After rebirth, I became a national teacher

When Old Madam Yuan returned to the Censorate from Cihang Temple, she still held on to a glimmer of hope, and immediately sent people out to inquire about the devout believers of Cihang Temple, hoping to find a more capable devout believer than Yan Tongzhi to introduce her to him.

However, the Censorate is now in decline and has few connections outside, so it is difficult to get information.

Two days passed, and apart from finding out that the Qin family went to Cihang Temple frequently, there was no other useful information.

Thinking of her previous experience of being lied to by Madam Yan, Old Madam Yuan finally understood:

All devout believers will keep their connection with Cihang Temple strictly confidential and will never tell anyone except their closest relatives.

Therefore, let alone finding an introducer with sufficient influence, it would be difficult for her to even find an ordinary devout believer.

It seems that she has no choice but to follow the path of old lady Zeng.

Having made up her mind, she immediately handed a visiting card to Old Madam Zeng who lived in the east of the city.

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"Madam, the censor's wife sent a note saying that she would like to visit you tomorrow."

Although Madam Zeng has delegated the power of foreign travel to her daughter-in-law in recent years, she is still sharp-eyed and sharp-eared, and knows all the high-ranking officials in the southern capital.

"Madam Censor? Is she the wife of Lord Guan, the Right Deputy Chief Censor of the Inspection Office?"

In the Supervisory Office today, the Right Censor-in-Chief does not take care of government affairs, and the Deputy Censor-in-Chief, who is of the third rank, is the real person in charge.

When people in the Southern Capital talk about the Censor, they usually refer to Lord Guan.

Aunt Cuiyu said:

"No, she is the wife of Lord Yuan, the Right Censor-in-Chief."

Old Madam Zeng was very surprised.

If the other party had not come to her on his own initiative, she would have almost forgotten that there was such a person in Nandu City.

Why would someone you have never interacted with suddenly come to your house?

But after all, they were the family of a second-rank official, so she couldn't deny them face and had to agree.

The next morning, Mrs. Yuan came to visit on time as expected.

After a few polite greetings, he got straight to the point:

"May I ask Madam Zeng, do you often go to Cihang Temple to pay homage?"

Cihang Temple!

Old Madam Zeng's heart suddenly started to ring with alarm bells. Where did she hear this? Could it be that they wanted her to be the introducer?

That won’t work. Her influence on the temple master’s side is not enough.

Even if we ask the temple master to take action, it can only be for our own family members, not for outsiders.

Besides, the two new teeth she recently got are so useful!

With these two teeth, she could eat whatever she wanted and gained several pounds.

Once she has accumulated enough favor in front of the abbot, she wants to ask him to give her two more!

"Not really, I just went there once in a while." Old Madam Zeng evaded the question.

Seeing her hiding her thoughts, Old Madam Yuan immediately understood what she was thinking, but she did not blame her.

"Old lady, don't hide it from me. I have heard from others that you are also a devout believer of Cihang Temple, and the temple master has given you two new teeth."

Madam Zeng's expression suddenly became awkward:

"This... seems to be true. Alas! As we get older, we tend to forget things..."

Old Madam Yuan did not expose her clumsy lie, but continued:

"Don't worry, old lady. I know the opportunity of introduction is precious. I am here for no other reason than to ask, how much silver did you offer and how many times did you go before you asked the temple master to help?"

Old Madam Zeng heaved a sigh of relief.

It seems that this old lady Yuan, like her, is unable to find anyone to introduce her, and plans to become a devout believer on her own.

I felt a sense of sympathy and didn't hide it. I said the truth:

"I went there about seven or eight times. Together with the 3,000 taels I donated to the Salesian Church, I spent a total of more than 5,500 taels."

Old Madam Yuan's heart suddenly sank.

She had thought about it before, the Zeng family is a wealthy family after all, and the money she donated might not be as much as theirs.

But this is still far from enough.

Censor Yuan was born in a peasant family, and her family was just a poor Hanlin, and her dowry was only 900 taels.