Records of Mysterious Things in the Southern Dynasties

Chapter 280 Misunderstanding, pure misunderstanding

Shiqian Hall.

Seeing Xiao Yan dumbfounded, Xiao Hui and Xiao Wei thought he was foolishly happy, and said:
"Third brother, what are you standing there for? Let's go see Third Sister-in-law!"

"That's right. Don't you think about your third sister-in-law every day? Now your dream has finally come true!"

"But how could she be resurrected in Guangzhai Temple? And how could Yuhuan be there?" Xiao Yan murmured.

"Never mind him, we'll know everything once we meet!" Xiao Hui couldn't help but stood up and said.

"Yeah. If you go too late, your third sister-in-law will pick on you again." Xiao Wei also stood up and said with a smile.

"Well, we really have to hurry over there." Xiao Yan shuddered when he heard that.

"Old Dong, get ready quickly!" Xiao Hui urged Dong Ping.

"Hey hey." Dong Ping responded but his eyes looked at the emperor.

"Don't come, I will go incognito." Xiao Yan shook his head slowly.

"Why bother? Sister-in-law hasn't even seen third brother become emperor yet." Xiao Hui asked puzzled.

"That's right. Go meet your sister-in-law in style and see if she dares to turn her back on you?" Xiao Wei also said.

"What's going on? What if Yu Huan is wrong?" Xiao Yan still shook his head and said, "I'd better go and take a look first. Make sure it's your third sister-in-law, and then I can use the queen's guards to bring her back to the palace."

After a pause, he glanced at his two overly excited brothers and said, "You don't have to follow."

"Yes." Xiao Hui and Xiao Wei had no choice but to agree reluctantly.

~~
While waiting for the emperor to arrive, Xi Hui asked Xiao Yuhuan how she had been doing over the years.

As the saying goes, 'It's a long story to tell when a child has no mother'. Xiao Yuhuan snuggled in her mother's arms, crying and telling her mother about the sadness she had experienced over the years.

"As far as I can remember, all my brothers and sisters have mothers, but I don't. During the day, we all play together, and at night, we each look for our own mothers. Only I don't have a mother to look for..."

"My eldest sister has always said that I was the one who killed our mother, so I have always felt very sorry for my brothers and sisters, so I used my magical powers to make it up to them."

"Because of the price of my magical powers, I have never grown up. As a result, my brothers and sisters all have children, but I am still unmarried."

"I also want to live a normal life, but except for my brother the Crown Prince, no one wants me to get married..."

"I don't think they care about me, they just worry about losing the tool that can save their lives."

Xi Hui was heartbroken and hugged his daughter tightly, saying:
"Don't worry, mother will definitely take care of the matter for you. From now on, if anyone lets my daughter use her magical powers to save someone again, I will kill him too!"

"Yeah." Xiao Yuhuan nodded vigorously, like a happy little quail.

"By the way, who gave birth to the prince you mentioned just now?" Xi Hui asked again.

"It's Concubine Ding." Xiao Yuhuan replied.

"Ding Lingguang?" Xi Hui asked coldly.

"Yes." Xiao Yuhuan nodded and said, "Concubine Ding and the Crown Prince are both very kind. I am grateful to them for taking care of me over the years."

"Humph!" Xi Hui snorted for a long time, and did not refute her: "That girl knows her limits. It can be said that a fool has good fortune."

After a pause, he asked again, "So, Xiao Yan never appointed another queen?"

"Yes." Xiao Yuhuan nodded and said, "Father still can't let go of mother."

"Will he be unable to let go?" Xi Hui sneered and said, "He is just scared of me and doesn't want to be controlled by his wife anymore."

"..." Xiao Yuhuan didn't respond to such words. The mother and daughter talked for a while, and Xi Hui said to Tao Hongjing: "Master Zhendao, thank you for your incense over the years. I can condense my flesh and generate spiritual wisdom again."

"Your Majesty is too polite. This is what I should do." Tao Hongjing said with a smile.

