Chapter 652 - Spend the Night in the Meditation Room (1/2)

“Don’t be so nervous. Everything is still under control. Don’t mention it to anyone. I don’t want them to worry about me.”

All of a sudden, Qinghu fell silent. He had always felt it was good to have him by Lin Mengya’s side, even if only for three years.

Unexpectedly, what satisfied him might be even crueler to her than putting her to death by dismembering her body.

Now, he finally knew the pain in it.

“Okay, got it.”

This was a secret between the two of them, and only they could support each other to go on.

Lin Mengya asked Qinghu to go out and hided the small pill given by her teacher personally.

She patted her little face, pretending nothing had happened.

“Master, it’s time to have dinner.”

Baizhi came in with a smile and asked Lin Mengya to go out for dinner. Looking at the carefree smile on the maid’s face, Lin Mengya could only try her best to hide everything in her heart.

“Okay, let’s go out together to have dinner.”

The sixth day of the fifth lunar month was a good day to go out.

Lin Mengya got up early in the morning. After dressing up, she got into a carriage with Yinghua.

The royal family was very dignified, and all the people of the city had to kneel on the street and send them off.

Making a loud noise meant disrespect to the royal family. How to punish noisy people was just a split-second thing for a member of the royal family.

Although he was just a six-year-old child, Long Yinghua was the son of the emperor, after all.

He was dressed in sea-green brocade clothes, which made his little face look fairer and lovelier.

His hair was tied properly to the top of his head, with nothing but a lovely crown of blue bird. Since he was a child, most of his hair was hanging down his back.

Lin Mengya took him in his arms and sat in the tall carriage. The little boy, who seldom came out, was a little excited and kept asking.

Lin Mengya had always been very patient with children, so she gave him answers one by one.

“Third Sister-in-law, why can’t my mother come? Wasn’t it said that everyone would come except Imperial Noble Consort?”

Lin Mengya kept Concubine Xian’s illness a secret from Long Yinghua.

After all, it was hard to say whether Concubine Xian was really ill or not; in addition, she really did not want Yinghua to feel sad. Therefore, she just told him that Concubine Xian had something to do, so she did not come.

“Because there are too many things in the palace, Imperial Noble Consort can’t handle them alone. Besides, staying in the palace, your mother won’t be fatigued by the journey, will she? Go out and play with me, okay?”

The little boy was an optimist. Without the palace’s restraint, he grew up in Prince Yu’s Mansion, unfettered.

Surrounded by people who loved him, he was much happier than those who grew up in the palace.

Not long after this question, the little boy was attracted by the buildings on the street.

Never before had he been so relaxed and comfortable, as he had always hurried out of town to see his mother and then hurried back under the cover of Zhu Yan and the others.

Now that Lin Mengya had allowed him to look out as he wanted, he naturally felt that his eyes could not take it all in.

Everything was fine along the way. Because of Lin Mengya’s prominent status, their carriage followed closely behind those of the concubines in the palace.

Unexpectedly, these carriages stopped as soon as they stepped out of the city gate.

“What’s the matter?”

Lin Mengya asked in a low voice after lifting the curtain.

Qinghu, who was disguised as a guard and mingled with the people, naturally understood what Lin Mengya meant. He rushed to the front and soon returned to Lin Mengya’s side quietly.

“It’s said that the people of the Huguo Temple came here to welcome all of you. It’s okay. Don’t worry.”

Lin Mengya nodded, and gently patted Long Yinghua who was already tired and sleeping in her arms.

The people of the Huguo Temple were really attentive. They came out to welcome them from so far away. They did not really act like Buddhists.

Lin Mengya didn’t take this matter seriously. After all, she was not the only one who stuck here.

However, from far ahead came three monks.

They seemed to be distributing something from carriage to carriage. Lin Mengya closed her eyes to rest, and thought that it must be something used in religious ceremony.

“Greetings, Your Highness. I’ve received an order from the abbot, Master Huineng, to gift you and the little benefactor with the two Protective Beads. Please take them next to your skins.”

Sitting in the carriage, Lin Mengya nodded slightly as a salute to the three monks.

The three of them did not pause, but, saluting them, went to the next carriage.

Looking at the so-called Protective Bead that Hongyu handed over, Lin Mengya found that it was just a light brown Buddha bead on a bright yellow wreath.

She had never expected that the Huguo Temple would do such a thing.

Lin Mengya held them to her nose and sniffed them gently. The faint smell of sandalwood was all she could smell. Moreover, the Shen Nung system did not send an alarm, so it seemed that there was no problem.

Thinking for a while, she tied the two beads to her and Yinghua’s waist respectively.