Chapter 655 - A Beauty Eloped (2/2)

Lin Mengya closed the book and looked out into the courtyard thoughtfully.

“Master, do you think this matter is directed at us?” Hongyu asked tentatively.

Lin Mengya looked at her, shook her head but then nodded.

Her brow furrowed slightly. After an entire day of smelling the incense, she felt dizzy. However, the Empress’s people would come to patrol their yard every two hours.

Rubbing her temples, Lin Mengya could only stand at the door and let the smell in the house dissipate a little.

“Just be careful. Don’t let others in easily in the next few days. Carefully check everything that goes in and out of here. The incense is giving me a headache. Keep Yinghua from coming near. I’m afraid he’ll feel uncomfortable.”

The situation seemed to have developed quietly. Lin Mengya had stayed in the room full of incense for three days before she could finally leave that room.

The religious ceremony began yesterday, and today, the noble madams led by the Empress would sit quietly in the Grand Hall, reciting Buddhist scriptures.

The Empress had already sent people to work out the process, so these women did it in an orderly and relaxed manner.

Lin Mengya was kneeling on her cattail hassock. She did not know if it was because the incense was too pungent in the past few days, but when she got to the Grand Hall, the incense used for performing the religious ceremony seemed to have no smell at all.

Just in the middle of the process, a burst of exclamation suddenly came from the Grand Hall.

Lin Mengya suddenly brightened up. She straightened up to look inside and found the abbot, who had just been chanting and praying inside, was now running out in a panic.

“Master, why are you in such a panic? Be wary of disturbing the Bodhisattva and blaspheming the gods.”

Aunt Yan, who was by the Empress’s side, immediately came forward to ask. At this time, the movement had alerted the Empress, who was resting with her eyes closed.

The Empress opened her dignified, pretty eyes and looked at the abbot, a little unhappy, as if she was blaming him for disturbing the gods.

“What happened?”

Since the Empress had asked him, the abbot naturally did not dare to slight her.

He hurried forward and whispered something to the Empress with a frightened look on his face.

But the expression in the Empress’s eyes immediately changed from doubt to seriousness.

“Guard the Grand Hall and don’t let anyone in. Also, invite Master Yunshen over as well. Remember, don’t alarm anyone.”

The Empress got up and walked into the Grand Hall, accompanied by the abbot.

Although Lin Mengya’s seat was close to the front, she could not see very well inside.

She could only see the panicked faces of the monks who were chanting scriptures in the hall.

Normally, nothing should have happened. However, there was a feeling of uneasiness in her heart, which suddenly made her heart sink.

As soon as they arrived here, Beauty Cheng disappeared. If something happened at this time, this religious ceremony would become a joke of Dajin.

“Shut up! What a disgrace! Even if there are demons everywhere, Dajin is glorious and majestic and won’t tolerate those demons to cause trouble!”

A majestic, old voice suddenly suppressed all the voice of discussion.

Lin Mengya turned around and saw a solemn old lady with silver hair on her right, continuing her solemn recitation.

She must be her legendary grandmother, the Empress and Shangguan Qing’s birth mother.

For some reason, the old woman seemed to sense her gaze. Suddenly, her pair of eyes that had gone through many vicissitudes of life but was still sharp shot straight at her.

Instantly, Lin Mengya realized what it meant to be truly dismissive.

The old woman merely gave her an indifferent look, but the contempt in her eyes gave Lin Mengya a feeling that the old woman had never taken her seriously from the bottom of her heart.

It happened in just a flash, and Lin Mengya just gave her a polite smile. The old woman did not waste any time on her; she closed her eyes and continued to recite scriptures.

It seemed that she was really having a hard time. With the legendary grandmother helping the Empress personally, Lin Mengya did not know how many rounds she could take in their hands.

She had planned to stop thinking about these troublesome things, but she was a little flustered by the uneasiness that had accumulated in her heart.

She glanced at the gate and saw a figure dressed in snow-white standing behind Aunt Yan, who had gone and returned. In the sun, he looked a little unnerving.

Above the snow-white monk robe, his stunning face made her a little absent-minded.

If it had not been for his bald head and his monk robe, Lin Mengya wouldn’t have thought that this person had anything to do with monks.

His enchanting face, which could even outshine a woman, looked even more enchanting in the quiet temple.