"But how come you, a monk, are so righteous?" Xi Hui looked at him and said, "I've wanted to ask you for a long time, what is your relationship with Tao Hongjing?"

"I am Tao Hongjing." The old monk replied with his hands folded.

"Aren't you the master of the Shangqing Sect?" Xi Hui asked again.

"Ten years ago, I swore to accept the five major precepts in front of the Buddha statue in Tongtai Temple, and wrote the "Buddha Worship Text", officially becoming a Buddhist disciple." Tao Hongjing said without changing his expression.

"Even people like you don't practice Taoism anymore..." Xi Hui sighed regretfully.

"It's not like I won't practice Taoism anymore." Tao Hongjing said softly, "The Emperor has granted me permission to practice Buddhism on odd days and Taoism on even days. I can practice both Buddhism and Taoism without interrupting either."

"Is this okay?" Xi Hui almost couldn't hold it in.

~~
As he was speaking, he heard a voice outside announce, "The Emperor has arrived!"

Everyone was eager to go out of the hall to greet them, but Xi Hui remained motionless and even held Xiao Yuhuan back, refusing to let her go out.

The people from the Gou Chen Division had no choice but to stay where they were, and in the end, only Tao Hongjing led the monks to the front to welcome the emperor. Before they reached the temple gate, they saw Xiao Yan, in casual clothes, accompanied by Zhu Yi and Dong Ping, already entering the temple.

"Oh, Your Majesty..." Tao Hongjing bowed hurriedly.

"Forget it!" Xiao Yan waved his hand, letting him come forward to speak, and asked in a low voice: "What's the situation?"

"I am also confused." Tao Hongjing spread his hands and said, "Everything was normal before. It was only today that the third princess suddenly came and said that she had a sudden urge to revisit the old place."

"She moved into the palace when she was two years old. Why would she go back to the palace?" Xiao Yan cursed, "Go on."

"Yes." Tao Hongjing recounted Princess Yongkang's words and deeds in Guangzhai Temple, and concluded: "... She ignored the advice and ordered people to push away the stone Guanyin statue that was guarding the well mouth. The white dragon then flew out of the well and turned into the Empress."

"Damn it, how could the lady be in the well?!" The emperor, who always looked calm, was obviously panicked.

"This is like yellow mud falling into my crotch. I can't explain it."

After sighing for a while, Xiao Yan adjusted his mood and walked into the hall quickly with an excited look on his face.

"Oh, Madam! Am I seeing things? Is it really you?!" Xiao Yan's flattering voice made Zhu Yi and others look at each other in bewilderment. They simply couldn't imagine that there was such a side to him.

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in the hall.

Xiao Yuhuan stepped back consciously, leaving her father and mother alone to talk.

But without others, the atmosphere became even more awkward...

Seeing Xi Hui's face as cold as frost, Xiao Yan rubbed his hands and said with a stiff face: "I have been thinking about you all these years, but I never thought you were in the well."

"Didn't you deliberately have someone trap me in the well?" Xi Hui sneered.

"Madam, you are so cruel." Xiao Yan was startled and quickly returned to the state he was in back then. He pointed to the sky and swore:

"My feelings towards you are clear to all. I haven't appointed another queen since you died more than 20 years ago. If I knew you were still alive, I would go to hell to find you. How could I suppress you? This is definitely a misunderstanding, madam!"

"Misunderstanding?" Xi Hui laughed angrily, "You've suppressed me for so many years, and you want to brush it off with a misunderstanding?"

"But this is the truth! At that time, I had just killed the tyrant emperor and was about to accept the abdication. I don't know how many people in the court and the public wanted to kill me. So it was inevitable that there was a fuss and suspicion. I heard that the dragon fell into the well and that it was the emperor of the previous dynasty who came to settle accounts with me, so I quickly ordered to suppress it to prevent others from taking advantage of the situation." Xiao Yan hurriedly apologized first, and then led the rhythm:

"Besides, since you've returned home, why would you go to the well?"

(End of this chapter)