After rebirth, I don’t want to be a Mary Sue heroine anymore!
Chapter 17: Burning Incense in the Temple
After Luo Qingqing and Luo Wenqian talked about going to the banquet, Luo Wenqian asked someone to make clothes for Luo Qingqing, and specifically instructed the servants to use the best fabrics when making clothes for Luo Qingqing.
I asked Luo Qingqing to go to the Zanbao Pavilion to buy jewelry. The hairpins in the Zanbao Pavilion are not cheap. The hairpins in the Zanbao Pavilion need to be made on site, and the shopkeeper there personally designs and makes them. Each piece is a unique product, and the materials used are also very good. Therefore, this hairpin is also not cheap.
Luo Wenqian spent a huge amount of money for Luo Qingqing's banquet. After all, life in the mansion was already tight, and he was more frugal than before. Now he was willing to spend a large sum of money just to prevent Luo Qingqing from losing face at the banquet and let her stand out at the banquet.
A few days before the banquet, I went back home and asked everyone to go to the temple to burn incense and pray. It happened to be the Mid-Autumn Festival. Everyone wanted to pray for everyone, so everyone happily agreed to go and pray.
Although Luo Wenqian disagreed at first, as long as Luo Qingqing said a few more words in front of him, he naturally agreed.
This time when going to the temple to pray, Luo Qingqing took all the money she had saved over the years, and Li Cui naturally followed her.
The weather was just right on the day we went to the temple to pray. Wang Yuyuan, Luo Chen and I sat in a carriage together. Luo Wenqian sat with Luo Qingqing.
Luo Wenqian was very satisfied with this arrangement. After all, he still loved Luo Qingqing. In Luo Qingqing's eyes, Luo Qingqing needed him. Unlike me, Luo Wenqian didn't feel needed by me at all. He even felt that I had benefited him. He felt that his self-esteem was too hurt.
On the day of going to the temple to pray for blessings, everyone was very happy. We were happy that the good show was about to begin, and Luo Qingqing and Li Cui were even happier. They were also going to start their layout.
Today, not only we went to the temple to pray, but also Wen Yiheng.
After a while, the carriage slowly stopped in front of Baoguo Temple. This temple was the most effective temple in Dayun Dynasty. Generally, the wishes made here were quite effective and could be easily fulfilled. It was just that the way they were fulfilled might be a little unusual.
Everyone went to the temple to pray for blessings with their own thoughts. Since we were the prime minister's family, Baoguo Temple specially reserved a room here for us to rest and eat.
The noble ladies who stayed in seclusion in their boudoirs naturally couldn't stand walking outside for a long time, so they would find a room to rest after going out for a while.
Wang Yuyuan, Luo Chen and I knelt and prayed enthusiastically, and finished the prayer in a short while. At the beginning, we were together as a family, thinking that we would not get separated and go back after the prayer.
But Luo Qingqing wanted to separate. At that time, Luo Qingqing said: "I heard that this Baoguo Temple has always been very spiritual, and the environment is also very good. But I haven't been there yet. Most of my sisters have been here before, so they are not interested. Let me go first and then meet up with you."
Luo Wenqian didn't want Luo Qingqing to go shopping alone at first, he always felt that it was not a good thing. He didn't want to speak out to stop it, in the past, it was Wang Yuyuan who jumped out to speak at such times.
Luo Wenqian cast his eyes on Wang Yuyuan. Wang Yuyuan looked at Luo Wenqian this time and ignored him. Wang Yuyuan said for the first time: "If you want to go shopping, go for it. This Baoguo Temple is indeed quite large. But you have to pay attention to safety and there are some taboos that you must pay attention to. The rest is nothing. If you want to go, go and have fun."
Luo Qingqing left without looking back after hearing this. Luo Wenqian was still standing there in a daze. He even blamed Wang Yuyuan.
Luo Wenqian's face immediately turned cold, and then he said in a cold voice: "You know that Luo Qingqing has rarely been out of the house. What if she gets lost here? There are more than just our family burning incense in this temple today. What if she loses face? Do you want her to have a bad reputation again? How can she gain a foothold in this capital in the future?"
