Fortunate Life of the Rural Beauty

Chapter 558: Chapter 549: Let’s Go Back Together Chapter 558: Chapter 549: Let’s Go Back Together On the 12th day of the first lunar month, Chu Lingxuan, the Third Master, and Chu Lingwei returned. With them also came the old master and Ming.

The old master had returned to celebrate Shuangshuang’s one-month-old birthday.

Chu Lingxuan spoke with great sorrow, “My uncle and aunt-in-law went to Tang Garden, but no matter how much we pleaded, my mother refused to return to secular life.”

Chen Afu also felt helpless upon hearing this. Everyone knew that Liao Chen didn’t sincerely want to be a Buddhist nun. She was just frustrated, wronged, and unwilling. To let her reside in the Buddhist monastery bearing her repressed grief alone was too heart-wrenching for her family. If she could truly find solace in Buddhism like Empress Dowager Shan, perhaps everyone except the old Marquis would have accepted it.

Regrettably, life doesn’t always go as planned. Despite her long-held wish to become a nun, Empress Dowager Shan, due to her status, had to continue living in the Imperial Palace for the sake of the Emperor. It remained to be seen whether she could fulfill her wish once the Emperor firmly established his reign.

Chen Afu advised, “We expected mother to react this way. Once the child grows a little older, we will try to persuade her again. As the saying goes, ‘Gold can be cut open by a jeweler’s chisel.’ One day mother will change her mind.”

Chu Lingxuan nodded sadly, “We have no other choice.” He continued, “My father misses the child but doesn’t want to leave my mother alone at Yingxue Nunnery. He decided to stay in Fu Garden and visit Honglin Mountain every two or three days. Even if he can’t see my mother there, she will know that my father is nearby.”