I married the crippled queen and became the most favored queen in the capital

Chapter 263: Gratitude Temple Being Bullied

Bai Lan then pouted and went out with Chuntao.

When Huizhong saw the two of them, she rolled her eyes and yelled angrily.

"There's another one, why doesn't he come out?"

Hearing this, Bai Lan's anger instantly rose.

"Why did you ask our master to come out?"

"Why? Gratitude Temple doesn't support people who eat for free, so naturally they want her to come out and work."

"You are brave!"

Bai Lan shouted angrily, and Huizhong responded without hesitation.

"You are presumptuous."

"you……"

"What do you mean by 'you'? You still think she is the Empress? How dare you take advantage of others' power and order people around in Gratitude Temple? She is the same as us now, or even worse than us. How can a woman abandoned by the Emperor have the qualifications to show off here?"

"You fart."

Bai Lan raised her finger and pointed at her. Suddenly, she took two steps forward and grabbed her collar tightly.

"Believe it or not, I'm going to pull out your teeth right now."

Huizhong suddenly started yelling.

"Someone come, someone is going to kill someone, someone come, someone come!"

At this time, Luo Nianxi pushed the door open and shouted angrily,

"Bai Lan, let go."

"But she was rude..."

"Let go."

Seeing that Luo Nianxi was a little angry, she reluctantly let go of her hand. Huizhong immediately gasped, straightened her collar, and glared at them.

"I thought you were the masters? You are just a few servants who have nowhere to eat. If you are capable, why are you eating free meals here? Go back to the palace and enjoy the delicious food and drinks."

"you……"

Bai Lan raised her fist. Seeing this, Huizhong took two steps back and reminded him before leaving.

"This yard is for you three to clean. You are not allowed to eat until you finish cleaning it."

Leaving these words behind, she trotted away. Bai Lan waved her fist in anger.

"One day, I will find a place where no one is around and give you a good beating."

Chuntao also followed suit.

"No wonder her man beats her up all the time. A woman like her who talks too much deserves a beating."

Luo Nianxi frowned and took the broom standing by the wall. Seeing this, Bai Lan hurried forward to grab it.

"Ma'am, you go and rest, I'll do it."

"It's boring to just rest all the time, it's good to get out and move around."

"But . . . how can you do such a thing?"

"What's the big deal? When I was at the Luo family, I washed all the clothes and swept the yard. After all, people have hands, so they don't get tired from doing any work."

"But……"

Bai Lan and Chun Tao looked at her with pity, as if they were about to cry.

"Let's all get to work! Huizhong is right. We live under someone else's roof, so we can't just eat and live for free."

Bai Lan threw away the broom in her hand angrily.

"Madam, why don't we leave here? We have hands and feet, we can live anywhere, there is no need to suffer here."

She looked at Bai Lan with a serious expression.

"We will definitely leave here, but not now. The people we sent out to look for Jinyu and Jinyan will come back here one after another to pass on messages. If we leave, we will lose contact with these people, and then there will be no news about Jinyu and Jinyan. I roughly calculated that these people will probably be back before the eighth day of next month. Then, we will make other plans."

"But...but you are a noble person, you can't do such rough work here, right?"

She gave a helpless smile.

"How can we be noble? We are just ordinary people."

Leaving behind these slightly bitter words, she lowered her head and began to clean the yard carefully.

Ten days passed like this.

Over the past ten days, people who went out to look for them have returned one after another, but they all found nothing. It was as if Jinyu and Jinyan had disappeared from the world, with no news of them since.

Every time she heard these people's replies, she felt like her heart was being hollowed out bit by bit.

"Hey, what are you thinking about? Work hard."

Today, she arranged for Bai Lan and Chun Tao to go out, because she heard from the pilgrims who came to the temple to burn incense yesterday that two children were drowned in the river in Dujia Village, ten miles away from the foot of the mountain. Although she didn't want to think about the two children, she couldn't help but let them go and take a look.

So, she was in a heavy mood and looked listless throughout the morning.

For her, coming out to sweep the yard is a way to kill some time.

Suddenly hearing Huizhong's shout, she raised her eyebrows in displeasure, and then she came over quickly, scolding her non-stop.

"I told you to work, not to embroider. Do you think you are the queen? Who are you showing this to?"

She knew that Bai Lan and Chun Tao were not around, so she dared to be so presumptuous!

She was in no mood to argue with her, so she lowered her head, turned in another direction and continued to clean the yard.

"Can't you hear me when I talk to you? Are you deaf?"

Huizhong ran to her unwillingly, put her hands on her hips, and continued to insult her.

"I tell you, people will experience three cycles of poverty and three cycles of wealth until they grow old. The more happiness you enjoyed in your previous life, the more suffering you will suffer in the second half of your life. Now the emperor has found a new lover, and you are just an abandoned queen. What's the point of wearing hair and practicing? In my opinion, you should quickly ask the master to shave your head so that you won't starve."

"You don't need to worry about my affairs."

She just replied to her lightly, hoping that she would know better and shut up.

Seeing her soft words, Huizhong seemed to become more excited.

She raised her hand, snatched the broom from her hand, and threw it on the ground.

"Why are you pretending? Can't you hear me? You used to be the queen, so what? Don't you still have to work under me and listen to my orders?"

Luo Nianxi really didn't want to pay attention to a woman like her who was almost like a shrew, but because of her tolerance, she became more and more unreasonable, which finally made her unable to bear it anymore.

She looked up and glared at her.

"Hui Zhong, I'm ignoring you, but that doesn't mean I'm afraid of you. I'm staying in Gratitude Temple temporarily because I paid money when I first came here. It has nothing to do with you. If you dare to speak rudely to me again, I won't tolerate you anymore. Do you understand?"

This was the first time she got angry since she came here.

She originally thought that this was a place for people to cultivate their moral character, but she never expected that there would be someone like Huizhong who always wanted to stand out, and even always wanted to step on her, the former queen, to show her status.

Huizhong was stunned for a moment at her rebuttal, then cleared his throat and took two steps forward without fear.

"You... you are a poor queen, and you dare to talk to me like this? I have been here for eight years. I am an old man here. How dare you talk to me like this?"

As she spoke, she picked up the broom on the ground, thinking about hitting Luo Nianxi.

Looking at her almost crazy appearance, Luo Nianxi was full of disdain.

Seeing that she was about to raise her hand to hit her, she was about to put her hand out to block it when a sharp voice suddenly came to her ears.

"stop!"