After rebirth, the Prime Minister's wife always wanted to leave her father behind and keep her
Chapter 18: Hypocrisy and Insidiousness
Minghua did not comment, but said: "I only believe in Yin-Yang and the Eight Diagrams."
Shen rushed over and hugged Cheng Zhongwen's calf and said, "Master, don't be careless. Even if I don't want this daughter, I can't let the Cheng family and Brother Ping suffer because of her."
Cheng Zhongwen frowned and said, "Nonsense! Since I gave birth to this daughter, how can I delay her life?"
Before Shen could say anything more, Lin stepped forward and asked, "Then according to Master, should we light a sea lantern for the Second Miss, or invite a Bodhisattva?"
Minghua said, "That's not necessary. The young lady's five elements are wood, and water produces wood. When you are planning a marriage, you should think of rivers, lakes, and seas."
Shen's face turned pale and she could no longer utter a word.
Minghua took out a red rosary from his bosom and handed it to Feng: "This is a red musk rosary, an item used by the emperor, given to the national temple. Now I give it to you, young lady, so you can be safe."
Feng took it, put her hands together, and said, "Amitabha!"
Afterwards, he gave the red musk beads to Shen and asked her to deliver them to Cheng Wanxin.
Cheng Songan watched Shen's plan fail, feeling relieved. She only needed to find a way to deal with Concubine Shen, and she would be able to rest easy. She bowed to Minghua and walked him to the door.
Minghua looked at her, then at Cui Yuanqing, and then took out a copy of the Heart Sutra from his bag and recited: "Bodhisattva, relying on the Prajnaparamita, the mind is free from worries. Without worries, there is no fear. Stay away from upside-down dreams and finally achieve Nirvana."
When Cheng Songan heard his calm and mellow tone, the confusion in his heart suddenly calmed down. He took it with both hands and ordered someone to send him out.
Looking back, he felt relieved and said to Cheng Zhongwen, "Father, there is a solution for my second sister's problem. The rest will be up to you and mother."
Cui Yuanqing was shrouded in coldness. He took a step forward and said, "Father-in-law and mother-in-law, it's getting late. Yun Dai and I should go back home."
Cheng Zhongwen nodded: "Well, it's time to go back. Yun Dai, you must respect your elders, be considerate to your husband, and take good care of the backyard for Yuan Qing to make him feel at ease, so that you can have a long-term relationship."
Cheng Songan felt a pang in her heart, this was what she did in her previous life, but it didn't last long. Even if she didn't die, what was the point of such a long life?
She lowered her head, not letting her parents see her emotions, and replied respectfully: "My daughter knows."
When Mrs. Feng and Mrs. Lin heard that she was going back, they couldn't help but feel a lump in their throats and almost burst into tears.
On the way back home, Cheng's parents and Cheng Yanping sent him to the gate at the same time. Cheng Songan had no choice but to get on the same carriage with Cui Yuanqing.
The carriage had just driven a short distance from the Cheng Mansion when Cui Yuanqing's face became as cold as ice. He stared at Cheng Songan with a knife-like gaze.
Cheng Songan was holding a food box, which contained crab meat lion head made by Aunt Lin. Seeing Cui Yuanqing's expression, he smiled and asked, "My Lord, you don't look very happy."
Cui Yuanqing asked coldly, "Is it the monk you found? You are truly virtuous to use this method to deal with your own sister."
Cheng Songan did not deny that it was she who asked Haitang to send someone to Baoguo Temple to invite Master Minghua as soon as possible, but it was also a coincidence. As Lin said, he happened to come back from studying and was going to the mansion to lecture his mother. It is better to meet by chance than to invite him, so she asked Haitang to tell her Cheng Wanxin's fate, intending to help her decipher it.
She has selfish motives, but this is not against the will of others. On the contrary, it will accumulate virtue and do good deeds. Master Minghua has a kind heart, so of course he will help her.
But in Cui Yuanqing's eyes, it was just a dirty trick. They were dirty, so they thought everyone was the same as them.
