chang'an's daughter "Princess July" and raised her by the empress dowager.

July is named so because Princess Chang'an died in July.

I heard that the Empress Dowager and Emperor Deshun doted on Princess July very much, and her food, clothing and other expenses were three times more expensive than those of the princess.

He Jinchun carefully looked at Princess July and couldn't help but laugh: "This girl is even more naughty than when she was a child."

Hearing this, Lin Luoling knew that her mother must have had the opportunity to meet Princess July when she was young.

The car curtain had not yet been lifted when a cough was heard.

The moment a white robe was lifted from the car curtain, it was blown like waves by the cool wind.

I don’t know what silver thread was used to embroider the white robe, but Lin Luoling just felt that the silver light was dazzling.

Doctor Yan often went to see Prince An, and Jingxuzhou was Prince An's fiefdom, but Lin Luoling had never seen Prince An before, so she couldn't help but stare at him out of curiosity.

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