nashuaworldcup Chapter 126 Phoenix Fate Tribulation
Chapter 126 Phoenix Fate Tribulation
She approached the abbot and asked, "Abbot, could you please answer my question?"
The old abbot slowly opened his eyes, stared at Jiang Zhi for a moment, and then took the bamboo stick that was hanging in mid-air.
The old abbot narrowed his eyes and smiled, "This young lady is no ordinary person. If she meets a good man, she will rise like the sun."
"A good man?" Jiang Zhi's clear eyes flickered. "What good man?"
“This person,” the old abbot said, his expression calm and composed, “is your destiny in this life.”
Destiny?
She could roughly guess what it was; although she was looking at the old abbot, her eyes reflected Gu Liang's image.
"I had a dream, a dream about my past life," Jiang Zhi said coldly, "but I've never understood why I have this life."
The old abbot looked at the bamboo stick in his hand.
"Meeting is fate, but fate may not bring us together."
"The girl's life is all due to the karma sown by someone who gave their life in exchange."
He looked at Jiang Zhi, then shook his head with a sigh.
Just as Jiang Zhi was about to speak, the old abbot spoke first.
"Though you have been granted this life, your fate is fraught with hardship, and your future is uncertain. I urge you to be careful and cautious."
"Amitabha."
Jiang Zhi looked at the bamboo skewer in his hand, his gaze both cold and gentle.
She couldn't change her fate in her past life, so was she destined to repeat it in this one?
But she was already being very careful.
Just then, Lu Nianqiu walked in, also holding a bamboo skewer in her hand.
She bowed and handed the bamboo stick in her hand to the old abbot.
"Abbot, why are these four characters the fortune slip I drew today?"
The old abbot took the bamboo stick handed to him by Lu Nianqiu and looked at the four characters on it.
'Phoenix Hanging to the Ground'
He scrutinized Lu Nianqiu for a long time, his brows furrowing. "Although the young lady is destined for greatness, her life will be filled with hardship."
"Destined to be born with a phoenix?" Lu Nianqiu lowered her eyes in a daze. "How could I be destined to be born with a phoenix, and why is it so difficult?"
"Young lady," the old abbot advised, "turn back before it's too late."
With just a few simple words, Jiang Zhi was completely bewildered.
Is my cousin destined to be a phoenix?
If my cousin is truly destined to be a phoenix, then who will be the future crown prince?
Is Phoenix's fate difficult? Could it be that my cousin will encounter some danger?
Thinking of this, Jiang Zhi politely bowed to the old abbot.
"Thank you, Abbot."
After saying that, she pulled Lu Nianqiu and walked outside.
"What's wrong?" Lu Nianqiu asked with concern. "Zhizhi, did the abbot say anything about your abbot's appointment?"
Jiang Zhi shook her head. "It's alright."
She looked at Lu Nianqiu, "Cousin, don't tell anyone about the fortune-telling at the temple today. After all, it concerns the Phoenix Fate. If someone with ulterior motives overhears, I'm afraid..."
Her tone was serious.
"Of course I know," Lu Nianqiu looked up at her and smiled. "Besides, it's uncertain whether what the old abbot said is true or false. The so-called 'phoenix destiny' is just something those fame- and fortune-loving women fight over; I don't care for it at all."
"I just want one person's heart, to live a simple life together."
She spoke very sincerely.
Jiang Zhi's eyes were also filled with heartache, "Cousin, you..."
"It's alright," Lu Nianqiu said, taking Jiang Zhi's hand. "Cousin, go take a stroll around the North Courtyard first. You wait for me here."
Jiang Zhizhi knew that Lu Nianqiu and Pei Shangdao had an appointment, so he nodded.
"You go ahead, I'll just walk around nearby."
Lu Nianqiu nodded with a smile, "Then don't go too far, I'll be back soon."
"Uh-huh."
Watching Lu Nianqiu and the maid leave, Jiang Zhi lowered his eyes, a hazy light reflected in his pupils.
He looked up coldly and headed alone to the north of the White Horse Temple.
She still wanted to know what the Imperial Noble Consort was going to do.
She walked through the Buddhist hall and looked around, but she didn't notice anything different.
But the further she went, the more she felt something was wrong. The guards in the woods to the north didn't look like normal guards.
But if the Imperial Noble Consort came to the White Horse Temple and didn't go to the Buddhist hall, where else could she have gone?
What else does she want to do?
"Wait for me here," Lu Nianqiu instructed the maid.
The maidservant responded politely.
Lu Nianqiu lifted her skirt and slowly walked towards the place she had agreed to meet with Pei Shangdao.
That place is in the dense forest at the northernmost part of Baima Temple, and the road to the dense forest has to go through a long corridor.
As you walked further in, it became eerily quiet, as if it had been deliberately concealed.
Lu Nianqiu frowned, her heart pounding faster than ever, as she couldn't understand why he had chosen this place.
The journey here was unusually quiet. Could something strange have happened?
Thinking of this, a sudden gust of cold wind brushed against my cheek.
She turned around abruptly, but there was nothing there.
When Lu Nianqiu reached the northernmost part of the North Courtyard, he turned a corner at a hall and suddenly heard a woman's voice coming from a hall beside him.
“Yuan’er is still our child. He is now being looked down upon by His Majesty, so we can only think of another way.”
Lu Nianqiu hadn't originally planned to stop, but hearing such sounds in this place, her ears really wanted to know more.
As soon as I leaned closer, I heard a man cough.
“I know that once Yuan’er ascends to the position of Crown Prince, I will have no desires left,” the man said ruthlessly. “However, I was poisoned by the Prince of Liang a few days ago, and now I have no choice but to obey him.” “I have already sent people to search for the Medicine Ghost Valley. If I find it, the Prince of Liang will be in my hands sooner or later. I will make him kneel down and beg for my mercy.”
Upon hearing this, Lu Nianqiu's expression changed drastically, and she almost couldn't close her mouth.
Isn't Gu Yuan a member of the imperial family and the emperor's? Isn't he his child?
This is a bit too much information.
Unable to understand, she poked a small hole in the window paper and looked through it.
Clothes were scattered all over the ground.
The two people nestled together behind the thin gauze bed curtains. When she finally saw their faces, she was nearly speechless with shock.
Startled, she almost cried out, and instinctively covered her mouth with her hand.
Perhaps out of shock, or perhaps out of fear, she subconsciously took a half step back.
"Who?"
Suddenly, the Imperial Noble Consort's alert voice came from inside.
Lu Nianqiu was startled. She wanted to run away immediately, but that would be too obvious and make too much noise.
She quickly ran to the corner and hid behind a pillar.
She knew this shocking secret, and if it were discovered, it certainly wouldn't just affect her alone.
Inside the hall, Duke Liu hastily dressed and got up to open the window, but unfortunately, there was nothing there.
Only a few birds happened to fly by and chirped a few times.
Lu Nianqiu hid behind a pillar, her palms sweating, but she dared not move an inch.
This really tests a person's endurance.
"Oh, it's a bird," Duke Liu said casually.
Upon seeing that it was just a bird, Duke Liu turned to look at the Imperial Noble Consort. The Imperial Noble Consort also stopped and returned to her couch.
“This place is so remote, how could anyone come here?” Duke Liu looked at the Imperial Concubine with affection. “My Nai’er, don’t scare yourself too much. No one cares about this remote little courtyard.”
Liu Guogong's words of affection made the Imperial Noble Consort blush with shyness.