Chapter 159 Experience

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The Old Madam is a devout Buddhist. Normally, she would donate at least two hundred taels on each visit. This time, after drawing an ominous divination, she donated four hundred taels. After making her prayers, a little monk led her to the meditation room where a senior monk preached the scriptures to her. Princess Nanzhang, the Second Madam, and the Third Madam accompanied her on either side. Xie Jinyu and the others, however, felt no compulsion; the scenery of the Great Buddha Temple was serene and beautiful, allowing them to wander and relax. Xingxing looked at Su Jin and said, "Miss, why don’t you draw a divination stick?" "Alright," Su Jin replied. Su Jin knelt on the prayer mat. Xingxing received the divination tube from the little monk. The sight of Xingxing made the little monk tremble. Xie Jinhuan said to Xie Jinyu, "Let’s go have a look around." "Let’s wait a bit longer before going." "I really want to see if she can draw the most auspicious stick!" Xie Jinyu said through gritted teeth. Su Jin received the divination tube, sincerely prayed to the Buddha, and then shook the bamboo tube. After some time. A bamboo stick jumped out. Xingxing picked it up. The words on the bamboo stick were quite numerous. A super invincible most auspicious stick. Xingxing was very satisfied. Su Jin, "..." Xingxing glanced proudly at the little monk, "Isn’t our young lady amazing?" The little monk, "..." Not just amazing. But super invincibly amazing. Out of a hundred sticks. Ninety-nine were the most auspicious. The remaining one was this super invincible most auspicious stick. Because this maid said all the sticks were the same, which was too fake, he temporarily wrote one like this to put in. He thought it wouldn’t be drawn anyway. So he just wrote it. Unexpectedly, it was really drawn. The little monk was a bit on the verge of collapse. How was he supposed to interpret such a stick? He faintly felt that the century-old reputation of the Great Buddha Temple was about to be ruined at the hands of the Eldest Young Madam of Duke Zhen’s Mansion and her maid. Xie Jinyu came over and said, "How can there be such a stick?!" Xingxing looked at her, "Why not? We didn’t bring this stick ourselves after all." Xingxing spoke with justified confidence. Because this stick was genuinely from the Great Buddha Temple. She simply had the little monk add a few more words. The little monk hurriedly took the bamboo tube from her hand. When he placed the tube on the offering table, he intentionally knocked over the other tube, scattering all the sticks on the floor, and busily tidied them up. The sticks from the two tubes got mixed together. The little monk breathed a sigh of relief. If he were this clever earlier, the issue with the ominous divinations wouldn’t have been discovered. Now the entire Great Buddha Temple was caught in the clutches of this little maid. "Anyway, I’ve never seen such a stick!" Xie Jinyu suspected there was something wrong with the stick. Su Jin looked at her with a sister-in-law’s smile, "I sincerely suggest you don’t say things like that; it makes you seem ignorant." Xie Jinyu, "...!!!" Xie Jinhuan and Xie Jinxiu almost couldn’t hold back from laughing out loud, their shoulders nearly dislocating from the suppressed laughter. Xingxing said cheerfully, "Miss, let’s go get the divination interpreted." The little monk, "..." There was no such stick to interpret, how could it be explained? But Xingxing hadn’t considered this point. Having drawn a divination stick, without getting the interpretation, who would know how good the stick was? She temporarily added the stick. The Great Buddha Temple could temporarily add an interpretation, what a trivial matter! The Interpreting Monk glanced at the stick and silently put it down, "This stick needs no interpretation, whatever you seek will be fulfilled, with all wishes coming true." "Miss, what did you wish for?" Xingxing asked curiously. "I wished for my father’s safe return," Su Jin said. "No need to wish for that, the Marquis will definitely return safely," Xingxing said. "Miss should have wished for a child," Xingxing said regretfully. "..." Wishing for a child? No consummation yet, rushing to wish for children? Su Jin couldn’t hold back and tapped Xingxing on the forehead. On the other side, Xie Jinyu took the stick in hand and went to find the little monk. She suspected the stick was fake. Xie