Chapter 4: Kicking to the Iron Plate

Early in the morning, Chusi woke up. According to the plan, Miaoxian Abbess should be leading people to search for her all over the mountains.

"Up already?" Zhen Niang still had the same gentle demeanor, but her smile didn't reach her eyes.

Chusi nodded, "It's getting late, I should go back now. Thank you." Chusi still looked timid, but in Zhen Niang's eyes, she seemed normal.

"Don't rush, have some food first." Zhen Niang pointed to a bowl of wild vegetable porridge on the table. "There's not much on the mountain, I may not have come down for a long time, so I only gathered some wild vegetables to make porridge."

Zhen Niang's tone was gentle, and Chusi even felt a bit dazed. Her mother's voice was also so gentle, but her mother was different from Zhen Niang. Zhen Niang was smiling with hidden intentions. Those two people must have come last night, looking at the messy footprints at the door, even though they were covered with some snow, they couldn't hide it.

"Okay." Chusi smiled and picked up the porridge on the table and started eating heartily, as if she had been hungry for a long time. However, despite her hunger, her every move and gesture were not the least bit rude, as if she had been trained in the deep palace for years, but in fact, she was just an unfavored daughter of the Chu family.

"Is there more?" After finishing a bowl, Chusi, with a slightly flushed face, looked at Zhen Niang and asked.

Seeing her like this, Zhen Niang smiled rare, "Yes." With that, she turned and went to the small kitchen. But as soon as she left, Miaoxian Abbess arrived with people.

Chusi couldn't help but smile. They say it's better to be lucky than early, and Miaoxian Abbess was really lucky at this moment.

Miaoxian didn't even know there was a house here. It was probably because this place was deep in the dense forest and the road was rugged. After searching for Chusi all night, this was the only place they hadn't searched.

Miaoxian was surprised to see Chusi sitting comfortably in the small thatched house. She couldn't help but exclaim, "We searched all night, never thought you were having a secret meeting with a man here!"

This Miaoxian, she couldn't even be bothered to change her lines.

Chusi looked at Miaoxian, her expression unchanged, her voice still somewhat timid, "I didn't."

Chusi's weak rebuttal made Miaoxian clasp her hands together, "Even if you killed your mother, it would be forgiven, but now you're still engaging in such worldly affairs in my Shuiyun nunnery. Today, I can't protect you anymore." As soon as Miaoxian finished speaking, a group of villagers in coarse hemp clothes surrounded her, holding hemp ropes and bags, ready to tie her up.

"You old nun, speaking so harshly, not showing any compassion as a nun, and now you dare to slander others in the name of the Buddha!" A loud voice interrupted, and a woman in a light green cotton robe stepped forward, standing in front of Chusi. "You old nun, always thinking of how to mistreat our young lady, and now inciting these ignorant people to harm my young lady. I'm telling you, if you dare to harm my young lady, I will fight you to the death!"