Chapter 76 Replacement

The old Duke looked at Jiang Xun with contempt, “Half a big boy, still motherly, how can you be a hero like your father in the future?”

Hearing this, Jiang Xun hurriedly suppressed his tears and straightened his small chest.

After the meal, the old man asked Jiang Xun to accompany him to the flower room.

Jiang Xun looked back at his sister, a little puzzled. Previously, the old master had asked his sister to accompany him to the flower room, so that he could practice martial arts in the courtyard.

The old master took a look at the silly boy and said more clearly, “Resignation Mo is about to go to Shuxi, and we still need to let Little Miss Jiang give him a needle.”

The old master was explicitly creating an opportunity for Meng Zhimo and Jiang Yishi to be alone, causing both of them to blush a little.

When there was no one else in the room, Meng Jimo said to Jiang Yishi, “You should have heard about Su Xin saving my sister’s life, right?”

Jiang Yishi said, “Well, Jiang Da told me. Su Xin’s kind of person, if he didn’t know who was sitting in the car beforehand, how could he have risked his life to stop the frightened horse.”

She had to emphasize that Su Xin was a lecher.

Meng Zhimo’s face was cold. Someone had saved Meng Yue, and it was logical that he should be grateful. But Su Xin had saved Meng Yue, he was in love with Zhao Yuancheng, and they had stayed at night at the same time at the Hundred Zi Temple, so one had to think more.

He said, ”Shiji, I also want to thank you. If you hadn’t discovered Zhao Yuancheng’s and Su Xin’s and Baizi Temple’s improprieties beforehand, we wouldn’t have noticed them. Those bastards, if they dare to hit on my sister, I will let them die without a burial place. I can’t leave the capital for the time being, I must settle my sister’s affairs before I can rest assured. Nowadays, around the Huang Mansion, there are also our eyes laid out ……”

Knowing that Meng Ruimo had sent people to protect and monitor Meng Yue, Jiang Yixi was even more relieved.

Meng Zhimo added, “There was another incident at the Hundred Sons Temple,” he blushed slightly, pursed his lips, but said, “Our spies reported that a monk named Lustless at the Hundred Sons Temple spoiled a woman seeking a child last night. The woman is a woman from a poor family, in her early twenties ……”

Jiang Yishi cursed, “Abominable to the core.”

Meng Rimo sighed, “It’s a pity that we can’t close the net right away, we have to catch the evidence of Zhao Yuancheng and Su Xin’s misdeeds inside ……”

Jiang Yishi gave Meng Ruimo a “health injection”, and the two of them spoke in whispers.

Early in the morning of October 23, the sky was just dawning with light snow drifting in the sky, Meng Yue took a sedan chair and went to the outer courtyard. She was going to Baizi Temple to seek a child, and would burn incense and vegetarianism there for three days for the sake of sincerity.

These days were not easy for her. Her mother-in-law broke her face, and her mother’s family was not happy about her claim. Only her mother was able to reason with her mother-in-law. Grandfather and father, one beat father-in-law and husband, one scolded father-in-law and husband, now not only mother-in-law hate her, even father-in-law and husband hate her ……

Mother sent someone to say that if she could have a son, her mother-in-law and husband might be able to change their opinion of her in the face of her son, and it would also be something for Xin’er to rely on in the future. Sister Hu said that the Hundred Sons Temple was the most spiritual, so she asked her mother-in-law, who agreed very quickly.

Meng Yue got on the carriage first, and her nurse, Sister Hu, got on later, but slipped and slid off the carriage, falling face first onto the footrest and bleeding from her nose.

Meng Yue said in pain, “After such a bad fall, don’t go, go back and rest.”

Sister Hu was unable to do so, and could only cover her nose and instruct her maid to serve Second Grandmother well.

At noon, the Meng family grandchildren and Jiang Yishi got the news that Meng Yue had gone to Hundred Zi Temple to seek a son and would be staying there for three more days.

Meng Zhimo immediately rushed to Guanghe Temple with the excuse that he was going to ask Buddha to bless his trip to Shu Xi to get rid of his illness and see the light again. After offering incense, he stayed at a small farmhouse under Mount Yuxiang that was some distance from the village.