Jinyu directly walked to the offering table and took a stick to compare. Identical. Even the handwriting was the same. The little monk stood by, chanting Amitabha Buddha under his breath. All these sticks were written by him personally. Xie Jinyu angrily put the stick back and turned away. After they all left, the pilgrims began to enter to offer incense and pray. Having walked some distance, Su Jin looked at Xingxing, "What’s the deal with that stick?" She was referring to the super invincible most auspicious stick. Xingxing thought she was asking about the ominous divination. Leaning close to Su Jin’s ear, Xingxing said, "I don’t know who holds a grudge against the Old Madam, but the divination tube she drew from was full of ominous sticks." Su Jin, "..." Xie Jingchen, "..." Su Jin looked at Xie Jingchen. Xie Jingchen’s mouth twitched slightly. Being schemed against, managing to turn the tables unknowingly, without even realizing it. Thinking of Princess Nanzhang and the Old Madam’s defeat. Xie Jingchen was left speechless. "Why aren’t you speaking?" Su Jin asked. "The fact that the Old Madam drew an ominous stick might not have been targeted at her," Xie Jingchen said. "True, the Old Madam was still sick yesterday and insisted on coming to the Great Buddha Temple today; in such a hurry, whoever was being schemed against should be clear soon enough," Su Jin said with a smile. Outside the meditation room. Princess Nanzhang walked out. Mrs. Zhao approached with a purse in hand, unable to meet Princess Nanzhang’s eyes. Princess Nanzhang stewed with anger, "How did this happen?!" Mrs. Zhao held the silver clinking heavily in her hand and said, "The little monk was unreliable, the divination tube was full of ominous sticks, and the Eldest Young Madam’s maid discovered it, thinking someone was scheming against the Old Madam, and praised the Great Buddha Temple for doing a good job." Again, it was that damned maid! Princess Nanzhang’s face was steel-blue. "The Great Buddha Temple, for the sake of its reputation, had no choice but to go along with the mishap; the matter you instructed, the temple couldn’t help with, and they returned the silver to me," Mrs. Zhao said in a low voice. "Poor execution, and with just a ’mishap,’ they dismiss me?!" Princess Nanzhang gritted her teeth. A cold killing intent flashed in her eyes. Mrs. Zhao kept her head down, but inwardly she was very calm. This time, it wasn’t her that was ineffective. It’s truly that the Eldest Young Madam is uncanny. No matter how the calculation, others are the ones falling victim. Pitiful are they, resorting to bribery, coercion, even invoking the Empress Dowager to force the abbot of the Great Buddha Temple to conspire. Who would have thought— In the end, it was still the Commandery Princess who suffered. Unable to swallow this humiliation, Princess Nanzhang signaled Mrs. Zhao to lean in and whispered instructions. Mrs. Zhao’s heart trembled the entire time. She knew this time she truly was not the one who failed her duties. It was just that the Great Buddha Temple failed to go along despite bribery, coercion, and even bringing the Empress Dowager into play. In front of the Great Hall, Xingxing eagerly looked around. Before Su Jin could speak, the little monk from the Great Buddha Temple made the decision for her. The little monk previously in charge of the divination walked over. He spoke, "The Venerable Abbot of the Great Buddha Temple invites the young master to have a cup of tea." "You go ahead, we’ll go for a stroll," Su Jin said. "Over there, it’s fun over there," Xingxing pointed to the distance. Su Jin didn’t have time to reply before the little monk had taken her decision for her. Having been responsible for the divination earlier, the little monk walked over. Before he could refuse, Su Jin and Xingxing had already run off. The Great Buddha Temple was crowded, and soon, they couldn’t be seen in the throng. Xie Jingchen, staying behind, glanced at Xingxing. It was clear he signaled the Hidden Guard to follow them from a distance. The Hidden Guard’s lips twitched. Never had he seen someone more worrywarts than the Young Master. The fact that the abbot of the Great Buddha Temple specifically summoned Young Master Xie made it obvious it was about the matter of the ominous divination. Without a doubt, the Great Buddha Temple was already under the thumb of this little maid.

Chapter 159 Experience

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