I see.
No wonder when I was repaying Beichen Yuan’s favor before, he just asked me to recite scriptures to him a few more times.
Wen Si, who understood what was going on, breathed a sigh of relief.
“Your Highness the Regent has made numerous contributions to the country and the people. Now he is suffering. It is our responsibility to share his worries.”
Wen Si smiled sincerely and said, “If the sound of my chanting can make you feel better, it would be my honor.”
It can be said that this war-god prince played an indispensable role in the peace and prosperity of the Ming Dynasty.
If a meritorious official has a request, she certainly won’t refuse.
What’s more, it’s just such a small request.
Seeing that she agreed, the smile on Beichen Yuan’s face deepened.
“If you feel uncomfortable in the future, you can come to me anytime. You don’t have to bring anything for me.”
At this moment, Wen Si thought that all the things Beichen Yuan had brought her before were meant to bribe her.
Now that she knows the truth, she can no longer accept it.
Beichen Yuan did not comment on this, and said calmly: “We’ll talk about it later.”
The days that followed.
With a legitimate reason, Beichen Yuan went to Shuiyue Temple more frequently.
However, he also knew that men were not allowed to enter Shuiyue Temple without permission, so in order to avoid going there too often and disturbing other masters and junior masters, he made an appointment with Wen Si to meet by the creek in the back mountain every day.
When the two men arrived at the place, one of them recited scriptures and planted herbs diligently, while the other rolled up his sleeves and helped fetch water to irrigate the fields.
After visiting them twice, Master Mochou felt relieved and stopped disturbing them.
But even if she doesn’t bother them, there are always other people who come to her door.
“The wife of the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery? What is she doing here?”
Wen Si frowned slightly.
Isn’t Wen Yali the one who dislikes her the most?
Why did you come to Shuiyue Temple to look for her today?
Wen Si had a feeling that the visitor had bad intentions.
She was too lazy to go out and deal with it, so she asked her senior sister, “Please tell her that Wuyou is in seclusion recently and has no time to meet him.”
Wen Si closed her eyes and struck the wooden fish again and again.
It’s not wrong to call it a retreat.
After all, she was in seclusion in Shuiyue Temple for practice.
Except for Beichen Yuan, he usually doesn’t meet outsiders casually, let alone go down the mountain at will.
The senior sister brought the conversation outside Shuiyue Temple.
When Wen Yali heard this, she immediately frowned and said unhappily, “What does she mean, Wen Si? I am her aunt after all. How dare she avoid meeting an elder who has come to visit?”
“Amitabha, donor, Junior Sister Wuyou is now a Buddhist, without relatives or friends, let alone elders. If you want to find your own relatives, you should go back and look for them. There are no relatives here.”
The senior sister spoke in a calm tone, and was about to send the guest away.
Wen Yali immediately laughed out of anger, “Great, it turns out that all of you people in Shuiyue Temple are protecting that stinky girl.”
“He said he was in seclusion, but who knows if he was hiding in there and learning how to steal and sneak around!”
Wen Yali’s sarcastic words came out.
The senior sister frowned immediately: “Donor, please be kind with your words. Junior Sister Wuyou is well-behaved and sensible, and she is a clean person. Please don’t slander her casually.”
“Whether it is slander or not, Wen Si knows it clearly in her heart!”
Wen Yali deliberately raised her voice, and the growing noise soon attracted the attention of the pilgrims around.
“She followed her master to our Loyal and Brave Marquis’s Mansion, under the pretext of treating my mother-in-law, and committed such petty thefts in our Loyal and Brave Marquis’s Mansion. She has brought shame to the entire Wen family!”
“What’s going on?”
“Who was caught stealing?”
“It seems to be talking about Her Highness Saint Fuming in the temple.”
“No way? How could Her Royal Highness the Saint steal?”
“That’s her. I know the lady who is speaking. She is the wife of the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery, and the younger sister of the Duke of Zhenguo, Wen Yali, and the former aunt of Saint Fu Ming.”
“My aunt has come to identify her, she must be the Saint.”
“But didn’t the Saintess and the Zhenguogong Mansion break up?”
“I don’t think it’s that simple. Let’s wait and see what the Saint has to say.”
The senior sister who was speaking up for Wen Si was so angry at Wen Yali that her face turned red. “You have no evidence, how can you slander me like that!”
During this period of time, the nuns and sisters in Shuiyue Temple have witnessed how tyrannical and overbearing the little junior sister’s former relatives were.
But they didn’t expect that besides the tyrannical and overbearing ones in the Wen family, there were also such aggressive and unreasonable ones.
“Oh, are you slandering me? If Wen Si is really innocent, why would I slander her?”
“If it weren’t for the fact that she was my niece, I would have arrested her and brought her to the authorities long ago, instead of coming here to look for her! Who would have thought that she would hide and not come out to see her aunt? Isn’t this out of guilt?!”
Wen Yali sneered.