Although he had arranged the manpower, Meng Zhimo was still uneasy and wanted to live not far away from Baizi Temple to listen to the news as well as command nearby. This small courtyard was rented some days ago.

In order to keep it a secret, even Meng Qingshan and Meng Gaoshan didn’t know about it, not to mention that they didn’t alert the guards and secret guards of the State Duke’s Mansion, but rather, Meng Xiang and Meng Shen directly mobilized the old master’s private soldiers.

The old master handed over his military power as soon as he returned from each battle, but he kept two hundred private soldiers outside. These soldiers were under his sole command, and even Lord Cheng didn’t know about it.

Jiang Yishi also wanted to go to Guanghe Temple, but Meng Zhimo didn’t agree.

Jiang Yishi couldn’t calm her heart, so she sat at the table and copied scriptures to calm her mood.

At noon on the twenty-fourth day, Zheng Ruimo of Guanghe Temple and Meng Laoguo of Mengjiazhuang got the news that Zhao Yuancheng and Su Xin had gone to Baizi Temple to offer incense. An hour later, Zhao Yuanji suddenly fell ill and had to return to the capital for treatment.

At night, a fierce wind was blowing outside, causing the windowpaper to rattle. Two pots of charcoal were burning in the house, but it was still cold as hell. Meng Yue sat on the kang and copied the sutra. The kang beneath her was hot, but her fingertips were still cold. She rubbed her hands together and continued copying with great devotion.

Her maid Dongxiang brought a bowl of tea and smiled, “Second Grandmother, have some hot tea to warm you up.”

Meng Yue put down her pen, picked up the tea bowl and drank.

After a quarter of an hour or so, Meng Yue felt sleepy.

After the maids served her and went to the bed, she fell asleep as soon as she hit the pillow.

After the servants were asleep, Dong Xiang patted the letter on her chest and quietly left the door.

A masked man crept into the courtyard and threw a small piece of incense beside Dongxiang’s bed.

A quarter of an hour later, Dongxiang came back, she went to check on Meng Yue again, saw that she was sleeping soundly, and then went back to her own house with peace of mind.

Soon afterward, two men were again sent into the yard, and a woman-like person wrapped Meng Yue in a quilt and carried her in her arms, and went out to the next yard. Another person carried Dongxiang into the kang where Meng Yue had been sleeping before, and covered her up tightly with a quilt. Still another hid in the pine tree outside the door ……

At the stroke of midnight, a horrible scream suddenly came out from a small courtyard behind Baizi Temple ……

Dozens of soldiers put the Baizi Temple under control, and no one was allowed to go out to report.

The knocked out Su Xin, the maid Dong Mei who delivered the message, another few subordinates who served Meng Yue, and the knocked out host of the Hundred Zi Temple were taken to that small farmhouse under the mountain overnight.

Meng Yue had already come here a step earlier.

Meng Ruimo and Meng Shen and Meng Xiang first arraigned Su Xin and Dong Mei. Meng Qingshan and Meng Dingshan were serving at the side, they had only just learned about this and were still a bit blinded.

Su Xin heard that the blind man in front of him was Meng Yue’s younger brother, Meng Ruimo, very unconvinced, took out the letter and said, “It’s really not my fault, this is a letter from Huang Er Grandma, she invited me ……”.

Before the words were finished, his stomach received a few punches from Meng Xiang, which made him speechless.

Dongmei was carried in by Meng Shen.

Dongmei had already been scared soft, and was first hit by Meng Shen with a few mouths, and then saw the red-hot branding iron, and didn’t wait to ask, but confessed first.

“Master spare your life, master spare your life, slave girl didn’t want to harm Second Grandma, the letter was sent by Sister Tang who asked me to deliver it, and the ecstasy was also put down by Sister Tang who asked me to do so.”

Meng Xiang asked, “Why did you want to harm my great aunt?”

“I, I ……” Dongmei stuttered, too shy to speak.

Meng Qingshan brought the red-hot burning iron to her.