Wang Yuyuan looked at his cold face and listened to his cold accusing voice. Wang Yuyuan raised her chin and smiled happily. Her smile was mixed with a bit of sarcasm as she said, "My husband knows all this? If you know, why don't you speak up to stop it? Why do you want me to do it? You want me to be the bad guy? You usually have the closest relationship with her, why don't you say anything now? Are you afraid that she will dislike you in the future?"
After Wang Yuyuan finished speaking, she ignored Luo Wenqian's angry face and pulled Luo Chen and I away.
Of course, we are not the only ones here today. Wen Qiao, the assistant minister of the Ministry of Revenue, is also here. Wen Qiao likes my brother very much. Every time she sees my brother, she wants to pester him to play with her. As for whether my brother likes Wen Qiao, I can't tell.
Wang Yuyuan saw that Wen Qiao's eyes were almost glued to Luo Chen, and she knew that Wen Qiao liked Luo Chen. Wen Qiao had a very good family background and education, so she was a good match for Luo Chen.
So Wang Yuyuan said to Luo Chen: "Chen'er, this Miss Wen is also your friend, right? How about you two play together for a while? Your sister and I have some private words to talk about. I'll play with you guys after I finish talking to your sister?"
Luo Chen always listened to Wang Yuyuan, so he played with Wen Qiao. When the crowd had gone away, Wang Yuyuan and I looked at each other.
Then we came to the most dilapidated room in the temple. As expected, we heard the voices of Luo Qingqing and Li Cui.
Li Cui didn't know where she heard that there was a master in Baoguo Temple who could change fate, but the fee was very high. At the same time, it was not easy to see him. If you want this master to take action, you naturally need to have conditions that make him excited.
Wang Yuyuan and I listened to their conversation at the door, and couldn't help but sigh that Li Cui was also an extraordinary person.
Li Cui was originally from the countryside. She met a fortune teller by chance and learned a little bit from him. So she knew exactly when I was born and that I was a lucky star. I also had the Pure Yang Fate. A Pure Yang Fate for a woman is something that many people dream of.
It is rumored that the soul of a woman with a pure yang destiny can help practitioners greatly improve their magic power and thus achieve a state of immortality.
Li Cui had asked people to investigate the details of this person who could change her life. This person was obsessed with immortality.
It is recorded in ancient books that if a woman with a pure Yang fate swallows her soul, the person who swallows it will be able to live forever. However, the soul of a pure Yang fate must have died of old age.
Li Cui also knew that her daughter Luo Qingqing was a short-lived person who did not enjoy much fortune and luck, but died tragically.
If Luo Qingqing and I had secretly exchanged our fortunes, and my soul had inherited her fortune and died early, it would have been considered a natural death.
Li Cui directly stated her conditions: "You help us exchange lives, so that we can each get what we want. You can use her soul to achieve immortality. We will use her luck to enjoy the wealth and glory of this world."
The man sitting cross-legged in the room sneered and said, "If it's so easy to exchange lives, then why don't I just find someone with a shorter life to exchange with Luo Qingqing, instead of cooperating with you?"
At this time, Li Cui raised her head and said arrogantly: "You can't replace others. Because you have actually discovered that those who are directly related to Luo Qingqing do not meet your requirements. They all have signs of short life. And you can't wait too much longer. Although you look young now, you can't hold on for too long. Although you go to the mass grave day and night to catch lonely ghosts and suck them, the effect is not very obvious after all."
The man sitting in the room was also slightly stunned. He was a monk in this temple and was usually approachable. No one knew that he would go to the mass grave at night to catch lonely ghosts and bring them back to eat. His current body did not seem to have any problems on the surface, but his soul was suffering day and night, and his soul was burned by fire every day.
Li Cui continued, "The person you are exchanging life for today is Luo Qingqing's half-sister. They are related by blood. You can do it directly. You are the only person in the world who can exchange lives. So, isn't it good for us to cooperate and each get what we need? I will also give you a sum of money, so you don't have to worry about your material life then."
The man in the room was silent for a while and then said: "I can help you, but I hope you will do what you say." So the man asked Li Cui to prepare some incense ash, preferably the ashes from the incense burned in front of the Buddha, and some chicken blood, and he drew the talisman.
