Chapter 36: Going to the Temple
The woman thought her fate was over.
Before coming to the cake shop, she was nervous and panicked. She knew there was no way she would be kept, but the dead end in front of her forced her to make this trip, just to gamble on a tiny hope.
When people have nowhere else to go.
When people have no way out.
Maybe you can let go of your reputation...
"Thank you girl."
"I hope to rest...I hope to rest, I hope to rest...I can't live anymore. I am an abandoned woman driven out by my husband's family. How can this world tolerate me?"
"As long as the girl doesn't dislike me, I will never leave, and I will never go back." Pan Xi cried out and knelt down in front of Shen Wei.
Since then.
The cake shop had its first female worker before it even opened.
Shen Wei advanced her one or two taels of silver in advance, gave her a place to live, taught her the details of the process of receiving customers, and gave her hope of survival.
On the way back home.
Xie Yuchuan still disagreed with Shen Wei keeping Panxi, saying that Panxi had killed two children and must be a person with bad morals.
Shen Wei didn't want to argue with him about right or wrong, so she directly brought up the matter of losing the piece, crying bitterly. After repeatedly attacking Xie Yuchuan's guilt, she once again successfully refused to sleep with Xie Yuchuan.
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As Madam Hou’s birthday banquet approaches, people in the mansion begin to get busy.
Qin Shuyu, who had been copying Buddhist scriptures in the temple for a few days, also began to preside over the procedures and rules of the birthday banquet.
Aunt Zhao, who was recuperating in a side hospital, had finally waited until this day. Since she had hope of living, she took her medicine on time, took good care of her body, and never attempted suicide by cutting her wrists again.
Today is the day Shen Wei takes me to change.
Shen Wei said.
I want to make myself as bright and dazzling as her, to be liked by the Marquis, and to be special.
"Miss Shen, I'm ready and I'm well." Aunt Zhao's eyes were full of anticipation, and she made this the only thing she wanted to live on: "Where are we going now?"
"Should I find a place where no one is around and imitate your expression, clothes, and language?"
"But, but what if I can't imitate well?"
The change that Aunt Zhao thought she had made into a charming woman like Shen Wei was simply her imitation of Shen Wei's demeanor and daily style of behavior.
So it started from the moment I was discharged from the hospital.
Aunt Zhao tried to walk the same way as Shen Wei did.
Even when getting on the carriage, Aunt Zhao observed carefully and tried her best to do the same.
She thought that by doing this, she would become as unique as Shen Wei and be cherished by Xie Yuchuan. If she went back to the delivery room that day, perhaps Xie Yuchuan would not keep the baby.
Shen Wei looked at this scene, chuckled and shook his head: "What are you thinking about?"
“You are you, you don’t need to imitate anyone else.”
"I'll take you to the temple to burn incense and pray for the unborn child. Don't worry, I will help you eventually."
Aunt Zhao smiled awkwardly and self-deprecatingly.
Xiao Man, who was sitting next to him, raised her head and said to Shen Wei in surprise, "Miss, you are not going to the Linghuang Temple outside the city, are you?"
"I heard that some time ago, a man destroyed someone's innocence in Linghuang Temple. The woman whose innocence was destroyed seemed to have hanged herself. The clan felt ashamed and didn't even have a tombstone after her death."
"Although the matter has been suppressed again and again, there are still some rumors outside."
"Now the Linghuang Temple is deserted. Young ladies from noble families are too scared to go there. The elders in the temple also take it very seriously and require all the women who go to burn incense to wear curtains."
"Even married women have to wear it to avoid having their innocence defiled by others."
The unexpected words brought Shen Wei's thoughts back to that night.
She was standing in the corner of the pharmacy, watching the farce without paying much attention. She saw with her own eyes how Lin's mother spit on her daughter with the most vicious words in the world.
I saw with my own eyes Miss Lin in grief and crying out that she was wronged.
Finally he hit his head against the wall and died.
The sight of the blood splattered all over the ground made Shen Wei's stomach churn. Even though it had been such a long time since he recalled it, he still felt a lump in his stomach.
"Girl, do we have a curtain? We may not be able to get in without the curtain." Xiaoman looked at Shen Wei worriedly.
Aunt Zhao sat aside, wringing her handkerchief, saying nothing.
Shen Wei paused for a moment and said, "Tell the coachman to stop the car at the city gate. I'll go down and buy it."
Curtain!
Curtain!
She was fed up with feeling this way.
When traveling or burning incense, one must cover their face and skin tightly.
If you meet a man from another world, you cannot even reveal his maiden name.
Ordinary women are exploited, beaten and scolded, and they would rather die than divorce.
The noble lady of the Gao family has been labeled with the words chastity and reputation since she was born. The world should not be like this. It is too bad and sick, but no one thinks it is sick.
The carriage stopped.
Shen Wei lifted the curtain, got out of the car, and went to a nearby shop to buy a curtain.
She was dressed elegantly, and ever since she started to build physical strength, even the way she walked had an imposing aura, causing passers-by around her to frequently look back at her.
"She has a stunning appearance and a slender figure. She is truly eye-catching."
A luxurious carriage stopped not far away.
A bony hand lifted the curtain, and the man sitting inside raised his eyebrows, his eyes fixed on Shen Wei's figure: "I have been to many festivals in the past few years, and rarely see such a beauty."
"Is that young lady from the capital? Why does she look unfamiliar to me?"
The servant next to him looked up and quickly glanced at Shen Wei: "Sir, have you forgotten? There is a rumor in the capital that Lord Xie has a beautiful woman hidden away. She is very beautiful, but her behavior is dissolute and unique."
"She was wearing the most expensive Shu silk brocade in the capital. There were only three bolts of the material in the entire capital."
"You spent a lot of money to give a horse to the young lady of the Xiangfu. The mistress of the Marquis's house is of noble status, so she bought one with her own money. And this last horse, wasn't it bought by Marquis Xie and given to her?"
It turns out that he is someone from the Marquis’ Mansion.
Speaking of which, he has been having some issues with the Marquis' Mansion recently!
The young man narrowed his eyes, his eyes full of calculation and scheming: "Miss Lu suddenly came to see me some time ago, and as soon as we met, she asked me if I had slandered the reputation of Lin Yun'er, the whore."
"The vain Lin family, seeing our Dong family's rise in recent years, are clinging to this marriage."
"I have secretly tried to probe the Lin family several times, hoping that they would give up, but the Lin family pretended to be confused with me and even asked me when I would get married! Ridiculous, is Lin Yun'er worthy of this?"
"She is the one who is dissolute and unclean."
"If she hadn't insisted on going to the temple to burn incense, would she have fallen into the water? Would I have had the chance to catch her?"
"It was all settled, but this damn Qin Shuyu got the news from somewhere and slandered my character in front of Miss Lu! If I hadn't reacted quickly, this marriage would have been ruined!"