Records of Mysterious Things in the Southern Dynasties

Chapter 213 Two Slaps
"Ruan Yu cheated on her and then abandoned her. The woman came to the temple to accuse him of being cold-blooded and heartless!" The voice, with the help of the magic spell, spread to every corner of the temple. Everyone in Jianyuan Temple heard it clearly...

The worst thing is that Ren Yuan also added some magical power of 'all is fair in war' into it, and everyone who heard it believed it without a doubt!

The pilgrims who were worshiping Buddha in the hall looked at each other, not knowing what was going on.

The middle and lower level monks were also whispering to each other, asking who Ruan Yu was.

Those monks at the four major class leaders and eight major deacons level all knew who Ruan Yu was, and could not help but gloat over his misfortune.

The abbot has too much money and offends many people. Naturally, there are far more people who hope he will do well than those who hope he will make a fool of himself.

"Alas, this is disgraceful..." Even the abbot sighed and ordered the novice monk under him, "Tell the abbot to deal with it quickly, otherwise how can the face of this temple be saved?"

"Yes." The young monk hurriedly responded and went to pass on the message.

In the small courtyard of the abbot's court, Xingren's face turned pale, and he ordered in a deep voice: "Hurry up and drive him away. If he doesn't leave, send him back to the Gouchen Division!"

"Yes." The monks responded and hurried out with sticks in hand.

After a while, one of the monks with a long face came back and shouted, "Abbot."

"What's wrong?" Xingren heard the shouting outside and asked with a gloomy face, "Why don't you chase them away?"

"I think the abbot is in the wrong in this matter. You should go and meet him." The monk said loudly.

"Are you teaching me how to do things?" Xingren said irritably.

"Abbot, if you keep shouting like that you'll lose all your face." Under the influence of Ren Yuan's magical powers, the monk felt very confident and didn't realize that there was anything wrong with him.

"Get out!" Xingren waved his sleeves and rolled the monk out of the yard.

After a while, another round-faced monk came into the courtyard and said, "Abbot, please go out and meet Miss Su. More and more people are coming to watch the fun. If this continues, the whole capital will know about it."

“Get out!” The veins on Xingren’s forehead were throbbing.

Just as the round-faced monk was driven away, a black-faced monk came in.

"Prison Court..."

"Get out!" Xingren was so angry that he lost his mind.

"Don't go too far, abbot." The black-faced monk said unhappily, "I'm here on the orders of the abbot."

"Ah? You tell me." Xingren calmed down and found that the other person was indeed the novice monk beside the abbot.

"The abbot asked you to settle this matter quickly. You have brought shame to the temple!" The black-faced monk snorted and turned away.

"Alas..." Xingren sighed helplessly and walked out of the yard dejectedly.

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Outside Jianyuan Temple.

Ren Yuan, Yang Zhong and Chen Baxian shouted at the top of their lungs, which really attracted countless people to watch.

However, the three of them were very cunning. They used the "changing clothes talisman" to change into casual clothes and did not wear the official robes of the Gou Chensi.

The two leading monks, one with a long face and the other with a round face, were trying to capture the three of them with their monks, but the three were slippery and always managed to escape from their encirclement, causing several bald men to collide with each other.

The crowd burst into laughter.

"Stop shouting!" Xingren finally walked out of the temple gate, suppressing his anger and saying, "I will go with you to see her."

"Haha, wouldn't it have been better if you did this earlier?" Ren Yuan then waved his hand, signaling Yang Zhong and Chen Baxian to stop first.

"Where are the people?" Xingren asked in a muffled voice. "Follow me." Ren Yuan said calmly.

After saying that, he walked towards the Xuanwu Lake, and Xingren followed behind with a dark face.

"Don't blame me for not reminding you. Don't give me a bad face later, or I will shout at the gate of Jianyuan Temple every day." Then he listened to Yuan's cold voice:

"And I will make up a nursery rhyme and hire people to sing it in the capital, so that everyone in the world will know that you are a heartless man."