Cheng Songan rested her chin on the food box and looked at him with her big eyes blinking: "I don't understand, what method is used, how to deal with my sister? Is it good for her to let her stay married and grow old as a maid?"
Cui Yuanqing brushed his robe and said calmly, "I saw how anxious Shen was and I guessed that my second sister didn't want to get married too early, let alone marry far away. But you instigated mother to send her away from the capital and the Cheng family. Don't I see your intentions?"
Cheng Songan sneered and asked, "My Lord seems to know Shen very well, and knows my second sister very well. Are they old acquaintances?"
Cui Yuanqing avoided it with an unnatural look and snorted, "There are many banquets in the capital, so it's not strange to have seen it once."
Cheng Songan dragged out the tone: "Oh~"
"Then it seems that your friendship is deeper than our three years of engagement."
Cui Yuanqing's face darkened. "I used to think you were just trying to be dignified because you loved fame, but I never knew you were such a hypocritical and sinister person."
What a big hat, put on her head. Cheng Songan felt pathetic and ridiculous. She had been dignified all her life in her previous life, but he treated her coldly. Now she didn't pretend anymore in this life, and he said she was hypocritical and insidious. No matter what she did, Cui Yuanqing really just hated her as a person.
If he hated her, then whatever she did was wrong. Well, she didn't intend to distinguish right from wrong anyway, as long as it made her live a good life, it was right.
Cheng Songan opened the food box, smelled the lion's head, and replied calmly: "I have nothing to do with my second sister, why do I have to plot against her? Sir, tell me, how can this benefit me?"
Cui Yuanqing frowned and did not answer.
Cheng Songan asked again: "Could it be that the oaths you made were all false, and you really have the idea of Ehuang and Nvying in your heart? Do you think I am jealous?"
Cui Yuanqing's jaw was clenched tightly, and he looked at Cheng Songan with eyes as sharp as knives, as if he wanted to pierce through her.
He was really worried that the affair between him and Cheng Wanxin would be exposed, which would damage Cheng Wanxin's reputation. Cheng Songan smiled bitterly and said, "If it was true between you two, how would I know? How would I know what the Shen family would do and invite Master Minghua to do it?"
Cui Yuanqing stopped looking at her and said indifferently: "Since you said you don't want true love and just want to live in peace, then put away your thoughts and stop using shameful and despicable means."
Cheng Songan opened the food box and, not caring about her image, grabbed a lion's head directly with her hands. She had been hungry for half a day, and was described as so hateful by Cui Yuanqing. She was physically and mentally exhausted, and she really needed to fill her stomach with the delicious food made by Aunt Lin.
She took a bite and ate it with gusto.
Cui Yuanqing was standing by, his expression even uglier: "How can this be so shameful?"
Cheng Songan rolled his eyelids nonchalantly: "Master Cui, you are the one who said that I was pretending to be dignified and hypocritical, and you are also the one who said that I was unruly. Being dignified is not okay, and returning to nature is not okay either. What do you want me to do?"
Cui Yuanqing choked and was unable to utter a word. He simply closed his eyes and rested his head on the wall of the carriage to rest.
The carriage fell silent. Cheng Songan's palms ached, so he could only hold the lion's head with his ten fingertips. He took a few bites, then leaned quietly against the wall of the carriage, glancing at Cui Yuanqing out of the corner of his eye.
He looked like a truly unique gentleman, polite to everyone both outside and inside, but he was cold and indifferent to her.
He should be poisoned and silenced, so that he won't say bad things anymore, and he will be more like that person. Cheng Songan sniffed and continued to gnaw on the lion's head to fill his stomach.
After walking for about an incense stick of time, they were already quite far away from Cheng's house. Cui Yuanqing stopped the coachman, opened the curtain of the sedan chair, bent down and jumped out of the carriage.
Cheng Songan only heard him say to Si Bian in the carriage: "Prepare the horses. I'm not going back home."
Afterwards, the two of them disappeared around the corner of the street without saying a word to her.
His sweetheart was about to get engaged, so of course he was unhappy. Now he either wanted to drink to drown his sorrows or come up with an idea to prevent this from happening.
Given his personality, the latter is more likely.
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