Li Cui immediately took out a package and a gourd from her body. The gourd contained chicken blood and the package contained incense ash.
Li Cui had already secretly investigated the things used in exchanging lives. She was thinking about how to come here to find someone without being noticed, but she didn't expect that I would take the initiative to propose to burn incense at Baoguo Temple. This was giving her a chance.
After a while, the man asked Luo Qing to bite his finger and let the blood drip out to mix with the chicken blood, and then draw a talisman on a piece of yellow cloth. Then he put the talisman into the incense ash and let the incense ash and blood mix.
He silently chanted his own spell, dripped his own blood onto the yellow cloth, and continued chanting words I couldn't understand. He then took out his own magic weapon and placed the yellow cloth on top. He wrote the birth dates of Luo Qingqing and me on the back of the yellow cloth.
After a while, I gave Li Cui two talismans, and told her to give one to me and the other to Luo Qingqing. We both had to wear them for three months, and then our fates would be changed.
After Li Cui and the others left, Wang Yuyuan had someone sneak in and kill the man. The one who killed him was none other than his senior. Wang Yuyuan and I sent people to look for him for a long time before we found him.
The man in the room and the person we are looking for were originally brothers in the same sect, but they parted ways because one of them cared about the world and the other only wanted to live forever. Over the years, the life-changing man has devoured hundreds of innocent souls.
His senior wanted to kill him, but unfortunately he was not strong enough to kill him. When he became strong enough, he could not find him. So this time we told him the whereabouts of his junior, and he came immediately.
When he walked out of the room, we all saw a tear in the corner of his eye. It is really a pity that he killed his junior fellow student, who had been in the same class for ten years. Obviously, practicing good deeds can also achieve the effect of immortality, but the process is slow.
In order to achieve immortality quickly, those people were willing to drag others down with them, but they didn't expect that they would end up hurting others and themselves.
Luo Qingqing was extremely happy holding the talisman, as if her fate had changed.
Then she went to the temple to ask for some amulets, but she bumped into a little boy on the way.
The little boy was dressed in ordinary clothes, but he was strong and knocked Luo Qingqing to the ground in one move.
Luo Qingqing wanted to get angry, but then she remembered the rumors that had spread before. She could only smile and say to the boy: "Be more careful when walking next time, and don't bump into people again. Not everyone is as kind-hearted as her."
Luo Qingqing is so shameless that she actually thinks she is a kind-hearted person.
The little boy looked up at Luo Qingqing, his eyes full of confusion. It was Luo Qingqing who had bumped into someone, but she blamed him instead and even shamelessly said that she was kind.
Luo Qingqing left after she finished speaking. Luo Qingqing would never have thought that the person she knocked down was Wen Yiheng, the man she loved terribly in her previous life. In the previous life, the two also met in a temple, but at that time Luo Qingqing pretended to be a weak rabbit.
Anyone who saw her would feel pity for her. In this life, Wen Yiheng looked at her with disgust. Today was the anniversary of her mother's death, so he came to the Baoguo Temple to pray. He didn't want to be too conspicuous, and he didn't dare to be too conspicuous. After all, he was now the emperor's unfavored prince, and he dared to keep a low profile.
I saw everything, and I immediately walked over and said to Wen Yiheng: "I just saw my cousin knock you down, I'm so sorry. It was her first time to visit Baoguo Temple, and she was probably too anxious to see it, so she didn't pay attention. I brought her to apologize to you."
Today I am not wearing anything flashy, even lighter than Luo Qingqing. Wen Yiheng was stunned when he saw me. I am good-looking, and my temperament in every move also attracted Wen Yiheng deeply.
Wen Yiheng looked at me as if he had seen the light. That look made me feel sick, but I still had to pretend to be shy.
Wen Yiheng said, "Young lady, are you the daughter of the Prime Minister's Mansion? It turns out that the girl just now is the girl mentioned in the rumors a few years ago."
I pretended to be surprised and said, "Ah? Sir, do you know me? But why don't I remember meeting you before?"
Wen Yiheng said, "We have indeed never seen her. It's just that not many people came here to pray today, and I heard that the Prime Minister's family is here too. I know the rest of them, and just now I heard you say that she was your cousin, so I naturally guessed who she was."
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