SFS Chapter 396 Tryst
Chapter 396 Tryst
After the Zhu brothers and sisters and Gong Qianyue left, Qin Huiyin was indeed much freer.
Li Taohua would still arrange for her to listen to sutras, but she would not restrict her. She would go for one hour in the morning and one hour in the afternoon every day, and then she could arrange it as she pleased.
Qin Huiyin saw Li Taohua kneeling in front of the Buddha and beating a wooden fish more than once. She looked like she had seen through the world and was ready to become a monk at any time. She was completely different from the Li Taohua she knew.
She always looked at the Buddha with sadness in her eyes, and no one knew what she was thinking.
She had seen how Li Taohua manipulated two men, only the men were completely devoted to her, but she had never seen her obsessed with love. Could it be that her father was her true love?
"Miss, what are you thinking about?" Zhilan saw Qin Huiyin staring at Li Taohua in a daze, and asked while standing beside her.
"I wonder if my mother really likes my father." Qin Huiyin said, "In all these years, I have never seen her look so sad."
Li Taohua had a face like a hibiscus, but she was known as a "dominant flower." She was sharp, domineering, and ruthless, and her occasional displays of weakness were a powerful weapon, keeping men willingly at her mercy. But the beautiful woman now revealed to her was different. She was like a lost child, unsure of the right path ahead, afraid that if she took the wrong path, she would never be able to return. She was deeply uncertain.
"Miss, look at that person..." Zhilan pointed at the nun who walked in. "Isn't this the nun you met in that nunnery when you were so engrossed in the music?"
Qin Huiyin looked in the direction Zhilan pointed and saw the strange nun.
The nun walked into the Buddhist hall and knelt down beside Li Taohua: "Amitabha."
Li Taohua suddenly opened her eyes and looked back at her sharply: "What are you doing here?"
As she spoke, she looked around.
Qin Huiyin pulled Zhilan and hid behind a pillar to conceal her figure.
"I saw her." The nun looked at the Buddha and kowtowed to it. "Buddha, I have no regrets in this life."
"What did you say to her?" Li Taohua looked nervous.
"Don't worry, I didn't say anything. I just saw that she was so happy that I lost my composure for a moment and seemed to scare her. In her eyes, I must be a crazy nun and she wouldn't notice anything."
"Don't see her again. She's doing well now. I hope she lives a peaceful life, knowing nothing." Li Taohua looked sharply at the person next to her. "If you dare to disturb her stable life, I will cut off your flesh piece by piece and leave you with no place to bury your body."
"Your temperament has changed a lot." The nun looked at her. "You used to be so delicate and weak, as if even a slightly loud voice would scare you. It must have been very difficult for you to take care of her all these years, right?"
Li Taohua looked at the Buddha with loving eyes: "Although it's not easy, I am very happy. She is good, just like them."
"That's great." After the nun said these two words, she said nothing more. She just quietly beat the wooden fish and muttered to herself.
Li Taohua didn't say another word to her.
If you didn't see the two of them talking with your own eyes, no one would be able to tell that they knew each other.
Qin Huiyin saw a few monks coming over and quietly pulled Zhilan away.
After they were far away, Zhilan asked, "Miss, Madam knows that nun. What did they mean?"
"That's not important." Qin Huiyin said, "If my mother wanted to tell me, she would tell me in person. If she doesn't want to say it, she doesn't want to mention it, so there's no need to know it."
"Miss, don't you have any curiosity?" Zhilan asked.
"My experience (of watching dramas for many years) tells me that you shouldn't be too curious. Sometimes excessive curiosity can be a burden. I'm living such a good life now, why should I create trouble for myself?" Qin Huiyin said, and left with Zhilan.
After dinner, Qin Huiyin took out the unfinished storybook and continued reading.
When she heard she would be staying in the mountains for half a month, she prepared dozens of storybooks to pass the extra time at night. After all, during the day, she could enjoy the scenery all over the mountain, but there was nothing fun to do at night.
Knock, knock! Someone is knocking on the window.
Qin Huiyin felt strange. If it was someone she brought with her, they would just come in directly. If it was a monk in a temple, they would also knock on the door, so why would they knock on the window?
She came to the window curiously and looked outside through the crack. When she saw a familiar figure, she immediately opened the window and looked at him in surprise: "Brother, why are you going up the mountain again?"
"There's a town nearby that has a night market at night. It's quite lively. Do you want to go and have a look?"
"Want to want."
Song Ruize stretched out his hand to her: "I'll catch you."
Qin Huiyin climbed out of the window and threw herself into Song Ruize's arms. When she landed, she pointed to the door next to her and asked a stupid question: "Why don't I go through the door?"
"To create the illusion that he has rested."
Qin Huiyin nodded: "That makes perfect sense. Let's go!"
Song Ruize rode up the mountain on horseback, this time riding on the same horse with Qin Huiyin.
He put the cloak on her, wrapped her completely tightly, hugged her from behind, and rode down the mountain.
Half an hour later, they arrived at a bustling town.
"Is this really just a small town?" Qin Huiyin looked at the bustling scene. "It's much more prosperous than the town we used to live in. There are still so many stalls so late at night, and so many people visiting the night market."
"This place is close to the capital, so of course it's much more prosperous than our remote town." Song Ruize said, "Have you been craving for food lately? Look over there, it's all food."
Qin Huiyin pulled Song Ruize towards the snack stand.
She had been eating vegetarian food all day recently, and her mouth was so bland that it could hatch an egg. She picked out several snacks, some delicious and some not, but even if they were not delicious, she couldn't bear to throw them away. After all, romantic food will be struck by lightning.
Song Ruize saw her distress, and almost all of the food that didn't taste good went into his stomach.
Qin Huiyin had no idea that Song Ruize was "cleaning up the garbage" for her. She just thought that Song Ruize liked the food she didn't like, and she didn't feel guilty about the rest of the division of labor.
"This is good..." Qin Huiyin saw a wreath worn on Song Ruize's head.
Song Ruize looked at her helplessly: "Stop making trouble."
"Girl, you can buy this everlasting flower for your husband. Look at how lifelike it is, it symbolizes that your love will never fade."
"No, we are not..." Qin Huiyin wanted to explain, but saw Song Ruize took out money to buy the flower basket, and also specially bought a few headdresses made of everlasting flowers, and then put them in Qin Huiyin's hair.
"This girl is so beautiful. With this flower on her, she is even more beautiful than the flower." The proprietress's mouth was as sweet as honey.
Qin Huiyin felt a little embarrassed. Seeing Song Ruize paid the money, she pulled him away quickly.
It's so embarrassing.
However, she didn't think much about it.
Given Song Ruize's personality, even if he was misunderstood, he wouldn't explain anything to a stranger. Thinking of this, she didn't want to say anything more and just pulled him away from that dreadful place.