Chapter 562 - A Reckless Girl (1/2)

“Tell Qu Le to run the errand!” Shao Wanru thought for a moment and said.

“Okay, after Qu Le comes back, I will tell her!” Yujie looked out of the window and said. Qu Le went to fetch some ointment, but hadn’t come back now. Yujie wondered if there was any accident.

“Bring me the painting drawn by Pushan Nun!” Shao Wanru gave an order. She felt extremely strange about the painting and thought that Pushan Nun seemed to be up to something by sending it to Shao Yanru in such a rush.

Yujie answered and rolled up the painting in her hand. After that, she went to the back of the screen and took out the painting drawn by Pushan Nun.

It was a portrait of the thousand-hand Guanyin. Shao Wanru reached out to touch the drawing paper and found it of high quality. Such a piece of drawing paper should be expensive. Of course, the drawing paper of high quality is smooth to the touch and easier to the collection. Numerous masterpieces left by famous painters in history were drawn on paper of high quality. Otherwise, they would have been damaged and couldn’t be handed down to later generations.

In terms of the quality of the drawing paper, it was a masterpiece that could be handed down to later generations.

Besides, it was drawn with good ink with a faint fragrance. Shao Wanru noticed the content of the painting.

The hands of Guanyin were vivid with an object for exorcising demons recorded in Buddhist legends on each of them. Shao Wanru had read a lot of ancient records on the mountain, but she was still incapable of telling the story of the object on each of the hands of Guanyin. With so many objects, there should be plenty of legends.

She found nothing strange in the painting but a small seal with two characters, which didn’t seem like “Pushan”. It should be a private seal of Pushan Nun’s, if she had another name. Because the private seal was too small, she couldn’t recognize the characters for the time being. One of the characters seemed to be “lan” or “quan”, while the other one was even smaller and couldn’t be seen clearly.

The seal should belong to someone with the character “lan” or “quan” in her name.

The character style didn’t seem to be ordinary. Shao Wanru was confused, and didn’t find the secret behind it after looking at it carefully for a while.

She could neither figure out something nor see the characters clearly.

She could only continue looking at it, but didn’t find anything. There seemed to be nothing wrong with the painting.

She put down the painting in her hand helplessly and heard someone talking at the door. So she raised her voice to say, “Qu Le!”

Qu Le just came back. Knowing that Shao Wanru was appreciating the painting inside, she did not dare to come in and report to her. So she talked with Yujie about what she had seen in Mingqiu Nun’s place just now.

Hearing Shao Wanru call her, she hurried in.

After bowing to Shao Wanru, she put the ointment on the table and said, “Miss, when I went to fetch the ointment, I saw a man in Mingqiu Nun’s Zen room.”

“A man?” Shao Wanru asked casually, “Does he come to ask her to make a diagnosis and give a treatment?”

Although Mingqiu Nun’s reputation was not known to outsiders, it was known to the nuns in the nunnery. Could it be possible that this man knew Mingqiu Nun’s reputation?

“He doesn’t come for a diagnosis and treatment, but seems to bear old grudges against Mingqiu Nun. She just ignored him, but he refused to leave, sat in her silence room and kept talking with her. When I arrived there, I intended to meet Mingqiu Nun after he left. But he kept staying there. I became anxious and sent someone to report to Mingqiu Nun. She asked me to go over, and gave me the ointment on hearing that I needed it. So I came back late!”

Qu Le reported.

“Did you hear anything?” Shao Wanru asked with her face darkening. She could not allow anyone to disturb Mingqiu Nun.

“When I went in, the man stopped talking. I heard nothing. But when I was about to leave, I heard him mention you, so I deliberately slowed down,” Qu Le said.

“What did he say about me?” Shao Wanru asked in astonishment. She didn’t expect that this man would know her and even know the relationship between Mingqiu Nun and her. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have mentioned her in front of Mingqiu Nun.

“He said that you were quite a good girl, and…” Qu Le said while thinking. Suddenly, she continued saying with her eyes lighting up, “I also heard this man talk about medical skills and ask Mingqiu Nun if she still kept the book about acupuncture she got when she was a child!”

Qu Le heard this when she was about to go out. The man was talking to Mingqiu Nun, but Mingqiu Nun ignored him, so he seemed to be talking to himself. Nevertheless, the man remained passionate even when talking to himself, as if he didn’t know that Mingqiu Nun didn’t want to talk to him.

He continued talking about various things.

He looked learned and refined, but somehow acted like a fool unable to tell Mingqiu Nun’s aloofness!

“Miss, should I go and have a look?” Yujie also came in and said worriedly.

She had stayed with Mingqiu Nun for so many years and regarded Mingqiu Nun as her only relative. How could she not worry?

“No, I think I know who it is!” Shao Wanru suddenly smiled, shook her head and said.

“Who is so dull?” Yujie said angrily.