"..." Xingren was so angry that his lips trembled. He wanted to slap the little beast to death, but he was a high-ranking Buddhist monk and had to respect his status. He could only swallow his anger and get through this hurdle first.

"Go wait under the willow tree in front." Ren Yuan pointed to a crooked willow tree by the lake.

Xingren nodded and walked to the tree and stood still.

Unexpectedly, he waited and waited until dark, but there was no sign of Su Xiaoxiao.

Xingren was so angry that he thought he was being tricked, so he wanted to leave angrily.

But Ren Yuan sneered, "You can't wait any longer after just two hours? How can you say that my sister waited for you for two years? Do you still dare to say that her death has nothing to do with you?"

"..." Xingren's expression froze and he had nothing to say. He had to sit down under the tree again and wait for Su Xiaoxiao obediently.

It was not until late at night, when the lake reflected the bright moon and the air was filled with mist, that he heard the mournful and sad sound of the pipa. In a trance, he seemed to have returned to the Mirror Pavilion by the Xiling Bridge.

Seeing a beautiful woman thinner than a yellow flower, she leaned against the railing and looked out into the distance, waiting for the wild geese to bring her a letter. The parasol trees were rustling, the stars were sparse, and all her hopes were only exchanged for endless disappointment...

At this time, the sound of the pipa changed from high to low, like a woman's helpless sigh. The sound of the song was like crying and complaining, sad and heartbreaking, expressing her grief and resentment at that time.

At the end of the song, the melody becomes slower, the moon sets, the crows cry, and everything is silent. The woman's life has come to an end. She can complain and cry, but she is powerless and everything is meaningless.

When the sound of the pipa stopped, Xingren was already in tears. He finally could not escape, and this was the guilt he had been escaping for half his life.

“Xiaoxiao…” Xingren looked at the beautiful lady who had appeared in front of him without him noticing, just like she looked when he first met her at the Xiling Bridge when he was twenty years old.

Su Xiaoxiao walked up to Xingren, bowed slightly, and asked softly, "Ruan Lang, you owe me an explanation."

"I..." Xingren said dejectedly, "I can't say it."

"..." Su Xiaoxiao looked at him silently. It was obvious that she had to say it today even though she couldn't.

"Well, okay." Xingren sighed and said, "It's nothing strange. I received the letter and rushed back to Jiankang, but found that my father was safe and sound. It's just that he heard that I was secretly engaged to a prostitute in Qiantang, and he felt that it was a disgrace to the family, so he pretended to be sick to trick me back to Beijing."

"As soon as I came back, he immediately arranged a marriage for me and forbade me to contact you again." He spread his hands and said, "I was completely powerless to resist and could only let him do whatever he wanted."

"I've thought of all you said." Su Xiaoxiao asked, "But no matter how closely your father watches you, you'll have time to write me a letter, right? Send it to Qiantang with the Hongyan magic weapon I gave you, and we can part ways, right?"

"..." Ruan Yu was speechless for a long time, then said dejectedly: "Because I know that if I write the letter, you will definitely break up with me. I don't want to break up with you. I hope that in two years, I may have a chance to go to Qiantang..."

"Haha, so you're just keeping me hanging?" Su Xiaoxiao's voice finally showed some movement. "You're only thinking about yourself, and you never thought about how sad I would be?!"

"I'm sorry, I was careless..." Ruan Yu looked up at Su Xiaoxiao and said, "It wasn't until I listened to your pipa music that I realized how deeply I hurt you."

"Bullshit!" Su Xiaoxiao gritted her teeth and snorted, "You are not negligent at all, but you just don't care! You are a selfish person who only thinks about yourself!"

"I was so blind at the beginning!" He raised his hand and slapped him hard.

"You make me so angry!" After saying that, she slapped him again and turned away resolutely.

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