After rebirth, I became a national teacher

Huiyun returned to the main hall, feeling relieved. She gave a gentle smile to Zhang's master and servants who had been waiting for a while.

"The temple master said that the Jingnan Marquis' Mansion has finally understood the truth. If the master who instigated the arson comes to apologize, the temple master will magnanimously forgive you, the Jingnan Marquis' Mansion!"

"Put the offerings up there."

Nanny Li's face immediately showed surprise, and she quickly took the offerings and placed them on the tray herself.

Zhang's face looked very ugly. What did it mean that the arsonist came to apologize?

Even if she did not admit the crime when she appeared in court, how could she allow Cihang Temple to throw dirty water on her?

She tried hard to suppress her anger and explained with a forced smile:

"Your Highness has misunderstood. The Nandu government office has already made it clear that the fire was set by a cunning slave who was seeking revenge on your Highness out of personal grudge. It has nothing to do with me!"

Unexpectedly, the Taoist master who was smiling suddenly turned cold and scolded:

"The master of the temple has great magical powers and knows everything. How could he have said something wrong? You want to deny it when you get to Cihang Temple. Is your apology not sincere?"

Nanny Li immediately frowned and said to Zhang:

"Even if it's for Master Jin's illness, Madam should have said less. Why bother to be so fussy and anger the abbot!"

These words made Zhang shut up in anger.

Then I heard the Taoist nun say:

"The head of the temple said that she can forgive Madam Bo's offense. But you ordered people to set fire to Cihang Temple, which has angered the gods and is disrespectful. You must kneel outside the temple for five days to atone for your sins before we can talk about curing Master Pei."

"Five days!"

Zhang couldn't help but scream.

Then he winked at Qingliu.

Qing Liu, who had just been beaten, did not dare to be a coward and immediately stood up and said:

"Although I have no right to speak here, I have to stand up and say something. Kneeling for five days will make your legs crippled. Your abbot is a monk after all. This punishment is too cruel!"

Huiyun sneered:

"Instigating people to set fire to a Taoist temple is a serious crime of blasphemy against the gods. The temple master only made the lady kneel for five days, which was a great mercy, but some people still say it is cruel. I think the sincerity of the Jingnan Marquis's apology needs to be reconsidered!"

Nanny Li suddenly became anxious:

"Master, calm down. I am just an ignorant servant. What I said was not what the master meant! Our lady didn't say she would not kneel!"

Then he turned to Zhang and urged, "Madam, is that right?"

Zhang gritted her teeth in anger.

It's easy to say, but I'm actually asking this old woman to kneel down!

After kneeling for five days, can she still keep her legs?

Moreover, it was so humiliating for her, the wife of an uncle, to kneel at the gate of a Taoist temple. The abbot of Cihang Temple was clearly trying to make things difficult for her and humiliate her!

Seeing that Zhang was angry and silent, Nanny Li was very unhappy.

"Didn't Madam always say that you wished you could take Jin'er's place in her illness? Now that the opportunity has come, you refuse it in every possible way. Could it be that all your previous words were just lies? In fact, you don't want Jin'er to get better at all?"

"Besides, it was you, Madam, who was reckless and offended Cihang Temple. Otherwise, with the status of Jingnan Marquis's Mansion, we should have heard about Cihang Temple long ago and let Jin'er get treatment! Now, because of you, Jin'er has been suffering from illness for several months in vain!"

Every word he said hit the nail on the head, leaving Zhang with no way to refute it.

Zhang knew very well that this old woman was absolutely loyal to her aunt and was wholeheartedly protecting Pei Jin. If she didn't kneel, this old woman would definitely go to Zhang Jinghong and Pei Xiao to complain.

Moreover, she usually showed that she loved Pei Jin too much, and before coming here today, she expressed her determination in front of Pei Xiao in various ways. If she made any excuses at this moment, no matter what the reason was, it would only make people suspect that she was just acting in the past.

So... no matter from which perspective, it is unacceptable for her not to kneel for these five days!

