Chapter 4 (1/2)

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation

Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Eunuch Feng also wanted to find someone to help his master with his loneliness. Even though he was still praying for blessings, he actually just needed to show his sincerity. He did not need to observe the rights for so long. It would be a great torture if that were not the case.

But the eunuch had never been able to find a chance to breach the topic, and he did not know whether his master was blaming him for not doing his job well. After all, the master’s face became dark every time Eunuch Feng came over to take a bamboo slip back.

“She’s a widow and will bring bad luck,” Eunuch Feng said. He did not have a good opinion about Chu Yue’s status as a widow.

“After Master saw her last time, he chose to allow her to gather firewood here,” Yingda retorted.

Eunuch Feng was stunned. He looked at Yingda and said, “The master agreed to let her stay here?”

“Why else do you think I’d waste my breath with her?” Yingda asked faintly.

“Looks like Master doesn’t hate her,” Eunuch Feng nodded in certainty. Then, he frowned. “But our master is of high status, and she is of low status. She is not worthy of him.”

“She might be a widow, but it’s precisely because she is a widow that she has thought things through. She will not be like those girls. We won’t run into trouble in the future,” Yingda said in the manner of an experienced man.

When Eunuch Feng heard this, he started thinking about the situation carefully. Yingda was right. Widows were definitely more open-minded.

Even so, Eunuch Feng remained cautious. “Go and gather information about her to check if her identity is clean.”

“Understood.” Yingda nodded. Then, he went to ask for information from the nuns on the other mountain.

“Why are you asking about this?” A nun who did not look friendly tossed a question back at him.

Yingda did not waste his breath and gave her a handful of silver. The elderly nun looked around before she stuffed the silver into her sleeves.

“She’s a widow and quite unlucky, but she’s very resilient. Not only was she said to have brought death to her own husband, his family even sent her a divorce letter. Only Shangqing Temple was willing to take her in after that. No other nunnery was willing to take in such an unlucky person. What now? Was she restless?” the nun asked.

Yingda ignored her. Once he obtained the information he wanted, he left.

But the elderly nun had gotten the gist of it. She looked in the direction of the abode where Chu Yue stayed and spat on the ground. “I knew it, she’s a shameless cur. She has just become a widow, and she is already thinking about getting herself another man.”

News about Chu Yue being resilient, bringing about her own husband’s death, and her misfortune were brought back to Eunuch Feng, and he frowned a little. “Won’t that bring grief to our master?”

“She is really a widow, but I don’t know the truth about the rest. When I looked at her, she didn’t seem to be mean enough to cause her own husband’s death,” Yingda replied truthfully.

“Look for another one,” Eunuch Feng said.

“She’s the only one in the area.” Yingda shook his head.

“If she comes again, ask her for the eight characters of her birth time. We’ll have the imperial astronomer do a reading on it.”

Yingda nodded. This was not something difficult. The widow was very passionate about his master, so she would definitely be willing to provide her eight characters.

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Chu Yue did not know these things. She was just training in her abode. Even if her tendons and bones were horrible, it was still better if she trained a little.

Shangqing Temple was not a place for anyone to stay for a long time, and she did not intend to fight against that.

If the monk on the other mountain was willing to leave with her, once they got to know each other, they could leave together. The world was large, and they could move about freely. Nothing could beat living the life of a wanderer.

Hupo was still weaving bags in the house. She treasured all the opportunities to make money. If she did her embroidery well, she could earn two hundred cash coins.

When she saw her mistress coming back while drenched in sweat, Hupo set aside her spindle and poured a bowl of ginger and jujube soup for her. “Milady, drink this. The weather is cold, so you mustn’t catch a sickness.”

Chu Yue drank the ginger and jujube soup and said, “You should go out and train as well. Your constitution will decline if you just stay in the house. That was what happened to me before. I got sick after a single shower.”

Hupo could not express herself in words.