Wen Si’s avoidance made her even more certain that her Yu Ru Snow Cream was definitely stolen by her!
“I don’t care whether she is in seclusion or not. How dare a saint like her come to her aunt’s house to steal? If she doesn’t hand over the stolen things today, I will not leave!”
Wen Yali came prepared today.
As soon as she said she didn’t want to leave, the maid immediately went to the carriage to get a chair and placed it behind Wen Yali.
Wen Yali sat down where she was, looking like she really didn’t want to leave.
People around started talking about it.
“This is really going to be a good show.”
“How could the dignified Saint Fuming do such a shameful thing!”
“After all, she was once the legitimate daughter of the Duke of Zhenguo’s Mansion. Such behavior is really shameful.”
“Is this true? Why haven’t I heard anything about what the Saint stole?”
“Yes, I am also very curious. What on earth is missing from your loyal and brave Marquis that you have come all the way to Shuiyue Temple to frame me.”
At this moment, Wen Si’s figure appeared at the door of Shuiyue Temple.
She looked coldly at the woman sitting outside and walked over to her senior sister.
“If the wife of the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery cannot produce solid evidence today, then don’t blame me for reporting this to His Majesty. After all, the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery Mansion is really going too far!”
“Huh? We, the Loyal and Brave Marquis Mansion, bully you?”
Wen Yali looked ridiculous and said to Wen Si with disdain, “Wen Si, stop pretending here. You know exactly what you stole from me. Do you need me to tell you in person?”
“Stop playing dumb with me here.”
Wen Si said in a very impolite tone: “Since you think that I stole the things from your Loyal and Brave Marquis Mansion, then make it clear here in public!”
“Okay, I wanted to give you some face for my elder brother’s sake, but now that you are so shameless, I have nothing to worry about.”
Wen Yali motioned the maid beside her to go up.
The head maid immediately stepped forward and said to Wen Si and the senior sister behind her in a haughty manner: “The abbess of your temple, Master Mochou, brought Saint Fuming to our Marquis Zhongyong Mansion to meet the old lady a few days ago. But after you left that day, three bottles of Yuru Snow Cream were missing from our lady’s storeroom.”
Wen Yali snorted coldly, “Except for you, no one else has been to our Loyal and Brave Marquis Mansion during those days. If it wasn’t you who stole it, who else could it be?”
“Jade-like vanishing cream? What is that? Isn’t it just ordinary vanishing cream?”
Some ordinary people asked in confusion.
Someone nearby who knew about this immediately explained, “Yu Ru Snow Cream is a medicine used exclusively by the royal family. It is said to not only beautify the skin, but also heal wounds quickly and eliminate scars!”
“Is it really that good? Why haven’t we heard of it?”
“Of course, that’s a priceless medicine!”
“And didn’t I tell you? That’s a medicine for the royal family. Not to mention ordinary people like you, even rich and powerful people like us may not be able to use it. Only the emperor and the queens of the palace can give it to us.”
“Oh my god, so the Jade Cream that the wife of the Loyal and Brave Marquis lost was a reward from the palace?”
“No wonder she was so angry and insisted that the Saint be handed over.”
“However, Her Highness the Saint is already a princess, does she still need to use it secretly?”
Although most people believed what Wen Yali said.
But there were still one or two who noticed something was wrong and asked in confusion.
It’s just that because their voices were too small, they were drowned out by the discussions of the crowd.
Wen Si sneered: “After saying so much, you are just guessing that I stole it? If so, then I want to see who in the capital dares to step into the gate of your Loyal and Brave Marquis Mansion again.”
“Of course, I would not suspect someone of stealing things without any reason, but I know you, Wen Si, very well.”
Wen Yali looked at her niece with disdain, “Before you left the Duke of Zhenguo’s Mansion, you were extremely pampered at home, with exquisite food, clothing and daily necessities. But when you were sent to Shuiyue Temple, you didn’t bring any good things with you. How could you really endure the hardship here?”
“So you must have regretted it later, but you didn’t expect that my eldest brother and the others would be completely disappointed in you. They broke off all ties with you and forbade you to act in the name of the Wen family. You were so desperate that it was normal for you to take the wrong path, wasn’t it?”
Wen Yali said sarcastically.
He didn’t realize at all that he was speculating about Wen Si with the greatest malice.
After hearing this, Wen Si found it extremely ridiculous.
“I never thought that I have always been the ugliest person in your eyes.”
She is obviously her biological aunt.
But he hated her so much.
Wen Si felt cold in her heart.
Every time, the Wen family knew how to inflict greater harm on her.
“You are a vicious, jealous, and narrow-minded person!”
Wen Yali pointed at her nose without hesitation and scolded her with great contempt: “You are disrespectful to your elders and your brother, and you always use some insidious means to hurt your sister Wen Yue. It’s not surprising for a girl like you who was born by a mother but not raised by a mother to go down any crooked path.”
“Have you said enough?!”
