Marriage of the Di Daughter

Chapter 12: Jiang Family

Recently, many things happened in the capital city of Yanjing. The storytellers at side street restaurants had increased by quite a bit.

The most popular story was still, "At night, the charming Buddhist nun was in the middle of her practice, when a curly-tailed monkey caused alarm and unexpectedly ran into a romantic scene".

A few days ago, the nobility returned after offering incense at He Lin Temple. With their return, they brought a piece of shocking news.

In He Lin Temple at Mount Qingcheng, Wu Jing, the most cherished disciple of Tong Ming, the one in charge, was actually a frivolous monk. He had defiled many married women. He didn't even let the Head Nun of the neighboring nunnery off.

It had to be known that He Lin Temple was a famous temple. Previously, many madams and young ladies went there to burn incense and pray for blessings. Frightened by this scandal, all the womenfolk who had gone up to offer incense chose to keep their mouths shut and did not mention anything. Fearing that they would somehow get involved and with others' opinions, their morality and conduct might get ruined. Soon, somebody presented this matter to the emperor and after seeing it, Emperor Hong Xiaowas furious. He severely punished all the related people. Afterward, he even went as far as shutting down the hundred years old He Lin Temple.

At that time, many people accidentally witnessed the lovers' tryst with their own eyes. The womenfolk did not mention a word, yet the men vividly and colorfully retold how young and beautiful Head Nun Jing An was, treating it as a passionate love affair.

However, this love affair, aside from gaining the emperor's wrath, it also implicated an unexpected person. It was precisely the Chief Assistant, Jiang Yuan Bai's di daughter, Jiang Li.

Eight years ago, Jiang family's second miss, Jiang Li, pushed her stepmother and caused her to miscarry. Jiang Yuan Bai punished her to go to the family's temple to cultivate her moral character. From then on, she disappeared from everyone's sight. After the scandal was found, it was also discovered that Jiang second miss had surprisingly stayed at that Mistress Jing An nunnery.

With how malicious and domineering the Jiang second miss was, it was fine to send her to a temple. Even if she really cut her hair and became a Buddhist nun, it was still a positive thing. However, to send her to the hand of this kind of bewitching Buddhist nun, Jiang Yuan Bai's way of doing things was also not sincere enough.

Chengde official, Liu Yuan Feng's wife went to He Lin Temple to burn incense. When she was at Head Nun Jing An's nunnery, she met this Jiang second young miss. At that time, it was already very late into the night, yet the evil Buddhist nun made things difficult for her. Asking her to kneel at the main hall where the roof was leaking. Liu Yuan Feng's memorial was extremely well planned. Jiang Yuan Bai's connections were numerous, and he was deeply entrenched. It wasn't good to offend him. In Liu Yuan Feng's memorial, he did not mention Jiang Yuan Bai's fault in the slightest. On the contrary, he said that although Jiang Li originally made mistakes, her age was still small. Moreover, the child was not yet taught, how could a parent want his own di daughter to be handed over to a place where the morality and conduct were corrupted. No matter what, one's own morality and conduct were also questioned. As Jiang Yuan Bai's ruler in the backhouse, Ji Shuran, her behavior as a mother was indeed too harsh.

To look at Ji Shuran, that was the same as looking at Ji family and hit Ji Yan Lin's face. The memorial seemed clear, yet it secretly signified that it was the personal grudge of Jin Shuran, that she had deliberately sent Jiang Li to Head Nun Jing An without any good intention and use the Head Nun's hand to torment her.

In fact, this memorial was initially a trivial matter. However, the current monarch, Emperor Hong Xiao, wasn't the birth son of the empress. His birth mother passed away after giving birth to him and he was raised by the empress. The empress herself actually had a crown prince and absolutely loathed him. Since young, he had been put through numerous obstacles and Emperor Hong Xiao endured all the sufferings in silence. He fought the path to vie over power until he finally arrived at the current position.