Aunt Chen is back from the world of cultivation

Before dawn.

In the small kitchen of Qiongzhi Courtyard in the Jingnan Marquis' Mansion, the servants have already started to get busy.

Even if the wife still has a poor appetite, the breakfast should still be prepared with guaranteed quality and quantity.

In a corner of the yard, a nine-year-old boy in a brocade robe was blowing the stove with great effort. After a while, he was choked by the black smoke and tears were streaming down his face.

Beside him, the kitchen maid was standing with a whip in her hand, and said impatiently:

"Second Young Master is taking so long, when will Madam be able to have breakfast? Are you deliberately slacking off?"

As he spoke, he whipped the boy on the back with the whip in his hand.

Pei Xuan screamed when he was beaten, his eyes full of hatred.

Two days ago, he was called back to tend to Zhang before the academy let him take the exam for the clothing holiday.

He originally thought that Zhang was really ill, so he immediately put down his studies at the academy without hesitation, asked for leave and came back to fulfill his filial duty.

I never expected that as soon as I came back to serve tea, Zhang would attack me.

It was obvious that she deliberately failed to take the teacup properly, causing it to fall to the ground and break, splashing tea all over him, but she turned the tables and accused him of deliberately scalding her with the tea, and made him kneel outside the house to reflect on his mistake.

The autumn sun was very strong, and he was forced to kneel outside the main room.

The maids and old women outside the house all looked at him with strange eyes, and some even laughed at him openly.

He was punished to kneel for an hour, until his legs were almost broken, before he was allowed to stand up.

When he returned to his yard, what was waiting for him were leftovers.

He was already full of anger, and when he saw that his servants dared to neglect him like that, he naturally flew into a rage and smashed all those things.

Before he could go to the kitchen to settle accounts with the servants who had neglected him, someone else came from the main courtyard.

It was Qingliu, the head maidservant beside Zhang, who said that she had passed on the lady's words and accused him of being "too pampered in daily life and not knowing how hard it is to earn a meal". She made him get up every morning with the people in the small kitchen to make breakfast for the lady.

On the one hand, it was to show filial piety, and on the other hand, it also taught him to cherish material resources, so that he would not grow up to be a playboy who was ignorant of the sufferings of the people.

With two big hats put on him, Pei Xuan had no choice but to do it.

It was not until then that he realized that his stepmother was deliberately making things difficult for him and tormenting him.

Otherwise, the entire Bo Mansion's internal affairs were under her control, and the kitchen would never suddenly start to neglect him.

This made Pei Xuan feel unprecedented panic.

He had obviously been trying very hard to please Zhang all along, so why did she suddenly start to make things difficult for him?

After spending a lot of his own money, he finally found out the reason:

My stepmother and father had a quarrel!

The reason for the quarrel was that on the night of the fourteenth, his father met his biological mother, Aunt Chen, and did not go to pick up his stepmother who was hosting a banquet at Mingyue Tower.

Even though his father promised to bring his biological mother back to serve his stepmother, the stepmother was still furious and took it out on him.

Therefore, he was completely implicated by his hateful biological mother!

If she had just come back and worked as a cook for her stepmother, how could these chores have fallen on him!

Even though his family was ordinary before, his incompetent parents never asked him to cook a meal or wash dishes.

Now that he has become the distinguished young master of the Earl's Mansion, in an era when gentlemen stay away from the kitchen, he actually has to light the fire and cook for others. It is simply humiliating.

But even though he knew that his stepmother was deliberately humiliating and torturing him, he was simply unable to resist.

Whether it was the maids and servants who were eyeing him covetously, or the moral justice, they all suppressed him.

It was impossible for him to leave the Bo Mansion.

Pei Xuan's heart was filled with resentment towards his biological mother and stepmother, but he could do nothing and could only hope that his father would quickly find his damn biological mother.

However, even though the Jingnan Marquis's Mansion is very powerful now, it is impossible for it to let the Shuntian Mansion search the whole city like searching for a wanted criminal just to find a concubine.

Otherwise, I'm afraid I'll be reported to the emperor by the censor immediately.

The entire capital city is so large that the permanent and floating population together totals more than three million people.

It is not that easy to find someone with the power of the Bo Mansion alone.

*

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, Chen Qingzhu continued to practice in seclusion.

However, the reputation of Venerable Du'e spread again among the officialdom of the capital after the arrival of Anqing prefect Zuo Yujiang.

Because Zuo Yujiang's family stayed in Jiyuan County and were afraid of encountering bandits again, they did not dare to take the water route. As a result, they arrived in the capital more than ten days later than Chen Qingzhu and others.

Having served as prefect for nine years, he still hoped that the next one would be able to make further progress, so naturally he had to move around.

The first people he visited were his good friends or colleagues who were officials in the capital. Although they might not have a say in the Ministry of Personnel, they were definitely more informed than he, an official from another place, and they might even have connections in the Ministry of Personnel.

It happened to be a holiday, so he hosted a banquet and invited all these people together.

At the banquet, people inevitably talked about the strange things that happened on the road to Beijing.

After all, Zuo Yujiang's family are now devout believers of Master Du'e, and spreading the Master's miracles to others is completely a subconscious behavior.

Upon learning that he was actually saved by Venerable Du'e, the other officials present all showed strange expressions.

You know, a while ago, the story of the God of Du'e appearing in Songhu to wipe out the Japanese pirates was widely circulated in the capital.

Someone said:

"I remember that the deity who fought against the Japanese in Songhu was called Du'e Shenzun. Du'e Shenzun and Du'e Zunzun are only one character apart. Could there be any connection between the two?"

Then, someone else said:

"I have read the original report written by General Zheng. The deity called himself Du'e Zunzun. Du'e Zunzun was a title given to him by the people later!"

When these words came out, everyone was extremely shocked:

"Brother Zuo, you actually met the Lord of Deliverance?"

"I originally thought this rumor was a bit too far-fetched, but I didn't expect that such gods really existed in the world!"

Only then did Zuo Yujiang realize that the god he believed in was so famous in the capital.

A sense of pride welled up in my heart.

Everyone else only knew about the legendary Lord Du'e, but he had personally seen the Lord's apparition!

We were on the same boat and had close contact for more than a moment!

"Of course. I didn't believe in God at first, but this time I was saved by the Venerable. I saw Him saving people with my own eyes, and from then on I believed it without a doubt!"

Zuo Yujiang Road.

The others immediately became extremely interested in Zuo Yujiang's experience of encountering a miracle.

Keep asking him all kinds of details.

Zuo Yujiang took the time to tell everyone about it.

When his good friends and classmates returned to work, the story of the God of Du'e appearing again spread among the major government offices in the capital.

Many people just treat it as a curiosity.

But for those who are good at seizing opportunities, such as Minister Pang of the Ministry of War, he immediately sent people to Jeju to verify the truth.

If this is true, he will report it to Emperor Yong'an immediately.

He knew that Emperor Yong'an would be very interested in this matter as he valued the fame brought by this divine master.

Facts have proved that opportunities always come to those who are prepared.

It wasn't long before his preparations came in handy.