Zhang almost bit her teeth to pieces, staring at Huiyun with eyes like sharp blades, and said through gritted teeth:

"If I kneel for five days, will your master guarantee that he will heal Jin'er and make sure he is cured?"

Huiyun was not afraid of her gaze at all, and said sarcastically:

"Madam, you must have made a mistake, right? Asking you to kneel for five days is to make amends to the gods, not a condition for treating the eldest son of the Pei family!"

"If you don't have the sincerity to apologize to the gods, there's no need to say anything more, just leave!"

Zhang was so overwhelmed that her face turned red, and she wished she could cut the Taoist nun and the so-called temple master into pieces.

After a while, she finally said in a hateful voice under Li Ma's urging gaze:

"Okay! For Brother Jin, even if it means sacrificing the reputation of the Bo family, I will kneel!"

"Then go ahead."

Huiyun personally led Zhang and others to the gate of the Taoist temple, pointed to the center of the gate, and said with a look of concern for her:

"Just kneel here. At least there is a roof over your head."

"Otherwise, Madam Bo's delicate body will be exposed to the sun and rain, and she won't be able to hold on for long before she starts saying she has a heat stroke or a cold and can't kneel down. Wouldn't that make her seem extremely insincere!"

Zhang's heart was filled with hatred.

This Taoist nun really wanted to crush her dignity into mud!

She was made to kneel in the middle of the gate, so that no one who wanted to enter the Taoist temple could ignore her kneeling there, and those people even had to go around her before entering.

The bitch even blocked her plan of just kneeling under the scorching sun and pretending to faint from heatstroke.

However, now that things have come to this, she has no way out.

He could only kneel down with a heart full of humiliation under the curious gazes of the two gatekeepers.

What’s even more hateful is that the weather has been fine recently, and some ordinary people from the surrounding villages and towns have come to Cihang Temple to burn incense.

Seeing a beautiful lady kneeling at the entrance of the Taoist temple, everyone couldn't help but take a few more glances at her.

Some even asked the gatekeeper directly:

"Master, why is there a person kneeling at the entrance of the Taoist temple?"

Zhang couldn't ignore them and could only suffer endless humiliation over and over again.

At first, Zhang's mind was full of anger and hatred, but within an hour, she felt her knees becoming more and more painful.

The stone floor was so hard that she felt excruciating pain after two hours.

The afternoon sun was quite strong, shining obliquely under the eaves of the Taoist temple, making her sweat profusely.

In addition, Zhang had not had any water or food for several hours. Her health was not good to begin with, and she soon felt dizzy.

Naturally, she would not try to hold on, and soon she fell backwards due to the dizziness.

"lady!"

Qingliu and other maids immediately rushed over nervously, lifted her into the cart, and hurriedly fed her water.

Zhang regained consciousness after drinking some water, but she felt that she had knelt down until she fainted, and it was a good opportunity to go back and play the role of a self-torture stratagem, so how could she be willing to wake up?

Seeing that she had not woken up, the servants did not dare to delay and hurriedly drove Zhang back to the Jingnan Marquis's Mansion to ask for a doctor.

Even Nanny Li, although she thought she might be pretending, did not dare to say anything at this time.

After Huiyun heard the report from Kun Dao outside, she immediately went to report it to Chen Qingzhu.

"Master, the wife of the Marquis of Jingnan is really good at pretending. She fainted after kneeling for only a few hours. She has been sent back to the city and I'm afraid she won't come again!"

Her tone was very unwilling.

Because she had seen many tricks used by the harem before, she could fully imagine how Zhang would pretend to be pitiful and gain sympathy after returning. Maybe she could persuade Marquis Jingnan to soften his heart and not let her kneel again.

By then, it would not be easy to legitimately mess with this lady of the earl's family.

Chen Qingzhu, the main person, was not in a hurry at all, and was even in a good mood to drink tea:

"Don't worry, Jingnan Bo and Zhang Jinghong will send her back."