Eat the whole family? I emptied the storehouse of the Marquis' Mansion and married the crippled

Old Madam Ye looked at He Xiang with a dark face.

"He Xiang, go back and tell Aunt Lou to keep a close eye on the sixth girl. Don't let her kneel and copy scriptures in the main hall of the White Horse Temple again."

"If that doesn't work, let her copy in the dormitory."

"Yes, I will leave the city now."

"Well, go quickly before the city gates are locked."

Old Madam Ye naturally noticed that He Xiang looked pale, but she didn't care at all whether a maid was sick or not, as long as she took care of her job.

He Xiang had long been accustomed to the old woman's coldness. After leaving the Marquis' Mansion, she did not leave the city at all, but returned to Guanning Hutong, preparing to let Ye Rui take her back to the White Horse Temple the next day.

The two of them took this opportunity to discuss the issue of whether the child should stay or go.

Mrs. Gan watched He Xiang leave, and suddenly a plan came to her mind.

Ye Yanran has not had the chance to meet the Fourth Prince during this period, so she wants to create an opportunity for them.

"Sixth girl has caused all these troubles, which really damages the old lady's reputation. It would be better to let Yanran go to the White Horse Temple in person."

"Just say that the old lady misses the sixth girl and asked Yanran to visit her. She wants her to return to Beijing. It was the sixth girl who insisted on praying for the old lady at the White Horse Temple, so the old lady couldn't agree to it."

Mrs. Ye, who had a bad look on her face, immediately smiled when she heard what Mrs. Gan said.

"That's great. Let all the ladies in the capital see that I didn't treat Sixth Girl harshly. She did all this voluntarily."

The two of them talked for a few more words, and Mrs. Gan said explicitly and implicitly that there was not enough cash in the household funds, and she was afraid that she would not be able to come up with the money to make up for this year's deficit, so she hoped that the old lady could come up with some money.

In the end, the old lady was so annoyed by Mrs. Gan that she agreed to take out 5 taels of silver.

"Madame Sun, you and Jingwei go get the silver. Take 3 taels of silver in cash and another taels of silver notes."

"Yes, old slave, let's do it now."

Nanny Sun took the key to the warehouse from Old Madam Ye and went downstairs.

Although Mrs. Gan on the side had to beg for 5 taels of silver, it was better to have something than nothing.

This was the first time that Old Lady Ye used the warehouse key in her hand throughout the year.

It was quite a sight to see boxes of cash being carried out of the warehouse.

When Zhou Cong in the front yard heard the news, he immediately called Lian Qiao and Lu Zhu to the backyard to inquire about the warehouse.

Let’s talk about Ye Jintang.

Returning to the dormitory from the main hall, she took off her knee pads as soon as she entered the room and rubbed her knees which were still a little numb. It was not easy to act out a painful role, and after just a short while, she could not bear it anymore.

"Girl, you're not really going to fast, are you?"

"How is that possible? The damn old woman is just thinking of ways to torture me. The fact that my parents were buried in the ancestral tomb must have been a big blow to her. Now she can only vent her anger on me."

"The old lady is too vicious. Kneeling down to copy scriptures is outrageous enough, but she even came up with something like fasting and not eating?"

"And the so-called bathing and changing clothes. In winter, we wear a lot of clothes, and it is very troublesome to put on and take off."

"This is the White Horse Temple. We live in a dormitory. There is no floor heating in the room. Even if there is a charcoal basin, it is still cold."

"If she has to bathe and change clothes every day before copying scriptures, she will probably fall ill in less than two days."

Liuli has seen many ways of playing pranks on people, but this is the first time she has encountered such a vicious one.

"So, from the beginning I never thought about listening. Tomorrow we can just perform a self-inflicted pain play and then rest. I guess Wuwei should have rented a storage warehouse at the foot of the mountain."

"I'll go down the mountain tomorrow after I pack up Madam Lou."

"Okay, I'll secretly bring some steamed buns back for the girl tomorrow morning."

"We brought a lot of snacks with us, so we can use them to fill our stomachs. Don't worry, I will never let myself suffer any loss."

"Oh, I almost forgot. I need a pill to deal with Madam Lou tomorrow. Please give me a bitter Angelica pill."

"What does a girl need pills for?"

"You'll find out tomorrow."

The next day, Ye Jintang and Liuli finished their meal in the inner room before coming out.

"Sixth Miss, I have prepared breakfast for you. Please eat it early, take a bath and change your clothes, then copy scriptures for the old lady."

"The bathtub in the room is broken, so I won't take a bath today."

Ye Jintang glanced at the bowl of porridge brought over by Nanny Lou. The bowl was full of soup with only a few grains of rice. It seemed that Nanny Lou really wanted to count the grains of rice before feeding her.

"Madame Lou, please take the porridge away. I'm afraid you'll dirty it when you count the rice grains."

Having said that, Ye Jintang strode towards the main hall without paying any attention to Nanny Lou's ugly expression.

How could Madam Lou dare to let her go to the main hall? Just as she was about to step forward to stop her, Ye Jintang suddenly stopped, turned her head and looked at Madam Lou and said, "Madam Lou, don't forget your identity."

"Even if you are proud in front of my grandmother, you are still a slave, and even if my grandmother doesn't like me, I am still a legitimate daughter of the sixth branch of the Ye family."

"Sixth Miss is right."

Nanny Lou responded while gritting her teeth, but she did not dare to step forward to stop Ye Jintang.

There were already monks and pilgrims doing morning prayers in the main hall. When Ye Jintang came in, they continued chanting without any pause.

But the pilgrims who came earlier to burn incense were not as calm as them.

"Hey, that's the legendary Sixth Miss. She doesn't look very old."

"Yes, she is so slender and her skin is as white as jade. It is obvious that she has never suffered any hardship at home."

"Alas, such a good girl has to kneel in the hall and copy scriptures in such a cold weather. How can her body withstand it?"

"Who said it wasn't? Let alone kneeling to copy the scriptures, even if you sit down in such a cold weather, you can't hold the brush. How can you copy it?"

Standing outside the hall, the ladies and girls who were watching were talking in low voices.

Ye Jintang, who was kneeling in the main hall, listened carefully to their conversation and vaguely heard that the news of her kneeling and copying scriptures to pray for Old Madam Ye had spread throughout the capital.

Let the incident continue to ferment for a day today, and then she can call it a day. Let Old Madam Ye clean up the stall slowly.

Nanny Lou, who was standing outside the hall, was extremely anxious. Why had He Xiang not come back yet? What should she do about this matter? If she continued to make the Sixth Miss kneel down, there was a fear that this matter would never be resolved.

Nanny Lou was so anxious that she was like an ant on a hot pan, running around in circles, but she could only worry.

As the sun rose higher, more and more pilgrims gathered outside the hall. Nanny Lou was squeezed outside by the crowd and could no longer see Ye Jintang.

Looking at so many people, Madam Lou frowned. She suddenly remembered that today was the fifteenth day of the lunar year, and it was also the last fifteenth day before the New Year, so naturally there would be many people coming to burn incense and pray for blessings.

She vaguely felt that things were getting out of control and heading in a bad direction.

And the culprit behind all this is Ye Jintang.

Nanny Lou finally understood that Ye Jintang was not as weak and harmless as she appeared.